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New Releases

39 Clocks
Zoned
PS, US German art rock band 39 Clocks were known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they'd perform. Theirs was a sound attuned to classic American punk/Nuggets. This collection was put together with the non-completist in mind (originals of some of these records are extremely rare), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles.
DeStijlRecords
CD
$12.50

A Broken Consort
Box Of Birch
PS, US A Broken Consort is RICHARD SKELTON. Operating under a variety of guises, Skelton creates powerful instrumental music out of densely-layered acoustic guitar, bowed strignts, piano mandoline and accordion, often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. Evoking equal parts Arvo Part and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Gorecki.
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75

Acid Mothers Temple
Interstellar Guru & Zero
PS, US Psychedelic, space-rock music, free-form & experimental. "Astral Project From Holy Shangrila" is 20 minutes of cosmic explosion, intense & highly unforgettable. It starts up again w/ the infinite "Interstellar Guru & Zero," representing the moment after the explosion, described by the band like the "loop of the universe"
Homeopathic
CD
$15.75

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradiso UFO
Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
PS, US Limited edition of 1000 copies. Acid Mother's Temple's Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is 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 and company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks and freaked out pitched up vocals. Cover art by Seldon Hunt.
Important-226-1
LP
$15.00

Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Agorapocalypse Revolution
PS, US
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Akron/Family
Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
PS, US Opening with a groove unlike anything Akron/Family have ever laid to tape, the first track on Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free kicks off a new chapter for the band. The percussive thunder and anthemic electric guitars of "Everyone is Guilty" make a bold statement, touching on everything from Fela Kuti to Sly and the Family Stone in under six psychedelic minutes. This is not the Akron/Family you think you know. As "Everyone is Guilty" fades into "River" the band returns to something they have always been known for: writing a timeless hook. "River" delivers Ali Farka Toure-like guitar work, but this song is all about the infectious vocal melody. As the album unfolds, Akron/Family's musical explorations are virtually without limits. Whether it's the celebratory sing-along gospel of "Gravelly Mountains of the Moon," the lush folk sounds of "Sun Will Shine (Warmth of the Sunship Version)," or "MBF," which lies at the intersection of primal punk rock and heavy free jazz, Akron/Family are a band boiling over with ideas. Their musical vocabulary runs deep it's not just Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead that inform Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. Akron/Family feel at home on this album, confident and self-assured. Following a year of making things bigger and wilder live, the band returns to something simpler on Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. With limited outside assistance, this trio has made a focused, powerful and unified work. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free maintains the communal spirit of the big band that won audiences over throughout the world, but it showcases Akron/Family at its core three musicians, equals, creating music from deep within. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is something undeniably special and immensely powerful. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is the new psychedelic rock.
DeadOceans-012
CD
$11.50

Akron/Family
Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DeadOceans-012
LP
$12.25

All The Saints/These Arms Are Snakes
Host b/w Washburn
PS, US
Touch&Go
45
$4.25

Altar of Plagues
White Tomb
PS, US Black metal's answer to Mogwai. If bands like Wolves in the Throne Room conjure scenes of epic nature, massive cascading waterfalls, & engulfing forests, these guys create stark images of crumbling skyscrapers, dying & rotten urban structures, empty highways, & desolate oceans. An innovative & visceral mix of styles, including the slow, trudging doom of Khanate & Burning Witch; the minimal electronica & haunting ambient industrial of Cold Meat Industry; the
towering apocalyptic vibes of Old Man Gloom, & the instrumental wonders portrayed by Mogwai & Red Sparowes.
ProfoundLore
CD
$14.25

Amen Dunes
Dia
PS, US If this is the outcome of the guy-alone-in-a-cabin story, then a little 1/4" tape brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with. A batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit
Locust
CD
$13.00

Amesoeurs
S-T
PS, US With ALCEST, multi-instrumentalist NEIGE paints a world of cascading radiance and shimmering light, where innocence triumphs and peace reigns supreme. The one conjured by AMESOEURS lies in an opposite realm. Formed by Neige and vocalist AUDREY SYLVAIN in 2004, Amesoeurs' desolate, suffocating vision brims with negativity and despair. Those familiar with Neige's pedigree (PESTE NOIRE, MORTIFERA, etc.) will recognize elements of harsh, melancholic black metal; the band also draws from elements of post-punk and '80s new wave such as Joy Division, early Cure, and Depeche Mode. Here, Neige is backed by a band that includes the award-winning French filmmaker FURSY TEYSSIER.
ProfoundLore
CD
$13.50

aMute
Infernal Heights For A Drama
PS, US An album full of introspective songs, psychedelic approaches, yet accessible compositions. Their music draws a thin line between indie-rock, post-folk & electronic. Loud, roaring, dark electronics, swathes of guitar wash, & echoing, disembodied vocals
Stilll
CD
$18.00

Antony And The Johnsons
Epilepsy Is Dancing
PS, US "Epilepsy is Dancing" - the second single from Antony and the Johnsons' The Crying Light - is one of the reasons Spin is raving that the band's new material is "scarily intimate and irresistibly beautiful". Antony and the Johnsons have again crafted a consummate single with the most unlikely of subjects. The B-side "Where is My Power?" burns slowly throughout hinting at its epic climax anchored by the voice Rolling Stone has called "a voice of singular majesty, an instrument of delicacy and rapture in which Nina Simone, Morrissey, and Joni Mitchell seem to inhabit the same breath".
SecretlyCanadian-199
CD5
$5.50

Apache
Boys Life
PS, US If The Zeroes had been into The Quick but also quietly listened to a good bit of Alice Cooper, they would have sounded like this APACHE 45.
Douchemaster
45
$5.25

Ape School
S-T
PS, US Michael Johnson conjures original songs from beyond his prior tenures in LILYS & HOLOPAW, using the Moog Modular synthesizer to weave lush motorik dreamsound throughout dynamic instrumentation & his distinct croon
Counter
CD
$15.25

Arcade Fire
Miroir Noir
PS,US Follows the group through the making & touring of their 2007 album "Neon Bible," documenting the band at their Montreal studio, the making of promotional films & videos, along w/ live footage & a few short films made on the road.
Merge
DVD
$12.00

Arcade Fire
Miroir Noir - DELUXE ED
PS,US Disc 1 contains the full standard "Miroir Noir" feature program. Disc 2 includes bonus material including the group's live performances on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Saturday Night Live & at the BBC. Limited to 5,000.
Merge
2DVD
$24.00

Art Brut
Art Brut vs. Satan
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A collaboration between Art Brut and Frank Black is a marriage made in witty, punky heaven, and while Art Brut vs. Satan may not quite live up to fans' wildest fantasies -- say, a cross between "Formed a Band" and "Debaser" -- having Black produce this album was just what the band needed... This joy of discovery and rediscovery is what makes Art Brut's music so vital at its best: They may be eternal adolescents, but they're also true believers in what made rock & roll great in the first place. They won't hide -- can't hide -- that enthusiasm, and it's contagious on Art Brut vs. Satan."
Downtown
CD
$15.00

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
When Sweet Sleep Returned
PS, US This San Francisco band's sound is a soundtrack for strange days and futures bright and bleak. There's also a crooked thread running backward through each of their records: the celestial trajectories of the Notorious Byrd Brothers and circa '70s Floyd; the dusty canyon stomps of Crazy Horse, the slashing action pop of the savage young Who, Italian bastardizations of Lalo Schifrin cop movie scores, and the scuzz-bomb shrapnel of garage mongers like Mudhoney and Monoshock. Their third release also finds the band speaking their own twisted tongue, marrying hazy Saturday moods, interstellar sonics, and wrecking ball swing to song and harmony in poems for California, lovers, ghosts, the stars, and a world gone mad.
Teepee
CD
$15.00

Astrom, Kristofer/All Fox
Split
PS, US Kristofer Åström is from Göteborg, Sweden, and plays in Fireside. "Twentyseven" is a single off his forthcoming album 'Sinkadus', to be released in Scandinavia this Spring. This is Åström's first ever vinyl release. All Fox is from Virginia, and plays in The House Floor. Nice thick marbled wax in a swank package, comes with 11x17 poster, while supplies last.
SoundFriends
45
$6.00

At
S-T
PS, US This record shows off the quieter side, getting down by the fire & baring your soul to the wilderness. Accepting hedonism while denying yourself the pleasures of life. Kinda like what you want Elliott Smith to really sound like.
Corleone
CD
$11.00

Atavist
Ruined II
PS, US A massive plunge through crawling & pounding vibes of distorted madness, bass-heavy frequencies, methodically played drums, & utterly painful virulent vocals, all filtered through pure unbridled atmosphere & ambiance. Fans of Khanate, Sunn0))) & Corrupted take note.
Invada
CD
$15.75

Avarus
IV
PS, US This incredible Finnish band pretty much defines modern psychedelic kraut improv. Primitive, primal & tribal, desolate & mournful, dreamy & pastoral, motorik & hypnotic. Buzzing, clattery, droning, stumbling Krautrock flecked w/ shimmering free-noise, avant ambience, delicate folk filigree, & chaotic caveman psychedelic space rock.
SecretEye
LP
$20.00

Avengers
S/T
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Baby Shakes
First One
PS, US 10 songs with licks as good as the looks. NY's BABY SHAKES haven't parted with the pop seRnseicboilirtdy sthat was the backbone of their previous releases, but they have successfully figured out how to incorporate the influences of all those glam records littering up their tiny New York apartments. The album has a few quick poppy tunes, but the majority of the record feels like Slade wrote a bunch of songs for the Shivvers. And that's a good thing! Also feat. remarkable production (and drumming) from Mr. Dave Rahn of CARBONAS and GENTLEMAN JESSE
Douchemaster
LP
$12.75

Babylon Circus
Dances of Resistance
PS, US Sometimes described as the French version of Gogol Bordello, their music is infused w/ touches of Django Reinhardt, Balkan Gypsy music, & great French
singers like Edith Piaf or Jacques Brel.
Mr.Bongo
CD
$18.50

Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent
PS, US Austin's Balmorhea has always made beautiful music, but that pulchritude has often belied the underlying sensuality that makes their music so inviting. The band takes a giant leap forward, embracing that sensuality, on their bold and variegated new album All is Wild, All is Silent. Now a six piece, the band known for their understated simplicity and restraint has produced an album as complex as the workings of the lonely human heart. The addition of drums, upright bass, and wordless vocals, helps the band evoke a timeless American narrative, conjuring the ghosts of our ancestors and tapping the veins of spirited adventurers who seek, discover and defend a kind of home and way of life entirely new. Like the letters of early Texas settler William B Dewees, that inspired the title All is Wild, All is Silent, the album swells with images of an untamed land and a uniquely American optimism and faith in the face of an unknown and savage Nature. The opening track "Settler" beams with a rural down-home aesthetic that could equally inspire whisky drinking or silent prayer. "Harm and Boon" makes sharp turns from painfully vulnerable to soaring triumph without relying upon the formulaic structures overused by so many of today's instrumental groups. The album closes with the haunting and simple "November 1, 1832," sounding like a long-distance call to a home that you can never return to.
WesternVinyl-59
LP
$12.25

Bardo Pond
Peri
PS, US CD version. Limited to 400. Sister album to "Batholith," each possessing their own musical themes & each fully capable of standing independent from the other. "Chicken Gun," a former live staple from 96-98, it is a propulsive & fiery rocker every bit as monumental as some of the band's classics such as "lb." & "Tommy Gun Angel." The album-closing "Silver Pavillion" is the sort of meditative psychedelia that has been their calling card over their lengthy career.
ThreeLobedRecordings
CD
$10.00

Bardo Pond
Peri [deluxe vinyl version w/CD]
PS, US Limited to 1640 copies on 180g RTI vinyl, & comes w/ a glass-mastered CD (not CDR) of the material present on the wax. Sister album to "Batholith," each possessing their own musical themes & each fully capable of standing independent from the other. "Chicken Gun," a former live staple from 96-98, it is a propulsive & fiery rocker every bit as monumental as some of the band's classics such as "lb." & "Tommy Gun Angel." The album-closing "Silver Pavillion" is the sort of meditative psychedelia that has been their calling card over their lengthy career.
ThreeLobedRecordings
LP/CD
$21.50

Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
PS,US Vinyl version.
Astralwerks
LP
$21.75

Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
PS,US Dazzling 2nd album, featuring guest spots by YEASAYER & SCOTT WALKER
Astralwerks
CD
$15.00

Beat Happening
S/T
PS, US
Krecords-001
LP
$11.50

Beat Happening
Dreamy
PS, US
Krecords-003
LP
$11.50

Beat Happening
You Turn Me On
PS, US
Krecords-007
LP
$11.50

Beat Happening
Jamboree
PS, US
Krecords-002
LP
$11.50

Bee Gees
Odessa
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! The group members may disagree for personal reasons, but Odessa is easily the best and most enduring of the Bee Gees' albums of the 1960s. It was also their most improbable success, owing to the conflicts behind its making. The record started out as a concept album, to be called "Masterpeace" and then "The American Opera," but musical differences between Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb that would split the trio in two also forced the abandonment of the underlying concept. Instead, it became a double LP -- largely at the behest of their manager and the record labels; oddly enough, given that the group didn't plan on doing something that ambitious, Odessa is one of perhaps three double albums of the entire decade (the others being Blonde on Blonde and The Beatles) that don't seem stretched, and it also served as the group's most densely orchestrated album. Yet, amid the progressive rock sounds of the title track and ethereal ballads such as "Melody Fair" and "Lamplight" were country-flavored tunes like "Marlery Purt Drive" and the vaguely Dylanesque bluegrass number "Give Your Best," delicate pop ballads like "First of May" (which became the single off the album), and strange, offbeat rock numbers like "Edison" (whose introduction sounds like the Bee Gees parodying Cream's "White Room") and "Whisper Whisper" (the latter featuring a drum break, no less), interspersed with three heavily orchestrated instrumentals. Even the seeming "lesser" numbers such as "Suddenly" had catchy hooks and engaging acoustic guitar parts to carry them, all reminiscent of the Moody Blues' album cuts of the same era. Moreover, the title track, with its mix of acoustic guitar, solo cello, and full orchestra, was worthy of the Moody Blues at their boldest. The myriad sounds and textures made Odessa the most complex and challenging album in the group's history, and if one accepts the notion of the Bee Gees as successors to the Beatles, then Odessa was arguably their Sgt. Pepper album. The album was originally packaged in a red felt cover with gold lettering on front and back and an elaborate background painting for the gatefold interior, which made it a conversation piece just to look at. The CD reissue is surprisingly well-mastered and a bargain at mid-price. Ironically, the making of Odessa was to herald a split between the Gibb brothers that would leave the group sidelined for most of the next 18 months, and was the last to be heard from them as a trio for two years. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
Rhino
DLP
$43.00

Bee Mask
Hyperborean Trenchtown
PS, US The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic & minimalist pioneers. Undeniably pure processes of creating & sustaining sound visually, sonically & otherwise brings a mathematical & scientific accuracy that hasn't been seen since the days of lovely music ltd. or GRM. Brilliant textures & audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities.
WeirdForest
LP
$16.75

Bell Orchestre
As Seen Through Windows
PS, US Vinyl version. Mostly instrumental compositions that tap into the acoustic delicacy of chamber music, the urgency & volume of post punk & rock, & the intricacy & sonic range of contemporary electronic music. The band often credits Estonian composer Arvo Part as one of their many influences
Arts&Crafts
LP
$21.75

Big Pink, The
Velvet b/w Introduction To Awareness
PS, US New 4AD signing The Big Pink check in with their debut single for the label and it is some serious business.
4AD
45
$4.75

Bingham, Ryan & The Dead
Horses - Roadhouse Sun
PS,US Produced by Marc Ford (BLACK CROWES).
LostHighway
LP
$14.00

Bird, Andrew/Loney Dear
Split
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! Andrew Bird did a tour with Loney Dear and they've put together a very interesting split 7". This release is a limited edition of 1000, on black vinyl with hand silk screened covers. This split 7" has Andrew Bird covering Loney Dear, and (you guessed it) Loney Dear covering Andrew Bird.
Polyvinyl
45
$4.75

Birds of Prey
Hell Preacher
PS, US Bleeds & sweats a malevolence most death metal bands could only hope to achieve
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Black Dice
Repo
PS, US This Brooklyn trio has never worked harder at crafting a set of concise, sonically battering, or flat-out bizarre tunes than on this collection of fringe-surfing tone bombs. Yet a new roadhouse blues band philosophy has simultaneously emerged, allowing the group to loosen up and casually toss off a record packed with blurry hooks and zoomed in riffs. "Repo" irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV, and Internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life.
Pawtracks
CD
$15.00

Black Dice
Repo
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Pawtracks
DLP
$17.75

Black Kids
Wizard Of Ahhhs
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! Band's debut hype-making demo on a physical format for the first time!
AlmostGold
10
$6.75

Blank Dogs
Waiting/Splitting
PS,US Companion single to the upcoming "Under And Under," featuring 2 exclusive tracks. "Waiting" finds the band drifting even closer to C-86 Brit-pop terrain & incorporates more guitar than synth. Limited to 2,000
InTheRed
45
$5.25

Blitzen Trapper
War Is Placebo" b/w "Booksmart Baby
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Two previously unreleased tracks from the "Furr" sessions.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Blue Giant
Target Heart
PS, US New project from Kevin & Anita Robinson (VIVA VOCE). Also features members of SWORDS PROJECT & DECEMBERISTS. Eschewing the indie-pop sound of Viva Voce, they drew inspiration from their own past loves: American country & classic rock. Early-70s Who-ish grandeur, Byrds-esque 12-string country dreamscapes, 'verb-soaked melodies evoking Lola-era Kinks, & rich harmonies grace the darkest of love songs
JealousButcher
LP
$12.50

Brakes Brakes Brakes
Touchdown
PS, US The third album by Brighton UK's BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES finds the group, which features former and current members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade, and The Tenderfoot, polishing up their sound a bit - without sacrificing any of the immediacy or jangle that makes their slightly-countrified power pop so appealing. Touchdown is an exuberant maelstrom of blazing riffs and relentless hooks, fuzz and squall, witty lyrics and sing along choruses that are sure to earn the band more devoted followers.
FatCatRecords-086
CD
$11.50

Breut, Francoiz
A l'aveuglette
PS, US For fans of Carla Bruni, Coralie Clement, Portishead, Giant Sand, Feist, Nick Drake & Yann Tiersen. Her unique voice was an ideal ambassador for the fascinating French scene & put the names of her songwriters on the international map: Dominique A, Katerine, Yann Tiersen & Jerome Miniere - were just a few of the writers she helped to become famous.
GrooveAttack
CD
$16.25

Broderick, Peter
Ten Duets
PS, US Each track is a duet between 2 different instruments - sometimes improvised, sometimes composed, but always absolutely stunning. Instrumentation includes violin, banjo, mandolin, guitar, piano, voice & field recordings. A beautiful document showing another side of his immense talent. Limited to 300 pro-dubbed tapes & RECOMMENDED!
Digitalis
CASS
$8.50

Budd, Harold & Clive Wright
Candylion
PS, US A new collaborative effort from Harold Budd and Clive Wright. Candylion contrasts previous work, A Songs for Lost Blossoms, in that it is more thoughtful and structured. Still, it constantly surprises the listener with a fresh collage of aural landscapes and moods. Sometimes it evokes the feeling of a traditional Japanese piece, or the mood of a gentile, 60s, British film, or a Renaissance cathedral with cloisters reverberating a choral ensemble. Harold Budd and Clive Wright use new colors to paint Canylion's soundscapes: Harp, strings and even drums. If A Song for Lost Blossoms reminds listeners familiar with Harold Budd's previous works of his collaboration with Brian Eno, then Candylion may serve as a continuation of the spirit of Avalon Sutra; warm, glistening, meditative and alive. Art beautiful Art! Candylion was recorded and mixed at Clive Wright's Desert Sky Studio, Joshua Tree, CA. during the last quarter of 2008. Harold Budd is recognized as "The Godfather of Ambient Music". His works are the cornerstones of the modern minimal and ambient canon. Clive Wright is a founding member of the platinum selling pop/rock band Cock Robin and has worked as writer, producer and guitarist with Human Drama, Tears for Fears members, Montell Jordan, The Black Eyed Peas and Peter Gabriel. Cover art painting RF 2000 by Billy Al Bengston. PERSONNEL: Harold Budd: Piano, keyboards. Clive Wright: Guitars, Slide, Guitar Synth, Ebo; String arrangements on "Eaux D'Artifice" and "She Slipped Through The Door". Choral arrangement on "In the Midst of Life". Engineering and Production: Additional Engineering on "Beautiful Intruder" by Brendan McGuire. Harp on "Beautiful Intruder and "Ships that Sail Away" by Patti Hood. Drums on "Sunday After the War" by George Zelenz. Drums on "Beautiful Intruder" by Ray Wood. Thanks to Marcus Thirtle additional sound design contribution for the track "Candylion". ALSO AVAILABLE: Harold Budd & Clive Wright -A Song for Lost Blossoms (Darla: DRL198) CD. TRACKS: 1. Sunday After The War (3.55) 2. Exit Plan (Perfume) (3.19) 3. On Ships That Sail Away (3.40) 4. Eaux d'Artifice (6.18) 7. Ribbons Everywhere (3.18) 5. Beautiful Intruder (4.56) 6. Candylion 8. The Bells (4.50) 9. She Slipped Through The Door (5.00) 10. Mlle. Ice (4.34) 12. Orange Portals (3.30) 11. In The Midst Of Life (2.08)
Darla-221
CD
$12.25

Burger, Robert
City of Strangers
PS, US Burger has worked w/ Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine, & was a founding member of chamber music collective Tin Hat Trio. This is a deep & eclectic collection of film cues that reveals, once again, the boundless & potent gifts of an important contributor.
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

Callahan, Bill
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
PS, US Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle surveys a landscape that grows organically, like the time two people spend together or the time one person spends alone (with another). One way or another, it's awfully pretty. Something's clearly making Bill feel like a natural man. And high in the saddle, with a pouch of Big League Chew & nine sweet new tunes in tow, he's riding herd over a diverse bunch of sounds by top-notch players. Sure, there's guitar, keyboards & drums, just like there's always been, but arranger Brian Beattie brought some old friends back into the picture: violins & French horns. Plus, recording in the big state of Texas has given Bill a panoramic sound- screen, filled with verdant & sparkling sounds, all of which allow him access to the depths of expression, allowing a gentle & stirring view of that which we call "soul." Singing as personal as ever while still spinning wild yarns & melodic guitar fictions, Bill Callahan's on an idyll we hope won't ever end
DragCity
CD
$12.50

Callahan, Bill
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
PS, US Vinyl!
DragCity
LP
$13.77

Camera Obscura
French Navy b/w The World Is Full Of Strangers
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! First track comes ahead of album release, second is previously unreleased!
4AD
45
$4.75

Camera Obscura
My Maudlin Career
PS, US A camera obscura is loosely defined as an optical device used to capture light to then reproduce and project onto another surface. Since 1996 Camera Obscura, the band, have been reflecting on their lives, creating music that is equal parts somber pop and upbeat cynicism. Three years ago Camera Obscura released what was hailed as their breakout album Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge). Naturally anticipation for a follow up began to simmer and finally boiled over in January 2009 with a direct bulletin to fans stating an imminent new album, marking their 4AD debut, My Maudlin Career.
As the title suggests their new album shares with the listener an affectionate wit and a melancholy tendency towards life's daily routines and relationships. Yet My Maudlin Career also boasts and expands on the affected pop elements explored on LGOOTC. No more apparent than on the lead single, "French Navy". Dripping in layers of sheer pop melody yet never betraying the personal importance of its theme, it is a bittersweet tale of love lost. With songs like that it's no wonder Camera Obscura are often mentioned in the same sentences as fellow Scots Belle & Sebastian, indie rock favorites The Lucksmiths, and music legends The Smiths. The measure of any great band is whether their live show is equal to their recorded music. Camera Obscura do not disappoint, often capturing the very essence of their albums down to the last subtle, charming yet solemn, lyric and note.
4AD
CD
$11.50

Casio, Joey
Share The Cup
PS, US JOEY CASIO is a one-man dance party. For years he has brandished unkempt house parties with a tense, spiky post-punk certainty, imprints of running shoes that danced on sludgy shag carpet. On "Share the Cup", Casio creates more space for dub influences. His voice is terse; there is an overtaking electronic burble that drops away for arpeggio twitters. "Share the cup/Spare the sword." It's a hopeful punk-dub mix. The b-side, provided by Selector Dub Narcotic features even more space via echoplex, tape delay, and a buoyant melodica. If dance music is about revolution this release as part of the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series ditches divisiveness. Sit at the table.
Krecords-115
45
$3.75

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Vs. Children
PS, US Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation "Advance Base Battery life" comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Vs. Children continues the trajectory of 2006's "Etiquette", which showed singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the battery-powered keyboards of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's namesake. Instead, Vs. Children's arrangements are built largely on the sounds of piano, organ, Mellotron, and acoustic percussion, both live and sampled. It's like gospel music, if you can imagine that most of the choir has gone home for the evening and the church musical director is just really into samplers. Following a tedious preoccupation with religious music and an unhealthy obsession with grand larceny (inspired in part by the arrest of a former co-worker for the robbery of 26 banks from Illinois to California), Ashworth wrote many of the songs on Vs. Children from the perspective of remorseful criminals. Many more songs deal with the themes of babies, pregnancy, and parent/child relationships, because, let's face it, none of us are getting any younger, if you know what I mean. Tick tock goes the baby clock. Vs. Children was produced by Ashworth and long-time friend and collaborator Jason Quever (Papercuts) at Quever's Pan American Studio in San Francisco, CA and Ashworth's home studio in Chicago, IL. Vs. Children features guest appearances from Quever (who solos all over "Tom Justice, The Choir Boy Robber, Apprehended at Ace Hardware in Libertyville, IL" and contributes various drum sample sources), Julie Lispector (of the French electropop one-woman band Lispector, who duets with Ashworth via traded MP3s on "Man O' War") and two-time tour-mates The Donkeys (who sit in as Ashworth's backing band on three tracks). But, despite Vs. Children 's many guest musicians and a noticeable shift in instrumentation, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone has succeeded to make a fifth album that feels just as warm and intimate as the first. Vs. Children marks the continuing evolution of an idiosyncratic singer, songwriter and producer, presenting an older, wiser, and more mature Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.
Tomlab-128
LP
$14.25

Cave, Nick & Bad Seeds
First Born Is Dead [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Re-mastered & remixed in 5.1 surround sound, w/bonus DVD! The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the BIRTHDAY PARTY's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Cave embraced the sound & feeling of rural blues on his 2nd album w/ the Bad Seeds.
Mute
CD+DVD
$16.25

Cave, Nick & Bad Seeds
Your Funeral...My Trial [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Re-mastered & remixed in 5.1 surround sound, w/bonus DVD! Further exploring Cave's varied musical interests, this cemented the band as one of the most dynamic groups of this generation.
Mute
CD+DVD
$16.25

Cave, Nick & Bad Seeds
Kicking Against the Pricks [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Re-mastered & remixed in 5.1 surround sound, w/bonus DVD! Teaming up w/ former BIRTHDAY PARTY members & other guests, this tackles a long list of covers, paying tribute to everyone from Johnny Cash to Velvet Underground.
Mute
CD+DVD
$16.25

Cave, Nick & Bad Seeds
From Her to Eternity [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Re-mastered & remixed in 5.1 surround sound, w/bonus DVD! An accomplished album mixing the frenzy & power of his BIRTHDAY PARTY days w/ a dank, moody atmosphere that showed he was not interested in simply continuing what the older group had done.
Mute
CD+DVD
$16.25

Chain And The Gang Featuring Ian Svenonius
Down With Liberty
PS, US Everywhere that liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, materialism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with "Liberty." So just as it's called "liberty" when war and greed stalk the land, Ian Svenonius (Make Up, Nation of Ulysses and Weird War) calls his band Chain and the Gang. Like a true chain gang, they're on the road to confront and defy any freedom-lovers that come across their path. They shuffle, manacled, across railway yards, and through graveyards; they're on the side of the road, picking up the garbage as they walk, as people drive by, yelling at them. All they can do is become a chorus of metal meeting metal, hands hitting hands and a collective voice louder than one. The songs they have created on Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains [KLP203] are sing-alongs; a call and response in the tradition of gospel tunes, work favorites and the girl groups and vocal aggregates that once dotted the corners of the Mid-Atlantic United States. It sounds as natural as a freak hail storm or the roar of a lion on the veldt. The album is cunningly constructed - like a series of tone poems or work songs; the remnants of time served, a universal debt paid to society. It started with one lifer (Svenonius) and grew to include a gang of small time bandits with Calvin Johnson, Brett Lyman (Bad Thoughts), Sarah Pedal, Faustine Hudson (The Curious Mystery), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Veronica Ortuño (Finally Punk), Nicolaas Zwart (Desolation Wilderness), Karl Blau, Chris Sutton (Hornet Leg), Sixx (The Vibrarians), Arrington de Dionyso, Aaron Hartman and Benjamin Hartman (Old Time Relijun). How do they describe their sound? Something they just found. They dug it up from the ground. Essential to that soil: guitar, drums, organ, saxophone and chants; paying off our collective debt to the universe. There are songs with a driving locomotive engine ("Reparations," "Interview with the Chain Gang"), a full-on choir of the disenfranchised ("Cemetery Map," "Deathbed Confession," Trash Talk") and disentangled, soul-influenced invitations to a celebration ("Room 19" and "Unpronounceable Name"). Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains is simple and profound, the way a pebble on the beach is. There are no song cycles, sample beats, sequencers or baby pictures of the artist as a tot. The Gang is set to shuffle across the Land of Liberty in Spring 2009. Join them as they hope against hope, fan the flames, shake their fist and say "Yeh! Yeh! Down with Liberty! Up with Chains ... Put those handcuffs on my hands." "Ian Svenonius is an inadvertent pioneer. His career has been a studied attempt to advance the history of punk rock, using influences as tools to build with rather than styles to flaunt and discard." The Wire CHAIN AND THE GANG Down With Liberty... Up With Chains
Krecords-203
CD
$11.50

Chesterfield Kings
Psychedelic Sunrise
PS, US
WickedCool
LP
$15.00

Cheval Sombre
S-T
PS, US Delicate druggy, slowcore folk
DoubleFeature
CD
$15.75

Chord
Flora
PS, US Members of UNFORTUNAUT, ANATOLE, X-BAX & PELICAN. With a shared appreciation for the works of Tony Conrad & Glen Branca, the group formulated a
collective vision: to exploit & explore the sonic depth of a single chord.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

Circus Devils
Gringo
PS, US THE CIRCUS DEVILS prove that accessibility and experimentation can go hand in hand on Gringo, an acoustic song cycle with a 1970s Morricone-esque Southwestern flavor. You can almost smell the sage brush and gasoline on every track. ROBERT POLLARD and the TOBIAS brothers tell the story of the Gringo with moods ranging from jubilant to melancholy to mean, all wrapped in the trademark Circus Devils palette of exotic sounds. As always, this is not last year's Circus Devils record, but with Gringo, it has never been truer.
HappyJackRock
CD
$13.50

Circus Devils
Gringo
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HappyJackRock
LP
$13.50

Cluekid
Soul Vibe
PS, US Already a regular with the likes of MARY ANN HOBBS and the DMZ boys, here's Cluekid's first outing for Soul Jazz, following on from his huge COTTI-collaboration from last year, 'Sensi Dub'. Blending dubstep and old skool ragga vibes, this is a killer track and essential for the dubstep kids
SoulJazz
12"
$8.00

Coathangers
Scramble
PS,US Yellow vinyl w/ free digital download.
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$13.25

Coathangers
Scramble
PS,US Songs like "Bury Me" & "Time Passing" use chanted vocals to approach a kind of personal sloganeering - like Huggy Bear, shot w/ syncopated voices, but minus the political fury. In "Pussywillow," the melodic chop of the guitar lifts the call-&-response action from bratty disgust to melancholy realization, then back again.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$12.50

Cohen, Leonard
Future b/w Suzanne
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! Leonard Cohen, in the middle of a triumphant sold-out tour of the US, released these two tracks taken from his brand new Live In London release. Side A: "The Future" from Live In London - Side B: "Suzanne" from Live In London
Columbia
45
$6.25

Comet Gain
Broken Record Prayers
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Over the course of five albums and loads of singles, the group has defied logic and created a legacy of great records and truly memorable songs. Broken Record Prayers is a collection of singles (both old and new), Peel Sessions,and unreleased tracks recorded after the original lineup of Comet Gain split in 1998. The songs here are a vital document of the band, an amazing run of songs that are always true to the ideals of the band."
What'sYourRupture
CD
$13.75

Cotton Candy
Fantastic & Spectacular
PS, US MARK ROBINSON (UNREST, AIR MIAMI, FLIN FLON) & EVELYN HURLEY (BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE) have created nine songs that somehow fit on only one seven-inch 45 r.p.m. E.P. From the guitar indie-pop of the title track to the electronic new romanticism of the Human League inspired "Tint Control & Fine Tuning". Two pure pop hits sandwiched by 100 percent F-U-N. They also show off their advertising jingle chops with covers of rare radio and TV commercials. Limited to 500 copies on TRANSPARENT ORANGE VINYL with full-color jacket & labels!
TeenBeat-454
45
$4.75

Crocodiles
Summer of Hate
PS, US Deconstructed punk duo that parlay their appreciation for melody into a kind of modern-day Suicide, complete w/ a minimalist rock sound saddled w/ doomed electronics.
FatPossum
CD
$15.00

Crocodiles
Summer of Hate
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
FatPossum
LP
$15.00

Cross Stitched Eyes
Coranach (LP/CD)
PS, US Rightly compared to Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, & Killing Joke, they breathe new life into the anarcho-crust genre. Dirgey & doom-y elements abound & the sound quality surpasses the muddy fidelity of the band's predecessors.
AlternativeTentacles
LP
$16.00

Cryptacize
Mythomania
PS, US CRYPTACIZE deals in the unforgettable melody, the forsaken chord and the extravagant sentiment. Nedelle Torrisi's surefooted and richly nuanced vocal arabesques, like a modern day Freddie Mercury or Ronnie Spector, strangely complement Chris Cohen's guitar, maniacally sped-up a la Les Paul or staccato and funny like Roy Smeck or Adolph Jacobs of the Coasters. Michael Carreira's syncopated drum corps rudiments and pit-orchestra rave-ups propel the songs with a refreshingly buoyant touch that never lapses into rock music clichés. There are also wide screen cinematic moments that take on a mournful and otherworldly pathos, like Henry Mancini's "Experiment in Terror" but with vocals by Cambodian 60's pop legend Ros Serey Sothea - or like Arabic diva Fairouz singing along to a psychedelic film score by Popol Vuh.
AsthmaticKitty-58
CD
$9.50

Crystal Antlers
Tentacles
PS, US Vinyl version.
Touch&Go
LP
$14.25

Crystal Antlers
Tentacles
PS,US The group explodes through the unclaimed space between '60s garage touchs like the Music Machine & the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru & Les Rallizes Denudes & the mechanized motor-soul of "Osmium"-era Parliament. Between the screamers come the scenery - the Pharoah Sanders-style sax snippets that confetti the end of "Glacier," the gentle oceanic drone-poem "Vapor Trail," the album intro that sounds like Blue Cheer chasing Terry Riley's "Rainbow In Curved Air"
Touch&Go
CD
$12.50

Culture Reject
S-T
PS, US Infectious, soulful melodies, syncopated guitars & easy grooves. Guests include JIM GUTHRIE (drums, vocals), KARRI NORTH (background vocals), & percussion virtuoso DAVE CLARK.
WhiteWhale
CD
$11.00

Culture Reject
S/T
PS, US Infectious, soulful melodies, syncopated guitars & easy grooves. Guests include JIM GUTHRIE (drums, vocals), KARRI NORTH (background vocals), & percussion virtuoso DAVE CLARK
WhiteWhale
CD
$11.00

Cursive
Mama, I'm Swollen
PS, US Deluxe LP is 180gm colored vinyl & includes 16 page booklet, download card for bonus material, & CD version
SaddleCreek
LP
$17.50

D'Aki, Kiki
No Mires Atras
PS, SPAIN In recent years, there has been plenty of ink spilled in Spain about those heroes and heroines that in the early eighties captured attention of both media and public through La Movida madrileña (an explosion of cultural creativity and hedonism in Madrid between the late seventies and early eighties). Maria Jose Serrano is one of the living legends and a true musical reference as member of Las Chinas and catalyst of Kiki D'Aki. The sound of Las Chinas should be classified as related to Girls at our best, Dolly Mixture, Fabienne Delsol or Shop Assistants. Kiki D'Aki serendipitously emerged later as a project that brought the Spanish pop music of the era to dignity and to the highest standards of sophistication. Her signature cut was to bring all the intellectual headiness of Madrid, Paris and your local classy café to pop music. Kiki is smart, not frivolous; careful, not troubled; creative, not pretentious; beautiful, not arrogant; vulnerable, not insecure. It was in the current decade after more than 25 years away when Kiki christened our label with two excellent records under the production signature of Ramón Leal and Guille Milkyway (Mi Colección-2003- and Villa Flir-2006 respectively). The return added quite a new fervent fan base in many countries to the quintessential cult-status in Spain.
Siesta-242
CD
$17.75

Dalton, Karen
It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
PS,US First time ever on vinyl! A heart wrenching & bluesy introduction to the intoxicating world of Dalton & her deep well of musical secrets. 180gram beautiful old school tip-on jacket with original artwork plus rare photos & poster.
LightInTheAttic
LP
$21.75

Darker My Love/Moccasin
Split
PS, US The ethos of psychedelia is alive & well in the new millennium. LA's DARKER MY LOVE builds upon various pop influences with layers of shoegaze & psychedelia, welcoming of distortion, reverb, & noise. MOCCASIN found themselves opening for the likes of Black Mountain, Raveonettes, Dead Meadow, & the Black Angels, to name a few. The more contemplative of the two bands, they build expansive soundscapes, harvested by eerie, echoed vocals & dual, fuzzed guitars. Limited to 1,000 copies
IHateRockNRoll
12
$10.50

Darwinsbitch
Ore
PS, US Fluid forms of drones, doomy laments, & folk melodies fleshed out from a backbone of sine oscillators & violin. Behind these droning squalls is the lone figure of Marielle Jakobsons. Armed w/ her tiny army of sonic weapons, she concocts a lavaflow of melodies only to then bury them underneath a flowing river of muck. Limited to 500.
Digitalis
CD
$11.00

Das Boton
Soda Drip
PS,US Bill Dolan is most known for his guitar work in 5IVE STYLE & HEROIC DOSE (Sub Pop Records). He has been a huge influence to a generation of artists with his explosive 1960s New Orleans, afrobeat guitar work. With his roots intact, this record is heavily influenced by post-punk & early NY new-wave. Joined by his former band mate, Ryan "euphone" Rapsys and Karl "babybird" Ropp for Das Boton's debut album
Sixgunlover
CD
$11.00

Davis, Miles
Sketches of Spain
PS, US Along with Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, and Round About Midnight, Sketches of Spain is one of Miles Davis' most enduring and innovative achievements. Recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 -- after Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley had left the band -- Davis teamed with Canadian arranger Gil Evans for the third time. Davis brought Evans the album's signature piece, "Concierto de Aranjuez," after hearing a classical version of it at bassist Joe Mondragon's house. Evans was as taken with it as Davis was, and set about to create an entire album of material around it. The result is a masterpiece of modern art. On the "Concierto," Evans' arrangement provided an orchestra and jazz band -- Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Elvin Jones -- the opportunity to record a classical work as it was. The piece, with its stunning colors and intricate yet transcendent adagio, played by Davis on a flügelhorn with a Harmon mute, is one of the most memorable works to come from popular culture in the 20th century. Davis' control over his instrument is singular, and Evans' conducting is flawless. Also notable are "Saeta," with one of the most amazing technical solos of Davis' career, and the album's closer, "Solea," which is conceptually a narrative piece, based on an Andalusian folk song, about a woman who encounters the procession taking Christ to Calvary. She sings the narrative of his passion and the procession -- or parade -- with full brass accompaniment moving along. Cobb and Jones, with flamenco-flavored percussion, are particularly wonderful here, as they allow the orchestra to indulge in the lushly passionate arrangement Evans provided to accompany Davis, who was clearly at his most challenged here, though he delivers with grace and verve. Sketches of Spain is the most luxuriant and stridently romantic recording Davis ever made. To listen to it in the 21st century is still a spine-tingling experience, as one encounters a multitude of timbres, tonalities, and harmonic structures seldom found in the music called jazz. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
SNYL740414.1
LP
$17.50

Davis, Miles
In A Silent Way
PS, US Listening to Miles Davis' originally released version of In a Silent Way in light of the complete sessions released by Sony in 2001 (Columbia Legacy 65362) reveals just how strategic and dramatic a studio construction it was. If one listens to Joe Zawinul's original version of "In a Silent Way," it comes across as almost a folk song with a very pronounced melody. The version Miles Davis and Teo Macero assembled from the recording session in July of 1968 is anything but. There is no melody, not even a melodic frame. There are only vamps and solos, grooves layered on top of other grooves spiraling toward space but ending in silence. But even these don't begin until almost ten minutes into the piece. It's Miles and McLaughlin, sparely breathing and wending their way through a series of seemingly disconnected phrases until the groove monster kicks in. The solos are extended, digging deep into the heart of the ethereal groove, which was dark, smoky, and ashen. McLaughlin and Hancock are particularly brilliant, but Corea's solo on the Fender Rhodes is one of his most articulate and spiraling on the instrument ever. The A-side of the album, "Shhh/Peaceful," is even more so. With Tony Williams shimmering away on the cymbals in double time, Miles comes out slippery and slowly, playing over the top of the vamp, playing ostinato and moving off into more mysterious territory a moment at a time. With Zawinul's organ in the background offering the occasional swell of darkness and dimension, Miles could continue indefinitely. But McLaughlin is hovering, easing in, moving up against the organ and the trills by Hancock and Corea; Wayne Shorter hesitantly winds in and out of the mix on his soprano, filling space until it's his turn to solo. But John McLaughlin, playing solos and fills throughout (the piece is like one long dreamy solo for the guitarist), is what gives it its open quality, like a piece of music with no borders as he turns in and through the commingling keyboards as Holland paces everything along. When the first round of solos ends, Zawinul and McLaughlin and Williams usher it back in with painterly decoration and illumination from Corea and Hancock. Miles picks up on another riff created by Corea and slips in to bring back the ostinato "theme" of the work. He plays glissando right near the very end, which is the only place where the band swells and the tune moves above a whisper before Zawinul's organ fades it into silence. This disc holds up, and perhaps is even stronger because of the issue of the complete sessions. It is, along with Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew, a signature Miles Davis session from the electric era. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
SNYL740415.1
LP
$17.50

Davis, Miles
Bitches Brew
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
DLP
$25.25

Death Set
Rad Warehouses to Bad Neighborhoods
PS, US Collection of the group's first 2 EP's recalls all of the brashest moments of the band's super-deep super-brief back catalog - including original versions of classics like "Around the World," & flagship smash-ups like "Paranoia" & "Zombie," staples of their scorching live show - while adding remixes, resets, & a revox to the fray
Counter
DCD
$17.75

Def Jam 25: DJ BringThat
Back Vol 1&2
PS,US Limited 4 piece gatefold LP set celebrating 25 years of Def Jam records. Two volumes are selections of hit songs representative of each year retracting back to when it all began. Vol. 1 relects '97-'08 and Vol. 2 reflects '84-'96 - featuring hits from RIHANNA, KANYE WEST, LUDACRIS, LL COOL J, PUBLIC ENEMY, METHOD MAN and more!
DefJam
4LP
$19.00

Dengue Fever
Sleepwalking Through The Mekomg
PS, US The documentary follows the LA-based band on their 2005 journey to Cambodia to perform '60s & '70s Cambodian rock 'n' roll. Includes a CD of the band's new soundtrack for the documentary.
M80Music
CD/DVD
$20.25

Depeche Mode
Sounds of the Universe
PS, US New album, still cool, apparently!
Mute/EMI
CD
$13.75

Deradoorian
Mind Raft
PS, US Astonishingly mature, dark, beautiful, & unexpected - if only because this seems to have tapped into someting far older & wiser than ANGEL DERADOORIAN's (DIRTY PROJECTORS) 22 years would suggest. Whether it's the guitar, bass flute, or her stunning voice, her musical proficiency is boundless. This is as promising as a debut can get.
LovepumpUnited
CD5
$7.50

Destroyer
City of Daughters
PS, CANADA Reissue of the second and third Destroyer albums (not including cassettes), back on vinyl where they belong, and in superior versions. The original City of Daughters (1998) LP suffered from frequency related glitches which caused it to skip on many turntables. The original Thief (2000) mix was never satisfying, and the LP/CD was shoddily mastered into mono. Now Thief has been remixed by the original team of Daniel Bejar, David Carswell and John Collins at JC/DC Studios and is available in the intended stereo for the first time ever. Both albums have been remastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering and have never sounded better. The two covers have been re-worked by original artist Lester Smolenksi and printed by Stoughton as an "old style", tip-on, gatefold jacket. Initial pressing of 1000 copies. * Destroyer have released four albums and an EP on Merge Records since 2002, with a new album slated for release this year. * Head Destroyer, Daniel Bejar, is the secret weapon of Matador Records artists New Pornographers. * Original LPs have been eBay fare for most of the 00's. This package is superior on all fronts.
Nominal-003
DLP
$19.50

Desveaux, Angela
If Ever I Loved
PS, US Limited 7" release of new material from Montreal born chanteuse. 2 tracks on vinyl, w/ download coupon for 5 tracks. NO RETURNS. "It's her combination of strength & vulnerability, independence & longing for connection that makes DESVEAUX so remarkable." - Popmatters
ThrillJockey
45
$6.00

Diamond Watch Wrists
Ice Capped at Both Ends
PS, US Guillermmo Scott Heron (PREFUSE 73) & Zack Hill (HELLA). Both psychedelic & personal, free & driven, complex & accessible, these songs are soaked in multi-leveled vocal harmonies atop atmospheric production & forward-moving drums
Warp
CD
$15.75

Dilloway, Aaron
Chain Shot
PS, US "Digipak CD reissue of my Chain Shot LP which was originally released on LP by Throne Heap. Contains a 28-minute bonus track." -- Aaron Dilloway.
Hanson
CD
$11.25

Disciplines, The
Smoking Kills
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
SecondMotion
LP
$13.75

Disciplines, The
Smoking Kills (ON SALE)
PS, US Finally a domestic release for this new band featuring Posies co-captain KEN STRINGFELLOW. In this age of the Darwinian superheros--an entertainer is supposed to do it all, effortlessly. With only so much talent spread oh-so-thin, of course, the ranks are now replenished with the talentless--a bunch of people who can't sing captivate the attention of a national audience by singing badly, after which they are scolded for not being able to sing. Entertainment? It sounds like a penal colony. There are alternatives. Saviors, even. Four of them, the Four Norsemen of the Apocalypse, come to liberate the living and the brain-dead. THE DiSCiPLiNES. Three Norwegians, ex-members of Nordic pop sucess story Briskeby, and one American, Ken Stringfellow, whose extensive resume includes founding one of the 90s most critically acclaimed bands, the Posies; touring worldwide with R.E.M., and providing terawatts of energy and talent to artists such as Big Star, Lagwagon, Snow Patrol and Neil Young. THE DiSCiPLiNES shoot from the hip and aim for the head. SMOKiNG KiLLS is snarly, but catchy; direct, but not dumb; winky but not snarky. The songs race by in brutal efficiency, and within the garage-y production you might miss the delicate smattering of wordplay tucked in amongst the singalong choruses.
SecondMotion
CD
$13.00

Dntel
Early Works For Me if it Works for You II
PS, US Three CD set in gatefold package, includes the first two Dntel releases on Phtalo remastered as well as a third disc of unreleased material. These early tracks, inspired by Aphex Twin, µ-Ziq, Warp records, etc. were all instrumental (save a few vocal samples) and created using one sampler/synthesizer & some basic midi sequencing software.
PlugResearch-053
3XCD
$26.00

Doe, John & The Sadies
Country Club
PS, US Timeless sounds abound, driven by Doe's gorgeously rough-hewn vocals, the dueling thousand pound chopes of the guitar-wielding Good brothers & the Sadies world class rhythm section. Classic tunes by Merle Haggard & Waylon Jennings stand alongside corkers by Tammy Wynette & Roger Miller, all of them getting unique treatments. The album also features 4 originals.
YepRoc
CD
$16.25

Doe, John & The Sadies
Country Club
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
YepRoc
LP
$19.00

Doiron, Julie/Calm Down, It's Monday
Heavy Snow & Nice to Come Home / Sweetest May & Monumental
PS, US Julie Doiron: Honest, direct, Canadian. A singer of her own songs, from the French parts of New Brunswick. Gentle,
insistent, intimate; she leaves you aching in the best possible way. Doiron and Calm Down, It's Monday share this split single, Volume CXX of the International Pop Underground series of 7" records. "Heavy Snow" finds Doiron working in the night time into the day, carrying an echoed, durable sadness; "Nice To Come Home" is a fitting extension of the previous song - the songwriter finding comfort in knowing that her lover is in the world and she will seem him soon. Calm Down, It's Monday provide direct, guitar-driven introspections on "Sweetest May," and "Monumental"; sung by Fred Squire with Julie on drums. This new 45 rpm EP was recorded by Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Wash. It straddles the release of two other albums, including a collaboration with Mount Eerie on Lost Wisdom (P.W. Elverum & Sun) and Doiron's own forthcoming full length I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar). "[Julie] Doiron has a knack for absolute simplicity ...Most of the songs rely on voice and guitar alone to make their case. And yet, how splendid they are." - Dusted Magazine
Krecords-120
45
$3.75

Double Dagger
More
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00

Double Dagger
More
PS, US Baltimore trio creates a cacophonous wall of sound described as "very loud" or "angry" pop, both visceral & melodic. Intense live - they prefer to be close to the audience be it in a club or a basement - this dynamic combo of energy, melody, angst, & playfulness is captured exquisitely on this 3rd full length, 1st for Thrill Jockey. RIYL: Lightning Bolt, Dan Deacon, No Age, Pissed Jeans. CD presented in 4 panel digipack.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Doves
Kingdom of Rust
PS,US The single "Kingdom of Rust," lands in the broodier atmospherics of "Lost Souls," strapped w/ a Johnny Cash bassline; "Jetstream" is a stomping classic in waiting, fitted w/ a propulsive krautrock motorik, it inherits the bands dance DNA from their former Sub Sub extraction
Astralwerks
CD
$15.25

Doves
Kingdom of Rust
PS,US Vinyl version.
Astralwerks
DLP
$21.75

Doyle, Roger
Cool Steel Army
PS, IRELAND Roger Doyle is the Godfather of Irish electronic music. In 2007 he was awarded the Magisterium Prize at the Bourges International Electro-acoustic music competition in France - one of the most important prizes in the world for this type of music. 'Babel', his magnum opus ,which took ten years to compose, was released on a 5-CD set in 1999, where each track corresponds to a 'room' or place within an imagined giant tower city. Roger has teamed up with Ireland's Psychonavigation Records to release 'Cool Steel Army'. The longest and most important piece on this CD is called ADOLF GEBLER, 'Adolf Gebler, clarinettist' is scored for symphony orchestra, piano, female singer and CD player playing back the acted scenes. The script, specially written by Carlo Gebler and adapted from his memoir 'Father and I', is based on the story of his grandfather Adolf Gebler, first clarinetist with the Radio Eireann Studio Players (a precursor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) which he joined in 1936. Adolf came to live in Ireland having fallen in love with an usherette he met after a concert he gave in Dublin in 1910. The first performance took place in February 2008 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Maloney. Just before the piece began the auditorium lights were lowered and all music stands were lit to increase the atmosphere. What followed was a beautiful insight into the otherworldly were music and theatre form a beautiful unity. This recording is a revised and expanded studio version, prepared for CD, with singer Fionnuala Gill (the song was reimagined and more than doubled in length), and re-created with the Vienna Symphonic Library software programme.
Psychonavigation-028
CD
$15.00

Draper, Linda
Bridge And Tunnel
PS, US "Bridge And Tunnel" was produced by Brad Albetta (Martha & Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson). The album showcases 10 fresh new songs further exploring Draper's signature sound - light, enchanting music with gentle, heartfelt honest lyrics. The LP also includes Draper's uniquely unadorned take on The Rolling Stones classic 1966 hit "Mother's Little Helper." Added into the mix are drummer Anders Griffen (Kimya Dawson, Regina Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis), bassist Rob Woodcock (see also Draper's "Keepsake" LP), along with multi instrumentalist/producer Brad Albetta (keyboards, Wurlitzer, bass, and electric guitar). "Bridge And Tunnel" will no doubt have the listener back for repeated plays with its timelessly captivating sound. Linda Draper has been described as a folk, antifolk or indie-pop artist. After one listen to her charming (and deceptively addictive) songs, and the listener can understand how Linda's music transcends categorization. Draper draws such comparisons to songwriting luminaries such as Aimee Mann, Suzanne Vega, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell.
PlantingSeeds-059
CD
$12.25

Dredd Foole & Ed
Yazijian- That Lonesome Road Between Hurt & Soul
PS, US Some improvisations are built on Dan Ireton's (DREDD FOOLE) songs played in a totally unfettered manner. One is based on a tune by J. Mascis, & some were recorded as they were created. Long talked about, long awaited, years in the making, their collaborative recordings are finally here
BoWeavil
CD
$18.00

Drink Up Buttercup
Farewell Captain
PS, US Philly represents! While Drink Up Buttercup are working on the completion of their first full-length album, currently being recorded by Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man), they offer us their debut US single. "Farewell Captain" b/w "Sosey & Dosey" pressed on red vinyl, comes with mp3 download code. PITCHFORK: "Philly quartet Drink Up Buttercup build you up with the post-Beatles harmonies of the La's and the post-Beatles surrealism of Electric Light Orchestra or Super Furry Animals."
Kanine
45
$5.25

Dukes Of Stratosphear, The
25 O'Clock [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus book and bonus tracks! Hang onto your loon pants, Ape is proud to announce that it is to issue in expanded form the two albums originally released between 1985 and 1987 by Virgin Records under XTC's psychedelic pseudonym The Dukes Of Stratosphear. Having never been issued on CD before in its own right, 25 O'clock will includes 9 extra tracks of demos and previously unreleased material. It comes packaged in luxurious hardback book format with 24 color pages of full lyrics, photos and reams of brand new sleeve notes written by Dave Gregory, Colin Moulding and Andy Partridge or is that Lord Cornelius Plum, The Red Curtain and Sir John Johns?
Ape
CD
$16.25

Dukes Of Stratosphear, The
Psonic Psunspot [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus book and bonus tracks! Hang onto your loon pants, Ape is proud to announce that it is to issue in expanded form the two albums originally released between 1985 and 1987 by Virgin Records under XTC's psychedelic pseudonym The Dukes Of Stratosphear. Psonic Psunspot adds six bonus demo recordings. It comes packaged in luxurious hardback book format with 24 color pages of full lyrics, photos and reams of brand new sleeve notes written by Dave Gregory, Colin Moulding and Andy Partridge or is that Lord Cornelius Plum, The Red Curtain and Sir John Johns?
Ape
CD
$16.25

Dylan, Bob
Together Through Life
PS, US New album!
Columbia
CD
$15.00

Dylan, Bob
Together Through Life [deluxe]
PS, US NEW DYLAN ON VINYL! DLP with bonus CD.
Sony
DLP
$24.00

Dylan, Bob
Dreamin' Of You b/w Down Along The Cove (Live at Bonnaroo, 2004)
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! Tracks recorded live at Bonnaroo; packaged in chipboard sleeve with 3x5 photo. The Bob Dylan 7" features "Dreamin' Of You" from last year's critically-acclaimed bootleg collection, Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, as well as "Down Along The Cove (Live From Bonnaroo)," which is previously unreleased in the US.
Columbia
45
$6.25

Earth Crown/Kites
Split
PS, US This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of sci-fi nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final KITES recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up, sped up and dialed to oblivion. EARTH CROWN steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life can be. In an edition of 400 LPs with inserts, printed labels and silkscreened covers by SHAWN REED featuring art by Kites and Earth Crown. Co-released with Night People.
Arbor
LP
$13.50

Easy Action
She Ain't My Girlfriend
PS, US Easy Action are from the most dangerous rock & roll city on Earth - Detroit. These guys let loose w/ a single that would be right at home on the 1970 Alice Cooper LP that bears their name. Their pedigree is incomparable, their attitude, unstoppable. B-side w/ their take on the Cheap Trick classic "Elo Kiddies."
ShakeIt
45
$4.25

Eat Skull
Wild and Inside
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Siltbreeze
LP
$14.00

Eat Skull
Wild and Inside
PS, US EAT SKULL's Sick to Death received worldwide accolades for its frantic pacing, unimpeachable lyric quality, and nugget after nugget of pop hooks buried under a gob of lo-fi muzz. On this follow-up, fans and critics will find a cleaner, more inimitable Eat Skull at work. Frontman ROB ENBOM has outdone himself with both lyrics and structure on Wild and Inside, and the band as a whole rises to the challenge of nixing the lo-fi tag for a sound that's less... antecedent. Gone is the wall of crud that prevents discerning listeners from identifying the instrumental play-by-play; in its stead, a set of crafted songs recall the paisley punk of The Last and the rural-delica of Great Plains, as well as nodding to the sanguine pop of early Flying Nun bands such as The Double Happys. Wild and Inside is a grower for the ages. It breathes deep and exhales perfectly.
Siltbreeze
CD
$13.50

Electric Annihilation
#1
PS, US 20-page music publication, b&w on tabloid-size (11x17 pages) newsprint. Circulation of 5,000 copies. 1st issue includes interviews with: THURSTON
MOORE, HENRY ROLLINS, JOHN OLSON (WOLF EYES/AMERICAN TAPES), EMERALDS, SUN ARAW, WET HAIR, NOMEN DUBIUM. Plus scene reports from Gothenburg Sweden (written by Matthias Andersson of Release the Bats), Cleveland (by Sam Goldberg) & Iowa City (by Shawn Reed). Also an article by Jon Isaac. There's a centerfold poster too. Cover artwork & border/frames by Zachary Fleming
ZINE
$2.00

Elephant Micah
Exiled Magicians
PS, US The musical ground this material covers might border that of freak folk, Americana, or other media-heralded roots revivals, but tends to end up in a country all its own. A set of haunting, loosely thematic tunes - an especially fruitful reworking of that centuries-old voice, verse, & guitar combination. The album's 1st class analog audio & often unexpected accompaniments (ranging from mountain fiddle to shaken amplifier) are added delights"
ThirdUncle
CD
$10.75

Elliott, Ramblin Jack
A Stranger Here
PS, US Elliott is one of folk music's most enduring legends, influencing everyone from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. On "A Stranger Here" Elliott takes on depression era blues songs that have a particular resonance in these turbulent times. With his world-scarred voice wrapped around these dark songs of dark days, Elliott has made his masterpiece, and album at once elegiac and defiant, that can stand beside great late-career recordings by Billie Holliday and Frank Sinatra. Produced by Joe Henry (Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke).
Anti
CD
$15.50

Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Lorraine, Lookout b/w I'll Be Arriving
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive!
XL
45
$4.75

Emeralds
Solar Bridge
PS, US Starting out in 2005 performing live sets using only television sets as sound sources, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of heavy improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the Midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their Midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers with a very different though equally intense assault of cosmic drone power! Hanson Records is proud to announce Emeralds - Solar Bridge, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and CD-R releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the band's own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long 'Magic' where the band builds a quiet drone into an extremely thick sawblade of swirling noise, as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled 'The Quaking Mess,' a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of New Age Of Earth-era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs." On blue-colored vinyl in silkscreened sleeves with droll flaps.
Hanson
LP
$17.00

Emeralds
Allegory Of Allergies
PS, US Possessed of a slow-burning, Cluster-like sense of patience. Where the extended vignettes of "What Happened" share a certain crystalline expansiveness & astral sheen, "Allegory" offers a crumbling labyrinth that's at once humid & frigid, crammed to the gills w/ moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, & narrow shafts of
light. It's a blurry & bleary vision, where the members improvise on synths, guitar, voice, & tapes like 3 cats batting at an enormous calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors & indigenous dystopian/psychedelic culture of the American Rust Belt. Limited to 700
WeirdForest
DLP
$22.00

Empire Of The Sun
Walking on a Dream
PS, US Hyped epic-electro-pop band's very intriguing US debut. Glammy whimsy that should appeal to fans of MGMT and Bowie.
Astralwerks
CD
$12.50

Ettes
Danger is EP
PS,US Produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. They have remained true to their sound while adding enough twist to engage a new audience
TakeRoot
MCD
$5.50

Explosions in the Sky
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
PS, US
TemporaryResidence-061
DLP
$14.25

Factory
Path Through The Forest
PS, SPAIN Previously reissued on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. '60s UK freakbeat legends The Factory get a new legit re-release of their complete available recordings and Guerssen is the proud new home for them. A real cult freakbeat & psychedelic group, well-known for such all-time favorite classics as "Path Through The Forest" and "Try A Little Sunshine," Factory released only a couple of 45s (both of them obscenely hard to find and going for heaps of money when rarely showing up). Here we get the 4 tracks which appearing on the 45s, plus a couple of tracks taken from acetates (killer covers of Family's "Second Generation Woman" and Fairport Convention's "Mr. Lacey"), as well as a new mix of "Path Through The Forest" that includes the original psychedelic effects that were supposed to make it on the original release but were dropped out by the MGM label supervisor. Remastered sound (only beware: "Second Generation Woman" comes from a destroyed acetate!) and with liner notes by Factory's producer Brian Carroll.
Guerssen
CD
$16.25

Fahey, John
Vampire Vultures
US, Paperback book. 131 pages.
DragCity-245
BOOK
$15.75

Fallen Angels
Who Do You Love/Hello Girl
PS, US Prior to their late '60s reign as the D.C.'s leading exponents of psychedelic rock, the group ruled the city's nightclubs as the hairiest R&B dance band on the planet. This lethal single pairs the group at their most savage & scream-prone, on an unreleased '66 cover of "Who Do You Love," backed w/ the stunning power-folk of "Hello Girl"
Sundazed
45
$7.00

Fang Island
Sky Gardens
PS, US The boys bring a sweet brand of psychedelic upbeat instrumental rock ala Chicago 1990s indie rock meets after school special soundtrack. An onslught of sick upbeat unrelentless fingertapping & guitar solo small craft advisories.
Corleone
CD
$8.50

Faraway Places
Out of The Rain, The Thunder, & The Lightning
PS,US The Faraway Places 2nd record comes at you with a full-force blend of creative influences. The L.A. group combine Motown rhythm, Lou Reed guitar and blown-out moog-style synths. This album explores a sonic collage with an arena-rock flavor and a sound the band has dubbed as "California Krautrock"
SaveItRecords
CD
$12.00

Faust
So Far
PS, US Originally released in 1972, this is the 2nd album from the legendary krautrock group. More song oriented than the 1st record, this is an absolute stone classic of outsider pop music reissued here in its original deluxe packaging, including reproductions of all 10 inserts. 180 gram vinyl
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Felice Brothers, The
Yonder Is The Clock
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLoveRecords
DLP
$17.50

Felice Brothers, The
Yonder Is The Clock
PS, US The Felice Brothers come to us from the Catskill Mountains where a homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for generations. Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, "Yonder Is The Clock" is teeming with tales of love, death, betrayal, baseball, train stations, phantoms, pandemics, jail cells, rolling rivers, and frozen winter nights. This is music that hasn't lost sight of the history of the land from which it came, and that quality alone makes The Felice Brothers the next great American band.
TeamLoveRecords
CD
$12.50

Felipe, Dino
Paint
PS, US Accustomed to the unaccustomed, Dino Felipe's "Paint" album bounces off of genres like a Katamari ball on white blotter. Mixed with elements of no-fi, electro, noise, and beautiful ambient lullabies; this Schematic veteran drops a myriad of colors on an auditory canvas with a Jackson Pollok finesse. Admired by the folks over at Pitchfork for his recent 2008 release on No Fun Productions, "Paint" is arguably one of his greatest works to date and an excellent start for 2009. A must have for any serious collector of one of the "no generation's" most prolific voices in experimentalism.
Dulcett-002
CD
$9.00

Ferraro, James
Clear
PS, US Absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes reference to Klaus Schulze & Bobby Beausoleil. This bursts w/ flam beats & a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Ferraro, James
Discovery
PS, US Absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes reference to Klaus Schulze & Bobby Beausoleil. This is comparable to Daft Punk's album of the same name but played in reverse at 16rpm through a boombox in a boiler room.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Fever Ray
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Mute
LP
$16.25

Fire on Fire
Orchard
PS, US Used to be art-punk-prog-chaos collective CERBERUS SHOAL, but they ditched their electric instruments, went into hiding for a while, & now play acoustic. They sound like a backwoods, fierce, psychedelic Mamas & the Papas or a crazed & joyously vengeful gospel string band.
YoungGod
CD
$13.50

Fleet Foxes
Mykonos b/w False Knight On The Road
PS, US "Mykonos" is the centerpiece of the "Sun Giant EP" released last spring and included with the popular vinyl version of the band's debut "Fleet Foxes". Beautifully packaged in a gatefold sleeve, the single is backed with a previously unreleased cover of the traditional folk ballad "False Knight On The Road" made popular by Steeleye Span and Richard Thompson. Look for Fleet Foxes at Coachella and Sasquatch.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Flight of the Conchords
Pencils in the Wind b/w Albi the Racist Dragon
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Two previously unreleased tracks from Season 1 of the Flight of the Conchords TV show.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Fly Girlz
Da' Brats From Da Ville
PS, US Totally captivating rap record by a bunch of NYC girls made in their after-school program. Don't expect much love from the regular hip hop crowd, but everyone else should find a lot to love here.
TruePantherSounds/SocketsRecords
CD
$12.25

Fly Girlz
Da' Brats From Da Ville
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TruePantherSounds/SocketsRecords
LP
$15.00

Flying
Draw It In The Dark (7" | DVD)
PS, US Fresh off tour supporting Deerhoof, this release is something of a companion piece to Flying's second album. This deluxe-package release features songs from the album, one previously unreleased alternate take & a compilation of 10 music videos curated by the band as a collaboration with many of the artists they admire. Artist Dana Schutz graces the covers of the 7"" & the DVD with two paintings whose poise between chaos & harmony mirror the musical aesthetic for which Flying has become known. The videos show a range of unconventional responses to the band's music, from the somber, subtly wry meditations of Brittany Gravely's films, to Jonathan Kendler's cartoon tribute to Middle Eastern cinema of old, to Catherine Ross's dead-pan minimalist masterpiece Twin Sisters. Also included here are several videos by the band: Stains, a psychedelic group-dance-therapy-experiment directed by Sara Magenheimer, and Eben Portnoy's hand-painted Super-8 montage Minors
MenloPark
45
$9.75

Folds, Ben
University A Cappella!
PS,US As featured on NPR... Pretty neat actually. ONENION AV CLUB: "a collection of Folds' songs performed by university a cappella groups. Why? You'd have to ask Folds. Heavens knows what's going on inside that man's mind. Like Has Been, Ben Folds Presents is a curious semi-vanity project that occasionally transcends its gimmicky premise. The elaborate, sometimes overly busy vocal arrangements highlight the lush Beach Boys/Burt Bacharach harmonies and wryly literate storytelling that have long been fixtures of Folds' oeuvre, while boisterous, upbeat numbers like "Army" are executed with moxie to spare. A Capella leans heavily and perversely on ballads, and while there are a few misfires (like an ill-considered glee-club-goes-R&B rendition of "Brick") and some awkward beat-boxing, the best renditions retain the exquisite melancholy of the originals. The disc is little more than a footnote in Folds' aggressively eclectic career, but it's a surprisingly vital, intriguing one."
Epic
CD
$13.00

Forte, Nick
Defeated
PS, US Member of CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. Live to cassette acoustic scrape/rattle & misguided pedal loopery is emitted from a pile of junk, grunts, & small instruments. This draws inspiration for his longtime fascination w/ the free improvisations of early AACM & Incus Records folks, filtered through a more
modern noise/tape collage absurdism.
Wodger
LP
$20.00

Foxx, John & Robin Guthrie
Mirrorball
PS, US Layers of echoes & reverberations are explored, so that GUTHRIE's (COCTEAU TWINS) unique playing merges w/ abstract, often improvised vocals - a style which FOXX has explored on his own Cathedral Oceans albums
Metamatic
CD
$16.25

Foxx, John & Robin Guthrie
Mirrorball
PS, UK 180 gm vinyl LP. John Foxx & Robin Guthrie's collaboration was an idea that began when the pair performed at a Harold Budd concert in May 2005. Layers of echoes and reverberations are explored on Mirrorball, so that Guthrie's unique playing merges with abstract, often improvised vocals courtesy of Foxx.
HydrogenDukebox-150
LP
$21.25

Fuzztones
Horny As Hell
PS, US What else can be said about the Fuzztones? As fans worldwide know, the band has achieved legendary status as cult faves during their 3-decade career. Their fiery brand of Garage-Psych-Punk pre-dated the entire "Garage Revival" of the 1980s and has influenced hundreds of groups, some quite famous. CD features a full-color 12-page booklet, 17 tracks, plus a bonus hidden track ("Caught You Red Handed") featuring Mark Lindsay of PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS
NoFun
CD
$14.25

Fuzztones
Horny As Hell
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
NoFun
LP
$14.25

G, The
S/T
PS, US Long time friends Doug Foulk (Resist, Dead Memory, Shutterspeed BMX, The Goddamn Godamns) and Patrick Troxell ( The Golden Boys, The Funeral Bird, NIGHTMOVES U.K., BPiV, Fight Amputation) ran 423 Tillery in Austin, Texas. This DIY art space hosted many local punk shows/ local artists showings. Two years later after both relocated home to Philadelphia, they formed The G. Have toured with such bands as The Homosexuals (England), Woman (Philadelphia), Gods and Queens (New York), and Fight Amp (New Jersey). LIMITED pressing with silk-screened covers
ShadowPlay
LP
$11.75

Ganglians
S-T
PS, US Recording sometimes as 1, sometimes as 4 it's a real game to figure out where the entity comes from & where it's going. First and foremost it's about uncertain pleasures. It's a bit like choose your own adventure. There's "codeine balladry"; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you're in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom & then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align & the sun beats down, palms tingling, & you are on the island they've built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you.
Woodsist
LP
$13.50

George-Edwards Group, The
38:38
PS, US Vinyl. The lone release of The George-Edwards Group, an autumnal alien soundtrack that, over thirty years after being recorded (but not really released) defies time & categorization. One of the rarest private press albums of all time. ""38:38"" departs from the norm of the genre: instead of a low-fi demo-quality outing elevated mainly by dealer hype, it's a haunting piece of music that offers an unusually highbrow take on the archetypal Midwestern rock n roll existentialism usually addressed with a solid beat & sneering vocal. Crafting their sound out of the many influences of the day, Edward Balian & Ray George created pop music with acoustic guitars & harmonies, heavily-reverberant piano riffs, cold sheets of synthesizer, bells & chimes. Includes never-before-seen art, photos & original liners/press releases/notes, as well as a song from an equally rare 7"" single side not found on the original LP pressing.
DragCity/GalacticZoo
LP
$15.00

GG King
Adult Rock
PS, US This one has 2 songs that are so brief & unforgettable that most of us will be pissed we didn't write them ourselves. We hope this will be the first of many from Mr. GG King
Douchemaster
45
$5.75

Ghost Hospital
D+ b/w b/w Religious Bias in Nursery Rhymes
PS, US Imagine a world where dinosaurs roam through unfiltered imaginations like so many forgotten dreams of revealed bias & reality. With Daniel Johnston sensibilities juxtaposed with garage punk & a little Butthole Surfers, Ghost Hospital surfs the underground, crooning from behind guitar playing born of some Greg Ginn-punk / John Fogerty-Americana love child not recognized by the United Nations or Pitchfork Media. LIMITED TO 300 COPIES
TeenApeRecords
45
$6.00

Gliss
Devotion Implosion
PS, US Experimental fxxxxd up pop, fuzzed-out guitars & krautrock rhythms.
Cordless
CD
$11.75

Godflesh
Songs of Love & Hate/Songs of Love & Hate In Dub/In All Languages
PS,US Features 2 complete albums - the band's 1996 effort "Songs of Love & Hate" coupled w/ the 1997 re-interpretation of that album, "Love & Hate In Dub." Also includes the long deleted DVD "In All Languages," featuring all of the bands promo videos including the Andres Serrano directed "Crush My Soul." Since disbanding Godflesh, Justin Broadrick continued a critically acclaimed career w/ JESU & FINAL
Earache
DCD/DVD
$17.50

Gomez
New Tide
PS, US Flavors of Delta blues, psychedelia, & Krautrock all come into play, resulting in a musically mischievous & remarkably forward-thinking collection.
ATO
CD
$14.50

Gown
Old Line
PS, US Andrew MacGregor may be most known for his otherworldly guitar collaboration w/ Thurston Moore in BARK HAZE, but his solo work is equally cosmic. Avant-garde guitar music for deep listening & coming undone. Sprawling webs of guitar ambience & outsider mantras capture the ethereal solitude of the sparse Nova Scotian landscapes that he now calls home. This is noise that sounds like a sky of birds settling into the trees for a night away from the wind. Limited to 500
Divorce
LP
$18.75

Grails
Acid Rain
PS, US Following up their widely acclaimed and most successful album, Doomsdayer's Holiday, Grails unleash their first-ever DVD, the career-spanning Acid Rain. Centered on a half dozen mind-altering music videos from their last few albums, Acid Rain also features nearly two hours of live shows from the past several years. Packed full of bonus material and special treats, Acid Rain is as bizarre, eclectic and otherworldly as their albums, with the added spectacle of debaucherous activities, vicarious cult obsessions, and street preachers on rollerskates. "Amazing in a word. Terrifyingly amazing in two." - Losing Today "Grails have accomplished one of the most remarkable genre rewiring since Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance threw acid in the face of punk rock in 1978." - Baltimore City Paper
Temporary ResidenceLtd-147
DVD
$14.25

Grand Duchy
Petits Fours
PS, US Named for a principality overseen by a Duke or Duchess, Grand Duchy are the husband-and-wife duo of Black Francis and Violet Clark. Francis' history with the Pixies and his solo career as Frank Black are well-known, while Clark played keyboards as a child and played with several bands in high school. Shortly before meeting Francis, she put out an album of her own; after the pair married, she provided backing vocals on his 2007 album Bluefinger and played bass on 2008's SVN FNGRS EP. The pair took their collaboration further later that year, when they spent a day playing in the studio, melding her fondness for classic '80s sounds with his legacy of post-punk and garage rock sounds. The result was the song "Fort Wayne," which gained some Internet buzz when it leaked online. Clark and Francis worked on other songs, playing all the instruments themselves. Grand Duchy made their debut with a version of "A Strange Day" on Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure in January 2009; a month later, the digital EP Lovesick arrived. The band's debut album, Petits Fours, was also released in Europe around that time, and arrived in the U.S. in spring 2009.
~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
Red Int /Red Ink
CD
$13.03

Grateful Dead
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
PS, US
Rhino
CD-BOX
$106.00

Great Northern
Remind Me Where the Light Is
PS, US Upbeat, guitar-driven songs, yet w/ the familiar layered vocals & sweeping panoramic sounds.
EeenieMeenie
CD
$13.75

Green, Al
Let's Stay Together
PS, US Prior to this album, Al Green never had a number one song. The title track, "Let's Stay Together," achieved that status and held it for nine consecutive weeks. Green's ingenuity produced one of the all-time classics, which has the bounce of a dance cut and the passion of a ballad. The dynamic soul singer's whispers, animated cries, and riffing enhance his already stirring delivery. This album was sold on the strength of the title track as there were no other selections to grace the Billboard charts. However, this album includes the timeless gem "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" and lesser-known beauties like the exulting "Judy," the cookin' testimonial "I Never Found a Girl," and the soothing blues effort "It Ain't No Fun to Me." The Arkansas native and his creative partner Willie Mitchell season these selections with lucid rhythm arrangements complemented by the faint strums of a guitar and brawn, unchiding horns. ~ Craig Lytle, All Music Guide
FatPossum
CD
$14.00

Halloween, Alaska
Champagne Downtown
PS, US Restrained, deeply atmospheric synth-laden pop.
EastSideDigital
CD
$11.75

Halvorson, Mary & Jessica Pavone
Thin Air
PS, US Collaboration between Mary Halvorson (guitar, vocals) & Jessica Pavone (viola, vocals). Both intimate & forward thinking, this release is a true
example of the power of thought, through a unique blending of avant folk w/ jazz underpinnings
ThirstyEar
CD
$13.25

Handsome Family
Honey Moon
PS, US The Handsome Family's eighth studio album, "Honey Moon," takes place under bowed branches & deep within winding corn mazes. The release celebrates the duo's twentieth year of marriage with a series of love songs that sharply contrast the dark themes of their previous seven albums. "Honey Moon," is a headphone record with layer upon layer of cool, weird treasures waiting to be discovered with successive listens.
CarrotTop
CD
$11.50

Handsome Family
Honey Moon
PS, US Vinyl with free digital download!
CarrotTop
LP
$11.50

Happy Burger
Pizza All Around
PS, US In spite of living in the heart of the culinary universe, our French friends known as HAPPY BURGER have found none other than pizza & burgers as their songwriting muses. The argument is as fundamental as chicken vs. egg, but in the eyes & mouths of these Frenchies, the cheeseburger loses a nail biter to the pizza. 4 songs. Simple & short
with mandatory French garage production. Jonathan Richman would be proud. Jacques Pepin would be horribly disappointed
DouchemasterRecords
45
$5.75

Harrison, Michael
Revelation
PS, US Revelation utilizes innovative tuning relationships to further develop Just Intonation-an ancient tuning system where the distances between notes are based upon whole number ratios. The result is a 75-minute work where groups of notes played together rapidly with both hands form "...pulsating, shimmering walls of sound in which all kinds of ghost-like sound effects and structures appear" -The Wire
Cantaloupe
CD
$12.00

Harvestman
In A Dark Tongue
PS, US Brainchild of NEUROSIS vocalist/guitarist Steve Von Till. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman, & Loop. Pure yet abstract psychedelic rock guitar - it may be blasphemous to folk purists, but this odd brew is sonic heaven for heads that dream to the drone of fuzz guitar.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

Headdress
Turquoise
PS, US 2008 release from Mexican Summer...Nice virgin vinyl and a download code. A dazzling combination of sloe-eyed country ballads, heavy psychedelic staring contest, and shamanistic chants forms the basis of Headdress' debut album, Turquoise. Reissued from a limited CD-R, Turquoise captures the sound of this young Austin duo in the midst of the desert evening, threading lonesome guitar leads across the cosmos. Far from the freak-folk banner and the artists who've been curdling its once sweet waters, Headdress plays with a solemn, measured dedication to the loneliest, windswept blues, American to its core and reaching out to connect with similarly lost souls. Mexican Summer offers this stunning collection in a one-time pressing of 500 copies.
MexicanSummer
LP
$14.25

Health
Die Slow
PS,US The calculated noise they're known for is fused w/ a four-to-the-floor dance anthem. It's by far the most gratifying song the band has ever written, & is complimented beautifully by a killer Pictureplane remix.
LovepumpUnited
7"
$4.25

HECQ
Steeltongued
PS, GERMANY After finishing the well received 'Night Falls', Ben Lukas Boysen's ambition for the next album was to be a desideratum's compliance: the improvement of HECQ's sound, and moving forward into something Boysen defines as an 'emotional distillate'. The tracks 'Typhon' and 'Steeltongued', written in 2007 and 2008, provide the blueprint for this CD. Working as a sound designer for various companies, he presented earlier versions of the tracks and was met with success. These tracks show a non-confined structure but also including a sort of leitmotif and so these titles are perfectly suited for this ambition. In addition they work as a basis for collaborations and remixes. The Hypnos trilogy (tracks 10 to 12) is HECQ's dedication to the state of stasis. In his own words, 'distant fires' describes a gaze which travels into a distance uncertain; 'lost for words' leads the listener into a state of cogitation - while 'Hypnos' allegorizes a slowly constitutive wall of suspense that trickles away in the end... a masterpiece of dark symphonic ambiance, intended for continuous, repeated intense listening. In HECQ's opinion the importance of the tracks on cd1 lies in the skilful omission of the insignificant.
Hymen-772
DCD
$17.75

Heeb Magazine
#20
PS, US The music issue. The lonely island gets interviewed! & all things Jewish pop-culture
ZINE
$5.25

His Mischief
Perfect Lover
PS, US Sure, on the surface, "Perfect" is an unflailing rock record. But successive listens reveal transparencies in the record's brash outer shell, little tunnels that draw you into its scenes of focused introspection & fingers-crossed optimism. Maybe it'sreally a collection of tense & taut pop songs? Each track was thoughtfully committed to 2" tape in a slightly different manner, giving each song it's own distinct & intriguing character.
ModernRadio
CD
$10.50

Hold Steady
A Positive Rage
PS, US Special CD/DVD includes 17 live audio tracks recorded at the Metro in Chicago and a documentary.
Vagrant
CD+DVD
$15.25

Hopewell
Good Good Desperation
PS, US For over a decade, Hopewell have evaded classification. Their first three LPs were beautiful sonic traffic jams that spanned the psych-glam of "Ziggy Stardust"-era Bowie and Jane's Addiction. Tattered, heartworn, heavy mountain jams, with a mad scientist's approach to production. On their latest, they capture the burning light and ecstatic fury of their live set in the studio and adorn it with out-of-the-ether blasts of cityscape sounds, hypnotic rhythmic breakdowns, and tight, arresting, jarring harmonies. An album of head music that'll keep your own shape-shifting mind wandering, shaking, and shimmying.
TeePeeRecords
CD
$12.50

Hopkins, Jon
Insides
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo.
DLP
$19.25

Hopkins, Jon
Insides
PS, US This composer, pianist, and self-taught studio wizard makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies, and amorphous bass rumbles. His previous two albums had him labeled by ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator, while an impressive sweep of artists such as Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, Coldplay, and lo-fi folkster King Creosote have called upon his handiwork as producer and composer. On this, his Domino debut, Hopkins showcases an intriguing musical aesthetic. "Insides" is about juxtaposition: natural, arcane textures welded to pulsing, hypnotic rhythms; beautiful acoustic melodies set against jarring bass. Reminiscent of the beautiful melodies and harsh dirty beats of Four Tet, Squarepusher, Burial, and Aphex Twin.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.25

Horrors
Primary Colours
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
DLP
$17.50

Horrors
Primary Colours
PS, US Their debut "Strange House" was as controversial as it was celebrated, landing them on the cover of NME in their native England and garnering 15K scans in America. This is their first album for XL. Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and noted video director Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin, Bjork). Look for them on the road with The Kills this spring. "Genuinely, gloriously deranged" - The Onion. "One of the 100 bands you need to know" - Alternative Press.
XL
CD
$13.25

Horse's Ha, The
Of The Cathmawr Yards (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION, white vinyl with lyric insert. Lovely in so many ways. In June 2009 Hidden Agenda Records will release 'On the Cathmawr Yards', the debut album from Chicago slowburn-folk troupe The Horse's Ha, led by Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater) and Jim Zinc (The Zincs), backed by stalwart Chicago indie-rock and jazz veterans. Think Fairport Convention, Pentangle and a little Astral Weeks, if you catch their drift.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-094
LP
$10.00

Horse's Ha, The
Of The Cathmawr Yards (ON SALE)
PS, US In June 2009 Hidden Agenda Records will release 'On the Cathmawr Yards', the debut album from Chicago slowburn-folk troupe The Horse's Ha, led by Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater) and Jim Zinc (The Zincs), backed by stalwart Chicago indie-rock and jazz veterans. Think Fairport Convention, Pentangle and a little Astral Weeks, if you catch their drift.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-094
CD
$9.00

Horse's Ha, The
Of The Cathmawr Yards [CD & LP & poster package] (ON SALE)
PS, US Get The Horse's Ha debut album on CD, limited LP (pressed on white wax) and an 11x17 poster (folded gently in half) for a special price. In June 2009 Hidden Agenda Records will release 'On the Cathmawr Yards', the debut album from Chicago slowburn-folk troupe The Horse's Ha, led by Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater) and Jim Zinc (The Zincs), backed by stalwart Chicago indie-rock and jazz veterans. Think Fairport Convention, Pentangle and a little Astral Weeks, if you catch their drift.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-094
CD/LP
$17.50

Ice Palace
Wonder Subtly Crushing Us
PS, US Their first album, 2007's "Bright Leaf Left", was critically acclaimed from The City Pages to The Onion to The Village Voice. Fifteen years ago, Ice Palace's singer/songwriter Adam Sorensen and Cloud Cult's Craig Minowa spent a night writing and recording a song together. After years of separate endeavors, the two have re-aligned on this album. "Wonder" combines the nuanced lyricism of Sorensen with the innovative music of an eclectic ensemble of musicians and the creative conception of Minowa, resulting in an album worthy of attention. "...a beautifully melancholic and jittery nod to Northern rock, from the Pacific Northwest to the shores of Lake Superior" - Minnesota Public Radio. RIYL: Pavement, Pela, Frightened Rabbits, Wilco.
RebelGroup
CD
$12.50

Iceburn Collective
Power of the Lion
PS, US 180 gram double vinyl. Originally released on CD only in 1998, these seven pieces are intended not as finished goods but as components to be superimposed at will. The group experimented with music as collage & Power of the Lion is a fuse of influences as diverse as Eric Dolphy to Drive Like Jehu, Ornette Coleman to the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.50

Ida Maria
Fortress Round My Heart
PS, US Features That Song: "Oh My God". Norwegian force of nature Ida Maria (pronounce Ee-dah) channels the true spirit of rock n' roll in her live show, and her album follows suit. This album has already spawned a hit single in the UK for the raucous "I LIke You So Much Better When You're Naked." - Ida Maria has spread her infectious energy w/ tons of attitude and a husky, feral voice.
Upper11
CD
$10.25

Immaculate Machine
High On Jackson Hill
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mint
LP
$18.50

Immaculate Machine
High On Jackson Hill
PS, US Features Kathryn Calder (NEW PORNOGRAPHERS). "When Kathryn Calder (whose voice is a dead ringer for Neko Case's clarion call) mixes it up vocally w/ the boys, the result sounds like X if that band had been steered by pure '60s power pop" - Harp
Mint
CD
$14.75

Iron And Wine
Around the Well
PS, US Collecting songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released, this spans the earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut through material recorded for 2007's "The Shepherd's Dog." The 1st half of this 2CD set is an assortment of hushed home recordings, unedited & raw, & the 2nd half
highlights moments captured in the confines of proper studios.
Subpop
DCD
$14.00

Iron And Wine
Around the Well
PS, US 3LP version
Subpop
3XLP
$21.50

Iron And Wine
Norfolk 6/20/05
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Eighteen track live set from Iron and Wine's 2005 Woman King Tour, recorded at The Norva in Norfolk, Virginia. The CD features a 7" style die cut slipcase that mimics Sub Pop's Record Store Day 2009 45s.
Subpop
CD
$12.25

Isis
Wavering Radiant
PS, US 5th release from Isis, now in their 12th year of existence. Produced by Joe Barresi (MELVINS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE)
Ipecac
CD
$16.25

It Hugs Back
Inside Your Guitar
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$12.25

It Hugs Back
Inside Your Guitar
PS, US 4AD introduces the debut album from Kent four-piece, It Hugs Back. Influenced by the intricate song-writing of Wilco, the sound layers of My Bloody Valentine, the pop charm of The Lemonheads, the textures of Sonic Youth and the DIY aesthetics of the arts and crafts movement, It Hugs Back soon caught the attention of Too Pure Records. Last summer the label took their early singles and released them together as a low- key eight-track EP, The Record Room (also the moniker of their home studio), to sell on tour and through independent record stores. Now firmly ensconced in their new home at 4AD (home to The National, Blonde Redhead and Stereolab), It Hugs Back are finally ready to present their debut album, Inside Your Guitar, on April 7. Self- produced in their own studio, Inside Your Guitar is the result of a year's labour of love. It is an album that wears it's heart on its sleeve as Matthew Simms' softly spoken vocals turn the captivating guitar licks, rhythms and feedback fuzz into something wistful, imaginative and charming.
4AD
CD
$11.50

Jacaszek
Treny
PS, US VINYL! A beautifully-arranged string quartet & a lonesome female voice are framed w/ waves of distant underwater rumbles & creaks, w/ fragments of harp occasionally surfacing to release mournful motifs onto the dense music canvas. He so perfectly blends acoustic & electronic sounds, that it is hard to tell where tape loops end & forlorn violin melodies begin. He manages to find his own niche somewhere between Murcof & Francois Tetaz's indispensable score for "Wolf Creek" -- somewhere dark & mysterious, but ultimately beautifully rewarding & moving.
Miasmah
LP
$19.50

Jackson 5
ABC
PS,US 180 -grm LP reissues to mark the 50th anniversary of Motown! All original packaging.
UniversalMotown
LP
$19.00

Janes Addiction
A Cabinet of Curiosities BOXSET
PS, US 3-CD/1-DVD box set featuring over 2 hours of unreleased and rare tracks, including demos, B-sides, and live recordings. Also includes SOUL KISS, music videos, and rare live performances available on DVD for the first time. Sounding like no one who'd come before, Jane's Addiction changed the face of modern rock when they emerged in the late 80s. Their landmark 1988 album Nothing's Shocking fused raw energy with hard rock riffs, metal, funk, punk and the avant garde musical and lyrical sensibilities that define their entire output. On A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, the band's first-ever boxed set, Rhino explores their incomparable legacy with a 3-CD/1-DVD collection of demos, live performances and rarities, more than half of which are previously unreleased. Focusing solely on the original incarnation of Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins, the retrospective is a revealing portrait of one of rock n roll's greatest and most influential bands. It's all packaged in a deluxe limited-edition wooden box modeled after an old-time curiosity cabinet, perfectly complimenting the sonic wonders inside.
Rhino
3CD/DVD
$74.50

Jawbreaker
Dear You (+ 5)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Blackball-004
DLP
$13.75

Jay Reatard/Sonic Youth
Hang Them All (J.R.) b/w No
Garage (S.Y.)
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive!
Matador
45
$4.75

Jena Berlin
Quo Vadimus
PS,US Limited to 500 on white vinyl. Fusing emotional punk rock w/ technical & progressive songwriting, this has received critical acclaim as one of the best post-punk/hardcore records to be released since At the Drive-In's "Relationship of Command," & has drawn comparisons to underground luminaries like Fugazi
JumpStart
LP
$11.25

Jesus Lizard
Inch (45-BOX)
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Includes nine 7" singles, everything TJL released on TG between 1989-1994. The singles come on in folded plastic wall display and are limited to an edition of 1500.
TouchAndGo
45-BOX
$30.00

Juan Maclean
Future Will Come
PS, US Featuring vocalist Nancy Whang of LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
DFA
CD
$15.75

Jujus, The
You Treated Me Bad "1965-1967"
PS, US Since their arrival on the music scene in 1965, the mystique of The JuJus and their lead singer, Ray Hummel, has continued to grow over the ensuing decades (helped along by the inclusion of 'You Treat Me Bad' on the first volume of Pebbles in 1979). Their first single 'You Treat Me Bad' rose to the number two position on the top 40 and catapulted the band to regional fame in Michigan. The JuJus initially blended an impressive brand of folk-rock and British-invasion sounds with a raw garage band sound. In 1967 they opted for a more psychedelic sound. Compiled on this CD are all the JuJu singles, as well as a plethora of unreleased gems from 1965 to 1967. A detailed booklet contains photos, radio surveys, band memorabilia, and a retrospective of The JuJus as related by band member Rod Shepard. The front cover photo of The JuJus features Ray Hummel, Max Colley, Bill Gorski and Rod Shepard. Also pictured are the JuJus at Kent Country Airport during the heigh of JuJu-mania, ready to take on the world in 1965.
Cicadelic
CD
$14.75

Junior Boys
Begone Dull Care
PS, US This is the duo's third album, and the title is a reference to a short film by Norman McLaren, the pioneering Oscar-winning animator and electronic composer, who was fond of direct film animation (the technique of physically manipulating or painting on film frame by frame) and stop-start animation. His meticulousness is much like the band's process of composing and sequencing their music. There's a measured restraint that's rarely employed in modern pop music and it's the precision and restraint in the arrangements that serves to magnify what is there. And what is there is exceptional.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.00

Junior Boys
Begone Dull Care
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Dracula Boots
PS, US Legendary Kid Congo Powers (GUN CLUB, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, THE CRAMPS) returns to the psychedelic jungle w/ a stripped-down, no-frills set of volcanic songs that explore raw sounds of garage & early Chicano rock. The songs go from loud, fuzzy biker rock ("Hitchhiking") to a greasy rump-shaker groove ("Bobo Boogie"); from a scary movie soundtrack ("La Llarona") to The Meters having an acid flashback ("Black Santa")
InTheRed
CD
$14.25

King Cannibal
Virgo
PS, US Dylan Richards aka King Cannibal returns with his latest smash to the solar plexus, "Virgo." To flesh out his twisted, industrial take on dancehall, dubstep and drum & bass, vox are provided by brand new French crew Face-A-Face. This is the vocalists' first release and they sound magnifique over a rhythm built firmly for the dancefloor and set to do considerable and lasting damage in any such context. All amplified thumb piano, fidgeting rhythms and filtered nastiness, Richards chops the vox to pieces and puts them back together, all to make you lose the plot.
NinjaTune
12
$11.25

King Khan & The Shrines
What Is?!
PS, US 14 blasts of pure punk-soul. Originally released on Germany's Hazlewood imprint in 2007. The Shrines unique Sun Ra come Stooges take on psychedelic big band soul is full on here, a literal aural middle finger to the calculated garage rock taking over the malls of America.
Vice
CD
$15.50

King Khan & The Shrines
What Is?!
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Vice
LP
$16.25

Kingsbury Manx
Ascenseur Ouvert!
PS, US From the upbeat Brill-pop of "Over the Oeuvre" to the spidery guitar hooks that punctuate the shuffle of "Well, Whatever" to the somber chamber-creepiness of "Minos Maze," this is an album of pleasant surprises
Odessa
CD
$12.50

Kingsbury Manx
Ascenseur Ouvert!
PS, US Vinyl version.
Odessa
LP
$12.50

Kline, Phil
John the Revelator
PS, US Kline created a Mass for six voices, seeking to craft a "window to a deeper world...unburdened by a rigid plan, formal or stylistic." The result is a 21st century Mass, featuring world-class string quartet, Ethel, and renowned early music vocal ensemble, Lionheart
Cantaloupe
CD
$12.00

Koda
Movements
PS, US Limited repress of this 2005 release. A hazy incidence of complete isolation & the warmth of a setting sun. It would be accurate to say that there are enormous fields lying in between pulling them loosely together. Tracks such as "Are We Water" present these circular patterns of hovering strings that envelope the listener. Waves of harmonics w/ this beautiful tension tends to walk slowly, or rather drift along gathering up memories of the past.
Infraction
CD
$12.50

Koenjihyakkei
Nivraym
PS, US The band's purest, most uncompromising expression of Zeuhl music to date, blending progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion, & neoclassicism w/ the energy of hardcore punk, the volume of metal, & the attitude of rock
SkinGraft
CD
$14.75

Landed
Livers & Lungs
PS, US
Corleone
CD
$11.00

Lazy Magnet
He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory & Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine
PS, US Avant noise pop, folk, french pop, in the red rock ala priest & just flat out
harshness. Limited to 500
Corleone
LP
$11.00

Le Groupe Des Six
Selected Works 1915-1945
PS,US 2CD set documenting the links between avant-garde music & art in the 20th Century. This celebrated group was mentored by Erik Satie & Jean Cocteau from 1917-1923. This 150 minute remastered 2CD set features selected piano & orchestral works by the group, including collaborations w/ Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Marcelle Meyer & Denise Duval
LTM
DCD
$16.75

Led Bib
Sensible Shoes
PS,US A cataclysmic offering of jazz-rock, free-jazz, avant-skronk, funk-rock, noise-metal & whatever else they can lay their hands on.
Cuneiform
CD
$17.75

Les Six
Le Groupe Des Six: Selected Works 1915-1945
PS, UK Le Groupe des Six: Selected Works 1919-1945 is the latest release from the LTM label documenting links between avant-garde music and art in the 20th Century. Mentored by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau from 1917 to 1923, the celebrated group of young French composers known, as Les Six comprised Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Taillefaire. This 150 minute remastered double CD set features selected piano and orchestral works by Les Six composed between 1915 and 1945, including collaborations with Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Marcelle Meyer and Denise Duval. All selections were recorded between 1928 and 2007, including some personally performed or conducted by the composers themselves. The booklet includes archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2533
DCD
$15.25

Life and Times, The
Tragic Boogie
PS, US A rock band that skirts the boundaries of this word in each song, tipping their collective cap to the giants that loom in each melody.
ArenaRock
CD
$13.50

Life On Earth
Space Water Loop
PS, US Vinyl version, limited to 1,000 copies on blue vinyl.
SubliminalSounds
LP
$24.50

Life On Earth
Space Water Loop
PS, US 2nd full-length from DUNGEN's Mattias Gustavsson. Equal parts sound experimentation, folk & classic psychedelic pop, based around acoustic guitar. Opening track "Listen" starts it all off w/ a flowery baroque flute intro, & then just unfolds & unfolds ever outward into stratospheric pop vocal harmonies, woozy effects, reverbed organs, backwards masking, all burning up at the end w/ some seriously druggy, acid-fried psychedelic guitar riffage
SubliminalSounds
CD
$16.25

Lime Spiders
Live at the Esplanade
PS, US The biggest selling Aussie garage punk band of the '80s & early '90s return w/ their 1st album in 18 years. This ultra high energy 22 song live set features all of the band's hits, a dose of famous cover songs, & 2 brand new tracks
SteelCage
CD
$11.50

Los Straitjackets
Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets
PS, US Continues their conquest as the champion luchadores of instrumental rock
YepRoc
CD
$19.00

Love
Forever Changes Concert
PS,US Special edition CD+DVD set. CD features the entire album plus 8 additional classics. DVD features "Forever Changes" concert at the Royal Festival Hall 2003 plus Arthur Lee interview & tour documentary
Snapper
CD+DVD
$16.75

Machida, Yoshio
Steelpan Improvisations
PS,US Live steelpan recordings from Europe & Japan 2001-2008. Influenced by Indian improvised traditional music, for his 1st tour in Europe in 2002, he made original "un-equal temperament" tuned steelpans. Reminiscent of Harold Budd's ambient piano & Fennesz's glitches
Amorfon
CD
$13.50

Maclean, Juan
Future Will Come
PS, US Featuring vocalist Nancy Whang of LCD SOUNDSYSTEM.
DFA
CD
$15.00

Magik Markers
Balf Quarry
PS, US Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes 'n piano and/or wah-wah, but it is also a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes. The Balf Quarry libretto reads like an inner monologue of some poor bastard from The Stand: desperate & vengeful musings from the head of a witness to and survivor of an apocalypse, in a world they never made, dreaming helplessly of the demons out west. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style & several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is Elisa's signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks & other touches move the songs a broken arm's length away from a fundament of chaos & horror.
DragCity/Twos&Fews
CD
$13.25

Magik Markers
Balf Quarry
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity/Twos&Fews
LP
$14.75

Mahikari
S-T
PS, US Power-trio featuring guitar gods Seiichi Yamamoto (BOREDOMS) & Kamoto Kawabata (ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE) w/ drummer Stoo Odom (THIN WHITE ROPE). Mind-churning psychedelic meltdowns following the path paved by their respective bands as well as Fushitsusha, Solmania, CCCC, KK Null, &
Highrise. Limited.
Birdman
LP
$17.25

Man or Astroman?
Experiment Zero
PS,US Back in print after over a year. Includes MP3 code.
Touch&Go
LP
$11.50

Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything to Nothing
PS, US New album.
Sony
CD
$13.00

Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything to Nothing
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Sony
LP
$19.75

Margins
S/T
PS, US The group aims to create sound where that illegitimate term "nothingness" becomes something. The 40 minutes of sound on this debut album contains moments of subtlety, joy, intensity, simplicity & intricacy
LowTransitIndustries
CD
$13.50

Mates Of State
Re-Arranged: Remixes V.1
PS, US This limited-edition 12 inch vinyl EP features 4 reinterpretations of tracks from the group's 2008 release, "Re-arrange Us," w/ contributions from noted remixologists DJ SEGA, FLOSSTRADAMUS, THE MAE SHI & RAC.
Barsuk
12
$9.50

Mayfair Set, The
Already Warm b/w Desert Fun
PS, US East Coast / West Coast, 1-2 punch. Dum Dum Girls meet the Blank Dogs
FOR REAL. This could be bigger than either band. little pricey, but the sleeves are real swank. A really nice record.
CapturedTracks
45
$6.25

Meanderthals
Desire Lines
PS, US London's IDJUT BOYS (Dan Tyler & Conrad McConnell) & RUNE LINDBAEK are Meanderthals. Contrary to the definition, Lindbaek, Tyler & McConnell's do not see meanderthal people as a threat, but as a person that is completely in his own world -- a slacker, musically on his own. This could also be a good description of Lindbaek & the two Idjut Boys. Meanderthals' Desire Lines is their chosen path of beautiful & mellow balearic disco. A warm & dreamy blend of dub, folk, prog, kraut, psychedelia and 70s west-coast combined to invent an organic, slanted & proggy feel. Recorded live, the album features contributions from good friends, including Pete Z (DJ Harvey) on keyboards, Des Morgan (YamWho?) on drums & percussion, Malcolm Jospeh (Grace Jones) on bass, Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive) on percussion and Raj Gupta (Laj & Quakerman) as sound engineer.
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Meanderthals
Desire Lines
PS, US Vinyl.
SmalltownSupersound
LP
$14.50

Melvins/Brian Walsby
Manchild 4/Pick Your Battles
PS,US A uniquely collectable, rare, & LIMITED book/CD release. The CD captures the group at 2 periods in their career. The 1st 8 tracks were recorded in 1989, tracks 9-15 were recorded in 2008
BifocalMedia
CD+BK
$17.50

Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit
S-T [documentary]
PS, US Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit, tells the surprising history of the stadium, one of the first of the new magnificent sporting venues built on university campuses in the early 1920s. The documentary looks at how students raised funds to replace the old wooden bleachers at Illinois Field with a stadium both functional and classically grand that would also be a memorial to the war dead. Designed by the same architects who planned Soldier Field, the structure on a swampy southwest campus site was a great human and engineering achievement. The Illini spirit that helped build the stadium is still present today, said Marching Illini director Peter Griffin. "When we talk about tradition, it's not always about remembering the past; we re-create it every Saturday afternoon and part of the re-creation is the stadium itself." It's more than a building, he said. "It's something that lives and breathes every time there's an event in there, and people who attend bring it back to life." The documentary, produced by WILL-TV's John Paul and Denise La Grassa, includes never-before-seen footage from an interview with Harold "Red" Grange produced by Kemper Peacock Productions for the CBS Sports series "In Their Own Words." Features: Never-before-seen footage of Red Grange discussing his legendary performance. Defining moments in Illini football and stadium history. Interviews with Dick Butkus, Jim Grabowski and J.C. Caroline
WILLPublicMedia
DVD
$19.95

Merzbannon
S-T
PS, US What you get when you cross the prolific talents of Japan's 'Godfather of Noise' (MERZBOW) with the Midwest's genre defying juggernaut RACEBANNON. Pressed on clear vinyl, includes a free digital download
Tizona
LP
$14.25

Metric
Fantasies
PS, US A densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro & rock, this album's dream like quality stays true to the band's aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory
MetricMusic
CD
$13.75

Micachu & The Shapes
Jewellery
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "It's not often that an album as equally bonkers and catchy as Jewellery comes along, but then, an artist as genre-defying as Micachu and her band the Shapes isn't a particularly frequent occurrence, either. Micachu, aka Mica Levi, is a classically trained composer and instrumentalist, but she revels in sounds that are anything but polite and restrained -- in fact, she goes out of her way to turn the most outlandish, seemingly "wrong" sounds into addictively, hyperactively catchy songs. For Jewellery, she teamed up with kindred spirit Matthew Herbert, and together they remind listeners how much more there can be to electronic pop than some lazy loops here and some copy-paste there... A wild funhouse of an album, Jewellery is more challenging and idea packed (not to mention more fun) than a lot of self-proclaimed experimental music."
RoughTradeUS
CD
$13.25

Miimo
Miimo 2
PS, JAPAN Genre: Electronica, Alternative, Dub. Miimo is a Japanese Post-Dub electronica trio formed in 2005. Members are Yoshio Machida (a.k.a. an experimental steelpanist / composer), tatsu, a well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop, Norihide Saji (a.k.a. plot.), a drummer / laptop artist. 2nd album "miimo 2" is pop-electro Dub album featuring Steelpan & Electronic Steelpan (Pankat) sounds, including tunes; Afro beat meets 8bit game sound (tr2), vocoder sound on Brazilain rhythm with sweet melody (tr3), featuring eccentric Portuguese rap (tr6), polyrhythmic waltz-Dub (tr8), feat. J-pop female silky singing (tr10), etc. Different from ordinary dub tracks and electronica, miimo's music includes several musical elements. Stretching the meaning of Dub, miimo translates Dub as music created by polyrhythm and sound effects, or some kind of hybrid like Impressive melody by Steelpan, electronic groove, multiple languages (lyrics), Jazzy upright bass... Made with 3 guest musicians; Kassin an artist from new Brazilian music scene, Toshiyuki Yasuda aka collaborator with Towa Tei (Deee-Lite) and Yuiko a J-pop female singer.
Amorfon2-2009
CD
$15.00

Mika Miko
We Be Xuxa
PS, US Formed from the ashes of Dead Banana Landies in 2003. Never polished, always urgent and catchy, they somehow conduct a current take on the old emotions of great punk rock bands that came before them, such as the blistered energy of Redd Cross and early Legal Weapon, the charming shrillness of Lilliput and Rubella Ballet, and the ferocity of The Adolescents. On their second full-length, they expand on their remarkable songwriting skills, mixing great riffs with simple ideas and melody with speed while sending you into a mind melting frenzy.
PPMRecords
CD
$12.50

Mika Miko
We Be Xuxa
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PPMRecords
LP
$12.50

Milk & Honey Band, The
Dog Eared Moonlight
PS, US The Milk and Honey Band first emerged when they released Round The Sun for Rough Trade in 1994. Dog Eared Moonlight is the follow up to 'The Secret Life of...' Listeners will recall the finer shades of Spiritualized and Simon and Garfunkel. With vocals comparisons to Nick Drake and Wire's Colin Newman, delicately interwoven slide guitars and gentle harmonies, it's a beautiful record and one well worth waiting for.
Badman
CD
$13.75

Millions
Gather Scatter
PS, US Dueling guitars create a codependent relationship of angst & grandeur - the neurotic impatience of Black Flag scraping up against the anthemic melodies of King Crimson. Member of SMALL BROWN BIKE.
SeventhRule
CD
$15.50

Minus Times
#29
PS,US Putting the "Great" back in Depression, the latest The Minus Times is a 72 page double issue starring DAVE EGGERS, SAM LIPSYTE & DAVID BERMAN. Issue #29 draws a bead on the pimp & protector of America's imagination: Hollywood. Featuring confessions from screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank) and director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julian Donkey-Boy) along with a crew of talented extras. An open casting call brought in a cross-section of American talent: rock & rollers Sam Beam, Will Oldham, Colin Gagon, Neil Michael Hagerty; artists Harrison Haynes, Hope Gangloff, Forest Juziuk & Steve Keene; cartoonist & animator Brad Neely; filmmakers Kathy Egan & Andrew Pope; poets Joe Wenderoth & Mike Topp; photographer Michael McLeod; ad executive Austin McKenna; along with writers Brian Howe, Theodore McDermott, Patrick deWitt, Wells Tower, Brent Van Daley, Mike Laus & Jeff Johnson.
DragCity
MAG
$13.25

Mirah
You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This
PS, US
Krecords-112
LP
$11.50

Miriodor
Avanti!
PS,US For fans of: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Gentle Giant, Hatfield & the North, Henry Cow, Univers Zero, & Frank Zappa
Cuneiform
CD
$17.75

Moby Grape
Place and the Time
PS, US
Sundazed
DLP
$30.00

Moby Grape
Place and the Time
PS, US
Sundazed
CD
$16.25

Moebius & Plank
Rastakraut Pasta
PS, US 1st release from the duo of Dieter Moebius & Conny Plank, originally released on Sky Records in 1980. As the title suggests, this album is heavily influenced by dug & reggae & those rhythms are incorporated into the ambient space-rock one would expect from these German pioneers of Kosmische musik
Water
CD
$14.50

Mojo
#187 (June 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Monks
Transatlantic Feedback
PS, US Documentary includes 70 minutes of special features, including 60's live appearances on German TV & interviews
PlayLoud
DVD
$28.00

Monks, The
Black Monk Time
PS,US Limited Edition Vinyl 2LP features 180 gram wax, gatefold hand-numbered old school tip-on jacket, lyrics, and notes.
LightInTheAttic
DLP
$28.75

Mono
You Are There
PS, US
TemporaryResidence-098
DLP
$14.25

Mono
Hymn To The Immortal Wind
PS, US Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind. After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO's trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up. Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor's opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet sections. While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-148
DLP
$14.25

Mono
One Step More And You Die / New York Soundtracks
PS, US Finally back in print on vinyl! Now featuring a bonus album of remixes! After years of enduring hundreds of requests for a repress of MONO's breakthrough second album, One Step More And You Die, we have finally come to our senses. Perhaps it was the increasingly insane eBay prices, or maybe it was the brand new MONO album just released. No matter the reason, it's back, and it's bigger and blacker than ever! Rather than simply repress the original single-record version, we decided to include the out-of-print New York Soundtracks album as well, featuring remixes of One Step More songs by Calla, Loren Connors, Jackie-O Motherfucker and more. The expanded two-record set has been beautifully remastered and repackaged with expanded artwork.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-7374
DLP
$14.25

Mono & World's End Girlfriend
Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
PS, US
TemporaryResidence-108
DLP
$14.25

Moore, Daniel Martin
Stray Age (LP/7")
PS, US LP version of Moore's 2008 debut on SUB POP. It's rich with understated complexities that take you to places that people like Nick Drake and Mojave 3/Slowdive principal Neil Halstead have been cited as doing. There's a soft sweing in the vocals reminicent of Chet Baker. LP was remastered by BOB WESTON and it comes w/ a 7" ep of alt tracks and demos.
ShakeIt
LP
$13.25

Mott The Hoople
Mad Shadows
PS, US Goaded on by madman producer Guy Stevens, Mott attempted to outdo the Rolling Stones in the excess-equals-success contest with the recording of Mad Shadows. Chock full of heavy-duty Mott rockers, such as "Walkin' With a Mountain," "Thunderbuck Ram" and "No Wheels To Ride," Mad Shadows is a perfect study in rock & roll mayhem at the start of the seventies. Even Mick Jagger found himself singing along on the final moments of "Walkin' With a Mountain." A powerful document. ~ James Chrispell, All Music Guide
WoundedBirdRecords
CD
$13.50

Mould, Bob
Life And Times
PS, US Bob Mould is one of the most influential musicians of the alternative rock era, first for his early work with post-punks Husker Du, followed by the college-rock-defining pop of Sugar, and finally for his solo albums, notably his first, "Workbook", which quieted Mould's previous ire to reveal his fine songwriting in a new light and allowed an introspective glimpse into the inner workings of an evolving artist. With "Life And Times", Mould comes full circle, reclaiming his indie songwriting mantle from the generation of musicians he inspired.
Anti
CD
$15.50

Mouthus
Divisionals
PS, US Brian Sullivan (gtr/vox) & Nate Nelson (perc) connect here w/ a focused, thematic hayride through long tone static & fried mind amp terror. Anyone following the arc & molten flow of their last few LPs will be surely intigued by this as it is the group at their sweetest. Almost. Just when you're drifting through the electric skies you find the Earth reaching into your soul pulling you back to a primordial foreverness. Limited to 400
EcstaticPeace
LP
$13.50

Mueller, Jon
Physical Changes
PS, US Enter Jon Mueller's mammoth new solo percussion work, Physical Changes. If his previous solo effort Metals was about pummeling rhythms and frequencies, Physical Changes drives the whole idea into oblivion, as the sounds here are something to be felt as much as heard. Joined by the intense propulsion of James Plotkin (Khanate, Khlyst, Phantomsmasher), the textural chaos of Fred Lonberg-Holm (Wilco, Peter Brotzmann Tentet, Ken Vandermark's Territory Band), the computer meltdown of Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon), the surreal precision of Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), the glorious flight of Jim Schoenecker (Collections of Colonies of Bees) and the stunning landscape film work of David Dinnell, Physical Changes takes the idea of 'heavy rhythm' and spreads it out over an elaborate, all-inclusive three format (LP/CD/DVD) release that reveals how complex and diverse heavy rhythm can actually be. From the pounding, raw country minimalism of "Nothing Changes," to the brutally intense onslaught of "Things Will Not Stay the Way They Are," Mueller takes the fundamental concepts of rhythm and percussion, those primal devices, and turns them into an entirely new experience that's heard, seen, and felt. Come experience it for yourself. Jon Mueller has been an active drummer and percussionist since the mid-80s. Whether utilizing bombastic minimalism, dense interplay, or electro-acoustic practices, his approach focuses on a physical dialog between situation and material. He has performed or recorded with members of the groups Swans, Wilco, and Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio, as well as Asmus Tietchens, Jason Kahn, Bhob Rainey, Hal Rammel, and many others. He performs regularly with the groups Collections of Colonies of Bees and Mouths and has performed throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe. "Percussion is often subsumed within the densely swelling layers of electronic and manipulated sound...to a remarkable degree with the unstable, bottom heavy, rather threatening electronic sounds which are characteristic of this impressive set." - The Wire
"Rusted and resonant like K.K. Null or Merzbow in a steel tub." - Stereogum
"Majestic" - Pitchfork
TableoftheElements-817
LP/CD/DVD
$18.25

Mugwumps
At Pop Speed
PS,US The once "closed-doors" of the very domestic Japanese punk scene are being busted wide open, thanks to bands like the MUGWUMPS. Influenced by bands such as Descendents & All.
AsianMan
CD
$10.75

Murder City Devils
Empty Bottles Broken Hearts [re-issue]
PS, US
Subpop
CD
$13.75

Muslims
Parasites b/w Walking With Jesus
PS, US Firmly rooted in first wave punk music, THE MUSLIMS (now called THE SOFT PACK) play aggressive, lo fi songs reminiscent of The Fall fronted by a disaffected David Kilgour. Produced by Rob Barbato (current member of Darker My Love, former member of Mark E. Smith's The Fall) & engineered by Manny Nieto (The Breeders, 400 Blows, Darker My Love), "Parasites" finds the band in great form, as they hone their punk & power pop instincts. B-side is a Spacemen 3 cover that does not disappoint! LIMITED TO 1000"
IHateRockNRoll
45
$8.25

Mutant Ape
Erotic Yorkshire
PS, US Insane noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident George Proctor. This is the project at its most corrosive delivering from track to track occult ambience to skin shredding power drug electronics. All bookended by the demented & misogynist rants of Jamie Gillis. Disgust, depression, defilement & demotion are all here for those of you who demand only the best in carnal crud. Limited to 200
EcstaticPeace
LP
$13.50

My Morning Jacket
Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal (2X10")
PS, US 2x10" w/ CD insert
ATO
10
$20.25

Nadja
When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
PS, US Covers album where Nadja adds their mark of wondrous atmospheric journey through shoegazing passion & drone-like heaviness to songs by their favorite artists: My Bloody Valentine, Codeine, Swans, Slayer, A-ha, Elliott Smith, Kids In The Hall, & The Cure.
TheEnd
CD
$14.50

Nadja
Numbness
PS, US Music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock, experimental, & neo-classical. This special collection of tracks gathers the more "shoegaze-oriented" tracks among their vast previous titles. Most of the tracks were originally releases on very limited vinyl or rare compilation albums.
HappyPrince
CD
$16.00

Nerikatsu
S/T
PS, US This debut EP from Nerikatsu is a stroll into the Pacific Northwest forest caves and back. Running the spectral gamut from dark "Glider" like washes in high frequency melancholy to desolate moonshine drenched nights on the valley. Reminiscent of early Mille Plateaux infused with Gastre Del Sol like irony. A beautifully constructed short runner from a beautifully tortured soul.
Dulcett-001
12
$7.00

Nerve City
I Fucked Death
PS, US 6 tracks on a 45RPM 10 inch EP. Jason Boyer's home recording project mixes lo-fi garage, classic doo-wop, noise & reverb to produce a perfect blend of fuzzed out, toe-tapping, garage pop. His home recording techniques drive the truly dark & minimal tracks to develop into reverb-laden, distortion
buried pop gems.
KillShaman
10
$13.50

Niblett, Scout
It's Time My Beloved
PS, US
DragCity
45
$5.50

Nixon, Francisco
El Perro es Mio
PS, SPAIN The songs on El Perro Es Mio feel like they oozed out from the soul of a genius, well think of Prefab Sprout, Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian or The Go-betweens. Every song unfolds with such precision, charm and humble grandeur that it is impossible to walk away from this album unaffected. Some of the songs are a touching reminder that Fran Fernandez and Ricardo Vicente have plenty of experiences to be told and a wish to express beauty through well-crafted pop vignettes. Fran Fernandez, confirmed as a songwriter of considerable genius, iconic former Australian Blonde's frontman (highest successful indie-rock act in Spain during the 90`s) and also responsible for some of the finest anthemic moments of the last 10 years leading La Costa Brava, he has explored genres aplenty in his career. However "El Perro Es Mío" is the most fully realized, seamless, and masterfully articulated Spanish pop record in the recent years. Lyrically, we have the classic traits of wit, sarcasm, humor, surrealism and acumen that Fran has become renowned. The melodies are wistful and a touch melancholic; though cheerful and very positive - a marvelous and addictive musical mix. Seriously talented singer/songwriter in his own right, he achieves the Zen balance of Brian Wilson, the sweet inflection of summer a la Love or Teenage Fan Club and twist it into something layered as Terry Hall/ Colourfield or Harper's Bizarre. The music is guitar and melody driven with fine percussion but it stands apart for the power and meaning behind the anthemic lyrics, 60s pop and folk references but it also shares the crisp production and stainless pop sheen of pastoral pop... James, Cats on Fire, The Fleet Foxes or The Hidden Cameras come to mind. The record is bouncy, upbeat, orchestral pop with a purist vision at its core. There is a song for every mood on this album. All tracks are indeed radio-friendly but four should begin assault to pop charts: Erasmus Borrachas, Nombres y Teléfonos, Los Viajes de Simbad and Mereces toda mi atención. Recorded between August and September 2008 at the same sound laboratory that was used in the first Nixon record ("Es Perfecta" siesta 232-2006), the record receives the splendor and polished touch of local hero Paco Loco. At times elated and joyous, and other times more ghostly and longing, El Perro es mío is the most accessible and arguably the most impeccably cohesive work of Fran Fernandez's career to date. All pop gems are as majestic as any natural wonder you'll ever see. This masterpiece can make your life complete and that's the biggest complement we can pay them. Equally passionate, philosophical and catchy, nothing else sounds like it. Unconditionally recommended. Hurrah!
Siesta-252
CD
$17.75

No Through Road
Winner
PS, US The group is at once gloriously loose & noisy, yet warm & sincere, their songs taking no time to stick in your brain & consequently be hummed & whistled for days on end. Includes the summertime hit "Girls Are The Devil," the moon-soaked highway thrash of "Tornados (Oh Rachel)" & the regal slow burner "This Isn't (Rock 'n' Roll)," w/ its ripping guitar leads & extended feedback outro
LowTransitIndustries
CD
$13.50

North Sea/Current Amnesia
Split
PS, US CURRENT AMNESIA's side features David Sutton (CAR COMMERCIALS) in a journey of hypnodrones galore. He bends & twists aural shards into glasslike works of art. The NORTH SEA side is shimmering like a sunken stone, drowning in a torrent of silver piss. Voices & chimes are blown apart in an epic battle to be king of nothing at all. Underwritten w/ a wall of synth dreams & other churns. LIMITED TO 80, pro-dubbed w/ the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Digitalis
CASS
$8.50

Novak, Jeffrey
Home Sweet Home b/w Three Sisters
PS, US Two new Jeffrey Novak songs. Totally great, absolutely killer sleeve.
Shattered
45
$5.75

Noveller
Paint on the Shadows
PS, US Mystery hides in the shadows, dreaming of colors that don't yet exist. Noveller is Sarah Lipstate. She is a young musician and filmmaker currently living in Bushwick, Brooklyn. When she is not busy working on Noveller music or making films she also plays guitar in the band Parts & Labor. Paint on the Shadows is her overdue debut LP full of beautiful floating guitar lines, breathtaking soundscapes and precise sculptures of spiraling sound created by Sarah using double-neck guitar, a tape player, and various electronic manipulations. Sitting comfortably between some of the most well done 'avant-garde' music and the new generation of new sound masters we have been bringing you lately. These are studio tracks recorded by Colin Martson and produced by Sarah Lipstate and Carlos Giffoni. Limited to 350 copies. Artwork by Caroline Contillo.
NoFunProductions-47
LP
$16.25

Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
Outer South
PS, US While touring in support of last year's debut "Conor Oberst", Conor and The Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's songwriting and delivery remain an engaging presence, but the addition of songs by Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas, and Jason Boesel make for a multi-textured and colorful collaboration. The Mystic Valley band also includes Macey Taylor and Nathaniel Walcott.
Merge
CD
$14.00

Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
Outer South
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$23.75

Obits
I Can't Lose b/w Military Madness
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Two brand new tracks, specially recorded for Record Store Day.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Ocean
Pantheon of the Lesser
PS, US BLACK VERSION w/ unique D-side track - a cover of Black Flag's "Three Nights." Vinyl version is double 200-gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe letter-pressed covers & limited to 500 copies
Important
DLP
$23.25

Okkervil River
Pop Lie
PS, US As the second single from "The Stand Ins", "Pop Lie" takes the meta-referential mission of OKKERVIL RIVER to a new distinctly pop level. There are two additional tracks on the single, on which Sheff plays the role of a whole band: vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. There's an orphaned song from "The Stage Names" / "The Stand Ins" sessions called "Millionaire" which displays the storyteller in Will rising to the surface in a soaring acoustic piano-laden shuffle. Also included is an alternate slowed-down, fuzzed-up version of "Pop Lie".
Jagjaguwar-148
CD5
$3.50

One Way Ticket
Time Is Right
PS, SPAIN Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. Behind this obscure and mysterious British late-'60s psych record, we find team of producers Brian Carroll and Damon Lyon-Shaw, famous for their involvement with mod-psych bands like The Factory and Five Day Rain. During the late '60s, they also recorded some tracks of their own at the legendary IBC studios and produced a bunch of underground groups for their Homegrown company. Basically, instead of a real group, One Way Ticket was, in fact, a mixture of various recordings from bands that Carroll and Lyon-Shaw had been involved with producing through Homegrown during 1968, along with some recordings of their own. For some strange reason, all of these recordings surfaced many years later, when they were gathered and released as a budget pressing album, featuring mysterious cover art, made-up liner notes and credits, under the One Way Ticket name on the President label in 1978. Musically, it's an odd album which ranges from late-'60s underground psych in the Chocolate Soup vein to freaky blues-psych not unlike Oliver's Standing Stone, with some glam-mod-psych and rockin' tunes. It even features three tracks also covered by the legendary Five Day Rain on their rare album.
Guerssen
CD
$16.25

O'Neil, Tara Jane
A Ways Away
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-207
LP
$11.50

O'Neil, Tara Jane
A Ways Away
PS, US PS, US The work of Tara Jane ONeil has always innately crossed genres and boundaries -like several genies emerging from a single lamp. Every singer wants to be a painter, every guitarist a singer, every songwriter a poet and every producer an alchemist. ONeil is skilled at all these things and on A Ways Away [KLP207], her fifth album and first for K, she has wielded all of her powers. A Ways Away is a song cycle, generous and concise, direct and uncompromising. TJO's new LP is primarily the offering of a singer-songwriter, but there is an elegant attention to detail in the mix that will please all those in need of great headphone jams, electronic minimalist drone magic, and heroic adventure. But A Ways Away is driven by the singer and the songs. On this record, she has put her voice out front, and as in the past, the vocals are perversely and meticulously arranged and gorgeously sung. There's compassion and concern, wisdom and heartbreak, moving on and waking up in these songs. The elements of her live show and her studio craft meet here. There's some sorcery and exorcism, and there are questions that stand on their own. As a dream is surprising and mysterious, so can be her performance, haunting, masterful, arresting. Her ability to divine the finest players in any town to create shifting and often spontaneous bands makes each show unique, a thing of legend. TJO conjures up all of your favorite singer-songwriters, painters and poets as if they are all there in her songs, a dialogic meeting in the air. It is an expansive and dynamic mystery sound. There is space in it, there is volume and electricity in it, and there is no fear. ONeil
coaxes gamelan sonorities or tiny gongs out of her guitar, thick dissonant tone clusters or rapid finger picking to support her mellifluous call. Contributions on A Ways Away came from Jana Hunter, Mirah, Osa Atoe (New Bloods), Geoff Soule (Fuck), and Jean Cook and Daniel Littleton (Ida). While writing her own music, Tara Jane ONeil has also collaborated with Papa M, Ida, Mirah, Michael Hurley, Jackie-O Motherfucker and King Cobra, among others; she has scored soundtracks for film and theater; and records instrumental music under the moniker Strange Clouds. TJO was a founding member of some influential and prescient bands back in the day, like Rodan, Retsin, and the Sonora Pine. ONeil is also an accomplished visual artist whose paintings and drawings have exhibited worldwide; Wings. Strings. Meridians. A Blighted Bestiary, her second book of paintings to appear in the last decade, was published by Yeti last year. TJO will be practicing her meticulous extrapolation, her ecstatic melody, her sorcery, in locations all over the globe in 2009. In May she starts in Europe and moves slowly westward. "Ever since she began putting her name on the front of her albums, Tara Jane ONeil has perfected the art of writing songs that perfectly encapsulate both the comfort of misery and the misery of comfort." - Pitchfork
Krecords-207
CD
$11.50

Original Silence
Second Original Silence
PS, US Double Viny with bonus trackl! LIMITED Edition of 500 copies.
SmalltownSuperjazz
DLP
$23.00

Osawa, Shinichi
One
PS, US Japanese producer, composer, and DJ is one of the leading names in dance music. Making his name w/ acid jazz and deep house outfit MONDO GROSSO in the mid-90s, Shinichi's sound now welds together rock and electro sounds. His remixes for the likes of FELIX DA HOUSECAT, SOULWAX, and SNOW PATROL have found much favor on dance floors across the globe.
DimMak
CD
$12.25

Our Brother The Native
Sacred Psalms
PS, US Our Brother The Native's third album-length effort for FatCat is also their most accomplished. Drawing on both the youthful, campfire sing-along quality of their 2006 debut Tooth And Claw as well as the epic, icy expansiveness of last year's Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels, Sacred Psalms finds the young trio of nowtransplanted Detroit natives exponentially increasing the instrumental range and the sheer depth and quality of their recordings. Inspired by a love of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Javanese Gamelan music (sampled fragments of which drift through the mix), and with a vast array of ideas flowing throughout its denselypacked sonics, Sacred Psalms is their most eclectic release to date, but it also reveals a new focus on melody and songcraft. Tangentially connected to the burgeoning new noise community, but perhaps closer to individualists such as High Places or Bird Show, Our Brother The Native have made a great new album, revealing them to be finding their own genuine voices amidst an ocean of generic copyists. We believe they fully deserve your attention.
FatCatRecords
CD
$11.50

Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
PS, US Jason Quever delves further into epic dream-pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass, Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms, & soaring vocals draped in reberb gauze. This cuts across several eras of dreamy sound: '80s/'90s Creation/4AD Records, The Zombies, '60s French pop, even Can's "Future Days." For many, this will be the blissful/melancholy jam of the spring & summer.
Gnomonsong
CD
$14.25

Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Gnomonsong
LP
$17.00

Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
PS, US Vinyl+CD version
Gnomonsong
LP/CD
$17.25

Parenthetical Girls
A Song For Ellie Greenwich
PS, US
Tomlab-124
45
$5.50

Pavement
Live In Germany
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! A previously-unreleased show in Germany!
Matador
LP
$12.75

PC Worship
NYC Stone Age
PS, US PC Worship is the music making project of Justin Frye (TEETH MOUNTAIN, GARY WAR) who lives in Brooklyn, NY. This is a collection of recordings made between 2006-09 and represents an era of collective output w/ many other local musicians. This particular collection was recorded on a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel tape machine, a handheld
cassette recorded and various computers. Although Frye spearheads this project, the live show can range from a solo performance to members in the double digits. The sound is all over the board, containing elements of free jazz, grunge, psychedelic punk and pop to creat a was of consonant and disorienting sound. LIMITED on handmade/silk-screened covers
Shadowplay
LP
$11.75

Peaches
I Feel Cream
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
DLP
$17.50

Peaches
I Feel Cream
PS, US With her pioneering electro-punk sound that has taken hold amongst a new breed of female stars, Peaches now seems as relevant to the musical landscape as ever before. On "I Feel Cream" she does it again, this time producing, along with the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax, Digitalism, and Drums Of Death, her most pop-sounding album to date. The beats remain as harsh and uncompromising as ever, but with a new found melodic groove that has only been previously hinted at. "The electrified shock-rock queen bursts out the guns with which she's most familiar: hilariously hyper-sexual lyrics, catchy lo-fi, and straight-up balls-out punk rock" - Next Magazine. "Not content to simply follow the electro crowd, our hot pants wearing hero often rocks like 1,000 Blackhearts" - Harp.
XL
CD
$13.25

Pele
Scuttled Bender in a Watery Closet
PS,US A celebration of 7 years, 13 releases, experimentation, & insanity. Over 2 hours of previously hard-to-find music from 9 different labels. Spans the entirety of their rare, LP, & B-side catalog (1998-2004). Limited to 2000
Polyvinyl
DCD
$17.50

Pick-Up
Mouthless: Important Records Arts & Crafts Series Vol. #9
PS, US Pick-up is a new duo of Frans de Waard (Beequeen) on laptop and Martin Luiten (Girlfriends, Uw Hypotheek Advies) on guitar. Limited edition of 300. Hand made cover artwork. This is the 9th release in our Arts & Crafts series which pairs music with handmade artwork by the artists responsible for the recordings.
Important-243
LP
$16.25

Pillowdiver
Sleeping Pills
PS, US Sleeping Pills is the debut release from Germany's Pillowdiver, whose concepts of simplification and minimalism led him to self-imposed limitations for the creation of this work. Utilizing primarily a Fender Jazzmaster, with a small amount of synthesizer and field recording, Pillowdiver took advantage of very lo-fi and modest mediums such as 4-track cassette and various guitar stomp boxes. Appropriate to its title, Sleeping Pills is a dark and dreamy album of often-melancholic, post-rock influenced ambience. Most tracks rely on a bed of one or two simple loops over which guitar melodies; incidental sounds and harmonies are overlaid, enveloping the listener in a sleepy din of tape distortions and warm noise. Sometimes about dreaming, sometimes about escaping, Pillowdiver's focused approach is a unique voice among artists who tread the fine line between experimentalism and indie rock.
12K-1054
CD
$12.25

Pink Lincolns
Suck & Bloat
PS,US Back in print & remastered after over 10 years of obscurity. Their unique style is a blending of such act's ranging from Iggy Pop & Jay Reatard to the Queers & Screeching Weasel. Features bonus tracks from the elusive "Headache" LP
Jailhouse
CD
$12.75

Pink Mountaintops
Outside Love
PS, US Outside Love is ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel but that would probably make for bad television. Outside Love is the third album by PinkMountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, who has slowly emerged as a distinctive voice and a very special contributor to the North American songbook. A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band BlackMountain, as principal songwriter, guitarist and covocalist. The ten songs on Outside Love are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live. Friends and family who contributed to or appear on Outside Love, in no particular order, include Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Ted Bois (Destroyer), Jesse Sykes (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, sunnO)))), PhilWandscher (Jesse
Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter,Whiskeytown), Josh Stevenson (Jackie O Motherfucker), Ashley Webber (The Organ, Bonnie Prince Billy), Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Matthew Camirand (Black Mountain, Blood Meridian), Joshua Wells (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Keith Parry (Superconductor, the Gay), and Tolan McNeil (Caroline Mark). Recorded at multiple studios, Outside Love was mixed at Elmwood Studios by John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Black Mountain, Explosions In The Sky, The Mountain Goats).
Jagjaguwar-136
CD
$11.50

Pink Mountaintops
Outside Love
PS, US PS, US Outside Love is ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel but that would probably make for bad television. Outside Love is the third album by PinkMountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, who has slowly emerged as a distinctive voice and a very special contributor to the North American songbook. A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band BlackMountain, as principal songwriter, guitarist and covocalist. The ten songs on Outside Love are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live. Friends and family who contributed to or appear on Outside Love, in no particular order, include Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Ted Bois (Destroyer), Jesse Sykes (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, sunnO)))), PhilWandscher (Jesse
Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter,Whiskeytown), Josh Stevenson (Jackie O Motherfucker), Ashley Webber (The Organ, Bonnie Prince Billy), Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Matthew Camirand (Black Mountain, Blood Meridian), Joshua Wells (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Keith Parry (Superconductor, the Gay), and Tolan McNeil (Caroline Mark). Recorded at multiple studios, Outside Love was mixed at Elmwood Studios by John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Black Mountain, Explosions In The Sky, The Mountain Goats).
Jagjaguwar-136
LP
$11.50

Pissuk Rachav
Eretz Hakodesh
PS, US "Channeling Serge Gainsbourg through the lens of Hassidic porn & the loving erection of the soul, Pissuk Rachav is the bastard child of Holy Land poetic visions & Brahmachari Circus Music." Features avant superstars MARC RIBOT & JOHN ZORN as special guests
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

Pit Er Pat
High Time Remix
PS, US 12" feat. remixes of songs from 2009's High Times LP by BRENMAR (THESE ARE POWERS), URXED (HIGH PLACES), BUTCHY FUEGO (PIT ER PAT), NGUZUNGUZU, & LUCKY DRAGONS. Packaged in a proper jacket w/ art cards pasted to both sides. Hand numbered edition of 300.
ThrillJockey
12
$16.25

Poles
Twelve Winds
PS, US The band has expanded on its dark & moody rock. Todd Lemiesz's raspy vocals perfectly compliment each song & truly gives the group their unique sound - think
Califone meets Isis
Doubleplusgood
CD
$10.25

Pontiak
Maker
PS, US A lifetime of shared experience informs the 3 Carney brothers playing as a band: Jennings' bass or Lain's drums often finish the thoughts of Van's guitar. The brothers' voices are remarkably similar, causing the lead & chorus to blend seamlessly: an eerie warmth from what aoppears to be a chorus of 1. Van's guitar work is an exercise in extremes, shifting often w/i 1 song into sharp lines. LP limited to 1000 copies for the world & incl. free download coupon.
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00

Pontiak
Maker
PS, US A lifetime of shared experience informs the 3 Carney brothers playing as a band: Jennings' bass or Lain's drums often finish the thoughts of Van's guitar. CD
version in 4 panel mini-LP jacket
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Ponytail
Kamehameha
PS, US On vinyl for the first time ever! 2006 debut album by Baltimore hyper-punk-pop ensemble Ponytail is a 26 minute rain of energon cubes! A bombast of excitement! Tangible energy bursting through the seams of your skin suit! Beginning with a chorus of voices that emerge from nowhere and ascend in unison to heights shattered. Spiraling guitars that weave and play intermittent, drums that race between them furious, and the soulful, often pre-lingual vocals belting out the play by play of the whole event. It is a listen that will leave you quite out of breath. More fun than a bathtub full of Mountain Dew and Tetris! PITCHFORK: "If p-p-p-pure energy isn't reason enough for a rock band to exist check your pulse."
Gaarden-003
LP
$13.75

Popup
A Time And A Place
PS, US "Three guys and one girl who specialize in jerky, kinetic acoustic pop, Popup are Scotland's biggest unsigned band" - NME. "A band edging dangerously close to cracked pop genius" - Beat Surrender. "From ramshackle folk to spitfire indie anthems. Orange Juice meets Alex Harvey. Immense" - Daily Record. "The musical reference points are plentiful but it points to a certain romance and freewheeling - Arab Strap in their fondness for a wandering narrative, The Delgados' skill with a delicate image, and Sons And Daughters' knack for a rollicking driving beat. At the same time, however, their sound is all their own" - The List.
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Positive Catastrophe
Garabatos Volume One
PS,US Ten-piece little big band that connects the dots between Sun Ra & Eddie Palmieri
Cuneiform
CD
$17.75

Post Historic
Memory Banks Of Blue
PS, US
PostHistoric-001
CD
$7.00

Prefuse 73
Everything She Touched Turnedampexian
(Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
Warp
CD
$15.00

Prints
Prints
PS, US
TemporaryResident-127
LP
$11.50

Project Pale, The
Our Inventions and How They Fail Us
PS, US Artist: The Project Pale is fronted by Kingston NY's Jason Selden, known to the drum n bass world as Glitch from the Chosen. Jason's guitars are reminiscent of Jesu, Isis, and have an edge that comes from his tutelage under Cynic's Paul Masvidal. Bass duties are covered by a familiar face to most Ohm Resistance followers: Submerged. Rounding out the group is Brooklyn's Sensi*star, aka Phillia Kim Downs, who vocalizes on several of the albums tracks. Album: Our Inventions and How They Fail Us is an amazing debut record from a newly formed group. Running the gamut from upbeat synth rock to droning, shoegaze songs and always with an undercurrent of metal and electronic music influence, the album does not sit in one space quietly, but leads the listener on a journey thru many styles and iterations of the guitar / bass / keyboards / vocals / drums chimera. Produced by Bill Laswell, the album delivers, from the over the top synth melody of Driving These Icy Roads, to the Pink Floyd-esque vocals on Pulled Out To Sea, to the epic instrumental Transatlantic. Vocoder action, dubbed out mixes, and even the appearance of a distinctly drum n bass reece line in a rock track power up this Our Inventions and How They Fail Us creatively and leave you wanting more. Label: Our FIRST ROCK RECORD! Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier drum n bass and experimental electronic label. The label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project
pioneer to multi-genre block-rocker.
OhmResistance-12
CD
$12.25

Projects, The
Word of Love Broadcast in Code
PS, US Second album by London-based group with co-founding members Graeme Wilson & Alex Lawton joined by LADYTRON'S Mira Aroyo & Dino Gollnick, COMET GAIN'S Phil Sutton, David O'Malley & that one-man-record making-machine Edward Ball. A journey through the thought processes of Graeme Wilson - a world where voices in Russian or Spanish coexist with English without losing intimacy or familiarity. Its musical formulas follow a constructivist pattern overlaid with utterances torn from the pages of a diary, fragile in their harshness. Ultimately, these songs invoke lullaby qualities with a sense of melancholy found in the knowledge that there's an end to all things.
MindExpansion-2037
CD
$13.25

Projekt Transmit
S/T
PS, US Vinyl version.
Staubgold
LP
$23.50

Projekt Transmit
S/T
PS, US A frim nod to bands like Shellac & My Bloody Valentine, this is the result of Anthony Buck's hardcore, post-rock side. To truly appreciate his musical language, it's important to catch the tiny, but significant details on this album. The jangly guitar edges, the well-placed harmonic sounds, the subtle edges, even the humming vocals. RIYL: Shellac, Glenn Branca, The Necks, Sonic Youth
Staubgold
CD
$18.00

Propagandhi
Supporting Caste
PS, US On their 2009 release Supporting Caste, Canadian natives Propagandhi seem more interested in the challenging prog metal laid down in the Great White North -- in the form of such genre giants as Rush and Voivod -- than continuing the group's earlier punk-emo leanings. Granted, there are still enough elements of their emo past that they won't be confused with Kamelot anytime soon, as well as having Black FlagDescendents drummer Bill Stevenson on board as producer. But there's no denying that the members of Propagandhi are quite adept at their instruments compared to other emo bands -- especially on such tracks as the album opener, "Night Letters," and "Tertium Non Datur." Supporting Caste shows that Propagandhi are not afraid to expand their sound a bit, but the real question is, how far can they go without befuddling their early fans? ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
Smallman
DLP
$17.00

Psychedelic Horseshit
Shitgaze Anthems
PS, US After about a 2 year absence, Psychedelic Horseshit is back with an EP of alleged B-sides from an upcoming full length. And what has happened since we last peeked in on these 'shitgaze' innovators? Well, in parts all over the world that famous 'distorto-lo-fi-sound' has been popping up in quite open spaces. No Age has become the new Brittany Spears, Wavves crashed in outta nowhere like a mid-nineties major label grunge signing, and cute and sweet Vivian Girls are playing on the speakers in Target stores nationwide. What does this have to do with the new Psychedelic Horseshit EP? Well, nothing really, except that if you expect to hear that tried and true lo-fi sound, that is now so en vouge, you might be a little disappointed cause these boys have cleaned up a little bit, and from the sound of things this might only be the beginning. 'I only listen to OK Computer and Cranes. The Fall sucks, DIY sucks, we suck, you suck.' said Matt Horseshit in a recent interview. 'Why should anyone listen to you then?' replied the reporter. 'Because we're FUN, duh.' And even though you wanna hate 'em, you gotta admit, they kinda are fun. Matt is a dick, of course, and Rich is hilariously clueless mostly, and by all means most of the stuff on this Shitgaze Anthems EP shouldn't work, whether it be the white-boy dub section, the cliche acoustic ballad with backwards guitar, the blatant Dylan rips or the overall amateur playing, but for some reason these elements that usually reek of pretention and failure actually endear you to the band and their songs. Yes, they're called Psychedelic Horseshit. Yes, they do suck, but I'll be damned if they aren't one of my favorite bands in the world, and they're only getting better, but if I tried to tell you why it'd only make 'em sound worse. So it goes.
Woodsist
12
$13.75

Pterodactyl
Worldwild
PS, US Welcome to "Worldwild"! "Worldwild" is the culmination of a long PTERODACTYL adventure, an art-rock odyssey through lush pastures of layered vocal harmonies, mountainous rhythms and thick, dark forests of fuzzy, piercing guitars. On Easter Sunday, 2008, in a rustic motel in backwoods Pennsylvania, one day before crossing the border into Canada, Pterodactyl discovered an experience ("Worldwild") that they wanted to keep with them and pursue musically. They felt like they were on a family vacation through a colorful new reality, an experience of solitude and connectedness, alone yet one with everyone. When they returned to Brooklyn Joe began recording demos in his bedroom studio that would be the foundation for most of the material on the record, the sounds and textures of which were beautiful and intriguing, but seemed at first to be at odds with what the band had been known for in the past. But Pterodactyl had found a new, triumphant future in "Worldwild": a schizophrenic, desperate idealism that shone through the confusion of the dozens of vocal tracks and guitar samples Joe had put down. The record that results, which they recorded with Jeremy Scott over six months in 2008, showcases many different facets of the band and its influences but maintains a narrative coalescence throughout - a story of hours upon hours singing alone into a bedroom computer, of frustration and redemption, of petty but heated personal battles between friends, melodies running rampant through sleepless summer nights, triumphant moments of trust and cooperation, and a faith and optimism in the spirit of adventure. Pterodactyl is Joe and Matt, Zach (Ex Models, Knyfe Hyts, the Seconds), and Jesse (Twin Powers, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth).
Jagjaguwar-13/BrahRecords
LP
$11.50

Public Image Ltd.
Flowers of Romance
PS, US 3rd album, originally released in 1981. Another set of harsh, avant-garde, post-punk, much more drum & synthesizer heavy than "Second Edition." Perhaps their most uncompromising album & another classic post-punk title reissued on 180 gram vinyl
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Public Image Ltd.
Second Edition
PS, US 2nd album, widely considered to be their magnum opus. Combining such diverse influences as krautrock, dub, post-punk, & the avant-garde, this is harsh & uncompromising, yet danceable, music. Originally released in the UK as Metal Box this is the 1st vinyl reissue of the US version of the album w/ its different running order. 180 gram 2LP
4MenWithBeards
DLP
$22.50

Pumuky
El Bosque en Llamas
PS, SPAIN Drums roll (like in the first song of the album) to announce the release of Pumuky's new album, titled "El bosque en llamas", which will see the light of day next 13th April. A great work full of wonderful musical corners (some of them secret), which has taken more time than expected to be finished, and the collaboration of a great team of contributors to this band from Barcelona, led by Tenerife-born Jaír Ramírez, his brother Noé, David Giménez and new recruits Tomás García, Nacho Yoldi, Vicente Rosati and Edu Martínez. Pumuky's second album (and his first for Jabalina) opens the door to a very personal lyrical and musical universe that he has built after the years. Very unusual melodies and moods make this record particularly distinctive, avoiding easy descriptions like a furtive hunter - we see a similitude, though, with the strange shadows of Migala, Lambchop's bittersweet acoustic tunes and Patrick Wolf at his most organic. Plus violent electric discharges reminiscent of Mogwai and a melancholy very close to Eluvium, but always in a Pop context. "El bosque en llamas" is made up of 10 songs that show more than ever the variety of registers that Pumuky is capable of. As in the title, this works encapsulates the allegory that fire is at the same time the end and the beginning of things. Maybe that's why it features songs full of energy burstings, like "Tu marca", followed by mellow melancholic pieces such as "Si desaparezco" or "El Hombre Bosque en llamas". Wild guitars, moving walls of keyboards and punchy beats (often played by two simultaneous drummers) feature in songs like "Lobo estepario contra caballos desbocados" (featured in demo form on the compilation "Juegos olímpicos") or "La Metamorfosis", which contrast with delicate arrangements and melodies which soothe the unending outbursts of rage. "El bosque en llamas" is a brilliant mixture of different elements, including instrumentals like "El innombrable" or "El exilio de los invisibles", which dynamize the sound of the record and fit perfectly, thanks to the work of Arturo Vaquero, which makes the record a pleasurable listen from beginning to end, and "readable" as a novel - the texts are moving, simple and stark, and give us a glimpse of the obsessions and hopes of the creator. Interestingly, the lyrics show opposing poles too, something that seems inherent to Pumuky's vital essence: some texts have the scent of misery, like the remarkable "Los enamorados", in which he tries to face his fears: the passing of time, the expiry date of feelings and relationships, the nonsense that surrounds us, the END... On the other hand, some of the other texts are more hopeful, fleshy, they convey good feelings and happiness, the wishes and passions that human beings have, and the emotional crossroads that they put us in... songs such as "Puzzle" or "El Eléctrico romance de Lev Termen y la Diva del Éter" (originally featured on his CD EP "Los exploradores perdidos" and recorded on the sessions of "El bosque en llamas"). Two opposing poles that at the same time are related and depend upon each other. "El bosque en llamas" features valuable collaborations like the vocals of Marina Gómez Carruthers off Klaus & Kinski ("Si desaparezco"), the edgy guitars of Pepo Márquez (The Secret Society) and the hammomd organ, accordion and pianos of brilliant musician Abraham Boba. We can't help mentioning the great work of illustrator Xavier Jalón López, who has expressed perfectly on his brilliant drawings all this amalgam of feelings and emotions. His illustrations are like a physical reaction to Pumuky's inner universe, and to these songs that little by little touch a piece of our hearts and activate our feelings. And thanks too to an indefinite number of anonymous characters who have helped finish the album. They all are part now of Pumuky's forest, which after the fire will regenerate again...
Jabalina-2045
CD
$18.75

Qemists
Join The Q
PS, US Also on 4LP!
NinjaTune
4LP
$42.50

Qemists
Join The Q
PS, US This debut from the underground dance music superstars meshes the high energy of drum'n'bass & rock w/ a wide-ranging set of sounds that betray origins of the mysterious trio as a band before they took to the decks. Dancehall, metal, electro, grime, & hip hop all make their presence known thanks to a host of respected guest vocalists (including MIKE PATTON)
NinjaTune
CD
$16.00

Radiohead
Creep
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Fake Plastic Trees
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
High & Dry
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Just
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
My Iron Lung
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Karma Police
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
2+2=5
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
No Surprises
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Drill
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Paranoid Android
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radiohead
Pyramid Song
PS, US Limited edition RH EP - rare & never before released on vinyl! 180gram, 45rpm 12" vinyl
Capitol
12"
$12.75

Radon, Joshua
Simple Times
PS, US 2008 was a banner year for the Hotel Café, whose popularity soared as songwriters like Priscilla Ahn, Meiko, and Ingrid Michaelson -- three artists who routinely graced the Hollywood venue's stage -- all released fine albums. The Café's female alumni hit the road in late 2008 as part of the Hotel Café Tour, allowing Joshua Radin the chance to release his own record during the lull. Simple Times is the songwriter's second album, building on the hushed guitar 'n' vocals combo that helped push his debut effort, 2006's We Were Here, onto the soundtracks of several television shows. His craft has improved since then -- after all, We Were Here collected the singer's earliest material, appearing only two years after his decision to give songwriting a shot -- but Radin still struggles with the balance between mood and melody. Simple Times is a warm, easygoing album geared for Sunday afternoons and Monday mornings, and its most interesting moments only occur when Radin invites somebody else into the vocal booth. Meiko lends her voice to "Sky," which balances commonplace lyrics with a radio-bound pop melody, while the up-and-coming songbird Erin McCarley harmonizes throughout "They Bring Me to You." Radin could use the musical input of those two artists, yet he relegates their role to that of a background vocalist, forcing them to sing major thirds over melodies that, frankly, pale in comparison to the girls' own material. The presence of Patty Griffin during "You Got Growing Up to Do" shows that Radin's potential may be evident to more veteran songwriters, but it's nevertheless muddled on this record, which offers an entirely pleasant listen but fails to pack the melodic wallop of Radin's Hotel Café peers. ~ Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide
Mom&PopMusic
CD
$14.25

Ramirez, Richard & MSBR
Negative/Offensive: A Tribute to The New Blockaders
PS, US A project in celebration of the work & influence of mysterious UK (anti) artist noise outfit The New Blockaders as constructed by Houston, Texas black whips & male-on-male noise pioneer Richard Ramirez & the sadly departed Japanese harsh noise maestro Koji Tano (MSBR). Fantastic walls of brutal shard skum splatter taken to points of demented anguish & resultant cosmic implosion/explosion. Limited to 400
EcstaticPeace
LP
$13.50

Rats
Intermittent Signals
PS, US The second LP by Portland's RATS - Fred & Toody Cole. Members of PIERCED ARROWS, DEAD MOON, RANGE RATS, ZIPPER, WEEDS, LOLLIPOP SHOPPE, etc. On this LP we find them still uniquely themselves, but in a somewhat art punk DIY setting. Originally released in 1981 - a truly classic punk record. Poster insert, tip-on sleeve.
Mississippi
LP
$13.50

Record Collector
#362 (May 2009)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Red Eyed Legends
Wake Up Legend
PS, US Infamous Chicago act RED EYED LEGENDS return with a vinyl version of their Wake Up Legend album. Featuring DC showman CHRIS THOMSON (IGNITION, CIRCUS LUPUS, MONORCHID, SKULL KONTROL, FURY), as well as folks who were in such acts as THE DISHES, CINCO DE GATOS, WHITE SAVAGE and THE SUBMARINE RACES. Limited to 500 copies.
Corleone
LP
$11.00

Reports
Mosquito Nets
PS, US Great indie pop that isn't afraid to masquerade as loud, fuzzed out rock and roll.
Papercities
LP
$11.50

Risto
Sähköhäiriöön
PS, FINLAND VINYL VERSION!
Fonal-063
LP
$16.25

Risto
Sähköhäiriöön
PS, FINLAND This is the third full-length release by Finland's Risto for the Fonal label. Risto was formed in 2002 to bring to life the visions of singer/keyboard player Risto Ylihärsilä. In addition to him, the line-up includes Tuomas Eriksson on guitar, Minna Kortepuro on bass, and an ever-changing drummer. Sähköhäiriöön is a slightly more serious ride than before. There are darker overtones within the Finnish lyrics and sound and influences ranging from The Beatles to Risto's one year-old first-born son can be heard. Risto used lots of old vintage gear to record this album, and the result is a Finnish pop rallying cry, with sometimes ballad-y, sometimes searing keyboard and piano-work, recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by Risto himself. Risto continues to receive more and more attention and has gathered a loyal and large fan base in their native land with their intense performances and genre-spanning pop/rock. Sähköhäiriöön should please the most fervent fan as well as draw in some newcomers to their sound: a mix of anthemic rock, boozy bar-ballads, and smiling, theatrical Euro-pop.
Fonal-063
CD
$16.25

Rites of Spring
End on End
PS, US Re-issued and recut from the Silver Sonya masters. Includes a free MP3 download of the album.
Dischord
LP
$13.00

Riverdales
Phase 3
PS,US Often regarded as their best record, given new life: re-mixed, re-mastered, re-done vocals, added harmonies, & 5 unreleased songs. A punk rock classic
AsianMan
LP
$13.50

Roach, Steve
Dynamic Stillness
PS,US Across the 2CD release, amorphous shifting sonics glide in a phenomenal flow, highly cohesive & yet ever-changing. These 8 long-form tracks undulate softly & slowly, radiating light even as darkness hovers along the edges
Projekt
DCD
$18.00

Roberts, Alasdair
Spoils
PS, US Vinyl.
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Roberts, Alasdair
Spoils
PS, US Returned from his voyages of discovery around the globe, Alasdair Roberts has brought a sac of assorted goods for you merchants, eight epic new songs. On board are AlasdairÕs old hands from Appendix Out, Tom Crossley & Gareth Eggie, as well as free percussionist extraordinaire Alex Nielson, noted baroque guitarist Gordon Ferries, Emily MacLaren, Niko-Matti Ahti, of Finnish free-pop duo Kiila, and David McGuinness & Alison McGillivray, both of ScotlandÕs Concerto Caledonia, bringing a loose & lively mixture of drums, bass, piano, flute, glockenspiel, harpsichord, harmonium, viol, synthesizer, dulcimer, psaltery, hurdy gurdy, fiddle, and of course guitars & voices. Ever heady, AlasdairÕs got the crew working together to support a craft comprised of luddite musings, tales from the traveling people & all manner of syncretic folklore, philosophy & a variety of faiths. Spoils has a lot on deck, but itÕs meted out evenly & with an intense energy, always in service of the songs, which are marked with some of AlasdairÕs finest melodies.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Rodriguez
Coming From Reality
PS, US Back in 1971, Coming From Reality was Rodriguez's last gasp, the follow-up to Cold Fact and the final album he was allowed to record for the Sussex label. Unearthed, once again by Light In The Attic Records, it's another treat for fans new and old, designed - at the time - as Rodriguez's vision of a perfect pop album. Coming From Reality found Rodriguez decamping from Detroit to London's Lansdowne Studios, where the album was recorded with some of the UK's top talent including Chris Spedding (Harry Nilsson, Sex Pistols, Dusty Springfield) and producer Steve Rowland (The Pretty Things, PJ Proby and the man who discovered The Cure), who recalls Coming From Reality as his all time favorite recording project. Highlights include the super-poppy To Whom It May Concern, the Rocky Raccoon-inspired A Most Disgusting Song and period piece Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour. The reissue also includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore & Dennis Coffey, representing the last thing the trio ever did together. Meanwhile, the Rodriguez story keeps gathering pace. A Swedish film company is working on a feature length documentary about the enigmatic performer's music and life. Rodriguez is planning to bring his live show to the UK and Europe come Spring/Summer 2009, along with further North American touring.
LightInTheAttic-038-2
CD
$15.00

Rollins, Henry
Live @ McCabe's
PS,US Re-release of a long out of print title. Contains his spoken word from shows he did on June 9 & 10, 1990 at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA. Sharing the stage w/ Henry that night were Exene Cervenka & Hubert Shelby, Jr.
2.13.61
MCD
$9.75

Roses Are Red
Can't Understand b/w Your Love Is Like A Ballistic Missile
PS, US "A five-piece punk band formed in the first half of 1978, Roses Are Red suffered a series of personnel changes before a March 1979 line-up featuring Chris Thompson (v) and Nicky Hallam (gtr) with Vibrators members Greg Van Cook, Ian 'Knox' Carnochan and John 'Eddie' Edwards recorded this self-produced single at Elephant Studios, London, and privately issued it in June, receiving positive responses. The stand out track is Your Love Is Like A Ballistic Missile, and infectious punk song built around a catchy chorus: a DIY punk gem which has developed a steady reputation among collectors...." [45 revolutions]
SingSingRecords
45
$6.50

RUDI
Big Time b/w No. One
PS, US The first punk band to emerge from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Rudi was formed in late 1975; although before punk broke, the original lineup toyed with glam sounds and even had two drummers! This lineup consisted of Ronnie Matthews (gtr/v), Brian Young (gtr/v), Drew Brown (d) and Graham 'Grimmy' Marshall (bass/vcls). By the time their first single was recorded, Graham Marshall moved to drums and Gordon Blair joined on bass. "A single, cheaply recorded at Templepatrick Studios on February 1978, emerged in the last week of April '78, housed in a fold-open cover with artwork inspired by the 1932 movie 'The Mummy' (with Boris Karloff) on the front. A punk/powerpop song of superior musical level, Big Time was the perfect introduction to Rudi: crisp, tight, energetic and contagiously melodic. The flip was a good '77 three chord garage-punker, which confirmed the band's talent." [45
Revolutions]
SingSingRecords
45
$6.50

Servile Sect
Stratospheric Passenger
PS, US LP issue of a limited CD issued in 2007 on the Sounds of Battle & Souvenir Collecting label. "Bizarre, & hauntingly beautiful slab of alien black metal. Not sure what else to call it, it's definitely black metal, but it's weirdly blissy & electronic sounding, more like Alcest or Amesoeurs than old school grimnity, but even then, it's still weirder, like it must have been played by robots or insects, or some massive black metal machine aassembled beneath the surface of some mysterious moon" - Aquarius
EcstaticPeace
LP
$13.50

Seven, Lary & Jim Sharpe
Burlap Fantasy (2X7")
PS, US The word on this record from field corespondent Jesper Eklow: "It's been out for a few years already and has been thee icebreaker at parties item around these here parts for many moons now. Local Plastikville geniuses Lary 7 and Jim Sharpe pressed 500 of this gem and I was quite taken aback one recent late night at the local tavern when Lary disclosed that he still had a few copies of this available in his closet... many land line phone calls later..... What the hell is this thing anyway? It's a couple of very strange versions of Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" - Lary and Jim found an 8-track that played the stuff all wrong. They filtered this insanity through some of their ancient audiophile gear and voila - a muy tasty item that if you play the 7"s side by side at the same time DJ style this shit will proverbially blow your actual mind. This is the reason you are given 2 copies of the same single with a piece of burlap in between btw. The two sides sound absolutely incredible on their own as well. I play one of the sides every time people who should know better ask me to DJ. And it never fails to achieve high level 'what the hell is this?' status in the local watering holes in lower manhattan and brooklyn."
Plastikville
45
$5.50

Shogun Kunitoki
Vinonaamakasio (ON SALE)
PS, FINLAND Highly recommended! Get your trance on all Summer... This is the second full-length release by Shogun Kunitoki, an instrumental quartet based in Helsinki, Finland. With Vinonaamakasio, Shogun Kunitoki expand the boundaries of their self-created sonic universe with a wider array of sounds and rhythms. Where their debut, Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2005), squeezed cosmic dust into fiery balls of molten lava with gravitational push and pull and followed the planets whirring through the void on looping trajectories, Vinonaamakasio zooms in to explore the surface of newfound heavenly bodies, outlines the jagged shapes of exploding volcanoes, rolls with the moonlit waves through the cracks of sleeping, phosphorescent coral reefs, and marches in step with the six-legged insect armies making their trails through the steaming jungle. Every atom of this newborn planet of sound vibrates, synchronous to the seething psychedelic stew that throbs under the surface and burns your feet if you let them stop moving. The group's first album came out of nowhere, and established the previously-unknown band as one of the most original instrumental groups to have emerged after the post-rock boom. Tasankokaiku's psychedelic mix of minimalist form and maximalist sound that draws equally from the academic avant-garde and the left-field rock canon from the '60s to the present day has won the group a small but fervent fan base. After its release, Tasankokaiku was immediately recognized by reviewers and music fans as a compelling cocktail of accessibility and ambitious aspirations, a kaleidoscopic mix of edgy 8-bit bleepiness and soft-focus psychedelia. Vinonaamakasio picks up where that record left off, but this time absolutely explodes into the cosmos with an unrelenting squall of swirling organ patterns, droning guitars, ring modulator death-rays, and an impenetrable wall of percussion, sweeping the past 30 years of Krautrock, psych, prog, and electronic innovation up into your dizzy, expanding head-space.
Fonal-062
CD
$15.00

Signer's Suitcase
Peter Liecht w/ Roman Signer
PS, US On the road through Signer's Suitcase, elusive artist Roman Signer brings his chosen spots alive using a variety of tricks from his kit bag, launching brilliantly simple operations with a combination of gunpowder, fuses, rubber boots, balloons, stools, small tables & other seemingly random items. All his endeavors result in a marvelous visual display full of poker-faced humor that has earned him a place on the cover of Gastr del SolÕs "Upgrade & Afterlife," as well as the sometimes title, "Roman Signer: the Buster Keaton of Art." Signer's Suitcase is also a journey through a state of mind, a tightrope walk from fun to melancholy. Mental & physical risk promote stimulus of the senses Ð and sudden crashes & abrupt changes of mood determine the rhythm & atmosphere of this cinematic journey.
DragCity
DVD
$14.75

Silent Killer
Everyone Bleeds
PS, US Press Quotes: • Dieselboy: "Banging futurism from the dark edge of brooklyn" • AK1200: "Silent Killer has been slaying the market with his fierce yet highly developed sound which has been heard in sets from all the key players. Too many top tunes to mention, but this is one of the standouts in who's who for 2009" • Submerged: "A truly innovative new direction and a gigantic leap in production from Brooklyn's street soldier. Silent Killer is ready to party" • Counterstrike: "Silent Killer is about to pwn everyone with this album. Heavy tunes delivered with soul." Artist Info: Silent Killer is Sean Shah, a Konkrete Jungle NYC resident, hailing from the wilds of south Brooklyn, NY. A veteran of the drum n bass 12" circuit, with releases on Obliterati, Outbreak UK, Hate Recordings, and of course Ohm Resistance, he has stepped up to the plate with a powerful album project that breaks him far out of the DnB mold. Combining influences of both east coast and west coast hip hop, cutting edge electrohouse, a love of the Notorious B.I.G., the symphonic atmospheres of Don Davis, and a sharp ear for world music and vocal samples, Silent Killer has matured as an artist beyond the world of singles and dancefloor exclusivity. Album// The biggest surprise for those familiar with the usual brutality of Silent Killer's music is the sheer accessibility of the entire album. Taking elements of the most recent electro happenings and fusing them with heavy and precise drum n bass beats, EVERYONE BLEEDS is a true crossover masterwork. From the melodic opening of Savior to the uplifting synths in The Great Machine the album rocks like drum n bass thugs at the electro club - partying nonstop and smashing the place up while loving every second. Remixes from top-level dnb producer Submerged and up and coming Guerilla head honcho Breaker liven up the album, without distracting from the vibe. Melodic interplay and razor sharp reeses dot the record while thick, powerful beats and subsonic basses fire underneath, keeping the groove moving throughout. Surprising, elevating, and memorable, EVERYONE BLEEDS is a testament to Silent Killer's maturing as an artist. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier drum n bass and experimental electronic label. The label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-11
CD
$12.25

Silversun Pickups
Swoon (ON SALE)
PS, US THE ONION AV CLUB: "It isn't a departure-thick, huge-sounding guitars propel the chorus in the opener "There's No Secrets This Year"-but Swoon shows commendable growth. Like Carnavas, Silversun recorded it with producer Dave Cooley and mixed it with Tony Hoffer, but unlike that album, Swoon was tracked all at once, not in multiple sessions interrupted by touring. That lends the album a cohesion its predecessor lacked; Swoon sounds like Silversun taking its time, with a minimum of studio bloat (16-piece orchestra excepted). It lacks some of Carnavas' instant pleasures, but Swoon finds Silversun Pickups on the right path."
Dangerbird
CD
$13.75

Silversun Pickups
Swoon
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Dangerbird
DLP
$20.50

Six Finger Satellite
Half Control
PS, US Vinyl!
Load
LP
$12.50

Skeletonbreath
Eagle's Nest, Devil's Cave
PS, US Metal/prog/gypsy/syncopated insanity. Features members of O'DEATH & RAD ROCKET
ErnestJenning
CD
$10.00

Slayer
Psychopathy Red
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive! The blood-red vinyl "Psychopathy Red" 7-inch collectors item will be packaged in a special Russian crime scene "evidence envelope," as the song was inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, aka the Rostov Ripper, who confessed to brutally murdering 56 children. Yikes.
Columbia
45
$5.75

Sleeping in Gethsemane
Burrows
PS,US A fresh breath of air in the ocean of droning, doomy instrumental post-hardcore bands. This takes hints from bands like Russian Circles & Explosions in the Sky
Init
CD
$12.75

Snake Flower 2
Things Seem
PS, US 3 song EP released by IEKK! Sounds from Spain. LIMITED to 400 copies
IEEK!Sounds
45
$7.25

So Cow
S-T
PS, US Here's 18 choice numbers from Tuam's favored songsmith and overall pop genius Brian Kelly. This LP includes selected tracks from his self-released CDs, the two singles, plus a dash of new material making it the greatest LP ever made. All of this was remastered from the original recordings by BOB WESTON his accomplice CARL SAFF
TicTacTotally
LP
$16.75

Somatic Responses
Reformation
PS, GERMANY Electronic, dubstep, breakcore. Somatic Responses come back to Ad Noiseam with an album in which they re-invent their sound and finally put on record their taste for fresh and warmer sounds. Bridging their talented production with dubstep and rethinking their music, the Healy brothers have slowed things down, added more weight to their tracks, and are ready to out-bass pretty much everybody else. Reformation, renewal and re-establishment indeed!
AdNoiseam-110
CD
$15.50

Soul Jazz Record Bag
Navy Blue
PS,US Impress friends and family alike with this stylish Soul Jazz LP Bag. Scientifically and ergonomically designed to hold over 30 12"'s. Navy Blue w/white piping & strap. This is fashion over function, folks. Whether you're a DJ or simply a fashionable person this bag is simple, classic & functionable!
SoulJazz
RECORDBAG
$24.25

Soul Jazz Record Bag
Green
PS,US Impress friends and family alike with this stylish Soul Jazz LP Bag. Scientifically and ergonomically designed to hold over 30 12"'s. Green w/gold piping & strap. This is fashion over function, folks. Whether you're a DJ or simply a fashionable person this bag is simple, classic & functionable!
SoulJazz
RECORDBAG
$24.25

Soul Jazz Record Bag
Royal Blue
PS, US Impress friends and family alike with this stylish Soul Jazz LP Bag. Scientifically and ergonomically designed to hold over 30 12"'s. Royal Blue w/white piping & strap. This is fashion over function, folks. Whether you're a DJ or simply a fashionable person this bag is simple, classic & functionable!
SoulJazz
RECORDBAG
$24.25

Speed Dating
No. 6 Records Compendium
PS,US From the infamous No. 6 Records label, released by TEENBEAT RECORDS. A 2-CD set of 13 vinyl singles on CD for the first time. Includes the debut single from the DWARVES, DEAN WAREHAM's first recordings after Galaxie 500 plus two songs recorded with his first wife (Cagney & Lacee), the stateside debut of the TINDERSTICK's (Marbles, For Those), BEWITCHED, GREG DULLI with MARCY MAYS under the name ORNAMENT, a pair of A-siders from UNREST & more!
Teenbeat/No6Records
CD
$11.50

Sperm
Shh!
PS, US Totally legit LP only reissue of this amazing Helsinki monsterpiece from 1970. Primarily a document of Pekka Airaksinen's experimental compositions, consisting of primitive samples, guitar loop feedback & musique concrete. Exact repro, limited to 500
Destijl
LP
$16.75

Spokes
People Like People Like
PS, US There is a rustic feel to their reverb-soaked, violin-coated sound, one that has been compared to Arcade Fire.
Counter
CD
$16.00

St. Kilda
S/T
PS, US Super limited 3" CD. St Kilda is the side-project of Last Days' Graham Richardson. Having issued two critically acclaimed albums (soon to be three) through the evergreen n5MD, St Kilda acts as a distant counterpart or reprise to the themes established on his Last Days 2006 debut "Sea". From the lonely wind sounds that usher in opening number "This Small Boat" to the pure elegiac beauty of closing track "The Sirens", St Kilda projects an emotional depth not normally associated with primarily digitally performed sound. Warm, shimmering soundscapes are formed using drifting, melancholic drones and subtle, heart-breaking harmonic shifts which mingle with intriguing forgotten sounds and digital scree. JasperTX's seminal "I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You" remains a suitable reference point and perhaps the more wistful aspects of Stars of the Lid's repertoire. With four tracks gently unfolding over twenty minute duration, St Kilda will most definitely tug at your heart-strings, but those who listen deep enough will discover a journey of triumph over adversity.
PhantomChannel-2009
CD
$8.75

St. Vincent
Actor
PS, US he follow-up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark's) first album "Marry Me" (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Clark toured extensively in support of "Marry Me" with artists like The National, Death Cab For Cutie, and Arcade Fire, and was named Female Artist Of The Year at the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards. Before recording as St. Vincent, she was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band, and she performed with Glenn Branca's guitar orchestra. Look for her at SXSW, Bonnaroo, and Sasquatch.
4AD
CD
$13.25

St. Vincent
Actor
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$14.00

Stabat Akish
S-T
PS, US Maxime Delporte's band combines jazz, rock, & classical into a crazy new music filled w/ compositional surprises, brilliant solos & wild juxtapositions. Perfect for fans of Zappa, Zs & Zorn
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

Starfucker
Jupiter
PS,US 180 gram vinyl
Badman
LP
$13.50

Starfucker
Jupiter
PS,US 26 minute mini-album of dance-y upbeat tunes. "Fractured, homemade pop, w/ handclaps, bleary synths, drum machines, clunky acoustic guitars, & honeyed lo-fi harmonies" - Pitchfork
Badman
CD
$10.75

Static Static
Psychic Eyes
PS, US Static Static combine live and electronic instruments and percussion in a way that produces a serious sounding, sharpened state of bright and hynotic electronic fuzz punk. Citing influences like Devo, Chrome, Electric Eels, Suicide you can gather an image pretty quickly. You probably know the deal by now with their string of EPs on 4:2:2, Hozac and more. Definitely a must have rocker with a reserved and serious no BS sound.
TicTacTotally
LP
$13.25

Still Flyin'
Never Gonna Touch The Ground
PS, US The kinetic energy of 60's era rock steady w/ the catchy hooks & DIY aesthetic of today's best indie-pop.
ErnestJenning
CD
$11.00

Stith, DM
Heavy Ghost
PS, US Heavy Ghost communicates a startling range-from earnest yearning to heartbreak, shimmering hopefulness to the brink of existential despair. David Stith's ethereal voice communicates the unfathomable-mysticism, the commingling of water and fire, waking dreams, spiritual torment-with such reckless abandon that is rarely seen in many albums, let alone a debut work.
AsthmaticKitty-44
DLP
$14.25

Stormcrow/Laudanum
Sacred Death
PS, US Stormcrow has built a reputation as the heaviest & most epic metallic crust band since the mighty Bolt Thrower. Here, they deliver 2 more masterpieces of skullcrushing power, adding elements of doom & Swedish death metal into their sound. Laudanum come from a much more doomed spectrum, as though The Melvins & Swans had been left to rot in some dank Oakland industrial zone. Their sound is outright industrial-influenced noise interspersed w/ their gristled doom riffage
20BuckSpin
LP
$16.00

Storsveit Nix Noltes
Royal Family - Divorce
PS, US Limited to 500. Featuring a Who's Who of Icelandic musicians, 11-piece Balkanfolk ensemble Stórsveit Nix Noltes has earned a reputation for their impossibly frenetic live show, brought to US audiences during headline shows and a tour supporting Animal Collective. With Royal Family-Divorce, Stórsveit Nix Noltes has captured - inasmuch as it is possible - the blistering energy, sweat, and speed of the band's live sound. Recorded in a tiny cottage just outside Reykjavík, this collection of re-arranged traditional Balkan folk songs is a dynamically arresting, anthemically stirring set of Eastern-European orchestral adventures and exhilarating rhythmic thunder - a record that encourages as many wild nights dancing as it does thoughtful listening with headphones. It's easy to make comparisons to groups of similar influence like Beirut or A Hawk & A Hacksaw, but this fails to evoke the grand-scale musicianship of these 11, many of whom are classically trained or have formal education in composition, jazz, and improv, in addition to years playing music around the world with myriad groups. It may be more fitting to draw comparison to the Slavic passion and rambunctious energy of Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica, but what we have in Stórsveit Nix Noltes is something that stands beyond past and future, beyond Bulgaria and Iceland, beyond academic and indie music, and ends up somewhere in the stratosphere.
FatCatRecords-080
LP
$12.25

Sun City Girls
Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Volume 2
PS, US This is the second volume in a series featuring rare singles and unreleased tracks from Sun City Girls. In the summer of 1988, Sun City Girls began working on two records simultaneously: Torch Of The Mystics and Dante's Disneyland Inferno. The former was finished and released in December of 1989 but the latter wasn't released until April of 1996. Over those eight years, Dante's morphed into an entirely different record due to several songs originally targeted for inclusion being hijacked by other projects.
Abduction
CD
$15.00

Sun Kil Moon
Tonight The Sky
PS, US Super-limited (500 copies) vinyl version of the 4-track CD bonus disc that accompanied 2008's "April" CD album, plus 2 live tracks. Roughly 45 minutes total, black vinyl. Includes alternate versions of "Tonight In Bilbao," "The Light," "Like The River," "Tonight The Sky," & live versions of "Tonight In Bilbao" & "Lucky Man"
VinylFilms
LP
$22.50

Sunburned Hand of the Man
Fire Escape
PS, US Vinyl with new artwork. Features new exclusive track not found on the CD! Limited to 1000!
SmalltownSupersound
DLP
$21.00

Sunset
Loveshines II / I'm Not A Perfect Person (Looks Like I Fucked Up Again)
PS, US Strictly limited to 500 copies. Seven-inch 45rpm vinyl single including the tracks Loveshines II and I'm Not a Perfect Person (Looks Like I Fucked Up Again). Loveshines II is a full band recording with a full band live overdub. I'm Not a Perfect Person is a sparse, Bill Baird only track that was penned, recorded and mixed around 5am one morning during the same all night studio sessions from which Loveshines II comes.
Autobus-009
45
$5.50

Superchunk
Leaves in the Gutter
PS,US After 7 years w/o a CD release, the group drops a 5 song EP in the mold of their early 7-inches & between album EP masterpieces. 4 brand new tracks plus last year's vinyl-only hit single "Misfits & Mistakes"
Merge
MCD
$7.25

Superpartner
Love Hotel
PS, SPAIN From southern Italy, seaside and the participation in selected renown festivals , out of the blue come Superpartner. Please meet Rosita and her fresh cotton skirt, and Francesco, deep black nouvelle vague eyes. The tension between the two parts comes out in pop melodies full of spleen and ecstasy. Voluptuous cinematic hints mixed with a bubblegum pink icing, reminding Cardigans' 90s blondeness, Komeda's style, Stereolab's class and Delgados' duets. Many inspirations, no one to look up to. You'll find Superpartner tunes sunny and refreshing but sometimes sour like a good old times lemonade.
PippolaMusic-008
CD
$12.00

Sweet Trip
You Will Never Know Why
PS, US Unlearn your shoegaze from space rock, drum n' bliss from glitch n' beat, ethereal from experimental as hybrid band Sweet Trip demonstrates uniqueness by blurring such definitions yet again. Their newest record: You Will Never Know Why is an auditory jigsaw puzzle - a collection of analog and digital pieces forming a soundscape that sympathizes with the human ability to cope when life splinters painfully upon itself. Until Velocity:Design:Comfort, which was praised by fans and critics as XLR8R, Earshot-Online, All Music Guide, and Opuszine, Sweet Trip's music was primarily characterized by aloofness, left brain unpredictability, hard electronic glitches, minimal lyrics, minimal vocals, and dancey programming. You Will Never Know Why however, sits on the right, featuring less chaos, more intimacy from the artists, and clearer straightforward instrumentation. Heaven forbid, we hear actual lyrics and live drums. It is a record truer to pop or rock, however fans of the innovative Sweet Trip trademark sound will be relieved to know that the glitchy, bleepy and dreamy elements have not been abandoned altogether, but are arranged in a much more delicate, ornate and balanced form.
Darla-222
CD
$12.25

Swift, Richard
The Atlantic Ocean
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SecretlyCanadian-183
LP
$11.50

Swift, Richard
The Atlantic Ocean
PS, US The Atlantic Ocean is the fourth release from American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Richard Swift. Celebrated for his lo-fi, experimental mélanges saluting genres from Doo-Wop to lush American Pop, Swift adds jaunty synthesizers and Motown soul to make Ocean his most danceable record to date. After touring the US with Cold War Kids, Wilco and Stereolab, Swift started recording The Atlantic Ocean in Wilco's Chicago loft on a vintage analog tape machine sold to him by Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy. With a methodical approach and help from engineer Chris Colbert (The Walkmen) and mulit-instrumentalist Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens, Crystal Skulls), Swift's vintage mixtures on Ocean are seamless and bright. Collaboration with producer Mark Ronson on track "Ballad of Old What's His Name" features the talents of Ryan Adams, Mark Ronson, Sean Lennon and Pat Sansone of Wilco, a strange pairing of musicians, producing beautiful results. The Atlantic Ocean continues Swift's tradition of defying musical categorization while showcasing his signature wry, whimsical style. Title-track "The Atlantic Ocean" opens the album with bouncy synth-powered pop while orchestra swells blend with electric guitar solos on "The First Time." Ragtime horns parade on "Bat Coma Motown" and single "Lady Luck" brings the album to a close with Swift's signature croon hearkening serious 60s soul. With a balanced mix of dry, minimal rock and roll, and futuristic synthesizer stabs, Swift himself refers to the album's sound as "Prince sitting in on John Lennon's Plastic Ono sessions".
SecretlyCanadian-183
CD
$11.50

Taiga Remains
Wax Canopy
PS, US Over the past few years Alex Cobb has developed a signature sound that blurs the line between blissed-out guitar work & atonal, blown-out dirges. His soothing, six-string sorcery still dots the horizon on this album, but there's also a more angular, blown-out monster at work here. It's like he's channeling the angry spirits of the world into fuzzed elegiac strains. Limited to 500 copies
Digitalis
CD
$11.00

Teenagers From Outer Space
Summer In Space
PS, US Blends everything from hard-synths, incredible beats & shoe-gaze guitar parts into a big dance party.
Requin
CD
$12.00

Teeth Mountain
S-T
PS, US Driven primarily by neo-tribal drums, which would seemingly put them in league with the rumbling sound of Bmore's Thank You. But "12 Plus Harsh Tanz" in particular is much more reflective. The guitar brings to mind the cracked post-1960s dream-psyche hangover of Pink Floyd, I'm thinking here of an instrumental interlude that might have been on Obscured by Clouds, or perhaps the contemporaneous Eastern-infused lines of Popul Vuh's Daniel Fichelscher. It's headspace music, to be sure, but in some places people dance to this sort of thing. " -Pitchfork
ShadowPlay
LP
$10.25

Telekinesis
S/T
PS,US Influenced both by the carefully constructed timeless pop of the 60s & 70s & by the nonchalance & brevity of classic indie rock.
Merge
CD
$12.50

Temptations
Cloud Nine
PS,US 180 -grm LP reissues to mark the 50th anniversary of Motown! All original packaging.
UniversalMotown
LP
$19.00

Terminals
Little Things
PS, US Reissue of the 1995 follow-up to "Touch." Denser, & perhaps heavier than before, but not abandoning song structure. Like "Touch," this is a swirling, claustrophobic maelstrom of sound led by Stephen Cogle's distinctive, warbling baritone. There's a sonic density at work in the best of the group's songs; an everexpanding wall of noise that threatens to collapse & engulf the listener in its murky cacophony. Remastered by Brian Cook w/ 2 bonus tracks - a cover of Roxy Music's "Both Ends Burning" & a live version of "Do the Void." Also includes substantial liner notes by NZ musicologist Jon Dale
LastVisibleDog
CD
$12.00

Thao/Thermals
Split
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: All unreleased tracks!
KillRockStars
45
$4.50

Thee Oh Sees
Help
PS, US Even wilder & more rocking than last year's "Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In." This draws straight, dark lines to both the British psychedelic rock of bands like the Creation & the caveman thud of the Troggs while a Cramps-like appreciation for rockabilly lies not far below. The album weaves John Dwyer's (LIGHTNING BOLT, COACHWHIPS, HOSPITALS) signature AM radio howl w/ the catchiest of driving tunes, Brigid Dawson's gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thich spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums, & an undeniable pull
IntheRed
CD
$14.25

Thermals
Now We Can See
PS,US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars
LP
$13.25

Thermals
Now We Can See
PS,US Rumors of their death have been greatly under-exaggerated. Though NOT a concept record & NOT a sequel, this picks up right where they left off, at the end of their last LP, 2006's "The Body, The Blood, The Machine," when they were either obliterated by nuclear war, or walked the earth as the last living souls, until they dropped dead of quite unnatural causes. I don't know, the plot was a little hard to follow. Either way, the story continues... from beyond the grave! With catchy choruses!
KillRockStars
CD
$14.25

Thieves Like Us
Play Music
PS, US CD version. Thieves Like Us is a musical vehicle -- an elegant starship, pointed straight to the heart of the listener.
Although they encompass a variety of influences, they ultimately consider themselves to be a pop band. Yes, the production style is both disco & hip-hop, but the sheer strength of the melodies & emotional depth of the songs makes them classics (think LCD Soundsystem, New Order, Daft Punk, Digitalism). But no matter
how you interpret Thieves Like Us if you have a pulse, you'll know their songs by heart already.
Shelflife
CD
$12.25

Thisquietarmy
Unconquered
PS, POLAND Canadian guitarist Erick Quach (of noted shoegazer band Destroy All Dreamers) steps out on his own with this debut of drone/ambient hypnosis. Features a guest appearance by Nadja's Aidan Baker.
Forshadow-007
CD
$15.75

Tignor, Christopher
Core Memory Unwound
PS, US For years Slow Six band-leader, composer, and software designer Christopher Tignor has performed with his signature software instruments alongside fellow band members, sampling and transforming their live performances in accordance with his meticulous, emotionally-charged scores. On Core Memory Unwound, his debut under his given
name, he brings his software to the forefront alongside some of his most intimate compositions for violin and piano. A record dealing with memory, both metaphorically and literally, these intimate tone poems for violin and piano are each presented in two forms, once in their original acoustic state, and then as a "memory portrait" through
Tingor's live performances on his signature software instruments, creating new works from samples of these performances taken on the fly. "Core Memory" was once the dominant architecture for computer memory, consisting of a fine mesh of interwoven wires. On this release Tignor brings his background as computer scientist and composer center-stage, deconstructing his own music through performance. Creating new compositions from key violin and piano gestures played
during the acoustic performances, these "memory portraits" have a life both intimately bound to, yet completely distinct from their source works. The delicate, angular melodies of "Last Thought at Night" echo the sentimental musical anecdotes of Eric Satie, while the spartan, time-frozen world within "Meeting in a Colored Shadow" calls to mind Morton Feldman or even the fragility of Arvo Pärt's "Für Alina." By contrast the blissful, cascading violin arpeggios on "Last Nights on Eagle Street" entangle us in a bright embrace, reminiscent of Terry Riley's "Rainbow in a
Curved Air."
WesternVinyl-61
CD
$11.50

Tillis, Bishop Perry
In Times Like These
PS, US Culled from 62 hours of cassettes recorded between 2002-03. Bishop Tillis plays electric guitar & sings his own rough hewn style of gospel - not for the faint of heart! Tip-on sleeve, liners included
MississippiRecords
LP
$13.50

Tinted Windows
Tinted Windows
PS, US Supergroups are rarely as evenly balanced as Tinted Windows, the power pop powerhouse consisting of boy band veteran Taylor Hanson, Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. Hanson's participation in this project is unexpected only to those not paying close attention. Ever since the days of "MMM Bop," Hanson has shown a flair for sugary pure pop, something he continued to develop as he and his brothers turned from teen sensations into working troubadours, but their steady, solid work in the 2000s never got as much attention as their first hits, so many listeners may be surprised to hear how comfortable he is with this fuzzy, old-fashioned power pop. Then again, Hanson never quite seemed of their time even in 1997, basing their entire sound on the fizzy sound of '60s oldies, so the '70s fantasia of Tinted Windows is no great stretch for Taylor Hanson, just like it's no great stretch for Adam Schlesinger, who has carved out a niche as a pop anthropologist, re-creating the sounds of yesteryear for the soundtracks of That Thing You Do and Music and Lyrics; indeed, he initially met Taylor back in the '90s when Hanson's label suggested him as a possible collaborator based on this very skill. Schlesinger relies on this gift somewhat on Tinted Windows, but for as tradition-bound as this album is, it's not self-consciously retro: it's a balanced collaboration, its melodies bearing the indelible stamp of both Hanson and Schlesinger, while its music is colored by Iha's saturated '70s guitars and pinned down by Carlos' tight rhythms. Bun E's very presence suggests that Tinted Windows might have a bit of Cheap Trick's feverish rock & roll, but the group errs on the side of caution, the product of a bunch of longtime veterans getting back to basics and playing their first love. While the former cancels out the latter ever so slightly -- there's not much abandon here, only precision -- the pleasure of the popcraft outweighs much of the caution in the construction, especially when the insistent hooks are delivered with such puppy-dog earnestness by Taylor Hanson. Of all the guys here, he is the only one to never have performed in a guitar-heavy rock & roll band, and his thrill to be singing these sweet melodies over these big, fuzzy guitars can be infectious. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
S-CurveRecords
CD
$12.25

Title Tracks
Every Little Bit Hurts
PS, US TITLE TRACKS deliver songs of uncanny structure and form were up online almost instantly, and even in demo form the tunes seemed to hit upon a crack formula: Immediate, but timeless; homespun, but epic. JOHN DAVIS has an almost scientific--but never clinical--approach to songwriting; bits and pieces and diverse influences (culled from such wells as past stints in bands like Q AND NOT U and GEORGIE JAMES; a holy-grailstocked record collection; a savant-like literacy in power pop and punk; a moonlighting gig as a radio disc jockey; and more) sort of explode and fall into place with a kind of Tetris-esque satisfaction. After several years of co-writing songs with others, in January of 2008, he started work on writing his first music as a solo composer. The debut Title Tracks single on Dischord contains some of those first songs.
Dischord
45
$5.25

Todd, Mia Doi
Morning Music
PS, US 1st album of instrumental music, featuring ANDRES RENTERIA on 2 tracks
CityZen
CD
$14.25

Tonikom
The Sniper's Veil
PS, GERMANY After attracting attention with two cd-r releases, Tonikom was signed by hymen records; epoch was the first result. Two years later, the sniper's veil displays this artist's evolution and improvement. 'temporarius delerium' invites the listener in with angelic voices, mighty bass pulses and a looped chant, just before a pounding breakbeat takes over and calls the shots for the album. Pushing technoid textures carry beautiful electronica themes; sampled field recordings add a cinematic ambiance to the diversified, straight rhythmic foundation covering a range of downtempo, trip hop, breakbeat and fast chthonian four-to-the-floor cadences. with the atmospheric 'look but never touch' the album comes full circle - to start all over again... a varied and monolithic opus designed for a maximum amount of body activity, letting you groove continuously in a higher state of blissful flow. lift the sniper's veil - and watch Tonikom live on her European tour in April 2009!
Hymen-774
CD
$15.50

Trullie, Lissy
Self-Taught Learner
PS, US Tough new-wave riffs & throatily sung girl-group melodies that are as effortlessly cool as her favorite black leather jacket. Catchy yet disaffected, shot through w/ boozy energy & laden w/ the rawest guitar work possible. Her voice is a Nico-like alto (which she mixes up w/ dashes of ethereal falsetto) untouchable even by Julian Casablancas.
AmericanMyth
CD5
$6.75

Tuma, Scott & Mike Weis
Taradiddle
PS, US A new journey down similar terrain, searching out something new in a landscape that's been visited before. Take TUMA's capable hands & add the fantastic percussive talents of WEIS (ZELIENOPLE) & it's like the wheel reinvented. These two play off one another beautifully, w/ Weis creating layers of havoc beneath Tuma's pastoral missives. Weis is the perfect foil for Tuma's brittle sound world. Archaic drones spit bombastic blasts of fire while the resulting sparks flicker into a million directions, flourescent in the night sky. Acoustic guitars drenched in reverb ring hollow w/ pianos echoing in the distance. LP comes in fold-out silkscreened poster-style sleeve & is strictly limited to 300 copies
Digitalis
LP
$13.25

Turbo Fruits
Mama's Mad Cos I Fried My Brain b/w Lotta Lotta Ladies
PS, US
FatPossum
45
$8.50

Twisted Wires
One Night At The Raw Deal
PS, US It's Miami. It's night. You're in a convertible and maybe... Bette Midler is there? If that's the case (in your brain if not in reality), you might very well be listening to TWISTED WIRES' soon-to-be released single 'One Night at the Raw Deal' (Italians Do It Better)--a brooding, belligerent, open-top, ocean-drive, wind-in-your-hair eighties disco theme. So eighties, in fact, you keep expecting Governor Arnie himself to appear outside the window and start flexing his republican biceps in time with the kick drum. And that kind of expectation is a hell of a lot more fun that it may sound, weirdly. Described elsewhere as crafting 'a perfect storm of dark synths and disco beats, transporting the listener to some dystopian future where every dance floor is a crime scene', Twisted Wires' cosmic mash-up of early Germanic techno (think Terminator or Grand Theft Auto soundtrack), Bobby Caldwell and Bowie sounds dangerous in a cheeeeeeeeesy way. Maybe a bit dark for Bette Midler, so you might have to drop her home and pick up a couple of call girls."--weluvmilk.com
ItaliansDoItBetter
12
$8.50

Uncut
#145 (June 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Under the Radar
#26
PS, US BAT FOR LASHES on cover, Camera Obscura, Depeche Mode, Doves, Art Brut on DC Comics, self-portraits from: A Camp's Nina Persson, Jason Lytle, Metric's Emily Haines, Peter Bjorn & John, plus 20 Years of Merge Records & much more.
ZINE
$3.75

United Bible Studies
Jonah
PS, US A cornucopia of sonic delights, traversing the spectrum from delicate folk to sprawling progressive rock. Richard Youngs' progressive rock project Ilk provided the impetus for the band to make a "Prog Album" so they started with the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink opus "The Jonah". Running the gamut from delicate acoustic guitar to Sunn 0))) style doom metal & back again, it's an extraordinary feat of the imagination. Around this central track, a range of shorter tracks orbit, typically acoustic or folk-rock in nature with occasional experimental flourishes, they are characterized by glorious melodies
& arrangements and a peerless array of guests. Current 93's Richard Moult provides synth & very David Tibet like vocals to opener "The Swallowing", and help out with the space folk piece "A for Andromeda". Ex Mellow Candle singer Allison O'Donnell provides vocals for several tracks, including the climactic conclusion to a Dave Colohan & Sharron Kraus duet version of the traditional "Lowlands of Holland"
CameraObscura
CD
$13.25

Unto Ashes
Blood of My Lady
PS, US Long durations of silence, punctuated by the sounds of birds & wind. The 13 songs abound w/ cellos, French horns, hurdy-gurdy, dulcimers, mandolin, piano & military drums
Projekt
CD
$16.25

Vacations
I Was Bikini b/w But Rain Afraid
PS, US Bobby, Greg & Jeremy from CHIN UP CHIN UP. Ukulele, kalimba & karimba replace the guitar focused style of their previous bands and are the sonic bread & butter for a band that has no real place on the map globally. Limited to 500 orange vinyl! Includes download code for MP3s of the seven inch
plus a bonus download code for "But Rain Afraid" 8 song EP
RecordLabel
45
$6.25

VanGaalen, Chad
Soft Airplane
PS, US
SubPop-
LP
$16.25

Various
Acid Dreams
PS, US The opening track, WHITE LIGHT's "William," sets the standard for what's to come: a compulsive, classic, hard guitar-psych 45 rocker & 17 more psych diamonds follow in its wake. Other artists include: CARETAKERS OF DECEPTION, OUTCASTS, MUSIC MACHINE, MYSTIC TIDE, STEREO SHOESTRINGS, BEAUTIFUL DAZE, BALLOON FARM, & MINDS EYE
Past&Present
CD
$18.00

Various
Speed Dating: A No. 6 Records Compendium
PS, US From the infamous No. 6 Records label, released by TEENBEAT RECORDS. A 2-CD set of 13 vinyl singles on CD for the first time. Includes the debut single from the DWARVES, DEAN WAREHAM's first recordings after Galaxie 500 plus two songs recorded with his first wife (Cagney & Lacee), the stateside debut of the TINDERSTICK's (Marbles, For Those), BEWITCHED, GREG DULLI with MARCY MAYS under the name ORNAMENT, a pair of A-siders from UNREST & more!
No.6-006
DCD
$12.25

Various
Trials of Darryl Hunt
PS, US Features songs by: M. WARD, PORTASTATIC, CALIFONE, DALEK, SOUTH, MARK KOZELEK, & ANDREW BIRD
YoungAmerican
CD
$14.50

Various
Score! 20 Years of Merge
PS,US In celebration of 20 years of Merge, some favorite non-Merge artists cover their favorite songs from the catalog. This collection is the 1st of only 2 commercially available pieces from the 17-disc Score! box set. Artists include QUASI, LES SAVY FAV, SHINS, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, RYAN ADAMS, BRIGHT EYES, MOUNTAIN GOATS, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, TIMES NEW VIKING, APPLES IN STEREO, OKKERVIL RIVER & DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
Merge
CD
$14.00

Various
Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace
PS, US Smart's Palace was anything but royal, however, between 1963-75 the club held court for the entire Wichita soul scene. At its heart was Dick Smart, bassist, club owner, DJ, record store owner, promoter, & sole proprietor of the Solo label. Housed in Numero's signature slipcase, the 19 track disc feat. THERON & DARRELL, BABY NEAL, CHOCOLATE SNOW, L.T. 7 THE SOULFUL DYNAMICS, FRED WILLIAMS 7 THE JEWELS BAND, & THE HARD ROAD all fully annotated w/ a ransom of pictures, posters, & ephemera fit for a king
Numero
CD
$15.75

Various
26 Deranged & Smokin' Cool Cats: Dr. Boogie Presents
PS, US Vinyl version. 4th Vol. in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare & lost recordings from the '20s-'60s. This time he focuses on the rocketing rise & fast decline of rockabilly (1954-1959). Artists include: JOHNNY JAY, JIMMY EDWARDS, CURLY COLDIRON, DANNY VERNE, EDDIE CASH, CHUCK DALLIS, RONNIE HAIG & JIMMY EVANS
SubRosa
LP
$15.50

Various
26 Deranged & Smokin' Cool Cats: Dr. Boogie Presents...
PS, US 4th Vol. in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare & lost recordings from the '20s-'60s. This time he focuses on the rocketing rise & fast decline of rockabilly (1954-1959). Artists include: JOHNNY JAY, JIMMY EDWARDS, CURLY COLDIRON, DANNY VERNE, EDDIE CASH, CHUCK DALLIS, RONNIE HAIG & JIMMY EVANS
SubRosa
CD
$15.50

Various
2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From U.S.A. And Destination Records
PS, US Though the '60s garage band explosion was felt in every corner of the country, the local uprising of talent in Chicago thrived unlike anywhere else. The Windy City had the perfect infrastructure in place; from a booming population of teenagers, to hip music stores in every suburb, a proliferation of teen clubs willing to take their money and a powerhouse radio station (WLS) equally up to promoting local bands. When it came to giving local groups a shot at 45 RPM fame, no Chicago label -- not even the hallowed Dunwich Records -- was more prolific than USA Records. USA's Jim Golden was such a strong supporter of Midwest talent that he started up a second label focused solely in this area, Destination Records. A quarter century into the CD age, it's hard to believe these pivotal labels have never been properly anthologized. Until now, that is! Sundazed once again arrives to the rescue with an exhaustive dive into the pure, undiluted garage side of USA and Destination Records; tapping into everything from priceless artifacts from the Lost Agency, the Foggy Notions, and Park Avenue Playground to label hitmakers the Buckinghams, the Cryan' Shames, and the Flock at their most rockin'. There's so much impossibly great music on these labels, we had to expand this collection to 40 tracks. The album artwork is stuffed with rare photos, band bios, and an interview with the legendary Jim Golden. For a full course of Chicago '66 garage at its finest, look no further than 2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From USA And Destination Records!" Artists include The Lost Agency, The Shady Daze, Ronnie Ross and the Good Guys, The Sheffields, The Great Society, The Foggy Notions, The Cryan' Shames, The Cherry Slush, The Counts, Trafalgar Square, The Boyz, Lord and the Flies, The Ricochettes, The Jokers, Gary and the Knight Lites, The Daughters of Eve, The Buckinghams, Oscar Hamod & the Majestics, Michael & the Messengers, Park Avenue Playground, and The Flock.
Sundazed
DCD
$26.50

Various
Up From The Grave: North Valley Garage 1965-1968
PS, US In the mid-'60s, the northern end of California's Central Valley threw up a plethora of hot punk discs. For such an isolated area, the roll call of garage greats enshrined in vinyl from towns like Chico, Marysville and Yuba City is unprecedented -- Drusalee & the Dead, Boy Blues, Caretakers, Next Step, Graveyard Five and Madd, Inc, to name just a half-dozen -- and these are some of the rarest 45s known to man. From Sacramento up to Redding, the North Valley crawled with outlaw rock'n'rollers, and the best are captured on Up From The Grave. Much of this jam packed collection features singles released by the regions one visible record company, Frantic/Vardan, a small cache of fabulous and obscure discs by the likes of Mystic and Psycho that have captivated collectors imaginations ever since. Detailed liner notes by '60s punk expert Alec Palao tell the story of this amazing time in California's rock'n'roll past, while the booklet is a colorful overdose of pix and ephemera in the trademark Frantic style." Includes 28-page booklet. Other artists include: D. Witherspoon & Future, Sonny Oliver & The Statics, Bob Smith, Big Timers, and Custer & The Survivors.
Frantic
CD
$18.75

Various
2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From U.S.A. And Destination Records
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Sundazed
3XLP
$40.00

Various
Local Customs: Downriver Revival
PS, US DELUXE 2LP/DVD SET W/ 24 PRIME TRACKS IN THICK GATEFOLD SLEEVE W/ TIPPED IN BOOKLET FEAT. PHOTOS & LINERS. Between 1967-81, Detroit's downriver neighbor Ecorse, MI had it's very own Moe Asch. Felton Williams chronicled the musical lives of Ecorse's citizins and issued them on the Solid Rock, Compose, & Revival labels. Compiled here are 24 of his most fascinating recordings, covering gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, & funk. Incl. DVD w/ over 200 sound recordings from Williams' archive and a 30-minute featurette on the making of this collection
NumeroGroup
DLP/DVD
$23.00

Various
Painting The Time: New Rubble Volume 6
PS, UK Volume 6 of the Past & Present label's New Rubble compilation series. Originally released in 2005, now reissued on CD with remastered sound. Compiled by legendary psych musician Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond), Painting The Time is a compilation of 20 psychedelic rarities, mostly from the UK. What the Past & Present label has endeavored to do is put together a set of previously-uncompiled and unheard items. UK psychedelia is not a bottomless pit of undiscovered gems, but the label has made every effort to ensure that the quality of this comp is high. This collection has something exciting to offer even the most jaded of vinyl hounds. Includes an 8-page booklet with detailed liner notes. Artists include: The Twilights, Andy Ellison, Abel Fletcher, Aphrodite's Child, Chris Kerry, The Young Lions, Floribunda Rose, Cats Pyjamas, The Bystanders, The Shame, The Velvet Opera, The Nashville Teens, Herbie's People, Don Fardon, The Orange Bicycle, Just William, Chris Andrews, Melody Fair, The Executives, and Alan Trajan.
Past&Present
CD
$16.25

Various
Psychedelic Schlemiels 3: More Lost Sounds From The Britpsych Scene 1967-1970
PS, UK The third volume of Wooden Hill's acclaimed series of unreleased-at-the-time British psychedelic pop artefacts, Psychedelic Schlemiels 3 painstakingly assembles another twenty acetates, demos and private recordings from the soft white underbelly of the late '60s group scene. In addition to featuring the first-ever demos to surface from legendary London underground club band Jade Hexagram, there's first-time exposure for psych-era unknowns the Outside Toilet, the Carley Hill Blues Band and studio project Airbus. Also including demos from such major label acts as Serendipity, the Mirror, Warm Sounds, Schadel, the Montanas and Des James (the original, hitherto unknown to exist, acetate-only version of 'Little Games,' subsequently recorded by the Yardbirds), Psychedelic Schlemiels 3 is an essential purchase for anyone with more than a passing interest in vintage British psych-pop." Includes 20-page booklet with pictures and extensive liner notes.
WoodenHill
CD
$19.00

Various
Starkey: Starbass DJ Mix
PS,US DJ mix from the undisputed king of the Dubstep/Club/Grime/Hip Hop/Wonky/Bassline hybrid sometimes referred to as Streetbass. From artists like Raffertie, w/ releases on Slit Jockey & Planet Mu, to established artists like Zomby, Joker, Geeneus, DZ, & Cardopusher, all came forward w/ their prime goods, & many w/ their exclusive bits they saved for just such a mega occassion.
LoDubs
CD
$13.50

Vaselines
Enter The Vaselines
PS, US The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and indie rock enthusiasts across the globe, including superfan Kurt Cobain, while remaining underappreciated by the mainstream. "Enter The Vaselines" is the definitive triple LP/double CD collection. Includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of material previously available on "The Way Of The Vaselines", plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.
SubPop
DCD
$15.00

Vaselines
Enter The Vaselines
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
3XLP
$20.00

Veils
Sun Gangs
PS, US Their third album, following a very busy period. They recorded a 10-track album with Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker, British Sea Power) and Bernard Butler (Duffy, Black Kids), and filmed video accompaniments to their music with Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). Look for this UK / Kiwi four-piece on tour this spring.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Veils
Sun Gangs
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Vetiver
Wishing Well b/w Pay No Mind
PS, US Record Store Day Exclusive: Two previously unreleased tracks from the "Tight Knit" sessions.
Subpop
45
$4.75

Vile, Kurt & The Violators
The Hunchback EP
PS, US Philadelphia's Kurt Vile checks in w/his first official record w/ his backing band and it's a good one. Like prime era Royal Trux covering the Tom Petty songbook, this one will float you for a long time to come. Limited in some way or another.
RichieRecords/Testostertunes
CD5
$12.25

Vile, Kurt & The Violators
The Hunchback EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Includes MP3 download action.
RichieRecords/Testostertunes
12
$14.00

Vollmar
Tell The Dirt
PS, US West Virginia native and Bloomington, Indiana resident JUSTIN VOLLMAR has been making leftfield folk-rock for longer than most. He's toured the western world over with like-minded artists such as Half-Handed Cloud and Elephant Micah, and released a small library of critically acclaimed home recordings. A mainstay in the Midwest scene, Vollmar has also lent his talents to countless bands (Mt. Gigantic, Bronze Float, Matty Pop Chart, etc.), and held at least one word-of-mouth music festival in the vacant field beside his house. "Tell the Dirt" is Vollmar's newest release as "Vollmar," a band name accommodating two more musicians-drummer/brother/pianist Nathan Vollmar and bassist David Brant. Dirt finds the band in a formal studio environment, trying on a slightly more "refined" sound. All the hallmarks of the Vollmarian approach, though, remain happily in place. Dirt is a characteristically sparse affair, featuring band performances that sound more "live" than "layered." The brain-twisting songwriting and moments of experimental flourish that have historically set Vollmar's music apart from the indie-folk crowd are likewise here in spades. If you aren't lucky enough to land a limited, hand-decorated vinyl copy of Tell the Dirt, take to the web for its official digital version. !Viva Vollmar!
St.Ives-18
LP
$11.50

Von Ehrics
Loaded
PS, US Formed in the summer of 2000 in the Red River Bottom of Fannin County, TX. Their music intent was simple: combine the influences of the country and gospel music on which they were raised w/ the punk and metal records they found as rebellious teenagers. Known for their blistering live shows, the Von Ehrics blend straight-forward country songs w/ high intensity punk. RIYL: Social Distortion, Steve Earle, Bad Religion, Waylon Jennings
Crustacean
CD
$12.00

Walker, Peter
Long Lost Tapes 1970
PS, US One cold late fall weekend I put a session together. I found housing for the out of town musicians and invited my friend Maruga Booker who came all the way from Detroit, Badal Roy and I had played together and he was available so he came up from New Jersey, the rest of the guys were already in Woodstock that week. It all came together at Levon Helm's house while Levon was away. I traded with Eddy Offord for the equipment rental and engineering, so in
so many ways it was a classic "Woodstock Production." It was my last major effort before years of obscurity and remained in storage all these years. Josh Rosenthal encouraged me to dig it out and release it so here it is, I hope you like it. - Peter Walker, Woodstock, NY, 2008
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75

Walrus
S-T
PS, UK Walrus were a jazz-influenced progressive rock outfit who formed in 1969. They recorded one of the most collectable and sought-after albums to be released by Decca Records' progressive imprint, Deram. A superb mixture of styles, the album was notable for a cover version of Traffic's 'Coloured Rain,' alongside original numbers. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been remastered from the Deram master tapes and also adds bonus tracks drawn from Walrus' single releases for Deram The album's debut on CD is sure to attract the attention of the legion of collectors of both progressive rock and the Deram label.
Esoteric
CD
$18.25

Wax Museums
S-T
PS, US 14 tracks of killer educational punk
Douchemaster
CD
$12.75

We Are Hex
Gloom Bloom
PS,US The band experiments with noise, dance, doom & psychedelia without losing the pop sensibilities of the 50s & 60s or the urgency of classic punk. Their vibe recalls the Cure, Gang of Four, PJ Harvey & the Jesus and Mary Chain. Songs were recorded off the cuff, mic in the middle of the room, in a take or two
HexHaus
CD
$12.00

Weasel, Ben
These Ones Are Bitter
PS,US Former SCREECHING WEASEL & RIVERDALES frontman's 1st album in 5 years. 1st-rate melodic punk songs. Features Dan Andriano (ALKALINE TRIO) on bass & Chris Gaylor (ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS) on drums
AsianMan
CD
$12.75

Weeks, Caroline
Songs for Edna
PS, US Vinyl.
ManimalVinyl
LP
$15.25

Wet Hair
Dream
PS, US When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the band's debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned Krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP's four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hair's cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert.
NotNotFun
LP
$15.75

Whiskeytown
San Antone b/w The Great Divide
PS, US VINYL FORMAT.Originally recorded in 1996; from the Baseball Park Sessions. "San Antone" b/w "The Great Divide." Limited record store day release...only a few left!
Geffen
45
$6.00

Winfred E. Eye
Til I Prune
PS, US They're back. Antenna Farm Records is pleased to present the first album release in almost 6 years from old friends WINFRED E. EYE. With Til I Prune, the band's fourth full length, Winfred E. Eye have delivered their most mature set of songs to date. Following a band hiatus during which CALVERT, an early childhood educator, released a solo album of children's songs, W.E.E. has returned to the dark highways that they know so well, but with an expanded vision and songwriting chops that have fully come into their own. Drawing upon a sonic palette that ranges from Beefheart-inspired stompers to dark drones with repeated guitar lines and impassioned cries, and even including a couple of solemn lullabies, Til I Prune balances a boozy melancholy with a strong dose of dark humor and even, at times, a sense of satisfaction with loves found, and not yet lost.
AntennaFarm
CD
$11.75

Winter Gloves
About A Girl
PS, US Ten songs driven by the sounds of keyboards and drumes, all wrapped up in a constant buzz of bass and gritty
synths. Winter Gloves was voted best new band of 2008 on iTunes Canada.
PaperBag
CD
$16.00

Winter Gloves
About A Girl
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PaperBag
LP
$19.00

Wire Magazine
#303
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Wonder, Stevie
Songs In The Key Of Life
PS, US 180-gram LP reissues to mark the 50th anniversary of Motown! All original packaging. Nonreturnable.
UniversalMotown
DLP/45
$39.75

Wooden Shjips
Dos
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$12.00

Wooden Shjips
Dos
PS, US How many music bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, computer screens are backlit. Here we have a WOODEN SHJIPS record the world saw coming-not titled II, Sophomore, or Second, but Dos. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together. Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist psych bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Wooden Shjips' debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm. LP version to follow.
HolyMountain
CD
$13.50

Woods
Songs of Shame
PS, US The fourth full-length by WOODS, Songs of Shame, veers away from the lo-fi guerillas-in-the-mist sound of their previous Shrimper long-player, At Rear House, and presents both 90-second and ten-minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. The idiosyncratic songwriting style and vocalizing of JEREMY EARL is still present in spades on the album. Woods have toured incessantly as a trio over the last 12 months, and the songs on Shame have had their mettle tested. Check out the straight-ahead pop of "To Clean" or the "Neil Jung" push/pull of "Rain On." Elsewhere, an expansive side of the band hinted at on their Woods Family Creeps LP finds full flight on the subtle ten-minute stretch "September With Pete" (that features PETER NOLAN of MAGIK MARKERS guesting). "Utterly lovely music-a huge recommendation."-Boomkat. LP version available via the Woodsist label.
Shrimper
CD
$12.00

Wrekmeister Harmonies
Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One
PS, US Wrekmeister Harmonies is sound artist J.R. Robinson & an ever-changing group of noteworthy collaborators, including DAVID YOW (JESUS LIZARD), AZITA, JOHN HERNDON & JEFF PARKER (TORTOISE), FRED LONBERG-HOLM, KEN VANDERMARK and more. The end result is a distinctive hybrid of sound art & avant-garde musics presented in a CD+DVD double disc release.
Atavistic
CD/DVD
$14.75

Wussy
S-T
PS, US Second full length from former ASS PONYS frontman Chuck Cleaver continues to step away from his past incarnation to create something wholly new along w/ co-writer and vocalist Lisa Walker. Produced by John Curley (AFGHAN WHIGS). "Imagine a Yo La Tengo too tight to get cute or far out dispensing a Velvet Underground derivative fluent enough to warm the erectile tissue of anyone w/ a thing for guitar drones." - Rolling Stone
ShakeIt
CD
$11.75

Years
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Arts&Crafts
LP
$17.00

Years
S/T
PS,US Debut album from Ohad Benchetrit (DO MAKE SAY THINK, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE). Bursts of glitch interspersed w/ digitally sequenced orchestral arrangements build into rousing walls of sound that in turn subside to a gentle brook of acoustic guitar melody
Arts&Crafts
DCD
$11.50

Yoshio, Machida
Steelpan Improvisations: 2001-2008
PS, JAPAN Three years after the release of Naada, retrospectively, Yoshio Machida compiled his steelpan live recordings in Europe and Japan from 2001 to 2008. Machida's music has been already as known as his CD trilogy "Hypernatural" series, TV spot in France and in DJ Spooky's Rhythm Science. Influenced by Indian improvised traditional music, for his first tour in Europe in 2002, he made original "un-equal temperament" tuned steelpan by himself. It sounds like Gamelan gong. And he performed steelpan with Max/MSP real-time processing for getting drone sound (like tampura in Indian music) from his steelpan sound. After several endeavors for expressing "live" music with complicated and real-time computer processing, he started to play only acoustic steelpan to realize micro-articulations texture that like computer generated, without computer. This album shows the trail reminiscent of Harold Budd's ambient piano, Fennesz's glitches, Improvisers...
Amorfon-901
CD
$15.00

Young Widows/Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Split
PS, US Limited. Following on the heels of their breakthrough Old Wounds album, Young Widows have assembled an all-killer-no-filler split single series, featuring new, unreleased Young Widows jams, split up over four separate 7" singles, accompanied by a handful of their favorite friends and artists on the opposite sides of each single. Those artists include Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Melt-Banana, Pelican, and a final mystery artist to be named at a later date. All songs by all artists are brand new and exclusive to this series. Each single is strictly limited to a one-time pressing of 2,000 copies. The artwork for the four singles fits together to form one large, beautiful puzzled image. This first single in the series features Young Widows and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
TemporaryResidence-151
45
$4.75

Youth: Kill
Promise of Automation
PS,US 10 inch EP collaboration between K-THE-I??? & WALTER GROSS. Noisy cut-up soundscapes & groundbreaking lyricism
TheSecretLifeOfSound
10
$10.50

ZA
Macumba o Muerte
PS, SPAIN ZA follow the steps of El Guincho (they are from Barcelona and share friends, background and influences) as one of the most exciting new bands in Europe, never afraid of mixing tradition with adventure, localisms with tropicalisms. ZA is a group of three guys and nine instruments. While their music coordinates include heavy distortion, thick bass rhythms and a taste for the "bright" side of death metal, their compositions vary from ancestral melodies to free-jazz, noise, psychedelia, the songs of the shepherds of Tuva, Monty Python, drone-rock, macho post-rock or even analog electronics. And a high percentage of that amalgam has to be displayed thru' each single song, on and off-stage. ZA have constructed and deconstructed their songs through hundreds of concerts and several domestic tours until they have been able to release "Macumba o Muerte" (Acuarela, 2009), the album that follows their super-mega-underground debut "EKI EKI EKI Kazaaam"(Practice, 2006). "Macumba o Muerte" features 9 songs recorded by Santi Garcia and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac). Each track is unique and different, but all performed under the same tribal philosophy. A mixture of genres, sounds and speeds that co-exist in a perfectly smooth disorder: a traditional song from Siberia, sequenced improvisation, the recreation of an Arab market, guitar solos from Purgatory or the superposition of a hundred voices screaming at unison. ZA have been part of some of the best independent music festivals in Spain (Primavera Sound, Sonar Festival, Tanned Tin...) have toured with Yellow Swans or Lightning Bolt and supported Excepter, Lydia Lunch, Peter Brötzmann, The Locust, Nora Keyes or Paal Nilssen Love. Sounds like: Flying Luttenbachers / Kongar Ol-Ondar / SuperYo / Fela Kuti / Hella / Yellow Swans.
Acuarela-1093
CD
$13.50

Zaimph
Death Blooming Pleasure
PS, US 'Whoever shall listen to this and shall take notice of these personal occurrences will discern it concerned none but for my self.' so reads the back of the new lp by Zaimph. When spinning this dark velvet cloak a door opens to clouds of smoke shooting out the windows sills of the shell of old library like ink plumes while smokes leaps like black cats between the curtains. Stone and concrete crumble and ill the air with gray gas showering the maze of shrubs in the courtyard with a dark veil of soot. Marcia Bassett has treaded the waters of noise psych drone and continues to defy the categories. A dark psychedelic guitar wash peaks its head out of the smoldering coals that could have been released on the mighty slaughter productions death industrial temple from Italy. Further morbidity croaks from the slicing vocals of a distraught entity being ripped from one dimension to the other... and rather enjoying her ordeal. Light the candles and burn the incense.... Limited to 300 copies.
NoFunProductions-45
LP
$16.25

Zimmerman, Dan
Cosmic Patriot
PS, US "Cosmic Patriot" is a timeless pop-balancing act between a stormy middle-earth apocalypse and something effortless, intimate, and unhurried. The writing, the band, the recording there's complexity, darkness, and intensity, but it's all so snug and woven and of-a-piece. It's amazing how disarming a song that starts off with the battle cry is, Prepare for war, total war...ends up being. Just as the listener finishes taking in the meaning of that chilling lyric, the song glides into a rousing home fires sing-along. Therein is the push-me-pull-me quality that exists throughout. Take "Everyday In My Heart," which could easily be Johnny Cash covering the Cascades "Listen To The Rhythm Of The Falling Rain." The clouds form and part, the raindrops and sunshine are interchangeable, and you couldn't get the tune out of your head if you wanted..." -Glen Galloway, 2009
SoundsFamilyre-021
CD
$11.50

Zips, The
Take Me Down / Don't Be Pushed Around b/w I'm In Love / Over & Over
PS, US In 1978 John McNeil (v/gtr) and Brian Jackson (gtr) recruited Joe Jaconelli (d) and Phil Mullen (b/v), and launched The Zips onto the New Wave. They released their debut single, The Zips EP, in April 1979, a favourite of Radio Clyde, and the late-John Peel on Radio One. The 500 copies swiftly sold out, and it was followed by a new single,
Radioactivity, on their own Tenement Toons label.
SingSingRecords
45
$6.25

Forthcoming Releases

Alumbrados
Monochord (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Limited to 500. 3rd in 4 pt BARDO POND related vinyl set. "Deep in the forest ethno-drones, drenched in buzz & shimmer. Sitar, guitar, cumbas & all sorts of percussion create exquisite layers psych drone nirvana that will transport you to another dimension. Strangely peaceful, the music we hear in our heads when we lay in grass at night staring at the stars" - Aquarius
Important
LP
$18.25

Americans in France
Pretzelvania (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US "Liking You" is beautifully heartfelt, girded by melancholy organ lines, & feat. their signature complementary vocals. They are elusive shape-shifters, who seem equally at home w/ prog rock as they do w/ punk rock, a marriage that is cringe-inducing on paper, but feels natural upon listen
Odessa
CD
$12.50

Americans in France
Pretzelvania (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Odessa
LP
$12.50

Amor, Naim
Soundtracks Vol III (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS,US Original instrumental tracks composed by NAIM AMOR (AMOR BELHOM DUO, AMOR). Not a soundtrack to a specific film, rather, dream-like music reminiscent from film noir to TV series sico beats, from Martin Denny to la Nouvelle Vague. Naim has recorded with Devotchka, Marie Frank, Howe Gelb, Calexico, Pieta Brown, Neko Case, John Convertino and others
Amormusic
CD
$12.00

Anathallo
Canopy Glow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US Vinyl version
Anticon
LP
$16.00

Antiguo AutomataMexicano
Chez Nobody EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US An analogous mixture of kraut, minimalist tech & free jazz. An extensive EP that also features remixes from Latinsizer, Cubenx, & LOD
StaticDiscos
MCD
$8.25

Apostle of Hustle
Eats Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US Group consists of Andrew Whiteman (BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE) on guitars, bassist Julian Brown (FEIST), & Dean Stone on drums. Based on the notion that the greatest art is often drawn from the darkest of experiences (consuming darkness to expel light), the band delivers an unconventional & truly original body of work that will continue to satisfy loyal fans & attract new listeners
Arts&Crafts
CD
$16.00

Arthur and Martha
Navigation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 30TH)
PS, UK 'A British spin on The Postal Service, or Aphex Twin remixing the contents of the seminal C86 album...lovely stuff' NME After three years in the making, Happy Robots are proud to announce the release of 'Navigation' the debut album of Arthur and Martha. Those three years have been tumultuous ones; in which the band battled personal demons driven by the loss of loved ones and broken relationships. Yet the band remained resolute throughout which is reflected in the innocent charm, and upbeat nature, of these 10 new songs. Arthur and Martha are Adam Cresswell and Alice Hubley. Cresswell was founding member of UK folk-a-tronic pop band and John Peel favorites, Saloon who were on Darla until their unexpected break up in 2003. Hubley, despite her years, is also a stalwart of the UK indie scene as a member of kraut-rockers The Exteriors and shouty girl pop band The Duloks. As Arthur and Martha, they employ all manner of kiddie's instruments, moogs and old-school drum machines to build their songs. The album itself ranges from the bleak M83-esque moodiness of the title track to the kraut rock stomp of live favorite 'Squarewave to Heaven'. The album features an extended version of the band's debut single 'Autovia' and forthcoming foamy pop hit 'Music for Hairproducts'. The debut single 'Autovia' received rave reviews from the likes of the NME and Artrocker and multiple Radio 1 plays from Huw Stephens and the band built on this success, gigging with the likes of Lo-Fi Fnk, Grovesnor, Plastic Operator, Sportsday Megaphone and others. The band is flattered to be compared to Kraftwerk, Add N to X, Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell.
HappyRobots-4
CD
$13.50

Asunder/Graves at Sea
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Much-requested repress of the long-out-of-print landmark split LP. GRAVES AT SEA offers some of the best, heaviest doom tracks ever recorded, full of treacherous, monolithic riffs & banshee screams. Highlighting influences like early Peaceville Records doom & covering it in the filth that only Oakland can harness, ASUNDER's "Whited Sepulcher" is approximately 20 minutes of funereal doom that churns the bowls & empties the tear ducts all at once
20BuckSpin
LP
$16.00

Audionom
Superior (DELAYED / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL???)
PS, SWEDEN New album from Scandinavian zoomrock motherfuckers, features members of Paper and 1999. Will rock your bones from their sockets.
IdealRecordings
CD
$12.25

Bachelorette
My Electric Family (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Bachelorette's music beams to us through a universe of unconquered pop music. She stands in the cradle of modern songwriting, that of psychedelic pop music. The psych vibe shimmers in an acousto-synthetic haze, not really overt, so completely are those long-ago verses absorbed in her DNA. Her impulses are fed into a format that rhymes couplets over dancing beats, voices, keyboards, and a variety of guitars & percussions to create the melodic constructs
we know so well, and delight in, and sing along with, and imagine to.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Bachelorette
My Electric Family (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.50

Bardo Pond
Gazing At Shilla (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Limited to 1,000. "Eight-Thousanders" & "Kali" are both entirely improvised pieces w/ no overdubs. Slide blissfully into a smoky heaven & then forget your mind in a lower world of strange tones on side A. If you're still able to flip the record when the needle hits the runoff groove, you'll find yourself exposed to the Goddess Kali's naked blackness
Important
LP
$16.75

Bats
Don't You Rise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2009)
PS, US The Bats are legends of New Zealand music, standing tall alongside contemporaries The Clean and The Chills as linchpins of the Flying Nun label and the Dunedin/Christchurch scene. Over the course of 25 years, 7 albums and 4 world tours, the original line-up of Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean and Kaye Woodward remains intact and still creating vital pastoral pop gems. Combining Robert's mantric-like guitar pick and strum, bouncing bass with a twist from Paul, melodic hooks from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm's snappy beats, the combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. The band's reputation is sterling; based on legendary albums like Daddy's Highway and Silverbeet and their energetic live shows, The Bats have an enthusiastic world-wide fanbase who treasure the band's continued excellence.
The Don't You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to the release of their next album, The Guilty Office, in early 2009. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats' Law of Things), "That's How You'll Find Me" would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album and mesmerized with it's folk-pop groove. "You Don't Belong" is a moody gem, while "Don't You Rise"'s country-inflected strum is a live favorite. "Face Inside The Sun" rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off of Daddy's Highway. A pretty special EP then, and ample evidence that 25 years after forming, The Bats still earn their legendary status.

The new and next Bats full-length album, The Guilty Office, will be released by Parasol's Hidden Agenda label in May 2009!
Slumberland
45
$3.75

Bats, The
The Guilty Office (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US This Spring our Hidden Agenda imprint welcomes veteran New Zealand guitar-pop band The Bats to the roster, and hope you are as breathless at the notion of a new album as we are. The Guilty Office is The Bats' 8th album and it is lush and melancholy.
AHiddenAgendaRecord
CD
$9.00

Bellini
The Precious Prize of Gravity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US It's been exactly four years since we last heard from Bellini. Four years is a long time, but when you're husband-and-wife punk rock power couple Giovanna Cacciola and Agostino Tilotta, it can seem like a long
holiday in the face of their nearly 25-year career of collaboration. Coming back from holiday, the two reunite with bassist Matthew Taylor and drummer Alexis Fleisig (also of Girls Against Boys) to unleash their third and most thunderous album, The Precious Prize of Gravity. Recorded as always with long-time collaborator Steve Albini, Precious Prize is Bellini's most accomplished production yet. Tilotta wraps a hundred notes per minute around the towering, sturdy rhythm section while Cacciola's poetic lyrics and smoky melodies alternately recall Grace Slick and PJ Harvey. With no less than four songs centering around the deaths of loved ones (including the heart-wrenching "The Thin Line," featuring the surviving members of Silkworm), Precious Prize is lyrically Bellini's darkest album yet. Never wanting to repeat themselves, the songs are more complex and progressive than the comparatively stark Small Stones, with a driving, X-inspired cowpunk vibe throughout. No doubt the spirits of fallen friends and loved ones informs Precious Prize, but it's Bellini's restless
creativity and determination to pay tribute to the past by dragging it into the present that is the real honor here.
TemporaryResidence-155
LP/CD
$12.25

Berman, Josh
Old Idea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US For a decade jazz cornetist BERMAN has been a mainstay of the post-Vandermark generation of Chicago improvisers, a wide circle of ambitious musos who meet up in varied ad hoc or fixed settings. This is his debut as leader, and feat. KEEFE JACKSON, JASON ADASIEWICZ, ANTON HATWICH, & NORI TANAKA
Delmark
CD
$13.25

Big Business
Mind the Drift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US Guitarist & newest band member Toshi Kasai adds new voice & dimension, & looks good doing it. You can actually hear the handsome. While recording Jared Warren's (KARP) vocals, Phil Ek (The Shins) kept a sawed-off shotgun in the control room
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Bishop, Sir Richard
Feak of Araby (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Bishop, Sir Richard
Freak of Araby (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US A new direction for our distinguished gentleman, Sir RickÕs had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak of Araby is the debut of Bishop & his Freak of Araby Ensemble, a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars & a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail & sympathy for the eternal enigma.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Bixby, Dave
Ode To Quetzalcoatl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US This legendary album from 1969 is considered by all serious record collectors as the king in the loner/downer-folk genre. Recorded in a living room using an echo-laden 4-track machine, the sound is lo-fi & sparse: just acoustic guitars & some occasional harmonica & flute, added to his haunting, emotional vocals. Never again has an acoustic folk album sounded as intense as this
Guerssen
LP
$25.25

Black Crowes, The
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US The best record from the 90s best interpreters of classic rock sounds. With a Faces & Stones-like soulful swagger, Chris Robinson & Co. blaze through 9 originals & one cover on their 2nd full length. The best southern rock record since "Eat A Peach" & Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic debut. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl
Plain
LP
$16.75

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Eating Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US The first fully hi-fi BMSR record adds space & dimension to the band's sticky, off-kilter melodies. Dense layers of lushly complex orchestration, instensely rhythmic drumming from a live, human drummer, vocoder vocals that are anything but robotic & thick, undulation bass tones. Limited edition, full deluxe CD version comes with a16 page art booklet
Graveface
CD
$13.00

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Eating Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Graveface
LP
$21.75

Black Swans/Alina Simone
SPLIT (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US Split 7" hand screen printed and individually numbered. BLACK SWANS A: "Country Cookie # 3." Columbus duo have been the bedrock of an uncanny slow-motion folk that has recieved praise of Pitchfork, Spin and Dusted. ALINA SIMONE A: "Snowfall and Starlight." Ukraine born Simone's "...powerful, poignant vocas at the forefront, burns through a collection os songs by Siberian punk-fok singer Yanka Dygileva w/ cathartic fervor. Though the lyrics are in Russian, the emotions are raw and easily felt." -NPR
SunkenTreasure
45
$4.50

Blackshaw, James
Glass Bead Game (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Another gem from UK 12-string guitar prodigy/virtuoso. Soulful & kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting mantra cycles of incredible beauty. Just his guitar by itself, w/ its swirling overtones, cascading notes, & a thousand points of light, resembles an orchestra, but w/ further orchestration - piano, strings, wind, & vocals - the music is positively cinematic & mesmerizing
YoungGod
CD
$16.00

Blank Dogs
Under and Under (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US DLP version
IntheRed
DLP
$17.25

Blank Dogs
Under and Under (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US The sound is Joy Division vocal lines w/ the Cure's synth & guitar melodies filtered through ancient, submerged keyboards & eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world can't hide his knack for melody. This shows off his pop chops to a greater extent than any of his previous releases & includes contributions from members of CRYSTAL STILTS & VIVIAN GIRLS, though the sound remains as dusted & strange as anything he has done before
IntheRed
CD
$14.25

Bosque Brown
Baby (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Texas group Bosque Brown have been quietly working on their sophomore full-length with producer Chris Flemmons (BAPTIST GENERALS). A dramatic step forward from their debut, Plays Mara Lee Miller, Baby features a fuller sound and more expansive instrumentation. The album benefits from the band's ability to record closer to home, allowing them to take as much time as necessary. Baby's rich musicianship reflects Bosque Brown's increasing stature as a live band. LP version comes with BONUS 7" and mp3 download code
BurntToast
CD
$14.25

Brain Donor
Wasted Fuzz Excessive (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US Continues in the dark traditions of declaimed metallic poetry, but extends further into works of epic construction & length. Drive by No Wave riffs & hoary proto-metal assaults, this record burns at both ends
BrainDonor
CD
$17.75

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Smoking Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Double 12 inch EP consists of 5 new tracks & double sided etched disc by Jon Saemundur Auoarson. Limited to 1,000
Arecords
2X12
$28.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Smoking Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Collaboration between Anton Newcombe & Icelandic artist Jon Saemundur Auoarson. 5 track EP
Arecords
CD
$10.50

Bricolage
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$10.00

Bricolage
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US From the swooning romanticism of "Plots Are for Cemeteries," to the lovesick giddiness of "Turn U Over," to the Northern Soul-style stomp of "The Waltzers," this is pop full of melody, verve, & wit for a modern world about to discover how badly it needs it.
Slumberland
CD
$14.25

Brotzmann/Kondo/Pupillo
NilssenLove - Hairy Bones (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US This new quartet brings together, on disc, for the first time since the late 90's Peter Brötzmann (reeds) & Toshinori Kondo (electic trumpet). With a new rhythm section of Massimo Pupillo (electric bass) & Paal Nilssen-Love (drums). HAIRY BONES documents a September '08 night at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. Two mind blowing performances HAIRY BONES 31:43 and CHAIN DOGS 37:33. What can be said about a recorded document of a Peter Brötzmann group that hasn't been said before? This live recording will make you wish that you could have been there, which is what a live recording is all about
OkkaDisk
CD
$12.50

Bryars, Gavin
The Sinking of the Titanic: Live Bourges 12/13.4.1990 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, UK A new CD edition of a celebrated live performance of The Sinking of the Titanic by acclaimed modern British composer Gavin Bryars. Originally released on Les Disques du Crepuscule, this extended 60-minute performance of Bryars' haunting masterpiece was recorded by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at the French festival Le Printemps de Bourges in April 1990. The performance location was the Chateau D'Eau, a disused water tower on three storeys, in an environment conceived by L'Académie de Muséologue Évocatoire, showing works by French artist Christian Boltanski and also featuring documentation relating to the wreck of the Titanic supplied by divers Taurus International. Featured Ensemble musicians are Dave Smith, Roger Heaton, Martin Allen, Alexander Balanescu, Jon Carney and directed by Bryars himself. Bryars explains: 'The Bourges recording is much longer than earlier versions of Titanic and takes account of the peculiar nature of the performing environment. The six musicians were located in the basement area of the three storey water tower, and the public heard the pieces through a specially designed sound system on the middle floor - although only after the sound had passed through the cavernous top floor, which was used as a massive reverberation chamber. The acoustics of the space, previously an underwater one, conditioned the way in which the music was heard.' This new CD edition also features extensive liner notes by Gavin Bryars, as well as updated artwork.
LTM-2525
CD
$13.50

Buffalo Stance
Sugar Glider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US Brainchild of soulful pianist Jamey Robinson. Filled w/ wonderfully layered keyboards & vocals, the album at times sounds like Wendy Carlos' sublime synthesizer symphonies combined w/ a simultaneously innocent & informed approach to singing & harmony. Features appearances from members of ICY DEMONS, MAN MAN, NEED NEW BODY, DELTA 72 & BARDO POND
ObeyYourBrain
CD
$10.00

Burning Image
Fantasma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US 1st new album in more than 20 years from these deathrock originators
AlternativeTentacles
CD
$14.25

Busdriver
Jhelli Beam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US Both smart and smartass, theatrical without being pompous, and, as always, funny. BD's breath-defying flow teeters precariously on top of samples of classical music, jazz drumming, and proggy guitar parts, without ever losing sight of the electronic music that helped define his sound. Mindfully engaging and booty shaking at the same time. A wholly unique take on what an underground hip-hop album should be. RIYL: Animal Collective, Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio.
Anti
CD
$12.50

Busdriver
Jhelli Beam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anti
LP
$15.00

Campbell, Eddie C.
Tear This World Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US CAMPBELL brings his unmistakably individual, engaging, & memorable verve & variety & his command of the Chicago blues tradition to this, his most fully realized chapter in a highly regarded discography. Wide-ranging vocals, creative songwriting, & the trademark reverb-drenched sound of his vintage metallic purple Fender Jazzmaster guitar
Delmark
CD
$13.25

Cave
Psychic Psummer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US
Important
LP
$15.00

Cave
Made In Malasia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Single off of "Psychic Psummer." The B-side, "Boneyard," was pulled from the same recording sessions but is exclusive to this 7 inch. Limited to 500
Important
45
$7.25

Cave
Psychic Psummer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Major momentum, expertly crafted & embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can-cloud-bounce, & full on heavy chant
Important
CD
$13.25

Cheap Time
Woodland Drive b/w Penny & Jenny (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US 2 brand new tracks from Nashville's favorite pop-punk-glam-bubblegum band. Snotty, catchy ditties informed by Sparks, The Quick, Milk 'n' Cookies, & early Kinks. Limited to 1,000 in a handsome, Fontana-esque picture sleeve
InTheRed
45
$5.25

Children
Hard Times Hangin at the End of the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US Tradition meets stamina head on throughout the album's 6 massive long playing tracks. With intricate, narrative dual guitar work & a frenzied wired demeanor they bring it all together: thrash advancements, serious girth, familiar passage crosscut w/ relentless speed, a formidable edge & self-proclaimed "spiritual conspiracy party riffs"
Kemado
CD
$13.50

Children
Hard Times Hangin at the End of the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US
Kemado
LP
$17.50

Church
Untitled #23 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US Set in a lush soundscape carved out of another world, the band has succeeded in creating a listenable work of art, meshing guitars & rhythms into a sonic journey of intrigue & understanding.
SecondMotion
CD
$16.00

City Center
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Taking cues from the skewed pop music of Arthur Russell on one side, & the most warped moments of Brian Wilson by way of Panda Bear on the other, Fred Thomas (SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME, FLASHPAPR) has channeled an outsider pop masterwork. Thick waves of decomposing electronics & processed instruments crash & fizz beneath his multi-tracked echo/reverb-heavy vocals. Exulant, far-away harmonies are buried under thick blankets of fuzz guitar, hand-bells, ambient hums & gentle acoustic guitar, & it all pulses w/ an animal warmth that grabs you & won't let go
Type
CD
$15.50

City Center
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Type
LP
$19.75

Clues
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US Debut record from the main songwriter of the UNICORNS (Alden Penner) and Brendan Reed of ARCADE FIRE fame, yields one undeniable tune after another. Forged from postpunk, no wave & psych influences, Clues compose a rare breed of complex pop anthems.
Constellation
CD
$16.25

Clues
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US vinyl version, 180 gram
Constellation
LP
$18.00

Coalesce
Ox (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US The Kansas clan lurches uncontrollably, adding just the right touch of bombast & contrast to make the seething agression all the more impactful, wringing vital emotions from every pore without even a trace of melancholy or regret
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Coalesce
Ox (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00

Comet Gain
Broken Record Players (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US Deluxe issue Double LP in a gate-fold Stoughton jacket.
WhatsYourRupture
DLP
$23.75

Corridor
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Eight tracks of lush noise drenched stories of passion, loss & coming of age in the modern world. Multi-instrumentalist Michael Quinn is in his early 20s but is already considered a seasoned player in the post-hardcore scenes in Boston & Seattle. Once he transplanted to LA, Quinn wasted no time getting key slots on shows with Ariel Pink, Xu Xu Fang, Winter Flowers, etc. Taking his influences from 70s kraut-rock, Michael Gira's Swans & Django Reinhardt, he makes sounds that only few dare to categorize.
ManimalVinyl-011
CD
$10.75

Crystal Method
Divided By Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US 4th release from the electronic music pioneers. Featuring high caliber guests MATISYAHU, PETER HOOK, SHE WANTS REVENGE frontman Justin Warfield, and Emily Haines of METRIC.
Tinye
CD
$16.75

Crystal Method
Divided By Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US Gatefold vinyl version.
Tinye
LP
$19.00

Curious Mystery
Rotting Slowly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US Blends '60s-style psychedelia w/ American country-blues & garage experimentalism. The split vocal duties wind around each other in an organic swirl of skeletal percussion, tangled guitars, Eastern drones & multiple tempos.
Krecords-206
CD
$11.50

Curious Mystery, The
Rotting Slowly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke, and wires; The Curious Mystery blends Sixties-style psychedelia with American country-blues and garage experimentalism. Cool night air, slow burning heaviness, impregnation by blackberry, Captain Beefheart, late night crawlers, native fowl, dinner, river blindness; these are some of the things The Curious Mystery bides its time thinking about. A stranger in a new town, Rotting Slowly [KLP206] is their debut album.
The Curious Mystery place an emphasis on dense sonic texture and unorthodox song structures. The band began in 2005 in Seattle where Shana Cleveland, a Midwestern daughter of Blues and Country rock musicians met Nicolas Gonzalez, an
experimental instrumentalist from Texas. Today the band features Nicolas on guitar, vocals, and homemade instruments; Shana on vocals, banjo, guitar, and autoharp; as well as Faustine B. Hudson on drums, gong, dinner bell, plastic tube; and Bradford Button on the bass guitar. Rotting Slowly has a vast implied distance and textural tension, canvassing canyons and turning tight corners. Cleveland and Gonzalez split vocal duties; hers is silky, his familiar and they wind around each other in an organic swirl of skeletal percussion, tangled guitars, Eastern drones and multiple tempos. "Black Sand" is forward-driven, clamoring for release; "Go Forth and Gather" is a mosaic obscura; the instrumental "Nicaragua" creates a thick, uncertain haze; "Strong Swimmers" has a playful springboard guitar-plucking; and "It's Tough" is a diseased-themed doo-wop that fades into a deservedly soothingly distant Morricone porch chant. The Curious Mystery are planning a tour for the summer of 2009. "The Curious Mystery traverses oceans and nations with its intoxicating psychedelia, ... completely engrossing." - Seattle Weekly
Krecords-206
LP
$11.50

Current 93
Alpeh at Hallucinatory Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Spinning around epic series of verses written by founder David Tibet, the new album features a 1972-style supergroup including JAMES BLACKSHAW, WILLIAM BREEZE, BABY DEE, Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND), Keith Wood (HUSH ARBORS), RICKIE LEE JONES, OSSIAN BROWN, MATT SWEENEY & ALEX NEILSON.
Coptic
CD
$16.00

Deerhunter
Rainwater Cassette Exchange (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Kranky
12
$8.25

Deerhunter
Rainwater Cassette Exchange (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US Certainly not a group to rest on their laurels (especially difficult when they have new songs burning a hole in their collective back pockets), Deerhunter delivers five new tracks on this extended play. This is not some stop-gap release between albums, or mere leftovers from their most recent Microcastle album, but an all new session.
Kranky
CD
$7.50

Desolation Wilderness
No Tomorrow b/w Pacific Palisades (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US "No Tomorrow" is a tribute to summer days well spent, living in the moment, never growing old. "Pacific Palisades" is a slow burner - the soundtrack of a California beach under a long dusk. These songs are a preview of the group's 2nd full length, "New Universe," which will be released by K in August 2009
Krecords-123
45
$4.00

Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
DominoRecordingCo
LP
$16.50

Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 9TH)
PS, US The follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed and Domino debut "Rise Above". Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation "Dark Was The Night". In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.
DominoRecordingCo
CD
$12.50

DJ Kaos
Love the Nite Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 26TH)
PS, US Disco/rock hybrid reminiscent of Daniele Baldelli w/ its rough male vocal sound & "I Feel Love"-style disco acid bassline. On the flip is a Balearic version of the original supplied by the Swedish band Tiedye
Rong/DFA
12"
$8.00

DJ Shadow
4-Track Era Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US 3CD set includes "Best of the Original Productions (1990-1992)," "Best of the KMEL Mixes (1991)" & "Best of the Remixes & Megamixes (1990-1992)"
Reconstruction
3XCD
$26.50

DJ Shadow
Diminishing Return [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US Legendary 2CD set, originally released in 2003, repackaged in a gatefold digipak. Disc 1 a Hip Hop adventure, veering from Crunk to Old School to Electro to UK First-Wave to Breaks & Beats. Disc 2 is psych rock, & includes an exclusive & previously unreleased original "War is Hell"
Reconstruction
DCD
$25.00

Durutti Column
Love in the Time of Recession (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS,US Written & played by Vini Reilly, w/ drums & percussion from guru Bruce Mitchell, this is the 2nd album to feature new vocalist Poppy Roberts, who also plays electric piano on several tracks
Fulfill
CD
$16.75

Eels
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2ND)
PS, US Mark Oiver Everett a.k.a E, is back with his first studio album in over four years.
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Elfin Saddle
Ringing the Bell For The Begin Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US The musical project co-founded by Jordan McKenzie & Emi Honda. The music is gently mystical, calmly wide-eyed, & consistently guided by crystalline melodies deployed over the group's building blocks of accordion & junkyard persucssion. A truly unique hybrid folk music
Constellation
CD
$16.25

Elfin Saddle
Ringing the Bell For The Begin Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation
LP
$18.00

Enigk, Jeremy
OK Bear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 12TH)
PS, US 3rd full-length solo album from former SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE/FIRE THEFT frontman offers a surprising sense of intimacy while staying undeniably Enigk.
LewisHollow
CD
$14.50

Erik B & Rakim
Follow the Leader (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US 2nd LP from this hip-hop duo is also their 2nd out & out classic record. Following the same formula as their debut, this features ERIC B.'s innovative, minimalist production style & RAKIM's blisteringly brilliant braggadocio. The golden age of hip-hop certainly has a surplus of fantastic LPs but this one deserves to be right up there near, if not at, the top. 180 gram vinyl reissue
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Faux Hoax
Your Friends Will Carry You Home (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 19TH)
PS,US Members of MENOMENA, GANG OF FOUR, TRACKER & 31KNOTS. Limited to 1000 copies
Polyvinyl
45
$4.00

Foreign Press
The Whole Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, UK The Whole Story is the first CD release by cult Manchester post-punk band Foreign Press. Manchester group Foreign Press were active between 1979 and 1988. After early gigs at legendary clubs including Rafters, Devilles and the Factory/Russell, the group recruited Joy Division manager Rob Gretton to produce their first single, Downpour, in 1979. After a second single, Climbing, in 1981, Foreign Press elected to pursue a more overtly commercial direction. The result was anthemic electro single The Great Divide, produced by Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Donald Johnson (A Certain Ratio), and released thr