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22 Pistepirkko
Sleep Good-Rock Well
PS, FINLAND 2005 rockumentary on Finnish psych-pop trio, Parasol faves. PAL, region 0, will play on most newer DVD players and almost all PC/laptop DVD drives.
BoneVoyage/RareBird
DVD
$15.00

808 State
Newbuild
PS, US Long awaited reissue of the group's groundbreaking & much sought after debut. This is hailed by many, including the likes of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher & Luke Vibert, as one of the most influential records of all time.
Rephlex
CD
$15.50

Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force
Planet Rock
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
4MenwithBeards
LP
$18.00

Agitation Free
Live '74 - At the Cliffs Of River Rhine [re-issue]
PS, US One of the most important bands of the experimental circle known as the "Berlin School," & a career springboard for a whole slew of musicians. Improv Krautrock jams!
Revisited
DCD
$17.75

Ampersand
Fake Motherfuckerz
PS, US German duo consisting of DJ HADE & BRIAN DAMAGE.
Lektroluv
12
$12.50

Antona, Marc
Simple Venus
PS, US Sulphuric acid movements & soft carbon rhythms.
Mobilee
12
$12.75

Barrett, Laura
Earth Sciences EP
PS, US Debut EP by a member of HIDDEN CAMERAS. Laura Barret's solo material features her sweet voice as her fingers prod at a kalimba, her instrument of choice. Her full-length album "Victory Garden" will be released in February.
PaperBag
CD5
$7.50

Bats
Don't You Rise
PS, US The Bats are legends of New Zealand music, standing tall alongside contemporaries The Clean and The Chills as linchpins of the Flying Nun label and the Dunedin/Christchurch scene. Over the course of 25 years, 7 albums and 4 world tours, the original line-up of Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean and Kaye Woodward remains intact and still creating vital pastoral pop gems. Combining Robert's mantric-like guitar pick and strum, bouncing bass with a twist from Paul, melodic hooks from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm's snappy beats, the combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. The band's reputation is sterling; based on legendary albums like Daddy's Highway and Silverbeet and their energetic live shows, The Bats have an enthusiastic world-wide fanbase who treasure the band's continued excellence. The Don't You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to the release of their next album, The Guilty Office, in early 2009. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats' Law of Things), "That's How You'll Find Me" would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album and mesmerized with it's folk-pop groove. "You Don't Belong" is a moody gem, while "Don't You Rise"'s country-inflected strum is a live favorite. "Face Inside The Sun" rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off of Daddy's Highway. A pretty special EP then, and ample evidence that 25 years after forming, The Bats still earn their legendary status. The new and next Bats full-length album, The Guilty Office, will be released by Parasol's Hidden Agenda label in May 2009!
Slumberland
45
$3.75

Beatles
Abbey Road
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Capitol
LP
$15.00

Believer
January 2009
PS, US Interviews w/ Robert Alter, Gordon Lish, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, & Tom Dumm plus "A tree of literary birds, illustrated" & "Adam McKay's frozen bagels
from 1982."
ZINE
$8.00

Berry, Chuck
Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings (Limited Edition, 4PC, Remastered)
PS, US John Lennon once said that if you were going to give another name to rock & roll you might as well call it Chuck Berry -- a phrase that has been repeated to exhaustion precisely because it is no exaggeration. More than any other single musician, Berry defined the sound, style, and attitude of what rock & roll is, pushing guitars and cars to the forefront, constructing a world of soda shops and jukeboxes that resided just down the road a piece, finding an endless world within three chords. Fats Domino may have started the big wheel rolling, the Everly Brothers invented the power chord, Buddy Holly married pop with tough rockabilly, Little Richard had the manic energy, and Elvis Presley broke down the barriers, but Chuck Berry was the one that created the culture. How he did it is at long last chronicled in detail on Hip-O Select's Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings, a four-CD set containing all his singles from the '50s (which include most of his biggest hits), album tracks, and rarities, including demos and unreleased recordings. Berry, of course, had another decade of vital recordings on Chess ahead of him (and an often-overlooked series of worthy recordings for the label in the '70s), but within these '50s sessions is where the heart of his legacy lies, as this is when he created rock & roll out of jump blues, country boogie, juke joint R&B, Harry Belafonte calypso, and Nat King Cole crooning. Listening to Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings is an entirely different experience than The Great 28 or any other hit-heavy compilation where all the brilliant singles sound so much of a piece that they give the impression that they were all cut at roughly the same time. Those who learned Berry's music through these compilations -- and there are generations of listeners who did -- may be surprised that certain hits like "No Particular Place to Go" or "You Never Can Tell" arrived well into the '60s and so are absent here, perhaps jarringly so. What "Johnny B. Goode" does a superb job of is putting Berry's music in context, illustrating what happened when by methodically going through every existing recording in the Chess vaults, including alternate takes, instrumental jams, a few live tracks, a single by the Ecuadors featuring Chuck on guitar, and a handful of unreleased cuts. Unlike Hip-O Select's similar Bo Diddley I'm a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 there are no major unreleased songs (I'm a Man had Bo's original "Love Is Strange"); instead, this has a plethora of alternates, all sequenced in succession, which would give this the feel of an excavation if the music itself wasn't so energetic and enjoyable. Many of the alternate takes here have seen the light of day elsewhere, usually on the Rock 'N' Roll Rarities or Missing Berries series (a heavy dose of these were also first unearthed on the 1974 LP Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, Vol. 3), but the value of "Johnny B. Goode" is in having all of this music in one place -- not just for the sake of completists who need to have everything an artist cut, but to hear how the artist developed. That is true here, as Berry gets more confident as the years pass, but the remarkable thing about "Johnny B. Goode" is that it shows how Chuck emerged almost fully formed with "Maybellene" and then continued to mine that same vein of blues, hillbilly, jazz, and R&B for years. His wit sharpened quickly, while his music jelled so the boundaries between his influences evaporated, but the only major introduction to come later in the set is his signature opening guitar riff, debuting on "Johnny B. Goode." Indeed, it's a bit of a shock to realize that it took him so long to nail this defining musical turnaround, but that may be the biggest revelation on this set. Instead of being filled surprises, Johnny B. Goode engenders a deeper appreciation of Berry's art. Hearing the successive alternate takes pile up after each other, it's easy to appreciate Chuck's verbal dexterity, how he spins from one scenario to another on "Reelin' and Rockin'," suggesting just how quickly the words came to him. This, in turn, makes it easier to appreciate the potency of his poetry, but comparing this rapid-fire humor to the finely crafted details of "Memphis Tennessee," "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," and "No Money Down," or the vivid teenage renderings of "School Day" and "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Almost Grown" demonstrate just how carefully crafted his lyrics were. Similarly, Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings also offers an understanding of how rich and varied his musical gifts were. Listening to all the recordings in a row emphasizes how deep the blues ran within his music, and nowhere is that truer than on lengthy unreleased instrumentals, simply titled "Long Fast Jam" and "Long Slow Jam," where Chuck, longtime pianist Johnnie Johnson, bassist Willie Dixon, and drummer Jasper Thomas lay back and play for over 11 minutes for each cut. As Berry's brevity always seemed key to his brilliance -- his singles always were succinct, never lasting longer than they should -- it might seem that such prolonged jams would be flabby, but they're mesmerizing, particularly in how they showcase Johnson's fluid, rolling piano. The blues is at the core of Berry's rock & roll and he never abandoned it, even if he enthusiastically turned it inside out.
As Johnny B. Goode shows, Berry hit upon his formula early -- the first disc alone contains "Thirty Days," "You Can't Catch Me," "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Too Much Monkey Business," and "School Day," while the second has "Rock & Roll Music," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Reelin' and Rockin'," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Around and Around," classics and standards one and all -- and he was savvy enough to know not to fix something that wasn't broken and so he didn't. He continued to refurbish and ever so slightly expand his formula into the '60s, creating some of his greatest music in the years to come -- -- and with any luck, Hip-O Select will document that in future releases -- but Berry's '50s recordings for Chess prove one of the greatest bursts of creativity in American music. This is not only the foundation of Chuck's music, but rock & roll and pop culture of the 20th century, and it's thrilling to finally have it all as a complete box set. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Hip-Oselect
BOX
$84.50

Beware of Safety
Dogs
PS, US As romantic as it is morose & solemn; as secretive as it is exposed & vulnerable. This pushes instrumental music into a psychedelic direction of pure catharsis.
MyleneSheath
CD
$13.50

Beware of Safety
Dogs
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MyleneSheath
DLP
$23.50

Bird Show
Untitled
PS, US NOW ON LP! Limited to 300
Barge
LP
$12.25

Black Lips/Carbonas/Gentleman Jesse/Predator
S-T
PS, US After 3 yrs of regular house shows & 4 live 7"s, the satuday afternoon showcases hosted at ROB's HOUSE have become somewhat of an Atlanta staple. RH hosted the last of its house shows in July 2008 & this 7" feat. 1 trk from each of the 4 bands that played that day. Its the end of an era for RH & they cut no corners to make this release a celebration of their time at the house. Feat. 2 unreleased trks, comes housed in a hand-numbered gatefold sleeve & incl. a professionally shot DVD of the entire show! WOW! LTD ED OF 1318 ONLY (1118 BLACK vinyl, 200 WHITE vinyl)! Trklisting: "MIA" (BLACK LIPS), "Day Turns To Night" (CARBONAS), "The Rest Of My Days" (GENTLEMAN JESSE), "Little Prince" (PREDATOR)
Rob'sHouseRecords
45/DVD
$6.50

Blakkamo, Jahdan
DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek Present: We Are Raiders
PS, US
DuttyArtz
CD
$18.25

Booka Shade
Sweet Lies
PS, US 3rd single from "The Sun & The Neon Light"
GetPhysicalMusic
12
$13.50

Brown, Drew
Tiago La is Losing the Plot EP
PS, US Native Texan has been crafting lo-fi pop/folk ditties since 2004. While writing this EP, he wandered by Beck's studio to contribute on "The Information." Now a resident of LA and Beck's right hand man, Drew is using this EP as his introduction to the world.
Lex
CD5
$7.00

Bukaddor & Fishbeck
Carat
PS, US The title track marks the DJ cut, whereas "Relic" on the flipside w/ its stronger house feel, captures a warmer & slightly more Krautrock spirit.
Traum
12
$12.75

Chanson Sigeru
#1 Dad
PS, JAPAN "Chanson Sigeru" is the solo project from Tokyo musician Shingo Shinmachi (member of Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic Band and drummer for legendary band GELLERS. These band supported Why?, Animal Collective, No Age Japan tour). He was born in Tokyo, 1980 and formed a band together with classmate when he was a junior high-school student. Then the band changed a name as GELLERS and released 1st album "GELLERS" from COMPARE NOTES RECORDS in 2007and they played at Fuji Rock festival same year. Also he has been supporting GELLERS member 'Tokumaru Shugo's live as a toy percussionist. Now he's a member of 'Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic Band'. His collage illustration has widely attracted the attention and has worked for the artwork of 'Tokumaru Shugo's debut album "EXIT" and Eastern Youth bassist Ninomiya's side project 'Hyoutan'. Solo project "Chanson Sigeru" music stretches from free folk, psychedelia, noise, improv, indie rock to Japanese pop that all the sounds like own voice besides the all performances by himself such as the drum, the percussion, guitars, keyboards and the noise recorded with 4-track MTR. '#1 DAD" consists the works between 2005-2008 and mastered at Peace Music by Soichiro Nakamura (engineer of Yura Yura Teikoku, Boris etc.) in September 2008. All artwork has done by Chanson himself. Will appeal to fans of Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Boredoms, Black Dice, Liars, Deerhoof. Tokumaru Shugo.
Moamoo-008
CD
$16.25

Chatham County Line
S-T [re-issue]
PS, US Reissue of the self-titled breakout debut. This first album finds the band in a more straightforward bluegrass mood, showcasing their stunning instrumentalism & the sharpening of their renowned harmonies. The album sees the quartet honing their craft on the traditional bluegrass instruments - mandolin, fiddle, banjo & acoustic guitar - & "one mic" live performance style that has become their trademark.
YepRoc
CD
$14.25

Chesterfield Kings
Psychedelic Sunrise
PS, US
WickedCoolRecord
CD
$12.25

Chrome
Blood On the Moon [deluxe expanded re-issue]
PS, US
Cleopatra
CD/DVD
$17.75

Color Cassette
Forever Sparrow
PS, FRANCE Color Cassette was initially the project of a single musician, Jason Corder (aka OffTheSky): an old guitar and one four track recorder went head to head in their home studio of Lexington, Kentucky. But this solitary project quickly evolved into a collaborative one, in the course of casual meetings that became veritable musical interventions. In the course of four years, 14 musicians worked at the home studio. Today, Color Cassette is Jason Corder and Matt Yarington (aka Set In Sound), with various guests such as Clint Colburn (vocals), Colin Campbell (drums, vibes), Anna Hess (violin) and Jordan Munson (textures, field recordings). After Small Town Smoker, the first EP in 2008 ('single of the week' at Boomkat, reference for online mail orders), Color Cassette is now releasing their first concept album, Forever Sparrow. It tells the story of a little boy who gets lost in a magic forest, and when he is transformed into a sparrow, he chooses to stay in this extraordinary world forever. This musical journey, which evokes the themes found in Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland, takes the shape of an acoustic collection in outlines deformed through an electronic prism. Sketched during the sunny summer afternoons of 2007, this handful of ideas metamorphosed into song-format fragments, which put forth the best part of a sound digression. They form a record that is a miniature, moving, and sometimes disturbing, odyssey. COLOR CASSETTE: Jason Corder : vocals, lyrics, vibes, melodica, drums, guitar, bass, production... Matt Yarington : production, drums, programming. Guests: Clint Colburn: vocals Colin Campbell: drums, vibes Anna Hess: violin Jordan Munson: textures, field recordings. DISCOGRAPHIE: (*ADIM = AUTRES DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC) LP/EP - "Small Town Smoker EP" (2xCDR, Mobeer (sub-label of Moteer / 2008) - "Forever Sparrow LP" (ADIM*/2008) Various / remixes - 'Here We Go Again' on "Various Artists - Assemblage Session 1 (Abandon Building Records/2005)
AutresDirectionsInMusic-020
CD
$16.25

Coltrane, John
Blue Train [Expanded Edition]
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
BlueNote
LP
$21.00

Cooder, Ry
I, Flathead
PS, US Ry Cooder has always been a musical storyteller, from his self-titled debut album (which featured both well-known and under-recognized folk, blues, swing, and jug tunes) to Boomer's Story, his last two offerings for Nonesuch (Chavez Ravine and My Name Is Buddy), and his many film scores (including those for The Long Riders, Paris, Texas, Last Man Standing, Geronimo, and The End of Violence, just to mention a few). When his contributions as a musicologist, producer, and collaborator -- such as his contributions to the various Buena Vista Social Club recordings (including the film score) and his work with V.M. Bhatt, Pops Staples, Ersi Arvizu, and guitarist Manuel Galbán of Los Zafiros -- are included, he becomes a genuine mythmaker. I, Flathead contributes to the weight of Cooder's legend in many ways. First, there's the title, an obvious nod to the late Isaac Asimov's -I, Robot; then there's the legend -- the entire story is told in a 100-page, hardbound novella that accompanies the Deluxe Edition -- about beatnik, country music nut, and salt-flats racer Kash Buk, his band the Klowns, the strange and wonderful extraterrestrial visitor called Shakey, and the Passenger who pursues him. It's even subtitled "The Songs of Kash Buk and the Klowns." Finally, there's the music; it's a set of 14 original tunes that employ everything from country rockabilly to blues; strange, shimmering exotica; and Latin-influenced rock, swing, and mariachi music. Musically, there isn't anything here you haven't heard from Cooder before, but it's shaken and stirred differently and owes a nod or two to Tom Waits' deadpan storytelling manner. This album doesn't have the futuristic Latin groove of Chavez Ravine or the traveling dust-bowl balladic country and folk that was on My Name Is Buddy, but it is simultaneously as welcoming and off-putting as both those earlier records. The songs can be enjoyed with or without the novella, as they were meant to stand apart. The story in it is directly related, but there is a story the recording tells on its own. The sound of the record is frighteningly crystalline for roots-oriented music -- the dirty-assed bottleneck slide guitar-fueled "Ridin' with the Blues," with drummer Jim Keltner and guitarist Rene Camacho, feels too clean despite its tempo and loose vibe. "Pink-O Boogie" follows with the same band -- with added percussion from Joachim Cooder -- but the groove is nastier and dirtier, and feels like it could have come from the Get Rhythm album in 1987. Near the end, Jesús Guzmán arranges some crazy string work to take it out. The rootsy rocker "Waitin' for Some Girl," where Cooder plays everything but drums (courtesy of Martin Pradler) sounds like a lost John Hiatt tune from Ry's Slide Area period (it's also better than anything that Hiatt has come up with himself in ages). Old pal Flaco Jiménez lends his accordion to "Filipino Dancehall Girl," a beautiful norteño tune that is kissed by cha-cha in Joachim's rhythms. "Spayed Kooley" is, as one might expect, a humorous Western swing jam, but played by a basic rock trio. And then there's the beautifully articulated swing ballad "My Dwarf Is Getting Tired," one of the more beautifully warm broken love songs Cooder has ever written -- and the string touches by Guzmán make it a shuffling lounge fave. Ultimately, "quirky" doesn't begin to describe I, Flathead, but it doesn't have to: this disc is simultaneously both vintage and futuristic Cooder doing what he does best, offering listeners ghost traces of the past as they materialize on the dusty desert horizon like a mirage. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Nonesuch
CD
$18.75

Cooper, Matthew Robert
Miniatures
PS, US Nine short saturnian interludes make up the first proper vinyl release by the sound artist who has intrigued your collapsed antenna many times before as Eluvium, Matthew Robert Cooper. Atmospheric chamber music from the cardboard box vortex. Miniatures moves from swirling spatial feedback manipulations to stripped down minimal piano pieces and back while you watch from the curbside the ghostly parade. Limited to 2,000 copies with the first 1,000 on colored vinyl. PITCHFORK: "Matthew Robert Cooper maintains the deep-seated ache that characterizes his music as Eluvium, offering an album of orchestral and electronic sketches drawn from a yet-to-be-completed symphony."
GaardenRecords
LP
$13.75

Current 93 (Anok Pe)
Birth Canal Blues
PS, US
CopticCat
CD
$10.00

Cybotron
Clear : Remixes
PS, US CYBOTRON is the legendary Detroit electro duo of JUAN ATKINS & RICHARD DAVIS. Their 1st record, "Clear", originally released in 1983, is universally regarded as one of the 1st "Techno" releases, spawning a genre as well as inspiring such greats as Carl Craig, Aphex Twin, Moby, Autechre, & countless others. This is part of JUNO Records 10th Anniversary Series & is a LTD ED pressing. In addition to feat. the original 1983 mix of "Clear," 3 additional remixes crafted by contemporary minimal artists Troy Pierce (a.k.a. Slacknoise a.k.a. RUN STOP RESTORE), COBBLESTONE JAZZ & LOUDERBACH.
Juno
CD
$12.50

Death In June
All Pigs Must Die
PS, US Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy Discs series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged ritual. While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic Death In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with the addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial elements also permeate half the album. Out of print for several years, the reissued CD comes in a foil-blocked soft-pak.
Soleilmoon
CD
$16.00

Death In June
All Pigs Must Die
PS, US LP version. Stunningly unsettling picture disc limited to 2000 copies. "Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy Discs series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged ritual. While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic Death In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with the addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial elements also permeate half the album."
Soleilmoon
LP
$20.00

Death In June
Presents Kapo!
PS, US The soundtrack to the funeral of New Europa imprisoned by its past, an idea originally inspired by Douglas P.'s war-time experiences in Croatia between 1991-1995. This 1996 collaboration with Richard Leviathan (Strength Through Joy/Ostara) continues in a similar musical vein first seen on the Scorpion Wind project released the same year. This is now reissued in a black foil-blocked soft-pak.
Soleilmoon
CD
$16.00

Dendoshi
Dendoshi 2
PS, ITALY Dendoshi is Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Timo Van Luyk (Af Ursin, In Camera). Dendoshi: "sent to propagate the ceremony" or "missionary" (Japanese). There had actually been a previous incarnation of Dendoshi (hence Dendoshi 2), which was a large group performance in New York that ventured upon elucidating the memories of a a fifty-plus foot tall dead Weeping Cherry Tree re-contextualized as a sculptural exhibit. Some thematic reference: The name 'Dendoshi' originates from the work of Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose films also inspired the content of the first performance. When the opportunity presented itself for Connolly, Dijkstra, Nuss and Van Luyk to come together to make a session, it was the perfect opportunity to realize Dendoshi not as a one-off performance on a theme, but as a recurring ritual in development. The resulting music widened the conceptual reflection of the band, bringing to mind the history and ideas of Franz Mesmer. Mesmer, the 18th century Austrian spiritualist healer, was among the first to put forth the theory of what he termed 'animal magnetism,' regarding a universal fluid which permeates all matter and can be influenced by the will, not dissimilar to some of Eliphas Levi's concepts. What seemed to set Mesmer apart was an attention to mood and atmosphere, an aesthetic component to what were scientifically quite dubious theories, which lent his work an aura of portent -- thus the parallel with the music captured as Dendoshi 2. Reflecting the qualities that all four musical sensibilities had in common, the album is a statement upon the ephemeral nature of atmosphere and will, and the relation of reverie to oblivion as opposed to ecstasy. The symbol, or mark on the front cover created by Connolly came intuitively and without revision. Its applied function is that of distinction rather than that of protection or as a seal. It was first applied to the photograph by Clarence H. White form 1904, where the first resonant depiction or personification of reverie and oblivion as applied to Dendoshi was found. By applying the mark, Connolly is ceremonializing the image, thus rendering it distinct from its original form, not as an appropriation, but as a recognition. The other images followed, and each of them were recognized instantly without having to search. The last was Vermeer's image from Van Luyk's basement, and upon receiving this, the series of 4 inserts was complete. There is a trace of fear and a sensation of suspended time in these images which suits the music very well. Edition limited to 300 copies with a gold cover.
Planam
LP
$26.50

DHS
House Of God (Poker Flat Mixes)
PS, US Almost 20 years after its original release, this classic from Ben Stokes (MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO) is back. Championed in Germany by techno innovators such as Sven Vath in 1989/1990, the track quickly reached cult status. Three new mixes include PHONIQUE's cheeky jacking track, MARTIN LANDSKY w/ a powerful club remix, & an updated version that is functional dark house energy.
PokerFlat
12
$12.75

Dog Faced Hermans
Mental Blocks For All Ages
PS, US Formed in Scotland (re-located to Amsterdam) the band manages to take a distinctly US punk sound & re-frame it with a willing experimental edge that gives away their close ties to The Ex. Anarchic shouty female vocals, abrasive guitars and (most oddly) a brass section creates a hybrid sound which feels linked somehow to the early 90s Kill Rock Stars sound (Bikini Kill etc) but at the same time is defiantly European. This is punk rock that has the balls & the hooks to renew interest in this much overlooked act.
Mississippi
LP
$11.00

Dr. Dooom
Dr. Dooom 2
PS, US
Threshold
CD
$13.50

Dr. Dooom
Dr. Dooom 2
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Threshold
LP
$21.50

Druid Perfume
S-T
PS, US Featuring three members of the PIRANHAS-one of Detroit's most infamous punk bands of the last decade-DRUID PERFUME continue the "Where the fuck are these guys coming from?" mayhem, elevating it to the next level of Weird Punk. Tropically hot in its sweaty, confident swagger their sauntering, jazzy art-skronk collides beautifully with raw, soupy Detroit punk viciousness. This five-piece eviscerates that rotting corpse of Detroit punk, dancing, marching around the body, finger-painting the funhouse walls with the entrails in a truly manic Lord of the Flies-like hysteria. Piggy never had a chance. This controlled chaos-Druid Perfume's debut - plays itself out over eight songs. In and out in a breathless 24 minutes. Vinyl only."-Mark Murrmann
Pigs
LP
$13.25

Eighteen Wheels Burning
Tweaked Out, Strung Up & Redlined
PS, US Tripped out guitars, a pounding rhythm section, sonic vocals & featuring ex-members of THE WANT (Southern Lord), this is set to establish the group as one of the premier bands on the stoner rock scene.
MeteorCity
CD
$13.75

Elder
S-T [deluxe edition]
PS, US Crushing & destroying everything in its path comes the newest offering from these psychedelic doomers. A potent concoction of swirling, groovy, heavy-as-shit riffs, pounding percussion, & heathen vocal work destined to please the gods of Holy Smoke.
MeteorCity
CD
$15.50

Emeralds
What Happened
PS, US Emeralds is at the forefront of a new American movement that continues the experimentation in analog electronics of the 60's and 70's while ignoring the formulaic and boring turn electronic music took in the later part of the 20th century. Add a renewed energy gained from their connections to the noise movement, and you have some of the most original and true music of the new century. 'What Happened' continues their exploration in tonal beauty of their recent work that brought to mind pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Cluster, while presenting a new approach to structure that brings to mind masters like Luc Ferrari and opens our ears to a new universe full of astonishing possibilities. This is the true new American infinite electronic music of our present. Recorded by Emeralds and mastered by James Plotkin.
NoFunProductions-35
CD
$12.25

Eno, Brian
Ba-Benzélé/Subterraneans
PS, US Slow To Speak is a gray-area vinyl recontextualization label -- reissuing onto 12" vinyl its favorite tracks -- beyond any obvious genre or stylistic confines. All releases are compiled by Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson for Slow to Speak. There are have been close to 30 releases in the past, from Loggins & Messina to Haki R. Madhubuti. Packaging is often elegantly screenprinted. Although some earlier STS releases featured unique "edits", most are just album tracks pressed to vinyl to give new context and availability to classic works from the past -- listen now, ask questions later. This Eno 12" features "Ba-Benzélé" from Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Music & "Subterraneans" from the David Bowie's Low album. "Brian Eno is one of the true pioneers of electronic music; from the very beginning of its inception, as one of the most in-demand studio producers of his era, he served as one of its most eager disseminators, accomplishing some of the first syntheses of rock, experimental and electronic music -- and delivering it to popular audiences previously unimagined before his time. In the strangely familiar alien tones & effects of the then excessively intricate and virtually inaccessible synthesizers of the early 1970s, Eno perceived in electronic production the key to popular music's transcendence, its elevation to the level of true intellectual & artistic expression -- an expanse of seemingly endless potential that allowed not only the seasoned & qualified composer to express himself through the new electronic sound, but also provided entrenched genres the opportunity to discard with their embedded orthodoxies & breathe a whole new air of life into their creative process & product. His work with avant-garde trumpet player John Hassell is a deeply inspiring example of this early pioneering. Hassell was himself obsessed with atypical scales & unfamiliar instrumentation, only in his case, he was convinced that in the most remote regions of Earth's untouched & undeveloped sonic landscape lay the most potent tools for music's superseding to the domain of sublime experiential transcendence. With Eno's prowess at the opposite end of the technological scale, the two produced some of the most wildly divergent co-existences of sound, mixing the unsettling tones miraculously produced from Hassell's trumpet -- which were for the most part, inspired by traditional forms of obscure world music -- with the strange warmth of Eno's comforting synth chords & melodic disposition to create music that is at one moment deeply warm, comforting and pleasing to the ears -- only to morph into something suspiciously unfamiliar, uncharted and singularly abrasive -- beautiful still, but unsettling nonetheless... the perfect balance. But it was Eno's work with legendary rock/pop/post-punk superstar David Bowie that demonstrated the breathtaking potential of Eno's electronic aesthetic, its integration into the most resistant of musically-opposite fields, and its true transcendent potential. 'Subterraneans' is the quintessential tragedy in song, a piece that needs no definite lyrical tale to relate its truly melancholic expression, its very notes, its distorted, shivering wails of possibly human melodic groans, its sub-bass synth pads, the only necessity for full expression: undeniably Eno's masterwork. It weeps, not through the deceiving over-intellectualization of poetry, but rather through the pure expression of tonal & melodic sound. This is the essence of Eno's contribution to modern music. Compiled by Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson for Slow To Speak." Silkscreened lettering on jacket with glitter.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00

Epic 45
Bracken / Bibio Remixes
PS, UK Tracks : A : 'You Are An Annual' remixed by Bracken B : 'Stars In Autumn' remixes by Bibio. 2 track 45rpm heavyweight 12" vinyl. "Epic 45 are those cooler than thou post-post-rock chaps who wang an album or EP out occasionally to be consumed rabidly by you, the hungry music vulture. Now they've a limited remix 12" in a variety of sleeves, one for each season of the year. I remember when we used to actually have seasons in this country rather than the schizo mulch of conditions we get these days! Bibio & Hood's Chris Adams AKA Bracken are the prizefight contenders here, Bibio's re-jig of 'Stars in Autumn' being an atmospheric brooder reminiscent of later period Boards of Canada. Building up from fractured astral wildlife effects into a spaced clanky ambler of a tune, I can also hear bits of Intricate in there, a reassuringly old skool electronic vibe, full of drifting twinkles & a shuffling phat beat. Very cinematic in places, it really sets the mood for a lazy sunny afternoon's loafing! Bracken re-shapes 'You are an Annual' into a pastoral and blissed out journey full of hesitant bass thrums, shifting, morphing effects that slip in and around the serene vocals and some impressive dubbed-out delay and phasing action! This sounds closer to his later Hood vision rather than the sonic tinkering and future pop of his solo Bracken material and should just be the icing on the cake for fans of both Hood & Epic 45! A real treat this one & we're proud to be giving it the coveted SOTW" spot!
WaysideandwoodlandRecordings-001
12
$17.50

Errors
It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
PS, UK Errors are pleased to announce the release of their debut album. Entitled It's Not Something, But It Is Like Whatever the record features 9 brand new tracks in addition to last year's limited edition single Salut! France. While managing to retain the elements of new-wave and acid-house that marked their early Hans Herman 7" and EP How Clean Is Your Acid House?, this new material represents a natural progression and evolution in Errors' sound that so far has seen the band touted as natural successors to the mantle currently held by the likes of Battles, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem.
RockAction
CD
$18.25

Errors
It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
PS, UK VINYL VERSION!!!
RockAction
LP
$18.25

Faithfull, Marianne
Easy Come, Easy Go [deluxe edition]
PS, UK LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Special three disc (two CDs + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of her 2008 album, a collaboration with Hal Wilner, including eight bonus tracks and a DVD that contains footage with Marianne and Hal commenting on the tracklisting (a documentary by Anne Rohart under Jean-Baptiste Mondino's artistic direction). All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal, and range from Billie Holiday's 'Solitude' to 'The Crane Wife' by current band The Decemberists. Other tracks include songs originally by Merle Haggard, Espers, Bessie Smith, Morrissey, Dolly Parton and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Easy Come, Easy Go also includes some interesting guest performances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Sean Lennon, Cat Power and Teddy Thompson.
Naïve
DCD/DVD
$35.25

Faithfull, Marianne
Easy Come, Easy Go
PS, UK Regular import CD version with 10 tracks. 2008 release, a collaboration between the British icon and producer Hal Wilner. All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal, and range from Billie Holiday's 'Solitude' to 'The Crane Wife' by current band The Decemberists. Other tracks include songs originally by Merle Haggard, Espers, Bessie Smith, Morrissey, Dolly Parton and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Easy Come, Easy Go also includes some interesting guest performances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Sean Lennon, Cat Power and Teddy Thompson.
Naïve
CD
$17.75

Fake Male Voice
Cou Cou Sous Les Nuages
PS, US Picture 7" with dvd. Fake Male Voice is the new project from TUNDE of TV ON THE RADIO. Two brand new songs with a bonus track on DVD. Sexy, soulful vocals with orchestral 80's visual dance music.
HeartFast-006
45/DVD
$16.25

Farina, Mark
Mushroom Jazz Vol.6
PS, US LIMITED EDITION - 1500 copies only!! To the un-initiated, Mark Farina is the master of the blend! This sixth edition in this legendary series sees cuts from J-BOOGIE, COLOSSUS, KERO ONE, JAZZUAL SUSPECTS, and more, as well as a bumpin' brand new Farina original track entitled "Life". 15 tracks in all, and all previous volumes are now gone, so grab this one before it goes the same way.
OmRecords
3XLP
$18.50

Farquhar, JW
Formal Female
PS, US An amazing electric fuzz album full of effects & a masterpiece in the same realm of loner-weirdness as Dr. Hooker: extra-heavy psychedelic.
Shadoks
CD
$18.00

Fauna
Rain
PS, US A Strongly ecocentric two piece band working in the black metal genre. This cd consists of one epic track lasting over an hour, beginning with a field recording of rain in a forest, then an acoustic journey and finally a raw black metal surge of power and pummel.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25

Fire Witch
Japan
PS, US This Melbourne, Australia act plays thundering, spacious metallic sludge. This is a LTD ED, silk screened 1st run of only 200 copies on COLOR vinyl. Aquarius Records sez of the band: "Aussie noise rockers the Grey Daturas had been telling us forever about some killer band called Fire Witch, who they played w/ all the time. FW are another band who traffic in the slooooooooow & heavy, but they definitely give it their own twist. Not sludgy like SUNNO))) or their legions of followers, & not really noisy like many of their countrymen. Instead they're some sort of strange downtuned slowcore mathrock. Massive basses (that's right. no guitars!) churn & throb, the drums a crushing pound, over the top, drawn out wailing 'leads', all the makings of a proper rock band, but instead they fuck it all up... laced w/ all sorts of killer melodies, making it sound like a doomed version of June Of 44 or Engine Kid"
WantageUSA
10
$10.00

Free Blood
Parangatang b/w Weekend Condition
PS, US Released on the RONG MUSIC label (DFA offshoot label)... the 3rd in a series of 3 12''s from this Brooklyn duo consisting
of MADELINE DAVY (Octopi NYC) & JOHN PUGH (formerly of !!!). The 12" series is to be followed by a full-length CD. The lead cut on this 4-trk single contains "Parangatang" - broken house beats w/ increasingly hectic vibes matched w/ a classic piano melody. A head-scratchingly unique pop single that maintains rhythmic consistency. Incl. DJ-friendly remixes by TIM "LOVE" LEE & SCOTTY COATS & WES THE MES. Tim's mix is a heady analog dance dub workout, while the Scotty/Wes punk-funk mix of "Weekend Condition" has been called "best remix ever made" by the Rong label. On tour w/ electro-synth pop behemoth's HOT CHIP!
Rong/DFA
12
$8.00

Gaye, Marvin
What's Going on
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Motown
LP
$18.00

Gaye, Marvin
I Want You
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Motown
LP
$18.00

Giant Robot
#57
PS, US Asian pop culture & beyond. This issue: Slumdog Stars, Aaron Yoo, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Free the Robots, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Street Art Obama.
GiantRobot
ZINE
$4.75

Giants
They, The Undeserving
PS, US Methodical, meticulous, precise. These are epic movements w/ a deliberate delivery, masterfully textured & layered. This band has created music that travels through life cycles as the songs progress & ultimately climax in crashing, atmospheric crescendos. Limited to 500
MyleneSheath
LP
$15.50

Gil, Gilberto
Banda Um
PS, FRANCE Gilberto Gil is a legend of Brazilian music and a cultural icon in his country. From 2003 to 2008, he has served as his country's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as long-time collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock, Brazilian genres including samba and forró, African music, and reggae. This Iris 'best-of ' collection includes some of Gil's most popular songs, most of which were recorded in the '80s.
Iris
CD
$13.25

Gore
Hart Gore/Mean Man's Dream
PS, US An essential reissue of the first two albums from this seminal instrumental Dutch band. Relentless, heavy pounding instrumental rock, whose influence on other instrumental outfits like Pelican, Don Caballero, Russian Circles, etc. is painfully obvious. With their use of repetitive heavy rolling rhythms & bombastic execution, Gore pioneered a new style of music for the time. Remastered plus unreleased bonus material!
SouthernLord
DCD
$17.25

Gourds
Haymaker!
PS, US Unclassifiable Austin sons The Gourds are back with Haymaker!, The crooked cousin to their critically acclaimed last album, Noble Creatures. On Haymaker! the band circles back, digs beneath and climbs over their gin soaked music roots with an album of grass-fed cosmic country. Rattling flourishes of soul, swamp rock and gospel rhythms spill out all over the place. Psychic songwriting apparatus Jimmy Smith, Kevin Shinyribs Russell and Max Johnston continue their chronicling of askew Texas characters who populate the subterranean Lone Star State, a world of 'Fossil Contender's', 'Luddite's', 'Valentines' and women with skin like chocolate milk, so beautiful they make married men feel no guilt. Haymaker! will undoubtedly slake the thirst of hardcore and fledgling Gourds fans alike and tip unsuspecting ears to the colorful Texas thump being laid down by this legendary band.
YepRoc
CD
$14.25

Hawkwind
Dream Goes On: From the Black Sword to Distant Horizons [remastered anthology]
PS, US 2008 digitally remastered 3CD anthology, the second in a series of compilations from the long-serving British band released by the label Atomhenge. The Dream Goes On is a fitting tribute to one of Britain's finest bands. This anthology sees them journey to the end of the 1980's and into the 90's still retaining their original spirit whilst eagerly absorbing the ever changing musical landscape around them. Always ahead of their contemporaries and led by founder Dave Brock, this second lavish CD set draws on selections from such classic albums as Chronicle Of The Black Sword, Live Chronicles, Xenon Codex, Space Bandits, Palace Springs, Electric Teepee, The Business Trip, Alien 4, Love In Space and Distant Horizon, serving as a reminder of Hawkwind's enduring appeal.
Atomhenge
CD-BOX
$47.50

Hawkwind
Spirit of the Age: An Anthology 1976-1984
PS, US Remastered retrospective, 3 CDs.
Atomhenge
CD-BOX
$47.50

Heeb Magazine
#19
PS, US The Wasted Issue with COURTNEY LOVE on the cover: "I don't care about the past." Features on Natasha Lyonne's comeback, Aulcie Perry, winter fashion & all
things Jewish pop-culture MAG.
ZINE
$5.25

Hendrix, Jimi & The Experience
Axis: Bold as Love
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
ExperienceHendrix
LP
$25.00

High on Fire
Live At The Relapse Contamination Festival
PS, US Captured at the legendary Relapse Contamination Festival in 2003. The band tears through a vicious 8 song set
including classics "Hung, Drawn, & Quartered," "Blood From Zion" & the only official recording of them covering the Venom classic "Witching Hour"
Relapse
CD
$14.75

Home Blitz
Weird Wings
PS, US LAST COPIES. This is the sound of a bedroom garage rock band getting inside a refrigerator carton & being pushed down a steep hill. This bangs through 5 songs, inc. Slade's ode to civic pride, "My Town." Internet superstar Sarim on drums. Highly American music from three guys into good times.
PartsUnknown
LP
$11.25

Honeychurch
Early Times: 2001-2004
PS, US 'Early Times is an anthology of tracks from Honeychurch's critically acclaimed and criminally unavailable records Calling Me Home (2001) and Makes Me Feel Better (2004). Twelve remastered songs, plus two previously unreleased demos - 14 tracks of what Miles of Music called 'rapturous, romantic, blissfully transcendent, sweetly reverent, sun-drenched pop'"Imagine if The Red House Painter's Mark Kozelek added harmonies out of Mojave 3 and the Byrds....the singing, strings, and lap steel are exquisite. Like the Pernice Brothers, you suspect these guys dig Bread as much as Gram Parsons, hooked on the elegiac sweetness of old songs." -Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover
All-new record will be out in 2009!'
SirenElectric-
CD
$10.25

Howlin Rain
Wild Life
PS, US Two fifteen minute plus monster jams - the first is an amazingly inspired & completely improvised wailing twin guitar, rock meditation on Paul McCartney's "Wild Life." "Black Sangria" rounds out the disc w/a completely improvised piece covered in heavy jazz fusion & free, latin jazz rock overtones. Features BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) on guitar. LIMITED TO 1,000 on 180g RTI vinyl
ThreeLobedRecordings
LP
$22.00

HR
Hey Wella
PS, US New solo album from Bad Brains' frontman HR!
DCHardCore
CD
$15.00

Hull, Scott
Audiofilm I
PS, US A piece of fearsome dark ambient music that showcases his skill at blending blackend Lustmordian drift w/ terrifying mixing techniques that clot the mind's eye w/unnerving, nightmarish sound events. A fug of demonic drone that utilizes delirious stereo panning & slabs of obsidian ambience, & it slowly unfolds over the length of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black ambience & the terminally creepy voice of a little girl whispering for help, seemingly lost between planes of
shadow
CrucialBlast
CD5
$7.75

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Blood of Life
PS, US Contains two completely new versions of JOMF classics, "Hey! Mr. Sky" & "The Grave" as well as a reworking of last
year's "Valley of Fire." The record also features a traditional ballad "The Lost Jimmy Walen" & a brand new track "The Blood of Life" which is a ground breaking piece of new music for the band & marks a new direction.
Fire
CD
$14.50

Jacuzzi Boys
Fought A Crocodile b/w Blowin' Kisses
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 COLOR vinyl)! Miami, FL's eerie & alluring JACUZZI BOYS float on a hot cloud of misty & hypnotic grooves that suck you into their morbid world of jangling, distant guitars overlaid w/ ghostly chants that swell & recede like the sands of time slowly slipping through your tarnished soul. W/ a rollicking beat that sticks to your ribs & forces you to look deep within yourself for the answers to life's toughest questions, they have that magical "something" that you'll feel the 1st time you hear them.
Rob'sHouseRecords
45
$5.25

Journey to Ixtlan
S-T
PS, US Cloaked in mystery, this obsure band of psychedelic outlaws' identities remain occult. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, & utterly sunkissed this is the sound of New Age Doom & Occult Desert Rock. Miniature gatefold LP style packaging with suitably Owlseyesque graphics.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue]
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Kemp, Rose
Unholy Majesty
PS, US Heavy prog influenced music. Rose is the daughter of Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp from the seminal, pioneering British band Steeleye Span. As a young teenager she sang and toured with her parents, but Rose was ready to find her own way and take her rock in the direction we hear today. She's got the eerie rock transcendence of The Pixies, the naked beauty of Regina Spektor, the vocal bravado of Amanda of The Dresden Dolls.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25

King Khan & BBQ Show
Animal Party
PS, US Canadian punk rock/garage duo from Montreal. 7" single delivered in a custom gate-fold package complete w/an original 16-page coloring book.
FatPossum
45
$10.00

KK Null
Oxygen Flash
PS, US K.K. NULL (aka KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan. The composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA, and electronic wizard is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and, in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early '80s. After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, Null has gradually moved toward a more electronic approach. In recent years, he has concentrated his efforts on his solo and collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, and droning isolationist material which one could loosely describe as cosmic noise maximal/minimalism. The nine-track Oxygen Flash is the most recent addition to this remarkable catalog.
Neurot
CD
$13.50

Late of the Pier
Fantasy Black Channel
PS, US Following massive UK acclaim and extensive overseas touring (including a triumphant US debut at CMJ in NYC), Nottingham's Late Of The Pier are ready to unleash their genre-busting debut album Fantasy Black Channel on the US. At once darkly chaotic and unabashedly pop, Late Of The Pier's music is almost impossible to describe, pushing stylistic boundaries to the edge of no control. Produced by superstar DJ-producer Erol Alkan, Fantasy Black Channel is huge in both scope and ambition, an exuberant rush of glam, psychedelia,nu-wave, dancepunk, metal and madcap sci-fi experimentation. Not every band can throw shards of Zappa, Queen, Eno-era Roxy Music, Prince, Gary Numan, DFA, Bloc Party and The Klaxons into a blender and come out with something as defiantly unique and grandly anthemic. Includes 2 US-only bonus tracks.
Astralwerks
CD
$15.25

Lennon, John
Imagine (Limited Edition)
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Capitol
LP
$26.00

Lopez, Francisco
Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003
PS, US 20-year collection from the pioneer of absolute concrète music. Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003, is the centerpiece to this prolific artist's catalog. Housed in a stunning black on black embossed box. Released as a cooperative operation from Blossoming Noise and Gender-less Kibbutz.
BlossomingNoise
CD-BOX
$50.00

Los Campesinos!
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
PS, US LTD ED vinyl LP pressing! The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity & most importantly, energy. Feat. all new material from their Seattle sessions w/ producer John Goodmanson
Arts&Crafts
LP
$18.00

Love
Love Live: Whisky a Go-Go 1978 [deluxe re-issue]
PS, US Remastered and repackaged.
FridayMusic
CD
$15.00

Lymbyc Systym
Carved By Glaciers
PS, US Originally a self-released endeavor, this stunning debut is now receiving a reissue by Magic Bullet Records. This features remastered renditions of the original sound recording w/the added bonus of exclusive remixes from HER SPACE HOLIDAY & AMERICAN ANALOG SET for a total of 7 brilliant tracks just as relevant now as upon their initial release.
MagicBullet
CD
$12.75

M83
Saturdays=Youth
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

M83
Digital Shades, Vol. 1 (2PC)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$16.25

M83
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$20.00

Magnet
#80
PS, US Winter 2008 issue w/ NICK CAVE on the cover. Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, Cat Power, Guided by Voices, Pavement, The Flaming Lips, Joe Strummer, Bright Eyes, Paul Westerberg, Neko Case, Sleater-Kinney, Frank Black, Burn After Reading.
ZINE
$3.00

Majesty Crush
I Love You In Other Cities: Best of... 1990 - 1995
PS, US Led by the bizarre DAVID STROUGHTER (P.S. I Love You), Majesty Crush was one of the more obscure but essential shoegazing groups to rise out of the short-lived U.S. scene in the early '90s. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan USA, Majesty Crush was comprised of lead singer David Stroughter, bassist Hobey Echlin, guitarist Michael Segal and drummer Odell Nails III. While incorporating the same lush, dreamy sound as other shoegazer acts of the time, it was the lyrics of Majesty Crush songs that set them apart from all other artists of the genre. Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster (No. 1 Fan), torture (Boyfriend), a female cashier at an adult book store (Sunni Pie), actresses (Uma), tennis stars (Seles) and Italian porn stars (Cicciolina). Majesty Crush released only one major album, Love 15, in 1993. Among their notable releases are 1992's No. 1 Fan and 1994's Sans Muscles." The band broke up in the mid 1990s. Lead singer Stroughter went on to form a similar outfit called P.S. I Love You and drummer Nails went on to perform with Astrobrite and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins.
FullEffect
CD
$15.00

Marhaug/Feiler
No More Drama
PS, US Limited to 300 copies. Edited live recordings, sometimes sounds like a Borbetomagus storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in Palestine. A Picture of this record should be next to every definition of Noise music. Lasse Marhaug plays in Jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70's. He is now a Swedish-Israeli musician and artist and has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. The most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year.
NoFunProductions-37
LP
$16.25

Merzbow
Hodosan
PS, POLAND The 5th album by noise genius Masami Akita on VIVO RECORDS. One of the most accessible releases in a huge discography of Merzbow. Drums, rhythms and noises packed with a pig-ass shining cardboard sleeve.
Vivo-40
CD
$15.50

Minor Threat
Out Of Step
PS, US 8 cuts of blistering punk rocking, you need!
Dischord
LP
$8.00

Minutemen
Double Nickels On The Dime
PS, US Repress vinyl version of the classic!
SST-028LP
DLP
$14.51

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

Morrison, Van
Moondance
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Rhino
LP
$23.00

My Cat Is An Alien
Roberto Opalio / Maurizio Opalio
PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen printed jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side features a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable alien world of the Opalio space brothers.
Important-216
LP
$25.75

My Cat Is An Alien/Praxinoscope
Split (2XLP)
PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen-printed metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. My Cat Is An Alien's new surprising master work is a concept-album split with their side project Praxinoscope. As always, in a world full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete freedom. Take Roberto's own words in the liner notes as the best introduction to this work: "One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity. We're all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion."
Important-217
DLP
$33.75

Nelson, Willie
Red Headed Stranger
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
LP
$17.00

Neung Phak
S-T
PS, US Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and don't ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. It's starting to get too crowded over here! Stay where you are!
MonoPause
CD
$13.50

Nyoukis, Dylan
Inside Wino Lodge
PS, US Limited to 300 copies. New solo LP of strange sounds, vocal improvisations, strings, tape manipulations and hiss drones from Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga, Blood Stereo) inside his wino lodge. Sounds like it was recorded in a 4 track in 1972 in an insane asylum, then puke over and thrown into the sea, then discovered recently and transfer directly to Vinyl via marine analog tape communication device. Good one to buy as well if you are wondering what a naked Scottish man and his daughter look and sound like.
NoFunProductions-36
LP
$16.25

Palestine, Charlemagne
Sound 1
PS, ITALY As the title well underlines, Sound 1, electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestine's research for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept. of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first 'Oeuvres Sonores' event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palestine started to dream of an expressive, continuous, ever-moving, ever-changing sound-form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, using electronically-produced sounds. At first, he began experiments with simple sine tone generators, emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access to Moog and arps, he constructed sounds using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till 1974 in NYC and then, in California. Finally, he assembled his own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build up a sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever-so-slightly to the oscillator input, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker, until they were immense, sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. Charlemagne played them very, very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate, while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added over, entire nights, mixing, adding, and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine-tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. He'd put on the tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it, and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition limited to 500 copies." Includes a 25-page program booklet, including an essay by Charlemagne Palestine and artwork by John Giorno.
Marghen
LP
$27.50

Payne, Adam
Organ
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$13.50

Payne, Adam
Organ
PS, US Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner before scaling these cliffs because you're more likely to discover pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. There's a big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man band. Suffice it to say that ADAM PAYNE (RESIDUAL ECHOES) is a one-man band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters. Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldn't punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlow's Sky Company or the bits of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed. Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated abandon that only leaves the listener wiser. Includes a free MP3 download.
HolyMountain
CD
$12.00

Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! My wife's stoked!
Capitol
LP
$23.00

Polansky. Larry
The Theory Of Impossible Melody
PS, US Performed by Jody Diamond, Chris Mann (voice); Phil Burk and Larry Polansky (live computers, fretless electric guitars); Robin Hayward (tubas). "Among the lineages of knowledge that Larry Polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both a composer and theorist, have been mathematics, intonation theory, cybernetics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, musicology (both Western and non-Western), American Sign Language, and Jewish mysticism. He has combined these and many other fields of study together into some of the most important music written by anyone of his generation while retaining status as the composer who is most worthy of being called a true theorist. In many ways, his compositions are themselves injunctive demonstrations of his theoretical insights that stand as critiques of the theoreticism that is now endemic to the art world. This intellectual integrity and facility has also been responsible for one of the most interesting characteristics of Polansky's compositional output. His music is one of the most successful, and rare, examples of a confluence between two, generally conflicting, 20th century musical streams. Like his mentor, James Tenney -- and many other late 20th century experimental masters who were inspired by the aesthetic innovations of Cage -- Polansky creates musical expositions of phenomenal reality. Sometimes these are based in psychoacoustic science, and sometimes they are grounded in mathematical formalisms. Sometimes they explore both at once. What he also manages to do -- and this is where he succeeds at the above-mentioned confluence -- is so often reveal these concepts within an expressive musical frame that is strongly linked to more traditional musical values."
NewWorld
CD
$14.75

Potop
Channels
PS, US Seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore presented as the bastard child of Drop Dead and Burning Witch. The CD packaging is entierely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic characters.
Graveface
CD
$12.00

Prurient
And Still Wanting
PS, US Limited to 500 copies. This is the picture disc LP version of the now classic and out of print Prurient release. Original description: A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life.
NoFunProductions-27
LP
$23.75

Pug, Joe
Nation of Heat EP
PS, US Midwesterner Joe Pug is a thoughtful, literate singer-songwriter in the tradition of John Prine, Josh Ritter and Bob Dylan. Fans of Tallest Man On Earth will find a similarly genius, somehow-not-derivative vibe here. 3HIVE: "In Pug's hard plucking, exaggerated choruses, and lyrical vignettes you can draw a pretty straight line from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash to Bruce Springsteen to Steve Earle to Josh Ritter. Like all of them, Pug is a populist at heart, a singer who can't help but talk about all of us when he sings about himself and can't help but sing about himself when he's talking about all of us."
JPI
CD5
$5.50

Q-Bert
Turntable TV Deluxe
PS, US The deluxe ultimate DVD of the famed DJ show following DJ Qbert & Yogafrog in fun & wacky adventures in the land of scratch.
ThudRumble
DVD
$18.25

Quatra Tete
Art of the State
PS, US Synapse-melting timing & memory challenging arrangements that never overwhelm the pure joy of a rock band firing on all cylinders. Recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, cover artwork by Jay Ryan.
Sickroom
CD
$13.00

R.E.M.
Accelerate
PS, US For years, R.E.M. promised that their next album would be a rocker, an oath to fans that perhaps made sense during the early '90s, when they were exploring the pastoral fields of Out of Time and the gloomy folk of Automatic for the People, but in the years after Bill Berry's 1997 departure, the desire of longtime fans for the group to rock again was merely a code word for the wish that R.E.M. would sound like a band again. Apart from a few fleeting moments -- "The Great Beyond," their "Man in the Moon" re-write for the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic, Man in the Moon; "Bad Day," a mid-'80s outtake revived for a greatest-hits album -- R.E.M. not only didn't sound like a band, but they seemed at odds with themselves and their very strengths, culminating in the amorphous, mummified Around the Sun, a record so polished and overworked it didn't sound a bit like R.E.M., not even like the art-pop outfit the band turned into after Berry's retirement. It was a situation so dire that the band recognized the need for corrective steering, so they stripped themselves down to bare-bones for 2008's Accelerate. In every way Accelerate is the opposite of Around the Sun: at 36 minutes, it's defiantly lean, it's heavy on Peter Buck's guitars and Mike Mills backing vocals, its songs don't drift, they attack. Even the songs constructed on acoustics feel like they're rockers, maybe because they hearken back to the eerie, ramshackle grace of "Swan Swan H" whose riff echoes through both "Houston" and "Until the Day Is Done." This is not the only time that R.E.M. deliberately refers to the past on Accelerate, but reverential self-reference is the whole idea of this project: they're embracing their past, building upon the legacy and the very sound of such underground rock landmarks as Lifes Rich Pageant and Document. Not that this album could be mistaken for an exhumed classic from the '80s: Michael Stipe's lyrics are forthright and never elliptical, and the same could be said about the music, as it's sonically streamlined and precise, hallmarks of a veteran band. One of the benefits of being veterans is knowing how to create a record this focused, and Accelerate benefits greatly from its concentrated blast of guitars, as the brevity of the album makes R.E.M. seem vital even as they're dredging up the past. By no longer denying the jangle and pop that provided a foundation for the group's success, they sound like a band again. Such praise dangerously threatens to oversell Accelerate, however, suggesting that the album has either the unearthly mystique of Murmur or the ragged enthusiasm of Reckoning when it has neither. This is a careful, studied album from a band that knew they were on the brink of losing their audience and, worse, their identity. Accelerate finds R.E.M. attempting to reconnect with their music, with what made them play rock & roll in the first place, instead of methodically resurrecting a faded myth. They reconnect handsomely, creating an album the can stand next to work from their peers, like Dinosaur Jr.'s exceptional comeback Beyond and Sonic Youth's casually vital Rather Ripped (whose "Incinerate" reverberates in the dissonant open-ended "Accelerate"). As comebacks go, that's relatively modest, but the very modesty of Accelerate is what makes it such a successful rebirth as R.E.M. no longer denies what they were or what they are, and, in doing so, they offer a glimpse of what they could be once again. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
WarnerBros.
CD
$18.75

Randle, Doug
Songs For The New Industrial State
PS, US A stunning collection of new songs for and about the time we live in,' billed the text on the backside of composer Doug Randle's 1971 release, Songs For The New Industrial State. In 2009, the same holds true. Doug was, and still is, a writer, arranger, musician, and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s. After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position at the government-sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where in 1970 he recorded his very own 'What's Going On.' Commercially released by the short-lived Kanata Records label, Songs was an introspective look at ever-dominant corporations, the cutthroat advertising world, our consumer society, decaying environment, and his own personal condition. The results crossed the epic studio creations of David Axelrod's Capitol output (or Spanish folk-rock fuelled Pride LP) with Free Design vocal harmonies from notable vocalists Tommy Ambrose and Laurie Bower (Billy Van Singers, Mutual Understanding, Laurie Bower Singers). Randle himself describes his long-forgotten efforts as, 'my bitter and twisted Simon & Garfunkel songs,' and though the lyrical content is indeed weighty, Songs' backing tracks successfully merge swinging sunshine pop and atmospheric orchestrations with a groovy backbeat performed by the cream of Toronto's heralded studio scene (Moe Koffman, Peter Appleyard, Rob McConnell, and Guido Basso, to name a few). It's an album like you've never heard, and one under the radar of even the most dedicated crate-diggers. Songs For The New Industrial State's much-needed re-release was spearheaded by Canadian music historian and Jamaica-Toronto series producer Kevin Howes (aka Sipreano) and comes replete with OG liner notes from legendary jazz scribe, one-time Downbeat editor, singer, and songwriter Gene Lees, archival images courtesy of Randle, audio taken from the original CBC master tapes, complete lyrics, and stellar art direction courtesy of Vincent Cook (2Step Tokyo, Jamaica-Toronto) that remains faithful to the period issue. In spite of the reductive pop sensibilities and fashion-conscious trends that dominate our modern marketplace, we are ecstatic to reintroduce Songs' insubordinate cry to a global audience. Let's all ensure Randle's lost letter gets read nice and loud on this go-'round.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$15.50

Ravens Creed
Militia of Blood Sacrifice
PS, US From the unholy hell pits of Nottingham, England, the mighty RAVENS CREED are unleashed upon the world. With ex members of IRON MONKEY, CEREBRAL FIX, SKYCLAD and GBH, as well as ORANGE GOBLIN vocalist BEN WARD at center stage, Ravens Creed are the audio equivalent of having your face smashed in with a bag of rusty hammers. Total thrash holocaust with tunes that stick in your head like nails, the fours tracks are all masterpieces of dirty thrashing metal.
IronPig
CD
$9.00

Record Collector
#358
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Revolutionary Ensemble
Beyond The Boundary Of Time
PS, US Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass) and Jerome Cooper (drums, balaphone, chiramia, Yamaha PSR 1500). "Beyond The Boundary Of Time documents the last live performance of the legendary Revolutionary Ensemble before Leroy Jenkins' death in 2007. This recording was made of a performance on May 25, 2005 in Warsaw, Poland. In the 1970s, the Revolutionary Ensemble introduced New York to decided musical advances, many pioneered by Chicago's A.A.C.M. musicians. Ex-Chicagoan Leroy Jenkins, who played violin, of all unheard-of modern jazz instruments, had formed his concept from classical, swing, blues, and modern elements and had been one of the radicals who discovered new concepts of sound, space, and musical relationships in the late 1960s. Jerome Cooper had been a somewhat later Chicago explorer, while Sirone's freedom of motion had grown out of work with the most visionary New Yorkers. Extensive rehearsal led this cooperative trio to a shared, free sense of dynamics, momentum, and form, and a wholly unique sound: their instrumental recombinations yielded a surprising variety of textures and colors. Most of all, these highly sophisticated personalities played together to create an ensemble music even larger than the sum of its parts. After the long overdue reissue in 2004 of their 1975 recording The Psyche on Mutable Music, the Revolutionary Ensemble -- Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass), and Jerome Cooper (drums, keyboards) -- reunited for both recording and performances. On this live set, each musician is represented by one of their own compositions - 'Configuration' by Sirone, 'Usami' by Leroy Jenkins, and 'Le-Si-Jer' by Jerome Cooper, as well as two group improvisations. All three of these great musicians are at the top of their form here, and one envies the Warsaw audience that attended what turns out to have been their final performance together. Their remarkable realization of the ensemble ideal was still revelatory and still revolutionary."
Mutablemusic
CD
$12.50

Ribbons
Royals
PS, US Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer JHEREK BISCHOFF has had one of the more quietly prolific careers in the last decade of independent music. He's served as both full-time member and guest musician/arranger for experimental pop crews The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu and Parenthetical Girls, composed music for dance and orchestral performances, and elegantly produced records for many of his talented friends. His multi-syllabic musical capabilities and voracious attention to detail have lent all of these projects layers of intricate loveliness and classical drama, qualities that find full flight on Royals, the debut release from Bischoff's solo project RIBBONS. For an artist whose interests and abilities are as varied as Bischoff's, sometimes the greatest question in making work can be to decide which path to pursue, but on Royals the answer is simply to allow the path to unfold.
Osaka
CD
$15.00

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Living For Death Destroying The Rest
PS, US After helping pave the way for the old school metal revival, the group returns w/ a sophomore release that transcends mere nostalgia as it ushers speed metal, kicking & screaming, into the new millennium at last.
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Ryan, Collie
Hour Is Now
PS, US COLLIE RYAN privately pressed three albums in the early '70s-Taking Your Turn Round The Corner of Day, Indian Harvest, and The Giving Tree. The records were funded in part by Collie's friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest surfaced on the Numero Group's stellar compilation Ladies From the Canyon in 2006. Collie's music is almost solely based around her cosmic and birdlike voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. The Hour Is Now collects tracks from her first three LPs and is packaged with Collie's own artwork. For fans of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier and Ruthann Friedman.
SebastianSpeaks
LP
$12.00

Rye Wolves
Oceans of Delicate Rain
PS, US Canyons of psyched-out doom and bottom heavy spacerock.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25

Saeta
Else Another Light Might Go Out
PS, US Saeta features Matt Menovcik on vocals, guitar & accordion, and Lesli Wood on vocals & piano. With Bob Smolenski on cello, they have created a lush collection of songs, a hypnotic meditation on paradox & terror steeped in a lovely yet uncanny sense of Other. This album achingly explores seasoned songwriter Menovcik struggling with very real demons regarding the painful end of a long-term relationship & other dark circumstances. To transform this pain, Menovcik grasped desperately to the aesthetics of hope, love & beauty -- painstakingly recorded & mixed by longtime collaborator Kramer (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi, Palace Brothers, Low).
Tarnished
CD
$11.00

Siouxsie & The Banshees
Spellbound
PS, US Pushing on with their continuing series of high-quality classic reissues, Slow to Speak presents their latest 12" featuring the exceptional post-punk of one Siouxsie & The Banshees. Clear contemporaries of fellow reissued monoliths of British rock, The Police & The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, though having formed in 1975 by core members Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, the group didn't really come into their own until the late-1970s crisis of rock music, when punk's initial fury began to dissipate under the cooling gaze of mainstream fixation, arguably neutralizing such counter-cultural monoliths as Iggy Pop & David Bowie. Sioux & Severin, excessively grand in their aspirations & determined not to succumb to the same fate, found themselves drawn to the emerging post-punk philosophies of anti-pop image formulation and projection, combining an essentially anti-celebrity presentation with starkly realist social commentaries intertwined confidently into their peculiarly unique and sinisterly haunting dark-rock aesthetic, one of the major contributors along with The Cure in the creation of the still-debatable goth-rock genre. Irrelevant of their cultural allegiances, Siouxsie and the Banshees were able to accomplish complete artistic autonomy while retaining their patently anti-authoritarian stance through the medium of their aural poetics, taking up verbal arms against legacies of British imperialism, medicine & power, post-industrial technological melancholia & religious-politico-psychosis of rabid Zionism; all this was performed under the advantageously offsetting facade of self-imposed outcasting, presenting themselves in dooming attire & make-up, exactly as they saw their world: a desolate land drifting towards an existential void of endless consequence, inhabited increasingly by a zombie-like rabble -- uncertain of what they live for, and more importantly, what is worth living for.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00

Smith, Patti
Dream of Life
PS, US 11 years in the making, this feature is a unique and intimate portrait of the renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Photographer-director STEVEN SEBRING creates a beautiful collage of images, memories and performances, capturing the essence of this legendary icon. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Filmmaker Steven Sebring directs this documentary about legendary musician Patti Smith, surveying her life, her career, and the philosophical and spiritual themes that have remained so potent in her work. Following her through 11 years of work and touring, the film explores Smith's artistry in music, painting, and poetry, offering intimate insight into the musician's often conflicted creative style."
PalmPictures
DVD
$24.50

Soporus
24,110
PS, US Philadelphia-based ambient drone ensemble which features guitarist and keyboardist Matthew Stone and bassist William Stichter from wellknown instrumental act SAXON SHORE along with guitarist Stephen Hoffman. Additional guitar tracks were provided on the album by James Vella (YNDI HALDA, A LILY) and John Donohue. The live performance also features films and videos edited on the fly by additional member Michael Stichter. 24,110 is dedicated to the spirit of the Lelechenky and to Wladimir Schewtschenko who filmed footage of the Chernobyl accident and died from radiation poisoning.
BurntToast
CD
$13.25

Soundscapes
Freestyle Family
PS, US Brazilian duo Rodrigo & Raphael Carvalho move together in perfect musical harmony, weaving melodic & angular guitars over hard-hitting drums & hook-laden vocals. Full of youthful creative energy, & inspired by pioneering bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Clash, & My Bloody Valentine, as well as the aesthetics of the "Madchester" scene, the Carvalho brothers have impressively boiled down their influences into vibrant engaging music, as displayed on this debut album.
BNSSessions
CD
$8.75

Spirits of the Dead
S-T [limited deluxe edition]
PS, NORWAY Psychedelic-stoner-folk-rock with one foot in the electric magic of the seventies and the other in the modern electric rock sound of 2012 or maybe even 2112, winkwink. Spirits of the Dead consists of guitarist Ole Øvstedal, former Einherjer vocalist Ragnar Vikse, drummer Geir Thorstensen and bassist/keyboardist Deadly Nightshade. The band was formed by Ole and Ragnar early 2007, and later joined by Geir and Deadly Nightshade. They were raised in the high mountains and deep fjords of the west-coast of Norway and this wilderness is alive in their music.
WhiteElephant/VoiceOfWonder
CD
$14.00

Starflyer 59
Dial M
PS, US Starflyer 59 have continued to progress and evolve. Influenced by early '80s underground pop, Depeche Mode and the Smiths and the louder caustic sounds of the Pixies, Starflyer 59 have crafted music that is wholly their own. Dial M, their 11th full-length in their 14 year career, is no different. The vinyl includes a special deluxe alternate insert designed and hand silk-screened. It also includes "Majic", a bonus track not available on the cd version.
BurntToast
LP
$12.50

Strawbs
Dragonfly [expanded, remastered re-issue]
PS, Germany Dragonfly was the second album to be released by the Strawbs, though much other material unissued in the late '60s that preceded it has since been made available. (In fact, earlier versions of two of the songs, "I Turned My Face Into the Wind," and "Josephine, for Better or for Worse," appear on the archival releases Strawberry Music Sampler, No. 1 and Preserves Uncanned, respectively.) Dragonfly was also the only LP the band recorded with cellist Claire Deniz in the lineup. Though an attractive and competent record, it's not as impressive as their debut. The songs aren't as striking, and the arrangements -- even with the addition of a fourth full-time member in Deniz -- aren't as effective as the mating of folk-rock, medieval, and classical music that characterized the best songs on the first album. It's a more subdued effort, and not as grave in its mood, Deniz's cello doing much to mellow the sound. Dave Cousins retained his appetite for epics, though, in the ten-minute "The Vision of the Lady of the Lake," which had piano by soon to be Strawb Rick Wakeman. When the fuzz guitar unexpectedly piles into the mix a few minutes into the track, joined by strange hissing background noises, it reaches a tense height that the rest of the record doesn't match, though it's accomplished and pleasingly introspective dawn of the '70s British folk-rock. [Mercury UK's 2008 reissue included four bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
UMGI5302680.2
CD
$11.96

Strawbs
S/T [expanded, remastered re-issue]
PS, Germany The Strawbs had done an album with Sandy Denny handling many of the vocals, and had also done quite a bit of unreleased recordings (now on the double CD Preserves Uncanned) prior to 1969's Strawbs. This is still their first proper album, but their wealth of prior live and studio experience most likely helped make it sound more confident and fully formed than many a debut effort. The group distinguished itself among the burgeoning school of British folk-rockers by delivering bittersweet folk-rock with a storytelling flavor. Dave Cousins' songwriting was on the sober and occasionally over-earnest side, but nonetheless the record was strong and alluring enough to immediately establish the Strawbs as one of the better first-generation U.K. folk-rock outfits. Some of these songs had been around for a while, as the presence of some of them on Preserves Uncanned and Sandy Denny & the Strawbs attests. However, the group took big strides from bare-bones folk-rock in the studio by dressing these in arrangements -- sometimes with light recorder, choral backup vocals, and orchestration -- that gave the Elizabethan melodies a pastoral, quasi-classical feel at times, without losing sight of an acoustic base. "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" and "Where Is This Dream of Your Youth" are among their best and most ambitious songs, and even if the compositions can sometimes take themselves too seriously, the music's never less than respectable. [Mercury UK's 2008 reissue included four bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
UMGI5302679.2
CD
$11.96

Surf City
Surf City EP
PS, GERMANY This is the debut release by New Zealand's Surf City. An anachronism right at the beginning, Surf City was founded in a video library, in this dying-out relic of an analogue age. When Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy ran into each other one evening in their small town, Josh had just bought a sound card and Davin a four-track. This debut EP is storming and strolling, light-footed, laconic and pop -- produced in an excessively lo-fi a manner as possible. Surf City is about the simplicity of sound, perfectly encapsulating pop music's essence, that bands like Pavement, The Zombies or The Jesus and Mary Chain share as a smallest common denominator. Everyone who has ever heard the breakers against New Zealand's coast suspects that Brian Wilson has a beach house in Surf City as well. However, New Zealand's legendary era of rock music resides in the Flying Nun label and with bands like The Clean or Tall Dwarfs. Nevertheless, the rumbling atmosphere of "Headin' Inside" could have been released by Flying Nun Records as well -- not as a nostalgic revival of good old times -- but rather as a self-confident continuation of a legendary sound. With Morr Music, Surf City has found a congenial home.
Morr
CD
$12.25

Szajner, Bernard
Superficial Music
PS, UK LTM presents the first in a series of expanded CD reissues by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally released in late 1981, Superficial Music incorporates elements of his previous album Visions of Dune played backwards at half speed and treated digitally, as well as the three-part suite Oswiecim, an imagining of the Holocaust informed by the experience of his own family. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes unsettling, Szajner's music is never less than extraordinary. Reviews rated the album highly: 'Superficial? No, superlative music! If you care at all for soundscapes that eschew cheap escapes, this album will do far more than tickle the surface of you mind' (NME); 'A significant success - a wholly involving and frequently disturbing blanket of continually contorting synthetic sound' (Melody Maker). The expanded 65-minute CD features three previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982. Bernard Szajner biography: Born in Grenoble in 1944, Szajner first made his name as a lighting designer for Magma, Gong and the Who. Having invented new instruments such as the laser harp used by Jean-Michel Jarre, Szajner began to record experimental, conceptual albums of his own, including Visions of Dune (1979), Some Deaths Take Forever (1980), Superficial Music (1981) and Brute Reason (1983). He has also recorded as Zed, and was one half of The (Hypothetical) Prophets. Since the mid 80s, polymath Szajner has worked as a painter, filmmaker and theatre director.
Boutique-6618
CD
$17.00

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA)
PS, SWEDEN DELAYED... Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

Thin Lizzy
Jailbreak
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Island
LP
$18.00

This Will Destroy You/Lymbyc Systym
Field Studies
PS, US TWDY contributed two brand new songs: the bombastic & menacing "Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine" (clocking in at 11:09) & the heart-warmingly hypnotic "Freedom Blade." LYMBYC SYSTYM unveiled three astonishing studies in melody in musicality ("Processed Spirits," "Notations," & "Narita"). In a time of instrumental & post-rock over-saturation & emulation, TWDY & LYMBYC SYSTYM have further distanced themselves from the hordes, once again asserting their commitment to pushing the genre forward.
MagicBullet
CD
$13.75

Tower Recordings
Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Communion
LP
$12.00

Trees
Garden Of Jane Delawney
PS, US A spellbinding combination of eerie originals & bold West Coast-influenced reworkings of traditional folk songs, this was released in May 1970 & has gone on to become one of the most revered folk-rock albums of all time, now available as a deluxe 2LP set.
Sunbeam
DLP
$30.25

Trees
On The Shore
PS, US Another beautifully-judged blend of original & traditional material, now available as a deluxe 2LP set.
Sunbeam
DLP
$30.25

Tucker, Alexander
Custom Made (2X7")
PS, US 2x7" limited to 1,000 copies
ATP
45
$15.50

Tuff Crew
DJ Too Tuff's Lost Archives
PS, US 17 previously unreleased recordings. Booklet includes vintage photographs & liner notes from Peanut Butter Wolf.
EasternConference
CD
$15.25

Tuma, Giorgio
My Vocalese Fun Fair
PS, SPAIN Soft pop, California 60s sounds, Brazilian touch... Really nice.
Elefant-1137
CD
$16.25

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

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

Van Zandt, Townes
S-T
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!!
FatPossum
LP
$17.00

Various
Messin' With Sly: Imitations, Interpolations & The Inspiration of Sly Stone
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LeSmokeDisque
LP
$18.25

Various
The Art of Field Recording Volume Two [4CD boxset]
PS, US Subtitled: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum. This is volume 2 of Dust-to-Digital's robust and highly-acclaimed Art of Field Recording series, assembled by esteemed archivist Art Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set includes ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Florida and elsewhere. Housed in a 10"x10"x10" color cardboard box containing a 96-page perfect-bound book with over 100 illustrations and photographs, and four CDs with a total of 107 tracks.
DustToDigital
CD-BOX
$61.00

Various
Desolation House
PS, US This compilation collects 11 exclusive tracks, 1 from each of the album sessions in Desolation House's catalog, into a masterful compilation of Musique Concrete spanning the sound spectrum from dark ambient, to true industrial music in several forms. Tracks from TROUM, BASTARD NOISE, GRUNTSPLATTER, SUBTERRANEAN SOURCE, WALDCHENGARTEN & many more memorialize this unique label as the intrepid, uninhibited vehicle for enlightened sonic expression it was intended to be.
Relapse
CD
$14.75

Various
Messin' With Sly: Imitations, Interpolations & The Inspiration of Sly Stone
PS, USTracks from TOMORROW'S CHILDREN, HOT CHOCOLATE, BLUE STAR GANG, HE 6, KASHMERE STAGE BAND, GOUGOUSH, DONALD SEWARD, HORIZONS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, L.A. CARNIVAL, SACRAMENTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1970, RABBITS & CARROTS, JIMMY STONE & BREAKESTRA hip hop addicts from all corners of the globe.
LeSmokeDisque
CD
$13.50

Various
De Nagalm Op De Kopf
PS, US A collection of sounds that represent Ultra Eczema pretty well although some of the recordings on this comp are over 5 years old. A variation of odd, "funny", retarded, great, noisy, free, off, loud, harsh, sad and brutal tracks by NOISE NOMADS, KRYSTAL KNIGHT, HACKY PACK ZAC SAC, MUDBOY, CEMENT FUTURE, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY I CAN'T READ, CARDS ON MY CUNT, PRURIENT, EX MEMBERS OF JOSH HYDEMAN, CLOACA & VOM GRILL, XO4, BURNING STAR CORE, KITES, DEFNEG, TUMBLE CAT POOF POOFY POOF, TRASHBUSTERS, ANTHRO REX, ERIC BOROS, BLOATED EGO AND THE COMPLIMENTS, MOUTHUS, MIX APE SYNB, ORPHAN FAIRYTALE, UNICORN HARD ON, MUSLUX, GREY SKULL, BLACK TIE RUBBER PUSSY, GOD WILLING, BOBBY COLOMBO WITH SILVER CINDY & JB DE KUNST!!! The CD comes in a cover designed by DENNIS TYFUS, JOSHUA BURKETT, NOISE NOMADS, and BILL NACE.
UltraEczema
CD
$22.00

Various
Ron Herman After Dark
PS, US Includes music from SANTOGOLD, VON SUDENFED, TIME MACHINE, WHITE ARROWS, KID SISTER, JACQUES RENAULT, HEY WILLPOWER, ADULT., SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE, 120 DAYS, CASXIO, MIGHTY SIX NINETY, HOCKEY, & HEARTSREVOLUTION
Indirecto
CD
$16.50

Various
Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always
PS, US "Compilation of hard-to-find gospel recorded in the 1960s & early 1970s. More mediative & well-produced material than the Life Is A Problem LP. Nice old school tip-on sleeves. Great stuff." Artists include: Mosby Family Singers, Straight Street Holiness Group, Laura Rivers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, Radio Four, Joe Townsend, White Family, Silver Quintette, James Carter & The Mighty Stars, Farris & Williams, Brother Willie Eason, Traveling Echoes, and Sensational Happy Travellers.
Mississippi
LP
$13.00

Various
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples
PS, US Now available in gorgeous DLP vinyl format!
Numero
DLP
$19.00

Weakends
S-T
PS, US LTD ED OF 1000. THE WEAKENDS are back w/ the follow-up to their now out-of-print debut 7" on ROB'S HOUSE Recs. This full-length is more on the blues-punk side of the no-fi French underground. They bang away, singing through broken PA's, sounding like a way cooler hot rod, 50's, b-movie band then you ever remember, or they sound like what those bands should have sounded like, but they were too self aware or just never as good as this.
Rob'sHouseRecords
LP
$12.50

Weird Weeds
Hold Me
PS, US For the past five years THE WEIRD WEEDS have been creating innovative and unclassifiable rock and folk songs that effortlessly straddle the line between rock 'n' roll and experimentalism. In that time the Austin, TX band has toured extensively and released three albums, the first of which-2004's Hold Me-was only released as a limited and now unavailable CDR. Lovingly reissued by Zum, Hold Me is now available in an pressing of 300 on black vinyl, packaged in a screened chipboard cover with all new artwork by LAUREN PAKRADOONI. Hold Me is also unique in that it's the only recorded document of The Weird Weeds' original 4-piece lineup that included KURT NEWMAN on lead guitar. The album is evidence that very early in their existence The Weird Weeds had developed a unique approach to songwriting that they've been honing and refining ever since. The core trio is AARON RUSSELL (NITRE PIT), SANDY EWEN (collaborator with TOM CARTER in SPIDERWEBS), and NICK HENNIES (percussionist who has performed with JANDEK and ARNOLD DREYBLATT).
ZumAudio
LP
$14.75

Williams, Hank
Unreleased Recordings (3PC, Boxed Set)
PS, US Considering the seismic impact Hank Williams had on country music, it's remarkable to think that his recording career lasted a mere six years -- he signed with MGM Records in early 1947, and was found dead in the back of his Cadillac en route to a gig on the first day of 1953. Williams was a prolific recording artist during that period, cutting an impressive 68 singles in addition to appearing as a regular guest on WSM's weekly Grand Ole Opry broadcast from Nashville and maintaining a punishing schedule of personal appearances. Given Williams' overloaded agenda, it's hard to imagine why he'd agree to also host an early-morning radio show five days a week, but starting in January 1951, he did just that, performing from 7:15 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. every Monday through Friday on WSM, sponsored by Mother's Best Flour. The show lasted for 15 weeks, and since Williams was frequently out on the road and unable to make it into the studio for live broadcasts, he recorded most of the Mother's Best programs in advance. Thankfully, a Williams fan at WSM had the presence of mind to save the transcription discs of the Mother's Best shows when they were in danger of being thrown away, and after years of legal wrangling over the rights to the recordings, the Hank Williams estate has finally arranged for an authorized release of this material. The Unreleased Recordings is a three-disc set that features 54 songs from the Mother's Best broadcasts, and for serious Hank Williams fans this collection was well worth the wait. The quality of the recordings is usually as good as his studio sessions of the period and often better, with Williams' vocals frequently sounding stronger and more resonant than on his singles, and the performances are strong but casual at the same time. For these shows, Williams and his band the Drifting Cowboys usually worked out the set lists on the fly, and it's said that the bandmembers often found themselves playing tunes they'd never formally rehearsed for the radio audience. But despite all that, the musicians follow Williams with skill and confidence, and the emotional force of Williams' vocals is an impressive thing to hear. Though a number of Williams' greatest hits are on the song list (sometimes before they were recorded for mass consumption), some of the most remarkable moments come when he pulls classic country and gospel favorites from the songbook: "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Cool Water" are given unexpectedly powerful and dramatic readings; "Cherokee Boogie" and "Tennessee Border" sound enthusiastic and energetic in the hands of the Drifting Cowboys; and white gospel classics like "Softly and Tenderly," "Dust on the Bible," and "I'll Fly Away" are delivered with genuine fervor, as Williams and his band join their voices together for some stellar harmonies. Given how Hank Williams' body of work has been extensively recycled and repackaged in the 50-plus years since his passing, the discovery of a cache of unheard Williams sessions would be good news even under the least favorable circumstances, but The Unreleased Recordings presents the country legend not only in fine form, but essaying some unexpected material with heart, soul, and savvy; it won't replace the man's essential catalog, but it certainly brings a welcome new perspective to his music as well as his influences. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
TimeLife
BOX
$42.75

Wire Magazine
#299
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Witmer, Denison
Carry The Weight
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BurntToast
LP
$12.50

Yamagata, Rachael
Elephants: Teeth Sinking Into Heart
PS, US
WarnerBros
DLP
$22.75

Young, Neil
Live at Massey Hall 1971
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Reprise
LP
$28.00

Young, Neil
Southern Man
PS, US The Feed.back series has never been focused on making the rare and obscure once again commercially available for record collectors and DJs to own. As demonstrated by the previous two selections, U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and Loggins & Messina's Pathway To Glory, the Feed.back series is intended to really showcase some of the dopest as well as most urgently relevant classics of our recent times. More than just a music showcase, Feed.back highlights records that actually concern serious conditions of the modern era up to this day, both spiritual and political/material, records that speak to the everyday conditions that we live through in our day-to-day existence on this earth. Music has the potential to become something beyond personal healer, a social tool both for political organization and propaganda, but also for the necessary expression of mass frustration and collective purpose. Feed.back strives for the rejuvenation of this intent in the creation and playing of music. The 3rd edition of this series, Neil Young's Southern Man, articulates a marked disgust with the reactionary and inherently racist tendency of regional nationalism. Everyone is familiar with the alleged animosity between Young and Alabama's Lynyrd Skynyrd over the blatantly condemnatory articulation of the South's almost fascistic obsession with local heritage -- sic. blood & soil, the completely fallacious belief in a national story, a legacy of firm local traditionalism that fuels so much of the racism in the south. Past, present, and future is accounted for, and the legacy of slavery is carried on through demented 'local pride' that goes largely unquestioned, disguised as it is. Young put out a song that sought to openly and aggressively single out the violent legacy of Southern racism and its influence still operating strong within Southern social thought, refusing to let it fade away from the popular memory, just as the most influential and high-ranking of apologists were beginning to formulate and put into action the notion of equality finally achieved in the 'new America.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00

Zevon, Warren
Warren Zevon [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Warren Zevon was a ten-year music industry veteran who had written songs for the Turtles, backed up Phil Everly, done years of session work and been befriended by Jackson Browne by the time he cut his self-titled album in 1976 (which wasn't his debut, though the less said about 1969's misbegotten Wanted Dead or Alive the better). Even though Warren Zevon was on good terms with L.A.'s Mellow Mafia, he sure didn't think (or write) like any of his pals in the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac; Zevon's music was full of blood, bile, and mean-spirited irony, and the glossy surfaces of Jackson Browne's production failed to disguise the bitter heart of the songs on Warren Zevon. The album opened with a jaunty celebration of a pair of Old West thieves and gunfighters ("Frank and Jesse James"), and went on to tell remarkable, slightly unnerving tales of ambitious pimps ("The French Inhaler"), lonesome junkies ("Carmelita"), wired, hard-living lunatics ("I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"), and truly dastardly womanizers ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me"), and even Zevon's celebrations of life in Los Angeles, long a staple of the soft rock genre, had both a menace and an epic sweep his contemporaries could never match ("Join Me in L.A." and "Desperados Under the Eaves"). But for all their darkness, Zevon's songs also possessed a steely intelligence, a winning wit, and an unusually sophisticated melodic sense, and he certainly made the most of the high-priced help who backed him on the album. Warren Zevon may not have been the songwriter's debut, but it was the album that confirmed he was a major talent, and it remains a black-hearted pop delight. [Rhino Records released a remastered and expanded version of Warren Zevon in late 2008, with the original album accompanied by a bonus disc of demos, alternate takes, and live performances. The early demos confirm that Zevon's creative vision was clearly in place long before he had the budget to make a "real" album, and the 1974 recording of "Carmelita" boasts an extra verse that didn't make it to its "official" recording. Otherwise, the alternate material is often rougher and less precise than what made the final cut, which sometimes works in its favor and occasionally does not, though even the weakest of the archival performances are intriguing -- especially when he invites a lady friend to "geeze some Octomol" during "Join Me in L.A." -- and Zevon is in fine voice. The remastered version of the original album sounds excellent -- clear enough that you can hear the workings of the piano's pedals on "Frank and Jesse James" -- and the new liner notes by Bob Mehr are smart and revealing. Warren Zevon still ranks with the artist's best and most lasting work, and this new edition treats it like the landmark it truly is.] ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Rhino/WEA
DCD
$27.00

Forthcoming Releases

16
Bridges to Burn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US A dozen new hits of misanthropy & spite from the seminal sludge-rockers. Features the legendary "Drop Out" line-up. RIYL: Melvins, Kylesa, Jesus Lizard
Relapse
CD
$14.75

16
Bridges to Burn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00

Abe Vigoda
Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
PostPresentMedium
LP
$9.75

Abe Vigoda
Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Cantankerous shoegaze poplosion! Washing & slipping through certain moments where "Skeleton" only touched on, this 5 song EP slows the mood, & crashes over your senses, getting more experimental but oddly more catchy. Squirming in a stunning act of pureness, a calming sound overtakes the senses & they destroy it all beautifully & bring it back again.
PostPresentMedium
CD5
$9.50

American Football
American Football EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US First time on vinyl! In their brief history together, American Football crafted two releases that left an undeniable mark on independent music. Despite being released nearly a decade ago both releases are consistently among Polyvinyl's top selling titles. Fronted by Mike Kinsella (Owen, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz), American Football created the kind of songs that held new discoveries upon each listen. These three songs along with the nine that appear on the band's full-length are the only American Football songs ever released. This release features all new album artwork, is on high quality 180-gram vinyl and includes a digital download of the entire release.
Polyvinyl-019
12
$8.75

Anahita
Matricaria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & cellist Helena Espvall (ESPERS). A beautiful, laboriously created, floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing, & subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment that conjures up a natural woodland romp & stomp.
Important
CD
$13.25

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Their ninth full-length. The whoops and hollers that previously held together the sublime, chaotic urgency of their earlier work now signal the calm sense of euphoria and wonder that ripples through this wide eyed record.
Domino
CD
$13.00

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$21.00

Antony & The Johnsons
The Crying Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Antony and the Johnson's breakthrough second album "I Am a Bird Now" won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize in 2005. The success that followed introduced many to a pioneering soul singer unafraid to explore themes that traversed darkness and light, life and death, male and female. Antony's inimitable voice sparked the interest of artists ranging from Bjork to Hercules and Love Affair, resulting in a series of critically acclaimed collaborations. "The Crying Light" is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to "I Am a Bird Now". Here, Antony shifts the thematic focus and explores his relationship with the natural world. The intimacy of the Johnsons' sound is enveloped by avant-classical composer Nico Muhly's symphonic arrangements. The record's centerpiece, "Another World" traces the singer's dispair in the face of a vanishing landscape. Antony and the Johnsons' music bridges the gap between avant-classical music and the blues, and the band's sold out performances have resulted in standing ovations from Carnegie Hall to the Apollo. "The Crying Light" is a soul-stirring new work with its daring compositions and captivating vocal performances. Antony and the Johnsons have created a subtle and timely work that brings a magical and yet changing world to the forefront of our consciousness.
SecretlyCanadian-194
CD
$11.50

Baikonour
Your Ear Knows Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US 2nd album by Brighton's BAIKONOUR, aka Jean-Emmanuel Krieger. 3 yrs on from his acclaimed debut, he has delivered another burst of smart, proggy poptronica, bursting w/ Gallic charm & myriad, fully-realized ideas. He plays all the instruments except for drums, which were played by FUJIYA & MIYAGI's LEE ADAMS. Baikonour makes confident strides as an artist, turning in a collection of songs that fuse electronica w/ motorik Krautrock & the dynamics of My Bloody Valentine & The Cocteau Twins, Amon Duul 2, Popol Vuh, Harold Budd, Eno, Neu! Vangelis, Magma & 'Melody Nelson'-era Gainsbourg.
Melodic
CD
$16.25

Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique: 20th Anniversary Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Special 20th anniversary version of 1989's Paul's Boutique. The album was run through a 24-bit remastering process and will be released as an eight-panel digipak. Fans can also download a track-by-track audio commentary from the Boys, which syncs with the album.
Capitol
CD
$17.75

BeauSoleil
Alligator Purse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US On "Alligator Purse" the group's fearless captain Michael Doucet leads the next installment of his musical journey along the lifeline of Cajun music, this time w/ an all star crew including NATALIE MERCHANT, GARTH HUDSON, JOHN SEBASTIAN, ROSWELL RUDD, & BILL KEITH. His notable friends help Doucet bring the rich folk traditions of south Louisiana into the 21st century through the genius interplay of a new take on Cajun favorites ("Marie") & the 'Cajunization' of modern folk classics. A French language reworking of Bob Dylan's cover of Muddy Waters' classic "Rollin' & Tumblin'" ("Rouler et Tourner") & J.J. Cale's "The Problem" stand alongside Cajun & Creole history lessons like "Reel Cajun (451 St. Joseph St.)," "Les Oignons" & "Theogene Creole", originally sung for John & Alan Lomax's historic 1934 field recordings.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50

Beirut
March of the Zapotec & Realpeople Holland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Vinyl format
ObeyYourBrain
2X12
$17.25

Beneath Oblivion
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Cincinnati, Ohio's finest in raw doom, sludgy despair & stripped down futility. Crawling forward, white-knuckled, w/ down-tuned guitar riffs that leave you unnerved & anxious, bass lines that thud hard enough to leave you nauseous, & drums that thump one minute in a tribal, trance-inducing cavalcade & the next come crashing down w/ the power of a mountain splitting in two. RIYL: Ocean SunnO))), Buried At Sea. Limited to 500
MyleneSheath
10
$15.50

Bibio
Vignetting The Compost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US Seamlessly amalgamating nature and electronics, Vignetting The Compost, the third full-length release from Bibio, channels instruments and vocals from a bygone era through a futuristic digital portal. History may credit Edison with the phonograph but, in truth, the first such device mysteriously washed up on the shores of England in 1876... playing Bibio. Vignetting The Compost is at once timeless and innovative; 60s-esque folk guitar and mechanic manipulations of sounds whose instruments of origin are less important than the feelings they evoke, layer upon each other with ease and intricacy. Just when you expect to hear Nico's moan escaping your stereo, Bibio himself comes through with a voice that could have sung next to her on "These Days." Truly, this is an album for the ages. Producer Stephen Wilkinson is a self-taught musician from an area in central England often referred to as the Black Country. His love for sound and noise led him to the University of London and the study of Sonic Arts where he discovered experimental electronic acts such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and most importantly Boards Of Canada. His own musical identity was christened Bibio, in honor of a fly his father had insisted on using during the fishing trips to Wales that were so influential in establishing his love of the sounds of nature. Focusing on location recording using cassettes, a half-broken sampler, Dictaphones, and experimental ways of affecting sounds, Bibio has crafted a unequalled style that is as subtle as it is powerful.
Mush-263
CD
$9.00

Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US New album.
FatPossum
CD
$15.00

Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast [vinyl version] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION in gatefold jacket with fold out poster and download codes. Price corrected.
FatPossum
DLP
$27.25

Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast/Useless Creatures [deluxe edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Double-CD deluxe version features a bonus CD of instrumentals, completely different artworek/packaging, fold out poster... 23 tracks total.
FatPossum
DCD
$27.25

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Don't You Want to Be In a Cult [picture disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009)
PS, US Amazing picture disc awesomeness from Pittsburgh's weirdest. A rad picture disc, this record marks the first new material following the band's acclaimed 2007 release Dandelion Gum and the "Zodiac Girls" 7" on Suicide Squeeze. Features "Don't You Want to Be in a Cult" b/w "Feel the Drip". Limited to 1000. Includes a download card, we thinks.
MexicanSummer
12"
$15.00

Blackout Beach
Skin of Evil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20th)
PS, US Blackout Beach is the solo nom de guerre of Carey Mercer (FROG EYES/SWAN LAKE). Skin of Evil is remarkable in the sense that a. it contains a story, and b. that it sticks to the story; a rare occurrence in these free times. "Donna" is the subject, and each of her lovers (past & present) say their peace in song (Donna gets her song, too). Composed, played & recorded entirely by Mercer alone, these songs revel in the proto-punk darkness of the heady Cleveland axis (e.g. Peter Laughner, David Thomas) with a minimal, textural & almost Suicide-ish sense of pop form & the experimental nature of contemporary Scott Walker works.
SoftAbuse-31
CD
$11.75

Bodies Obtained, The
From the Top of My Tree (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009)
PS, US
FindingYouAttractive
CD
$10.00

Bodychoke
Cold River Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US Formed by members of SUTCLIFFE JUGEND & WHITEHOUSE, this was a noisy rock anomaly as powerful & provocative as its name would suggest. Their material was dark, violent, strangely hypnotic & defied categorization. This long out-of-print unheralded classic has been given the deluxe treatment; now remastered to include 3 bonus tracks. RIYL: Swans, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle.
Relapse
CD
$14.75

Bon Iver
Blood Bank (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US The four-song Blood Bank collection continues down the path forged by 2008's critically acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago. While still tied to the identity of the place where it was born, Bon Iver is no longer an unplanned entity synonymous with Justin Vernon. It is an idea, a place and sentiment that has now become as international as it is timeless. From the title track's remembrance of the winter warmth we seek, to the summer love tribute of b-side gem"Babys," Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. Still, there is a reverence for sabbatical, solitude and the winding down of time. As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid. Bon Iver has grown to include more than what was available at the much-fabled Wisconsin cabin, such as piano, slide guitar, and vocoder. As Justin layers on harmonies in the meditative R&B a capella "The Woods," he declares "I'm building a still to slow down the time." It is as poetic as it is necessary. Both expansive and intimate, these four songs explore the darker and lighter natures of the seasons and what they signify, and offer a dynamic glimpse into the Natural energy and refined craftsmanship that characterize Justin Vernon's music.
Jagjaguwar-134
CD5
$7.50

Bon Iver
Blood Bank (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US The four-song Blood Bank collection continues down the path forged by 2008's critically acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago. While still tied to the identity of the place where it was born, Bon Iver is no longer an unplanned entity synonymous with Justin Vernon. It is an idea, a place and sentiment that has now become as international as it is timeless. From the title track's remembrance of the winter warmth we seek, to the summer love tribute of b-side gem"Babys," Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. Still, there is a reverence for sabbatical, solitude and the winding down of time. As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid. Bon Iver has grown to include more than what was available at the much-fabled Wisconsin cabin, such as piano, slide guitar, and vocoder. As Justin layers on harmonies in the meditative R&B a capella "The Woods," he declares "I'm building a still to slow down the time." It is as poetic as it is necessary. Both expansive and intimate, these four songs explore the darker and lighter natures of the seasons and what they signify, and offer a dynamic glimpse into the Natural energy and refined craftsmanship that characterize Justin Vernon's music.
Jagjaguwar-134
12
$9.00

Bones, Mike
Fool For Everyone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons. All of the above is factual as far as I can tell. Memory is a tricky thing, but you know that. We've probably read the same books. Good night." - Mike Bones "Anthemic doesn't have to mean overblown you know. Mr. Bones can do it with swooning casualness, sieving the twee from Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, leaving only heart and soul." - NME "Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of every musician you like in New York. He's the New York music-geek world's secret weapon." - Vice Magazine "Bones is a guitar hero inside and out, master apprentice of a steel-eyed, determined blues first informed by punk, not the sallow, honeyed agony seeping out of our most emotionally isolated singer-songwriters." - Dusted
TheSocialRegistry-072
CD
$11.50

Bones, Mike
Fool For Everyone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons. All of the above is factual as far as I can tell. Memory is a tricky thing, but you know that. We've probably read the same books. Good night." - Mike Bones "Anthemic doesn't have to mean overblown you know. Mr. Bones can do it with swooning casualness, sieving the twee from Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, leaving only heart and soul." - NME "Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of every musician you like in New York. He's the New York music-geek world's secret weapon." - Vice Magazine "Bones is a guitar hero inside and out, master apprentice of a steel-eyed, determined blues first informed by punk, not the sallow, honeyed agony seeping out of our most emotionally isolated singer-songwriters." - Dusted
TheSocialRegistry-72
LP
$12.25

Boston Spaceships
Planets Are Blasted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Chris Slusarenko (GBV) & John Moen (DECEMBERISTS) have never been so impressive. This nuanced & transcendent rock album culminates w/ four of ROBERT POLLARD's best songs yet.
GBVInc
CD
$15.25

Boston Spaceships
Planets Are Blasted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
GBVInc
LP
$17.25

Broken Spindles
Kiss/Kick (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US This is more No Wave than New Wave - & is JOEL PETERSEN's strongest work to date. With four Broken Spindles albums & five FAINT albums under his belt, he has found his voice, & has learned how to reduce songs to their basic barts w/o losing the power & excitement of great production.
blank.wav
CD
$12.00

Burning Hearts
Aboa Sleeping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Finland's Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) & Jessika Rapo (Le Futur Pompiste) as Burning Hearts might be greeted as a marriage of the best elements of both members' other bands, but this is truly a matter of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Full of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring as a lover's embrace & a tone of intimacy that could only come from collaboration that is fully simpatico. Listen to the heart-tugging chorus of "Iris," the stately lockstep interplay between vocal & rhythm-track on "A Peasant's Dream," or the fade-to-black melancholy of the title track, and hear that same indefinable, inexplicable musical alchemy that is their homeland's claim.
Shelflife
CD
$12.25

Calexico
Live From Austin, TX (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US They have been called "the voice of the American southwest," but the fact of the matter is that musically they are all over the map (they list as their influences Portuguese fado, 50's jazz, gypsy music, 60's surf & spaghetti westerns). But when they made their debut on the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage in September 2006, their latest record "Garden Ruin" had taken them in new directions that even they might not have imagined.
NewWest
DVD
$17.75

Cheap Trick
At Budokan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
LP
$18.00

Clue To Kalo
Lily Perdida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Satisfyingly schizophrenic, Clue To Kalo's third full-length release Lily Perdida is ten voices in one, all of them a different branch off the same electric folk tree. Amidst jangly guitar, mod ribbons of flute, and the voices of mastermind Mark Mitchell and duet partner Ellen Carey, ten musical perspectives on fictional character Lily Perdida emerge, each song from the point of view of a different person in her life. A post-modern frolic of keyboards, harpsichords and laptops, Lily Perdida is a gorgeous and sonically sprawling commentary on the nature of history and identity. Each succeeding track reinterprets, misreads or conflicts with the accounts that came before to collectively create an anti-portrait of the main character. The music ebbs and flows with the changing characters but never strays from the utterly satisfying sound we have come to expect from Clue To Kalo. Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, Clue To Kalo mastermind Mark Mitchell blends a lo-fi acoustic-folk aesthetic to computer-based production in which the technology is the means rather than the end. A generous use of layered melodies, elemental textures, and multi-tracked vocals highlight a vast range of influences and solidify the fact that Clue To Kalo is first and foremost a songwriter. In addition to many shows in Australia and Japan, Clue To Kalo has toured throughout the US and Canada, was a featured artist at the Mush 2003 CMJ and 2005 SXSW showcases, and has shared the stage with luminaries like the Greenhornes, Willowz, Death Cab For Cutie, Caribou, and many more. Inventive without being inaccessible, Clue To Kalo has established himself as a singular artist of extraordinary scope and depth.
Mush-262
CD
$9.00

Colossal Yes
Charlemagne's Big Thaw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Inspired by the Kiwi indie-pop formula of Tall Dwarfs, The Clean, & The Verlaines. Using piano as the main instrument, this is a reawakening of the pop aesthetic done Piano Man style. The end result is unique yet similar to the epic pop bands of the past. This pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer & Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham Nash's "Songs for Beginners," the romanticism of Nikki Sudden't "Waiting on Egypt," & the sonic merriment of Thunderclap Newman's "Hollywood Dream"
BaDaBing!
CD
$14.25

Colossal Yes
Charlemagne's Big Thaw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BaDaBing!
LP
$14.25

Connors, Loren
The Curse of Midnight Mary (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US In 1981 guitarist Loren Connors took his tape recorder to the graveyard where the legendary Midnight Mary's grave lies in New Haven, Conn. The curse is: Anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight will die the next day. But Connors, like a young fool, taped in that place, making this album that was lost and forgotten until uncovered in 2008. Recorded between Connors' eight volume Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations LP series and the folk albums he would make with Tom Hanford and Kath Bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct forms. Connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on his acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and other world spirituals. It's an album for fans of Connors' solo avant work and collaborations with Jim O'Rourke or Jandek; and will enthrall devotees of early the 20th Century blues of Blind Willie Johnson and Charlie Patton. A rare and essential peak into the still mysterious early years of this American guitar master. Recorded March 1981, at the Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Conneticuit.
FamilyVineyard-64
CD
$11.50

Cut Off Your Hands
You & I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FrenchKiss
LP
$17.50

Cut Off Your Hands
You & I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Debut from the self-proclaimed "fight-pop" group. Features a contribution from ex-SUEDE guitarist BERNARD BUTLER. Previous tours w/ Crystal Castles, Duke Spirit, Black Kids & We Are Scientists.
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.25

Davis, Miles
Bitches Brew (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
DLP
$25.25

Deep Feeling
Pretty Colours (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, UK This short-lived band wowed London audiences w/ their audacious brand of exotic proto-psychedelia, even backing Jimi Hendrix at his first UK gig.
Sunbeam
CD
$18.00

Earle, Steve & Del McCoury Band
Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US The acclaimed bluegrass album from 1999, finally reissued after many years out of print. Features contributions from EMMYLOU HARRIS, IRIS DEMENT, JERRY DOUGLAS, MARTY STUART, GILLIAN WELCH, GENE WOOTEN & JOHN HARTFORD.
NewWest
CD
$17.75

Elegi
Varde (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Norwegian composer TOMMY JANSEN returns w/ the second installment of a trilogy for Miasmah Recordings. An incredibly accomplished body of work, its natural progression of movements transporting the listener through cinematic soundscapes & evocative passages of intense, doomladen, droning acoustic instruments. The eerie, underlying sounds taken from seemingly unrecognizable sources, add to the feelings of unresolved tension, bringing to mind the later works of Scott Walker, the slow-build of Gorecki's "3rd Symphony" & the murk of Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking Of The Titanic." He operates in the area between composed & improvised music, building bridges between classical music & dark ambient drones & textures.
Miasmah
CD
$15.50

Eluvium
Life Through Bombardment (7XLP) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US *LIMITED EDITION! Highly anticipated and long-overdue, Life Through Bombardment collects virtually every Eluvium song ever released (plus a bunch of rare and unreleased non-album tracks) into one stunning 7xLP set, all on vinyl for the first and only time. Each record is packaged in its own full-color jacket, featuring exquisite new artwork from Jeannie Lynn Paske, drawn exclusively for this set. The seven jackets are then bound into a beautiful dark green hardbound, linen-cover book, with metallic gold foil stamping and embossed text on the spine, and a beautiful full-color print embossed into the front cover. The inside front cover includes a removable old-fashioned library card, complete with dated, personalized signatures from the artists and designers involved in the creation of this package. The inside back cover includes a mind-blowing 12x36" foldout double-sided full-color poster insert, featuring more artwork from Ms. Paske. Each copy of this set will include a unique digital code to download high-quality mp3s of the entire box set collection. This is limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, pressed onto 100% virgin black vinyl. "Eluvium is going down in history as one of the innovators of contemporary ambience." - Drowned In Sound "The best contemporary ambient musician." - Pop Matters "Needless to say, Life Through Bombardment is limited to 1,000 copies and will probably sell out faster than you can say Merzbox." - Pitchfork
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-119
7XLP
$162.25

Foals
Olympic Airways (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US tune that walks the line between dance music & organic art rock. SUPERMAYER toy w/ the original melodies & chorus, building it all into an elated crescendo. EWAN PEARSON's mix is a Balearic-y blissful gem that sets a new standard.
Kompakt
12
$12.50

Fol Chen
Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US "You know that mysterious black object that the creepy family is staring at on the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Presence" album? Fol Chen sound like that. But we don't sound like Led Zeppelin. (We actually do a little.) Instead, we sound like Prince with Amon Duul II and a children's religious revival, not to mention Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti, Boards of Canada, The Blow, and Pulp. (Mostly.) We are using secret powers and the guidance of legendary DJ Donna Donna to combat our nemesis, John Shade. We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you to dance."
AsthmaticKitty-53
CD
$11.50

Fol Chen
Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US "You know that mysterious black object that the creepy family is staring at on the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Presence" album? Fol Chen sound like that. But we don't sound like Led Zeppelin. (We actually do a little.) Instead, we sound like Prince with Amon Duul II and a children's religious revival, not to mention Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti, Boards of Canada, The Blow, and Pulp. (Mostly.) We are using secret powers and the guidance of legendary DJ Donna Donna to combat our nemesis, John Shade. We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you to dance."
AsthmaticKitty-53
LP
$11.50

Franz Ferdinand
Tonight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US
Epic
CD
$16.00

Freezepop
Form Activity Motion EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US
Blistering
CD5
$8.25

Frumpy
Frumpy 2 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Inga Rumpf's Frumpy was among the most startling bands on the entire German rock scene of the early '70s, an act so diametrically opposed to the Krautrock boom beloved by critics elsewhere that first impressions of their music always leave listeners scratching their heads. If Frumpy has any role models, it is a collision between Meddle-era Pink Floyd and a less-precocious Uriah Heep. Frumpy 2, unsurprisingly their second album, features just four tracks, but all are soaring slabs of emotive guitar and keyboards, deeply progressive of course, but unquestionably pop as well... Rumpf herself, meanwhile, has a range and depth comparable to Curved Air's Sonja Kristina, with an emotive strength which seems all the more remarkable when you remember that English is not her native language... The guitar and keyboard solos and duels which take place above the tumultuous rhythms are as spectacular as anything else in the genre. But even while you're sitting slack-jawed in awe, it is very difficult to play favorites. Frumpy, like Rumpf's Atlantis after them, has antecedents aplenty, and their influences peep out behind every corner. But the manner in which they've been sewn together owes little to any Anglo-American role models and little to any Krautrock basics, too. Quite simply, Frumpy 2 is the prog album you'll be returning to long after the others have all dulled into wallpaper."
Revisited
CD
$19.00

Frumpy
All Will Be Changed [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US No other artist has had as lasting an influence on German rock music as Inga Rumpf. Her smokey, bluesy voice, influenced by icons such as Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone, fills fans all over the world with enthusiasm to this day. Her seemingly limitless stylistic range has rightfully earned Inga Rumpf a reputation as Germany's no. 1 rock vocalist. 1970's All Will Be Changed saw the newly formed band gear their music to established international sounds, but they immediately found their own style thanks to the ever-present drone of a Hammond organ and Rumpf's unique voice. They initially worked without a guitarist, allowing keyboardist Jean-Jacques Kravetz to rotate the powerful Leslie rotor. The national press initially eyed Frumpy with the typical scepticism of that time towards anybody who made rock music on German shores. Unimpressed by such ambiguities, Frumpy continued to work on their career and influenced countless other bands and vocalists over the years. Their now legendary debut album is being released completely remastered in digipak format with exclusive liner notation and rare photos.
Revisited
CD
$19.00

Genghis Tron
Dead Mountain Mouth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US REPRESS of this 2LP vinyl release in gatefold sleeve - 2 years of being out of print! A ferocious & unnervingly innovative record - a relentless cacophony of the huge metal riffs & ambient electronics that have earned them worldwide acclaim. At the time, this was hailed as one of the best records of the year by Exclaim!, Decibel & Rock Sound - as well as strong praise from NY Times, Kerrang, etc.
LovepumpUnited
LP
$14.75

Goblin Cock
Come with Me If You Want (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US "Rumored" to be the brainchild of Rob Crow of indie wunderkinds PINBACK (Oh, it's him all right). This follow-up to their mammoth debut "Bagged & Boarded" is yet another brave step in the re-definition of true metal. Equal parts melodic & punishing. At times this sounds like Failure reincarnated as a stoner rock band...one that loves the crushing riffs of Big Business/Karp.
Robcore
CD
$13.25

Goblin Cock
Come with Me If You Want (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Robcore
LP
$13.25

Golden Triangle
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009)
PS, US This amazing band has toured with the likes of The Black Lips, King Khan, Quintron and Miss Pussycat and play damaged psyched out garage rock w/ dual female vocals. Contains six new tracks and a Redd Kross cover! Limited to 500, pressed on gold wax, duh. Includes download card, we think.
MexicanSummer
LP
$15.00

Gris Gris
Live at the Creamery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman
LP
$16.00

Gris Gris
Live at the Creamery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Final record from the psychedelic quartet, recorded live at the warehouse where Greg Ashley resides. Here is the final piece to that hazy, mysterious, yet strangely familiar sound this band created. With songs from both records played with ferocity & sonic mayhem, their story is here. Bright. Swirling. Gnarly. Electric.
Birdman
CD
$16.00

Groundhogs
Scratching the Surface (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US This raw, rootsy album ranks among the finest albums to emerge from the British blues-rock boom, Matching TONY MCPHEE's memorable original tunes w/ a blistering reworking of the Muddy Water's classic "Still a Fool"
Sundazed
CD
$16.50

Groundhogs
Blues Obituary (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US This finds the group beginning to stretch beyond traditional blues forms, as demonstrated on the seven-minute epic "Light Was the Day." This marks the group's first effort as a power trio, the format in which the band would do its most acclaimed & popular work.
Sundazed
LP
$16.50

Guggenheim Grotto
Happy the Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Irish folk-rockers' new album.
UnitedOpportunity
CD
$15.00

Haptic
Medium (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Flingco SS is the new label from Kranky founder/righteous dude Bruce Adams. Creating densely textured works that can range from stark minimalism to violent, carefully directed chaos, Haptic combines a rigorous attention to sonic detail with restless experimentalism. The Medium consists of two sidelong tracks & includes contributions from Boris Hauf, Olivia Block & Tony Buck. LIMITED edition 180 gram vinyl with download coupon.
FlingcoSoundSystem-005
LP
$21.75

Headlights
Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Strictly limited to only 1000 copies, Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer was previously only available through Headlights and the Polyvinyl website. The 7-song CDEP features live tracks recorded by the band on various stops throughout their hectic touring schedule including sessions with WOXY.com, Indie 103.1, and Daytrotter.com. Over half the pressing has been sold by the band and Polyvinyl. These are the remaining copies available. Includes rare version of fan favorites "Put Us Back Together Right" and "Tokyo." Includes never before released track "This One."
TRACK LISTING:
1. Put Us Back Together Right (live on WOXY.com)
2. Lions (live on WOXY.com)
3. Owl Eyes (live on Indie 103.1)
4. Centuries (live on Indie 103.1)
5. Tokyo (live on WOXY.com
6. Songy Darko (live on Daytrotter.com)
7. This One (live on Daytrotter.com)
Polyvinyl-133
CD5
$6.25

Heartless Bastards
Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US The album weaves in an adventurous sonic evolution, expanding their 3 piece rock by adding pedal steel, madnolin, banjo, strings, & Erika's transcendent voice.
FatPossum
CD
$15.50

Here We Go Magic
Here We Go Magic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17th)
PS, US Developed over a two-month period of stream-of-consciousness recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn Luke Temple's self-titled debut under his new moniker Here We Go Magic is a remarkable departure from his signature singer-songwriter material. Luke recorded the album at home using analog synths, a cassette 4-track, and his trusty SM-57 mic, coloring the sound with warmth and creating textures you want to wrap yourself in. The album opens with the trance-inducing polyrhythms and gorgeous multi-layered vocals of "Only Pieces. " What follows is an album oozing with sounds maternal and subconscious...like floating in amniotic fluid, ripe, hiccup-y and desperate to emerge. Many of the songs pulse with infectious afro-beat and kraut-rock influenced grooves, calling to mind classic albums like Remain in the Light and Graceland. In contrast, the instrumental tracks conjure mystical introspective landscapes reminiscent of Popol Vuh's unforgettable ambience. Despite the album's murky aquatic underpinnings it's hard to resist shakin what you got to ebullient blissed-out tracks like "Fangala" and "Tunnelvision." The album closes with "Everything's Big", a bleak commentary on weakness and fear birthed of opulence and gluttony. Luke's fragile tenor delivers this absurd carnival waltz with the fervor and abandon of a teetotaler under the influence, never breaking the spell of the album's mood of rejuvenation and release.
WesternVinyl-57
CD
$11.50

Hitchcock, Robyn
Goodnight Oslo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
LP
$16.50

Hitchcock, Robyn
Goodnight Oslo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Stabbing horns from compatriot TERRY EDWARDS swim alongside gorgeous harmonies throughout this 10-track snapshot of his version of pop music in a perfect world. Features guest vocals from COLIN MELOY, SEAN NELSON & MORRIS WINDSOR. An album of nearly unwavering positivity.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50

Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$28.50

Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US With this record, the duo continue adventurous explorations of abstract grooves & atmospheric moods. Stronen's percussion is textured, precise & surprising, while Storlokken's keyboard work is diverse & varied, using daubs of sound across a colorful sonic spectrum. Sometimes frenetic, sometimes meanderingly contemplative.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$18.00

Hunches
Exit Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering ragged-edged rock 'n' roll w/ such devastating hidden melody, one is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades. It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery & lo-fi freak-out fugginess, the perfect follow-up to "Hobo Sunrise" - a raging riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, & shot-to-shit synapses sizzling w/ amplified excess.
IntheRed
CD
$14.25

Iran
Dissolver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US Indie rock buried in fuzz & hiss - the group takes ultra catchy pop, & drags it through the detritus of lo-fi noise rock, picking up an ungodly assortment of buzz & blur & scuzz. Imagine a Pavement record on Stilbreeze. Or old Smog covering Skullflower.
Narnack
CD
$14.50

Irisarri, Rafael Anton
Hopes & Past Desires (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Packaged in full-color heavy stock jacket, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE. 2 tracks clocking in at 12 minutes, this is his first new material since his 2007 debut "Daydreaming." Irisarri's music is a dual perspective close-up focus on the micro textures of rustling static-filled sonic surfaces w/ the wide-open distant tree lined horizons of sunset at dusk. He recently released "Glider" as SIGHT BELOW on Ghostly International.
Immune
45
$8.00

Jeremy Jay
Love Everlasting (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US 4 songs: Love Everlasting · Lite Beam · Jet Stream · Love Everlasting (Winter Version) It was winter outside and something was happening in the storybook world of Jeremy Jay's psyche. While working on his upcoming full-length Slow Dance [KLP197] (to be released in spring '09), there was an icicle-caked excitement that resulted in a snow-flurry of extra recordings. The cozy, insulated vibe of Olympia, Washington and Dub Narcotic Studio took hold and Jeremy, along with Ilya Malinksy (guitar), Nick Pahl (drums) and Derek James (bass) crafted "Love Everlasting" [KLP202] a separate 12" single. These extra songs, recorded with a fiery compulsion, were written in Jeremy's Los Angeles apartment and expanded in studio. The song "Lite Beam" took shape with a solarized hi-hat and synth bass - a real disco dance cut; "Jet Stream," has that special synth bass that propels it to a dance floor climax, and the single itself, "Love Everlasting," twinkles magnificently with a sensual glide. Jeremy Jay and his band have toured extensively across the U.S.A., Europe and Australia in support of his recent album A Place Where We Could Go [KLP187] and will be reacquainting the U.S. with their icy soundscapes after the release of this 12" single. "Part poet, part '50s teen idol and part ghost, Jeremy Jay [takes listeners to] a place where girls have fairytale looks and candied apples are served for lunch, where dreams, fantasies and movies collide, and where Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Morrissey and Alan Vega are loved equally. It's no surprise that Jay calls his hometown of Los Angeles 'the City of Angels' -- he's a true romantic and sensualist, transforming his surroundings into a glamorous, magical reality." - All Music Guide
Krecords-202
12
$5.50

Keene, Tommy
In the Late Bright (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US A wide range of songs from the rollicking opener "Late Bright," to his first recorded instrumental "Elevated" & the wistful "Save This Harmony"
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50

Keene, Tommy
Painkiller (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Vast & immediate, lyrically intoxicating, musically loose & rocking or spacious & trippy. It swings from delicate psychedelic pop songs to radiotronic space rock monsters. A must listen for all Church or Kilbey fans.
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50

Kick that Habit
Peter Liecht w/ Voice Crack (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US This 1989 film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Moslang & Andy Guhl, are part Licechti's vision with exploration of their musical workings . Whether clicking quietly & rhythmically or humming & shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost & destroyed remains of the last century of progress. A short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals & concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall & winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color & black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual & the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound & geography. All Region.
DragCity
DVD
$14.75

KTL
IV (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Whereas previous releases were blurred washes of fog & noise polished by ambient shine, this is a more direct & demanding beast, referencing such diverse projects as: volume-era Swans, "Red Mecca" period Cabaret Voltaire, phase one Wire, Fushitsusha & This Heat. Includes a guest appearance from BORIS drummer Atsuo & is produced by JIM O'ROURKE.
EditionsMego
CD
$18.00

Ladyfinger
Dusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD)
PS, US Nods & winks to the past meet a sound of the not-too-distant future, w/ one foot in the sounds of early 70's classic rock & another in the punk & hardcore scenes of the late 80's & early 90's. The dynamics of each song & across the album are more evident, from the opening 1-2 punch of "Over & Over" & the bass growl of "ADD," through the sharp riffs & aggressiveness of "Work Party," the plaintive "Plans," & into the hit-in-the-making "Let's Get Married"
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.50

Liechti, Peter
Kick That Habit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US KICK THAT HABIT is a 1989 film by Peter Liechti, an audio-visual portrait
of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti's vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. KICK THAT HABIT is a short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color and black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual and the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound and geography. Like the world the rest of us live in, it's a world of beauty, quiet tragedy and the endless march forward.
DragCity
DVD
$14.00

Lindstrom
Where You Go I Go Too (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US NOW WITH BONUS DISC! Special edition bonus disc includes the Prins Thomas edits found on the LP version. Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic. Lindstrom says, "I realized that working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me to think very differently to what I was used to... when working on longer tracks, there's so much more time to develop different themes & to let them evolve.
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Lithops
Ye Viols! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00

Lithops
Ye Viols! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US LTD ED OF 1000 comes packaged in matchbook flip-top style package printed on recycled paper w/ fold-out poster! On this release, LITHOPS (aka JAN ST. WERNER of MOUSE ON MARS, MICROSTORIA, VON SUDENFED) presents a selection of installation soundtracks assembled from several recent exhibitions. This can be seen as background noise for a visual utopia: a recombined industrial iconograhy of spatial adventures, futuristic collages & phantasmagoric scenes. Full of fun danceable beats w/ plunderphonic complexity, textural density & layered details.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Loney Dear
Dear John (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist and Swedish home-recording phenom Emil Svanängen. Recorded alone in Emil's tiny Stockholm studio apartment and in the comfort of his parents' house in Jönköping, Dear John is an album of contrasts. It will cozy up next to you through the bleakest of winters and be your shade in the blistering summer sun. It is an album that has been on Emil's mind since the inception of Loney Dear. With his first four albums, Emil has always aspired to perfection; he has always promised a masterpiece. Dear John is that record. "Despair has never sounded so sweet." -SPIN "He wraps the ups and downs of a whirlwind romance into tiny packages. You're left hungry, fully certain that 34 minutes-- let alone five-- will never be enough of this very, very good thing." --Pitchfork
TRACK LISTING:
1. Airport Surroundings
2. Everything Turns To You
3. I Was Only Going Out
4. Harsh Words
5. Under A Silent Sea
6. I Got Lost
7. Summers
8. Distant Lights
9. Harm/ Slow
10. Violent
11. Dear John
Polyvinyl-171
CD
$12.50

Loney Dear
Dear John (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist and Swedish home-recording phenom Emil Svanängen. Recorded alone in Emil's tiny Stockholm studio apartment and in the comfort of his parents' house in Jönköping, Dear John is an album of contrasts. It will cozy up next to you through the bleakest of winters and be your shade in the blistering summer sun. It is an album that has been on Emil's mind since the inception of Loney Dear. With his first four albums, Emil has always aspired to perfection; he has always promised a masterpiece. Dear John is that record. "Despair has never sounded so sweet." -SPIN "He wraps the ups and downs of a whirlwind romance into tiny packages. You're left hungry, fully certain that 34 minutes-- let alone five-- will never be enough of this very, very good thing." --Pitchfork
TRACK LISTING:
1. Airport Surroundings
2. Everything Turns To You
3. I Was Only Going Out
4. Harsh Words
5. Under A Silent Sea
6. I Got Lost
7. Summers
8. Distant Lights
9. Harm/ Slow
10. Violent
11. Dear John
Polyvinyl-171
LP
$12.50

Lovetones, The
Dimensions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US "glorious psychedelic-pop wave... A trip from start to finish" - Rolling Stone. The Lovetones released their debut album, Be What You Want in 2002 through Bomp! Records creating a palpable buzz among critics from the likes of Creem and Rolling Stone magazine. The latter hailed mainman Matthew J Tow's songwriting worthy of Ray Davies, Bowie, Lennon and McCartney: a bold statement, yet in his case, completely justified. After enjoying the critical success of Be What You Want, touring Australia extensively and even supporting Morrissey during his first ever solo Australian tour, Tow joined The Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2003 and contributed two brilliant tracks to their sonic mastery, ...And This Is Our Music. Tow's opening track Starcleaner later also appeared on the The BJM retrospective Tepid Peppermint Wonderland. In the same year, UK based Fire Records invited The Lovetones to contribute to the James Joyce Chamber Music project alongside Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth and REM's Peter Buck. 2004 saw the release of the Stars EP, coinciding with The Lovetones supporting The Brian Jonestown Massacre on their infamous and now legendary tour of Australia. The second album Meditations was released through New York's Tee Pee Records in late 2005, revealing a stunning development in Tow's songwriting and providing a soundscape of radiant pop, ethereal psychedelia and truly remarkable vocal melodies that arched for the stars. Soulful and sincere, Meditations nodded gently and respectfully to the pop masters of the sixties whilst never lacking in original vision. Returning from triumphant shows in the US in late 2005 and also at SXSW 2006, The Lovetones toured to support Meditations' Australian release in May 2006. June 2006 saw The Lovetones complete a crazed European tour across 12 countries with The Brian Jonestown Massacre in support of Meditations' release there through Tee Pee/Cargo Records, culminating in a rave album review in respected UK magazine Uncut. The Lovetones also managed to record their third album Axiom during 2006 with fervent sessions split between Figment Studios in Hollywood and the Sydney Opera House Recording Studio. More extensive touring in the US and Australia followed. Set for a November 2008 release in Australia, Dimensions is The Lovetones' fourth studio album and the latest chapter in the indie psychedelic pop legacy of frontman Matthew Tow, who remains one of Australia's most underrated songwriters. The album was recorded in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, mixed in Los Angeles by Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre/Quarter After/Black Angels) and mastered by William Bowden (one of Australia's finest mastering engineers). The Lovetones will be touring Australia in November/December before heading back to the US to support the album's North American release via Planting Seeds Records in early 2009.
PlantingSeeds-060
CD
$12.25

LSD March
Under Milk Wood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor, & the perfect touch of heavy riffage, this tremendously unique recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground. A fascinating, ghostly rock album featuring TAKAHASHI IKURO's drumming - it isn't until midway through the record that the heavy riffage be