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88, The
Not Only... But Also
PS, US New album.
Island
CD
$11.25

Abelcain & Cdatakill
Passage
PS, GERMANY All good things are three: Abelcain and Cdatakill, two of the most essential breakcore act to have ever graced this scene, pair up once again on "Passage", a full length CD presenting for the first time their tracks from the "Six Stigmata" and "Playing with Knives" record, enriched by four new collaborations. Hard-hitting, highly varied and presenting anew some cornerstone material of the breakcore sound, "Passage" is a mandatory release not only for fans of these two veterans, but for anybody who intends on understanding what breakcore is about. Following 2007's two collaborative 12" ("Bleeding Hearts vol 1 and 2", adn82 & adn83), Cdatakill invites another fiendish friend to Ad Noiseam, this time his long-time partner and co-shredder Abelcain. Both acts, which are among the very few veterans of the American breakcore scene to be still active, have finally given birth to a full length CD, which present their repeated collaborations over the years. "Passage" is the long awaited release on CD of two split 12" by these two acts (released by Zhark Intl and Low Res in 2002) and four new tracks written specially for this project. Armed with a decade of beats and rhythms shattering, Cdatakill and Abelcain have both matured, but look back dearly at their first collaborations. "Passage" opens with three tracks written by each musician, in which Marty Frank (Abelcain) presents his staccato drumming and sudden breaks, while Zak Roberts (Cdatakill) already leave space for some dark sci-fi soundscapes between his breakcore avalanches. These tracks are followed by four from the "Playing With Knives" 12", in which some of each acts' best known tracks are remixed by the other one (such as Abelcain's hard hitting "Faust" or Cdatakill's epic "Imperial Passage"). Finally, let's fast-forward six years to 2008 and see what sort of new treatment Abelcain and Cdatakill reserved to each other's material. The first hasn't slowed down his tempo a bit, and adds some extra oomph to two tracks taken from Cdatakill's moody "Valentine" album. Zak Roberts's gritty and complex remixes of recent Abelcain track close the circle. Cdatakill and Abelcain, two acts at the very centre of the breakcore scene, finally go through their rites of passage together, and demonstrate again that their dry, fast and dark blend of the genre is as relevant and necessary as ever. Artwork by Magnus Blomster. Tracks 1 to 6 were originally released on Zhark International as "The Six Stigmata" (zhark12005) in 2002. Tracks 7 to 10 were originally released on Low
Res as "Playing With Knives" (low 011) in 2002.
AdNoiseam-104
CD
$16.25

Abshire, Ariel
Exclamation Love
PS, US Darla Records hasn't been this excited about a new release by a new Pop/Americana artist since My Morning Jacket's first record. Ariel performs her original songs live at venues across Austin, Texas -- by herself and with music legend Alvin Crow. Her voice can be heard on soundtracks for films by Robert Rodriguez and Trevor Romain, and she is the youngest female singer to perform before thousands at the Austin Music Awards. Music critic Margaret Moser has compared her voice to that of Brenda Lee and Lou Ann Barton. Ariel has been called the "authentic foil to Britney Spears," by National Geographic's Traveler Magazine. This young woman was born to sing. TRACKLISTING: 1. Exclamation Love 2. Goddamn New Mexico 3. Nervous 4. I Didn't Know People Could Do That 5. Unknown Encounter 6. Thin Skin 7. Spots 8. Hotel Hallway 9. Subscriptions and Lies 10. Picking Up 11. Everybody Does
Darla-214
CD
$12.25

Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals
Cardinology
PS, US VINYL VERSION. All initial LP orders include special 7" piece and all LP packaging includes mp3 download code plus a super-cool "surprise".
LostHighway
LP
$17.00

Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals
Cardinology
PS, US New album.
LostHighway
CD
$15.00

Akimbo
Jersey Shores
PS, US AKIMBO are back (after past releases for Alternative Tentacles & Seventh Rule) w/ anothr hearty ass-kicking that will remain a paramount moment of their recording careers - treading a more mysterious & brooding territory. Inspired by the infamous & bizarre legacy left from a string of shark attacks that haunted the New Jersey coast in 1916. Loud, riotous, rebellious & defiant rock and roll.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

All the Saints
Fire On Corridor X
PS, US "These guys have evolved into an impossible-to-dislike distorto-heavy groove drone that their English forebears like Spacemen 3 and Loop thrilled with 20 years ago" - Stomp And Stammer.
Touch&Go
LP
$12.50

Analogue Minefield
Visions In Sonic Sense
PS, UK 3D digipak with 3D-spex!!! Analogue Mindfield's Gizzy D explains that the groups wants to, "create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes". This ferociously creative outfit indeed harks back to a golden age when reggae called itself roots and planted socially conscious lyrics into the public's consciousness. Delivered with sensitivity and passion over stellar riddims, laid down by musicians with an intrinsic feel for the groove, whilst adding a 21st century update in message and incoming musical influences, the results are 100% dynamite. The three main participants are Gizzy D, Snapper J and Kitty B, who are joined on their third studio album, Visions In Sonic Sense, by a supporting cast of singers and players including MC Ishu (Step 13, Manasseh Soundsystem), MC Jaz (DJ Reeza, Scribble Orchestra and now Analogue Mindfield's new live MC), techno forager Suspira (Transient Dreams who have worked with Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles), Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das on occasional bass and G Frequency (Goontrax, Domination Records) providing some luscious double bass and top turntablism. From the upbeat politically-biting skank of Political Patsy to haunting female-sung ballad Reflections, they handle conscious roots outings like Mediocracy and the brass-splattered toast of Eire Beag like the great Jamaican vocal groups of the 70s but still take the form to new vistas in roots dub ballad Dread Up, all bathed in a rich dub afterglow. Be Careful Out There could be a new street anthem for the 21st century while Music Man seems to put an 80s electro-pop outing through the dub blender. Over the years, Analogue Mindfield have worked with a diverse array of UK and Jamaican musicians and made a substantial impact with their first two albums, 2006's Digital Brainwave and last year's A Fine Adjustment of Time. Their third album is a mature affirmation of their vision and talent for working with sympathetic co-conspirators while grasping the original multi-cultural roots ethic and taking it into modern times. As to be expected from a Malicious Damage act, Analogue Mindfield don't confine themselves to the one genre they might be identified with: Soul Crew brings in elements of UK free party dub-techno while Burnt Out plants its incisive rhythms over a drum 'n' bass charge. The possibilities are infinite. Leftfield's Cheshire Cat once described the band as, "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with vibrant brass-driven skankŠ like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts!" while Primal Scream's mighty Mani declared, "You've got to get Weatherall to listen to these tracks man, he'll fookin' love em!" So will you.
MaliciousDamage-638
CD
$16.25

Another Electronic Musician
Five
PS, US For most of n5MD's existence the "IDM" ( Intelligent Dance Music) genre descriptor has been used sparingly and only for those artists that utilize a more strict electronic pallet. We shy away from such a specific genre tag because, for the most part, the music created by our artists lacks the "D" of DM...yes, dance. That trend changes with Another Electronic Musician's latest album "Five", Jase Rex's fifth release under the n5MD group of labels. Five puts the dance back into Intelligent Dance Music through the fusion of Techno, House, Electro, and Jazz with Rex's now signature sculpted sound. He has created something unique while leaving the genre's subtler signposts intact to lead the way. "Five" pushes and pulls you to where IDM used to before it went astray with its over the top cuts and glitch and puts the focus back in the mind and hips.
n5MD-163
CD
$12.00

Armpit
Tron + Anaru EP
PS, US Project of Clayton Noone (CJA, FUTURIANS). Like so many of the people way out in front in the NZ experimental music scene, this is definitely roughly hewn; pure, frantic free-noise taken as a snap-shot, not as a polished, emasculated 'album.' Think classic Dead C, along w/ a bunch of HCorp releases - though this seems far more chaotic, & it seems as though at any moment the whole thing is about to fall apart, though it never does.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$11.75

Army Navy
S-T
PS, US Best described as impeccably crafted melody over blankets of guitar fuzz that creates a delicate balance between melancholy & joyful resignation. For inspiration, the band looks to groups like Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, The Posies, & the Libertines.
FeverZone
CD
$12.50

Baker, Aidan
I Too, Wish To Be Absorbed
PS, US Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry. Toronto based composer Aidan Baker works under his own name, under the name Nadja along with bassist Leah Buckareff and also with the trio ARC. Hailing from the Great White North, Baker incorporates guitar, drums, bass, voice and tape loops into his myriad work hauling down a long iceberg of frigid doom, bliss and sound collage. He has also composed work for the The Penderecki String Quartet & The Uxbridge Chamber Choir and he is also a published poet. The first disc in the set features shorter, perhaps more accessible tunes with a wide range of instrumentation and songs ranging from minimal drone to delicate post-rock to ambient trip-hop. The second disc features longer, more drone/experimental-oriented pieces, primarily using the guitar (with the odd tapeloops and vocals) as the primary sound source. Adventures in ambience. Sonic immersion. Introspective dronescapes.
Important-219
CD
$14.75

Baker, Aiden/Leah Buckareff/Nadja
Trinitarian
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. This will not be repressed. Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition. Ousia - substance, presence, or essence Hypostasis - As above, only referring more to reality rather than an individual Perichoresis - A christian term for the mutual/simultaneous existence of the father (god) and son (god).
Important-215
LP
$22.75

Band, The
Music from Big Pink (Limited Edition)
PS, US Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
Capitol
LP
$18.00

Band, The
S-T (Limited Edition)
PS, US How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Capitol
LP
$18.00

Bazan, David
Jingle Bells b/w All I Want for Christmas
PS, US Continuing in the Yuletide tradition, DAVID BAZAN (PEDRO THE LION) delivers his own rendition of the timeless Christmas classic "Jingle Bells" & an original Holiday verse entitled "All I Want For Christmas." This 7" marks the 5th in a series of LTD ED Christmas singles from Suicide Squeeze Recs. Available on WHITE, GREEN, RED vinyl!
SuicideSqueeze
45
$4.25

Bixobal
Bixobal #5
PS, US The No-Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss recalls his time with The Source Family which led to the first Yahowa 13 performance in New York City and their new LP. An extensive interview with reformed Vancouver noise band Tunnel Canary by Allan MacInnis. A remembrance of Noggin violin player Michael Griffen by his friend Aaron Gorseth. A feature on the Belgian group Onde featuring former members of Noise-Maker's Fifes. A feature on the new label Assophon, home to The Sea Donkeys, Spider Trio and Factums. Eric Lanzillotta's reviews of vinyl, compacts discs, and books, both new and old. Patrick Marley's column Nickels and Dimes.
Bixobal
ZINE
$2.50

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Drippers
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Graveface
LP
$10.50

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Drippers
PS, US Zany collection of rarities and "colorful" new recordings from Pennsylvainian psychonauts, all totally exclusive save a rare compilation track. TRACKS: 1. Zodiac Girls (Pony Version of 7" Single) / 2. I Saw Brown (Pre-BMSR from 1999) / 3. Black Yogurt (with Mike Watt) / 4. Milk Skates / 5. Happy Melted City / 6. One Day I Had An Extra Toe (Esopus Magazine Compilation) / 7. We Are The Pagans (Dandelion Gum Outtake) / 8. Changing You All / 9. Just For The Night (by Laura Burhenn, BMSR Remix). The first track is a slight reworking of a 7 inch single from earlier this year. The second is a pre-BMSR song that has never been released. The third is a rad new recording with Mike Watt. Etc etc! Comes with a scratch-n-sniff cover, enjoy one of 5 available scents!
Graveface
CD
$11.25

Black Nite Crash
Array
PS, US BNC bring to mind such bands as The Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & The Bunnymen & The Stooges. Their debuMt LuPs i"cArray" brings forth 8 amazing fuzzed out, reverb drenched rock songs full of catchy hooks that leave you wanting more. Recorded at the legendary London Bridge Studios & produced by Dave Hillis (Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell, Afghan Whigs, Pearl Jam), the production is nothing short of stellar. Free CD that contains the entire LP included inside every jacket.
CustomMade
LP
$10.50

Bloc Party
Intimacy
PS, US New album.
Atlantic
CD
$14.25

Bloom, Kath
Terror
PS, AUSTRALIA "One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking." - Devendra Banhart "I consider myself her biggest fan." - Josephine Foster Terror is the follow-up to Finally, avant-folk legend Kath Bloom's 2006 return to active musical duty. The new album was recorded at Barking Spider Studios in Warren, Connecticut with Kath and her husband Stan Bronski. Kath was born and raised in New Haven, CT, where she learned to play guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery. She met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976 and together they recorded six limited edition albums of fragile folk and blues melodies between 1981 and 1984. Chapter Music will be re-releasing four of these albums - Sing The Children Over, Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight - as a pair of two disc sets in the coming months. There is also a tribute album in the works, with songs by Bill Callahan, The Concretes, Mark Kozelek, Scout Niblett and others. Her new songs, however, reveal a singer and songwriter as accomplished and affecting as Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch. Most tracks primarily feature Kath's gentle guitar picking, haunting vocals, and mournful harmonica, although guitarist Marty Carlson (owner of Barking Spider Studios), husband Stan and longtime collaborator Tom Hanford added finishing touches to many tracks. The material ranges in vintage from brand new (i.e. "Marty, I just wrote this yesterday") to as far back as her days with Loren (Something To Tell You). After her collaborations with Connors, Kath entered a period of child-rearing and family life, returning to recording in the early 90s. Director Richard Linklater discovered Bloom's music and featured her song Come Here in a pivotal scene in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. By then, Bloom had begun recording again in earnest, self-releasing a series of cassettes and CD-Rs. Finally, released on Chapter Music in 2006 was her first non CD-R release since 1984. Presently, Kath trains horses and plays with her band Love at Work (which includes Tom Hanford and husband Stan) offering a musical tour de force of programs for children and adults, as well as playing solo shows in the Northeastern US.
ChapterMusic-61
CD
$15.00

Bloom, Kath & Loren Connors
Sing The Children Over/Sand In My Shoe
PS, AUSTRALIA Chapter music is honored to announce the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early 80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown New Haven, CT, Kath Bloom and Loren Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on his now legendary nine volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations, he and Kath's performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Haven's Grove Street cemetery, while Loren's idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s. By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effort.
ChapterMusic-63
DCD
$15.00

Blue Orchids
A Darker Bloom
PS, UK A keenly awaited re-press for this definitive collection of the highly acclaimed combo, Blue Orchids, featuring their material that was originally released on the Rough Trade label. The Blue Orchids were formed by two members of The Fall and went on to produce more mainstream and melodic pop songs than that made by their previous employers. The band enjoyed widespread indie chart success with a high profile in the serious music press. The CD features 19 original tracks dating from 1980 to their demise in 1991. Tracks featured include the singles 'Disney Boys,' 'The Flood,' 'Work,' 'Agents Of Change,' 'Sleepy Town' and 'Diamond Age,' all of which enjoyed a high profile in the indie charts. The CD booklet includes liner notes written by band members Una Baines and Martin Bramah and ex-Fall member and Radio 1 DJ, Marc Riley. Also included is a complete discography of the band incorporating some of the band's original sleeves which are now rare items.
CherryRed
CD
$17.00

Blue Sky Black Death
Slow Burning Lights
PS, US The renowned producer duo pairs with frontwoman Yes Alexander to create a "dream pop" gem. Her sultry & ethereal vocals have been drawing parallels to the contemporary inflections of Joanna Newsom & Hope Sandoval. This is a beacon of sophistication in an overcrowded indie-pop landscape, highlighting the BSBD's versatility & serving as the bedrock release for this newly formed group.
Babygrande
CD
$13.50

Broken Note
Crux / Zealot
PS, GERMANY Broken Note puts the grist back in dubstep for their first record on Ad Noiseam, and demonstrates how heavy, dark and efficient this genre can be. Shattered, colossal and bridging dubstep and breakcore, the two tracks on this 12" are guaranteed to pack dance floors and ruin a few subwoofers. Having cut their teeth with a début 12" on Peace Off's heavy dubstep sub label Ruff in early 2008, the London-based duo Broken Note present their sophomore effort on Ad Noiseam with this "Crux / Zealot" (adn102). While dubstep has over the years mutated in various sub-genres and variations, Broken Note's blend is of the colossal and dark kind. Tapping in breakcore for the density of their sound, shattering their 2-step influences in a myriad of details, and not afraid of supporting their mammoth-like basses with rude, heavy beats, these musicians come up with something that finally proves that dubstep can be as massive as it was famed to be. This record's dub plates have already proved to be highly efficient DJ tools, packing dance floors for months. Here comes the loud, heavy and low end-rich final cut. A remarkable record from a striking act.
AdNoiseam-102
12
$11.00

Brown Wing Overdrive
ESP Organism
PS, US Angry shamans, burning circuitry, lonely poltergeists, sandpaper, dental work, alarm clocks, hallucinogenic claw hammer banjos, trash trucks, human beat boxes, chaotic analog synths & modular meltdowns-three young certifiable lunatics come together to dig deeper into the depths of the human psyche than anyone ever could or should. Influenced by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Aleister Crowley, & pollution, this bizarre trio of musical misfits create acoustic/electronic compositions that will keep you on the edge of madness until the last frightening sound
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

BSTC
Music For A Saturday Evening
PS, US Debut album by the BSTC, short for Blackstone Theatre Collective. An album of soul, jazz, & disco orchestrated by ANDY C, whose production credits incl. Janet Jackson, Mary J Blige, Raekwon, & The Temptations. He has taken the Quincy Jones approach in recording an album meshing various genres for a more complete listening experience. The perfect album to prepare you for the weekend, whether you're hitting the dance floor or spending a relaxing night at home. Others of the BSTC crew incl.: KEANNA JOHNSON (having worked w/ Justin Timberlake, Notorious B.I.G., Common, Keith Sweat, & Britney Spears), & TUNJI (master of several instruments) who co-produces a number of tunes on the album. Already gaining worldwide accolades incl. URB's Next 100 (2007), the BSTC is prepared to take you back to days when an album was played from beginning to end & musicianship was a must.
AllNatural
CD
$11.50

BSTC
Music For A Saturday Evening
PS, US 2LP vinyl format.
AllNatural
DLP
$14.75

Burnes, Andrew
Telescope
PS, US TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS happily presents the long-overdue solo debut of ANDREW BURNES. Burnes, along with DAVID DANIELL, is a founding member of the ethereal, post-blues ensemble San Agustin; he's also a member of Haunted House, alongside Loren Mazzacane Connors; and he's performed in improv settings with the likes of Ken Vandermark and Thurston Moore. Finally committed to vinyl, he doesn't disappoint: "Telescope" is a glittering chunk of sound, as Burnes transforms that particular emblem of Americana, the steel guitar, into one vast, slowly undulating drone. Andrew Burnes' name may not be familiar, but fans of the genre needn't worry. Back in 1993, Table of the Elements' original Guitar Series featured what was only the second US solo release from a similarly unknown artist: Jim O'Rourke. You can trust us again with this one.
TableoftheElements-98
LP
$14.25

Cakebuilder
Feeding The Worms
PS, GERMANY File Under: dubstep, breakcore. From its symphonic opening to its sweeping heavy basses, Cakebuilder's second record for Ad Noiseam shows that things are still deep in Winnipeg. Bridging angry, dark dubstep and a highly melodic drive, Cakebuilder opens a new gate for the genre, where "dub" is replaced by something a lot colder and orchestral. Cinematic dubstep of the blackest shade.
AdNoiseam-095
12
$11.00

Camera Obscura
Underachievers Please Try Harder
PS, US REISSUE ON 180gm VINYL!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Carlberb, Pelle
The Lilac Time
PS, SWEDEN In January 2008 Pelle Carlbergs plays his last gig of the "In a nutshell"-tour in Kuala Lumpur and returns to Sweden to write songs for his third solo album. He buys an abandoned church in a desolated area of the island of Gotland and spends six weeks there. - I had to leave Stockholm to make this album. In the middle of nowhere it's easy to write in soulful and relaxed. (Pelle Carlberg) 'The difficult third album' has rarely seemed more natural and free from pressure. "The Lilac Time" is English pop moving to Rio de Janerio and bringing along a seductively light breeze of Swedish melancholia. Pelle has managed to write his finest melodies to this date and his lyrics are so full of exact everyday observations and wry humor it's close to deadpan. Pelle Carlberg has released no less than six albums in the 21st century. The first three with Edson and the latter as a solo artist. His development as an artist has been unusual in the words most positive meaning - for every album he sounds more curious, spontaneous and personal. Ever since Pelle Carlberg started Edson in the late 90's he's had an ever-growing fan base all over the world. For each release a number of new countries are added to his release, - and tour, schedule. Apart from Europe and the US his albums are also released by labels in for example Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia and Korea.
Labrador-115
CD
$17.50

Carlberg, Pelle
Go To Hell, Miss Rydell EP
PS, US DEbut EP, available again. Wonderful debut from former Edson singer Pelle Carlberg. This EP contains five songs based around a nylon string guitar, a couple of strings, diary-like lyrics and some of best songs Pelle has ever written.
Labrador
CD5
$11.00

Carter, Christina
Original Darkness
PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Castanets Vs. Ero
Dub Refuge
PS, US "Dub Refuge" turns a minimalist folk record (CASTANETS' "City of Refuge") into a ghostly dub, subverting dub tradition while still nodding in the direction of King Tubby, Scientist, Burning Spear, and Sly and Robbie. "Dub Refuge" works because Castanets and ERO GRAY (aka Papa Alabaster, sometimes bass player for Castanets, and member of Brooklyn-based Rad Unicorn) are both preoccupied with ghostly, ephemeral and messy sounds. Ero and the Castanets share a haunted quality in their music, a unique dedication to risk, and a reverence for accident in folk music. (Stray string squeaks, cracking voices and odd echoes can be more rewarding than intentional harmonies or suavely competent riffs.) At it's best, Castanets music accomplishes an eerie and very difficult balancing act between the disaster-surfing of experimental and noise music, and the sort of calm competence shown by classic country singers. "The City of Refuge" sessions exemplified this balance, and here on "Dub Refuge", Ero has emphasized both aspects without destroying either.
AsthmaticKitty-42
LP
$11.50

caUSE co-MOTION
It's Time! Singles & EPs 2005-2008
PS, US They have built up a rabid following playing way too many shows to count during the last 6 yrs, w/ bands like Love Is All, Vivian Girls, Tyvek, Japanther, The Apples In Stereo, Crystal Stilts, & many others. Using reverb as a weapon, CCM has honed their hyperactive sound into a formidable DIY pop lexicon. This neatly summarizes the history of the band so far - a blast of pure pop energy & DIY sincerity for these all-tooknowing & ironic times. 14 songs race by in barely over 20 mins, the compressed rush of melody, tunes, & crash-bang energy perfectly mirroring the hormonal frenzy of adolescence & young adulthood. Hailed by the likes of Brooklyn Vegan, Dusted, etc. "These guys' sincerity, live or on record, cannot be doubted. Their tunes are great; it's hard even to single out the catchiest"-PITCHFORK
Slumberland
CD
$9.25

Cheval Sombre
I Found It Not So
PS, UK Because the night belongs to lovers, or in this case the remnants of love: some records are ideal listening for specific times of the day, and the latest languid single from Cheval Sombre is best savored in the twilight. I Found It Not So and Where Did Our Love Go - a re-imagining of the Supremes' lovelorn plea - are coupled here on VAN172, a pairing of moonlit laments cloaked in hushed tones and quiet yearning. These two sides of softly building melancholia find Cheval Sombre teaming up with Sonic Boom, who features here as well as lending production touches, and with Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna...) and Britta Phillips (Luna). I Found It Not So is infused with a sense of sleepy reverie; a low-key lullaby which echoes and chimes while floating around your sub-conscious. Sumptuously trip-wired with sveltely layered psychotropic glazes of looping out of body transcendental hypnotics, plangent guitar melodies creep and intertwine, moving to a warm climax. It's all topped off with barely-there vocals, a whispered dream filled with a sense of longing which belies the almost post-coital atmosphere. Likewise, the low-key facsimile of Where Did Our Love Go licks off all traces of a sugary Motown coating and reveals a dark, vulnerable tale of loss, regret and desire. Yep it's a cover of the legendary Holland / Dozier / Holland penned gem and the composition that was to give the Supremes their first number one hit way back in '64. Okay three releases (two on Static Caravan) in fairly quick succession from New York poet / musician Christopher Porpora or as he's better known to those cosmic kids with their finger on the pulse - Cheval Sombre. As well as "It's a Shame / Little Bit of Heaven" which sold out on pre-sale, there is a green vinyl 7" on Trensmat. A full-length Cheval Sombre LP will be released early 2009 on Double Feature Records, the new label run by Dean Wareham. Edition of 500 on 7" wax with artwork by Ben Javens.For fans of Galaxie 500, Spaceman 3, Luna, Sonic Boom and Low.
StaticCaravan-172-7
45
$7.25

Cobra Verde
Haven't Slept All Year
PS, US New album?
Scat
CD
$10.00

Comet Gain
Book of California B/W Love Without Lies
PS, US The Band Books of California is a bleeding heart ballad for hopeless romantics. A nostalgic dream of loves lost under the glow of the California sun. Both songs are performed by the classic Comet Gain Lineup & produced in an all too treble-y, too bass-y, too much too soon Milou Studios way.
WhatsYourRupture
45
$6.25

Crystal Antlers
EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Touch&Go
12
$8.75

Crystal Stilts
Alight Of Night
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$12.00

CSS
Move
PS, US Remixes by Cut Copy, Metronomy & Frankmusik!
Subpop
12
$5.00

Cure, The
4:13 Dream
PS, US Their 13th release, hence the title. "There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They're very upfront and dynamic," says Robert Smith of the new songs. "People will be surprised how stripped-down and in your face the record is."
Geffen
CD
$15.75

Cure, The
4:13 Dream
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Geffen
LP
$13.50

Daniell, David
I-IV-V-I
PS, US DAVID DANIELL is one of the hardest-working guitarists in avant-garde show business. He leads the troops in Rhys Chatham's guitar armies; he was a member of Jonathan Kane's rollicking band February; and he performs regularly in a duo with Tortoise's Doug McCombs. He's collaborated with Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore, and Loren Connors; and his guitar work with his own band, San Agustin, is the stuff of which fleeting blues-drone dreams are made. With influences rooted in blues, American minimalism, and post-punk ideologies, Daniell's guitar playing is always inspired; when fused with his intricate electro-acoustic compositions, the results are breathtaking.
TableOfElements-99
LP
$14.25

Danielson
Trying Hartz
PS, US "Trying Hartz" samples the first decade of the DANIELSON/DANIELSON FAMILE/ BR. DANIELSON oeuvre (all the years before "Ships"), attesting generously to the movement of the work as a whole, from proto-minimalist eccentric gospel band to prog-metal-dread outfit to music hall choir to indie rock one-man band to outsider art celebrity to family man and family member. It's a perfect starter volume for listeners who have not had the pleasure of engaging with the evolution of this unusual, surprising, and incredibly moving musical consortium. And yet: please note that no verbal account of the work can possibly summon the effect of the decade digested in this assemblage. After all, as Daniel sings, "My Lord is known by His song." Not by His press releases. The ecstatic vision of the Danielson project is the unnamable part, the impossible to describe part, and this ecstatic vision is cumulative. It's not what Daniel says, though he always says it well, it's the circumstances in which he says it, with family gathered around him, whether related by blood or not; it's the reiteration of the spiritual thematic material, a reiteration that sounds nothing like early 20th century gospel-it's far more poeticized, it's far more elemental-but which has all the seriousness and all the joy of that long ago music. Ecstatic vision. You won't get it by reading these lines, nor even by reading the lyrics. You will get it by listening to this distillation of ten years' work and the earlier albums and going to the shows. Then you will experience the humble but devious and complicated grassroots movement that is Danielson. "Trying Hartz" is an essential place to start.
SecretlyCanadian-180
DCD
$11.50

Dead C
Eusa Kills + Helen Said This
PS, US 2LP vinyl format. This is a collaborative reissue effort between JAGJAGUWAR & BA DA BING labels - a great collection of New Zealand noise rock act THE DEAD C's early releases. 'Eusa...' was originally on FLYING NUN Records in 1989, their 2nd album for the label is considered the band's seminal initial period & is now on vinyl again for the 1st time in yrs! The 2nd piece here is the rare 'Helen Said...' 12", originally released on the SILTBREEZE label. 2 recordings collected in one set - still sounds as vicious & vital as when it was 1st released. Snearing vocals drift over improvised melodies & noise rock blasts - a truly intense & unparalleled sound. Comes w/ rare, bonus material & vinyl is housed in beautiful gatefold Stoughton jackets.
BaDaBing!
DLP
$20.25

Dead C
DR503 + Sun Stabbed EP
PS, US 2LP vinyl format. This is a collaborative reissue effort between JAGJAGUWAR & BA DA BING labels - a great collection of New Zealand noise rock act THE DEAD C's early releases. Originally on FLYING NUN Records in 1987, this is considered the band's seminal initial period & is now on vinyl again for the 1st time in yrs! 2 recordings collected in one set - still sounds as vicious & vital as when it was 1st released. Comes w/ rare, bonus material & vinyl is housed in beautiful gatefold Stoughton jackets.
BaDaBing!
DLP
$20.25

Dead Can Dance
Wake
PS, US
4AD
DCD
$15.50

Deerhunter
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
PS, US THERE'S A BONUS DISC IN HERE!!! Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". The bonus disc contains an entire second album recorded a few months after Microcastle. the physical digital version will be a 2 CD affair and the vinyl will have a bonus CD inside. PITCHFORK: "The resulting 2xCD set captures urgent and imaginative songs that reorganize 4AD haze, off-kilter indie pop, crashing garage-punk, forward-leaning krautrock, and hypnotic Kranky ambience into a singular-sounding call-to-arms."
Kranky
DCD
$12.25

Deleted Waveform Gatherings
Baby Warfare
PS, US A cutting edge psychedelic feel - but with a 21st-century guitar sound & groove. What started out as ex-DIPSOMANIACS Øyvind Holm's solo project's backing band has evolved into a brilliant group playing loving homage with Holm's best collection of songs ever.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.50

Desolation Wilderness
White Light Strobing
PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood.
Krecords-198
LP
$10.25

Desolation Wilderness
White Light Strobing
PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood.
Krecords-198
CD
$11.50

Dirt Road to Psychedelia: Austin, TX.
S-T
PS, US During the 1960s" NEW LOWER PRICE! With a folk singing Janis Joplin, the 13th Floor Elevators, peyote, LSD and the first psychedelic music venue in Texas, Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists, Beatnik inspired students were drawn together by folk, country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and later exploring with LSD. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society, but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified! This is how Austin became groovy. Produced and directed by Scott Conn.
GetHip
DVD
$22.50

Dreamend
Long Forgotten Friend
PS, US VINYL VERSION. If we are to believe everything we read THEN the vinyl version includes the CD version for free, contains 4 extra songs (16 minutes worth of music), a handmade pop-up gatefold by William Schaff (GYBE!, Okkervil River etc), and an extra CD of demos and alternate versions.
Graveface
LP/DCD
$21.00

Eagles of Death Metal
Heart On
PS, US LIMITED EDITION new album from pop-rock-death metal effort by Josh Homme of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: The Eagles of Death Metal take big steps forward with each of their albums, making their scuzz-rock sleeker and catchier without sacrificing its sludgy hedonism: Death by Sexy added seedy glitz and extra sneering to Peace Love Death Metal's gleefully low-rent Rolling Stones worship, and Heart On ups the ante again. Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme boil down their fetishes for boogie rock, disco, glam rock -- and above all, strutting riffs -- into its most combustible essence while also finding far more shades and moods in it than they have before."
Downtown
CD
$15.25

End Of The World
French Exit
PS, US CD ONLY release! When you leave without saying goodbye, it's called a "french exit." Suffice it to say, there has been an interesting cast of characters weaving in and out of the lives of the EOTW duo. Somehow, though, through 14 bass players & one fistfight, the 2 of them have been able to stick toge-ther as best friends & band mates. It's a rarity in a city like Brooklyn, where true friends can be hard to come by. W/ 11 songs of city stories, the band's 2nd full-length, addresses the growing pains of boys becoming men & transitioning into adulthood, or at least attempting to do so. Stefan's old school crooning underscores the earnestness in his lyrics. On stage, he is a captivating storyteller, reflecting on the ins & outs of his life, his loves & his friendships. Meanwhile, Benjamin chimes in w/ shimmery, yearning guitar strums. The sound is minimalist & stripped down, calling attention to each song's emotion & tone. This is a joint release btwn Flameshovel & Pretty Activity labels.
Flameshovel/Pretty Activity
CD
$13.25

Envy/Jesu
Split (DELAYED)
PS, US Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind JUSTIN K. BROADRICK wrote, recorded, mixed, & produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January-May 2008
Conspiracy
LP
$16.75

Envy/Thursday
Split (LP/CD)
PS, US More than two years after THURSDAY first put the idea in our heads, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places. Recorded in Spring 2008, both bands turn in some of their most inspired work yet. In addition, Thursday invited Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev to remix the dark instrumental "In Silence" into the pitch-black closing track, "Appeared And Was Gone," providing the perfect transition into the massive dynamics of ENVY. Beginning with the subtle electronics of the symphonic opener, "An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction," Envy thrashes and burns through a trio of thoughtful face-melters. Pressed on audiophile-quality 180 gram vinyl and featuring original artwork by acclaimed poster artist, Dan Grzeca, this deluxe set includes a free copy of the CD format beautifully incorporated into the exquisite package design.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-146
LP/CD
$14.25

Farina, Mark
Mushroom Jazz Vol.6
PS, US To the un-initiated, Mark Farina is the master of the blend! This sixth edition in this legendary series sees cuts from KING KOOBA, COLOSSUS, KERO ONE, JAZZUAL SUSPECTS, and more, as well as a bumpin' brand new Farina original track entitled "Life". 20 tracks in all.
OmRecords
CD
$16.00

Farr, Gary
Take Something With You
PS, US This double CD set marks the long-overdue first reissue of Gary Farr's classic 1969 solo debut, Take Something With You -- one of the best and rarest singer-songwriter albums to emerge from the UK underground. Having torn up innumerable R&B clubs with the T-Bones, by the late 1960s, Farr had gone in a more pastoral, progressive direction. A superb set of reflective, acid-tinged ballads, the album finds his soulful voice ably backed by his 12-string guitar and supporting musicians including members of Mighty Baby and Blossom Toes, as well as Meic Stevens. It's presented here together with a plethora of non-LP 45s and previously-unheard demos, as well as a booklet featuring rare photographs, historical liner notes and personal memoirs from Meic Stevens and Farr's long-term partner, Carinthia West.
Sunbeam
DCD
$20.00

Five Man Electrical Band
Half Past Midnight: The Staccatos and Beyond
PS, UK Having released two LPs as The Staccatos, Ottawa, Canada s Five Man Electrical Band launched onto the scene in 1968 with this criminally underrated, psychedelically tinged pop gem. Reminiscent of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and other like-minded bands, Five Man Electrical Band developed into one of Canada's best-known groups, and their Capitol 45 of Half Past Midnight sold over 25,000 copies -- in Canada alone! Led by Les Emmerson, Five Man Electrical Band is today best known for their 1971 anti-establishment anthem 'Signs.' The Billboard # 3 single went on to sell over a million and a half copies. This first-ever CD issue of their long-out-of-print Capitol LP is supplemented by rare Staccatos 45s, none of which have ever been issued on CD. The 16-page color booklet also includes rare, unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of original band members. Remastered from the original master tapes.
NowSounds
CD
$17.00

Flynt, Henry
Dharma Warriors
PS, US Elemental guitar/drum rock concotion of HENRY FLYNT & C.C. HENNIX. "Warriors of the Dharma" & "Mount Fuji on My Mind" are classics of unrefined blues boogie & unhemmed stoner rock.
Locust
CD
$13.00

Flynt, Henry
C Tune
PS, US BACK IN PRINT! Ringing, psychedelic meditation from the cosmos. A sonic postcard or late night head music or even call it ecstatic Minimalism. On this forty seven min foray, he takes his electrified fiddle & blends his droning sonic calisthenics w/lonesome swing melodies & high decibel screech to the somnambulistic playing of his expat mathematician pal C.C. Hennix on Pran Nath Tamboura. Rec. 1980 in an undisclosed pocket of the galaxy & now available for blissful consumption.
Locust
CD
$13.25

Food For Animals
Belly
PS, UK For many, the current state of alt. Hip-hop has been, well, rather sad lately. It's heroes either burned out or gone astray. The ideology that filled so many notebooks with raps, now feels a bit mainstream; the music that moved so many young men with backpacks, now somehow stale. The labels that brought so much awesome music now, like so many, struggling to keep their heads above water. Some have said the movement is dead, but we know better. Hip-hop is something that can never die, and especially not now, when the world seems to be more screwed up than we thought it could be. So it comes as our extreme pleasure to offer to you today what we think will be one of the most groundbreaking debut full-lengths in recent memory. Food For Animals, straight outta Washington DC, this power trio (Vulture V, Ricky Rabbit, aided now by Hy on vocals) deliver their first full-length full of busted speaker beats, bizarre noise-soundscapes and slammin raps delivered with every bit of force like the hurricane they fly through. When Chuck D said, "bring the noise" he had no idea noise like this was possible. The music, a combination of raw digital noise, elephant size beats, samples of everything from jazz to top-40 twisted, distorted, and distorted again. It's loud as hell. It's the noise music people spoke of in the 30's. Belly is a statement. A manifesto. A record that screams- literally- and pushes the listener around, it's tough as hell, raucous, and actually might mean something in the long-term.
CockRockDisco-017
CD
$16.25

Fredrik
Na Na Ni
PS, US What started out as a side project to The LK by the two pop visionaries Fredrik & Lindefelt, pretty soon grew to become a six piece featuring members of some of the very finest of the swedish pop & experimental underground. Drawing on traditional european folk influences like The Fairport Convention or Bo Hansson, crooning songwriters as well as a host of eclectic references like Moondog, Steve Reich, Jim O'Rourke, Maja Ratke or Barbara Morgenstern, Fredrik forges a sound that is as daring & eclectic as it is homecomingly soothing
Kora
CD
$11.25

Funckarma
Dubstoned vol. 2
PS, GERMANY More than just dubstep: Funckarma make this genre theirs and re-write its foundation anew with this barrier breaking record. Heavy but sharp, clear but dub-influenced, mid-tempo but infectious, the second volume of Funckarma's take on the dubstep genre is a new take at one of today's dominant genre by unequaled producers. Almost ten years have passed since Funckarma's first records on the Djak-UP Bitch label, but the Funcken brother haven't shown any sign of fatigue along the way. With records on Neo Ouija, N5md and Hymen (among others) and remarked side projects such as their albums with Shadow Huntaz on Skam or Cane and Quench, these two producers have shown that they had their ears right open to new sounds, styles and atmospheres. Ad Noiseam is proud to welcome these two virtuosos to the fold, for the second volume of their dubstep-oriented series (who started with a first volume on the Highpoint Lowlife label in the middle of 2008). "Dubstoned vol. 2" shows Funckarma appropriating the dubstep trend and mixing it with their science fiction sounding, bass-heavy electronic dub. Not an act to just follow a recipe or embrace a trend, Funckarma however turns dubstep into a moody, science-fiction sounding electronic monster, full of sharp edits, dynamic changes and insidious hip hop influences, the whole thing perfectly demonstrated by the "Nays Of Dight" opener. Escaping the dominant blend of dubstep but broadening the genre by adding to it the mixture of genres and sounds that has become typical of Funckarma, "Dubstoned vol. 2" is a heavy but fresh take at one of today's most commanding sound, and should be an ear opener for many.
Adnoiseam-99
12
$11.00

Funckarma
Vell Vagranz
PS, US "Vell Vagranz" is Don and Roel Funcken's first full CD of original material under the Funckarma alias since 2006's "Bion Glent" (Sublight). This new album shows Funckarma at their most diverse by folding in other electronic music sub-genres into their already potent mix. Ambient, Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Downtempo, and even some Post-Industrial motifs are all drawn into the Funckarma vortex to be reformed into the alien sonic shroud that embodies their trademark zig-zag suture stitched beats, frenetic basswork and lush emotional gauze. Plus with some help from Seaming, Kettle, Spyweirdos, Landau, and phinx find Funckarma at their most synergistic since 2001s "Solid State" (Dub). "Vell Vagranz" is proof that Funckarma are one of those rare and seasoned artists who can make any style sound like their own unique and personal creation even when trying something out of their creative character.
n5MD-164
CD
$12.00

Future Clouds & Radar
Peoria
PS, US New album! Austin-based art-pop band is the eclectic multi-instrumental ensemble led by Robert Harrison (formerly of Cotton Mather). On their second effort, they focus their kaleidoscopic vision into a single cinematic narrative about mortality. Throughout, Harrison remains true to his genre-hopping eclecticism, leading the journey through a maze of fuzz-box vocals and ethereal keys. PASTE MAGAZINE: "A triumph of schizophrenic musical vision...a beautiful and brilliant mess...magnificent pop gems."
StarAppleKingdom
CD
$15.00

Gabel, Tom
Heart Burns
PS, US Tom Gabel, leader of Against Me!, returns to his roots as a solo singer-songwriter acoustic guitarist with the EP Heart Burns. Inspired by the country's current political and cultural landscape, and recorded this summer between Against Me! Tours, Gabel wanted to release the topical and timely songs prior to the forthcoming national elections. With new-millennium protest songs such as "Anna Is a Stool Pigeon," prompted by a story about an environmental activist sent to jail after being implicated by an undercover informant, Heart Burns is a scorching musical manifesto.
Sire
CD
$8.25

Geisha
Die Verbrechen der Liebe
PS, US This hour-long, six track monolith follows the group into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out & raw rock infused w/a bone-rattling recording & covered in a thick sheen of white noise & gritty distortion. As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine's 'Isn't Anything' for coordinates) is combined w/violent, chaotic NOISE & tainted w/blurred VHS cassette visions.
CrucialBlast
CD
$13.50

Giant Robot
#56
PS, US Asian pop culture & beyond. This issue: Fold School, Homeless in Tokyo, Back in Beijing, Big Bamboo, Foxxxy Lady, Kami.
ZINE
$4.75

Gigantics
Die Already
PS, US 5-man production team assisted by ONRY OZZBORN (aka Reason & Count Draven of Grayskul/Oldominion). Their debut feat. the voices of over 50 of the most influential & talented artists in independent hip hop today - pulling these disparate artists from their respective groups & weaving them into a dream team. Notworthy appearances by successful artists like AESOP ROCK, MURS, MR. LIF, SWOLLEN MEMBERS, ELIGH, PIGEON JOHN, P.O.S., AWOL ONE, SOLILLAQUIST OF SOUND, JOSH MARTINEZ
Camobear
CD
$16.00

Glass Candy
Beat Box (LP/7")
PS, US 8.1 ON PITCHFORK! Released on the great ITALIANS DO IT BETTER label, here GLASS CANDY takes the reins w/ 9 trks of electro-synth-pop dance magic. LP vinyl comes w/ a BONUS 7" feat 2 unreleased trks - "High B" & "The Gate." Everyone needs to check this duo out!
ItaliansDoItBetter
LP
$16.25

Glissade
Further
PS, US Limited to 500! The band's sometimes drone-y, always distortion-heavy sounds are reminiscent of the haze- induced vibes of bands like Flying Saucer Attack, Spacemen 3 or early Spectrum. This limited vinyl version has been completely remixed by the band & also includes the stellar 'Burned in Blue' EP, long out of print & newly remixed as well - all housed in a heavy, gatefold jacket. 14 hypnotic, blissed-out, instrumental space jams from North Carolina's finest psychedelic shoegazers.
DeepSpace
DLP
$19.50

Grampall Jookabox
Ropechain
PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening.
AsthmaticKitty-51
LP
$11.50

Grampall Jookbox
Ropechain
PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening.
AsthmaticKitty-51
CD
$11.50

Gregor Samsa
Rest
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. 140 gram double vinyl in beautiful custom package. Will go quickly.
Kora
DLP
$25.00

Grey
Sisters of the Wyrd
PS, US All female heavy doom trio
Kreation
LP
$16.00

Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns
Berezka / Monkey Lament
PS, US 12" multi-colored Vinyl split w/ Free CD Version. Second in a series of vinyl only releases, Other Electricities presents Berezka/Monkey Lament (OE014) by Russian avant-folk artist Gultskra Artikler and the UK drone outfit Lanterns. Complementary by nature of thoughtful experimentation, kindred by their undeniably enveloping output, Berezka/Monkey Lament brings the creations of Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns together in a familiar format, with unique contributions from each. Exclusive tracks and artwork dawn each side of a limited edition marble colored vinyl, displaying the artists' visions for their side of this entrancing combination record. Limited to 500 and includes a free CD version of the album.
OtherElectricities-014
LP
$12.25

Hit The Jackpot
Soul Money Gang Vibe
PS, AUSTRALIA Adelaide trio Hit The Jackpot play simple, noisy pop songs, swapping instruments and sharing vocals. They believe that enthusiasm and sincerity are more important than technical proficiency, and take inspiration from the likes of Beat Happening, Dinosaur Jr. and The Clean. It's appropriate, then, that they are releasing their new album Soul Money Gang Vibe through Chapter Music, the home of Australian DIY music for more than 15 years. The ten tracks on the album were recorded in the second half of 2007 at the band's own home studio. Cobbled together over the last few years, this studio has also been used by the likes of Kiosk, Birth Glow, Lindsey Lowhand and Batrider. Hit the Jackpot formed as a two-piece in early 2003, comprising young couple Jess Thomas and Kynan Lawlor. With a sparse but dynamic lineup of drums and guitar they played just a handful of shows before supporting Sonic Youth on their 2004 Australian tour. They released a self-titled EP around the same time, which ended up in the number three spot in Adelaide radio station 3D's Top 100 for 2004. Hit The Jackpot were joined by Sebastien Calabretto (and a bass guitar) in 2005 and released their debut album Clowns in 2006. With Seb leaving for the grey shores of England early in 2008, Hit the Jackpot have now recruited old friend Scott O'Hara (Lindsey Lowhand, True Radical Miracle), and are gearing up for a national tour in support of the new album. Aside from Sonic Youth, Hit the Jackpot have played alongside such international acts as Calvin Johnson, Les Savy Fav, J. Mascis, Dan Deacon and Pretty Girls Make Graves, as well as Australian artists such as My Disco, The Lucksmiths, Crayon Fields, Clue to Kalo, Oren Ambarchi, Wolf and Cub, Architecture in Helsinki and Love of Diagrams.
ChapterMusic-60
CD
$15.00

Holland, Jolie
Living and the Dead
PS, US
Anti
LP
$17.25

Hotel Hotel
The Sad Sea
PS, US Indie-ambient post rocker of heavily effected guitars & violins, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of If Thousands, Remora, Aarktica, Mogwai, Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, & Godspeed You Black Emperor. File under Indie Ambient, Guitar Experiments, Post Rock, Shoegazer.
Silber-064
CD
$12.25

Hototogisu
Pale Fatal Sister
PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release.
Important-210
DLP
$24.50

HPC
Halfbreed
PS, GERMANY At a very young age, the Norwegian one-man project HPC started creating electronic music that ranged from danceable electronica and psych-trance to hard-/speed-/breakcore, ambient and noise. After some experimentation and development he felt the time for a first release was right and now 'halfbreed' has been realized. In his own words, HPC's aim is to build an aural exposure of his personal view of life by creating music beyond predictable schedules and clichés in electronic music. With this debut he has perfectly accomplished what he had in mind. HPC presents a fusion of heavy syncopated beats and pulsing low-end bass, balanced by synth textures and soundtrackish samples - inducing atmospheres that dwell between unbridled ecstasy and subliminal hypnosis. Tracks like 'machine' and 'run' are a fine example of the terrifying and liberating climax of rhythmic power's crescendo. Feel free to file 'halfbreed' between illbient, dubstep and darkest ambient that has accumulated hard tech aggressiveness. With this album HPC hit the target - and this is only the beginning...
Hymen-769
CD
$16.25

Hunx And His Punx
You Don't Like Rock & Roll B/W Gimmie Gimmie Back Your Love
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 TOTAL (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 CLEAR viny)! LRadeiceosr &d sgents get ready - its HUNX & HIS PUNX! This totally absurd record contains 2 finely crafted bubblegum punk numbers from Hunx (w/ songwriting help from Nobunny) that will be stuck in your head all day. And, speaking of something stuck in your head - this comes w/ a scratch-off pornographic cover! Its really something to see... unless you don't like rock & roll!
RobsHouse
45
$5.25

Hushpuppies
Silence Is Golden
PS, US French rock band's debut stateside release. Their impeccable English suggest their origins could just as easily be Williamsburg, Portland, or London while their stripped down, in your face guitar-meets-Farfisa and wall of vocal chorus jams speak a language beyond borders. Sharp songs, heavy on melody and big on guitar riffs. So big, that the folks behind Guitar Hero are including the Hushpuppies track "You're Gonna Say Yeah" on the upcoming "Guitrar Hero World Tour". "Hushpuppies are a stylish garage rock band who have listened a lot to The Who, drink a lot of vodka, and drive their scooter up the wall" - Spex.
MintyFresh
CD
$12.00

Hyvonen, Frida
Silence Is Wild
PS, US Having come out of a year of isolation, Frida Hyvönen paired up once again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in Stockholm's famous Atlantis studio and made her second full-length Silence Is Wild. Whereas Hyvönen's 2006 debut Until Death Comes was lean and percussive with her distinctive oompah-styled piano and direct lyrics, Silence Is Wild stretches her voice across lush arrangements of piano, strings, choirs, and synths. Piano-based antecedents and contemporaries such as Carole King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Plush, and Antony and the Johnsons generally feel like appropriate touchstones for discussing the Swedish singer-songwriter's recorded work. Lyrically, however, Hyvönen is in more open waters, as she forges her own stylistic path as a songwriter. On Silence is Wild, Hyvönen continues to take an utterly modern approach to classic songwriting forms: blending the confessional with the fictional; mixing wit with a sexuality that shifts from the refined to the raw; all the while using language which dances effortlessly between the timeless and the contemporary, referencing high art and pop culture in a transcendent manner which masterfully puts Hyvönen at the top of a new international class of singer-songwriters.
SecretlyCanadian-184
CD
$11.50

Hyvonen, Frida
Silence Is Wild
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
SecretlyCanadian-184
LP
$11.50

I AM Robot And Proud
Grace Days
PS, US Reissue. Based in Toronto, I Am Robot And Proud is the name Shaw-Han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Grace Days is the full-length follow-up to his 2000 debut album The Catch. Following the initial burst of color and texture that The Catch offered, Grace Days amplifies and extends it, allowing form and structure to be abstracted, as on tracks like 'Mexico City' and 'Friction On Teeth', with fantastic results. Shaw-Han also manages to invest an even more depth and emotion to the melodies than before. The beautiful delicate harmonies on 'Her Version' lull you into a warm, inviting trance, and the title-track opener brings together acoustics and electronics in a way that would make you reconsider how the two styles could ever have been divorced from each other for so long. At nine tracks, Grace Days is a compact, perfectly formed fabergé-egg of a record. A sweet, fragile, opulent work that will subtly draw you in, making you wonder how you lived without I Am Robot And Proud before.
Darla-217
CD
$12.25

Indian Jewelry
Free Gold
PS, US Their most scathing pop album to date. Dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, & a lot of attitude. Now on LP!
LovepumpUnited
LP
$16.50

Jackson, Luke
...And Then Some
PS, CANADA London-born Luke Jackson¹s third album ...And Then Some was recorded at the all-analogue Aerosol Grey Machine studio in Southern Sweden with producer Christoffer Lundquist (Roxette, Cardigans, Concretes etc), drummer Jens Jansson (Per Gessle, Brainpool) and bassist Magnus Börjeson (Beagle, Favorita, Cardigans). The strings were arranged by Londoner Robert Kirby (Nick Drake, Elvis Costello, John Cale etc) and were performed by nine players from Malmö's Opera Orchestra. It is the collision of Swedish pop sensibilities and the distinctive eloquence of Robert Kirby's arrangements, which makes ...And Then Some so compelling. Densely layered guitars and vocal harmonies fuse with sweeping string lines, none of which ever draw the ear too far from what lies at the heart of Luke's music... gorgeous, expressive, unpretentious songs born of the trials and tribulations of a life lived to the fullest.
Popsicle-124-2
CD
$15.00

Jam
Sounds From The Street
PS, USBY GRAHAM WILLMOTT. THE JAM emerged from the punk explosion of 1977, combining the energLyT oDf that movement w/ the musical values & styles of the previous generation's mod icons. This is the inside story of their rise to fame, their brief but monumentous reign, & their shocking decision to quit at the peak of their success. Feat. a foreword by Jam bassist BRUCE FOXTON & both Foxton drummer RICK BUCKLER have given unlimited access to their private archives. The definitive insider's account of their music, its creation, its recording, & its impact in live performance.
Reynolds&Hearn
BOOK
$25.00

Jedi Mind Tricks
History of Violence
PS, US Throughout their 12+ year career, this indie powerhouse has carved out a distinct niche in independent hip-hop, having helped define an entire "hardcore" sub-genre in the process. Their highly anticipated sixh album returns to the signature gretty sound they pioneered via such classic releases as "Violent By Design".
Babygrande
CD
$16.50

Johannsson, Johann
Fordlandia
PS, US A musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth. Johannsson makes stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, which frequently combines electronic processing with classical orchestrations. "Fordlandia" is the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. A fascinating, immersive, and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies.
4AD
CD
$13.00

Julie's Haircut/Sonic Boom
N-Waves/U-Waves
PS, US Sonic Boom is Peter Kember, former member of the seminal SPACEMEN 3.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75

Kaiser Chiefs
Off with Their Heads
PS, US New album.
Motown
CD
$12.25

Kings of Leon
Only by the Night
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RCA
DLP
$23.00

K-The-I???
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
PS, US K-THE-I??? marks a thunderous return to MUSH with his latest full-length, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Production on the album is handled entirely by THAVIUS BECK, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' "Niggy Tardust" alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, "Broken Love Letter", focused on past loves gone wrong, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers.
Mush-264
CD
$9.00

Langhorne Slim
When The Sun's Gone Down [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of the critically acclaimed debut - repackaged w/a bonus disc containing 5 previously unreleased tracks.
Narnack
DCD
$14.25

Larvae
Loss Leader
PS, GERMANY A work in two acts, Larvae's third full-length album is a perfect snapshot of this band's tastes and talents. With a touching and poetic first part made of epic guitar melodies and drone atmospheres and a second act going back to Larvae's beatier and heavier "Monster Music" past, "Loss Leader" is at times poignant, at times playful. Another well thought step forward for the band (in two directions at once), and another impressive work for Larvae. Coming two years after "Dead Weight", so far the band's best known and most complete work, "Loss Leader" sees Larvae break the silence with something that is more than a regular album. Where "Dead Weight" was a commanding work of coherence in variations, melting many sounds and styles together, "Loss Leader" is clearly split in two very different parts. The first four tracks, forming the "Turning Around" EP are a testimony of this American band taste for long guitar tracks, highly emotional build-ups and delicate drumming. Maybe some of the rockiest Larvae material so far, these four melodic jewels take this act's sound where they had left us on the calmest tracks of "Dead Weight" (the fourth track, "Heavy" was actually part of the "Dead Weight" sessions), and dive forward in an instrumental world somewhere between post-rock and shoe-gaze, between drony backgrounds and fierce but introvert harmonies. Contrasting with this low-key beginning, the second half of the album, dubbed "Monster Music 2", is the direct sequel to Larvae's very first EP ("Monster Music", adn28, released in 2003). For if Larvae is clearly an act with a foot in the poetic side of rock, they are also cross-referencing electronic musicians at heart. Godzilla and his fiends are therefore back for a new round of sweeping basses and heavy beats. And still, where the first "Monster Music" was a down tempo heavy hitter (of the kind that would be called "dubstep" if it was released today). The sequel bows to Larvae's new-found calm, as shown for example in the closing "Oxygen Destroyer", which kicks off by pumping strong beats, before leaving room for wide and more humane tones. Larvae have come a long way since their beginnings, one could hardly think of a better snapshot of what this act is truly about than "Loss Leader": multi-talented, touching and intelligent.
AdNoiseam-101
CD
$16.25

Legends, The
Seconds Away
PS, US After two years of absence The Legends return with the noisiest pop single to ever come out of Sweden. "Seconds away" balances perfectly between the unbearable and pure loveliness. "I need noise now, so this new single sounds like someone drilling a whole in your head. In a pleasant way that is. It's called "Seconds away" and is about the wonders of Tryptizol. The B-side, "Over and over" is actually one of those sad love songs I had promised myself never to write again. But it was out of my hands; life forced me to write it. Sorry about that... Pallers has done a truly wonderful remix of it. It might actually beat the original, which is both a very good thing and slightly depressing at the same time." Johan [aka The Legends]. The one-man band The Legends has confused, and annoyed, it's surroundings with a total lack of will to compromise and sudden changes in musical direction since 2003. Right now Johan is in the famous Summersound studios together with a large number of distortion pedals and broken amplifiers to record a fourth The Legends album. The Legends made their debut with the critically acclaimed album "Up against the Legends" in the fall of 2003. Live the band was somewhere between 8-10 people of which two had a slight idea about how to play their instrument and none was close to sober. -" I wanted to make pop melodies so simple and obvious that they could get to the audience no matter how the songs were played. This time the audience will, hopefully, rather fight to hear the melodies through a wall of feedback".
Labrador-116
CD5
$5.25

Little Joy
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Little Joy
S-T
PS, US Little Joy is Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), and Binki Shapiro - three friends who got together to demo songs and produce this self-titled debut, named after their corner bar. Produced by Noah Georgeson (Devandra Banhart).
RoughTrade
CD
$12.00

Lorna
Writing Down Things To Say
PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom.
WordsOnMusic-24
CD
$11.50

Low
Santa's Coming Over b/w The Coming Of Jah
PS, US Low returns with two new tracks on this unusual festive 45. The a-side is a menacing ode to the night before Christmas, while the b-side is a supremely executed reggae number. The 7" is beautifully packaged in an iridescent white paper sleeve, with a punch-out paper ornament, and comes with an enclosed coupon to download the songs as mp3s.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Lucksmiths, The
First Frost
PS, US Over the course of fifteen years and almost as many albums and international tours, Australian band The Lucksmiths have penned some of the most adored songs this side of the pop underground and have built up a massive fanbase of both Europeans and ex-pats in the process. Their last album Warmer Corners, received much praise (Pitchfork : idiosyncratic but accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere not so much in presentation as in presence) Loud & Quiet named it their 2nd favourite album of the year, Two singles lifted from the album A Hiccup in Your Happiness and The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco both received heavy rotation on the nations broadcasters, the latter also finding its way onto Qantas in-flight playlist for March 2006 an achievement not celebrated lightly by a band with an enduring penchant for the somewhat ridiculous and irrelevant. A trip to Tasmania has yielded First Frost Their finest and most eclectic album to date. Camped out in the wilderness, the band was free to explore and expand the musical palette, and with all 4 members contributing songs, the end result is a 14-song offering bound to surprise anyone who thought they had The Lucksmiths pegged as sounding too much like The Lucksmiths
Matinee-049
CD
$12.25

Lukestar
Lake Toba
PS, US Norway's Lukestar present an album of otherworldly guitars, energetic drumming, and ethereal, dreamy, power falsetto vocals. PITCHFORK: "A solid collection of pulsing indie-rock songs with half-shouted hooks and guitars unwinding like fractal art"
Flameshovel
CD
$14.00

M83
Digital Shades Vol. 1
PS, UK Digital Shades Vol. 1 is the precursor to the fourth album from M83, essentially the brainchild of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of Antibes, France. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony decided to develop a musical direction already heard on some earlier M83 tracks and he started to write and record a collection of ambient works. Having long been a Krautrock and Eno fan this was a kind of music that Anthony has always been familiar with. Recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet, who had previously worked on Before the Dawn Heals Us, Anthony was able to work without pressure, knowing he could work on the record at his own time and pace. The idea of digital, relevant during all the process (from creating the music to sharing it), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol.1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series.
Mute/EMI
CD
$15.25

Magic Lantern
S-T
PS, US Magic Lantern came into being at the mid-point of the decade, sparked into existence by a simultaneous period of musical discovery for Philip French, William Giacchi, and Cameron Stallones. Inspired by the psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the '70s), the three realized they ought to make use of the new creative tools they'd stumbled upon, and began jamming the summer away in twin poles of Long Beach and Whittier, CA. Over the course of a year, they recorded every jam and compiled a full-length's worth of home-studio demos which later became their self-released CD-R. At the same time, each member was developing solo and side projects to channel parallel universes of sound. A year after their first jam together, Magic Lantern decided to make the leap to playing live and recruited good friends and like-minded musicians Chip Knechtel and Gavin Fort to be their marathon rhythm section. The jams from their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw, stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar duels. After being invited to play at the Tee Pee Records showcase 'Manifest Destiny' in August of '07, th' Lantern kept up a steady diet of shows in L.A. and Long Beach for the next year, earning a local following and two highly limited tapes on Not Not Fun Records. Through the spring of '08, they began writing new material as a band and developing the new songs live. In the summer, they recorded these jams with sound wizard Bobb Bruno, which led to the Not Not Fun LP High Beams that September. At this point, the band had fully emerged from transition into a shared creative vision of five musicians, each possessing a singular voice, all united in the common goal to engage both mind and body through good vibrations. Edition of 500 on black vinyl.
Woodsist
LP
$13.75

Magnetic Fields
Get Lost
PS, US REISSUED FOR THE 1ST TIME EVER ON 180gm VINYL! This classic 1994 release contains 13 songs from the worst year of STEPHIN MERRIT's life (head honcho of MF) & is one of the best selling titles in the Merge catalog. Re-sequenced by Merrit himself & lovingly remastered for LP & presented on audiophile vinyl. MF fans will surely want to snatch this up! Comes w/ MP3 download coupon of the entire album. 100% recycled material used in the packaging! Also, keep an eye out for more Magnetic Fields vinyl reissues from Merge coming in 2009!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Mahjongg
Free Groove Rider
PS, US Stylistically, MAHJONGG is boundless and indefinable. From their very first EP through K's "Kontpab" (released earlier this year), Mahjongg have dabbled in beatbox punk, afro-beat revivalism and junkyard whimsy. The continual shifts in their albums is an earnest attempt to realize global harmonies, but if given only one side of a 7" which side of Mahjongg would come out to play? The Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series provides the answer and "Free Groove Rider" is their most refracted pop statement yet. Using a swirling vocoder and intermittent dance beats, this single flickers like a channel-surfer finding pop sensibilities in between the static. The B-side, a remix by Selector Dub Narcotic (Calvin Johnson), ups the playfulness by reducing the static in favor of an unkempt, bubbling mix of melodica and reemerging synths.
Krecords-114
45
$3.75

Manda Rin
My DNA
PS, US Solo debut from lead singer and co-founder of sensational cult punk trio BIS
RetardDisco
CD
$11.50

Mann, Oliver
Possum Wakes At Night
PS, US Vast, yet intimately detailed work, both in sound and feeling. Oliver's voice can shoot from a booming baritone to a soprano w/ an elasticity that plays into the arrangements of his songs, shaping their folkish hue into boundless realms w/ a whimsical zeal. Guests include DIRTY THREE'S JIM WHITE & GRAND SALVO. Simply infectious - this is a
unique chronicling of pure joy.
Preservation
CD
$15.50

Manual
Confluence
PS, US Confluence is Danish producer Jonas Munk's third installment in his series of ambient albums, following the much loved The North Shore from 2003 and Bajamar from 2006. Unlike Munk's better known work, which centers around electronica and shoegazing aesthetics as well as a love of 1980s production techniques, these ambient works are completely without beats, or even time signatures, and are delicately constructed out of slowly evolving streams of guitar that has been processed into oblivion and back. But even compared to the standard set by the two aforementioned albums, Confluence is surprisingly dark and minimalist. These eight new compositions move slowly and seamlessly, like the ebb and flow of the changing tide, with subtle layering and filtering providing the essential means of movement.
Darla-216
CD
$12.25

Mascott
Art Project
PS, US A musician's life in New York City can be difficult. It's an expensive town that makes it nearly impossible to work solely as a working musician, so instead you set the alarm every morning and head to your day job in midtown. For Kendall Jane Meade of Mascott, that job reaped unintended benefits. With the freedom of a steady paycheck, she was able to indulge in her favorite job, one that has sustained her (and her fans) for years: an artist. The result is the aptly named Art Project, a gorgeous collection of songs that showcase an artist unhindered by expectations, pressure or obligation...an artist writing and singing for no one but herself. The result is an indie-pop stunner: intimate, relaxed and beautiful. As a result, Art Project is Kendall's personal journal of sorts, rumination on modern city life, the ebb and flow of love, and tender poignancy of the small moments in between.
RedPanda-005
CD
$12.25

Mass Shivers
Estatic Eyes Glow Glossy
PS, US Due to popular demand, The band has made vinyl of their 2007 release. One time edition limited to 500.
Sickroom
LP
$13.50

Mcrackins, The
Eggzit
PS, US 10 brand new tracks from these Canadian pop-punk/power pop legends. "Eggzit" really showcases the Mcrackins at their best - every song is filled with hooks and catchy melodies. It's eggscellent!
CheapskateRecords-
CD
$8.25

MF Doom
Operation: Doomsday
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MetalFace
LP
$18.25

MF Doom
Operation: Doomsday
PS, US REISSUE! Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD's 1994 sophomore album 'Bl_ck B_st_rds' was turfed by Elektra in 1994 & Subroc (one half of the sibling rhyme duo) passed away, surviving KMD member ZEV LOVE X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom. The Rap world is better for it. 19 trks here in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Considered a classic like much of his back catalog, here he self-produces all of the music & weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay. Guests incl.: PEBBLES THE INVISIBLE, KURIOUS JORGE, MEGALON & KING GEEDORAH, MF GRIMM, etc.
MetalFace
CD
$15.25

Millennium
Begin
PS, US
Sundazed
CD
$13.50

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

Momus
Joemus
PS, US The new Momus album, Joemus, is collaboration between the veteran electronic vaudevillian and Joe Howe, a young Glasgow breakcore musician known for his work with Gay Against You and Germlin. Asked, back in 2007, to do a cover version for a limited edition box set called Recovery, Momus called on the young Scot's services to make a cover of David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, which turned out "not so much a pop song as a ping pong match between Coco the Clown and Major Tom... a series of satisfying thwack and plock and boiiiiiing noises," according to Momus. The Bowie cover isn't on Joemus, but the Nintendo Glam Rock feel -- and the odd noises -- persist. The pair worked over the Internet, then spent several weeks together in Berlin fine-tuning the results. The Joemus album sounds like the hits of 70s Scottish glam rock sensations The Bay City Rollers played on 80s amusement arcade equipment. Joe's frenetic, ADD-addled jams get turned by Momus into folk jigs, but the fast numbers alternate with tenderly morose slowies, covers of Cliff Richard ballads and Ryuichi Sakamoto croons. Then it's back to the beats-and-edits frenzy, and tales of horror, from Dracula (a duet with Groopie Kyoka Kyoka) to Ichabod Crane. The result may be the most satisfying pop album Momus has ever made -- but only if your definition of pop tends to the edgy, jumpy, fresh, and weird.
AmericanPatchwork-08
CD
$12.25

Mountains
Mountains, Mountains, Mountains
PS, US LIMITED to 500 in two color silkscreened sleeves. The duo of Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, have been making some of the most beautifully epic music of the past four years. The two blend acoustic instrumentation with field recordings, subtle electronics and live sampling to create something otherworldly. Expect another release by Mountains on Thrill Jockey in the near future!
CatsupPlate
LP
$12.50

Mythical Beast
Scales
PS, US Like a would-be soundtrack to some forgotten Wagnerian saga, this debut full-length unleases sonic elements akin to trudging minions in an epic struggle for tonal supremacy. Their music is dank, grim & heavy as hell, but at its heart lies an indestructible momentum & spirit in no small part due to Corrine's Valkarie-esque presence.
LanguageOfStone
CD
$13.25

Nadja/Leah Buckareff/Aidan Baker
Trinitarian
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. This will not be repressed. Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition. Ousia - substance, presence, or essence Hypostasis - As above, only referring more to reality rather than an individual Perichoresis - A christian term for the mutual/simultaneous existence of the father (god) and son (god).
Important-215
LP
$22.75

No Age
Teen Creeps
PS, US Non album b-side!
Subpop
45
$3.50

No Neck Blues Band
Clomeim
PS, US A distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, & Krautrock zenith Faust at their finet hour. This is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior w/ a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover & a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages.
Locust
CD
$13.00

No Neck Blues Band
Clomeim
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Locust
DLP
$25.00

Nomi, Klaus
Za Bakdaz: The Unfinished Opera
PS, US Klaus Nomi's Unfinished Symphony, or Operetta, or "Space Western". It was also a song from his show, and it's the title of this new release. Loosely translated, it means Heaven, or "Homeland for Nomis". He left behind recordings, photos, and a few videos-but if you had never been in the same room with him... you will never know. A performer of startling vocal ability and even more striking visage, Klaus Nomi had no peer-and due to his untimely departure, the world will never know how he might have applied those talents. When he left Earth on August 6th, 1983, Klaus Nomi took with him the resolution to his Magnum Opus-a work we had always assumed would be titled Za Bakdaz, or "Nomi Homeland". We have decided now, a quarter century later, to present it. What we were not able to do was finish it exactly as he might have; the result is in equal parts collaboration, a tribute, an historical artifact, and a mystery. The parts are sung in several languages-English, German, French, Italian-and interestingly, his own personal "Nomi Language", which we like to call "the Glossolalia". For that reason the libretto could be open to interpretation. In this incomplete state we are left with a musical Rorschach-possibly not what Nomi fans would expect-but still true to both his classical operatic roots and his fascination with all things experimental and futuristic.
Heliocentric-001
CD
$16.25

Norma
Norma 1 EP
PS, SWEDEN BACK IN STOCK, VERY LIMITED, NOW OR NEVER. 2007 CDEP features 4 *exclusive* songs (that do not appear on the new 2008 full-length CD) in handmade carton jackets, limited to 500 numbered copies. Highly recommended. Norma are very serious about ther music. Despite that they never get boring or theorizing. Their music is warm and welcoming. Norma is as much a band as a concept containing both visual and musical experiences. Their goal is to look outside the classical band format and try to broaden the cooperation with all sorts of creative minds. Their music is influenced by a lot of genres, ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie and the biggest influence is landscapes in all forms. Their ambition is to capture the minimalistic sound of just being three but also to challenge it and despite that sound grand. Playing live they try to give the audience much more than just a musical experience, using video, atmospheric sounds, theatrical elements and a balance between lightness and darkness.

EARDRUMS MUSIC: ""I was blown away when I first heard this track from the swedish trio Norma's debut ep, out on Novoton now. Their music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that I don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. I'm also amazed by the composition and the small details that suddenly surfaces and surprises. When the main song on the single is 8:33 minutes long, I guess those surprises are kind of necessary..."
Novoton-013
CD5
$7.00

Norma
Book of Norma
PS, US Swedish shoegaze/dreamrock duo Norma's new album is available 11/4. Those of you who snapped up their incredible debut EP (available again, very limited stock) understand what's at stake here. Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Modern references may be Silverbullit, 120 Days, Serena Maneesh and the Lionheart Brothers.
Novoton
CD
$13.00

Northern Valentine
The Distance Brings Us Closer
PS, US Northern Valentine is built around husband & wife team Robert (guitar) & Amy Brown (violin & keyboards). They have been recording since 1997 & have six limited release albums to their credit in numerous incarnations with various additional musicians. On The Distance Brings Us Closer Robert & Amy are joined by Jeffrey Bumiller (of Doctor Scientist & Lunch with Beardo) on guitar, Marc Carazo on bass guitar, & Ben Fleury- Steiner (of Light of Shipwreck & owner of Gears of Sand Records) on guitar. The recordings on the Distance Brings Us Closer were live in their studio using a stereo field recorder without post-production or overdubbing, just the band members improvising off of each other on planned themes. The result is a very live & blended spacious sound rather than the sterility & separation that can often be found on a multi-tracked album version of a live improvisational drone band.
Silber-068
CD
$12.25

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin
PS, US New York outfit O'Death's third LP, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, feels like a giddy junkyard hoedown, from the panicked fiddle screeches of opener "Low Tide" to the celebratory gallop of closer "Lean-To." At times it sounds morose or contemplative, but underneath the melancholy is a gospel fervor-bashed from paint buckets, banjos, guitars and anything else in kicking distance-that defines their sound. Since 2007's buzzed-about Head Home, the quintet, which contains vocalist/guitarist Greg Jamie, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gabe Darling, fiddle player Bob Pycior, bassist Newman and drummer David Rogers-Berry, has evolved the possessed americana-meets-gypsy-punk of recent years into a more urgent, unrelenting celebration of life, death and everything in between. NEW YORK TIMES: "The starkness & spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the noisemongering of punk & the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits. With quiet pluckings of banjo & angry, anarchic hollers, its songs jumble the sacred & profane."
Kemado
CD
$13.50

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kemado
LP
$17.50

Orsi, Fabio
Audio for Lovers
PS, US 2xCD effort that is at once a highly satisfying 2 hour entry in the ambient genre. This shows both the same modernistic & minimal sensibilities that we've heard from Orsi in the past, while also drawing on the earlier, atmospheric work by Eno, which is to say that the album does precisely what most of us would like out of an ambient work.
LastVisibleDog
DCD
$15.00

Paisley, Doug
S-T
PS, US Vinyl format LTD ED OF 500 ONLY! An album of folk songs that represent the American malaise. Sure, PAISLEY is Canadian (Toronto, to be exact) but so was Neil Young & 4/5 of The Band, & that didn't stop them from tapping into the collective psyche of the continent. Recalls an era fo songwriting that was more simple, more honest, more modest. A time before ipods & myspace, when making a good album was simply enough. Doug has toured recently w/ Bonnie "Prince" Billy under the pseudo name Dark Hand & Lamplight, a collaboration between himself & visual artist Shary Boyle. Shary creates live drawings & animates pre-drawn images on an overhead projector - all projected on a screen, on the wall, Doug, & other available surfaces. LP comes w/ free MP3 download coupon. On NO QUARTER Recs (home of Endless Boogie, Laddio Bolocko, etc). CD release due Jan. 2009
NoQuarter
LP
$13.00

Parks, Cale
Sparklace
PS, US A little over a year since the release of Aloha and White Williams drummer Cale Parks' solo debut album Illuminated Manuscript comes Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums. Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a snare out of place. Listen carefully as it settles in, fragile but not without momentum.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Pas Chic Chic
Au Contraire
PS, US The Montreal quintet's lineup features former members of GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, SET FIRE TO FLAMES, & FLY PAN AM. W/ echoes of Roxy Music, Neu!, Os Mutantes, & Francois de Roubaix, the band weaves through their influences while creating a whole new vein of pop. Their fractured melodies, cinematic arrangements, driving rhythms, & retro-futuristic synths simultaneously bring to mind psychedelia, shoegraze, & tropicalia.
Semprini
CD
$16.75

Past Lives
Strange Symmetry
PS, US Features ex-members of The Blood Brothers and Shoplifting. "Beyond Gone" announces the band's arrival; guitars seethe and snarl. "Strange Symmetry" recalls the hypnotizing lock-step of The Monorchid; continually building. "Skull Lender" rides a feral gallop of desire for memory erasure. The plinky din of jackpot slots couches the fateful ascent of "Reverse the Curse", and "Chrome Life" is a Neu-inspired run to the sun.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$10.00

Past Lives
Strange Symmetry
PS, US Vinyl version comes with coupon for free digital download.
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$12.00

Piano Magic
Dark Horses
PS, UK Their music has run the gauntlet between electronica, post-rock, baroque, modern classical and even glitch, though in recent years Piano Magic has settled on a unique, romantic, classic British alternative rock that echoes the most vibrant work of their prime inspirations. 'Dark Horses,' the latest in their now annual 4-track EP transmissions, nods, consciously or otherwise, to the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths and The Chameleons, whilst managing to sound indisputably like Piano Magic. These songs are built on pummeled drums, chainsaw guitars, cathedral reverbs, insistent bass and Glen Johnson's reliably Morrissey-esque observations on a life less sweet. 'Dark Horses' is Piano Magic's first record for the exceptional independent, Make Mine Music. The label is exclusively financed and maintained by its bands and therefore, the proceeds of each record sold go immediately back to those who made the music. Despite operating almost entirely beneath the radar in their native UK, since their first release back in 1996, Piano Magic have managed to successfully carve out a niche of their own that constantly defies expectation and sidesteps music industry convention. By never staying long on any one label, playing most of their concerts abroad and consistently redefining their sound, the band has not only survived against all odds but built up a solid, devout worldwide fan base. Their 12 long players and 18 other format releases have featured collaborations with Vasti Bunyan, Low, Tarwater, Hefner and Cornershop, amongst others. They've sound-tracked a film by Spanish director, Bigas Luna, signed on and off with the likes of 4AD, Darla, Morr Music, Important Records, toured in Russia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and England. Even so, Piano Magic remains, unashamedly, a "cult phenomena," not destined for recognition until perhaps a decade after they finally call in the ghost. When not fronting Piano Magic, Glen Johnson operates as Textile Ranch - his new long-player, a collaboration with Victorian music machinist, Plinth - is out this month (also on Make Mine Music). Johnson's alternate project of electro-pop, under the name Future Conditional released a splendid album, 'We Don't Just Disappear,' on LTM last year.
MakeMineMusic-054
CD
$12.25

Pillbugs
Everybody Wants a Way Out
PS, US Lysergic psychedelia, crunchy rock & pristine pop. Different aspects of the album evoke XTC, The Dukes of Stratosphere, Myracle Brah & varying degrees of Pink Floyd.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.50

Quatrain
Quatrain
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Sundazed
DLP
$30.00

Rasputeen & Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather
Rasputeen in Heavy Leather
PS, GERMANY Composed and performed by catholic boys in heavy leather, Rasputeen and Rasputeenette, Anno Domini 2008. Original photos by Rasputeenette. Graphics by Korova Milk. First 11 copies packed in a heavy-duty latex mask. Rotor Siffredi and Joke Stryker first met in 1989 as young recruits in the Vatican City's Swiss Guard. After many years of serving and protecting the Holy Father they got a bit bored and discovered their mutual fascination for loud music and heavy leather.
BazookaJoe-13
CD5
$10.25

Record Collector
#356 (December 2008)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Reed, Lou
Berlin OST
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
DLP
$20.00

Reed, Lou
Berlin OST
PS, US
Matador
CD
$13.25

Reinhardt, Jonas
S-T
PS, US Drawing from traditions of 20th century instrumental synthesizer music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analog electronics, sweeping atmospherics & driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album's 13 pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was. Armed with a battery of analog synthesizers & vintage drum machines, Jonas writes music that is at times stark & spare and at others lush & all-encompassing; all the while keeping an underlying rhythmic pulse just beneath the surface.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Riles, Zak
S-T
PS, US Riles' (GRAILS) creative contributions to the group are immeasurable, & can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact, some of the pieces on this record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh, & the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh.
Important
CD
$13.25

Risil
Non Meters Vol. 1
PS, US A collective of musicians that are all connected to each other in some form or fashion. Their membership includes
Guillermo Herren (PREFUSE 73, SAVATH & SAVALAS), Zach Hill (HELLA), Tyondai Braxton (BATTLES), John McEntire (TORTOISE), Alejandra Deheza (SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS), & Eva Puyuelo Muns (SAVATH & SAVALAS)
Important
CD
$13.25

Risil
Non Meters Vol. 1
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
PS, US New album.
Infrasonic
CD
$15.00

Schirach, Otto Von
Oozing Bass Spasms
PS, GERMANY
Hymen-411
DLP
$20.75

School of Seven Bells
Alpinisms
PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music.
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.50

Secret History, The
Desolation Town EP
PS, US The Secret History was formed in 2007 by songwriter Michael Grace Jr, best known for acclaimed post-wave indie band 'My Favorite'. TSH is a collaboration with vocalist Lisa Ronson, daughter of Bowie guitarist, and glam rock legend Mick Ronson. The Secret History continues as a vehicle for Grace's myth and monster laden storytelling, which sprawls across a dreamlike landscape; part New York, part Italy, part Nowhere. The sound itself is a kind of continental art rock, combining the rainy jangles of mope, the stomp of glam, the innocence of the girl groups, and the anxiety of disco. Comparisons to Roxy Music, Eno, The Smiths and others begin to scratch the surface. The Desolation Town ep is the perfect introduction to a band committed to destroying rock n' roll from the inside and releasing its love-worn prisoners back into the streets...headphones on...never walking alone.
LeGrandeMagistery-048
CD5
$9.00

Shop Assistants
Will Anything Happen
PS, UK The Shop Assistants were one of the defining bands of the '80s independent boom. Formed in Edinburgh in 1984, originally as Buba & The Shop Assistants, they released the Peel-approved indie staple Something To Do , which featured Stephen Pastel on backing vocals. With line-up changes and an abbreviated name, they released the Shopping Parade EP a year later, which saw Morrissey describe 'All Day Long' (included on this collection) as his favorite track of the year. The band's David Keegan (who would subsequently join the Pastels) then formed 53rd & 3rd Records, which housed the band's 'Safety Net,' one of two songs, along with 'I Don't Want To Be Friends With You' (again, included here) to be voted part of John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986. They also featured on that year's celebrated, infamous, nay, iconic C86 NME compilation. This re-release incorporates the material they released after signing to Chrysalis' Blue Guitar subsidiary. The Shop Assistants, aka Will Anything Happen, is their sole album release, and is accompanied here by two bonus tracks; 'Looking Back' and the slow version of 'All Day Long.' Although reissued in 2001, it has long been out-of-print, fetching scary prices on a well known auction site in acknowledgement of its status as one of the indispensable articles of the C86/shambling/independent scene.
CherryRed
CD
$17.00

Sickboy
Time To Play
PS, GERMANY Sickboy's exhilarating, enthusiastic and insane-as-ever fifth full length album features this musician's most infectious, catchiest and most efficient material. While the noise might be gone for good, Sickboy's new clothes are of the colourful party kind. Mixing old school rave, new school electro, breaks and madness, Sickboy hits the nail on its head and invite everybody to play, rave and party non-stop. Refreshing! More madness from the source of it all. Sickboy, one of the most seminal breakcore / mash-up / whatever artist of the current European scene takes everybody to the utmost rave of 2008.
Adnoiseam-106
CD
$16.25

Sight Below
Glider
PS, US LIMITED Edition CD! There's a beating heart buried in the wintry landscape of GliIdneter, a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the album's echoing, looped drones & pulls the listener swiftly through the snow. By pinning barely-there electronic beats to his wisps of guitar melody, the Seattle-based producer turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music. A work of vertiginous sonic depth & exquisite melancholy: techno music for a dark winter's night.
Ghostly
CD
$10.25

Skeletons
Money
PS, US Already up so early in the morning of 2008, SKELETONS were hibernating in the safest, quietest, warmest place in the world: Times Square, New York. In a haunted WWII-era ballroom they recorded through the wintry nights when the studio was on fire. Taking breaks at 5am, standing under heat lamps listening to Hot Jazz outside the Time Warp Hotel, soaking up the empty streets with the leftover creeps while the tourists sleep. It's just the same struggle any old human has to go through to make anything: make it to work on time, make an excuse, make babies, make war, make breakfast without getting into a fight. The child of this struggle is "Money", pre-made, for you, entering the world October 7th in the USA, and October 28th in the UK and Europe via TOMLAB.
Tomlab-123
CD
$12.25

Slipstream
Mantra
PS, UK 'Mantra' is the 5th and long awaited new album from Slipstream and follows their much loved and critically acclaimed, 'Transcendental', release of 2003. With new track 'Psycho Paul' having already featured in the soundtrack of hit BBC3 comedy series, 'Ideal' (screened in April/May 2008). Written by Slipstream as homage to their favorite comedy show, the show's writer and big Slipstream fan, Graham Duff, loved the song so much that he actually wrote a scene to fit the track, much to the bands delight and amazement! This same scene became a trailer for the show and has since seen some 11000 plus hits on You Tube!
Enraptured-59
CD
$16.25

Slomo
Bog
PS, US This hones the ritual clatter of their first album, 2005's The Creep, into a more cumbersome affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail & Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer & guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to the proceedings w/the recital of his poem Land, written especially for this album.
Important
CD
$13.25

Smaldone, Micah Blue
Red River
PS, US This is the 3rd full-length from Portland, Maine's MICAH BLUE SMALDONE after previous releases on North East Indie & Tequila Sunrise. Influenced by greats like Skip James, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Will Oldham, etc - a wonderful listen! About the album, Micah says ""This new one reaches a little further both into the past & into the future. It is simple faith in the goodness of people, the depth of love, & the infinite wisdom of nature, which allows for this path to be cut w/ patience, humility, & an eagerness to share. So let this album be a little way-mark, & never a hitching post."" He recently played on the new Jack Rose album & also plays in the group Fire on Fire (Young God Recs). CD version comes in a mini-LP style gatefold package w/ 8 pg booklet. Currently on tour supporting Death Vessel & also plays in the Death Vessel band. ""Even though the arrangements are more elaborate, the songs themselves have a primitive clarity. Lyrics are dark & rich w/ imagery... Lines can be violent, even lurid, yet even the most bloody verses have the plainspoken grace & essentialism of American folk art.""-DUSTED. RECOMMENDED!
Immune
CD
$13.00

Smiths, The
Hang the DJ: The Very Best of the Smiths (Remastered)
PS, US Roy's Keen
Rhino/WEA
CD
$18.75

Smiths, The
Sound of the Smiths [Deluxe Edition] (Deluxe Edition, 2PC, Remastered)
PS, US Roy's Keen
Rhino
DCD
$27.50

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns [deluxe edition]
PS, US With bonus DVD.
Geffen
CD/DVD
$20.50

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns
PS, US New album! This is Northern Irish pop-rock quintet Snow Patrol's fifth album, following 2006's Eyes Open. Recorded in Germany and Ireland with Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, Bloc Party, REM) once more at the helm, the album sees them exploring a somewhat rockier, although still decidedly radio-friendly, direction than on the introspective Eyes Open. As evinced by the single 'Take Back the City', the band's knack for writing catchy pop hooks remains intact.
Geffen
CD
$16.25

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP in special colored vinyl.
Geffen
DLP
$17.00

So So Glos, The
Toursim/Terrorism
PS, US
GreenOwl
CD
$12.50

Springfield, Dusty
Dusty in Memphis
PS, US REPRESS! DUSTY grooves in Memphis! Britain's greatest pop diva was the finest white soul singer of her era & this landmark Atlantic album from 1969 is a masterpiece, a perfect marriage of pop & soul. Contains her top 10 hit "Son Of A Preacher Man," plus several other hit singles & classic trks. Picked as the #9 coolest record of all time in the April 11, 2002 issue of Rolling Stone & chosen by Mojo as one of the best 100 albums ever released. A recognized classic around the world! Reissue has new exclusive liners by maverick '60s music historian Alec Palao & guitarist/songwriter Chuck Prophet. 180gm audiophile remastering from original tapes. Gatefold sleeve w/ original art.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Squarepusher
Just a Souvenir
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Warp
LP
$19.75

Squarepusher
Just a Souvenir
PS, US A sprawling gaze through the looking glass at Squarepusher's vast musical scope - ravers, noise heads, jazzbos & post-rock trainspotters alike can unite around its frenetic sound.
Warp
CD
$14.75

Starflyer 59
Dial M
PS, US You have come to expect Starflyer 59 to be the most reliable, most dependable, yet most undeniably unpredictable messengers of album after album of quality independent rock tunes. Over ten albums deep, over fifteen years time, from the early guitar-heavy shoegazing era to the ethereal moodiness of The Fashion Focus years to the latest incarnations and recreations of themselves as keyboard-driven masters of chorus, this is and always will be a band who will deliver great songs with new sounds.
Tooth&Nail
CD
$14.00

Stop Smiling
Issue #37 (MAGAZINE + CD)
PS, US RECENT DC Issue! ANWAN GLOVER on the cover, interviews with KEN SILVERSTEIN, ANA MARIE COX, MIKE GRAVEL, CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, and many more. Includes BACKYARD BAND BOOTLEGS CD, a collection of live tracks from the extensive career of the classic DC go-go group, THE BACKYARD BAND!
ZINE
$8.50

Submerged
Violence As First Nature
PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more.
OhmResistance
CD
$12.25

Teith
Oak City
PS, US A discriminating all-instrumental compound of bubbling electronics, buzzing bass guitar, hypnotic beats, & ambient noise - this is the sound of a band on the precipice of the unclassifiable, effortlessly straddling genre divisions & far-flung artistic/psychic terrain.
ThirtyGhosts
CD5
$9.50

Teknoist, The
Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
AdNoiseam-103
DLP
$20.25

Teknoist, The
Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies
PS, GERMANY Hard, relentless, creative, monstrous, and still friendly: The Teknoist's first full-length album is a storm of shattered pounding beats, anthemic riffs, and aggressive breaks. And still, it is also a humane and deep work that knows when to take the time to seduce its listener. Between the most insane moshpit and inventive melodies, here comes hurricane of yet uncharted magnitude. We warned you that he would be back. Half a year after having invited The Teknoist to share a record with Eustachian on the successful "Pillaged & Plundered" 12", Ad Noiseam presents the mad man's first full length album, coming after several years worth of records for such labels as Deathchant, Planet Mu, Death$sucker, Peace Off or Cock Rock Disco.. And mind you, he hasn't used this time to slow down one bit. A hurricane is a good metaphor for this album, in which Mike Hayward (a.k.a. The Teknoist) unleashes an hour long of his relentless broken rhythms, his pounding beats and his insidious melodies. A storm indeed, of destroyed drums and friendly melodies, of anthemic riffs and humane hooks.
AdNoiseam-103
CD
$16.25

Telescopes
Singles Compilation 1989-1991
PS, US A collection of Telescopes A's & B's from the "What Goes On" to "Creation" years. Including extra tracks from the original Perfect Needle EP. Singles Compilation 1989-1991 gives us 14 timeless tracks ranging from abrasive to ethereal. Produced by Richard Formby & Stephen Lawrie. Highly recommended to all fans of shoegaze & space rock ala My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fuxa & Spacemen 3. With the recent success of My Bloody Valentine's reunion tour, look for The Telescopes to be the next big thing! Telescopes to tour the USA in 2009 along with Fuxa performing most of these classic tracks.
MindExpansion-2036
CD
$13.25

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolution
3 Inches of Music Series
PS, US Part of Luaka Bop's "3 Inches of Music Series." A never-ending romp of a dance party; looped pianos & saxes race on top of crappy synths & ill beats, & like twenty vocal takes (seriously, totally rivaling Broken Social Scene status) are mixed in there somewhere. The "3 Inches" will be sold separately, each in their own crystal clear jewel boxes on 5 inch discs.
LuakaBop
CD
$4.00

Tobacco
Fucked Up Friends
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon
LP
$16.00

Travis
Ode to J. Smith
PS, US New album.
Fontana
CD
$15.25

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

Vallance, Ed
Modern Life
PS, US
RebelGroup
CD
$8.50

Various
Happy Sweet 16 Carrot Top Records
PS, US "Happy Sweet Sixteen Carrot Top Records" Special, very limited edition CD made for the CTR Sweet Sixteen celebration at The Hideout September 26-27, 2008. Includes ALL EXCLUSIVE TRACKS, each with a 16 theme by nearly every band ever released by the label. Tracks by TALL DWARFS, HANDSOME FAMILY, KATJONBAND, ANTIETAM, MEGAN REILLY, ARCHER PREWITT, BITTER TEARS, COCTAILS, David Greenberger of DUPLEX PLANET, RETSIN, NAYSAYER, PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA (POI DOG PONDERING), SLIPSTREAM, LYS GUILLORN, and birthday phone messages from SPECK MOUNTAIN & DARLING DOWNS. Gorgeous cover art by Archer Prewitt & beautiful letterpress printing by John Upchurch. All organized by Mark Greenberg of The Coctails.
Hi-Ball
CD
$10.50

Various
The Golden Road: The Electric Coffee House Vol. 2 Further Travels Into Unexplored U.S. Folk Rock Territories
PS, UK A little while back, the Psychic Circle label took a journey back to the time when American folk music discovered electric rock and pop. The result was The Electric Coffee House compilation. That turned out to be one of the label's most successful albums, so consequently they've been having another delve into that hallowed region of chiming guitars, righteous harmony and garage joy. Once again, Psychic Circle is delighted to present an intriguing selection of obscurities: some primitive, some sophisticated, some psychedelic, some full of pop sensibility, but all of it with an essential, omnipresent undercurrent of folk tradition, albeit filtered through amplifiers and pick-ups, but there nonetheless. You'll hear from Ian Whitcomb's kid brother, Chuck Berry's favorite backing band, the man who wrote "Mr. Bojangles," a future member of Poco, a band featuring the young Bruce Cockburn, and a whole lot more besides. Come travel The Golden Road, let your mind wander free and let your freak flag fly. Compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Morning Sun, Bob & Kit, The Woolies, Mc2, The Rovin' Kind, The Last Draft, The Fun & Games, Keith Allison, The Kynd, Raintree, 3's A Crowd, Robin Kingsley, Circus Maximus, The Patriots, The Rogue Show, The Counts IV, The Happy Medium, Jimmy Satan, The Tiffany System, and The Ragamuffins.
PsychicCircle
CD
$16.25

Various
Where You Gonna Go? Motor City Garage Bands 1965-1969
PS, US Long recognized as two of the best garage bands from Michigan, The Unrelated Segments whose 'The Story Of My Life' has appeared on Rhino's Nuggets box set and The Tidal Waves who scored a number one hit with 'Farmer John' are the main focus of this compilation of Detroit garage bands. All of The Unrelated Segments and The Tidal Waves material are included on this CD, in the finest sound yet. The other Detroit area bands, while nearly forgotten today, released a fine batch of recordings, the best of which are represented on this compilation. Inside this package is over 75 minutes of electrifying music and a 16-page booklet with numerous band photos, radio surveys, concert posters, tape recording sessions, and detailed liner notes and discographies for each band. All tracks from the original master tapes.
Cicadelic
CD
$13.75

Various
Treacle Toffee World: Further Pop Psych Sounds from the Apple Era, 1967-1969
PS, UK Treacle Toffee World completes the exploration of the catalogue of The Beatles Apple Music Publishing company that began with RPM s release of 94 Baker Street in 2004 and continued with An Apple A Day from 2006. Eighteen new and very rare tracks appear on Treacle Toffee World. George Alexander of Grapefruit, Pete Ham, Tom Evans and Ron Griffiths of Iveys/Badfinger, Dave Lambert of Fire/Strawbs and Gallagher & Lyle were but a few of the impressive stable of song writers under contract to Apple Music, and these are all represented here. Rare and previously unreleased recordings. Features extensive liner notes by Stefan Granados. Third in a very successful series of compilations, essential for pop psych and Apple collectors. Artists include: Fire, Sands, Grapefruit, Peter Huckstep, Gallagher & Lyle, Iveys, Denis Couldry, 23rd Turnoff, and Legay.
RPM
CD
$17.00

Various
Sunday Sunshine: The World of SNB Records
PS, UK One of the movers and shakers of the music biz in the modern era has been Simon Napier Bell, and during 1968-1969 he put his talents into A&R-ing his own label. Fresh from managing The Yardbirds, Johns Children and co-authoring for Dusty Springfield, and with backing from CBS, SNB picked up on the hip pop world flowing through London at the time. It is an extraordinary assortment from which we have distilled the most potent exotic, baroque and pop psych elements. All have high production values with the likes of the talented Ian Green as arranger. As you would expect most of the singles are today very rare, and have not been reissued or released on CD. That said there is growing awareness of the music from numerous quarters, with pick up from internet radio stations to magazines, and the label has attained a cult standing. First time reissue, first time on CD. A unique 60s collection. Remastered from original CBS held SNB tapes, includes very rare singles. Essential for pop psych and similar collectors." Artists include: Jon Plum, Hubert Thomas Valverde & The HT'S, Mellow Candle, Andy Ellison, Clive Sands, Flamma Sherman, Sheila Scott Wilkinson, Sue Wilshaw, Rory Fellowes, David Blake, Nicola Davies, and Françoise Pascale.
RPM
CD
$17.00

Various
Messthetics Greatest HISS: Classics Of U.K Cassette Culture D.I.Y.: 1979-1982 (Volume 1)
PS, US An introduction to the D.I.Y. cassette scene 1979-84. The U.K.'s original cassette-scene hosted some of the most inept shambling in the history of recorded music, but there was no shortage of musical genius, either (be that accidental or otherwise). From endless bedrooms filled with home-made gadgets, Woolworths guitars, Casios and soldering fumes, came sounds both stunningly simple and sophisticated -- and vastly more varied than anything on vinyl. These artists seldom made more than 100 copies of their cassettes and typically circulated them for free, with untold thousands of tapes changing hands through the Royal Post. Messthetics' new series samples the more, er, musical sides of the scene (lots of cool electronics, but no 'ambient' or 'industrial' -- and everything's under 5 minutes!): Here is D.I.Y. at its most liberated. Twenty-five tracks on the CD plus five bonus MP3s. 90+ minutes of music. 24-page booklet, crammed with histories, photos, artifacts and an essay from Mick Sinclair, who wrote the original 'Cassette Pets' column for Sounds. Messthetics Greatest Hiss features the superstars of cassette culture and plenty of others: The Jelly Babies, Danny & the Dressmakers, Storm Bugs, Colin Potter, Event Group, The Get, Instant Automatons, Missing Persons, Gravity Craze, Farming Jim & his Hepcat Groovstas, 391, The Chromosomes, Mike Jones, The Living Dead no. 5, Digital Dinosaurs, The Twizlers, Aconite, Casual Labourers (Bendle and other DIY heavies), Midnight Circus, Milkshake Melon, Funhouse, Cultural Amnesia, Stripey Zebras, Chimp Eats Bananas (pre-Chumbawamba!) and Dean Johnson.
Messthetics
CD
$12.00

Various
Sounds Of She
PS, US Twenty-three tracks of female vocal fronted studio pop psych all from the Aquarian age." Featuring The Ravelles, Amanda Ambrose, The Enchanted Forest, The Aquarians, Guardians of the Rainbow, Lynn Castle with Last Friday's Fire, Bunches 'A Good, Jonna Gault and Her Symphopop Scene, Morningstarr, Sunnygoode Street, The Keefe Sisters, The Pipe Dream, The Sugar Townes, Estelle Levitt, London Phogg, Barbara Keith, The Carolyn Hester Coalition, Teina, Sally Eaton, Ellen Margulies, Marcia Strassman, Kathy Gregory, and Kathy McCord.
PetRecords
CD
$13.75

Various
She's A Heartbreaker: 20 Blue Eyed Soul Stings UK Floor Fillers Vol. 4
PS, UK Welcome, dear listener, to a world of arrows, targets and multiple rearview mirrors. Racing on big sister's slimming pills and having spent more than is advisable on tight-fitting mohair suits, sharp hairstyling and two-wheel Italian transport, how can a poor suburban soul-boy kick back and relax? And "relax," in this context, does not mean sitting comatose in an armchair. It means forgetting about the office dress code, the factory clocking in and out machine, and the looks of disapproval as you swan down Wardour Street. Here's how: cerebrally ingest the sounds on this CD and move yourself accordingly. The UK and European soul treatments are sure to satisfy any rhythmic cravings. You'll hear an old South London mate of David Bowie, a sweet Irish colleen getting very groovy, one of Sweden's coolest combos, a great South African soulstress, Nottingham's top soul band, Madeleine Bell working under a pseudonym and lots more. So as the Wicked Pickett once advised; don't fight it. Compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Dave Hunter, Tina Harvey, Kris Ife, Jon Kane, Johnny Curtis, The Globe Show, Margo, James Royal, Slam Creepers, Al Torino, Una Valli, Johnny Tame, Joe E. Young & The Toniks, The Amboy Dukes, The Underground, Kevin "King" Lear, Currant Kraze, Ronnie Jones, The New Jump Band, and Kenny Bernard.
PsychicCircle
CD
$16.25

Various
Messthetics #106 The Manchester Musicians Collective 1977-1982
PS, US Messthetics' first visit to Manchester surveys the most successful and innovative of Britain's post-punk-era musicians' collectives. The MMC's most famous spawn were obviously The Fall (who first played at an MMC meeting) and Joy Division (who loaned their P.A.), but the MMC's emphasis on public performance and its egalitarian ethic of shared gear, expertise, and, frequently, band-members, affected and inspired future stars and faintest sparks alike to create an unparalleled range of truly 'alternative' sounds. Twenty-one songs on the CD plus five bonus MP3 tracks. 80+ minutes of music. 24-page booklet, extensively documented with histories, photos and artifacts. Messthetics #106 features songs by the Mud Hutters, God's Gift, Dislocation Dance, Elti-Fits, Diagram Brothers, The Liggers, The Passage, Bee Vamp, Spherical Objects, Grow-Up, Contact, Slight Seconds, Armed Force, the Manchester Mekon, The Spurtz, and never-released tracks by The Elite, The Hamsters, Manchester Mekon, Bee Vamp, and Property Of (Messthetics fans will also note an unusual concentration of women-in-charge, unorthodox effects, provocative lyrics, wildly varied electronics and general non-punk stylings).
Messthetics
CD
$12.00

Various
Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal - The '90's Vol. 3 (BOOK/CD)
PS, US This vol. highlights the albums & bands of the '90s that stood on the shoulders of giants & gave metaPl tuhbisl igsehninergation's greatest hits. Full of reviews & recollections of hundreds of rarities & mainstream metal albums from this period. Incl. little known trivia that brings these albums back to life. Sure to attract any metal fan, this user-friendly guide documents dozens of bands & hundreds of albums. "Excellent! It's one of the very few guides that gets under the skin of the music & interprets what was in the mind of its creators."-Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden. Comes w/ FREE CD feat. '90s metal by SKREW, FATES WARNING, GWAR, CANNIBAL CORPSE, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, much more!
CollectorsGuide
BOOK
$24.25

Various
Awake My Soul/Help Me To Sing
PS, US PITCHFORK 8.8! 2xCD set made up of the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sacred Harp documentary "Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp" & a compilation of artists performing their arrangements of Sacred Harp songs. The soundtrack CD contains some of the finest recordings of traditional Sacred Harp singing, a beautifully haunting & powerful form of a cappella shapenote singing. The second disc, on the other hand, features such diverse artists as John Paul Jones (LED ZEPPELIN), Rayna Gellert (UNCLE EARL), THE INNOCENCE MISSION, Murry Hammond (OLD 97's), DANIELSON. DOC WATSON, RICHARD BUCKNER, ELVIS PERKINS, & JIM LAUDERDALE.
AwakeProductions
DCD
$23.75

Vivian Girls
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! We HEART the VGs, y'all! Breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade who dish out seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven w/ chest-pounding waves of beautiful pop-rock feedback. This is a reissue of the original 500 copy pressing (now out of print) released on the Mauled By Tigers label, which sold out in 10 days. RIYL: The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Vaselines & The Shop Assistants.
InTheRed
LP
$10.50

Wallpaper
On The Chewing Gum Ground
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-194
LP
$10.25

Wallpaper
On The Chewing Gum Ground
PS, US Keeping a steady sneer but subtracting angst and teenage romanticism WALLPAPER on their debut album "On the Chewing Gum Ground" captures the modern era that they ostentatiously do not feel a part of. Wallpaper's core members started working on music together in middle school, and "On the Chewing Gum Ground" represents much of their adult work over the past four years. Hailing from Auburn, Washington - a place just close enough to the ocean to make weekend trips and understand what the Beach Boys are about - they mix '50s rockabilly and '60s surf mixed with the crucial wave of '80s underground music. The strength allure of the album comes in the juxtaposition of pop sensibilities with lyrics sung like a sliding shimmy but written with a call for a pop-cultural reform.
Krecords-194
CD
$11.50

Wee Hairy Beasties
Holidays Gone Crazy
PS, US WEE HAIRY BEASTIES, led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD & SALLY TIMMS, vocalist KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, Rock*A*Teens), & the mighty talents of jug band purveyors DEVIL IN A WOODPILE, are back with their new albun on their very own label, WEE BEATZ! Brand new songs for some holidays that exist ("Pumpkinhead") and some that don't ("Dinosaur Christmas")! There are tunes with Shangri-Las finger-popping flavor, fresh seat-of the- pants harmonies, a musical nod to Slade (yes, Slade!), and some very special guests: actual kids singing along in wide-open, b-i-n-g-o style! And, as always, bright and bouncy instrumentation-washboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was. A rollicking good time for big and little folks alike!
Weebeatz-002
CD
$11.75

Wee Scary Beasties
Creepy Lullabies (2X7")
PS, US The Beasties are back with a new collection of tunes that will help pull the cobwebs right out of your ears. But don't let
the name fool you; Chicago's kiddie band crew more regularly known as the Wee Hairy Beasties follow up their 2006 Bloodshot Records debut album, "Animal Crackers," with a treat just in time for your Halloween sweet tooth. WEE SCARY BEASTIES-led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD and SALLY TIMMS with the incredible vocal prowess of KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) and the mighty jug band talents of front porch old-timey blues band DEVIL IN A WOODPILE-have formed their own record label, WEE BEATZ, to bring you a second dose of kid-friendly tunes that adults will love too. WSB get in the holiday groove with the sweet and spooky "CREEPY LULLABIES," a double 7" that will haunt the dreams of both parents and kids alike. This adorably eerie two single set tells nighttime stories about lonely vampires, monsters busting a move, and a super-rocking punk jumper about a veggie-patch dweller named Pumpkinhead! Listeners beware: the closing lullaby and Wee Scary Ending will make the werewolves howl from miles away. There are songs with a spooky finger-popping flavor, fresh ghoul-filled harmonies, a secret special message to listeners and as always, Devil in a Woodpile's bright and bouncy instrumentation-washboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was.
WeeBeatz
45
$8.25

Whales & Cops
Great Bouncing Icebergs
PS, US When erstwhile MAN MAN members Tyberius Lyn & Clinton Killingsworth were emancipated from said band, the duo-rechristened Nathaniel Cops & Finger Julius Mountain-got to work creating something more sublime, more chaotic, & more magical. This is the result, an unprecedented adventure in chipp'ry mayhem. A masterpiece of abrasive pop futurism.
HighTwo
CD
$10.75

Why?
Almost Live From Eli's Live Room
PS, US 23 trks in all. This album was recorded to document the band's live arrangements for 2008 concerts, & sold on
their recently-completed tour. This was recorded & mixed by Eli Crews at N.I.R., Oakland, in late August 2008, & mastered by Thomas DiMuzio. Cover art is by David Phillip Madson. Studio versions of these songs can be heard on 'Alopecia,' 'Elephant Eyelash,' & the 'Sanddollars EP'
Anticon
CD
$10.00

Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto
PS, US The debut from Leeds-based, four-piece Wild Beasts is a collection of ten beautiful, eccentric, very British tales. An incredibly confident record showcasing the band's pop sensibility as well as their humorous side. Delightful, romantic, magical, and timeless. "It's sublime stuff, full of variety, subtlety, intelligence, and warmth" - Artrocker.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.00

Wilderness
(k)no(w)here
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-127
LP
$11.50

Wilderness
(k)no(w)here
PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast.
Jagjaguwar-127
CD
$11.50

Wino
A Bottle of Pills with a Bullet Chaser
PS, US At two hours in length, "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" compiles every song ever recorded by Wino. In addition to the many singles and lone album, the set includes six previously unreleased tracks, plus the live track "Dogs," recorded during one of their final live performances. Largely inspired by Swans, Crain and the Amphetamine Reptile roster, WINO were one of the loudest, darkest and most eclectic bands in Louisville during the 1990s, and their influence can be heard today in loads of Louisville bands. Expertly digitally remastered from all of the original master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, High On Fire), "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" is the perfect commemoration to the band that inspired dozens of later Louisville bands and helped launch TEMPORARY RESIDENCE a dozen years ago.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-140
DCD
$11.50

Wire Magazine
#297
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Women In Tragedy
Total Fucking Romance
PS, US Coming out of the dank dark testosterone-fueled underbelly of noise, BOB MCCULLY's project sits nicely beside the post-Wolf Eyes noise/industrial/drone genre that focuses on depravity & doom which includes acts like Robedoor, Prurient, & Hive Mind. Kneeling over a vast array of distortion pedals & processors, he pipes in synthesizers, guitars, & screams to create thick, harsh sounding loops & walls of sound. The emotional warmth evident despite the deafening buzz & crumble gives the project a Jesu or Nadja-like intimacy & immediacy. Half of the album delves into more structured "pop" terrain, using rigid drum patterns & heavy melodies, while the other half swims in his usual free drone psychedelia. A big, multilayered sound of bells & buzzsaws perfect for headphone-based sensory overload. Limited to 300
MusicFellowship
LP
$16.75

Wrangler/Scanner
1968 Moog Modular (Picture Disc)
PS, UK Limited to 300. Two Ra Chord blasts of 'Switched on Bach' beauty performed by WRANGLER and SCANNER who first met whilst fighting over a copy of 'Switched on Paddy Kingsland' at a record fair. These Supraphon pyjama wearing artisans have by loving of various knobs and switches, the sweet caressing of sequencers and event generators and manipulation of patch cords, created the sounds and rhythms for a discerning ear. Whilst Benge / Winters and Scanner have avoided the trap of being academic beard noodlers with this release, they have invoked the spirit of John Baker, White Noise and of course Bob Moog. Featuring sounds made exclusively on the Moog Modular System 3C and the Formant Modular Synthesiser this seven inch is a radiophonic joy, working as a platter to play out as well as a companion piece to their Twenty Systems meisterwork. Fans of Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno or the recent John Baker Tapes are recommended to check this.
StaticCaravan-165-7
45
$10.25

Yorkston, James
When The Haar Rolls In
PS, US The fourth album by Scotland's Yorkston brings back all the ambition, beauty, pathos, and full, lush arrangements of his previous albums. The sonic palette includes timpani, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, piano, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, and wine glasses, surrounding the songs with warmth and grandeur, like the haar in the title (heavy North Sea fog that blankets the Scottish coast). "What distinguishes 'Haar' is the combination of his warm, close to your ear talk-sung vocals with the band's sea-churn playing and his gorgeous songwriting" - 4 stars, Independent.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.00

Zeller
Audio Vandalism
PS, GERMANY Audio vandalism is the first release by the young artist JB Zeller who is based in Southern France. This release includes eleven tracks that were recorded between 2005 and 2008. Zeller is affected by 'all kinds of subversive music' (ranging from breakcore and industrial music to dubstep) in such a way that he is able to assimilate these different musical facets into his own style. Needless to say, the results are unique and subversive in their own right. Audio Vandalism is an aggregation of complex beat layers, deep dark bass, distorted synth textures, ominous samples and algid ambiences that are interwoven with atrabilious melody lines. Straightforward electro-industrial meet the complexness of breakbeats merged with whirls of noise, captured media coverage and a hint of melancholy. This album can be seen as a missing link between heavy, metric electronica, straight-line jungle-core and saturnine movie soundtracks. Join the Audio Vandalism!
Hymen-770
CD
$16.25

Forthcoming Releases

1900s, The
Medium High EP (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US Beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky new limited edition mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel.
Parasol-CD-111
CD5
$5.00

23 Skidoo
Seven Songs + Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK Expanded reissue on CD by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Fetish Records in February 1982, the mini album Seven Songs topped the indie charts and established 23 Skidoo as a groundbreaking commercial force. "Intoxicating - one of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures" (Paul Morley, NME, 1982); "23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense" (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD includes seven bonus tracks from the singles Last Words and Tearing Up The Plans. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.
LTM-2528
CD
$16.25

Acid Mothers Temple
Glorify Astrological Martyrdom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata & company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks & freaked out pitched up vocals.
Important
CD
$13.25

Activities of Dust
New Mind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US 140 gram vinyl with digital download card!
AoD
LP
$12.00

Activities of Dust
New Mind (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US DOUG SCHARIN (HIM, CODEINE, REX, JUNE OF 44), BILL LASWELL, JEFF PARKER, BERNIE WORRELL
come together as Activities of Dust. "A New Mind is the result of hours of recorded feedback that had been collected from various mixing sessions over the past decade. Within are compositions, possibility waves, constructed, originally, from manipulation of these feedback signals. The initial impressions from Jeff Parker were then added to the recordings. Parker interpreted, reacted to & in some cases painted a definitive picture of latent melodies within the feedback structures. Combining & blending these two elements created a basic form for the introduction of keyboard, bass & drum elements to enhance the movements taking shape in the music. Bill Laswell & Bernie Worrell fleshed out the tracks." -Scharin
AoD
CD/DVD
$13.50

Anathallo
Canopy Glow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US The album's opening song introduces straight away the topic of death. Among lush pile-ups of 'Pet Sounds' (Beach Boys) harmony & 'Sung Tongs' (Animal Collective) texture, they sing to the rafters! It's a surprisingly beautiful rendering of life's most feared result: calm & considered, yet wide-eyed in approach, & colored by kaleidoscopic detail. This, their 2nd full-length (& first for ANTICON), could be described just the same. Texture & temperament are paramount here, due in no small part to the band's multi-instrumentalist might.
Anticon
CD
$16.00

Andrews, Drew
Only Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Guitarist from The Album Leaf and co-founder of Via Satellite debuts his first solo album. An absorbing and atmospheric record featuring soft and intricate guitar, synthesizers, and Andrews' feathery vocals floating above it all. Contributors include members of The Album Leaf and The Black Heart Procession. Limited edition of 500 white 180 gram vinyl with MP3 download card.
MintyFresh
LP
$16.50

Apples In Stereo
Stephen, Stephen / Same Old Drag [picture disc+DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This is special collaboration with The Apples In Stereo and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert show. Robert (Apples in stereo) likes the Colbert show, and wrote the song for this TV show and sent it to them. Stephen Colbert liked it so much he invited Apples In Stereo to play at his TV show. So this is the song for Stephen Colbert, presented by HEARTFAST that put out special edition of picture 7" w/DVD. Yes, you can not only listen to the music but you can also watch their video. Side B is a song, taken from their latest album called New Magnetic Wonder on Yep Roc.
Heartfast-004
45/DVD
$16.25

Asobi Seksu
Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New York's greatest bands.
Polyvinyl
45
$6.25

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Second volume of the trio's pre-disco baroque-pop best, originally released in 1973. Includes the fairly rare "Morning Of My Life", which also happens to be one of their best orch-pop songs.
Reprise
CD
$8.25

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Collects the Gibb Bros' pre-disco baroque-pop genius, originally release on LP in 1969. Could be the first time on CD? ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anyone needs conclusive proof that the brothers Gibb weren't always the chest-medallion-flashing kings of mainstream disco or, since about 1980 on, meaningless AOR washouts, the nearly 40-minute collection of the Bee Gees' earliest hits will suffice in spades. At their (perhaps, in hindsight) surprising best, the threesome, along with capable if generally unremarkable rhythm section members Melouney and Colin Peterson, created a slew of tender, affecting, and quite lovely hits. While the Stonesproto-metal crowd of the time probably thought them unbearably wimpy, their songwriting acumen, combined with their harmonies, fine production by Robert Stigwood, and ace orchestral/band arrangements by Bill Shephard, holds up astonishingly well... Considering that everyone from Catherine ("Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You") and Jimmy Somerville ("To Love Somebody") to Low ("I Started a Joke") and Jose Feliciano ("I've Gotta Get a Message to You") has covered something from this collection is testimony to the songs' continuing influence."
Reprise
CD
$12.25

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This limited, deluxe double CD contains an entire live show broadcast on BBC Evening Session in mid-2001 with another four never before heard songs.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, the group rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The regular CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Gatefold HQ 180 gram vinyl.
Matador
LP
$20.00

Boyd, CJ Sexxxtet
Fleur Du Mal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 copies in a custom made full color book bound CD case & inner sleeve. XXX marks the spot spot spot. "Fleur Du Mal's" transcendental mixture of high-lonesome & chamber classicism soundtracks a bit like The Assignation of Andrew Poppy by the Minimalist Terry Riley. CJ BOYD's bass continuo grounds the string section's rounds into a composite rock formation that's shaped like a cello but carries the stank of teen spirit. The compositions chunk along w/ quiet thunder & building textures; juxtaposing dramatic tension against fluid looseness, not unlike some of Moondog's more formal string works. But the piece de resistance is the beautifully strange choral coda at the end of the line. A pleasant surprise awaits.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$17.75

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Guitarist/composer JAMES BLACKSHAW & lutenist/composer JOZEF VAN WISSEM. Intricate phrases circle & spiral in on themselves, & in the end it's the subtle shifts in rhythm & tonal coloration that provide a kind of transcendence in a sea of repetition
Important
CD
$13.25

Briggs, Anne
S-T (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Briggs, Anne
Time Has Come (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Bronnt Industries Kapital
Häxan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25th)
PS, UK The world of horror soundtracks has long been an inspiration for Bronnt Industries Kapital, the musical project revolving around Bristol-based composer Guy Bartell, and it is no surprise that Bronnt should return the favor by delivering a horror soundtrack of its own. Häxan (1922, dir. Benjamin Christensen) is a fusion film using dramatization, documentary and animation to explore the themes of witchcraft and superstition. Met with outrage on its release, it has since been reappraised as a classic. Bronnt was commissioned to write a new soundtrack to accompany the film's first release on DVD in Europe (TVD3758) in 2007, and it is this soundtrack which forms the group's second album, the follow up to 2005's acclaimed Virtute et Industria. Much of Häxan was shot at night to enhance the sinister mood of the film, and Bronnt utilized a similar schedule to evoke the awe of the Sabbat. The soundtrack was composed and performed using a wide range of instrumentation, including clockwork devices, transistor organs, mellotron, clarinet, guitars, bespoke string instruments, pianos, tone generators, analog synthesizers and elaborate processing and manipulation through antique tape machines and plate reverbs. The resulting scope of the soundtrack is vast, ranging from minimalist clockwork lullabies to lush orchestral ensemble pieces, heavenly analog sound collages to hellish electrical miasmas, all imbued with a darkly hypnagogic ambiance worthy of Christensen's strange world populated by mechanical demons and castles in the clouds.
StaticCaravan-168
CD
$16.25

Brunnen
Swoon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US LTD ED OF 400 numbered copies. Originally released in 1993 on Seven in a Broom in the Sky. EDWARD KA-SPEL plays keyboards on 'Scars on a Windowpane'. Trks 1-15 were recorded 1991-1993. Trks 13-14 were part of the EP single "The Honey Button". Trk 12 is a previously unreleased trk from the "Swoon" LP sessions. Trk 15 was found hiding on top of a shelf & suitably dusted off. This feat a series of hushed songs of love & lust w/ a twist played on his trusty (& now long retired) Ensonic keyboard. The original vinyl issue was LTD to 215 copies & has turned into something of a collector's ite.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$17.75

Calder
Lower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25th)
PS, UK Calder formed in Iceland when musical instrument maker Lárus Sigurðsson and Ólafur Josephsson, who is perhaps best known for his recordings under the alias Stafrænn Hákon, met and decided to join forces. Their first collaborations resulted in self-titled five-track album of improvised, experimental instrumentals that was released through Ólafur's Vogor Recordings and later picked up by UK indie Unlabel. Lárus' background is in classical music, having played with various Icelandic musicians and self-released a handful of solo recordings. His recent album Jarðhörpusálmar was improvised and recorded using musical instruments that he had designed and built himself. Ólafur Josephsson has been experimenting with ambient guitar arrangements under the name Stafrænn Hákon since 1999. He has released his music through various labels including his own Vogor Recordings, the Resonant Label and Awkward Silence Recordings, with the music progressing and becoming increasingly refined since his debut album Eignas Jeppa in 2001. After the creative success of Calder's debut, a second album was conceived in 2005 when Lárus and Ólafur started exchanging ideas, shaping and molding their music, with the material composed in a truly collaborative way - Lárus handed Ólafur acoustic melodic ideas and Ólafur added electronic elements, with tracks gradually acquired shape, depth and life. With this new music, melody, structure and beats have come more to the fore, although the beautiful and haunting guitar atmospherics are still evident, running like a thread through the album. 2008 saw the completion of this process and the resulting album has been entitled Lower. The music can perhaps best be described as a fusion of experimental, ambient, classical and acoustic music.
MakeMineMusic-052
CD
$16.25

Campbell, Isobell & Mark Lanegan
Sunday at Devil Dirt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album.
Fontana/Universal
CD
$15.25

Cat Power
Dark End Of The Street (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Six-song vinyl EP containing mostly unreleased recordings from the "Jukebox" sessions. In keeping with the "Jukebox" theme , all the songs here are covers: "Auld Triangle", "Dark End Of The Street", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", "Fortunate Son", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "It Ain't Fair". Limited deluxe double gatefold 10-inch vinyl.
Matador
2X10
$14.00

Cheap Trick
At Budokan! 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US For the first time, the DVD premieres the previously unseen historic 1978 Tokyo concert, aired only once on Japanese TV. Bonus features include a new interview with the band plus two songs taped at 2008 Budokan Anniversary Show. Two CDs feature At Budokan: The Complete Concert, newly remastered, while an additional disc includes the audio counterpart to the DVD plus four bonus songs not included in the original film.
SonyLegacy
3CD/DVD
$47.50

Cuomo, Rivers
Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New collection. More!
Geffen
CD
$15.75

Datsuns, The
Smoke & Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album from New Zealand throwback garagerockers.
CookingVinyl
CD
$13.75

De La Mancha
Atlas (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, SWEDEN Goteburg, Sweden duo's debut full-length is a collection of exquisite shoegazing postrock drama. More on this...
CryingBob
CD
$15.00

Dead Can Dance
Toward The Within (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1994, this record was an audio document of the band's 1993 sell-out world tour. Recorded at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica, CA, in front of an invited audience at the conclusion of the tour, the shows were also filmed with the intent of releasing a long form concert film. Includes twelve previously unrecorded Dead Can Dance tracks as well as material from their six previous studio albums.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
The Serpent s Egg (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their fourth album, originally released in 1988. At the time of its release, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were in Spain writing and recording music for "El Nino De La Luna", a film in which Lisa also made her acting debut.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Into The Labyrinth (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This 1993 release saw Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard embark on individual paths. While this record of all new material was considered a commercial breakthrough (it was 4AD's best-seller at a million copies worldwide and counting), it was also their most divided. They both wrote songs independent of one another, on separate continents.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Aion (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This 1990 release contains twelve songs recorded in Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's own studio in southern Ireland.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Spleen And Ideal (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The primarily experimental structure of their second album, released in 1986, dispelled any notion that the band deserved the post-Gothic label slapped on them by the music press. "Spleen And Ideal" defined a new richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Spiritchaser (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their seventh studio album was released in 1996, and focused on the more percussive, tribal side of the group's music. It was their first studio album since 1993's "Into The Labyrinth".
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their third album, originally released in 1987. With record sales worldwide increasing, the band was reaching a wider audience than ever before.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
S-T (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US On their eponymous debut, released in 1982, they successfully harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion. Their range is staggering, as is their disciplined economy, with no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dear Nora
Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Self-explanatory!
MagicMarker
DCD
$15.75

Deer Tick
War Elephant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album from intriguing solo-acoustic troubadour dude. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, has been on a non-stop tour since graduating from high school in 2004. He often performs without amplification, delivering tunes with just his voice and guitar, an experience that gives his vocals the primal power of a turn of the (last) century mountain balladeer. McCauley's a singer/songwriter with finely crafted literary lyrics married to folkie melodies that sport influences from rock, blues, country, and pop, as evidenced by his cover of Anthony Newley's "What Kind of Fool Am I?." McCauley transforms the tune into a country waltz, straining to reach the high notes, replacing Newley's measured regret with desperation and agony, although the mood is broken by a goofy, loping instrumental bridge just before the last two verses. The rest of the album, originals penned by McCauley, is more straightforward -- tunes about lost love, loneliness, and heartache delivered simply, highlighting McCauley's emotionally charged, unadorned vocals."
Partisan
CD
$15.00

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full details forthcoming. Price could change.
Kranky
LP
$11.50

Dim Dim
Whip (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Tossing fistfuls of guitar, ukulele, programmed beats, twisted synth & toy instruments into a blender, JERRY DIMMER hits "liquefy", & surfs the sonic mixture as it spills across his musical universe. Deconstructing all things known & leaving a trail of brightly colored debris, he has turned his back to the norm & rip-shredded a technicolored path to a genre unknown.
AudioDregs-072
CD
$13.25

Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version. LIMITED TO 5000!
SouthernLord
DLP
$25.00

Feist
The Reminder [deluxe expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Expanded, enhanced... Could be a double-CD or CD and DVD. We don't know yet.
CherryTree
DCD
$20.50

Fireman
Electric Arguments (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Mysterious duo of PAUL MCCARTNEY & YOUTH. The album's opener "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" is classic rock & an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff w/ loud drums & soaring vocals. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing The Changes," a euphoric upbeat song w/ an instantly memorable melody.
ATO
CD
$16.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film.
Warners
DVD
$18.00

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars [deluxe vinyl] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The soundtrack on Martian green vinyl, plus a white vinyl 7" featuring a couple Xmas songs and a cover of Spacemen 3's "Lord Can You Hear Me"! Also includes the DVD of the film, naturally.
Warners
LP/DVD/45
$29.75

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars [deluxe edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" Deluxe edition DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Bonus CD is the film's soundtrack, which we think is all unreleased material. CD tracklist: 01 Once Beyond Hopelessness / 02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One / 03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed / 04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic / 05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within / 06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes / 07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two / 08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World / 09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia / 10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects / 11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps / 12 Once Beyond Hopelessness
Warners
DVD/CD
$24.50

Flipper
Sex Bomb Baby [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Another essential release from San Francisco legends FLIPPER. Originally released in 1987, 'Sex Bomb Baby' is actually a collection of material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, b-sides, & compilation trks. The single version of "Sex Bomb" is an all out clasic - a frenetic, yelping punk answer to "Louie, Louie" & the rest is no slouch either. Outrageous, harsh, sludge-punk from SF's finest. Back in print on CD for the 1st time in yrs!
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Gone Fishin' [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Their 2nd & final studio album for the original lineup of San Francisco's legends FLIPPER. This was released in 1984 & took the "punk" tag to extremes, as no other band in the world was playing punk this slow, sludgy, dark & disturbed. Feat. the haunting "Survivors of the Plague" & the public incrimination of "Sacrifice," 'Gone Fishin' is an art-punk classic that holds up alongside their more heralded debut.
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Public Flipper Limited Live 1980-1985 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US 2CD collection that was originally released in 1986 as a 2LP of live material culled from 1980-85. The sound quality & playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing & abrasive FLIPPER left no room for the middle ground of "like." The album title is a shot at John Lydon & his alleged plagiarism of Flipper's artwork for his own PIL & it proves that the band was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of San Francisco's most important post-hippy era bands.
Water
DCD
$17.50

Flipper
Album - Generic Flipper [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US 1st classic record from the legendary San Francisco act, originally released in 1982. Post-hardcore? Post-punk? Art-rock? Despite being a part of SF's punk scene FLIPPER were really only punk in spirit, eschewing conventions & making no concessions. Sludgy, distorted, atonal, noise rock jams that sound as urgent & heavy as they must have 25 yrs ago. A huge influence on bands to come later like Nirvana & The Melvins.
Water
CD
$14.25

Frontier Ruckus
Orion Songbook (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Matthew Milia & crew bring 14 hair-raising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships & realizations of ones home. Milia's loquacious melodies are enhanced by the swelling saw & trumpet of Zachary Nichols, the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, the soulful harmonies of Anna Burch & the spidery banjo of David Jones. Sounds like Stephen C. Foster writing & producing the newest Neutral Milk Hotel record.
QuiteScientific
CD
$11.00

Handsome Family
Drunk by Noon/Blizzard (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, "Odessa" (1995), that has been covered by ANDREW BIRD, CERYS MATTHEWS (CATATONIA), SALLY TIMMS & JON LANGFORD (MEKONS), THE SADIES, and NORA O'CONNOR. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month after month. Side AA's "The Blizzard" is their EXCLUSIVE, sublime cover of the 1964 Jim Reeves countrypolitan classic. A sad, SAD story of a man whose love for his pony is stronger than his love for his girl or even himself. Beautiful picture sleeve has 2 pieces of original Rennie Sparks art. Two aces!
CarrotTop
45
$4.50

Headlights
Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Features remixes from The Album Leaf, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Son Lux, as well as Cale Parks and T.J. Lipple of Aloha. Limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies in an eco-friendly recycled digipack. TRACKS: 1. Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple) / 2. Owl Eyes (The Buddy System) / 3. Market Girl (The Album Leaf) / 4. School Boys (Cale Parks) / 5. Towers (Uzi & Ari) / 6. Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On (Via Satellite) / 7. So Much For The Afternoon (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) / 8. TV (Son Lux) / 9. Put Us Back Together Right (Ruby Isle) / 10. On April 2 (Jason Caddell) / 11. Your Old Street (Spinnerty) / 12. Get Yer Head Around It (The Show Is The Rainbow) / 13. Tokyo (Brett Sanderson)
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Hello Seahorse!
Holy a Las Ocho (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US
MagicMarker
CD
$15.75

Ida
Ten Small Paces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Ida's third record pieces together a scrapbook of an album, a total of 15 tracks recorded in almost as many places. Some four-track, some studio, and some bedroom tracks find their home on this beautiful album that led to Ida's work with Capital Records. Double gatefold 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
LP
$14.50

Ida
I Know About You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US On their second full-length, Ida absolutely shines. The duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell are joined by Michael Littleton (Blood on the Wall) on drums. IKAY finds Ida discovering the recognizable voice that has defined their 15-year career.
Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

Ida
Tales of Brave Ida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Tales of Brave Ida is marked by spare yet clean production and is a stunning debut thatís an absolute essential for Ida fans one and all. Recorded in 1993, ToBI is a drumless effort featuring the duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell and was written during the time of Mitchell's collaborations with Lisa Loeb. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

International Noise Conspiracy, The
Cross of My Calling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album, their fourth, produced by Rick Rubin.
Vagrant
CD
$14.25

Jean on Jean
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US When Molly Schnick's longtime band OUT HUD broke up in 2005, she started from the beginning. Over the next three years, she developed the sound slowly, adding layers of strings, vocals, guitars, organs & percussion when appropriate. The results of her labors are the nine songs that make up the self-titled album. The sound is warm, lush & orchestrated, like Colin Blunstone's 'One Year' or Judee Sill's 'Heart Food'
KanineRecords
CD
$10.00

Joan of Arc
My Summer-Long High Wipeout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" is Joan of Arc at their best; "The Surrender" is an alternate version from the ones on JOA's latest full-length Boo Human; "A Man Needs A Maid" is a Neil Young Harvest cover. This 7" includes a digital download code for all three songs.
Polyvinyl
45
$4.00

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 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

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE ? 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

Killers, The
Day & Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. VERY LIMITED!
Island
LP
$17.00

Killers, The
Day & Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album.
Island
CD
$16.25

Korine, Harmony
Collected Fanzines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Long out of print, Harmony Korine's 'zines are comprehensively collected in this new book. Full-color soft-cover edition featuring the eight fanzines in chronological order. Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony & Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They'd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like "Mae West go east."
DragCity
BOOK
$22.25

Larsen
La Fever Lit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Featuring legendary dub diva/post-punk- cabaret icon Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety a.k.a. Annie Bandez (CRASS, NWW, COIL, C93), La Fever Lit could be considered their most focused album yet, but at the same time it's also their most experimental & floating. Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness, & the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety
Important
CD
$13.25

Larsen
LLL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US LP only live set released as a companion to Larsen's new full length. Features frequent collaborators JOHANN JOHANNSSON, BABY DEE & JULIA KENT. Material recorded live in Italy & Austria. LIMITED TO 500.
Important
DLP
$23.25

Library Tapes
A Summer Beneath the Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Library Tapes follow up the highly acclaimed Make Mine Music album Höstluft with the beautiful and atmospheric long player A Summer Beneath the Trees. A Summer Beneath the Trees steps away from the minimal sound of previous Library Tapes releases, with rich layers of sound and more varied instrumentation, and strings taking a more prominent role. Joining Library Tapes main man David Wenngren (piano, laptop and field recordings) are Peter Broderick (Bella Union, Type, Kning Disk) who adds violin, guitar, accordion, trumpet, celeste, viola and banjo on the six of the album's nine tracks, and Danny Norbury (Static Caravan, Ono) who plays cello on three tracks. The trademark ageing clicks and glitches of earlier releases are largely absent, and there is a newfound warmth and depth to these recordings. The album moves Library Tapes further into the realm of modern classical and cinematic soundtracks, with the music bringing to mind Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman and Max Richter. Based in Gothenburg in Sweden, David Wenngren has also released music under the name Forestflies and has extensively toured UK, Europe and USA, playing live with the likes of Sylvain Chauveau, Greg Haines and Akira Rabelais.
MakeMineMusic-053
CD
$16.25

Longwave
Secrets Are Sinister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album. The group's fourth full-length expands on their trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band's penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, & more driving sensibility.
OriginalSignal
CD
$10.25

Lorna
Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom.
WordsOnMusic-024
CD
$11.00

Los Campesinos!
We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, Los Campesinos! prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity, and most importantly, energy, with the announcement of their new record. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed: ten brand new tracks recorded in Seattle from June 12-23rd with Mr John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wedding Present, Wu Tang) and mixed immediately after at Monnow Valley in Wales.
Arts&Crafts
CD/DVD
$15.25

Love Is All
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US A full three years since their debut (which was re-released a couple times and then remixed), the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep.
WhatsYourRupture?
CD
$11.50

M83
Digital Shades, Vol. 1 (2PC) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$16.25

M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$20.00

M83
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

M83
Saturdays=Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello
Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler.
12K-1048
CD
$12.25

Magnificents
Year Of Explorers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The latest release from this Scottish band is an epic saga of stolen synths, left-handed guitars, trans-European expressways, covert product placement, and serious studio tomfoolery. Where their eponymous debut was primarily fueled by raw punk power and electrifying excess, this record demonstrates a more measured method. They've toured with the Beta Band, Mogwai, Stereolab, and Trans Am.
Mush
CD
$10.75

Minotaur Shock
Amateur Dramatics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Audio Dregs is pleased to announce the release of a longtime favorite from Bristol UK, Minotaur Shock; the musical side of David Edwards. There are currently 3 albums by him available, a compilation of old hits and some EPs out there, but this is his first stateside release now available on Compact Disc! How cool is that? "I'd describe Amateur Dramatics as school band meets Italo meets chamber music rubbing up on electro with a slice of acid, a sprinkling of minimalism and a short attention span. It's got saxophones, violins, clarinets and the insides of my grandma's mini-piano on it. It was influenced by many things, notably Fleetwood Mac, Detroit techno, Frank Zappa, Cluster, Andrew Poppy, Bowie, Italo house, Glass/Reich, Gentle Giant and Todd Rundgren. It was all written, arranged, recorded and produced by me mostly at home (occasionally in other people's houses). All instruments were done by me except clarinet, flute and saxophone which were played by the wonderful Emily Wakefield, and violin which was played by the excellent James Underwood of the Iskra String Quartet. Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner provided vocals for 'This Plane Is Going To Fall'." -David Edwards, June 2008
AudioDregsRecordings-073
CD
$12.25

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

Nerves, The
One Way Ticket (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Their bare, skeletal sound made every lick seem memorable. They excelled in energy.
People compared them to the early Beatles or the Dave Clark Five." - Kenneth Funsten. Formed in 1975 by guitarist JACK LEE, bassist PETER CASE, and drummer PAUL COLLINS, the Nerves are one of the most influential garage/punk pop outfits to come out of the mid-70's LA scene, and certainly one of the least documented... until now. Mostly remembered for their classic "Hanging On The Telephone," a Jack Lee composition which has been covered over the years by a myriad of artists from BLONDIE to L7 to CAT POWER, the Nerves were above all a high energy rock'n'roll band with all three members composing and singing. Playing fast, ear-catching garage pop songs, sometimes wearing matching suits, the trio had more than a bit of the stripped down street energy of the Los Angeles's early punk movement. They shared the stage with the Ramones and Mink Deville during their infamous US "Magical Blistering Tour," played the Punk Palace and the legendary Masque in Hollywood, and headlined shows with the Avengers, the Zeros, The Dils, The Screamers and Shock, to name just a few. After the band's break-up in 1978, Peter Case and Paul Collins formed The BREAKAWAYS, and later went on to front the legendary PLIMSOULS and The BEAT, respectively. Following the success of "Hanging On the Telephone," JACK LEE has mostly focused on his songwriting career, releasing an album in 1981. Both Peter and Paul are still recording and touring. PETER CASE's latest album "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" (Yeproc 2007) was nominated for a Grammy. This collection, authorized for the first time ever by the three band members, features the band's 1976 EP (now regarded as a power pop classic), as well as demos and previously unreleased live recordings, REMASTERED and complete with notes and photos. The CD is a Digipack. Track listing : 1. One Way Ticket 2. Paper Dolls 3. Hanging On The Telephone 4. When You Find Out 5. Working Too Hard 6. Give Me Some Time 7. Walking Out On Love (Breakaways) 8. Thing Of The Past (Plimsouls) 9. It's Hot Outside (Jack Lee) 10. Many Roads To Follow (demo) 11. Are You Famous? (live) 12. Why Am I Lonely? (live) 13. You Won't Be Happy (live) 14. Any Day Now (live) 15. Letter To G. (live) 16. Come Back And Stay (live) 17. I Need Your Love (live) 18. Stand Back and Take a Good Look (demo) 19. Are You Famous (demo - CD only) 20. Letter To G. (demo - CD only). Produced by The Nerves
AliveRecords-
CD
$20.00

New Order
Movement [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album, includes 10 non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, including their debut singles/EP. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making.
Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD

New Order
Brotherhood [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. BROTHERHOOD is a document of growth for New Order's ever-expanding sonic landscape. Packaged in the stark, utilitarian style that was the Factory label's trademark, the album belies its minimalist presentation with a sprawling, intricately crafted collection of pop gems, inspiringly diverse, yet uniformly infused with the band's trademark sincerity and off-kilter melodic sense. The album opens with the deceptively straight drum hits of "Paradise", which quickly adopts an intense double-tracked vocal and with it, an air of danger that offsets its soaring melody. New Order developed into masters of intellectually stimulating dance music, an elusive combination of qualities. The album's biggest hit "Bizarre Love Triangle" exemplifies this rare mixture--atop a throbbing, heavily sequenced dance beat is played out a drama complete with consistently engaging musical shifts, dramatic lyrical turns, and a chorus that's instantly memorable and nothing short of gorgeous. The wistful vulnerability of "All Day Long" dissolves into a sprawling, regal affair and the supremely sweet "Every Little Counts" show yet another dimension to New Order's sonic richness.
Rhino
CD
$23.00

New Order
Power, Corruption & Lies [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Low Life [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. With LOW-LIFE, New Order truly hit their stride with their highly individual combination of infectious rhythms, inventive composition and performances full of conviction. The vulnerable lyrics and earnest delivery of Bernard Sumner are in top form; his voice is at last a completely developed instrument, clear and comfortable as it wraps itself around such memorable tracks as the opening "Love Vigilantes", a solid, purely guitar-driven narrative. Following immediately and in sharp contrast is LOW LIFE's biggest success, "The Perfect Kiss", a sequencer-fueled dance classic which boasts what is undoubtedly pop music's only frog sample solo. "Sunrise" has an epic feel, filled with driving leads and Sumner's signature scratchy, frenetic rhythm playing. The album takes a serene turn on "Elegia", a beautiful, airy composition of echoey guitar lines and swirling synth textures.
Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Technique [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1989 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with nine non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

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

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US **SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice!
Matador
DCD/LP
$23.00

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Plagenhoef, Scott and Ryan Schreiber
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber. Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, The Shins), hip hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), it features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known. Kicking it off in 1977 with the birth of punk and independent music, The Pitchfork 500 runs chronologically, with each chapter representing a distinct period and offering a narrative of how the musical landscape of the day influenced its artists. The book opens with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno, the "art-rock godfathers" who set the tone and tenor for the next thirty years, and wraps up in the present, when bands connect with new audiences through social networking sites and prime-time TV placements -- and when a single mp3 can turn a niche indie artist into a global sensation. Sidebars like "Yacht Rock," "Runaway Trainwrecks," "Nanofads," and "Career Killers" call out some far-from-classic musical trends and identify the guiltiest offenders. Softcover, 224 pages.
PitchforkMedia
BOOK
$13.00

Pop Levi
Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks.
Counter
CD
$15.25

R.E.M.
Murmur: 25th Anniversary Edition [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Two-CD 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features R.E.M.'s debut album, remastered, plus an additional disc with a previously unreleased concert recorded at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto, three months after Murmur's April 1983 release. The 16-song live performance boasts nine of Murmur's 12 songs, including "Radio Free Europe," three songs from the Chronic Town EP, early renditions of "7 Chinese Bros." and "Harborcoat," as well as "Just A Touch", eventually a track included on R.E.M.'s fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. The live set also features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again", which R.E.M. recorded in the studio for the b-side of "Radio Free Europe." Exclusive essays by producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, as well as former I.R.S. executives Jay Boberg, Sig Sigworth, Carlos Grasso round out the deluxe edition.
IRS/Universal
DCD
$28.00

Reverend Green/Drawlings
Be Good To Earth This Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This 7-inch comes courtesy of Care Kacky's 45s, the singles division of Paw Tracks. Side A is Reverend Green (a.k.a. Brad Truax of Home and Jah Division). Antony Hagerty (Antony & The Johnsons) along with Kria Brekkan (Mum) lend their distinct voices on this inspirational meditation on self development and the importance of earth awareness. On the flip is the first solo recording of Abby Portner's Drawlings, recorded with the help of Dave Portner (Animal Collective, Terrestrial Tones) and Rusty Santos (The Presence). A haunted children's carol that'll make you glad you're inside by the fire.
PawTracks
45
$4.75

Saint Etienne
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK DISC ONE: 1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart / 2. Nothing Can Stop Us / 3. Join Our Club / 4. Avenue [Edit] / 5. You're in a Bad Way / 6. Hobart Paving / 7. Who Do You Think You Are / 8. Pale Movie / 9. Like a Motorway / 10. Hug My Soul / 11. He's on the Phone / 12. Sylvie / 13. Heart Failed / 14. Action / 15. A Good Thing / 16. Side Streets / 17. Burnt Out Car [Xenomania Mix] / 18. This Is Tomorrow / DISC TWO: 1. Kiss and Make Up / 2. Filthy / 3. Spring / 4. People Get Real / 5. Mario's Cafe / 6. Goodnight Jack [Original 1998 Version] / 7. The Bad Photographer / 8. Lose That Girl / 9. Lover Plays the Bass / 10. How We Used to Live / 11. Boy Is Crying / 12. Finisterre / 13. Soft Like Me / 14. Shower Scene / 15. Stars Above Us / 16. Teenage Winter / 17. I Was Born on Christmas Day
Universal
DCD
$27.25

Schaeffer, Janek
Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again.
Line-036
CD
$12.25

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl.
XL
DLP
$20.00

Smiths, The
Sound of the Smiths (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Duh. Roy's Keen.
Rhino
CD
$17.00

Soundtrack of Our Lives, The
Communion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN All new 2008 double album from Swedish retro-rock Godfathers. A new beginning, or a spectacular finale? Either way it's 24 long-awaited new songs, more like Extended Revelation than Origin, with some spacey, psychedelic suites, or so I gather. And no, I don't believe that's really the cover art....but then again, one never knows.
Akashic/WMS
DCD
$25.00

Soy Un Caballo
Les Heures De Raison (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The duo Soy Un Caballo (Spanish for "I am a horse") features Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas). They write and perform songs of exquisite fragility. "Delicate, wispy melodies vie with choral refrains...smooth as silk, cool as a cucumber and light as a feather" - Subba-Cultcha. "An album that enchants and leaves you to imagine" - Wire.
MintyFresh
CD
$10.00

Stone Breath
Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US The third in series of Stone Breath reissues, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". The deep woods folk & acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define "wyrdfolk." Expanded here to two CDs with many rare & previously unreleased recordings.
Hand/Eye
DCD
$15.25

Stone Breath
Knotwork (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Knotwork presents many out of print, rare & previously unreleased songs from Stone Breath. Ranging from Eastern-tinged folk to deep drone-songs to more traditional fare, Knotwork shows the band's deep roots finding dark earth while the leaves above open to the sun. This album serves as a bridge between Stone Breath's earlier recordings & their new album (look for it in 2009).
Hand/Eye
CD
$12.50

Supersuckers, The
Get It Together [picture disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Picture disc vinyl for the long awaited new album.
MidFi
LP
$18.25

Supersuckers, The
Get It Together (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album! Long awaited new album, delivers a blast of rock-n-roll satisfaction to your discerning earhole.
MidFi
CD/DVD
$12.00

Sword, The
Sword Box (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US "Age of Winters" & "Gods of the Earth" in a limited edition box set. Includes sticker.
Kemado
DCD
$20.50

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA)
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

Technical Itch
You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH)
PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy.
OhmResistance-9M
CD
$13.00

Various
Teenbeat Number One Record Label (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Twenty-three all new tracks with track-by-track narration by Brooklyn librarian Lisa Goldstein. The latest volume in Teenbeat's series of mix-tapes made from new songs by Teenbeat artists and friends. Includes tracks by +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOLLAND, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, PHIL KRAUTH & more!
Teenbeat-4110
CD
$8.75

Various
MMM050 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25th)
PS, UK Make Mine Music releases a collection of exclusive tracks showcasing the work of artists on the innovative label, as it reaches its landmark 50th release on Monday 24 November. The compilation includes new recruits Piano Magic and Calder, label favorites Epic45 and the musical return of label founder Scott Sinfield aka Portal. After quietly releasing a range of critically acclaimed albums and EPs, Make Mine Music now boldly states its manifesto. These are difficult times for the music industry with file sharing, illegal downloads and falling sales. The traditional music business model is failing and record labels are scrabbling to find a way to survive. Artists too are campaigning for better copyright laws and greater shares of royalties through coalitions. But these still rely on an outdated model of releasing music. For Make Mine Music, this isn't a crisis. It's a golden opportunity. Make Mine Music is a truly radical independent label, run and owned by the artists themselves. The artists pay for the manufacture and promotion of their own records and correspondingly receive 100% of any income generated. There are no management pockets to line, no shareholders to please, no restrictive contracts or demands placed upon the artists. Six years and 50 releases after its inception, Make Mine Music is proof that there is another way. It's time for other artists and labels to catch up. Tracklisting: Millimetrik Ignacio Ramonet et le Metronidazole, Avrocar Two Silver Czars, Schengen The Prince (From Ueno), The Doldrums Try A New Thing, Glen Johnson A Pause in the Night, Portal Prana (Slow Burner), Piano Magic Western Gothic, Yellow6 Day in Pripyat, Planivaar Slow Motion, Epic45 In All the Empty Houses, All Sides Marathon, Innerise Dreams at E38th Street, Weyland No, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Story, Still Crescent In A Northern Landscape, Jelly Antler Back to School (Original Edit), Calder Old.
MakeMineMusic-050
CD
$12.25

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'The Other Side of Life: Timeless UK Pop-Sike & Other Delights, 1966-1972'. Limited Edition ninth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "Here we are squarely back in singles territory. Pop Workshop's 'Fairyland' is a good starter and manages to be both brash and gentle at the same time. Suzi Klee's 'Punch And Judy Girl' is a plaintive and tremulous pop ballad by this 'Swiss Miss' (I've always wanted to use that somewhere!); it comes across like Jan and Lorraine produced by Mike Batt (only it was produced by Georgio Gomelsky!). Dave Christie's 'Penelope Breedlove' makes its commercial compilation debut (and is also included on Psychic Circle's Fairytales Can Come True comp also out this month); a fabulous and atmospheric pean to the object of his affections, this is NOT the same version as the 6AX acetate compiled on Syde Tryps Vol.7. Although it's the same song, the two versions are markedly different in arrangement and timing, so you certainly need both. Pussyfoot's 'Hasty Words' is another beauty with its lilting 3/3 waltz timing and a lovely choral vocal job to boot. Mike Leslie's 'Office Girl' has been a long time want of mine in the original, a delightful ode to a lonely clerical worker lost in the urban crowd as the singer puckers up the courage to approach her. It deserved to be more than a B side too. Rodney Bewes' 'Dear Mother Love Albert' is the topside to the already compiled and much sought after 'Meter Maid' and it has a similar vibe - was this the actual TV series signature tune or was it written as a single in its own right I wonder? It sounds way too magically bendy for 1970 television! Christian's 'Other Side Of Life' is another restless orch popper with more than a passing reminder of The Apple's 'Other Side' as well. A good string arrangement adds a lot to it. Tony Ritchie seems to have recorded quite a few sides in Europe including the excellent 'Rain On My Window' included here with its urgent "loner" vibe that would have suited Paul & Barry Ryan for instance c.1967. Maybe it's about time a Tony Ritchie anthology was compiled? This is another excellent collection of emotionally challenging sides. You may encounter some of these sides individually occasionally but it is only when they are compiled with this level of aesthetic skill that they fully bloom."
FlowerMachine-1009
CD
$15.00

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'Hymns for Today: UK Pop-Folk-Sike Sounds 1968-1975'. Limited Edition eighth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "It's been a long hiatus but at last here are two excellent new volumes of the cult Fading Yellow series. Vol. 8 is collection of British artist album tracks of the period 1968-75... A beautiful confection of pastoral shades and cotton wool clouds floating in a hazy Summer sky. Predominantly mid-paced and lightly orchestrated, these are often acoustic based songs with electric underpinning. A few, in the interval, have become more familiar, notably the two fine selections by Jan & Lorraine from their recently reissued Gipsy People album. The majority however will be new to your ears. The track selection and flow is pretty much faultless as one track melts effortlessly into the next, working its magic on the ears. In some instances, tracks are surprising reworkings of the most unlikely songs. For instance Raw's (aka New York Public Library) rendition of 'What To Do', from their US and Germany released only Raw Holly album consists of covers of Buddy Holly songs - this one is an orchestrated tabla and sitar version! There are the short sharp spurts like the enigmatic (because there is nothing known about him) Michael Blount with 'Acorn Street' from his 1971 Patchwork album, which at 1.58 leaves you wanting a lot more of the same. P.C. Kent's 'After Dark' is from their self-titled Deram Nova album and is pleasingly pop (think a lighter version of Blossom Toes's 'Postcard' for instance) whilst Vigrass & Osborne's 'Ballerina' (which was also a single or a B side I think) has all the atmosphere, heavy with pathos of Mike Batt's series title track 'Fading Yellow' from Vol.1. Storyteller's 'Alice Brown', Fuchsia's 'Me And My Kite' and Evensong's 'The Smallest Man In The World' are also excellent. Overall, the FY signature brand of soundscape is very much perpetuated here and fans of the series will lap this up. There are as usual liner notes and band pics in the booklet which help contextualise the music nicely. Buy with confidence."
FlowerMachine-1008
CD
$15.00

Week That Was, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music.
MemphisIndustries
CD
$15.25

Ween
At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Classic live set in two formats.
Chocodog
CD/DVD
$21.75

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

Witmer, Denison
Carry the Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album.
Militia
CD
$12.25

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Acid Mothers Temple & THe Cosmic Inferno “Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno” CD $16.25

Bloody Panda “Pheromone” LP $13.50

Boddicker “Big Lionhearted & The Galant Man” CD $13.50

Cold Sun “Dark Shadows” CD $20.00

Day Blindness “S-T” LP $13.00

Enablers “End Note” LP $16.00

Free Blood “Royal Family” 12 $8.00

Great Depression “Forever Altered” CD $14.50

Gutz “S-T” CD $8.75

Hacienda “Loud is the Night” CD $13.50

Holy Ghost “Hold On (Mock & Toof Remixes)” 12 $8.00

I'm Not Jim “You Are All My People” CD $12.75

Jackie-O Motherfucker “Freedomland” CD $16.25

May, Alicia “Skinnydipping In The Flowers” CD $22.00

McArdle, Shannon “Summer of the Whore [import version]” CD $13.50

Mendoza Line, The “Full Of Light And Full Of Fire [import version]” CD $13.50

Mendoza Line, The “30 Year Low / Final Reflections Of The Legendary Malcontent [import version]” DCD $13.50

Muslims “S-T” 12 $12.00

Orso “Ask Your Neighbor” CD $14.75

Plastic Crimewave Sound “Plastic Crimewave Sound” LP $18.25

PRE/AIDS Wolf “Live Dates” 45 $7.00

Report Suspicious Activity “Destroy All Evidence” CD $14.25

Rhinos “In Rhi-Fi” CD $13.50

Robedoor “Shapeshifter Slave” LP $17.00

Skaters “Physicalities of the Sensibilities of Ingrediential Stairways” LP $17.00

Snakegrinder “Snakegrinder & The Shredded Fieldmice” CD $17.00

Trad Gras och Stenar “Gardet 12.6.1970” CD $14.25

Ugly Things “#27” ZINE $8.00

Unborn Unicorn “S-T” LP $16.50

Various “Trip In Time Vol. 3: Psychedelic Adventures On Planet Earth” CD $17.75

Various “Allergic To Flowers: Garage Beat & Popsike Part 2 1965-68” CD $17.00

Various “Girls Rock!” CD $13.75

Various “The Golden Apples Of The Sun” CD $12.00

Various “Notwave” CD $14.25

Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” CD $15.00

Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” DLP $30.00