New Releases
1900s, The
Cold & Kind (ON SALE)
PS, US New album of sultry psych-pop from Chicago seven-member sensations
The 1900s. Recorded mostly live to tape, the record captures the energy
of the band's remarkable live show while also benefiting from the
addition of large string and horn sections. While clocking in at exactly
40:00 minutes (in honor of finishing the album on the 40th anniversary
of Sgt. Peppers), Cold & Kind keeps one foot in the past, one
in the future and another foot in your heart. If you dig: Tommy James,
Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Cat Power, Supremes, Roy Harper,
Arcade Fire, Dr. Dog, Midlake, Leon Redbone, Bill Clinton on sax or
Russell Crowe's band.
Parasol-CD-106
CD
$9.00
1990s, The
Cookies
PS, US Much-hyped debut album from Scottish act featuring former Yummy
Fur folk. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "There are a few reference points
for the 1990s debut album that you need to forget right away. It doesn't
matter that Bernard Butler produced, or that two of the band's members
were in a band with the drummer from Franz Ferdinand. It does matter
that the band in question was Yummy Fur because if you were a fan
of their off-kilter and jagged brand of post-punky pop, you'll like
Cookies. Of course that covers a couple hundred people at best, so
let's say if you're a fan of off-kilter, spunky and often laugh-out-loud
hilarious post-punk influenced pop that ropes in the best elements
of Art Brut, the Libertines, Comet Gain and the B-52's, then there's
a good chance you'll fall for the 1990s in a big way..."
RoughTrade
CD
$14.00
Airiel
The Battle of Sealand
PS, US Injecting their well-crafted songs w/ enough effects to level
a small village, Airiel's latest stretches & expands the sonic
boundaries of the genre until it is completely deluged by an aural
wave of reverb, distortion & sweat. In short, it's loud, it's
beautiful, & you can dance to it.
HighWheel
CD
$11.00
Alkaline Trio
Remains
PS, US Rarities & retrospective album on beautiful double vinyl/gatefold
sleeve!
Cobraside
DLP
$25.00
Allien, Ellen
Weiss.Mix
PS, US It's a statement for openness & flexibility. In the mix
she sticks to clear & sharp cuts while leaving enough space for
every track to convey its massage. At the same time she once again
proofs her dj-skills. Feat: Closer Musik, Kiki, Redshift, Sylvie Marks,
DJ Maxximus/Something J, Andrea Parker feat. DJ Assault & DJ Godfather,
Squarepusher, Feadz, Cex rmx vs. Electric Company, Ellen Allien, Akufen,
Archetype, Otto Von Schirach, Phoenicia, Mono Junk, Apparat, Modeselektor,
Electric Company, Superpitcher.
BPitchControl
CD
$15.50
Anderson, Ryan
The Garden Path
PS, US Acoustic folk pop from a singer songwriter taking his songs
to the people one living room at a time. Honest and pure.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-075
CD
$9.75
Anemones
Come Down Like A Cloud
PS, US Grounded and propelled by the boom and tick of a lazy yet indefatigable
old-school drum machine, albeit augmented by occasional percussive
crash, rattle and stick of a genuinely human kind, ANEMONES are all
deep throb, jangled buzz, ambient drone, shiftless mumbling and, perhaps
most importantly, rolling waves of reverberation so pronounced and
significant as to be structurally necessary. Collected and combined,
these elements make a warm, oceanic, somewhat totalizing music that
operates inwardly, directed towards the uniquely fertile, semi-liquid
quasi-agriculture of the mind. Activated this way, mind as such is
here suspended, ala Descartes, as a kind epiphenomenal hazy feeling,
a ghost between the ears. Both in and out of the body, this half-consciousness
invokes a persistent, low-key dream-like psychedelic break in which
the normal world itself becomes hypnotically elusive and mysterious,
a pleasantly dislocating transformation enhanced by Anemones' minimalist,
somewhat lock-groove languorousness and nonchalantly sardonic theatricality.
But although often performatively 'druggy' in character, Anemones'
music isn't therefore 'about drugs' in the sense of being 'about being
made by means of drugs' or even 'about being made for or on behalf
of drugs', as if simply copying such important stylistic and conceptual
precursors as the Velvet Underground, Suicide, Spacemen 3 and the
Jesus and Mary Chain. Rather, Anemones produce a kind of 'post drug'
music, which here refers to a state of 'after-ness' and not prudish
abstention or dumbbell reform. In fact this is a specific aesthetic
strategy: after the drugs and drinks are long done and gone, sound
itself remains the psychotropic trigger par excellence. Hence, altering
perception, Anemones aim to turn listeners on ears first.
St.Ives-022
LP
$11.50
Appleseed Cast
End of the Ring Wars
PS, US Limited pressing of 1000 on gold vinyl. Subtlety is not a word
in (AC's) musical vocabulary. Whether expressed through aggressive,
post- hardcore riffs, woeful guitar interludes or frontman CHRISTOPHER
CRISCI's strained, yet powerful vocals, the band's message remains
crystal clear. The Kansas quartet distinguishes itself by using dynamic
song structures, hurricane-force rhythms & ultra-vivid lyrics
to paint bold portraits of Crisci's pain. (M Tye Comer, CMJ)
GoodCoreRecords
DLP
$17.00
Arbors, The
Symphonies For Susan
PS, UK The Arbors are the last great 'lost' vocal harmony act of the
1960s. Formed by two sets of brothers at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor in 1965 (and you thought the MC5 were the first cool
Ann Arbor act!), the quartet were signed to Columbia's Date imprint
and scored their first hit with "A Symphony For Susan" in
1966. Indeed, it's the symphonic nature of many of their recordings
that singled The Arbors out as being that little bit different from
their 'cooler' peers. Then in 1969 the group semi-re-invented themselves
with their third LP which spawned further hits in their mind-blowing,
Djbaiting versions of The Box Tops' "The Letter" and Blood,
Sweat & Tears' "I Can't Quit Her". The album also featured
stunning readings of Beatles, Dylan, Doors and Simon & Garfunkel
tunes and should now be regarded as a bona fide soft pop classic.
Shifting once again, in the early '70s the band moved away from pop
and into the lucrative world of advertising jingles where they forged
a 30-odd year career cutting ads for the likes of McDonalds, Texaco,
Green Giant and United Airlines. Rev-Ola is proud to present Symphonies
For Susan, the first definitive retrospective of this largely overlooked
and hugely talented band, featuring tracks from all three of their
albums, many of which appear on CD for the first time.
Rev-Ola-213
CD
$15.00
Arks
International
PS, US Stripping away the reverb & fog of their earlier sound,
the Chicago foursome move to the forefront their penchant for driving
rhythm made jagged & danceable by wrangled noise on this, their
debut full length. "Dynamic, genre-defying act from ambitious
local label"-SPIN
HighWheel
CD
$11.00
Armour, Douglas
Prince of Wands/Away
PS, US Hailing from Los Angeles, California, DOUGLAS ARMOUR is our
first proper signing to reside outside of New York City. He is a prolific
songwriter and for this 7-inch Douglas provided us with two tracks,
"Prince of Wands" and "Away." "Prince of
Wands" first left an impression on us, and an indelible one at
that, when associates of the label began DJing the track. It is a
damn near perfect pop song that has had people jumping up to the dance
floor upon first hearing.. Moving in a different direction with the
kind of indie pop reverie that hasn't been heard for a long time.
TheSocialRegistry-042
45
$5.50
Art In Manila
Set The Woods On Fire
PS, US After Azure Ray disbanded, member Orenda Fink put her energies
into a solo record in 2005, called "Invisible Ones". Upon
touring in support of that album with various revolving band members,
she chose the cream of the crop and formed a new group called Art
Belle, then changed it to Art In Manila (a nod to radio host Art Bell's
exodus to the Phillipines). On this release, the band flirts playfully
with genre wanderlust without ever abandoning cohesion. Moody slow-burners
follow four-to-the-floor rockers that butt up against serene ballads.
A powerful debut.
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.25
Ash
Intergalactic Sonic 7"s [expanded singles collection]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the last two LPs have been pretty
damn great, Ash has often seemed like a punky 2000s version of a '60s
pop group, where each song takes over your radio for weeks. One sugar-rush
melody melts into another wall-of-guitar burner with Tim Wheeler's
"infectious" happy-go-lucky vocals, and you wonder why they
never had a singles LP collection before this! Really, if Northern
Ireland-bred and London-based Ash is like a lesser cross between the
Buzzcocks' big power and their Ulster forebears the Undertones' "chocolate
and girls" sunny disposition, then who put out better singles
LPs way back when than those two bands? ...Anyone still undecided
or unenlightened about this delightful quartet is well served by this
consistent 19-song, big-hook collection... And if all that isn't enough,
there's a bonus disc of 22 B-sides going back a decade, including
some highly unusual picks for covers. This serves the fans and newcomers
equally..." (Jack Rabid)
Infectious/WEA
DCD
$16.25
Association, The
Waterbeds In Trinidad
PS, UK Hey, everybody loves The Association! "Along Comes Mary",
"Windy", "Never My Love", "Cherish".
Their lush harmonic pop provided an alternative soundtrack to the
late '60s and their string of nine Warner Brothers albums between
1966 and 1971 represent a body of work unsurpassed by their peers.
It might be surprising to discover, therefore, that as late as 1972
they were still making top quality music, albeit for a new label,
Columbia. Their version of "Darling Be Home Soon" may have
failed to crack the US charts after a run of 12 hit singles but it's
probably the best Lovin' Spoonful cover of them all (and that's saying
something!). The accompanying album, Waterbeds In Trinidad, was the
last long-player cut by the original group and has an undeniable elegiac
quality to it. They tackle John Stewart's "Little Road And A
Stone To Roll" and Goffin & King's "Snow Queen"
alongside the usual array of original compositions, mostly composed
by returning prodigal son and founder member Jules Alexander. An overlooked
jewel in the Association's crown, it's about time this album was recognized
by a wider audience overlooked gem from these archetypal Californian
soft pop legends!
Rev-Ola-214
CD
$15.00
Bat For Lashes
Fur & Gold
PS, US U.S. release with bonus track "I'm On Fire" and yes,
that's a Springsteen cover! Thom Yorke's a big fan. STYLUS MAGAZINE:
"Khan's music is usually quite bare and doesn't stray too far
from regular song structures but is still rarely straightforward,
full of unusual sounds and ambiguous meaning. There are some hints
of Kate Bush and particularly Björk here, "Bat's Mouth"
is most obviously like the latter, working itself up to an extended,
ecstatic whoop of joy set to music. Khan's vocals share much of Björk's
naïve otherworldliness throughout as well, if not quite the elastic
emotional range. But looking past the inevitable female singer-songwriter
comparisons, there are closer kindred spirits. Fur And Gold's galloping,
commanding opener "Horse And I" is a less harsh cousin to
Patrick Wolf's "The Libertine." "
Caroline
CD
$12.50
Believer
August 2007
PS, US David Simon of THE WIRE interviewed by NICK HORNBY (High Fidelity),
70's pop feminist fiction, fake slang & the codes of cultural
hierarchy, spurious advice from comedian Todd Barry, Ben Greenman
on boxers in song, Jordan Crane illustrations. Tons of reviews, interviews,
reading material. Published by McSweeney's.
Believer
ZINE
$7.50
Big Star
Columbia: Live at Missouri University
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With the Posies' Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow
standing in, on Stephens' recommendation, for the uninterested Hummel
and the deceased Bell, the foursome run through a collection mostly
drawn from #1 Record and Radio City. Chilton's in good voice throughout,
the blend of sweetness and melancholia of the band's original days
present and fine as ever... Everyone else gets at least one vocal
turn as well, a nice way of signaling the group effort that went into
the show. Stephens handles "Way Out West" and "For
You," Auer sings Bell's solo single "I Am the Cosmos,"
while Stringfellow takes over on no less than three songs, "Back
of a Car," "Daisy Glaze," and a smashing rip on "Feel."
A few interesting surprises are thrown in along the way, though anyone
familiar with Chilton's way around unexpected covers in performance
won't be too taken off guard. T. Rex's "Baby Strange" gets
a straightforward take, glam sass fully intact and suiting the band
perfectly, while Todd Rundgren's "Slut" closes out the set
with a final appropriate blast... (Ned Raggett)
Arcadia
CD
$17.75
Blumm, F.S.
Meets Luca Fadda
PS, GERMANY For this record FS Blumm has written some of his most
light-hearted tunes, accompanied by NY trumpeter Luca Fadda. Wonderful
guitar and double bass lines are accompanied with processed toy instruments
and found objects. The new dimension of this album is the collaboration
with Luca Fadda who places digitally processed trumpets on top of
Blumm's material. These improvised elements add a new live feeling
to F.S. Blumm's music and creates a less melancholic mood than previous
records released on labels like Morr, Staubgold and Plop. There are
two 15 minute pieces on this album: one is `Ricke and Dina`, the other
is `Giorgi and Lucy´. `Giorgi and Lucy´ was inspired by
the last piece of a live set at the `epistrophy´ in New York
on December 1st 2006 where Luca Fadda and F.S.Blumm met on stage.
‚Ricke and Dina' is based on a performance done in front of
a childrens-audience during the presentation of a Peruvian fair trade
collection of children`s wear at the belleville-store in Berlin on
the afternoon of Oct. 1st 2005. This 3 hour live set has been carefully
recorded by Lupo.
Ahornfelder-011
CD
$16.25
Bonfa, Luiz & Laurindo Almeida
Guitar Music Of Brazil
PS, UK These giants of Brazilian guitar music born just five years
apart both enjoyed career trajectories that took them from humble
origins to global renown, from folk music to jazz, and from classical
to bossa nova. For all their similarities, Luiz Bonfà and Laurindo
Almeida expressed their genius in very distinct ways. Here, Almeida¹s
interpretations here of Villa-Lobos are exquisite and these Bonfa
recordings of 1955-56 vintage landmark the birth of Bossa Nova.
EL-115
CD
$15.00
Botch
American Nervoso
PS, US Recorded in March '98 at Stone Gossard's Studio Litho in Seattle,
this was their full-length debut & first release on Hydra Head.
The white-hot guitar action, scathing vocals, sweet bass moves, &
torrential drums w/in smashed the existing precepts of "hardcore"
& redefined both the word & the music for a generation of
matinee kids & grizzled vets alike. Remixed, re-mastered &
reissued w/ 5 BONUS tracks.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
Brel, Jacques
I Am The Shadow of The Songs
PS, UK Emerging a decade before Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Jacques
Brel was a poet, singer and composer of extraordinary passion and
shattering emotional power. His elegant, uncompromising songs influenced
Jake Thackray, David Bowie and the brilliant young Scott Walker who
for a time dedicated himself to expressing him in English. Brel was
an earthquake for French culture, and its shockwaves are still rippling
across the world 50 years later.
El-113
CD
$15.00
Brunettes, The
Structure And Cosmetics
PS, US The Sub Pop debut by these New Zealand natives features breezy,
effervescent, Shangri-Las-reminiscent pop. The backing band ranges
from five to ten strong and incorporates the marimba, trumpet, alto
and tenor sax, and more. "Structure & Cosmetics" retains
the sweetly charming, sunbeam-drenched sound The Brunettes are known
for, but adds a hint of darkness and drama in other tracks. They've
played with the likes of The Shins, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service,
and Clap Your Hands Say
Yeah.
Subpop
CD
$12.50
Budos Band
Budos Band II
PS, US With its 22 legs, 3 horns & hallucinogenic venom, the un-heralded
emperors of Instrumental Staten Island Afro-Soul continue to rule.
While their debut album was heralded as a groundbreaking exploration
of funk, afro-beat & soul music, their 2nd effort not only matches
but surpasses that realm of mind-expansion. Through 10 exciting new
instrumentals, they pour themes both resonant & ethereal over
Herculean rhythms.
Daptone-011
CD
$13.00
Case, Peter
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
PS, US After helping to define power pop with The Nerves and The Plimsouls,
Peter Case has released several solo albums. Peter Case is back with
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, his most raw, direct work in nearly
a decade. This album of politically-fueled and personally-visionary
songs about now finds America's golden troubadour in his finest form,
laying down intricate and driving finger-style guitar with his uniquely
delivered dusty road-poetry. Sleepy John is yet another volume in
the career of one of the most storied singer/songwriters of his generation.
YepRoc
CD
$17.00
Christy & Emily
Gueen's Head
PS, US Take a crafty pop music guitarist who knows how to come up
with hooks and have them team up with a trained avant-garde classical
musician and you get the Velvet Underground. Move that same combo
from the Lower East Side across the river to northwest Brooklyn and
tack on 40 years and you get CHRISTY & EMILY. This duo present
their version of this mixture of elements with their debut CD "Gueen's
Head." An octet of pieces that explore modern classical techniques
grafted with pop songs. This alchemy produces a string of highly catchy
ascetic tunes combined with undercurrents of discordance and dissonance.
Add to this lyrics that take from the history of pop and modernist
mid-20th Century poetry.
TheSocialRegistry-045
CD
$11.50
Coalesce
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
PS, US Features seven Led Zeppelin covers from Coalesce's 1999 EP,
along with eight additional jams, including those from the band's
split EP with Boy Sets Fire, a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut",
an Undertow cover, and a Get Up Kids cover. "A ferocious blend
of brutal hardcore and vicious metal...incredibly infectious"
- Metal-Observer.
com.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
Cobra Skulls
Sitting Army
PS, US This Reno band plays a brand of leftist punk that blends crust,
folk, rockabilly, skate-punk & who knows what else. They deliver
a record so dynamic that everyone's ears will perk up.
RedScare
CD
$13.50
Cole, Lloyd & The Commotions
Live At The BBC, Volume 1
PS, UK
UMVD
CD
$20.50
Connors, Loren
The Hymn of the North Star
PS, US Even before his 1978 debut guitarist LOREN CONNORS has been
continually redefining the American blues and folk guitar. "The
Hymn of the North Star," a 180 GRAM 500 EDITION LP, is the first
full-length vinyl release solely under Connors' name since 1990. Though
in the years since he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative
albums with Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Christina Carter,
Jandek, Suzanne Langille, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Darin Gray,
and others. Connors creates a tapestry of transparent and haunting
melodies that transform the Delta blues into a ghost-like apparition
that never settles as it pours from the soul. These six pieces show
Connors contemporary elegiac style at its peak of romantic minimalism.
Self recorded in his Brooklyn apartment "The Hymn of the North
Star" is saturated with subtle details and the barely there multi-tracks
of guitar and bass floating in the background. Guitarist ALAN LICHT
appears on one equally opaque piece recorded in Glasgow, Scotland.
FamilyVineyard-047
LP
$16.25
Cope, Julian
You Gotta Problem With Me
PS, UK Julian Cope's new album YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME (no question
mark) is another protest album in the tradition of his previous releases
PEGGY SUICIDE, JEHOVAHKILL, AUTOGEDDON, CITIZEN CAIN'D and DARK ORGASM.
Unlike most records by Cope's head-in-the-sand punk rock contemporaries
(almost all of whom he believes to be shirking their primary rock'n'roll
responsibility as cultural mouthpieces), YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME
deals primarily with such currently controversial, nay taboo issues,
as religion (our own and other peoples'), and the West's latest wave
of xenophobia and self-doubts brought on by a combination of the war
in Iraq, the so-called 9/11 bombings and the EEC's latest huge wave
of migrants from former Communist countries. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH
ME also addresses all of Cope's other long-term gripes: corporate
greed and the destruction of Mother Earth, misogyny and homophobia,
and our apparent inability to address such essential matters due to
cultural ignorance and the glaring faults in our education system.
Yes, Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks are dead, but Cope's still pissed
off enough to fly the flag for all three! However, while the songs
of YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME are even more lyrically hard-hitting
than those on DARK ORGASM, musically this new record ploughs a far
more traditional Copean furrow, returning the listener to insidiously
melodic post-punk songs in the JEHOVAHKILL style, many sparsely orchestrated
with Mellotron, wah-wah guitars, orchestral percussion and even lush
harmonies. Released on double-CD and 12" vinyl gatefold sleeve
LP, the 13 songs are split into two sections, and are accompanied
by a 16-page booklet of insights, hard-hitting information, and a
very epic poem: all designed to shake us from our post-everything
stasis.
HeadHeritage-040
LP
$30.25
Copperpot
WYLA?
PS, US (What're You Looking At?) expounds on the fear & anxiety
he experiences when faced w/ perilous situations such as DJing, riding
elevators & making presentations to the class. Musically this
record takes the fan to a place they've never been before. With the
enlistment of such musicians as JEFF PARKER & DAN BITNEY (TORTOISE)
& JOSH ABRAMS (ROOTS, EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS) this record does things
musically that expand the boundries of hip hop.
GravelRecords-035
CD
$12.00
Current 93
In Menstrual Night
PS, US WAREHOUSE FIND, LAST COPY! An exploration of the idea of where
dreams go when they die. All the tracks on this album flow together
to form one whole piece, with extensive use of classical-style acoustic
guitar throughout. Personnel: Michael Cashmore, Phoebe Cheshire, Steven
Stapleton, Starspace, David Tibet.
Durtro-020
CD
$19.00
Department Of Eagles
Cold Nose
PS, US
AmericanDust
CD
$15.25
Donelly, Tanya/Luff
Heart Of Gold/Tell Me Why
PS, US HEART OF GOLD is an exclusive 7" gold vinyl split featuring
2 advance tracks from the "Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover
Neil Young" benefit CD. Side A features the title track "Heart
of Gold" as covered by the amazing TANYA DONELLY (Belly, Breeders,
Throwing Muses). Side B features Brooklyn 's favorite daughters LUFF
covering "Tell Me Why." 33-1/2 rpm, small hole, beautiful
translucent gold vinyl, original sleeve art, and limited to only 500
hand-numbered copies worldwide. All proceeds from this record to charity.
AmericanLaundromat-0008
45
$6.25
Echo & The Bunnymen
Dancing Horses
PS, US Filmed & recorded at The Shepherds Bush Empire (UK) in
05', it includes an incredible 20-song set as well as exclusive interviews
w/ Ian McCulloch & Will Sergeant. This DVD is outstanding proof
of E & the B's song writing ability, musicianship, & stage
presence.
Secret
DVD
$18.25
Epsilons
Kill 'em Deader
PS, US Rawer, live-r sound than their previous release, that better
recreates the feel of their raucous and increasingly notorious live
shows.
RetardDisco-015
CD
$11.25
Fakesch, Michael
Dos
PS, US His first post-FUNKSTORUNG release. It's 21st Century funk:
stone cold, down & dirty butt-shaking dance music from the soul.
Layered w/ his trademark bleeps & squelches, but these are but
flourishes garishing the main event.
K7
CD
$16.00
False (AKA Matthew Dear)
2007
PS, US Essentially a special one-off live set. He's concocted a work
of such stunning intricacy,verve & substance that it will surely
be amongst the favorites when this year's highlights are assessed.
What is so memorable about this collection of tracks is the way it
strikes the perfect balance between abstract experimentation &
full-on techno nirvana w/ out ever breaking stride or losing focus.There's
nothing brash or over-blown here,all the real action is nestled between
the beats, enticing yet unreachable,while the grooves he concocts
are all so earthy & raw that the kick drum functions as an alternative
rather than a necessity.
Minus-055
CD
$16.25
Fleeting Joys, The
Despondent Transponder
PS, US Repress. Flavors of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, The
Cocteau Twins and Sonic Youth are there, but don't fully explain this
shimmering anomaly. Their debut album Despondent Transponder was written,
performed, recorded and mixed by the band. Brilliant Californian drummer
Matt McCord lends his skills to the project. After hearing Despondent
Transponder, legendary Swervedriver drummer, Jez, has pegged the duo
for collaboration on their next release. While appreciating the comparisons
to My Bloody Valentine, it has never been the goal of Fleeting Joys
to imitate what they admire. "It is merely a starting point to
expand from, experiment with, and go from there. We simply love the
experience of being drenched in crashing waves of beautifully distorted
chords!" It's from this love that the song-crafting of despondent
transponder answers the pop vs. noise riddle with catchy, at times
- even happy - melodies and crashing instrumentals that rip through
like a cyclone tearing up a trailerpark. "Of recent things to
cross this desk, Fleeting Joys is a real delight. The epiphanic Spectorian
fog works best on "The Breakup," which plays Rorika's gossamer
vocals and symphonic synth lines against John's My Bloody Valentine-style
guitar sturm und drang over a stellar melody. - Jackson Griffith,
Sacramento News & Review
Only Forever-001
CD
$13.50
Flight of the Conchords
The Distant Future
PS, US Flight of the Conchords debut EP with Sub Pop is titled The
Distant Future. Some songs from this EP will appear on their upcoming
Sub Pop full-length debut as well.
Subpop
CD5
$4.00
Fucked Up
Year Of The Pig
PS, US Kings of punk and hardcore Fucked Up return with a mammoth
12" single, second in a series of records based on the Chinese
Zodiac. Year of the Pig is an 18 minute 34 second long prog-punk masterpiece
featuring lush piano and organ arrangements by Max Danger (The Deadly
Snakes) and guest vocals by Toronto's Jennifer Castle. Year of the
Pig starts with gentle guitar and soothing organ before heading into
darker territory with gruff male vocals offset by Castle's angelic
singing and a meandering bass line. It's not until a full 7 and a
half minutes in that the track explodes into a keith moon-esque drum
workout, which is followed by a one note neu trick that builds up
to a thrash attack. It's 'The Wall' as written and recorded by Poison
Idea.
WYR
12
$8.00
Furman, Ezra & The Harpoons
Banging Down The Doors
PS, US This Chicago group wields their fractured-folk-meets-maniacal-rock
to capture the grandeur, pain, and wildness of life in song. The results
are by turns beautiful, funny, angry, and often poignant and inspirational.
Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine).
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Gallon Drunk
You, the Night...and the Music [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 16-track re-issue. AMG: "Having
already gathered a solid reputation for their early string of crazed
psychotic lounge-garage singles, Gallon Drunk made the plunge into
full-album territory excellently with the similarly freaked-out You,
the Night...and the Music."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gallon Drunk
From the Heart of Town [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 18-track re-issue. AMG: "Everything's
still sounding like a smoky bar somewhere in 1965, where goodfellas,
rockabilly freak cases, and whiskey-soaked jazzmen are all on the
edge of taking out their frustrations on everyone else... Besides
the core four members from before, there's a semi-regular fifth here
and there, Terry Edwards, whose avant-cabaret style on trumpets and
sax slots in perfectly with Gallon Drunk's own ethos."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gallon Drunk
Tonite: The Singles Bar [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 18-track re-issue of their singles
collection. AMG: " Tom Waits, the Pogues, the Sex Pistols, a
hundred surf bands, the Kingsmen, the Troggs, the Stranglers, and
a half-dozen drunk Irish poets -- Gallon Drunk have elements of all
the above, with the result that the sound veers from repulsive to
crazily attractive in a very primitive way... This is wild-eyed primitive
rock & roll in no uncertain terms... There aren't too many bands
as seriously deranged as this one."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gandalf
S-T
PS, US With spellbinding, atmospheric songs which spin from soft dreamscapes
into blistering fuzz guitar breaks, Gandalf casts a powerful spell.
Led by singer/guitarist Peter Sando, the group was signed by Lovin'
Spoonful producers Charlie Koppelman and Don Rubin and conjured their
sole, self-titled album for Capitol in late 1967. One of the rarest
major label psychedelic releases, Gandalf features swirls of Hammond
B3 organ, caressing vibraphone runs and electric sitar on Sando's
originals as well as imaginative recastings of songs by Tim Hardin,
Gary Bonner/Alan Gordon, and Eden Ahbez. First-ever domestic compact
disc reissue! Released 2002.
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Gandalf
Gandalf II
PS, US The exotic, mindbending sounds of Gandalf have long been one
of the great lost treasures of the first psychedelic era. Featuring
the breathy vocals and lysergic guitar of Peter Sando, the band's
only album, a delight from start to finish, has generated a fervent
demand for more of the same. Gandalf 2, is a return trip to the band's
garden of earthly delights. A thorough search of Sando's tape vault
revealed a fabulous stash of spellbinding demos and acetates, unheard
for decades! Released 2007.
Sundazed
CD
$14.00
Ginga Snaps
Cross That Bridge
PS, US Coming in hot off the heels of the critically acclaimed latin
cum hip
hop disco that was the Rebel Crew's 02 12", this Cleveland/Miami
production duo takes the honor of BSTRD BOOTS #3 with yet again
another boundary pushing 12" in the bootleg/mash-up/whatever
you're
calling it game.
BstrdBoots
12
$7.50
Grapefruit
Around The BBC
PS, UK Around the BBC collects all of the known radio session recordings
that Grapefruit made for the BBC in 1968 and 1969. These BBC radio
session recordings - in which several songs were generally cut in
a single four-hour session with minimal overdubbing - provide a previously
of unheard side of Grapefruit. Most of the 1968 studio recordings
that were issued by RCA and Stateside Records can be found on Grapefruit's
"Around Grapefruit" LP that was issued in early 1969. But
due to some unsympathetic remixing and overdubbing by producer Terry
Melcher during the compilation of the album, the versions found on
"Around Grapefruit" were not representative of the group's
true sound. Around the BBC lets you hear Grapefruit as nature intended,
offering stripped down, high-energy versions of the singles Dear Delilah,
Elevator, C'Mon Marianne, Round Going Round and more. But best of
all, Around the BBC contains several tracks that were never officially
recorded or commercially issued by Grapefruit. Highlights include
the George Alexander compositions Somebody's Turning On the People,
Breaking Up A Dream and Trying to Make It To Monday, all prime early
1968 Grapefruit, which could have easily found a home on the "Around
Grapefruit" LP. RPM's Grapefruit Around the BBC provides an alternative
look at a group that had so much more to offer than simply being known
as 'the band formed and backed by the Beatles'.
RPM-817
CD
$16.25
Heaton, Angie & The Gentle Tamers
The Rumor Mill (ON SALE)
PS, US 'The Rumor Mill' is the new album by Illinois songstress and
Parasol Retail Queen Angie Heaton, former member of The Tractor Kings,
Corndolly and Liquorette. On this, Angie's 4th album, she's joined
by a country band, The Gentle Tamers, including veteran Nashville
session player, Bobby Watson, on guitar, banjo and pedal steel. This
album take Angie's songs and sounds from the rock club to the barn
dance, with her trademark vocal phrasing falling comfortably behind
the beat like Willie Nelson, and a voice that brings to mind Neko
Case, Lucinda Williams, and Kasey Chambers. In 'The Rumor Mill', Angie
gives us 10 more songs about crushes, death, and being crushed to
death; including a Tex-Mex-ed version of the Trembling Blue Stars'
classic "Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise". Check out the
release page for more info and sound samples.</a>
Spur-CD-005
CD
$9.00
Hue, Donny & The Colors
Folkmote
PS, US RECENT. Recorded in 2 days in the summer of 06', this debut
is a landscape of lush, magisterial lullabies, shimmering chamber
pop, psychedelic nursery rhymes gone horribly awry, & ghostly,
incandescent dreamscapes. RIYL Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk
Hotel, & Syd Barrett. Limited run of 1000
Kora-009
CD
$10.00
I Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni
The Modern Singers
PS, UK Though Ennio Morricone revolutionized the art of movie soundtracks
during the golden age of Italian cinema, for most people his trademark
sound is the combination of haunting whistling, wordless choirs and
plangent, Duane Eddy-style guitar that formed part of the aural landscape
of Sergio Leone¹s so called spaghetti westerns. And it is impossible
to imagine these works existing in all their atmospheric, multi-textured
splendor without the extraordinary talents of Alessandro Alessandroni
and his remarkable choir I Cantori Moderni. During the sixties, Cantori
established a reputation for almost infinite versatility, regardless
of the demands made by some of Italy's most prestigious film composers
and this set showcases their fantastic ability.
BellaCasa-6
CD
$15.00
Jennifer Gentle
New Astronomy
PS, ITALY This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer
and misunderstood genius (earth flat, sun small, etc). "A New
Astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release
to date, the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre,
vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare.
It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict
the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting
dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged
acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar
freak-outs and a hommage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included.
(Note: this is the official release of the ultra rare cd-r released
by Sub Pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition).
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
Jesu/Eluvium
Split
PS, US ***LIMITED***For the second installment in the collaborative
series of split albums between TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. and HYDRA
HEAD RECORDS, we find a match made in heaven with the ethereal, grandiose
dirge-pop of JESU splitting sides with stately, deserted majesty of
ELUVIUM. Already fans of each other's music, the two artists sought
to compliment each other and in the process stretched their individual
sounds to their outermost limits. Jesu shoots for the moon with a
trio of fuzzed-out tunes that owes more to first-wave British shoegaze
groups like SWERVEDRIVER and RIDE than Broadrick's own roots in GODFLESH
and NAPALM DEATH. It's a beautiful and brilliant evolution in Jesu's
already accomplished career. Eluvium aims for the heart of the sun
with his magnum opus, a three-part collaboration with JEREMY DEVINE
that stretches Eluvium's contemplative drones to a staggering twenty-one
minutes, in which time the song transforms from a lonely rattle to
a seismic, swirling storm of sound that grinds the piece to haunting
quiet. As with all records in this series, this is Strictly Limited
To 4,000 Copies - 2,000 Hydra Head versions and 2,000 Temporary Residence
Ltd. versions. The music and the artwork is the same on all copies,
but the vinyl colors, label colors, and outer sticker colors will
vary. We live to comfort you with our music, and confound you with
our methods.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-126
LP
$10.25
Jimmy Eat World
Clarity [expanded]
PS, US Expanded reissue of this Capitol title includes rare &
unreleased bonus material hand picked by the band.
Capitol/EMI
CD
$18.75
Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails [expanded]
PS, US Reissue of this Capitol title includes rare & unreleased
bonus material hand picked by the band.
Capitol/EMI
CD
$18.75
Ju Suk Reet Meate
Solo 78/79 aka Do Unseen Hands
Keep You Dumb?
PS, US Solo work by member of the noise collective Smegma. Recorded
in '78/'79 and pressed in a miniscule quantity the next year, this
record has been largely unavailable outside collector circles. Now
it's available as a digipak CD with liner notes by Wolf Eyes' John
Olson and contains a couple never before released tracks. A post-Zappa,
stoned blues/concrete mélange of guitar, tapes, found sounds,
and voice. As a member of what many have called the greatest band
of our time, Ju Suk Reet Meate has had an immeasurable influence on
the creators of underground culture the globe over, and this CD bears
his heft.
DeStijl
CD
$13.25
Juliette & The Licks
Four on the Floor
PS, US J&TL are known for their relentless tour schedule, opening
up for the likes of Turbonegro, Social Distortion & Courtney Love.
Originally brought in to play drums on a few demos, FOO FIGHTERS frontman
DAVE GROHL extended his stay for the album.
MilitiaGroup-059
CD
$13.25
Junior Senior
Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
PS, US New album from delirious Danes.
Ryko
CD
$17.75
Jupiter Apple
Uma Tarde Na Fruteira
PS, SPAIN The musical origins of this Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist
and composer take us back to the first half of the 90's, when he spawned
a brief incursion in Dylan-esque territory under the moniker Woody
Apple. He soon came back as Júpiter Maçã, his
current name, with which he develops his personal version of a 60's
inspired psychedelic sound in cult albums that don't cross the Brazilian
borders, but do find an echo among an elite who whisper his name in
each other's ears: among his following we find Tom Zé, Caetano
Veloso, Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, Sean Lennon, Tim
Gane, Sean O'Hagan or Dean Wareham.
Elefant-1121
CD
$14.00
King, David / Duke Of Uke
Gold
PS, US The Duke of Uke's third album guarenteed to lift even the most
jaded individual into Elysian realms of delight upon wings of pop
joy!
GrandRecord-002
CD
$7.00
Lamps
S-T
PS. US Throwing sparks like 2 gigantic rocks grinding against each
other, they seem intent on doing things their way. Fronted by the
unimpeachable Monty Buckles, the music alternately careens, crashes,
throbs & urges. This is mongoloid frenzy music. Are they paranoid,
frustrated, or merely disgusted w/ humanity? The truth is usually
somewhere in the middle. A dash of Necessary Evils & a dollop
of Karate Party.
IntheRed
CD
$13.25
Land Of A Thousand Rappers
VOL. 1: Fall of the Pillars
PS, US Three years in the making, LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS: "Vol
1, The Fall of the Pillars," will land on August 7, 2007 via
ASTHMATIC KITTY'S new imprint for conceptual and electronic projects,
UNUSUAL ANIMALS. This complex and obsessively-detailed sci-fi epic
utilizes the medium of recorded hip-hop as a fundamental construct,
not just as a shtick connection to the fiction of science. The album's
commitment to narrative detail is exhaustive, like a zealous Dungeon
Master for suburbanites weaned on Choose Your Own Adventure books,
Yo! MTV Raps and noise cassette culture.
AsthmaticKitty-403
CD
$11.50
Lee, Peggy
Moon Flowers
PS, UK The very first cool, blonde, sexy and happening female singer-songwriter,
opening the door for everyone from Jackie De Shannon to Gwen Stefani,
it's Miss Peggy Lee! Originally the featured vocalist in the Benny
Goodman Big Band in the 1940s, the lovely Miss Lee launched a series
of solo hits in 1942 beginning with her first # 1, 'Somebody Else
Is Taking My Place', followed by 1943's 'Why Don't You Do Right?'
which sold over a million copies and secured her fame! Many more hits
followed for the next umpteen years, of which many were self-penned.
Her many songwriting collaborators, in addition to husband/guitarist
Dave Barbour, included such notable as Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen,
Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dick Hazard, Quincy Jones,
Marian McPartland, Lalo Schifrin, Hubie Wheeler, and Victor Young,
to name just a few! On this collection we focus on her hits, of the
1940s and 1950s. The sexy, bluesy and assured tones of the woman who
brought you such heart-stopping moments as 'Fever' and 'Is That All
There Is?'
Rev-Ola 212
CD
$15.00
Lemonheads
S-T
PS, US Ltd. Ed. "Louder, faster, more like Buzzcocks pop-punk
and way less introspective." Dando convened two of his early
influences - the unholy duo of drummer Bill Stevenson (Descendents,
Black Flag) and bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendents) - in a remote mountain
hideaway. And it was there, over 18 months, that they kicked out the
first Lemonheads album in 10 years.
HallofRecords
LP
$14.50
Lipp, Eliot
City Synthesis
PS, US This showcases his eclectic styles, border-line, on the verge
of being ultimately classic yet definingly new. Rocking a funky drumkit
to a vintage keyboard to some Charlie Parker horns all in the style
of street beat warfare, Lipp takes his listeners into a city cloaked
w/ timeless beauty, unexpected danger, & survival of the illest.
Unpredictable, unpretentious, yet unmovably defiant.
Metatronix-015
CD
$12.50
Little Wings
Soft Pow'r
PS, US 7 new songs from Kyle Field's Little Wings, a dreamy, drowsy,
folksy affair.
Rad
CD
$16.00
Lolligags, The
Wired EP
PS, US New wave keyboard pop with a sweet dance beat will have these
4 songs stuck in your head for days. Already getting play via DJ's
in Athens, Atlanta, and NYC.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-087
CD5
$6.50
Los Campesinos
Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
PS, US Broad in number & armed w/ a more than is surely fair collection
of ace pop songs, they have the power to match the ambition of thier
sound. This feat. the acclaimed UK single "We Throw Patries,
You Throw Knives" & "You! Me! Dancing!" Incl. videos
for both as well as other new songs.
Arts&Crafts
CD5
$7.50
Los York's
68
PS, US Feat. the epileptic vocals of lead singer Pablo Luna over crankin
non-stop psychedelic riffs, this 2nd album from this top 60s Peruvian
psych band. In an era when many South American bands were just cheap
imitations of their North American counterparts, they were one of
the few bands to really stand out & write their own material.
GetBack-651
LP
$15.50
Luminous Orange
Sakura Swirl
PS, US The Yokohama-based band Luminous Orange has been around since
1992, and their new album Sakura Swirl is a perfect showcase of the
expertise and talent accrued over the last 15 years. Formed and fronted
by female auteur Rie Takeuchi, LO clearly take great inspiration from
the first wave of UK shoegaze as well as the guitar pop and electronic
music from Cornelius and his contemporaries in the Shibuya-kei movement.
(In fact, Cornelius' Trattoria label released some of Luminous Orange's
first material right before it dissolved in 2002.) But Luminous Orange
are not stuck in recreating the past: they have radically altered
their genetic material to form a brand-new sound. At points, the new
album Sakura Swirl sounds like a respectful tribute to My Bloody Valentine:
airy vocals float above heavily-layered wall-of-sound guitars drenched
in a bog of resonant reverb.
MusicRelated-018
CD
$9.75
Magnolia Electric Co.
Sojourner
PS, US Limited! The four CDs that are included in the boxset are from
four distinct recording sessions that MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. recorded
following the release of their debut studio album "What Comes
After The Blues." The session known as "Nashville Moon"
was recorded by STEVE ALBINI at his ELECTRICAL AUDIO studios in Chicago,
Illinois. The session known as "Sun Sessions" was recorded
at the legendary SUN STUDIOS in Memphis, Tennessee. The session known
as "Black Ram" was recorded by DAVID LOWERY at his SOUND
OF MUSIC studios in Richmond, Virginia and features an entirely different
cast of characters including Lowery, RICK ALVERSON, ANDREW BIRD, MOLLY
BLACKBIRD, MIGUEL URBIZTONDO and ALAN WEATHERHEAD. The session known
as "Shohola" was recorded by JASON MOLINA alone, with a
guitar and microphone. "The Road Becomes What You Leave"
is a documentary film produced by TODD CHANDLER and TIM SUTTON. It
follows the band as they tour across the prairie provinces of Canada
and shows the loneliness and isolation one can feel even when traveling
in a pack.
SecretlyCanadian-150
4XCD/DVD
$36.00
Memizis
Inbetween
PS, POLAND Nemezis is the living legend of Polish electronic music
scene. Their new album "Inbetween" is the first new one
in 6 years. New electronic ambience. Beautiful, subtle, deep and very
emotional sound. The album was recorded between September 2006 and
June 2007.
Spirea-400
CD
$15.00
Michael Yonkers Band
Grimwood
PS, US When considering "Grimwood", one must give thought
to the Michael Yonkers Band's "Microminiature Love". Originally
recorded in 1968, it languished until it was released in 2002 (and
later re-issued as a Sub Pop CD). Called the greatest psych record
of the 60s by more than a few, it's no stretch to say that had it
materialized, it would've altered the lay of the land. But the deal
fell apart and the band split, which led to Yonkers retreating and
recording "Grimwood". This is intensely private music. Collectors
have had a run on it for some time and it's been impossible to affordably
attain, until now. Here it is, re-mastered, digitized, and priced
for the people.
DeStijl
CD
$12.50
Mirah And Spectratone International
Share This Place: Stories and Observations
PS, US In "Share This Place: Stories and Observations,"
LORI GOLDSTON and KYLE HANSON of BLACK CAT ORCHESTRA acclaim team
up with K RECORDS recording artist MIRAH to deliver a sweeping song
cycle inspired by the tragic and triumphant lives of insects. Inspired
in part by influential French scientist/poet J.HENRI FABRÉ,
Mirah's lyrics smartly humanize the trials and pleasures of the insect
world, touching on themes of villainy, seduction, self-sacrifice and
love. Shining a light on the epic complexity of the insect world,
the songs imply an inescapable comparison with our own. A concept
album of sorts, "Share This Place" is a score written by
GOLDSTON, HANSON and Mirah for a suite of twelve stop-motion animated
short films by BRITTA JOHNSON. One of the films, "Credo Cigalia,"
is included on the album, along with an illustrated lyric booklet.
Krecords-181
CD
$11.50
Mohawk Lodge
Wildfires
PS, US While their early material often relied on homespun charm,
every track here seems an act of desperate catharsis. This time around
the band's songwriting manages to nod as much to the Boss as Smog,
while their playing manages to bridge the gap between Fleetwood Mac
& the Constantine's. Simply put, this is earnest songcraft that
beats w/ vitality. Overseen by producer Darryl Neudorf (New Pornographers,
Neko Case). Also feat: Dan Boeckner (WOLF PARADE), Jesse Gander (GHOST
HOUSE), J.P. Carter (GREAT AUNT IDA), Marc Morrissette (OCTOBERMAN),
Tiffany Mohammed, Ben Labelle & Jason Starnes (Bells Clanging)
WhiteWhale-008
CD
$12.50
Mojo
#166 (September 2007) [Magazine + Bonus Disc]
PS, UK
ZINE
$9.50
Monk, Thelonious
4/8
PS, US RECENT. Recorded live in Rotterdam, Holland on October 28,
1967, it feat. Thelonious Monk playing w/ both a quartet & octet
line-up on classic Monk tracks like "Ruby My Dear" &
"Blue Monk" as well as "Hackensack" w/ both the
quartet & octet line-up.
GetBack-2034
CD
$15.00
Monster Bobby
Gaps
PS, US The brains behind The PIPETTES & one of the earliest musical
activists of the Brighton scene releases his solo debut. Full of endearing
humor, dry wit & emotional directness, this ironically gapless
album is both catchy & off beat. An unassuming folk-tronic masterpiece.
Hypnote-002
CD
$11.00
My Cat Is An Alien/Fabio Orsi
For Alan Lomax
PS, ITALY Tribute album to ALAN LOMAX, the man who, more than any
other, have worked to "bring the music to light", in the
widest and most absolute meaning of the word. A record that the space
brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, share
with FABIO ORSI. Though so different from each other, Orsi's and MCIAA's
tracks sound complementary, and build up an original, complex and
really unitary work. The listener won't find difficult to see the
great Alan Lomax materializing from the deepest Cosmos, as undiscussed
discoverer of the American Primitive Music.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
My Cat Is an Alien/Text of Light
Cosmic Debris, Vol. 1 [re-issue]
PS, ITALY CD re-issue of the first instalment in the new "Cosmic
Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio,
aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. This Volume I sees the two space brothers
from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star
ensemble TEXT OF LIGHT* (here featuring Alan Licht, Dj Olive, Ulrich
Krieger and Tim Barnes). Their track "033103 Paris" has
been recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003 and mixed in
dual mono by Ranaldo & Licht at NYC Echo Canyon studio. MCIAA's
piece entitled "Everything falls like cosmic debris" is
a conceptual ouverture to the whole series, performed in April 2006
at their secret recording space called Alien Zone, located up the
Italian Western Alps. The five-volumes series "Cosmic Debris"
features My Cat Is An Alien alongside Text Of Light, Steve Roden,
Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House
band.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
Nadler, Marissa
Song 3: Bird on the Water
PS, US A dark and atmospheric record and Nadler's most personal to
date. Thematically she relates to characters living on the fringes
of society. The songs revolve around the demise of a love relationship
as well as eulogies and dirges. It was inevitable that Marissa would
rise from the underground to reach a wider audience someday. Her music
is dreamy and spectral: an amalgam of traditional folk, paisley underground,
shoegaze, and dream pop. Almost all of the songs are very sad - about
broken hearts, death, or simple burdens. Her voice is what most people
immediately respond to, with the writing and playing yielding a slow
burn subtlety. Excelling at a Fahey-esque finger-picking technique,
she plays homage to some of the great early American blues players.
The Basho like 12 string guitar movements are also quite lovely. MOJO:
"The most exquisite thing happening right now" /// UNCUT:
The most enchanting record from the folk underground since Joanna
Newsom's Ys" /// PITCHFORK: "One of the most engaging singer-songwriter
releases this year"...
Kemado
CD
$13.75
Nemezis
Inbetween
PS, POLAND Nemezis is the living legend of Polish electronic music
scene. Their new album "Inbetween" is the first new one
in 6 years. New electronic ambience. Beautiful, subtle, deep and very
emotional sound. The album was recorded between September 2006 and
June 2007.
Spirea-400
CD
$15.00
New Blockaders w/ O'Rourke, Jim + Thurston Moore
S-T
PS, US RESTOCK! LAST COPIES EVER! Originally released as a limited
CD by Hospital Productions in 05. This is the equally limited LP version
w/variant artwork. Arguably the most notorious & interesting proponent
of ground zero UK noise/industrial history. What we have here is ORourke
on 1 side & Moore on the other taking TNB "music" &
collaborating w/it in distinctly different ways: O'Rourke utilizing
the free life percussion power of Chris Corsano & Moore employing
the spirit index of shortwave.
EcstaticPeace-085
LP
$11.50
Newell, Martin
Greatest Living Englishman [reissue]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "As it was produced by XTC's Andy Partridge
(who also plays most of the drums), this was Newell's first project
to receive any semblance of mainstream media attention in the U.S.
What he was presenting, however, differed little in essence from what
he'd been doing since Cleaners From Venus started in the early '80s:
tuneful pop with heart and clever lyrics that could be joyfully optimistic,
whimsically satirical, or dourly cynical...such as "Home Counties
Boy" and the very Kinks-like "A Street Called Prospect"
and "Christmas in Suburbia." ...Playing, as always, like
a snapshot of English life, it's the most suitable introduction to
Newell's work..."
Humbug
CD
$18.25
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER'S "Black Sheep Boy" was one of the
most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York
Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band
Okkervil River, writes like a novelist." With their newest release,
"The Stage Names," Okkervil River dynamite the walls of
"Black Sheep Boy's" gothic, moss-walled castle from the
inside to let in the glaring sun. Where "Black Sheep Boy"
presented a fairytale of dark babbling streams and high distant towers,
"The Stage Names" takes place in an unmistakably modern
world, where snowy televisions blast into cheap hotels the spectral
images of soap stars endlessly betraying each other, where losers
in late-night bars languish to the beat of their favorite songs, where
broken-down actresses place their final cell calls from lonely mansions
high in the hills. Riddled with characters real and fake, with true-life
biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography, with the relics of
high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture, "The Stage
Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment.
And, crucially, it entertains. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap
and girl-group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock 'n' roll,
shining with the shimmy of BO DIDDLEY, with the shimmer of the VELVETS,
with the swagger of the FACES, and with a glittery sprinkling of cheap
perfume over the top of it all to disguise the stink, "The Stage
Names" is a relentlessly-paced and ruthlessly thrilling journey.
Jagjaguwar-110
LP
$10.25
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER'S "Black Sheep Boy" was one of the
most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York
Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band
Okkervil River, writes like a novelist." With their newest release,
"The Stage Names," Okkervil River dynamite the walls of
"Black Sheep Boy's" gothic, moss-walled castle from the
inside to let in the glaring sun. Where "Black Sheep Boy"
presented a fairytale of dark babbling streams and high distant towers,
"The Stage Names" takes place in an unmistakably modern
world, where snowy televisions blast into cheap hotels the spectral
images of soap stars endlessly betraying each other, where losers
in late-night bars languish to the beat of their favorite songs, where
broken-down actresses place their final cell calls from lonely mansions
high in the hills. Riddled with characters real and fake, with true-life
biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography, with the relics of
high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture, "The Stage
Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment.
And, crucially, it entertains. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap
and girl-group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock 'n' roll,
shining with the shimmy of BO DIDDLEY, with the shimmer of the VELVETS,
with the swagger of the FACES, and with a glittery sprinkling of cheap
perfume over the top of it all to disguise the stink, "The Stage
Names" is a relentlessly-paced and ruthlessly thrilling journey.
Jagjaguwar-110
CD
$11.50
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US Deluxe Edition - 2xCD OKKERVIL RIVER'S "Black Sheep Boy"
was one of the most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote
in the New York Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin
indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist." With
their newest release, "The Stage Names," Okkervil River
dynamite the walls of "Black Sheep Boy's" gothic, moss-walled
castle from the inside to let in the glaring sun. Where "Black
Sheep Boy" presented a fairytale of dark babbling streams and
high distant towers, "The Stage Names" takes place in an
unmistakably modern world, where snowy televisions blast into cheap
hotels the spectral images of soap stars endlessly betraying each
other, where losers in late-night bars languish to the beat of their
favorite songs, where broken-down actresses place their final cell
calls from lonely mansions high in the hills. Riddled with characters
real and fake, with true-life biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography,
with the relics of high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture,
"The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning
of entertainment. And, crucially, it entertains. Reverberant with
echoes of Motown snap and girl-group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs
of dirty rock 'n' roll, shining with the shimmy of BO DIDDLEY, with
the shimmer of the VELVETS, with the swagger of the FACES, and with
a glittery sprinkling of cheap perfume over the top of it all to disguise
the stink, "The Stage Names" is a relentlessly-paced and
ruthlessly thrilling journey.
**THE LIMITED EDITION DOUBLE-DISC VERSION OF "THE STAGE NAMES"
INCLUDES A BONUS DISC OF SOLO DEMO VERSIONS OF EACH SONG ON THE ALBUM.
Jagjaguwar-110
DCD
$11.50
Old Man Gloom
Seminar II
PS, US Double LP edition of the CD only release in 2000. Feat. elaborate
full color gatefold sleeve & members of ISIS, CONVERGE, CAVE IN,
FORENSICS & DOOMRIDERS.
MagicBullet-040
DLP
$22.50
O-Type
The New Edge
PS, US "The New Edge" is a stunning and absolute collection
of the 1999-2005 releases by O-TYPE, a 20-plus year collective morphed
from the Bay Area hard-art genius that is MX-80, featuring guitar
hero BRUCE ANDERSON and sonic sage DALE SOPHIEA. Often surpassing
levels of full-on abstraction, in terms of structure and melody, O-Type
blend fields of ambient distillation and jagged, electroid rhythm
fragments into sprawling narratives, composed in real time, that evoke
movie soundtracks, musique concrète, minimalism, and guitar
psychedelia with references spanning from MORTON FELDMAN to PETE COSEY.
"The New Edge" is a Limited Edition, Handmade Box with wrap
around cover and printed inner cards containing all of O-Type's FAMILY
VINEYARD releases: "Strict" (FV1); "Brutality II":
"Balkana" (FV4); "Medication" (FV8); "Lugubrious"
(FV10) and "Western Classics" (FV31). Exclusive to this
set is "Godawful" a DVD-R of unprocessed and trance-like
nature scenes accompanied by unreleased improvisations. This body
of work stands above and without association with any current musical
trends or scenes.
FamilyVineyard-032
5xCD/DVD
$14.25
Ox
American Lo Fi
PS, US Dope-soaked,derelict & wired, this feat.9 songs that give
a nod to Velvet Underground meets Bruce Springsteen, trading New Jersey
urban fairground for Pacific interstate moonscape. This fuses weary
w/ vicious, punk w/ hillbilly, the farmer in the city w/ the electro-magnetic
aura of tape hiss & crackle. Recorded in the manic confines
of Vancouver's Profile Studios amid the plume of smoke, sweat &
heavy Pacific laced air.
SavedByVinyl-012
LP
$13.25
Patience Please
Parallel Plots
PS, US
JigsawRecords
CD5
$6.00
Patience Please
Parallel Plots
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
JigsawRecords
12
$7.00
Patience Please
Fleeting Frequencies
PS, US
HHBTM
CD
$9.00
Paulusma, Polly
Fingers & Thumbs
PS, US Achingly tender yet simmering w/ a persistent urgency, the
album bears the scars of the personal trauma from which it was conceived...fueled
by emotions, heartache & eventual triumph.
OneLittleIndian-462
CD
$15.00
People for Audio
New Ancients
PS, US 2 years in the making, New Ancients is incredibly rich w/ texture
& detail ranging from backporch sing-along jams to sophisticated
instrumental voyages & classic psych-rock. 13 tracks that display
maturity far beyond their years, creating a piece of art that will
undoubtedly stand the test of time.
Storyboard
CD
$12.50
People Press Play
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-078
LP
$16.00
People Press Play
S-T
PS, US A melancholy affair of the heart, surrounded by murmuring nuances,
electronic folk from the echo chamber. Electro-pop w/ clear outlines,
pushing, elegant, oscillating. A weightless wall of sound, a bass
guitar with the surf.
MorrMusic-078
CD
$16.00
Port O'Brien
Wind & the Swell
PS, US The songs showcase the paradox between the band's ferocity
& its tenderness. The male/female vocal counterpoint & the
urgent rushes of instrumentation mid-song meet w/ the gentle strum
of acoustic guitars & wistful imagery of the sea. These songs
present music as a document of experience, shot through w/ pathos,
imagination, enthusiasm & warmth.
AmericanDad-103
CD
$14.00
Prayers
God Save The Prayers
PS, US Comes out swinging like 1st wave NYC punk w/Motown vibe. Guitars,
harmonies, drums & bass surge forward like a big oily rouge wave,
backing up lyrics about trouble & horsin' around in the grand
theater of absurd. Next a sinister track full of damaged characters,
skeezy fashion & denial. Then a girl group pop song done by boys.
An ode to gossipy shit talking w/ reverby 50s guitars. Ending w/a
greaser rumble w/ vertical slashes of guitar & backing vocals
that are pure doo wop.
ArtFag
CD5
$5.00
Rogerson, Diana
Lights Are On But No-One's Home
PS, US Member of the cult band Whore 156 in the 70s. Dubbed "the
female Whitehouse," they later mutated into Fistfuck in the early
80s. This is a collection of new songs & instrumentals in her
unique style, recorded w/ the help of Steven Stapleton & Colin
Potter (of Nurse With Wound) & also Matt Waldron of irr. app.
(ext.). Rogerson is also a guest vocalist on the new Faust album.
UnitedJnana
CD
$15.00
Rouse, Josh
Country Mouse City House
PS, US New album. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Beginning with 2003's 1972,
he's been cranking out sweet and sophisticated albums influenced by
his love of soft rock and filled with lyrical gems, smooth performances
and his wonderfully rich and intimate vocals, and Country Mouse City
House is no different. Again recorded in his new home country of Spain,
this time out Rouse handles the production himself and proves that
he learned quite a bit from his former partner Brad Jones as the album
is just as lushly layered and as filled with aural candy (like the
funky clavinet on "Hollywood Bass Player" or the horns that
bolster "God, Please Let Me Go Back") as on the last three
albums. The songs on Country are a nice mix of the last three albums,
too; some have the lazy, relaxed feel of Subtitulo ("Snowy Night,"
"Pilgrim"), some have the indie pop glow of Nashville ("God,
Please Let Me Go Back," "Sweetie") some have the soft
rock groove of 1972 "(Italian Dry Ice," "Hollywood
Bass Player"). Whatever it is, the sound they all have in common
is Rouse's first-rate songcraft, and there are few modern singer/songwriters
who can approach him."
Nettwerk
CD
$12.50
Sentridoh/Lou Barlow
Losing Losers
PS, US VINYL!!!
Shrimper
DLP
$14.25
Spokane
Little Hours (LP/CD)
PS, US "Little Hours" is the patient sheen of stillness
after a short, violent burst of intention. The lingering, resonant
decay of a nail being hammered into wood. A piano laden marriage of
small hopes and quiet violence. In Church Hill, a borough of Richmond,
Virginia, there is a small yellow cottage. Next to the cottage is
an austere replica of a mid-nineteenth century, white Federal period
house. The members of SPOKANE hand built the structure over the course
of 2006 while recording and revising their first new album in four
years, "Little Hours." The record is both a document of
and an aural parallel to that difficult, meticulous process. In the
emotional vein of folk singer Jackson C. Frank with the textural emaciation
of composers Zbigniew Preisner and Morton Feldman, the songs themselves
are hinged on concepts of failure and stillborn ideas, on the conflicted
process of building or birthing a cerebral image into the world. There
are the echoes of insistent cats running through the skeletal frame
of the house, pillaged, infant birds in their mouths, left half-dead
at the foot of the hole where the stair would be. "Little Hours"
is packaged in A VINYL SLEEVE WITH BOTH RECORD AND CD INSIDE, 50 of
which are handmade and numbered. It features the core ensemble of
2003's "Measurement," which MOJO magazine called "a
uniquely enthralling treasure", along with contributions from
members of Brooklyn's orchestral, minimalist band GREGOR SAMSA.
Jagjaguwar-087
LP/CD
$11.50
Squeeze
Singles 45's and Under [remastered]
PS, US
AmericanBeat
CD
$11.00
Stewart, John
California Bloodlines
PS, UK Cult artist John Stewart first came too the attention of the
public when his folk group The Cumberland Three issued their pair
of acclaimed concept albums featuring songs of the American Civil
War. Shortly afterward in 1961, he joined their mentors the Kingston
trio leading them through changes in style and continued hit singles
and albums in the volatile period 1961-67. As the Trio slowly ran
down operations, as John wrote songs for outside acts such as "Daydream
Believer" by The Monkees, which of course was, a worldwide smash
hit in 1967! John then made the eccentric country-psych "Signals
Through The Glass" with his wife Buffy Ford, though even John
himself joked that foreign language albums outsold them! Immediately
afterward, he would go to Nashville, where he would join Nik Venet,
Vince Martin, Fred Neil, and the Nashville master musicians who made
"Blonde On Blonde", "Nashville Skyline", Vince
Martin's amazing first solo album and Bergen White's "For Women
Only". This is where John cut his first real solo album, "California
Bloodlines" and where his real cult begins, as music loving cliques
from Rolling Stone to Zig Zag to Omaha Rainbow (a Brit magazine named
after John's song) raved over the album!
Rev-Ola-215
CD
$15.00
Stormy
Devastator b/w I Won't Cry
PS, US More Limited 45s from Numero. This feat. a track NOT AVAILABLE
on theCD "Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation" LIMITED
to 750 copies.
Twinight
45
$5.00
Surface Of Eceon
Revenge of Dragon
PS, US
MusicFellowship
LP
$16.00
Tarentel
Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
PS, US Immediately following the release of their acclaimed 2004 album,
"We Move Through Weather," TARENTEL built on their forward
momentum by recording another several hours worth of material, its
fate to be determined at a later date. Tarentel don't follow up their
albums so much as follow through them. To that end, "Ghetto Beats
On The Surface Of The Sun" is more of an exploded view of the
world the band has built and un-built for over a decade, each track
acting as a map to an increasingly cosmic landscape. Originally released
as a limited edition series of vinyl albums, "Ghetto Beats"
is collected here onto two CDs - a full two and a half hours of music.
It is a sun-baked cluster of ragged rhythms, splintered sound and
scorched shimmer. The production is a caustic mix of hi- and lo-fi,
creating a strange sense of timelessness, like discovering a black
and white photograph of the future. AVAILABLE IN A NUMBERED, LIMITED
EDITION QUADRUPLE GATEFOLD JACKET, "Ghetto Beats On The Surface
Of The Sun" is a widescreen projection of unspeakable charm and
unlikely beauty.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-102
DCD
$12.50
Telegraph Avenue
S-T
PS, US Heavy distorted guitar mixed w/ Latin bass & percussion
meld to create a kind of south-of-the-equator Latin groove meets West
Coast psych w/ a slightly poppier feel. All lyrics are sung in English.
The band unfortunately split after the release of just one more album,
but the drummer & singer would soon join up w/ 2 Argentine friends
to form another great band South American band of the seventies: Tarkus
GetBack
LP
$15.75
Tenpole Tudor
Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary/Let the Four Winds Blow: The Stiff Anthology
[remaster]
PS, US
ZTT
CD
$13.00
The The
45 RPM: The Singles of The The
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: A recent best of collection includes the awesome
single "Perfect", which does not appear on the re-issued
Soul Mining, plus loads of compelling remixes, versions, single-mixes;
some of which rival the original versions, such was the genius of
The The.
Sony
DCD
$20.00
This Beautiful Mess
Away With The Swine
PS, JAPAN This Beautiful Mess hails from Vlissingen, Netherlands,
they have been making music in the Netherlands for several years,
and pretty much all the band members are part of other great bands
and most are multi-instrumentalists. They have put out such three
albums as Falling On Deaf Ears(2001 Deep Elm), Temper The Wind To
The Shorn Lamb(2003 Sally Forth) and Away With The Swine - 7 tracks
EP(2006 Sally Forth) so far. This Japanese edition of Away With The
Swine will contain new artwork, four new songs and is scheduled this
year for aim to release all over the world. "Take My Life And
Let It Be¡É, ¡ÈHow Great Thou Art",
"The Lido" and "Joop Two" are the four new songs.
Imagine the melodious of Coldplay, Explosions In The Sky, L'altra
or an early Radiohead meeting singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes
or Mojave 3. The sound of This Beautiful Mess is unmistakably cutting
edge, yet vulnerable and unafraid of experiment.
ArtUnion-5528
CD
$16.25
Trent, Jackie
The Magic of Jackie Trent
PS, UK Alongside Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield, Jackie Trent
was one of the most distinctive pop voices of the sixties. With Tony
Hatch, she co-wrote hits for Walker and Petula Clark and enjoyed major
success of her own when 'Where Are You Now?' ousted the Beatles' 'Ticket
To Ride' from the number one spot in the spring of 1965. Complimented
by some memorable Hatch arrangements, the restored Magic of Jackie
Trent and the superb material with which it has been augmented here
are testament to her brilliant artistry.
El-114
CD
$15.00
Tyvek
Summer Burns (2X7")
PS, US New to the WYR? family, Tyvek-- Kevin (guitar/vox), Heath (guitar),Larry
(bass/the law), and Matt (drums)-- hail from Detroit, MI; you can
probably hear it in the music. Tyvek's songs are a product of trying
to understand their city: the empty spaces, poisoned ground, burnt-out
building shells. In spite of all that, Tyvek love the land, the city,
the infrastructure, and the sound... the sound of turning it up and
then having your friends turn it up too, until you're all wired into
some cheap frequencies and feeling some real buzz in the air.
WYR
45
$7.25
Uncut
#124 (September 2007)
PS, UK
ZINE
$9.50
Various
Bold Beginnings
PS, US A collection of Louisville Punk '78 - '83. Mostly previously
unreleased material & the rest has not been available for over
20 years. Over 70 minutes of 29 songs by 10 bands including BABYLON
DANCE BAND, THE DICKBRAINS, SKULL OF GLEE, NO FUN, THE ENDTABLES &
MALIGNANT GROWTH. Includes a 16 page full color booklet full of pictures
& commentary by Tara Key (Babylon Dance Band/ANTIETAM) & Jeff
Jobson (Louisville native/Seattle filmmaker)
NoisePollution
CD
$11.00
Various
Radio Interference From Unkown Orgasm
PS, US New comp. features exclusive tracks from MERZBOW, BLACK SUN
PRODUCTIONS, MYKEL BOYD, WYRM & others. Over 70 min. of experimental
sound.
Somnimage
CD
$13.25
Various
Country Goes Rock N' Roll Volume 3
PS, UK Third volume of our mighty and acclaimed rockin' series, which
will no doubt be blasting out of a radio near you soon! Yep, this
time we have gone for the most rockin' sides by the cream of country
music, the veritable royalty! Some of them going so wild that they
had to use pseudonyms! Songs covered again and again by the country
rockers of the 1970s onward. The originals by the giants of country,
honkytonk, and hillbilly boogie, this album is like a dream come true.
TRACKLIST: Eddy Arnold & Jaye P Morgan - Do You Love Me?, Thumper
Jones (George Jones) - Rock It, Webb Pierce - Teenage Boogie, Corky
Jones (Buck Owens) - Rhythm And Booze, Marty Robbins - Pretty Mama,
Ernest Tubb - Thirty Days (To Come Back Home), Don Gibson - I Ain't
A-Studyin' You, Baby, Hank Thompson - Rockin' In The Congo, David
Houston - Sugar Sweet, Billy Walker - I've Got Leavin' On My Mind,
Ferlin Husky - Slow Down, Brother, Freddie Hart - Snatch It And Grab
It, Jerry Reed - When I Found You, Bob Wills - So Let's Rock, George
Hamilton Iv - If You Don't Know, Tennessee Ernie Ford - Rock, Roll,
Boogie, Brenda Lee - Bigelow 6200, Claude King - Run Baby Run, Wanda
Jackson - I Gotta Know, Patsy Cline - Stop, Look And Listen, Johnny
Horton - I Don't Like I Did, Little Jimmy Dickens & The Country
Boys - Country Boy Bounce (Instrumental), Johnny & Jack - Carry
On, Pee Wee King - Catty Town, Bobby Helms - Tennessee Rock 'N' Roll,
Rose Maddox - Hey Little Dreamboat, Glenn Barber - Feelin' No Pain/
The Louvin Brothers - Cash On The Barrel Head, Bill Carlisle &
The Carlisles - I'm Rough Stuff (Mercury 71035), Johnny Bond - The
Little Rock Roll, Moon Mullican - Honolulu Rock-A Roll-A, Jimmie Skinner
- Just Ramblin' On, Hawkshaw Hawkins - It Would Be A Doggone Lie.
Rev-Ola-021
CD
$15.00
Venetian Snares
Horse And Goat
PS, US Restock. Last 10 copies. Limited edition vinyl packaged with
record jacket sealed inside a foil bag. Released on CD format on Canadian
label Sublight Records, Horse and Goat caused big stir with Venetian
Snares' fanbase. These six tracks of ultra-fast breakcore madness
and experimental sound explorations haunted and satisfied Aaron funk-addicts.
Visually, Horse and Goat is probably the best looking Venetian Snares
release.
Hymen
LP
$13.50
VRKTM
Excess/Defect
PS, US Founded by Jason Lowenstein (SEBADOH), Jason Hayden (CRAIN,
WILL OLDHAM), Jason Fuller & Dave Bird (OUT, WILL OLDHAM). Later
additions Darren Rappa (KING KONG) & Chris Reinstatler (METROSCHIFTER,
MONKEY DRIVE SCREEN PRINTING). Clean dueling guitars that work interchangeably
w/the quirky /philosophical/ comedic ramblings of Rappa coupled w/a
bass/drum rhythm section that is as much solid rock as it is danceable.
NoisePollution-024
CD
$9.25
Woelv
Le Niveau de la Mer
PS, US "Le Niveau de la Mer" and "Bete a Cheval"
are two songs inspired by American imperialism, but that could also
speak of many different places around the world. "Le Niveau de
la Mer" was written shortly after the passage of Hurricane Katrina
and took shape while I imagined the scene. I read somewhere that with
global warming, we would be facing this kind of storm more and more
often and it terrified me. It seemed to me as though people here preferred
not having to change anything about their lifestyles, even though
we have no other option left. "Bête à Cheval"
is a song that is slightly comical which tells the story of the passing
of a violent scape-goat who stomps on everything along its way. Played
on the drums by HEATHER DUNN (DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM), and yelled
by the voice, the effect is similar to a very small punch in the face.
Both songs were recorded in the big room at DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO by
CALVIN JOHNSON in Olympia in January 2006.
Krecords-111
45
$3.75
Yeasayer
2080/Sunrise
PS, US 2080/Sunrise is the single for the forthcoming YEASAYER full-length
debut, due out the fall of 2007. Soothsayers, crystal-gazers, and
time travelersŠthey have all seen the future. Spilling words
of Armageddon, the apocalypse, and the second coming of Christ they
speak of man's impending doom. With countries on the warpath and our
decaying world growing inhabitable it is easy to succumb to the voices
of these scholars. YEASAYER have also been witness to the future.
"2080/Sunrise" documents their visions and experiences in
the years that lie ahead. Discern what you will from the lyrics, but
YEASAYER'S songs flow with posi-vibes that will make you dance and
trumpet. It is optimism, it is joy. "It's a new year, I'm glad
to be here, it's a fresh spring, so lets sing. In 2080 I will will
surely be dead, so don't look ahead, never look ahead."
WeAreFree-001
CD5
$4.75
Yesterdays New Quintet
Yesterday's Universe
PS, US Musicially this is a Big Bang, the sonic collision of classic
jazz, funk & fusion w/ present day hip-hop. MADLIB set this in
motion, a combo of all Madlib alter-egos - alongside new incarnations,
& they showcase their talents here. They represent a distinct
facet of his musical universe, which is the universe of the mind.
StonesThrow-2158
CD
$15.00
Yikes
Secrets to Superflipping
PS, US A gleeful assault of ripping distortion and hypnotic melodies.
UpsettheRhythm-006
CD
$11.25
Yikes
Secrets to Superflipping
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
UpsettheRhythm
10
$11.25
Forthcoming
Releases
+/-
Self-Titled Debut CD + DVD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH)
PS, US Debut DVD from +/- (Plus/Minus) features 14 professionally
produced videos compiled by Chris Deaner (+/- & KELLY CLARKSON
drummer & video director). Incl. vids from an animated short to
a horror film to live performance. Incl. videos by Chris Deaner, Patryk
Rebisz, Rik Cordero, Doug Spice, Orrin Anderson, Paul Kloss, Myactivedriveway.
NTSC Region=0.
TeenBeat-403
CD/DVD
$16.25
Acid Mothers Temple
Stones, Women, Records (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, JAPAN Japan Import. Acid Mothers Temple SWR, the ultimate power
trio of Yoshida Tatsuya from Ruins,& Tsuyama Atsushi & Kawabata
Makoto from AMT, present their shocking 2nd album.
Magaibutsu-033
CD
$20.00
Altz
Max Motion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH)
PS, US Since 2000,after picking up & mastering the MPC2000, he
has recorded on his own & composed & edited dance music in
earnest. He has since become a highly respected recording artist,
DJ, & remixer, making an international impact w/ in all genres
of dance music from deep house to nu-disco.This new four-track 12''
incl. vocals from Yoshimi of The BOREDOMS & 2 separate remixes
by The Idjut Boys.
DFA-112
12
$8.00
Anderson, Jason
Tonight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US
Eca
CD
$11.50
Anderson, Lindsay
If (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US The solo debut from L'Altra co-founder Lindsay Anderson, is
an intimate recording of carefully crafted, openly expressive songs.
Anderson has refined her songwriting by freeing her already distinctive
voice that has been featured with notable artists such as Will Oldham,
Edith Frost, and Telefon Tel Aviv. Supported by a stellar cast of
equally creative musicians, including members of Wilco, Califone,
The Vandermark 5, Smog, and The Aluminum Group.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Andrew
From Me to You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH)
PS, US New album from popsmith Andrew Sandoval.
Vibrophonic
CD
$13.00
Angels Of Light
We Are Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US
YoungGod-35
LP
$18.75
Animal Collective
Peacebone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US EP features "Peacebone" from the upcoming album 'Strawberry
Jam' (due 9/11), non-album track "Safer", plus remixes by
Black Dice and Pantha du Prince.
Domino
CD5
$5.75
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Strawberry Jam" feels like space dust and radar
falling on the desert and making it bloom. It's the sound of a band
spinning wildly and intoxicated, at the cusp of their powers, as thick
and rich and sweet and colorful as it sounds.
Domino
CD
$14.00
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$17.50
Apparat
Walls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US ON DOUBLE VINYL! It describes a circle that pulls many elements
together into a protected, enclosed space where they jostle &
roam free: strings & mallet instruments; rock guitar & gravelly
sawtooth synths; stuttering digital percussion & muscular studio
drumming. What might be most striking
about is the way it creates a kind of single,sustained mood; this
is an album for listening to all in one go, front to back. This is
one of those road-trip records, one of those coming-down records,
one of those bedding-down records.
Shitkatapult
DLP
$18.00
Architecture In Helsinki
Places Like This (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50
Architecture In Helsinki
Places
