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New Releases

Alcest
Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
PS, US Epic, elemental post-metal shoegaze guitar rock from one-man-band and a female vocalist, a hurricane of pink noise likened to Jesu, M83, My Bloody Valentine and Sigur Ros. Highly recommended!

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The relationship between heavy metal and the so-called "shoegazer" movement of the early '90s might not be apparent in writing, but with Justin Broaderick's amazing transmutation of his grinding industrial metal in Napalm Death and Godflesh into the dark, sonic bliss of his current incarnation as Jesu, it doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore. Immediately upon first listen the connection between one-man band Neige's French "black metal" roots and his current neo-psychedelic explorations under the Alcest moniker doesn't seem so far-fetched, natural even. Playing all the instruments on Alcest's debut full-length Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde ("Memories of a Future World") Neige builds layers upon layers of ecstatically distorted guitars that evoke obvious comparisons to My Bloody Valentine's sonic extravaganzas and less obvious nods to the brooding minor-key post-metal of Jesu, only perhaps a bit sunnier. There are only six songs on Souvenirs, and the formula deviates only slightly, but the mission statement is evident from the opening crunch of the first track "Printemps Emeraude," as the foundation of majestic guitar swells and stately minimalist drums is laid and the journey begins, and the listener is seemingly transported over great distances and through lifetimes via hypnotic repetition and a series of dynamic shifts which are probably more important than the actual songs themselves. The feelings elicited are those of yearning, nostalgia, triumph and blissful peace, all without a single lyric in (discernible) English. And really, the best factor arising from the meeting of metal and shoegaze is that this is a guitar album -- a monstrous, churning, epic guitar album -- without a single guitar solo!" (Brian Way)
ProfoundLore
CD
$14.25

Aloof Proof
Piano Text [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of an mid-90s ambient classic. "There is no ambient record greater than Aloof Proof's Piano Text. It is the kind of album that becomes essential after just the first listen. Since it was quietly released in 1994 -- a time, remember, dominated by the ambient techno boom of such artists as the Orb and Future Sound of London -- it has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of the genre. This is largely due to the edited versions of the album's two tracks that appeared on Asphodel's sprawling drone compilations, opening the world of Aloof Proof to thousands of eager listeners in the mid-'90s... This is an album that must be listened to -- no words can adequately describe how spellbinding the music is, how staggeringly elegant it is."
Infraction
CD
$15.00

American Mars
Western Sides
PS, US Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, their ethereal sound is an impassioned & moody brand of indie-Americana. Under the direction of the band's pedal steel player & producer DAVID FEENY (Blanche, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes), the band's ranging impulses are brought together to create something more than the sum of its songs.
Gangplank
CD
$10.00

Anti-Heros
1000 Nights of Chaos
PS, US Finally available on vinyl!
Taang-145
LP
$10.00

Battle of Land and Sea
S-T
PS, US To describe the sound of The Battle of Land & Sea, one might call up images of abandoned sea-worn ships floating through a thick coastal fog. And upon first listen you might call to mind Cat Power, or the soft glow of Songs of Green Pheasant. But eventually, you start to hear what makes the music of Portland based Sarah O'Shura so special. You get a glimpse of a world through the eyes of a someone on a musical pilgrimage, whether the tales are laden with sorrow or joy, they are enchanting & hopeful. Spooky & beautiful...calling out all the old ghosts from past recordings on beautifully warbled vinyl, they recreate an old jazz club atmosphere but with a little sawdust on the floor.
Notenuf-008
CD
$13.25

Believer
January 2008
PS, US The 50th issue! Interview w/ illustrator-graphic novelist CHARLES BURNS, Lydia Davis on SAMUEL BECKETT, baking Toll House cookies in Iraq, the ever entertaining NICK HORNBY, book reviews & much more. Get your read on. Published by McSweeney's.
ZINE
$9.25

Bethell, Craig
A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me
PS, UK Debut album by ex-Locust vocalist Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive songwriting style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied songs influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of Low-era Bowie, employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums.
Infraction
CD
$15.00

Blues Control
Puff
PS, US Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. Limited to 500 on black vinyl. Puff is the work of two modern gris-gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far.' --James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand)
Woodsist
LP
$13.00

Boredoms
Live At Sun Flancisco [CD+DVD]
PS, JAPAN Two-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" & "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V8REDOMS) live DVD. The DVD is NTSC format, all regions, for worldwide play. Approx 65 mins., Color, 4:3 aspect ratio.
Commons
CD/DVD
$50.00

Bottomless Pit
Hammer of the Gods
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BottomlessPit-001
DLP
$18.25

Brannon, Norman
The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader
PS, US While much ink has been spilled over 1980s punk and hardcore mythology, very little has been done to document the era that followed. Indeed, it's a glaring omission. In the 1990s, punk rock entered its adolescent stage and began reevaluating its own music, politics, and traditions. And before long, the result of this collective soul-searching became clear: If hardcore wanted to remain relevant in the new decade, it was going to have to rebel against itself. "The Anti-Matter Anthology" is perhaps the first published book dedicated to this transition.
Revelation
BOOK
$15.00

Broach, Chris
Airplanes. Gravity. Distance. Space. Crowds. Alcohol. Sex. Panic. Depression. Mania.
PS, US
Lucid
CD
$14.00

Bust
#49
PS, US All about EVE, the lady rapper graces this month's cover. Reno 911's Niecy Nash, Alison Goldrapp, Justice, career waitresses, be a tax master, fashion lovers
unite & more!
ZINE
$4.75

Candy Bars
On Cutting Ti-Gers
PS, US Recieved 7.4 on PITCHFORK. Debut from Tampa based chamber pop trio combines inherent pop sensibilities rich with lush sonic textures. Their sound results in a style the band calls "Heroin Pop," an amalgam of Sparklehourse, Hope Sandoval, Tindersticks and Leonard Cohen.
NewGranada-011
CD
$8.50

Chairlift
Evident Utensil
PS, US This single on white vinyl w/ full color jacket is the 1st official release for Chairlift! As if that wasn't exciting enough, the B side features a MGMT remix. Fans of MGMT, Of Montreal, Feist, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, synth pop, limited vinyl.
KanineRecords-291
45
$4.75

Conjerti, Morreale & Dibley
Earth Free
PS, US Originally a U.S. private release from 1973. Very rare and tremendous acid electric folk rockers with terrific harmonies and haunting lyrics. You can feel the '60s still alive in their overall sound. This is one of the tops in this genre and should be owned by every card-carrying member of 'private collectors club.' Songs 'Water To Wine," "Race To The Sun" and the title track, plus many more rule! Lyrics on back of LP. Exact cover has been reproduced.
Void
LP
$14.00

Currie, Jason
What Is Love For
PS, US Solo album of plush ballads from Del Amitri frontman. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A sumptuous set of lovely, meticulously arranged songs, sung with earnest emotion and empathy. Comparisons to much of McCartney's love tunes are in order. Imagine an album filled with variations on "My Love" and you're close to what Currie creates here. The melodies are simple yet elegant, the production clean and crisp with few signs of the sappy gunk this could easily have turned into. The singer's vocals are instantly recognizable, but in this format of music from the heart they seem even more impressive, as he's obviously connected to the material and not aiming for chart success. When he reaches into the higher end of his register on "Where Did I Go?" accompanied by strings and a somewhat surprising strangulated guitar solo, the drama is riveting. It will take a few spins for this to kick in, but when it does, small variations on the piano based format such as the gritty guitar that jumps out of "Out of My Control" and the squawking, David Bowie-styled sax in "Something in That Mess" become gripping interludes in the introspective mood. Clearly this material wouldn't have cut it on a Del Amitri album, at least all of it together, but the consistent tone works to this disc's advantage. It's a perfect soundtrack for rainy days and Sundays, or as accompaniment to anyone who has ever lost a love and needed to hear those sentiments expressed with honesty, sympathy and warmth."
Rykodisc
CD
$16.25

Dead Western
S-T
PS, US A haunting, bewildering, beautiful voice, reminiscent of Scott Walker (circa Climate of Hunter). This bellowing voice, like an ancient reptile, slithers & wraps itself around the most tender acoustic melodies. Limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl w/ die-cut, full color sleeves.
WeirdForest-040
45
$5.25

Dear, Matthew & Matt John
Trampolin
PS, GERMANY Matt John is back with a new stunning piece of minimal techno. Stretching over more than eleven minutes, 'Olga Dancekowski' is another psychedelic journey through the hypnotic sounds of Mr. John, where little bleepy sequences accumulate a twisted impact for the eager souls on the floor. His buddy Matthew Dear does need no further introduction. His remix is as twisted but he unleashes more eerie dancefloor frenzy. But listen for yourselves and enjoy.
Bar25
12
$12.25

Destroy All Monsters
Bored
PS, UK American group Destroy All Monsters caused quite a stir when they first appeared in the UK. Featuring guitarist Mike Davis who had previously played in The MC5, Ron Asheton - bass player from The Stooges and drummer Rob King, the band were completed by vocalist and ex-model Niagara. The band recorded only three singles for Cherry Red, all of which are contained on this mid-price CD (Tracks 1 > 6). Track seven - 'Goin' To Lose' - was previously unreleased.
CherryRed-094
CD
$15.50

Devine & Griffiths
Wheels To Get To Heaven
PS, UK Ian Devine is guitarist with Manchester post-punk band Ludus and one half of the duo Devine & Statton. This is the new album recorded with Amanda Griffiths on vocals. To narrow the field, this is a record that sits in the same emotional and musical league as the third release from The Velvet Underground, the first album by The Smiths, Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon', Nico's 'The Chelsea Girls', Carole King's 'Tapestry' or Joni Mitchell's 'Court and Spark'. And how to justify such a grand claim? It all comes back to the music, and the world opened up by the music. 'Wheels To Get To Heaven' is a near perfect conflation of darkness and light: that such enchanting, mesmeric songs make eloquent not simply such sadness, but such heartfelt vulnerability to the curves and ragged edges of seemingly commonplace days.
Anhrefn-017
CD
$15.50

Dimes, The
Silent Generation
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the songs provide snapshots of a bygone America...the Dimes' soft rock delivery is completely modern, investing the tales with the humanitarian romance of a Frank Capra movie. The Dimes have done what most bands dream of, creating an alternate universe of warm pop music with a sunny vibe that'll keep toes tapping and plaster a sunny smile on every listener's face."
PetMarmoset
CD
$11.50

Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Same
PS, UK Almost immediately after the demise of The Monkees in 1970, there was industry clamour for a reunion and publisher Christian Dewalden came forward with an offer to finance the project. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were enthusiastic but as Mike Nesmith wasn't interested and Peter Tork couldn't be found a kind of pseudo-Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written The Monkees first number one 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'The Monkees Theme (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees)' and '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone'. So Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was born. With the Monkees logo under copyright and not available for their use, the foursome set off on tour as 'the great golden hits of the Monkees - the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em.' DJBH made its first public appearance on July 4, 1975 at six flags over mid-America in St. Louis, Missouri, where they were met by 12,500 of the same screaming fans who had followed the Monkees 10 years previously. Performing a raft of Monkee hits (Peter Tork had joined DJBH onstage at Disneyland) the band appeared on 'American Bandstand' and 'Don Kirshner's rock concert' and toured the States for a year before heading to the far east. They have the distinction of being the first American band to play in Thailand (they had to cut their hair to be allowed into the country!). The success of the American tour secured a contract with capitol records. The subsequent 'Dolenz Jones Boyce & Hart' was produced by Boyce & Hart and though light and very pop, is regarded as the most coherent Monkeerelated
release since 1967¹s 'Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones'.
El-052
CD
$15.50

Donna Summer (aka Jason Forrest)
Panther Tracks v. 1
PS, UK File under: electronic, break core, hardcore. He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as "Shamelessly Exciting" was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, "Panther Tracks" is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Break core, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B'more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, "Panther Tracks" builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like "Peepers" and "Boomshakalaka". While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Break beat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as "Party People", "Get Down" and "Rock Rock Rock". No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, "Panther Tracks" is like the ultimate Rave; it's fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long.
CockRockDisco-010
12
$10.50

Durutti Column, The
Lips That Would Kiss
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Lips That Would Kiss collects together a selection of key tracks and singles recorded for Factory Benelux, Les Disques du Crepuscule and Sordide Sentimental between 1980 and 1986. Chief among these are the pristine singles Lips That Would Kiss b/w Madeleine (1980) and Danny b/w Enigma (1981), both recorded with legendary producer Martin Hannett. The remastered 75 minute CD also includes the rare 12" EP for Factory Benelux from 1982, Deux Triangles, several unique tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums, and no less than nine tracks from the unreleased 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline, several of which feature Tuxedomoon man Blaine L. Reininger on violin. The booklet features archive images, and a cover based on the original 1980 sleeve for the Lips That Would Kiss single by artist Jean-Francois Octave. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records.
LTM-2484
CD
$17.00

Durutti Column, The
Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Live In Bruxelles 13.8.1981 comprises a complete live performance by Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell at the Place de la Monnaie (Muntplein), together with a revealing after-show chat with Vini. The 10 song live set contains DC favorites such as Conduct and Sketch for Summer, as well as several rarely heard numbers including Stains, Danny and Messidor. The attractive booklet for this digitally remastered CD includes a facsimile of the original event programmed, as well as background notes and archive images of Brussels. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guest appeared on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group was managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records.
LTM-2499
CD
$17.00

Durutti Column, The
Fidelity
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Fidelity was originally released by Les Disques du Crepuscule in April 1996, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Elli Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar style, the album also features sleek programmed beats and synth textures. The expanded Fidelity CD also features one bonus track, My Only Love, originally issued in 1995 on a free CD with a guitar magazine. The attractive booklet for this digitally remaster includes background notes, and the text of the original press release. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records.
LTM-2512
CD
$17.00

Eels, The
Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1
PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Throughout the myriad problems that have informed his music, Mark Oliver Everett has continued to churn out plenty of product with his main musical project, Eels. To celebrate the group's longevity, Everett (or just simply "E," as you may know him better) is emptying his vaults with this massive release. Meet the Eels features some favorites like "Novocain for the Soul" as well as a remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by Jon Brion and a cover of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On." Other oddities include covers of Prince and Daniel Johnston, BBC performances, and a DVD of the band playing Lollapalooza in 2006. Add to that original artwork and copious liner notes by E."
Geffen
CD/DVD
$20.75

Ex Reverie
Door Into Summer
PS, US When teenage imaginings transcend childhood's end & lodge w/ concrete ferocity within the sound world of adult reality, one can find a unique realm wherein dulcimers & glam-rock guitar frenzies manifest w/ uniform importance. The trick is knowing not to discern a difference. This heralds a return to a reality deeper than most modern folksinger neo-realists can manage to muster.
LanguageofStone-004
CD
$13.25

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings Rough Bunnies
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub!

The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander

WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious."
Adrian-051
CD
$14.00

Fireflies
Snowstorm
PS, US 5 song EP. Fireflies is the home recording project of Chicago's Lisle Mitnik. Taking inspiration from Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, The Field Mice, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Françoise Hardy. Melancholic pop that will ease you through the cold winter.
27Records-008
CD5
$4.00

Flower Travellin' Band
Satori
PS, UK Previously issued on CD by Phoenix Records (and o/p already), now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. Reissue of the second Flower Travellin' Band album, originally issued by Atlantic Records in Japan in 1971. Satori is a conceptual hard rock/psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass. Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style turned him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Robert Plant while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin. Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African six-string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this is a real rock classic of the type they simply don't make any more.
Phoenix
LP
$20.00

Flying Lotus
1983
PS, US
PlugResearch-076
LP
$10.00

Formby, Richard
Volume 1
PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm,looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. Limited to 1000 copies.
MindExpansion-2011
CD
$11.50

Friska Viljor
Bravo!
PS, SWEDEN Debut album recorded by two drunk, lovelorn Swedish lads. Though sung in English throughout these songs are so very very Swedish. Comparisons include the legendary Bob Hund and their alter ego Bergman Rock, The Libertines and Beruit, and when I say that this could be a collection of unheard Shout Out Louds singles & b-sides I mean that as a very good thing. LONDON TIMES: "Friska Viljor's songs are heart-on-sleeve, declamatory and impossible to dislike. Bravo indeed." CONTACT MUSIC: "There may be only so much heartache that can be mined in any band's lifecycle, but while it's here, it should be welcomed. Bravo is like some Libertines/ Kaiser Chiefs cross, so full is it of anthemic indie pop, like fellow Swedes the Shout Out Louds (or the Danish Figurines). The sound of lost love is written through the songs, but it is not a depressing place to be - the sound of defiance comes through the lyrics, while the music, that throws in ukelele, accordion, trumpet and flugelhorn on top of the guitars and drums, like some rockier Beirut, is energetic and propulsive. Who knows if there could be a second album with the same spit and polish, but who cares? Bravo is a fantastic first album."
CryingBob
CD
$14.00

Gainsbourg, Serge
Les Annees Psychedelique 1966-1971
PS, US Culling its music from rare vinyl (Gainsbourg's ultra-rare 7" B-side from the Mister Freedom OST) & master tapes (the superb & never commercially released "La Horse" & the breakbeat classic "Requiem Pour Un Con") & utilizing tasteful restoration & remastering, this latest anthology promises to be the 1st time that many of these songs will be heard by the record-buying public. And w/ bonus beats to boot.
LeSmokeDisques
DLP
$16.75

Giant Robot
#51
PS, US Damon & Naomi, Hot Links, Meet John Jay, Blog Jam. Street Beat female streetwear, Joan Chen, Tang Wei & tons more about Asian pop culture &
beyond!
ZINE
$4.75

Golden Oaks
Paradise
PS, US This is free form Applachain abstraction from the folk/minimalist duo of Keith Wood & Brad Rose. Originally released in a CDR edition, this batch finds these autumn alchemists offering seven soul-soothing hymnals to the wind & the trees & the sky & the leaves. Tranced-out falsetto drifts atop supple strumming to create traditional backwoods folk, stressed & compressed by the walls around them, making it softer & airier. Their fractured take on folk is complimented by multi-layered bowed string & harmonium drones.
MusicFellowship-032
CD
$14.25

Greenwood, Jonny
There Will Be Blood OST
PS, US Radiohead guy Jonny G's acclaimed film-score. PITCHFORK: "Radiohead renaissance man Jonny Greenwood makes his Hollywood film score debut with this soundtrack to director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest outing, set in a desolate California town circa 1920."
Nonesuch
CD
$17.25

Grouper
Wide
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
WeirdForest-027
LP
$15.00

Heeb Magazine
#15
PS, US THE GOY ISSUE. Cheryl Hines on the cover. Includes feature on her, a hairy Christmas w/ Zach Galifianakis, strip deidel & tons more from this awesomely funny magazine also known as the New Jew Review. Shalom!
ZINE
$5.25

Hiorthoy, Kim
My Last Day
PS, US LIMITED VINYL
SmalltownSupersound-087
LP
$14.50

Holsapple, Peter & Chris Stamey
Mavericks [expanded re-issue]
PS, US The original 12-song album remastered plus 6 bonus tracks.
Collector'sChoice
CD
$15.25

Illiad, The
A Sad Day On Pluto
PS, GERMANY The Illiad is a young quintet from Ohio. A creatively produced demo put World In Sound's attention to the band leader Kyle Pittman, an introverted and deeply emotional singer and guitarist. A Sad Day On Pluto was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007 and contains 13 original tunes reflecting a tasty spectrum between early Pink Floyd jamming, '60s garage/flower-power and loner folk style, and features very catchy lyrics combined with interesting 'psychedelicate' melodies. Pittman's music captures a unique style of composing fresh music with the influences of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Velvet Underground, Marc Bolan and David Bowie. The mixing, mostly done by Pittman himself is truly a 'trip in time' -- a 'stereo-experimental' '60s style like Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn! The song 'Are You A Librarian' can be heard on Trip In Time Vol.2 (Psychedelic Rock Reflections). With expressive vocals, screeching guitar hooks and sunny Farfisa sounds in these electric tunes and classic ballads, The Illiad create the beginning of a fantastic voyage into a concrete vision of dreamy songs.
WorldInSound
CD
$17.00

It's Casual
Stop Listening To Bad Music
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FriendlyHills
LP
$15.00

Jaqee (w/Mattias Hellberg)
Nouvelle D'Amour
PS, SWEDEN Acclaimed album from Swedish/Ugandan soul siren Jaqee finds her partnered with Mattias Hellberg (Hederos & Hellberg, Nymphet Noodlers) and has earned her a Swedish Grammi Nomination. Like Massive Attack's mighty dub grooves on their classic 'Protection' meets the baroque meta-dabbling genre-bomb of Devendra Banhart's 'Smoky Mountain'? Or maybe countrydubraggasoulfolkblues? More on this later...
EnjovuSounds
CD
$14.00

Jud's Gallery
SWF Sessions Volume 1
PS, GERMANY New version of this archival CD, originally released as the first CD on Long Hair back in 2001. "Vol. 1 presents the band Jud's Gallery from Offenburg (Southwest Germany). In two sessions they recorded 9 songs 1972/74 in perfect studio quality. Intelligent Kraut-progressive-rock, self-composed long tracks with heavy-blues-rock and classical influence. A new chapter with unreleased original Krautrock. Continues the sound by those legendary labels as Brain, Pilz and Ohr."
LongHair
CD
$23.00

Kohoutek
Expansive Headache
PS, US Hot new trax from Kohoutek. Spaced out sludge rocking from Washington DC. Have zoned out with Flaherty, Sunburned, Bardo Pond, and many others.
MusicFellowship-035
CD
$14.25

Little Wings
Magic Wand
PS, GERMANY With "Magic Wand" by Little Wings Ahornfelder widens its genre variance once more to include an album we believe to be so genuinely beautiful that here's the first non instrumental album so far. After Kyle Field, the singer and head behind the changing lineup of Little Wings, released his book of drawings "Put It In A Nutshell" on Ahornfelder early 2007 it's wonderful to release his music now too. Little Wings sound is characterized the most by Kyle Field's notable voice. With a very unique sound he creates lush folky guitar-based tunes revolving around situations he may have experienced. But it's the poetic, stream of conscious way these images are described that establishes the special atmosphere of Kyle's lyrics. Sometimes they're reminding of the Beach Boys, sometimes more like contemporary American lo-fi-folk. In any way, you here a nature- and sea-loving man expressing his way of living and seeing his surrounding. And with the words and imagery he chooses his songs each establishes associations and feelings beyond simple tunes. With his always changing band recorded an album that may well be the one sounding more like a studio-recording than the albums before. The way perfect pop tunes and more expressive passages are alternating makes this work so special and abiding.
Ahornfelder-10
CD
$16.00

Magik Markers
Boss
PS, US Limited vinyl version of the most Magik Markers album (CD is on Ecstatic Peace), on their very own label Arbitrary Signs. "Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.' BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited."
ArbitrarySigns
LP
$17.00

Magnetic Fields, The
Distortion (ON SALE)
PS, US New album! STEREOGUM: "The Magnetic Fields can't be accused of false advertising in titling studio album eight Distortion: Each tune's wrapped in a fuzzy, clamoring shell, even when the feedbacking acoustic piano and guitar hum's relegated to deep in the background. Distortion's consistent textural palette's reminiscent of Holiday's "Desert Island," but this is all about icy New York City, or some other place where it snows. Besides distortion, the songs are coated in the lonesome darkness of The Charm Of The Highway Strip. Sigh. On the whole, it sports more sonic depth than 2004's sorta minor, stringier i. Let's consider it a baker's dozen of sad-and-out-of-love songs... Let's also consider it incredibly beautiful."
Nonesuch
CD
$15.00

Marah
Angels of Destruction!
PS, US Their 6th album finds the kids from Philly in a brave new world: new sobriety, new members & new songs. Culled from a Niagara-like output of songs over the past year, it is, as David Bielanko puts it, "...the tip of the iceberg and the bottom of the well." The album swings w/ abandon & rocks w/
greasy soul.
YepRoc-2108
CD
$14.75

Matthews, Ian
Tigers Will Survive
PS, US Feat. backing from British band Quiver. This is a brilliant collection of originals & choice covers (incl. Eric Andersen's classic "Close The Door Lightly When You Go" & an a capella version of The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron". Mellow folk-rock jams of the highest order.
Water-210
CD
$14.00

Matthews, Ian
If You Saw Through My Eyes
PS, US One of the founding members of Fairport Convention, he left in 1969 to pursue a solo career. Finding him reunited with former bandmates Sandy Denny & Richard Thompson this album feat. many fantastic originals & 3 well chosen covers.
Water-209
CD
$14.00

Menck
Hey War Pigs (ON SALE)
NO PS, US On his new 45rpm vinyl single Velvet Crush drummer and very occasional solo singer-songsmith Ric Menck covers former Soft Boys and Katrina & The Waves guitarist-songwriter Kimberly Rew's pissed-off protest anthem "Hey War Pigs" (so very fitting) backed by his dry-hump version of "Teenage Head" by The Flaming Groovies. Black wax in a plain paper sleeve. In addition to founding Velvet Crush Menck is and has been a member of The Drats, The Reverbs, The Springfields, The Paint Set, The Big Maybe, The Stupid Cupids, Pop The Balloon, Choo Choo Train, Duffy, The Tyde, Frausdots, Aimee Mann and Matthew Sweet.
ActionMusik-110
45
$2.50

Mojo
#171 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK New issue of the best music magazine on the planet. Features on cover stars Radiohead, The Cult, Zepplin, Adam Ant, Joni Mitchell, The Zombies, Can, Henry Diltz's Laurel Canyon-era photolog, 8 For 2008, plus an esteemed reviews section. Comes with a free 15-track CD of oldschool and newschool electronic pop-music featuring Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, The Human League, Farley Jacikmaster Funk, The Peppers, Tangerine Dream, Arthur Russell, The Sounds of Tomorrow, John Foxx, and Severed Heads alongside The Knife, Matthew Dear, Clouddead, Xela, The Gentle Rain, and Fujiya & Miyagi.
ZINE
$10.00

Monosov, Ilya
Seven Lucky Plays Or Songs To Fix A Broken Heart
PS, US This is his private celebration of the human experience & are based on his poems & stories written from 1996-2007. His early exposure to Russian dissident culture greatly affected his life & art. Influenced from a young age by his parents's passion for literature, art, & poetry; as well as by the music of Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, Miles Davis, & African American folk music traditions. Feat. Margaret Weink (FERN KNIGHT), mandolin & harp by Jesse Sparhawk, & electric guitar by GREG WEEKS.
LanguageofStone
CD
$13.25

Nada Surf
Lucky (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
Barsuk
CD
$14.00

No Depression
#73
PS, US SHELBY LYNN on the cover. Features on her OTIS TAYLOR, BAND OF HORSES, & TONS more cool stuff you'd ever want to know about the alt. country scene.
ZINE
$4.25

North Sea
In the Time of the Saugar Pines
PS, US In the burgeoning underground psych, folk, & noise movement, Brad Rose serves as both one of its biggest champions & contributors. This is his solo experimental / ambient / improvisational folk music project & like much of the folk music in the movement, looks to bring together the style of folk music w/ the feeling, sound, & aura of nature.
MusicFellowship-034
CD
$14.25

Os Mutantes
S-T [re-issue]
PS, RUSSIAN FEDERATION With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock and a good dose of pure experimentalism, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, AND Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus.
Lilith
CD
$19.00

Picabia, Francis
La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse)
PS, UK A unique CD by influential avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, featuring two interpretations of his provocative 1920 Dadaist piece for piano, together a spoken word extract from 1945. Written in 1920, La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse) consists of "three notes repeated to infinity" and was performed for the first - and last - time at the Festival Dada, staged at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 May 1920. A landmark event, the Festival Dada included contributions from Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and launched the Dada phenomenon in Paris. La Nourrice Américaine was performed on the day by Marguerite Buffet, duration unknown. It seems likely that Picabia's only venture into musical composition was inspired by talks with his friends Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Edgard Varese. On this CD fast and slow interpretations are included, both performed by pianist Tom Feldschuh and each lasting for 20 minutes. The CD also includes a rare spoken word piece by Picabia (in the French language), recording a visit to the artist's Paris atelier in July 1945. Artist biography: Born in Paris in 1879, artist, poet and theorist Francis Picabia is recognized as a key figure in the development of abstract art and the avant-garde in the 20th Century. After 1913 he made several visits to New York, where he was active in avant-garde circles and took part in the Armory Show. In 1917 he founded the celebrated periodical 391, and was an active participant in Paris Dada. A friend of composer Erik Satie, the pair collaborated on the ballet Relâche in 1924. Picabia later resumed abstract painting and writing poetry; a lover of fast cars, he is said to have owned 150 different vehicles. Picabia died in 1953.
LTM-2509
CD
$17.00

Radiohead
In Rainbows (DELAYED)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Radiohead
LP
$17.50

Radiohead
In Rainbows
PS, US New album from the music industry's most quietly entertaining shaker-uppers. Music is really good too.
ATO
CD
$14.25

Record Collector
#345 (January 2008)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Rings
Black Habit
PS, US First Nation has become Rings. Rings is the new First Nation. This is their new record. It is called Black Habit. New York's First Nation was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosko, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective's Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band.
Black Habit delivers in a major way. Rings have clearly developed their own style: a loose tribal pop sound that thrives on vocal harmonies and pulsating drum rhythms. Black Habit's energy is full of beauty, elegance and simplicity. The new name represents the group in many ways: the group's circular compositions, the bonds between them, their decision-making processes, and their feminine beliefs, interlocking, connected, whole, and continuous.
PawTracks-020
CD
$14.25

Road
Can't Talk
PS, US ROAD sound like Massive Attack going on a trip to brazil and Africa, taking with them the soul of Terry Callier and the raw funk of Gorillaz. Features guest vocals from the likes of Terry Callier, Earl Zinger (2 banks of 4), Valerie Etienne (Galliano, Kylie & Jamiroquai), Lucy Jules (Brand New Heavies, George Michael & Beverly Knight), Rosina Kazi (Lal), Elliot May (Basement Jaxx), Lorna Brown (Terry Callier), Jeanine levy and Will Mathews (Lo-finger & Rub Ultra), and the result is an infectious, fresh debut album.
StereoDeluxe
CD
$17.75

S.T. Mikael
Mind of Fire
PS, SWEDEN After an 11 year silence, here's a new album by the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, S.T. Mikael. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-'90s... Now that he's finally back, here's a chance at last for the world to join his psychedelic world again. The music, stretching out in many different directions, has been done freely and spontaneously in an extremely relaxed and happy environment. He also joins forces with Dungen's Reine Fiske and Fredrik Björling, whose musical expertise now also grace the grooves. These otherworldly acid tripper recordings now exist in the real world and S.T. Mikael proves, once again, to be a gifted songwriter and an unconventional performer with a very personal ear for acoustics and an emotional honesty seldom seen these days. Melodic folk-rock elements flow with waves of heavy fuzz-phase leads; weird, detached, haunted vocals echo over the band and the whole thing seems to teeter on the brink of psychedelic oblivion. This is not psychedelic revival, but the psychedelic NOW. His soaring vocals, surreal lyrics, fragile, folky melodies, heavy fuzz riffs, mind-bending soul funk and penchant for the spiritual and mystical make this a fascinating voyage that is so mind-twisting, soul-swirling, upper psychedelic that your third eye takes you on a joyride through an altered state! This album makes your brain start thinking in those pebble-splash-pond-mind circular expanding waveforms that reveal the password to tomorrow. The CD also contains 9 previously-unreleased vintage recordings and unique spoken introductions by Mikael. Limited edition of 2,000 copies only.
SubliminalSounds-022
CD
$16.25

Sambassadeur
Final Say [single]
PS, SWEDEN Track listing: 1. "Final Say" / 2. "Crooked"
Labrador-112
CD5
$5.00

Scenics
How Does It Feel To Be Loved: The Scenics Play the Velvet Underground
PS, US This quickly immerses the listener into a warm frenzy of fuzzy energy. First formed in '76 by Andy Meyers & Ken Badger, they were one of the most intrepidly inspired bands of the Toronto new wave/punk scene. They now return w/ a full-length
collection of Velvet Underground covers recorded live between 1977-81 in Toronto. Jangly, inverted pop aesthetics & wild mood swings of feverish noise dominate
these ten tracks, making this an abrasive wash of harmonious distortion.
DreamTower-001
CD
$16.25

Sic Alps
Strawberry Guillotine
PS, US Sic Alps toss out three new tracks for this seven". Title track 'Strawberry Guillotine' takes the listener on a guided tour of an imagined war between the sprawling Golden Gate Park homeless population and the more established model yacht community. Musket blasts sound off as shopping carts laden with gasoline and styrofoam emerge from the silent bushes and charge the blood-dimmed shores of the cement-bottomed Spreckles Lake. Cover art co-opted from '90s L.A. anti-legends Summer Hits, who stole it from the Walker Brothers in the first place. Apparently Rex from Summer Hits is now homeless in London where his long beard is black on one side and fully gray on the other. This record is humbly dedicated to him.
Woodsist
45
$5.25

Silver Apples
Contact [re-issue]
PS, US This is a reissue of the second album Contact by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1969. This enigmatic duo, armed only with percussion, vocals and an early, specialized synthesizer, is often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake; bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W.B. Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the "Simeon") which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk. Contact ushered in the band's recorded popularity and a national tour was quickly organized. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeon's banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor. Such was the level of Simeon's growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the album's opening track, "You And I" more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when Kapp folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January 1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the Knitting Factory. Again, the critics were unanimous. As the MC waxed poetic during an introduction to the Silver Apples concert in San Francisco, 1968: "You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, you'll dig it."
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Silver Apples
S-T [re-issue]
PS, US This is a reissue of the self-titled first album by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to pretty remarkable critical acclaim. Their debut enjoyed a 10-week stay in Billboard's Top 100 list, and the album's first track, "Oscillations," made the Top 10 list in numerous cities around the U.S. The music critics loved them. "What's so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment" commented one reviewer, quite possibly astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren who met the duo at the Third Annual Avant Garde Arts Festival in 1968, organized by topless cellist Charlotte Moorman. An absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock music's ground-breaking legends.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Single
Pianístico
PS, SPAIN SINGLE is the personal project of Teresa Iturrioz, bass player and brilliant lyricist in such seminal bands of Spanish independent pop music as AVENTURAS DE KIRLIAN and LE MANS. Now Teresa comes back to the front row with her own project, SINGLE, a new musical adventure of her own. A journalist once said LE MANS suggested "an image of Claudine Longet fronting STEREOLAB". Classicism and a fragile voice, fronting leftfield experimentation and sonic avant-garde: a definition that can perfectly fit the new songs by SINGLE. Teresa works once again with Ibon, who appears here in the roles of composer, producer and musician (as well as providing some of the musicians he usually works with on his own solo records, like Antonio from PARADE or Murky from PATRULLERO MANCUSO and GRIMORIO). There's three excellent tracks on this debut EP by SINGLE, that comes wrapped in a wonderful and beautiful cover artwork by Spanish top designer Javier Aramburu.
Elefant0371
CD5
$6.75

Sinier, Raoul (aka Ra)
Huge Samurai Radish
PS, GERMANY File under: electronic, hip hop, break beat. An appetizer to Raoul Sinier (formerly known as "Ra") 's third studio album "Brain Kitchen" (to come on Ad Noiseam in 2008), "Huge Samurai Radish" sees this multi talented artist present a new menu of his gritty, catchy and personal electronic hip hop, as well as lend the knife to La Caution, Vast Aire (of Cannibal Ox fame), Wisp, Datach'I and Lynx & Ram for five spicy remixes. Tasty and highly addictive.
AdNoiseam-089
CD
$15.25

Souvenir
Extras 64
PS, SPAIN Souvenir's 'Extras 64' has been conceived as the epilogue to their record '64' (Jabalina Música 2007), which was released at the beginning of this year and critically acclaimed as an inspired change of course in the sound of this heterodox Spanish indie band. Initially intended as a single to feature their song 'Si tu sais pas' -an irresistible techno-pop gem which Souvenir wrote and recorded after the release of '64'- it has eventually become a real treat for fans which includes their cover version of Blondie's 'Hanging on the telephone' (which Souvenir are performing live on their current tour), three remixes of songs from '64', and their amazing first-ever video of the song 'Allô, allô'. So 'Extras 64' features two brand new tracks, a video and three remixes which give songs from '64' an even more dance-oriented dimension. For this task Souvenir have chosen artists on their same wavelength, such as Johan Agebjörn (the Swedish producer and songwriter who's responsible for the success of this year's brilliant debutante Sally Shapiro) who has taken 'Allô, allô' to new dancefloor heights, or Spanish singer Miqui Puig, who has remixed 'Une semaine en ballon'. Also, Souvenir's Jaime Cristóbal has revamped his own 'Accident à Londres'. These new 5 dancefloor fillers are topped by a brilliant video produced and directed by Spanish ace company Producciones Entrelíneas. The video takes the avant-garde aesthetics of '64' further on and the result is a pleasure to the eye, with a special mention to Patricia, whose appearance on the video is especially captivating. Iker Spozio, again, is responsible for the 'Extras 64' artwork, and Arturo Vaquero has been in charge of the mastering.
Jabalina-030
CD5
$9.50

Spear Of Destiny
One Eyed Jacks
PS, UK Making its long overdue debut on CD is the second album by Spear Of Destiny, which hit No.22 in the UK National Charts when first released in 1984. Contains the British hit singles 'Liberator' and 'Prisoner Of Love'. Now comes with seven bonus tracks and the whole package has been remastered by Tim Turan. Booklet contains original LP artwork, liner notes by "No More Heroes" author Alex Ogg, lyrics to all the songs plus pictures of all the relevant singles sleeves. Still very much active on the live scene to this very day, vocalist Kirk Brandon also fronts Theatre Of Hate and the Dead Men Walking collective.
Anagram-201
CD
$15.50

Stereo Total
Plastico EP
PS, SPAIN Limited edition red vinyl. Four songs.
Elefant-257
45
$7.50

Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Fire Escape
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SmalltownSuperjazz-134
LP
$14.50

Taunus
Harriet
PS, GERMANY Taunus was formed by the Berliner steel string guitarists Jan Thoben and Jochen Briesen in early 2001. They were joined by several guests playing percussion, banjo, harmonium and vibraphone at live concerts. Since their first long player Malinche (Schinderwies-Production, 2005) Taunus' lineup keeps changing a bit and is heading towards a more flexible ensemble conception. For the new album Harriet (Ahornfelder, 2007) Derek Shirley, Michael Thieke, Wilm Thoben and F.S. Blumm were invited to play along at the recording sessions. Taunus play acoustic (mostly) instrumental music - you can find elements ranging from folk, finger picked minimal structures to improvised and more open forms in their music. The first record Malinche by Taunus was mostly focused on minimal, interlocking folky guitar patterns. Harriet on the other hand features more contrasting elements: Strictly composed passages, which are rigid and static in character, are combined with free, fluid and improvised parts. Dissonances enter a framework of open tuned folk-harmonics. And on top of the warm and immediate sounds of acoustic instruments an artificial voice generator talks about the inconstancy of concepts and theory. By bridging and sometimes even blurring these contrasts and differences, Taunus expand their way of musical expression. Harriet successfully explores new ways of composing interesting, reflective and charming music based on finger picked guitars. The album is named after Darwin's lady freshwater turtle Harriet, which died in 2006 at the age of 175 years. She was mistakenly thought to be a male exemplar of her species for most of her life.
Ahornfelder-12
CD
$16.00

Te'
If There Is No Word Which Tells Sound, Beautiful Melody
PS, JAPAN 1. If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 2. Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 3. There is something sad sound when you knock the deep part of the soul by voice. 4. Just to kill a disagreeable thing. Is it human's thing to do? Just to kill a hateful thing. Doesn't it call it human?
Zankyo-027
CD5
$9.00

Te'
It Is One's Mind Try To Sing Realstic Sound In Resounds
PS, JAPAN 1.Even mightiest soul and mightiest power, it is same as nothing if there is no intellect 2.If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 3.Also love and faith keep up with a daily small deed 4.Those who do not need tomorrow most see tomorrow most pleasantly 5.Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 6.Those who play using word are not in the talent, it is only there's memory 7.Moderation and justice are the nominal which only a superior can use freely 8.When one's mental lost right goal that shown wrong direction to the frustrations 9.You can not call anyone happy, if you do not had been any trouble 10.Human have ability of destroy oneself by logical mind.
Zankyo-038
CD
$18.00

Television Personalities
The Good Anarchist
PS, SPAIN Limited edition 7". Two songs.
Elefant-256
45
$7.50

Tempo No Tempo
Repetition
PS, US Second EP from Berkeley, California band written, recorded and mixed entirely at home. By brewing a highly-danceable mix of post-punk and new wave (with a dash of emo), Tempo No Tempo allows their admirers to bust a move without losing cool points.
DoubleNegative
CD
$6.00

Three Hour Tour
B Side Oblivion (ON SALE)
PS, US Ten new songs from Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour. Coop's joined by Adam Schmitt (bass) and Brad Steakley (drums) and the recordings feature guest appearances by John Richardson and Velvet Crush duo Paul Chastain and Ric Menck.
MartianRecordCorp
CD
$14.00

Torske, Bjorn
Feil Knapp
PS, US Now on Double Vinyl! Weirdly melodic & wonderfully groovy. LIMITED!!!
SmalltownSupersound-117
DLP
$18.00

Uncut
#129 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Under the Radar
#20
PS, US Zooey Deschanel & M.Ward on the cover. The most anticipated albums of 2008! Also starring Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Bjorn & John, My Morning Jacket, Midlake, Metric, The Flaming Lips, Camera Obscura, Spiritualized, CSS, Mew & more!
ZINE
$3.75

Vapaa
Hum Hum Hum
PS, FINLAND Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic 'core' group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$12.25

Various
Shapes and Sounds Volume Two: Shades of Deepest Purple from the BBC Archives 1967-1971
PS, UK With this second excavation of previously unreleased live BBC session performances spanning the period 1967-1971, Shapes And Sounds becomes a series and Volume Two features a completely different line up of bands from last year's set. Pride of place on this second edition arguably goes to The Gun, with three astonishing performances that were recorded nearly a year before 'Race With The Devil' which illustrate their late '67 menu of mod and psych pop, with cracking versions of Rupert's Peoples 'Hold On,' Paul Simons 'A Most Peculiar Man' and a quite splendid airing of their legendary 'Light On The Wall!' The Casuals surprise with the beat of 'Midnight Confessions' and 'Take Me For A Little While' as well as a fine rendering of 'Jesamine,' while The Mirage perform a live version of their May 1967 single 'The Wedding Of Ramona Blair.' The Alan Bown! play an excellent take of 'Magic Handkerchief' and even more interestingly offer two numbers that never appeared on any Bown release, with the self-penned progressive popper 'Movie Star Baby' and a brilliant interpretation of The Association's 'Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies.' Also with three tracks on Shapes And Sounds are Wales' The Bystanders, who turn in a lovely version of 'Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day' as well as a glorious homage to The Byrds with 'Renaissance Fair.' Even better and long talked about in collectors' circles but never previously released is their absolutely stunning rendition of 'I Am The Walrus,' which Top Sounds are sure will disappoint no one! Sourced from an off-air recording of their only British television appearance on Disco 2, Killing Floor perform 'Milkman' from their Out Of Uranus LP in superb quality (the TV show was wiped decades ago) and of similarly heinous rarity are live tracks from Portrait and Katch 22, who turn in forceful renderings of 'Born To Be Wild' and 'The Price Of Love,' respectively (the latter of which is better than the Status Quo cover!) The sound quality is absolutely superb throughout, with 12 of the 16 tracks sourced from original BBC Transcription records. The other performances have been taken from excellent off-air recordings and similarly shine and though few of the tracks on the collection needed much enhancement at all, all have nevertheless been professionally restored and mastered. The presentation is immaculate and as with the previous Shapes And Sounds release, Artholeghraphics have designed a memorable period flavored package. The LP has a 16 page color booklet based on a vintage Radio Times packed with illustrations, band histories and listings of all their known BBC sessions written and supplied by Nigel Lees, author of much of Record Collector magazine's 'The British Psychedelic Trip' series. Except for the Mirage recording being bootlegged many years ago (in lesser quality!), none of the tracks have ever been commercially available and most have not been heard in public since the '60s. Shapes And Sounds is a legitimate limited edition release, licensed from the BBC with the blessing and co-operation of many band members.
TopSounds
LP
$25.00

Various
Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli
PS, US Bridging the gap between American primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the new age marketing juggernaut of the mid '80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a digipack chipboard slipcase with a 40-page booklet and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmidt, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Crandell, Tree People, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Canan, and Dana Westover.
Numero-018
CD
$15.75

Various
Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1
PS, US Available again: An unbelievable collection of dynamic Cambodian music recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both in Cambodia and in the United States. A truly Khmer blend of folk and pop stylings -- Cha-Cha Psychedelia, Phase-shifting Rock, sultry circle dance standards, pulsing Cambodian new wave, haunted ballads, musical comedy sketches, Easy-Listening numbers and raw instrumental grooves presented in an eclectic variety of production techniques. Male and female vocalists share the spotlight, embellished by roller rink organ solos, raunchy guitar leads and MIDI defying synthesizers. Culled from over 150 ageing cassettes found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California, these recordings showcase a pre and post holocaust Cambodian musical lineage that can't be ignored.
SublimeFrequencies
CD
$13.75

Various
The Rubble Collection #1 Volumes 1-10 [10CD boxset]
PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 1-10 CD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Featuring Pretty Things, Wimple Winch, Spencer Davis Group, Flies, Brain Police, Onyx, Brain, Open Mind, and dozens more!
Fallout
CD-BOX
$88.00

Various
I'm Not There [Dylan Biopic OST]
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Sony
DLP
$20.50

Various
Number of Small Things
PS, US This is a compilation of tracks from Morr Music's little sister 7" label, A Number of Small Things. Feat. Markus Acher's (TIED & TICKLED TRIO, ISAN, Masha Qrella, Butcher The Bar, Simon Scott (ex-SLOWDIVE), SEABEAR, BENNI HEMM HEMM, B. FLEISCHMANN, STYROFOAM, LALI PUNA, JENS LEKMAN & more!!
MorrMusic-079
DCD
$20.00

Various
Good Bye Said The Rain
PS, MEXICO Made in Tijuana, Mexico to promote female electronic music producers. These sounds range from indie electronic to ambient to minimal techno and beyond. TRACK LIST: 01. Carrie -Summer dream 02. Iris -Holding hands 03. Kate Simko -In a star orbit (remix of Rebecca Gates) 04. Lucrecia -Patillas 05. AGF -REfail instrumental 06. Robin Judge -Roulette 07. Ilana Ospina -Tenue 08. Purdy Rocks -Spiritual emergency 09. Quio - Gazon Gasolina 10. Alisu -Impresiones 11. Mariena Monjeau -Escenas Borradas 12. Audiofem -Telekinetic 13. Arturo en el barco -Burbujas
AtAt-011
CD
$9.75

Various
Achtung! German Grooves: 20 Instrumental Dancefloor Killers from the 60s and 70s
PS, GERMANY The rehabilitation of German popular musicians continues with this new compilation from the Bureau B label. CD brings together wild rare grooves, slick funk workouts, sleazy soul beats, wah-wah guitars, Fender-Rhodes, Hammond organs, meaty drum breaks, snappy horn sections -- everything the easygoing '60s and '70s had to offer. Alongside orchestral greats like James Last, Max Greger, Peter Thomas and Ambros Seelos, a number of lesser-known, but nonetheless exciting musicians take a deserved bow. Other artists include: Ady Zehnpfennig, Gerhard Narholz, Hans Haider, Don Kelly Band, Kai Warner And His Orchestra, Theo Schumann Combo, Henry Arland, Heinz Kiessling, Orchester Günter Gollasch, Pete Jacques, Hans Ehrlinger And His Orchestra, Catch Up, Helmut Zacharias, Roberto Delgado, Berry Lipman and Orchester Walter Kubiczek.
BureauB
CD
$16.25

Various
Happy New Year 2008
PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds!
Elefant-372
CD5
$6.75

White Town
Don't Mention The War
PS, US
Bzangy
CD
$14.00

White, Emily Jane
Dark Undercoat
PS, US San Francisco folk singer/songwriter. Comparisons to artists like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, yet Emily's music owes a clear debt to classic
female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday.
DoubleNegative-006
CD
$8.50

Wire Magazine
#287
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.50

Wussy
Left For Dead
PS, US Here the band steps further away from Chuck Cleaver's ASS PONYS' past & continues to create collectively on their own path. This is again filled w/ the lyrical style that became commonplace on the first where the thoughts & emotions are cut-to-the-bone & worn on the sleeve. Swampy-Americana to Velvet Underground infused folk to bedroom-produced pop gems.
ShakeIt-558
CD
$12.50

Yellow Swans
At All Ends
PS, US This record is an assured record of chiming drone & heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the camp that are more hushed, & whisper w/ the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission w/ dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin.
WeirdForest-018
DLP
$18.25

Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core
S-T
PS, US Collaborative LP from Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core featuring GMS, Pete Swanson, C. Spencer Yeh & Mike Shiflet. Recorded from 2005 to 2006. Artwork by The Wyvern. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on 140 gram red marbled vinyl.
BlossomingNoise
LP
$17.00

Zillionaire
Street Lights Have Been
PS, US Tampa group featuring former members of WASHDOWN. Recommended for fans of Codiene, Polvo and Seam. "Depthy and introspective, mixes the moodiness and experimentation of contemporary post-hardcore and the glacial beauty of classic 90's slowcore and elements from throughout the indie-rock spectrum" -Reax Music Magazine
NoGranada-013
CD
$8.50

Forthcoming Releases

Adorable
Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives.
CherryRed-327
CD
$15.50

Affinity
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Featuring 8 rare tracks, not found on their original LP, including two tracks from their rare single and two tracks from their 1969 EMI acetate.
Lilith-145
CD
$18.00

Affinity
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US ALSO ON 2LP!
Lilith-145
DLP
$29.50

Antietam
Opus Mixtum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US
CarrotTop-041
CD
$12.00

Arbol
You Traveled My Heart Inside Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SPAIN Arbol´s 3rd release "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" is out now. Miguel Marín, aka Arbol, continues to walk a path that the enigmatic lushness of his previous work cannot erase. Where a clearing in the forest of "Dreams made of paper" (Lejos Discos, 2005) forced us to linger over songs that poured down on us as a sudden and marvelous light before continuing on our mottled passage, the select track of "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" opens like a delta to new and wide pastures, bringing calm waters to soak the feet of the city. For this new release, Miguel has collaborated with Suzy Mangion, D-fried and the Japanese singer Eri Makino. It was recorded between 2004 and 2007 in London, Barcelona and Tokyo and confirms the crucial role played by Miguel Marín in the development of imaginary soundtracks as an independent musical genre. "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" shows the influences that Arbol´s music has been subject to in recent years as he moved between three completely different cities, three distinct ways of seeing music and life.
LejosDiscos-009
CD
$15.00

Atlas Sound
Let the Blind Lead Those (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 18TH)
PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania.
Kranky-114
CD
$11.00

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

Baby Dee
Safe Inside the Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Baby Dee is an internationally traveled singer, songwriter & performer. This is her 3rd album. Produced by MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, who also played on the record, along w/ ANDREW WK, ROBBIE LEE, MAX MOSTON, WILLIAM BREEZE, JOHN CONTRERAS, JAMES LO & LIZ KESSEL, all of whom bring extra fullness to Dee's old-world pop sensibilities. This is such a great album, filled w/ deeply moving songs & sharply produced in vivid images.
DragCity-351
CD
$13.25

Baby Dee
Safe Inside the Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-351
LP
$13.25

Baja
Wolfhour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Daniel Vujanic´s third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled, intensively displays the composer/musician´s exciting approach towards a "free electronica" genre. Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, maximized-minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of sedative post-post-rock, "Wolfhour" plays with postmodern expectations as much as possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There is at least as much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic´s compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Beginnings sound like ends and vice versa. Sounds teleport. Comments on Baja's Sound: "Mirroring the obstinacy and arbitrary nature of human emotions, Vujanic is using electronic music in a way that makes it less a statement about media or a contemporary discussion about subverting conventional songwriting than a tool of matter-of-factness..." - Coke Machine Glow "If the indie rock just isn't getting it done for you anymore, Baja's enveloping, intangible compositions may be just the guide you need to more engaging musical territory. Tiny Mix Tapes ...beautifully strange thing in between postrock, notebookindie, jazzy bitparts and occasional guitar eruptions and - yes, indeed - pop..." (10 points) - VISIONS Magazine.
OtherElectricites-011
CD
$12.25

Birds of Maya
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Debut LP from Philly power-trio. Lo-fi rock recalling '60s/'70s classics like Cream, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, the Stooges, etc.
HolyMountain
LP
$15.00

Black Mountain
In The Future [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US ***** Pre-order and receive the MP3s of the entire album! Details below. ***** Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The DELUXE EDITION, at the same price as the regular version, includes second disc with 3 additional recordings. SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this album before the release date (10/9) and you will receive an email with instructions and a unique code to access an advance mp3 download of the entire album on 9/25, two weeks ahead of the street date.

SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this album before the release date (January 22nd) and you will receive an email with instructions and a unique code to access an advance mp3 download of the entire album, ahead of the CD street date. *** Please put "SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION" IN THE NOTES FIELD when you check out, or mention it in email or on the phone.
Jagjaguwar-090
DCD
$11.50

Black Mountain
In The Future [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-090
2LP
$12.25

Blood On The Wall
Liferz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "Awesomer".
TheSocialRegistry-060
CD
$11.50

Bodies Of Water
Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy.
SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12
CD
$11.50

Buddyrevelles
September, November (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Listen to that Telecaster chime! Those intertwining vocal lines! Those dynamic yet dancey rhythms! The Buddyrevelles really are one of the best pop bands around, and their debut CD (released in 1998 on Motorcoat Records) proves that 14 times over.
NoKarma-065
CD
$10.50

Buddyrevelles
American Matador (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US "'One, Two' is a perfect example of the benefits resulting from the slightly thicker, more complex sound the band has chosen to explore on their latest record. Time changes, layered guitars, and a generally expanded musical vocabulary make American Matador's better moments a true step forward for an already excellent band ... and when the grand finale arrives, and drummer Dan Reinholdt's kit explodes like fireworks, any conceivable doubt disintegrates: American Matador is an awesome record." -Pitchfork [8.0]
NoKarma-066
CD
$10.50

Burial Chamber Trio
Wvrm (PIC 10") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US The 2nd vinyl only release by the the collaborative project between: OREN AMBARCHI, GREG ANDERSON & ATTILA CSIHAR. They return w/ a special picture disc 10" vinyl w/ sick, elaborate packaging designed by Seldon Hunt. The audio material is taken from the groups performance in Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wvrm. LIMITED TO 3000
SouthernLord
10
$14.00

Buzzcocks
30 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US New album from punk-pop legends and orgasm addicts, still jackin' it 30 years on.
CookingVinyl
CD
$13.75

Canned Heat
Vintage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Here's how they sounded in '66 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings. A perfect match, considering that Wilson & Hite were avid record collectors & blues aficionados.
Lilith-139
CD
$18.00

Castanets
Strong Animal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US This limited edition 7" includes a remix of "Strong Animal" from CASTANETS recent "In the Vines" full-player, as well as "Golden", an outtake from that same album. The remix was part of a series of remixes given out via the interweb to help promote "In The Vines". This one was too deliciously geared for dance floors so we felt that not putting it to wax was a crime to the night. West Coaster and Hero to All, RAFTER, manned boards and faders and clickers for it. Bass up, mids wherever. Artwork is by Castanets good friend Tara Jane ONeil. Here's to big airplanes and weekend agoraphobics.
AsthmaticKitty-034
45
$3.75

Cat Power
Jukebox [deluxe version] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. This deluxe version comes in a silver-foil gatefold cover with a bonus disc of extra tracks. Backed by Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi). Guest appearances from Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan), Larry McDonald (Toots & The Maytals, Taj Mahal), Teenie Hodges (Al Green, Memphis Rhythm Band), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham). MOJO: "She inhabits other people's songs with a fierce conviction that's sometimes startling.".
Matador
DCD
$15.00

Cat Power
Jukebox [regular version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Her second album of covers!!!
Matador
CD
$13.25

Cat Power
Jukebox (Deluxe) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover!!!
Matador
LP
$25.00

Celletti, Alessandra
Way Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22nd)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a new studio album from Alessandra Celletti, the virtuoso Italian composer/pianist whose previous CDs include acclaimed interpretations of works by Glass, Satie and Gurdjieff. Way Out is Alessandra's third album of original material, following Overground (1997) and Chi Mi Darà le Ali (2006). Recorded in Rome in 2007, Way Out marks an innovative exploration of several musical styles, including vocal tracks sung by Alessandra as well as a number of her exquisite solo piano compositions. She is joined on most of the tracks by drummer Fabio Ferri, while Renzo Pin provided English-language lyrics. Stand-out tracks include Dear To Me, Burning and Hundred Points, the latter a future pop classic complemented by a brilliant animated video clip made by Tony Sbarbaro. A unique set that defies classification, Way Out also features one bonus song, the beautiful title track from Alessandra's previous artist album, Chi Mi Darà le Ali. The memorable cover image is the painting Pensando alla Guerra by artist Isobel Blank. Short biography: Alessandra Celletti studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome . After graduating she continued her studies with Vera Gobbi Belcredi, specializing in French piano works of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In 1994 she released Les sons et les parfums, an album of pieces by Debussy, Ravel and Satie. Since then she has followed an irregular artistic path, characterized by sudden departures from classical music. Her second album, Viaggio a Praga, an exploration of the work of Bohemian composers, saw Alessandra awarded a scholarship by the Czech Republic in 1997. On returning to Italy she began working with Kha Records. Her collection Esoterik Satie proved hugely popular in France , and Gnossienne #1 was used by Guy Ritchie in his 2005 movie Revolver. Alessandra is now preparing to release two new albums. The Golden Fly will appear in Italy in October 2007, and Way Out by LTM in January 2008.
LTM-2505
CD
$17.00

Cha Cha Cohen
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 1999 debut album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Cha Cha Cohen
All Artists Are Criminals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 2002 album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Chico Hamilton Quintet/Elmer Bernstein
OST: Sweet Smell Of Success (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK One of the most important films of the fifties, Sweet Smell Of Success boasts one of the great jazz scores; a combination of abstract jazz themes written and performed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet and a furious orchestral score by the masterful Elmer Bernstein. These albums were released seperately in 1957 - both became very considerable rarities - and are here combined in a single edition in digital format for the first time. Sweet Smell Of Success is memorable for the vicious performances of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and its uniquely nasty view of the tough underbelly of New York fifty years ago. It was directed by Alexander mackendrick ('The Ladykillers' 'Whisky Galore' 'The Man In The White Suite' 'Mandy') Its audience is with jazz and film buffs and the eternally stylish; strong export potential everywhere.
El-132
CD
$15.50

Clark, Gene
Self -Titled "White Light" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Further proof that '71 could very well have been the best yr ever for pop music is this LP. Following his '66 departure from The Byrds, as well as a release w/ the Gosdin Brothers & 2 w/ Doug Dillard as Dillard & Clark, Gene cut this w/ guitarist/produced Jesse Ed Davis, Burrito Brother Chris
Ethridge & pianist Ben Sidran.
4MenwithBeards-116
LP
$16.25

Clark, Guy
Texas Cookin' (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Originally released in '76, this sophomore effort for RCA is another fine set of country tunes that run the gamut of emotions from goofy & playful to brutally heartbreaking, sometimes within the same song. Feat. a ridiculous talented set of players that includes Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Gimble, Chip Young, Jerry Jeff Walker & Rodney Crowell,this is an Outlaw Country classic.
DBKWorks-540
CD
$16.50

Clark, Guy
Old No. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US His debut from '75 is one of the all time classic country singer-songwriter records. From the rollicking Texas swing of opener "Rita Ballou" to the fingerpicked heartbreak of closer "Let Him Roll" there is not a stinker to be found. Feat. EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL & a young STEVE EARLE.
DBKWorks-539
CD
$16.50

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD "Birds" is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling - and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb.
TableOfTheElements-810
CD
$13.00

Creteens
4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA)
PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl.
Contaminated-009
45
$6.00

Dead Meadow
Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US A remarkably clear, powerful, and confident recording that should elevate the trio into the pantheon of the great guitar bands of our time. Darlings of both the stoner rock and the modern psychedelia worlds, Dead Meadow transcend both and have created a sound all their own. Packaging includes CD in digipak with tipped-in booklet featuring a gorgeous painting by LA artist Charles Wish. CD enhanced with bonus video.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Dead Meadow
Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
DLP
$19.00

Doleful Lions
7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008)
PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past.
Parasol-CD-108
CD
$9.00

Durutti Column, The
Circuses & Bread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Circuses & Bread was originally released by the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. Stand-out tracks include All That Love & Maths Can Do and the single Tomorrow. This expanded edition of Circuses & Bread also features ten bonus tracks, including the rare Japanese single For Noriko/Love Fading, compilation album tracks Verbiers and The Aftermath, and four previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline. The bonus cuts also include the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, the late Anthony H. Wilson (Factory Records founder and Durutti Column manager). The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records.
LTM-2510
CD
$17.00

Envy
Abyssal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132
LP
$11.50

Envy
Abyssal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132
CD
$9.00

Envy
All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129
LP
$11.50

Envy
All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Originally released in 2001 on respected Japanese punk label H.G. FACT, "All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" introduced ENVY to Americans when it was licensed for limited release in 2003 on DIM MAK RECORDS. Their original pressing sold out almost immediately, and the album has been scarcely available ever since. The vinyl now regularly fetches over $100 on eBay, and the CD is equally difficult to score without paying increasingly undesirable import fees. Along with their now-legendary follow-up, "A Dead Sinking Story", All the Footprints is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129
CD
$9.00

Evangelicals
The Evening Descends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US "The Evening Descends"Š and worlds collide. First you hear the prodigious musical skill: the deft guitar work, the clever pop sensibility, the wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a trio of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have EVANGELICALS, a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, OK. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, "The Evening Descends" is the first great album of 2008.
DeadOceans-4
CD
$11.50

Evangelicals
The Evening Descends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DeadOceans-004
LP
$11.50

Fair Weather
Beginning From An End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW's CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED WITH 6 BONUS TRACKS. Following the demise of AMEN CORNER, Andy Fairweather Low and fellow musical cohorts Blue Weaver, Clive Taylor and Dennis Byron underwent a musical transition into the band FAIR WEATHER. Heading into a "Progressive" direction the band adopted a harder edge and were the first act to sign to RCA Records' progressive imprint NEON (an attempt to rival Philips' VERTIGO label). Perhaps the most successful NEON signing, the band secured a UK TOP TEN hit in "Natural Sinner" before releasing their sole album, "Beginning from an End". Featuring guest contributions from DAVE EDMUNDS on "I Hear You Knockin'", although the album was a success in Europe, FAIR WEATHER lasted a mere 13 months before disbanding. This ESOTERIC reissue gathers together the album and six tracks released over three singles to comprise this definitive edition remastered reissue.
EsotericRecordings-2028
CD
$20.25

Fairport Convention
What We Did On Our Holidays (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Their 2nd, originally released in '69, is the 1st to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. This finds them moving away from the California folk-rock of their debut album towards a more British approach to similar material. It is also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals & many consider this lineup to be the finest in their long & varied career.
Water-211
CD
$14.00

Fairport Convention
Unhalfbricking (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Originally released in '69, Ian Matthews left midway through the recording. As a result the band looked further into their own country's folk traditions for influence, as their decidely British style was cemented by the addition of Dave Swarbrick's fiddle.
Water
CD
$14.00

Farr, Gary
Strange Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK GARY FARR's LONG LOST CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACK. "Strange Fruit" is a great undiscovered work of the acoustic rock / classic rock genres, cited by some as a minor masterpiece. In the late 60's Gary Farr made the transition from leader of R&B outfit The T-Bones to a noted singer-songwriter. Recording an album for Marmalade Records, Farr then signed to CBS Records in 1970, recording this sole album for the label. Sessions featured contributions from RICHARD THOMPSON on lead guitar and leading lights of the underground MIGHTY BABY. Unavailable on CD for many years, "Strange Fruit" is a record made by an often overlooked singer-songwriter made available once more by Esoteric Recordings and is certain to appeal to all who adore acoustic music both melancholic and uplifting. The reissue also features the first ever CD appearance of the single edit of "Revolution of the Season".
EsotericRecordings-2029
CD
$20.25

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years.
Water
CD
$14.00

Fessenden
v1.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion while drones interplay with staccato chords. "v1.1" represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, where hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture. Praise for Fessenden: "Playing on a rusty knife edge, these artists mould a new genre of inquisitive reduction of technical abuse..." -Touching Extremes "Contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound." -Vital Weekly "Like drifting Arctic waters in an atomic sub, slowly diving, headset plugged directly into the hull."- Avant Music News "One of the more patient ensembles I've heard, Fessenden members seem to be in no hurry to move things along here...just a few compass degrees this way or that...Fessenden provides a nice trip." -KFJC
OtherElectricites-010
CD
$11.00

Finn, Liam
I'll Be Lightning (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Debut album from the spawn of Crowded House's Neil Finn. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: I'll Be Lighting finds Liam coming into his own as a singer/songwriter not unlike how Neil did around the time of True Colours, a remarkable parallel in musical development that, when combined with the passing similarity in their songwriting styles, can perhaps tie Liam a little too closely to his father. Like his dad, Liam has an ear for hooks and a predilection for melodic craft, but he is not only his own man, he is certainly the product of his own generation, raised on classic pop dating back to the Beatles but obsessed with indie singer/songwriters of the '90s, specifically Elliott Smith. I'll Be Lightning has the same spare, dreamy qualities of Smith's music, but Liam Finn isn't as haunted as Smith, even if he has a similar knack for floating melodies. Despite a fair share of brokenhearted ballads here, this isn't an overly melancholy album; it can be comforting in its spells of sadness, partially because they're balanced by lighter material that meshes with the slower, sadder songs to give this depth, a richness in lyric and music uncommon to young singer/songwriters.... The 14 songs here seem stronger upon each listen, with the songs soon seeming indelible. This kind of gift is rare, but it has been passed on from father to son in a way that is similar yet quite different and equally valuable, as this excellent debut makes plain."
YepRoc
CD
$15.00

Fleshtones, The
Take A Good Look (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS,US The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look, the band has reduced its Super Rock sound down to pure muscle and bone. Fuzzy guitars, vintage organ and cocksure swagger abound as the band re-stakes its claim on early 60s garage. Co-produced by session vet Ivan Julian (The Clash, Richard Hell, Elton John), the album seethes with party anthems and head-bopping mod rhythms
YepRoc
CD
$15.00

Formby, Richard
Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm, looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik.
MindExpansion-2011
CD
$11.50

Gazelle
Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008)
PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-090
CD
$9.00

Hamill, Claire
October (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "October" is Claire's second album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. Produced by Paul Samwell Smith (who had recently worked with Cat Stevens), "October" is a highlight of Claire's early career and is certain to appeal to those who appreciate the art of the singer songwriter. The Esoteric reissue includes "Baby What's Wrong" as a bonus tracks. With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings.
EsotericRecordings-2032
CD
$20.25

Hamill, Claire
One House Left Standing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "One House Left Standing" is Claire's first album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. The Esoteric reissue includes four bonus tracks, three of which are unreleased, including a version of "Meet Me On the Corner" featuring Gerry Rafferty and Steeler's Wheel as backing musicians and the evocative single B-side "Alice in the Streets of Darlington". With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings.
EsotericRecordings-2031
CD
$20.25

Handsome Ned
Name Is Ned (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A two-disc anthology may seem a little extreme for an artist who never released a full album during his lifetime. However, in the case of the Handsome Ned set The Name is Ned, it is a welcome introduction to a nearly forgotten Canadian singer/songwriter. When Handsome Ned died in 1987 at the age of 29, he left behind a wealth of recordings, from studio tracks to live recordings and radio appearances... A fairly even mix of originals and covers and an impressive array of guests. Murray McLauchlan shows up on a version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone," Lydia Lunch can be heard hyping Handsome Ned's radio show before a live, acoustic version of "Sea of Heartbreak," and for the finale, Blue Rodeo invites Handsome Ned onstage at the Horseshoe Tavern to sing the Merle Haggard classic "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down." However, while the cover songs have a charm of their own and help to shed light on Handsome Ned's influences, it's the original songs that display the depth of Handsome Ned's talent... Clearly a labor of love for those involved (Handsome Ned's brother contributed the liner notes), is a worthy reminder of a talented Canadian artist."
OtherPeoplesMusic
DCD
$15.00

Headlights
Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US Their sophomore follow-up to "Kill Them With Kindness". Based around acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation, this record combines the pop sensibilities of previous efforts with a more restrained approach to songcraft that results in a clearer, concise musical vision. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins).
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.00

Headlights
Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.00

Heaven
Brass Rock 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE JAZZ ROCK ALBUM REISSUED ON CD OFFICIALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME- 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. Heaven, a jazz rock group from Portsmouth, burst forth onto the British rock scene in 1970 when they appeared at the legendary Isle of Wight festival sharing a bill with The Who, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix et al. Making a stunning debut, the band (now managed by festival organiser Rikki Farr), soon secured a recording deal with CBS Records who signed the band for a large advance. The resulting double album "Brass Rock 1" appeared in 1971, adorned in a lavish fold-out sleeve. Well received critically, the album failed to achieve the expected success and Heaven soon disbanded, leaving behind a fine example of classic jazz rock. Officially released on CD for the first time, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is digitally remastered from the original master tapes and restores the artwork of the album in full.
EsotericRecordings-2030
CD
$20.25

Hello, Blue Roses
Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Visual artist Sydney Vermont and her man DAN BEJAR (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) formed Hello, Blue Roses in Vancouver in 2005. Sydney writes the songs & Dan arranges them. Song ideas were knocked back and forth over a period of 2 years. Last year Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to be together, write, read and think about life differently; It was in the balmy climes of their home away from home - Malaga, Spain - that the originals that make up their debut album, The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty... took real shape. In mid 2007, Hello, Blue Roses committed these songs to tape with the help of friends and family after their return to Vancouver at longtime fave spot JC/DC studios. Roses cite 60s faves (Bridget St. John, Bill Fay, the group sing of Trees Community), 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) and the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) as musical influences to their sparsely populated, timeless pop sound.
LocustMusic
CD
$13.00

Hello, Blue Roses
Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LocustMusic
LP
$17.25

Hexlove
Knew Abloom (Life's Hood) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US While he's a current member of Who's Your Favorite Son God & Prints, this is Zac Nelson all by himself going nuts. His enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, & post-"Vision Creation Newsun" Boredoms, & combine it all & play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader.
HolyMountain
CD
$13.25

Hey Willpower
P.D.A. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US "Which band can claim to take over the dancefloor with a twist of R'n'B, Radiopop and Electronica? Who has the secret recipe for a sound that equally stimulates teenagers and people in their 30ies? Who sounds as sexy as Justin Timberlake and The Soft Pink Truth combined? And who was the cover star of the San Francisco Guardian in May 2005 with the headline "dance, punk, dance"? HEY WILLPOWER is one of the hottest acts in the R'n'B Underground emerging from the US."
Tomlab-081
CD
$12.25

Holy Fuck
LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$13.25

Holy Fuck
LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US If electronic music is a highly sophisticated robot operated by hi-tech computers, Holy Fuck are the evil counterpart, hell bent with battery operated gadgets, keyboards, and analogue tape. Balanced somewhere between an experimental noise-out and a free-for-all dance party. NME named them in the top three new bands of this year's Glastonbury Festival. MP3 coupon sold with vinyl. Early limited edition tour EP sold out immediately.
XL
CD
$13.25

Hot Chip
Made In the Dark [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Deluxe edition with DVD.
Astralwerks
CD/DVD
$18.75

Hot Chip
Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Astralwerks
LP
$17.00

Hot Chip
Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Their 3rd full length & shows them at their best; wonderfully quirky, clever, soulful & poppy. The sound has evolved toward a wilder, heavier electronics, though still coupled w/ a signature pop aesthetic. They are equally at home creating songs of intimacy & melancholy as they are dancefloor killers.
Astralwerks
CD
$15.25

Ida
Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
US, PS Vinyl version, limited to 1,000 deluxe, 180-gram 2 x LPs in double gatefold jacket. Includes free digital downloads from the label plus two bonus tracks.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$14.00

Ida
Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Their first new album in three years and their clearest, most dynamic to date. A collection of songs that invoke the proximity of the invisible and the reality of love with an earned grace that comes from experience, persistence, and an undiminished enthusiasm for making sounds together. This is their seventh album; recorded with Levon Helm (The Band). Packaged in a special, green-friendly digipak and double-gatefold jacket.
Polyvinyl
CD
$11.50

Instruments Of Science And Technology
Music From The Films Of R. Swift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US For the critical listener, INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY sounds like Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos had a love child in the 70's and subsequently marooned him/her/it on an Oort Cloud. If they had, this might have been the recording their love child beamed back to Earth. This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for RICHARD SWIFT, who has raised eyebrows and turned heads over the past few years for his unmistakably beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all three releases, it appears that Swift considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new musical recipes. With Instruments of Science and Technology, Swift has resurrected the earliest forms of electronic music, thrown in a few dashes of dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown-and created a new hybrid dish. So fire up the hooka coals, turn on that full screen iTunes visualizer, and pump these jams as loud as your speakers/neighbors will allow.
SecretlyCanadian-148
CD
$11.50

Instruments Of Science And Technology
Music From The Films Of R. Swift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SecretlyCanadian-148
LP
$11.50

Jarvinen, Anna
Jag Fick Feeling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SWEDEN This is the debut solo full-length release from Stockholm-based Anna Järvinen, former member of Sweden's Granada from 1998-2004. Granada released three albums and one EP on record labels such as Universal, V2 and Look Left Recordings, and were produced by Björn Olsson and Mattias Glavå, who also heavily contributed to this record. Jag Fick Feeling was recorded in the Kungssten industry area in Gothenburg during a rainy summer and cold winter with members of Dungen and The Works, amongst many others. For this record, Järvinen tried to make music she has always loved, with melodies that she grew up hearing: "...the soundtrack to Brideshead Revisited, The Carpenters, Elton John's darling '70s tunes, Vesa Matti Loiri's interpretations of Eino Leino's poetry, Woody Allen movies, Pentti Saarikoski, nature poetry, drug and alcohol abuse, nostalgia, the Finland of my dreams, falling in love, sorrow, homesickness." As a result, Jag Fick Feeling is full of longing, made with delicate orchestration, flute, vibraphone, piano and autoharp. On top of it all, Anna Järvinen's clear-as-a-bell voice rings with a tone not unlike The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler. Each song is sung in Swedish, but the heart doesn't.
Hapna
CD
$15.00

Jettie
Kites for Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Swedish sensation JETTIE is back w/ their new album. A band whose overseas critical acclaim has garnered press attention and fans the world over, JETTIE's sound is reminiscent to that of early REM or Scandinavian contemporaries Johan and Daryll Ann. A dark and stark, truly powerful and uplifting listen, JETTIE's brand of tortured yet anthemic pop brilliance is undeniably some of the best "BIG" rock being made today. AP: "Moody, orchestral rock that sounds so big it's hard to believe Jettie's music can actually fit on a tiny silver disc."
Eyeball
CD
$9.50

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
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

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
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
Washarama [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Klein, Alan
Well At Least It's British (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, UK 60's Brit Pop with an influence on 90's Brit Pop. Includes rare Joe Meek produced tracks. All first time on CD, and first ever reissue. After writing the soundtrack to the quintessential pre- Beatles English pop movie What A Crazy World Alan Klein scored a deal with Decca to write and perform his view of English society at the time. His style of delivery was very distinctive, not unlike contemporary Anthony Newley, and writing like Lionel Bart. Alan was managed by Ken Pitt who also had another client called David Jones, soon to be David Bowie. That the early style of Bowie's delivery is also akin to
Kleins must surely be more than coincidence. In the mid 90's Damon Albarn was asked about his influences and said about this LP " ...it was instrumental in me making Modern Life Is Rubbish,and changing and getting an idea of my own self.... I can't believe that David Bowie didn't know him inside out, and the same with Ray Davies. My favourite track goes ' he's a twentieth-century Englishman ' (see Blur's For Tomorrow). It's a fantastic
record." Klein went on to tour the world as vocalist in the New Vaudeville Band. For bonus tracks we include the two singles he wrote and recorded in 1962, both produced by Joe Meek, and the 1965 singles including the withdrawn Age Of Corruption.
RPM-824
CD
$17.00

Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester
Music for Theatre and Radio Play (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more!
Dekorder-022
CD
$15.00

Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester
Music for Theatre and Radio Play (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Dekorder-022
LP
$17.00

Magoo
Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of Magoo's 1998 album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Magoo
Soateramic Sounds of Magoo [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SCOTLAND The original 1997 album and 6 bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brief tracks on Soateramic Sounds... are a giddy cacophony of fuzzy pop gems. Magoo's songs are noisy, quirky, and occasionally low-fi, but above all they're hooky, with sing-along choruses and friendly melodies packed into every second. It's quite a likeable approach -- some of the album's tracks are rockers, others are mid-tempo pop songs, and still others, surprisingly enough, are atmospheric and rather mellow. Each song casually dedicates itself to churning out snappy, memorable structures. Between the band's charming generosity with melody, their scattered and idiosyncratic approach to instrumental presentation, and their inexhaustible supply of hooks, Soateramic Sounds... proves to be an immensely satisfying listen."
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Mahjongg
Kontpab (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-191
LP
$10.25

Mahjongg
Kontpab (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms.
Krecords-191
CD
$11.50

McCombs, Cass
Dropping The Writ (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experiences. This is his first release on Domino and follows 2002's EP "Not The Way", 2002's full-length "A", and 2005's "PREfection".
Domino
CD
$13.25

Metabolismus
The Social Club Nº 7 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US The METABOLISMUS collective has been making music since the mid-1980's, self- releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl Lps. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by SAMARA LUBELSKI and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen.
TheSocialRegistry-052
45
$5.50

MGMT
Oracular Spectacular (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US An enigmatic & prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds & hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002.
Sony
CD
$13.00

Mono
The Sky Remains The Same As Ever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US "The Sky Remains The Same As Ever" is a nearly two-hour document of the recording sessions for "You Are There", and the several worldwide tours that followed its release. In addition to the dozen live songs that are documented in all their sweaty fury, the film captures the decidedly less glamorous aspects of being an underground rock band from a foreign country, expressing sentiments through body language out of necessity, and driving...lots and lots of driving. Most effectively, the film displays the friendships that have made MONO's journeys enjoyable, and the fanatical dedication that has made it all possible.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-135
DVD
$14.25

Moonbabies, The
Take Me to the Ballroom EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH 2008)
PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover".
Startracks/Hidden Agenda
CD5
$2.00

Moorcock, Michael & Deep Fix
The New World's Fair (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK Classic sci-fi rock album - now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes with unreleased bonus tracks. Features members of Hawkwind & Snowy White. New essay by Nik Turner. Leading Science Fantasy author Michael Moorcock enjoyed a long collaboration with Space Rock kings HAWKWIND eventually forming his own outfit Deep Fix to record this conceptual album in 1975. Featuring Members of HAWKWIND and guitarist SNOWY WHITE, "The New Worlds Fair" was a stunning work inspired by Moorcock's writings and was wonderfully conceived and delivered. The ESOTERIC reissue is remastered from the original tapes and includes 7 bonus tracks, 3 of which are previously unreleased. The booklet features an essay by HAWKWIND founder & friend of Michael Moorcock NIK TURNER. It an essential release for fans of HAWKWIND, MOORCOCK and Science Fantasy.
EsotericRecordings-2026
CD
$20.25

Morcheeba
World Looking in (DZ RMX) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Another Release from the elusive LOSBUD. This time it is a remix of Britian's Morcheeba's Classic World Looking in, Remixed by DZ (Scuba, Hot Flush, Black Acre, Lodubs).
LosBud-1208004
12
$8.25

Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$14.00

Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Mueller, Jon
Metals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Percussionist JON MUELLER works with rhythms that come from gong frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort, to stunning effect: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the years that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own.
TableoftheElements-108
CD
$13.00

Munch Munch
Wedding (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US After being cherry picked to accompany the likes of Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, and TV on the Radio on the recent DAVID SHRIGLEY CD+book "Worried Noodles", MUNCH MUNCH return with a new single this January 22nd on TOMLAB. The A side, 'Wedding' defines Munch Munch's sound. With prominent synth similar to Of Montreal, and the distinct vocals of Klaxons, this track is a piece of raucous DIY charm. Complex drums and synth move in to a jingle pop ditty with 'Endolphins'. Like Architecture in Helsinki, Munch Munch are able to blend funk elements into the proceedings, making this track easy for every stripe of listener to enjoy. It is as hypnotic as Steve Reich-esque patterns play counterpoint to old school Neptunes style breakdowns. The end to this delectable slice of musical initiative is 'Wet Nightmare' - the shortest track on the single, but by no means the least noteworthy. Like a Christmas song on speed, it grabs your attention and holds you tight, ending in a crescendo of frantic gusto. Recording frantic pop explosions in their bedrooms, they mix abstract lyrics, unpredictable structures, and ecstatic playfulness into a unique sound that appears to be the start of a fruitful career.
Tomlab-109
45
$5.50

Nurse With Wound
Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US This early album, re-mastered & packaged in a digipak, contains all 3 tracks from the original vinyl version, as well as their re-workings which later appeared on the CD "Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven." The record, first released in 1983, feat. one of their earliest collaborations w/David Tibet of Current 93.
Jnana/Durtro
CD
$15.00

Nyro, Laura
More Than A New Discovery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, UK Rev-Ola proudly re-presents the album which introduced to the world the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro! More Than A New Discovery (aka The First Songs) is openly informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy 1960s New York arrangements. Laura's lyrics are already as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise "And When I Die" to the observational approach of "Buy and Sell." Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of 1960s female pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie Sands or the brash, bravura pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take "Stoney End" to the charts three years later. Although Laura's albums would become more and more influential and adventurous, this, her first outing, features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions. Due to production decisions she did mot agree with, Laura Nyro more or less disowned her debut for many years, until the music fan in her began to appreciate the set forms as one might a Motown hit of the period, no matter how overexposed and hackneyed. With new manager David Geffen, a slew of covers of her material hitting the charts, and a controversial showing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Laura Nyro signed a favourable new deal with Columbia Records, making some of the most essential albums of the late 1960s and 1970s...but that is another, quite wonderful story. Listen now to where it all began. Fantastic album by one of our very favourite artists! Beautifully re-mastered in true RevOla style with lovely packaging as usual... A must for all fans of Laura Nyro, and of classic New York girlpop... the set form she made into so much more!
Rev-Ola-233
CD
$15.50

Pascal (SWE)
Galgberget (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SWEDEN Second album from Swedish sensations Pascal, whose first album, Forbi Fabriken, was on many Swedish music critics "best of" lists in 2006. Unpolished pop with stalwart Swedish punk roots, primal and persuasive, dropping hints like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Hakan Hellstrom, Bob Hund, Velvet Underground, The Cramps, 60s rock-n-roll... A huge, happy rush, sung in Swedish!
Novoton-014
CD
$14.00

Patchen, Kenneth/Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rebel Poets Of America (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK Two of the most brilliant poets of the beat generation, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti performing their compelling works in a jazz context This edition captures the movement in poetry toward all-inclusiveness, and a belief that the language and music of the street had their own beauty, integrity and significance, rooted as they were in the experience of ordinary people. Patchen is one the most important american writers of the 20th century and Ferlinghetti wrote 'Coney Island Of The Mind' which sold a million copies. In terms of both attitude and style, Patchen and Ferlinghetti paved the way for Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Captain Beefheart. Strong export potential to America and to jazz culture specialists in Japan.
El-133
CD
$15.50

Pelican
Australasia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22md)
PS, US FINAL PRESSING, for real this time, on GOLD/SILVER VINYL with all new gatefold artwork, designed & screen printed by Delicious Design League. LIMITED to 1000.
Interloper-03
LP
$24.50

Pelican
After The Ceiling Cracked (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US These accomplished Chicagoans have been kicking ass and taking names on an international basis for years now. This DVD features Pelican's already legendary live set from The Scala in Kings Cross, London, on December 20, 2005, interviews, live bonus material shot at various stops on the band's past US tours, a video for "Autumn Into Summer", and an extensive photo gallery. Also included is a three-inch audio CD containing two versions of the song "Pink Mammoth" - one of which features all the members of Seattle rock destroyers These Arms Are Snakes, "End Of Seasons", a Prefuse 73 remix medley of "Aurora Borealis", and the untitled track from "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw". "They've always arrived in town to pop your eardrums; now, though, they're gonna make you bleed in seconds rather than hours" - Drowned In Sound.
HydraHead
DVD
$15.50

Pollard, Robert
Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HappyJack-015
LP
$10.50

Pollard, Robert
Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Pollard recently poured through a bunch of old cassette tapes & found some great, never-used instrumentals that he either wrote or co-wrote, & he decided to go into the studio & put vocals (& melodies!) over them, just like he 'used to back in the old Guided By Voices days.' The music spans a 20+ yr period, so in essence, this is an album 20 years in the making.
HappyJack-015
CD
$10.00

Pumuky
Los Exploradores Perdidos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SPAIN BEST EP OF DECEMBER IN SPANISH MAGAZINE ROCKDELUX. Notice to seafarers, as of today, we are making available the new recording by Pumuky "Los exploradores perdidos" ("The lost explorers"). Amidst the fog, sounds rise and, like a veil, cover the ship piloted by Canaries artist Jaír Ramírez. Having definitely lost its island coastal navigation route, Pumuky uses old navigation charts, as shown by the extraordinary packaging signed Burnao, in order to give sense to its introspection. This is no Conrad-style metaphysical journey though: it is about crossing a storm of eroticism without going mad in the lulls of disappointment. There is much to be discovered in this drifting disc, and seafarers with the necessary instinct to compose a cocktail of horizons, such as David Cordero from Ursula, Abraham Boba, or Pedro Cantudo from Jubilee y Limousine. All of them are led by Pumuky, whose travels take shape in these 5 spectral songs full of tenderness. The explorers seem lost, yes, but we are still in good hands.
LejosDiscos-008
CD5
$10.00

Quarteto Em Cy
Aleluia 1964-66 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK The last truly great undiscovered vocal group of the sixties...Mamas & Papas, Free Design, the Association, Harper's Bizarre. Prominent in the first generation of the bossa nova movement; made seminal album "os afros sambas" with Vinicius and Baden Powell. Worked with Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marcos Valle. Centrepiece of this set is the 1965 album they recorded with the male Brazilian vocal group Tama Trio under the auspices of arranger Luiz Eca. It is a masterpiece.
El-131
CD
$15.50

Rafter
Sex Death Cassette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Inspired by influences as diverse as Guided By Voices, R Stevie Moore, Fela Kuti, Lightning Bolt, Fushitsusha, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Cody Chestnutt, "SEX DEATH CASSETTE" is an album full of hope, determination and chaos. It'll leave you with sweat dripping down your face onto your swelled lip; fresh, liquid salt, the quintessential flavor of late night post-disco parties and booty slinging good times. After dancing to this album, you're heavy with it, like too much cough syrup on a stomach full of hi-quality sushi. RAFTER executes the helter-skelter boogie-down production so gracefully that it is no mystery why those in-the-know recruit him, including the likes of Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture, Arab on Radar, The Album Leaf, Rocket from the Crypt, Danielson, Black Heart Procession, The Peppermints, Hot Snakes, his own band Bunky, and fellow ASTHMATIC KITTY artists (Castanets, Liz Janes, and Sufjan Stevens).
AsthmaticKitty-037
CD
$11.50

Ramsey Lewis Trio, The
In Person v.1: 1960 - 65 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, UK Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, finger poppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstances...with personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in BeBop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, Jazz, funk and whatever history! As soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them! With a whole load of amazing performances recorded live during their record-breaking tours of the 1960s, this is THE Ramsey Lewis Trio album you need...believe it! Amazing and timeless soul-jazz-pop-bossa-boogaloo you'll love! Perfectly remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins of this parish...and wonderfully packaged by Mr. Andy Morten in Zummerzet!
Rev-Ola-221
CD
$15.00

Raveonettes, The
Lust Lust Lust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US
Vice
CD
$14.00

Ringenberg, Jason
Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock performers, laying waste to gritty bar rooms and fancy stages from Nashville to L.A. A key patriarch of both the alt-country and Americana explosions of the 1990s, Jason is roots music royalty and his creative lineage is detailed here on the two-disc collection Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007. The set includes tracks from all phases of Ringenberg's storied solo career - new versions of Scorchers classics, re-mastered original solo material, rarities and new unreleased tracks.
YepRoc
DCD
$17.00

Sambassadeur
Migration (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SWEDEN Migration is a sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meet deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the most heartfelt melodies. Biography: Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the "Between the Lines"-EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home which gave the production a primitive quality that labeled them by some as being a lo-fi-twee act. This was never the bands intention. If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home-computer while watching their kids being taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change. The EP "Coastal Affairs", released in may 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without loosing their enigmatic qualities, songs like "Kate" and "Marie" introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the opportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late august 2007 with "Subtle Changes".
Labrador-106
CD
$15.75

Samurai
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK Classic Progressive rock album - Now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes. New essay & interview with Dave Lawson. "Samurai" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Released on the short lived Greenwich Gramophone label in 1972, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. Evolving from the equally excellent band WEB (whose album "I Spider" is a classic of the genre), the musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. Sadly the group disbanded shortly after the release of the record resulting in limited sales. However, the influence of the album was not lost as both DAVE LAWSON and TONY REEVES soon joined DAVE GREENSLADE to form the group GREENSLADE, effectively taking up the musical mantle laid down by SAMURAI. This Esoteric reissue features a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON.
EsotericRecordings-2025
CD
$20.25

Saviours
Into Abaddon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Merging howling lyrical venom with an endless arsenal of corrosive guitar orchestrations, harmonized leads and runaway locomotive rhythms, San Fran's SAVIOURS have been rapidly garnering international attention as one of the best heavy bands active today. The self-described "piss-angry metal band", known for its ferocious live performances and original stamp on the classic power and thrash metal of decades past, entered Los Angeles' A&M/Henson Studios in late August with producer Joe Barresi (Melvins, Kyuss, Tool) to record its sophomore album, Into Abaddon. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: "Saviours have quickly established themselves as some of the best purveyors of rock-tinged metal in the Bay Area, playing guitar riffs so big they could choke a whale"
Kemado
CD
$13.00

Saviours
Into Abaddon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kemado
LP
$16.50

Scientists, The
Swampland: Birth Of The Scientists (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK Formed in Perth, Australia, but later to relocate to Melbourne and then London, Kim Salmon's Scientists played a brand of minimalist punked-up swamp blues that saw them become legends on at least three continents. Just about everyone loves the Scientist, from Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (both of whom have asked the band to play with them) to Sub Pop to Henry Rollins - in fact, the entire US alt-rock hierarchy. And what's not to like - this new compilation for the UK features the strongest tracks from the band's legendary Blood Red River recordings, notably 'Swampland', one of the most evocative and best loved Australian songs of all time. But that's not all: as well as the studio recordings, with Kim's permission we've unearthed some dynamite live recordings from 1982 that have never been released anywhere before. The packaging includes a mammoth essay on the band's history written by Alex Ogg, with full co-operation and humorous asides from Kim, plus photos and memorabilia. A handy starting point for those new to the band, featuring as it does the cream of the Scientists' work from their acclaimed early Melbourne period, but spiced up with some amazing live tracks for the established fan.
CherryRed-345
CD
$15.50

Set In Sand
Nothing Against The Ocean (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, JAPAN "Nothing Against The Ocean" is the debut CD of Set In Sand, licensed by Hue (JAPAN) from Abandon Building Records (US). Set in Sand (one of the many aliases of producer Lendin Hopes) was brought into this world around 2000, originally designed as a purely electronic and instrumental project working within the nether-regions of IDM. Early Set in Sand creations followed the blueprint for experimental electronic song crafts, disjointed percussion and glitchy filtered melodies with subtle instrumentation and vocal samples offering a hint of things to come. Two net releases came out in this vein, the self released "Are You Listening EP" and the full length "You Say You Can't Sleep Alone" by German label Subsource. Around 2004 Lendin reconnected with his singer-songwriter roots, adding acoustic guitar and vocals to a large portion of his compositions. Examples of this style can be found on the net release "Mini Splintered Things" hosted by the good folks at Drift Records. In addition to these three net releases Set in Sand has contributed songs to a number of compilations including "Assemblage Sessions 1 and 2 CD's" (Abandon Building), "Subvaritrax" (Subvariant), "Ctrl-Space" (Modsquare), "The Karaoke Hymnal" (Peppermill Records) and "Calderas of the Mind" and "Heart on the Right Spot" ( Project Mooncircle/ Botanica Del Jibaro). Set in Sand is also the producer for the whacky Hip Hop duo Flowtation Addvice (who's debut "Terrain Clouds" is due out on Abandon Building in early 08.) With "NATO" Lendin has synthesized all the elements of his early work into a weird piece of sonic experimentation masquerading as a sort of Pop album. Half of the albums 8 songs feature vocals, a surreal blend of androgynous singing and hyperactive MC work. The music is based around skeletons of guitar and programmed beats with multiple layers of digital nonsense wrapped around them. A most distinct touch is Lendin's use of live drums in complimentary patterns over the grounding electronic percussion. It results in a blurring mesh of chaotic calm, establishing a kind of fresh voice in the world of beatmaking. In other words it's pretty decent stuff.
Hue-1039
CD
$16.25

Shalabi, Sam
Eld (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Third solo outing was conceived in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 while Shalabi was living there and further realized in Montreal & Vancouver. His ideas were to compose songs for singers he knew and enjoyed and to create a 'modern Arabic pop' record. Features well over 25 musicians.
Alien8-074
CD
$13.50

Smith, Elliot
XO (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Originally released in '98. Though firmly in the McCartney/Lennon/Rundgren/Davies school of songwriting Smith was nothing if not an
original.
Plain-126
LP
$16.25

Smith, Elliott
Figure 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US His 2nd for the Dreamworks label, & fifth overall, this is a lush & beatifully melancholy collection of pop songs.
Plain-127
DLP
$20.00

Snow, Hank
Paving The Highway With Tears (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, UK Resplendent in his lavish and colorful sequin-studded suits, Hank Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums, and was one of the biggest stars of country music practically from it's origins until his passing, a unique man and a unique achievement. Born in Nova Scotia in 1914, Snow embarked on a musical career as a teenager, conquering Canadian radio as "The Yodelling Ranger", until his voice changed and so did his name! In 1950, Snow had the monster hit, "I'm Movin' On", the first of many, and covered by country, R&B and Rock acts to this day...Everyone from Johnny Cash to The Rolling Stones has dome their take of this classic song... Along the way, Hank even briefly managed his young protégé Elvis Presley, introducing him at The Grand Ole Opry as he had done for Hank Williams before him... Hank Snow was a giant of country music, and here we present some of his greatest recordings. A member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, and the Nova Scotia Music Hall Of Fame, there simply isn't a hall of fame complete without Hank! **An amazing CD collection of 1950s hits by one of the masters of Country Music! **Beautifully packaged by Pepperbox! **Wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland! **A must for all fans of top flight Americana!
Rev-Ola-237
CD
$15.50

Solvent
Demonstration Tape 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US STRICTLY LIMITED!! These 27 tracks document all the 'hits' of the past decade, some of which are long out of print, as well as introduce 3 previously unreleased songs & Solvent's latest vocoder pop track & recent live-set favorite, "In Light". Also incl. are several examples of his exemplary vocoder-synthpop sound & an ADULT. remix
GhostlyInternational-070
CD
$13.25

Sparrow, The
The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-67 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, UK After our amazing release by the legendary Mars Bonfire, here is a follow-up of sorts....now listen carefully....Dennis Edmonton, drummer Jerry Edmonton and bass player Nick St Nicholas had all played together in Toronto 'British Invasion' band, Jack London & The Sparrows in 1965. When the group split from singer Jack London, they added new members, going through a succession of future Canadian music stars, even swapping members back and forth with the legendary Mynah Birds, before settling on permanent members John Kay and Goldy McJohn. Soon, their new, high energy blues-rock style got them the attention of the Rolling Stones agent Jerry Brandt, who got them a prestige gig at Sybil Burton's hot nightclub Arthur in the summer of 1966. A deal with Columbia Records followed, with a single "Tomorrow's Ship" being the result. It failed to chart, as did the followup "Green Bottle Lover", and The Sparrow decamped for California, playing at every legendary venue with everyone you care to mention, to a fair amount of acclaim. In June 1967, however, Dennis Edmonton announced his decision to go solo, changing his name to Mars Bonfire. This effectively fragmented the group, with St. Nicholas and new guitarist Michael Monarch joining members of the Hard Times as T.I.M.E...though Monarch soon left to join the other Sparrows in their new project STEPPENWOLF...who broke through with songs written by Mars Bonfire like "Born To Be Wild"....and were soon rejoined by St. Nicholas... and so it was that all the members of THE SPARROW were involved in the phenomenal success of STEPPENWOLF! A twisty turny story, but, oh my, is the music worth it! The full Columbia recordings of THE SPARROW including the lost audition tapes! Includes the first full-on rock recording of "The Pusher" later made famous by Steppenwolf...Beautifully remastered in true Rev-Ola style, with lovely packaging as usual! First time UK release for this legendary band!
Rev-Ola-234
CD
$15.50

Speare, Jed
Sound Works 1982-1987 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US JED SPEARE is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works "1982-1987" reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analogue sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early 80s he recorded with the San Francisco groups, Research Library (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), Ultrasheen (7" ep; Subterranean), and Appliances. This 2xCD collects five of Speare's long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. Twelve page booklet features introduction by video artist and writer George Quasha, Speare's detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reprodcutions. Remastered by BHOB RAINEY (nmperign).
FamilyVineyard-052
DCD
$14.25

Stone Breath
A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons (EXPANDED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1998, now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth & spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees & birds that talk, the smell of wet earth & the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances & presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo.
Hand/Eye-033
DCD
$15.25

Suckle
Against Nurture (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, SCOTLAND ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "here are a few reasons why you should care about Suckle: they are a band founded by ex-Vaselines Frances McKee, they are on the antiestablishment, flag-waving Chemikal Underground label, and they sound like a female-fronted Tindersticks fighting the urge to vomit up an overdose of Prozac. Partly, this is a consequence of McKee's sinister monotones guiding along melodies that just barely scrape the sky of what a struggling listener could call optimism. "So Happy Before" -- with touching echoes, minimalist piano, and slide guitar -- stretches the very definition of its title, while "Honey Suicide" builds up a subtle premise of angular basslines and soaring, sun-streaked choruses that will have you feeling elated and depressed at the exact same time. Suckle's brand of enchanted unhappiness should not be undervalued: The simple folk-pop of the past may be just a shadow, but this is the sound of a confused personality just aching to be discovered."
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Super Furry Animals
Hey, Venus! [bonus disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US New album plus bonus material.
RoughTradeUS
DCD
$15.00

Super Furry Animals
Hey Venus! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. The expanded US edition contains an enhanced bonus disc with four b-sides and three videos. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Tau Emerald
Travellers Two (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & SHARRON KRAUS. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. They were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together & here is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds & then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work.
Important-172
CD
$12.50

Thuja
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on color vinyl. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework. The members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with a natural instinct, succeeding in conjuring spectral compositions, which are at once, abstract yet inviting. For this self-titled release, their sixth full-length and first for Important Records, Thuja has assembled recordings from various live performance spaces (the Hemlock, the Oaklandish Gallery, Pehr Space, Kains Greenhouse) and have welcomed a variety of guests into the fold to help assist and expand their microscopic psychedelia toward a new plateau. After eight years, the semiannual gathering of the members of Thuja is almost traditional, but new clearings are still to be discovered in its thickets of sound. This self-titled release is yet another essential artifact from Thuja's ongoing explorations.
Important-173
LP
$14.75

Times New Viking
Rip It Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00

Times New Viking
Rip It Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "The songs are pop-punk gnashing and snarling and droning with all the sexual frustration and delicious ennui that's been surgically removed from the radio version" - Pitchfork. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly.
Matador
CD
$12.50

Valet
Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums."
Kranky-116
CD
$12.25

Various
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Recordings made between the 1920s-'50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls' Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more.
DustToDigital
DCD/BOOK
$40.00

Various
Garden Of Forking Paths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US Compiled by James Blackshaw, compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem & Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, the album serves as a singular & particularly unique musical statement. A compilation of experimental music for solo stringed instruments, with little to no overdubs. "Despite the variation in instrumentation, not to mention the differences in nationality & backgrounds of the performers themselves, it is also interesting to note certain similarities to be found between the five tracks contained on this compilation. Sometimes it can be heard melodically; sometimes within the movement, space or colour of the pieces; sometimes it is simply felt - a purity or emotional resonance that defies analysis & can rarely be articulated into words, at least not by me anyway." -Blackshaw
Important-162
CD
$12.50

Various
Living Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, US Huge press on PITCHFORK. A collection of NEW & UNRELEASED songs by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection. Featuring artists Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon and Avey Tare of
Animal Collective.
RareBookRoom-001
DCD
$13.00

Various
Once A Hue, Always A Hue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, JAPAN "Once a hue, always a hue" is a 2nd label compilation of "hue" based in Tokyo. Hue is always looking for the own way to continue to feel something beautiful. "Marginal" is the key word of the label. The 1st compilation called "hue and laugh and cry" was just a good guide to "after-anticon" hip hop. "To infuse the poetic and lyrical mind into hip hop "...that's the concept of this one. Hip hop, electronica, folk...various kind of music is going up and down in your ears, you would be wondering and wandering. They are not to be categorized. But they are all beautiful for the reasons. Including 15 incredible artists (11 tracks are unreleased! ) like Radical Face (Electric President / Morr Music), Astronautalis, Nomad, Factor (side road records), Nuccini! (Giardini Di Miro), Ceschi, Deadpan Darling (Ceschi & Blue Sky, Black Death), etc. TRACK LISTING: 01. Radical Face - If you come back to haunt me * 02. Astronautalis - Sea of Grass * 03. Andrromak & Nomad - Life Up There ! * 04. Otem Rellik - Cassette Tape 05. Neila & Factor - One Last Word * 06. Flowtation Advice - Sea An Enemy * 07. Filkoe - Sa-Crow-Peeah 08. Nuccini! - Nothing Is Like Home * 09. Entropy Project - Firm Ground 10. Pastry Case - Let's Play Soccer 11. Nolto & Factor - A Young Girl's Funeral (1:13pm, June 15, 2001) * 12. Ceschi - Crowded City * 13. Nomad - Weekend * 14. Andrre & Pierre The Motionless - Sunset and Thoughts * 15. Deadpan Darling - Sorry * * = Previously Unreleased.
Hue-1038
CD
$16.25

Various
The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008)
PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed.
Fallout
CD-BOX
$88.00

Wasted Youth
Wild And Wandering (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK This CD reissue of Wasted Youth's influential classic 'Wild & Wandering' is widely considered to be a fore runner of the Goth movement. It was originally released in 1981 on the Bridge House label. The CD features 5 bonus tracks, including the singles 'Paris France' and 'Do The Caveman'. All the bonus tracks are live recordings taken from the band's album 'Wasted Youth Live'. The CD features all the original artwork, the sleeve notes are written by the band's manager and record company boss, Terence Murphy. There is also a complete band discography included. Wasted Youth's career was short lived but they left a lasting impression with their innovative sound in the post punk days of London in the late 1970's. Wasted Youth's guitarist, Rocco Barker, later of Flesh For Lulu, has been entertaining the nation with his 12 week C4 TV series 'A Place In The Sun - Costa Chaos' which sees him buying and developing a property in Spain.
CherryRed-337
CD
$15.50

Web
I Spider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON. "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON.
EsotericRecordings-2027
CD
$20.25

Weisman, Kurt
Spiritual Sci-Fi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND)
PS, US While Spiritual Sci-Fi is a result of work that Kurt Weisman has been undertaking for the last 10 years it's certainly also worth noting that he's a multi-instrumentalist in the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers as well as a member of J Mascis' Witch. Kurt's stunning musicality and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. Kurt Weisman is a New England composer in his late 20s around whom all the wheels of life seem distinctly sped up (he's known for his extreme falsetto as well as pitching up his voice beyond Beatle and into cartoon). Hair is cut into strange shapes and then suddenly shorn, moustaches appear and disappear with alarming frequency, cyber punk outfits melt into freak folk into noise into French bohemian complete with beret (red wine hippydancing at uptight in-store free jazz shows). The songs already sound like they're floating above something else when you hear them with just voice and 12-string. These are not regular songs with weird production. The alternative to the expectation refers to the expectation. He seems to know every tricky thing that's ever happened in pop music and how to take it further but then takes that further by giving verse 2 all these ear-stretching variations on verse 1. There's a lot of weird meter stuff, little skips and jumps or little things that get stretched that seem inspired by his own computer micro-editing techniques.
Important-150
CD
$12.25

Xiu Xiu
Women As Lovers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic & painted in a spectrum of acoustic & electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. This marries the ancient w/ the futuristic, each in all their beauty & terror. Traditional gongs collide w/ a rat's nest of computerized layering. Make no mistake. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.00

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Adams, Keith John “Unclever” CD $12.25

Angell, Theo “Auroplinth” CD $10.25

Brotzmann/Wilkinson Quartet “One Night At Burmantofts” CD $17.25

Burial “Untrue” CD $15.00

Butterfly Effect “IMAGO” CD $13.50

Destroy The Heart “S-T” CD $9.00

Drake, Nick “Fruit Tree [3CD+DVD, 2007 Edition]” CD-BOX $60.00

Galwad Y Mynydd “Galwad Y Mynydd” CD $20.50

Gist, The “The Gist: Embrace The Herd Embrace The Herd” CD $15.50

Guillemots “Back To Mine” CD $16.75

Hecker, Tim “Atlas” 10 $9.50

Helm, Levon “Dirt Farmer” CD $16.25

Libertines “Best Of: A Time for Heroes” CD $12.50

Lightning “Lightning 1968-1971” CD $13.00

Merzbow “Higanbana” CD $16.00

Nascimbene, Mario “L'Eneide OST” CD $16.25

New Colony Six, The “Sides” CD $15.50

Null, KK “Baryo Genesis” CD $16.00

Onodera, Yui “Suisei” CD $12.00

Randomnumber “Modern Ambivalence” CD $16.25

Scorn “Stealth” LP $20.25

Shake Some Action “The Ultimate Power Pop Guide (Book w/ CD)” BOOK/CD $28.75

Shooting Spires “S-T” CD $10.00

Starr, Garrison “The Girl That Killed September” CD $12.00

Steinbruchel “Opaque + Re” CD $15.00

Tsurubami “Tenrin” CD $16.00

Tusk “The Resisting Dreamer” CD $12.50

Ulf Henningsson (editor) “The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 [book+CD]” BOOK/CD $46.75

Varese, Edgard “Complete Works” CD $15.50

Various “The Essence of Swedish Progressive Music, 1967-79 [4CD+book]” CD-BOX $54.25

Various “Pop Ambient 2008” LP $15.50

Various “A Glass Menagerie” CD $17.00

Various “Stockingtop Pop: Dream Babes Volume 8” CD $17.00

Various “Pillows & Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 [3CD/1DVD]” CD/DVD $38.00

Various “Daisies OST” CD $20.50

Various “The Art of Field Recording Volume One [4CD boxset]” CD-BOX $61.00

Watershed “Three Chords and a Cloud” CD $12.00

Parasol New Arrivals • January 15, 2008
Hey all, OK friends, are you sitting down? Today we actually received our shipment of Radiohead “In Rainbow” LPs! Better late than never. So rest assured your pre-orders are on the way to your hungry mailboxes. In other news, despite the frigid temperatures here in Urbana, the sun is shining and so are the new releases. Trust us, we know that sounds corny but you seriously need to check out the new offering from our pal, Darren Cooper and his Three Hour Tour as well as Little Wings, White Town, Magnetic Fields and Yellow Swans, to name but a few. It’s not that my obsession with The Band has faded, I mean, come on. I named my new cat Virgil Cane, after all. However, The new obsession has to do with a great band that fell under my radar called Further. Now, some members of Further went to form Beachwood Sparks, another band that has been in heavy rotation around these parts lately. It’s too bad that both of these bands life spans were so short. But regardless, if you haven’t already picked up “Make The Cowboy Robots Cry” do yourself a favor and do so immediately. That’s an order mister! Unfortunately all of the Further titles have fallen out of print but hopefully we’ll see a repress before too much longer. All right, then. Enough chit-chat. Peruse the list below at you leisure and we’re here for you if you need anything. Sing your thoughts, Roy & Paul
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Parasol Mail Order Pick of the Week
	Three Hour Tour "B Side Oblivion" CD $14.00 Brand new album from former Choo Choo Train/Stupid Cupids/Artificial Limbs guitarist Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour, the long-awaited follow-up to his 90s output on Parasol Records. Darren is joined by Brad Steakley (Elvis Brothers, Big Hello, Handcuffs) on drums, and Adam Schmitt, who also produces. Also features guest-stars Paul Chastain & Ric Menck of Velvet Crush, and John Richardson (Tommy Keene). Power pop in maximum melodic mode, for fans of Beatles, Badfinger, Raspberries, Velvet Crush, and The Posies!. [more detail]
Parasol Label Group Stuff for January 15th
	NEWS: In addition to upcoming albums by Doleful Lions and Gazelle in the next month or so, we’re thrilled to have a brand new 7” vinyl 45 rpm single from Chicago pop-psych troupe The 1900s that will feature two exclusive non-album tracks! REVIEWS: Japanese fashion & lifestyle magazine Flashfilm recently published this photo-loaded interview feature with Parasol recording artist Mark Bacino. The 1900s got a ton of nice press on their whirlwind weekend tour out to the East Coast and back. Read all about it here. VENUES: Local yokels Ryan Groff and Angie Heaton have performances coming up locally and in the tri-state area… Check out our tour page for all the details. Meanwhile, ex-Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, continues his January Residency/Odyssey at Otto's Shrunken Head (538 East 14th St) in NYC with his band The Sufimonkey Trio Sunday nights in January at 9PM. Free admission, but it's a small venue and he’s only there for two more Sundays, so New Yorkers need to make it happen!
Jim's Pick of the Best New Nordic Music
	Jaqee "Nouvelle D'Amour" CD $14.00 Recently nominated for a Swedish Grammy this ambitious new album from our favorite Swedish/Ugandan soul siren finds Jaqee (Jaqueline Nakiri) partnered with Swedish rock icon Mattias Hellberg (Hederos & Hellberg, Nymphet Noodlers, esteemed solo-singer-songwriter) who voodoos up some killer songs and crafty arrangements for his songbird as well as some truly rambunctious and rootsy psych-country-dub-ragga-folk-blues grooves, in a soulful sub-Saharan stylee. Massive Attack-esque dubby pop-hypnotica meets the proto-folk of genre-dabbling Devendra's Smoky Mountain? Or something like that… Thrilling in any size dose, check out sound samples on our front page.
New Releases Alcest Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde PS, US Epic, elemental post-metal shoegaze guitar rock from one-man-band and a female vocalist, a hurricane of pink noise likened to Jesu, M83, My Bloody Valentine and Sigur Ros. Highly recommended! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The relationship between heavy metal and the so-called "shoegazer" movement of the early '90s might not be apparent in writing, but with Justin Broaderick's amazing transmutation of his grinding industrial metal in Napalm Death and Godflesh into the dark, sonic bliss of his current incarnation as Jesu, it doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore. Immediately upon first listen the connection between one-man band Neige's French "black metal" roots and his current neo-psychedelic explorations under the Alcest moniker doesn't seem so far-fetched, natural even. Playing all the instruments on Alcest's debut full-length Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde ("Memories of a Future World") Neige builds layers upon layers of ecstatically distorted guitars that evoke obvious comparisons to My Bloody Valentine's sonic extravaganzas and less obvious nods to the brooding minor-key post-metal of Jesu, only perhaps a bit sunnier. There are only six songs on Souvenirs, and the formula deviates only slightly, but the mission statement is evident from the opening crunch of the first track "Printemps Emeraude," as the foundation of majestic guitar swells and stately minimalist drums is laid and the journey begins, and the listener is seemingly transported over great distances and through lifetimes via hypnotic repetition and a series of dynamic shifts which are probably more important than the actual songs themselves. The feelings elicited are those of yearning, nostalgia, triumph and blissful peace, all without a single lyric in (discernible) English. And really, the best factor arising from the meeting of metal and shoegaze is that this is a guitar album -- a monstrous, churning, epic guitar album -- without a single guitar solo!" (Brian Way) ProfoundLore CD $14.25 Aloof Proof Piano Text [re-issue] PS, US Re-issue of an mid-90s ambient classic. "There is no ambient record greater than Aloof Proof's Piano Text. It is the kind of album that becomes essential after just the first listen. Since it was quietly released in 1994 -- a time, remember, dominated by the ambient techno boom of such artists as the Orb and Future Sound of London -- it has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of the genre. This is largely due to the edited versions of the album's two tracks that appeared on Asphodel's sprawling drone compilations, opening the world of Aloof Proof to thousands of eager listeners in the mid-'90s... This is an album that must be listened to -- no words can adequately describe how spellbinding the music is, how staggeringly elegant it is." Infraction CD $15.00 American Mars Western Sides PS, US Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, their ethereal sound is an impassioned & moody brand of indie-Americana. Under the direction of the band's pedal steel player & producer DAVID FEENY (Blanche, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes), the band's ranging impulses are brought together to create something more than the sum of its songs. Gangplank CD $10.00 Anti-Heros 1000 Nights of Chaos PS, US Finally available on vinyl! Taang-145 LP $10.00 Battle of Land and Sea S-T PS, US To describe the sound of The Battle of Land & Sea, one might call up images of abandoned sea-worn ships floating through a thick coastal fog. And upon first listen you might call to mind Cat Power, or the soft glow of Songs of Green Pheasant. But eventually, you start to hear what makes the music of Portland based Sarah O'Shura so special. You get a glimpse of a world through the eyes of a someone on a musical pilgrimage, whether the tales are laden with sorrow or joy, they are enchanting & hopeful. Spooky & beautiful...calling out all the old ghosts from past recordings on beautifully warbled vinyl, they recreate an old jazz club atmosphere but with a little sawdust on the floor. Notenuf-008 CD $13.25 Believer January 2008 PS, US The 50th issue! Interview w/ illustrator-graphic novelist CHARLES BURNS, Lydia Davis on SAMUEL BECKETT, baking Toll House cookies in Iraq, the ever entertaining NICK HORNBY, book reviews & much more. Get your read on. Published by McSweeney's. ZINE $9.25 Bethell, Craig A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me PS, UK Debut album by ex-Locust vocalist Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive songwriting style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied songs influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of Low-era Bowie, employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums. Infraction CD $15.00 Blues Control Puff PS, US Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. Limited to 500 on black vinyl. Puff is the work of two modern gris-gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far.' --James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) Woodsist LP $13.00 Boredoms Live At Sun Flancisco [CD+DVD] PS, JAPAN Two-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" & "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V8REDOMS) live DVD. The DVD is NTSC format, all regions, for worldwide play. Approx 65 mins., Color, 4:3 aspect ratio. Commons CD/DVD $50.00 Bottomless Pit Hammer of the Gods PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BottomlessPit-001 DLP $18.25 Brannon, Norman The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader PS, US While much ink has been spilled over 1980s punk and hardcore mythology, very little has been done to document the era that followed. Indeed, it's a glaring omission. In the 1990s, punk rock entered its adolescent stage and began reevaluating its own music, politics, and traditions. And before long, the result of this collective soul-searching became clear: If hardcore wanted to remain relevant in the new decade, it was going to have to rebel against itself. "The Anti-Matter Anthology" is perhaps the first published book dedicated to this transition. Revelation BOOK $15.00 Broach, Chris Airplanes. Gravity. Distance. Space. Crowds. Alcohol. Sex. Panic. Depression. Mania. PS, US Lucid CD $14.00 Bust #49 PS, US All about EVE, the lady rapper graces this month's cover. Reno 911's Niecy Nash, Alison Goldrapp, Justice, career waitresses, be a tax master, fashion lovers unite & more! ZINE $4.75 Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers PS, US Recieved 7.4 on PITCHFORK. Debut from Tampa based chamber pop trio combines inherent pop sensibilities rich with lush sonic textures. Their sound results in a style the band calls "Heroin Pop," an amalgam of Sparklehourse, Hope Sandoval, Tindersticks and Leonard Cohen. NewGranada-011 CD $8.50 Chairlift Evident Utensil PS, US This single on white vinyl w/ full color jacket is the 1st official release for Chairlift! As if that wasn't exciting enough, the B side features a MGMT remix. Fans of MGMT, Of Montreal, Feist, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, synth pop, limited vinyl. KanineRecords-291 45 $4.75 Conjerti, Morreale & Dibley Earth Free PS, US Originally a U.S. private release from 1973. Very rare and tremendous acid electric folk rockers with terrific harmonies and haunting lyrics. You can feel the '60s still alive in their overall sound. This is one of the tops in this genre and should be owned by every card-carrying member of 'private collectors club.' Songs 'Water To Wine," "Race To The Sun" and the title track, plus many more rule! Lyrics on back of LP. Exact cover has been reproduced. Void LP $14.00 Currie, Jason What Is Love For PS, US Solo album of plush ballads from Del Amitri frontman. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A sumptuous set of lovely, meticulously arranged songs, sung with earnest emotion and empathy. Comparisons to much of McCartney's love tunes are in order. Imagine an album filled with variations on "My Love" and you're close to what Currie creates here. The melodies are simple yet elegant, the production clean and crisp with few signs of the sappy gunk this could easily have turned into. The singer's vocals are instantly recognizable, but in this format of music from the heart they seem even more impressive, as he's obviously connected to the material and not aiming for chart success. When he reaches into the higher end of his register on "Where Did I Go?" accompanied by strings and a somewhat surprising strangulated guitar solo, the drama is riveting. It will take a few spins for this to kick in, but when it does, small variations on the piano based format such as the gritty guitar that jumps out of "Out of My Control" and the squawking, David Bowie-styled sax in "Something in That Mess" become gripping interludes in the introspective mood. Clearly this material wouldn't have cut it on a Del Amitri album, at least all of it together, but the consistent tone works to this disc's advantage. It's a perfect soundtrack for rainy days and Sundays, or as accompaniment to anyone who has ever lost a love and needed to hear those sentiments expressed with honesty, sympathy and warmth." Rykodisc CD $16.25 Dead Western S-T PS, US A haunting, bewildering, beautiful voice, reminiscent of Scott Walker (circa Climate of Hunter). This bellowing voice, like an ancient reptile, slithers & wraps itself around the most tender acoustic melodies. Limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl w/ die-cut, full color sleeves. WeirdForest-040 45 $5.25 Dear, Matthew & Matt John Trampolin PS, GERMANY Matt John is back with a new stunning piece of minimal techno. Stretching over more than eleven minutes, 'Olga Dancekowski' is another psychedelic journey through the hypnotic sounds of Mr. John, where little bleepy sequences accumulate a twisted impact for the eager souls on the floor. His buddy Matthew Dear does need no further introduction. His remix is as twisted but he unleashes more eerie dancefloor frenzy. But listen for yourselves and enjoy. Bar25 12 $12.25 Destroy All Monsters Bored PS, UK American group Destroy All Monsters caused quite a stir when they first appeared in the UK. Featuring guitarist Mike Davis who had previously played in The MC5, Ron Asheton - bass player from The Stooges and drummer Rob King, the band were completed by vocalist and ex-model Niagara. The band recorded only three singles for Cherry Red, all of which are contained on this mid-price CD (Tracks 1 > 6). Track seven - 'Goin' To Lose' - was previously unreleased. CherryRed-094 CD $15.50 Devine & Griffiths Wheels To Get To Heaven PS, UK Ian Devine is guitarist with Manchester post-punk band Ludus and one half of the duo Devine & Statton. This is the new album recorded with Amanda Griffiths on vocals. To narrow the field, this is a record that sits in the same emotional and musical league as the third release from The Velvet Underground, the first album by The Smiths, Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon', Nico's 'The Chelsea Girls', Carole King's 'Tapestry' or Joni Mitchell's 'Court and Spark'. And how to justify such a grand claim? It all comes back to the music, and the world opened up by the music. 'Wheels To Get To Heaven' is a near perfect conflation of darkness and light: that such enchanting, mesmeric songs make eloquent not simply such sadness, but such heartfelt vulnerability to the curves and ragged edges of seemingly commonplace days. Anhrefn-017 CD $15.50 Dimes, The Silent Generation PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the songs provide snapshots of a bygone America...the Dimes' soft rock delivery is completely modern, investing the tales with the humanitarian romance of a Frank Capra movie. The Dimes have done what most bands dream of, creating an alternate universe of warm pop music with a sunny vibe that'll keep toes tapping and plaster a sunny smile on every listener's face." PetMarmoset CD $11.50 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Same PS, UK Almost immediately after the demise of The Monkees in 1970, there was industry clamour for a reunion and publisher Christian Dewalden came forward with an offer to finance the project. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were enthusiastic but as Mike Nesmith wasn't interested and Peter Tork couldn't be found a kind of pseudo-Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written The Monkees first number one 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'The Monkees Theme (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees)' and '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone'. So Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was born. With the Monkees logo under copyright and not available for their use, the foursome set off on tour as 'the great golden hits of the Monkees - the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em.' DJBH made its first public appearance on July 4, 1975 at six flags over mid-America in St. Louis, Missouri, where they were met by 12,500 of the same screaming fans who had followed the Monkees 10 years previously. Performing a raft of Monkee hits (Peter Tork had joined DJBH onstage at Disneyland) the band appeared on 'American Bandstand' and 'Don Kirshner's rock concert' and toured the States for a year before heading to the far east. They have the distinction of being the first American band to play in Thailand (they had to cut their hair to be allowed into the country!). The success of the American tour secured a contract with capitol records. The subsequent 'Dolenz Jones Boyce & Hart' was produced by Boyce & Hart and though light and very pop, is regarded as the most coherent Monkeerelated release since 1967¹s 'Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones'. El-052 CD $15.50 Donna Summer (aka Jason Forrest) Panther Tracks v. 1 PS, UK File under: electronic, break core, hardcore. He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as "Shamelessly Exciting" was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, "Panther Tracks" is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Break core, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B'more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, "Panther Tracks" builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like "Peepers" and "Boomshakalaka". While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Break beat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as "Party People", "Get Down" and "Rock Rock Rock". No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, "Panther Tracks" is like the ultimate Rave; it's fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long. CockRockDisco-010 12 $10.50 Durutti Column, The Lips That Would Kiss PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Lips That Would Kiss collects together a selection of key tracks and singles recorded for Factory Benelux, Les Disques du Crepuscule and Sordide Sentimental between 1980 and 1986. Chief among these are the pristine singles Lips That Would Kiss b/w Madeleine (1980) and Danny b/w Enigma (1981), both recorded with legendary producer Martin Hannett. The remastered 75 minute CD also includes the rare 12" EP for Factory Benelux from 1982, Deux Triangles, several unique tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums, and no less than nine tracks from the unreleased 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline, several of which feature Tuxedomoon man Blaine L. Reininger on violin. The booklet features archive images, and a cover based on the original 1980 sleeve for the Lips That Would Kiss single by artist Jean-Francois Octave. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2484 CD $17.00 Durutti Column, The Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981 PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Live In Bruxelles 13.8.1981 comprises a complete live performance by Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell at the Place de la Monnaie (Muntplein), together with a revealing after-show chat with Vini. The 10 song live set contains DC favorites such as Conduct and Sketch for Summer, as well as several rarely heard numbers including Stains, Danny and Messidor. The attractive booklet for this digitally remastered CD includes a facsimile of the original event programmed, as well as background notes and archive images of Brussels. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guest appeared on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group was managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2499 CD $17.00 Durutti Column, The Fidelity PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Fidelity was originally released by Les Disques du Crepuscule in April 1996, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Elli Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar style, the album also features sleek programmed beats and synth textures. The expanded Fidelity CD also features one bonus track, My Only Love, originally issued in 1995 on a free CD with a guitar magazine. The attractive booklet for this digitally remaster includes background notes, and the text of the original press release. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2512 CD $17.00 Eels, The Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1 PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Throughout the myriad problems that have informed his music, Mark Oliver Everett has continued to churn out plenty of product with his main musical project, Eels. To celebrate the group's longevity, Everett (or just simply "E," as you may know him better) is emptying his vaults with this massive release. Meet the Eels features some favorites like "Novocain for the Soul" as well as a remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by Jon Brion and a cover of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On." Other oddities include covers of Prince and Daniel Johnston, BBC performances, and a DVD of the band playing Lollapalooza in 2006. Add to that original artwork and copious liner notes by E." Geffen CD/DVD $20.75 Ex Reverie Door Into Summer PS, US When teenage imaginings transcend childhood's end & lodge w/ concrete ferocity within the sound world of adult reality, one can find a unique realm wherein dulcimers & glam-rock guitar frenzies manifest w/ uniform importance. The trick is knowing not to discern a difference. This heralds a return to a reality deeper than most modern folksinger neo-realists can manage to muster. LanguageofStone-004 CD $13.25 Fine Arts Showcase, The Sings Rough Bunnies PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub! The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious." Adrian-051 CD $14.00 Fireflies Snowstorm PS, US 5 song EP. Fireflies is the home recording project of Chicago's Lisle Mitnik. Taking inspiration from Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, The Field Mice, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Françoise Hardy. Melancholic pop that will ease you through the cold winter. 27Records-008 CD5 $4.00 Flower Travellin' Band Satori PS, UK Previously issued on CD by Phoenix Records (and o/p already), now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. Reissue of the second Flower Travellin' Band album, originally issued by Atlantic Records in Japan in 1971. Satori is a conceptual hard rock/psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass. Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style turned him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Robert Plant while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin. Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African six-string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this is a real rock classic of the type they simply don't make any more. Phoenix LP $20.00 Flying Lotus 1983 PS, US PlugResearch-076 LP $10.00 Formby, Richard Volume 1 PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm,looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. Limited to 1000 copies. MindExpansion-2011 CD $11.50 Friska Viljor Bravo! PS, SWEDEN Debut album recorded by two drunk, lovelorn Swedish lads. Though sung in English throughout these songs are so very very Swedish. Comparisons include the legendary Bob Hund and their alter ego Bergman Rock, The Libertines and Beruit, and when I say that this could be a collection of unheard Shout Out Louds singles & b-sides I mean that as a very good thing. LONDON TIMES: "Friska Viljor's songs are heart-on-sleeve, declamatory and impossible to dislike. Bravo indeed." CONTACT MUSIC: "There may be only so much heartache that can be mined in any band's lifecycle, but while it's here, it should be welcomed. Bravo is like some Libertines/ Kaiser Chiefs cross, so full is it of anthemic indie pop, like fellow Swedes the Shout Out Louds (or the Danish Figurines). The sound of lost love is written through the songs, but it is not a depressing place to be - the sound of defiance comes through the lyrics, while the music, that throws in ukelele, accordion, trumpet and flugelhorn on top of the guitars and drums, like some rockier Beirut, is energetic and propulsive. Who knows if there could be a second album with the same spit and polish, but who cares? Bravo is a fantastic first album." CryingBob CD $14.00 Gainsbourg, Serge Les Annees Psychedelique 1966-1971 PS, US Culling its music from rare vinyl (Gainsbourg's ultra-rare 7" B-side from the Mister Freedom OST) & master tapes (the superb & never commercially released "La Horse" & the breakbeat classic "Requiem Pour Un Con") & utilizing tasteful restoration & remastering, this latest anthology promises to be the 1st time that many of these songs will be heard by the record-buying public. And w/ bonus beats to boot. LeSmokeDisques DLP $16.75 Giant Robot #51 PS, US Damon & Naomi, Hot Links, Meet John Jay, Blog Jam. Street Beat female streetwear, Joan Chen, Tang Wei & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond! ZINE $4.75 Golden Oaks Paradise PS, US This is free form Applachain abstraction from the folk/minimalist duo of Keith Wood & Brad Rose. Originally released in a CDR edition, this batch finds these autumn alchemists offering seven soul-soothing hymnals to the wind & the trees & the sky & the leaves. Tranced-out falsetto drifts atop supple strumming to create traditional backwoods folk, stressed & compressed by the walls around them, making it softer & airier. Their fractured take on folk is complimented by multi-layered bowed string & harmonium drones. MusicFellowship-032 CD $14.25 Greenwood, Jonny There Will Be Blood OST PS, US Radiohead guy Jonny G's acclaimed film-score. PITCHFORK: "Radiohead renaissance man Jonny Greenwood makes his Hollywood film score debut with this soundtrack to director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest outing, set in a desolate California town circa 1920." Nonesuch CD $17.25 Grouper Wide PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! WeirdForest-027 LP $15.00 Heeb Magazine #15 PS, US THE GOY ISSUE. Cheryl Hines on the cover. Includes feature on her, a hairy Christmas w/ Zach Galifianakis, strip deidel & tons more from this awesomely funny magazine also known as the New Jew Review. Shalom! ZINE $5.25 Hiorthoy, Kim My Last Day PS, US LIMITED VINYL SmalltownSupersound-087 LP $14.50 Holsapple, Peter & Chris Stamey Mavericks [expanded re-issue] PS, US The original 12-song album remastered plus 6 bonus tracks. Collector'sChoice CD $15.25 Illiad, The A Sad Day On Pluto PS, GERMANY The Illiad is a young quintet from Ohio. A creatively produced demo put World In Sound's attention to the band leader Kyle Pittman, an introverted and deeply emotional singer and guitarist. A Sad Day On Pluto was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007 and contains 13 original tunes reflecting a tasty spectrum between early Pink Floyd jamming, '60s garage/flower-power and loner folk style, and features very catchy lyrics combined with interesting 'psychedelicate' melodies. Pittman's music captures a unique style of composing fresh music with the influences of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Velvet Underground, Marc Bolan and David Bowie. The mixing, mostly done by Pittman himself is truly a 'trip in time' -- a 'stereo-experimental' '60s style like Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn! The song 'Are You A Librarian' can be heard on Trip In Time Vol.2 (Psychedelic Rock Reflections). With expressive vocals, screeching guitar hooks and sunny Farfisa sounds in these electric tunes and classic ballads, The Illiad create the beginning of a fantastic voyage into a concrete vision of dreamy songs. WorldInSound CD $17.00 It's Casual Stop Listening To Bad Music PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! FriendlyHills LP $15.00 Jaqee (w/Mattias Hellberg) Nouvelle D'Amour PS, SWEDEN Acclaimed album from Swedish/Ugandan soul siren Jaqee finds her partnered with Mattias Hellberg (Hederos & Hellberg, Nymphet Noodlers) and has earned her a Swedish Grammi Nomination. Like Massive Attack's mighty dub grooves on their classic 'Protection' meets the baroque meta-dabbling genre-bomb of Devendra Banhart's 'Smoky Mountain'? Or maybe countrydubraggasoulfolkblues? More on this later... EnjovuSounds CD $14.00 Jud's Gallery SWF Sessions Volume 1 PS, GERMANY New version of this archival CD, originally released as the first CD on Long Hair back in 2001. "Vol. 1 presents the band Jud's Gallery from Offenburg (Southwest Germany). In two sessions they recorded 9 songs 1972/74 in perfect studio quality. Intelligent Kraut-progressive-rock, self-composed long tracks with heavy-blues-rock and classical influence. A new chapter with unreleased original Krautrock. Continues the sound by those legendary labels as Brain, Pilz and Ohr." LongHair CD $23.00 Kohoutek Expansive Headache PS, US Hot new trax from Kohoutek. Spaced out sludge rocking from Washington DC. Have zoned out with Flaherty, Sunburned, Bardo Pond, and many others. MusicFellowship-035 CD $14.25 Little Wings Magic Wand PS, GERMANY With "Magic Wand" by Little Wings Ahornfelder widens its genre variance once more to include an album we believe to be so genuinely beautiful that here's the first non instrumental album so far. After Kyle Field, the singer and head behind the changing lineup of Little Wings, released his book of drawings "Put It In A Nutshell" on Ahornfelder early 2007 it's wonderful to release his music now too. Little Wings sound is characterized the most by Kyle Field's notable voice. With a very unique sound he creates lush folky guitar-based tunes revolving around situations he may have experienced. But it's the poetic, stream of conscious way these images are described that establishes the special atmosphere of Kyle's lyrics. Sometimes they're reminding of the Beach Boys, sometimes more like contemporary American lo-fi-folk. In any way, you here a nature- and sea-loving man expressing his way of living and seeing his surrounding. And with the words and imagery he chooses his songs each establishes associations and feelings beyond simple tunes. With his always changing band recorded an album that may well be the one sounding more like a studio-recording than the albums before. The way perfect pop tunes and more expressive passages are alternating makes this work so special and abiding. Ahornfelder-10 CD $16.00 Magik Markers Boss PS, US Limited vinyl version of the most Magik Markers album (CD is on Ecstatic Peace), on their very own label Arbitrary Signs. "Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.' BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited." ArbitrarySigns LP $17.00 Magnetic Fields, The Distortion (ON SALE) PS, US New album! STEREOGUM: "The Magnetic Fields can't be accused of false advertising in titling studio album eight Distortion: Each tune's wrapped in a fuzzy, clamoring shell, even when the feedbacking acoustic piano and guitar hum's relegated to deep in the background. Distortion's consistent textural palette's reminiscent of Holiday's "Desert Island," but this is all about icy New York City, or some other place where it snows. Besides distortion, the songs are coated in the lonesome darkness of The Charm Of The Highway Strip. Sigh. On the whole, it sports more sonic depth than 2004's sorta minor, stringier i. Let's consider it a baker's dozen of sad-and-out-of-love songs... Let's also consider it incredibly beautiful." Nonesuch CD $15.00 Marah Angels of Destruction! PS, US Their 6th album finds the kids from Philly in a brave new world: new sobriety, new members & new songs. Culled from a Niagara-like output of songs over the past year, it is, as David Bielanko puts it, "...the tip of the iceberg and the bottom of the well." The album swings w/ abandon & rocks w/ greasy soul. YepRoc-2108 CD $14.75 Matthews, Ian Tigers Will Survive PS, US Feat. backing from British band Quiver. This is a brilliant collection of originals & choice covers (incl. Eric Andersen's classic "Close The Door Lightly When You Go" & an a capella version of The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron". Mellow folk-rock jams of the highest order. Water-210 CD $14.00 Matthews, Ian If You Saw Through My Eyes PS, US One of the founding members of Fairport Convention, he left in 1969 to pursue a solo career. Finding him reunited with former bandmates Sandy Denny & Richard Thompson this album feat. many fantastic originals & 3 well chosen covers. Water-209 CD $14.00 Menck Hey War Pigs (ON SALE) NO PS, US On his new 45rpm vinyl single Velvet Crush drummer and very occasional solo singer-songsmith Ric Menck covers former Soft Boys and Katrina & The Waves guitarist-songwriter Kimberly Rew's pissed-off protest anthem "Hey War Pigs" (so very fitting) backed by his dry-hump version of "Teenage Head" by The Flaming Groovies. Black wax in a plain paper sleeve. In addition to founding Velvet Crush Menck is and has been a member of The Drats, The Reverbs, The Springfields, The Paint Set, The Big Maybe, The Stupid Cupids, Pop The Balloon, Choo Choo Train, Duffy, The Tyde, Frausdots, Aimee Mann and Matthew Sweet. ActionMusik-110 45 $2.50 Mojo #171 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK New issue of the best music magazine on the planet. Features on cover stars Radiohead, The Cult, Zepplin, Adam Ant, Joni Mitchell, The Zombies, Can, Henry Diltz's Laurel Canyon-era photolog, 8 For 2008, plus an esteemed reviews section. Comes with a free 15-track CD of oldschool and newschool electronic pop-music featuring Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, The Human League, Farley Jacikmaster Funk, The Peppers, Tangerine Dream, Arthur Russell, The Sounds of Tomorrow, John Foxx, and Severed Heads alongside The Knife, Matthew Dear, Clouddead, Xela, The Gentle Rain, and Fujiya & Miyagi. ZINE $10.00 Monosov, Ilya Seven Lucky Plays Or Songs To Fix A Broken Heart PS, US This is his private celebration of the human experience & are based on his poems & stories written from 1996-2007. His early exposure to Russian dissident culture greatly affected his life & art. Influenced from a young age by his parents's passion for literature, art, & poetry; as well as by the music of Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, Miles Davis, & African American folk music traditions. Feat. Margaret Weink (FERN KNIGHT), mandolin & harp by Jesse Sparhawk, & electric guitar by GREG WEEKS. LanguageofStone CD $13.25 Nada Surf Lucky (Digipack Packaging) PS, US Barsuk CD $14.00 No Depression #73 PS, US SHELBY LYNN on the cover. Features on her OTIS TAYLOR, BAND OF HORSES, & TONS more cool stuff you'd ever want to know about the alt. country scene. ZINE $4.25 North Sea In the Time of the Saugar Pines PS, US In the burgeoning underground psych, folk, & noise movement, Brad Rose serves as both one of its biggest champions & contributors. This is his solo experimental / ambient / improvisational folk music project & like much of the folk music in the movement, looks to bring together the style of folk music w/ the feeling, sound, & aura of nature. MusicFellowship-034 CD $14.25 Os Mutantes S-T [re-issue] PS, RUSSIAN FEDERATION With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock and a good dose of pure experimentalism, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, AND Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus. Lilith CD $19.00 Picabia, Francis La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse) PS, UK A unique CD by influential avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, featuring two interpretations of his provocative 1920 Dadaist piece for piano, together a spoken word extract from 1945. Written in 1920, La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse) consists of "three notes repeated to infinity" and was performed for the first - and last - time at the Festival Dada, staged at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 May 1920. A landmark event, the Festival Dada included contributions from Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and launched the Dada phenomenon in Paris. La Nourrice Américaine was performed on the day by Marguerite Buffet, duration unknown. It seems likely that Picabia's only venture into musical composition was inspired by talks with his friends Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Edgard Varese. On this CD fast and slow interpretations are included, both performed by pianist Tom Feldschuh and each lasting for 20 minutes. The CD also includes a rare spoken word piece by Picabia (in the French language), recording a visit to the artist's Paris atelier in July 1945. Artist biography: Born in Paris in 1879, artist, poet and theorist Francis Picabia is recognized as a key figure in the development of abstract art and the avant-garde in the 20th Century. After 1913 he made several visits to New York, where he was active in avant-garde circles and took part in the Armory Show. In 1917 he founded the celebrated periodical 391, and was an active participant in Paris Dada. A friend of composer Erik Satie, the pair collaborated on the ballet Relâche in 1924. Picabia later resumed abstract painting and writing poetry; a lover of fast cars, he is said to have owned 150 different vehicles. Picabia died in 1953. LTM-2509 CD $17.00 Radiohead In Rainbows (DELAYED) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Radiohead LP $17.50 Radiohead In Rainbows PS, US New album from the music industry's most quietly entertaining shaker-uppers. Music is really good too. ATO CD $14.25 Record Collector #345 (January 2008) PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Rings Black Habit PS, US First Nation has become Rings. Rings is the new First Nation. This is their new record. It is called Black Habit. New York's First Nation was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosko, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective's Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band. Black Habit delivers in a major way. Rings have clearly developed their own style: a loose tribal pop sound that thrives on vocal harmonies and pulsating drum rhythms. Black Habit's energy is full of beauty, elegance and simplicity. The new name represents the group in many ways: the group's circular compositions, the bonds between them, their decision-making processes, and their feminine beliefs, interlocking, connected, whole, and continuous. PawTracks-020 CD $14.25 Road Can't Talk PS, US ROAD sound like Massive Attack going on a trip to brazil and Africa, taking with them the soul of Terry Callier and the raw funk of Gorillaz. Features guest vocals from the likes of Terry Callier, Earl Zinger (2 banks of 4), Valerie Etienne (Galliano, Kylie & Jamiroquai), Lucy Jules (Brand New Heavies, George Michael & Beverly Knight), Rosina Kazi (Lal), Elliot May (Basement Jaxx), Lorna Brown (Terry Callier), Jeanine levy and Will Mathews (Lo-finger & Rub Ultra), and the result is an infectious, fresh debut album. StereoDeluxe CD $17.75 S.T. Mikael Mind of Fire PS, SWEDEN After an 11 year silence, here's a new album by the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, S.T. Mikael. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-'90s... Now that he's finally back, here's a chance at last for the world to join his psychedelic world again. The music, stretching out in many different directions, has been done freely and spontaneously in an extremely relaxed and happy environment. He also joins forces with Dungen's Reine Fiske and Fredrik Björling, whose musical expertise now also grace the grooves. These otherworldly acid tripper recordings now exist in the real world and S.T. Mikael proves, once again, to be a gifted songwriter and an unconventional performer with a very personal ear for acoustics and an emotional honesty seldom seen these days. Melodic folk-rock elements flow with waves of heavy fuzz-phase leads; weird, detached, haunted vocals echo over the band and the whole thing seems to teeter on the brink of psychedelic oblivion. This is not psychedelic revival, but the psychedelic NOW. His soaring vocals, surreal lyrics, fragile, folky melodies, heavy fuzz riffs, mind-bending soul funk and penchant for the spiritual and mystical make this a fascinating voyage that is so mind-twisting, soul-swirling, upper psychedelic that your third eye takes you on a joyride through an altered state! This album makes your brain start thinking in those pebble-splash-pond-mind circular expanding waveforms that reveal the password to tomorrow. The CD also contains 9 previously-unreleased vintage recordings and unique spoken introductions by Mikael. Limited edition of 2,000 copies only. SubliminalSounds-022 CD $16.25 Sambassadeur Final Say [single] PS, SWEDEN Track listing: 1. "Final Say" / 2. "Crooked" Labrador-112 CD5 $5.00 Scenics How Does It Feel To Be Loved: The Scenics Play the Velvet Underground PS, US This quickly immerses the listener into a warm frenzy of fuzzy energy. First formed in '76 by Andy Meyers & Ken Badger, they were one of the most intrepidly inspired bands of the Toronto new wave/punk scene. They now return w/ a full-length collection of Velvet Underground covers recorded live between 1977-81 in Toronto. Jangly, inverted pop aesthetics & wild mood swings of feverish noise dominate these ten tracks, making this an abrasive wash of harmonious distortion. DreamTower-001 CD $16.25 Sic Alps Strawberry Guillotine PS, US Sic Alps toss out three new tracks for this seven". Title track 'Strawberry Guillotine' takes the listener on a guided tour of an imagined war between the sprawling Golden Gate Park homeless population and the more established model yacht community. Musket blasts sound off as shopping carts laden with gasoline and styrofoam emerge from the silent bushes and charge the blood-dimmed shores of the cement-bottomed Spreckles Lake. Cover art co-opted from '90s L.A. anti-legends Summer Hits, who stole it from the Walker Brothers in the first place. Apparently Rex from Summer Hits is now homeless in London where his long beard is black on one side and fully gray on the other. This record is humbly dedicated to him. Woodsist 45 $5.25 Silver Apples Contact [re-issue] PS, US This is a reissue of the second album Contact by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1969. This enigmatic duo, armed only with percussion, vocals and an early, specialized synthesizer, is often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake; bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W.B. Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the "Simeon") which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk. Contact ushered in the band's recorded popularity and a national tour was quickly organized. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeon's banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor. Such was the level of Simeon's growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the album's opening track, "You And I" more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when Kapp folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January 1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the Knitting Factory. Again, the critics were unanimous. As the MC waxed poetic during an introduction to the Silver Apples concert in San Francisco, 1968: "You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, you'll dig it." Phoenix CD $16.25 Silver Apples S-T [re-issue] PS, US This is a reissue of the self-titled first album by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to pretty remarkable critical acclaim. Their debut enjoyed a 10-week stay in Billboard's Top 100 list, and the album's first track, "Oscillations," made the Top 10 list in numerous cities around the U.S. The music critics loved them. "What's so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment" commented one reviewer, quite possibly astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren who met the duo at the Third Annual Avant Garde Arts Festival in 1968, organized by topless cellist Charlotte Moorman. An absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock music's ground-breaking legends. Phoenix CD $16.25 Single Pianístico PS, SPAIN SINGLE is the personal project of Teresa Iturrioz, bass player and brilliant lyricist in such seminal bands of Spanish independent pop music as AVENTURAS DE KIRLIAN and LE MANS. Now Teresa comes back to the front row with her own project, SINGLE, a new musical adventure of her own. A journalist once said LE MANS suggested "an image of Claudine Longet fronting STEREOLAB". Classicism and a fragile voice, fronting leftfield experimentation and sonic avant-garde: a definition that can perfectly fit the new songs by SINGLE. Teresa works once again with Ibon, who appears here in the roles of composer, producer and musician (as well as providing some of the musicians he usually works with on his own solo records, like Antonio from PARADE or Murky from PATRULLERO MANCUSO and GRIMORIO). There's three excellent tracks on this debut EP by SINGLE, that comes wrapped in a wonderful and beautiful cover artwork by Spanish top designer Javier Aramburu. Elefant0371 CD5 $6.75 Sinier, Raoul (aka Ra) Huge Samurai Radish PS, GERMANY File under: electronic, hip hop, break beat. An appetizer to Raoul Sinier (formerly known as "Ra") 's third studio album "Brain Kitchen" (to come on Ad Noiseam in 2008), "Huge Samurai Radish" sees this multi talented artist present a new menu of his gritty, catchy and personal electronic hip hop, as well as lend the knife to La Caution, Vast Aire (of Cannibal Ox fame), Wisp, Datach'I and Lynx & Ram for five spicy remixes. Tasty and highly addictive. AdNoiseam-089 CD $15.25 Souvenir Extras 64 PS, SPAIN Souvenir's 'Extras 64' has been conceived as the epilogue to their record '64' (Jabalina Música 2007), which was released at the beginning of this year and critically acclaimed as an inspired change of course in the sound of this heterodox Spanish indie band. Initially intended as a single to feature their song 'Si tu sais pas' -an irresistible techno-pop gem which Souvenir wrote and recorded after the release of '64'- it has eventually become a real treat for fans which includes their cover version of Blondie's 'Hanging on the telephone' (which Souvenir are performing live on their current tour), three remixes of songs from '64', and their amazing first-ever video of the song 'Allô, allô'. So 'Extras 64' features two brand new tracks, a video and three remixes which give songs from '64' an even more dance-oriented dimension. For this task Souvenir have chosen artists on their same wavelength, such as Johan Agebjörn (the Swedish producer and songwriter who's responsible for the success of this year's brilliant debutante Sally Shapiro) who has taken 'Allô, allô' to new dancefloor heights, or Spanish singer Miqui Puig, who has remixed 'Une semaine en ballon'. Also, Souvenir's Jaime Cristóbal has revamped his own 'Accident à Londres'. These new 5 dancefloor fillers are topped by a brilliant video produced and directed by Spanish ace company Producciones Entrelíneas. The video takes the avant-garde aesthetics of '64' further on and the result is a pleasure to the eye, with a special mention to Patricia, whose appearance on the video is especially captivating. Iker Spozio, again, is responsible for the 'Extras 64' artwork, and Arturo Vaquero has been in charge of the mastering. Jabalina-030 CD5 $9.50 Spear Of Destiny One Eyed Jacks PS, UK Making its long overdue debut on CD is the second album by Spear Of Destiny, which hit No.22 in the UK National Charts when first released in 1984. Contains the British hit singles 'Liberator' and 'Prisoner Of Love'. Now comes with seven bonus tracks and the whole package has been remastered by Tim Turan. Booklet contains original LP artwork, liner notes by "No More Heroes" author Alex Ogg, lyrics to all the songs plus pictures of all the relevant singles sleeves. Still very much active on the live scene to this very day, vocalist Kirk Brandon also fronts Theatre Of Hate and the Dead Men Walking collective. Anagram-201 CD $15.50 Stereo Total Plastico EP PS, SPAIN Limited edition red vinyl. Four songs. Elefant-257 45 $7.50 Sunburned Hand Of The Man Fire Escape PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SmalltownSuperjazz-134 LP $14.50 Taunus Harriet PS, GERMANY Taunus was formed by the Berliner steel string guitarists Jan Thoben and Jochen Briesen in early 2001. They were joined by several guests playing percussion, banjo, harmonium and vibraphone at live concerts. Since their first long player Malinche (Schinderwies-Production, 2005) Taunus' lineup keeps changing a bit and is heading towards a more flexible ensemble conception. For the new album Harriet (Ahornfelder, 2007) Derek Shirley, Michael Thieke, Wilm Thoben and F.S. Blumm were invited to play along at the recording sessions. Taunus play acoustic (mostly) instrumental music - you can find elements ranging from folk, finger picked minimal structures to improvised and more open forms in their music. The first record Malinche by Taunus was mostly focused on minimal, interlocking folky guitar patterns. Harriet on the other hand features more contrasting elements: Strictly composed passages, which are rigid and static in character, are combined with free, fluid and improvised parts. Dissonances enter a framework of open tuned folk-harmonics. And on top of the warm and immediate sounds of acoustic instruments an artificial voice generator talks about the inconstancy of concepts and theory. By bridging and sometimes even blurring these contrasts and differences, Taunus expand their way of musical expression. Harriet successfully explores new ways of composing interesting, reflective and charming music based on finger picked guitars. The album is named after Darwin's lady freshwater turtle Harriet, which died in 2006 at the age of 175 years. She was mistakenly thought to be a male exemplar of her species for most of her life. Ahornfelder-12 CD $16.00 Te' If There Is No Word Which Tells Sound, Beautiful Melody PS, JAPAN 1. If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 2. Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 3. There is something sad sound when you knock the deep part of the soul by voice. 4. Just to kill a disagreeable thing. Is it human's thing to do? Just to kill a hateful thing. Doesn't it call it human? Zankyo-027 CD5 $9.00 Te' It Is One's Mind Try To Sing Realstic Sound In Resounds PS, JAPAN 1.Even mightiest soul and mightiest power, it is same as nothing if there is no intellect 2.If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 3.Also love and faith keep up with a daily small deed 4.Those who do not need tomorrow most see tomorrow most pleasantly 5.Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 6.Those who play using word are not in the talent, it is only there's memory 7.Moderation and justice are the nominal which only a superior can use freely 8.When one's mental lost right goal that shown wrong direction to the frustrations 9.You can not call anyone happy, if you do not had been any trouble 10.Human have ability of destroy oneself by logical mind. Zankyo-038 CD $18.00 Television Personalities The Good Anarchist PS, SPAIN Limited edition 7". Two songs. Elefant-256 45 $7.50 Tempo No Tempo Repetition PS, US Second EP from Berkeley, California band written, recorded and mixed entirely at home. By brewing a highly-danceable mix of post-punk and new wave (with a dash of emo), Tempo No Tempo allows their admirers to bust a move without losing cool points. DoubleNegative CD $6.00 Three Hour Tour B Side Oblivion (ON SALE) PS, US Ten new songs from Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour. Coop's joined by Adam Schmitt (bass) and Brad Steakley (drums) and the recordings feature guest appearances by John Richardson and Velvet Crush duo Paul Chastain and Ric Menck. MartianRecordCorp CD $14.00 Torske, Bjorn Feil Knapp PS, US Now on Double Vinyl! Weirdly melodic & wonderfully groovy. LIMITED!!! SmalltownSupersound-117 DLP $18.00 Uncut #129 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Under the Radar #20 PS, US Zooey Deschanel & M.Ward on the cover. The most anticipated albums of 2008! Also starring Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Bjorn & John, My Morning Jacket, Midlake, Metric, The Flaming Lips, Camera Obscura, Spiritualized, CSS, Mew & more! ZINE $3.75 Vapaa Hum Hum Hum PS, FINLAND Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic 'core' group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive. LastVisibleDog CD $12.25 Various Shapes and Sounds Volume Two: Shades of Deepest Purple from the BBC Archives 1967-1971 PS, UK With this second excavation of previously unreleased live BBC session performances spanning the period 1967-1971, Shapes And Sounds becomes a series and Volume Two features a completely different line up of bands from last year's set. Pride of place on this second edition arguably goes to The Gun, with three astonishing performances that were recorded nearly a year before 'Race With The Devil' which illustrate their late '67 menu of mod and psych pop, with cracking versions of Rupert's Peoples 'Hold On,' Paul Simons 'A Most Peculiar Man' and a quite splendid airing of their legendary 'Light On The Wall!' The Casuals surprise with the beat of 'Midnight Confessions' and 'Take Me For A Little While' as well as a fine rendering of 'Jesamine,' while The Mirage perform a live version of their May 1967 single 'The Wedding Of Ramona Blair.' The Alan Bown! play an excellent take of 'Magic Handkerchief' and even more interestingly offer two numbers that never appeared on any Bown release, with the self-penned progressive popper 'Movie Star Baby' and a brilliant interpretation of The Association's 'Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies.' Also with three tracks on Shapes And Sounds are Wales' The Bystanders, who turn in a lovely version of 'Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day' as well as a glorious homage to The Byrds with 'Renaissance Fair.' Even better and long talked about in collectors' circles but never previously released is their absolutely stunning rendition of 'I Am The Walrus,' which Top Sounds are sure will disappoint no one! Sourced from an off-air recording of their only British television appearance on Disco 2, Killing Floor perform 'Milkman' from their Out Of Uranus LP in superb quality (the TV show was wiped decades ago) and of similarly heinous rarity are live tracks from Portrait and Katch 22, who turn in forceful renderings of 'Born To Be Wild' and 'The Price Of Love,' respectively (the latter of which is better than the Status Quo cover!) The sound quality is absolutely superb throughout, with 12 of the 16 tracks sourced from original BBC Transcription records. The other performances have been taken from excellent off-air recordings and similarly shine and though few of the tracks on the collection needed much enhancement at all, all have nevertheless been professionally restored and mastered. The presentation is immaculate and as with the previous Shapes And Sounds release, Artholeghraphics have designed a memorable period flavored package. The LP has a 16 page color booklet based on a vintage Radio Times packed with illustrations, band histories and listings of all their known BBC sessions written and supplied by Nigel Lees, author of much of Record Collector magazine's 'The British Psychedelic Trip' series. Except for the Mirage recording being bootlegged many years ago (in lesser quality!), none of the tracks have ever been commercially available and most have not been heard in public since the '60s. Shapes And Sounds is a legitimate limited edition release, licensed from the BBC with the blessing and co-operation of many band members. TopSounds LP $25.00 Various Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli PS, US Bridging the gap between American primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the new age marketing juggernaut of the mid '80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a digipack chipboard slipcase with a 40-page booklet and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmidt, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Crandell, Tree People, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Canan, and Dana Westover. Numero-018 CD $15.75 Various Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1 PS, US Available again: An unbelievable collection of dynamic Cambodian music recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both in Cambodia and in the United States. A truly Khmer blend of folk and pop stylings -- Cha-Cha Psychedelia, Phase-shifting Rock, sultry circle dance standards, pulsing Cambodian new wave, haunted ballads, musical comedy sketches, Easy-Listening numbers and raw instrumental grooves presented in an eclectic variety of production techniques. Male and female vocalists share the spotlight, embellished by roller rink organ solos, raunchy guitar leads and MIDI defying synthesizers. Culled from over 150 ageing cassettes found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California, these recordings showcase a pre and post holocaust Cambodian musical lineage that can't be ignored. SublimeFrequencies CD $13.75 Various The Rubble Collection #1 Volumes 1-10 [10CD boxset] PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 1-10 CD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Featuring Pretty Things, Wimple Winch, Spencer Davis Group, Flies, Brain Police, Onyx, Brain, Open Mind, and dozens more! Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Various I'm Not There [Dylan Biopic OST] PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Sony DLP $20.50 Various Number of Small Things PS, US This is a compilation of tracks from Morr Music's little sister 7" label, A Number of Small Things. Feat. Markus Acher's (TIED & TICKLED TRIO, ISAN, Masha Qrella, Butcher The Bar, Simon Scott (ex-SLOWDIVE), SEABEAR, BENNI HEMM HEMM, B. FLEISCHMANN, STYROFOAM, LALI PUNA, JENS LEKMAN & more!! MorrMusic-079 DCD $20.00 Various Good Bye Said The Rain PS, MEXICO Made in Tijuana, Mexico to promote female electronic music producers. These sounds range from indie electronic to ambient to minimal techno and beyond. TRACK LIST: 01. Carrie -Summer dream 02. Iris -Holding hands 03. Kate Simko -In a star orbit (remix of Rebecca Gates) 04. Lucrecia -Patillas 05. AGF -REfail instrumental 06. Robin Judge -Roulette 07. Ilana Ospina -Tenue 08. Purdy Rocks -Spiritual emergency 09. Quio - Gazon Gasolina 10. Alisu -Impresiones 11. Mariena Monjeau -Escenas Borradas 12. Audiofem -Telekinetic 13. Arturo en el barco -Burbujas AtAt-011 CD $9.75 Various Achtung! German Grooves: 20 Instrumental Dancefloor Killers from the 60s and 70s PS, GERMANY The rehabilitation of German popular musicians continues with this new compilation from the Bureau B label. CD brings together wild rare grooves, slick funk workouts, sleazy soul beats, wah-wah guitars, Fender-Rhodes, Hammond organs, meaty drum breaks, snappy horn sections -- everything the easygoing '60s and '70s had to offer. Alongside orchestral greats like James Last, Max Greger, Peter Thomas and Ambros Seelos, a number of lesser-known, but nonetheless exciting musicians take a deserved bow. Other artists include: Ady Zehnpfennig, Gerhard Narholz, Hans Haider, Don Kelly Band, Kai Warner And His Orchestra, Theo Schumann Combo, Henry Arland, Heinz Kiessling, Orchester Günter Gollasch, Pete Jacques, Hans Ehrlinger And His Orchestra, Catch Up, Helmut Zacharias, Roberto Delgado, Berry Lipman and Orchester Walter Kubiczek. BureauB CD $16.25 Various Happy New Year 2008 PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds! Elefant-372 CD5 $6.75 Various Happy New Year 2008 PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds! Elefant-258 45 $7.50 White Town Don't Mention The War PS, US Bzangy CD $14.00 White, Emily Jane Dark Undercoat PS, US San Francisco folk singer/songwriter. Comparisons to artists like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, yet Emily's music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday. DoubleNegative-006 CD $8.50 Wire Magazine #287 PS, UK ZINE $10.50 Wussy Left For Dead PS, US Here the band steps further away from Chuck Cleaver's ASS PONYS' past & continues to create collectively on their own path. This is again filled w/ the lyrical style that became commonplace on the first where the thoughts & emotions are cut-to-the-bone & worn on the sleeve. Swampy-Americana to Velvet Underground infused folk to bedroom-produced pop gems. ShakeIt-558 CD $12.50 Yellow Swans At All Ends PS, US This record is an assured record of chiming drone & heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the camp that are more hushed, & whisper w/ the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission w/ dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. WeirdForest-018 DLP $18.25 Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core S-T PS, US Collaborative LP from Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core featuring GMS, Pete Swanson, C. Spencer Yeh & Mike Shiflet. Recorded from 2005 to 2006. Artwork by The Wyvern. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on 140 gram red marbled vinyl. BlossomingNoise LP $17.00 Zillionaire Street Lights Have Been PS, US Tampa group featuring former members of WASHDOWN. Recommended for fans of Codiene, Polvo and Seam. "Depthy and introspective, mixes the moodiness and experimentation of contemporary post-hardcore and the glacial beauty of classic 90's slowcore and elements from throughout the indie-rock spectrum" -Reax Music Magazine NoGranada-013 CD $8.50 Forthcoming Releases Adorable Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives. CherryRed-327 CD $15.50 Affinity S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Featuring 8 rare tracks, not found on their original LP, including two tracks from their rare single and two tracks from their 1969 EMI acetate. Lilith-145 CD $18.00 Affinity S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US ALSO ON 2LP! Lilith-145 DLP $29.50 Antietam Opus Mixtum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US CarrotTop-041 CD $12.00 Arbol You Traveled My Heart Inside Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SPAIN Arbol´s 3rd release "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" is out now. Miguel Marín, aka Arbol, continues to walk a path that the enigmatic lushness of his previous work cannot erase. Where a clearing in the forest of "Dreams made of paper" (Lejos Discos, 2005) forced us to linger over songs that poured down on us as a sudden and marvelous light before continuing on our mottled passage, the select track of "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" opens like a delta to new and wide pastures, bringing calm waters to soak the feet of the city. For this new release, Miguel has collaborated with Suzy Mangion, D-fried and the Japanese singer Eri Makino. It was recorded between 2004 and 2007 in London, Barcelona and Tokyo and confirms the crucial role played by Miguel Marín in the development of imaginary soundtracks as an independent musical genre. "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" shows the influences that Arbol´s music has been subject to in recent years as he moved between three completely different cities, three distinct ways of seeing music and life. LejosDiscos-009 CD $15.00 Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 18TH) PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania. Kranky-114 CD $11.00 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements. Kranky-115 CD $12.25 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Baby Dee is an internationally traveled singer, songwriter & performer. This is her 3rd album. Produced by MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, who also played on the record, along w/ ANDREW WK, ROBBIE LEE, MAX MOSTON, WILLIAM BREEZE, JOHN CONTRERAS, JAMES LO & LIZ KESSEL, all of whom bring extra fullness to Dee's old-world pop sensibilities. This is such a great album, filled w/ deeply moving songs & sharply produced in vivid images. DragCity-351 CD $13.25 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-351 LP $13.25 Baja Wolfhour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Daniel Vujanic´s third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled, intensively displays the composer/musician´s exciting approach towards a "free electronica" genre. Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, maximized-minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of sedative post-post-rock, "Wolfhour" plays with postmodern expectations as much as possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There is at least as much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic´s compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Beginnings sound like ends and vice versa. Sounds teleport. Comments on Baja's Sound: "Mirroring the obstinacy and arbitrary nature of human emotions, Vujanic is using electronic music in a way that makes it less a statement about media or a contemporary discussion about subverting conventional songwriting than a tool of matter-of-factness..." - Coke Machine Glow "If the indie rock just isn't getting it done for you anymore, Baja's enveloping, intangible compositions may be just the guide you need to more engaging musical territory. Tiny Mix Tapes ...beautifully strange thing in between postrock, notebookindie, jazzy bitparts and occasional guitar eruptions and - yes, indeed - pop..." (10 points) - VISIONS Magazine. OtherElectricites-011 CD $12.25 Birds of Maya Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Debut LP from Philly power-trio. Lo-fi rock recalling '60s/'70s classics like Cream, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, the Stooges, etc. HolyMountain LP $15.00 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US *** Pre-order and receive the MP3s of the entire album! Details below. * Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The DELUXE EDITION, at the same price as the regular version, includes second disc with 3 additional recordings. SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this album before the release date (10/9) and you will receive an email with instructions and a unique code to access an advance mp3 download of the entire album on 9/25, two weeks ahead of the street date. SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this album before the release date (January 22nd) and you will receive an email with instructions and a unique code to access an advance mp3 download of the entire album, ahead of the CD street date. * Please put "SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION" IN THE NOTES FIELD when you check out, or mention it in email or on the phone. Jagjaguwar-090 DCD $11.50 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar-090 2LP $12.25 Blood On The Wall Liferz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "Awesomer". TheSocialRegistry-060 CD $11.50 Bodies Of Water Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy. SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12 CD $11.50 Buddyrevelles September, November (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Listen to that Telecaster chime! Those intertwining vocal lines! Those dynamic yet dancey rhythms! The Buddyrevelles really are one of the best pop bands around, and their debut CD (released in 1998 on Motorcoat Records) proves that 14 times over. NoKarma-065 CD $10.50 Buddyrevelles American Matador (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US "'One, Two' is a perfect example of the benefits resulting from the slightly thicker, more complex sound the band has chosen to explore on their latest record. Time changes, layered guitars, and a generally expanded musical vocabulary make American Matador's better moments a true step forward for an already excellent band ... and when the grand finale arrives, and drummer Dan Reinholdt's kit explodes like fireworks, any conceivable doubt disintegrates: American Matador is an awesome record." -Pitchfork [8.0] NoKarma-066 CD $10.50 Burial Chamber Trio Wvrm (PIC 10") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The 2nd vinyl only release by the the collaborative project between: OREN AMBARCHI, GREG ANDERSON & ATTILA CSIHAR. They return w/ a special picture disc 10" vinyl w/ sick, elaborate packaging designed by Seldon Hunt. The audio material is taken from the groups performance in Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wvrm. LIMITED TO 3000 SouthernLord 10 $14.00 Buzzcocks 30 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US New album from punk-pop legends and orgasm addicts, still jackin' it 30 years on. CookingVinyl CD $13.75 Canned Heat Vintage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Here's how they sounded in '66 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings. A perfect match, considering that Wilson & Hite were avid record collectors & blues aficionados. Lilith-139 CD $18.00 Castanets Strong Animal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US This limited edition 7" includes a remix of "Strong Animal" from CASTANETS recent "In the Vines" full-player, as well as "Golden", an outtake from that same album. The remix was part of a series of remixes given out via the interweb to help promote "In The Vines". This one was too deliciously geared for dance floors so we felt that not putting it to wax was a crime to the night. West Coaster and Hero to All, RAFTER, manned boards and faders and clickers for it. Bass up, mids wherever. Artwork is by Castanets good friend Tara Jane ONeil. Here's to big airplanes and weekend agoraphobics. AsthmaticKitty-034 45 $3.75 Cat Power Jukebox [deluxe version] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. This deluxe version comes in a silver-foil gatefold cover with a bonus disc of extra tracks. Backed by Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi). Guest appearances from Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan), Larry McDonald (Toots & The Maytals, Taj Mahal), Teenie Hodges (Al Green, Memphis Rhythm Band), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham). MOJO: "She inhabits other people's songs with a fierce conviction that's sometimes startling.". Matador DCD $15.00 Cat Power Jukebox [regular version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Her second album of covers!!! Matador CD $13.25 Cat Power Jukebox (Deluxe) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover!!! Matador LP $25.00 Celletti, Alessandra Way Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22nd) PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a new studio album from Alessandra Celletti, the virtuoso Italian composer/pianist whose previous CDs include acclaimed interpretations of works by Glass, Satie and Gurdjieff. Way Out is Alessandra's third album of original material, following Overground (1997) and Chi Mi Darà le Ali (2006). Recorded in Rome in 2007, Way Out marks an innovative exploration of several musical styles, including vocal tracks sung by Alessandra as well as a number of her exquisite solo piano compositions. She is joined on most of the tracks by drummer Fabio Ferri, while Renzo Pin provided English-language lyrics. Stand-out tracks include Dear To Me, Burning and Hundred Points, the latter a future pop classic complemented by a brilliant animated video clip made by Tony Sbarbaro. A unique set that defies classification, Way Out also features one bonus song, the beautiful title track from Alessandra's previous artist album, Chi Mi Darà le Ali. The memorable cover image is the painting Pensando alla Guerra by artist Isobel Blank. Short biography: Alessandra Celletti studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome . After graduating she continued her studies with Vera Gobbi Belcredi, specializing in French piano works of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In 1994 she released Les sons et les parfums, an album of pieces by Debussy, Ravel and Satie. Since then she has followed an irregular artistic path, characterized by sudden departures from classical music. Her second album, Viaggio a Praga, an exploration of the work of Bohemian composers, saw Alessandra awarded a scholarship by the Czech Republic in 1997. On returning to Italy she began working with Kha Records. Her collection Esoterik Satie proved hugely popular in France , and Gnossienne #1 was used by Guy Ritchie in his 2005 movie Revolver. Alessandra is now preparing to release two new albums. The Golden Fly will appear in Italy in October 2007, and Way Out by LTM in January 2008. LTM-2505 CD $17.00 Cha Cha Cohen S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 1999 debut album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Cha Cha Cohen All Artists Are Criminals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 2002 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Chico Hamilton Quintet/Elmer Bernstein OST: Sweet Smell Of Success (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK One of the most important films of the fifties, Sweet Smell Of Success boasts one of the great jazz scores; a combination of abstract jazz themes written and performed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet and a furious orchestral score by the masterful Elmer Bernstein. These albums were released seperately in 1957 - both became very considerable rarities - and are here combined in a single edition in digital format for the first time. Sweet Smell Of Success is memorable for the vicious performances of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and its uniquely nasty view of the tough underbelly of New York fifty years ago. It was directed by Alexander mackendrick ('The Ladykillers' 'Whisky Galore' 'The Man In The White Suite' 'Mandy') Its audience is with jazz and film buffs and the eternally stylish; strong export potential everywhere. El-132 CD $15.50 Clark, Gene Self -Titled "White Light" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Further proof that '71 could very well have been the best yr ever for pop music is this LP. Following his '66 departure from The Byrds, as well as a release w/ the Gosdin Brothers & 2 w/ Doug Dillard as Dillard & Clark, Gene cut this w/ guitarist/produced Jesse Ed Davis, Burrito Brother Chris Ethridge & pianist Ben Sidran. 4MenwithBeards-116 LP $16.25 Clark, Guy Texas Cookin' (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Originally released in '76, this sophomore effort for RCA is another fine set of country tunes that run the gamut of emotions from goofy & playful to brutally heartbreaking, sometimes within the same song. Feat. a ridiculous talented set of players that includes Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Gimble, Chip Young, Jerry Jeff Walker & Rodney Crowell,this is an Outlaw Country classic. DBKWorks-540 CD $16.50 Clark, Guy Old No. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US His debut from '75 is one of the all time classic country singer-songwriter records. From the rollicking Texas swing of opener "Rita Ballou" to the fingerpicked heartbreak of closer "Let Him Roll" there is not a stinker to be found. Feat. EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL & a young STEVE EARLE. DBKWorks-539 CD $16.50 Collections Of Colonies Of Bees Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD "Birds" is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling - and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. TableOfTheElements-810 CD $13.00 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US A remarkably clear, powerful, and confident recording that should elevate the trio into the pantheon of the great guitar bands of our time. Darlings of both the stoner rock and the modern psychedelia worlds, Dead Meadow transcend both and have created a sound all their own. Packaging includes CD in digipak with tipped-in booklet featuring a gorgeous painting by LA artist Charles Wish. CD enhanced with bonus video. Matador CD $13.25 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador DLP $19.00 Doleful Lions 7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past. Parasol-CD-108 CD $9.00 Durutti Column, The Circuses & Bread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Circuses & Bread was originally released by the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. Stand-out tracks include All That Love & Maths Can Do and the single Tomorrow. This expanded edition of Circuses & Bread also features ten bonus tracks, including the rare Japanese single For Noriko/Love Fading, compilation album tracks Verbiers and The Aftermath, and four previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline. The bonus cuts also include the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, the late Anthony H. Wilson (Factory Records founder and Durutti Column manager). The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2510 CD $17.00 Envy Abyssal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 LP $11.50 Envy Abyssal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 CD $9.00 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 LP $11.50 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Originally released in 2001 on respected Japanese punk label H.G. FACT, "All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" introduced ENVY to Americans when it was licensed for limited release in 2003 on DIM MAK RECORDS. Their original pressing sold out almost immediately, and the album has been scarcely available ever since. The vinyl now regularly fetches over $100 on eBay, and the CD is equally difficult to score without paying increasingly undesirable import fees. Along with their now-legendary follow-up, "A Dead Sinking Story", All the Footprints is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 CD $9.00 Evangelicals The Evening Descends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US "The Evening Descends"Š and worlds collide. First you hear the prodigious musical skill: the deft guitar work, the clever pop sensibility, the wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a trio of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have EVANGELICALS, a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, OK. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, "The Evening Descends" is the first great album of 2008. DeadOceans-4 CD $11.50 Evangelicals The Evening Descends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DeadOceans-004 LP $11.50 Fair Weather Beginning From An End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW's CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED WITH 6 BONUS TRACKS. Following the demise of AMEN CORNER, Andy Fairweather Low and fellow musical cohorts Blue Weaver, Clive Taylor and Dennis Byron underwent a musical transition into the band FAIR WEATHER. Heading into a "Progressive" direction the band adopted a harder edge and were the first act to sign to RCA Records' progressive imprint NEON (an attempt to rival Philips' VERTIGO label). Perhaps the most successful NEON signing, the band secured a UK TOP TEN hit in "Natural Sinner" before releasing their sole album, "Beginning from an End". Featuring guest contributions from DAVE EDMUNDS on "I Hear You Knockin'", although the album was a success in Europe, FAIR WEATHER lasted a mere 13 months before disbanding. This ESOTERIC reissue gathers together the album and six tracks released over three singles to comprise this definitive edition remastered reissue. EsotericRecordings-2028 CD $20.25 Fairport Convention What We Did On Our Holidays (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Their 2nd, originally released in '69, is the 1st to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. This finds them moving away from the California folk-rock of their debut album towards a more British approach to similar material. It is also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals & many consider this lineup to be the finest in their long & varied career. Water-211 CD $14.00 Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Originally released in '69, Ian Matthews left midway through the recording. As a result the band looked further into their own country's folk traditions for influence, as their decidely British style was cemented by the addition of Dave Swarbrick's fiddle. Water CD $14.00 Farr, Gary Strange Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK GARY FARR's LONG LOST CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACK. "Strange Fruit" is a great undiscovered work of the acoustic rock / classic rock genres, cited by some as a minor masterpiece. In the late 60's Gary Farr made the transition from leader of R&B outfit The T-Bones to a noted singer-songwriter. Recording an album for Marmalade Records, Farr then signed to CBS Records in 1970, recording this sole album for the label. Sessions featured contributions from RICHARD THOMPSON on lead guitar and leading lights of the underground MIGHTY BABY. Unavailable on CD for many years, "Strange Fruit" is a record made by an often overlooked singer-songwriter made available once more by Esoteric Recordings and is certain to appeal to all who adore acoustic music both melancholic and uplifting. The reissue also features the first ever CD appearance of the single edit of "Revolution of the Season". EsotericRecordings-2029 CD $20.25 Feelies, The Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years. Water CD $14.00 Fessenden v1.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion while drones interplay with staccato chords. "v1.1" represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, where hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture. Praise for Fessenden: "Playing on a rusty knife edge, these artists mould a new genre of inquisitive reduction of technical abuse..." -Touching Extremes "Contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound." -Vital Weekly "Like drifting Arctic waters in an atomic sub, slowly diving, headset plugged directly into the hull."- Avant Music News "One of the more patient ensembles I've heard, Fessenden members seem to be in no hurry to move things along here...just a few compass degrees this way or that...Fessenden provides a nice trip." -KFJC OtherElectricites-010 CD $11.00 Finn, Liam I'll Be Lightning (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Debut album from the spawn of Crowded House's Neil Finn. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: I'll Be Lighting finds Liam coming into his own as a singer/songwriter not unlike how Neil did around the time of True Colours, a remarkable parallel in musical development that, when combined with the passing similarity in their songwriting styles, can perhaps tie Liam a little too closely to his father. Like his dad, Liam has an ear for hooks and a predilection for melodic craft, but he is not only his own man, he is certainly the product of his own generation, raised on classic pop dating back to the Beatles but obsessed with indie singer/songwriters of the '90s, specifically Elliott Smith. I'll Be Lightning has the same spare, dreamy qualities of Smith's music, but Liam Finn isn't as haunted as Smith, even if he has a similar knack for floating melodies. Despite a fair share of brokenhearted ballads here, this isn't an overly melancholy album; it can be comforting in its spells of sadness, partially because they're balanced by lighter material that meshes with the slower, sadder songs to give this depth, a richness in lyric and music uncommon to young singer/songwriters.... The 14 songs here seem stronger upon each listen, with the songs soon seeming indelible. This kind of gift is rare, but it has been passed on from father to son in a way that is similar yet quite different and equally valuable, as this excellent debut makes plain." YepRoc CD $15.00 Fleshtones, The Take A Good Look (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS,US The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look, the band has reduced its Super Rock sound down to pure muscle and bone. Fuzzy guitars, vintage organ and cocksure swagger abound as the band re-stakes its claim on early 60s garage. Co-produced by session vet Ivan Julian (The Clash, Richard Hell, Elton John), the album seethes with party anthems and head-bopping mod rhythms YepRoc CD $15.00 Formby, Richard Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm, looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. MindExpansion-2011 CD $11.50 Gazelle Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights. AHiddenAgendaRecord-090 CD $9.00 Hamill, Claire October (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "October" is Claire's second album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. Produced by Paul Samwell Smith (who had recently worked with Cat Stevens), "October" is a highlight of Claire's early career and is certain to appeal to those who appreciate the art of the singer songwriter. The Esoteric reissue includes "Baby What's Wrong" as a bonus tracks. With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2032 CD $20.25 Hamill, Claire One House Left Standing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "One House Left Standing" is Claire's first album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. The Esoteric reissue includes four bonus tracks, three of which are unreleased, including a version of "Meet Me On the Corner" featuring Gerry Rafferty and Steeler's Wheel as backing musicians and the evocative single B-side "Alice in the Streets of Darlington". With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2031 CD $20.25 Handsome Ned Name Is Ned (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A two-disc anthology may seem a little extreme for an artist who never released a full album during his lifetime. However, in the case of the Handsome Ned set The Name is Ned, it is a welcome introduction to a nearly forgotten Canadian singer/songwriter. When Handsome Ned died in 1987 at the age of 29, he left behind a wealth of recordings, from studio tracks to live recordings and radio appearances... A fairly even mix of originals and covers and an impressive array of guests. Murray McLauchlan shows up on a version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone," Lydia Lunch can be heard hyping Handsome Ned's radio show before a live, acoustic version of "Sea of Heartbreak," and for the finale, Blue Rodeo invites Handsome Ned onstage at the Horseshoe Tavern to sing the Merle Haggard classic "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down." However, while the cover songs have a charm of their own and help to shed light on Handsome Ned's influences, it's the original songs that display the depth of Handsome Ned's talent... Clearly a labor of love for those involved (Handsome Ned's brother contributed the liner notes), is a worthy reminder of a talented Canadian artist." OtherPeoplesMusic DCD $15.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Their sophomore follow-up to "Kill Them With Kindness". Based around acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation, this record combines the pop sensibilities of previous efforts with a more restrained approach to songcraft that results in a clearer, concise musical vision. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins). Polyvinyl CD $12.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.00 Heaven Brass Rock 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE JAZZ ROCK ALBUM REISSUED ON CD OFFICIALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME- 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. Heaven, a jazz rock group from Portsmouth, burst forth onto the British rock scene in 1970 when they appeared at the legendary Isle of Wight festival sharing a bill with The Who, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix et al. Making a stunning debut, the band (now managed by festival organiser Rikki Farr), soon secured a recording deal with CBS Records who signed the band for a large advance. The resulting double album "Brass Rock 1" appeared in 1971, adorned in a lavish fold-out sleeve. Well received critically, the album failed to achieve the expected success and Heaven soon disbanded, leaving behind a fine example of classic jazz rock. Officially released on CD for the first time, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is digitally remastered from the original master tapes and restores the artwork of the album in full. EsotericRecordings-2030 CD $20.25 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Visual artist Sydney Vermont and her man DAN BEJAR (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) formed Hello, Blue Roses in Vancouver in 2005. Sydney writes the songs & Dan arranges them. Song ideas were knocked back and forth over a period of 2 years. Last year Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to be together, write, read and think about life differently; It was in the balmy climes of their home away from home - Malaga, Spain - that the originals that make up their debut album, The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty... took real shape. In mid 2007, Hello, Blue Roses committed these songs to tape with the help of friends and family after their return to Vancouver at longtime fave spot JC/DC studios. Roses cite 60s faves (Bridget St. John, Bill Fay, the group sing of Trees Community), 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) and the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) as musical influences to their sparsely populated, timeless pop sound. LocustMusic CD $13.00 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LocustMusic LP $17.25 Hexlove Knew Abloom (Life's Hood) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US While he's a current member of Who's Your Favorite Son God & Prints, this is Zac Nelson all by himself going nuts. His enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, & post-"Vision Creation Newsun" Boredoms, & combine it all & play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. HolyMountain CD $13.25 Hey Willpower P.D.A. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US "Which band can claim to take over the dancefloor with a twist of R'n'B, Radiopop and Electronica? Who has the secret recipe for a sound that equally stimulates teenagers and people in their 30ies? Who sounds as sexy as Justin Timberlake and The Soft Pink Truth combined? And who was the cover star of the San Francisco Guardian in May 2005 with the headline "dance, punk, dance"? HEY WILLPOWER is one of the hottest acts in the R'n'B Underground emerging from the US." Tomlab-081 CD $12.25 Holy Fuck LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $13.25 Holy Fuck LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US If electronic music is a highly sophisticated robot operated by hi-tech computers, Holy Fuck are the evil counterpart, hell bent with battery operated gadgets, keyboards, and analogue tape. Balanced somewhere between an experimental noise-out and a free-for-all dance party. NME named them in the top three new bands of this year's Glastonbury Festival. MP3 coupon sold with vinyl. Early limited edition tour EP sold out immediately. XL CD $13.25 Hot Chip Made In the Dark [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Deluxe edition with DVD. Astralwerks CD/DVD $18.75 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Astralwerks LP $17.00 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Their 3rd full length & shows them at their best; wonderfully quirky, clever, soulful & poppy. The sound has evolved toward a wilder, heavier electronics, though still coupled w/ a signature pop aesthetic. They are equally at home creating songs of intimacy & melancholy as they are dancefloor killers. Astralwerks CD $15.25 Ida Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) US, PS Vinyl version, limited to 1,000 deluxe, 180-gram 2 x LPs in double gatefold jacket. Includes free digital downloads from the label plus two bonus tracks. Polyvinyl DLP $14.00 Ida Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Their first new album in three years and their clearest, most dynamic to date. A collection of songs that invoke the proximity of the invisible and the reality of love with an earned grace that comes from experience, persistence, and an undiminished enthusiasm for making sounds together. This is their seventh album; recorded with Levon Helm (The Band). Packaged in a special, green-friendly digipak and double-gatefold jacket. Polyvinyl CD $11.50 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US For the critical listener, INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY sounds like Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos had a love child in the 70's and subsequently marooned him/her/it on an Oort Cloud. If they had, this might have been the recording their love child beamed back to Earth. This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for RICHARD SWIFT, who has raised eyebrows and turned heads over the past few years for his unmistakably beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all three releases, it appears that Swift considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new musical recipes. With Instruments of Science and Technology, Swift has resurrected the earliest forms of electronic music, thrown in a few dashes of dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown-and created a new hybrid dish. So fire up the hooka coals, turn on that full screen iTunes visualizer, and pump these jams as loud as your speakers/neighbors will allow. SecretlyCanadian-148 CD $11.50 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SecretlyCanadian-148 LP $11.50 Jarvinen, Anna Jag Fick Feeling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SWEDEN This is the debut solo full-length release from Stockholm-based Anna Järvinen, former member of Sweden's Granada from 1998-2004. Granada released three albums and one EP on record labels such as Universal, V2 and Look Left Recordings, and were produced by Björn Olsson and Mattias Glavå, who also heavily contributed to this record. Jag Fick Feeling was recorded in the Kungssten industry area in Gothenburg during a rainy summer and cold winter with members of Dungen and The Works, amongst many others. For this record, Järvinen tried to make music she has always loved, with melodies that she grew up hearing: "...the soundtrack to Brideshead Revisited, The Carpenters, Elton John's darling '70s tunes, Vesa Matti Loiri's interpretations of Eino Leino's poetry, Woody Allen movies, Pentti Saarikoski, nature poetry, drug and alcohol abuse, nostalgia, the Finland of my dreams, falling in love, sorrow, homesickness." As a result, Jag Fick Feeling is full of longing, made with delicate orchestration, flute, vibraphone, piano and autoharp. On top of it all, Anna Järvinen's clear-as-a-bell voice rings with a tone not unlike The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler. Each song is sung in Swedish, but the heart doesn't. Hapna CD $15.00 Jettie Kites for Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Swedish sensation JETTIE is back w/ their new album. A band whose overseas critical acclaim has garnered press attention and fans the world over, JETTIE's sound is reminiscent to that of early REM or Scandinavian contemporaries Johan and Daryll Ann. A dark and stark, truly powerful and uplifting listen, JETTIE's brand of tortured yet anthemic pop brilliance is undeniably some of the best "BIG" rock being made today. AP: "Moody, orchestral rock that sounds so big it's hard to believe Jettie's music can actually fit on a tiny silver disc." Eyeball CD $9.50 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) 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 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) 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 Washarama [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Klein, Alan Well At Least It's British (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK 60's Brit Pop with an influence on 90's Brit Pop. Includes rare Joe Meek produced tracks. All first time on CD, and first ever reissue. After writing the soundtrack to the quintessential pre- Beatles English pop movie What A Crazy World Alan Klein scored a deal with Decca to write and perform his view of English society at the time. His style of delivery was very distinctive, not unlike contemporary Anthony Newley, and writing like Lionel Bart. Alan was managed by Ken Pitt who also had another client called David Jones, soon to be David Bowie. That the early style of Bowie's delivery is also akin to Kleins must surely be more than coincidence. In the mid 90's Damon Albarn was asked about his influences and said about this LP " ...it was instrumental in me making Modern Life Is Rubbish,and changing and getting an idea of my own self.... I can't believe that David Bowie didn't know him inside out, and the same with Ray Davies. My favourite track goes ' he's a twentieth-century Englishman ' (see Blur's For Tomorrow). It's a fantastic record." Klein went on to tour the world as vocalist in the New Vaudeville Band. For bonus tracks we include the two singles he wrote and recorded in 1962, both produced by Joe Meek, and the 1965 singles including the withdrawn Age Of Corruption. RPM-824 CD $17.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more! Dekorder-022 CD $15.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!! Dekorder-022 LP $17.00 Magoo Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of Magoo's 1998 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Magoo Soateramic Sounds of Magoo [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SCOTLAND The original 1997 album and 6 bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brief tracks on Soateramic Sounds... are a giddy cacophony of fuzzy pop gems. Magoo's songs are noisy, quirky, and occasionally low-fi, but above all they're hooky, with sing-along choruses and friendly melodies packed into every second. It's quite a likeable approach -- some of the album's tracks are rockers, others are mid-tempo pop songs, and still others, surprisingly enough, are atmospheric and rather mellow. Each song casually dedicates itself to churning out snappy, memorable structures. Between the band's charming generosity with melody, their scattered and idiosyncratic approach to instrumental presentation, and their inexhaustible supply of hooks, Soateramic Sounds... proves to be an immensely satisfying listen." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Mahjongg Kontpab (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-191 LP $10.25 Mahjongg Kontpab (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms. Krecords-191 CD $11.50 McCombs, Cass Dropping The Writ (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experiences. This is his first release on Domino and follows 2002's EP "Not The Way", 2002's full-length "A", and 2005's "PREfection". Domino CD $13.25 Metabolismus The Social Club Nº 7 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US The METABOLISMUS collective has been making music since the mid-1980's, self- releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl Lps. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by SAMARA LUBELSKI and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen. TheSocialRegistry-052 45 $5.50 MGMT Oracular Spectacular (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US An enigmatic & prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds & hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. Sony CD $13.00 Mono The Sky Remains The Same As Ever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US "The Sky Remains The Same As Ever" is a nearly two-hour document of the recording sessions for "You Are There", and the several worldwide tours that followed its release. In addition to the dozen live songs that are documented in all their sweaty fury, the film captures the decidedly less glamorous aspects of being an underground rock band from a foreign country, expressing sentiments through body language out of necessity, and driving...lots and lots of driving. Most effectively, the film displays the friendships that have made MONO's journeys enjoyable, and the fanatical dedication that has made it all possible. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-135 DVD $14.25 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Moorcock, Michael & Deep Fix The New World's Fair (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK Classic sci-fi rock album - now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes with unreleased bonus tracks. Features members of Hawkwind & Snowy White. New essay by Nik Turner. Leading Science Fantasy author Michael Moorcock enjoyed a long collaboration with Space Rock kings HAWKWIND eventually forming his own outfit Deep Fix to record this conceptual album in 1975. Featuring Members of HAWKWIND and guitarist SNOWY WHITE, "The New Worlds Fair" was a stunning work inspired by Moorcock's writings and was wonderfully conceived and delivered. The ESOTERIC reissue is remastered from the original tapes and includes 7 bonus tracks, 3 of which are previously unreleased. The booklet features an essay by HAWKWIND founder & friend of Michael Moorcock NIK TURNER. It an essential release for fans of HAWKWIND, MOORCOCK and Science Fantasy. EsotericRecordings-2026 CD $20.25 Morcheeba World Looking in (DZ RMX) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Another Release from the elusive LOSBUD. This time it is a remix of Britian's Morcheeba's Classic World Looking in, Remixed by DZ (Scuba, Hot Flush, Black Acre, Lodubs). LosBud-1208004 12 $8.25 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $14.00 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News. 4AD CD $13.25 Mueller, Jon Metals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Percussionist JON MUELLER works with rhythms that come from gong frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort, to stunning effect: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the years that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own. TableoftheElements-108 CD $13.00 Munch Munch Wedding (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US After being cherry picked to accompany the likes of Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, and TV on the Radio on the recent DAVID SHRIGLEY CD+book "Worried Noodles", MUNCH MUNCH return with a new single this January 22nd on TOMLAB. The A side, 'Wedding' defines Munch Munch's sound. With prominent synth similar to Of Montreal, and the distinct vocals of Klaxons, this track is a piece of raucous DIY charm. Complex drums and synth move in to a jingle pop ditty with 'Endolphins'. Like Architecture in Helsinki, Munch Munch are able to blend funk elements into the proceedings, making this track easy for every stripe of listener to enjoy. It is as hypnotic as Steve Reich-esque patterns play counterpoint to old school Neptunes style breakdowns. The end to this delectable slice of musical initiative is 'Wet Nightmare' - the shortest track on the single, but by no means the least noteworthy. Like a Christmas song on speed, it grabs your attention and holds you tight, ending in a crescendo of frantic gusto. Recording frantic pop explosions in their bedrooms, they mix abstract lyrics, unpredictable structures, and ecstatic playfulness into a unique sound that appears to be the start of a fruitful career. Tomlab-109 45 $5.50 Nurse With Wound Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US This early album, re-mastered & packaged in a digipak, contains all 3 tracks from the original vinyl version, as well as their re-workings which later appeared on the CD "Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven." The record, first released in 1983, feat. one of their earliest collaborations w/David Tibet of Current 93. Jnana/Durtro CD $15.00 Nyro, Laura More Than A New Discovery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Rev-Ola proudly re-presents the album which introduced to the world the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro! More Than A New Discovery (aka The First Songs) is openly informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy 1960s New York arrangements. Laura's lyrics are already as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise "And When I Die" to the observational approach of "Buy and Sell." Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of 1960s female pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie Sands or the brash, bravura pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take "Stoney End" to the charts three years later. Although Laura's albums would become more and more influential and adventurous, this, her first outing, features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions. Due to production decisions she did mot agree with, Laura Nyro more or less disowned her debut for many years, until the music fan in her began to appreciate the set forms as one might a Motown hit of the period, no matter how overexposed and hackneyed. With new manager David Geffen, a slew of covers of her material hitting the charts, and a controversial showing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Laura Nyro signed a favourable new deal with Columbia Records, making some of the most essential albums of the late 1960s and 1970s...but that is another, quite wonderful story. Listen now to where it all began. Fantastic album by one of our very favourite artists! Beautifully re-mastered in true RevOla style with lovely packaging as usual... A must for all fans of Laura Nyro, and of classic New York girlpop... the set form she made into so much more! Rev-Ola-233 CD $15.50 Pascal (SWE) Galgberget (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SWEDEN Second album from Swedish sensations Pascal, whose first album, Forbi Fabriken, was on many Swedish music critics "best of" lists in 2006. Unpolished pop with stalwart Swedish punk roots, primal and persuasive, dropping hints like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Hakan Hellstrom, Bob Hund, Velvet Underground, The Cramps, 60s rock-n-roll... A huge, happy rush, sung in Swedish! Novoton-014 CD $14.00 Patchen, Kenneth/Lawrence Ferlinghetti Rebel Poets Of America (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK Two of the most brilliant poets of the beat generation, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti performing their compelling works in a jazz context This edition captures the movement in poetry toward all-inclusiveness, and a belief that the language and music of the street had their own beauty, integrity and significance, rooted as they were in the experience of ordinary people. Patchen is one the most important american writers of the 20th century and Ferlinghetti wrote 'Coney Island Of The Mind' which sold a million copies. In terms of both attitude and style, Patchen and Ferlinghetti paved the way for Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Captain Beefheart. Strong export potential to America and to jazz culture specialists in Japan. El-133 CD $15.50 Pelican Australasia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22md) PS, US FINAL PRESSING, for real this time, on GOLD/SILVER VINYL with all new gatefold artwork, designed & screen printed by Delicious Design League. LIMITED to 1000. Interloper-03 LP $24.50 Pelican After The Ceiling Cracked (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US These accomplished Chicagoans have been kicking ass and taking names on an international basis for years now. This DVD features Pelican's already legendary live set from The Scala in Kings Cross, London, on December 20, 2005, interviews, live bonus material shot at various stops on the band's past US tours, a video for "Autumn Into Summer", and an extensive photo gallery. Also included is a three-inch audio CD containing two versions of the song "Pink Mammoth" - one of which features all the members of Seattle rock destroyers These Arms Are Snakes, "End Of Seasons", a Prefuse 73 remix medley of "Aurora Borealis", and the untitled track from "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw". "They've always arrived in town to pop your eardrums; now, though, they're gonna make you bleed in seconds rather than hours" - Drowned In Sound. HydraHead DVD $15.50 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HappyJack-015 LP $10.50 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Pollard recently poured through a bunch of old cassette tapes & found some great, never-used instrumentals that he either wrote or co-wrote, & he decided to go into the studio & put vocals (& melodies!) over them, just like he 'used to back in the old Guided By Voices days.' The music spans a 20+ yr period, so in essence, this is an album 20 years in the making. HappyJack-015 CD $10.00 Pumuky Los Exploradores Perdidos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SPAIN BEST EP OF DECEMBER IN SPANISH MAGAZINE ROCKDELUX. Notice to seafarers, as of today, we are making available the new recording by Pumuky "Los exploradores perdidos" ("The lost explorers"). Amidst the fog, sounds rise and, like a veil, cover the ship piloted by Canaries artist Jaír Ramírez. Having definitely lost its island coastal navigation route, Pumuky uses old navigation charts, as shown by the extraordinary packaging signed Burnao, in order to give sense to its introspection. This is no Conrad-style metaphysical journey though: it is about crossing a storm of eroticism without going mad in the lulls of disappointment. There is much to be discovered in this drifting disc, and seafarers with the necessary instinct to compose a cocktail of horizons, such as David Cordero from Ursula, Abraham Boba, or Pedro Cantudo from Jubilee y Limousine. All of them are led by Pumuky, whose travels take shape in these 5 spectral songs full of tenderness. The explorers seem lost, yes, but we are still in good hands. LejosDiscos-008 CD5 $10.00 Quarteto Em Cy Aleluia 1964-66 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK The last truly great undiscovered vocal group of the sixties...Mamas & Papas, Free Design, the Association, Harper's Bizarre. Prominent in the first generation of the bossa nova movement; made seminal album "os afros sambas" with Vinicius and Baden Powell. Worked with Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marcos Valle. Centrepiece of this set is the 1965 album they recorded with the male Brazilian vocal group Tama Trio under the auspices of arranger Luiz Eca. It is a masterpiece. El-131 CD $15.50 Rafter Sex Death Cassette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Inspired by influences as diverse as Guided By Voices, R Stevie Moore, Fela Kuti, Lightning Bolt, Fushitsusha, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Cody Chestnutt, "SEX DEATH CASSETTE" is an album full of hope, determination and chaos. It'll leave you with sweat dripping down your face onto your swelled lip; fresh, liquid salt, the quintessential flavor of late night post-disco parties and booty slinging good times. After dancing to this album, you're heavy with it, like too much cough syrup on a stomach full of hi-quality sushi. RAFTER executes the helter-skelter boogie-down production so gracefully that it is no mystery why those in-the-know recruit him, including the likes of Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture, Arab on Radar, The Album Leaf, Rocket from the Crypt, Danielson, Black Heart Procession, The Peppermints, Hot Snakes, his own band Bunky, and fellow ASTHMATIC KITTY artists (Castanets, Liz Janes, and Sufjan Stevens). AsthmaticKitty-037 CD $11.50 Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Person v.1: 1960 - 65 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, finger poppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstances...with personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in BeBop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, Jazz, funk and whatever history! As soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them! With a whole load of amazing performances recorded live during their record-breaking tours of the 1960s, this is THE Ramsey Lewis Trio album you need...believe it! Amazing and timeless soul-jazz-pop-bossa-boogaloo you'll love! Perfectly remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins of this parish...and wonderfully packaged by Mr. Andy Morten in Zummerzet! Rev-Ola-221 CD $15.00 Raveonettes, The Lust Lust Lust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Vice CD $14.00 Ringenberg, Jason Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock performers, laying waste to gritty bar rooms and fancy stages from Nashville to L.A. A key patriarch of both the alt-country and Americana explosions of the 1990s, Jason is roots music royalty and his creative lineage is detailed here on the two-disc collection Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007. The set includes tracks from all phases of Ringenberg's storied solo career - new versions of Scorchers classics, re-mastered original solo material, rarities and new unreleased tracks. YepRoc DCD $17.00 Sambassadeur Migration (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SWEDEN Migration is a sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meet deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the most heartfelt melodies. Biography: Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the "Between the Lines"-EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home which gave the production a primitive quality that labeled them by some as being a lo-fi-twee act. This was never the bands intention. If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home-computer while watching their kids being taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change. The EP "Coastal Affairs", released in may 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without loosing their enigmatic qualities, songs like "Kate" and "Marie" introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the opportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late august 2007 with "Subtle Changes". Labrador-106 CD $15.75 Samurai S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK Classic Progressive rock album - Now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes. New essay & interview with Dave Lawson. "Samurai" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Released on the short lived Greenwich Gramophone label in 1972, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. Evolving from the equally excellent band WEB (whose album "I Spider" is a classic of the genre), the musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. Sadly the group disbanded shortly after the release of the record resulting in limited sales. However, the influence of the album was not lost as both DAVE LAWSON and TONY REEVES soon joined DAVE GREENSLADE to form the group GREENSLADE, effectively taking up the musical mantle laid down by SAMURAI. This Esoteric reissue features a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2025 CD $20.25 Saviours Into Abaddon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Merging howling lyrical venom with an endless arsenal of corrosive guitar orchestrations, harmonized leads and runaway locomotive rhythms, San Fran's SAVIOURS have been rapidly garnering international attention as one of the best heavy bands active today. The self-described "piss-angry metal band", known for its ferocious live performances and original stamp on the classic power and thrash metal of decades past, entered Los Angeles' A&M/Henson Studios in late August with producer Joe Barresi (Melvins, Kyuss, Tool) to record its sophomore album, Into Abaddon. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: "Saviours have quickly established themselves as some of the best purveyors of rock-tinged metal in the Bay Area, playing guitar riffs so big they could choke a whale" Kemado CD $13.00 Saviours Into Abaddon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kemado LP $16.50 Scientists, The Swampland: Birth Of The Scientists (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK Formed in Perth, Australia, but later to relocate to Melbourne and then London, Kim Salmon's Scientists played a brand of minimalist punked-up swamp blues that saw them become legends on at least three continents. Just about everyone loves the Scientist, from Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (both of whom have asked the band to play with them) to Sub Pop to Henry Rollins - in fact, the entire US alt-rock hierarchy. And what's not to like - this new compilation for the UK features the strongest tracks from the band's legendary Blood Red River recordings, notably 'Swampland', one of the most evocative and best loved Australian songs of all time. But that's not all: as well as the studio recordings, with Kim's permission we've unearthed some dynamite live recordings from 1982 that have never been released anywhere before. The packaging includes a mammoth essay on the band's history written by Alex Ogg, with full co-operation and humorous asides from Kim, plus photos and memorabilia. A handy starting point for those new to the band, featuring as it does the cream of the Scientists' work from their acclaimed early Melbourne period, but spiced up with some amazing live tracks for the established fan. CherryRed-345 CD $15.50 Set In Sand Nothing Against The Ocean (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, JAPAN "Nothing Against The Ocean" is the debut CD of Set In Sand, licensed by Hue (JAPAN) from Abandon Building Records (US). Set in Sand (one of the many aliases of producer Lendin Hopes) was brought into this world around 2000, originally designed as a purely electronic and instrumental project working within the nether-regions of IDM. Early Set in Sand creations followed the blueprint for experimental electronic song crafts, disjointed percussion and glitchy filtered melodies with subtle instrumentation and vocal samples offering a hint of things to come. Two net releases came out in this vein, the self released "Are You Listening EP" and the full length "You Say You Can't Sleep Alone" by German label Subsource. Around 2004 Lendin reconnected with his singer-songwriter roots, adding acoustic guitar and vocals to a large portion of his compositions. Examples of this style can be found on the net release "Mini Splintered Things" hosted by the good folks at Drift Records. In addition to these three net releases Set in Sand has contributed songs to a number of compilations including "Assemblage Sessions 1 and 2 CD's" (Abandon Building), "Subvaritrax" (Subvariant), "Ctrl-Space" (Modsquare), "The Karaoke Hymnal" (Peppermill Records) and "Calderas of the Mind" and "Heart on the Right Spot" ( Project Mooncircle/ Botanica Del Jibaro). Set in Sand is also the producer for the whacky Hip Hop duo Flowtation Addvice (who's debut "Terrain Clouds" is due out on Abandon Building in early 08.) With "NATO" Lendin has synthesized all the elements of his early work into a weird piece of sonic experimentation masquerading as a sort of Pop album. Half of the albums 8 songs feature vocals, a surreal blend of androgynous singing and hyperactive MC work. The music is based around skeletons of guitar and programmed beats with multiple layers of digital nonsense wrapped around them. A most distinct touch is Lendin's use of live drums in complimentary patterns over the grounding electronic percussion. It results in a blurring mesh of chaotic calm, establishing a kind of fresh voice in the world of beatmaking. In other words it's pretty decent stuff. Hue-1039 CD $16.25 Shalabi, Sam Eld (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Third solo outing was conceived in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 while Shalabi was living there and further realized in Montreal & Vancouver. His ideas were to compose songs for singers he knew and enjoyed and to create a 'modern Arabic pop' record. Features well over 25 musicians. Alien8-074 CD $13.50 Smith, Elliot XO (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Originally released in '98. Though firmly in the McCartney/Lennon/Rundgren/Davies school of songwriting Smith was nothing if not an original. Plain-126 LP $16.25 Smith, Elliott Figure 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US His 2nd for the Dreamworks label, & fifth overall, this is a lush & beatifully melancholy collection of pop songs. Plain-127 DLP $20.00 Snow, Hank Paving The Highway With Tears (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Resplendent in his lavish and colorful sequin-studded suits, Hank Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums, and was one of the biggest stars of country music practically from it's origins until his passing, a unique man and a unique achievement. Born in Nova Scotia in 1914, Snow embarked on a musical career as a teenager, conquering Canadian radio as "The Yodelling Ranger", until his voice changed and so did his name! In 1950, Snow had the monster hit, "I'm Movin' On", the first of many, and covered by country, R&B and Rock acts to this day...Everyone from Johnny Cash to The Rolling Stones has dome their take of this classic song... Along the way, Hank even briefly managed his young protégé Elvis Presley, introducing him at The Grand Ole Opry as he had done for Hank Williams before him... Hank Snow was a giant of country music, and here we present some of his greatest recordings. A member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, and the Nova Scotia Music Hall Of Fame, there simply isn't a hall of fame complete without Hank! An amazing CD collection of 1950s hits by one of the masters of Country Music! Beautifully packaged by Pepperbox! Wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland! A must for all fans of top flight Americana! Rev-Ola-237 CD $15.50 Solvent Demonstration Tape 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US STRICTLY LIMITED!! These 27 tracks document all the 'hits' of the past decade, some of which are long out of print, as well as introduce 3 previously unreleased songs & Solvent's latest vocoder pop track & recent live-set favorite, "In Light". Also incl. are several examples of his exemplary vocoder-synthpop sound & an ADULT. remix GhostlyInternational-070 CD $13.25 Sparrow, The The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-67 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK After our amazing release by the legendary Mars Bonfire, here is a follow-up of sorts....now listen carefully....Dennis Edmonton, drummer Jerry Edmonton and bass player Nick St Nicholas had all played together in Toronto 'British Invasion' band, Jack London & The Sparrows in 1965. When the group split from singer Jack London, they added new members, going through a succession of future Canadian music stars, even swapping members back and forth with the legendary Mynah Birds, before settling on permanent members John Kay and Goldy McJohn. Soon, their new, high energy blues-rock style got them the attention of the Rolling Stones agent Jerry Brandt, who got them a prestige gig at Sybil Burton's hot nightclub Arthur in the summer of 1966. A deal with Columbia Records followed, with a single "Tomorrow's Ship" being the result. It failed to chart, as did the followup "Green Bottle Lover", and The Sparrow decamped for California, playing at every legendary venue with everyone you care to mention, to a fair amount of acclaim. In June 1967, however, Dennis Edmonton announced his decision to go solo, changing his name to Mars Bonfire. This effectively fragmented the group, with St. Nicholas and new guitarist Michael Monarch joining members of the Hard Times as T.I.M.E...though Monarch soon left to join the other Sparrows in their new project STEPPENWOLF...who broke through with songs written by Mars Bonfire like "Born To Be Wild"....and were soon rejoined by St. Nicholas... and so it was that all the members of THE SPARROW were involved in the phenomenal success of STEPPENWOLF! A twisty turny story, but, oh my, is the music worth it! The full Columbia recordings of THE SPARROW including the lost audition tapes! Includes the first full-on rock recording of "The Pusher" later made famous by Steppenwolf...Beautifully remastered in true Rev-Ola style, with lovely packaging as usual! First time UK release for this legendary band! Rev-Ola-234 CD $15.50 Speare, Jed Sound Works 1982-1987 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US JED SPEARE is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works "1982-1987" reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analogue sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early 80s he recorded with the San Francisco groups, Research Library (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), Ultrasheen (7" ep; Subterranean), and Appliances. This 2xCD collects five of Speare's long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. Twelve page booklet features introduction by video artist and writer George Quasha, Speare's detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reprodcutions. Remastered by BHOB RAINEY (nmperign). FamilyVineyard-052 DCD $14.25 Stone Breath A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons (EXPANDED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Originally released in 1998, now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth & spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees & birds that talk, the smell of wet earth & the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances & presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo. Hand/Eye-033 DCD $15.25 Suckle Against Nurture (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, SCOTLAND ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "here are a few reasons why you should care about Suckle: they are a band founded by ex-Vaselines Frances McKee, they are on the antiestablishment, flag-waving Chemikal Underground label, and they sound like a female-fronted Tindersticks fighting the urge to vomit up an overdose of Prozac. Partly, this is a consequence of McKee's sinister monotones guiding along melodies that just barely scrape the sky of what a struggling listener could call optimism. "So Happy Before" -- with touching echoes, minimalist piano, and slide guitar -- stretches the very definition of its title, while "Honey Suicide" builds up a subtle premise of angular basslines and soaring, sun-streaked choruses that will have you feeling elated and depressed at the exact same time. Suckle's brand of enchanted unhappiness should not be undervalued: The simple folk-pop of the past may be just a shadow, but this is the sound of a confused personality just aching to be discovered." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Super Furry Animals Hey, Venus! [bonus disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US New album plus bonus material. RoughTradeUS DCD $15.00 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. The expanded US edition contains an enhanced bonus disc with four b-sides and three videos. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine. RoughTrade CD $13.25 Tau Emerald Travellers Two (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & SHARRON KRAUS. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. They were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together & here is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds & then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. Important-172 CD $12.50 Thuja S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on color vinyl. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework. The members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with a natural instinct, succeeding in conjuring spectral compositions, which are at once, abstract yet inviting. For this self-titled release, their sixth full-length and first for Important Records, Thuja has assembled recordings from various live performance spaces (the Hemlock, the Oaklandish Gallery, Pehr Space, Kains Greenhouse) and have welcomed a variety of guests into the fold to help assist and expand their microscopic psychedelia toward a new plateau. After eight years, the semiannual gathering of the members of Thuja is almost traditional, but new clearings are still to be discovered in its thickets of sound. This self-titled release is yet another essential artifact from Thuja's ongoing explorations. Important-173 LP $14.75 Times New Viking Rip It Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Times New Viking Rip It Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "The songs are pop-punk gnashing and snarling and droning with all the sexual frustration and delicious ennui that's been surgically removed from the radio version" - Pitchfork. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly. Matador CD $12.50 Valet Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." Kranky-116 CD $12.25 Various Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Recordings made between the 1920s-'50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls' Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more. DustToDigital DCD/BOOK $40.00 Various Garden Of Forking Paths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US Compiled by James Blackshaw, compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem & Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, the album serves as a singular & particularly unique musical statement. A compilation of experimental music for solo stringed instruments, with little to no overdubs. "Despite the variation in instrumentation, not to mention the differences in nationality & backgrounds of the performers themselves, it is also interesting to note certain similarities to be found between the five tracks contained on this compilation. Sometimes it can be heard melodically; sometimes within the movement, space or colour of the pieces; sometimes it is simply felt - a purity or emotional resonance that defies analysis & can rarely be articulated into words, at least not by me anyway." -Blackshaw Important-162 CD $12.50 Various Living Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US Huge press on PITCHFORK. A collection of NEW & UNRELEASED songs by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection. Featuring artists Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon and Avey Tare of Animal Collective. RareBookRoom-001 DCD $13.00 Various Once A Hue, Always A Hue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, JAPAN "Once a hue, always a hue" is a 2nd label compilation of "hue" based in Tokyo. Hue is always looking for the own way to continue to feel something beautiful. "Marginal" is the key word of the label. The 1st compilation called "hue and laugh and cry" was just a good guide to "after-anticon" hip hop. "To infuse the poetic and lyrical mind into hip hop "...that's the concept of this one. Hip hop, electronica, folk...various kind of music is going up and down in your ears, you would be wondering and wandering. They are not to be categorized. But they are all beautiful for the reasons. Including 15 incredible artists (11 tracks are unreleased! ) like Radical Face (Electric President / Morr Music), Astronautalis, Nomad, Factor (side road records), Nuccini! (Giardini Di Miro), Ceschi, Deadpan Darling (Ceschi & Blue Sky, Black Death), etc. TRACK LISTING: 01. Radical Face - If you come back to haunt me * 02. Astronautalis - Sea of Grass * 03. Andrromak & Nomad - Life Up There ! * 04. Otem Rellik - Cassette Tape 05. Neila & Factor - One Last Word * 06. Flowtation Advice - Sea An Enemy * 07. Filkoe - Sa-Crow-Peeah 08. Nuccini! - Nothing Is Like Home * 09. Entropy Project - Firm Ground 10. Pastry Case - Let's Play Soccer 11. Nolto & Factor - A Young Girl's Funeral (1:13pm, June 15, 2001) * 12. Ceschi - Crowded City * 13. Nomad - Weekend * 14. Andrre & Pierre The Motionless - Sunset and Thoughts * 15. Deadpan Darling - Sorry * * = Previously Unreleased. Hue-1038 CD $16.25 Various The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Wasted Youth Wild And Wandering (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK This CD reissue of Wasted Youth's influential classic 'Wild & Wandering' is widely considered to be a fore runner of the Goth movement. It was originally released in 1981 on the Bridge House label. The CD features 5 bonus tracks, including the singles 'Paris France' and 'Do The Caveman'. All the bonus tracks are live recordings taken from the band's album 'Wasted Youth Live'. The CD features all the original artwork, the sleeve notes are written by the band's manager and record company boss, Terence Murphy. There is also a complete band discography included. Wasted Youth's career was short lived but they left a lasting impression with their innovative sound in the post punk days of London in the late 1970's. Wasted Youth's guitarist, Rocco Barker, later of Flesh For Lulu, has been entertaining the nation with his 12 week C4 TV series 'A Place In The Sun - Costa Chaos' which sees him buying and developing a property in Spain. CherryRed-337 CD $15.50 Web I Spider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON. "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2027 CD $20.25 Weisman, Kurt Spiritual Sci-Fi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 22ND) PS, US While Spiritual Sci-Fi is a result of work that Kurt Weisman has been undertaking for the last 10 years it's certainly also worth noting that he's a multi-instrumentalist in the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers as well as a member of J Mascis' Witch. Kurt's stunning musicality and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. Kurt Weisman is a New England composer in his late 20s around whom all the wheels of life seem distinctly sped up (he's known for his extreme falsetto as well as pitching up his voice beyond Beatle and into cartoon). Hair is cut into strange shapes and then suddenly shorn, moustaches appear and disappear with alarming frequency, cyber punk outfits melt into freak folk into noise into French bohemian complete with beret (red wine hippydancing at uptight in-store free jazz shows). The songs already sound like they're floating above something else when you hear them with just voice and 12-string. These are not regular songs with weird production. The alternative to the expectation refers to the expectation. He seems to know every tricky thing that's ever happened in pop music and how to take it further but then takes that further by giving verse 2 all these ear-stretching variations on verse 1. There's a lot of weird meter stuff, little skips and jumps or little things that get stretched that seem inspired by his own computer micro-editing techniques. Important-150 CD $12.25 Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic & painted in a spectrum of acoustic & electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. This marries the ancient w/ the futuristic, each in all their beauty & terror. Traditional gongs collide w/ a rat's nest of computerized layering. Make no mistake. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. KillRockStars CD $13.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Adams, Keith John “Unclever” CD $12.25 Angell, Theo “Auroplinth” CD $10.25 Brotzmann/Wilkinson Quartet “One Night At Burmantofts” CD $17.25 Burial “Untrue” CD $15.00 Butterfly Effect “IMAGO” CD $13.50 Destroy The Heart “S-T” CD $9.00 Drake, Nick “Fruit Tree [3CD+DVD, 2007 Edition]” CD-BOX $60.00 Galwad Y Mynydd “Galwad Y Mynydd” CD $20.50 Gist, The “The Gist: Embrace The Herd Embrace The Herd” CD $15.50 Guillemots “Back To Mine” CD $16.75 Hecker, Tim “Atlas” 10 $9.50 Helm, Levon “Dirt Farmer” CD $16.25 Libertines “Best Of: A Time for Heroes” CD $12.50 Lightning “Lightning 1968-1971” CD $13.00 Merzbow “Higanbana” CD $16.00 Nascimbene, Mario “L'Eneide OST” CD $16.25 New Colony Six, The “Sides” CD $15.50 Null, KK “Baryo Genesis” CD $16.00 Onodera, Yui “Suisei” CD $12.00 Randomnumber “Modern Ambivalence” CD $16.25 Scorn “Stealth” LP $20.25 Shake Some Action “The Ultimate Power Pop Guide (Book w/ CD)” BOOK/CD $28.75 Shooting Spires “S-T” CD $10.00 Starr, Garrison “The Girl That Killed September” CD $12.00 Steinbruchel “Opaque + Re” CD $15.00 Tsurubami “Tenrin” CD $16.00 Tusk “The Resisting Dreamer” CD $12.50 Ulf Henningsson (editor) “The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 [book+CD]” BOOK/CD $46.75 Varese, Edgard “Complete Works” CD $15.50 Various “The Essence of Swedish Progressive Music, 1967-79 [4CD+book]” CD-BOX $54.25 Various “Pop Ambient 2008” LP $15.50 Various “A Glass Menagerie” CD $17.00 Various “Stockingtop Pop: Dream Babes Volume 8” CD $17.00 Various “Pillows & Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 [3CD/1DVD]” CD/DVD $38.00 Various “Daisies OST” CD $20.50 Various “The Art of Field Recording Volume One [4CD boxset]” CD-BOX $61.00 Watershed “Three Chords and a Cloud” CD $12.00