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

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

Acid Mothers Temple
Never Ending Space Ritual
PS, US The acid mothers DVD "never ending space ritual _ history of " is finally complete. A 2 DVD set over 4 1/2 hours long covering the entire history from early days in Japan to recent footage, guest appearances, interview with Mankato plus other extras. disc 1. traces the band through its first decade featuring very rare early footage and special guest appearances from members of Ruins, Afrirampo, Guru Guru and others. Disc 2. Includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with ocitan queen of song rosina de peira, pink lady lemonade medley, dark star blues and other AMT epics, an exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto, live cuts of amt related units _ Acid Mother Temple And The Cosmic Inferno, SWR, Guru Guru, and Acid Mothers Gong. Also extra features. Ltd run of 1000.
Swordfish-DVD1/2
2XDVD
$42.00

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

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

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

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

Auburn Lull
Begin Civil Twilight
PS, US One of the most hauntingly beautiful, ethereal pop records ever created. Auburn Lull are a dream pop/space rock band from the East Lansing, Michigan area and are in fact the Michigan space rock scene's core. Begin Civil Twilight is Auburn Lull's third and best album and the first completely self-produced album by "The Lull". Imagine The Moody Blues produced by Eno, if Slowdive originally wrote and recorded Surrealistic Pillow, or perhaps Seefeel on a good sedative/hypnotic. Fellow dream popper Ulrich Schnauss mixed one track and did treatments on two others. Auburn Lull is guitarists Sean Heenan, Jason Kolb, Eli Wekenman, and drummer Jason Wiesinger. The quartet came together out of a shared affection for bands like Seefeel, Flying Saucer Attack, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark, and the 4AD and Creation Records aesthetic. In 1997, the band released the Dual Group EP, a split release with Mahogany, which John Peel played on his BBC radio program. Their debut full-length debut Alone I Admire was initially released on local independent record label Burnt Hair in 1999, sold out, and was then reissued by Darla Records in 2002. Their second record Cast From The Platform (Darla) was released in 2004. Regions Less Parallel: Early Works And Rarities 1996-2004, which compiles band's highly collectible singles, EPs and stray compilation tracks plus two previously unreleased tracks was released by Darla in 2005. Auburn Lull are planning to tour in support of Begin Civil Twilight in 2008. TRACKLIST: 1. Light Through The Canopy 5:18, 2. Dub1 3:28, 3. Broken Heroes 4:31, 4. Grange Arcade 5:43, 5. Civil Twilight 5:11, 6. Axis Nears 3:45, 7. November's Long Shadows 4:26, 8. Stanfield Echo 4:07, 9. Coasts 4:38, 10. Geneva 1:54, 11. Arc Of An Outsider 3:58, 12. Hidden3 9:54.
Darla-184
CD
$12.25

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

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

Axelrod, David
Seriously Deep
PS, UK In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America's most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually attributed to Miles Davis - that of jazz-fusion, his reputation was cemented by his remarkable productions with Cannonball Adderley, David McCallum and Lou Rawls and by the religious albums Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath he created with the Electric Prunes. He was talked up by Frank Zappa and Sly Stone; George Harrison wanted him to record for Apple and Allen Ginsberg wanted him to set Howl! to music! His genius began to be re-discovered in the mid-nineties through the sampling by such hip-hop and dance record producers as DJ Shadow. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Axelrod¹s prodigious solo albums Songs of Innocence and Songs Of Experience were quickly re-issued. Then in 2000 he released a new album and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, where he conducted a one-off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. Originally released in 1975, and inexplicably out of print for three subsequent decades, Seriously Deep has become a kind of Holy Grail for samplers. Axelrod the composer is unmistakably present and what has also made the record a particularly sought-after item is the remarkable interplay between Joe Sample's exuberant keyboards and the hypnotically intense drumming of Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler. This is the kind of thing that gets samplers - and indeed anyone with a finely tuned sense of rhythm - very excited indeed.
El-138
CD
$15.50

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

Ayers, Kevin
Unfairground
PS, US Co-produced by Ladybug Transistor's Gary Olson & Peter Henderson, feat. a myriad of talent as well as a pseudo-SOFT MACHINE reunion in the form of Hugh Hopper on bass & Robert Wyatt singing through a synthesizer, dubbed the Wyattron. Other high-profile guests on the new record incl. Norman Blake (TEENAGE FANCLUB), Phil Manzanera (ROXY MUSIC), Bill Wells (Bill Wells Trio), Euros Childs, (GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI), Frank Reader (TRASH CAN SINATRAS), Bridget St. John & members from ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI.
Gigantic
CD
$12.25

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition
PS, US Unlike many of his peers, he looks beyond the traditions of Fahey (whom he calls "a teacher" not a god), bringing portentous & progressive elements into his music, alongside a dreamy country lilt. He covers Krautrock legends Neu! ("Weissensee") & metal Vikings Judas Priest ("Winter"), & culls inspiration from prog heroes Yes on the closing epic "Rainbow." His music comes on like a creeping moss, verdant but threatening, comforting yet unsettling.
AmericanDust
CD
$16.00

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AmericanDust
LP
$16.00

Baltic Fleet
S-T
PS, UK Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken and tracks gradually started to form into an album. A sound was born influenced by works from artists such as Eno, Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Written, produced and performed by Paul, the album also features contributions from Simon Finley on drums, Will Sergeant on guitar and Pete Wilkinson on Bass. Paul signed to Blow Up Records in April 2007, and the same Summer took his recordings into Studio B, The Premises in Hackney for additional production and mixing with Nick Terry (Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco). After some heavy-duty valve and analogue processing, the beats got bigger, the sound-scape was widened and the album was complete!
Blowup-041
CD
$16.25

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

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

Bauhaus
Go Away White
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BauhausMusic
LP
$15.75

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

Believer
March 2008
PS, US 2008 Film Issue. Includes a free DVD with Slavoj Zizek at the movies. Werner Herzog in conversation with Errol Morris; Todd Haynes; Chuck Klosterman; Jim Shepard; Helen DeWitt; Nick Hornby; Indonesia; Hitchcock's mistakes. Recommended reading.
ZINE
$9.75

Bell 1X
Flock
PS, US Called "The best band in Ireland" by Vanity Fair magazine, the quintet of rockers has seen 4 songs simultaneously chart in the Irish Top 20 & the album has since gone 5 times platinum. "...a gorgeous album... majestic & elegant." - Nick Duerden, Q. ltd edition enhanced CD, which launches an audio/visual program when loaded into a computer that includes 3 live videos, the "Rocky Took A Lover" animated music video, a photo slideshow, a page on The Cake
Sale & 2 special track.
YepRoc
CD
$11.50

Bitch
#39
PS, US Feminist response to pop culture. The Wired Issue: Busting blog bandits, deconstructing fembots, living a second life, ANI DIFRANCO, ANN WILSON & much more.
ZINE
$5.50

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

Black Cab
Altamont Diary [2004]
PS, AUSTRALIA Direct from the band, better price... A dazed, drug-ripped voyage to the dark heart of rock and roll. Australia's Black Cab features ex-Foil and Registered Nurse members. The sound is a heady brew of raw guitars, early '70's style drums, plus eerie electronic and industrial audio treatments. Black Cab's sound is inspired as much by late '60's and early '70's America as it is by American music of that period. The album's beer soaked programming and walls of electric and acoustic guitars, sitars, maracas and monstrous live & programmed drums delve through time to that fateful day at Altamont. Like the evil, bastard son of The Who's 'Tommy', Altamont Diary is unashamedly a concept album. ROLLING STONE: "You can almost hear the crack of the pool cues and smell the black smoke of the fires on the hill. With bloodied-fuzz guitars, hellish electronics and sound bites from Gimme Shelter, the Australian duo Black Cab has created a riveting, album-length memorial to the fatal folly of the Rolling Stones' free concert at Altamont Speedway in December 1969. This is the end of peace and love in you-are-there detail: the murderous riffing in "1970"; an eerie, electro-psych version of the Grateful Dead's "New Speedway Boogie"; the real, stoned-zone voice of Jerry Garcia, in "Jerry Sez," reacting to the bummer news that the Hells Angels have beaten up Marty Balin. A day that will live in infamy now lives on record, with appropriate menace." (David Fricke)
Interstate40
CD
$12.50

Black Cab
Jesus East [2007]
PS, AUSTRALIA/UK Direct from the band, better price... New 2007 album from Australian psych-o-nauts. Jesus East is something of an antidote to the fear and loathing of their debut album, Altamont Diary, blending late '60's and early '70's rock sounds with loops and subtle electronica over pulsing percussion and driving guitars reminiscent of some of the great German rock bands of the '70's. Jesus East evokes ghosts of the Velvet Underground, Can, Neu and coolest Beatle George Harrison's fascination with eastern sounds. UNCUT MAGAZINE (4 STARS): "The dark side of hippie-dom, updated and energised... Two years ago this Melbourne duo - Andrew Coates and James Lee - delivered a dark-horse diamond with Altamont Diary, their compelling, sinister concept album inspired by The Stones' dread day of '69. Their second sticks to no strict storyline but advances their mix of psyched-out 60s guitars/sitars and late 70s Teutonic rhythms to heart-stopping effect. It's accumulatively epic: it begins as a fine Spacemen 3/Neu pastiche, but by the roaring climax its pulse-rockets are firing way beyond genre. As a finale Sam Cutler, M.C. at Altamont and Stones/Grateful Dead manager, drawls a languidly poetic memoir over "Valiant", while guitars mentally creep. Utterly riveting." (CR)
Interstate40/Inertia
CD
$12.50

Black Cab
Surrender EP [2007] & The Illinois Chapter EP [1999]
PS, AUSTRALIA *** COMPLETISTS TAKE NOTE *** SPECIAL OFFER *** LIMITED STOCK *** Get the new Surrender EP along with Black Cab's very rare and extra limited Illinois Chapter EP, the band's three-song debut: 1. Illinois Chapter / 2. Christlike / 3. Sonny Speaks! New 2007 Surrender EP features remixes and live gear: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now in stock and available at a great price.
Interstate40
CD5/CD5
$8.50

Black Cab
Surrender EP [2007]
PS, AUSTRALIA New 2007 EP features remixes and live gear. Tracklist: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now available at a wonderful price.
Interstate40
CD5
$7.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Celephais
I Am Kuranes
PS, US Debut release from drone rock trio. Filled w/ jagged riffs that move at hard angles & pummeling, off-kilter drumming. Songs shift into subdued dronescapes & collages of skittery electronica & cut-up voices. Huge riffs layered w /acoustic guitar strum & lush cosmic keyboards, equally ominous & anthemic.
Hoss
CD
$11.50

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

Children
Death Tribe
PS, US Children is a riff appreciation society formulated to combat boredom. W/ axes & clubs aided only by high power application, they aim to honor the torch lit by our metalien forefathers. Brothers & sisters please join them in theIr humble quest. Feat. guys from EARLY MAN & S.T.R.E.E.T.S. VERY LIMITED!! B-Side w/ excl. etching
Kemado
12
$12.75

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

Clint
Los Tipos Duros Tambien Bailan
PS, SPAIN Tough guys do dance! Three years ago, Clint were four blokes trying to express their particular vision through music without the impending need of using words. Their mantra was "a closed mouth gathers no flies" and "loose lips sink ships". After one year of devoted silence playing Battleship, their lengthy exploration of silence yielded Alégrame el Día (siesta 206 - 2005) , a vivid record that lifted the band to "New Talent" status and honors at Fnac and to the prestigious "best of the year" lists. They even captivated the international critical community like no other self-taught instrumental band ever did. Clint offered no opposition to tour the bullskin shape (=Spain) until they had to embrace a new assignment, a new challenge. A tough guy, initials E.G., proposed them to create the soundtrack for a silent film, any silent film actually. Clint revised their files thoroughly and interrogated another tough guy, L.J.M. They crystallized everything in a new vehicle to communicate their "duende", the imaginary soundtrack for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (1929) (Walter Ruttmann)/aka Berlin, Symphony of a Big City. Clint proved themselves as masters of luxuriant melancholy and found the blurred images of the last century as a true source of inspiration and a revelation to their lives.
Siesta-236
CD
$17.75

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

Common Loon
Dinosaur vs. Early Man b/w Palestine Everywhere
PS, US Blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness, local dream-rock duo Common Loon rates as one of the C-U Music Scene's bands to watch in 2008. Yes, there's an album in the pipe. Comes with a digital download ticket, so you can have it both ways. Pink-noise-pop for Sebadoh, Spiritualized, and Spacemen 3 fans.
IdealUtopia
45
$4.50

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

Constantines
Hard Feelings
PS, US This is the first single off their new album "Kensington Heights" to be released on April 15, 2008. B-Side "Easy Money" is not appearing on the full length.
Arts&Crafts
45
$6.50

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

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

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

Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy"
Gonna Be Some Changes
PS, UK 2008 collection of hits and rarities by one of the masters of the Blues and one of the originators of Rock 'N' Roll! Beautifully packaged with rare memorabilia and extensive sleeve notes by our man in the pointy creepers Dave Penny and wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland!
Rev-ola-240
CD
$15.50

Cud
Leggy Mambo
PS, UK Following the release of their debut When In Rome, Kill Me and 1990 s Elvis Belt compilation (CDMRED355), Leeds indie heroes CUD set to work on their next album for Imaginary Records. Recorded during the Summer of 1990, Leggy Mambo proved to be a step in all the right directions, cementing the sound developed over their previous releases and capitalizing on the band s pop sensibilities to provide their most immediately accessible collection of songs to date. Produced by XTCs Dave Gregory and released in October 1990, the album spawned the well-received singles Robinson Crusoe and Magic (both of which might have achieved greater success had they been released on a larger label) and generated a huge amount of industry interest, eventually leading to their signing with A & M the following year. This Cherry Red Gold top Copy version of the album features the newly remastered original disc, as well as a collection of demos and alternate versions, all of which have been hand picked by the band themselves. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006 s Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received reissues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. NOW! 2. HEART 3. HEY, BOOTS 4. LOVE IN A HOLLOW TREE 5. LOVE MANDARIN 6. NOT EXACTLY D.L.E.R.C. 7. ROBINSON CRUSOE 8. EAU WATER 9. CARL'S 115TH COACH TRIP NIGHTMARE 10. MAGIC 11. SYRUP AND SOUR GRAPES 12. BRAIN ON A SLOW TRAIN BONUS TRACKS 13. ROBINSON CRUSOE (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 14. NOW! (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 15. EAU WATER (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 16. L.O.P.H.E. (ROBINSON CRUSOE B-SIDE) 17. LOVE MANDARIN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 18. MAGIC (DEMO MIX) 19. ROBINSON CRUSOE (DUNGEON DEMO).
CherryRed-356
CD
$15.50

Cud
Elvis Belt
PS, UK Formed in Leeds in 1986, CUD went on to forge one of the more interesting and indefinable sounds of the late 80s / early 90s indie scene. Fusing a catchy pop sensibility with danceable grooves and intelligent and often humorous lyrics, they soon became firm independent favorites and began releasing records on Leeds based Reception Records in 1987, very quickly catching the ear of John Peel and becoming a regular fixture of his broadcasts. Three quality singles into their career, the band secured a deal with Imaginary Records, where they continued a fine run of singles and eventually released their debut album. Capitalizing on the band's underground success, in June 1990 Imaginary followed this with this fantastic compilation of their early releases, topping several independent charts in the process and further establishing an already strong reputation. Some eighteen years later, Elvis Belt is updated and reissued here by Cherry Red, together with a wealth of rarities and unreleased tracks from those formative years and beyond. This release features the original album in its entirety, carefully remastered and now sitting comfortably alongside Elvis Handbag, an additional disc conceived by the band as a sister album to the original release and containing a number of further B-Sides, Peel Session recordings and cover versions (including the band's legendary take on Bohemian Rhapsody, previously only available on the ultra-rare Alvin Lives in Leeds compilation). This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007s well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and its accompanying releases. TRACKS: ELVIS BELT 1. SLACK TIME 2. MAKE NO BONES 3. TREAT ME BAD 4. PUNISHMENT REWARD 5. RELATIONSHIPS 6. UNDER MY HAT 7. LOLA 8. URBAN SPACEMAN 9. ART 10. YOU'RE THE BOSS 11. ONLY (A PRAWN IN WHITBY) 12. HEY! WIRE 13. I'VE HAD IT WITH BLONDES ELVIS HANDBAG 14. MIND THE GAP (PEEL SESSION) 15. EVERYBODY WORKS SO HARD (PEEL SESSION) 16. BB COULDN T C (PEEL SESSION) 17. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 18. MANCHESTER 19. PURPLE LOVE BALLOON (ORIGINAL VERSION) 20. POSSESSION (ORIGINAL VERSION) 21. REMEMBER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU LOVE 22. MARJORIE 23. DOWN DOWN 24. MAGIC (1994 UNRELEASED SINGLE VERSION) 25. SLIPAWAY (UNRELEASED SINGLE MIX) 26. BEFORE TOMORROW 27. JUDAS KISS.
CherryRed-355
DCD
$15.50

Cud
Showbiz
PS, UK Having departed the independent world and signed with A&M in 1991, CUD proceeded to pursue the commercial success their previous releases had hinted at with 1992's Asquarius. Following this, their first hit album, proved to be the band s longest break between releases (largely the result of some inter-label disharmony), but they eventually emerged in 1994 with Showbiz. Recorded primarily in Scotland (at a studio owned by Fish of Marillion fame, no less), this record saw their sound mature and showcased a broader range of songwriting styles than previous efforts. It was well received on its release in April 1994, garnering favorable reviews, and spawned two UK hit singles in Neurotica and One Giant Love. Sadly, though, the album proved to be the band's last officially released effort as the pressures of life on a major and all that it entails took their toll on the band. This remastered version also includes a number of B-Sides from the album's single releases, as well as some unreleased out-takes and demo versions, including material intended for their next album, which hasn't seen the light of day before now. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were. A UK tour is also scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. SOMEBODY SNATCHED MY ACTION 2. ESP 3. WAVING AND DROWNING 4. STICKS AND STONES 5. MYSTERY DEEPENS 6. SLIP AWAY 7. ONE GIANT LOVE 8. I REEK OF CHIC 9. NOT NECCESSARILY EVIL 10. YOU LEAD ME 11. TOURNIQUET 12. NEUROTICA BONUS TRACKS 13. W.G.S. (NEUROTICA B-SIDE) 14. MY NEED TO HURRY (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 15. SKI BUM (STICKS AND STONES B-SIDE) 16. DOWN THE PLUG (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 17. HERE COME THE OLD FLAMES (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 18. LIVING IN YOUR LOVE (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 19. LET YOU DOWN (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 20. TAKE THE TIME AND READ MY MIND (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 21. WANTING ISN'T GETTING (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS)
CherryRed-357
CD
$15.50

Cuomo, Rivers
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Geffen
LP
$11.00

Darla Farmer
Rewiring the Electric Forest
PS, US Debut release that manages to sound wild, dark, violent, & heart-wrenchingly beautiful w/in the span of a single track. Drawing from influences as diverse as Cursive, Blood Brothers, Tom Waits, & the greatest of small town orchestras, the band has quickly gained positive traction w Saddle Creek bands Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor, & Cursive
PaperGarden
CD
$10.25

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

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

Dear, Matthew
Asa Breed: Black Edition
PS, US It's not often an album containing bluesy guitar & brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, w/ this release, critics & audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to incl. remixes & re-envisionings from FOUR TET, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ KOZE & HOT SHIP! Also incl. "Don & Sherri" video!
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.25

Diebold
Listen To My Heartbeast
PS, US Duo featuring Ian Ilvansky from A SILVER MT. ZION and Sofia Trudeau from GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR.
Bangor
CD
$14.25

Diebold
Listen To My Heartbeast
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Bangor
LP
$14.25

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

DiskJokke
Staying In
PS, NORWAY Staying In, DiskJokke's debut release, is a tripped out mastodon of an album. This is the sound of Norwegian disco taken to its farthest, futuristic limits. It's epic, groovy, cinematic, poppy & most of all melodic. But at the same time, it is melancholic, and as the title suggests, staying inside the dark winter & autumn nights to make music certainly reflects the mood of the album. For years DiskJokke has been closely connected to Norway's premiere club night, Sunkissed, where he is resident DJ with G-HA, Olanskii & VinnyVillbass. "Bright, playful, spacey, and colorful, music for the nighttime that retains the warmth of an afternoon on the beach" -Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-145
CD
$15.25

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

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

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

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

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
DLP
$14.25

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

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

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

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation-050
LP
$16.25

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager
PS, US New band featuring CARLA BOZLICH, former vocalist for the GERALDINE FIBBERS. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes featuring Carla's incantatroy sung and spoken lyrics on the opening & closing tracks, with the rest of the record more overtly composed. PREFIX MAG: "Evangelista is the latest musical project of much-beloved Carla Bozulich, formerly of the Geraldine Fibbers. In a bit of a confusing move, Bozulich has named her new band after a 2006 solo album of hers, which featured many of the same collaborators. Some of those musicians include members of the sprawling Silver Mt. Zion collective. Hello Voyager, like Silver Mt. Zion's new one, was recorded in Montreal at the Hotel2Tango."
Constellation-050
CD
$14.25

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

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

Fanu + Bill Laswell
Lodge
PS, US Artists: FANU is Finland's and perhaps the world's finest breakbeat splicer and re-imaging doctor. His programming, layering, and arrangements of classic breakbeats are truly some of the most innovative and by far the most realistic sounding - akin to a jazz drummer with no boundaries and seventeen available drum kits at once. BILL LASWELL is the Grammy award-winning producer of Herbie Hancock, bassist and arranger extraordinaire. Fresh off the amazing Method of Defiance record "Inamorata", he's completed this follow up recording, which also features Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer prominently. Album: If you took the electric period of Miles Davis, with less repetition, more funk, and mad scientist drummer, you might end up halfway to LODGE. Half time vamps swing with steady funk bass from Laswell and one of Bernie Worrell's most inspired keyboard performances since PFunk, LODGE turns it out with much more emphasis on the groove. Bits of drum n bass and floating trumpet maneuver over the core modular pieces; a much less harsh sound than the Method of Defiance project, more demonstrative of the soul of Laswell's funktronics. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell and his project Method of Defiance, to End.user and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-8
CD
$12.25

Felice Brothers, The
S-T
PS, US Their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons to Woodie Guthrie, a young Springsteen, and the Scorcese film, "Gangs Of New York". In these tales of murder, pathos, lust, and love, you'll find an honest new brand of American storytelling and song. "Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and early Springsteen" - Time Out London. "The Felice Brothers' Catskills folk is rough around the edges and intoxicating. Ryan Adams, eat your heart out" - Metroland / Best Of 2007. "Backwoods Americana is all the rage, but this band of brothers is a cut above the rest" - The Sun UK (4 stars).
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Felice Brothers, The
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove
LP
$16.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glorytellers
S-T
PS, US First release for this new project featuring Geoff Farina, frontman for KARATE & SECRET STARS. Abstract harmonies, urgent vocal style, pristine pre -WWII guitar & drum sounds, bass lines thumb-picked on an acoustic guitar , and 50 year old cymbals make this one hell of an interesting American songbook.
Southern
CD
$13.50

Glorytellers
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$13.50

Godfathers, The
Hit By Hit + Extras
PS, UK Newly compiled double CD album containing all of The Godfathers' original Corporate Image early singles: Lonely Man, This Damn Nation, I Want Everything, Love Is Dead as well as B-sides and extra tracks including instrumentals John Barry and Gone To Texas plus their ultimate cover of John Lennon's Cold Turkey and an inspired rendition of Rolf Harris' Sun Arise. All tracks on Disc one produced by the legendary Vic Maile (Motorhead, Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Guns n' Roses, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Inmates, Tom Robinson Band, Vibrators, Girlschool, etc.). Disc one is paired with a full CD of previously unreleased extra tracks from The Godfathers' seminal BBC Radio One Sessions recorded for Janice Long and Andy Kershaw and live recordings around the world. Along with an exclusive live rendition of Cold Turkey you can expect ultra rare material including cover versions of The Sid Presley Experience's Public Enemy Number One, The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop and The Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK as they were performed in front of wild and enthusiastic crowds. The package boasts previously unseen pictures and liner notes by frontman Peter Coyne and ex-Ramones manager Danny Fields, the man who discovered The MC5 and Iggy & The Stooges. TRACK LIST: Disc One: 1. I Want Everything 2. This Damn Nation 3. I Want You 4. Can't Leave Her Alone 5. Sun Arise 6. Cold Turkey 7. John Barry 8. Sticks & Stones 9. I'm Unsatisfied 10. Lonely Man 11. Angela 12. Gone To Texas 13. Love Is Dead - All tracks produced by Vic Maile. Disc Two: Extras 1. This Damn Nation - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 2. John Barry - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 3. Lonely Man - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 4. Sun Arise - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 5. If I Only Had Time - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 6. I Want Everything - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 7. I Want You - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 8. I'm Unsatisfied - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 9. I Want Everything - live 10. Love Is Dead - live 11. Can't Leave Her Alone - live 12. Cold Turkey - live 13. Blitzkrieg Bop - live 14. Lonely Man - live 15. Public Enemy Number One - live 16. Anarchy In The UK - live.
CorporateImage-030
DCD
$22.50

Grand Volume
Send Me Your Champion
PS, UK Grand Volume are a unique proposition in the current musical climate, capable of knocking out two minute punk rock gems with consummate ease but equally comfortable venturing into more sophisticated prog-inspired territory. Of their peers only the Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age can match them for combining such musical dexterity with fiercely passionate intensity. Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Vocals, Guitar), Dan Larke (Guitar, Vocals, Tech) and Jon Green (Drums, Vocals, Bass, Tech) have made a ferocious statement of intent with their debut album for Fat Northerner Records, the provocatively titled 'Send Me Your Champion'. Opening track 'Summon' throws down the gauntlet in typically thunderous fashion, transporting the listener to the dirty side of early 90's Seattle before it's apocalyptic wall of noise eventually subsides and the clear, unashamedly English vocals of frontman Tom Sheals-Barrett reveal that this is a band as in thrall to Radiohead as they are to Soundgarden. Recent single 'History' follows and highlights again what a versatile outfit Grand Volume are; as tenacious, disciplined and economical as Fugazi or Minor Threat, yet as musically adventurous and intelligent as Devo or Television. 'Fire Come Soon' is another fine distillation of Grand Volume's prog meets punk philosophy - it's bombastic fire and brimstone lyrics are consumed in a maelstrom of sub-pop inspired thrash, which occasionally gives way to a gentler, fx-laden, bassdriven groove that wouldn't sound out of place on 'OK Computer'. The album closes with the beautiful 'Departure Lounge', a deeply introspective track that wouldn't sound out of place on any of the 4AD label's austere 80's gothic releases. The whole mood of the song emphasizes again that Grand Volume are a band well-versed in the whole canon of alternative rock, stretching their sound far further than the majority of their contemporaries. "An awesome racket. The missing link between classic stadium bombast and post-hardcore death noise" Dan Martin, NME. Championed by Bruce Dickinson (BBC 6) Music and Huw Stephens (Radio 1).
FatNortherner-002
CD
$16.25

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

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

Harp
March/April 2008
PS, US Special Election Section. Issue feat. Dave Grohl, Danger Mouse, The Black Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Stephin Merritt. Need we say more.
ZINE
$4.00

Harpeth Trace, The
On Disappearing
PS, US Evoking shades of The Zombies, Bill Fay, Galaxie 500, Josh Kasselman & Co. Psychedelic immediacy & winsome melancholy. Marked by frequent cross-fades & compelling patches of sound collage, On Disappearing is an engrossingly existential 35 minutes that seem to live outside of the realms of time & place."Their dreamy pop is timeless." - L.A. Alternative Press
RedRocket
CD
$9.50

Hideki Spaghetti
S-T
PS, SPAIN Is this the soundtrack of the first Japanese spaghetti-western? Is Hideki Kaji -the official emperor of Shibuya-ku pop- now in full cowboy gear or is he now a charming and romantic character alla italiana? Has Jez Butler sculpted another highly stylized retro futuristic fantasy? Will this Italian trip from the neo-aco heroe please the many legions of his fans? Did he use a time machine to travel to the good old days of lost pop? Well, Hideki Spaghetti is an italian adventure created by Hideki Kaji and Jez Butler. And all the responses can be found in this fantastic record.
Siesta-216
CD
$17.75

Hingley, Tom And The Lovers
Highlights
PS, UK Tom Hingley is also lead singer in The Inspiral Carpets. March 2008 sees Tom Hingley and the Lovers release their second album 'Highlights'. 3 years in the making it is a work of art. Poetic, melodic and well worth the wait. Highlights is the first release from the band since their critically acclaimed 2004 debut 'Abba Are the Enemy'. Where 'Abba' was a brash 200 mph Punk/Garage dash through topical subjects such as reality television, the Pop parade and War Mongering, 'Highlights' sees the band developing along a much more melodic soulful train of thought. Songs touch on such universal themes as love (Highlights), Religion ('All My Time'), Lions ('Venomous) Credit Crunch ('Kick out The Clocks') and the pretentious Manchester district of Chorlton Cum Hardy, which Tom can't afford to buy a house in and is not all at all bitter about ('EverGreen')
NewMemorabilia-10
CD
$16.25

Hollywood Brats
S-T
PS, UK Formed in 1972 the Hollywood Brats were Punk long before the term was invented. Dressed in make-up and women's blouses they sought to shock, whilst making the music they wanted to make. The packaging for this CD has been lovingly assembled with biographies from both vocalist Andrew Matheson and guitarist Brady plus all the lyrics. The digital mastering was undertaken by keyboard player Casino Steel. Chez Maximes / Another School Day / Nightmare / Empty Bottles / Courtesan / Then He Kissed Me / Tumble With Me / Zurich 17 / Southern Belles / Drowning Sorrows / Sick On You.
CherryRed-106
CD
$15.50

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

Howlin' Rain
Magnificent Fiend
PS, US Feat. members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE & COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke.
Birdman
LP
$16.00

Howlin' Rain
Magnificent Fiend
PS, US Features members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE and COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If Magnificent Fiend, the second album by Howlin Rain, sounds like a different band made the record, it's not the brown windowpane working its sickly magic on you, it's in many ways an accurate perception. Howlin Rain is Ethan Miller's side project when he's not playing with his "other band," Comets on Fire. HR's self-titled debut was released in 2006. It was well-received for its taut, simple song structures that evoked everything from the Grateful Dead to harder, more riff-laden big rock & roll power plays. It was loud, proud, and topped off with just a touch of country and blues... The music here is much more complex. These are still identifiable as rock songs, but there are spaces in them that evoke the harder edges of improvising rock acts like early Steppenwolf, Delaney & Bonnie (at their most rockist), and even Quicksilver Messenger Service. But this isn't necessarily a throwback group at all, and Magnificent Fiend is its own affair. It is louder, wilder, bigger, and more live sounding than the records made by any of those bands. These songs are knottier, building on the more elemental riffs and melodies of the previous set and creating something denser, more immediate, and menacing in the process."
American
CD
$12.25

Indian Jewelry
We Are the Wild
PS, US Completely detached from any of its musical contemporaries, this album possesses a unique sense of surrealism, & feels closer in spirit to the films of Peter Greenaway & David Lynch then the usual psychedelic or rock & roll ethos. Ornamenting the album is art culled from some of the finest zoological lexica known in Western history.
Tigerbeat6
CD
$14.25

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

Jason & The Scorchers
Fervor / Lost & Found [re-issue]
PS, US The Scorchers' awesome 1983 EP and debut 1985 full-length album on one CD. Highly recommended re-issue action.
Caroline
CD
$15.25

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

Judys, The
Washarama [re-issue]
PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Julie Mittens
S-T
PS, US A Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording & the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do w/ Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, they consistently wreak havoc w/ lavish, textural, peakerblowing meltdown jams.
HolyMountain
CD
$14.25

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

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

King, Kaki
Revenge
PS, US New album from guitar wiz turned experimental pop songstress features stronger songs fronted by stronger vocals this go round. PREFIX MAG: "With Dreaming of Revenge, Kaki King gets back around to focusing on her own music after farming out her virtuosic guitar talents of late. King guested with Dave Grohl and company on a song on the recent Foo Fighters album and with Eddie Vedder on the Into the Wild soundtrack. Like 2006's Until We Felt Red, which was produced by Tortoise's John McEntire, Dreaming was helped along in the studio by a big-name producer. That would be Malcolm Burn, who has worked with Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois. Some of the songs here are light and sexy, while others, like "Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person" (which takes its inspiration from the film The Lives of Others), are more serious."
Velour
CD
$13.75

Koenjihyakkei
Hundred Sights of Koenji
PS, US Legendary debut album, the original Japanese issue went largely unheard, Hundred Sights of Koenji returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, it includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya, Masuda Ryuichi, Kubota Aki & Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey to those hallowed fields of yore.
SkinGraft-090
CD
$14.25

Kraus, Sharron
Fox's Wedding
PS, US She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness & joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark & stormy night. This stunning new album offers 11 original songs & a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion.
DurtroJnana
CD
$16.00

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

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

Lair Of The Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master
PS, US This is a concept album about solving conflicts w/ a big fucking axe! The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression & mega-riffage of the previous album: The Ultimate Destroyer & the unrelenting beatings & Sabbath chugs of Carnage, mixed w/ a new emotionless ferocity reserved for an executioner. Contains a 20 pg bk w/ graphic illustrations for each song.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

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

Lichens/Lexie Mountain
Restoration of Temperment/If You So Choose
PS, US 180g. Side A explores the deep facets of the drone-world, combining guitars both reversed & straight w/occasional chants to form a nice addendum to recent Kranky full-length Omns. Side B contains "Patty Waters-esque freeform vocalizing mixed w/Smegma worthy cut-ups"
Hoss
LP
$12.75

LK, The
The LK vs. The Snow
PS, US Swedish duo of Lindefelt, abstract sound artist, & Fredrik, pop visionary & songwriter par excellence. Fusing musique concrète-style collages of sound w/ iconic pop arrangements that are both gradually mind-invading & comfortingly direct. Recorded w/ a minimum of equipment, this album was built largely by gluing pieces of Lindefelt's abstract sounds,lyrics & voice to Fredrik's simple, beautiful melodies. The resulting 11 (including 1 bonus song for kora) tracks make or a crisp, melancholy noise- pop cocktail w/ a human warmth & dark sense of humor.
TheKoraRecords
CD
$11.00

Lodger, The
Grown-Ups
PS, US The Lodger was born in Ben Siddall's Leeds bedsit flat in 2004. Encouraged by local label Dance To The Radio, Ben recruited friends for bass and drum duties, tuned-up with live shows around town and debuted in early 2005 with a track on a Dance To The Radio compilation. The band quickly followed-up with their excellent debut single "Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion," the "Watching" 7" on Double Dragon, and track for the hotly-tipped Wrath label's split 7" series. 2006 was when the band got their act together-- a permanent line-up of Ben, Joe and Katie was established and the band went out on the road in the UK with kindred Yorkshire spirits The Research in February. London indie label Angular Records released the band's ace third single "Let Her Go" shortly afterwards. This single won the BBC 6music's Rebel Playlist and started to pick up airplay worldwide. In the summer the band decamped to Alan Smyth's tiny little Sheffield recording studio to record songs for their debut album. Thirteen tracks were recorded in a week in September and the result is "Grown-Ups." On the heels of the successes of bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, the north of England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands, and The Lodger are amongst the brightest hopes. Taking their cues from fellow northerners The Smiths and The Wedding Present, The Lodger's music is classic melodic pop, fueled by sparkling hooks and plangent lyrics. The tunes are sharp and timeless, a thoroughly modern distillation of great Britpop from the 60s right up to today. Grown-Ups is a perfect introduction to the thrilling pop charms of The Lodger.
Slumberland
CD
$12.00

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

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