New Releases
A Place To Bury Strangers
S-T
PS, US A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the
loudest band in New York". This may very well be the case, but
unlike much so-called "loud" rock and roll that's out there,
APTBS is not loud simply for the sake of it. The sonically overdriven
sound they've accomplished is no clumsy accident, but a carefully
cultivated and well-maintained entity all its own, fostered by an
unbridled passion that's clearly evident in every live show they play
and each recording they make. A Place To Bury Strangers does not so
much play songs as allow them to pour out. They are songs about longing,
heartbreak and confusion played extremely well and at a passionately
loud volume. While there are obvious reference points: Pornography-era
Cure, early Ride, My Bloody Valentine, and pre-1990s Jesus and Mary
Chain, the sound is all their own, in part due to singer/guitarist
Oliver Ackermann's day job of building custom guitar pedals (see deathbyaudio.net).
Coupled with the solid bass of Jono Mofo and the relentless drumming
of Jay Space, the APTBS team is a force to reckon with.
KillerPimp-004
CD
$12.25
Airiel
The Battle of Sealand
PS, US Injecting their well-crafted songs w/ enough effects to level
a small village, Airiel's latest stretches & expands the sonic
boundaries of the genre until it is completely deluged by an aural
wave of reverb, distortion & sweat. In short, it's loud, it's
beautiful, & you can dance to it
HighWheel
CD
$11.00
Alkaline Trio
Remains
PS, US Rarities & retrospective album on beautiful double vinyl/gatefold
sleeve!
Cobraside
DLP
$25.00 (Yikes!)
Allien, Ellen
Weiss.Mix
PS, US It's a statement for openness & flexibility. In the mix
she sticks to clear & sharp cuts while leaving enough space for
every track to convey its massage. At the same time she once again
proofs her dj-skills. Feat: Closer Musik, Kiki, Redshift, Sylvie Marks,
DJ Maxximus/Something J, Andrea Parker feat. DJ Assault & DJ Godfather,
Squarepusher, Feadz, Cex rmx vs. Electric Company, Ellen Allien, Akufen,
Archetype, Otto Von Schirach, Phoenicia, Mono Junk, Apparat, Modeselektor,
Electric Company, Superpitcher.
BPitchControl
CD
$15.50
Altz
Max Motion
PS, US Since 2000,after picking up & mastering the MPC2000, he
has recorded on his own & composed & edited dance music in
earnest. He has since become a highly respected recording artist,
DJ, & remixer, making an international impact w/ in all genres
of dance music from deep house to nu-disco.This new four-track 12''
incl. vocals from Yoshimi of The BOREDOMS & 2 separate remixes
by The Idjut Boys.
DFA-112
12
$8.00
Anderson, Ryan
The Garden Path
PS, US Acoustic folk pop from a singer songwriter taking his songs
to the people one living room at a time. Honest and pure.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-075
CD
$9.75
Andrew
From Me to You
PS, US New album from California producer/popsmith Andrew Sandoval
combimes the acoustic beauty of Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends and
the stark lyrical honesty of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.
Vibrophonic
CD
$13.00
Anemones
Come Down Like A Cloud
PS, US Grounded and propelled by the boom and tick of a lazy yet indefatigable
old-school drum machine, albeit augmented by occasional percussive
crash, rattle and stick of a genuinely human kind, ANEMONES are all
deep throb, jangled buzz, ambient drone, shiftless mumbling and, perhaps
most importantly, rolling waves of reverberation so pronounced and
significant as to be structurally necessary. Collected and combined,
these elements make a warm, oceanic, somewhat totalizing music that
operates inwardly, directed towards the uniquely fertile, semi-liquid
quasi-agriculture of the mind. Activated this way, mind as such is
here suspended, ala Descartes, as a kind epiphenomenal hazy feeling,
a ghost between the ears. Both in and out of the body, this half-consciousness
invokes a persistent, low-key dream-like psychedelic break in which
the normal world itself becomes hypnotically elusive and mysterious,
a pleasantly dislocating transformation enhanced by Anemones' minimalist,
somewhat lock-groove languorousness and nonchalantly sardonic theatricality.
But although often performatively 'druggy' in character, Anemones'
music isn't therefore 'about drugs' in the sense of being 'about being
made by means of drugs' or even 'about being made for or on behalf
of drugs', as if simply copying such important stylistic and conceptual
precursors as the Velvet Underground, Suicide, Spacemen 3 and the
Jesus and Mary Chain. Rather, Anemones produce a kind of 'post drug'
music, which here refers to a state of 'after-ness' and not prudish
abstention or dumbbell reform. In fact this is a specific aesthetic
strategy: after the drugs and drinks are long done and gone, sound
itself remains the psychotropic trigger par excellence. Hence, altering
perception, Anemones aim to turn listeners on ears first.
St.Ives-022
LP
$11.50
Arks
International
PS, US Stripping away the reverb & fog of their earlier sound,
the Chicago foursome move to the forefront their penchant for driving
rhythm made jagged & danceable by wrangled noise on this, their
debut full length. "Dynamic, genre-defying act from ambitious
local label"-SPIN
HighWheel
CD
$11.00
Armour, Douglas
Prince of Wands/Away
PS, US Hailing from Los Angeles, California, DOUGLAS ARMOUR is our
first proper signing to reside outside of New York City. He is a prolific
songwriter and for this 7-inch Douglas provided us with two tracks,
"Prince of Wands" and "Away." "Prince of
Wands" first left an impression on us, and an indelible one at
that, when associates of the label began DJing the track. It is a
damn near perfect pop song that has had people jumping up to the dance
floor upon first hearing.. Moving in a different direction with the
kind of indie pop reverie that hasn't been heard for a long time.
TheSocialRegistry-042
45
$5.50
Art In Manila
Set The Woods On Fire
PS, US After Azure Ray disbanded, member Orenda Fink put her energies
into a solo record in 2005, called "Invisible Ones". Upon
touring in support of that album with various revolving band members,
she chose the cream of the crop and formed a new group called Art
Belle, then changed it to Art In Manila (a nod to radio host Art Bell's
exodus to the Phillipines). On this release, the band flirts playfully
with genre wanderlust without ever abandoning cohesion. Moody slow-burners
follow four-to-the-floor rockers that butt up against serene ballads.
A powerful debut.
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.25
Ash
Intergalactic Sonic 7"s [expanded singles collection]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the last two LPs have been pretty
damn great, Ash has often seemed like a punky 2000s version of a '60s
pop group, where each song takes over your radio for weeks. One sugar-rush
melody melts into another wall-of-guitar burner with Tim Wheeler's
"infectious" happy-go-lucky vocals, and you wonder why they
never had a singles LP collection before this! Really, if Northern
Ireland-bred and London-based Ash is like a lesser cross between the
Buzzcocks' big power and their Ulster forebears the Undertones' "chocolate
and girls" sunny disposition, then who put out better singles
LPs way back when than those two bands? ...Anyone still undecided
or unenlightened about this delightful quartet is well served by this
consistent 19-song, big-hook collection... And if all that isn't enough,
there's a bonus disc of 22 B-sides going back a decade, including
some highly unusual picks for covers. This serves the fans and newcomers
equally..." (Jack Rabid)
Infectious/WEA
DCD
$16.25
At The Close Of Everyday
Leaves You Puzzled And The Original Pieces
PS, JAPAN At The Close Of Every Day (ATCOED), existing of Minco Eggersman
(Volkoren) and Axel Kabboord (This Beautiful Mess), the new album
by our favorite Dutch folk boys. This time it's totally different.
It's a remix album including many older songs like 'Zalig Zijn de
Armen Van Geest', 'The Maria Tales' as well as later work like 'O
Welk Een Vreugde' and 'Ik Weet'. These 15 songs in total haven been
remixed and restructured. Seriously, almost everything has been cut
to pieces and folded back into a new and beautiful masterpiece! From
heavenly piano pieces by Sylvain Chauveau and ambient soundscapes
by Donato Wharton to heavy beats by Solex and weird electronica by
Hood, simply a must have for every ATCOED fan and electronic music
fan. The remixes have been done by Hood, Styrofoam, Spinvis, Solex,
Dialect, Diefenbach, Hillmadelow, Sylvain Chauveau, Stafraenn Hakon,
Kettel, Donata Wharton and many others. This is a special Japanese
double CD edition (including the original pieces).
ArtUnion-5516/5517
DCD
$17.75
Back Ted N Ted
Pop Animal
PS, US
AbandonBuilding-006
CD
$9.50
Bang Lime
Best Friends in Love
PS, CANADA Another Metric side-project affair. PREFIX MAG: "Not
content to have only Emily Haines off on a tangent with the Soft Skeleton,
fellow Metric members Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key have formed
Bang Lime. But you can bet there's more Canadian indie-rock blood
involved then those two: Drew Malamud, who has worked with Stars and
the Dears, helped engineer the album."
LastGang
CD
$14.25
Beatles, The
1967-1970
PS, US Picking up where 1962-1966 left off, the double-album compilation
1967-1970, commonly called The Blue Album, covers the Beatles' later
records, from Sgt. Pepper through Let It Be. Like The Red Album, The
Blue Album contains a mixture of hits, including singles like "Lady
Madonna," "Hey Jude," and "Revolution" that
were never included on an LP, plus important album tracks like "Lucy
in the Sky With Diamonds," "A Day in the Life," "While
My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Come Together." Like
its predecessor, 1967-1970 misses several great songs, but the compilation
nevertheless does capture the essence of the Beatles' later recordings.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Capitol
DCD
$37.25
Beatles, The
1962-1966
PS, US Assembling a compilation of the Beatles is a difficult task,
not only because they had an enormous number of hits, but also because
singles didn't tell the full story; many of their album tracks were
as important as the singles, if not more so. The double-album 1962-1966,
commonly called The Red Album, does the job surprisingly well, hitting
most of the group's major early hits and adding important album tracks
like "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," "Drive My
Car," "Norwegian Wood," and "In My Life."
Naturally, there are many great songs missing from the 26-track 1962-1966,
and perhaps it would have made more sense to include the Revolver
cuts on its companion volume, 1967-1970, yet The Red Album captures
the essence of the Beatles' pre-Sgt. Pepper records. ~ Stephen Thomas
Erlewine, All Music Guide
Capitol
DCD
$37.25
Believer
August 2007
PS, US David Simon of THE WIRE interviewed by NICK HORNBY (High Fidelity),
70's pop feminist fiction, fake slang & the codes of cultural
hierarchy, spurious advice from comedian Todd Barry, Ben Greenman
on boxers in song, Jordan Crane illustrations. Tons of reviews, interviews,
reading material. Published by McSweeney's.
Believer
ZINE
$7.50
Big Business
Here Come the Waterworks
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HydraHead
LP
$17.00
Big Star
Columbia: Live at Missouri University
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With the Posies' Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow
standing in, on Stephens' recommendation, for the uninterested Hummel
and the deceased Bell, the foursome run through a collection mostly
drawn from #1 Record and Radio City. Chilton's in good voice throughout,
the blend of sweetness and melancholia of the band's original days
present and fine as ever... Everyone else gets at least one vocal
turn as well, a nice way of signaling the group effort that went into
the show. Stephens handles "Way Out West" and "For
You," Auer sings Bell's solo single "I Am the Cosmos,"
while Stringfellow takes over on no less than three songs, "Back
of a Car," "Daisy Glaze," and a smashing rip on "Feel."
A few interesting surprises are thrown in along the way, though anyone
familiar with Chilton's way around unexpected covers in performance
won't be too taken off guard. T. Rex's "Baby Strange" gets
a straightforward take, glam sass fully intact and suiting the band
perfectly, while Todd Rundgren's "Slut" closes out the set
with a final appropriate blast... (Ned Raggett)
Arcadia
CD
$17.75
Botch
American Nervoso
PS, US Recorded in March '98 at Stone Gossard's Studio Litho in Seattle,
this was their full-length debut & first release on Hydra Head.
The white-hot guitar action, scathing vocals, sweet bass moves, &
torrential drums w/in smashed the existing precepts of "hardcore"
& redefined both the word & the music for a generation of
matinee kids & grizzled vets alike. Remixed, re-mastered &
reissued w/ 5 BONUS tracks.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
Brunettes, The
Structure And Cosmetics
PS, US The Sub Pop debut by these New Zealand natives features breezy,
effervescent, Shangri-Las-reminiscent pop. The backing band ranges
from five to ten strong and incorporates the marimba, trumpet, alto
and tenor sax, and more. "Structure & Cosmetics" retains
the sweetly charming, sunbeam-drenched sound The Brunettes are known
for, but adds a hint of darkness and drama in other tracks. They've
played with the likes of The Shins, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service,
and Clap Your Hands Say.
Yeah.
Subpop
CD
$12.50
Buckley, Tim
Blue Afternoon
PS, US Originally released in '69. Continuing w/ the jazz inflected
folk-rock he first unveiled on his previous release, his songs are
complimented here by classy arrangements feat. vibes player David
Friedman & Lee Underwood's beautifully understated guitar work.
4MenWithBeards
LP
$15.00
Buckley, Tim
Starsailor
PS, US Originally released in '70, this is the most unique & uncompromising
release of Tim Buckley's brief but productive career. Combining jazz
& avant-garde elements w/ folk-rock & his acrobatic vocal
performances this album is one of the most experimental singer-songwriter
records of all time. Though it was a commercial failure at the time
of its release this has since become a sought after cult classic.
4MenWithBeards
LP
$15.00
Budos Band
Budos Band II
PS, US With its 22 legs, 3 horns & hallucinogenic venom, the un-heralded
emperors of Instrumental Staten Island Afro-Soul continue to rule.
While their debut album was heralded as a groundbreaking exploration
of funk, afro-beat & soul music, their 2nd effort not only matches
but surpasses that realm of mind-expansion. Through 10 exciting new
instrumentals, they pour themes both resonant & ethereal over
Herculean rhythms.
Daptone-011
CD
$13.00
Christy & Emily
Gueen's Head
PS, US Take a crafty pop music guitarist who knows how to come up
with hooks and have them team up with a trained avant-garde classical
musician and you get the Velvet Underground. Move that same combo
from the Lower East Side across the river to northwest Brooklyn and
tack on 40 years and you get CHRISTY & EMILY. This duo present
their version of this mixture of elements with their debut CD "Gueen's
Head." An octet of pieces that explore modern classical techniques
grafted with pop songs. This alchemy produces a string of highly catchy
ascetic tunes combined with undercurrents of discordance and dissonance.
Add to this lyrics that take from the history of pop and modernist
mid-20th Century poetry.
TheSocialRegistry-045
CD
$11.50
Clark, Gene
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers [reissue]
PS, US Sundazed's reissue features the original album, recorded with
Byrds comrades and the Gosdin Bros.), plus 6 bonus tracks. AMG: "The
first album that Gene Clark released after his departure from the
Byrds followed very closely on the model of his earlier efforts on
the Byrds' first two albums... The album contains a number of fine
pop-oriented tunes and stellar folk-rockcountry-rock numbers (a year
before the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo) and established Clark as
a major songwriter, rivaling his old band and often coming close to
the fabness of the Beatles."
Sundazed
CD
$18.25
Coalesce
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
PS, US Features seven Led Zeppelin covers from Coalesce's 1999 EP,
along with eight additional jams, including those from the band's
split EP with Boy Sets Fire, a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut",
an Undertow cover, and a Get Up Kids cover. "A ferocious blend
of brutal hardcore and vicious metal...incredibly infectious"
- Metal-Observer.
com.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
Coffins
Other Side of Blasphemy
PS, US Spawned from a need to create slow, crawling detuned death
metal in the vein of old masters Autopsy & Winter & obvious
Hellhammer/Frost, rears its putrid head upon opening this coffin as
well. Bringing the pain all the way from Japan, this is derivative
in the best possible sense of the word. No frills just thrills for
those disgusted at the mockery nowadays metal to have seem to become.
Mid-Placed, skull crushing, Death Metal & brutally low vocals.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00
Cole, Dustin
Try and Love Me
PS, US Singer/songwriter, alongside electro conjuror - the Specialest,
join forces to provide you w/ their debut album. Presented as both
helpless plea & cocky dare, this listens more like filmic ether
rather than conventional recording; where an organic conception &
approach recontextualizes the electronic genre. The Specialest maintains
a myriad of beats & sounds which hug Cole's vocals like spandex
resulting in a relentless sonic cushion.
Scratch
CD
$13.25
Connors, Loren
The Hymn of the North Star
PS, US Even before his 1978 debut guitarist LOREN CONNORS has been
continually redefining the American blues and folk guitar. "The
Hymn of the North Star," a 180 GRAM 500 EDITION LP, is the first
full-length vinyl release solely under Connors' name since 1990. Though
in the years since he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative
albums with Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Christina Carter,
Jandek, Suzanne Langille, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Darin Gray,
and others. Connors creates a tapestry of transparent and haunting
melodies that transform the Delta blues into a ghost-like apparition
that never settles as it pours from the soul. These six pieces show
Connors contemporary elegiac style at its peak of romantic minimalism.
Self recorded in his Brooklyn apartment "The Hymn of the North
Star" is saturated with subtle details and the barely there multi-tracks
of guitar and bass floating in the background. Guitarist ALAN LICHT
appears on one equally opaque piece recorded in Glasgow, Scotland.
FamilyVineyard-047
LP
$16.25
Copperpot
WYLA?
PS, US (What're You Looking At?) expounds on the fear & anxiety
he experiences when faced w/ perilous situations such as DJing, riding
elevators & making presentations to the class. Musically this
record takes the fan to a place they've never been before. With the
enlistment of such musicians as JEFF PARKER & DAN BITNEY (TORTOISE)
& JOSH ABRAMS (ROOTS, EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS) this record does things
musically that expand the boundries of hip hop.
GravelRecords-035
CD
$12.00
Current 93
In Menstrual Night
PS, US WAREHOUSE FIND, LAST COPY! An exploration of the idea of where
dreams go when they die. All the tracks on this album flow together
to form one whole piece, with extensive use of classical-style acoustic
guitar throughout. Personnel: Michael Cashmore, Phoebe Cheshire, Steven
Stapleton, Starspace, David Tibet.
Durtro-020
CD
$19.00
Dalek
Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: Dalek Rarities 1999-2006
PS, US Dalek & beat-master Oktopus unfurl a collection of dream-like
instruentals, ten-ton remixes & scarce gems from the last 7 yrs.
This is no odds n' sods collection, but rather an addendum to a body
of work that already rests comfortably atop underground hip-hop's
proverbial heap. An outstanding compilation of rare tracks, engaging
instrumentals, & remixes, a body of work that embodies an atmosphere,
lyrical flow, & vision all their own.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
DoF
Sun, Strength, and Shield
PS, US
AbandonBuilding-004
CD
$9.50
DoF
Mine is May
PS, US Mine is May feels not so much like a collection of songs, as
it does field recordings from an imaginary place. Stolen snippets
of pigmy tribes, guitars, and pianos peacefully co-existing with laptops
and synthesizers. Mine is May is an aural translation of high altitude
maps, where land blends with water and clouds into a blurry symphony
of brown white and blue. It seems as if DoF is on a non-violent safari,
head hunting the haunting echoes of acoustic melodies waning and waxing
with digital war drums.
AbandonBuilding-002
CD
$5.50
Double Dagger
Ragged Rubble
PS, US Emerging from the bustling Baltimore DIY music scene that has
given birth to tour-mates, Dan Deacon, The Death Set, & Ecstatic
Sunshine, the trio return w/ their most fully-realized release to
date. The Album's 12 tracks build rapidly w/ crisp snares, fuzzed-out
bass lines & clever, biting lyrics, trading attacks & counter-attacks.
Limited to 1000 copies.
StationaryHeart-002
CD
$9.25
Drag the River/Dents
Found All the Parts [Split CD]
PS, US
SuburbanHome
CD
$11.00
Epic 45
May Your Heart Be The Map
PS, UK It comes as no surprise to find that Epic45 grew up - and still
reside - in a small rural village in the heartland of the English
Midlands. Based around the nucleus of 25 year old school friends Ben
Holton and Rob Glover, Epic45 have had a varied and fluid line-up
since their debut in 1999, releasing a series of highly acclaimed
EPs and albums for labels such as Bearos, Awkward Silence and Where
Are My Records. Inspired by their surroundings, blissful childhood
summers and mysterious / inspiring walks the duo have been making
music for more than a decade. Their latest album May Your Heart be
the Map' sees Epic45 concentrating on a more bucolic sound, mixing
cyclical acoustic guitars, chiming reverbs and field recordings. The
album was originally inspired by 1970s British TV series 'Survivors',
a fictional account of a plague that wipes out most of the worlds
population. The idea of a near-deserted world in which people have
to rebuild their lives amid the ruins of the previous civilization
seemed strangely appealing. However, other themes crept in slowly,
the 'empty world' began to represent our lives now and inevitably
the duo started looking back to childhood and simpler, happier times.
The title is simply a rallying call to like minded people, an expression
of hope in an uncertain world. As with previous releases, May Your
Heart Be The Map features a collaboration with Antony Harding of July
Skies/Avrocar. This time, Harding contributes fragile vocals to the
track 'We Left Our Homes For Winter'. Whilst very unique in style
and approach, the music and ethos of this album may recall the youthfulness
of Leeds band Hood, the experimentalism of that great lost pop band
from the 1990's Disco Inferno, and is likely to delight fans of the
experimental label Type and their artists Helios, Xela and Goldmund.
But no doubt admirers of other classic British bands such as New Order,
The Durutti Column, Felt and The House of Love will also find much
to immerse themselves in and start working their way through Epic
45's enigmatic back catalogue.
MakeMineMusic-031
CD
$17.00
False (AKA Matthew Dear)
2007
PS, US Essentially a special one-off live set. He's concocted a work
of such stunning intricacy,verve & substance that it will surely
be amongst the favorites when this year's highlights are assessed.
What is so memorable about this collection of tracks is the way it
strikes the perfect balance between abstract experimentation &
full-on techno nirvana w/ out ever breaking stride or losing focus.There's
nothing brash or over-blown here,all the real action is nestled between
the beats, enticing yet unreachable,while the grooves he concocts
are all so earthy & raw that the kick drum functions as an alternative
rather than a necessity.
Minus-055
CD
$16.25
Fleeting Joys, The
Despondent Transponder
PS, US Repress. Flavors of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, The
Cocteau Twins and Sonic Youth are there, but don't fully explain this
shimmering anomaly. Their debut album Despondent Transponder was written,
performed, recorded and mixed by the band. Brilliant Californian drummer
Matt McCord lends his skills to the project. After hearing Despondent
Transponder, legendary Swervedriver drummer, Jez, has pegged the duo
for collaboration on their next release. While appreciating the comparisons
to My Bloody Valentine, it has never been the goal of Fleeting Joys
to imitate what they admire. "It is merely a starting point to
expand from, experiment with, and go from there. We simply love the
experience of being drenched in crashing waves of beautifully distorted
chords!" It's from this love that the song-crafting of despondent
transponder answers the pop vs. noise riddle with catchy, at times
- even happy - melodies and crashing instrumentals that rip through
like a cyclone tearing up a trailerpark. "Of recent things to
cross this desk, Fleeting Joys is a real delight. The epiphanic Spectorian
fog works best on "The Breakup," which plays Rorika's gossamer
vocals and symphonic synth lines against John's My Bloody Valentine-style
guitar sturm und drang over a stellar melody. - Jackson Griffith,
Sacramento News & Review
Only Forever-001
CD
$13.50
Fucked Up
Year Of The Pig
PS, US Kings of punk and hardcore Fucked Up return with a mammoth
12" single, second in a series of records based on the Chinese
Zodiac. Year of the Pig is an 18 minute 34 second long prog-punk masterpiece
featuring lush piano and organ arrangements by Max Danger (The Deadly
Snakes) and guest vocals by Toronto's Jennifer Castle. Year of the
Pig starts with gentle guitar and soothing organ before heading into
darker territory with gruff male vocals offset by Castle's angelic
singing and a meandering bass line. It's not until a full 7 and a
half minutes in that the track explodes into a keith moon-esque drum
workout, which is followed by a one note neu trick that builds up
to a thrash attack. It's 'The Wall' as written and recorded by Poison
Idea.
WYR
12
$8.00
Furman, Ezra & The Harpoons
Banging Down The Doors
PS, US This Chicago group wields their fractured-folk-meets-maniacal-rock
to capture the grandeur, pain, and wildness of life in song. The results
are by turns beautiful, funny, angry, and often poignant and inspirational.
Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine).
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Fuxa
Commits Suicide
PS, UK Fuxa returns with its second single to the upcoming album "Electric
Sound of Summer." This EP features various versions of 2 Suicide
covers "Girl" (recorded with SONIC BOOM of SPACEMEN 3) and
"Cheree" (recorded with DEAN WAREHAM of GALAXIE 500/LUNA).
EP also includes one original song titled "4th Abductions"
recorded with Suicide's MARTIN REV. LIMITED to 1000!
MindExpansion-2013
CD5
$8.25
Gallon Drunk
You, the Night...and the Music [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 16-track re-issue. AMG: "Having
already gathered a solid reputation for their early string of crazed
psychotic lounge-garage singles, Gallon Drunk made the plunge into
full-album territory excellently with the similarly freaked-out You,
the Night...and the Music."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gallon Drunk
From the Heart of Town [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 18-track re-issue. AMG: "Everything's
still sounding like a smoky bar somewhere in 1965, where goodfellas,
rockabilly freak cases, and whiskey-soaked jazzmen are all on the
edge of taking out their frustrations on everyone else... Besides
the core four members from before, there's a semi-regular fifth here
and there, Terry Edwards, whose avant-cabaret style on trumpets and
sax slots in perfectly with Gallon Drunk's own ethos."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gallon Drunk
Tonite: The Singles Bar [expanded]
PS, US Remastered and expanded 18-track re-issue of their singles
collection. AMG: " Tom Waits, the Pogues, the Sex Pistols, a
hundred surf bands, the Kingsmen, the Troggs, the Stranglers, and
a half-dozen drunk Irish poets -- Gallon Drunk have elements of all
the above, with the result that the sound veers from repulsive to
crazily attractive in a very primitive way... This is wild-eyed primitive
rock & roll in no uncertain terms... There aren't too many bands
as seriously deranged as this one."
Sartorial
CD
$16.25
Gandalf
S-T
PS, US With spellbinding, atmospheric songs which spin from soft dreamscapes
into blistering fuzz guitar breaks, Gandalf casts a powerful spell.
Led by singer/guitarist Peter Sando, the group was signed by Lovin'
Spoonful producers Charlie Koppelman and Don Rubin and conjured their
sole, self-titled album for Capitol in late 1967. One of the rarest
major label psychedelic releases, Gandalf features swirls of Hammond
B3 organ, caressing vibraphone runs and electric sitar on Sando's
originals as well as imaginative recastings of songs by Tim Hardin,
Gary Bonner/Alan Gordon, and Eden Ahbez. First-ever domestic compact
disc reissue! Released 2002.
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Ginga Snaps
Cross That Bridge
PS, US Coming in hot off the heels of the critically acclaimed latin
cum hip
hop disco that was the Rebel Crew's 02 12", this Cleveland/Miami
production duo takes the honor of BSTRD BOOTS #3 with yet again
another boundary pushing 12" in the bootleg/mash-up/whatever
you're
calling it game.
BstrdBoots
12
$7.50
Glaxo Babies
The Porlock Factor
PS, UK Glaxo Babies were born out of the thriving Bristol punk scene
in 1977. They enjoyed indie chart success with the 12" EP 'This
Is Your Life' in 1979 and notoriety when its follow up 'Christine
Keeler' was banned by Radio One. John Peel, who offered them sessions
and gigs with his legendary road show, championed the Glaxo Babies.
Sadly though, the band was always too recalcitrant, headstrong and
idealistic for their own good and imploded acrimoniously after barely
18 months together. With a sense of unfinished business, the nucleus
of the original band (Rob Chapman - vocals, Dan Catsis - guitar, Charlie
Llewellin - drums) reformed in 1985. Here are the results, inventive
and melodic psychedelic pop and warped funk that somehow sounds fresher
now than it did in the 1980's.
CherryRed-322
CD
$15.00
Groop, The
S-T [re-issue]
PS, US Breathtaking vocal harmonies and subtle flourishes of pop-psychedelia
make the Groop's only album a perfect snapshot of the late-'60s Los
Angeles scene. With direct ties to Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66,
as well as cult faves the Millennium and Sagittarius, the Groop's
baroque folk-rock appeared in the soundtrack to 1969 Oscar-winning
film Midnight Cowboy. Embellished with bonus tracks, rare photos and
in-depth interviews with the original band members and producer, this
extraordinary album is finally getting its long overdue re-release.
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Gucci Soundsystem
Acarpenter
PS, US Henry Riton & Ben Fat Trucker (nee Rymer) are 2 stalwarts
of London's exploding electro-rock scene. Separately,they each have
long histories releasing records & DJing all over the world. The
re-released single now includes a stunning Joakim remix on the B-side.
DFA-113
12
$8.00
Heaton, Angie & The Gentle Tamers
The Rumor Mill (ON SALE)
PS, US 'The Rumor Mill' is the new album by Illinois songstress and
Parasol Retail Queen Angie Heaton, former member of The Tractor Kings,
Corndolly and Liquorette. On this, Angie's 4th album, she's joined
by a country band, The Gentle Tamers, including veteran Nashville
session player, Bobby Watson, on guitar, banjo and pedal steel. This
album take Angie's songs and sounds from the rock club to the barn
dance, with her trademark vocal phrasing falling comfortably behind
the beat like Willie Nelson, and a voice that brings to mind Neko
Case, Lucinda Williams, and Kasey Chambers. In 'The Rumor Mill', Angie
gives us 10 more songs about crushes, death, and being crushed to
death; including a Tex-Mex-ed version of the Trembling Blue Stars'
classic "Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise".
Spur-CD-005
CD
$9.00
Hue, Donny & The Colors
Folkmote
PS, US RECENT. Recorded in 2 days in the summer of 06', this debut
is a landscape of lush, magisterial lullabies, shimmering chamber
pop, psychedelic nursery rhymes gone horribly awry, & ghostly,
incandescent dreamscapes. RIYL Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk
Hotel, & Syd Barrett. Limited run of 1000
Kora-009
CD
$10.00
Jennifer Gentle
New Astronomy
PS, ITALY This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer
and misunderstood genius (earth flat, sun small, etc). "A New
Astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release
to date, the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre,
vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare.
It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict
the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting
dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged
acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar
freak-outs and a hommage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included.
(Note: this is the official release of the ultra rare cd-r released
by Sub Pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition).
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
Jesu/Eluvium
Split
PS, US LIMITED))) For the second installment in the collaborative
series of split albums between TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. and HYDRA
HEAD RECORDS, we find a match made in heaven with the ethereal, grandiose
dirge-pop of JESU splitting sides with stately, deserted majesty of
ELUVIUM. Already fans of each other's music, the two artists sought
to compliment each other and in the process stretched their individual
sounds to their outermost limits. Jesu shoots for the moon with a
trio of fuzzed-out tunes that owes more to first-wave British shoegaze
groups like SWERVEDRIVER and RIDE than Broadrick's own roots in GODFLESH
and NAPALM DEATH. It's a beautiful and brilliant evolution in Jesu's
already accomplished career. Eluvium aims for the heart of the sun
with his magnum opus, a three-part collaboration with JEREMY DEVINE
that stretches Eluvium's contemplative drones to a staggering twenty-one
minutes, in which time the song transforms from a lonely rattle to
a seismic, swirling storm of sound that grinds the piece to haunting
quiet. As with all records in this series, this is Strictly Limited
To 4,000 Copies - 2,000 Hydra Head versions and 2,000 Temporary Residence
Ltd. versions. The music and the artwork is the same on all copies,
but the vinyl colors, label colors, and outer sticker colors will
vary. We live to comfort you with our music, and confound you with
our methods.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-126
LP
$10.25
Ju Suk Reet Meate
Solo 78/79 aka Do Unseen Hands
Keep You Dumb?
PS, US Solo work by member of the noise collective Smegma. Recorded
in '78/'79 and pressed in a miniscule quantity the next year, this
record has been largely unavailable outside collector circles. Now
it's available as a digipak CD with liner notes by Wolf Eyes' John
Olson and contains a couple never before released tracks. A post-Zappa,
stoned blues/concrete mélange of guitar, tapes, found sounds,
and voice. As a member of what many have called the greatest band
of our time, Ju Suk Reet Meate has had an immeasurable influence on
the creators of underground culture the globe over, and this CD bears
his heft.
DeStijl
CD
$13.25
Jupiter Apple
Uma Tarde Na Fruteira
PS, SPAIN The musical origins of this Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist
and composer take us back to the first half of the 90's, when he spawned
a brief incursion in Dylan-esque territory under the moniker Woody
Apple. He soon came back as Júpiter Maçã, his
current name, with which he develops his personal version of a 60's
inspired psychedelic sound in cult albums that don't cross the Brazilian
borders, but do find an echo among an elite who whisper his name in
each other's ears: among his following we find Tom Zé, Caetano
Veloso, Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, Sean Lennon, Tim
Gane, Sean O'Hagan or Dean Wareham.
Elefant-1121
CD
$14.00
Kashiwa, Daisuke
Progam Music 2007-08-24
PS, JAPAN Kashiwa Daisuke's demo sound source received outstanding
response once it was put on air in Ryuichi Sakamoto's radio program.
His later released 1st album shed brilliant light on the world after
electronica and post rock through its beautifully flowing oriental
melody and composition with strong visual elements. A year and a half
since then, Kashiwa has proudly completed his 2nd full album to further
introduce his talents to the world. The album titled "program
music I" is compiled of 2 songs lasting 36 minutes and 27 minutes
each. In the last album, Kashiwa turned his inner images into sound.
This time, he chose 2 stories as a motif and ventured to express that
story through sound. This is not simply a soundtrack that showcases
a story but the story itself is told through music. The first song
"stella" tells the story of the "Night on the Milky
Way Railroad" and the second song "write once, run melos"
is based on the story, "Run Melos!" The all too transparent
scenery of "Night on the Milky Way Railroad" is characterized
by a magical cosmic view engraved by deep thought. "Run Melos!"
portrays speed and the wavering spirit of the characters. This album
dynamically portrays these story characteristics through lyrical melody
and ingenious arrangement. This is a stunning masterwork that speaks
of musician Kashiwa Daisuke's rich creativity and his passion for
creation and proudly exploits the possibilities of musical expression.
Noble-1212
CD
$16.25
Ladybug Mecca
Dogg Starr Remixes
PS, US Highly sought after for months, & unavailable anywhere
outside of the top Om DJ's crates. First up is Om labelmate Fred Everything
on the controls. He kills it w/ a beat that compliments Ladybug's
verses perfectly, & brings that extra boomp to get everyone moving.
Joey Youngman remix, a favorite of everyone under the sun it seems.
Hitting in the clean up spot, is none other than Johnny Fiasco! Darker
& edgier than the other 3. Chicago, stand up!
OmRecords
12
$6.50
Land Of A Thousand Rappers
VOL. 1: Fall of the Pillars
PS, US Three years in the making, LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS: "Vol
1, The Fall of the Pillars," will land on August 7, 2007 via
ASTHMATIC KITTY'S new imprint for conceptual and electronic projects,
UNUSUAL ANIMALS. This complex and obsessively-detailed sci-fi epic
utilizes the medium of recorded hip-hop as a fundamental construct,
not just as a shtick connection to the fiction of science. The album's
commitment to narrative detail is exhaustive, like a zealous Dungeon
Master for suburbanites weaned on Choose Your Own Adventure books,
Yo! MTV Raps and noise cassette culture.
AsthmaticKitty-403
CD
$11.50
Legrand, Michel
Castles In Spain
PS, UK With this dramatic collection, Michel Legrand continues his
orchestral portraits of Europe's splendid cities and countries, this
time portraying the dazzling lights and deep shadows of Spain. With
an itinerary that has touched on Paris, Rome and Vienna now moves
through the historic Spanish cities and across the broad plains, into
the towering mountains and along the seacoast. The music of Spain
is especially characteristic of the country, echoing the Moorish cultures,
the Renaissance, the contemporary, the brilliant diversity of the
Spanish landscape.
El-116
CD
$15.00
Lemon
Issue 3
PS, US "Clockwork Lemon" issue. Beautiful glossy cover,
some boys, some girls. One of the top 4 mag launches of 2006. This
issue "stars" Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew
Modine, Leelee Sobieski, Billy Corgan, Jack Kirby, Wendy Carols and
more.Includes 'Singin'(In the Rain)' MP3 by Gavin Friday and a pullout
poster by Stefan Bucher.
ZINE
$7.00
Lemonheads
S-T
PS, US Ltd. Ed. "Louder, faster, more like Buzzcocks pop-punk
and way less introspective." Dando convened two of his early
influences - the unholy duo of drummer Bill Stevenson (Descendents,
Black Flag) and bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendents) - in a remote mountain
hideaway. And it was there, over 18 months, that they kicked out the
first Lemonheads album in 10 years.
HallofRecords
LP
$14.50
Lipp, Eliot
City Synthesis
PS, US This showcases his eclectic styles, border-line, on the verge
of being ultimately classic yet definingly new. Rocking a funky drumkit
to a vintage keyboard to some Charlie Parker horns all in the style
of street beat warfare, Lipp takes his listeners into a city cloaked
w/ timeless beauty, unexpected danger, & survival of the illest.
Unpredictable, unpretentious, yet unmovably defiant.
Metatronix-015
CD
$12.50
Little Wings
Soft Pow'r
PS, US 7 new songs from Kyle Field's Little Wings, a dreamy, drowsy,
folksy affair.
Rad
CD
$16.00
Los Campesinos
Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
PS, US Debut EP from Myspace phenoms, produced by Broken Social Scene's
David Newfeld, features their first two singles, the b-sides, and
a cover of Pavement's "Frontwards", plus a video or two.
Broad in number & armed with ace pop songs, they have the power
to match the ambition of thier sound. PITCHFORK: "Silly names
aside, Los Campesinos! play superbly crafted indie pop that bounces
off walls like Love Is All, grins with the childlike exuberance of
Bis, and throws the toy chest into its arrangements like Architecture
in Helsinki. Glockenspiels and pizzicato violin veer into reckless
guitar riffs and full-bodied handclaps-- or fizz over, like Mentos
and Coke, into happy-stupid crescendos. Gareth shares lead vocal duties
with the similarly pseudonymous Aleksandra Campesino!, and their boy-girl
exchanges give the music an extra, sweet frisson."
Arts&Crafts
CD5
$7.50
Los York's
68
PS, US Feat. the epileptic vocals of lead singer Pablo Luna over crankin
non-stop psychedelic riffs, this 2nd album from this top 60s Peruvian
psych band. In an era when many South American bands were just cheap
imitations of their North American counterparts, they were one of
the few bands to really stand out & write their own material.
GetBack-651
LP
$15.50
Low In The Sky
We Are All Counting On You, William
PS, US
AbandonBuilding-007
CD
$9.50
Luminous Orange
Sakura Swirl
PS, US The Yokohama-based band Luminous Orange has been around since
1992, and their new album Sakura Swirl is a perfect showcase of the
expertise and talent accrued over the last 15 years. Formed and fronted
by female auteur Rie Takeuchi, LO clearly take great inspiration from
the first wave of UK shoegaze as well as the guitar pop and electronic
music from Cornelius and his contemporaries in the Shibuya-kei movement.
(In fact, Cornelius' Trattoria label released some of Luminous Orange's
first material right before it dissolved in 2002.) But Luminous Orange
are not stuck in recreating the past: they have radically altered
their genetic material to form a brand-new sound. At points, the new
album Sakura Swirl sounds like a respectful tribute to My Bloody Valentine:
airy vocals float above heavily-layered wall-of-sound guitars drenched
in a bog of resonant reverb.
MusicRelated-018
CD
$9.75
Magnolia Electric Co.
Sojourner
PS, US Limited! The four CDs that are included in the boxset are from
four distinct recording sessions that MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. recorded
following the release of their debut studio album "What Comes
After The Blues." The session known as "Nashville Moon"
was recorded by STEVE ALBINI at his ELECTRICAL AUDIO studios in Chicago,
Illinois. The session known as "Sun Sessions" was recorded
at the legendary SUN STUDIOS in Memphis, Tennessee. The session known
as "Black Ram" was recorded by DAVID LOWERY at his SOUND
OF MUSIC studios in Richmond, Virginia and features an entirely different
cast of characters including Lowery, RICK ALVERSON, ANDREW BIRD, MOLLY
BLACKBIRD, MIGUEL URBIZTONDO and ALAN WEATHERHEAD. The session known
as "Shohola" was recorded by JASON MOLINA alone, with a
guitar and microphone. "The Road Becomes What You Leave"
is a documentary film produced by TODD CHANDLER and TIM SUTTON. It
follows the band as they tour across the prairie provinces of Canada
and shows the loneliness and isolation one can feel even when traveling
in a pack.
SecretlyCanadian-150
4XCD/DVD
$36.00
Mirah And Spectratone International
Share This Place: Stories and Observations
PS, US In "Share This Place: Stories and Observations,"
LORI GOLDSTON and KYLE HANSON of BLACK CAT ORCHESTRA acclaim team
up with K RECORDS recording artist MIRAH to deliver a sweeping song
cycle inspired by the tragic and triumphant lives of insects. Inspired
in part by influential French scientist/poet J.HENRI FABRÉ,
Mirah's lyrics smartly humanize the trials and pleasures of the insect
world, touching on themes of villainy, seduction, self-sacrifice and
love. Shining a light on the epic complexity of the insect world,
the songs imply an inescapable comparison with our own. A concept
album of sorts, "Share This Place" is a score written by
GOLDSTON, HANSON and Mirah for a suite of twelve stop-motion animated
short films by BRITTA JOHNSON. One of the films, "Credo Cigalia,"
is included on the album, along with an illustrated lyric booklet.
Krecords-181
CD
$11.50
Mock & Toof
K-Choppers
PS, US 1st in line for the new Death From Abroad imprint have firmly
established themselves as a name to watch in 2007. So far this year,
they've been responsible for the mighty Black Jub on Tiny Sticks,
the Digits re-edit 12-inch for Rvng Intl & Zomby for Japan's Mule
Musiq.Not to mention a selection of
killer remixes for the likes of The Scissor Sisters, Maps, Gomma,
& others.
DFA-111
12
$8.00
Mojo
#166 (September 2007) [Magazine + Free CD]
PS, UK New issue of one of the planet's best music magazines features
an interview with Keith Richards and loads more on the Stones' 45th
Anniversary. Features/interviews with Siouxsie Sioux, Prince, Tunng,
Def Leppard, and more... Free CD entitled 'Stoned' celebrates their
45 years together. Features artists/songs that influences The Stones
(Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, etc), plus Stones covers by
Billy Bragg, Turin Brakes, Stereophonics, Sandy Shaw, Nancy Sinatra,
etc).
ZINE
$9.50
Monk, Thelonious
4/8
PS, US RECENT. Recorded live in Rotterdam, Holland on October 28,
1967, it feat. Thelonious Monk playing w/ both a quartet & octet
line-up on classic Monk tracks like "Ruby My Dear" &
"Blue Monk" as well as "Hackensack" w/ both the
quartet & octet line-up.
GetBack-2034
CD
$15.00
Mountain
Masters At War
PS, US This Dylan tribute album is a great sounding record; mixed
& mastered by the best in the business. It pays homage to Dylan's
song writing genius. Leslie & Corky add their signature sound
to his classic songs. Ozzy Osbourne sings on the title track "Masters
Of War" & Warren Haynes lends a hand on 2 killer tunes.
Megaforce
DCD
$16.50
My Cat Is An Alien/Fabio Orsi
For Alan Lomax
PS, ITALY Tribute album to ALAN LOMAX, the man who, more than any
other, have worked to "bring the music to light", in the
widest and most absolute meaning of the word. A record that the space
brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, share
with FABIO ORSI. Though so different from each other, Orsi's and MCIAA's
tracks sound complementary, and build up an original, complex and
really unitary work. The listener won't find difficult to see the
great Alan Lomax materializing from the deepest Cosmos, as undiscussed
discoverer of the American Primitive Music.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
My Cat Is an Alien/Text of Light
Cosmic Debris, Vol. 1 [re-issue]
PS, ITALY CD re-issue of the first instalment in the new "Cosmic
Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio,
aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. This Volume I sees the two space brothers
from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star
ensemble TEXT OF LIGHT* (here featuring Alan Licht, Dj Olive, Ulrich
Krieger and Tim Barnes). Their track "033103 Paris" has
been recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003 and mixed in
dual mono by Ranaldo & Licht at NYC Echo Canyon studio. MCIAA's
piece entitled "Everything falls like cosmic debris" is
a conceptual ouverture to the whole series, performed in April 2006
at their secret recording space called Alien Zone, located up the
Italian Western Alps. The five-volumes series "Cosmic Debris"
features My Cat Is An Alien alongside Text Of Light, Steve Roden,
Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House
band.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75
Nadler, Marissa
Song 3: Bird on the Water
PS, US A dark and atmospheric record and Nadler's most personal to
date. Thematically she relates to characters living on the fringes
of society. The songs revolve around the demise of a love relationship
as well as eulogies and dirges. It was inevitable that Marissa would
rise from the underground to reach a wider audience someday. Her music
is dreamy and spectral: an amalgam of traditional folk, paisley underground,
shoegaze, and dream pop. Almost all of the songs are very sad - about
broken hearts, death, or simple burdens. Her voice is what most people
immediately respond to, with the writing and playing yielding a slow
burn subtlety. Excelling at a Fahey-esque finger-picking technique,
she plays homage to some of the great early American blues players.
The Basho like 12 string guitar movements are also quite lovely. MOJO:
"The most exquisite thing happening right now" /// UNCUT:
The most enchanting record from the folk underground since Joanna
Newsom's Ys" /// PITCHFORK: "One of the most engaging singer-songwriter
releases this year"...
Kemado
CD
$13.75
Nastasia, Nina & Jim White
You Follow Me
PS, US Stunning collaborative album w/ the peerless drummer of beloved
Australian instrumental trio DIRTY THREE. Stripped back to just a
2-piece,this is a fantastically focused record -a taut, raw document
of 2 incredible musicians in deep dialogue, exploring the boundaries
of songform to find a rare & striking complement. PITCHFORK: "White
and Nastasia recorded You Follow Me with stilts fetishist Steve Albini
at Electrical Audio in Chicago, and developed their compositions with
help from Nastasia's partner Kennan Gudjonsson. The result sounds
a bit like free jazz tugging at the seams of traditional folk."
FatCat
CD
$13.25
Nastasia, Nina & Jim White
You Follow Me
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FatCat
DLP
$16.00
New Blockaders w/ O'Rourke, Jim + Thurston Moore
S-T
PS, US RESTOCK! LAST COPIES EVER! Originally released as a limited
CD by Hospital Productions in 05. This is the equally limited LP version
w/variant artwork. Arguably the most notorious & interesting proponent
of ground zero UK noise/industrial history. What we have here is ORourke
on 1 side & Moore on the other taking TNB "music" &
collaborating w/it in distinctly different ways: O'Rourke utilizing
the free life percussion power of Chris Corsano & Moore employing
the spirit index of shortwave.
EcstaticPeace-085
LP
$11.50
Newell, Martin
Greatest Living Englishman [reissue]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "As it was produced by XTC's Andy Partridge
(who also plays most of the drums), this was Newell's first project
to receive any semblance of mainstream media attention in the U.S.
What he was presenting, however, differed little in essence from what
he'd been doing since Cleaners From Venus started in the early '80s:
tuneful pop with heart and clever lyrics that could be joyfully optimistic,
whimsically satirical, or dourly cynical...such as "Home Counties
Boy" and the very Kinks-like "A Street Called Prospect"
and "Christmas in Suburbia." ...Playing, as always, like
a snapshot of English life, it's the most suitable introduction to
Newell's work..."
Humbug
CD
$18.25
North Elementary
Berandals
PS, US As an astronaut unbound from earth's humanity finds he is unable
to leave the very planet he longed to depart. They explore & research
the moments that seem to extinguish time & transform seconds into
centuries. On southern porches, big red couches, & inside mansions
these songs were born. Catchy, uplifting melodies punctuated by crunchy
guitars.
PoxWorldEmpire
CD
$8.50
Oh No
Dr. No's Oxperiment
PS, US This demonstrates the benefits of a healthy musical diet. In
this case, the fodder is vinyl procured in Turkey, Greece, Lebanon
&
Italy. 34 tracks of music that defies categorization. It's not that
generic Bollywood rip off shit & it's not retro. Futuristic hip
hop
sourced from samples that most people will never hear.
StonesThrow
CD
$15.00
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US Deluxe Edition - 2xCD OKKERVIL RIVER'S "Black Sheep Boy"
was one of the most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote
in the New York Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin
indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist." With
their newest release, "The Stage Names," Okkervil River
dynamite the walls of "Black Sheep Boy's" gothic, moss-walled
castle from the inside to let in the glaring sun. Where "Black
Sheep Boy" presented a fairytale of dark babbling streams and
high distant towers, "The Stage Names" takes place in an
unmistakably modern world, where snowy televisions blast into cheap
hotels the spectral images of soap stars endlessly betraying each
other, where losers in late-night bars languish to the beat of their
favorite songs, where broken-down actresses place their final cell
calls from lonely mansions high in the hills. Riddled with characters
real and fake, with true-life biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography,
with the relics of high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture,
"The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning
of entertainment. And, crucially, it entertains. Reverberant with
echoes of Motown snap and girl-group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs
of dirty rock 'n' roll, shining with the shimmy of BO DIDDLEY, with
the shimmer of the VELVETS, with the swagger of the FACES, and with
a glittery sprinkling of cheap perfume over the top of it all to disguise
the stink, "The Stage Names" is a relentlessly-paced and
ruthlessly thrilling journey.
**THE LIMITED EDITION DOUBLE-DISC VERSION OF "THE STAGE NAMES"
INCLUDES A BONUS DISC OF SOLO DEMO VERSIONS OF EACH SONG ON THE ALBUM.
Jagjaguwar-110
DCD
$11.50
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER'S "Black Sheep Boy" was one of the
most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York
Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band
Okkervil River, writes like a novelist." With their newest release,
"The Stage Names," Okkervil River dynamite the walls of
"Black Sheep Boy's" gothic, moss-walled castle from the
inside to let in the glaring sun. Where "Black Sheep Boy"
presented a fairytale of dark babbling streams and high distant towers,
"The Stage Names" takes place in an unmistakably modern
world, where snowy televisions blast into cheap hotels the spectral
images of soap stars endlessly betraying each other, where losers
in late-night bars languish to the beat of their favorite songs, where
broken-down actresses place their final cell calls from lonely mansions
high in the hills. Riddled with characters real and fake, with true-life
biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography, with the relics of
high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture, "The Stage
Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment.
And, crucially, it entertains. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap
and girl-group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock 'n' roll,
shining with the shimmy of BO DIDDLEY, with the shimmer of the VELVETS,
with the swagger of the FACES, and with a glittery sprinkling of cheap
perfume over the top of it all to disguise the stink, "The Stage
Names" is a relentlessly-paced and ruthlessly thrilling journey.
Jagjaguwar-110
CD
$11.50
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-110
LP
$10.25
Old Man Gloom
Seminar II
PS, US Double LP edition of the CD only release in 2000. Feat. elaborate
full color gatefold sleeve & members of ISIS, CONVERGE, CAVE IN,
FORENSICS & DOOMRIDERS.
MagicBullet-040
DLP
$22.50
O-Type
The New Edge
PS, US "The New Edge" is a stunning and absolute collection
of the 1999-2005 releases by O-TYPE, a 20-plus year collective morphed
from the Bay Area hard-art genius that is MX-80, featuring guitar
hero BRUCE ANDERSON and sonic sage DALE SOPHIEA. Often surpassing
levels of full-on abstraction, in terms of structure and melody, O-Type
blend fields of ambient distillation and jagged, electroid rhythm
fragments into sprawling narratives, composed in real time, that evoke
movie soundtracks, musique concrète, minimalism, and guitar
psychedelia with references spanning from MORTON FELDMAN to PETE COSEY.
"The New Edge" is a Limited Edition, Handmade Box with wrap
around cover and printed inner cards containing all of O-Type's FAMILY
VINEYARD releases: "Strict" (FV1); "Brutality II":
"Balkana" (FV4); "Medication" (FV8); "Lugubrious"
(FV10) and "Western Classics" (FV31). Exclusive to this
set is "Godawful" a DVD-R of unprocessed and trance-like
nature scenes accompanied by unreleased improvisations. This body
of work stands above and without association with any current musical
trends or scenes.
FamilyVineyard-032
5XCD/DVD
$14.25
Paulusma, Polly
Fingers & Thumbs
PS, US Achingly tender yet simmering w/ a persistent urgency, the
album bears the scars of the personal trauma from which it was conceived...fueled
by emotions, heartache & eventual triumph.
OneLittleIndian-462
CD
$15.00
People for Audio
New Ancients
PS, US 2 years in the making, New Ancients is incredibly rich w/ texture
& detail ranging from backporch sing-along jams to sophisticated
instrumental voyages & classic psych-rock. 13 tracks that display
maturity far beyond their years, creating a piece of art that will
undoubtedly stand the test of time.
Storyboard
CD
$12.50
People Press Play
S-T
PS, US A melancholy affair of the heart, surrounded by murmuring nuances,
electronic folk from the echo chamber. Electro-pop w/ clear outlines,
pushing, elegant, oscillating. A weightless wall of sound, a bass
guitar with the surf.
MorrMusic-078
CD
$16.00
People Press Play
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-078
LP
$16.00
Piana
Eternal Castle
PS, JAPAN Piana, whose vocals can be described as adoring and transient,
has already established her name in the ambient music scene worldwide
Artists like The Album Leaf requested her to open for their Japan
tour, and video director, Thomas Hilland, the creator of Norwegian
electro-duo Royksopp's promotional video, was so in love with Piana
that he created her promotional video for free. From compositions
to lyrics, and arrangements to mixing, the "electronica diva"
Piana directs and controls her creativity, and with this new album
she ventured into a new world of collaboration with musicians she
loves and trusts. The digital sound and effect-heavy-feel is kept
to bare minimum, and she has emphasized acoustic tones of cello, violin,
guitar, piano, and organ with her new experiment. Her innocent and
motherly voice became even more powerful and dearly, and the poppy
melody she creates is so timeless. This new album shows her warmth
and her hope for her future, and her strength to jump out of this
world and resonate the bells of eternity.
Noble-1210
CD
$16.25
Prayers
God Save The Prayers
PS, US Comes out swinging like 1st wave NYC punk w/Motown vibe. Guitars,
harmonies, drums & bass surge forward like a big oily rouge wave,
backing up lyrics about trouble & horsin' around in the grand
theater of absurd. Next a sinister track full of damaged characters,
skeezy fashion & denial. Then a girl group pop song done by boys.
An ode to gossipy shit talking w/ reverby 50s guitars. Ending w/a
greaser rumble w/ vertical slashes of guitar & backing vocals
that are pure doo wop.
ArtFag
CD5
$5.00
Project Jenny, Project Jan
XOXOXOXOXO
PS, US Even as our hyper-digital age makes the world smaller, the
soundscape of American music keeps getting bigger. Genres multiply,
divide, revive, and recycle themselves-reinvented as pre-this, post-that,
or this-core, and that-hop. So slap a label on Project Jenny, Project
Jan if you want but you'll find that label is constantly changing.
On XOXOXOXOXO, you'll witness how a young duo from Brooklyn pushes
the boundaries of modern music. The band's signature sound-Sammy Rubin's
jaunty electro-pop hooks fueled by saucy freestyled vocals from Jeremy
Haines-is infectious without being predictable. And on this album,
you will hear shades of every genre, from Latin, old school hip-hop,
and reggae, to blues, rock, old time rags, and 80s electro. Some songs
even brush up charmingly against bluegrass, big band, and swing, resulting
in a sound that is fiercely, uniquely their own. So can you call Project
Jenny, Project Jan post-indie-pop electro-core? Sure, if you insist
on categorizing. The bottom line is that this is smart, energetic
dance music for a new generation of listeners-the kind of people who'd
rather shake it on the dance floor than puzzle over sub-genres.
Might-002
CD
$12.25
Rentals, The
Last Little Life EP
PS, US New EP from Matt Sharp (ex-Weezer) and Rachel Haden (ex-That
Dog!), seminal neo-new wave pioneers, The Rentals return revamped
with an equally exhilarating sound for a new decade. New album in
2008. PREFIX MAG: "Okay, so it's only four songs. But The Last
Little Life EP is only one small sign that the Rentals are back in
a big way. The band recently finished up a residency at L.A.'s famed
Spaceland. Now it's in the middle of an extensive tour on which the
members will remind audiences of their band's power-pop greatness.
And don't worry too much about the length-it's but a stopgap before
a full LP, which Matt Sharp and his friends of P hope to have out
by the end of the year."
Boompa
CD5
$5.75
Satisfaction
Cougars, Sharks & Flying Sparks
PS, US Hailing from Southern California, Satisfaction is a four-piece
rock group that backs up their crafty song writing skills with impressive
talent. On this Limited Edition 6-track CD/EP (only 1,000 copies),
you can hear echo's of The Beatles & Harry Nilsson in their songwriting
and their music is chock-full of tasty guitar licks. Some folks have
compared Satisfaction with current acts such as Spoon, The Shins,
Band of Horses and My Morning Jacket. However, here's what Arty Fufkin
from Polymer Records has to say..."Satisfaction reminds me of
the day I was listening to the White Album while drinking Coca-Cola
and eating Pop Rocks candy. Not too good on the stomach, but great
on the ears. One should eat corn-on-the-cob with a glass of milk while
listening to this EP". Pure pop for now people. Sweet!
Satisfaction-001
CD5
$5.50
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Cold Colors
PS, US Having relocated to Portland, Oregon, they're back w/ a new
CDEP that paves the way for their forthcoming full-length later this
fall on K Records. This is a toned down affair from previous SLGTM
recordings. The 5 exclusive songs are primarily acoustic & ambient
& more in line w/ Animal Collective than the boy/girl Specter-inspired
wall of sound that SLGTM is best known for.
Polyvinyl
CD5
$7.00
Shitmat
Grooverider
PS, US The king of mashcore returns for yet another journey through
the sound of mashedupgabbaravehardcore,Shitmat style. As the name
suggests, this is highly influenced by the UK rave scene & sees
him move to a more serious,hard jungle sound w/less random samples.
Another classically
rungleclotted, ass-kicking selection it's set to destroy dancefloors
worldwide & is a must for the discerning breakcore connoisseur.
PlanetMu-151
CD
$14.50
Shitmat
Grooverider
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu-151
3XLP
$19.00
Smokey & His Sister
S-T [re-issue]
PS, US Smokey Mims and his sister Vicki made the huge leap from the
Greenwich Village folk clubs and coffee houses to sign with Columbia
Records where they released a pair of now highly-prized singles in
1967. Produced by David Rubinson, the trippy, harmony-laced Smokey
and his Sister debut album, unfathomably, has remained on the shelf
until now. Precious and beautiful, this album has finally arrived
to turn whispered rumor into hauntingly seductive reality.
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Speal, Shane
Stealing the Fire
PS, US It could be a modern incarnation of the old blues scenario:
A man sits in his single-wide mobile home with a primitive guitar
& belts out mean murder ballads & dark spirituals through
a rusty harmonica mic. But it's not a "scenario." This is
the real shit. Speal was living in the middle of a Pennsylvania trailer
park. He plays a cigar box guitar. And he recorded this album on a
simple 4-track cassette recorder. "Stealing the Fire" features
stark homemade recordings of Speal performing the works of Timothy
Renner on a primitive cigar box guitar. It was a simple premis in
the beginning. Speal just wanted to know what Renner's dark folk music
would sound like if were soaked in Delta blues. Speal covers Renner's
work from Stone Breath, Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Jamboree
& solo recordings.
Hand/Eye-028
CD
$12.25
Spokane
Little Hours (LP/CD)
PS, US "Little Hours" is the patient sheen of stillness
after a short, violent burst of intention. The lingering, resonant
decay of a nail being hammered into wood. A piano laden marriage of
small hopes and quiet violence. In Church Hill, a borough of Richmond,
Virginia, there is a small yellow cottage. Next to the cottage is
an austere replica of a mid-nineteenth century, white Federal period
house. The members of SPOKANE hand built the structure over the course
of 2006 while recording and revising their first new album in four
years, "Little Hours." The record is both a document of
and an aural parallel to that difficult, meticulous process. In the
emotional vein of folk singer Jackson C. Frank with the textural emaciation
of composers Zbigniew Preisner and Morton Feldman, the songs themselves
are hinged on concepts of failure and stillborn ideas, on the conflicted
process of building or birthing a cerebral image into the world. There
are the echoes of insistent cats running through the skeletal frame
of the house, pillaged, infant birds in their mouths, left half-dead
at the foot of the hole where the stair would be. "Little Hours"
is packaged in A VINYL SLEEVE WITH BOTH RECORD AND CD INSIDE, 50 of
which are handmade and numbered. It features the core ensemble of
2003's "Measurement," which MOJO magazine called "a
uniquely enthralling treasure", along with contributions from
members of Brooklyn's orchestral, minimalist band GREGOR SAMSA.
Jagjaguwar-087
LP/CD
$11.50
Squeeze
Singles 45's and Under [remastered]
PS, US
AmericanBeat
CD
$11.00
Stern, Marnie
In Advance of the Broken Arm
PS, US LIMITED TO 400 on BLUE VINYL! PITCHFORK RECOMMENDS!! In this
debut, her music is culled from songs written by herself in her bedroom
over a 2 yr period, w/ production & drum work by HELLA's ZACH
HILL. Her songs are of the earth, birthed in an organic process where
the finished product is much more striking than the individual parts.
The most vibrant, original, empowering & groundbreaking record
released in a long time
Rampage
LP
$15.00
Swivel Chairs
The Slow Transmission
PS, US
TransitofVenus
CD
$15.00
Tarentel
Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
PS, US Immediately following the release of their acclaimed 2004 album,
"We Move Through Weather," TARENTEL built on their forward
momentum by recording another several hours worth of material, its
fate to be determined at a later date. Tarentel don't follow up their
albums so much as follow through them. To that end, "Ghetto Beats
On The Surface Of The Sun" is more of an exploded view of the
world the band has built and un-built for over a decade, each track
acting as a map to an increasingly cosmic landscape. Originally released
as a limited edition series of vinyl albums, "Ghetto Beats"
is collected here onto two CDs - a full two and a half hours of music.
It is a sun-baked cluster of ragged rhythms, splintered sound and
scorched shimmer. The production is a caustic mix of hi- and lo-fi,
creating a strange sense of timelessness, like discovering a black
and white photograph of the future. AVAILABLE IN A NUMBERED, LIMITED
EDITION QUADRUPLE GATEFOLD JACKET, "Ghetto Beats On The Surface
Of The Sun" is a widescreen projection of unspeakable charm and
unlikely beauty.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-102
DCD
$12.50
Turbo Fruits
S/T
PS, US Instead of taking a much needed break after releasing a debut
album w/ their wildly popular band BE YOUR OWN PET & touring 'til
their faces turned blue in the past yr, Jonas Stein & John Eatherly
have decided to do what came naturally, start a new band, amix of
punk, rock, blues, metal & sweaty, sweaty fun.
EcstaticPeace-079
CD
$10.00
Tyvek
Summer Burns (2X7")
PS, US New to the WYR? family, Tyvek-- Kevin (guitar/vox), Heath (guitar),Larry
(bass/the law), and Matt (drums)-- hail from Detroit, MI; you can
probably hear it in the music. Tyvek's songs are a product of trying
to understand their city: the empty spaces, poisoned ground, burnt-out
building shells. In spite of all that, Tyvek love the land, the city,
the infrastructure, and the sound... the sound of turning it up and
then having your friends turn it up too, until you're all wired into
some cheap frequencies and feeling some real buzz in the air.
WYR
45
$7.25
Uncut
#124 (September 2007)
PS, UK
ZINE
$9.50
u-Ziq
Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu-190
3XLP
$19.00
u-Ziq
Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique
PS, US Among these 17 tracks of off-key melodies, nauseous harmonies
& woozy beats can be found gems such as the beautiful "Strawberry
Fields Hotel" in which a lone bassline strikes out a refrain
of unexpected simplicity while bees swarm overhead around a fig tree.
A melodic tour de force,this is a welcome return to one of the most
vital artists in music today.
PlanetMu-190
CD
$14.00
Van Zandt, Townes
For the Sake of Song
PS, US
FatPossum
CD
$15.50
Various
Assemblage Sessions 2
PS, US
AbandonBuilding-005
CD
$9.50
Various
Assemblage Session 1
PS, US
AbandonBuilding-003
CD
$8.25
Various
Garage Beat '66, Vol. 6: Speak of the Devil
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "This installment features a heavy dose
of sneering, attitude-laden garage gems recorded between 1965 and
1967, including the William Penn Fyve's wry "Swami" (the
organ player from the band, Gregg Rolie, went on to greater fame with
Santana and then later still with Journey), Neal Ford & the Fanatics'
"Good Men (Are Hard to Find)," the Road Runners' "Goodbye"
(this one could have easily been a big pop hit in a world with a fair
and equitable music distribution system) and a spirited version of
Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" by the Druids of Stonehenge.
Nothing here would have toppled the Beatles or the Rolling Stones
back in the day, but now, some forty years on, these tracks still
sound wonderfully snotty and free of annoying finesse. What a time
it was."
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Various
Bold Beginnings
PS, US A collection of Louisville Punk '78 - '83. Mostly previously
unreleased material & the rest has not been available for over
20 years. Over 70 minutes of 29 songs by 10 bands including BABYLON
DANCE BAND, THE DICKBRAINS, SKULL OF GLEE, NO FUN, THE ENDTABLES &
MALIGNANT GROWTH. Includes a 16 page full color booklet full of pictures
& commentary by Tara Key (Babylon Dance Band/ANTIETAM) & Jeff
Jobson (Louisville native/Seattle filmmaker)
NoisePollution
CD
$11.00
Various
Garage Beat '66, Vol. 7: That's How It Will Be!
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "This installment features a heavy dose
of sneering, attitude-laden garage singles (over half of them from
Texas bands) recorded in 1966 and 1967, including the Mad Hatters'
"La Bamba"-like "I'll Come Running," the Outcasts'
"I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining," which works off a
patented shave-and-a-haircut Bo Diddley rhythm, and Detroit's own
the Unrelated Segments with a pair of sneering gems from 1967, "Where
You Gonna Go?" and "Cry, Cry, Cry."
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Venetian Snares
Horse And Goat
PS, US Restock. Last 10 copies. Limited edition vinyl packaged with
record jacket sealed inside a foil bag. Released on CD format on Canadian
label Sublight Records, Horse and Goat caused big stir with Venetian
Snares' fanbase. These six tracks of ultra-fast breakcore madness
and experimental sound explorations haunted and satisfied Aaron funk-addicts.
Visually, Horse and Goat is probably the best looking Venetian Snares
release.
Hymen
LP
$13.50
Venus
Fall 2007
PS, US M.I.A cover. DIY special issue, including 15 amazing ways to
use paper. Features include the best and worst films about women in
music. Reviews of new music by Fiery Furnace, Enon, New Pornographers
and more. An interview with Juliette Lewis, stuff about Rily Kiley,
Office and Deborah Harry.
ZINE
$4.25
VRKTM
Excess/Defect
PS, US Founded by Jason Lowenstein (SEBADOH), Jason Hayden (CRAIN,
WILL OLDHAM), Jason Fuller & Dave Bird (OUT, WILL OLDHAM). Later
additions Darren Rappa (KING KONG) & Chris Reinstatler (METROSCHIFTER,
MONKEY DRIVE SCREEN PRINTING). Clean dueling guitars that work interchangeably
w/the quirky /philosophical/ comedic ramblings of Rappa coupled w/a
bass/drum rhythm section that is as much solid rock as it is danceable.
NoisePollution-024
CD
$9.25
Woelv
Le Niveau de la Mer
PS, US "Le Niveau de la Mer" and "Bete a Cheval"
are two songs inspired by American imperialism, but that could also
speak of many different places around the world. "Le Niveau de
la Mer" was written shortly after the passage of Hurricane Katrina
and took shape while I imagined the scene. I read somewhere that with
global warming, we would be facing this kind of storm more and more
often and it terrified me. It seemed to me as though people here preferred
not having to change anything about their lifestyles, even though
we have no other option left. "Bête à Cheval"
is a song that is slightly comical which tells the story of the passing
of a violent scape-goat who stomps on everything along its way. Played
on the drums by HEATHER DUNN (DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM), and yelled
by the voice, the effect is similar to a very small punch in the face.
Both songs were recorded in the big room at DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO by
CALVIN JOHNSON in Olympia in January 2006.
Krecords-111
45
$3.75
Woolson, Raymond Scott
The View From The Boggins Heights
PS, US The View From Boggins Heights is the most recent CD release
by reclusive DIY recording artist Raymond Scott Woolson. Ethereal,
atmospheric and uplifting, this 58 minute, 9 track album of glorious
guitar-driven instrumentals soars effortlessly into the higher, brighter
reaches of the shoegaze / dreampop universe. From the swirling grandeur
of "Bringing Margot The Sun" to the delicate beauty of "Dear
Wanda", this is perfect mood music for skyrockets and chronic
daydreamers. First available in 2005 as a limited edition CD-R, and
out of print since early 2006, The View From Boggins Heights has been
remixed and slightly revised for its appearance as a proper CD. "...Woolson
has released his strongest and most aesthetically pleasing work....a
steady cohesive flow of washed out beauty....Woolsons guitars shimmer
and explode while his keyboards dance over long jams of haunting drones....a
beautiful treatment into the possibilities of the instrumental dream-ambient
world....Woolson is able to share his heart, vision, and emotions
through his well-written ambient compositions...." --SOMEWHERECOLD
RSW-001
CD
$8.25
Wry
Whales & Sharks
PS, US This Brazilian 4-piece are probably best known by London gig-goers
as the posse behind Wednesday club Goonite at the Buffalo Bar. This
feat. 4 brand new shiny pop songs covered in layers of white noise.
An irresistably gutsy racket to hold close to your heart!
ClubAC30
CD5
$7.50
Yeasayer
2080/Sunrise
PS, US 2080/Sunrise is the single for the forthcoming YEASAYER full-length
debut, due out the fall of 2007. Soothsayers, crystal-gazers, and
time travelersŠthey have all seen the future. Spilling words
of Armageddon, the apocalypse, and the second coming of Christ they
speak of man's impending doom. With countries on the warpath and our
decaying world growing inhabitable it is easy to succumb to the voices
of these scholars. YEASAYER have also been witness to the future.
"2080/Sunrise" documents their visions and experiences in
the years that lie ahead. Discern what you will from the lyrics, but
YEASAYER'S songs flow with posi-vibes that will make you dance and
trumpet. It is optimism, it is joy. "It's a new year, I'm glad
to be here, it's a fresh spring, so lets sing. In 2080 I will will
surely be dead, so don't look ahead, never look ahead."
WeAreFree-001
CD5
$4.75
Yesterdays New Quintet
Yesterday's Universe
PS, US Musicially this is a Big Bang, the sonic collision of classic
jazz, funk & fusion w/ present day hip-hop. MADLIB set this in
motion, a combo of all Madlib alter-egos - alongside new incarnations,
& they showcase their talents here. They represent a distinct
facet of his musical universe, which is the universe of the mind.
StonesThrow-2158
CD
$15.00
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Lose All Time
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Providing more of the same as their
debut album in the best possible sense, Lose All Time cements British
Columbia's You Say Party! We Say Die! as one of the most consistently
enjoyable acts of the neo-new wave, even despite their terrible name.
With their combination of Becky Ninkovic's yowling, bratty lead vocals
and Krista Loewen's unapologetically cheesy keyboards, the majority
of Lose All Time passes by in a blur of thumping dance-rock tunes
highly indebted to the twin towers of the Athens, GA, new wave set,
Pylon and the B-52's. However, the haunting piano-and-voice ballad
"You're Almost There" provides an effective breather amidst
all the nervy dancefloor fillers, and the closing "Quiet World"
has a hypnotic pulse akin to the best work of the often underrated
Martha & the Muffins. A more consistent and thoughtful release
than 2006's Hit the Floor!, which got over in part because of the
band's infectious sense of fun and enthusiasm, Lose All Time is a
genuinely terrific album showing that You Say Party! We Say Die! may
be one of the few bands in the retro-new wave scene with the talent
to last beyond their pop cultural moment." (Stewart Mason)
PaperBag
CD
$14.25
Zucchini Drive
Goodyear Television Playhouse
PS, JAPAN Zucchini Drive are an eclectic electric vocal duo. What
started out as a side project developed quickly into a full-time occupation.
Marcus Graap (Stacs of stamina) and Tom De Geeter (Cavemen speak)
both kept their influences, being the acoustic lo-fi sound of Cavemen
Speak on the one hand and the electronica bounce rhythms of Stacs
of stamina on the other. For this album Tom & Marcus could count
on an impressive list of producers and guest musicians. Styrofoam,
Populous and B.fleishmann from the Morr Music Label, as well as Anticon's
finest Alias. On vocals we could find the undisputed Markus Acher
(the Notwist), the sharp MC-duo Grand Buffet and fast rapper Bleubird.
Italian indie heroes Giardini di Miro added a warm dimension to some
tracks. Zucchini Drive was always honoured to play with different
artists. The collaborations were as plentiful as they were diverse,
showing that Zucchini Drive do not fear to cross borders. Musical
wizards as Kaeoflux (6 productions), Radical Face (2songs) or musical
collaborators and friends as Mich from Hitch (be), Pol from Galatasaray
(be) and last but not least Nomad (be). Goodyear Television Playhouse
will sweep you of your feet and take you from hip-hop, to indie-pop
and folk to rock journey you won't forget!
Hue-1036
CD
$16.25
