Untitled Document

New Releases

16
Bridges to Burn
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00

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

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

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

Agincourt
Fly Away
PS, CANADA 1970 UK private pressing mega-rarity -- a top notch psych-folk classic in Syd Barret solo/Fairfield Parlour direction, but with female vocals. Originals are £1500 or more -- no chance to get them. Available for the first time from the original master tapes. Sixteen-page booklet comes complete with lyrics and band history, and includes stunning previously unseen photos of the band. The addition of previously unheard bonus tracks makes this an essential reissue for everyone.
Acme/Lion
CD
$15.25

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

Akiyama/Corcoran/Kiefer
Low Cloud Means Death
PS, US "For years, I've counted Tetuzi Akiyama as one of my absolute favorite guitarists. He's been cranking out great records for ages, honing his style and skill in every possible way. Add in Christian Kiefer, who has also put out a string of magnificent releases, and a talented drummer/percussionist in Kevin Corcoran (who has appeared on releases on Weird Forest and played in Antennas Erupt!) and you've got a recipe for something magical. Low Cloud Means Death is a series of sea-inspired improvisations that are fighting a continual battle with the silence between each note. This is sparse music at its finest. Minimal notes float in the air as Corcoran lays a web of various percussion beneath the organic layer Akiyama and Kiefer weave. The instrumentation is varied -- Akiyama sticks to acoustic guitar while Kiefer splits time on accordion, piano, and other vices. What the trio produces ends up coming off like an all-improvised Morton Feldman or something of the like. This is a journey on salt-encrusted waves, traipsing through empty spaces in search of whatever aural mystery can be found. It goes something like this: Thump. Quiet again. Twang, thump. Quiet. Quiet. Still quiet. Distant blap. And let me tell you, it is one fantastic voyage. Limited to 500 copies. Artwork by Eden Hemming Rose."
Digitalis
CD
$11.25

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (DELAYED/ REPRESS MODE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$21.00

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

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

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

Banhart, Devendra
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$19.25

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

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

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

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

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

Besties, The
Home Free
PS, US Equally at home strumming alongside melodic pop bands and invading the occasional crusty punk show, The Besties wear their inclusiveness like a badge of honor. Like Talulah Gosh with an Athens party twang, The Besties punch out fun, loud songs high on smarts and low on snot. After touring the US and Europe several times over, the band now prepares for the release of their sophomore effort, Home Free, on Hugpatch Records. Home Free is the follow-up to the Besties' well-received debut album, Singer (Skipping Stones Records) and Rod N Reel 7" (both of which sold out). Besties Press: "There's a reason why Amelia Fletcher called her flagship twee-pop band Heavenly: its music could whisk away the cynical and melt the hardest of hearts. This Brooklyn trio chews that same pop bubblegum on its debut. Marisa and Kelly swap sugary vocals like classmates of State, vying for - what else? - the boy." - Magnet "First Exposure" "Ever since the Besties' new single dropped back in the spring, we've been smitten with their ridiculously catchy sound. And while pop-punk doesn't always shave the best connotations these days, for a group that evokes the Go-Go's recording for Epitaph, it's rather apt. - Time Out Chicago "The romance of their brand of music is thankfully outstripped by some merited musicianship, all the cooing, girly elements sullied by some real-life issue lyrics and the occasional potty mouth. This is how these kids work it out - hearts bare and spirits smiling to keep up the appearance." - Dusted Magazine
Hugpatch-08
CD
$9.00

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

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

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

Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast [vinyl version] (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION in gatefold jacket with fold out poster and download codes. Price corrected.
FatPossum
DLP
$27.25

Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast (ON SALE)
PS, US New album of subdued, gentle & dreamily gorgeous folk-pop. 2009 release from the quirky but melodic singer/songwriter. Swiftly picking up popularity with his fifth album The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird then signed with Fat Possum Records for his 2007 highly anticipated follow-up record Armchair Apocrypha. Now he stands poised with this new record, which he spent most of 2008 working on. 14 tracks.
FatPossum
CD
$15.00

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

Bitter Tears
The Grinning Corpse Who Went To Town
PS, US Songwriters Michael McGinley & Alan Scalpone comb resale shops for neglected band instruments. They play everywhere from restauraunts, churches, inside cars & established rock clubs blasting German Mardi Gras beats w/ wild brass bugling, thunderous contrabass lines, acoustic guitars & mellophones.
Roydale
CD
$9.25

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

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

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

Bluethings, The
Blow Your Mind (1964-1967)
PS, US 2CD set with career-spanning 65 tracks. Previously unreleased recordings and stunning sound! A 24-page booklet details the complete career of the band and is rich in photos and recollections." "I remember going to see The Bluethings several times in the '60s in McCook, Nebraska and talking with Richard Scott as he sat on the edge of the stage during breaks. I was only 13 the first time I saw them and was knocked out by their sound. Scott was always tinkering with his Fender tube amps and played bass both right and left-handed during the same song! Mike Chapman had a Dan Electro Longhorn guitar one time and the first fuzz tone I ever heard. Bobby Day was a great drummer. Val Stecklein's voice was unforgettable. He played a Guild Bluesbird guitar and I think was a legend even back then. The Bluethings were outstanding, head and shoulders above all the other Midwest bands of that time." --A Bluethings fan.
Cicadelic
DCD
$24.50

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

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

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

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

Bust
#55
PS, US Amber Tamblyn on cover! Cowgirls gone wild, the women of Mad Men, death becomes her, OMG vampires
ZINE
$4.75

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

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

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

Cheap Trick
At Budokan
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
LP
$18.00

Cheer Accident
Fear Draws Misfortune
PS, US Sixteenth album for this 18 year old Chicago mainstay who have never stayed in one place long enough to get a bead on them, but who have consistently released surprising albums of quality and sometimes consternation. Their latest takes another turn with the core trio being joined by 15 auxiliary musicians & singers. A strongly compelling & high-reaching album using a wide variety of ideas, styles & studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive & ambitious album of art-rock. RIYD Art Bears, This Heat & Faust
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

Chesterfield Kings
Psychedelic Sunrise
PS, US
WickedCoolRecord
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

Colossal Yes
Charlemagne's Big Thaw
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BaDaBing!
LP
$14.25

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

Cooper, Matthew Robert
Miniatures
PS, US Nine short saturnian interludes make up the first proper vinyl release by the sound artist who has intrigued your collapsed antenna many times before as Eluvium, Matthew Robert Cooper. Atmospheric chamber music from the cardboard box vortex. Miniatures moves from swirling spatial feedback manipulations to stripped down minimal piano pieces and back while you watch from the curbside the ghostly parade. Limited to 2,000 copies with the first 1,000 on colored vinyl. PITCHFORK: "Matthew Robert Cooper maintains the deep-seated ache that characterizes his music as Eluvium, offering an album of orchestral and electronic sketches drawn from a yet-to-be-completed symphony."
GaardenRecords-001
LP
$13.75

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

Cut Off Your Hands
You & I
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FrenchKiss
LP
$17.50

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

Danzca AKA Maxime Dangles & Paul Nazca
Speicher 63
PS, GERMANY Speicher returns to form for 2009. Feeling the urge to display a sweetened vulgarity for fully-formed techno -- Kompakt's young starlet Maxime Dangles teams up with Paul Nazca for this monstrous release. "Dark Neptune" is a bass-squelching power-rocker -- thoroughly delivering all peaks and no drifts. "Aquarel" is a more melodic affair, but pulls out all the right punches with a tangible, house-like quality. Definitely a classic approach that meets the Speicher seal of approval.
Kompakt
12
$11.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eno/Moebius/Roedelius
After The Heat
PS, US Originally released in 1978, Eno's 2nd album collaboration w/ Moebius & Roedelius of CLUSTER is full of blessed-out instrumentals, made up of repeated synthesizer patterns & sustained guitar. Reminiscent of the ambient style from Eno's collaborations w/ Robert Fripp, this is a classic piece of German kosmische musik.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fast N Bulbous-Beefheart
Project-Waxed Oop
PS, US "An Impetuous Stream Bubbled Up" IN TUESDAY. Latest from Capt. Beefheart tribute project, led by two innovators of New York's avant music scene: GARY LUCAS, who was guitarist for Captain Beefheart's Magic Band in its latter years and saxist and arranger PHILLIP JOHNSTON. Incl a bonus track feat. ROBYN HITCHCOCK! Their mission statement: "The idea is to use the compositions of Don Van Vliet as a vehicle for improvisation and arranging. Contains a crew of seasoned improvisers from both the worlds of avant-garde jazz and rock, who render the music as both a tribute and a creative adventure in improvising. We use the horn section to take the place of the vocals, as well as transmute this guitar-based music into ensemble into ensemble interplay, between horns and guitar and rhythm section." "The big brass band [Capt. Beefheart] never had."-Rolling Stone
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

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

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

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

Forgas Band Phenomena
Axis of Madness
PS, US French prog mainstay Patrick Forgas has been releasing jazz-rock gems that showcase his compositional and arranging skills for over 30 years. The fourth by his current band combines the most attractive aspects of jazz and rock composition with inspired solos. For fans of: Arti e Mestieri, electric Gil Evans, Magic Malik, National Health, Jean-Luc Ponty, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa. "...orchestral jazz-rock...of the kind scarcely made anymore; virtuosic ,tasteful, and melodically pleasing."-Exposé
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glasvegas
Glasvegas [Bonus Tracks] [Explicit Content]
PS, US
Sony
CD
$13.00

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

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

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

Gris Gris
Live at the Creamery
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman
LP
$16.00

Group Bombino
Guitars From Agadez V.2 (Music of Niger) Vol.2
PS, US One-time LTD ED OF 1,500! This is the latest salvo from the Agadez music scene. Led by the guitar virtuoso OMARA MOCHTAR (Bombino), the group's debut LP, & vol.2 in the 'Guitars From Agadez' series, represents the latest chapter in the modern sound of the Tuareg revolution. As of 2008, the Tuareg rebellion is in full force again, & Bombino is in exile to parts unknown. Agadez has been cut off from the rest of the country. The only road that connects this legendary city w/ the rest of the country is littered w/ land mines & the only escorts are the military. This music & its messages of hope, justice, & desire for validation of the Kel Tamachek way of life ring louder than ever. Side 1 feat. the "dry guitar" sound, an unplugged selection of songs. Side 2 showcases the electric fury of the full band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics w/ a raw, garage sound. 180gm vinyl housed in a gatefold full-color jacket stocked w/ great photos & liner notes by Hisham Mayet.
SublimeFrequencies
LP
$24.50

Gutbucket
A Modest Proposal
PS, US Fourth album in a decade-long career for NYC quartet solidifies their place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene in NYC. Their music is filled with layers of mature arrangements and a full-throttle blend of energy, chops, melody, intricacy and noise. Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides.
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

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

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

Headlights
Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer.
PS, US Strictly limited to only 1000 copies, Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer was previously only available through Headlights and the Polyvinyl website. The 7-song CDEP features live tracks recorded by the band on various stops throughout their hectic touring schedule including sessions with WOXY.com, Indie 103.1, and Daytrotter.com. Over half the pressing has been sold by the band and Polyvinyl. These are the remaining copies available. Includes rare version of fan favorites "Put Us Back Together Right" and "Tokyo." Includes never before released track "This One."
Polyvinyl-133
CD5
$6.25

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

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

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

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

Honest Engines
Don't Talk Of California
PS, US "Akin to the Flaming Lips, Electric Soft Parade, and Robyn Hitchcock, one of Chicago's finest indie bands has mastered the art of modernizing classic pop song-craft with an idiosyncratic panache, and has also figured out a way make it sound as if this engaging EP was recorded in a major studio with a noted producer." -Tom Semioli
Amplifier Magazine
HonestEngines-001
CD
$7.00

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

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

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

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

Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$28.50

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

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

Ielasi, Giuseppe
Aix
PS, US Aix is the latest work from Italian artist Giuseppe Ielasi and the follow-up to 2007's August (12k, 12k1044). With Aix we see Ielasi building his layered, atmospheric music around rhythmic grids. Most of the time these are quite irregular and the pulses are not necessarily stable or clear. Where his previous work approached sound in a linear fashion Aix imposes a strong vertical development with the aforementioned grid and a production consisting of ons and offs, employing as much improvisation as Ielasi's previous work, but in a different way. Despite the self-imposed grid structure, Aix relies heavily on randomization. Not in the traditional sense of sound placement but instead of the specialization of sounds, echoes, reverbs and the stereo image. As a result, Aix has an amazing sense and clarity of space as the small fragments of sound breathe and find their own place in the mix, thanks to Ielasi's sublime skills as a mixer and engineer. Ielasi relied heavily on numerous short samples and combining them in ways that fell into his groove; some found from others' recordings and many more recorded during the past year. We hear fragments of percussive (acoustic) objects, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, and, of course, synthetic textures. Although there is a distinct rhythmic pulse to Aix, Ielasi manages to mold it into something wonderfully languid and warm... and strangely inviting.
12K-1051
CD
$12.25

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

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

Jam, The
All Mod Cons
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Polydor
LP
$18.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

M. Ward
Transfiguration Of Vincent
PS, US Deluxe packaging & 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl. Available on LP for the first time! Ward's 3rd album that is clearly
progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, feeling dusty w/ age, & manifesting a genius that is pure & untempered. His music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere seeped in the early blues w/ a Neil Young overlay & the feel of country, blues, pop, & folk.
JealousButcher
LP
$12.50

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

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

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

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

Madagascar
Goodbye East, Goodbye West
PS, US 2008 release from weirdo chamber-folk quartet. The sophomore album by Madagascar, a Baltimore based quartet that softly stamps out soothing circular melodies on an array of acoustic instruments that include accordion, saw, xylophone, bells and drums. Like dancing an oxycodone waltz with your grandmother to a Bell Biv Devoe 45 on slow speed while cabbage cooks away in the adjoining kitchen. Limited edition of 500 on turquoise vinyl.
GaardenRecords-002
LP
$13.75

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

Makoto, Kawabata
Rainbow Of Love
PS, UK Blackest Rainbow Records is extremely pleased to announce this one. Brand new solo record from one of the most prolific Japanese recording artists around right now. Most people will know Kawabata Makoto as the guitar-wielding shredder from Acid Mothers Temple. This brand new solo recording is a two piece epic of some of the most beautiful tones I've heard in a while. Side A's 'You Are From The Rainbow Over The Sea' is a piece of bowed beauty, taking you to a higher plain of consciousness. The B-side's 'Waiting For You Till The End Of The Rainbow' is just as cosmic as its predecessor, with cascading waterfalls of tones washing over you again and again. Kinda reminds me of some of the Inui series, which is probably some of my favorite material from Makoto. Edition of only 300 copies.
BlackestRainbow
LP
$17.00

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

Mateo, Eduardo
Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame
PS, CANADA Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame is a record that requires many superlatives in order to do it justice: from its first moments, the music is lilting, poetic, intimate, in turns life-affirming and melancholic, with pulsating percussion backed by unheard-of guitar chords and tunings (perhaps the reason for the frequent Caetano Veloso and Nick Drake comparisons); it is an album that sounds, simply put, honest. The record was released at the end of 1972 in both Argentina and Uruguay, and was received from that first moment as a classic in those countries, a position it still occupies today. When El Kinto co-founder and iconoclastic maniac Eduardo Mateo traveled to Buenos Aires in October of 1971 to record what came to be Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame, his situation was unusual. With the explosion of candombe-beat music on the popular scene, Mateo had become a living legend of Uruguayan music. Yet apart from the Musicasi 4 1/2 compilation, which had been released in July of that year, there were no published recordings of Mateo available, whether as a soloist or with his already dissolved group El Kinto. By this time, the public had a clear notion of the dreamy character of Mateo that by the end of his brief life had made him a part-time panhandler and apparent acid casualty. But they still wanted a record by him. It was singer Diane Denoir who gave the final push. She was in Argentina finishing a record for the De la Planta label that included eight songs written by Mateo. Denoir insisted that Mateo participate as arranger for three of these grooves. With Mateo in Buenos Aires, the owners of De la Planta decided to take the necessary steps to record him. This was not easy, as Mateo tried to erase everything he recorded as soon as it was put onto tape, and that only on the rare occasions when he showed up ready to play. In the end, engineers Carlos Pariz and Eduardo Rozas selected material for the album from hours of free improvisations, and formed the album as it appears today. Our first Lion Productions volume of Mateo's solo recordings includes the entire Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame album, plus a variety of tracks from Mateo's early solo years. The eight bonus tracks include songs originally issued in Uruguay on the legendary Musicasi 4 1/2 LP, two tracks live from a bowling alley (!), as well as four very special early recordings backing female singers: two sung by the lovely Diane Denoir, and two by the mysterious Veronica Indart. Special slip-case edition comes with an oversize 48-page full-blown booklet packed with photos, text, and lyrics, which tries to unravel some of the myth surrounding this great surrealist poet and drug casualty, whose decline and ultimate madness and early death have done nothing to diminish his stature as one of the greatest artists in South American music.
Lion
CD
$19.00

Matt & Kim
Grand
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
FaderLabel
LP
$17.50

Matt & Kim
Grand
PS, US From the anthemic opener "Daylight" to the harmony-rich, atmospheric ballad "Turn This Boat Around" & demented pop of "I Wanna," this is quite literally the sound of the group discovering their voice.
FaderLabel
CD
$12.25

Mattson 2
Introducing
PS, US A unique melange of hot jazz, cool jazz, & contemporary post-rockist tendencies. Features guest appearances by BARBEE on guitar & JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE/SEA & CAKE). This is at times evocative of Ennio Morricone, Charles Mingus, & the Chicago Underground Duo.
Galaxia
CD5
$10.00

Mendoza
Si Me Duermo... Choco (If I Sleep, I Crash)
PS, MEXICO R. Mendoza, one of the members of the Nortec Collective as Panóptica returns to the postpunk ambient soundscapes that informed his formative years in music. "Si Me Duermo... choco" is collection of slowed down techno tracks and ambient pieces that touch upon the post punk influence of 4AD bands like This Mortal Coil, Dif Juz and Xmal Deutschland. The album was mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) and the artwork by Rubén Tamayo (Fax).
StaticDiscos-029
CD
$12.25

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

MGR & Destructo Swarmbots
Amigos de la Guitarra
PS, US New collaboration between Mike Mare (DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS) & Mike Gallagher (MGR/Isis). A single 42-minute song entitled "Amor en el Aire" recorded at Deadverse Studios w/ Alap Momin, a.k.a. Oktopus (Dalek)
Neurot
CD
$16.00

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

Misfits
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Plan9
LP
$15.00

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

Morrison, Van
Astral Weeks
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
WarnerBros
LP
$23.00

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

Music Go Music
Warm In The Shadows
PS, US Warm in the Shadows rounds out the trio of three-song 12" singles that Music Go Music have released over the course of 2008-09. It's both a fitting end-piece to the trilogy and a remarkable expansion of the group's sonic and emotional breadth. There is a casual but undeniable magic to these songs, and it flows around and out of each note of every melody. Title song "Warm in the Shadows" is dance music, as envisioned by a group with a greater allegiance to pop archetypes than to the hymns of the dance-floor. It's a step in a different direction; an invitation to shake, coupled with a gentle evocation of the pain of wrecked love ("what kind of heart would break so easy as my own"). It's a case history and a cure for both the lovesick and the lovesick-to-be. The B-side offers up stories of exotic depravity consuming itself in ways both savage and deceptively elegant. The gypsy rhythms of "Thousand Crazy Nights" undergird a tale of dog piled revelers instructed to "feel with your face, let eyes be your hands" whilst "trapped in desire's aggro dance.""Love,Violent Love" is a psychedelic voyage through a land of raving mobs who "spiral past control" once their love is at last requited. This collection of songs is further proof of the power of the transformative embrace in which Music Go Music holds what is dear to them, and the singular vision that they impart to it.
SecretlyCanadian-176
12
$9.00

Music Lovers, The
Masculine Feminine
PS, US 'Masculine Feminine' is the third long-playing record from acclaimed San Francisco-based pop-sophisticates The Music Lovers and the pinnacle of their artistic endeavors. The Music Lovers are led by transplanted Englishman songwriter Matthew Edwards. Edwards refers to 'Masculine Feminine' as his own personal 'Day of the Locust', a travelogue through the underbelly of the almost-famous doyens of LA and San Francisco. Like a toxic Graham Greene on a tear, Edwards speaks of motels, love-affairs, addictions, vamps and ingénues, pausing on occasion to look back on a half remembered England and wonder what went wrong (or right)? These are desperate songs born of need and frustration, but never dreary, never self-pitying. Rather, they show a formidable spirit of abandon - an abandon to the pop aesthetic; saddling the darkest sensibilities and wickedest proclivities to the sweetest pop-song frame-works. The music? The girl-group sound on a dreary Tuesday morning in 1976... quietly exultant on a radio in Birmingham. Serge and Stax and The Go-Betweens and Dusty and Lerner and Lowe, dammit! If David Goodis had written lyrics for Carole King they might have sounded a little like this record. Yes, they are all 'love songs' but not only to people, but places, states of mind and to divine release. 'Masculine Feminine' is battered, inebriate, sensual and defiantly and unfashionably romantic! Praise for The Music Lovers: "Gin-spritzed string arrangements and cocktail-bar melancholy, [that comes] off like a Rat Pack version of Lloyd Cole." - WORD "Hints of '60s AM-radio fodder regularly poke through the creamy, dreamy layers of piano, acoustic guitar, concertina, strings and mellotron, and the results are seductive." - MAGNET "The Music Lovers sound is lush and voluptuous, making me think of clouds and rain, strings and guitars, both orchestral and earthy, akin to the sublime pleasure of holding your head in my lap, oh my beautiful one." - comedian MARGARET CHO
LeGrandMagistery-046
CD
$12.25

MV & EE with Bummer Road
Drone Trailer
PS, US MV & EE With the Golden Road and their Drone Trailer album. In fact still orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt 'MV' Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower recordings, and Erika 'EE' Elder, the CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture. The MV & EE Medicine Show, together with their dog Zuma, they run the child of Microtones Terran library of exploratory music and sing songs with fellow Avatars. 'The Golden Road' is sometimes their own lunar Blues, sometimes fingerstyle noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier volk...always environments. You will find many are one and they like to jam together within many guitar dimensions/amp realms... respectfully and yours hanging loose.
DiCristinaStair
CD
$14.25

MV & EE with Bummer Road
Drone Trailer
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DiCristinaStair
LP
$15.25

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

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

Nana April Jun
Ontology of Noise
PS, US This debut from CHRISTOFER LAMGREN researches the dark associations of post-black metal. No traditional instruments are used on the album & all techniques are digital in their application. This explores the filmic qualities of noise - the image-creating mechanisms that arise almost hallucinogenically from subtle variations of frequencies. Fans of Burzum's "Filosofem" take note.
Touch
CD
$16.25

Nautilus & Ben Nash
Split
PS, UK Nautilus is the solo project of Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice/Time Life, long-time BR transatlantic e-mail buddy who we finally got to meet just over a year ago on the very brief Vanishing Voice tour. Since then, she has begun recording solo material under this alias, and has self-released one CD-R which blew our minds, and likewise blew local long-time BR friend Ben Nash's cranium apart. The Nautilus side opens with 'Still Rings,' a far-out trip of weirdo outsider dripping mind-fuzz, like some kind of spatial insect gathering. 'Tallahasse Woman' rings more bells with the sound of Vanishing Voice and Heidi's psychedelic string playing, and subtle vocals buried below it. 'Jeans Theme' is another sweet track of tranced-out guitar with approaching percussion and waves of vocal drones. Ben Nash holds his side with two nearly 8-minute tracks, opener 'Plymouth Bredren Blues' has definitely got the blues -- as mentioned in the title, there's some serious woe in the wah right here, and some almost Paris, Texas moments. 'Interloper/Latch' also starts off pretty bluesy, but halfway through goes to a speaker-shredding guitar shaker, with some seriously serious riffs, that are almost breaking up as they begin, and then reverting back to the blues mediation of the beginning of the track. A great release, in an edition of 300 copies.
BlackestRainbow
LP
$17.00

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

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

Newman, A.C.
Get Guilty
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.75

Newman, A.C.
Get Guilty
PS, US The second solo album from A.C. Newman, leader and songwriter behind The New Pornographers, finds the pop songsmith in decidedly more upbeat and guitar heavy form than on the last NP's album. "Get Guilty" is a set of layered pop songs of great melodic and lyrical depth. "A.C. Newman deserves every last bit of praise thrown his way. In a better world, he would be our Elton, our Todd, our McCartney" - All Music Guide.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Nichols, Ben
The Last Pale Light In The West
PS, US The debut mini album by Lucero frontman Ben Nichols was inspired by Cormac McCarthy's novel, "Blood Meridien". Recorded with Rick Steff (Cat Power, Lucero) and Todd Beane (Glossary). Features Nichols' signature gravelly voice accompanied by his acoustic guitar, complimented by Steff's piano and accordion, and Beane's subtle pedal steel guitar. RIYL: Tom Waits, "Nebraska"-era Bruce Springsteen.
Rebel
CD
$9.00

Nixe, The
S-T
PS, US Long overdue compilation of pretty much all of the 1980-81 recordings by the first all girl Dutch Punk band. I love records and I love collecting records, but I don't have the time or money for all of the records that I want so when someone does a right on comp like this I get pretty excited. This is a really great treat. Don't pass it up.
PollyMaggooRecords
LP
$18.00

Nomad
Cats and Babies
PS, JAPAN Nomad (Cavemen Speak, Gunporn) finally comes back with his 2nd album called "Cats and Babies" . His debut album called "Lemon Tea" (2006) was critically acclaimed as "bedroom hip hop folk". He was doing between rapping and singing so he was described as "rapper songwriter". With this album, he's become a singer songwriter. He did all by himself in his small bedroom, like songwriting, recording and playing all the instruments (guitar, piano, drums, glockenspiel etc. ) as well as the artwork. Beautiful melodies and fragile fairy voice and witty but intelligent lyrics. You will never forget his voice when once you listen. His music has magic.
Hue-1042
CD
$17.00

Novi_Sad
Jailbirds
PS, US Limited to 500 copies and housed in our plastic-free gatefold sleeves with spine. art design by cs08. Novi_sad's work came to our attention via our good friend Susanna Bolle (Non-Event and Rare Frequency) in Boston. A superbly keen ear, Bolle felt that his work and our label should connect. Though Nov-Sad's has only a few years of practice behind him, the quality and maturity of all of his efforts is striking. The proposed Jailbirds material for Sedimental was totally complete and not only of the highest quality but also of a truly unique vision. What is significant in his work is the multiplicity of its action on the listener. It is a density of sound, acting in three-dimensions, not as auditory "sound effect" but as music with depth both physically and in functionality. Its intensity and purposefulness based in specific conceptual foundations and enhanced by a mastery (and transcendence) of technical means collapses amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones and overtones into unified whole. Sedimental is truly excited to be an early anchor of this young composer and sound artist's serious oeuvre. Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) is a graduate student from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens, Greece where he began generating sounds in 2005. His debut album Misguided heart pulses, a hammer, she and the clock received worldwide critical acclaim. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording session at the prestigious VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National Radio which will be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the Mort Aux Vaches series. A recent piece called Dramazon is available on TouchRadio from the publishing house Touch [U.K]. He is currently working on a project based on various methods of audio analysis called Sirens in which he explores the aesthetics of information on sound by using quantitative data from major stock market crashes in history.
Sedimental-053
CD
$12.25

Null, KK
Oxygen Flash
PS, US After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, he has gradually moved toward a more electronic
approach. In recent years, he has concentrated on exploring the outer territories of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, & droning isolationist material which one could loosely describe as cosmic noise maximal/minimalism.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

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

Odd Nosdam
T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anticon
LP
$15.75

Odd Nosdam
T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
PS, US Created for the Element Skateboards film "This Is My Element," this is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. The veteran producer & beatsmith tailors each song to fit the style & cadence of the Element rider it accompanies. On its own, quite simply, this album is a banger.
Anticon
CD
$15.25

Odyssey
Live at Levittown Memorial Auditorium: 1974
PS, CANADA A live recording that was never really meant to be, recorded by Odyssey's sound engineer on a portable cassette recorder, and recently unearthed! Live at Levittown is the only document of Odyssey as they were in their progressive phase, just before Fred Callan and sometime Odyssey keyboardist Tom Doncourt recorded their legendary album as Cathedral (Stained Glass Stories). Bonus tracks include three cassette 'basement recordings' from the Setting Forth era -- two untitled originals that never made the album, plus the band's version of 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. All tracks have been salvaged as well as possible from the original sources but keep in mind these are not 'audiophile' quality! Twelve-page booklet has a continuation of the Odyssey story by band leader Vinny Kusy, as well as more rare photos from his own archive.
Lion
CD
$15.25

Of
Rocks Will Open
PS, US Loren Chasse is responsible for a whole host of vital albums. He was a founding member of the Jewelled Antler label and has sparked so many great moments from the likes of Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Softwar, and of course his main solo guise, Of. For years, this project has evolved into something of absolute magical grandeur. Rocks Will Open is the latest opus in Chasse's catalog. The music on this album is as organic as it gets. Each tone, each sound feels like it has been culled directly from the Earth's crust. Gentle drones arc toward the hazy sunlight, flickering like distant birds sailing out over the sea. Between the ghostly echoes rises a cacophony of plucked strings dancing toward oblivion. Loren Chasse's vision is perfectly expressed on Rocks Will Open. Limited to 500 copies.
Digitalis
CD
$11.25

O'Malley, Stephen
Keep an Eye Out!
PS, US Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with the tenth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It's a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music's most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore, and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley. Sunn O))) founder Stephen O'Malley summons a mesmerizing drone, absorbing the listener into an aural tar pit of deep, inexorable oblivion. He wears a cloak of post-metal allegiances with behemoths like Earth, but beneath that, there is a vibrant body of work that owes as much to the heady minimalism of Tony Conrad and Steve Reich. Constantly pushing at the extremes of volume and duration, O'Malley's sound is a physical phenomenon, infused with an intimidating power - and possessing, at its core, an oddly meditative tranquility. "The supremacy of Table of the Elements for the past decade as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalogue has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects - scores for films directed by early-60s Conrad associate Jack Smith or a 3xCD box set by an unknown two-guitars-and-drums trio from Atlanta - are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everyone associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen." -PITCHFORK "Table of the Elements [are] fearless purveyors of the wildest stuff around." -KYLE GANN (NEW YORK TIMES)
TableOfTheElements-101
LP
$14.25

Ophiucus
S-T
PS, CANADA Ophiucus may be the name of an obscure constellation, but it's also the name of a French band that recorded an exceptional album in 1972 for the Barclay label. All the members of the band had already enjoyed ample success in music before musician/actor Emmanuel Booz brought them together in 1971: Jean-Pierre Pouret was a well-known session-man for Sylvie Vartan; brothers Alain and Bernard Labacci released albums as Tom & Jerry, and supported Jimi Hendrix for a TV appearance; Michel Bonnecarrere had founded the band Zoo (one of Andy Votel from the B-Music label's favorites), and was one of the composers, arrangers and musicians for that group's first two albums. Apropos of the period, the band members decided to live together as a small family in Flagy, a small town in France, where they lived a happy life and wrote the tracks which adorn this reissue. This ambitious album somehow manages to blend grungy psychedelic rock, acoustic blues and densely orchestrated French pop/psych (in an Ilous & Decuyper vein) into an impressive and cohesive whole. Sandy Spencer, cellist and member of Mormos contributed wonderful playing on 'Ne Cherche Plus' and 'Inachevée.' This reissue includes the original album plus eight bonus tracks in English meant to be the basis of an international album that was never issued. A fulsome 28-page booklet includes band history and commentaries on the songs written by Ophiucus, photos, lyrics (French and English), and a contemporary review.
Lion
CD
$15.25

O'Rourke, Jim & Loren Connors
Two Nice Catholic Boys
PS, US These two nice Catholic boys, Loren Connors and Jim O'Rourke, met at the crossroads each night during a 1997 European tour. By this time O'Rourke had reissued Connors' seminal heartbreak album In Pittsburgh on his Dexter's Cigar label and was preparing to produce the guitarist's big-band mash-up Hoffman Estates with Alan Licht. Together, Connors-O'Rourke unravel slow motion Venusian style blues across three extended pieces to thundering, feedback splattered grooves. The spontaneous melodies shift from devastating, country road intimacy to hypnotic over-amped rock. It's ferocious, epic, and an utter beauty capable only from two who know themselves and each other all too well. This live CD is only the second duo release by these musical partners despite performing together since the mid-90s. During the past decade, O'Rourke has repeatedly returned to hours of recordings captured across Europe to select these 47 minutes.
FamilyVineyard-59
CD
$11.50

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

Parenthetical Girls
Safe As Houses [re-issue]
PS, US "THERE'S BLOOD BETWEEN MY LEGS, AND IN THE GRASS OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE I CAME." With this goose-pimplingly visceral couplet begins the fragile journey of Safe As Houses, the second album from experimental Northwestward pop band Parenthetical Girls. Though some two years past between the initial release of the (((GRRRLS))) LP (Parenthetical Girls' debut album, recently reissued on Slender Means Society), Safe As Houses' narrative begins precisely where that album left off-on the same sweat-and-menstrual-blood-soaked summer lawn that so tenderly concluded their debut-but this time from a harrowingly different perspective. "Love Connection, pt. 2" cements the somber, ostensibly sinister narrative tone that shrouds much of Safe As Houses, while simultaneously establishing the tremendous sonic leap the band undertook in their two years of relative quiet. From there, the record leaps into an altogether different sort of narrative-one anchored in the surprising confidence of words-singer Zac Pennington's plainspoken and startlingly corporeal apparitions. Unsettling and beautiful in equal measure, Pennington's a-linear narrative weaves the surprisingly evocative mythology that cradles the record's kitchen-sink experimentation. Recorded with the band's previous three-piece configuration (an ensemble made up of Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff-a regular contributor to Xiu Xiu and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, who also served as producer for the record), Safe As Houses embraces the group's shrewd attention to the awkward confluence of experimental and pop musics-creating a record that is at once more difficult and more intrinsically palatable (not to mention significantly darker) than anything so far bearing the Parenthetical Girls name. Which is to say, it's much better.
Tomlab-116
CD
$12.25

Parenthetical Girls
(((GRRRLS))) [re-issue]
PS, US The cumbersome history of the (((GRRRLS))) LP begins sometime in 2002, when two childhood friends began a home recording project in a failed milltown of Everett, Washington. Compiling an innocent assortment of equipment (bass synthesizer, ill-tuned guitar, analog tape delay, and glockenspiel), Pennington and thencollaborator Jeremy Cooper embarked on a course to emulate the spirit of their mutual musical interests, which at the time primarily included the likes of Brian Eno, Pete Kember, Phil Spector, and the early Rough Trade catalog. Over the following year, the clunky results were compiled onto a low bias cassette tape (split into a strained eight tracks) and labeled "Parenthetical Girls". This cassette was mixed down to a single copy, the original tape promptly lost. A year or so later--with the help of considerably more capable hands (namely the Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart- Pennington set about digitally (and heavily) retrofitting the original recordings into seven proper compositions. To further complicate matters, Pennington commissioned Bischoff and Stewart to complete two radically different sets of mixes for the songs-which have since become respectively known as the "O" and "X" versions of the record. But now it's four years on. In that time, Parenthetical Girls have released two more critically-acclaimed full lengths (2006's Safe As Houses [Slender Means Society] and this year's Entanglements [Tomlab]), toured the US and Europe with the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Los Campesinos!, Evangelicals, and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone (whose album Etiquette, incidentally, features a rather lovely cover of (((GRRRLS)))' closing track "Love Connection"). We are pleased to finally present (((GRRRLS))) with the wide distribution that it deserves for the first time. In an attempt to maintain the distinct duality of the LP release, the CD version of (((GRRRLS))) features both editions of the album-but in two different, enhanced CD formats: version "O" (as mixed by Jherek Bischoff) plays on any standard CD player like your average CD should, while the "X" version (as mixed by Jamie Stewart), takes advantage of the near ubiquity of the iPod revolution by offering its tracks as super high quality MP3s, accessible via any computer. (Confused? Me too. Just put it in your computer-you'll figure it out). Additionally, the enhanced materials feature "Inspirational Shortpants (avec paroles)," a track not available on the original vinyl release.
Tomlab-115
CD
$12.25

Pattern Is Movement
All Together
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Hometapes
LP
$14.00

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

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

Peyton, Caroline
Mock Up
PS, US Issued in 1972, this 10-song album has been expanded to 14, including 3 vocal cuts on the SCREAMING GYPSY
BANDITS "In The Eye" LP. Dug up in the process was a live performance at Hummingbird Cafe in 1972 captured on film, added as enhanced content on this CD. Liners document the making of "Mock Up" & the Bloomington, IN scene of the 1970s, and feat. scores of unpublished photos
Asterisk
CD
$15.75

Peyton, Caroline
Intuition
PS, US Issued in 1977, the 10-song album has been expanded to 17, including 2 studio outtakes and 5 demos recorded for Arista. Booklet feat. a dozen candid photos from the period & Edd Hurt's account of Caroline's final days as an outsider folk goddess. "A middle road between Buffy Sainte-Marie's electro-augmented "Illuminations" & Nick Drake's "Pink Moon." - Pitchfork
Asterisk
CD
$15.75

Photobooth
Da Me Tus Besos b/w You & 3 In the Morning
PS, US New Bay area band w/ members of the FM Knives and Mothball. 3 catchy
songs.
Daggerman
45
$5.50

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

Pink Reason/Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones
Split
PS, US Another couple of months and it's time for another great Pink Reason record. This time he goes at it with fellow Wisconsin-ites Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones and they cover each other's songs. Maybe it's the fact that HBJOs have backed up Mr. Pink Reason on many occasions or maybe it is the times they shared in a midwest more isolated than most of us imagine or maybe it is just that both bands are really great. No matter the reason what you get is a great record.
FloridasDyingRecords
12
$12.00

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

Pollard, Robert
Crawling Distance
PS, US From the stately Krautrock chug of the album opener, "Faking My Harlequin," to the schizo-frenetic closing track, "Too Much Fun," w/ its structural U-turns piled on top of tempo shifts, this is unlike any Pollard release yet. Joe Stopa's stoked!!!
GBV
CD
$15.25

Pollard, Robert
Crawling Distance
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Joe Stopa's stoked!!!
GBV
LP
$15.25

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

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

Psychic Ills
Mirror Eye
PS, US "Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really, evacuating, an unlikely future-primitive grind." - Village Voice "This NYC quartet set their stall somewhere between oceanic guitar abstraction and the brittle crunch of psychedelic guitar rock, feeding their extended chugging jams through a thick fog of fuzz." - The Wire Mirror Eye, the second full-length album from Psychic Ills, is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective reflection. Through the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimy SeiTang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly - and unlike anything happening right now. Sprawling opener "Mantis" sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta, Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes Closed." I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea" is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message, and perhaps the album's for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. This release will be followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from this period.
TheSocialRegistry-066
CD
$11.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Record Collector
#358
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Refused
The Shape Of Punk To Come
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BurningHeart
LP
$15.00

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

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

Royal Trux
Twin Infinitives
PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original LP issue in 1990! When it was released in late '90, Twin Infinitives raised the bar for avant-garde pop music. Listening to some today's pop music, the influences seems undeniable.
DragCity
DLP
$19.25

Royal Trux
S-T
PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original 1988 Royal Records LP issue. Royal Trux burst from the belly of NYC-cum-DC scum punks Pussy Galore in 1986 to gather scraps from glam, burial dub, rockabilly & more to create their version of a rock & roll sound. A cult quickly sprang up around the band & their sporadic live appearances.
DragCity
LP
$15.75

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

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

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

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

Serpentina Satelite
Nothing To Say
PS, GERMANY The quartet Serpentina Satelite was formed by the end of 2003 in Lima, Peru. Their music creates atmospheres and emotions throughout diverse musical influences; exploring space -- kraut-rock, avant garde stoner and psychedelia. Nothing To Say is their international debut with 5 new cuts (49 mins.), a raw, variative heavy spectrum plus effects and lots of spacefeeling; inspiration taken from the '70s Hawkwind, Amon Düül 2 and Ash Ra Temple. Another example of the high-energy Peruvian underground sound!"
WorldInSound/TripInTime
CD
$18.25

Shearer, Rachel
Fakerie
PS, US Fakerie is a digital séance of aural and visual sculptures by the New Zealand artist Rachel Shearer, formerly known as Lovely Midget. Filmed in an environment to facilitate focused listening, Fakerie is as much for the ears as the eyes. Glowing white lights ebb and expand from darkness in shifting series - like clustered stars - as penetrating resonances of acoustic and electronic overtones decompose into the tiniest sand-like components. Traces of Mary Lucier's mid-1970s burn films and Francois Bayle's musical investigation into the physical and psychical world is present. The specially programmed Region 0 (free)/NTSC format DVD plays in constant loop. Its 22- minutes can be expanded into hours allowing the user to immerse themselves in the work. This DVD is Shearer's first long-form film release. In the past 20 years, she has released records on some of the global underground's most significant labels - Siltbreeze, Xpressway, Flying Nun, Corpus Hermeticum and Ecstatic Peace - as Lovely Midget and with Queen Meanie Puss and Angelhead. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book, this set also contains a 20-page booklet investigating the ghosts, distances and signals of fakerie.
FamilyVineyard-40
DVD
$14.25

Shepherd
Loco Hills
PS, US A lot of beloved-by-us artists and artisans ice-pick out shapely creations from the marble slab of life on a steady schedule, but even within this rarefied realm, it's a real cause for jubilee when an individual/band fucks precedent and totally redefines themselves through a real masterwork. And, in our book (check it out, it's a good read), Loco Hills is one such touchstone. Distilling down every fried-fuzz groove, tape-loop ghost cloud, and mass-mind motorik psychosis, Shepherds have ever let loose into four perfectly-sculpted jam-journeys, the language of Loco is a rolling, roiling ride through twisted, wordless tongues and hieroglyphic electricity, at once more focused and far-out than anything else in their canon. Mentioning that members moonlight in projects like Meneguar, Non-Horse, and Vanishing Voice is meaningless, this is the Rear House posse's shining achievement to date and it stands alone. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with the same 'gnashing viper' artwork of the Release The Bats CD edition. Edition of 500.
NotNotFun
LP
$13.75

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 8 Jan-Feb 2009
PS, UK On the cover: The Flamin' Groovies: San Francisco ballrooms... hard rock... glam...power-pop classics...all in a day's work; The Zombies: the kings of baroque n' roll; The Scaffold: the scouse avant-garde pop/comedy/poetry trio reappraised; Apple Publishing: a psychedelic peak into the artists who made up The Beatles song factory; Fire: into the treacle toffee world of the Brit mod-psych heroes; Tim Rose: the dark singer-songwriter who gave us 'Hey Joe' and more; Dope: the great lost British underground drug movie. Plus a tribute to Yma Sumac, a piece on Stone Garden, a beginner's guide to psychedelic soul, and an exclusive extract from the new Sly & The Family Stone biography." 82 pages.
Shindig
ZINE
$8.25

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl.
XL
DLP
$20.00

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

Six Organs of Admittance
RTZ
PS, US The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that "returns to zero") fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance's early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal & organic like some wonder of the ancient world. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate "Resurrection," half of a Time-Lag split 12" with Charalambides. "Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told" is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra & Magic Carpithans from 2003. "You Can Always See the Sun," was part of Three Lobed Recordings' Purposeful Availments subscription CD series in 2002. And "Nightly Trembling" was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called "Punish the Chasm with Wings" from pre-millennial days & you've got yourself a deep, DEEP box set.
DragCity
DCD
$15.50

Six Organs of Admittance
RTZ (3XLP)
PS, US Multi-faceted triple-gatefold LP!!!
DragCity
LP
$20.00

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

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

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

Spencer, Angelo
Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake
PS, US 2 songs: My Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake "My Music is My Sweat" began with a conversation between Karl Blau and Angelo Spencer about how music is similar to body odor and, like everyone's stench, one's music is also unique and identifiable. Angelo's music is as raw as sweat. Recorded in one day, on one take by Blau, this 7" is a puddle of twitchy urgency. Generally a one-man band, this recording is fleshed out with frantic drum fills and fidgety keys by L'Orchidee d'Hawaii soon after they finished a tour with Spencer. "My Music is My Sweat" is the sprint and "The Great Salt Lake" is the cool-down, exasperated pause needed to sprint and sweat again; embellished with distant whistling - like the playful intermission of a spaghetti western - and Spencer is the wandering hero. "Music should always be like that." featuring L'Orchidee d'Hawaii
Krecords-121
45
$3.75

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

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

Stars Of The Lid
Music for Nitrous Oxide
PS, US Repress/reissue. DEBUT OF THE CLASSIC FROM THE POST-ROCK DRONE MASTERS. NEW VERSION RE-MASTERED WITH NEW COVER ART. This was sedimental's first cd release back in 1994. Robert Ovetz (Ultrasound) mentioned this guy Adam who was doing amazing 4-track stuff at home. I think the name of the tape he gave me was called "Ombudsman". The success of this release was a nice surprise and certainly having Joel at Cargo champion it, who was just getting Kranky going as well, certainly put us both out there. Ultimately, SOTL ended up at Kranky and are still making amazing recordings for them. Many say this is still their favorite Lid release, although I am partial to the "Ballested Orchestra" too. It certainly remains a powerful touchstone for and precursor to, the post-whatever independent music scene and still sounds incredibly solid and undated today. Though Stars founder Adam Wiltzie has admittedly distanced himself from the release in terms of artistic terms he felt it was time to re-visit and re-fresh the work with a new mastering job, as well as having new artwork designed by longtime visual collaborator Craig McCaffrey. Sedimental has always kept the document in print in its original form with a remarkably steady stream of sales, but we welcomed the opportunity to update the release and make it more widely available to a new generation, so to speak. Below are excerpts from the original press release which still seem quite relevant and accurate: Sedimental announces the first CD from Austin drone stars Stars of the Lid, an amazing 4-track recording that is created in the spirit of Eno, Main, and Spacemen 3. Produced without keyboards, this lo-fi ambient journey employs predominately guitar, avoiding typical rock elements while still possessing the "home" recorded feel of so much independent music. Being based in Austin, a town loaded with so many heavy guitar bands, one wonders how they came to make such hypnotic and engaging sounds. Especially when Stars mastermind Adam Wiltzie is involved with so many "rock" bands himself, having recorded Ed Hall's Motherscratcher and its forthcoming release, the Flaming Lips Peel Sessions, as well as running sound for Bad Livers, and Doo Rag tours. Citing Cage, Spacemen 3, Robert from Main and Loop, nitrous oxide, and Bedhead as artistic inspirations, he also comments the group is a reaction against the "muscle" rock and C&W that dominates the Austin music scene and a way to withdraw from it. Despite their current unknown status, we at Sedimental were so impressed by the music of Stars of the Lid , we felt it worthy of our first CD release. After giving this a few listens (especially the brilliant trio of tracks 7,8, and 9), we are sure you will think they belong on the same plateau as EAR, Labradford, Main, and Organum.
Sedimental-023
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

Swervedriver
Mezcal Head [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1993 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Never Lose That Feeling', 'Planes Over The Skyline', 'The Hitcher' and 'Paris') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75

Swervedriver
Raise [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1991 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Hands', 'Andaluc¡a', 'Kill The Superheroes' and 'Over') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75

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

Szajner, Bernard
Some Deaths Take Forever
PS, UK LTM presents the second in a series of expanded CD reissues by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally released in late 1980, Some Deaths Take Forever is a deeply emotional, sometimes disturbing musical account of the feelings of a prisoner on death row, conceived as the soundtrack to a short film by Amnesty International. The album mixes dark, angular and unnerving electronic textures with dynamic rock arrangements, guest musicians including Bernard Paganotti of Magma. Reviews rated the album highly: 'A modern electronic masterwork - one of the most exciting and innovative piece of electronic music to be released this year' (Melody Maker); 'Frantic, outraged music shames the bulk of oscillator nuts peddling their dodgy little repetitions around' (Sounds); 'Unquestionably one of the decade's most accomplished fusions of sophisticated electronics and driving rock' (NME). The expanded 60 minute CD features three previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982.
Boutique-6620
CD
$17.00

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

Tarentel
Live Edits: Italy/Switzerland
PS, US Over the course of numerous dates in Italy, the group (a trio on this tour of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Danny Grody, & Jim Redd) improvised every set they played w/often stunning results. This is not your grandfather's Tarentel. This is full of pounding tribal drums & walls of mixer feedback, floating guitar trips & walls of noise - a tug-of war between beauty & tension. Limited to 500 copies
Digitalis
CD
$11.00

Telescopes
Untitled 2nd
PS, US Released in the US for the first time, augmented w/ 4 bonus tracks. The group was among the most innovative & challenging yet successful artists in Creation Records' "middle period", a leading part of the wave of sonic experimenters who included Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Spectrum & Spiritualized. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The songs are built on acoustic guitars, then the tricked-out electric guitars are laid on top & garnished w/ bongos, organs, pianos, & all sorts of classic instruments. Stephen Lawrie's vocals are restrained & semi-emotional & female backing vocals add a touch of sweetness that might otherwise be missing from the record, as the overall atmosphere is very moody & introspective"
Bomp!
CD
$13.75

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

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

Tillman, J.
Vacilando Territory Blues
PS, US Since 2004, J. Tillman has quietly been releasing records, some of limited quantity, some mostly available in Europe, but for the most part, unheard. The borderline-alienating starkness and well lived-in narratives of his first two records, I Will Return and Long May You Run, J. Tillman (released in limited runs of 150) endeared him to fans of and drew comparisons to the likes of Nick Drake, Will Oldham, and Jason Molina. In 2006, after three months in Europe touring on his third and most accessible album, Minor Works, Tillman recorded his fourth collection of songs at home with his brother and roommate. Cancer and Delirium struck a perfect balance between the intimacy of his earlier releases with the nuanced, melodic sense of Minor Works. Each song imbued with the same strikingly disconsolate singing and devastatingly poignant prose that Tillman is known for and accented with some of his most gorgeous, spare arrangements. Vacilando Territory Blues, Tillman's fifth and first with Western Vinyl, came as the result of three different recording attempts in 2008, in which entire sessions were scrapped, and ultimately the majority of the final material would surface and be recorded days before mastering. The push and pull of this record veers sharply from the tone of Tillman's previous releases, which for the most part, adhere to a singular mood and stylistic execution. The tension dynamically between songs like "Firstborn" and "New Imperial Grand Blues" is hard to reconcile, but the way the songs are framed herein belies a cohesion not dissimilar to classic oddball albums such as After The Goldrush. Sacrifcing a stylized album, the breadth of Tillman's abilities as a songwriter emerge on VTB, in an array of musical personalities bound by his lyrical existential dread and economical arrangements. In 2008, Tillman joined longtime friends and musical collaborators, Fleet Foxes. Casey Wescott and Christian Wargo both appear on VTB, along with several regular contributors who were willing to adapt to several idiosyncratic recording obstructions. Vacilando Territory Blues is far and away Tillman's most collaborative effort, and the most striking moments here are those seemingly stumbled upon, without resorting to second-takes or microphone re-adjustment. This album casts a strange perspective on what people have come to expect from Tillman's music, but these songs, though oddly untethered, reveal the process of someone coming to terms with the prospect of making music in the void.
WesternVinyl-56
CD
$11.50

Titus Andronicus
The Airing Of Grievances
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$14.00

Titus Andronicus
The Airing Of Grievances
PS, US Patrick Stickles, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, launches his insights across a wall of defiant, triumphant rock anthems, which have earned comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, and The Replacements. "Patrick Stickles howls with anguish way beyond his 22 years, often cramming lyrics into tight spaces just to make sure he gets the last word in. The drama's more Boss than Bright Eyes, fueled by blue collar frustration and, most notably, beer" - Pitchfork.
XL
CD
$13.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Under the Radar
#25
PS, US Most Anticipating Albums of 2009: starring GRIZZLY BEAR on cover, Sonic Youth, Bat for Lashes, Depeche Mode, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Silversun Pickups, The Flaming Lips, Dan Deacon, Dove.
ZINE
$3.75

Underground Failure, The
S-T
PS, SWEDEN Swedish underground counter-culture monster album from 1971, originally released as a private pressing of 150 copies, never sold at shops at the time. These bunch of freaks were clearly influenced by Dylan, early Velvet Underground and The Fugs, but they came with a sound of their own. Stoned/druggy atmosphere alternating from acoustic/acid-folk tracks to devastating, fuzzed-out ones like 'Green Ocelot,' which was included at #38 in the recent 'Punk Before Punk' top 50 list in Ugly Things magazine. Limited to 500 copies, with remastered sound in nice papersleeve mini-LP replica.
BlackLight
CD
$21.00

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

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

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

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

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

Various
File Under: Male Vocal The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer
PS, US After enjoying countless compilation albums of psych, beat, garage, girl groups, instrumentals, soul, exotica etc., the Psychic Circle label now releases a compilation which concentrates on that most popular of '60s phenomena, the British male vocalist. These are great tracks and performances that can't really be considered beat, soul or psych, but at the same time conjure a similar sort of mental image. Solid, classy songs performed by great singers which readily evoke the sense of excitement and freshness prevalent in that decade. As legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond) expounds, "What I was trying to assemble for this album was a selection of quality male vocal, with a kind of pop/beat feel. The kind of thing you might have heard in any London discotheque alongside the beat groups, the Stateside soul-sounds, the groovy girls and burgeoning psych riffs. Nothing too MOR or fey, just cool guys doing what they did best. I reckon it's a long overdue examination of a hitherto overlooked genre. It doesn't really need a label, but if you want to give it one, just file under - male vocal." Artists include: Mickey Clarke, Jason Cord, Gerry Deville, Dominic Grant, Nicholas Hammond, Christian Ward, Graham Bell, Jerry Page, Dane Hunter, Brian Keith, Keith Powell, Don Adams, Neil Landon, Greg Hunter, Dave Walton, Danny Street, Dorian Gray, Rudi Bennett, Ronnie Jones, and James Royal.
PsychicCircle
CD
$16.25

Various
Trip In Time Vol. 1: Delighted by Psychedelic Rock
PS, US comp of contemporary psych bands (most tracks from 2005/6; plus a previously released Dragonwyck track from 1968 just to throw you off!). Features: Siena Root, Vibravoid, Stoned Circus, La Ira De Dios, Treacle People, Loxley Beade, Fantasyy Factoryy, i-H8 Camera, Ma-Nia, Karmic Society. 72% previously unreleased. "Music for the Mind and Body... while music industry continuously looks for 'new' concepts, trends and music styles to serve the mainstream, Trip in Time ventures a look to the past. We present the artistic, emotional and intensive side of music, the concept of progressive psychedelic rock. It appeared in the public consciousness for the first time in 1966, created by the 13th Floor Elevators. By 1956, the English psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond had already formulated: 'To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.' Fifty years later, we invite you to join the bride uncensored spektrum of music with a fine feel for intensity and a variety of interesting influences.
WorldInSound-2501
CD
$15.75

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

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

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

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

Volcano Suns
Bright Orange Years
PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1985, this is VS's debut album & is chock full of so many catchy songs that it could be any other band's greatest hits album. Merging noise, agression & tunefulness seamlessly, it is a wonder they were not huge from the get-go. Remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON, feat. 9 bonus tracks (many unreleased previously) that adds 7-inch only tracks & radio sessions.
Merge
CD
$11.50

Volcano Suns
All-Night Lotus Party
PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1986, this is VS's sophomore album & is more rambunctious than their debut. They meld "hardcore punk & heartland rock" into a heavier, darker sound w/ more distortion on the guitars & more bass-heavy production. This is crisply remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON, feat. 11 bonus tracks (many unreleased previously).
Merge
CD
$11.50

Wax Poetics
#32
PS, US On the cover: Sly Stone, Jimmy Cleff, Jean Grae, Terry Cliff, so much more.
ZINE
$9.50

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

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

Welcome Wagon, The
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
PS, US This debut album by The Welcome Wagon unveils a ramshackle sing-a-long enterprise of a Presbyterian pastor (the Rev. Vito Aiuto) and his wife (Monique) wrestling out the influences of folk music, religion, popular culture, and church tradition in a collection of songs that is as soulful as it is good-humored. This gorgeous brew is reflected in the group's repertoire, which unflinchingly consolidates a vast history of "sacred" song traditions: from old Testament psalms, to Presbyterian Psalters of the 17th century, to iconoclastic pop innovators of the 1960s (The Velvet Underground), to charismatic catholics of the 1970s (Lenny Smith), and even into the melancholy lovelorn pop of the 1980s (The Smiths). Recorded, produced, and arranged by Sufjan Stevens. The Welcome Wagon WELCOME TO THE WELCOME WAGON
AsthmaticKitty-45
LP
$11.50

Wicked Witch
Chaos: 1978-86
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
EmRecords
LP
$23.50

Wicked Witch
Chaos: 1978-86
PS, US 1st time ever reissue of rare evil psycho machine-funk from '80s Washington, DC, incl. previously-unreleased mixes. Now is not the time to doubt your senses - the WICKED WITCH does exist. WW combines elements from alchemical mentors Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra, ESG, Run DMC, James Brown & Jimi Hendrix to cast a crazed spell on the innocent listener. An evil mass of machine-funk w/ lashings of rhythm & blues & fusion delivered direct from the heart of the Witch, a misunderstood psycho-genius weaving his solo web deep w/in the dark studio walls. Remastered from the original master tapes, incl. rare
photos
EmRecords
CD
$19.50

Wire Magazine
#299
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

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

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

Yellow Moon Band, The
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
PS, UK The Brother's dropped some mushroom's one afternoon after decided to experience the love behind the record of the year. Yes they would plot a histogram using Jaffa-cakes and pink wafers. During a distracted moment they pondered over the other important events in music. The Weeley festival 1971 (Juicy Lucy, demon fuzz and Hackensack and all for just £1-50); dancing in the mud in your underpants at Bickershaw to the Greatfull Dead; Cheech and Chong and Haydock Brass Band. Or what about climbing on army tanks to catch Roy Harper at the St. Helens Show. Great days with the endorphin rush of pure music jammed out by buzzing musicians. So here we have the debut album by The Yellow Moon Band. It follows two sold out sevens and some crazy shows at the Green Man Festival. Eight tracks of Instrumental wonk that's as darn exciting as discovering that rare side of wax that's sorta' Anatolian led rare groove in a bare chested wrestle with Be Bop Deluxe's 'Sunburst Finish' and pressed up on Vertigo. Well it might exist in the car boot of your dreams. More Hillage than Gong, more Hacket than Genesis, more Thompson than Fairport and certainly more Velvet Jacket than Leather jacket. The Freakzone friendly Yellow Moon Band will release their debut gatefold album on Static Caravan in November. Gatefold Card CD with artwork by Luke Insect.
StaticCaravan-173
CD
$16.25

Yorke, Thom
The Eraser Rmxs
PS, US This Japanese release collects all the 12-inch remixes originally found on Yorke's debut solo album "The Eraser". The Radiohead frontman asked several of his favorite artists and producers to remix these tracks (Burial, Four Tet, The Field, Cristian Vogel, The Bug, Modeselektor, Various, Surgeon), and the results are as bold and visionary as the originals. "...teems with gorgeous melodies...a testament to the singer's unique vision. 4.5 / 5" - Wired.
XL
CD
$13.25

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

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

Yussuf Jerusalem
A Heart Full Of Sorrow
PS, US Was kind of dreading this one. The name?!!?, Heard it opens with a Death Metal song (it does) the whole thing just seemed like a bummer. Well I was wrong. Not even the opening track could ruin this record for me. If someone asked me to tell them what kind of music this is I guess I'd say folk-rock. The biggest (and best) surprise in recent memory.
FloridasDyingRecords
LP
$11.00

Forthcoming Releases

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

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

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

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

Architecture In Helsinki
That Beep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Coming off the heels of commercial success in Australia, Architecture in Helsinki are set to release a brand new song in the states. The song is called "That Beep" and it is the most straight forward, 80's inspired pop tune the band has ever created. With a hook so instantly gratifying, the US is likely to follow Australia's lead in making AiH a household name. "That Beep" is a teaser single from the brand new, as-yet-untitled Architecture in Helsinki fulllength that will land on the shores of America in late summer 2009. "That Beep" has widely been covered on the web by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear, Fluxblog, You Ain't No Picasso, and Stereogum to name a few, and the video for "That Beep" premiered on Pitchfork.tv. Features 3 bonus tracks, including a Radioclit remix.
Polyvinyl-174
12
$9.00

Asobi Seksu
Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US A critically acclaimed band with glowing press from such outlets as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, XLR8R, and many more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl debut with their much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into something new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence and sputtering drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist Yuki Chikudate.
Polyvinyl-170
CD
$13.25

Asobi Seksu
Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US LP 180 gm vinyl. A critically acclaimed band with glowing press from such outlets as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, XLR8R, and many more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl debut with their much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into something new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence and sputtering drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist Yuki Chikudate.
Polyvinyl-170
LP
$14.75

Baja
Aether Obelisk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US The Aether Obelisk is the fourth release in the Baja saga by composer Daniel Vujanic. It arrives at a broad musical horizon, touching the borderlines of forms ranging from chamber music and psychedelia, to pop/jazz-infected electronic music. The Aether Obelisk is unpredictable as ever, but definitely exploiting more vocal and repetitive elements than its predecessors. The overall mood is also less melancholic and nocturnal than previous Baja offerings. Some almost-tender sequences add more harmonic depth to the fractured signature sound of Vujanic´s suite-like compositions. It's loaded with acoustic and electric guitar textures ranging from folk to improv, synths, panoramic electronics, reverberating piano bits, horn sections, vibes, glockenspiel and multi-layered percussion - both live and programmed. "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 "Vujanic is making music for the Shuffle generation, positing endless subdivisions that thus, beautifully, enable the listener to consider the music in almost anything." -Cokemachine Glow "Incredible, genre-melting... deconstructs rock norms." -The Tripwire
OtherElectricities-017
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

BMX Bandits
The BMX love EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 600 COPIES. Red vinyl. Elefant are congratulating ourselves on the release, for the second time, of the exclusive 7" of one of the most vital and active groups of the Scottish pop scene. Duglas T. Stewart put together a handful of unreleased songs in this item that marks the sepia tinted memory of the most elegantly poppy seventies, led by the piano, evoking the halo of composers like Burt Bacharach or Henry Mancini and artists like Dusty Springfield or Françoise Hardy. From the new version of "Our Secret Life" in French, rebaptized here as "Quand il n'y a plus d'amour" (with the French adaptation by Nick Garrie) to the closing gem of the EP, a version of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" that Olivia Newton-John sang in "Grease", on of our favorite films, which Duglas deliciously recreates with the collaboration of the Scottish band THE ATTIC LIGHTS. The single is completed with two very recent recordings, the unreleased "I Can Wait Forever", intimate folk pop marked with elegant melodies and vocals, and a version of "You Don't Want to Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe" by MY LITTLE AIRPORT. When Duglas received MY LITTLE AIRPORT's album, published by Elefant, he fell instantly in love with the song. He played it live a few days later and soon after decided to record it in the studio, the magnificent result of which is here. A precious collection of songs with the indelible stamp of one of the most gifted minds in pop of the last 25 years at the controls. As always, Duglas, it's a pleasure.
Elefant-268
45
$7.75

Bodies Obtained, The
From the Top of My Tree (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009)
PS, US The path that leads to The Bodies Obtained is a long one. Conceived in Detroit, MI, not much is known of the extremely elusive duo (there isn't even an existing photograph of the artists) other than the fact that they took their name from the Joy Division song "Day of the Lords", and whatever other little bits of information they make available to the public via cryptic press releases sent to the media from within the band's camp. The Bodies Obtained are of indiscriminate age, and only now fielding their first album, From The Top Of My Tree to the greater public. A timeless piece of music, ...My Tree could have been conceived in 1978, 1988, 1998 or 2008: it's the sonic documentation of an ongoing project that spans electronica, experimental rock and synth-pop from a group who have experienced it all. With songs akin to those of Brian Eno, the Residents and Fad Gadget, TBO use their anonymity to lead the listener to explore a realm that could be associated with those bands: an obscure place where nothing is quite what to expect around the next bend. Discord and discomfort are as important as reward and satisfaction, and the album is a living, breathing testament to that rhetoric. The music itself is heavier than most electronic bands out there, more synths, more echo, more ether, more meaning. One member of TBO attests: "For us the band's name also ties into our reason for making music. Due in part, to that perfect act of nature that put us here, in this body, at this time and place. Finding music attractive, it has forced us to express our 'art damaged' selves through it". Song titles like "Let the Worm Seize the Day" and "The Pig that I Am"; channeling even more '80s electro gloom, validate the band's statements off the bat.
FindingYouAttractive
CD
$10.00

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

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

Parasol New Arrivals • January 20, 2009
Howdy folks, Whew! There’s a whirlwind of hot-ass records throughout this here update today. You know you can’t go wrong with the likes of A.C. Newman, Animal Collective, Swervedriver, Robert Pollard, Bon Iver, MV & EE, Antony & The Johnsons and oh, so many more to wrap your head around. With that said we’ll let you get to the list and be sure to give us a holler if any of the goods catch your eye. Coulomb's law, Roy & Paul
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	Joe Pug "Nation of Heat EP" CD5 $5.50 (Self-Released) First song I heard by Chicago DIY-singer-songwriter Joe Pug was on our cool local radio station on a bitter cold morning. It transfixed me, immobilized me in the drivers seat with the sun blazing through the icy window, the defroster doing it's damnedest. Like The Tallest Man On Earth this dude's gonna get the "Dylan-esque" tag, and like TTMOE Joe completely surpasses easy comparison.
New Releases 16 Bridges to Burn PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Relapse LP $18.00 16 Bridges to Burn PS, US A dozen new hits of misanthropy & spite from the seminal sludge-rockers. Features the legendary "Drop Out" line-up. RIYL: Melvins, Kylesa, Jesus Lizard Relapse CD $14.75 22 Pistepirkko Sleep Good-Rock Well PS, FINLAND 2005 rockumentary on Finnish psych-pop trio, Parasol faves. PAL, region 0, will play on most newer DVD players and almost all PC/laptop DVD drives. BoneVoyage/RareBird DVD $15.00 Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force Planet Rock PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! 4MenwithBeards LP $18.00 Agincourt Fly Away PS, CANADA 1970 UK private pressing mega-rarity -- a top notch psych-folk classic in Syd Barret solo/Fairfield Parlour direction, but with female vocals. Originals are £1500 or more -- no chance to get them. Available for the first time from the original master tapes. Sixteen-page booklet comes complete with lyrics and band history, and includes stunning previously unseen photos of the band. The addition of previously unheard bonus tracks makes this an essential reissue for everyone. Acme/Lion CD $15.25 Agitation Free Live '74 - At the Cliffs Of River Rhine [re-issue] PS, US One of the most important bands of the experimental circle known as the "Berlin School," & a career springboard for a whole slew of musicians. Improv Krautrock jams! Revisited DCD $17.75 Akiyama/Corcoran/Kiefer Low Cloud Means Death PS, US "For years, I've counted Tetuzi Akiyama as one of my absolute favorite guitarists. He's been cranking out great records for ages, honing his style and skill in every possible way. Add in Christian Kiefer, who has also put out a string of magnificent releases, and a talented drummer/percussionist in Kevin Corcoran (who has appeared on releases on Weird Forest and played in Antennas Erupt!) and you've got a recipe for something magical. Low Cloud Means Death is a series of sea-inspired improvisations that are fighting a continual battle with the silence between each note. This is sparse music at its finest. Minimal notes float in the air as Corcoran lays a web of various percussion beneath the organic layer Akiyama and Kiefer weave. The instrumentation is varied -- Akiyama sticks to acoustic guitar while Kiefer splits time on accordion, piano, and other vices. What the trio produces ends up coming off like an all-improvised Morton Feldman or something of the like. This is a journey on salt-encrusted waves, traipsing through empty spaces in search of whatever aural mystery can be found. It goes something like this: Thump. Quiet again. Twang, thump. Quiet. Quiet. Still quiet. Distant blap. And let me tell you, it is one fantastic voyage. Limited to 500 copies. Artwork by Eden Hemming Rose." Digitalis CD $11.25 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (DELAYED/ REPRESS MODE) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino DLP $21.00 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (ON SALE) PS, US Their ninth full-length. The whoops and hollers that previously held together the sublime, chaotic urgency of their earlier work now signal the calm sense of euphoria and wonder that ripples through this wide eyed record. Domino CD $13.00 Antony & The Johnsons The Crying Light PS, US Antony and the Johnson's breakthrough second album "I Am a Bird Now" won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize in 2005. The success that followed introduced many to a pioneering soul singer unafraid to explore themes that traversed darkness and light, life and death, male and female. Antony's inimitable voice sparked the interest of artists ranging from Bjork to Hercules and Love Affair, resulting in a series of critically acclaimed collaborations. "The Crying Light" is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to "I Am a Bird Now". Here, Antony shifts the thematic focus and explores his relationship with the natural world. The intimacy of the Johnsons' sound is enveloped by avant-classical composer Nico Muhly's symphonic arrangements. The record's centerpiece, "Another World" traces the singer's dispair in the face of a vanishing landscape. Antony and the Johnsons' music bridges the gap between avant-classical music and the blues, and the band's sold out performances have resulted in standing ovations from Carnegie Hall to the Apollo. "The Crying Light" is a soul-stirring new work with its daring compositions and captivating vocal performances. Antony and the Johnsons have created a subtle and timely work that brings a magical and yet changing world to the forefront of our consciousness. SecretlyCanadian-194 CD $11.50 Baikonour Your Ear Knows Future PS, US 2nd album by Brighton's BAIKONOUR, aka Jean-Emmanuel Krieger. 3 yrs on from his acclaimed debut, he has delivered another burst of smart, proggy poptronica, bursting w/ Gallic charm & myriad, fully-realized ideas. He plays all the instruments except for drums, which were played by FUJIYA & MIYAGI's LEE ADAMS. Baikonour makes confident strides as an artist, turning in a collection of songs that fuse electronica w/ motorik Krautrock & the dynamics of My Bloody Valentine & The Cocteau Twins, Amon Duul 2, Popol Vuh, Harold Budd, Eno, Neu! Vangelis, Magma & 'Melody Nelson'-era Gainsbourg. Melodic CD $16.25 Banhart, Devendra Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $19.25 Barrett, Laura Earth Sciences EP PS, US Debut EP by a member of HIDDEN CAMERAS. Laura Barret's solo material features her sweet voice as her fingers prod at a kalimba, her instrument of choice. Her full-length album "Victory Garden" will be released in February. PaperBag CD5 $7.50 Bats Don't You Rise PS, US The Bats are legends of New Zealand music, standing tall alongside contemporaries The Clean and The Chills as linchpins of the Flying Nun label and the Dunedin/Christchurch scene. Over the course of 25 years, 7 albums and 4 world tours, the original line-up of Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean and Kaye Woodward remains intact and still creating vital pastoral pop gems. Combining Robert's mantric-like guitar pick and strum, bouncing bass with a twist from Paul, melodic hooks from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm's snappy beats, the combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. The band's reputation is sterling; based on legendary albums like Daddy's Highway and Silverbeet and their energetic live shows, The Bats have an enthusiastic world-wide fanbase who treasure the band's continued excellence. The Don't You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to the release of their next album, The Guilty Office, in early 2009. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats' Law of Things), "That's How You'll Find Me" would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album and mesmerized with it's folk-pop groove. "You Don't Belong" is a moody gem, while "Don't You Rise"'s country-inflected strum is a live favorite. "Face Inside The Sun" rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off of Daddy's Highway. A pretty special EP then, and ample evidence that 25 years after forming, The Bats still earn their legendary status. The new and next Bats full-length album, The Guilty Office, will be released by Parasol's Hidden Agenda label in May 2009! Slumberland 45 $3.75 Beatles Abbey Road PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Capitol LP $15.00 BeauSoleil Alligator Purse PS, US On "Alligator Purse" the group's fearless captain Michael Doucet leads the next installment of his musical journey along the lifeline of Cajun music, this time w/ an all star crew including NATALIE MERCHANT, GARTH HUDSON, JOHN SEBASTIAN, ROSWELL RUDD, & BILL KEITH. His notable friends help Doucet bring the rich folk traditions of south Louisiana into the 21st century through the genius interplay of a new take on Cajun favorites ("Marie") & the 'Cajunization' of modern folk classics. A French language reworking of Bob Dylan's cover of Muddy Waters' classic "Rollin' & Tumblin'" ("Rouler et Tourner") & J.J. Cale's "The Problem" stand alongside Cajun & Creole history lessons like "Reel Cajun (451 St. Joseph St.)," "Les Oignons" & "Theogene Creole", originally sung for John & Alan Lomax's historic 1934 field recordings. YepRoc CD $14.50 Believer January 2009 PS, US Interviews w/ Robert Alter, Gordon Lish, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, & Tom Dumm plus "A tree of literary birds, illustrated" & "Adam McKay's frozen bagels from 1982." ZINE $8.00 Besties, The Home Free PS, US Equally at home strumming alongside melodic pop bands and invading the occasional crusty punk show, The Besties wear their inclusiveness like a badge of honor. Like Talulah Gosh with an Athens party twang, The Besties punch out fun, loud songs high on smarts and low on snot. After touring the US and Europe several times over, the band now prepares for the release of their sophomore effort, Home Free, on Hugpatch Records. Home Free is the follow-up to the Besties' well-received debut album, Singer (Skipping Stones Records) and Rod N Reel 7" (both of which sold out). Besties Press: "There's a reason why Amelia Fletcher called her flagship twee-pop band Heavenly: its music could whisk away the cynical and melt the hardest of hearts. This Brooklyn trio chews that same pop bubblegum on its debut. Marisa and Kelly swap sugary vocals like classmates of State, vying for - what else? - the boy." - Magnet "First Exposure" "Ever since the Besties' new single dropped back in the spring, we've been smitten with their ridiculously catchy sound. And while pop-punk doesn't always shave the best connotations these days, for a group that evokes the Go-Go's recording for Epitaph, it's rather apt. - Time Out Chicago "The romance of their brand of music is thankfully outstripped by some merited musicianship, all the cooing, girly elements sullied by some real-life issue lyrics and the occasional potty mouth. This is how these kids work it out - hearts bare and spirits smiling to keep up the appearance." - Dusted Magazine Hugpatch-08 CD $9.00 Beware of Safety Dogs PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! MyleneSheath DLP $23.50 Beware of Safety Dogs PS, US As romantic as it is morose & solemn; as secretive as it is exposed & vulnerable. This pushes instrumental music into a psychedelic direction of pure catharsis. MyleneSheath CD $13.50 Bird Show Untitled PS, US NOW ON LP! Limited to 300 Barge LP $12.25 Bird, Andrew Noble Beast [vinyl version] (ON SALE) PS, US VINYL VERSION in gatefold jacket with fold out poster and download codes. Price corrected. FatPossum DLP $27.25 Bird, Andrew Noble Beast (ON SALE) PS, US New album of subdued, gentle & dreamily gorgeous folk-pop. 2009 release from the quirky but melodic singer/songwriter. Swiftly picking up popularity with his fifth album The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird then signed with Fat Possum Records for his 2007 highly anticipated follow-up record Armchair Apocrypha. Now he stands poised with this new record, which he spent most of 2008 working on. 14 tracks. FatPossum CD $15.00 Bird, Andrew Noble Beast/Useless Creatures [deluxe edition] (ON SALE) PS, US Double-CD deluxe version features a bonus CD of instrumentals, completely different artworek/packaging, fold out poster... 23 tracks total. FatPossum DCD $27.25 Bitter Tears The Grinning Corpse Who Went To Town PS, US Songwriters Michael McGinley & Alan Scalpone comb resale shops for neglected band instruments. They play everywhere from restauraunts, churches, inside cars & established rock clubs blasting German Mardi Gras beats w/ wild brass bugling, thunderous contrabass lines, acoustic guitars & mellophones. Roydale CD $9.25 Black Lips/Carbonas/Gentleman Jesse/Predator S-T PS, US After 3 yrs of regular house shows & 4 live 7"s, the satuday afternoon showcases hosted at ROB's HOUSE have become somewhat of an Atlanta staple. RH hosted the last of its house shows in July 2008 & this 7" feat. 1 trk from each of the 4 bands that played that day. Its the end of an era for RH & they cut no corners to make this release a celebration of their time at the house. Feat. 2 unreleased trks, comes housed in a hand-numbered gatefold sleeve & incl. a professionally shot DVD of the entire show! WOW! LTD ED OF 1318 ONLY (1118 BLACK vinyl, 200 WHITE vinyl)! Trklisting: "MIA" (BLACK LIPS), "Day Turns To Night" (CARBONAS), "The Rest Of My Days" (GENTLEMAN JESSE), "Little Prince" (PREDATOR) Rob'sHouseRecords 45/DVD $6.50 Blackout Beach Skin of Evil PS, US Blackout Beach is the solo nom de guerre of Carey Mercer (FROG EYES/SWAN LAKE). Skin of Evil is remarkable in the sense that a. it contains a story, and b. that it sticks to the story; a rare occurrence in these free times. "Donna" is the subject, and each of her lovers (past & present) say their peace in song (Donna gets her song, too). Composed, played & recorded entirely by Mercer alone, these songs revel in the proto-punk darkness of the heady Cleveland axis (e.g. Peter Laughner, David Thomas) with a minimal, textural & almost Suicide-ish sense of pop form & the experimental nature of contemporary Scott Walker works. SoftAbuse-31 CD $11.75 Blakkamo, Jahdan DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek Present: We Are Raiders PS, US DuttyArtz CD $18.25 Bluethings, The Blow Your Mind (1964-1967) PS, US 2CD set with career-spanning 65 tracks. Previously unreleased recordings and stunning sound! A 24-page booklet details the complete career of the band and is rich in photos and recollections." "I remember going to see The Bluethings several times in the '60s in McCook, Nebraska and talking with Richard Scott as he sat on the edge of the stage during breaks. I was only 13 the first time I saw them and was knocked out by their sound. Scott was always tinkering with his Fender tube amps and played bass both right and left-handed during the same song! Mike Chapman had a Dan Electro Longhorn guitar one time and the first fuzz tone I ever heard. Bobby Day was a great drummer. Val Stecklein's voice was unforgettable. He played a Guild Bluesbird guitar and I think was a legend even back then. The Bluethings were outstanding, head and shoulders above all the other Midwest bands of that time." --A Bluethings fan. Cicadelic DCD $24.50 Bon Iver Blood Bank PS, US The four-song Blood Bank collection continues down the path forged by 2008's critically acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago. While still tied to the identity of the place where it was born, Bon Iver is no longer an unplanned entity synonymous with Justin Vernon. It is an idea, a place and sentiment that has now become as international as it is timeless. From the title track's remembrance of the winter warmth we seek, to the summer love tribute of b-side gem"Babys," Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. Still, there is a reverence for sabbatical, solitude and the winding down of time. As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid. Bon Iver has grown to include more than what was available at the much-fabled Wisconsin cabin, such as piano, slide guitar, and vocoder. As Justin layers on harmonies in the meditative R&B a capella "The Woods," he declares "I'm building a still to slow down the time." It is as poetic as it is necessary. Both expansive and intimate, these four songs explore the darker and lighter natures of the seasons and what they signify, and offer a dynamic glimpse into the Natural energy and refined craftsmanship that characterize Justin Vernon's music. Jagjaguwar-134 12 $9.00 Bon Iver Blood Bank PS, US The four-song Blood Bank collection continues down the path forged by 2008's critically acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago. While still tied to the identity of the place where it was born, Bon Iver is no longer an unplanned entity synonymous with Justin Vernon. It is an idea, a place and sentiment that has now become as international as it is timeless. From the title track's remembrance of the winter warmth we seek, to the summer love tribute of b-side gem"Babys," Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. Still, there is a reverence for sabbatical, solitude and the winding down of time. As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid. Bon Iver has grown to include more than what was available at the much-fabled Wisconsin cabin, such as piano, slide guitar, and vocoder. As Justin layers on harmonies in the meditative R&B a capella "The Woods," he declares "I'm building a still to slow down the time." It is as poetic as it is necessary. Both expansive and intimate, these four songs explore the darker and lighter natures of the seasons and what they signify, and offer a dynamic glimpse into the Natural energy and refined craftsmanship that characterize Justin Vernon's music. Jagjaguwar-134 CD5 $7.50 Booka Shade Sweet Lies PS, US 3rd single from "The Sun & The Neon Light" GetPhysicalMusic 12 $13.50 Brown, Drew Tiago La is Losing the Plot EP PS, US Native Texan has been crafting lo-fi pop/folk ditties since 2004. While writing this EP, he wandered by Beck's studio to contribute on "The Information." Now a resident of LA and Beck's right hand man, Drew is using this EP as his introduction to the world. Lex CD5 $7.00 Bukaddor & Fishbeck Carat PS, US The title track marks the DJ cut, whereas "Relic" on the flipside w/ its stronger house feel, captures a warmer & slightly more Krautrock spirit. Traum 12 $12.75 Bust #55 PS, US Amber Tamblyn on cover! Cowgirls gone wild, the women of Mad Men, death becomes her, OMG vampires ZINE $4.75 Calexico Live From Austin, TX PS, US They have been called "the voice of the American southwest," but the fact of the matter is that musically they are all over the map (they list as their influences Portuguese fado, 50's jazz, gypsy music, 60's surf & spaghetti westerns). But when they made their debut on the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage in September 2006, their latest record "Garden Ruin" had taken them in new directions that even they might not have imagined. NewWest DVD $17.75 Chanson Sigeru #1 Dad PS, JAPAN "Chanson Sigeru" is the solo project from Tokyo musician Shingo Shinmachi (member of Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic Band and drummer for legendary band GELLERS. These band supported Why?, Animal Collective, No Age Japan tour). He was born in Tokyo, 1980 and formed a band together with classmate when he was a junior high-school student. Then the band changed a name as GELLERS and released 1st album "GELLERS" from COMPARE NOTES RECORDS in 2007and they played at Fuji Rock festival same year. Also he has been supporting GELLERS member 'Tokumaru Shugo's live as a toy percussionist. Now he's a member of 'Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic Band'. His collage illustration has widely attracted the attention and has worked for the artwork of 'Tokumaru Shugo's debut album "EXIT" and Eastern Youth bassist Ninomiya's side project 'Hyoutan'. Solo project "Chanson Sigeru" music stretches from free folk, psychedelia, noise, improv, indie rock to Japanese pop that all the sounds like own voice besides the all performances by himself such as the drum, the percussion, guitars, keyboards and the noise recorded with 4-track MTR. '#1 DAD" consists the works between 2005-2008 and mastered at Peace Music by Soichiro Nakamura (engineer of Yura Yura Teikoku, Boris etc.) in September 2008. All artwork has done by Chanson himself. Will appeal to fans of Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Boredoms, Black Dice, Liars, Deerhoof. Tokumaru Shugo. Moamoo-008 CD $16.25 Chatham County Line S-T [re-issue] PS, US Reissue of the self-titled breakout debut. This first album finds the band in a more straightforward bluegrass mood, showcasing their stunning instrumentalism & the sharpening of their renowned harmonies. The album sees the quartet honing their craft on the traditional bluegrass instruments - mandolin, fiddle, banjo & acoustic guitar - & "one mic" live performance style that has become their trademark. YepRoc CD $14.25 Cheap Trick At Budokan PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Sony LP $18.00 Cheer Accident Fear Draws Misfortune PS, US Sixteenth album for this 18 year old Chicago mainstay who have never stayed in one place long enough to get a bead on them, but who have consistently released surprising albums of quality and sometimes consternation. Their latest takes another turn with the core trio being joined by 15 auxiliary musicians & singers. A strongly compelling & high-reaching album using a wide variety of ideas, styles & studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive & ambitious album of art-rock. RIYD Art Bears, This Heat & Faust Cuneiform CD $14.25 Chesterfield Kings Psychedelic Sunrise PS, US WickedCoolRecord CD $12.25 Clue To Kalo Lily Perdida PS, US Satisfyingly schizophrenic, Clue To Kalo's third full-length release Lily Perdida is ten voices in one, all of them a different branch off the same electric folk tree. Amidst jangly guitar, mod ribbons of flute, and the voices of mastermind Mark Mitchell and duet partner Ellen Carey, ten musical perspectives on fictional character Lily Perdida emerge, each song from the point of view of a different person in her life. A post-modern frolic of keyboards, harpsichords and laptops, Lily Perdida is a gorgeous and sonically sprawling commentary on the nature of history and identity. Each succeeding track reinterprets, misreads or conflicts with the accounts that came before to collectively create an anti-portrait of the main character. The music ebbs and flows with the changing characters but never strays from the utterly satisfying sound we have come to expect from Clue To Kalo. Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, Clue To Kalo mastermind Mark Mitchell blends a lo-fi acoustic-folk aesthetic to computer-based production in which the technology is the means rather than the end. A generous use of layered melodies, elemental textures, and multi-tracked vocals highlight a vast range of influences and solidify the fact that Clue To Kalo is first and foremost a songwriter. In addition to many shows in Australia and Japan, Clue To Kalo has toured throughout the US and Canada, was a featured artist at the Mush 2003 CMJ and 2005 SXSW showcases, and has shared the stage with luminaries like the Greenhornes, Willowz, Death Cab For Cutie, Caribou, and many more. Inventive without being inaccessible, Clue To Kalo has established himself as a singular artist of extraordinary scope and depth. Mush-262 CD $9.00 Color Cassette Forever Sparrow PS, FRANCE Color Cassette was initially the project of a single musician, Jason Corder (aka OffTheSky): an old guitar and one four track recorder went head to head in their home studio of Lexington, Kentucky. But this solitary project quickly evolved into a collaborative one, in the course of casual meetings that became veritable musical interventions. In the course of four years, 14 musicians worked at the home studio. Today, Color Cassette is Jason Corder and Matt Yarington (aka Set In Sound), with various guests such as Clint Colburn (vocals), Colin Campbell (drums, vibes), Anna Hess (violin) and Jordan Munson (textures, field recordings). After Small Town Smoker, the first EP in 2008 ('single of the week' at Boomkat, reference for online mail orders), Color Cassette is now releasing their first concept album, Forever Sparrow. It tells the story of a little boy who gets lost in a magic forest, and when he is transformed into a sparrow, he chooses to stay in this extraordinary world forever. This musical journey, which evokes the themes found in Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland, takes the shape of an acoustic collection in outlines deformed through an electronic prism. Sketched during the sunny summer afternoons of 2007, this handful of ideas metamorphosed into song-format fragments, which put forth the best part of a sound digression. They form a record that is a miniature, moving, and sometimes disturbing, odyssey. COLOR CASSETTE: Jason Corder : vocals, lyrics, vibes, melodica, drums, guitar, bass, production... Matt Yarington : production, drums, programming. Guests: Clint Colburn: vocals Colin Campbell: drums, vibes Anna Hess: violin Jordan Munson: textures, field recordings. DISCOGRAPHIE: (ADIM = AUTRES DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC) LP/EP - "Small Town Smoker EP" (2xCDR, Mobeer (sub-label of Moteer / 2008) - "Forever Sparrow LP" (ADIM/2008) Various / remixes - 'Here We Go Again' on "Various Artists - Assemblage Session 1 (Abandon Building Records/2005) AutresDirectionsInMusic-020 CD $16.25 Colossal Yes Charlemagne's Big Thaw PS, US Inspired by the Kiwi indie-pop formula of Tall Dwarfs, The Clean, & The Verlaines. Using piano as the main instrument, this is a reawakening of the pop aesthetic done Piano Man style. The end result is unique yet similar to the epic pop bands of the past. This pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer & Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham Nash's "Songs for Beginners," the romanticism of Nikki Sudden't "Waiting on Egypt," & the sonic merriment of Thunderclap Newman's "Hollywood Dream" BaDaBing! CD $14.25 Colossal Yes Charlemagne's Big Thaw PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BaDaBing! LP $14.25 Coltrane, John Blue Train [Expanded Edition] PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! BlueNote LP $21.00 Cooper, Matthew Robert Miniatures PS, US Nine short saturnian interludes make up the first proper vinyl release by the sound artist who has intrigued your collapsed antenna many times before as Eluvium, Matthew Robert Cooper. Atmospheric chamber music from the cardboard box vortex. Miniatures moves from swirling spatial feedback manipulations to stripped down minimal piano pieces and back while you watch from the curbside the ghostly parade. Limited to 2,000 copies with the first 1,000 on colored vinyl. PITCHFORK: "Matthew Robert Cooper maintains the deep-seated ache that characterizes his music as Eluvium, offering an album of orchestral and electronic sketches drawn from a yet-to-be-completed symphony." GaardenRecords-001 LP $13.75 Current 93 (Anok Pe) Birth Canal Blues PS, US CopticCat CD $10.00 Cut Off Your Hands You & I PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! FrenchKiss LP $17.50 Cut Off Your Hands You & I PS, US Debut from the self-proclaimed "fight-pop" group. Features a contribution from ex-SUEDE guitarist BERNARD BUTLER. Previous tours w/ Crystal Castles, Duke Spirit, Black Kids & We Are Scientists. FrenchKiss CD $13.25 Danzca AKA Maxime Dangles & Paul Nazca Speicher 63 PS, GERMANY Speicher returns to form for 2009. Feeling the urge to display a sweetened vulgarity for fully-formed techno -- Kompakt's young starlet Maxime Dangles teams up with Paul Nazca for this monstrous release. "Dark Neptune" is a bass-squelching power-rocker -- thoroughly delivering all peaks and no drifts. "Aquarel" is a more melodic affair, but pulls out all the right punches with a tangible, house-like quality. Definitely a classic approach that meets the Speicher seal of approval. Kompakt 12 $11.50 Death In June All Pigs Must Die PS, US Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy Discs series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged ritual. While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic Death In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with the addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial elements also permeate half the album. Out of print for several years, the reissued CD comes in a foil-blocked soft-pak. Soleilmoon CD $16.00 Death In June All Pigs Must Die PS, US LP version. Stunningly unsettling picture disc limited to 2000 copies. "Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy Discs series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged ritual. While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic Death In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with the addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial elements also permeate half the album." Soleilmoon LP $20.00 Death In June Presents Kapo! PS, US The soundtrack to the funeral of New Europa imprisoned by its past, an idea originally inspired by Douglas P.'s war-time experiences in Croatia between 1991-1995. This 1996 collaboration with Richard Leviathan (Strength Through Joy/Ostara) continues in a similar musical vein first seen on the Scorpion Wind project released the same year. This is now reissued in a black foil-blocked soft-pak. Soleilmoon CD $16.00 Deep Feeling Pretty Colours PS, UK This short-lived band wowed London audiences w/ their audacious brand of exotic proto-psychedelia, even backing Jimi Hendrix at his first UK gig. Sunbeam CD $18.00 Dendoshi Dendoshi 2 PS, ITALY Dendoshi is Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Timo Van Luyk (Af Ursin, In Camera). Dendoshi: "sent to propagate the ceremony" or "missionary" (Japanese). There had actually been a previous incarnation of Dendoshi (hence Dendoshi 2), which was a large group performance in New York that ventured upon elucidating the memories of a a fifty-plus foot tall dead Weeping Cherry Tree re-contextualized as a sculptural exhibit. Some thematic reference: The name 'Dendoshi' originates from the work of Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose films also inspired the content of the first performance. When the opportunity presented itself for Connolly, Dijkstra, Nuss and Van Luyk to come together to make a session, it was the perfect opportunity to realize Dendoshi not as a one-off performance on a theme, but as a recurring ritual in development. The resulting music widened the conceptual reflection of the band, bringing to mind the history and ideas of Franz Mesmer. Mesmer, the 18th century Austrian spiritualist healer, was among the first to put forth the theory of what he termed 'animal magnetism,' regarding a universal fluid which permeates all matter and can be influenced by the will, not dissimilar to some of Eliphas Levi's concepts. What seemed to set Mesmer apart was an attention to mood and atmosphere, an aesthetic component to what were scientifically quite dubious theories, which lent his work an aura of portent -- thus the parallel with the music captured as Dendoshi 2. Reflecting the qualities that all four musical sensibilities had in common, the album is a statement upon the ephemeral nature of atmosphere and will, and the relation of reverie to oblivion as opposed to ecstasy. The symbol, or mark on the front cover created by Connolly came intuitively and without revision. Its applied function is that of distinction rather than that of protection or as a seal. It was first applied to the photograph by Clarence H. White form 1904, where the first resonant depiction or personification of reverie and oblivion as applied to Dendoshi was found. By applying the mark, Connolly is ceremonializing the image, thus rendering it distinct from its original form, not as an appropriation, but as a recognition. The other images followed, and each of them were recognized instantly without having to search. The last was Vermeer's image from Van Luyk's basement, and upon receiving this, the series of 4 inserts was complete. There is a trace of fear and a sensation of suspended time in these images which suits the music very well. Edition limited to 300 copies with a gold cover. Planam LP $26.50 DHS House Of God (Poker Flat Mixes) PS, US Almost 20 years after its original release, this classic from Ben Stokes (MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO) is back. Championed in Germany by techno innovators such as Sven Vath in 1989/1990, the track quickly reached cult status. Three new mixes include PHONIQUE's cheeky jacking track, MARTIN LANDSKY w/ a powerful club remix, & an updated version that is functional dark house energy. PokerFlat 12 $12.75 Dr. Dooom Dr. Dooom 2 PS, US Threshold CD $13.50 Dr. Dooom Dr. Dooom 2 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Threshold LP $21.50 Druid Perfume S-T PS, US Featuring three members of the PIRANHAS-one of Detroit's most infamous punk bands of the last decade-DRUID PERFUME continue the "Where the fuck are these guys coming from?" mayhem, elevating it to the next level of Weird Punk. Tropically hot in its sweaty, confident swagger their sauntering, jazzy art-skronk collides beautifully with raw, soupy Detroit punk viciousness. This five-piece eviscerates that rotting corpse of Detroit punk, dancing, marching around the body, finger-painting the funhouse walls with the entrails in a truly manic Lord of the Flies-like hysteria. Piggy never had a chance. This controlled chaos-Druid Perfume's debut - plays itself out over eight songs. In and out in a breathless 24 minutes. Vinyl only."-Mark Murrmann Pigs LP $13.25 Earle, Steve & Del McCoury Band Mountain PS, US The acclaimed bluegrass album from 1999, finally reissued after many years out of print. Features contributions from EMMYLOU HARRIS, IRIS DEMENT, JERRY DOUGLAS, MARTY STUART, GILLIAN WELCH, GENE WOOTEN & JOHN HARTFORD. NewWest CD $17.75 Eighteen Wheels Burning Tweaked Out, Strung Up & Redlined PS, US Tripped out guitars, a pounding rhythm section, sonic vocals & featuring ex-members of THE WANT (Southern Lord), this is set to establish the group as one of the premier bands on the stoner rock scene. MeteorCity CD $13.75 Elder S-T [deluxe edition] PS, US Crushing & destroying everything in its path comes the newest offering from these psychedelic doomers. A potent concoction of swirling, groovy, heavy-as-shit riffs, pounding percussion, & heathen vocal work destined to please the gods of Holy Smoke. MeteorCity CD $15.50 Elegi Varde PS, US Norwegian composer TOMMY JANSEN returns w/ the second installment of a trilogy for Miasmah Recordings. An incredibly accomplished body of work, its natural progression of movements transporting the listener through cinematic soundscapes & evocative passages of intense, doomladen, droning acoustic instruments. The eerie, underlying sounds taken from seemingly unrecognizable sources, add to the feelings of unresolved tension, bringing to mind the later works of Scott Walker, the slow-build of Gorecki's "3rd Symphony" & the murk of Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking Of The Titanic." He operates in the area between composed & improvised music, building bridges between classical music & dark ambient drones & textures. Miasmah CD $15.50 Emeralds What Happened PS, US Emeralds is at the forefront of a new American movement that continues the experimentation in analog electronics of the 60's and 70's while ignoring the formulaic and boring turn electronic music took in the later part of the 20th century. Add a renewed energy gained from their connections to the noise movement, and you have some of the most original and true music of the new century. 'What Happened' continues their exploration in tonal beauty of their recent work that brought to mind pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Cluster, while presenting a new approach to structure that brings to mind masters like Luc Ferrari and opens our ears to a new universe full of astonishing possibilities. This is the true new American infinite electronic music of our present. Recorded by Emeralds and mastered by James Plotkin. NoFunProductions-35 CD $12.25 Eno, Brian Ba-Benzélé/Subterraneans PS, US Slow To Speak is a gray-area vinyl recontextualization label -- reissuing onto 12" vinyl its favorite tracks -- beyond any obvious genre or stylistic confines. All releases are compiled by Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson for Slow to Speak. There are have been close to 30 releases in the past, from Loggins & Messina to Haki R. Madhubuti. Packaging is often elegantly screenprinted. Although some earlier STS releases featured unique "edits", most are just album tracks pressed to vinyl to give new context and availability to classic works from the past -- listen now, ask questions later. This Eno 12" features "Ba-Benzélé" from Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Music & "Subterraneans" from the David Bowie's Low album. "Brian Eno is one of the true pioneers of electronic music; from the very beginning of its inception, as one of the most in-demand studio producers of his era, he served as one of its most eager disseminators, accomplishing some of the first syntheses of rock, experimental and electronic music -- and delivering it to popular audiences previously unimagined before his time. In the strangely familiar alien tones & effects of the then excessively intricate and virtually inaccessible synthesizers of the early 1970s, Eno perceived in electronic production the key to popular music's transcendence, its elevation to the level of true intellectual & artistic expression -- an expanse of seemingly endless potential that allowed not only the seasoned & qualified composer to express himself through the new electronic sound, but also provided entrenched genres the opportunity to discard with their embedded orthodoxies & breathe a whole new air of life into their creative process & product. His work with avant-garde trumpet player John Hassell is a deeply inspiring example of this early pioneering. Hassell was himself obsessed with atypical scales & unfamiliar instrumentation, only in his case, he was convinced that in the most remote regions of Earth's untouched & undeveloped sonic landscape lay the most potent tools for music's superseding to the domain of sublime experiential transcendence. With Eno's prowess at the opposite end of the technological scale, the two produced some of the most wildly divergent co-existences of sound, mixing the unsettling tones miraculously produced from Hassell's trumpet -- which were for the most part, inspired by traditional forms of obscure world music -- with the strange warmth of Eno's comforting synth chords & melodic disposition to create music that is at one moment deeply warm, comforting and pleasing to the ears -- only to morph into something suspiciously unfamiliar, uncharted and singularly abrasive -- beautiful still, but unsettling nonetheless... the perfect balance. But it was Eno's work with legendary rock/pop/post-punk superstar David Bowie that demonstrated the breathtaking potential of Eno's electronic aesthetic, its integration into the most resistant of musically-opposite fields, and its true transcendent potential. 'Subterraneans' is the quintessential tragedy in song, a piece that needs no definite lyrical tale to relate its truly melancholic expression, its very notes, its distorted, shivering wails of possibly human melodic groans, its sub-bass synth pads, the only necessity for full expression: undeniably Eno's masterwork. It weeps, not through the deceiving over-intellectualization of poetry, but rather through the pure expression of tonal & melodic sound. This is the essence of Eno's contribution to modern music. Compiled by Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson for Slow To Speak." Silkscreened lettering on jacket with glitter. SlowtoSpeak 12 $13.00 Eno/Moebius/Roedelius After The Heat PS, US Originally released in 1978, Eno's 2nd album collaboration w/ Moebius & Roedelius of CLUSTER is full of blessed-out instrumentals, made up of repeated synthesizer patterns & sustained guitar. Reminiscent of the ambient style from Eno's collaborations w/ Robert Fripp, this is a classic piece of German kosmische musik. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Epic 45 Bracken / Bibio Remixes PS, UK Tracks : A : 'You Are An Annual' remixed by Bracken B : 'Stars In Autumn' remixes by Bibio. 2 track 45rpm heavyweight 12" vinyl. "Epic 45 are those cooler than thou post-post-rock chaps who wang an album or EP out occasionally to be consumed rabidly by you, the hungry music vulture. Now they've a limited remix 12" in a variety of sleeves, one for each season of the year. I remember when we used to actually have seasons in this country rather than the schizo mulch of conditions we get these days! Bibio & Hood's Chris Adams AKA Bracken are the prizefight contenders here, Bibio's re-jig of 'Stars in Autumn' being an atmospheric brooder reminiscent of later period Boards of Canada. Building up from fractured astral wildlife effects into a spaced clanky ambler of a tune, I can also hear bits of Intricate in there, a reassuringly old skool electronic vibe, full of drifting twinkles & a shuffling phat beat. Very cinematic in places, it really sets the mood for a lazy sunny afternoon's loafing! Bracken re-shapes 'You are an Annual' into a pastoral and blissed out journey full of hesitant bass thrums, shifting, morphing effects that slip in and around the serene vocals and some impressive dubbed-out delay and phasing action! This sounds closer to his later Hood vision rather than the sonic tinkering and future pop of his solo Bracken material and should just be the icing on the cake for fans of both Hood & Epic 45! A real treat this one & we're proud to be giving it the coveted SOTW" spot! WaysideandwoodlandRecordings-001 12 $17.50 Errors It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever PS, UK VINYL VERSION!!! RockAction LP $18.25 Errors It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever PS, UK Errors are pleased to announce the release of their debut album. Entitled It's Not Something, But It Is Like Whatever the record features 9 brand new tracks in addition to last year's limited edition single Salut! France. While managing to retain the elements of new-wave and acid-house that marked their early Hans Herman 7" and EP How Clean Is Your Acid House?, this new material represents a natural progression and evolution in Errors' sound that so far has seen the band touted as natural successors to the mantle currently held by the likes of Battles, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. RockAction CD $18.25 Faithfull, Marianne Easy Come, Easy Go PS, UK Regular import CD version with 10 tracks. 2008 release, a collaboration between the British icon and producer Hal Wilner. All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal, and range from Billie Holiday's 'Solitude' to 'The Crane Wife' by current band The Decemberists. Other tracks include songs originally by Merle Haggard, Espers, Bessie Smith, Morrissey, Dolly Parton and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Easy Come, Easy Go also includes some interesting guest performances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Sean Lennon, Cat Power and Teddy Thompson. Naïve CD $17.75 Faithfull, Marianne Easy Come, Easy Go [deluxe edition] PS, UK LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Special three disc (two CDs + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of her 2008 album, a collaboration with Hal Wilner, including eight bonus tracks and a DVD that contains footage with Marianne and Hal commenting on the tracklisting (a documentary by Anne Rohart under Jean-Baptiste Mondino's artistic direction). All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal, and range from Billie Holiday's 'Solitude' to 'The Crane Wife' by current band The Decemberists. Other tracks include songs originally by Merle Haggard, Espers, Bessie Smith, Morrissey, Dolly Parton and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Easy Come, Easy Go also includes some interesting guest performances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Sean Lennon, Cat Power and Teddy Thompson. Naïve DCD/DVD $35.25 Farina, Mark Mushroom Jazz Vol.6 PS, US LIMITED EDITION - 1500 copies only!! To the un-initiated, Mark Farina is the master of the blend! This sixth edition in this legendary series sees cuts from J-BOOGIE, COLOSSUS, KERO ONE, JAZZUAL SUSPECTS, and more, as well as a bumpin' brand new Farina original track entitled "Life". 15 tracks in all, and all previous volumes are now gone, so grab this one before it goes the same way. OmRecords 3XLP $18.50 Fast N Bulbous-Beefheart Project-Waxed Oop PS, US "An Impetuous Stream Bubbled Up" IN TUESDAY. Latest from Capt. Beefheart tribute project, led by two innovators of New York's avant music scene: GARY LUCAS, who was guitarist for Captain Beefheart's Magic Band in its latter years and saxist and arranger PHILLIP JOHNSTON. Incl a bonus track feat. ROBYN HITCHCOCK! Their mission statement: "The idea is to use the compositions of Don Van Vliet as a vehicle for improvisation and arranging. Contains a crew of seasoned improvisers from both the worlds of avant-garde jazz and rock, who render the music as both a tribute and a creative adventure in improvising. We use the horn section to take the place of the vocals, as well as transmute this guitar-based music into ensemble into ensemble interplay, between horns and guitar and rhythm section." "The big brass band [Capt. Beefheart] never had."-Rolling Stone Cuneiform CD $14.25 Fauna Rain PS, US A Strongly ecocentric two piece band working in the black metal genre. This cd consists of one epic track lasting over an hour, beginning with a field recording of rain in a forest, then an acoustic journey and finally a raw black metal surge of power and pummel. AuroraBorealis CD $15.25 Fire Witch Japan PS, US This Melbourne, Australia act plays thundering, spacious metallic sludge. This is a LTD ED, silk screened 1st run of only 200 copies on COLOR vinyl. Aquarius Records sez of the band: "Aussie noise rockers the Grey Daturas had been telling us forever about some killer band called Fire Witch, who they played w/ all the time. FW are another band who traffic in the slooooooooow & heavy, but they definitely give it their own twist. Not sludgy like SUNNO))) or their legions of followers, & not really noisy like many of their countrymen. Instead they're some sort of strange downtuned slowcore mathrock. Massive basses (that's right. no guitars!) churn & throb, the drums a crushing pound, over the top, drawn out wailing 'leads', all the makings of a proper rock band, but instead they fuck it all up... laced w/ all sorts of killer melodies, making it sound like a doomed version of June Of 44 or Engine Kid" WantageUSA 10 $10.00 Foals Olympic Airways PS, US tune that walks the line between dance music & organic art rock. SUPERMAYER toy w/ the original melodies & chorus, building it all into an elated crescendo. EWAN PEARSON's mix is a Balearic-y blissful gem that sets a new standard. Kompakt 12 $12.50 Forgas Band Phenomena Axis of Madness PS, US French prog mainstay Patrick Forgas has been releasing jazz-rock gems that showcase his compositional and arranging skills for over 30 years. The fourth by his current band combines the most attractive aspects of jazz and rock composition with inspired solos. For fans of: Arti e Mestieri, electric Gil Evans, Magic Malik, National Health, Jean-Luc Ponty, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa. "...orchestral jazz-rock...of the kind scarcely made anymore; virtuosic ,tasteful, and melodically pleasing."-Exposé Cuneiform CD $14.25 Free Blood Parangatang b/w Weekend Condition PS, US Released on the RONG MUSIC label (DFA offshoot label)... the 3rd in a series of 3 12''s from this Brooklyn duo consisting of MADELINE DAVY (Octopi NYC) & JOHN PUGH (formerly of !!!). The 12" series is to be followed by a full-length CD. The lead cut on this 4-trk single contains "Parangatang" - broken house beats w/ increasingly hectic vibes matched w/ a classic piano melody. A head-scratchingly unique pop single that maintains rhythmic consistency. Incl. DJ-friendly remixes by TIM "LOVE" LEE & SCOTTY COATS & WES THE MES. Tim's mix is a heady analog dance dub workout, while the Scotty/Wes punk-funk mix of "Weekend Condition" has been called "best remix ever made" by the Rong label. On tour w/ electro-synth pop behemoth's HOT CHIP! Rong/DFA 12 $8.00 Gaye, Marvin What's Going on PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Motown LP $18.00 Gaye, Marvin I Want You PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Motown LP $18.00 Giant Robot #57 PS, US Asian pop culture & beyond. This issue: Slumdog Stars, Aaron Yoo, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Free the Robots, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Street Art Obama. GiantRobot ZINE $4.75 Giants They, The Undeserving PS, US Methodical, meticulous, precise. These are epic movements w/ a deliberate delivery, masterfully textured & layered. This band has created music that travels through life cycles as the songs progress & ultimately climax in crashing, atmospheric crescendos. Limited to 500 MyleneSheath LP $15.50 Gil, Gilberto Banda Um PS, FRANCE Gilberto Gil is a legend of Brazilian music and a cultural icon in his country. From 2003 to 2008, he has served as his country's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as long-time collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock, Brazilian genres including samba and forró, African music, and reggae. This Iris 'best-of ' collection includes some of Gil's most popular songs, most of which were recorded in the '80s. Iris CD $13.25 Glasvegas Glasvegas [Bonus Tracks] [Explicit Content] PS, US Sony CD $13.00 Gore Hart Gore/Mean Man's Dream PS, US An essential reissue of the first two albums from this seminal instrumental Dutch band. Relentless, heavy pounding instrumental rock, whose influence on other instrumental outfits like Pelican, Don Caballero, Russian Circles, etc. is painfully obvious. With their use of repetitive heavy rolling rhythms & bombastic execution, Gore pioneered a new style of music for the time. Remastered plus unreleased bonus material! SouthernLord DCD $17.25 Gourds Haymaker! PS, US Unclassifiable Austin sons The Gourds are back with Haymaker!, The crooked cousin to their critically acclaimed last album, Noble Creatures. On Haymaker! the band circles back, digs beneath and climbs over their gin soaked music roots with an album of grass-fed cosmic country. Rattling flourishes of soul, swamp rock and gospel rhythms spill out all over the place. Psychic songwriting apparatus Jimmy Smith, Kevin Shinyribs Russell and Max Johnston continue their chronicling of askew Texas characters who populate the subterranean Lone Star State, a world of 'Fossil Contender's', 'Luddite's', 'Valentines' and women with skin like chocolate milk, so beautiful they make married men feel no guilt. Haymaker! will undoubtedly slake the thirst of hardcore and fledgling Gourds fans alike and tip unsuspecting ears to the colorful Texas thump being laid down by this legendary band. YepRoc CD $14.25 Gris Gris Live at the Creamery PS, US Final record from the psychedelic quartet, recorded live at the warehouse where Greg Ashley resides. Here is the final piece to that hazy, mysterious, yet strangely familiar sound this band created. With songs from both records played with ferocity & sonic mayhem, their story is here. Bright. Swirling. Gnarly. Electric. Birdman CD $16.00 Gris Gris Live at the Creamery PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Birdman LP $16.00 Group Bombino Guitars From Agadez V.2 (Music of Niger) Vol.2 PS, US One-time LTD ED OF 1,500! This is the latest salvo from the Agadez music scene. Led by the guitar virtuoso OMARA MOCHTAR (Bombino), the group's debut LP, & vol.2 in the 'Guitars From Agadez' series, represents the latest chapter in the modern sound of the Tuareg revolution. As of 2008, the Tuareg rebellion is in full force again, & Bombino is in exile to parts unknown. Agadez has been cut off from the rest of the country. The only road that connects this legendary city w/ the rest of the country is littered w/ land mines & the only escorts are the military. This music & its messages of hope, justice, & desire for validation of the Kel Tamachek way of life ring louder than ever. Side 1 feat. the "dry guitar" sound, an unplugged selection of songs. Side 2 showcases the electric fury of the full band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics w/ a raw, garage sound. 180gm vinyl housed in a gatefold full-color jacket stocked w/ great photos & liner notes by Hisham Mayet. SublimeFrequencies LP $24.50 Gutbucket A Modest Proposal PS, US Fourth album in a decade-long career for NYC quartet solidifies their place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene in NYC. Their music is filled with layers of mature arrangements and a full-throttle blend of energy, chops, melody, intricacy and noise. Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. Cuneiform CD $14.25 Hawkwind Dream Goes On: From the Black Sword to Distant Horizons [remastered anthology] PS, US 2008 digitally remastered 3CD anthology, the second in a series of compilations from the long-serving British band released by the label Atomhenge. The Dream Goes On is a fitting tribute to one of Britain's finest bands. This anthology sees them journey to the end of the 1980's and into the 90's still retaining their original spirit whilst eagerly absorbing the ever changing musical landscape around them. Always ahead of their contemporaries and led by founder Dave Brock, this second lavish CD set draws on selections from such classic albums as Chronicle Of The Black Sword, Live Chronicles, Xenon Codex, Space Bandits, Palace Springs, Electric Teepee, The Business Trip, Alien 4, Love In Space and Distant Horizon, serving as a reminder of Hawkwind's enduring appeal. Atomhenge CD-BOX $47.50 Hawkwind Spirit of the Age: An Anthology 1976-1984 PS, US Remastered retrospective, 3 CDs. Atomhenge CD-BOX $47.50 Headlights Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer. PS, US Strictly limited to only 1000 copies, Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer was previously only available through Headlights and the Polyvinyl website. The 7-song CDEP features live tracks recorded by the band on various stops throughout their hectic touring schedule including sessions with WOXY.com, Indie 103.1, and Daytrotter.com. Over half the pressing has been sold by the band and Polyvinyl. These are the remaining copies available. Includes rare version of fan favorites "Put Us Back Together Right" and "Tokyo." Includes never before released track "This One." Polyvinyl-133 CD5 $6.25 Heeb Magazine #19 PS, US The Wasted Issue with COURTNEY LOVE on the cover: "I don't care about the past." Features on Natasha Lyonne's comeback, Aulcie Perry, winter fashion & all things Jewish pop-culture MAG. ZINE $5.25 Hendrix, Jimi & The Experience Axis: Bold as Love PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! ExperienceHendrix LP $25.00 High on Fire Live At The Relapse Contamination Festival PS, US Captured at the legendary Relapse Contamination Festival in 2003. The band tears through a vicious 8 song set including classics "Hung, Drawn, & Quartered," "Blood From Zion" & the only official recording of them covering the Venom classic "Witching Hour" Relapse CD $14.75 Home Blitz Weird Wings PS, US LAST COPIES. This is the sound of a bedroom garage rock band getting inside a refrigerator carton & being pushed down a steep hill. This bangs through 5 songs, inc. Slade's ode to civic pride, "My Town." Internet superstar Sarim on drums. Highly American music from three guys into good times. PartsUnknown LP $11.25 Honest Engines Don't Talk Of California PS, US "Akin to the Flaming Lips, Electric Soft Parade, and Robyn Hitchcock, one of Chicago's finest indie bands has mastered the art of modernizing classic pop song-craft with an idiosyncratic panache, and has also figured out a way make it sound as if this engaging EP was recorded in a major studio with a noted producer." -Tom Semioli Amplifier Magazine HonestEngines-001 CD $7.00 Honeychurch Early Times: 2001-2004 PS, US 'Early Times is an anthology of tracks from Honeychurch's critically acclaimed and criminally unavailable records Calling Me Home (2001) and Makes Me Feel Better (2004). Twelve remastered songs, plus two previously unreleased demos - 14 tracks of what Miles of Music called 'rapturous, romantic, blissfully transcendent, sweetly reverent, sun-drenched pop' "Imagine if The Red House Painter's Mark Kozelek added harmonies out of Mojave 3 and the Byrds....the singing, strings, and lap steel are exquisite. Like the Pernice Brothers, you suspect these guys dig Bread as much as Gram Parsons, hooked on the elegiac sweetness of old songs." -Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover All-new record will be out in 2009!' SirenElectric- CD $10.25 Howlin Rain Wild Life PS, US Two fifteen minute plus monster jams - the first is an amazingly inspired & completely improvised wailing twin guitar, rock meditation on Paul McCartney's "Wild Life." "Black Sangria" rounds out the disc w/a completely improvised piece covered in heavy jazz fusion & free, latin jazz rock overtones. Features BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) on guitar. LIMITED TO 1,000 on 180g RTI vinyl ThreeLobedRecordings LP $22.00 HR Hey Wella PS, US New solo album from Bad Brains' frontman HR! DCHardCore CD $15.00 Hull, Scott Audiofilm I PS, US A piece of fearsome dark ambient music that showcases his skill at blending blackend Lustmordian drift w/ terrifying mixing techniques that clot the mind's eye w/ unnerving, nightmarish sound events. A fug of demonic drone that utilizes delirious stereo panning & slabs of obsidian ambience, & it slowly unfolds over the length of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black ambience & the terminally creepy voice of a little girl whispering for help, seemingly lost between planes of shadow CrucialBlast CD5 $7.75 Humcrush Rest At Worlds End PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! RuneGrammofon DLP $28.50 Humcrush Rest At Worlds End PS, US With this record, the duo continue adventurous explorations of abstract grooves & atmospheric moods. Stronen's percussion is textured, precise & surprising, while Storlokken's keyboard work is diverse & varied, using daubs of sound across a colorful sonic spectrum. Sometimes frenetic, sometimes meanderingly contemplative. RuneGrammofon CD $18.00 Hunches Exit Dreams PS, US Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering ragged-edged rock 'n' roll w/ such devastating hidden melody, one is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades. It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery & lo-fi freak-out fugginess, the perfect follow-up to "Hobo Sunrise" - a raging riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, & shot-to-shit synapses sizzling w/ amplified excess. IntheRed CD $14.25 Ielasi, Giuseppe Aix PS, US Aix is the latest work from Italian artist Giuseppe Ielasi and the follow-up to 2007's August (12k, 12k1044). With Aix we see Ielasi building his layered, atmospheric music around rhythmic grids. Most of the time these are quite irregular and the pulses are not necessarily stable or clear. Where his previous work approached sound in a linear fashion Aix imposes a strong vertical development with the aforementioned grid and a production consisting of ons and offs, employing as much improvisation as Ielasi's previous work, but in a different way. Despite the self-imposed grid structure, Aix relies heavily on randomization. Not in the traditional sense of sound placement but instead of the specialization of sounds, echoes, reverbs and the stereo image. As a result, Aix has an amazing sense and clarity of space as the small fragments of sound breathe and find their own place in the mix, thanks to Ielasi's sublime skills as a mixer and engineer. Ielasi relied heavily on numerous short samples and combining them in ways that fell into his groove; some found from others' recordings and many more recorded during the past year. We hear fragments of percussive (acoustic) objects, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, and, of course, synthetic textures. Although there is a distinct rhythmic pulse to Aix, Ielasi manages to mold it into something wonderfully languid and warm... and strangely inviting. 12K-1051 CD $12.25 Jackie-O Motherfucker Blood of Life PS, US Contains two completely new versions of JOMF classics, "Hey! Mr. Sky" & "The Grave" as well as a reworking of last year's "Valley of Fire." The record also features a traditional ballad "The Lost Jimmy Walen" & a brand new track "The Blood of Life" which is a ground breaking piece of new music for the band & marks a new direction. Fire CD $14.50 Jacuzzi Boys Fought A Crocodile b/w Blowin' Kisses PS, US LTD ED OF 600 (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 COLOR vinyl)! Miami, FL's eerie & alluring JACUZZI BOYS float on a hot cloud of misty & hypnotic grooves that suck you into their morbid world of jangling, distant guitars overlaid w/ ghostly chants that swell & recede like the sands of time slowly slipping through your tarnished soul. W/ a rollicking beat that sticks to your ribs & forces you to look deep within yourself for the answers to life's toughest questions, they have that magical "something" that you'll feel the 1st time you hear them. Rob'sHouseRecords 45 $5.25 Jam, The All Mod Cons PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Polydor LP $18.00 Jeremy Jay Love Everlasting PS, US 4 songs: Love Everlasting · Lite Beam · Jet Stream · Love Everlasting (Winter Version) It was winter outside and something was happening in the storybook world of Jeremy Jay's psyche. While working on his upcoming full-length Slow Dance [KLP197] (to be released in spring '09), there was an icicle-caked excitement that resulted in a snow-flurry of extra recordings. The cozy, insulated vibe of Olympia, Washington and Dub Narcotic Studio took hold and Jeremy, along with Ilya Malinksy (guitar), Nick Pahl (drums) and Derek James (bass) crafted "Love Everlasting" [KLP202] a separate 12" single. These extra songs, recorded with a fiery compulsion, were written in Jeremy's Los Angeles apartment and expanded in studio. The song "Lite Beam" took shape with a solarized hi-hat and synth bass - a real disco dance cut; "Jet Stream," has that special synth bass that propels it to a dance floor climax, and the single itself, "Love Everlasting," twinkles magnificently with a sensual glide. Jeremy Jay and his band have toured extensively across the U.S.A., Europe and Australia in support of his recent album A Place Where We Could Go [KLP187] and will be reacquainting the U.S. with their icy soundscapes after the release of this 12" single. "Part poet, part '50s teen idol and part ghost, Jeremy Jay [takes listeners to] a place where girls have fairytale looks and candied apples are served for lunch, where dreams, fantasies and movies collide, and where Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Morrissey and Alan Vega are loved equally. It's no surprise that Jay calls his hometown of Los Angeles 'the City of Angels' -- he's a true romantic and sensualist, transforming his surroundings into a glamorous, magical reality." - All Music Guide Krecords-202 12 $5.50 Journey to Ixtlan S-T PS, US Cloaked in mystery, this obsure band of psychedelic outlaws' identities remain occult. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, & utterly sunkissed this is the sound of New Age Doom & Occult Desert Rock. Miniature gatefold LP style packaging with suitably Owlseyesque graphics. AuroraBorealis CD $15.25 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] ( PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Kemp, Rose Unholy Majesty PS, US Heavy prog influenced music. Rose is the daughter of Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp from the seminal, pioneering British band Steeleye Span. As a young teenager she sang and toured with her parents, but Rose was ready to find her own way and take her rock in the direction we hear today. She's got the eerie rock transcendence of The Pixies, the naked beauty of Regina Spektor, the vocal bravado of Amanda of The Dresden Dolls. AuroraBorealis CD $15.25 Kick that Habit Peter Liecht w/ Voice Crack PS, US This 1989 film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Moslang & Andy Guhl, are part Licechti's vision with exploration of their musical workings . Whether clicking quietly & rhythmically or humming & shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost & destroyed remains of the last century of progress. A short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals & concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall & winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color & black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual & the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound & geography. All Region. DragCity DVD $14.75 King Khan & BBQ Show Animal Party PS, US Canadian punk rock/garage duo from Montreal. 7" single delivered in a custom gate-fold package complete w/an original 16-page coloring book. FatPossum 45 $10.00 KK Null Oxygen Flash PS, US K.K. NULL (aka KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan. The composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA, and electronic wizard is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and, in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early '80s. After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, Null has gradually moved toward a more electronic approach. In recent years, he has concentrated his efforts on his solo and collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, and droning isolationist material which one could loosely describe as cosmic noise maximal/minimalism. The nine-track Oxygen Flash is the most recent addition to this remarkable catalog. Neurot CD $13.50 KTL IV PS, US Whereas previous releases were blurred washes of fog & noise polished by ambient shine, this is a more direct & demanding beast, referencing such diverse projects as: volume-era Swans, "Red Mecca" period Cabaret Voltaire, phase one Wire, Fushitsusha & This Heat. Includes a guest appearance from BORIS drummer Atsuo & is produced by JIM O'ROURKE. EditionsMego CD $18.00 Late of the Pier Fantasy Black Channel PS, US Following massive UK acclaim and extensive overseas touring (including a triumphant US debut at CMJ in NYC), Nottingham's Late Of The Pier are ready to unleash their genre-busting debut album Fantasy Black Channel on the US. At once darkly chaotic and unabashedly pop, Late Of The Pier's music is almost impossible to describe, pushing stylistic boundaries to the edge of no control. Produced by superstar DJ-producer Erol Alkan, Fantasy Black Channel is huge in both scope and ambition, an exuberant rush of glam, psychedelia,nu-wave, dancepunk, metal and madcap sci-fi experimentation. Not every band can throw shards of Zappa, Queen, Eno-era Roxy Music, Prince, Gary Numan, DFA, Bloc Party and The Klaxons into a blender and come out with something as defiantly unique and grandly anthemic. Includes 2 US-only bonus tracks. Astralwerks CD $15.25 Lennon, John Imagine (Limited Edition) PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Capitol LP $26.00 Liechti, Peter Kick That Habit PS, US KICK THAT HABIT is a 1989 film by Peter Liechti, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti's vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. KICK THAT HABIT is a short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color and black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual and the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound and geography. Like the world the rest of us live in, it's a world of beauty, quiet tragedy and the endless march forward. DragCity DVD $14.00 Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too PS, US NOW WITH BONUS DISC! Special edition bonus disc includes the Prins Thomas edits found on the LP version. Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic. Lindstrom says, "I realized that working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me to think very differently to what I was used to... when working on longer tracks, there's so much more time to develop different themes & to let them evolve. SmalltownSupersound CD $14.50 Lopez, Francisco Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003 PS, US 20-year collection from the pioneer of absolute concrète music. Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003, is the centerpiece to this prolific artist's catalog. Housed in a stunning black on black embossed box. Released as a cooperative operation from Blossoming Noise and Gender-less Kibbutz. BlossomingNoise CD-BOX $50.00 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed PS, US LTD ED vinyl LP pressing! The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity & most importantly, energy. Feat. all new material from their Seattle sessions w/ producer John Goodmanson Arts&Crafts LP $18.00 Love Love Live: Whisky a Go-Go 1978 [deluxe re-issue] PS, US Remastered and repackaged. FridayMusic CD $15.00 Lymbyc Systym Carved By Glaciers PS, US Originally a self-released endeavor, this stunning debut is now receiving a reissue by Magic Bullet Records. This features remastered renditions of the original sound recording w/the added bonus of exclusive remixes from HER SPACE HOLIDAY & AMERICAN ANALOG SET for a total of 7 brilliant tracks just as relevant now as upon their initial release. MagicBullet CD $12.75 M. Ward Transfiguration Of Vincent PS, US Deluxe packaging & 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl. Available on LP for the first time! Ward's 3rd album that is clearly progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, feeling dusty w/ age, & manifesting a genius that is pure & untempered. His music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere seeped in the early blues w/ a Neil Young overlay & the feel of country, blues, pop, & folk. JealousButcher LP $12.50 M83 S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Mute DLP $19.75 M83 Digital Shades, Vol. 1 (2PC) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Mute DLP $16.25 M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Mute DLP $20.00 M83 Saturdays=Youth PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Mute DLP $19.75 Madagascar Goodbye East, Goodbye West PS, US 2008 release from weirdo chamber-folk quartet. The sophomore album by Madagascar, a Baltimore based quartet that softly stamps out soothing circular melodies on an array of acoustic instruments that include accordion, saw, xylophone, bells and drums. Like dancing an oxycodone waltz with your grandmother to a Bell Biv Devoe 45 on slow speed while cabbage cooks away in the adjoining kitchen. Limited edition of 500 on turquoise vinyl. GaardenRecords-002 LP $13.75 Majesty Crush I Love You In Other Cities: Best of... 1990 - 1995 PS, US Led by the bizarre DAVID STROUGHTER (P.S. I Love You), Majesty Crush was one of the more obscure but essential shoegazing groups to rise out of the short-lived U.S. scene in the early '90s. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan USA, Majesty Crush was comprised of lead singer David Stroughter, bassist Hobey Echlin, guitarist Michael Segal and drummer Odell Nails III. While incorporating the same lush, dreamy sound as other shoegazer acts of the time, it was the lyrics of Majesty Crush songs that set them apart from all other artists of the genre. Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster (No. 1 Fan), torture (Boyfriend), a female cashier at an adult book store (Sunni Pie), actresses (Uma), tennis stars (Seles) and Italian porn stars (Cicciolina). Majesty Crush released only one major album, Love 15, in 1993. Among their notable releases are 1992's No. 1 Fan and 1994's Sans Muscles." The band broke up in the mid 1990s. Lead singer Stroughter went on to form a similar outfit called P.S. I Love You and drummer Nails went on to perform with Astrobrite and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins. FullEffect CD $15.00 Makoto, Kawabata Rainbow Of Love PS, UK Blackest Rainbow Records is extremely pleased to announce this one. Brand new solo record from one of the most prolific Japanese recording artists around right now. Most people will know Kawabata Makoto as the guitar-wielding shredder from Acid Mothers Temple. This brand new solo recording is a two piece epic of some of the most beautiful tones I've heard in a while. Side A's 'You Are From The Rainbow Over The Sea' is a piece of bowed beauty, taking you to a higher plain of consciousness. The B-side's 'Waiting For You Till The End Of The Rainbow' is just as cosmic as its predecessor, with cascading waterfalls of tones washing over you again and again. Kinda reminds me of some of the Inui series, which is probably some of my favorite material from Makoto. Edition of only 300 copies. BlackestRainbow LP $17.00 Marhaug/Feiler No More Drama PS, US Limited to 300 copies. Edited live recordings, sometimes sounds like a Borbetomagus storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in Palestine. A Picture of this record should be next to every definition of Noise music. Lasse Marhaug plays in Jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70's. He is now a Swedish-Israeli musician and artist and has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. The most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year. NoFunProductions-37 LP $16.25 Mateo, Eduardo Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame PS, CANADA Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame is a record that requires many superlatives in order to do it justice: from its first moments, the music is lilting, poetic, intimate, in turns life-affirming and melancholic, with pulsating percussion backed by unheard-of guitar chords and tunings (perhaps the reason for the frequent Caetano Veloso and Nick Drake comparisons); it is an album that sounds, simply put, honest. The record was released at the end of 1972 in both Argentina and Uruguay, and was received from that first moment as a classic in those countries, a position it still occupies today. When El Kinto co-founder and iconoclastic maniac Eduardo Mateo traveled to Buenos Aires in October of 1971 to record what came to be Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame, his situation was unusual. With the explosion of candombe-beat music on the popular scene, Mateo had become a living legend of Uruguayan music. Yet apart from the Musicasi 4 1/2 compilation, which had been released in July of that year, there were no published recordings of Mateo available, whether as a soloist or with his already dissolved group El Kinto. By this time, the public had a clear notion of the dreamy character of Mateo that by the end of his brief life had made him a part-time panhandler and apparent acid casualty. But they still wanted a record by him. It was singer Diane Denoir who gave the final push. She was in Argentina finishing a record for the De la Planta label that included eight songs written by Mateo. Denoir insisted that Mateo participate as arranger for three of these grooves. With Mateo in Buenos Aires, the owners of De la Planta decided to take the necessary steps to record him. This was not easy, as Mateo tried to erase everything he recorded as soon as it was put onto tape, and that only on the rare occasions when he showed up ready to play. In the end, engineers Carlos Pariz and Eduardo Rozas selected material for the album from hours of free improvisations, and formed the album as it appears today. Our first Lion Productions volume of Mateo's solo recordings includes the entire Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame album, plus a variety of tracks from Mateo's early solo years. The eight bonus tracks include songs originally issued in Uruguay on the legendary Musicasi 4 1/2 LP, two tracks live from a bowling alley (!), as well as four very special early recordings backing female singers: two sung by the lovely Diane Denoir, and two by the mysterious Veronica Indart. Special slip-case edition comes with an oversize 48-page full-blown booklet packed with photos, text, and lyrics, which tries to unravel some of the myth surrounding this great surrealist poet and drug casualty, whose decline and ultimate madness and early death have done nothing to diminish his stature as one of the greatest artists in South American music. Lion CD $19.00 Matt & Kim Grand PS, US VINYL VERSION. FaderLabel LP $17.50 Matt & Kim Grand PS, US From the anthemic opener "Daylight" to the harmony-rich, atmospheric ballad "Turn This Boat Around" & demented pop of "I Wanna," this is quite literally the sound of the group discovering their voice. FaderLabel CD $12.25 Mattson 2 Introducing PS, US A unique melange of hot jazz, cool jazz, & contemporary post-rockist tendencies. Features guest appearances by BARBEE on guitar & JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE/SEA & CAKE). This is at times evocative of Ennio Morricone, Charles Mingus, & the Chicago Underground Duo. Galaxia CD5 $10.00 Mendoza Si Me Duermo... Choco (If I Sleep, I Crash) PS, MEXICO R. Mendoza, one of the members of the Nortec Collective as Panóptica returns to the postpunk ambient soundscapes that informed his formative years in music. "Si Me Duermo... choco" is collection of slowed down techno tracks and ambient pieces that touch upon the post punk influence of 4AD bands like This Mortal Coil, Dif Juz and Xmal Deutschland. The album was mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) and the artwork by Rubén Tamayo (Fax). StaticDiscos-029 CD $12.25 Merzbow Hodosan PS, POLAND The 5th album by noise genius Masami Akita on VIVO RECORDS. One of the most accessible releases in a huge discography of Merzbow. Drums, rhythms and noises packed with a pig-ass shining cardboard sleeve. Vivo-40 CD $15.50 MGR & Destructo Swarmbots Amigos de la Guitarra PS, US New collaboration between Mike Mare (DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS) & Mike Gallagher (MGR/Isis). A single 42-minute song entitled "Amor en el Aire" recorded at Deadverse Studios w/ Alap Momin, a.k.a. Oktopus (Dalek) Neurot CD $16.00 Minor Threat Out Of Step PS, US 8 cuts of blistering punk rocking, you need! Dischord LP $8.00 Misfits S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Plan9 LP $15.00 Mojo #183 (February 2009) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Morrison, Van Astral Weeks PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! WarnerBros LP $23.00 Morrison, Van Moondance PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Rhino LP $23.00 Music Go Music Warm In The Shadows PS, US Warm in the Shadows rounds out the trio of three-song 12" singles that Music Go Music have released over the course of 2008-09. It's both a fitting end-piece to the trilogy and a remarkable expansion of the group's sonic and emotional breadth. There is a casual but undeniable magic to these songs, and it flows around and out of each note of every melody. Title song "Warm in the Shadows" is dance music, as envisioned by a group with a greater allegiance to pop archetypes than to the hymns of the dance-floor. It's a step in a different direction; an invitation to shake, coupled with a gentle evocation of the pain of wrecked love ("what kind of heart would break so easy as my own"). It's a case history and a cure for both the lovesick and the lovesick-to-be. The B-side offers up stories of exotic depravity consuming itself in ways both savage and deceptively elegant. The gypsy rhythms of "Thousand Crazy Nights" undergird a tale of dog piled revelers instructed to "feel with your face, let eyes be your hands" whilst "trapped in desire's aggro dance.""Love,Violent Love" is a psychedelic voyage through a land of raving mobs who "spiral past control" once their love is at last requited. This collection of songs is further proof of the power of the transformative embrace in which Music Go Music holds what is dear to them, and the singular vision that they impart to it. SecretlyCanadian-176 12 $9.00 Music Lovers, The Masculine Feminine PS, US 'Masculine Feminine' is the third long-playing record from acclaimed San Francisco-based pop-sophisticates The Music Lovers and the pinnacle of their artistic endeavors. The Music Lovers are led by transplanted Englishman songwriter Matthew Edwards. Edwards refers to 'Masculine Feminine' as his own personal 'Day of the Locust', a travelogue through the underbelly of the almost-famous doyens of LA and San Francisco. Like a toxic Graham Greene on a tear, Edwards speaks of motels, love-affairs, addictions, vamps and ingénues, pausing on occasion to look back on a half remembered England and wonder what went wrong (or right)? These are desperate songs born of need and frustration, but never dreary, never self-pitying. Rather, they show a formidable spirit of abandon - an abandon to the pop aesthetic; saddling the darkest sensibilities and wickedest proclivities to the sweetest pop-song frame-works. The music? The girl-group sound on a dreary Tuesday morning in 1976... quietly exultant on a radio in Birmingham. Serge and Stax and The Go-Betweens and Dusty and Lerner and Lowe, dammit! If David Goodis had written lyrics for Carole King they might have sounded a little like this record. Yes, they are all 'love songs' but not only to people, but places, states of mind and to divine release. 'Masculine Feminine' is battered, inebriate, sensual and defiantly and unfashionably romantic! Praise for The Music Lovers: "Gin-spritzed string arrangements and cocktail-bar melancholy, [that comes] off like a Rat Pack version of Lloyd Cole." - WORD "Hints of '60s AM-radio fodder regularly poke through the creamy, dreamy layers of piano, acoustic guitar, concertina, strings and mellotron, and the results are seductive." - MAGNET "The Music Lovers sound is lush and voluptuous, making me think of clouds and rain, strings and guitars, both orchestral and earthy, akin to the sublime pleasure of holding your head in my lap, oh my beautiful one." - comedian MARGARET CHO LeGrandMagistery-046 CD $12.25 MV & EE with Bummer Road Drone Trailer PS, US MV & EE With the Golden Road and their Drone Trailer album. In fact still orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt 'MV' Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower recordings, and Erika 'EE' Elder, the CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture. The MV & EE Medicine Show, together with their dog Zuma, they run the child of Microtones Terran library of exploratory music and sing songs with fellow Avatars. 'The Golden Road' is sometimes their own lunar Blues, sometimes fingerstyle noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier volk...always environments. You will find many are one and they like to jam together within many guitar dimensions/amp realms... respectfully and yours hanging loose. DiCristinaStair CD $14.25 MV & EE with Bummer Road Drone Trailer PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DiCristinaStair LP $15.25 My Cat Is An Alien Roberto Opalio / Maurizio Opalio PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen printed jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side features a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable alien world of the Opalio space brothers. Important-216 LP $25.75 My Cat Is An Alien/Praxinoscope Split (2XLP) PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen-printed metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. My Cat Is An Alien's new surprising master work is a concept-album split with their side project Praxinoscope. As always, in a world full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete freedom. Take Roberto's own words in the liner notes as the best introduction to this work: "One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity. We're all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion." Important-217 DLP $33.75 Nana April Jun Ontology of Noise PS, US This debut from CHRISTOFER LAMGREN researches the dark associations of post-black metal. No traditional instruments are used on the album & all techniques are digital in their application. This explores the filmic qualities of noise - the image-creating mechanisms that arise almost hallucinogenically from subtle variations of frequencies. Fans of Burzum's "Filosofem" take note. Touch CD $16.25 Nautilus & Ben Nash Split PS, UK Nautilus is the solo project of Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice/Time Life, long-time BR transatlantic e-mail buddy who we finally got to meet just over a year ago on the very brief Vanishing Voice tour. Since then, she has begun recording solo material under this alias, and has self-released one CD-R which blew our minds, and likewise blew local long-time BR friend Ben Nash's cranium apart. The Nautilus side opens with 'Still Rings,' a far-out trip of weirdo outsider dripping mind-fuzz, like some kind of spatial insect gathering. 'Tallahasse Woman' rings more bells with the sound of Vanishing Voice and Heidi's psychedelic string playing, and subtle vocals buried below it. 'Jeans Theme' is another sweet track of tranced-out guitar with approaching percussion and waves of vocal drones. Ben Nash holds his side with two nearly 8-minute tracks, opener 'Plymouth Bredren Blues' has definitely got the blues -- as mentioned in the title, there's some serious woe in the wah right here, and some almost Paris, Texas moments. 'Interloper/Latch' also starts off pretty bluesy, but halfway through goes to a speaker-shredding guitar shaker, with some seriously serious riffs, that are almost breaking up as they begin, and then reverting back to the blues mediation of the beginning of the track. A great release, in an edition of 300 copies. BlackestRainbow LP $17.00 Nelson, Willie Red Headed Stranger PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Sony LP $17.00 Neung Phak S-T PS, US Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and don't ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. It's starting to get too crowded over here! Stay where you are! MonoPause CD $13.50 Newman, A.C. Get Guilty PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.75 Newman, A.C. Get Guilty PS, US The second solo album from A.C. Newman, leader and songwriter behind The New Pornographers, finds the pop songsmith in decidedly more upbeat and guitar heavy form than on the last NP's album. "Get Guilty" is a set of layered pop songs of great melodic and lyrical depth. "A.C. Newman deserves every last bit of praise thrown his way. In a better world, he would be our Elton, our Todd, our McCartney" - All Music Guide. Matador CD $13.25 Nichols, Ben The Last Pale Light In The West PS, US The debut mini album by Lucero frontman Ben Nichols was inspired by Cormac McCarthy's novel, "Blood Meridien". Recorded with Rick Steff (Cat Power, Lucero) and Todd Beane (Glossary). Features Nichols' signature gravelly voice accompanied by his acoustic guitar, complimented by Steff's piano and accordion, and Beane's subtle pedal steel guitar. RIYL: Tom Waits, "Nebraska"-era Bruce Springsteen. Rebel CD $9.00 Nixe, The S-T PS, US Long overdue compilation of pretty much all of the 1980-81 recordings by the first all girl Dutch Punk band. I love records and I love collecting records, but I don't have the time or money for all of the records that I want so when someone does a right on comp like this I get pretty excited. This is a really great treat. Don't pass it up. PollyMaggooRecords LP $18.00 Nomad Cats and Babies PS, JAPAN Nomad (Cavemen Speak, Gunporn) finally comes back with his 2nd album called "Cats and Babies" . His debut album called "Lemon Tea" (2006) was critically acclaimed as "bedroom hip hop folk". He was doing between rapping and singing so he was described as "rapper songwriter". With this album, he's become a singer songwriter. He did all by himself in his small bedroom, like songwriting, recording and playing all the instruments (guitar, piano, drums, glockenspiel etc. ) as well as the artwork. Beautiful melodies and fragile fairy voice and witty but intelligent lyrics. You will never forget his voice when once you listen. His music has magic. Hue-1042 CD $17.00 Novi_Sad Jailbirds PS, US Limited to 500 copies and housed in our plastic-free gatefold sleeves with spine. art design by cs08. Novi_sad's work came to our attention via our good friend Susanna Bolle (Non-Event and Rare Frequency) in Boston. A superbly keen ear, Bolle felt that his work and our label should connect. Though Nov-Sad's has only a few years of practice behind him, the quality and maturity of all of his efforts is striking. The proposed Jailbirds material for Sedimental was totally complete and not only of the highest quality but also of a truly unique vision. What is significant in his work is the multiplicity of its action on the listener. It is a density of sound, acting in three-dimensions, not as auditory "sound effect" but as music with depth both physically and in functionality. Its intensity and purposefulness based in specific conceptual foundations and enhanced by a mastery (and transcendence) of technical means collapses amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones and overtones into unified whole. Sedimental is truly excited to be an early anchor of this young composer and sound artist's serious oeuvre. Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) is a graduate student from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens, Greece where he began generating sounds in 2005. His debut album Misguided heart pulses, a hammer, she and the clock received worldwide critical acclaim. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording session at the prestigious VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National Radio which will be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the Mort Aux Vaches series. A recent piece called Dramazon is available on TouchRadio from the publishing house Touch [U.K]. He is currently working on a project based on various methods of audio analysis called Sirens in which he explores the aesthetics of information on sound by using quantitative data from major stock market crashes in history. Sedimental-053 CD $12.25 Null, KK Oxygen Flash PS, US After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, he has gradually moved toward a more electronic approach. In recent years, he has concentrated on exploring the outer territories of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, & droning isolationist material which one could loosely describe as cosmic noise maximal/minimalism. Neurot CD $16.00 Nyoukis, Dylan Inside Wino Lodge PS, US Limited to 300 copies. New solo LP of strange sounds, vocal improvisations, strings, tape manipulations and hiss drones from Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga, Blood Stereo) inside his wino lodge. Sounds like it was recorded in a 4 track in 1972 in an insane asylum, then puke over and thrown into the sea, then discovered recently and transfer directly to Vinyl via marine analog tape communication device. Good one to buy as well if you are wondering what a naked Scottish man and his daughter look and sound like. NoFunProductions-36 LP $16.25 Odd Nosdam T.I.M.E. Soundtrack PS, US VINYL VERSION. Anticon LP $15.75 Odd Nosdam T.I.M.E. Soundtrack PS, US Created for the Element Skateboards film "This Is My Element," this is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. The veteran producer & beatsmith tailors each song to fit the style & cadence of the Element rider it accompanies. On its own, quite simply, this album is a banger. Anticon CD $15.25 Odyssey Live at Levittown Memorial Auditorium: 1974 PS, CANADA A live recording that was never really meant to be, recorded by Odyssey's sound engineer on a portable cassette recorder, and recently unearthed! Live at Levittown is the only document of Odyssey as they were in their progressive phase, just before Fred Callan and sometime Odyssey keyboardist Tom Doncourt recorded their legendary album as Cathedral (Stained Glass Stories). Bonus tracks include three cassette 'basement recordings' from the Setting Forth era -- two untitled originals that never made the album, plus the band's version of 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. All tracks have been salvaged as well as possible from the original sources but keep in mind these are not 'audiophile' quality! Twelve-page booklet has a continuation of the Odyssey story by band leader Vinny Kusy, as well as more rare photos from his own archive. Lion CD $15.25 Of Rocks Will Open PS, US Loren Chasse is responsible for a whole host of vital albums. He was a founding member of the Jewelled Antler label and has sparked so many great moments from the likes of Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Softwar, and of course his main solo guise, Of. For years, this project has evolved into something of absolute magical grandeur. Rocks Will Open is the latest opus in Chasse's catalog. The music on this album is as organic as it gets. Each tone, each sound feels like it has been culled directly from the Earth's crust. Gentle drones arc toward the hazy sunlight, flickering like distant birds sailing out over the sea. Between the ghostly echoes rises a cacophony of plucked strings dancing toward oblivion. Loren Chasse's vision is perfectly expressed on Rocks Will Open. Limited to 500 copies. Digitalis CD $11.25 O'Malley, Stephen Keep an Eye Out! PS, US Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with the tenth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It's a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music's most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore, and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley. Sunn O))) founder Stephen O'Malley summons a mesmerizing drone, absorbing the listener into an aural tar pit of deep, inexorable oblivion. He wears a cloak of post-metal allegiances with behemoths like Earth, but beneath that, there is a vibrant body of work that owes as much to the heady minimalism of Tony Conrad and Steve Reich. Constantly pushing at the extremes of volume and duration, O'Malley's sound is a physical phenomenon, infused with an intimidating power - and possessing, at its core, an oddly meditative tranquility. "The supremacy of Table of the Elements for the past decade as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalogue has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects - scores for films directed by early-60s Conrad associate Jack Smith or a 3xCD box set by an unknown two-guitars-and-drums trio from Atlanta - are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everyone associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen." -PITCHFORK "Table of the Elements [are] fearless purveyors of the wildest stuff around." -KYLE GANN (NEW YORK TIMES) TableOfTheElements-101 LP $14.25 Ophiucus S-T PS, CANADA Ophiucus may be the name of an obscure constellation, but it's also the name of a French band that recorded an exceptional album in 1972 for the Barclay label. All the members of the band had already enjoyed ample success in music before musician/actor Emmanuel Booz brought them together in 1971: Jean-Pierre Pouret was a well-known session-man for Sylvie Vartan; brothers Alain and Bernard Labacci released albums as Tom & Jerry, and supported Jimi Hendrix for a TV appearance; Michel Bonnecarrere had founded the band Zoo (one of Andy Votel from the B-Music label's favorites), and was one of the composers, arrangers and musicians for that group's first two albums. Apropos of the period, the band members decided to live together as a small family in Flagy, a small town in France, where they lived a happy life and wrote the tracks which adorn this reissue. This ambitious album somehow manages to blend grungy psychedelic rock, acoustic blues and densely orchestrated French pop/psych (in an Ilous & Decuyper vein) into an impressive and cohesive whole. Sandy Spencer, cellist and member of Mormos contributed wonderful playing on 'Ne Cherche Plus' and 'Inachevée.' This reissue includes the original album plus eight bonus tracks in English meant to be the basis of an international album that was never issued. A fulsome 28-page booklet includes band history and commentaries on the songs written by Ophiucus, photos, lyrics (French and English), and a contemporary review. Lion CD $15.25 O'Rourke, Jim & Loren Connors Two Nice Catholic Boys PS, US These two nice Catholic boys, Loren Connors and Jim O'Rourke, met at the crossroads each night during a 1997 European tour. By this time O'Rourke had reissued Connors' seminal heartbreak album In Pittsburgh on his Dexter's Cigar label and was preparing to produce the guitarist's big-band mash-up Hoffman Estates with Alan Licht. Together, Connors-O'Rourke unravel slow motion Venusian style blues across three extended pieces to thundering, feedback splattered grooves. The spontaneous melodies shift from devastating, country road intimacy to hypnotic over-amped rock. It's ferocious, epic, and an utter beauty capable only from two who know themselves and each other all too well. This live CD is only the second duo release by these musical partners despite performing together since the mid-90s. During the past decade, O'Rourke has repeatedly returned to hours of recordings captured across Europe to select these 47 minutes. FamilyVineyard-59 CD $11.50 Palestine, Charlemagne Sound 1 PS, ITALY As the title well underlines, Sound 1, electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestine's research for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept. of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first 'Oeuvres Sonores' event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palestine started to dream of an expressive, continuous, ever-moving, ever-changing sound-form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, using electronically-produced sounds. At first, he began experiments with simple sine tone generators, emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access to Moog and arps, he constructed sounds using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till 1974 in NYC and then, in California. Finally, he assembled his own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build up a sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever-so-slightly to the oscillator input, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker, until they were immense, sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. Charlemagne played them very, very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate, while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added over, entire nights, mixing, adding, and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine-tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. He'd put on the tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it, and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition limited to 500 copies." Includes a 25-page program booklet, including an essay by Charlemagne Palestine and artwork by John Giorno. Marghen LP $27.50 Parenthetical Girls Safe As Houses [re-issue] PS, US "THERE'S BLOOD BETWEEN MY LEGS, AND IN THE GRASS OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE I CAME." With this goose-pimplingly visceral couplet begins the fragile journey of Safe As Houses, the second album from experimental Northwestward pop band Parenthetical Girls. Though some two years past between the initial release of the (((GRRRLS))) LP (Parenthetical Girls' debut album, recently reissued on Slender Means Society), Safe As Houses' narrative begins precisely where that album left off-on the same sweat-and-menstrual-blood-soaked summer lawn that so tenderly concluded their debut-but this time from a harrowingly different perspective. "Love Connection, pt. 2" cements the somber, ostensibly sinister narrative tone that shrouds much of Safe As Houses, while simultaneously establishing the tremendous sonic leap the band undertook in their two years of relative quiet. From there, the record leaps into an altogether different sort of narrative-one anchored in the surprising confidence of words-singer Zac Pennington's plainspoken and startlingly corporeal apparitions. Unsettling and beautiful in equal measure, Pennington's a-linear narrative weaves the surprisingly evocative mythology that cradles the record's kitchen-sink experimentation. Recorded with the band's previous three-piece configuration (an ensemble made up of Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff-a regular contributor to Xiu Xiu and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, who also served as producer for the record), Safe As Houses embraces the group's shrewd attention to the awkward confluence of experimental and pop musics-creating a record that is at once more difficult and more intrinsically palatable (not to mention significantly darker) than anything so far bearing the Parenthetical Girls name. Which is to say, it's much better. Tomlab-116 CD $12.25 Parenthetical Girls (((GRRRLS))) [re-issue] PS, US The cumbersome history of the (((GRRRLS))) LP begins sometime in 2002, when two childhood friends began a home recording project in a failed milltown of Everett, Washington. Compiling an innocent assortment of equipment (bass synthesizer, ill-tuned guitar, analog tape delay, and glockenspiel), Pennington and thencollaborator Jeremy Cooper embarked on a course to emulate the spirit of their mutual musical interests, which at the time primarily included the likes of Brian Eno, Pete Kember, Phil Spector, and the early Rough Trade catalog. Over the following year, the clunky results were compiled onto a low bias cassette tape (split into a strained eight tracks) and labeled "Parenthetical Girls". This cassette was mixed down to a single copy, the original tape promptly lost. A year or so later--with the help of considerably more capable hands (namely the Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart- Pennington set about digitally (and heavily) retrofitting the original recordings into seven proper compositions. To further complicate matters, Pennington commissioned Bischoff and Stewart to complete two radically different sets of mixes for the songs-which have since become respectively known as the "O" and "X" versions of the record. But now it's four years on. In that time, Parenthetical Girls have released two more critically-acclaimed full lengths (2006's Safe As Houses [Slender Means Society] and this year's Entanglements [Tomlab]), toured the US and Europe with the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Los Campesinos!, Evangelicals, and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone (whose album Etiquette, incidentally, features a rather lovely cover of (((GRRRLS)))' closing track "Love Connection"). We are pleased to finally present (((GRRRLS))) with the wide distribution that it deserves for the first time. In an attempt to maintain the distinct duality of the LP release, the CD version of (((GRRRLS))) features both editions of the album-but in two different, enhanced CD formats: version "O" (as mixed by Jherek Bischoff) plays on any standard CD player like your average CD should, while the "X" version (as mixed by Jamie Stewart), takes advantage of the near ubiquity of the iPod revolution by offering its tracks as super high quality MP3s, accessible via any computer. (Confused? Me too. Just put it in your computer-you'll figure it out). Additionally, the enhanced materials feature "Inspirational Shortpants (avec paroles)," a track not available on the original vinyl release. Tomlab-115 CD $12.25 Pattern Is Movement All Together PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Hometapes LP $14.00 Payne, Adam Organ PS, US Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner before scaling these cliffs because you're more likely to discover pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. There's a big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man band. Suffice it to say that ADAM PAYNE (RESIDUAL ECHOES) is a one-man band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters. Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldn't punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlow's Sky Company or the bits of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed. Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated abandon that only leaves the listener wiser. Includes a free MP3 download. HolyMountain CD $12.00 Payne, Adam Organ PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HolyMountain LP $13.50 Peyton, Caroline Mock Up PS, US Issued in 1972, this 10-song album has been expanded to 14, including 3 vocal cuts on the SCREAMING GYPSY BANDITS "In The Eye" LP. Dug up in the process was a live performance at Hummingbird Cafe in 1972 captured on film, added as enhanced content on this CD. Liners document the making of "Mock Up" & the Bloomington, IN scene of the 1970s, and feat. scores of unpublished photos Asterisk CD $15.75 Peyton, Caroline Intuition PS, US Issued in 1977, the 10-song album has been expanded to 17, including 2 studio outtakes and 5 demos recorded for Arista. Booklet feat. a dozen candid photos from the period & Edd Hurt's account of Caroline's final days as an outsider folk goddess. "A middle road between Buffy Sainte-Marie's electro-augmented "Illuminations" & Nick Drake's "Pink Moon." - Pitchfork Asterisk CD $15.75 Photobooth Da Me Tus Besos b/w You & 3 In the Morning PS, US New Bay area band w/ members of the FM Knives and Mothball. 3 catchy songs. Daggerman 45 $5.50 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! My wife's stoked! Capitol LP $23.00 Pink Reason/Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones Split PS, US Another couple of months and it's time for another great Pink Reason record. This time he goes at it with fellow Wisconsin-ites Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones and they cover each other's songs. Maybe it's the fact that HBJOs have backed up Mr. Pink Reason on many occasions or maybe it is the times they shared in a midwest more isolated than most of us imagine or maybe it is just that both bands are really great. No matter the reason what you get is a great record. FloridasDyingRecords 12 $12.00 Polansky. Larry The Theory Of Impossible Melody PS, US Performed by Jody Diamond, Chris Mann (voice); Phil Burk and Larry Polansky (live computers, fretless electric guitars); Robin Hayward (tubas). "Among the lineages of knowledge that Larry Polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both a composer and theorist, have been mathematics, intonation theory, cybernetics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, musicology (both Western and non-Western), American Sign Language, and Jewish mysticism. He has combined these and many other fields of study together into some of the most important music written by anyone of his generation while retaining status as the composer who is most worthy of being called a true theorist. In many ways, his compositions are themselves injunctive demonstrations of his theoretical insights that stand as critiques of the theoreticism that is now endemic to the art world. This intellectual integrity and facility has also been responsible for one of the most interesting characteristics of Polansky's compositional output. His music is one of the most successful, and rare, examples of a confluence between two, generally conflicting, 20th century musical streams. Like his mentor, James Tenney -- and many other late 20th century experimental masters who were inspired by the aesthetic innovations of Cage -- Polansky creates musical expositions of phenomenal reality. Sometimes these are based in psychoacoustic science, and sometimes they are grounded in mathematical formalisms. Sometimes they explore both at once. What he also manages to do -- and this is where he succeeds at the above-mentioned confluence -- is so often reveal these concepts within an expressive musical frame that is strongly linked to more traditional musical values." NewWorld CD $14.75 Pollard, Robert Crawling Distance PS, US From the stately Krautrock chug of the album opener, "Faking My Harlequin," to the schizo-frenetic closing track, "Too Much Fun," w/ its structural U-turns piled on top of tempo shifts, this is unlike any Pollard release yet. Joe Stopa's stoked!!! GBV CD $15.25 Pollard, Robert Crawling Distance PS, US VINYL VERSION. Joe Stopa's stoked!!! GBV LP $15.25 Potop Channels PS, US Seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore presented as the bastard child of Drop Dead and Burning Witch. The CD packaging is entierely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic characters. Graveface CD $12.00 Prurient And Still Wanting PS, US Limited to 500 copies. This is the picture disc LP version of the now classic and out of print Prurient release. Original description: A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. NoFunProductions-27 LP $23.75 Psychic Ills Mirror Eye PS, US "Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really, evacuating, an unlikely future-primitive grind." - Village Voice "This NYC quartet set their stall somewhere between oceanic guitar abstraction and the brittle crunch of psychedelic guitar rock, feeding their extended chugging jams through a thick fog of fuzz." - The Wire Mirror Eye, the second full-length album from Psychic Ills, is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective reflection. Through the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimy SeiTang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly - and unlike anything happening right now. Sprawling opener "Mantis" sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta, Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes Closed." I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea" is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message, and perhaps the album's for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. This release will be followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from this period. TheSocialRegistry-066 CD $11.50 Psychic Ills Mirror Eye PS, US "Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really, evacuating, an unlikely future-primitive grind." - Village Voice "This NYC quartet set their stall somewhere between oceanic guitar abstraction and the brittle crunch of psychedelic guitar rock, feeding their extended chugging jams through a thick fog of fuzz." - The Wire Mirror Eye, the second full-length album from Psychic Ills, is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective reflection. Through the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimy SeiTang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly - and unlike anything happening right now. Sprawling opener "Mantis" sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta, Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes Closed." I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea" is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message, and perhaps the album's for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. This release will be followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from this period. TheSocialRegistry-066 LP $12.25 Pug, Joe Nation of Heat EP PS, US Midwesterner Joe Pug is a thoughtful, literate singer-songwriter in the tradition of John Prine, Josh Ritter and Bob Dylan. Fans of Tallest Man On Earth will find a similarly genius, somehow-not-derivative vibe here. 3HIVE: "In Pug's hard plucking, exaggerated choruses, and lyrical vignettes you can draw a pretty straight line from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash to Bruce Springsteen to Steve Earle to Josh Ritter. Like all of them, Pug is a populist at heart, a singer who can't help but talk about all of us when he sings about himself and can't help but sing about himself when he's talking about all of us." JPI CD5 $5.50 Q-Bert Turntable TV Deluxe PS, US The deluxe ultimate DVD of the famed DJ show following DJ Qbert & Yogafrog in fun & wacky adventures in the land of scratch. ThudRumble DVD $18.25 Quatra Tete Art of the State PS, US Synapse-melting timing & memory challenging arrangements that never overwhelm the pure joy of a rock band firing on all cylinders. Recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, cover artwork by Jay Ryan. Sickroom CD $13.00 Quatre Tete Art of the State PS, US Synapse-melting timing & memory challenging arrangements that never overwhelm the pure joy of a rock band firing on all cylinders. Recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, cover artwork by Jay Ryan. Sickroom CD $13.00 Randle, Doug Songs For The New Industrial State PS, US A stunning collection of new songs for and about the time we live in,' billed the text on the backside of composer Doug Randle's 1971 release, Songs For The New Industrial State. In 2009, the same holds true. Doug was, and still is, a writer, arranger, musician, and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s. After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position at the government-sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where in 1970 he recorded his very own 'What's Going On.' Commercially released by the short-lived Kanata Records label, Songs was an introspective look at ever-dominant corporations, the cutthroat advertising world, our consumer society, decaying environment, and his own personal condition. The results crossed the epic studio creations of David Axelrod's Capitol output (or Spanish folk-rock fuelled Pride LP) with Free Design vocal harmonies from notable vocalists Tommy Ambrose and Laurie Bower (Billy Van Singers, Mutual Understanding, Laurie Bower Singers). Randle himself describes his long-forgotten efforts as, 'my bitter and twisted Simon & Garfunkel songs,' and though the lyrical content is indeed weighty, Songs' backing tracks successfully merge swinging sunshine pop and atmospheric orchestrations with a groovy backbeat performed by the cream of Toronto's heralded studio scene (Moe Koffman, Peter Appleyard, Rob McConnell, and Guido Basso, to name a few). It's an album like you've never heard, and one under the radar of even the most dedicated crate-diggers. Songs For The New Industrial State's much-needed re-release was spearheaded by Canadian music historian and Jamaica-Toronto series producer Kevin Howes (aka Sipreano) and comes replete with OG liner notes from legendary jazz scribe, one-time Downbeat editor, singer, and songwriter Gene Lees, archival images courtesy of Randle, audio taken from the original CBC master tapes, complete lyrics, and stellar art direction courtesy of Vincent Cook (2Step Tokyo, Jamaica-Toronto) that remains faithful to the period issue. In spite of the reductive pop sensibilities and fashion-conscious trends that dominate our modern marketplace, we are ecstatic to reintroduce Songs' insubordinate cry to a global audience. Let's all ensure Randle's lost letter gets read nice and loud on this go-'round. LightInTheAttic CD $15.50 Ravens Creed Militia of Blood Sacrifice PS, US From the unholy hell pits of Nottingham, England, the mighty RAVENS CREED are unleashed upon the world. With ex members of IRON MONKEY, CEREBRAL FIX, SKYCLAD and GBH, as well as ORANGE GOBLIN vocalist BEN WARD at center stage, Ravens Creed are the audio equivalent of having your face smashed in with a bag of rusty hammers. Total thrash holocaust with tunes that stick in your head like nails, the fours tracks are all masterpieces of dirty thrashing metal. IronPig CD $9.00 Record Collector #358 PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BurningHeart LP $15.00 Revolutionary Ensemble Beyond The Boundary Of Time PS, US Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass) and Jerome Cooper (drums, balaphone, chiramia, Yamaha PSR 1500). "Beyond The Boundary Of Time documents the last live performance of the legendary Revolutionary Ensemble before Leroy Jenkins' death in 2007. This recording was made of a performance on May 25, 2005 in Warsaw, Poland. In the 1970s, the Revolutionary Ensemble introduced New York to decided musical advances, many pioneered by Chicago's A.A.C.M. musicians. Ex-Chicagoan Leroy Jenkins, who played violin, of all unheard-of modern jazz instruments, had formed his concept from classical, swing, blues, and modern elements and had been one of the radicals who discovered new concepts of sound, space, and musical relationships in the late 1960s. Jerome Cooper had been a somewhat later Chicago explorer, while Sirone's freedom of motion had grown out of work with the most visionary New Yorkers. Extensive rehearsal led this cooperative trio to a shared, free sense of dynamics, momentum, and form, and a wholly unique sound: their instrumental recombinations yielded a surprising variety of textures and colors. Most of all, these highly sophisticated personalities played together to create an ensemble music even larger than the sum of its parts. After the long overdue reissue in 2004 of their 1975 recording The Psyche on Mutable Music, the Revolutionary Ensemble -- Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass), and Jerome Cooper (drums, keyboards) -- reunited for both recording and performances. On this live set, each musician is represented by one of their own compositions - 'Configuration' by Sirone, 'Usami' by Leroy Jenkins, and 'Le-Si-Jer' by Jerome Cooper, as well as two group improvisations. All three of these great musicians are at the top of their form here, and one envies the Warsaw audience that attended what turns out to have been their final performance together. Their remarkable realization of the ensemble ideal was still revelatory and still revolutionary." Mutablemusic CD $12.50 Ribbons Royals PS, US Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer JHEREK BISCHOFF has had one of the more quietly prolific careers in the last decade of independent music. He's served as both full-time member and guest musician/arranger for experimental pop crews The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu and Parenthetical Girls, composed music for dance and orchestral performances, and elegantly produced records for many of his talented friends. His multi-syllabic musical capabilities and voracious attention to detail have lent all of these projects layers of intricate loveliness and classical drama, qualities that find full flight on Royals, the debut release from Bischoff's solo project RIBBONS. For an artist whose interests and abilities are as varied as Bischoff's, sometimes the greatest question in making work can be to decide which path to pursue, but on Royals the answer is simply to allow the path to unfold. Osaka CD $15.00 Royal Trux Twin Infinitives PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original LP issue in 1990! When it was released in late '90, Twin Infinitives raised the bar for avant-garde pop music. Listening to some today's pop music, the influences seems undeniable. DragCity DLP $19.25 Royal Trux S-T PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original 1988 Royal Records LP issue. Royal Trux burst from the belly of NYC-cum-DC scum punks Pussy Galore in 1986 to gather scraps from glam, burial dub, rockabilly & more to create their version of a rock & roll sound. A cult quickly sprang up around the band & their sporadic live appearances. DragCity LP $15.75 Rumpelstiltskin Grinder Living For Death Destroying The Rest PS, US After helping pave the way for the old school metal revival, the group returns w/ a sophomore release that transcends mere nostalgia as it ushers speed metal, kicking & screaming, into the new millennium at last. Relapse CD $13.25 Ryan, Collie Hour Is Now PS, US COLLIE RYAN privately pressed three albums in the early '70s-Taking Your Turn Round The Corner of Day, Indian Harvest, and The Giving Tree. The records were funded in part by Collie's friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest surfaced on the Numero Group's stellar compilation Ladies From the Canyon in 2006. Collie's music is almost solely based around her cosmic and birdlike voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. The Hour Is Now collects tracks from her first three LPs and is packaged with Collie's own artwork. For fans of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier and Ruthann Friedman. SebastianSpeaks LP $12.00 Rye Wolves Oceans of Delicate Rain PS, US Canyons of psyched-out doom and bottom heavy spacerock. AuroraBorealis CD $15.25 Saeta Else Another Light Might Go Out PS, US Saeta features Matt Menovcik on vocals, guitar & accordion, and Lesli Wood on vocals & piano. With Bob Smolenski on cello, they have created a lush collection of songs, a hypnotic meditation on paradox & terror steeped in a lovely yet uncanny sense of Other. This album achingly explores seasoned songwriter Menovcik struggling with very real demons regarding the painful end of a long-term relationship & other dark circumstances. To transform this pain, Menovcik grasped desperately to the aesthetics of hope, love & beauty -- painstakingly recorded & mixed by longtime collaborator Kramer (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi, Palace Brothers, Low). Tarnished CD $11.00 Serpentina Satelite Nothing To Say PS, GERMANY The quartet Serpentina Satelite was formed by the end of 2003 in Lima, Peru. Their music creates atmospheres and emotions throughout diverse musical influences; exploring space -- kraut-rock, avant garde stoner and psychedelia. Nothing To Say is their international debut with 5 new cuts (49 mins.), a raw, variative heavy spectrum plus effects and lots of spacefeeling; inspiration taken from the '70s Hawkwind, Amon Düül 2 and Ash Ra Temple. Another example of the high-energy Peruvian underground sound!" WorldInSound/TripInTime CD $18.25 Shearer, Rachel Fakerie PS, US Fakerie is a digital séance of aural and visual sculptures by the New Zealand artist Rachel Shearer, formerly known as Lovely Midget. Filmed in an environment to facilitate focused listening, Fakerie is as much for the ears as the eyes. Glowing white lights ebb and expand from darkness in shifting series - like clustered stars - as penetrating resonances of acoustic and electronic overtones decompose into the tiniest sand-like components. Traces of Mary Lucier's mid-1970s burn films and Francois Bayle's musical investigation into the physical and psychical world is present. The specially programmed Region 0 (free)/NTSC format DVD plays in constant loop. Its 22- minutes can be expanded into hours allowing the user to immerse themselves in the work. This DVD is Shearer's first long-form film release. In the past 20 years, she has released records on some of the global underground's most significant labels - Siltbreeze, Xpressway, Flying Nun, Corpus Hermeticum and Ecstatic Peace - as Lovely Midget and with Queen Meanie Puss and Angelhead. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book, this set also contains a 20-page booklet investigating the ghosts, distances and signals of fakerie. FamilyVineyard-40 DVD $14.25 Shepherd Loco Hills PS, US A lot of beloved-by-us artists and artisans ice-pick out shapely creations from the marble slab of life on a steady schedule, but even within this rarefied realm, it's a real cause for jubilee when an individual/band fucks precedent and totally redefines themselves through a real masterwork. And, in our book (check it out, it's a good read), Loco Hills is one such touchstone. Distilling down every fried-fuzz groove, tape-loop ghost cloud, and mass-mind motorik psychosis, Shepherds have ever let loose into four perfectly-sculpted jam-journeys, the language of Loco is a rolling, roiling ride through twisted, wordless tongues and hieroglyphic electricity, at once more focused and far-out than anything else in their canon. Mentioning that members moonlight in projects like Meneguar, Non-Horse, and Vanishing Voice is meaningless, this is the Rear House posse's shining achievement to date and it stands alone. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with the same 'gnashing viper' artwork of the Release The Bats CD edition. Edition of 500. NotNotFun LP $13.75 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 8 Jan-Feb 2009 PS, UK On the cover: The Flamin' Groovies: San Francisco ballrooms... hard rock... glam...power-pop classics...all in a day's work; The Zombies: the kings of baroque n' roll; The Scaffold: the scouse avant-garde pop/comedy/poetry trio reappraised; Apple Publishing: a psychedelic peak into the artists who made up The Beatles song factory; Fire: into the treacle toffee world of the Brit mod-psych heroes; Tim Rose: the dark singer-songwriter who gave us 'Hey Joe' and more; Dope: the great lost British underground drug movie. Plus a tribute to Yma Sumac, a piece on Stone Garden, a beginner's guide to psychedelic soul, and an exclusive extract from the new Sly & The Family Stone biography." 82 pages. Shindig ZINE $8.25 Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl. XL DLP $20.00 Siouxsie & The Banshees Spellbound PS, US Pushing on with their continuing series of high-quality classic reissues, Slow to Speak presents their latest 12" featuring the exceptional post-punk of one Siouxsie & The Banshees. Clear contemporaries of fellow reissued monoliths of British rock, The Police & The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, though having formed in 1975 by core members Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, the group didn't really come into their own until the late-1970s crisis of rock music, when punk's initial fury began to dissipate under the cooling gaze of mainstream fixation, arguably neutralizing such counter-cultural monoliths as Iggy Pop & David Bowie. Sioux & Severin, excessively grand in their aspirations & determined not to succumb to the same fate, found themselves drawn to the emerging post-punk philosophies of anti-pop image formulation and projection, combining an essentially anti-celebrity presentation with starkly realist social commentaries intertwined confidently into their peculiarly unique and sinisterly haunting dark-rock aesthetic, one of the major contributors along with The Cure in the creation of the still-debatable goth-rock genre. Irrelevant of their cultural allegiances, Siouxsie and the Banshees were able to accomplish complete artistic autonomy while retaining their patently anti-authoritarian stance through the medium of their aural poetics, taking up verbal arms against legacies of British imperialism, medicine & power, post-industrial technological melancholia & religious-politico-psychosis of rabid Zionism; all this was performed under the advantageously offsetting facade of self-imposed outcasting, presenting themselves in dooming attire & make-up, exactly as they saw their world: a desolate land drifting towards an existential void of endless consequence, inhabited increasingly by a zombie-like rabble -- uncertain of what they live for, and more importantly, what is worth living for. SlowtoSpeak 12 $13.00 Six Organs of Admittance RTZ PS, US The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that "returns to zero") fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance's early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal & organic like some wonder of the ancient world. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate "Resurrection," half of a Time-Lag split 12" with Charalambides. "Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told" is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra & Magic Carpithans from 2003. "You Can Always See the Sun," was part of Three Lobed Recordings' Purposeful Availments subscription CD series in 2002. And "Nightly Trembling" was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called "Punish the Chasm with Wings" from pre-millennial days & you've got yourself a deep, DEEP box set. DragCity DCD $15.50 Six Organs of Admittance RTZ (3XLP) PS, US Multi-faceted triple-gatefold LP!!! DragCity LP $20.00 Smith, Patti Dream of Life PS, US 11 years in the making, this feature is a unique and intimate portrait of the renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Photographer-director STEVEN SEBRING creates a beautiful collage of images, memories and performances, capturing the essence of this legendary icon. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Filmmaker Steven Sebring directs this documentary about legendary musician Patti Smith, surveying her life, her career, and the philosophical and spiritual themes that have remained so potent in her work. Following her through 11 years of work and touring, the film explores Smith's artistry in music, painting, and poetry, offering intimate insight into the musician's often conflicted creative style." PalmPictures DVD $24.50 Soporus 24,110 PS, US Philadelphia-based ambient drone ensemble which features guitarist and keyboardist Matthew Stone and bassist William Stichter from wellknown instrumental act SAXON SHORE along with guitarist Stephen Hoffman. Additional guitar tracks were provided on the album by James Vella (YNDI HALDA, A LILY) and John Donohue. The live performance also features films and videos edited on the fly by additional member Michael Stichter. 24,110 is dedicated to the spirit of the Lelechenky and to Wladimir Schewtschenko who filmed footage of the Chernobyl accident and died from radiation poisoning. BurntToast CD $13.25 Soundscapes Freestyle Family PS, US Brazilian duo Rodrigo & Raphael Carvalho move together in perfect musical harmony, weaving melodic & angular guitars over hard-hitting drums & hook-laden vocals. Full of youthful creative energy, & inspired by pioneering bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Clash, & My Bloody Valentine, as well as the aesthetics of the "Madchester" scene, the Carvalho brothers have impressively boiled down their influences into vibrant engaging music, as displayed on this debut album. BNSSessions CD $8.75 Spencer, Angelo Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake PS, US 2 songs: My Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake "My Music is My Sweat" began with a conversation between Karl Blau and Angelo Spencer about how music is similar to body odor and, like everyone's stench, one's music is also unique and identifiable. Angelo's music is as raw as sweat. Recorded in one day, on one take by Blau, this 7" is a puddle of twitchy urgency. Generally a one-man band, this recording is fleshed out with frantic drum fills and fidgety keys by L'Orchidee d'Hawaii soon after they finished a tour with Spencer. "My Music is My Sweat" is the sprint and "The Great Salt Lake" is the cool-down, exasperated pause needed to sprint and sweat again; embellished with distant whistling - like the playful intermission of a spaghetti western - and Spencer is the wandering hero. "Music should always be like that." featuring L'Orchidee d'Hawaii Krecords-121 45 $3.75 Spirits of the Dead S-T [limited deluxe edition] PS, NORWAY Psychedelic-stoner-folk-rock with one foot in the electric magic of the seventies and the other in the modern electric rock sound of 2012 or maybe even 2112, winkwink. Spirits of the Dead consists of guitarist Ole Øvstedal, former Einherjer vocalist Ragnar Vikse, drummer Geir Thorstensen and bassist/keyboardist Deadly Nightshade. The band was formed by Ole and Ragnar early 2007, and later joined by Geir and Deadly Nightshade. They were raised in the high mountains and deep fjords of the west-coast of Norway and this wilderness is alive in their music. WhiteElephant/VoiceOfWonder CD $14.00 Starflyer 59 Dial M PS, US Starflyer 59 have continued to progress and evolve. Influenced by early '80s underground pop, Depeche Mode and the Smiths and the louder caustic sounds of the Pixies, Starflyer 59 have crafted music that is wholly their own. Dial M, their 11th full-length in their 14 year career, is no different. The vinyl includes a special deluxe alternate insert designed and hand silk-screened. It also includes "Majic", a bonus track not available on the cd version. BurntToast LP $12.50 Stars Of The Lid Music for Nitrous Oxide PS, US Repress/reissue. DEBUT OF THE CLASSIC FROM THE POST-ROCK DRONE MASTERS. NEW VERSION RE-MASTERED WITH NEW COVER ART. This was sedimental's first cd release back in 1994. Robert Ovetz (Ultrasound) mentioned this guy Adam who was doing amazing 4-track stuff at home. I think the name of the tape he gave me was called "Ombudsman". The success of this release was a nice surprise and certainly having Joel at Cargo champion it, who was just getting Kranky going as well, certainly put us both out there. Ultimately, SOTL ended up at Kranky and are still making amazing recordings for them. Many say this is still their favorite Lid release, although I am partial to the "Ballested Orchestra" too. It certainly remains a powerful touchstone for and precursor to, the post-whatever independent music scene and still sounds incredibly solid and undated today. Though Stars founder Adam Wiltzie has admittedly distanced himself from the release in terms of artistic terms he felt it was time to re-visit and re-fresh the work with a new mastering job, as well as having new artwork designed by longtime visual collaborator Craig McCaffrey. Sedimental has always kept the document in print in its original form with a remarkably steady stream of sales, but we welcomed the opportunity to update the release and make it more widely available to a new generation, so to speak. Below are excerpts from the original press release which still seem quite relevant and accurate: Sedimental announces the first CD from Austin drone stars Stars of the Lid, an amazing 4-track recording that is created in the spirit of Eno, Main, and Spacemen 3. Produced without keyboards, this lo-fi ambient journey employs predominately guitar, avoiding typical rock elements while still possessing the "home" recorded feel of so much independent music. Being based in Austin, a town loaded with so many heavy guitar bands, one wonders how they came to make such hypnotic and engaging sounds. Especially when Stars mastermind Adam Wiltzie is involved with so many "rock" bands himself, having recorded Ed Hall's Motherscratcher and its forthcoming release, the Flaming Lips Peel Sessions, as well as running sound for Bad Livers, and Doo Rag tours. Citing Cage, Spacemen 3, Robert from Main and Loop, nitrous oxide, and Bedhead as artistic inspirations, he also comments the group is a reaction against the "muscle" rock and C&W that dominates the Austin music scene and a way to withdraw from it. Despite their current unknown status, we at Sedimental were so impressed by the music of Stars of the Lid , we felt it worthy of our first CD release. After giving this a few listens (especially the brilliant trio of tracks 7,8, and 9), we are sure you will think they belong on the same plateau as EAR, Labradford, Main, and Organum. Sedimental-023 CD $12.25 Strawbs S/T [expanded, remastered re-issue] PS, Germany The Strawbs had done an album with Sandy Denny handling many of the vocals, and had also done quite a bit of unreleased recordings (now on the double CD Preserves Uncanned) prior to 1969's Strawbs. This is still their first proper album, but their wealth of prior live and studio experience most likely helped make it sound more confident and fully formed than many a debut effort. The group distinguished itself among the burgeoning school of British folk-rockers by delivering bittersweet folk-rock with a storytelling flavor. Dave Cousins' songwriting was on the sober and occasionally over-earnest side, but nonetheless the record was strong and alluring enough to immediately establish the Strawbs as one of the better first-generation U.K. folk-rock outfits. Some of these songs had been around for a while, as the presence of some of them on Preserves Uncanned and Sandy Denny & the Strawbs attests. However, the group took big strides from bare-bones folk-rock in the studio by dressing these in arrangements -- sometimes with light recorder, choral backup vocals, and orchestration -- that gave the Elizabethan melodies a pastoral, quasi-classical feel at times, without losing sight of an acoustic base. "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" and "Where Is This Dream of Your Youth" are among their best and most ambitious songs, and even if the compositions can sometimes take themselves too seriously, the music's never less than respectable. [Mercury UK's 2008 reissue included four bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide UMGI5302679.2 CD $11.96 Strawbs Dragonfly [expanded, remastered re-issue] PS, Germany Dragonfly was the second album to be released by the Strawbs, though much other material unissued in the late '60s that preceded it has since been made available. (In fact, earlier versions of two of the songs, "I Turned My Face Into the Wind," and "Josephine, for Better or for Worse," appear on the archival releases Strawberry Music Sampler, No. 1 and Preserves Uncanned, respectively.) Dragonfly was also the only LP the band recorded with cellist Claire Deniz in the lineup. Though an attractive and competent record, it's not as impressive as their debut. The songs aren't as striking, and the arrangements -- even with the addition of a fourth full-time member in Deniz -- aren't as effective as the mating of folk-rock, medieval, and classical music that characterized the best songs on the first album. It's a more subdued effort, and not as grave in its mood, Deniz's cello doing much to mellow the sound. Dave Cousins retained his appetite for epics, though, in the ten-minute "The Vision of the Lady of the Lake," which had piano by soon to be Strawb Rick Wakeman. When the fuzz guitar unexpectedly piles into the mix a few minutes into the track, joined by strange hissing background noises, it reaches a tense height that the rest of the record doesn't match, though it's accomplished and pleasingly introspective dawn of the '70s British folk-rock. [Mercury UK's 2008 reissue included four bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide UMGI5302680.2 CD $11.96 Surf City Surf City EP PS, GERMANY This is the debut release by New Zealand's Surf City. An anachronism right at the beginning, Surf City was founded in a video library, in this dying-out relic of an analogue age. When Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy ran into each other one evening in their small town, Josh had just bought a sound card and Davin a four-track. This debut EP is storming and strolling, light-footed, laconic and pop -- produced in an excessively lo-fi a manner as possible. Surf City is about the simplicity of sound, perfectly encapsulating pop music's essence, that bands like Pavement, The Zombies or The Jesus and Mary Chain share as a smallest common denominator. Everyone who has ever heard the breakers against New Zealand's coast suspects that Brian Wilson has a beach house in Surf City as well. However, New Zealand's legendary era of rock music resides in the Flying Nun label and with bands like The Clean or Tall Dwarfs. Nevertheless, the rumbling atmosphere of "Headin' Inside" could have been released by Flying Nun Records as well -- not as a nostalgic revival of good old times -- but rather as a self-confident continuation of a legendary sound. With Morr Music, Surf City has found a congenial home. Morr CD $12.25 Swervedriver Mezcal Head [expanded re-issue] PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1993 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Never Lose That Feeling', 'Planes Over The Skyline', 'The Hitcher' and 'Paris') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total. Hi-SpeedSoul CD $13.75 Swervedriver Raise [expanded re-issue] PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1991 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Hands', 'Andaluc¡a', 'Kill The Superheroes' and 'Over') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total. Hi-SpeedSoul CD $13.75 Szajner, Bernard Superficial Music PS, UK LTM presents the first in a series of expanded CD reissues by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally released in late 1981, Superficial Music incorporates elements of his previous album Visions of Dune played backwards at half speed and treated digitally, as well as the three-part suite Oswiecim, an imagining of the Holocaust informed by the experience of his own family. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes unsettling, Szajner's music is never less than extraordinary. Reviews rated the album highly: 'Superficial? No, superlative music! If you care at all for soundscapes that eschew cheap escapes, this album will do far more than tickle the surface of you mind' (NME); 'A significant success - a wholly involving and frequently disturbing blanket of continually contorting synthetic sound' (Melody Maker). The expanded 65-minute CD features three previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982. Bernard Szajner biography: Born in Grenoble in 1944, Szajner first made his name as a lighting designer for Magma, Gong and the Who. Having invented new instruments such as the laser harp used by Jean-Michel Jarre, Szajner began to record experimental, conceptual albums of his own, including Visions of Dune (1979), Some Deaths Take Forever (1980), Superficial Music (1981) and Brute Reason (1983). He has also recorded as Zed, and was one half of The (Hypothetical) Prophets. Since the mid 80s, polymath Szajner has worked as a painter, filmmaker and theatre director. Boutique-6618 CD $17.00 Szajner, Bernard Some Deaths Take Forever PS, UK LTM presents the second in a series of expanded CD reissues by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally released in late 1980, Some Deaths Take Forever is a deeply emotional, sometimes disturbing musical account of the feelings of a prisoner on death row, conceived as the soundtrack to a short film by Amnesty International. The album mixes dark, angular and unnerving electronic textures with dynamic rock arrangements, guest musicians including Bernard Paganotti of Magma. Reviews rated the album highly: 'A modern electronic masterwork - one of the most exciting and innovative piece of electronic music to be released this year' (Melody Maker); 'Frantic, outraged music shames the bulk of oscillator nuts peddling their dodgy little repetitions around' (Sounds); 'Unquestionably one of the decade's most accomplished fusions of sophisticated electronics and driving rock' (NME). The expanded 60 minute CD features three previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982. Boutique-6620 CD $17.00 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave (DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA) PS, SWEDEN DELAYED... Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Gravitation CD $13.00 Tarentel Live Edits: Italy/Switzerland PS, US Over the course of numerous dates in Italy, the group (a trio on this tour of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Danny Grody, & Jim Redd) improvised every set they played w/often stunning results. This is not your grandfather's Tarentel. This is full of pounding tribal drums & walls of mixer feedback, floating guitar trips & walls of noise - a tug-of war between beauty & tension. Limited to 500 copies Digitalis CD $11.00 Telescopes Untitled 2nd PS, US Released in the US for the first time, augmented w/ 4 bonus tracks. The group was among the most innovative & challenging yet successful artists in Creation Records' "middle period", a leading part of the wave of sonic experimenters who included Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Spectrum & Spiritualized. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The songs are built on acoustic guitars, then the tricked-out electric guitars are laid on top & garnished w/ bongos, organs, pianos, & all sorts of classic instruments. Stephen Lawrie's vocals are restrained & semi-emotional & female backing vocals add a touch of sweetness that might otherwise be missing from the record, as the overall atmosphere is very moody & introspective" Bomp! CD $13.75 Thin Lizzy Jailbreak PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!! Island LP $18.00 This Will Destroy You/Lymbyc Systym Field Studies PS, US TWDY contributed two brand new songs: the bombastic & menacing "Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine" (clocking in at 11:09) & the heart-warmingly hypnotic "Freedom Blade." LYMBYC SYSTYM unveiled three astonishing studies in melody in musicality ("Processed Spirits," "Notations," & "Narita"). In a time of instrumental & post-rock over-saturation & emulation, TWDY & LYMBYC SYSTYM have further distanced themselves from the hordes, once again asserting their commitment to pushing the genre forward. MagicBullet CD $13.75 Tillman, J. Vacilando Territory Blues PS, US Since 2004, J. Tillman has quietly been releasing records, some of limited quantity, some mostly available in Europe, but for the most part, unheard. The borderline-alienating starkness and well lived-in narratives of his first two records, I Will Return and Long May You Run, J. Tillman (released in limited runs of 150) endeared him to fans of and drew comparisons to the likes of Nick Drake, Will Oldham, and Jason Molina. In 2006, after three months in Europe touring on his third and most accessible album, Minor Works, Tillman recorded his fourth collection of songs at home with his brother and roommate. Cancer and Delirium struck a perfect balance between the intimacy of his earlier releases with the nuanced, melodic sense of Minor Works. Each song imbued with the same strikingly disconsolate singing and devastatingly poignant prose that Tillman is known for and accented with some of his most gorgeous, spare arrangements. Vacilando Territory Blues, Tillman's fifth and first with Western Vinyl, came as the result of three different recording attempts in 2008, in which entire sessions were scrapped, and ultimately the majority of the final material would surface and be recorded days before mastering. The push and pull of this record veers sharply from the tone of Tillman's previous releases, which for the most part, adhere to a singular mood and stylistic execution. The tension dynamically between songs like "Firstborn" and "New Imperial Grand Blues" is hard to reconcile, but the way the songs are framed herein belies a cohesion not dissimilar to classic oddball albums such as After The Goldrush. Sacrifcing a stylized album, the breadth of Tillman's abilities as a songwriter emerge on VTB, in an array of musical personalities bound by his lyrical existential dread and economical arrangements. In 2008, Tillman joined longtime friends and musical collaborators, Fleet Foxes. Casey Wescott and Christian Wargo both appear on VTB, along with several regular contributors who were willing to adapt to several idiosyncratic recording obstructions. Vacilando Territory Blues is far and away Tillman's most collaborative effort, and the most striking moments here are those seemingly stumbled upon, without resorting to second-takes or microphone re-adjustment. This album casts a strange perspective on what people have come to expect from Tillman's music, but these songs, though oddly untethered, reveal the process of someone coming to terms with the prospect of making music in the void. WesternVinyl-56 CD $11.50 Titus Andronicus The Airing Of Grievances PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $14.00 Titus Andronicus The Airing Of Grievances PS, US Patrick Stickles, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, launches his insights across a wall of defiant, triumphant rock anthems, which have earned comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, and The Replacements. "Patrick Stickles howls with anguish way beyond his 22 years, often cramming lyrics into tight spaces just to make sure he gets the last word in. The drama's more Boss than Bright Eyes, fueled by blue collar frustration and, most notably, beer" - Pitchfork. XL CD $13.25 Tower Recordings Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Communion LP $12.00 Trees Garden Of Jane Delawney PS, US A spellbinding combination of eerie originals & bold West Coast-influenced reworkings of traditional folk songs, this was released in May 1970 & has gone on to become one of the most revered folk-rock albums of all time, now available as a deluxe 2LP set. Sunbeam DLP $30.25 Trees On The Shore PS, US Another beautifully-judged blend of original & traditional material, now available as a deluxe 2LP set. Sunbeam DLP $30.25 Tucker, Alexander Custom Made (2X7") PS, US 2X7" limited to 1,000 copies ATP 45 $15.50 Tuff Crew DJ Too Tuff's Lost Archives PS, US 17 previously unreleased recordings. Booklet includes vintage photographs & liner notes from Peanut Butter Wolf. EasternConference CD $15.25 Tuma, Giorgio My Vocalese Fun Fair PS, SPAIN Soft pop, California 60s sounds, Brazilian touch... Really nice. Elefant-1137 CD $16.25 Uncut #140 (January 2009) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Uncut #141 (February 2009) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Under the Radar #25 PS, US Most Anticipating Albums of 2009: starring GRIZZLY BEAR on cover, Sonic Youth, Bat for Lashes, Depeche Mode, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Silversun Pickups, The Flaming Lips, Dan Deacon, Dove. ZINE $3.75 Underground Failure, The S-T PS, SWEDEN Swedish underground counter-culture monster album from 1971, originally released as a private pressing of 150 copies, never sold at shops at the time. These bunch of freaks were clearly influenced by Dylan, early Velvet Underground and The Fugs, but they came with a sound of their own. Stoned/druggy atmosphere alternating from acoustic/acid-folk tracks to devastating, fuzzed-out ones like 'Green Ocelot,' which was included at #38 in the recent 'Punk Before Punk' top 50 list in Ugly Things magazine. Limited to 500 copies, with remastered sound in nice papersleeve mini-LP replica. BlackLight CD $21.00 Van Zandt, Townes S-T PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!! FatPossum LP $17.00 Various Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always PS, US "Compilation of hard-to-find gospel recorded in the 1960s & early 1970s. More mediative & well-produced material than the Life Is A Problem LP. Nice old school tip-on sleeves. Great stuff." Artists include: Mosby Family Singers, Straight Street Holiness Group, Laura Rivers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, Radio Four, Joe Townsend, White Family, Silver Quintette, James Carter & The Mighty Stars, Farris & Williams, Brother Willie Eason, Traveling Echoes, and Sensational Happy Travellers. Mississippi LP $13.00 Various The Art of Field Recording Volume Two [4CD boxset] PS, US Subtitled: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum. This is volume 2 of Dust-to-Digital's robust and highly-acclaimed Art of Field Recording series, assembled by esteemed archivist Art Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set includes ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Florida and elsewhere. Housed in a 10"x10"x10" color cardboard box containing a 96-page perfect-bound book with over 100 illustrations and photographs, and four CDs with a total of 107 tracks. DustToDigital CD-BOX $61.00 Various Desolation House PS, US This compilation collects 11 exclusive tracks, 1 from each of the album sessions in Desolation House's catalog, into a masterful compilation of Musique Concrete spanning the sound spectrum from dark ambient, to true industrial music in several forms. Tracks from TROUM, BASTARD NOISE, GRUNTSPLATTER, SUBTERRANEAN SOURCE, WALDCHENGARTEN & many more memorialize this unique label as the intrepid, uninhibited vehicle for enlightened sonic expression it was intended to be. Relapse CD $14.75 Various Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples PS, US Now available in gorgeous DLP vinyl format! Numero DLP $19.00 Various File Under: Male Vocal The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer PS, US After enjoying countless compilation albums of psych, beat, garage, girl groups, instrumentals, soul, exotica etc., the Psychic Circle label now releases a compilation which concentrates on that most popular of '60s phenomena, the British male vocalist. These are great tracks and performances that can't really be considered beat, soul or psych, but at the same time conjure a similar sort of mental image. Solid, classy songs performed by great singers which readily evoke the sense of excitement and freshness prevalent in that decade. As legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond) expounds, "What I was trying to assemble for this album was a selection of quality male vocal, with a kind of pop/beat feel. The kind of thing you might have heard in any London discotheque alongside the beat groups, the Stateside soul-sounds, the groovy girls and burgeoning psych riffs. Nothing too MOR or fey, just cool guys doing what they did best. I reckon it's a long overdue examination of a hitherto overlooked genre. It doesn't really need a label, but if you want to give it one, just file under - male vocal." Artists include: Mickey Clarke, Jason Cord, Gerry Deville, Dominic Grant, Nicholas Hammond, Christian Ward, Graham Bell, Jerry Page, Dane Hunter, Brian Keith, Keith Powell, Don Adams, Neil Landon, Greg Hunter, Dave Walton, Danny Street, Dorian Gray, Rudi Bennett, Ronnie Jones, and James Royal. PsychicCircle CD $16.25 Various Trip In Time Vol. 1: Delighted by Psychedelic Rock PS, US comp of contemporary psych bands (most tracks from 2005/6; plus a previously released Dragonwyck track from 1968 just to throw you off!). Features: Siena Root, Vibravoid, Stoned Circus, La Ira De Dios, Treacle People, Loxley Beade, Fantasyy Factoryy, i-H8 Camera, Ma-Nia, Karmic Society. 72% previously unreleased. "Music for the Mind and Body... while music industry continuously looks for 'new' concepts, trends and music styles to serve the mainstream, Trip in Time ventures a look to the past. We present the artistic, emotional and intensive side of music, the concept of progressive psychedelic rock. It appeared in the public consciousness for the first time in 1966, created by the 13th Floor Elevators. By 1956, the English psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond had already formulated: 'To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.' Fifty years later, we invite you to join the bride uncensored spektrum of music with a fine feel for intensity and a variety of interesting influences. WorldInSound-2501 CD $15.75 Various De Nagalm Op De Kopf PS, US A collection of sounds that represent Ultra Eczema pretty well although some of the recordings on this comp are over 5 years old. A variation of odd, "funny", retarded, great, noisy, free, off, loud, harsh, sad and brutal tracks by NOISE NOMADS, KRYSTAL KNIGHT, HACKY PACK ZAC SAC, MUDBOY, CEMENT FUTURE, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY I CAN'T READ, CARDS ON MY CUNT, PRURIENT, EX MEMBERS OF JOSH HYDEMAN, CLOACA & VOM GRILL, XO4, BURNING STAR CORE, KITES, DEFNEG, TUMBLE CAT POOF POOFY POOF, TRASHBUSTERS, ANTHRO REX, ERIC BOROS, BLOATED EGO AND THE COMPLIMENTS, MOUTHUS, MIX APE SYNB, ORPHAN FAIRYTALE, UNICORN HARD ON, MUSLUX, GREY SKULL, BLACK TIE RUBBER PUSSY, GOD WILLING, BOBBY COLOMBO WITH SILVER CINDY & JB DE KUNST!!! The CD comes in a cover designed by DENNIS TYFUS, JOSHUA BURKETT, NOISE NOMADS, and BILL NACE. UltraEczema CD $22.00 Various Ron Herman After Dark PS, US Includes music from SANTOGOLD, VON SUDENFED, TIME MACHINE, WHITE ARROWS, KID SISTER, JACQUES RENAULT, HEY WILLPOWER, ADULT., SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE, 120 DAYS, CASXIO, MIGHTY SIX NINETY, HOCKEY, & HEARTSREVOLUTION Indirecto CD $16.50 Various Messin' With Sly: Imitations, Interpolations & The Inspiration of Sly Stone PS, USTracks from TOMORROW'S CHILDREN, HOT CHOCOLATE, BLUE STAR GANG, HE 6, KASHMERE STAGE BAND, GOUGOUSH, DONALD SEWARD, HORIZONS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, L.A. CARNIVAL, SACRAMENTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1970, RABBITS & CARROTS, JIMMY STONE & BREAKESTRA hip hop addicts from all corners of the globe. LeSmokeDisque CD $13.50 Various Messin' With Sly: Imitations, Interpolations & The Inspiration of Sly Stone PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LeSmokeDisque LP $18.25 Volcano Suns Bright Orange Years PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1985, this is VS's debut album & is chock full of so many catchy songs that it could be any other band's greatest hits album. Merging noise, agression & tunefulness seamlessly, it is a wonder they were not huge from the get-go. Remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON, feat. 9 bonus tracks (many unreleased previously) that adds 7-inch only tracks & radio sessions. Merge CD $11.50 Volcano Suns All-Night Lotus Party PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1986, this is VS's sophomore album & is more rambunctious than their debut. They meld "hardcore punk & heartland rock" into a heavier, darker sound w/ more distortion on the guitars & more bass-heavy production. This is crisply remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON, feat. 11 bonus tracks (many unreleased previously). Merge CD $11.50 Wax Poetics #32 PS, US On the cover: Sly Stone, Jimmy Cleff, Jean Grae, Terry Cliff, so much more. ZINE $9.50 Weakends S-T PS, US LTD ED OF 1000. THE WEAKENDS are back w/ the follow-up to their now out-of-print debut 7" on ROB'S HOUSE Recs. This full-length is more on the blues-punk side of the no-fi French underground. They bang away, singing through broken PA's, sounding like a way cooler hot rod, 50's, b-movie band then you ever remember, or they sound like what those bands should have sounded like, but they were too self aware or just never as good as this. Rob'sHouseRecords LP $12.50 Weird Weeds Hold Me PS, US For the past five years THE WEIRD WEEDS have been creating innovative and unclassifiable rock and folk songs that effortlessly straddle the line between rock 'n' roll and experimentalism. In that time the Austin, TX band has toured extensively and released three albums, the first of which-2004's Hold Me-was only released as a limited and now unavailable CDR. Lovingly reissued by Zum, Hold Me is now available in an pressing of 300 on black vinyl, packaged in a screened chipboard cover with all new artwork by LAUREN PAKRADOONI. Hold Me is also unique in that it's the only recorded document of The Weird Weeds' original 4-piece lineup that included KURT NEWMAN on lead guitar. The album is evidence that very early in their existence The Weird Weeds had developed a unique approach to songwriting that they've been honing and refining ever since. The core trio is AARON RUSSELL (NITRE PIT), SANDY EWEN (collaborator with TOM CARTER in SPIDERWEBS), and NICK HENNIES (percussionist who has performed with JANDEK and ARNOLD DREYBLATT). ZumAudio LP $14.75 Welcome Wagon, The Welcome to the Welcome Wagon PS, US This debut album by The Welcome Wagon unveils a ramshackle sing-a-long enterprise of a Presbyterian pastor (the Rev. Vito Aiuto) and his wife (Monique) wrestling out the influences of folk music, religion, popular culture, and church tradition in a collection of songs that is as soulful as it is good-humored. This gorgeous brew is reflected in the group's repertoire, which unflinchingly consolidates a vast history of "sacred" song traditions: from old Testament psalms, to Presbyterian Psalters of the 17th century, to iconoclastic pop innovators of the 1960s (The Velvet Underground), to charismatic catholics of the 1970s (Lenny Smith), and even into the melancholy lovelorn pop of the 1980s (The Smiths). Recorded, produced, and arranged by Sufjan Stevens. The Welcome Wagon WELCOME TO THE WELCOME WAGON AsthmaticKitty-45 LP $11.50 Wicked Witch Chaos: 1978-86 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! EmRecords LP $23.50 Wicked Witch Chaos: 1978-86 PS, US 1st time ever reissue of rare evil psycho machine-funk from '80s Washington, DC, incl. previously-unreleased mixes. Now is not the time to doubt your senses - the WICKED WITCH does exist. WW combines elements from alchemical mentors Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra, ESG, Run DMC, James Brown & Jimi Hendrix to cast a crazed spell on the innocent listener. An evil mass of machine-funk w/ lashings of rhythm & blues & fusion delivered direct from the heart of the Witch, a misunderstood psycho-genius weaving his solo web deep w/in the dark studio walls. Remastered from the original master tapes, incl. rare photos EmRecords CD $19.50 Wire Magazine #299 PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Witmer, Denison Carry The Weight PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BurntToast LP $12.50 Yamagata, Rachael Elephants: Teeth Sinking Into Heart PS, US WarnerBros DLP $22.75 Yellow Moon Band, The Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World PS, UK The Brother's dropped some mushroom's one afternoon after decided to experience the love behind the record of the year. Yes they would plot a histogram using Jaffa-cakes and pink wafers. During a distracted moment they pondered over the other important events in music. The Weeley festival 1971 (Juicy Lucy, demon fuzz and Hackensack and all for just £1-50); dancing in the mud in your underpants at Bickershaw to the Greatfull Dead; Cheech and Chong and Haydock Brass Band. Or what about climbing on army tanks to catch Roy Harper at the St. Helens Show. Great days with the endorphin rush of pure music jammed out by buzzing musicians. So here we have the debut album by The Yellow Moon Band. It follows two sold out sevens and some crazy shows at the Green Man Festival. Eight tracks of Instrumental wonk that's as darn exciting as discovering that rare side of wax that's sorta' Anatolian led rare groove in a bare chested wrestle with Be Bop Deluxe's 'Sunburst Finish' and pressed up on Vertigo. Well it might exist in the car boot of your dreams. More Hillage than Gong, more Hacket than Genesis, more Thompson than Fairport and certainly more Velvet Jacket than Leather jacket. The Freakzone friendly Yellow Moon Band will release their debut gatefold album on Static Caravan in November. Gatefold Card CD with artwork by Luke Insect. StaticCaravan-173 CD $16.25 Yorke, Thom The Eraser Rmxs PS, US This Japanese release collects all the 12-inch remixes originally found on Yorke's debut solo album "The Eraser". The Radiohead frontman asked several of his favorite artists and producers to remix these tracks (Burial, Four Tet, The Field, Cristian Vogel, The Bug, Modeselektor, Various, Surgeon), and the results are as bold and visionary as the originals. "...teems with gorgeous melodies...a testament to the singer's unique vision. 4.5 / 5" - Wired. XL CD $13.25 Young, Neil Live at Massey Hall 1971 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Reprise LP $28.00 Young, Neil Southern Man PS, US The Feed.back series has never been focused on making the rare and obscure once again commercially available for record collectors and DJs to own. As demonstrated by the previous two selections, U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and Loggins & Messina's Pathway To Glory, the Feed.back series is intended to really showcase some of the dopest as well as most urgently relevant classics of our recent times. More than just a music showcase, Feed.back highlights records that actually concern serious conditions of the modern era up to this day, both spiritual and political/material, records that speak to the everyday conditions that we live through in our day-to-day existence on this earth. Music has the potential to become something beyond personal healer, a social tool both for political organization and propaganda, but also for the necessary expression of mass frustration and collective purpose. Feed.back strives for the rejuvenation of this intent in the creation and playing of music. The 3rd edition of this series, Neil Young's Southern Man, articulates a marked disgust with the reactionary and inherently racist tendency of regional nationalism. Everyone is familiar with the alleged animosity between Young and Alabama's Lynyrd Skynyrd over the blatantly condemnatory articulation of the South's almost fascistic obsession with local heritage -- sic. blood & soil, the completely fallacious belief in a national story, a legacy of firm local traditionalism that fuels so much of the racism in the south. Past, present, and future is accounted for, and the legacy of slavery is carried on through demented 'local pride' that goes largely unquestioned, disguised as it is. Young put out a song that sought to openly and aggressively single out the violent legacy of Southern racism and its influence still operating strong within Southern social thought, refusing to let it fade away from the popular memory, just as the most influential and high-ranking of apologists were beginning to formulate and put into action the notion of equality finally achieved in the 'new America. SlowtoSpeak 12 $13.00 Yussuf Jerusalem A Heart Full Of Sorrow PS, US Was kind of dreading this one. The name?!!?, Heard it opens with a Death Metal song (it does) the whole thing just seemed like a bummer. Well I was wrong. Not even the opening track could ruin this record for me. If someone asked me to tell them what kind of music this is I guess I'd say folk-rock. The biggest (and best) surprise in recent memory. FloridasDyingRecords LP $11.00 Forthcoming Releases Abe Vigoda Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. PostPresentMedium LP $9.75 Abe Vigoda Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH) PS, US Cantankerous shoegaze poplosion! Washing & slipping through certain moments where "Skeleton" only touched on, this 5 song EP slows the mood, & crashes over your senses, getting more experimental but oddly more catchy. Squirming in a stunning act of pureness, a calming sound overtakes the senses & they destroy it all beautifully & bring it back again. PostPresentMedium CD5 $9.50 American Football American Football EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH) PS, US First time on vinyl! In their brief history together, American Football crafted two releases that left an undeniable mark on independent music. Despite being released nearly a decade ago both releases are consistently among Polyvinyl's top selling titles. Fronted by Mike Kinsella (Owen, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz), American Football created the kind of songs that held new discoveries upon each listen. These three songs along with the nine that appear on the band's full-length are the only American Football songs ever released. This release features all new album artwork, is on high quality 180-gram vinyl and includes a digital download of the entire release. Polyvinyl-019 12 $8.75 Anahita Matricaria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH) PS, US Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & cellist Helena Espvall (ESPERS). A beautiful, laboriously created, floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing, & subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment that conjures up a natural woodland romp & stomp. Important CD $13.25 Architecture In Helsinki That Beep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH) PS, US Coming off the heels of commercial success in Australia, Architecture in Helsinki are set to release a brand new song in the states. The song is called "That Beep" and it is the most straight forward, 80's inspired pop tune the band has ever created. With a hook so instantly gratifying, the US is likely to follow Australia's lead in making AiH a household name. "That Beep" is a teaser single from the brand new, as-yet-untitled Architecture in Helsinki fulllength that will land on the shores of America in late summer 2009. "That Beep" has widely been covered on the web by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear, Fluxblog, You Ain't No Picasso, and Stereogum to name a few, and the video for "That Beep" premiered on Pitchfork.tv. Features 3 bonus tracks, including a Radioclit remix. Polyvinyl-174 12 $9.00 Architecture In Helsinki That Beep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH) PS, US Coming off the heels of commercial success in Australia, Architecture in Helsinki are set to release a brand new song in the states. The song is called "That Beep" and it is the most straight forward, 80's inspired pop tune the band has ever created. With a hook so instantly gratifying, the US is likely to follow Australia's lead in making AiH a household name. "That Beep" is a teaser single from the brand new, as-yet-untitled Architecture in Helsinki fulllength that will land on the shores of America in late summer 2009. "That Beep" has widely been covered on the web by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear, Fluxblog, You Ain't No Picasso, and Stereogum to name a few, and the video for "That Beep" premiered on Pitchfork.tv. Features 3 bonus tracks, including a Radioclit remix. Polyvinyl-174 CD5 $6.75 Asobi Seksu Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH) PS, US A critically acclaimed band with glowing press from such outlets as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, XLR8R, and many more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl debut with their much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into something new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence and sputtering drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist Yuki Chikudate. Polyvinyl-170 CD $13.25 Asobi Seksu Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH) PS, US LP 180 gm vinyl. A critically acclaimed band with glowing press from such outlets as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, XLR8R, and many more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl debut with their much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into something new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence and sputtering drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist Yuki Chikudate. Polyvinyl-170 LP $14.75 Baja Aether Obelisk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH) PS, US The Aether Obelisk is the fourth release in the Baja saga by composer Daniel Vujanic. It arrives at a broad musical horizon, touching the borderlines of forms ranging from chamber music and psychedelia, to pop/jazz-infected electronic music. The Aether Obelisk is unpredictable as ever, but definitely exploiting more vocal and repetitive elements than its predecessors. The overall mood is also less melancholic and nocturnal than previous Baja offerings. Some almost-tender sequences add more harmonic depth to the fractured signature sound of Vujanic´s suite-like compositions. It's loaded with acoustic and electric guitar textures ranging from folk to improv, synths, panoramic electronics, reverberating piano bits, horn sections, vibes, glockenspiel and multi-layered percussion - both live and programmed. "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 "Vujanic is making music for the Shuffle generation, positing endless subdivisions that thus, beautifully, enable the listener to consider the music in almost anything." -Cokemachine Glow "Incredible, genre-melting... deconstructs rock norms." -The Tripwire OtherElectricities-017 CD $12.25 Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique: 20th Anniversary Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH) PS, US Special 20th anniversary version of 1989's Paul's Boutique. The album was run through a 24-bit remastering process and will be released as an eight-panel digipak. Fans can also download a track-by-track audio commentary from the Boys, which syncs with the album. Capitol CD $17.75 Beirut March of the Zapotec & Realpeople Holland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH) PS, US Vinyl format ObeyYourBrain 2X12 $17.25 Beneath Oblivion S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH) PS, US Cincinnati, Ohio's finest in raw doom, sludgy despair & stripped down futility. Crawling forward, white-knuckled, w/ down-tuned guitar riffs that leave you unnerved & anxious, bass lines that thud hard enough to leave you nauseous, & drums that thump one minute in a tribal, trance-inducing cavalcade & the next come crashing down w/ the power of a mountain splitting in two. RIYL: Ocean SunnO))), Buried At Sea. Limited to 500 MyleneSheath 10 $15.50 Bibio Vignetting The Compost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD) PS, US Seamlessly amalgamating nature and electronics, Vignetting The Compost, the third full-length release from Bibio, channels instruments and vocals from a bygone era through a futuristic digital portal. History may credit Edison with the phonograph but, in truth, the first such device mysteriously washed up on the shores of England in 1876... playing Bibio. Vignetting The Compost is at once timeless and innovative; 60s-esque folk guitar and mechanic manipulations of sounds whose instruments of origin are less important than the feelings they evoke, layer upon each other with ease and intricacy. Just when you expect to hear Nico's moan escaping your stereo, Bibio himself comes through with a voice that could have sung next to her on "These Days." Truly, this is an album for the ages. Producer Stephen Wilkinson is a self-taught musician from an area in central England often referred to as the Black Country. His love for sound and noise led him to the University of London and the study of Sonic Arts where he discovered experimental electronic acts such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and most importantly Boards Of Canada. His own musical identity was christened Bibio, in honor of a fly his father had insisted on using during the fishing trips to Wales that were so influential in establishing his love of the sounds of nature. Focusing on location recording using cassettes, a half-broken sampler, Dictaphones, and experimental ways of affecting sounds, Bibio has crafted a unequalled style that is as subtle as it is powerful. Mush-263 CD $9.00 Black Moth Super Rainbow Don't You Want to Be In a Cult [picture disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009) PS, US Amazing picture disc awesomeness from Pittsburgh's weirdest. A rad picture disc, this record marks the first new material following the band's acclaimed 2007 release Dandelion Gum and the "Zodiac Girls" 7" on Suicide Squeeze. Features "Don't You Want to Be in a Cult" b/w "Feel the Drip". Limited to 1000. Includes a download card, we thinks. MexicanSummer 12" $15.00 BMX Bandits The BMX love EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH) PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 600 COPIES. Red vinyl. Elefant are congratulating ourselves on the release, for the second time, of the exclusive 7" of one of the most vital and active groups of the Scottish pop scene. Duglas T. Stewart put together a handful of unreleased songs in this item that marks the sepia tinted memory of the most elegantly poppy seventies, led by the piano, evoking the halo of composers like Burt Bacharach or Henry Mancini and artists like Dusty Springfield or Françoise Hardy. From the new version of "Our Secret Life" in French, rebaptized here as "Quand il n'y a plus d'amour" (with the French adaptation by Nick Garrie) to the closing gem of the EP, a version of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" that Olivia Newton-John sang in "Grease", on of our favorite films, which Duglas deliciously recreates with the collaboration of the Scottish band THE ATTIC LIGHTS. The single is completed with two very recent recordings, the unreleased "I Can Wait Forever", intimate folk pop marked with elegant melodies and vocals, and a version of "You Don't Want to Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe" by MY LITTLE AIRPORT. When Duglas received MY LITTLE AIRPORT's album, published by Elefant, he fell instantly in love with the song. He played it live a few days later and soon after decided to record it in the studio, the magnificent result of which is here. A precious collection of songs with the indelible stamp of one of the most gifted minds in pop of the last 25 years at the controls. As always, Duglas, it's a pleasure. Elefant-268 45 $7.75 Bodies Obtained, The From the Top of My Tree (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2009) PS, US The path that leads to The Bodies Obtained is a long one. Conceived in Detroit, MI, not much is known of the extremely elusive duo (there isn't even an existing photograph of the artists) other than the fact that they took their name from the Joy Division song "Day of the Lords", and whatever other little bits of information they make available to the public via cryptic press releases sent to the media from within the band's camp. The Bodies Obtained are of indiscriminate age, and only now fielding their first album, From The Top Of My Tree to the greater public. A timeless piece of music, ...My Tree could have been conceived in 1978, 1988, 1998 or 2008: it's the sonic documentation of an ongoing project that spans electronica, experimental rock and synth-pop from a group who have experienced it all. With songs akin to those of Brian Eno, the Residents and Fad Gadget, TBO use their anonymity to lead the listener to explore a realm that could be associated with those bands: an obscure place where nothing is quite what to expect around the next bend. Discord and discomfort are as important as reward and satisfaction, and the album is a living, breathing testament to that rhetoric. The music itself is heavier than most electronic bands out there, more synths, more echo, more ether, more meaning. One member of TBO attests: "For us the band's name also ties into our reason for making music. Due in part, to that perfect act of nature that put us here, in this body, at this time and place. Finding music attractive, it has forced us to express our 'art damaged' selves through it". Song titles like "Let the Worm Seize the Day" and "The Pig that I Am"; channeling even more '80s electro gloom, validate the band's statements off the bat. FindingYouAttractive CD $10.00 Bodychoke Cold River Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD) PS, US Formed by members of SUTCLIFFE JUGEND & WHITEHOUSE, this was a noisy rock anomaly as powerful & provocative as its name would suggest. Their material was dark, violent, strangely hypnotic & defied categorization. This long out-of-print unheralded classic has been given the deluxe treatment; now remastered to include 3 bonus tracks. RIYL: Swans, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle. Relapse CD $14.75 Bones, Mike Fool For Everyone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD) PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons. All of the above is factual as far as I can tell. Memory is a tricky thing, but you know that. We've probably read the same books. Good night." - Mike Bones "Anthemic doesn't have to mean overblown you know. Mr. Bones can do it with swooning casualness, sieving the twee from Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, leaving only heart and soul." - NME "Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of every musician you like in New York. He's the New York music-geek world's secret weapon." - Vice Magazine "Bones is a guitar hero inside and out, master apprentice of a steel-eyed, determined blues first informed by punk, not the sallow, honeyed agony seeping out of our most emotionally isolated singer-songwriters." - Dusted TheSocialRegistry-72 LP $12.25 Bones, Mike Fool For Everyone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 3RD) PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons. All of the above is factual as far as