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23 Skidoo
Urban Gamelan
PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Illuminated Records in August 1984, the album Urban Gamelan consolidated Skidoo's position as supreme avant-gardists with uncommon commercial nous. "Coup thundered over the horizon earlier this year. A mighty 45, it's a vinyl TV cop show car chase driven by Sketch Martin's bass, with Aswad's horn section blazing away in hot pursuit" (NME, 1984); "Skidoo allowed black America back in. And they let the rest of the world get a look in, too." (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD features three bonus tracks including the original 12" single mixes of Language and the mighty Coup - the latter oddly similar to the 1997 smash by the Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.
LTM-2530
CD
$16.25

23 Skidoo
Just Like Everybody
PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1986, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Their classic singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs (an indie chart #1), The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Just Like Everybody (disc one) is a compilation covering 1980 to 1986, and includes the full 12" versions of Skidoo's signature singles such as Last Words, Coup, Language and Assassin, as well as key album tracks, and both sides of rare debut Ethics from 1980. The second disc, Just Like Everybody (Part Two), gathers together 17 tracks recorded by the group during the 1990s, and was originally released on the band's own Ronin label in 2002. Digitally remastered, most of the tracks and mixes on this double CD set are exclusive, and are not repeated on the other 23 Skidoo CDs in LTM's reissue program. The booklet also features a detailed history of the group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.
LTM-2532
DCD
$18.00

A Cuckoo
Destination Unknown
PS, US "There is something reassuringly old fashioned about A Cuckoo, a singular individual who dwells on the Yorkshire Moors and has a fixation with sepia-toned Edwardiana, music boxes and the like... MOJO would like to add that we hope that A Cuckoo's forthcoming album will be available on 78. It would seem impolite if it wasn't." - MOJO By the age of 17 A Cuckoo had already played in respected UK bands Blue Aeroplanes and House of Love. In his early 20s he started to create and produce his own music. In the meantime he ended up working nearly full time as a composer for the BBC, which is where he "learnt how to orchestrate and paint sonic pictures." Quietly A Cuckoo began putting some of the rough ideas that he was developing up on MySpace. The page quickly began to gather a list of complimentary comments and was visited by A Girl called Eddy (former Le Grand Magistery recording artist, currently signed to Anti), who asked what the situation was with the release of his material. "Um, they're only rough snippets!" replied A Cuckoo, so A Girl Called Eddy put him in touch with Matthew Jacobson from Le Grand Magistery who insisted he finish the album so he could release it. The result is 'Destination Unknown'. A magical and dusty esoteric mix of styles that seems to effortlessly project a work of humble yet visionary compositions and poetry. Filled with music boxes, accordions, mandolins, bells, a quartet, acoustic guitars, and endless melody. "Great songs" - Chris Difford of Squeeze
LeGrandMagistery-045
CD
$12.25

A Handful Of Dust
Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury
PS , US Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990.
NoFunProductions-34
DCD
$16.25

A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Scribble Mural Comic Journal
PS, US NEW PRESSING on new label. PITCHFORK 8.0! Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers & all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's ASDIG adds lush female vocals & dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin & Lauren's vocals trading off phrase for phrase glisten for thirteen storied track. It succeeds in marrying ASDIG's love of indie rock & languid atmosphere, recalling the best aspects of Slowdive's Souvlaki & early Aphex Twin.
Notenuf-001
CD
$12.25

A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Scribble Mural Comic Journal [re-issue]
PS, US NEW PRESSING. PITCHFORK 8.0! Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers & all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's ASDIG adds lush female vocals & dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin & Lauren's vocals trading off phrase for phrase glisten for thirteen storied track. It succeeds in marrying ASDIG's love of indie rock & languid atmosphere, recalling the best aspects of Slowdive's Souvlaki & early Aphex Twin.
MisOjosDiscos
CD
$11.50

Albion Band
Rise Up Like The Sun
PS, UK Originally released on Harvest in 1978, and reissued by Fledg'ling in 2003, Rise Up Like The Sun is widely acknowledged as one of the finest and most ambitious of English folk-rock albums ever. With John Tams and Joe Boyd overseeing the production, this crack-edition of The Albion Band (with several ex-Fairporters amongst their number) tackle everything from Appalachian love ballads to the music of John Coltrane and Richard Thompson. Remastered and fully annotated with four rare bonus tracks. Special guest appearances from Kate McGarrigle, Julie Covington, Martin Carthy, Andy Fairweather-Low, Richard and Linda Thompson.
Fledgling
CD
$16.25

Aldebaran
Forgotten Tombs
PS, US Heavy doom outfit from Portland.
Kreation
LP
$16.00

Alps
III
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The band's first studio album but, as the name implies, its third overall, III finds the members of the Alps in good creative health -- perhaps not surprising for a slew of performers who regularly make their name with other projects like Tarentel and ARP, but the trick for any such project lies in its members knowing how to meet in the middle. On this level III is a good success, clearly balancing out solo and improvisational elements with gentle structure on a series of (mostly) instrumentals, equal parts feedback drone/zone and slow, steady melodies and rhythms. It's very much an album placing itself in a larger tradition -- Pink Floyd at their most creative, especially with soundtrack work (not for nothing would one song here be called "Echoes"), and similarly Popul Vuh, and those are simply two of the most obvious references."
Type
CD
$14.25

Autistic Daughters
Uneasy Flowers
PS, GERMANY Released on CD in March of 2008 on Kranky, Uneasy Flowers is the second album by New Zealand's Autistic Daughters, the intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) and Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It is also the fourth in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s "free noise" ferment, has embraced song, lyric and voice as vessels for topographic and psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory and nomadism on the subject. This is reflected by the shape-shifting nature of the outfit: while Autistic Daughters (whose name comes from a lyric from their first record Jealousy And Diamond) are resolutely a trio, they also work in cinematic format, with ancillary players behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements: in this instance, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, Martin Siewert and Valerio Tricoli. With Uneasy Flowers, Roberts traces the internal and external workings of one protagonist: or, rather, a protagonist who "contains multitudes," a Whitmanian figure that dissolves the unified self. Rather, this character, "Rehana," embodies multiplicity and fragmentation in order to both a) address loss and b) aim toward transfiguration, transcendence. There are traces in the lyrics -- traces of addiction and desire, myth and transformation -- that are obliquely reflected in the music's structure, its uneasy tension between the pop song (the "moment") and experiment (the "process"). In some ways, it reminds of the structural, loop-based cinema of figures like Malcolm LeGrice: taking one moment and stretching it, the better to capture its nuances and to draw out all the repressed material caught in the mise-en-scène, the hidden, cloaked content that erupts when your world spirals out of your control and gets caught in webs of interpersonal politic. The move from intimacy to the capture of the "greater picture" enacted by both lyric and music here resembles a camera dollying out, a shift of perspective unsettling for its vertigo-inducing qualities. Experimental deconstructionism within a pop framework that is contemplative, well-crafted, and gracefully unsettling.
Staubgold
CD
$16.25

Auxes
Sunshine
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Lovitt
LP
$11.00

Auxes
Sunshine
PS, US New album from Dave Laney (MILEMARKER)
Lovitt
CD
$11.00

Bathgate, Chris
Wait, Skeleton (CD/BOOK)
PS, US Released as the second in an ongoing series of hand made, bound & stamped booklets, this EP features 6 brand new songs from Chris, on the heels of his well received full length album. The pages are printed on vellum & feature prints of trees among handwritten lyrics. "If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young & enormously promising career, its the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty." - NPR Song of The Day
QuiteScientific
CD
$13.50

Bjork, Brant & The Operators
S-T
PS, US REISSUED finally for the 1st time on 2LP vinyl! Long ago, BRANT BJORK played drums in the mighty Kyuss where he wrote most of the songs, & moved onto Fu Manchu. After that, he was a member of Queens of the Stone Age! Sounds like stoner rock royalty to me! But people, there's another side to Brant other than the groovy stoner rock drumming, & that is the solo project. His 2nd solo release here, originally released in 2002, combines moody desert drives w/ '70s pop sensibilities, his low rider Impala & Brant's very own rawk funk. Check it out!
LowDesertPunk
DLP
$22.00

Black Time
Double Negative
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
IntheRed
LP
$11.75

Blithe Sons, The
The Great Orthochromatic Wheel
PS, US The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse ) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist songs forms summoned by a miniature orchestra of eclectic instruments. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside. The indoor set consists of slow-motion ballads built on hymn-like organ, nylon string guitar, analog drum machine & stark percussion. The outdoor side offers a web of exotic wind-instruments & battery-powered electronics reverberating in a cavernous hall cut in the side of a sea-cliff. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for a free MP3 version of the album. The Blithe Sons have released five other full-length albums since 2001 for Family Vineyard, Chocolate Monk and Jewelled Antler. In 2007 the Sons curated the sixth volume of Music Fellowship's triptych series bringing together Pekko Kappi and Claypipe for a three-way split CD.
FamilyVineyard-62
LP
$12.50

Bohren & der Club of Gore
Dolores
PS, US Hailing from Germany, the Bohren quartet bring you their 6th release. Their extremely slow melodious blend of saxophone, piano, organ, fender, vibes, bass and drums, has been labeled "horror jazz" by critics. Each toneseems to be chosen w/ infinite patience.
Ipecac
CD
$16.25

Bon Vivants
Black Honey
PS, US Post-punk 'n folk-rock (NOT "freak folk"--eeek!), power-pop 'n acid-rock, howlin' at the Georgia moon like a lonely 16-year-old geek even as you stare at so-called middle-age in defiance. Television Personalities Soft Boys Swell Maps 'n Mr. Barrett hisself--post-Cale VU and the ghost of Arthur Lee--kids still 70s-drunk and runnin' free! SNAP! MANGLE! POP! The Bon Vivants come from Atlanta, Georgia. That's Ben Young (rhythm and freak guitars, vocals), Rob Parham (rhythm and lead guitars), Ben Lawless (bass), and Jeff Patch (drums). In 2006, they released a 10" record called SOUL ACTION. It came out on Ben's Old Gold label, which has generally released noise, improv, and experimental stuff. The members of the Bon Vivants worked their way through all of those more outside approaches before settling on a song format for this band. It adds a lot to what they're doing now: the deep knowledge of noise and improv combined with structured pop-rock songs. And on their new Gulcher CD, things come into even sharper focus--the lo-fi cassette sound of SOUL ACTION is gone, revealing the band in crystal clarity and sounding better than ever.
Gulcher
CD
$10.25

Bookish, Simon
Everything/Everything
PS, US An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", Everything/Everything is a new departure for Simon Bookish, being his first album for TOMLAB. Additionally, whilst previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, Everything/Everything does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments. Scored for an ensemble dominated by saxophones, brass, piano, harp and Far sa organ, it features luminaries from both the jazz and experimental classical music scenes. Whilst this is almost certainly his most pop oriented release to date, Everything/Everything, as it's name suggests, nds room for moments of racing Philip Glass minimalism, lop-sided disco, expressionist cabaret, and even an eery ambient interlude. Lyrically, the album's concept is "the - good of information" in our modern age, taking in chemistry and ecology, language and art, sometimes surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, a weird blur of fact and action, delivered in Bookish's distinctive English eccentric vocal. It's only natural that Simon Bookish would want to tackle this chaos of stuff, since 'Simon Bookish' is the pseudonym of London-based composer Leo Chadburn, whose diverse recent work has included everything from sound-art installations in Bregenz, Austria, improvisation and guest spots with Leafcutter John and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford, and computer music for contemporary dance at the Royal Opera House to an acclaimed appearance with the National Theatre as "The Singer" in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle".
Tomlab-121
CD
$12.25

Bopp, Andy
This Guitar Kills Singer Songwriters
PS, US This first solo album from the frontman/songwriter for sparkling guitar pop melody makers MYRACLE BRAH. Overflows w/ semi-unplugged acoustic versions of Myracle Brah songs (plus some new ones). Pristine, gorgeous arrangements w/beautiful acoustic guitar work while delivering jangly psychedlic rock-pop conjuring Byrds, Beatles, Badfinger & Raspberries
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.75

Bowie, David
Iselect
PS, US
Astralwerks
CD
$15.25

Brother JT3
Jelly Roll Gospel
PS, US From the first groove of this long-player, the rhythms are live & relentless, making his new soul anthems burst energetically from the speakers in full-spectrum stereo sound. Comprised of bassist Art DiFuria (PHOTON BAND), drummer Jamie Knerr (PSYCLONE RANGERS), & JT, the group delivers their trademark blues-&-roll whomp, shaking everything in sight to keep the beat going- while weaving in unexpected touches, such as a dub reggae bounce.
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Brun, Ane
Changing of the Seasons
PS,US One of the finest voices of the contemporary folk scene is back. Here is Ane Brun´s third album Changing of the Seasons . It was recorded more or less live at the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, and at producer Valgeir Sigurdsson´s studio, the Greenhouse, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sigurdsson´s merits include artists like Björk, Sigur Ros, Maps, Múm, Coco Rosie and Bonnie Prince Billy. Changing of the Seasons consists of 13 new tracks by Ane Brun. The album shows that Ane´s mesmerizing voice has taken new and exciting turns, and it also reveals many proofs of her remarkable songwriting. Just listen to tracks like The Puzzle , Ten Seconds , Lullaby for Grown-Ups , The Fall or Don´t Leave and you´ll know that this is something close to a classic album. The beautiful string arrangements are written by Danish composer Malene Bay-Landin and the young and successful American composer Nico Muhly (who has worked with artists such as Bonnie Prince Billy and Antony & the Johnsons).
Sidecho
CD
$11.00

Carbon 14
Issue #31 (MAGAZINE + CD)
PS, US Features on The Coyote Men, The Pagans, Mitch O'Connell, Sharon Leong, Electric Prunes, Palmyra Delran, etc. Cover art by Sharon Leong. Features by Bunny Fontaine & Thee Whiskey Rebel, interview w/ professional wrestler/actor Ox Baker, a feature on the films of Jean Rollin & Pier Paolo Pasolini, & all the usual comics, pin-ups, columns, & so much more. CD comp is titled "Scandanavian Meltdown'" full of 21 nuggets of Nordic noise incl. Marvel, The Hellacopters, The Nomads, Bloodlights, The Incubators, Demons, etc. 120pgs long
ZINE
$5.50

Caspian
You Are The Conductor
PS, US Caspian weaves precise, textured webs in which you become completely immersed & then profoundly affected - hypnotized & forced to look inward.
MyleneSheath
12
$14.75

Ceremony/Screem Vinyl Image
Split
PS, US Ceremony bring their arsenal of shoegaze guitar mayhem to the forefront on their songs: dark but catchy, & very, very loud. Screen Vinyl Image make striking music that combines elements of minimalist electro & beautiful guitar pop. Expect layers of keyboards, ambient noise & pulsating drum beats w/ rich dark vocals. Excellent showcase of two of the best shoegaze/indie bands going in the US today. Comes packed w/ CD version too.
CustomMadeMusic
10"/CD
$10.50

Chandeliers
Thrush
PS, US Electronic art-funk band CHANDELIERS, residents of Chicago's Shape Shoppe loft/recording studio, present their debut LP, The Thrush, on the newly formed Obey Your Brain imprint. Comprised of multi-instumentalists from Chicago's blossoming young avant-rock scene, Chandeliers are a phenomenon in unclassifiable modern music. Having adopted the collective spirit of kraut-rock bands like Can and Faust, the group functions as a unified whole with no dominant members. This approach gives them a more intuitive and unpredictable approach to composing. An album with the flow of a mix-tape, The Thrush is at home bangin' in your trunk or hypnotizing on your headphones. Kraftwerk is a clear reference, but with influences ranging from Eastern melodies to the sonically dirty rhythmic propulsion of Konono No.1, and the crunked-out, psychedelic hip-hop of J-Dilla, Chandeliers always keep listeners on their toes. Includes a download code for a digital version of the album as well as two bonus videos. Upcoming East Coast tour with Baltimore's Thrust Lab this fall.
ObeyYourBrain
LP
$12.00

Chinese Stars
Tv Grows Arms
PS, US A brand new 12-inch boiler from combustible "dance show road dogs" the CHINESE STARS--members of ARAB ON RADAR and SIX FINGER SATELLITE. A teaser EP to the band's upcoming second album, featuring two exclusive tracks. Packaged with artwork by MATT BRINKMAN (Mystery Brinkman, Forcefield, Mutant Life Expectancy).
KittyPlay
LP
$5.50

Clean
Compilation
PS, US Compilation collects many of the greatest tracks by New Zealand legends The Clean, including songs from their first single and first two EPs. Very catchy pop with the energy and rawness of the best punk rock combined with a strong psychedelic feel. An amazing collection by one of the best bands of all time!
LittleAxe
LP
$13.75

Cogan, Ora
Harbouring
PS, SPAIN Ora Cogan was born and raised on a small island on the west coast of Canada, her house was a recording studio and her Family played host to a constant stream of musicians and travelers. Ora started writing songs and performing at 12. Now based in Vancouver, BC. Ora stitches the blues, old-time and ethereal ballads into her unique sound. Guitar and a voice that could melt butter combine to give an album that sounds like it was recorded in the middle of a cornfield." - AMERICANA UK. "Ora's voice possesses that haunting, soulful quality that seems like its source is coming from deep deep within or beyond. Like a mysterious transplant from decades past, it's as though she opens her mouth and a lilting voice from the '20s comes drifting out. It's beautiful in its simplicity, just her and her guitar and a few banjo and back-up vocal additions."- AQUARIUS RECORDS "Ora plays true folk, the kind that is strong and tells stories with a sense of urgency, be it heartbreak or revolution. This album is gorgeous, bitter sweet, and incredibly powerful." - ONLY MAGAZINE
BorneRecordings/Acuarela-002
CD
$13.50

Connors, Loren
The Moon Last Night
PS, US The Moon Last Night perfectly captures the complex and contemporary guitar style of Loren Connors - totally desolate yet wound in echoy, rich black clouds that weep of Mississippi ghost blues and chiming strings. This two-part suite combines the artist's love of choral music, Giacinto Scelsi and the naked Venusian guitar style he evangelized across a string of private press LPs in the late 1980s. Conjured solely from a Fender six-string and reverb effects, solitary notes swirl and loft gently from distant points before collecting into booming clusters. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment during the winter of 2008, the rustles of clothes and a creaking chair appear throughout. Like a kaleidoscope or the cover art itself - a 1973 painting by Connors - subterranean layers of composition and melodic streams are uncovered in each listen. Pressed in an edition of 500 one-sided translucent yellow LPs Connors has released over 50 albums since his 1978 debut, and since 1999 he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative albums with Suzanne Langille, John Fahey, David Grubbs, Christina Carter, Jandek, and Jim O'Rourke.
FamilyVineyard-61
LP
$12.50

Creed, Helios
Not Without Sorcery
PS, US LTD ED 5-trk EP to support HELIOS CREED's 2008 30-city "Dual Forces" tour. Contains 2 songs exclusive to this release & 3 songs from his forthcoming CD/2LP for Transparency. Helios (ex-founder of the legendary noise-rock act CHROME) plays guitar, bass & synth, as well as vocals; Paul Della Pella plays drums.
Transparency
CD5
$10.75

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pendulum: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America."
Fantasy
CD
$11.50

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America."
Fantasy
CD
$11.50

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Self-Titled: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Released in the summer of 1968 -- a year after the summer of love, but still in the thick of the Age of Aquarius - Creedence Clearwater Revival's self-titled debut album was gloriously out-of-step with the times, teeming with John Fogerty's Americana fascinations. While many of Fogerty's obsessions and CCR's signatures are in place -- weird blues ("I Put a Spell on You"), Stax R&B (Wilson Pickett's "Ninety-Nine and a Half"), rockabilly ("Susie Q"), winding instrumental interplay, the swamp sound, and songs for "The Working Man" -- the band was still finding their way. Out of all their records (discounting Mardi Gras), this is the one that sounds the most like its era, thanks to the wordless vocal harmonies toward the end of "Susie Q," the backward guitars on "Gloomy," and the directionless, awkward jamming that concludes "Walking on the Water." Still, the band's sound is vibrant, with gutsy arrangements that borrow equally from Sun, Stax, and the swamp. Fogerty's songwriting is a little tentative. Not for nothing were two of the three singles pulled from the album covers (Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q," Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You") -- he wasn't an accomplished tunesmith yet. Though "The Working Man" isn't bad, the true exception is that third single, "Porterville," an exceptional song with great hooks, an underlying sense of menace, and the first inkling of the working-class rage that fueled such landmarks as "Fortunate Son." It's the song that points the way to the breakthrough of Bayou Country, but the rest of the album shouldn't be dismissed, because judged simply against the rock & roll of its time, it rises above its peers."
Fantasy
CD
$11.50

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Willy & the Poor Boys: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Make no mistake, Willie & the Poor Boys is a fun record, perhaps the breeziest album CCR ever made. Apart from the eerie minor-key closer "Effigy" (one of John Fogerty's most haunting numbers), there is little of the doom that colored Green River. Fogerty's rage remains, blazing to the forefront on "Fortunate Son," a working-class protest song that cuts harder than any of the explicit Vietnam protest songs of the era, which is one of the reasons that it hasn't aged where its peers have. Also, there's that unbridled vocal from Fogerty and the ferocious playing on CCR, which both sound fresh as they did upon release. "Fortunate Son" is one of the greatest, hardest rock & rollers ever cut, so it might seem to be out of step with an album that is pretty laid-back and friendly, but there's that elemental joy that by late '69 was one of CCR's main trademarks. That joy runs throughout the album, from the gleeful single "Down on the Corner" and the lazy jugband blues of "Poorboy Shuffle" through the great slow blues jam "Feelin' Blue" to the great rockabilly spiritual "Don't Look Now," one of Fogerty's overlooked gems. The covers don't feel like throwaways, either, since both "Cotton Fields" and "The Midnight Special" have been overhauled to feel like genuine CCR songs. It all adds up to one of the greatest pure rock & roll records ever cut."
Fantasy
CD
$11.50

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green River: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower of their classic sound initially essayed on its predecessor, Bayou Country. One of the differences between the two albums is that Green River is tighter, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity. Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally. Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music. This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom. Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realize the "world is smolderin'." Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult. For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating."
Fantasy
CD
$11.50

Crooked Fingers
Forfeit/Fortune
PS, US 5th album from former ARCHERS OF LOAF singer ERIC BACHMANN. LIMITED TO 1000 copies on white vinyl. Includes download coupon & a non-CD bonus track, "La Maleta Fea," a brand new version of a song that appeared previously on a Merge Records compilation. NEKO CASE appears on the album-closing duet "Your Control"
ForeignLeisure
LP
$13.50

Danielson
Our Givest (Remix)
PS, US
SecretlyCanadian-191
45
$4.75

Darling Downs
From One to Another
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
CarrotTop
LP
$11.50

Darling Downs
From One to Another
PS, US "A record of spare, tender songcraft, whose delicate shifts in tone make the simple alt.country tag inadequate. A brave move for both, brilliantly pulled off. 4 stars."-Uncut. The DDs stand out as the most unlikely of collaborations between longtime members of the fertile Australian rock scene. While it is not at alll insane to imagine the driving force behind SCIENTISTS, BEASTS OF BOURBON & SURREALISTS, KIM SALMON, working with DIED PRETTY's energetic frontman and songwriter RON PENO, the improbable happens when you consider the result that might flow from such a teaming. What are the odds that these two towering figures of Australian music, famous for swaggering, noisy, swampy punk rock (Salmon) & soaring pop rock (Peno) would concoct such a perfect loveletter to American country folk? Armed only with Kim Salmon's custom Cole Clark acoustic guitar and Peno's singular voice & vision, The Darling Downs crafted an almost impossible album: a record of nuanced beauty, a subtle masterpiece that unfolds like a dahlia with each successive spin, giving the listener something new & unexpected at every helping. All from two guys & one pristine guitar. At times Peno channels the spirit of Appalachian folk's high lonesome sound, complete with yips, yelps & howls, while elsewhere his (improvised?!) vocals are hypnotically understated, almost delicate-- threatening to disappear into thin air before crashing down like thunder. Supporting Peno's acrobatic vocal brilliance is Salmon's equally understated, elegant guitar playing, perhaps the most restrained of his career, made all the more stunning when you know the fireworks & growl of which he is capable & for which he is famous. Salmon showcases not only his versatility but playing of such surprisingly refined grace that it defines the album as one of the best listens of 2006. An album of profound subtlety. "With Salmon often infusing the guitar lines with deft lilts & melodies, grasping each song is sometimes as difficult as interpreting a smoke signal in a storm, the ever-shifting qualities of the music making it difficult to categorize. The experience mesmerizes."-The Age (AU).
CarrotTop
CD
$11.50

Datsuns, The
Smoke & Mirrors
PS, US New album from New Zealand throwback garagerockers.
CookingVinyl
CD
$13.75

Davenport, Bart
Palaces
PS, US A singer-songwriter troubadour who wears his passionate love of West Coast pop on his sleeve. On his fourth solo album, he collaborates w/kindred spirit KELLEY STOLTZ. Drawing from Brit folk, bossa nova, & even a touch of Philly soul, his rich, nuanced vocals capture a cohesive fusion of traditional & indie pop.
AntennaFarm
CD
$12.75

Dead C
Secret Earth EP
PS, US The Dead C oscillates between two poles. Recent albums explored drones, electronic loops and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. Just a glance at their peers who are fans (Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Comets On Fire, Black Dice) shows the league in which they play. Any fans of Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, Sunn 0))), Sightings, Acid Mothers Temple, and/or Growing can now appreciate noise rock's forefathers. It's spacious here. Welcome.
BaDaBing!
CD5
$9.00

Dears, The
Missiles
PS, SPAIN The Dears have not gone away and come back, but they have been transformed: by experience, by necessity, by life and its manifold curveballs. And with their new album, MISSILES, they have emerged as elder statesmen of the Canadian indie rock renaissance... Recorded quickly, the album is a feast of stripped-down arrangements and raw emotion served up like a rustic meal, its songs polished but still containing traces of the rough soil from which they were born. The most explicit example is the affecting final track, Saviour, whose vocal track - an original demo take, recorded with a hand-held microphone only moments after the final lyrics were written - remains unadulterated, vulnerable amongst the organ swells and chorus of children's voices. The music is restrained, yet there is an urgency to the lyrics. Lightburn is the confessor: first decoding, then submitting. Yanchak, whose striking voice is more present than on past albums, is the protector: nurturing and unbreakable.
Dangerbird
CD
$15.25

Diplo
Diplo & Sanatgold Mix
PS, US REPRESSED & NEW LOWER PRICE!! 8.0 ON PITCHFORK! Guests AMANDA BLANK, KID CUDI, MARK RONSON & more, incl. 3 exclusive tracks, plus remixes from XXXCHANGE, RADIOCLIT, SWITCH, MUMDANCE, DIPLO & more, dancehall dubplated from TONY MATTERHORN, CUTTY RANKS, TURBULENCE, more. 35 trks in all for a one in a million mixtape. Highlights incl. a live band version of the Bad Brains' "Right Brigade," SANTOGOLD's favorite influences showcased by DIPLO as well: Devo, Sir Mixalot, Aretha, Jazzbo, Desmond Dekker, The Clash & more.
MadDecent
CD
$11.00

Disappears
Old Friend b/w Magics
PS, US Second in a series of self-released singles, Disappears features members of PONYS, 90 DAY MEN, & BOAS. Playing minimal "space punk," drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay, & repetition, they are a true DIY effort. LIMITED, INCLUDES LINK FOR FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD.
Disappears
45
$4.50

Dissard, Marianne
L'Entredeux
PS, US NOW ON LP! Chanson meets Americana in a beautifully orchestrated & sensual album by Marianne Dissard & Joey Burns of CALEXICO. Made in Tucson, Arizona w/ Burns & John Convertino (Calexico) Naïm Amor (Amor Belhom Duo, ABBC), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) & scores of Tucson collaborators.
LePopMusik
LP
$18.75

DJ Rupture
Uproot
PS, US His 1st release since returning to Brooklyn after 7 yrs in Spain, offers his most intimate work to date. RUPTURE is not a DJ to rest on previous highs, but who
constantly looks for new ones. He proved that he can DJ fast & dense w/ his influential 'Gold Teeth Thief' & 'Minesweeper Suite' mixes - now it's time for the
sensual slow dance of a (relatively) smooth turntablist experience that deepens on repeat listens. How many DJs do you know who commission a string quartet
for their latest mix? This is surely his most "listenable" mix to date, blended seamlessly w/ elements from UK dubstep & Brooklyn dancehall to Berlin abstraction,
not to mention Brazil (Maga Bo), Finland (Clouds), Australia (Dead Leaf) & more. This explores a wealth of new material - almost half of it previously unreleased
- in a mix that is deep, contemplative & contagious
Agriculture
CD
$18.00

Dntel
Dreams (Lawrence Remixes)
PS, GERMANY Deal, the Dial sub-label for special interests presents two unreleased remixes by Lawrence for Dntel's "Dreams." Strictly limited.
Deal
12
$11.50

Dragonforce
Ultra Beatdown
PS, US
Roadrunner
LP
$15.50

Dreamend
Long Forgotten Friend
PS, US Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Songs loosely based on stories & memories of a relative from the far past. Music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities & ghost towns. Banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape, drumming is minimal and guitars are the ghosts. Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together. Packaged in a 15pt chipboard gatefold sleeve w/ a 12 page booklet of photos by Christy Romanick.
Graveface
CD
$12.50

Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time
Happy Birthday Peace EP
PS, UK New import EP from the original, male Duffy! If you missed his recent album, 'Runout Groove', now's your chance to catch up!
BogusFrontage/Fruitcake
CD5
$11.00

Dungen
4 (ON SALE) (DELAYED)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Kemado
LP
$16.25

Dylan, Bob
Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs
PS, US THE ONION AV CLUB: Bob Dylan's last three studio albums-1997's Time Out of Mind, 2001's "Love and Theft", and 2006's Modern Times-are among his finest, but that doesn't guarantee that their outtakes would add much to his legacy. But Tell Tale Signs, two CDs of scraps from those albums (along with some from 1989's Oh Mercy, plus some live recordings) deserves to be considered an album, because it moves like one. Most of these alternate takes are in fact completely different arrangements: "Someday Baby" is a slow, wounded shuffle here, rather than the hard-chugging blues-rock from Modern Times, while two versions of Time's "Mississippi," each opening a CD, sound nothing like the "official" rendition-or one another. It's easy to understand why Dylan left some of these songs off the albums: The woozy "Born In Time" wouldn't have fit the spookier tone of Oh Mercy, but it's got too much life in it to have stayed put. But why "Dreamin' Of You," a shattered-love song set to a hushed-roar arrangement, was left off Time is hard to figure. The in-concert stuff provides snazzy contrast to the studio songs: "High Water (For Charley Patton)" and "Lonesome Day Blues" crackle and snarl, with Dylan's lead guitar speaking its own tongue. As Dylan's official bootlegs go, this is one of the series' best.
Columbia
DCD
$24.50

Electric Six
Flashy
PS, US fifth album kicks off with the brassy, Latin-tinged "Gay Bar Part Two," which has absolutely nothing to do with the original "Gay Bar" but everything to do with Dick Valentine and company's finely honed sense of the ridiculous. Harking back to one of their Fire hits with this songtitle was intended as a shameless marketing ploy, but Flashy feels like a shout-out to the band's first album in other ways: the band dials down the disco-rock of albums like Switzerland and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master in favor of the gloriously bombastic hard rock-meets-new wave of Fire's album tracks...keeping it deliciously unclear if Electric Six are the highest of the lowbrow or the lowest of the highbrow."
Metropolis
CD
$15.25

Elliot, Matt
Howling Songs
PS, FRANCE Howling songs is a magnificent third and last part to the "drinking/ failing/ howling songs" trilogy. We are back to this Slavonic tune, without any definite frontier, whose only and constant heritage finds its roots in European music. It is all the more sensitive that Matt's voice is sometimes present without any chorus in the background, bringing to the whole both confidence and unquestionable heat. Howling songs is, without a doubt, the most introspective album by Matt Elliott and the one which carries best his musical personality.
Icid'Ailleurs-049
CD
$17.50

Elliot, Matt
Howling Songs
PS, FRANCE Double clear LP, gatefold with 2 drawings as inlays, limited edition 500 copies. Howling songs is a magnificent third and last part to the "drinking/ failing/ howling songs" trilogy. We are back to this Slavonic tune, without any definite frontier, whose only and constant heritage finds its roots in European music. It is all the more sensitive that Matt's voice is sometimes present without any chorus in the background, bringing to the whole both confidence and unquestionable heat. Howling songs is, without a doubt, the most introspective album by Matt Elliott and the one which carries best his musical personality.
Icid'Ailleurs-049
DLP
$27.75

Ettes
Look At Life Again Soon
PS, US The Ettes from NYC invaded the LA rock scene in 2004 drawing inspiration from the White Stripes, the Rolling Stones & Amy Winehouse. Jem on bass w/ his garage rock roots, paired w/ Poni's powerful punk rock beats, fused w/ Coco's guitar hooks & 60's country vocals creates The Ettes' unique sound that they describe as Beat Punk.
TakeRoot
CD
$11.75

Fairport Convention
What We Did On Our Holidays
PS, US Their 2nd album, originally released in '69, is the first to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. Contains some of their finest moments, incl. Denny's own "Fotheringay," Richard Thompson's "Meet Me On The Ledge" & their stunning take on Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine." It's also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Fall of the Bastards
Dusk of an Ancient Age
PS, US Lengendary Black Thrash.
Kreation
LP
$16.00

Final Solution
Brotherman OST
PS, US Continuing a tradition that began w/ "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" & culminated w/ "Shaft" & "Superfly", this was a blaxploitation film set to hit screens in 1975. Before even one ft of film was shot, the plug was pulled & the movie was cancelled. Dragged around for 30 yrs by songwriter CARL WOLFOLK, the tapes of his life's work have finally been mixed. This deluxe set is housed in the standard slipcase w/ a plush bk detailing the known history of the film & the group behind the music. Great, funky, fun melodies throughout!
Numero
DLP
$19.00

Flaherty, Paul & Bill Nace & Thurston Moore
S-T
PS, US ALREADY NEARLY OUT OF PRINT - ORDER NOW! PAUL FLAHERTY has been a direct lifeline to the radical free-reed lineage of Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Peter Brotzmann & Arthur Doyle for as long as we can recall. In the '90s Flaherty met BILL NACE through a mutual musician friend, Chris Corsano, in Northampton, MA - an area that fostered a contemporary free-noise-space-weird underground where free thinking minds were liberated to godhead heights. The 2 played together as a duo for quite some time around this period. THURSTON MOORE (of SONIC YOUTH) had been tracking Flaherty's comet whilst perusing dog-eared copies of Cadence mag in the early 90s. He eventually booked the infamous Flaherty-Colbourne group for their 1st ever NYC gig at the legendary nowdefunct Cooler club. In 98 Moore & his family escaped to free-zone Northampton & immediately fell in Flaherty &, eventually, Nace. From time to time Nace, Moore & Flaherty would collect their energies & throw down live trio sessions which still resonate through the valley's ear(s). This trio CD is a session from late winter of early 2008 feat. 3 trks ("sex" & "drugs" & "lavender"), 1 short, 2 looong. A primo example of this threesome's focus & sonic storytelling - ferocious yet pensive.
EcstaticPeace
CD
$10.00

Foster, Josephine
This Coming Gladness
PS, UK Previously released on CD by Bo' Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.
BoWeavil
LP
$22.25

French Impressionists, The
Amelia Rosselli
PS, UK LTM is pleased to announce a brand new CD album by The French Impressionists, the modernist ensemble associated with Postcard Records and Les Disques du Crepuscule. The French Impressionists first emerged in 1981 via the Postcard Records School, when founder/pianist Malcolm Fisher made his first recordings with members of Aztec Camera and The Jazzateers. A more permanent line-up released A Selection of Songs on Les Disques du Crepuscule, as well as Christmas single Santa Baby, and found lasting success in Japan. In 2007 the group, now based in Milan ( Italy ), released a well-received new album, Fête. For the third French Impressionists album, Malcolm Fisher has joined forces with gifted Italian singer Sara Cicenia, setting the poems of Amelia Rosselli to original piano music. Born in Paris in 1930, Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of anti-fascist resister Carlo Rosselli, assassinated by Mussolini's agents. She spent her life studying ethnomusicology and taking part in the cultural life of postwar Italy as a literary translator and poet, the latter work marked by bold verbal combinations and deliberate linguistic error. She committed suicide in Rome in February 1996. The deluxe booklet features a selection of original images by Malcolm Fisher, and the text of several of the poems. The duo will tour the Rosselli material in Italy later this year.
LTM-2523
CD
$17.00

Frightened Rabbit
Liver! Lung! FR!
PS, US Liver! Lung! FR! is Frightened Rabbit at their very best - live. The intimate, mostly-acoustic set documented here was recorded in July 2008 in Glasgow and mixed by Mice Parade's Adam Pierce. Among other surprises, special guests pop up here and there: James Graham from The Twilight Sad contributes vocals to an incredible version of "Keep Yourself Warm," while Glasgow scene staple Ross Cook adds rollicking mandolin to "Old Old Fashioned." The stripped-down instrumentation brings singer Scott Hutchison's vocal delivery - now wrenching, now soaring - to the fore, showcasing the emotive lyrics and memorable melodies that have earned the band their passionate following.
FatCatRecords-083
CD
$9.00

Fripp & Eno
No Pussyfooting [re-issue]
PS, US Using Eno's twin tape recorder/loop method Fripp provided two takes w/Eno selectively manipulating which signals were committed to the final tape. The result was "The Heavenly Music Corporation" which became one of the most significant & influential pieces of electronic music ever recorded. Re-mastered & expanded using the original master tapes by Simon Heyworth, overseen by Robert Fripp.
DGM/InnerKnot
DCD
$16.25

Fripp & Eno
Evening Star [re-issue]
PS, US Perhaps more pastoral than truly ambient, & in part indicative of the type of music that Eno would feature on his later "Music for Films" albums this was a firm step away from the long form pieces that made up "No Pussyfooting".
DGM/InnerKnot
CD
$15.50

Frustration
Relax
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE!!! The debut full-length from French electro-punk champs FRUSTRATION.
BornBad
CD
$14.75

Gang Gang Dance
Saint Dymphna
PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again.
TheSocialRegistry-50
LP
$12.25

Geist, Morgan
Double Night Time
PS, US This is very much a solo flight, made during a challenging period in which dark personal themes inflected the compositions, Geist collaborated w/ friend & fellow new wave traveler Jeremy Greenspan (JUNIOR BOYS) for the vocal tracks on the album. Instrumentally, the orchestra he employs is decidedly more Yellow Magic than philharmonic.
EnvironRecords
CD
$16.50

Gentleman Jesse
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Douchemaster
LP
$12.00

Giant Sand
Provisions
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
DLP
$18.25

Giffoni, Carlos
Adult Life
PS, US This is shining and pure electronic music. Adult Life continues Carlos Giffoni's work in slow-building drones and prickly, trebly peaks, but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them Cluster, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream. The caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises Adult Life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. Carlos Giffoni describes this as some of his most musical work to date, a pure electronic excursion into more grounded troupes which almost paradoxically work out completely new sonic concepts and ideas. Original Illustrations for this full length by Megan Ellis.
NoFunProductions-40
CD
$12.25

Girl Talk
Feed The Animals
PS, US Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing. Girl Talk has been known to underground audiences for several years, but it wasn't until 2006 that Gillis crossed over and caught the attention of a larger audience. With Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and even Beck including Night Ripper in their "best albums of 2006" lists, Girl Talk has gone on to be booked by major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Virgin, All Points West, Pitchfork, DEMF, etc.), and solicited for remixes (Beck, Thrill Jockey, Tokyo Police Club, Grizzly Bear, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn & John, TeddyBears, and Of Montreal). And with roughly 200 live shows over the last couple of years, Gillis has consistently played larger venues to capacity crowds (every date on his 2007 North American tour with Dan Deacon sold out). PRESS QUOTES: "One endlessly entertaining mega mash-up" - Rolling Stone "Gillis' craft is stunning and his tastes are exquisitely diverse" - Blender "A masterpiece that employs an estimated 300 samples" - SPIN "Massively recommended ... the voracious music fan's dream" --- Pitchfork "Media assassins Illegal Art come forth with yet another brilliant Girl Talk record." - XLR8R "Sounds like your favorite mash-up DJ after about 11 espressos" - Entertainment Weekly "Mashes together booty-shaking rap, iconic indie rock, and, uh, ABBA" - MTV.com.
IllegalArt-117
CD
$14.25

Golightly, Holly & The Brokeoffs
Dirt Don't Hurt
PS, US
Transdreamer
CD
$14.00

Goude, Jean Philippe
Aux Solitudes
PS, FRANCE Jewelcase version. Closed to Michael Nyman, Pinguin Cafe Orchestra or Steve Reich sometimes but with a real personality and French music background, Jean Phippe Goude is well known in France for his composition for cinema and TV. This new album played by a selection of the best classical instrumentalists living in France is one of the best things brings to contemporary and neo classical music since a long time.
Icid'Ailleurs-047
CD
$16.25

Goude, Jean Philippe
Aux Solitudes
PS, FRANCE Digipak version. Closed to Michael Nyman, Pinguin Cafe Orchestra or Steve Reich sometimes but with a real personality and French music background, Jean Phippe Goude is well known in France for his composition for cinema and TV. This new album played by a selection of the best classicals intrumentists living in France is one of the best things brings to comtemporary and neo classical music since a long time.
Icid'Aulleurs-471
CD
$17.50

Grady
Y U So Shady
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AlternativeTentacles
LP
$10.50

Grady
Y U So Shady
PS, US Yee haw! Southern swamp blues-rock mayhem w/ paintpeeling slide guitar like you've never heard. This is a razor-sharp power trio fronted by guitar master Gordie Johnson who counts gold & platinum records on his wall from his stint in Toronto, Canada w/ Big Sugar. W/ picks on all his fingers, he rips the strings, loud as hell, through a little Fender amp for pedal steel guitars.
AlternativeTentacles
CD
$14.25

Grainger, Sebastien
Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains
PS, US Best known for his contributions as singer & drummer for Canadian dancepunk
duo Death From Above 1979, GRAINGER is soon to be even better known to the world as a singer & songwriter of sophisticated distinction via his new solo works. While lyrically & musically, he's taken a sidestep away from the more aggressive approach of his past in favor of a more reflective & personal style, he still knows how to rock it when necessary. Pulling no punches, Sebastien's crafted a muscular & smart rock record that will surprise. Reminiscent at times of Broken Social Scene, The Replacements, Spoon, Wilco, The Cars. Nice stuff! PITCHFORK: "When Grainger goes by his given name, it means he's all about two things only: the rock, and the roll."
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.50

Grainger, Sebastien
Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains
PS, US 180gm vinyl w/ MP3 digital download card.
SaddleCreek
LP
$14.25

Harvey Milk
My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be
PS, US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY! LTD ED OF 500 ONLY!! 2LP vinyl reissued for the 1st time in over 10 yrs, their debut album is finally available once again. This is ground zero for one of the 90s last true cult bands; now legendary for churning ghostly wailings, unearthly bellows, & gentle whispers together into one soaring, crawling, ugly & beautiful blend of brilliance. An essential listening for all fans of hard & heavy post-rock. Comes w/ 12x12 insert. Don't sleep on this!
Chunklet
DLP
$20.50

Hatchback
Colors of the Sun
PS, US Anyone for Californian Cosmic Krautrock Disco? After the runaway success of 2007's 'Milky Disco' compilation, Lo Recordings voyages ever deeper into the cosmic galaxy w/ the debut album from producer HATCHBACK. SAMUEL MILTON GRAWE is a Golden State native creating Neu-like motorik grooves, sunny disco moves, epic ambient journeys that rival Vangelis, Klaus Schulze or Roedelius for sheer electronic depth, & downtempo funk head-nodders with Kraftwerk keyboards, this is a such a perfect summer/fall album that it makes every day seem like bright. An array of vintage synthesizers, analog drum machines, and the venerable Fender Rhodes electric piano create classic sounds with a modern twist. If Dennis Wilson was still alive, he likely would have made music like this. Incl. the seminal "White Diamond" remixed by PRINS THOMAS, a big favorite of Ewan Pearson & Lindstrom & praised by Phonica Records as "a mind-blowing transmission of blissed out, life-affirming cosmic disco"
LoRecordings
CD
$16.00

Hayden
In Field & Town
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FatPossum
LP
$13.00

Hearts of Palm UK
For Life
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "is not actually a U.K. band, but rather a Bay Area trio fronted by songwriter and singer Erica Elektra (formerly of the Fancies). With Hearts of Palm U.K., she and cohorts Frankie Rose (percussion and keyboards) and Billy Kaye (cello) create a charmingly naïve-sounding electro-folk hybrid. The songs sound like the bedroom strummings of a talented young woman overlaid with elements of 1980s electronica, which, as it turns out, is exactly what they are -- the songs all started life as recordings of Elektra singing and accompanying herself on the guitar, and she added most of the other sounds later using a Korg workstation... Elektra seems to have that special kind of talent. And the album closes with what, in retrospect, feels like an inevitable cover version of "More Than This" by Roxy Music."
Hypnote
CD
$11.00

Heavy Hands
Smoke Signals
PS, US An album of proto-metal power & simplicity wed to the deftest of melodic turns.
LanguageofStone
CD
$13.25

Heavy Hands
Smoke Signals
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LanguageofStone
LP
$14.75

Helms Alee
Night Terror
PS, US Seattle-based act carrying the best parts of grunge & the trinity of punk, indie, and stoner rock, this powerful trio lays waste w/ their debut. 10 tracks run the gamut of psychedelic grit, drugged-out drone jams, delicate melodic passages, & most of all, ferociously crushing heavy rock. Feat. current & former members of Harkonen, These Arms Are Snakes, Lozen, & Roy. LTD ED vinyl licensed from Hydra Head Records.
RoboticEmpire
LP
$17.25

Henry Cow
Stockholm and Goteborg
PS, US The first new release for 30 years from this legendary audience-splitting British group, and the first featuring Georgina Born, the group's bassist between 1976-78. Remixed and re-mastered from the original Swedish radio tapes. Stockholm and Goteborg is the first volume of a 9 CD and one DVD set of unreleased material commemorating the band's 40th anniversary. LIMITED
ReR
CD
$15.00

Herman Dune
Next Year in Zion
PS, US On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving, this is the Paisian duo's debut long-player. On Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and intricately constructed pop songs. On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving in 2008 (I Wish That I Could See You Soon and 1-2-3/Apple Tree), Next Year In Zion is the Parisian duo's debut long-player for the Los Feliz, California indie. It is the sound of Herman Dune, all grown up.
Everloving
CD
$15.75

Hiroshi Nar & Nishinihon
S-T
PS, AUSTRALIA Originally issued by Lexicon Devil in 2005. This is a special one-time-only CD, limited to a pressing of 500, of a rare live meeting of minds: power trio Nishinihon (featuring Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple) and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary collector-scum/'60s/'70s Japanese uber-psych/garage destruction unit, Les Rallizes Denudes. Nishinihon are the amazing scorch 'n' burn three-man unit who've scarred eardrums for several years now with their acid-rock meltdown. Since his departure from Rallizes in 1978, Hiroshi has kept himself busy with a myriad projects running the scope of no wave, garage punk, Dada-rock and the occasional guest playing on an Acid Mothers disc. Suffice to say, his discography is as long as your arm and much more interesting. Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon (which said 5 times with a belly of booze can be a great game) celebrates exactly that: a one-off live meeting in Japan in December of 2001 between these musical titans. With Hiroshi penning three of the four songs present, there's definitely a heavy musical similarity to Les Rallizes; both "20 Yen For Each Additional" and "Machiko" possess that crawling, stumbling vibe of his previous band's best '70s work, the combination of his guitar twang and stuttering garage stomp resulting in a kind of Crazy Horse/Quicksilver hybrid. Even more explosive, are the furious guitar explosions of "Are You Lady?" and "Peep Up," two short(er) ditties that get straight to the point and drive it home in a most Stoogely manner. As it says on the back cover of this release: "Do you wanna teste this fuckin' sweet wonder rock world, Brother?" Hell, yes.
LexiconDevil
CD
$12.25

Hitchcock, Robyn
Luminous Groove [8 x LP boxset]
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited!
YepRoc
LP-BOX
$88.00

Horrors/Suicide
Shadazz
PS, UK This is number two in Blast First Petite's year-long series of limited edition 10" vinyl EPs celebrating Alan Vega's 70th birthday. The UK band du jour The Horrors present their version of "Shadazz," specially recorded for this series, and delivered with a twisted dub menace that could point towards an expanding sound-world for these dark princes! Previously unreleased anywhere, the flipside begins with Suicide's 1980s NYC live version of "Radiation," and Nik Void (a new persona for Kaito's Nikki Colk) does a propulsive, 'tronic floor-filler for cool alt/art discos everywhere. Edition of 3,000, cover image by Alex Rose.
BlastFirstPetite
10
$14.25

Hospital Ships
Oh, Ramona
PS, US Bedroom-pop solo album from Jordan Geiger (MINUS STORY, SHEARWATER). Influenced by the sounds of the Flaming Lips song from which the name Hospital Ships is drawn, Geiger's debut exudes a seasoning of classic influences including John Lennon, The Zombies & ELO. Packaged in a a18pt chipboard gatefold sleeve and lovingly hand assembled.
Graveface
CD
$12.50

Husband & Knife
An End
PS, US Husband & Knife songs are earnest and soulful, at times evoking the spirit of powerful forces like Nick Drake, the young Paul Westerberg and even Johnny Cash in his darkest moments. But as with most worthwhile songwriters, KC Spidle is an artist of his own design, essentially crafting honest songs to make sense of a messed up life. He has always gone right to the bottom, exploring themes of suicide, poverty, alcoholism, and drug abuse. An End chronicles the latest chapter a hard separation and the ensuing fight against spiritual meltdown. This LP has been in the works for awhile. Although KC spent most of the last year touring with his band Dog Day, he managed to record dozens of versions of the album and scrap as many songs. Unlike the naked guitar and vocal approach of his previous effort Welcome Back to the Nothingness of Your Life, on An End, KC carefully crafts each song using multiple instruments, found sounds and objects, field records, and a pile of makeshift recording gear. His obsessive approach has produced a record which blends sound and song to beautifully capture yet another shadowy passage of time. Art by Rachael Parsons.
Divorce
LP
$14.00

Hush Arbors
S-T
PS, US 43 minutes of blissed out forest folk that also finds itself knee-deep in organic drones. Keith Wood's high-pitched voice is the focal point which the music swirls around, & these songs emanate from the cosmos like a cathartic release from the sky. But don't be fooled, despite these cosmic aspirations this is music straight from the earth, covered in bark & soaked in soil.
Digitalis
CD
$8.50

I Am Robot And Proud
Uphill City
PS, US I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Shawn-han says the theme of the new record is that of struggle and achievement in the big city. IARAP is syncopated multi-instrumental rhythms and playful, repetitive multi-dimensional melodies -- just the elixir your head needs. Shaw-Han mixes acoustic instrumentation; piano, guitar and drums seamlessly with his unique electronic keyboard sounds and percussive elements. This isn't difficult, experimental IDM that pulls the listener off the left side of the dial. This is complex composition that manages to simply delight. It's an exciting sound that gives one the feeling of flying fast & free through a heavenly modern green world of pop, beauty, and sunshine. Your brain chemicals are sure to be balanced after the first minute into the title track. "Since the 2006 album, i have done some traveling and playing shows around the world and visiting many cities. Its interesting for me to see how everyone is living in different ways but there are still similarities. In English, the word "Uphill" has a kind of a double meaning. It can be positive like "things are looking up", or it can mean something is very difficult like "uphill battle". I thought the city was like a symbol for the challenges that happen in your life." --Shaw-han Liem
Darla-215
CD
$12.25

I Am Robot And Proud
Uphill City
PS, US Limited edition of 1000 color vinyl with free album download. I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing.
Darla-215
LP
$15.00

I'm From Barcelona
Who Killed Harry Houdini
PS, US After two years of touring the world, Sweden's I'm From Barcelona return with "Who Killed Harry Houdini?", their sophomore album . The record is produced by Emanuel Lundgren and Fabian "Phatfabe" Torsson and the track "Gunhild" features the talented French singer SoKo. PITCHFORK: "I'm From Barcelona are the band that wrote the song that could make Israel and Hezbollah get along."
Mute
CD
$15.25

International Jetsetters
Heart Is Black EP
PS, US "Honey-dipped 60's melodies drenched in oceanic swells of guitar noise..." - Oxford Bands, UK International Jetsetters is an Oxford based five piece. The band was formed in March 2007 by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer (The Jesus And Mary Chain) and bass player Bert Audubert. The line-up also features drummer Loz Colbert (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Ride), lead guitarist Paul Crozer, and vocalist Fi McFall. The Jetsetters have been best described by the British press (Nightshift Magazine) as "an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards." "Heart Is Black" is International Jetsetters debut six-song release. The EP blasts into the stratosphere with the full throttle, melodic guitar buzz, of "Inside Out" followed swiftly by the rhythm heavy groove of "Inside Yourself". "Never Slows Down" and "My Redemption" showcase Fi McFall's range as a singer. The low, breathy tones of the opening verses gradually ascend to pulsating choruses where she resonates like a siren. The title track "Heart is Black" strums and thumps with a dark atmospheric burn. The disc closes with a bit of a twist - A glaring early version of "Never Slows Down". International Jetsetters "Heart Is Black" CDEP hits quick and begs for repeated listens. It's a nice glimpse into what's in store from Oxford, UK's latest export.
PlantingSeeds-057
CD5
$9.75

Isis
Not in Rivers But in Drops
PS, US Another single culled from the 2006 release "In the Absence of Truth." This single will feature a live version, recorded in Sept. of '06 at in Washington DC, a music video and a remix version of the song.
Ipecac
CD5
$6.00

Japanther
Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt
PS, US Keeping their tradition of contrast alive the lads have teamed up w/ Penny Rimbaud (CRASS) & released a record of punk songs & poetry. On the surface, that might sound like an odd combination, but this thing is truly a wild romp 'round Africa, the Bronx, San Pedro & Brooklyn, complete w/ faeries, bicycles & a few cans of spray paint. Their infectious, free spirited trash hasn't let up a teeny bit, it's just gotten more focused & rad somehow.
WantageUSA
LP
$12.50

Jarboe
Mahakali
PS, US Featuring Phil Anselmo (PANTERA), Attila (MAYHEM), Colin Marston (BYLA), Kevin Hufnagel (BYLA) & Josh Graham (NEUROSIS,
A STORM OF LIGHT).
TheEnd
CD
$14.50

Johannes, Eero
S-T
PS, US After compilation tracks on Harmoenia & Flogsta Dancehall, multitalented Finnish graphic designer & electronic musician EERO JOHANNES PITKAENEN comes correct w/ his debut release, a S/T album on Planet Mu Records. Part of the internationally famous Scandinavian "Skweee" scene, his music stretches from Italo to electro-funk, Miami bass to R 'n' B, & beyond. ABOUT SKWEEE: Originally from Scandinavia, combines very simple synth leads & basslines with funk, R&B, & soul rhythms. It is a flourishing community based around online networks that are moving beyond those frontiers thanks to their personal overhaul of dance music.
PlanetMu
CD
$16.00

Johannes, Eero
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu
DLP
$19.25

Keane
Perfect Symmetry [deluxe edition]
PS, US New album with limited bonus disc.
Interscope
DCD
$20.50

Keane
Perfect Symetry
PS, US New album.
Interscope
CD
$16.25

Kemialliset Ystavat/Sunroof
Split Series #19
PS, US Kemialliset Ystävät (it translates as 'chemical friends') are a loose collective from Tampere in southern Finland. Existing in dialogue amongst (and beyond) the hugely creative, diverse microcosm of the Finnish scene including artists like Avarus, Lau Nau, Es, Paavoharju, Islaja, Anaksimandros, and labels like Fonal, 247 Laatijaa, and Lal Lal Lal, Kemialliset Ystävät has become an influential node on the outsider noise/folk/ psych underground, finding international acclaim. Almost entirely self-taught and using a bewildering array of instruments and approaches, their sonic arsenal includes detuned guitars, bass, traditional / vernacular instrumentation (mandolins, balalaikas, etc.) hand percussion, all manner of electronic instruments, effects, toys and circuit-bent items, treated samples and vinyl manipulation. Playfully taking their own unique and unpredictable path, they have layered and fused together traditional Finnish (at times almost medieval-sounding) instrumentation and melodies with avant-garde electronics, psychedelic folk/rock, noise, electro-acoustic, and percussive tribal rhythms, creating a sense of ritualistic magic and flexible, group-mind improvisation, with the whole often subjected to brutal and precise editing.
FatCatRecords-76
LP
$11.50

Kossoff With Black Cat Bones, Paul
Paul's Blues
PS, UK This double CD contains the earliest known recordings of the UK's Paul Kossoff (Free), whose tragic death at 25 in 1976 robbed the rock world of one of its finest-ever blues guitarists. Taped at rehearsals with Black Cat Bones in London in 1967, the raw, lo-fi tracks find the teenaged Kossoff already a master of his instrument. Accompanied by musicians including Derek and Stuart Brookes (later to form the legendary Leaf Hound), and featuring a guest appearance from Paul Rodgers (later to form Free with Kossoff), the recordings are of considerable historical importance. They are released here for the very first time, along with a booklet featuring rare photographs, full liner notes and an introduction from the band's drummer, Frank Perry, making the album an essential purchase for all serious rock fans.
Sunbeam
DCD
$22.25

Koushik
Out My Window
PS, US KOUSHIK's debut album, following several years of building his name through a series of low-key EPs on Stones Throw & remixes for Madvillain, Four Tet, & Light In The Attic Records. RIYD: Panda Bear, Four Tet, RJD2, Caribou/Manitoba. "He cobbles together frugal astral jazz, gentle funk, & 60s pop & folk using an array of keyboards & samplers - & its nice. The end result is a delectable pop record, w/ Koushik's heavy ambience & amorphous production combining to nudge his songs to their tingling crescendos."-PITCHFORK
StonesThrow
CD
$16.00

Ladyhawke
Paris Is Burning
PS, US Aka Pip Brown from New Zealand releases her debut US EP. Serious song crafting with elements of vintage pop, electro and rock. Full length album due in November
Modular
CD5
$5.00

Lake
Oh, The Places We'll Go
PS, US "Oh, the places we'll go! Oh, we don't actually know!" The title track lyrics, with a nod to Dr. Seuss, have a wide-eyed, wondrous feeling, (and a hint of agnosticism) which finds itself popping up throughout the record. On their first K release, LAKE crafts up-beat, dance-able, psychedelic, uniquely sincere and unaffected pop songs, ranging from the jubilant, echoey, post-soul groove of Heaven to the sweet, polyrhythmic Green Arrows-inspired Bad Dream. Recorded at home, largely on cassette 8-track, this album, actually LAKE's third, has a slightly lo-fi, homemade feel as well showing evidence of their influence from prolific artists Karl Blau and R. Stevie Moore. Oh, the Places We'll Go represents a new direction for LAKE - more synthesizers, more up-beat, rhythmically-based songwriting - but it is also in keeping with their aesthetic, with contributing horn players and percussionists, male and female singers, group harmonies, sweet melodies and homespun production. LAKE's core membership is Ashley Eriksson, Eli Moore, Lindsay Schief, Andrew Dorsett, and Markly Morrison, a group of long-time friends based in Olympia, WA. The members of the band came from Washington, the Los Angeles area, and the Midwest but soon found themselves drawn together in the inspiring forests of the Pacific Northwest, and thus LAKE was born. Each is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in their own right, and contributing melodies and complementing one another's strong points has become the process for LAKE's intimately nurtured songwriting.
Krecords-196
CD
$11.50

Lake
Oh, The Places We'll Go
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-196
LP
$10.25

LaMontagne, Ray
Gossip in the Grain
PS, US
RedInk
CD
$15.50

Like Honey
Leaves
PS, SWEDEN The full-length debut by Swedish Like Honey is a shoegazers dream. Full of references from the 90s it's a rare piece of vocals and guitars echoing the sounds of The Sundays, Dinosaur Jr., Ride and of course, The Jesus and Mary Chain." "They've only released two EPs, but they're so good that it really makes me eager for their full length album to come out. Just as their name suggest, Like Honey sounds a bit like Jesus & the Mary Chain, but with a definite Swedish take, and also a female singer. Listen to "Airport" and I'm sure you'll end up joining me in my worship." - Simon Tagestam, Its a trap.com
Hybris-068
CD
$16.25

Liles, Andrew
Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy)
PS, UK Limited edition (600 copies) double LP pressed on colored vinyl. UK-based Andrew Liles' (Current 93, Nurse With Wound) latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests involved: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, Rose McDowall, Karl Blake, The Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel and Volcano The Bear's Daniel Padden all bestow unique and stunning contributions that soar along with Liles' unique brand of minimal surrealism. Obscure, accessible, incomprehensible and exceptional, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is testament to the breathtaking production talents of Andrew Liles -- arguably the most vital and original soundsmith of recent years.
DirterPromotions
DLP
$33.75

Lindstrom
Where You Go I Go Too
PS, US VINYL!! LP edits done by PRINS THOMAS. 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.
SmalltownSupersound
DLP
$18.75

Lineland
Logos For Love
PS, US For a split second the actuality of language stood only to bear witness and inspire the sonic structures of love being erected around me, and in this moment I believed in principle of purpose. Only when English was interjected did I sense the imposing future and separate out the soundscape of this melodic passing clan from the music streaming through the speakers. Logos for Love presenting a variety of acoustic instrumentation pressed into each other with modern blips and squiggles like a structure of so much brightly colored modeling clay with an illuminated jeweled interior, embracing the ancient rhythms and language over the impeding future. Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, Hüsker Dü to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial fourtrack Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion (Audio Dregs 2003) over a three-year period, during which Felder expanded the material using music software on the home-built Dynavox 2000 computer and a growing array of vintage keyboards and novelty instruments. Songs have appeared on a few compilations and in several short independent films, including Back and Forthby James and Jeff Israel.
AudioDregsRecordings-070
CD
$12.25

Loquat
Secrets of the Sea
PS, US Growing up on a lake in Minnesota, living near one in southern Germany and finally meeting her bandmates on a little peninsula called San Francisco, water has surrounded Loquat singer/guitarist Kylee Swenson her whole life. And during the two years of writing and recording Loquat's second full-length album, Secrets of the Sea, the organic-meets- electronic guitar pop quintet weathered many crests and troughs. Swenson and bass player Anthony Gordon got married. Family members passed on. The turmoil of creating music prevailed. Produced by the Rondo Brothers (Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Bernie Worrell), the process of making Secrets of the Sea was a gravitational push and pull of emotion, from pain and frustration to happiness and solace. Recently finished with mixes by Talking House engineer Justin Lieberman (New Order, Blackalicious, The Matches), mastering by Bernie Grundman (Michael Jackson, Prince) and a remix by Zion-I's Amplive, Loquat can finally put its studio aggravations to rest.
TalkingHouse
CD
$11.00

Lotus Eaters, The
Silentspace
PS, UK On Silentspace, the Lotus Eaters retain the stripped-down sound of their early work but update it with subtle touches of techno and trip-hop. On "Feel It," pulsating synths throb behind the soothing vocals of Coyle and Saree Williams. The Lotus Eaters had never used a female singer before, and the addition of Williams' lovely voice on "Feel It" heightens the track's sensual ambiance. While the jangly "Sara" is appealingly retro, the Lotus Eaters are most impressive when they're attempting the unexpected like the sped-up trip-hop rhythms of "Face of the Century" or the otherworldly psychedelia of "Lost in Flow." Fans of the group's youthful innocence might be stunned by the graphic bondage scenes detailed in the gripping "Minimal Emotion," but the Lotus Eaters grew up in their long absence. However, the band didn't get old; they simply got better. It might be difficult for some to connect with Silentspace at first, but it's almost impossible to let go after repeated spins; like the group, it's a sleeping beauty.
CherryRed
CD
$17.75

Louris, Gary
Acoustic Vagabonds
PS, US Jayhawks/Golden Smog guy's new EP. Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks, and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. This EP is the companion piece to the critically acclaimed solo debut by Louris, Vagabonds. Produced by Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes, the CD features stripped down, more intimate versions of six standout tracks from Vagabonds.
Ryko
CD5
$8.50

Lowfish
Frozen & Broken
PS, CANADA Lowfish, a.k.a. Toronto's Gregory De Rocher, ranks among the worlds leading electronica producers. He has released records on some of independent dance music's most influential labels, has charted in North America and is noted for his punishing sets of live electronics. His clinical production style is both very modern and built on the DNA of early new wave and IDM. Sometimes dark, often melodic and multi-layered, Lowfish tracks strive for meaning, timelessness and quality. The weapons of choice are what they have been from the start; semi-operational analog synths, temperamental drum machines and scratchy recording gear. The name Lowfish is a reference to these dusty machines and his early lo-fi "ish" sound - thus Lowfish. With six albums and a stack of singles behind him, 2008 has seen Lowfish aggressively pushing his sound forward. He's been hard at work distilling his pristine electro and throbbing analog buzz into a new techno variant. The playfulness of yesteryear is somewhere deep in the background with the fine detail of machinery and staccato bass lines taking the fore. The result is "Frozen and Broken". Ten brand new tracks of edgy analog electronica reminiscent of Lowfish's famed Suction Records era IDM and an aberrant dance floor sound built from his most deviant sound palette to date.
NoiseFactory-941
CD
$13.50

Magic Lantern
High Beams
PS, US After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC's most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML's oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band's wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like 'Deathshead Hawkmoth' and 'Vampires In Heat' through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers ('Feasting On Energy') and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie ('Cactus Raga'). These are all of the Lanterns' classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def, thanks to Bobb Bruno's attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11x17 poster. Edition of 500.
NotNotFun
LP
$17.00

Manual/Orange Crush
Split EP [3" CD]
PS, UK Limited to 500 copies. TRACKS: Manual: 'Miraparque', Orange Crush: 'A New Horizon', Orange Crush & Manual: 'Calderone', Manual: 'Ponderosa'.
Silence-28
CD
$8.25

McGregor, Chris
Our Prayer
PS, UK Another previously-unreleased gem from South African pianist/composer Chris McGregor and his cohorts in '60s UK free jazz. Our Prayer was culled from the same sessions that produced the also never-released Up To Earth in 1969 and was produced by Joe Boyd and engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques studio. The previous year they had signed to Joe Boyd's illustrious Witchseason production company alongside Fairport Convention, John and Beverley Martyn, Nick Drake and the Incredible String Band. Our Prayer comprises a magical trio set, focusing on McGregor's piano playing, accompanied by the Blue Note's Louis Moholo on drums and Barre Phillips on double bass. Both Our Prayer and Up To Earth records were planned for release in 1969 before being shelved as the McGregor group morphed into the spectacular big band, the Brotherhood of Breath, and all energies were transferred to recording the Brotherhood's debut album.
Fledgling
CD
$16.25

Melodium
Cerebro Spin
PS, US Melodium speaks; there starts a romantically slow game of pong between the hemispheres of brain. The sound speeds. I listen, and there is harmony now between the players, and reluctance towards competition. They play on. Melodically Melodium speaks. Faster, onward towards the polyrhythmic rally! All praise repetitive motion, be stilling thus Zen. The tones of play fashion an energetic path, a melodic relation of right and left. Only when Melodium pauses for a breath do I remember moments can be filled with splitting silence; that I am here and this is somewhere other then the pong game of my mind. Keep speaking. Melodium is the moniker of Laurent Girard, a rather prolific electronic musician from Nantes, France with an obsession for melodies. Weaving bits of guitar, piano, synthesizer, flute or bits of voice and texture to create patterns in sound and small personal soundtracks that are at once somber, while retaining a feeling of sunny optimism. Golden waves of sound with rough-hewn edges that sound both dreamy and melancholic and simultaneously warm and shiny.
AudioDregsRecordings-071
CD
$12.25

Menahan Street Band
Make the Road By Walking
PS, US A collaboration of musicians from SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, EL MICHELS AFFAIR, & BUDOS BAND. W/ influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield & Mulatu Astatke, the group creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush.
Daptone
CD
$13.50

Midori Hirano
Klo:yuri
PS, JAPAN The intricate fusion of the piano, strings, and electronics created a structural beauty reminiscent of chamber music in her first album "LushRush." The album founded upon her musical sophistication foretold a new generation of music and was best illustrated by listeners as "post classical." Almost two years since then, Noble is happy to once again release an album by Midori Hirano in her 2nd album, "Klo;yuri". Midori's murmuring vocal heard only in a few of the songs in her previous album are back again in almost half of the tracks with a slightly stronger voice in comparison to the last. The artist worked alone on almost everything from the composition to remix in her previous album. This time, Hiromits Shoji of Soundworm has taken on the mix and mastering to bring tenfold the depth and strength to the album with his unique musical structuring. The tingling excitement of improvisation and the spiritual melody like sacred music...the fragile but thoughtful voice and suggestive lyrics like an ancient European... Midori Hirano's new album is a woven fabric of originality that proves the artistic maturation of the artist and her sounds with its deep stoicism and beauty is awaiting for you to enter its labyrinth of sound.
Noble-1235
CD
$17.00

Mountains
Sewn
PS, US 2006 release, restocks. "Apestaartje co-founders Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp follow up their critically-acclaimed self-titled debut as Mountains with this second offering of slowly evolving sound. Recorded over several lengthy excursions outside the confines of the city in upstate New York and Connecticut, Sewn invokes a sense of ease and delicate precision. A beautiful combination of clean crisp texture and warm pulsating harmony that shows a group developing and expanding their sound with an extreme attention to detail that reflects new layers in each melody and texture. Eight tracks that combine live instrumentation (guitar, piano, accordion, harmonica etc..), binaural field recordings and resonant electronic processing to create a wide range of electro-acoustic experience. From the folkish acoustic guitar of 'Sewn Two' and 'Bay,' to the densely layered organic din of 'Hundred Acre' and the psychedelic minimalism of 'Sheets', Sewn shows a group as equally invested in melody as it is in experimentation. Music for listening."
Apestaartje
CD
$12.00

Music, The
Strength In Numbers
PS, UK New album.
UME
CD
$12.25

Nadja
Trembled
PS, US Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by Utech in the summer of 2006 on limited cdr. The principal live recordings from Toronto have been remixed/remastered & include a rare performance of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely." The core of the release, though, is "Tremble", a cascading improvisation of drift & atmospherics revealed to audiences on an occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity w/which Nadja create & why the band has become so highly regarded. Exclusive material has also been added to the ultimate document of Nadja at their most electric & empyreal. Limited Edition of 900
Utech
CD
$15.50

Negura Bunget
Om
PS, US Another crucial vinyl release of this superb album. NEGURA BUNGET is now considered as one of the best underground black metal bands in the world and are finally back after the acclaimed CD N Crugu Bradului. OM is a stellar opus, a concept-album dealing with Purification, part of a Ritual to transform the listener into an evolved individual. Vinyl version includes a bonus track not found on the Audioblobe released CD.
Enucleation
DLP
$22.00

Nico
Desertshore
PS, US 1970 Reprise album finds Nico reunited with her Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale as producer, main instrumentalist & harmony vocalist. Co-produced by Joe Boyd (legendary producer of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & Incredible String Band), contains 8 songs of deep haunting beauty featuring Nico's dark voice & harmonium & is one of her very best solo LPs. Used as soundtrack for 1971 Philippe Garrel's experimental French film "La Cicatrice Interieure". Reissue has new exclusive liners by Dawson Prater & Dean Roberts. Audiophile remastering from original tapes. 180gm vinyl w/ original art.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Norma
Book of Norma
PS, US Swedish shoegaze/dreamrock duo Norma's new album is available now. Those of you who snapped up their incredible debut EP (available again, very limited stock) understand what's at stake here. Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Modern references may be Silverbullit, 120 Days, Serena Maneesh and the Lionheart Brothers.
Novoton
CD
$13.00

North
Ruins (LP/CD)
PS, US Reissue of their sophomore effort, now on a deluxe LP/CD combo. This is the bands final album before picking up vocalist Kyle Hardy & stands out among the instrumentals of bands such as Pelican & Red Sparowes.
CavityRecords
LP
$17.50

Nudge
Infinity Padlock
PS, US 4 song EP addressing the fragility of memory, the hopelessness of the drug war, the death of close friends & other similarly breezy topics. Contains 2 ancient tunes, 2 recent tunes, 2 sung by Honey, 2 sung by Brian. These conflicted pop songs are a gorgeous bummer. LIMITED TO 500.
Audraglint
CD
$6.75

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Lantern
PS, US Collapsible 10" x 12" hanging paper lantern with original art by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag.
Polyvinyl
MISC
$17.50

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Wall Decal Set
PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by David Barnes; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized)
Polyvinyl
MISC
$31.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Wall Decal Set
PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by Gemini Tactics; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized)
Polyvinyl
MISC
$31.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Tote Bag
PS, US Sturdy black canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and original print by David Barnes. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download.
Polyvinyl
MISC
$17.50

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Tote Bag
PS, US Sturdy natural canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and two-sided print by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download.
Polyvinyl
MISC
$17.50

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: Button Set
PS, US Set of nine 1.25" buttons designed by David Barnes and Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged on a 5"x7" card in a clear poly bag.
Polyvinyl
MISC
$23.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes T-Shirt
PS, US Original design by David Barnes printed on an ultra soft blue American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download.
Polyvinyl
TS
$20.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics T-Shirt
PS, US Original design by Gemini Tactics printed on an ultra soft orchid color American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download.
Polyvinyl
TS
$20.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP on 180 gram vinyl includes giant die-cut poster exclusive to the LP.
Polyvinyl
LP
$21.75

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping
PS, US Skeletal Lamping absolutely delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. It's unpredictable, completely unique, and epic. And while of Montreal's albums have always been epic, Skeletal Lamping is an unprecedented achievement that will be talked about for years. Super-duper 32-panel pop-up/accordion/gatefold sleeverino.
Polyvinyl
CD
$14.00

Organ, The
Thieves EP
PS, US Posthumous final recordings from pre-Mermaids oufits. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Though the Organ broke up in late 2006, the group reunited a little over a year later to record the handful of tracks that would have appeared on their second album, had they survived long enough to finish it. Thieves finds the Organ's music evolving even after the fact -- these songs are quieter and more contemplative than nearly anything on Sinking Hearts or Grab That Gun... Thieves' production is cleaner and more direct than the band's previous work, highlighting Sketch's haunting voice and melodies... Some of the Organ's prettiest and most mature moments are tucked away here, and Thieves plays like a fitting wake for the band."
Mint
CD5
$10.50

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Everything With You b/w The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
PS, US Since forming in early 2007, the POBPAH have released a handful of EPs & comp tracks on classy labels like Slumberland, Atomic Beat & Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation. The band's breathless noise-pop sound has garnered them critical acclaim from such quarters as Stereogum, Big Takeover, Skatterbrain, Drowned In Sound, Clash Magaine & many others. The 1st cut is from their debut album (due Jan.2009) - a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship. An infectious blast of pop perfection - timeless noise pop gems.
Slumberland
45
$6.25

Panthers
Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Remixes)
PS, US Ex-Troubleman group & anthemic stoner rock act PANTHERS commissioned remixes for their single "Goblin City," the lead
trk from their 2nd album, 'The Trick' (Vice, 2007). Around the release of that album, they asked HOLY GHOST! & RUN-ROC (aka DJ McNany) to execute respective remixes of this single. The remixes are properly released here together on vinyl. Holy Ghost! deliver one of the most relentlessly snappy disco dubs in quite some time, while Run-Roc concocted an excellent, old school acid house remix.
DFA
12
$8.00

Park Hotell
Free For Friends
PS, SWEDEN Park Hotell come from Luleå in Northern Sweden and they've been sneaking around the indie-scene for a while now. The members have played with both Mattias Alkberg BD and The Bear Quartet. In October Park Hotell will release their debut album. It was recorded in the Hives' Studio Gröndahl earlier this year. Demon producer Jari Haapalainen (Bear Quartet guitarist and producer for Ed Harcourt, Concretes and Camera Obscura) produced and played the drums, and the twin sisters Johanna and Miriam E. Berhan from Taxi Taxi! sang the backing-vocals. A bit less fuzzy-wuzzy and a bit more streamlined and jet-propelled these new recordings offer guitars that recalls Kevin Shields riding tempos stolen from The Wedding Present.
UltraRadio
CD
$14.00

Parties
Can't Come Down
PS, US Catchy, 60's-inspired pop songs blanketed by powerful harmonies. Lead vocals are shared, adding variety & texture to memorable melodies. Drawing comparisons to Asteroid #4, Velvet Underground, & Luna, this strong, dynamic power pop four-piece inspires even the truest wallflower to put down the punch & join the party.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.50

Parts & Labor
Receivers
PS, US Brooklyn noise-punk outfit Parts & Labor has dramatically altered their wall-of-sound: Their fourth album, Receivers, finds P&L focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they are now utilizing the full possibilities of a band that was once a scrappy punk trio, and now a mature art-rock quartet. It's is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and even the spaced out psychedelia of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd.
Jagjaguwar-133
LP
$12.25

Piano Creeps
Future Blues (For Me & You)
PS, US Beautiful pop songs from members of 90's alt-pop band MADDER ROSE. The band made four albums, toured the world, headlining the Melody Maker stage at England's Reading Festival & enjoying critical approval. After Madder Rose, Billy Coté created the nihilist slackhop project Jazz Cannon while Mary Lorson explored her inner auteur on three Saint Low discs (Cooking Vinyl). While all this was going on, Kathy Ziegler was touring as a multi-instrumentalist with Abra Moore, Jim Lauderdale, and Donna the Buffalo, winning international songwriting competitions & finding time to write/produce three excellent solo albums. LIMITED TO 500!
Kora
CD
$11.25

Pioulard, Benoit
Temper
PS, US The double LP vinyl version of this release also includes the Precis album, issued on vinyl for the first time.
Kranky
DLP
$14.75

Pioulard, Benoit
Temper
PS, US Composed throughout a yr that involved graduation from university & a cross-continental relocation, its 16 tracks arose in specific periods of intense creative energy. W/ soft-edged vocals & a broad palette of instruments that lately incl. harmonium & cello, he constructs diverse arrangements that skirt the borders of pop w/ beautiful, detailed atmospheres.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Pit Er Pat
High Time
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited edition wax comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ huge fold out insert & free MP3 download code.
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Pit Er Pat
High Time
PS, US PIT ER PAT's recorded output has no easily definable style. It instead represents their evolution as modern musicians, whose affinity for pop & melody is filtered through their desire to have a truly singular voice. Modern Music if you will. Their musical focus remains firmly grounded in rhythm, while incorporating a strong sense of melody & harmony to dance above the complex rhythms & to stretch the layers to new heights. Here they employed a variety of new instruments incl. electric kalimba, horns, bobo balaphone, Burmese temple gongs, agogo bells, timbale, congas, bongos, bells, chimes, etc - more normally used in traditional & spiritual music. These tools helped the band escape into new experiments - be they mystical or introspective explorations of the terrible joy of existence. The gentle & driving grooves are irresistable as delicate layers reveal w/ every listen. CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Plinth/Textile Ranch
The Rest, I Leave To The Poor
PS, UK "The Rest, I Leave To The Poor" is a postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch (Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44-minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherworldly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice.
MakeMineMusic-051
CD
$14.25

Plinth/Textile Ranch
The Rest, I Leave To The Poor
PS, UK A postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch (Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44 minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherworldly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice. Plinth, of course, is no stranger to Victoriana. In 2007, the Dorset based multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Dorset Paeans record label released, 'Plays Victorian Machine Music' - an EP made up entirely from sounds generated by antiquated parlor machines and music boxes.
MakeMineMusic-051
CD
$16.25

Pocahaunted
Chains
PS, US Yellow colored vinyl release from L.A.'s blissed-out drone outfit, Pocahaunted. Pick it up for the Fleetwood Mac cover.
TeenageTeardrops
LP
$13.75

Pompeii
Nothing Happens For A Reason
PS, US The follow-up to their debut, "Assembly". Imagine if you somehow found a way to release your heartfelt admissions and fears with grace and intelligence. Enter Austin quintet Pompeii, whose subtly haunting indie rock anthems are laden with smart, soaring instrumentals and just the right amount of discretion. A harmonic masterpiece filled with grand symphonic nuances.
Eyeball
CD
$12.50

Primeridian
Da Mornin Afta
PS, US PRIMERIDIAN is back! This one produced exclusively by beat-makers from the UK & Europe, this has a different vibe from previous works. They still showcase their soulful & smooth hip hop vibe w/ songs like "Take You There" feat. IMANI from THE PHARCYDE. Other musical/production guests incl. YAW, NICOLAY, WILLOW, J-ROSE, DJ STEADY, NALEDGE (from KIDZ IN THE HALL), etc. To add vocal variety, SIMEON & TREE have added a 3rd MC to the fold, who goes by the name RACE. Fans of the PRIME won't be disappointed, as the crew stays close to their roots keeping the music soulful & creative.
AllNatural
CD
$11.50

Quatrain
Quatrain [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US Mention the sole and frighteningly rare 1968 LP by L.A.'s Quatrain among devoted psych collectors, and the response will likely be a unison chorus of solemnly nodding heads. Slip a copy of this lost, heavy monster on the turntable, however, and those same heads will bang hard in wah-wah-smeared, acid-rock ecstasy. From '65 to '69, Quatrain was a regular attraction on the Southern California scene, working as the house band at the popular Topanga Corral and up and down the Sunset Strip. 'We played places like the Hullabaloo, the Stratford,' recalls Quatrain drummer Jim Lekas. 'We shared bills with The Byrds, Love, Buffalo Springfield, went up against Spirit in a battle of the bands. We used to play with The Leaves all the time. It was just an incredible period, so much great music going on. And we were right there in the middle of it.' Produced and engineered by future Neil Young producer David Briggs, Quatrain burns with stinging fuzz-guitar leads ('Fragments,' 'Ask Me No Questions,' the cryptic 'Flowing Robes') and floats and flickers like orange sunshine ('Rollin,' 'The Tree')." Featuring 8 previously-unissued bonus tracks, and extensive liner notes that fold out into a poster.
Sundazed
CD
$17.00

Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION, includes CD too.
SoftAbuse-028
LP
$13.75

Radiohead
Amnesiac [Limited Edition] (Limited Edition, 2PC)
PS, US
Capitol
2X10
$22.00

Rapoon
Obscure Objects of Desire
PS, POLAND This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted. It's about the unobtainable, all consuming and immaterial. About the irrelevant and the irrational. The dark torments, the lighthearted banter as well as the victories and the defeats. It's about the achievements, the failures the loves and the losses. When all of the aforementioned are accounted for, there remains only "The obscure objects of desire".
Vivo-039
CD
$15.50

Red Favorite
S-T
PS, US A cycle of compositions for guitars, electronics & voices created by Jeremy Pisani - first released as a limited edition CD
on Spirit of Orr.
Streamline
LP
$14.75

Religious Knives
The Door
PS, US Consisting of members of Double Leopoards, Mouthus, etc, RK has been an active 4-piece for a little more than a year now. They have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles, long gone burns & one full-length. Here they traced a path away from the clamour they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals & solemn basslines in reedy organs, recalcitrant modular synths & spare Kraut repetition. The seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these 8 hands such a set plays as anything but, instead a (cough) syrupy stroll in search of the ghosts of rock's classicist past.
EcstaticPeace
CD
$10.00

Restiform Bodies
TV Loves You Back
PS, US A dark & dense, art-twisted, New Wave-inflected hip-pop marvel. Strains of ghettotech, crunk & hyphy magically twirp & twirl w/ Eno-like atmospherics & buoyant bass swells, while rapper/songbird PASSAGE warps his vocals over blistering synth.
Anticon
CD
$16.00

Restiform Bodies
TV Loves You Back
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon
LP
$16.00

RTX
JJ Got Live Ratx
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

RTX
JJ Got Live Ratx
PS, US Flashy virtuoso drums, full-wave synth sweeps & shred guitar that will knock you on your ass. Jennifer's pipes are smokin' & she's offering no mercy. Skyscraping power chords, arcing from the walls of solid concrete blocks. Huge hooks that would twist the biggest shark in the pond.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Runaway
Brooklyn Club Jam
PS, US Debut DFA release from Brooklyn-based duo comprised of minimal-techno auteur MARCOS CABRAL (Trapez) & disco gadabout JACQUES RENAULT (Editions Disco), w/ remix work under their collective belt for Moby & LCD Soundsystem. BRENNAN GREEN, a fixture behind the booming NYC disco scene, offers a can't-miss remix of the thumping, anthemic original.
DFA
12
$8.00

Sea And Cake
Car Alarm
PS, US This 2008 album is their 8th full-length & finds TSAC at their most inspired & most rockin' in quite some time. Here they manage to perfectly combine some of their best past efforts ('The Biz,' 'Nassau,' 'The Fawn,' etc.) into one great record. The exciting sound of a well-oiled band in fine form - perfectly seamless. Great stuff! CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Sea And Cake
Car Alarm
PS, US Vinyl version comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ free MP3 download code.
ThrillJockey
LP
$12.00

Secret Machines
S-T
PS, US New album.
TSM
CD
$15.25

Spacemen 3
DJ Tones
PS, UK Spacemen 3 have a limited edition (2000 copies) 5 track mini-album released by Space Age Recordings in cardboard sleeve wallet on October 20th which features 2 previously unreleased Spacemen 3 tracks, a radically different mix of the classic Spacemen 3 cover of the Red Krayola's 'Transparent Radiation' and appearing for the first time on CD, the ultra rare remix of 'I Love You' (originally only 50 promo white label vinyl copies were ever pressed). Rounding off this mini-album is a studio version of Ecstasy Symphony. Track listing: These Blues Transparent Radiation (violin mix) Modulated Tones I Love You (remix) Ecstasy Symphony Spacemen 3 consisted of the core duo of Jason Pierce (Spiritualized) and Sonic Boom a.k.a Peter Kember (Spectrum & E.A.R.) who formed the group in Rugby , Warwickshire, having met at art college. Other members of what would become a fluid lineup over the years included Pete Bain (Bassman, also of The Darkside), Natty Brooker, Sterling Roswell (Rosco), Will Carruthers, Jonny Mattock (Slipstream), and for the final few shows, Mark Refoy (also of Slipstream). From the outset Spacemen 3 had a very defined set of aesthetic principles. They based almost their entire sound on their own concept of minimalism - droning guitars, feedback, as few chords as possible, pounding drums - with their motto 'Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to'. Their minimalism bled into their stage show as well. Sitting down to play their guitars and covered in the spinning colours of a cheap psychedelic light show, their stage 'act' was very anti-performance. Another striking aspect of Spacemen 3 was their willingness to cover and share their influences. Song titles, lyrics and interviews were peppered with references to bands and artists they believed shared their 'minimal is maximal' aesthetic. The Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, the Stooges, the MC5, early Captain Beefheart, free jazz musician Sun Ra, the Silver Apples, 1960s garage punk such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, the Electric Prunes, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and other surf bands, 1980s rockabilly groups the Cramps, the Gun Club, Tav Falco, blues and gospel acts like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, the Staple Singers and John Lee Hooker, and the production techniques of Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Delia Derbyshire were just some of the names mentioned by the band.
SpaceAge-028
CD
$16.25

Spectrum & Silver Apples
A Lake of Teardrops [re-issue]
PS, UK Pete Kember a.k.a. Sonic Boom of Spectrum worked with the seminal 60's act Silver Apples on a six track mini album originally released by Space Age Recordings in 1998. Having been out of print for many years now a limited re-pressing of 500 copies will be available from 20th October to meet demand for this release. From the opening surging waves of 'Streams Of Sorrow' with its controlled chaos and intoxicating vocals, through 'The Edge's' mesmerizing monotone backing to Simeon's 90's beat poetry - like Allen Ginsberg reincarnated into his most abstract nightmare, 'Whirlwind' with its plaintive vocals and warped ambience held together by a trademark Sonic Boom drone pattern, to '(I Don't Care if You) Never Come Back's' almost industrial-tribal percussion, fleshed out by those unique Silver Apples oscillations and Spectrum's ever present sense of wayward genius. 'A Lake Of Teardrops' is a spellbinding trip into the minds of two of the finest experimental composers ever.
SpaceAge-016
CD
$16.25

Springsteen, Bruce/Suicide
Dream Baby Dream
PS, UK This is the first in Blast First Petite's year-long series of monthly(ish) limited edition 10" vinyl EPs celebrating the 70th birthday of Suicide's Alan Vega. The first track is "The Boss" himself Bruce Springsteen doing a cover of "Dream Baby Dream," live from his 2005 Devils & Dust Tour -- exclusively available here. Totally haunting and unexpected! The flipside features Suicide performing that song on the Midnight Special live TV show in 1978 -- recently recovered from a lost Suicide vault and previously unreleased -- as well as a ripping cover of "Mr. Ray" by now-defunct contemporary New York band, Beat The Devil. Subsequent editions in this series will include tributes by artists such as The Horrors, Peaches, Primal Scream, SUNN O)))/Pansonic, Lydia Lunch, The Klaxons, Julian Cope, Liars, Spiritualised, and Grinderman. Edition of 4,000 black vinyl. Cover image: Stars by Edward Mapplethorpe (brother of Robert Mapplethorpe), 1994.
BlastFirstPetite
10
$14.25

Stills, The
Oceans Will Rise
PS, US THE STILLS formed in Montreal in 2000, & shortly thereafter relocated to NYC as one of the 1st signings to Vice Recordings. The band rose to prominence in 2004 w/ the release of their debut album, 'Logic Will Break Your Heart.' In late 2007, Arts & Crafts signed the band to a worldwide recording deal. Once again working w/ producer Gus van Go, The new material, beginning w/ the anthemic lead single, "Being Here," conveys a rejuvenated, reinvigorated sense of being.
Arts&Crafts
CD
$16.00

Stills, The
Oceans Will Rise
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Arts&Crafts
LP
$17.00

Stone Breath
Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Expanded)
PS, US The third in series of Stone Breath reissues, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". The deep woods folk & acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define "wyrdfolk." Expanded here to two CDs with many rare & previously unreleased recordings.
Hand/Eye
DCD
$15.25

Super XX Man
Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds
PS, US New album.
TenderLoving
CD
$12.25

Swarm
Still At War
PS, US Philly's premier drum n' bass crew steps up to the plate with this double CD album and mix, combining hip hop, dancehall and old skool jungle influences into a melting pot of dynamic beats. Created by Mason, DStar, Trust, MC Armanni, and MC Sharpness, Gasm's Still at War is a powerful collection of urban anthems, Philly street-style. TRACKLIST: CD 1: ALBUM 1. Mason & Dstar feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 2. Trust - Saving Grace 3. Mason & Noah D - The Product 4. Dstar - Roll Callz 5. Dstar - Just How Blind 6. Mason - Devil's Poem 7. Dstar - 2Rude! 8. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 9. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 10. Dstar - Fist Extra Artillery 11. Trust feat. Mental Sharp - P.H.I.L.L.Y VIP 12. Mason feat. MC Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 13. Noah D - Cool and Deadly CD2: MIX 1. Swarm - Intro 2. Mason & Dstar Feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 3. Perpetuum - Fate of a Legend 4. Mason - Devil's Poem 5. Dstar - Evilution 6. Ixis - Smash to Bits 7. Dstar - Marshal Law 8. Mason - Rada 9. Dstar - 2Rude! 10. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata & Focus - Burgandy 11. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 12. Dstar - Ya Sexy Gal 13. Mason - A&B 14. Dstar - 40K 15. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata - Ricochet 16. Mason feat. Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 17. Dstar - Fist (A Special Dedication) 18. Chino - Rush 19. Perpetuum - 10s 20. Mason & Dstar vs. Focus - The Big Shutdown 21. Mason & Noah D -The Product 22. Dstar - Just How Blind 23. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Breakout 24. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 25. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Only You 26. Noah D - Cool and Deadly 27. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Saving Grace 28. Dstar - Roll Callz
Gasm/OhmResistance-001
DCD
$13.75

Swervedriver
Ejector Seat Reservation [expanded re-issue]
PS, UK Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1995 album from the British shoegaze-rock legends featuring three rare bonus tracks ('Maelstrom', 'The Directors Cut Of Your Life' and 'Just Sometimes') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Sony
CD
$16.75

Tar Babies
Face The Music/Respect Your Nightmares
PS, AUSTRALIA Originally issued on the Lexicon Devil label in 2005. In 1982, the Tar Babies were burning up half-pipes and blazing venues with their hyper-speed punk rock. More well known for their late '80s LPs on the famed SST label, in which they veered towards a more DC-influenced "punk-funk" sound, and the subsequent acclaim that their drummer, Dan Bitney, acquired with Tortoise, the Babies were also one of the great, and tragically overlooked Midwestern hardcore bands of the original era, releasing two phenomenal 12" EPs on their own Bone Air imprint in '83 and '85, respectively. This CD hopes to rectify that obscurity by putting these two long-out-of-print discs back onto the marketplace for the first time on CD, with a ton of bonus material as a special treat. Inside you will find: The complete Face The Music and Respect Your Nightmares EPs, which featured early production work by Bob Mould and Butch Vig; "The Ocean" track from the Master Tapes 2LP; "Caleb's Getting Mad" from their 5-song demo cassette from 1982 (the other tracks are on FTM); five previously-unreleased songs from the era, taken from the vaults of the TB's Bucky Pope, as well as alternate versions of two EP tracks; reproductions of the original artwork from the EPs, plus a collage of flyers, photos and reviews from the era in a 10-panel booklet. Liner notes from Bucky Pope himself. All of this has been digitally edited, sequenced and fiddled with by Melbourne-via-Chicago audio whiz-kid, Casey Rice. The music the Tar Babies were pumping out in '82/'83 was an awesome collision course of Black Flag-style tension/release and heart-thumping thrash copped from a heavy diet of Minor Threat 7"s. Think the ferocity of early Die Kreuzen, Negative Approach, Necros, and you're in the ballpark. By '85, things had changed. The pace had slowed a touch, and most of all, Bucky was pumping out highly inventive riffs in an angular Eddie Hazel/Hendrix/Greg Ginn vein. Sharing the stage with a host of HC heroes and a bevy of SST folks criss-crossing the U.S. on their never-ending tours, the band caught the attention of Mr. Ginn and the rest is history. That is, of course, except for their 1982-1985 output. That is all here, and it's a rip-snorting collection. 25 tracks and 47 minutes of trailblazing, fist-pumping slampit rama-lama from a time when people really meant it.
LexiconDevil
CD
$12.25

Telepathe
Chrome's On It
PS, US Telepathe give us a glimpse of a pop future that confidently fuses kraut jams, urban beats and Gang Gang Dance-style rhythms into a hypnotic, droning whole. If this is the sound of what's to come, then we certainly have something to look forward to. - Drowned In Sound. Telepathe started as a side project for Melissa Livaudis and Busy Gangnes, who were part of First Nation and Bloodlines respectively.
IamsoundRecords
CD
$6.50

Tobacco
Fucked Up Friends
PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Fucked Up Friends is the Anticon debut of Black Moth Super Rainbow member Tobacco. It's completely analog and almost completely instrumental, aside from a cameo by Aesop Rock on lead-off single "Dirt." Tobacco secluded himself in rural Pennsylvania to record the album using analog synths and tape machines, which keeps it at a fair distance from the current dominance of laptop wizardry. Fucked Up Friends has been described as "darker, starker, and altogether more badass" than his work with BMSR, which, to put it simply, should attract the musically adventurous."
Anticon
CD
$15.00

Transmission
Sublimity
PS, UK This is one amazing ride from a four-headed creative monster on heat that manages to blend musical beauty, torrential passion and sheer malevolence, sometimes in the space of one track...First sound on opening track Albion is Youth's unmistakable heaving bass before Big Paul Ferguson steams in with the heaviest drums in the business. Once the original Killing Joke rhythm section is underway on a crunching post-punk funk vamp, Simon Tong's guitar appears in shrapnel clusters lashed by Tim Bran's unearthly synth. Musical fireworks might be expected from a line-up like this and Sublimity, the second album by Transmission, doesn't disappoint. The pedigree is impeccable: Youth's production credentials, his time with Paul in the Joke before ahead-of-its-time super funk ensemble Brilliant. Simon's stint in the Verve line-up which made Urban Hymns then Gorillaz and Damon Albarn and Paul Simenon's The Good, The Bad & The Queen. Dreadzone co-founder Tim Bran plays with Subsonar and The Orb. The group started gestating after Youth and Simon became friends during the Urban Hymns sessions, which the former co-produced. Tim entered the fray then, Paul in Spring 2005 after he met Youth at a Malicious Damage party and heard some demos. Three months later they recorded debut album Beyond Light in three days at London's legendary Olympic studios.
MaliciousDamage-636
CD
$16.25

Tuneful Trolley
Island In The Sky
PS, UK Discovered and championed by Jay And The Americans, The Tuneful Trolley were a psych-pop sextet with a knack for writing and performing solid Beatles-esque rock. With a sizable following in their home base of Long Island, New York, The Tuneful Trolley released Island In The Sky in 1968 to national indifference, this despite containing all the elements of an instant smash. Island In The Sky is a glorious atoll, indeed, landscaped with fuzz guitars, oboes, melodic Beach Boys-esque harmonies, and garage pop sensibilities. All this from a band in their mid-teens! The lads wrote most of their material, and recorded their own tracks! This first-ever CD issue of their long-out-of-print Capitol LP is supplemented by rare Mono single mixes, none of which have ever been issued on CD. The 16-page color booklet also includes rare, unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of original band members. Produced by Sandy Yaguda of Jay And The Americans. Remastered from the original master tapes!
NowSound
CD
$17.00

Various
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples
PS, US By 1967, East St. Louis, Illinois, once dubbed an "All American" city by the US Chamber Of Commerce, had become St. Louis, Missouri's evil twin. Unemployment, drug addiction & vicious gang activity put a dark & heavy lid on a bi-state area that once cooked-up world-changing talent by the likes of Chuck Berry, Josephine Baker & Miles Davis. But both cities still spawned heroes, and ALLEN MERRY was one of them. Already a living legend for his early work w/ Ray Charles & Ike Turner, Merry channeled his talent into teaching, forming the YOUNG DISCIPLES through the South End Community Center to keep kids off the streets, out of the gangs & into the studio, where young men & women spiraling downward could ride the spiral groove upward on Merry's own YODI, GATEWAY & MERRY labels. W/ nearly 80 local youths involved from both sides of the Mississippi, the YOUNG DISCIPLES (named after one of the area's most notorious gangs) encompassed solo acts, duos, male & female vocal groups, a massive horn section & a troupe of African dancers. Every sweat-drenched recording incl. here emerged from this grass-roots organization that changed, if not saved, lives. LP forthcoming
Numero
CD
$15.75

Various
Birmingham Sound: Soul of Neal Hemphill Vol. 2
PS, US Volume 2, celebrating the body of work recorded at the original Sound of Birminham & Hemphill studios in Midfield, AL focusing on the soul music created between the mid 60's/late 70's. It gives a rare glimpse into the beautiful output from a group of artists who based the descrimination of their peers on their ability to create music in a city historically known for violence & racial divide. Feat FREDERICK KNIGHT, WES LEWIS & many more.
RabbitFactory
CD
$14.25

Various
The Swedish Model
PS, SWEDEN This is a compilation with the best songs from Swedish label collective "The Swedish Model". It's the cream of the crop of Swedish indie music. Collecting tracks from the labels Adrian Recordings, Flora & Fauna, Hybris, I Made This, No Method, Songs I Wish I Had Written and Tenderversion. The compilation includes songs from acts such as Fine Arts Showcase, Mai, Audrey, Familjen, Moto Boy, Juvelen, Gentle Touch and Division of Laura Lee amongst others. Full track list: 1. Fine Arts Showcase - Friday On My Knees 2. Mai - Silly 3. Robert Svensson - Young Enough 4. Rigas - Born Not To Run 5. Elias and the Wizzkids - The Dance 6. Audrey - Bleak 7. Parken - Åt Helvete Med Himlen 8. Familjen - Det Snurrar I Min Skalle 9. Mats Katt - No Sleep Until Shoreditch 10. Moto Boy - Young Love 11. Juvelen - Money Don't Talk 12. Gentle Touch - Pieter Van Den Hoogenband 13. September Malovelence - Who Watches The Watchmen 14. Division Of Laura Lee - Central Park 15. Dmitry Fyodorov - Leisure
Hybris-1
CD
$12.25

Various
1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
PS, US This is Raï music from Algeria as you've not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music historians and Raï fans. Due to censorship and government-controlled music diffusion, this scene and lyrical style was forced underground and banned from broadcasts, yet slowly built a small following around the seaside cabarets of Wahran (Oran). This period witnessed the rise of artists such as Groupe El Azhar ("The Flowers" group) and Messaoud Bellemou, who can comfortably be considered the godfather of the modern Raï sound. His group, L'Orchestre Bellemou, rewrote a heritage of centuries by using modern instruments and especially the trumpet, which became, during the 1970s, the backbone of the Wahrani genre. Reinterpreting the gasba melodies on trumpet, Bellemou backed singers such as Boutaiba Sghir and Sheikh Benfissa who carried on the lyrical tradition of their forefathers singing about daily preoccupations and problems as well as love affairs, alcohol, or simply owning an automobile! Toward the late 1970s, Cheb Zergui brought a newer ingredient: an electric guitar with a wah-wah pedal. Thankfully, the late 1960s saw the development of vinyl pressing in Algeria. This new industry allowed many small artists including the Wahrani "scene" to record and release singles documenting their repertoire. This compilation is a selection of this proto-Raï scene's vinyl 45s. This LP is limited to a one-time pressing of 1500 copies on 180 gram vinyl and comes in a full-color deluxe gatefold jacket with photos of the musicians and informative liner notes by the man who compiled it, Hicham Chadly.
SublimeFrequencies
LP
$22.25

Various
Parlez Vous Pop?
PS, GERMANY Parlez Vous Pop? is a compilation of 16 enchanting songs in broken French from the '60s and '70s. French is the language of love. The words flow as smoothly as a vintage Bordeaux, like the suggestively sweet nothings Serge Gainsbourg whispered into Jane Birkin's ear. Ah, France, famed for laisser-faire, laisser-allez and exquisite cuisine -- something patently lacking in the wirtschafts-wonderful Germany of the '50s and '60s (not to mention the United Kingdom). Songs sung in French were not only pleasant to the ear, they promised a better, more luxurious life. Even chansons laced with melancholy hinted at a certain lightness of heart. Some artists -- or their record labels -- simply wanted to see if they could make an impression on the French market, singers like Roy Black, Mary Roos, Peter Kraus or Freddy Quinn, as well as British stars such as Dusty Springfield and Sandy Shaw. Others, notably Reinhard Frédérik Mey, Caterina Valente, Vicky Leandros, were genuine Francophiles and released entire albums in the French language. For some -- Manfred Krug, Alexandra, Marianne Faithful or Ireen Sheer, for example -- it was more a question of having a bit of fun singing one or two French numbers to include on their LPs. The majority of them may have struggled to perfect their French accent, but the near-misses are perhaps the most charming of all. While some of the German performers get very close indeed, with Marlene Dietrich and Manfred Krug earning particular recognition from their French counterparts, the British singers just cannot roll their "R"s or accentuate the "E" at the end of a word. Elsewhere, Alexandra sounds like an exiled East Prussian and Lys Assia gets her tenses in a twist but ce n'est pas grave -- as long as it swings. The booklet contains liner notes from the unique, magnifique Françoise Cactus, vocalist with the Franco-German band Stereo Total.
BureauB
CD
$16.25

Wee Scary Beasties
Creepy Lullabies (2X7")
PS, US BOO! The Beasties are back with a new collection of tunes that will help pull the cobwebs right out of your ears. But
don't let the name fool you; Chicago's kiddie band crew more regularly known as the Wee Hairy Beasties follow up their 2006 Bloodshot Records debut album, "Animal Crackers," with a treat just in time for your Halloween sweet tooth. WEE SCARY BEASTIES-led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD and SALLY TIMMS with the incredible vocal prowess of KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) and the mighty jug band talents of front porch old-timey blues band DEVIL IN A WOODPILE-have formed their own record label, WEE BEATZ, to bring you a second dose of kid-friendly tunes that adults will love too. WSB get in the holiday groove with the sweet and spooky "CREEPY LULLABIES," a double 7" that will haunt the dreams of both parents and kids alike. This adorably eerie two single set tells nighttime stories about lonely vampires, monsters busting a move, and a super-rocking punk jumper about a veggie-patch dweller named Pumpkinhead! Listeners beware: the closing lullaby and Wee Scary Ending will make the werewolves howl from miles away. There are songs with a spooky finger-popping flavor, fresh ghoul-filled harmonies, a secret special message to listeners and as always, Devil in a Woodpile's bright and bouncy instrumentationwashboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was.
WeeBeatz
45
$8.25

Whispertown 2000
Swim
PS, US Known for their dreamy harmonies, countless hooks, & a sound that is both completely modern & nostalgic. RIYL: Jenny Lewis, FIery Furnaces, Mates of State, Tilly & the Wall.
Acony
CD
$12.00

White Hinterland
Luniculaire
PS, US Luniculaire. It sounds French, but it is in fact a word invented byWhite Hinterland, taking parts of French words "lunaire" (lunar) and "funiculaire" (funicular, as in railway) to form the title of their second release. This EP is a highly ambitious recording containing five songs all sung in French, and it expands upon the wide palette of musical ideas heard onWhite Hinterland's debut, Phylactery Factory. Featuring two original songs, plus covers of songs made famous by Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Fontaine and Françoise Hardy,White Hinterland feels right at home amid the musical tradition laid out by these legends. From the opening groove of "Requiem Pour Un Con," it is obvious thatWhite Hinterland is exploring a plethora of musical ideas on Luniculaire. The funky rhythms and scorching guitar of the Gainsbourg classic captures the spirit of the original, but it's Casey Dienel's vocals that make this so special. Hearing Dienel sing in French is a revelation - without the distraction of English words you hear what a powerful instrument her voice is.White Hinterland's "Chant de Grillon" explores a wider range of sonic textures, many created by the layered guitar work of Alexis Gideon, while the spooky and atmospheric "Mon Ami La Rose" (originally made popular by Hardy) is subtle and beautiful. The original version of "J'ai 26 Ans" was performed by Brigitte Fontaine with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and here Dienel plays the role of Fontaine while her band toys with flourishes of African rhythms and Eastern drones. Throughout Luniculaire, and especially on "J'ai 26 Ans" and "Requiem Pour Un Con,"Matt Meyer's percussion work is sublime - he layers an array of strange sounds and noises, while maintaining the heavy groove throughout. The EP's closer, "Lunirascible" has Dienel's voice at the center, and like Julie Tippetts, Elizabeth Fraser or contemporary ScottWalker, Dienel offers vocals meant not to deliver words, but simply tones, melody and texture. Like some groovy, strange and psychedelic artifact clamored about by crate-digging record collectors, Luniculaire is more than just an EP. It is a testament toWhite Hinterland's deep musical vision and a taste of the greatness to come.
DeadOceans-020
CD5
$7.50

Whitehouse
Asceticists 2006
PS, UK 'However artfully framed on white gallery walls, I can look you in the eyes and see what you spend your time doing when it gets dark and messy.' To experience the incredible Asceticists 2006, is to bare your fragile soul beyond what you would normally wish to know amidst ear-shredding Afro-noise madness of each of the seven tracks.
VeryFriendly/SusanLawly
LP
$22.50

Wicked King Wicker
Flydust
PS, US LTD ED OF 500! 2nd album by this brutal doom/noise act a la Skullflower, Sunn O))), Noru. Comes w/ record labels & inner sleeve handdecorated
by the band!
Noiseville
LP
$18.25

Williams, Lucinda
Little Honey
PS, US New album.
LostHighway
CD
$15.75

Williams, Lucinda
Little Honey
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LostHighway
LP
$17.50

Windy & Carl
Songs For the Broken Hearted
PS, US Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. These 10 songs are interpretations of those emotions that run the
gamut from pain, anger & longing, to warmth, admiration & joy. This fall, they will have been together for 19 yrs. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, & trouble in any paradise, the highs & the lows, the reality of time & depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Windy & Carl
Songs For the Broken Hearted
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kranky
DLP
$15.00

Would-Be-Goods
Eventyr
PS, US Highly anticipated fifth album 'Eventyr' from revered London quartet Would-Be-Goods is released 20 years after the classic debut album 'The Camera Loves Me' on '80s cult label èl Records. It is their third album for Matinée Recordings, after the well received 'Brief Lives' (2002) and 'The Morning After' (2004). "Sad stories are more beautiful" sings Jessica Griffin on the opening track, and those words could be the motto for the album as most of its songs are inspired by folk tales-timeless archetypal stories composed in northern Europe in the 19th century. 'Eventyr', meaning 'adventures' or 'fairy tales', was the title of Hans Christian Andersen's classic collection of stories, and in songs such as 'Melusine' and 'Heart of Tin', the Would-Be-Goods show that tales of imagination can evoke the joys and sorrows of life more vividly than dreary realism. Some of the songs stay closer to home: 'In Bohemia', 'The Girl at No. 7' and 'The Ghost of Mr. Minton' depict the arty low life of mid-century London to magnificent effect. Musically, though, 'Eventyr' is not a folk album: the songs distill '50s and '60s styles into something entirely new, traveling through baroque pop, bossanova and rockabilly. The album was developed slowly over two years and sees Andy Warren-formerly of Adam and the Ants and The Monochrome Set and bass player on the first two Would-Be-Goods albums-return to join Debbie Green on drums and backing vocals, Peter Momtchiloff on lead guitar, and Jessica on lead vocals and guitar. Another classic album from a band that never goes out of style!
Matinee-047
CD
$12.25

Yacht
Summer Song
PS, US Debut DFA release from Portland, OR-based artist(s) YACHT. Here we get the song "Summer Song," a love letter to tourmates LCD Soundsystem. Besides the single, this also feat. 2 brand new, previously unreleased trks - all acting as a preview of the 2009 forthcoming full-length 'See Mystery Lights' for DFA. As with all other DFA vinyl, you need this omprised of minimal-techno auteur MARCOS CABRAL (Trapez) & disco gadabout JACQUES RENAULT (Editions Disco), w/ remix work under their collective belt for Moby & LCD Soundsystem. BRENNAN GREEN, a fixture behind the booming NYC disco scene, offers a can't-miss remix of the thumping, anthemic original.
DFA
12
$8.00

Forthcoming Releases

1900s, The
Medium High EP (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US Beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky new limited edition mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel.
Parasol-CD-111
CD5
$5.00

23 Skidoo
Seven Songs + Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK Expanded reissue on CD by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Fetish Records in February 1982, the mini album Seven Songs topped the indie charts and established 23 Skidoo as a groundbreaking commercial force. "Intoxicating - one of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures" (Paul Morley, NME, 1982); "23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense" (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD includes seven bonus tracks from the singles Last Words and Tearing Up The Plans. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.
LTM-2528
CD
$16.25

88, The
Not Only... But Also (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Island
CD
$11.25

Abelcain & Cdatakill
Passage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY All good things are three: Abelcain and Cdatakill, two of the most essential breakcore act to have ever graced this scene, pair up once again on "Passage", a full length CD presenting for the first time their tracks from the "Six Stigmata" and "Playing with Knives" record, enriched by four new collaborations. Hard-hitting, highly varied and presenting anew some cornerstone material of the breakcore sound, "Passage" is a mandatory release not only for fans of these two veterans, but for anybody who intends on understanding what breakcore is about. Following 2007's two collaborative 12" ("Bleeding Hearts vol 1 and 2", adn82 & adn83), Cdatakill invites another fiendish friend to Ad Noiseam, this time his long-time partner and co-shredder Abelcain. Both acts, which are among the very few veterans of the American breakcore scene to be still active, have finally given birth to a full length CD, which present their repeated collaborations over the years. "Passage" is the long awaited release on CD of two split 12" by these twoacts (released by Zhark Intl and Low Res in 2002) and four new tracks written specially for this project. Armed with a decade of beats and rhythms shattering, Cdatakill and Abelcain have both matured, but look back dearly at their first collaborations. "Passage" opens with three tracks written by each musician, in which Marty Frank (Abelcain) presents his staccato drumming and sudden breaks, while Zak Roberts (Cdatakill) already leave space for some dark sci-fi soundscapes between his breakcore avalanches. These tracks are followed by four from the "Playing With Knives" 12", in which some of each acts' best known tracks are remixed by the other one (such as Abelcain's hard hitting "Faust" or Cdatakill's epic "Imperial Passage"). Finally, let's fast-forward six years to 2008 and see what sort of new treatment Abelcain and Cdatakill reserved to each other's material. The first hasn't slowed down his tempo a bit, and adds some extra oomph to two tracks taken from Cdatakill's moody "Valentine" album. Zak Roberts's gritty and complex remixes of recent Abelcain track close the circle. Cdatakill and Abelcain, two acts at the very centre of the breakcore scene, finally go through their rites of passage together, and demonstrate again that their dry, fast and dark blend of the genre is as relevant and necessary as ever. Artwork by Magnus Blomster. Tracks 1 to 6 were originally released on Zhark International as "The Six Stigmata" (zhark12005) in 2002. Tracks 7 to 10 were originally released on Low Res as "Playing With Knives" (low 011) in 2002.
AdNoiseam-104
CD
$16.25

Abshire, Ariel
Exclamation Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Darla Records hasn't been this excited about a new release by a new Pop/Americana artist since My Morning Jacket's first record. Ariel performs her original songs live at venues across Austin, Texas -- by herself and with music legend Alvin Crow. Her voice can be heard on soundtracks for films by Robert Rodriguez and Trevor Romain, and she is the youngest female singer to perform before thousands at the Austin Music Awards. Music critic Margaret Moser has compared her voice to that of Brenda Lee and Lou Ann Barton. Ariel has been called the "authentic foil to Britney Spears," by National Geographic's Traveler Magazine. This young woman was born to sing. TRACKLISTING: 1. Exclamation Love 2. Goddamn New Mexico 3. Nervous 4. I Didn't Know People Could Do That 5. Unknown Encounter 6. Thin Skin 7. Spots 8. Hotel Hallway 9. Subscriptions and Lies 10. Picking Up 11. Everybody Does
Darla-214
CD
$12.25

Acid Mothers Temple
Glorify Astrological Martyrdom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata & company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks & freaked out pitched up vocals.
Important
CD
$13.25

Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals
Cardinology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. All initial LP orders include special 7" piece and all LP packaging includes mp3 download code plus a super-cool "surprise".
LostHighway
LP
$17.00

Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals
Cardinology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
LostHighway
CD
$15.00

All the Saints
Fire On Corridor X (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "These guys have evolved into an impossible-to-dislike distorto-heavy groove drone that their English forebears like Spacemen 3 and Loop thrilled with 20 years ago" - Stomp And Stammer.
Touch&Go
LP
$12.50

Andrews, Drew
Only Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Guitarist from The Album Leaf and co-founder of Via Satellite debuts his first solo album. An absorbing and atmospheric record featuring soft and intricate guitar, synthesizers, and Andrews' feathery vocals floating above it all. Contributors include members of The Album Leaf and The Black Heart Procession. Limited edition of 500 white 180 gram vinyl with MP3 download card.
MintyFresh
LP
$16.50

Apples In Stereo
Stephen, Stephen / Same Old Drag [picture disc+DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US This is special collaboration with The Apples In Stereo and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert show. Robert (Apples in stereo) likes the Colbert show, and wrote the song for this TV show and sent it to them. Stephen Colbert liked it so much he invited Apples In Stereo to play at his TV show. So this is the song for Stephen Colbert, presented by HEARTFAST that put out special edition of picture 7" w/DVD. Yes, you can not only listen to the music but you can also watch their video. Side B is a song, taken from their latest album called New Magnetic Wonder on Yep Roc.
Heartfast-004
45/DVD
$16.25

Asobi Seksu
Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New York's greatest bands.
Polyvinyl
45

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Drippers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US New album appears to be a singles and rarities collection with a scratch-n-sniff cover! Let me know what 'scent' they've chosen...
Graveface
CD
$11.25

Bloc Party
Intimacy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Atlantic
CD
$14.25

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Guitarist/composer JAMES BLACKSHAW & lutenist/composer JOZEF VAN WISSEM. Intricate phrases circle & spiral in on themselves, & in the end it's the subtle shifts in rhythm & tonal coloration that provide a kind of transcendence in a sea of repetition
Important
CD
$13.25

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Briggs, Anne
Time Has Come (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Briggs, Anne
S-T (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Broken Note
Crux / Zealot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY Broken Note puts the grist back in dubstep for their first record on Ad Noiseam, and demonstrates how heavy, dark and efficient this genre can be. Shattered, colossal and bridging dubstep and breakcore, the two tracks on this 12" are guaranteed to pack dance floors and ruin a few subwoofers. Having cut their teeth with a début 12" on Peace Off's heavy dubstep sub label Ruff in early 2008, the London-based duo Broken Note present their sophomore effort on Ad Noiseam with this "Crux / Zealot" (adn102). While dubstep has over the years mutated in various sub-genres and variations, Broken Note's blend is of the colossal and dark kind. Tapping in breakcore for the density of their sound, shattering their 2-step influences in a myriad of details, and not afraid of supporting their mammoth-like basses with rude, heavy beats, these musicians come up with something that finally proves that dubstep can be as massive as it was famed to be. This record's dub plates have already proved to be highly efficient DJ tools, packing dance floors for months. Here comes the loud, heavy and low end-rich final cut. A remarkable record from a striking act.
AdNoiseam-102
12
$11.00

Burnes, Andrew
Telescope (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS happily presents the long-overdue solo debut of ANDREW BURNES. Burnes, along with DAVID DANIELL, is a founding member of the ethereal, post-blues ensemble San Agustin; he's also a member of Haunted House, alongside Loren Mazzacane Connors; and he's performed in improv settings with the likes of Ken Vandermark and Thurston Moore. Finally committed to vinyl, he doesn't disappoint: "Telescope" is a glittering chunk of sound, as Burnes transforms that particular emblem of Americana, the steel guitar, into one vast, slowly undulating drone. Andrew Burnes' name may not be familiar, but fans of the genre needn't worry. Back in 1993, Table of the Elements' original Guitar Series featured what was only the second US solo release from a similarly unknown artist: Jim O'Rourke. You can trust us again with this one.
TableoftheElements-98
LP
$14.25

Cakebuilder
Feeding The Worms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY File Under: dubstep, breakcore. From its symphonic opening to its sweeping heavy basses, Cakebuilder's second record for Ad Noiseam shows that things are still deep in Winnipeg. Bridging angry, dark dubstep and a highly melodic drive, Cakebuilder opens a new gate for the genre, where "dub" is replaced by something a lot colder and orchestral. Cinematic dubstep of the blackest shade.
AdNoiseam-095
12
$11.00

Carter, Christina
Original Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Castanets Vs. Ero
Dub Refuge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Dub Refuge" turns a minimalist folk record (CASTANETS' "City of Refuge") into a ghostly dub, subverting dub tradition while still nodding in the direction of King Tubby, Scientist, Burning Spear, and Sly and Robbie. "Dub Refuge" works because Castanets and ERO GRAY (aka Papa Alabaster, sometimes bass player for Castanets, and member of Brooklyn-based Rad Unicorn) are both preoccupied with ghostly, ephemeral and messy sounds. Ero and the Castanets share a haunted quality in their music, a unique dedication to risk, and a reverence for accident in folk music. (Stray string squeaks, cracking voices and odd echoes can be more rewarding than intentional harmonies or suavely competent riffs.) At it's best, Castanets music accomplishes an eerie and very difficult balancing act between the disaster-surfing of experimental and noise music, and the sort of calm competence shown by classic country singers. "The City of Refuge" sessions exemplified this balance, and here on "Dub Refuge", Ero has emphasized both aspects without destroying either.
AsthmaticKitty-42
LP
$11.50

Cheap Trick
At Budokan! 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US For the first time, the DVD premieres the previously unseen historic 1978 Tokyo concert, aired only once on Japanese TV. Bonus features include a new interview with the band plus two songs taped at 2008 Budokan Anniversary Show. Two CDs feature At Budokan: The Complete Concert, newly remastered, while an additional disc includes the audio counterpart to the DVD plus four bonus songs not included in the original film.
SonyLegacy
3CD/DVD
$47.50

Cobra Verde
Haven't Slept All Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album?
Scat
CD
$10.00

Crystal Antlers
EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Touch&Go
12
$8.75

Crystal Stilts
Alight Of Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 20TH)
PS, US Alight of Night delivers on the promise of those early singles. There is an unmistakable flavor of The Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts' spectral avant-garage also references the spooked '60s Texas psych of The 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of The Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. A strong pop element brings to mind the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Jesus and Mary Chain B-sides and Meat Whiplash.
Slumberland
CD
$13.00

Cure, The
4:13 Dream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Their 13th release, hence the title. "There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They're very upfront and dynamic," says Robert Smith of the new songs. "People will be surprised how stripped-down and in your face the record is."
Geffen
CD
$15.75

Daniell, David
I-IV-V-I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US DAVID DANIELL is one of the hardest-working guitarists in avant-garde show business. He leads the troops in Rhys Chatham's guitar armies; he was a member of Jonathan Kane's rollicking band February; and he performs regularly in a duo with Tortoise's Doug McCombs. He's collaborated with Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore, and Loren Connors; and his guitar work with his own band, San Agustin, is the stuff of which fleeting blues-drone dreams are made. With influences rooted in blues, American minimalism, and post-punk ideologies, Daniell's guitar playing is always inspired; when fused with his intricate electro-acoustic compositions, the results are breathtaking.
TableOfElements-99
LP
$14.25

Danielson
Trying Hartz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Trying Hartz" samples the first decade of the DANIELSON/DANIELSON FAMILE/ BR. DANIELSON oeuvre (all the years before "Ships"), attesting generously to the movement of the work as a whole, from proto-minimalist eccentric gospel band to prog-metal-dread outfit to music hall choir to indie rock one-man band to outsider art celebrity to family man and family member. It's a perfect starter volume for listeners who have not had the pleasure of engaging with the evolution of this unusual, surprising, and incredibly moving musical consortium. And yet: please note that no verbal account of the work can possibly summon the effect of the decade digested in this assemblage. After all, as Daniel sings, "My Lord is known by His song." Not by His press releases. The ecstatic vision of the Danielson project is the unnamable part, the impossible to describe part, and this ecstatic vision is cumulative. It's not what Daniel says, though he always says it well, it's the circumstances in which he says it, with family gathered around him, whether related by blood or not; it's the reiteration of the spiritual thematic material, a reiteration that sounds nothing like early 20th century gospel-it's far more poeticized, it's far more elemental-but which has all the seriousness and all the joy of that long ago music. Ecstatic vision. You won't get it by reading these lines, nor even by reading the lyrics. You will get it by listening to this distillation of ten years' work and the earlier albums and going to the shows. Then you will experience the humble but devious and complicated grassroots movement that is Danielson. "Trying Hartz" is an essential place to start.
SecretlyCanadian-180
DCD
$11.50

Dear Nora
Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Self-explanatory!
MagicMarker
DCD
$15.75

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kranky
LP
$11.50

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly".
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Desolation Wilderness
White Light Strobing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood.
Krecords-198
LP
$10.25

Dreamend
Long Forgotten Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. If we are to believe everything we read THEN the vinyl version includes the CD version for free, contains 4 extra songs (16 minutes worth of music), a handmade pop-up gatefold by William Schaff (GYBE!, Okkervil River etc), and an extra CD of demos and alternate versions.
Graveface
LP/DCD
$21.00

Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version. LIMITED TO 5000!
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.00

Envy/Jesu
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind JUSTIN K. BROADRICK wrote, recorded, mixed, & produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January-May 2008
Conspiracy
LP
$16.75

Envy/Thursday
Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) (LP + CD)
PS, US More than two years after THURSDAY first put the idea in our heads, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places. Recorded in Spring 2008, both bands turn in some of their most inspired work yet. In addition, Thursday invited Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev to remix the dark instrumental "In Silence" into the pitch-black closing track, "Appeared And Was Gone," providing the perfect transition into the massive dynamics of ENVY. Beginning with the subtle electronics of the symphonic opener, "An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction," Envy thrashes and burns through a trio of thoughtful face-melters. Pressed on audiophile-quality 180 gram vinyl and featuring original artwork by acclaimed poster artist, Dan Grzeca, this deluxe set includes a free copy of the CD format beautifully incorporated into the exquisite package design.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-146
LP/CD
$14.25

Fireman
Electric Arguments (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Mysterious duo of PAUL MCCARTNEY & YOUTH. The album's opener "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" is classic rock & an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff w/ loud drums & soaring vocals. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing The Changes," a euphoric upbeat song w/ an instantly memorable melody.
ATO
CD
$16.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars [deluxe edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" Deluxe edition DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Bonus CD is the film's soundtrack, which we think is all unreleased material. CD tracklist: 01 Once Beyond Hopelessness / 02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One / 03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed / 04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic / 05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within / 06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes / 07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two / 08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World / 09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia / 10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects / 11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps / 12 Once Beyond Hopelessness
Warners
DVD/CD
$24.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film.
Warners
DVD
$18.00

Frontier Ruckus
Orion Songbook (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Matthew Milia & crew bring 14 hair-raising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships & realizations of ones home. Milia's loquacious melodies are enhanced by the swelling saw & trumpet of Zachary Nichols, the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, the soulful harmonies of Anna
Burch & the spidery banjo of David Jones. Sounds like Stephen C. Foster writing & producing the newest Neutral Milk Hotel record.
QuiteScientific
CD
$11.00

Funckarma
Dubstoned vol. 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY More than just dubstep: Funckarma make this genre theirs and re-write its foundation anew with this barrier breaking record. Heavy but sharp, clear but dub-influenced, mid-tempo but infectious, the second volume of Funckarma's take on the dubstep genre is a new take at one of today's dominant genre by unequaled producers. Almost ten years have passed since Funckarma's first records on the Djak-UP Bitch label, but the Funcken brother haven't shown any sign of fatigue along the way. With records on Neo Ouija, N5md and Hymen (among others) and remarked side projects such as their albums with Shadow Huntaz on Skam or Cane and Quench, these two producers have shown that they had their ears right open to new sounds, styles and atmospheres. Ad Noiseam is proud to welcome these two virtuosos to the fold, for the second volume of their dubstep-oriented series (who started with a first volume on the Highpoint Lowlife label in the middle of 2008). "Dubstoned vol. 2" shows Funckarma appropriating the dubstep trend and mixing it with their science fiction sounding, bass-heavy electronic dub. Not an act to just follow a recipe or embrace a trend, Funckarma however turns dubstep into a moody, science-fiction sounding electronic monster, full of sharp edits, dynamic changes and insidious hip hop influences, the whole thing perfectly demonstrated by the "Nays Of Dight" opener. Escaping the dominant blend of dubstep but broadening the genre by adding to it the mixture of genres and sounds that has become typical of Funckarma, "Dubstoned vol. 2" is a heavy but fresh take at one of today's most commanding sound, and should be an ear opener for many.
Adnoiseam-99
12
$11.00

Future Clouds & Radar
Peoria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album from Cotton Mather maestro.
StarAppleKingdom
CD
$15.00

Glissade
Further (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Limited to 500! The band's sometimes drone-y, always distortion-heavy sounds are reminiscent of the haze- induced vibes of bands like Flying Saucer Attack, Spacemen 3 or early Spectrum. This limited vinyl version has been completely remixed by the band & also includes the stellar 'Burned in Blue' EP, long out of print & newly remixed as well - all housed in a heavy, gatefold jacket. 14 hypnotic, blissed-out, instrumental space jams from North Carolina's finest psychedelic shoegazers.
DeepSpace
DLP
$19.50

Grampall Jookabox
Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening.
AsthmaticKitty-51
LP
$11.50

Grampall Jookbox
Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening.
AsthmaticKitty-51
CD
$11.50

Gregor Samsa
Rest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. 140 gram double vinyl in beautiful custom package. Will go quickly.
Kora
DLP
$25.00

Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns
Berezka / Monkey Lament (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US 12" multi-colored Vinyl split w/ Free CD Version. Second in a series of vinyl only releases, Other Electricities presents Berezka/Monkey Lament (OE014) by Russian avant-folk artist Gultskra Artikler and the UK drone outfit Lanterns. Complementary by nature of thoughtful experimentation, kindred by their undeniably enveloping output, Berezka/Monkey Lament brings the creations of Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns together in a familiar format, with unique contributions from each. Exclusive tracks and artwork dawn each side of a limited edition marble colored vinyl, displaying the artists' visions for their side of this entrancing combination record. Limited to 500 and includes a free CD version of the album.
OtherElectricities-014
LP
$12.25

Handsome Family
Drunk by Noon/Blizzard (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, "Odessa" (1995), that has been covered by ANDREW BIRD, CERYS MATTHEWS (CATATONIA), SALLY TIMMS & JON LANGFORD (MEKONS), THE SADIES, and NORA O'CONNOR. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month after month. Side AA's "The Blizzard" is their EXCLUSIVE, sublime cover of the 1964 Jim Reeves countrypolitan classic. A sad, SAD story of a man whose love for his pony is stronger than his love for hisgirl or even himself. Beautiful picture sleeve has 2 pieces of original Rennie Sparks art. Two aces!
CarrotTop
45
$4.50

Harry Pussy
You'll Never Play This (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced & peppered American free rock from a Clinton era three piece.
This Miami trio left rug burn on modern music in the 90's. Here a deluxe remastering of their out of print releases with a swank digipak filled with sweaty photos & heart-racing energy sounds. Complies the long out of print self released tour 12", the Cherry Smash live 10", live at Salon Zwerge 12", Pelt & Frosty spilt 7"s & the De Stilj 7"s.
Load
CD
$12.50

Hello Seahorse!
Holy a Las Ocho (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US
MagicMarker
CD
$15.75

Hototogisu
Pale Fatal Sister (DELAYED: PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release.
Important-210
DLP
$24.50

HPC
Halfbreed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY At a very young age, the Norwegian one-man project HPC started creating electronic music that ranged from danceable electronica and psych-trance to hard-/speed-/breakcore, ambient and noise. After some experimentation and development he felt the time for a first release was right and now 'halfbreed' has been realized. In his own words, HPC's aim is to build an aural exposure of his personal view of life by creating music beyond predictable schedules and clichés in electronic music. With this debut he has perfectly accomplished what he had in mind. HPC presents a fusion of heavy syncopated beats and pulsing low-end bass, balanced by synth textures and soundtrackish samples - inducing atmospheres that dwell between unbridled ecstasy and subliminal hypnosis. Tracks like 'machine' and 'run' are a fine example of the terrifying and liberating climax of rhythmic power's crescendo. Feel free to file 'halfbreed' between illbient, dubstep and darkest ambient that has accumulated hard tech aggressiveness. With this album HPC hit the target - and this is only the beginning...
Hymen-769
CD
$15.75

Hushpuppies
Silence Is Golden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US French rock band's debut stateside release. Their impeccable English suggest their origins could just as easily be Williamsburg, Portland, or London while their stripped down, in your face guitar-meets-Farfisa and wall of vocal chorus jams speak a language beyond borders. Sharp songs, heavy on melody and big on guitar riffs. So big, that the folks behind Guitar Hero are including the Hushpuppies track "You're Gonna Say Yeah" on the upcoming "Guitrar Hero World Tour". "Hushpuppies are a stylish garage rock band who have listened a lot to The Who, drink a lot of vodka, and drive their scooter up the wall" - Spex.
MintyFresh
CD
$12.00

Hyvonen, Frida
Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Having come out of a year of isolation, Frida Hyvönen paired up once again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in Stockholm's famous Atlantis studio and made her second full-length Silence Is Wild. Whereas Hyvönen's 2006 debut Until Death Comes was lean and percussive with her distinctive oompah-styled piano and direct lyrics, Silence Is Wild stretches her voice across lush arrangements of piano, strings, choirs, and synths. Piano-based antecedents and contemporaries such as Carole King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Plush, and Antony and the Johnsons generally feel like appropriate touchstones for discussing the Swedish singer-songwriter's recorded work. Lyrically, however, Hyvönen is in more open waters, as she forges her own stylistic path as a songwriter. On Silence is Wild, Hyvönen continues to take an utterly modern approach to classic songwriting forms: blending the confessional with the fictional; mixing wit with a sexuality that shifts from the refined to the raw; all the while using language which dances effortlessly between the timeless and the contemporary, referencing high art and pop culture in a transcendent manner which masterfully puts Hyvönen at the top of a new international class of singer-songwriters.
SecretlyCanadian-184
CD
$11.50

Hyvonen, Frida
Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
SecretlyCanadian-184
LP
$11.50

Ida
Ten Small Paces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Ida's third record pieces together a scrapbook of an album, a total of 15 tracks recorded in almost as many places. Some four-track, some studio, and some bedroom tracks find their home on this beautiful album that led to Ida's work with Capital Records. Double gatefold 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$14.50

Ida
I Know About You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US On their second full-length, Ida absolutely shines. The duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell are joined by Michael Littleton (Blood on the Wall) on drums. IKAY finds Ida discovering the recognizable voice that has defined their 15-year career. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

Ida
Tales of Brave Ida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Tales of Brave Ida is marked by spare yet clean production and is a stunning debut thatís an absolute essential for Ida fans one and all. Recorded in 1993, ToBI is a drumless effort featuring the duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell and was written during the time of Mitchell's collaborations with Lisa Loeb. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

Jean on Jean
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US When Molly Schnick's longtime band OUT HUD broke up in 2005, she started from the beginning. Over the next three years, she
developed the sound slowly, adding layers of strings, vocals, guitars, organs & percussion when appropriate. The results of her labors are the nine songs that make up the self-titled album. The sound is warm, lush & orchestrated, like Colin Blunstone's 'One Year' or Judee Sill's 'Heart Food'
KanineRecords
CD
$10.00

Joan of Arc
My Summer-Long High Wipeout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" is Joan of Arc at their best; "The Surrender" is an alternate version from the ones on JOA's latest full-length Boo Human; "A Man Needs A Maid" is a Neil Young Harvest cover. This 7" includes a digital download code for all three songs.
Polyvinyl
45
$4.00

Johannsson, Johann
Fordlandia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth. Johannsson makes stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, which frequently combines electronic processing with classical orchestrations. "Fordlandia" is the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. A fascinating, immersive, and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies.
4AD
CD
$13.00

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008)
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] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
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

Kaiser Chiefs
Off with Their Heads (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Motown
CD
$12.25

Korine, Harmony
Collected Fanzines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Long out of print, Harmony Korine's 'zines are comprehensively collected in this new book. Full-color soft-cover edition featuring the eight fanzines in chronological order. Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony & Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They'd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like "Mae West go east."
DragCity
BOOK
$22.25

K-The-I???
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US K-THE-I??? marks a thunderous return to MUSH with his latest full-length, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Production on the album is handled entirely by THAVIUS BECK, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' "Niggy Tardust" alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, "Broken Love Letter", focused on past loves gone wrong, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers.
Mush-264
CD
$9.00

Langhorne Slim
When The Sun's Gone Down [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Re-issue of the critically acclaimed debut - repackaged w/a bonus disc containing 5 previously unreleased tracks.
Narnack
DCD
$14.25

Larsen
La Fever Lit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Featuring legendary dub diva/post-punk- cabaret icon Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety a.k.a. Annie Bandez (CRASS, NWW, COIL, C93), La Fever Lit could be considered their most focused album yet, but at the same time it's also their most experimental & floating. Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness, & the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety
Important
CD
$13.25

Larsen
LLL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US LP only live set released as a companion to Larsen's new full length. Features frequent collaborators JOHANN JOHANNSSON, BABY DEE & JULIA KENT. Material recorded live in Italy & Austria. LIMITED TO 500.
Important
DLP
$23.25

Larvae
Loss Leader (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY A work in two acts, Larvae's third full-length album is a perfect snapshot of this band's tastes and talents. With a touching and poetic first part made of epic guitar melodies and drone atmospheres and a second act going back to Larvae's beatier and heavier "Monster Music" past, "Loss Leader" is at times poignant, at times playful. Another well thought step forward for the band (in two directions at once), and another impressive work for Larvae. Coming two years after "Dead Weight", so far the band's best known and most complete work, "Loss Leader" sees Larvae break the silence with something that is more than a regular album. Where "Dead Weight" was a commanding work of coherence in variations, melting many sounds and styles together, "Loss Leader" is clearly split in two very different parts. The first four tracks, forming the "Turning Around" EP are a testimony of this American band taste for long guitar tracks, highly emotional build-ups and delicate drumming. Maybe some of the rockiest Larvae material so far, these four melodic jewels take this act's sound where they had left us on the calmest tracks of "Dead Weight" (the fourth track, "Heavy" was actually part of the "Dead Weight" sessions), and dive forward in an instrumental world somewhere between post-rock and shoe-gaze, between drony backgrounds and fierce but introvert harmonies. Contrasting with this low-key beginning, the second half of the album, dubbed "Monster Music 2", is the direct sequel to Larvae's very first EP ("Monster Music", adn28, released in 2003). For if Larvae is clearly an act with a foot in the poetic side of rock, they are also cross-referencing electronic musicians at heart. Godzilla and his fiends are therefore back for a new round of sweeping basses and heavy beats. And still, where the first "Monster Music" was a down tempo heavy hitter (of the kind that would be called "dubstep" if it was released today). The sequel bows to Larvae's new-found calm, as shown for example in the closing "Oxygen Destroyer", which kicks off by pumping strong beats, before leaving room for wide and more humane tones. Larvae have come a long way since their beginnings, one could hardly think of a better snapshot of what this act is truly about than "Loss Leader": multi-talented, touching and intelligent.
AdNoiseam-101
CD
$16.25

Legends, The
Seconds Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US After two years of absence The Legends return with the noisiest pop single to ever come out of Sweden. "Seconds away" balances perfectly between the unbearable and pure loveliness. "I need noise now, so this new single sounds like someone drilling a whole in your head. In a pleasant way that is. It's called "Seconds away" and is about the wonders of Tryptizol. The B-side, "Over and over" is actually one of those sad love songs I had promised myself never to write again. But it was out of my hands; life forced me to write it. Sorry about that... Pallers has done a truly wonderful remix of it. It might actually beat the original, which is both a very good thing and slightly depressing at the same time." Johan [aka The Legends]. The one-man band The Legends has confused, and annoyed, it's surroundings with a total lack of will to compromise and sudden changes in musical direction since 2003. Right now Johan is in the famous Summersound studios together with a large number of distortion pedals and broken amplifiers to record a fourth The Legends album. The Legends made their debut with the critically acclaimed album "Up against the Legends" in the fall of 2003. Live the band was somewhere between 8-10 people of which two had a slight idea about how to play their instrument and none was close to sober. -" I wanted to make pop melodies so simple and obvious that they could get to the audience no matter how the songs were played. This time the audience will, hopefully, rather fight to hear the melodies through a wall of feedback".
Labrador-116
CD5
$5.25

Little Joy
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Little Joy
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Little Joy is Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), and Binki Shapiro - three friends who got together to demo songs and produce this self-titled debut, named after their corner bar. Produced by Noah Georgeson (Devandra Banhart).
RoughTrade
CD
$12.00

Longwave
Secrets Are Sinister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album. The group's fourth full-length expands on their trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band's penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, & more driving sensibility.
OriginalSignal
CD
$10.25

Lorna
Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom.
WordsOnMusic-24
CD
$11.50

Love Is All
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US A full three years since their debut (which was re-released a couple times and then remixed), the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep.
WhatsYourRupture?
CD
$11.50

Lucksmiths, The
First Frost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Over the course of fifteen years and almost as many albums and international tours, Australian band The Lucksmiths have penned some of the most adored songs this side of the pop underground and have built up a massive fanbase of both Europeans and ex-pats in the process. Their last album Warmer Corners, received much praise (Pitchfork : idiosyncratic but accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere not so much in presentation as in presence) Loud & Quiet named it their 2nd favourite album of the year, Two singles lifted from the album A Hiccup in Your Happiness and The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco both received heavy rotation on the nations broadcasters, the latter also finding its way onto Qantas in-flight playlist for March 2006 an achievement not celebrated lightly by a band with an enduring penchant for the somewhat ridiculous and irrelevant. A trip to Tasmania has yielded First Frost Their finest and most eclectic album to date. Camped out in the wilderness, the band was free to explore and expand the musical palette, and with all 4 members contributing songs, the end result is a 14-song offering bound to surprise anyone who thought they had The Lucksmiths pegged as sounding too much like The Lucksmiths
Matinee-049
CD
$12.25

Lukestar
Lake Toba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Norway's Lukestar present an album of otherworldly guitars, energetic drumming, and ethereal, dreamy, power falsetto vocals. "A solid collection of pulsing indie-rock songs with half-shouted hooks and guitars unwinding like fractal art" - Pitchforkmedia.com.
Flameshovel
CD
$14.00

M83
Digital Shades Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, UK Digital Shades Vol. 1 is the precursor to the fourth album from M83, essentially the brainchild of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of Antibes, France. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony decided to develop a musical direction already heard on some earlier M83 tracks and he started to write and record a collection of ambient works. Having long been a Krautrock and Eno fan this was a kind of music that Anthony has always been familiar with. Recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet, who had previously worked on Before the Dawn Heals Us, Anthony was able to work without pressure, knowing he could work on the record at his own time and pace. The idea of digital, relevant during all the process (from creating the music to sharing it), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol.1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series.
Mute/EMI
CD
$15.25

Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello
Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler.
12K-1048
CD
$12.25

Mahjongg
Free Groove Rider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Stylistically, MAHJONGG is boundless and indefinable. From their very first EP through K's "Kontpab" (released earlier this year), Mahjongg have dabbled in beatbox punk, afro-beat revivalism and junkyard whimsy. The continual shifts in their albums is an earnest attempt to realize global harmonies, but if given only one side of a 7" which side of Mahjongg would come out to play? The Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series provides the answer and "Free Groove Rider" is their most refracted pop statement yet. Using a swirling vocoder and intermittent dance beats, this single flickers like a channel-surfer finding pop sensibilities in between the static. The B-side, a remix by Selector Dub Narcotic (Calvin Johnson), ups the playfulness by reducing the static in favor of an unkempt, bubbling mix of melodica and reemerging synths.
Krecords-114
45
$3.75

Manual
Confluence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Confluence is Danish producer Jonas Munk's third installment in his series of ambient albums, following the much loved The North Shore from 2003 and Bajamar from 2006. Unlike Munk's better known work, which centers around electronica and shoegazing aesthetics as well as a love of 1980s production techniques, these ambient works are completely without beats, or even time signatures, and are delicately constructed out of slowly evolving streams of guitar that has been processed into oblivion and back. But even compared to the standard set by the two aforementioned albums, Confluence is surprisingly dark and minimalist. These eight new compositions move slowly and seamlessly, like the ebb and flow of the
changing tide, with subtle layering and filtering providing the essential means of movement.
Darla-216
CD
$12.25

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

Mythical Beast
Scales (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Like a would-be soundtrack to some forgotten Wagnerian saga, this debut full-length unleases sonic elements akin to trudging minions in an epic struggle for tonal supremacy. Their music is dank, grim & heavy as hell, but at its heart lies an indestructible momentum & spirit in no small part due to Corrine's Valkarie-esque presence.
LanguageOfStone
CD
$13.25

New Order
Power, Corruption & Lies [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Technique [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1989 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with nine non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Brotherhood [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. BROTHERHOOD is a document of growth for New Order's ever-expanding sonic landscape. Packaged in the stark, utilitarian style that was the Factory label's trademark, the album belies its minimalist presentation with a sprawling, intricately crafted collection of pop gems, inspiringly diverse, yet uniformly infused with the band's trademark sincerity and off-kilter melodic sense. The album opens with the deceptively straight drum hits of "Paradise", which quickly adopts an intense double-tracked vocal and with it, an air of danger that offsets its soaring melody. New Order developed into masters of intellectually stimulating dance music, an elusive combination of qualities. The album's biggest hit "Bizarre Love Triangle" exemplifies this rare mixture--atop a throbbing, heavily sequenced dance beat is played out a drama complete with consistently engaging musical shifts, dramatic lyrical turns, and a chorus that's instantly memorable and nothing short of gorgeous. The wistful vulnerability of "All Day Long" dissolves into a sprawling, regal affair and the supremely sweet "Every Little Counts" show yet another dimension to New Order's sonic richness.
Rhino
CD
$23.00

New Order
Low Life [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. With LOW-LIFE, New Order truly hit their stride with their highly individual combination of infectious rhythms, inventive composition and performances full of conviction. The vulnerable lyrics and earnest delivery of Bernard Sumner are in top form; his voice is at last a completely developed instrument, clear and comfortable as it wraps itself around such memorable tracks as the opening "Love Vigilantes", a solid, purely guitar-driven narrative. Following immediately and in sharp contrast is LOW LIFE's biggest success, "The Perfect Kiss", a sequencer-fueled dance classic which boasts what is undoubtedly pop music's only frog sample solo. "Sunrise" has an epic feel, filled with driving leads and Sumner's signature scratchy, frenetic rhythm playing. The album takes a serene turn on "Elegia", a beautiful, airy composition of echoey guitar lines and swirling synth textures. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Movement [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album, includes 10 non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, including their debut singles/EP. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making. Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

No Neck Blues Band
Clomeim (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Locust
DLP
$25.00

No Neck Blues Band
Clomeim (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US A distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, & Krautrock zenith Faust at their finet hour. This is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior w/ a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover & a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages.
Locust
CD
$13.00

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kemado
LP
$17.50

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US "The starkness & spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the noisemongering of punk & the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits. With
quiet pluckings of banjo & angry, anarchic hollers, its songs jumble the sacred & profane" - NY Times
Kemado
CD
$13.50

Paramount Styles
Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound.
Konkurrent
CD
$13.25

Parks, Cale
Sparklace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A little over a year since the release of Aloha and White Williams drummer Cale Parks' solo debut album Illuminated Manuscript comes Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums. Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a snare out of place. Listen carefully as it settles in, fragile but not without momentum.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Past Lives
Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Features ex-members of The Blood Brothers and Shoplifting. "Beyond Gone" announces the band's arrival; guitars seethe and snarl. "Strange Symmetry" recalls the hypnotizing lock-step of The Monorchid; continually building. "Skull Lender" rides a feral gallop of desire for memory erasure. The plinky din of jackpot slots couches the fateful ascent of "Reverse the Curse", and "Chrome Life" is a Neu-inspired run to the sun.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$10.00

Past Lives
Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Vinyl version comes with coupon for free digital download.
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$12.00

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US **SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice!
Matador
DCD/LP
$23.00

Piano Magic
Dark Horses (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, UK Their music has run the gauntlet between electronica, post-rock, baroque, modern classical and even glitch, though in recent years Piano Magic has settled on a unique, romantic, classic British alternative rock that echoes the most vibrant work of their prime inspirations. 'Dark Horses,' the latest in their now annual 4-track EP transmissions, nods, consciously or otherwise, to the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths and The Chameleons, whilst managing to sound indisputably like Piano Magic. These songs are built on pummeled drums, chainsaw guitars, cathedral reverbs, insistent bass and Glen Johnson's reliably Morrissey-esque observations on a life less sweet. 'Dark Horses' is Piano Magic's first record for the exceptional independent, Make Mine Music. The label is exclusively financed and maintained by its bands and therefore, the proceeds of each record sold go immediately back to those who made the music. Despite operating almost entirely beneath the radar in their native UK, since their first release back in 1996, Piano Magic have managed to successfully carve out a niche of their own that constantly defies expectation and sidesteps music industry convention. By never staying long on any one label, playing most of their concerts abroad and consistently redefining their sound, the band has not only survived against all odds but built up a solid, devout worldwide fan base. Their 12 long players and 18 other format releases have featured collaborations with Vasti Bunyan, Low, Tarwater, Hefner and Cornershop, amongst others. They've sound-tracked a film by Spanish director, Bigas Luna, signed on and off with the likes of 4AD, Darla, Morr Music, Important Records, toured in Russia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and England. Even so, Piano Magic remains, unashamedly, a "cult phenomena," not destined for recognition until perhaps a decade after they finally call in the ghost. When not fronting Piano Magic, Glen Johnson operates as Textile Ranch - his new long-player, a collaboration with Victorian music machinist, Plinth - is out this month (also on Make Mine Music). Johnson's alternate project of electro-pop, under the name Future Conditional released a splendid album, 'We Don't Just Disappear,' on LTM last year.
MakeMineMusic-054
CD
$12.25

Plagenhoef, Scott and Ryan Schreiber
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber. Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, The Shins), hip hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), it features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known. Kicking it off in 1977 with the birth of punk and independent music, The Pitchfork 500 runs chronologically, with each chapter representing a distinct period and offering a narrative of how the musical landscape of the day influenced its artists. The book opens with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno, the "art-rock godfathers" who set the tone and tenor for the next thirty years, and wraps up in the present, when bands connect with new audiences through social networking sites and prime-time TV placements -- and when a single mp3 can turn a niche indie artist into a global sensation. Sidebars like "Yacht Rock," "Runaway Trainwrecks," "Nanofads," and "Career Killers" call out some far-from-classic musical trends and identify the guiltiest offenders. Softcover, 224 pages.
PitchforkMedia
BOOK
$13.00

Pop Levi
Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks.
Counter
CD
$15.25

Rasputeen & Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather
Rasputeen in Heavy Leather (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, GERMANY Composed and performed by catholic boys in heavy leather, Rasputeen and Rasputeenette, Anno Domini 2008. Original photos by Rasputeenette. Graphics by Korova Milk. First 11 copies packed in a heavy-duty latex mask. Rotor Siffredi and Joke Stryker first met in 1989 as young recruits in the Vatican City's Swiss Guard. After many years of serving and protecting the Holy Father they got a bit bored and discovered their mutual fascination for loud music and heavy leather.
BazookaJoe-13
CD5
$10.25

Reed, Lou
Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US
Matador
CD
$13.25

Reed, Lou
Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
DLP
$20.00

Riles, Zak
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Riles' (GRAILS) creative contributions to the group are immeasurable, & can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact, some of the pieces on this record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh, & the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh.
Important
CD
$13.25

Risil
Non Meters Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US A collective of musicians that are all connected to each other in some form or fashion. Their membership includes
Guillermo Herren (PREFUSE 73, SAVATH & SAVALAS), Zach Hill (HELLA), Tyondai Braxton (BATTLES), John McEntire (TORTOISE), Alejandra Deheza (SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS), & Eva Puyuelo Muns (SAVATH & SAVALAS)
Important
CD
$13.25

Risil
Non Meters Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Infrasonic
CD
$15.00
10/20/2008 9:52:22 AM
Schaeffer, Janek
Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again.
Line-036
CD
$12.25

School of Seven Bells
Alpinisms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music.
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.50

Skeletons
Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Already up so early in the morning of 2008, SKELETONS were hibernating in the safest, quietest, warmest place in the world: Times Square, New York. In a haunted WWII-era ballroom they recorded through the wintry nights when the studio was on fire. Taking breaks at 5am, standing under heat lamps listening to Hot Jazz outside the Time Warp Hotel, soaking up the empty streets with the leftover creeps while the tourists sleep. It's just the same struggle any old human has to go through to make anything: make it to work on time, make an excuse, make babies, make war, make breakfast without getting into a fight. The child of this struggle is "Money", pre-made, for you, entering the world October 7th in the USA, and October 28th in the UK and Europe via TOMLAB.
Tomlab-123
CD
$12.25

Slipstream
Mantra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, UK 'Mantra' is the 5th and long awaited new album from Slipstream and follows their much loved and critically acclaimed, 'Transcendental', release of 2003. With new track 'Psycho Paul' having already featured in the soundtrack of hit BBC3 comedy series, 'Ideal' (screened in April/May 2008). Written by Slipstream as homage to their favorite comedy show, the show's writer and big Slipstream fan, Graham Duff, loved the song so much that he actually wrote a scene to fit the track, much to the bands delight and amazement! This same scene became a trailer for the show and has since seen some 11000 plus hits on You Tube!
Enraptured-59
CD
$16.25

Slomo
Bog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US This hones the ritual clatter of their first album, 2005's The Creep, into a more cumbersome affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail & Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer & guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to the proceedings w/the recital of his poem Land, written especially for this album.
Important
CD
$13.25

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP in special colored vinyl.
Geffen
DLP
$17.00

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Geffen
CD
$16.25

Soundtrack of Our Lives, The
Communion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN All new 2008 double album from Swedish retro-rock Godfathers. A new beginning, or a spectacular finale? Either way it's 24 long-awaited new songs, more like Extended Revelation than Origin, with some spacey, psychedelic suites, or so I gather. And no, I don't believe that's really the cover art....but then again, one never knows.
Akashic/WMS
DCD
$25.00

Starflyer 59
Dial M (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US You have come to expect Starflyer 59 to be the most reliable, most dependable, yet most undeniably unpredictable messengers of album after album of quality independent rock tunes. Over ten albums deep, over fifteen years time, from the early guitar-heavy shoegazing era to the ethereal moodiness of The Fashion Focus years to the latest incarnations and recreations of themselves as keyboard-driven masters of chorus, this is and always will be a band who will deliver great songs with new sounds.
Tooth&Nail
CD
$14.00

Submerged
Violence As First Nature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more.
OhmResistance
CD
$12.25

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA)
PS, SWEDEN 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

Technical Itch
You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH)
PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy.
OhmResistance-9M
CD
$13.00

Telescopes
Singles Compilation 1989-1991 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A collection of Telescopes A's & B's from the "What Goes On" to "Creation" years. Including extra tracks from the original Perfect Needle EP. Singles Compilation 1989-1991 gives us 14 timeless tracks ranging from abrasive to ethereal. Produced by Richard Formby & Stephen Lawrie. Highly recommended to all fans of shoegaze & space rock ala My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fuxa & Spacemen 3. With the recent success of My Bloody Valentine's reunion tour, look for The Telescopes to be the next big thing! Telescopes to tour the USA in 2009 along with Fuxa performing most of these classic tracks.
MindExpansion-2036
CD
$13.25

Travis
Ode to J. Smith (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US New album.
Fontana
CD
$15.25

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'Hymns for Today: UK Pop-Folk-Sike Sounds 1968-1975'. Limited Edition eighth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "It's been a long hiatus but at last here are two excellent new volumes of the cult Fading Yellow series. Vol. 8 is collection of British artist album tracks of the period 1968-75... A beautiful confection of pastoral shades and cotton wool clouds floating in a hazy Summer sky. Predominantly mid-paced and lightly orchestrated, these are often acoustic based songs with electric underpinning. A few, in the interval, have become more familiar, notably the two fine selections by Jan & Lorraine from their recently reissued Gipsy People album. The majority however will be new to your ears. The track selection and flow is pretty much faultless as one track melts effortlessly into the next, working its magic on the ears. In some instances, tracks are surprising reworkings of the most unlikely songs. For instance Raw's (aka New York Public Library) rendition of 'What To Do', from their US and Germany released only Raw Holly album consists of covers of Buddy Holly songs - this one is an orchestrated tabla and sitar version! There are the short sharp spurts like the enigmatic (because there is nothing known about him) Michael Blount with 'Acorn Street' from his 1971 Patchwork album, which at 1.58 leaves you wanting a lot more of the same. P.C. Kent's 'After Dark' is from their self-titled Deram Nova album and is pleasingly pop (think a lighter version of Blossom Toes's 'Postcard' for instance) whilst Vigrass & Osborne's 'Ballerina' (which was also a single or a B side I think) has all the atmosphere, heavy with pathos of Mike Batt's series title track 'Fading Yellow' from Vol.1. Storyteller's 'Alice Brown', Fuchsia's 'Me And My Kite' and Evensong's 'The Smallest Man In The World' are also excellent. Overall, the FY signature brand of soundscape is very much perpetuated here and fans of the series will lap this up. There are as usual liner notes and band pics in the booklet which help contextualise the music nicely. Buy with confidence."
FlowerMachine-1008
CD
$15.00

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'The Other Side of Life: Timeless UK Pop-Sike & Other Delights, 1966-1972'. Limited Edition ninth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "Here we are squarely back in singles territory. Pop Workshop's 'Fairyland' is a good starter and manages to be both brash and gentle at the same time. Suzi Klee's 'Punch And Judy Girl' is a plaintive and tremulous pop ballad by this 'Swiss Miss' (I've always wanted to use that somewhere!); it comes across like Jan and Lorraine produced by Mike Batt (only it was produced by Georgio Gomelsky!). Dave Christie's 'Penelope Breedlove' makes its commercial compilation debut (and is also included on Psychic Circle's Fairytales Can Come True comp also out this month); a fabulous and atmospheric pean to the object of his affections, this is NOT the same version as the 6AX acetate compiled on Syde Tryps Vol.7. Although it's the same song, the two versions are markedly different in arrangement and timing, so you certainly need both. Pussyfoot's 'Hasty Words' is another beauty with its lilting 3/3 waltz timing and a lovely choral vocal job to boot. Mike Leslie's 'Office Girl' has been a long time want of mine in the original, a delightful ode to a lonely clerical worker lost in the urban crowd as the singer puckers up the courage to approach her. It deserved to be more than a B side too. Rodney Bewes' 'Dear Mother Love Albert' is the topside to the already compiled and much sought after 'Meter Maid' and it has a similar vibe - was this the actual TV series signature tune or was it written as a single in its own right I wonder? It sounds way too magically bendy for 1970 television! Christian's 'Other Side Of Life' is another restless orch popper with more than a passing reminder of The Apple's 'Other Side' as well. A good string arrangement adds a lot to it. Tony Ritchie seems to have recorded quite a few sides in Europe including the excellent 'Rain On My Window' included here with its urgent "loner" vibe that would have suited Paul & Barry Ryan for instance c.1967. Maybe it's about time a Tony Ritchie anthology was compiled? This is another excellent collection of emotionally challenging sides. You may encounter some of these sides individually occasionally but it is only when they are compiled with this level of aesthetic skill that they fully bloom."
FlowerMachine-1009
CD
$15.00

Various
Teenbeat Number One Record Label (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Twenty-three all new tracks with track-by-track narration by Brooklyn librarian Lisa Goldstein. The latest volume in Teenbeat's series of mix-tapes made from new songs by Teenbeat artists and friends. Includes tracks by +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOLLAND, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, PHIL KRAUTH & more!
Teenbeat-4110
CD
$8.75

Wallpaper
On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-194
LP
$10.25

Wallpaper
On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Keeping a steady sneer but subtracting angst and teenage romanticism WALLPAPER on their debut album "On the Chewing Gum Ground" captures the modern era that they ostentatiously do not feel a part of. Wallpaper's core members started working on music together in middle school, and "On the Chewing Gum Ground" represents much of their adult work over the past four years. Hailing from Auburn, Washington - a place just close enough to the ocean to make weekend trips and understand what the Beach Boys are about - they mix '50s rockabilly and '60s surf mixed with the crucial wave of '80s underground music. The strength allure of the album comes in the juxtaposition of pop sensibilities with lyrics sung like a sliding shimmy but written with a call for a pop-cultural reform.
Krecords-194
CD
$11.50

Week That Was, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music.
MemphisIndustries
CD
$15.25

Ween
At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Classic live set in two formats.
Chocodog
CD/DVD
$21.75

Whisper in the Noise
Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music.
Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices.
ExileOnMainstream-030
CD
$13.50

Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The debut from Leeds-based, four-piece Wild Beasts is a collection of ten beautiful, eccentric, very British tales. An incredibly confident record showcasing the band's pop sensibility as well as their humorous side. Delightful, romantic, magical, and timeless. "It's sublime stuff, full of variety, subtlety, intelligence, and warmth" - Artrocker.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.00

Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Wilderness
(k)no(w)here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast.
Jagjaguwar-127
LP
$11.50

Wino
A Bottle of Pills with a Bullet Chaser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US At two hours in length, "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" compiles every song ever recorded by Wino. In addition to the many singles and lone album, the set includes six previously unreleased tracks, plus the live track "Dogs," recorded during one of their final live performances. Largely inspired by Swans, Crain and the Amphetamine Reptile roster, WINO were one of the loudest, darkest and most eclectic bands in Louisville during the 1990s, and their influence can be heard today in loads of Louisville bands. Expertly digitally remastered from all of the original master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, High On Fire), "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" is the perfect commemoration to the band that inspired dozens of later Louisville bands and helped launch TEMPORARY RESIDENCE a dozen years ago.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-140
DCD
$11.50

Witmer, Denison
Carry the Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album.
Militia
CD
$12.25

Wrangler/Scanner
1968 Moog Modular PICTURE DISC (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, UK Limited to 300. Two Ra Chord blasts of 'Switched on Bach' beauty performed by WRANGLER and SCANNER who first met whilst fighting over a copy of 'Switched on Paddy Kingsland' at a record fair. These Supraphon pyjama wearing artisans have by loving of various knobs and switches, the sweet caressing of sequencers and event generators and manipulation of patch cords, created the sounds and rhythms for a discerning ear. Whilst Benge / Winters and Scanner have avoided the trap of being academic beard noodlers with this release, they have invoked the spirit of John Baker, White Noise and of course Bob Moog. Featuring sounds made exclusively on the Moog Modular System 3C and the Formant Modular Synthesiser this seven inch is a radiophonic joy, working as a platter to play out as well as a companion piece to their Twenty Systems meisterwork. Fans of Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno or the recent John Baker Tapes are recommended to check this.
StaticCaravan-165-7
45
$10.25

Yorkston, James
When The Haar Rolls In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The fourth album by Scotland's Yorkston brings back all the ambition, beauty, pathos, and full, lush arrangements of his previous albums. The sonic palette includes timpani, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, piano, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, and wine glasses, surrounding the songs with warmth and grandeur, like the haar in the title (heavy North Sea fog that blankets the Scottish coast). "What distinguishes 'Haar' is the combination of his warm, close to your ear talk-sung vocals with the band's sea-churn playing and his gorgeous songwriting" - 4 stars, Independent.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.00

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

5th Dimension “The Magic Garden” CD $15.50

Baker, Aidan “Green & Cold” CD $20.00

Brother JT “Purgatory Sweet Purgatory (8")” 45 $10.00

Carter, Tom “Shots At Infinity 2” LP $16.25

Cristal “Re-Ups” LP $22.00

Day Blindness “S-T” LP $13.00

Dry Rib “Whose Last Trickle” CD $10.25

Epic 45 “England Fallen Over” CD5 $13.00

Final Solution “Brotherman OST” CD $14.25

Funkadelic “Maggot Brain” LP $16.75

Golden Animals “Free Your Mind And Win A Pony” CD $12.25

Golden Animals “Free Your Mind And Win A Pony” LP $13.00

Guerrero, Tommy “Return of the Bastard” CD $12.00

Guerrero, Tommy “Return of the Bastard” LP $12.00

Human Eye “Fragments of the Universe Nurse” LP $12.00

Inara George & Van Dyke Parks “An Invitation” CD $17.00

June, Sarah “This Is My Letter To The World” CD $12.50

KatJonBand “S/T” LP $11.50

KatJonBand “S/T” CD $11.50

LCD Soundsystem “Big Ideas” 12 $8.00

Makoto, Kawabata & Michishita Shinsuke “Basement Echo” CD $13.00

Mirrors “A Green Dream” DLP $18.00

Mock Orange “Captain Love” CD $13.25

Norma “Norma 1 EP” CD5 $7.00

O'Rourke, Jim “Long Night” DCD $19.50

Pets, The “Misdirection” LP $11.00

Pink Reason “Winona” 45 $5.25

Qua “Silver Red” CD $13.50

Scharber, Quinn & The... “Being Nice Won't Save Milwaukee” CD $12.00

Snake Flowers 2 “Renegade Daydream” CD $10.25

Soundtrack of Our Lives, The “A Present From The Past” DCD $26.50

Tindersticks “The Hungry Saw [import]” CD $13.75

Ugly Things “#27” ZINE $8.00

Unsane “Visqueen” LP $17.00

Various “Audible Geography” CD $15.25

Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” DLP $30.00

Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” CD $15.00

Various “The Golden Apples Of The Sun” CD $12.00

Widow Babies “The Mike Watt EP” CD5 $8.75

Wilson, Phil “Industrial Strength (2X7")” 45 $7.25

Parasol New Arrivals • October 21, 2008
Howdy folks, Tap, Tap, Tap. Is this thing on? We’ll keep my mic volume set at low today. Though, I'm very excited to broadcast the ridiculous amount of bitchin' frequencies spread throughout the text below. This week you’ll find superb new records from Chandeliers, 23 Skidoo, Would-Be-Goods, Fall of the Bastards, Black Time, Fairport Convention, and many more. Enough chitter chatter. Dive on in to the list below and give us a cackle if something ruffles your feathers. Tap the bottle and twist the cap, Roy
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Parasol Mail Order Pick of the Week
	Park Hotell "Free for Friends" CD $14.00 (Ultra Radio) Vivacious debut full-length (after a single and an awesome double-EP) from Lulea’s Park Hotell, truly one of Sweden’s most intriguing pop bands. Free for Friends finds the band in full-on echoing pop mode: epic songs illuminated with ringing guitars and brilliant co-ed harmonies, although a bit less shoegazey this time around. Think classic Brit-Pop and Madchester new wave: The Smiths, Wedding Present and Close Lobsters (sigh); while also comparable to fellow Swedes Laakso, Wannadies and Shout Out Louds. Plus they’ve really come out of The Bear Quartet Admiration Society closet, sporting some very BQ-styled guitar crescendo and gauzy vocals. Highly recommended! Sound samples on our front page.
Roy's Vinyl Pick of the Week
	Whitehouse "Asceticists 2006" LP $22.50 (Very Friendly/Susan Lawly) "However artfully framed on white gallery walls, I can look you in the eyes and see what you spend your time doing when it gets dark and messy." To experience the incredible Asceticists 2006, is to bare your fragile soul beyond what you would normally wish to know amidst ear-shredding Afro-noise madness of each of the seven tracks.
Thrillsville: Parasol staff's weekly picks
Jim picks: Park Hotell - Free For Friends CD Angie picks: Band Of Annuals - Let Me Live CD Roy picks: Whitehouse "Asceticists 2006" LP $22.50 (Very Friendly/Susan Lawly)
New Releases 23 Skidoo Urban Gamelan PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Illuminated Records in August 1984, the album Urban Gamelan consolidated Skidoo's position as supreme avant-gardists with uncommon commercial nous. "Coup thundered over the horizon earlier this year. A mighty 45, it's a vinyl TV cop show car chase driven by Sketch Martin's bass, with Aswad's horn section blazing away in hot pursuit" (NME, 1984); "Skidoo allowed black America back in. And they let the rest of the world get a look in, too." (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD features three bonus tracks including the original 12" single mixes of Language and the mighty Coup - the latter oddly similar to the 1997 smash by the Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2530 CD $16.25 23 Skidoo Just Like Everybody PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1986, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Their classic singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs (an indie chart #1), The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Just Like Everybody (disc one) is a compilation covering 1980 to 1986, and includes the full 12" versions of Skidoo's signature singles such as Last Words, Coup, Language and Assassin, as well as key album tracks, and both sides of rare debut Ethics from 1980. The second disc, Just Like Everybody (Part Two), gathers together 17 tracks recorded by the group during the 1990s, and was originally released on the band's own Ronin label in 2002. Digitally remastered, most of the tracks and mixes on this double CD set are exclusive, and are not repeated on the other 23 Skidoo CDs in LTM's reissue program. The booklet also features a detailed history of the group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2532 DCD $18.00 A Cuckoo Destination Unknown PS, US "There is something reassuringly old fashioned about A Cuckoo, a singular individual who dwells on the Yorkshire Moors and has a fixation with sepia-toned Edwardiana, music boxes and the like... MOJO would like to add that we hope that A Cuckoo's forthcoming album will be available on 78. It would seem impolite if it wasn't." - MOJO By the age of 17 A Cuckoo had already played in respected UK bands Blue Aeroplanes and House of Love. In his early 20s he started to create and produce his own music. In the meantime he ended up working nearly full time as a composer for the BBC, which is where he "learnt how to orchestrate and paint sonic pictures." Quietly A Cuckoo began putting some of the rough ideas that he was developing up on MySpace. The page quickly began to gather a list of complimentary comments and was visited by A Girl called Eddy (former Le Grand Magistery recording artist, currently signed to Anti), who asked what the situation was with the release of his material. "Um, they're only rough snippets!" replied A Cuckoo, so A Girl Called Eddy put him in touch with Matthew Jacobson from Le Grand Magistery who insisted he finish the album so he could release it. The result is 'Destination Unknown'. A magical and dusty esoteric mix of styles that seems to effortlessly project a work of humble yet visionary compositions and poetry. Filled with music boxes, accordions, mandolins, bells, a quartet, acoustic guitars, and endless melody. "Great songs" - Chris Difford of Squeeze LeGrandMagistery-045 CD $12.25 A Handful Of Dust Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury PS , US Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990. NoFunProductions-34 DCD $16.25 A Sunny Day In Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal PS, US NEW PRESSING on new label. PITCHFORK 8.0! Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers & all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's ASDIG adds lush female vocals & dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin & Lauren's vocals trading off phrase for phrase glisten for thirteen storied track. It succeeds in marrying ASDIG's love of indie rock & languid atmosphere, recalling the best aspects of Slowdive's Souvlaki & early Aphex Twin. Notenuf-001 CD $12.25 A Sunny Day In Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal [re-issue] PS, US NEW PRESSING. PITCHFORK 8.0! Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers & all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's ASDIG adds lush female vocals & dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin & Lauren's vocals trading off phrase for phrase glisten for thirteen storied track. It succeeds in marrying ASDIG's love of indie rock & languid atmosphere, recalling the best aspects of Slowdive's Souvlaki & early Aphex Twin. MisOjosDiscos CD $11.50 Albion Band Rise Up Like The Sun PS, UK Originally released on Harvest in 1978, and reissued by Fledg'ling in 2003, Rise Up Like The Sun is widely acknowledged as one of the finest and most ambitious of English folk-rock albums ever. With John Tams and Joe Boyd overseeing the production, this crack-edition of The Albion Band (with several ex-Fairporters amongst their number) tackle everything from Appalachian love ballads to the music of John Coltrane and Richard Thompson. Remastered and fully annotated with four rare bonus tracks. Special guest appearances from Kate McGarrigle, Julie Covington, Martin Carthy, Andy Fairweather-Low, Richard and Linda Thompson. Fledgling CD $16.25 Aldebaran Forgotten Tombs PS, US Heavy doom outfit from Portland. Kreation LP $16.00 Alps III PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The band's first studio album but, as the name implies, its third overall, III finds the members of the Alps in good creative health -- perhaps not surprising for a slew of performers who regularly make their name with other projects like Tarentel and ARP, but the trick for any such project lies in its members knowing how to meet in the middle. On this level III is a good success, clearly balancing out solo and improvisational elements with gentle structure on a series of (mostly) instrumentals, equal parts feedback drone/zone and slow, steady melodies and rhythms. It's very much an album placing itself in a larger tradition -- Pink Floyd at their most creative, especially with soundtrack work (not for nothing would one song here be called "Echoes"), and similarly Popul Vuh, and those are simply two of the most obvious references." Type CD $14.25 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers PS, GERMANY Released on CD in March of 2008 on Kranky, Uneasy Flowers is the second album by New Zealand's Autistic Daughters, the intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) and Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It is also the fourth in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s "free noise" ferment, has embraced song, lyric and voice as vessels for topographic and psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory and nomadism on the subject. This is reflected by the shape-shifting nature of the outfit: while Autistic Daughters (whose name comes from a lyric from their first record Jealousy And Diamond) are resolutely a trio, they also work in cinematic format, with ancillary players behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements: in this instance, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, Martin Siewert and Valerio Tricoli. With Uneasy Flowers, Roberts traces the internal and external workings of one protagonist: or, rather, a protagonist who "contains multitudes," a Whitmanian figure that dissolves the unified self. Rather, this character, "Rehana," embodies multiplicity and fragmentation in order to both a) address loss and b) aim toward transfiguration, transcendence. There are traces in the lyrics -- traces of addiction and desire, myth and transformation -- that are obliquely reflected in the music's structure, its uneasy tension between the pop song (the "moment") and experiment (the "process"). In some ways, it reminds of the structural, loop-based cinema of figures like Malcolm LeGrice: taking one moment and stretching it, the better to capture its nuances and to draw out all the repressed material caught in the mise-en-scène, the hidden, cloaked content that erupts when your world spirals out of your control and gets caught in webs of interpersonal politic. The move from intimacy to the capture of the "greater picture" enacted by both lyric and music here resembles a camera dollying out, a shift of perspective unsettling for its vertigo-inducing qualities. Experimental deconstructionism within a pop framework that is contemplative, well-crafted, and gracefully unsettling. Staubgold CD $16.25 Auxes Sunshine PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Lovitt LP $11.00 Auxes Sunshine PS, US New album from Dave Laney (MILEMARKER) Lovitt CD $11.00 Bathgate, Chris Wait, Skeleton (CD/BOOK) PS, US Released as the second in an ongoing series of hand made, bound & stamped booklets, this EP features 6 brand new songs from Chris, on the heels of his well received full length album. The pages are printed on vellum & feature prints of trees among handwritten lyrics. "If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young & enormously promising career, its the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty." - NPR Song of The Day QuiteScientific CD $13.50 Bjork, Brant & The Operators S-T PS, US REISSUED finally for the 1st time on 2LP vinyl! Long ago, BRANT BJORK played drums in the mighty Kyuss where he wrote most of the songs, & moved onto Fu Manchu. After that, he was a member of Queens of the Stone Age! Sounds like stoner rock royalty to me! But people, there's another side to Brant other than the groovy stoner rock drumming, & that is the solo project. His 2nd solo release here, originally released in 2002, combines moody desert drives w/ '70s pop sensibilities, his low rider Impala & Brant's very own rawk funk. Check it out! LowDesertPunk DLP $22.00 Black Time Double Negative PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! IntheRed LP $11.75 Blithe Sons, The The Great Orthochromatic Wheel PS, US The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse ) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist songs forms summoned by a miniature orchestra of eclectic instruments. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside. The indoor set consists of slow-motion ballads built on hymn-like organ, nylon string guitar, analog drum machine & stark percussion. The outdoor side offers a web of exotic wind-instruments & battery-powered electronics reverberating in a cavernous hall cut in the side of a sea-cliff. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for a free MP3 version of the album. The Blithe Sons have released five other full-length albums since 2001 for Family Vineyard, Chocolate Monk and Jewelled Antler. In 2007 the Sons curated the sixth volume of Music Fellowship's triptych series bringing together Pekko Kappi and Claypipe for a three-way split CD. FamilyVineyard-62 LP $12.50 Bohren & der Club of Gore Dolores PS, US Hailing from Germany, the Bohren quartet bring you their 6th release. Their extremely slow melodious blend of saxophone, piano, organ, fender, vibes, bass and drums, has been labeled "horror jazz" by critics. Each toneseems to be chosen w/ infinite patience. Ipecac CD $16.25 Bon Vivants Black Honey PS, US Post-punk 'n folk-rock (NOT "freak folk"--eeek!), power-pop 'n acid-rock, howlin' at the Georgia moon like a lonely 16-year-old geek even as you stare at so-called middle-age in defiance. Television Personalities Soft Boys Swell Maps 'n Mr. Barrett hisself--post-Cale VU and the ghost of Arthur Lee--kids still 70s-drunk and runnin' free! SNAP! MANGLE! POP! The Bon Vivants come from Atlanta, Georgia. That's Ben Young (rhythm and freak guitars, vocals), Rob Parham (rhythm and lead guitars), Ben Lawless (bass), and Jeff Patch (drums). In 2006, they released a 10" record called SOUL ACTION. It came out on Ben's Old Gold label, which has generally released noise, improv, and experimental stuff. The members of the Bon Vivants worked their way through all of those more outside approaches before settling on a song format for this band. It adds a lot to what they're doing now: the deep knowledge of noise and improv combined with structured pop-rock songs. And on their new Gulcher CD, things come into even sharper focus--the lo-fi cassette sound of SOUL ACTION is gone, revealing the band in crystal clarity and sounding better than ever. Gulcher CD $10.25 Bookish, Simon Everything/Everything PS, US An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", Everything/Everything is a new departure for Simon Bookish, being his first album for TOMLAB. Additionally, whilst previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, Everything/Everything does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments. Scored for an ensemble dominated by saxophones, brass, piano, harp and Far sa organ, it features luminaries from both the jazz and experimental classical music scenes. Whilst this is almost certainly his most pop oriented release to date, Everything/Everything, as it's name suggests, nds room for moments of racing Philip Glass minimalism, lop-sided disco, expressionist cabaret, and even an eery ambient interlude. Lyrically, the album's concept is "the - good of information" in our modern age, taking in chemistry and ecology, language and art, sometimes surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, a weird blur of fact and action, delivered in Bookish's distinctive English eccentric vocal. It's only natural that Simon Bookish would want to tackle this chaos of stuff, since 'Simon Bookish' is the pseudonym of London-based composer Leo Chadburn, whose diverse recent work has included everything from sound-art installations in Bregenz, Austria, improvisation and guest spots with Leafcutter John and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford, and computer music for contemporary dance at the Royal Opera House to an acclaimed appearance with the National Theatre as "The Singer" in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle". Tomlab-121 CD $12.25 Bopp, Andy This Guitar Kills Singer Songwriters PS, US This first solo album from the frontman/songwriter for sparkling guitar pop melody makers MYRACLE BRAH. Overflows w/ semi-unplugged acoustic versions of Myracle Brah songs (plus some new ones). Pristine, gorgeous arrangements w/beautiful acoustic guitar work while delivering jangly psychedlic rock-pop conjuring Byrds, Beatles, Badfinger & Raspberries RainbowQuartz CD $13.75 Bowie, David Iselect PS, US Astralwerks CD $15.25 Brother JT3 Jelly Roll Gospel PS, US From the first groove of this long-player, the rhythms are live & relentless, making his new soul anthems burst energetically from the speakers in full-spectrum stereo sound. Comprised of bassist Art DiFuria (PHOTON BAND), drummer Jamie Knerr (PSYCLONE RANGERS), & JT, the group delivers their trademark blues-&-roll whomp, shaking everything in sight to keep the beat going- while weaving in unexpected touches, such as a dub reggae bounce. DragCity LP $14.75 Brun, Ane Changing of the Seasons PS,US One of the finest voices of the contemporary folk scene is back. Here is Ane Brun´s third album Changing of the Seasons . It was recorded more or less live at the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, and at producer Valgeir Sigurdsson´s studio, the Greenhouse, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sigurdsson´s merits include artists like Björk, Sigur Ros, Maps, Múm, Coco Rosie and Bonnie Prince Billy. Changing of the Seasons consists of 13 new tracks by Ane Brun. The album shows that Ane´s mesmerizing voice has taken new and exciting turns, and it also reveals many proofs of her remarkable songwriting. Just listen to tracks like The Puzzle , Ten Seconds , Lullaby for Grown-Ups , The Fall or Don´t Leave and you´ll know that this is something close to a classic album. The beautiful string arrangements are written by Danish composer Malene Bay-Landin and the young and successful American composer Nico Muhly (who has worked with artists such as Bonnie Prince Billy and Antony & the Johnsons). Sidecho CD $11.00 Carbon 14 Issue #31 (MAGAZINE + CD) PS, US Features on The Coyote Men, The Pagans, Mitch O'Connell, Sharon Leong, Electric Prunes, Palmyra Delran, etc. Cover art by Sharon Leong. Features by Bunny Fontaine & Thee Whiskey Rebel, interview w/ professional wrestler/actor Ox Baker, a feature on the films of Jean Rollin & Pier Paolo Pasolini, & all the usual comics, pin-ups, columns, & so much more. CD comp is titled "Scandanavian Meltdown'" full of 21 nuggets of Nordic noise incl. Marvel, The Hellacopters, The Nomads, Bloodlights, The Incubators, Demons, etc. 120pgs long ZINE $5.50 Caspian You Are The Conductor PS, US Caspian weaves precise, textured webs in which you become completely immersed & then profoundly affected - hypnotized & forced to look inward. MyleneSheath 12 $14.75 Ceremony/Screem Vinyl Image Split PS, US Ceremony bring their arsenal of shoegaze guitar mayhem to the forefront on their songs: dark but catchy, & very, very loud. Screen Vinyl Image make striking music that combines elements of minimalist electro & beautiful guitar pop. Expect layers of keyboards, ambient noise & pulsating drum beats w/ rich dark vocals. Excellent showcase of two of the best shoegaze/indie bands going in the US today. Comes packed w/ CD version too. CustomMadeMusic 10"/CD $10.50 Chandeliers Thrush PS, US Electronic art-funk band CHANDELIERS, residents of Chicago's Shape Shoppe loft/recording studio, present their debut LP, The Thrush, on the newly formed Obey Your Brain imprint. Comprised of multi-instumentalists from Chicago's blossoming young avant-rock scene, Chandeliers are a phenomenon in unclassifiable modern music. Having adopted the collective spirit of kraut-rock bands like Can and Faust, the group functions as a unified whole with no dominant members. This approach gives them a more intuitive and unpredictable approach to composing. An album with the flow of a mix-tape, The Thrush is at home bangin' in your trunk or hypnotizing on your headphones. Kraftwerk is a clear reference, but with influences ranging from Eastern melodies to the sonically dirty rhythmic propulsion of Konono No.1, and the crunked-out, psychedelic hip-hop of J-Dilla, Chandeliers always keep listeners on their toes. Includes a download code for a digital version of the album as well as two bonus videos. Upcoming East Coast tour with Baltimore's Thrust Lab this fall. ObeyYourBrain LP $12.00 Chinese Stars Tv Grows Arms PS, US A brand new 12-inch boiler from combustible "dance show road dogs" the CHINESE STARS--members of ARAB ON RADAR and SIX FINGER SATELLITE. A teaser EP to the band's upcoming second album, featuring two exclusive tracks. Packaged with artwork by MATT BRINKMAN (Mystery Brinkman, Forcefield, Mutant Life Expectancy). KittyPlay LP $5.50 Clean Compilation PS, US Compilation collects many of the greatest tracks by New Zealand legends The Clean, including songs from their first single and first two EPs. Very catchy pop with the energy and rawness of the best punk rock combined with a strong psychedelic feel. An amazing collection by one of the best bands of all time! LittleAxe LP $13.75 Cogan, Ora Harbouring PS, SPAIN Ora Cogan was born and raised on a small island on the west coast of Canada, her house was a recording studio and her Family played host to a constant stream of musicians and travelers. Ora started writing songs and performing at 12. Now based in Vancouver, BC. Ora stitches the blues, old-time and ethereal ballads into her unique sound. Guitar and a voice that could melt butter combine to give an album that sounds like it was recorded in the middle of a cornfield." - AMERICANA UK. "Ora's voice possesses that haunting, soulful quality that seems like its source is coming from deep deep within or beyond. Like a mysterious transplant from decades past, it's as though she opens her mouth and a lilting voice from the '20s comes drifting out. It's beautiful in its simplicity, just her and her guitar and a few banjo and back-up vocal additions."- AQUARIUS RECORDS "Ora plays true folk, the kind that is strong and tells stories with a sense of urgency, be it heartbreak or revolution. This album is gorgeous, bitter sweet, and incredibly powerful." - ONLY MAGAZINE BorneRecordings/Acuarela-002 CD $13.50 Connors, Loren The Moon Last Night PS, US The Moon Last Night perfectly captures the complex and contemporary guitar style of Loren Connors - totally desolate yet wound in echoy, rich black clouds that weep of Mississippi ghost blues and chiming strings. This two-part suite combines the artist's love of choral music, Giacinto Scelsi and the naked Venusian guitar style he evangelized across a string of private press LPs in the late 1980s. Conjured solely from a Fender six-string and reverb effects, solitary notes swirl and loft gently from distant points before collecting into booming clusters. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment during the winter of 2008, the rustles of clothes and a creaking chair appear throughout. Like a kaleidoscope or the cover art itself - a 1973 painting by Connors - subterranean layers of composition and melodic streams are uncovered in each listen. Pressed in an edition of 500 one-sided translucent yellow LPs Connors has released over 50 albums since his 1978 debut, and since 1999 he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative albums with Suzanne Langille, John Fahey, David Grubbs, Christina Carter, Jandek, and Jim O'Rourke. FamilyVineyard-61 LP $12.50 Creed, Helios Not Without Sorcery PS, US LTD ED 5-trk EP to support HELIOS CREED's 2008 30-city "Dual Forces" tour. Contains 2 songs exclusive to this release & 3 songs from his forthcoming CD/2LP for Transparency. Helios (ex-founder of the legendary noise-rock act CHROME) plays guitar, bass & synth, as well as vocals; Paul Della Pella plays drums. Transparency CD5 $10.75 Creedence Clearwater Revival Pendulum: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Self-Titled: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Released in the summer of 1968 -- a year after the summer of love, but still in the thick of the Age of Aquarius - Creedence Clearwater Revival's self-titled debut album was gloriously out-of-step with the times, teeming with John Fogerty's Americana fascinations. While many of Fogerty's obsessions and CCR's signatures are in place -- weird blues ("I Put a Spell on You"), Stax R&B (Wilson Pickett's "Ninety-Nine and a Half"), rockabilly ("Susie Q"), winding instrumental interplay, the swamp sound, and songs for "The Working Man" -- the band was still finding their way. Out of all their records (discounting Mardi Gras), this is the one that sounds the most like its era, thanks to the wordless vocal harmonies toward the end of "Susie Q," the backward guitars on "Gloomy," and the directionless, awkward jamming that concludes "Walking on the Water." Still, the band's sound is vibrant, with gutsy arrangements that borrow equally from Sun, Stax, and the swamp. Fogerty's songwriting is a little tentative. Not for nothing were two of the three singles pulled from the album covers (Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q," Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You") -- he wasn't an accomplished tunesmith yet. Though "The Working Man" isn't bad, the true exception is that third single, "Porterville," an exceptional song with great hooks, an underlying sense of menace, and the first inkling of the working-class rage that fueled such landmarks as "Fortunate Son." It's the song that points the way to the breakthrough of Bayou Country, but the rest of the album shouldn't be dismissed, because judged simply against the rock & roll of its time, it rises above its peers." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy & the Poor Boys: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Make no mistake, Willie & the Poor Boys is a fun record, perhaps the breeziest album CCR ever made. Apart from the eerie minor-key closer "Effigy" (one of John Fogerty's most haunting numbers), there is little of the doom that colored Green River. Fogerty's rage remains, blazing to the forefront on "Fortunate Son," a working-class protest song that cuts harder than any of the explicit Vietnam protest songs of the era, which is one of the reasons that it hasn't aged where its peers have. Also, there's that unbridled vocal from Fogerty and the ferocious playing on CCR, which both sound fresh as they did upon release. "Fortunate Son" is one of the greatest, hardest rock & rollers ever cut, so it might seem to be out of step with an album that is pretty laid-back and friendly, but there's that elemental joy that by late '69 was one of CCR's main trademarks. That joy runs throughout the album, from the gleeful single "Down on the Corner" and the lazy jugband blues of "Poorboy Shuffle" through the great slow blues jam "Feelin' Blue" to the great rockabilly spiritual "Don't Look Now," one of Fogerty's overlooked gems. The covers don't feel like throwaways, either, since both "Cotton Fields" and "The Midnight Special" have been overhauled to feel like genuine CCR songs. It all adds up to one of the greatest pure rock & roll records ever cut." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower of their classic sound initially essayed on its predecessor, Bayou Country. One of the differences between the two albums is that Green River is tighter, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity. Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally. Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music. This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom. Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realize the "world is smolderin'." Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult. For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating." Fantasy CD $11.50 Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune PS, US 5th album from former ARCHERS OF LOAF singer ERIC BACHMANN. LIMITED TO 1000 copies on white vinyl. Includes download coupon & a non-CD bonus track, "La Maleta Fea," a brand new version of a song that appeared previously on a Merge Records compilation. NEKO CASE appears on the album-closing duet "Your Control" ForeignLeisure LP $13.50 Danielson Our Givest (Remix) PS, US SecretlyCanadian-191 45 $4.75 Darling Downs From One to Another PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! CarrotTop LP $11.50 Darling Downs From One to Another PS, US "A record of spare, tender songcraft, whose delicate shifts in tone make the simple alt.country tag inadequate. A brave move for both, brilliantly pulled off. 4 stars."-Uncut. The DDs stand out as the most unlikely of collaborations between longtime members of the fertile Australian rock scene. While it is not at alll insane to imagine the driving force behind SCIENTISTS, BEASTS OF BOURBON & SURREALISTS, KIM SALMON, working with DIED PRETTY's energetic frontman and songwriter RON PENO, the improbable happens when you consider the result that might flow from such a teaming. What are the odds that these two towering figures of Australian music, famous for swaggering, noisy, swampy punk rock (Salmon) & soaring pop rock (Peno) would concoct such a perfect loveletter to American country folk? Armed only with Kim Salmon's custom Cole Clark acoustic guitar and Peno's singular voice & vision, The Darling Downs crafted an almost impossible album: a record of nuanced beauty, a subtle masterpiece that unfolds like a dahlia with each successive spin, giving the listener something new & unexpected at every helping. All from two guys & one pristine guitar. At times Peno channels the spirit of Appalachian folk's high lonesome sound, complete with yips, yelps & howls, while elsewhere his (improvised?!) vocals are hypnotically understated, almost delicate-- threatening to disappear into thin air before crashing down like thunder. Supporting Peno's acrobatic vocal brilliance is Salmon's equally understated, elegant guitar playing, perhaps the most restrained of his career, made all the more stunning when you know the fireworks & growl of which he is capable & for which he is famous. Salmon showcases not only his versatility but playing of such surprisingly refined grace that it defines the album as one of the best listens of 2006. An album of profound subtlety. "With Salmon often infusing the guitar lines with deft lilts & melodies, grasping each song is sometimes as difficult as interpreting a smoke signal in a storm, the ever-shifting qualities of the music making it difficult to categorize. The experience mesmerizes."-The Age (AU). CarrotTop CD $11.50 Datsuns, The Smoke & Mirrors PS, US New album from New Zealand throwback garagerockers. CookingVinyl CD $13.75 Davenport, Bart Palaces PS, US A singer-songwriter troubadour who wears his passionate love of West Coast pop on his sleeve. On his fourth solo album, he collaborates w/kindred spirit KELLEY STOLTZ. Drawing from Brit folk, bossa nova, & even a touch of Philly soul, his rich, nuanced vocals capture a cohesive fusion of traditional & indie pop. AntennaFarm CD $12.75 Dead C Secret Earth EP PS, US The Dead C oscillates between two poles. Recent albums explored drones, electronic loops and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. Just a glance at their peers who are fans (Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Comets On Fire, Black Dice) shows the league in which they play. Any fans of Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, Sunn 0))), Sightings, Acid Mothers Temple, and/or Growing can now appreciate noise rock's forefathers. It's spacious here. Welcome. BaDaBing! CD5 $9.00 Dears, The Missiles PS, SPAIN The Dears have not gone away and come back, but they have been transformed: by experience, by necessity, by life and its manifold curveballs. And with their new album, MISSILES, they have emerged as elder statesmen of the Canadian indie rock renaissance... Recorded quickly, the album is a feast of stripped-down arrangements and raw emotion served up like a rustic meal, its songs polished but still containing traces of the rough soil from which they were born. The most explicit example is the affecting final track, Saviour, whose vocal track - an original demo take, recorded with a hand-held microphone only moments after the final lyrics were written - remains unadulterated, vulnerable amongst the organ swells and chorus of children's voices. The music is restrained, yet there is an urgency to the lyrics. Lightburn is the confessor: first decoding, then submitting. Yanchak, whose striking voice is more present than on past albums, is the protector: nurturing and unbreakable. Dangerbird CD $15.25 Diplo Diplo & Sanatgold Mix PS, US REPRESSED & NEW LOWER PRICE!! 8.0 ON PITCHFORK! Guests AMANDA BLANK, KID CUDI, MARK RONSON & more, incl. 3 exclusive tracks, plus remixes from XXXCHANGE, RADIOCLIT, SWITCH, MUMDANCE, DIPLO & more, dancehall dubplated from TONY MATTERHORN, CUTTY RANKS, TURBULENCE, more. 35 trks in all for a one in a million mixtape. Highlights incl. a live band version of the Bad Brains' "Right Brigade," SANTOGOLD's favorite influences showcased by DIPLO as well: Devo, Sir Mixalot, Aretha, Jazzbo, Desmond Dekker, The Clash & more. MadDecent CD $11.00 Disappears Old Friend b/w Magics PS, US Second in a series of self-released singles, Disappears features members of PONYS, 90 DAY MEN, & BOAS. Playing minimal "space punk," drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay, & repetition, they are a true DIY effort. LIMITED, INCLUDES LINK FOR FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. Disappears 45 $4.50 Dissard, Marianne L'Entredeux PS, US NOW ON LP! Chanson meets Americana in a beautifully orchestrated & sensual album by Marianne Dissard & Joey Burns of CALEXICO. Made in Tucson, Arizona w/ Burns & John Convertino (Calexico) Naïm Amor (Amor Belhom Duo, ABBC), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) & scores of Tucson collaborators. LePopMusik LP $18.75 DJ Rupture Uproot PS, US His 1st release since returning to Brooklyn after 7 yrs in Spain, offers his most intimate work to date. RUPTURE is not a DJ to rest on previous highs, but who constantly looks for new ones. He proved that he can DJ fast & dense w/ his influential 'Gold Teeth Thief' & 'Minesweeper Suite' mixes - now it's time for the sensual slow dance of a (relatively) smooth turntablist experience that deepens on repeat listens. How many DJs do you know who commission a string quartet for their latest mix? This is surely his most "listenable" mix to date, blended seamlessly w/ elements from UK dubstep & Brooklyn dancehall to Berlin abstraction, not to mention Brazil (Maga Bo), Finland (Clouds), Australia (Dead Leaf) & more. This explores a wealth of new material - almost half of it previously unreleased - in a mix that is deep, contemplative & contagious Agriculture CD $18.00 Dntel Dreams (Lawrence Remixes) PS, GERMANY Deal, the Dial sub-label for special interests presents two unreleased remixes by Lawrence for Dntel's "Dreams." Strictly limited. Deal 12 $11.50 Dragonforce Ultra Beatdown PS, US Roadrunner LP $15.50 Dreamend Long Forgotten Friend PS, US Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Songs loosely based on stories & memories of a relative from the far past. Music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities & ghost towns. Banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape, drumming is minimal and guitars are the ghosts. Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together. Packaged in a 15pt chipboard gatefold sleeve w/ a 12 page booklet of photos by Christy Romanick. Graveface CD $12.50 Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time Happy Birthday Peace EP PS, UK New import EP from the original, male Duffy! If you missed his recent album, 'Runout Groove', now's your chance to catch up! BogusFrontage/Fruitcake CD5 $11.00 Dungen 4 (ON SALE) (DELAYED) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Kemado LP $16.25 Dylan, Bob Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs PS, US THE ONION AV CLUB: Bob Dylan's last three studio albums-1997's Time Out of Mind, 2001's "Love and Theft", and 2006's Modern Times-are among his finest, but that doesn't guarantee that their outtakes would add much to his legacy. But Tell Tale Signs, two CDs of scraps from those albums (along with some from 1989's Oh Mercy, plus some live recordings) deserves to be considered an album, because it moves like one. Most of these alternate takes are in fact completely different arrangements: "Someday Baby" is a slow, wounded shuffle here, rather than the hard-chugging blues-rock from Modern Times, while two versions of Time's "Mississippi," each opening a CD, sound nothing like the "official" rendition-or one another. It's easy to understand why Dylan left some of these songs off the albums: The woozy "Born In Time" wouldn't have fit the spookier tone of Oh Mercy, but it's got too much life in it to have stayed put. But why "Dreamin' Of You," a shattered-love song set to a hushed-roar arrangement, was left off Time is hard to figure. The in-concert stuff provides snazzy contrast to the studio songs: "High Water (For Charley Patton)" and "Lonesome Day Blues" crackle and snarl, with Dylan's lead guitar speaking its own tongue. As Dylan's official bootlegs go, this is one of the series' best. Columbia DCD $24.50 Electric Six Flashy PS, US fifth album kicks off with the brassy, Latin-tinged "Gay Bar Part Two," which has absolutely nothing to do with the original "Gay Bar" but everything to do with Dick Valentine and company's finely honed sense of the ridiculous. Harking back to one of their Fire hits with this songtitle was intended as a shameless marketing ploy, but Flashy feels like a shout-out to the band's first album in other ways: the band dials down the disco-rock of albums like Switzerland and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master in favor of the gloriously bombastic hard rock-meets-new wave of Fire's album tracks...keeping it deliciously unclear if Electric Six are the highest of the lowbrow or the lowest of the highbrow." Metropolis CD $15.25 Elliot, Matt Howling Songs PS, FRANCE Howling songs is a magnificent third and last part to the "drinking/ failing/ howling songs" trilogy. We are back to this Slavonic tune, without any definite frontier, whose only and constant heritage finds its roots in European music. It is all the more sensitive that Matt's voice is sometimes present without any chorus in the background, bringing to the whole both confidence and unquestionable heat. Howling songs is, without a doubt, the most introspective album by Matt Elliott and the one which carries best his musical personality. Icid'Ailleurs-049 CD $17.50 Elliot, Matt Howling Songs PS, FRANCE Double clear LP, gatefold with 2 drawings as inlays, limited edition 500 copies. Howling songs is a magnificent third and last part to the "drinking/ failing/ howling songs" trilogy. We are back to this Slavonic tune, without any definite frontier, whose only and constant heritage finds its roots in European music. It is all the more sensitive that Matt's voice is sometimes present without any chorus in the background, bringing to the whole both confidence and unquestionable heat. Howling songs is, without a doubt, the most introspective album by Matt Elliott and the one which carries best his musical personality. Icid'Ailleurs-049 DLP $27.75 Ettes Look At Life Again Soon PS, US The Ettes from NYC invaded the LA rock scene in 2004 drawing inspiration from the White Stripes, the Rolling Stones & Amy Winehouse. Jem on bass w/ his garage rock roots, paired w/ Poni's powerful punk rock beats, fused w/ Coco's guitar hooks & 60's country vocals creates The Ettes' unique sound that they describe as Beat Punk. TakeRoot CD $11.75 Fairport Convention What We Did On Our Holidays PS, US Their 2nd album, originally released in '69, is the first to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. Contains some of their finest moments, incl. Denny's own "Fotheringay," Richard Thompson's "Meet Me On The Ledge" & their stunning take on Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine." It's also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Fall of the Bastards Dusk of an Ancient Age PS, US Lengendary Black Thrash. Kreation LP $16.00 Final Solution Brotherman OST PS, US Continuing a tradition that began w/ "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" & culminated w/ "Shaft" & "Superfly", this was a blaxploitation film set to hit screens in 1975. Before even one ft of film was shot, the plug was pulled & the movie was cancelled. Dragged around for 30 yrs by songwriter CARL WOLFOLK, the tapes of his life's work have finally been mixed. This deluxe set is housed in the standard slipcase w/ a plush bk detailing the known history of the film & the group behind the music. Great, funky, fun melodies throughout! Numero DLP $19.00 Flaherty, Paul & Bill Nace & Thurston Moore S-T PS, US ALREADY NEARLY OUT OF PRINT - ORDER NOW! PAUL FLAHERTY has been a direct lifeline to the radical free-reed lineage of Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Peter Brotzmann & Arthur Doyle for as long as we can recall. In the '90s Flaherty met BILL NACE through a mutual musician friend, Chris Corsano, in Northampton, MA - an area that fostered a contemporary free-noise-space-weird underground where free thinking minds were liberated to godhead heights. The 2 played together as a duo for quite some time around this period. THURSTON MOORE (of SONIC YOUTH) had been tracking Flaherty's comet whilst perusing dog-eared copies of Cadence mag in the early 90s. He eventually booked the infamous Flaherty-Colbourne group for their 1st ever NYC gig at the legendary nowdefunct Cooler club. In 98 Moore & his family escaped to free-zone Northampton & immediately fell in Flaherty &, eventually, Nace. From time to time Nace, Moore & Flaherty would collect their energies & throw down live trio sessions which still resonate through the valley's ear(s). This trio CD is a session from late winter of early 2008 feat. 3 trks ("sex" & "drugs" & "lavender"), 1 short, 2 looong. A primo example of this threesome's focus & sonic storytelling - ferocious yet pensive. EcstaticPeace CD $10.00 Foster, Josephine This Coming Gladness PS, UK Previously released on CD by Bo' Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson. BoWeavil LP $22.25 French Impressionists, The Amelia Rosselli PS, UK LTM is pleased to announce a brand new CD album by The French Impressionists, the modernist ensemble associated with Postcard Records and Les Disques du Crepuscule. The French Impressionists first emerged in 1981 via the Postcard Records School, when founder/pianist Malcolm Fisher made his first recordings with members of Aztec Camera and The Jazzateers. A more permanent line-up released A Selection of Songs on Les Disques du Crepuscule, as well as Christmas single Santa Baby, and found lasting success in Japan. In 2007 the group, now based in Milan ( Italy ), released a well-received new album, Fête. For the third French Impressionists album, Malcolm Fisher has joined forces with gifted Italian singer Sara Cicenia, setting the poems of Amelia Rosselli to original piano music. Born in Paris in 1930, Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of anti-fascist resister Carlo Rosselli, assassinated by Mussolini's agents. She spent her life studying ethnomusicology and taking part in the cultural life of postwar Italy as a literary translator and poet, the latter work marked by bold verbal combinations and deliberate linguistic error. She committed suicide in Rome in February 1996. The deluxe booklet features a selection of original images by Malcolm Fisher, and the text of several of the poems. The duo will tour the Rosselli material in Italy later this year. LTM-2523 CD $17.00 Frightened Rabbit Liver! Lung! FR! PS, US Liver! Lung! FR! is Frightened Rabbit at their very best - live. The intimate, mostly-acoustic set documented here was recorded in July 2008 in Glasgow and mixed by Mice Parade's Adam Pierce. Among other surprises, special guests pop up here and there: James Graham from The Twilight Sad contributes vocals to an incredible version of "Keep Yourself Warm," while Glasgow scene staple Ross Cook adds rollicking mandolin to "Old Old Fashioned." The stripped-down instrumentation brings singer Scott Hutchison's vocal delivery - now wrenching, now soaring - to the fore, showcasing the emotive lyrics and memorable melodies that have earned the band their passionate following. FatCatRecords-083 CD $9.00 Fripp & Eno No Pussyfooting [re-issue] PS, US Using Eno's twin tape recorder/loop method Fripp provided two takes w/Eno selectively manipulating which signals were committed to the final tape. The result was "The Heavenly Music Corporation" which became one of the most significant & influential pieces of electronic music ever recorded. Re-mastered & expanded using the original master tapes by Simon Heyworth, overseen by Robert Fripp. DGM/InnerKnot DCD $16.25 Fripp & Eno Evening Star [re-issue] PS, US Perhaps more pastoral than truly ambient, & in part indicative of the type of music that Eno would feature on his later "Music for Films" albums this was a firm step away from the long form pieces that made up "No Pussyfooting". DGM/InnerKnot CD $15.50 Frustration Relax PS, US NOW AVAILABLE!!! The debut full-length from French electro-punk champs FRUSTRATION. BornBad CD $14.75 Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again. TheSocialRegistry-50 LP $12.25 Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again. TheSocialRegistry-050 CD $11.50 Geist, Morgan Double Night Time PS, US This is very much a solo flight, made during a challenging period in which dark personal themes inflected the compositions, Geist collaborated w/ friend & fellow new wave traveler Jeremy Greenspan (JUNIOR BOYS) for the vocal tracks on the album. Instrumentally, the orchestra he employs is decidedly more Yellow Magic than philharmonic. EnvironRecords CD $16.50 Gentleman Jesse S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Douchemaster LP $12.00 Giant Sand Provisions PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc DLP $18.25 Giffoni, Carlos Adult Life PS, US This is shining and pure electronic music. Adult Life continues Carlos Giffoni's work in slow-building drones and prickly, trebly peaks, but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them Cluster, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream. The caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises Adult Life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. Carlos Giffoni describes this as some of his most musical work to date, a pure electronic excursion into more grounded troupes which almost paradoxically work out completely new sonic concepts and ideas. Original Illustrations for this full length by Megan Ellis. NoFunProductions-40 CD $12.25 Girl Talk Feed The Animals PS, US Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing. Girl Talk has been known to underground audiences for several years, but it wasn't until 2006 that Gillis crossed over and caught the attention of a larger audience. With Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and even Beck including Night Ripper in their "best albums of 2006" lists, Girl Talk has gone on to be booked by major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Virgin, All Points West, Pitchfork, DEMF, etc.), and solicited for remixes (Beck, Thrill Jockey, Tokyo Police Club, Grizzly Bear, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn & John, TeddyBears, and Of Montreal). And with roughly 200 live shows over the last couple of years, Gillis has consistently played larger venues to capacity crowds (every date on his 2007 North American tour with Dan Deacon sold out). PRESS QUOTES: "One endlessly entertaining mega mash-up" - Rolling Stone "Gillis' craft is stunning and his tastes are exquisitely diverse" - Blender "A masterpiece that employs an estimated 300 samples" - SPIN "Massively recommended ... the voracious music fan's dream" --- Pitchfork "Media assassins Illegal Art come forth with yet another brilliant Girl Talk record." - XLR8R "Sounds like your favorite mash-up DJ after about 11 espressos" - Entertainment Weekly "Mashes together booty-shaking rap, iconic indie rock, and, uh, ABBA" - MTV.com. IllegalArt-117 CD $14.25 Golightly, Holly & The Brokeoffs Dirt Don't Hurt PS, US Transdreamer CD $14.00 Goude, Jean Philippe Aux Solitudes PS, FRANCE Jewelcase version. Closed to Michael Nyman, Pinguin Cafe Orchestra or Steve Reich sometimes but with a real personality and French music background, Jean Phippe Goude is well known in France for his composition for cinema and TV. This new album played by a selection of the best classical instrumentalists living in France is one of the best things brings to contemporary and neo classical music since a long time. Icid'Ailleurs-047 CD $16.25 Goude, Jean Philippe Aux Solitudes PS, FRANCE Digipak version. Closed to Michael Nyman, Pinguin Cafe Orchestra or Steve Reich sometimes but with a real personality and French music background, Jean Phippe Goude is well known in France for his composition for cinema and TV. This new album played by a selection of the best classicals intrumentists living in France is one of the best things brings to comtemporary and neo classical music since a long time. Icid'Aulleurs-471 CD $17.50 Grady Y U So Shady PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! AlternativeTentacles LP $10.50 Grady Y U So Shady PS, US Yee haw! Southern swamp blues-rock mayhem w/ paintpeeling slide guitar like you've never heard. This is a razor-sharp power trio fronted by guitar master Gordie Johnson who counts gold & platinum records on his wall from his stint in Toronto, Canada w/ Big Sugar. W/ picks on all his fingers, he rips the strings, loud as hell, through a little Fender amp for pedal steel guitars. AlternativeTentacles CD $14.25 Grainger, Sebastien Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains PS, US Best known for his contributions as singer & drummer for Canadian dancepunk duo Death From Above 1979, GRAINGER is soon to be even better known to the world as a singer & songwriter of sophisticated distinction via his new solo works. While lyrically & musically, he's taken a sidestep away from the more aggressive approach of his past in favor of a more reflective & personal style, he still knows how to rock it when necessary. Pulling no punches, Sebastien's crafted a muscular & smart rock record that will surprise. Reminiscent at times of Broken Social Scene, The Replacements, Spoon, Wilco, The Cars. Nice stuff! PITCHFORK: "When Grainger goes by his given name, it means he's all about two things only: the rock, and the roll." SaddleCreek CD $12.50 Grainger, Sebastien Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains PS, US 180gm vinyl w/ MP3 digital download card. SaddleCreek LP $14.25 Harvey Milk My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be PS, US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY! LTD ED OF 500 ONLY!! 2LP vinyl reissued for the 1st time in over 10 yrs, their debut album is finally available once again. This is ground zero for one of the 90s last true cult bands; now legendary for churning ghostly wailings, unearthly bellows, & gentle whispers together into one soaring, crawling, ugly & beautiful blend of brilliance. An essential listening for all fans of hard & heavy post-rock. Comes w/ 12x12 insert. Don't sleep on this! Chunklet DLP $20.50 Hatchback Colors of the Sun PS, US Anyone for Californian Cosmic Krautrock Disco? After the runaway success of 2007's 'Milky Disco' compilation, Lo Recordings voyages ever deeper into the cosmic galaxy w/ the debut album from producer HATCHBACK. SAMUEL MILTON GRAWE is a Golden State native creating Neu-like motorik grooves, sunny disco moves, epic ambient journeys that rival Vangelis, Klaus Schulze or Roedelius for sheer electronic depth, & downtempo funk head-nodders with Kraftwerk keyboards, this is a such a perfect summer/fall album that it makes every day seem like bright. An array of vintage synthesizers, analog drum machines, and the venerable Fender Rhodes electric piano create classic sounds with a modern twist. If Dennis Wilson was still alive, he likely would have made music like this. Incl. the seminal "White Diamond" remixed by PRINS THOMAS, a big favorite of Ewan Pearson & Lindstrom & praised by Phonica Records as "a mind-blowing transmission of blissed out, life-affirming cosmic disco" LoRecordings CD $16.00 Hayden In Field & Town PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! FatPossum LP $13.00 Hearts of Palm UK For Life PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "is not actually a U.K. band, but rather a Bay Area trio fronted by songwriter and singer Erica Elektra (formerly of the Fancies). With Hearts of Palm U.K., she and cohorts Frankie Rose (percussion and keyboards) and Billy Kaye (cello) create a charmingly naïve-sounding electro-folk hybrid. The songs sound like the bedroom strummings of a talented young woman overlaid with elements of 1980s electronica, which, as it turns out, is exactly what they are -- the songs all started life as recordings of Elektra singing and accompanying herself on the guitar, and she added most of the other sounds later using a Korg workstation... Elektra seems to have that special kind of talent. And the album closes with what, in retrospect, feels like an inevitable cover version of "More Than This" by Roxy Music." Hypnote CD $11.00 Heavy Hands Smoke Signals PS, US An album of proto-metal power & simplicity wed to the deftest of melodic turns. LanguageofStone CD $13.25 Heavy Hands Smoke Signals PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LanguageofStone LP $14.75 Helms Alee Night Terror PS, US Seattle-based act carrying the best parts of grunge & the trinity of punk, indie, and stoner rock, this powerful trio lays waste w/ their debut. 10 tracks run the gamut of psychedelic grit, drugged-out drone jams, delicate melodic passages, & most of all, ferociously crushing heavy rock. Feat. current & former members of Harkonen, These Arms Are Snakes, Lozen, & Roy. LTD ED vinyl licensed from Hydra Head Records. RoboticEmpire LP $17.25 Henry Cow Stockholm and Goteborg PS, US The first new release for 30 years from this legendary audience-splitting British group, and the first featuring Georgina Born, the group's bassist between 1976-78. Remixed and re-mastered from the original Swedish radio tapes. Stockholm and Goteborg is the first volume of a 9 CD and one DVD set of unreleased material commemorating the band's 40th anniversary. LIMITED ReR CD $15.00 Herman Dune Next Year in Zion PS, US On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving, this is the Paisian duo's debut long-player. On Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and intricately constructed pop songs. On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving in 2008 (I Wish That I Could See You Soon and 1-2-3/Apple Tree), Next Year In Zion is the Parisian duo's debut long-player for the Los Feliz, California indie. It is the sound of Herman Dune, all grown up. Everloving CD $15.75 Hiroshi Nar & Nishinihon S-T PS, AUSTRALIA Originally issued by Lexicon Devil in 2005. This is a special one-time-only CD, limited to a pressing of 500, of a rare live meeting of minds: power trio Nishinihon (featuring Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple) and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary collector-scum/'60s/'70s Japanese uber-psych/garage destruction unit, Les Rallizes Denudes. Nishinihon are the amazing scorch 'n' burn three-man unit who've scarred eardrums for several years now with their acid-rock meltdown. Since his departure from Rallizes in 1978, Hiroshi has kept himself busy with a myriad projects running the scope of no wave, garage punk, Dada-rock and the occasional guest playing on an Acid Mothers disc. Suffice to say, his discography is as long as your arm and much more interesting. Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon (which said 5 times with a belly of booze can be a great game) celebrates exactly that: a one-off live meeting in Japan in December of 2001 between these musical titans. With Hiroshi penning three of the four songs present, there's definitely a heavy musical similarity to Les Rallizes; both "20 Yen For Each Additional" and "Machiko" possess that crawling, stumbling vibe of his previous band's best '70s work, the combination of his guitar twang and stuttering garage stomp resulting in a kind of Crazy Horse/Quicksilver hybrid. Even more explosive, are the furious guitar explosions of "Are You Lady?" and "Peep Up," two short(er) ditties that get straight to the point and drive it home in a most Stoogely manner. As it says on the back cover of this release: "Do you wanna teste this fuckin' sweet wonder rock world, Brother?" Hell, yes. LexiconDevil CD $12.25 Hitchcock, Robyn Luminous Groove [8 x LP boxset] PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited! YepRoc LP-BOX $88.00 Horrors/Suicide Shadazz PS, UK This is number two in Blast First Petite's year-long series of limited edition 10" vinyl EPs celebrating Alan Vega's 70th birthday. The UK band du jour The Horrors present their version of "Shadazz," specially recorded for this series, and delivered with a twisted dub menace that could point towards an expanding sound-world for these dark princes! Previously unreleased anywhere, the flipside begins with Suicide's 1980s NYC live version of "Radiation," and Nik Void (a new persona for Kaito's Nikki Colk) does a propulsive, 'tronic floor-filler for cool alt/art discos everywhere. Edition of 3,000, cover image by Alex Rose. BlastFirstPetite 10 $14.25 Hospital Ships Oh, Ramona PS, US Bedroom-pop solo album from Jordan Geiger (MINUS STORY, SHEARWATER). Influenced by the sounds of the Flaming Lips song from which the name Hospital Ships is drawn, Geiger's debut exudes a seasoning of classic influences including John Lennon, The Zombies & ELO. Packaged in a a18pt chipboard gatefold sleeve and lovingly hand assembled. Graveface CD $12.50 Husband & Knife An End PS, US Husband & Knife songs are earnest and soulful, at times evoking the spirit of powerful forces like Nick Drake, the young Paul Westerberg and even Johnny Cash in his darkest moments. But as with most worthwhile songwriters, KC Spidle is an artist of his own design, essentially crafting honest songs to make sense of a messed up life. He has always gone right to the bottom, exploring themes of suicide, poverty, alcoholism, and drug abuse. An End chronicles the latest chapter a hard separation and the ensuing fight against spiritual meltdown. This LP has been in the works for awhile. Although KC spent most of the last year touring with his band Dog Day, he managed to record dozens of versions of the album and scrap as many songs. Unlike the naked guitar and vocal approach of his previous effort Welcome Back to the Nothingness of Your Life, on An End, KC carefully crafts each song using multiple instruments, found sounds and objects, field records, and a pile of makeshift recording gear. His obsessive approach has produced a record which blends sound and song to beautifully capture yet another shadowy passage of time. Art by Rachael Parsons. Divorce LP $14.00 Hush Arbors S-T PS, US 43 minutes of blissed out forest folk that also finds itself knee-deep in organic drones. Keith Wood's high-pitched voice is the focal point which the music swirls around, & these songs emanate from the cosmos like a cathartic release from the sky. But don't be fooled, despite these cosmic aspirations this is music straight from the earth, covered in bark & soaked in soil. Digitalis CD $8.50 I Am Robot And Proud Uphill City PS, US I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Shawn-han says the theme of the new record is that of struggle and achievement in the big city. IARAP is syncopated multi-instrumental rhythms and playful, repetitive multi-dimensional melodies -- just the elixir your head needs. Shaw-Han mixes acoustic instrumentation; piano, guitar and drums seamlessly with his unique electronic keyboard sounds and percussive elements. This isn't difficult, experimental IDM that pulls the listener off the left side of the dial. This is complex composition that manages to simply delight. It's an exciting sound that gives one the feeling of flying fast & free through a heavenly modern green world of pop, beauty, and sunshine. Your brain chemicals are sure to be balanced after the first minute into the title track. "Since the 2006 album, i have done some traveling and playing shows around the world and visiting many cities. Its interesting for me to see how everyone is living in different ways but there are still similarities. In English, the word "Uphill" has a kind of a double meaning. It can be positive like "things are looking up", or it can mean something is very difficult like "uphill battle". I thought the city was like a symbol for the challenges that happen in your life." --Shaw-han Liem Darla-215 CD $12.25 I Am Robot And Proud Uphill City PS, US Limited edition of 1000 color vinyl with free album download. I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Darla-215 LP $15.00 I'm From Barcelona Who Killed Harry Houdini PS, US After two years of touring the world, Sweden's I'm From Barcelona return with "Who Killed Harry Houdini?", their sophomore album . The record is produced by Emanuel Lundgren and Fabian "Phatfabe" Torsson and the track "Gunhild" features the talented French singer SoKo. PITCHFORK: "I'm From Barcelona are the band that wrote the song that could make Israel and Hezbollah get along." Mute CD $15.25 International Jetsetters Heart Is Black EP PS, US "Honey-dipped 60's melodies drenched in oceanic swells of guitar noise..." - Oxford Bands, UK International Jetsetters is an Oxford based five piece. The band was formed in March 2007 by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer (The Jesus And Mary Chain) and bass player Bert Audubert. The line-up also features drummer Loz Colbert (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Ride), lead guitarist Paul Crozer, and vocalist Fi McFall. The Jetsetters have been best described by the British press (Nightshift Magazine) as "an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards." "Heart Is Black" is International Jetsetters debut six-song release. The EP blasts into the stratosphere with the full throttle, melodic guitar buzz, of "Inside Out" followed swiftly by the rhythm heavy groove of "Inside Yourself". "Never Slows Down" and "My Redemption" showcase Fi McFall's range as a singer. The low, breathy tones of the opening verses gradually ascend to pulsating choruses where she resonates like a siren. The title track "Heart is Black" strums and thumps with a dark atmospheric burn. The disc closes with a bit of a twist - A glaring early version of "Never Slows Down". International Jetsetters "Heart Is Black" CDEP hits quick and begs for repeated listens. It's a nice glimpse into what's in store from Oxford, UK's latest export. PlantingSeeds-057 CD5 $9.75 Isis Not in Rivers But in Drops PS, US Another single culled from the 2006 release "In the Absence of Truth." This single will feature a live version, recorded in Sept. of '06 at in Washington DC, a music video and a remix version of the song. Ipecac CD5 $6.00 Japanther Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt PS, US Keeping their tradition of contrast alive the lads have teamed up w/ Penny Rimbaud (CRASS) & released a record of punk songs & poetry. On the surface, that might sound like an odd combination, but this thing is truly a wild romp 'round Africa, the Bronx, San Pedro & Brooklyn, complete w/ faeries, bicycles & a few cans of spray paint. Their infectious, free spirited trash hasn't let up a teeny bit, it's just gotten more focused & rad somehow. WantageUSA LP $12.50 Jarboe Mahakali PS, US Featuring Phil Anselmo (PANTERA), Attila (MAYHEM), Colin Marston (BYLA), Kevin Hufnagel (BYLA) & Josh Graham (NEUROSIS, A STORM OF LIGHT). TheEnd CD $14.50 Johannes, Eero S-T PS, US After compilation tracks on Harmoenia & Flogsta Dancehall, multitalented Finnish graphic designer & electronic musician EERO JOHANNES PITKAENEN comes correct w/ his debut release, a S/T album on Planet Mu Records. Part of the internationally famous Scandinavian "Skweee" scene, his music stretches from Italo to electro-funk, Miami bass to R 'n' B, & beyond. ABOUT SKWEEE: Originally from Scandinavia, combines very simple synth leads & basslines with funk, R&B, & soul rhythms. It is a flourishing community based around online networks that are moving beyond those frontiers thanks to their personal overhaul of dance music. PlanetMu CD $16.00 Johannes, Eero S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PlanetMu DLP $19.25 Keane Perfect Symmetry [deluxe edition] PS, US New album with limited bonus disc. Interscope DCD $20.50 Keane Perfect Symetry PS, US New album. Interscope CD $16.25 Kemialliset Ystavat/Sunroof Split Series #19 PS, US Kemialliset Ystävät (it translates as 'chemical friends') are a loose collective from Tampere in southern Finland. Existing in dialogue amongst (and beyond) the hugely creative, diverse microcosm of the Finnish scene including artists like Avarus, Lau Nau, Es, Paavoharju, Islaja, Anaksimandros, and labels like Fonal, 247 Laatijaa, and Lal Lal Lal, Kemialliset Ystävät has become an influential node on the outsider noise/folk/ psych underground, finding international acclaim. Almost entirely self-taught and using a bewildering array of instruments and approaches, their sonic arsenal includes detuned guitars, bass, traditional / vernacular instrumentation (mandolins, balalaikas, etc.) hand percussion, all manner of electronic instruments, effects, toys and circuit-bent items, treated samples and vinyl manipulation. Playfully taking their own unique and unpredictable path, they have layered and fused together traditional Finnish (at times almost medieval-sounding) instrumentation and melodies with avant-garde electronics, psychedelic folk/rock, noise, electro-acoustic, and percussive tribal rhythms, creating a sense of ritualistic magic and flexible, group-mind improvisation, with the whole often subjected to brutal and precise editing. FatCatRecords-76 LP $11.50 Kossoff With Black Cat Bones, Paul Paul's Blues PS, UK This double CD contains the earliest known recordings of the UK's Paul Kossoff (Free), whose tragic death at 25 in 1976 robbed the rock world of one of its finest-ever blues guitarists. Taped at rehearsals with Black Cat Bones in London in 1967, the raw, lo-fi tracks find the teenaged Kossoff already a master of his instrument. Accompanied by musicians including Derek and Stuart Brookes (later to form the legendary Leaf Hound), and featuring a guest appearance from Paul Rodgers (later to form Free with Kossoff), the recordings are of considerable historical importance. They are released here for the very first time, along with a booklet featuring rare photographs, full liner notes and an introduction from the band's drummer, Frank Perry, making the album an essential purchase for all serious rock fans. Sunbeam DCD $22.25 Koushik Out My Window PS, US KOUSHIK's debut album, following several years of building his name through a series of low-key EPs on Stones Throw & remixes for Madvillain, Four Tet, & Light In The Attic Records. RIYD: Panda Bear, Four Tet, RJD2, Caribou/Manitoba. "He cobbles together frugal astral jazz, gentle funk, & 60s pop & folk using an array of keyboards & samplers - & its nice. The end result is a delectable pop record, w/ Koushik's heavy ambience & amorphous production combining to nudge his songs to their tingling crescendos."-PITCHFORK StonesThrow CD $16.00 Ladyhawke Paris Is Burning PS, US Aka Pip Brown from New Zealand releases her debut US EP. Serious song crafting with elements of vintage pop, electro and rock. Full length album due in November Modular CD5 $5.00 Lake Oh, The Places We'll Go PS, US "Oh, the places we'll go! Oh, we don't actually know!" The title track lyrics, with a nod to Dr. Seuss, have a wide-eyed, wondrous feeling, (and a hint of agnosticism) which finds itself popping up throughout the record. On their first K release, LAKE crafts up-beat, dance-able, psychedelic, uniquely sincere and unaffected pop songs, ranging from the jubilant, echoey, post-soul groove of Heaven to the sweet, polyrhythmic Green Arrows-inspired Bad Dream. Recorded at home, largely on cassette 8-track, this album, actually LAKE's third, has a slightly lo-fi, homemade feel as well showing evidence of their influence from prolific artists Karl Blau and R. Stevie Moore. Oh, the Places We'll Go represents a new direction for LAKE - more synthesizers, more up-beat, rhythmically-based songwriting - but it is also in keeping with their aesthetic, with contributing horn players and percussionists, male and female singers, group harmonies, sweet melodies and homespun production. LAKE's core membership is Ashley Eriksson, Eli Moore, Lindsay Schief, Andrew Dorsett, and Markly Morrison, a group of long-time friends based in Olympia, WA. The members of the band came from Washington, the Los Angeles area, and the Midwest but soon found themselves drawn together in the inspiring forests of the Pacific Northwest, and thus LAKE was born. Each is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in their own right, and contributing melodies and complementing one another's strong points has become the process for LAKE's intimately nurtured songwriting. Krecords-196 CD $11.50 Lake Oh, The Places We'll Go PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-196 LP $10.25 LaMontagne, Ray Gossip in the Grain PS, US RedInk CD $15.50 Like Honey Leaves PS, SWEDEN The full-length debut by Swedish Like Honey is a shoegazers dream. Full of references from the 90s it's a rare piece of vocals and guitars echoing the sounds of The Sundays, Dinosaur Jr., Ride and of course, The Jesus and Mary Chain." "They've only released two EPs, but they're so good that it really makes me eager for their full length album to come out. Just as their name suggest, Like Honey sounds a bit like Jesus & the Mary Chain, but with a definite Swedish take, and also a female singer. Listen to "Airport" and I'm sure you'll end up joining me in my worship." - Simon Tagestam, Its a trap.com Hybris-068 CD $16.25 Liles, Andrew Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) PS, UK Limited edition (600 copies) double LP pressed on colored vinyl. UK-based Andrew Liles' (Current 93, Nurse With Wound) latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests involved: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, Rose McDowall, Karl Blake, The Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel and Volcano The Bear's Daniel Padden all bestow unique and stunning contributions that soar along with Liles' unique brand of minimal surrealism. Obscure, accessible, incomprehensible and exceptional, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is testament to the breathtaking production talents of Andrew Liles -- arguably the most vital and original soundsmith of recent years. DirterPromotions DLP $33.75 Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too PS, US VINYL!! LP edits done by PRINS THOMAS. 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. SmalltownSupersound DLP $18.75 Lineland Logos For Love PS, US For a split second the actuality of language stood only to bear witness and inspire the sonic structures of love being erected around me, and in this moment I believed in principle of purpose. Only when English was interjected did I sense the imposing future and separate out the soundscape of this melodic passing clan from the music streaming through the speakers. Logos for Love presenting a variety of acoustic instrumentation pressed into each other with modern blips and squiggles like a structure of so much brightly colored modeling clay with an illuminated jeweled interior, embracing the ancient rhythms and language over the impeding future. Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, Hüsker Dü to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial fourtrack Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion (Audio Dregs 2003) over a three-year period, during which Felder expanded the material using music software on the home-built Dynavox 2000 computer and a growing array of vintage keyboards and novelty instruments. Songs have appeared on a few compilations and in several short independent films, including Back and Forthby James and Jeff Israel. AudioDregsRecordings-070 CD $12.25 Loquat Secrets of the Sea PS, US Growing up on a lake in Minnesota, living near one in southern Germany and finally meeting her bandmates on a little peninsula called San Francisco, water has surrounded Loquat singer/guitarist Kylee Swenson her whole life. And during the two years of writing and recording Loquat's second full-length album, Secrets of the Sea, the organic-meets- electronic guitar pop quintet weathered many crests and troughs. Swenson and bass player Anthony Gordon got married. Family members passed on. The turmoil of creating music prevailed. Produced by the Rondo Brothers (Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Bernie Worrell), the process of making Secrets of the Sea was a gravitational push and pull of emotion, from pain and frustration to happiness and solace. Recently finished with mixes by Talking House engineer Justin Lieberman (New Order, Blackalicious, The Matches), mastering by Bernie Grundman (Michael Jackson, Prince) and a remix by Zion-I's Amplive, Loquat can finally put its studio aggravations to rest. TalkingHouse CD $11.00 Lotus Eaters, The Silentspace PS, UK On Silentspace, the Lotus Eaters retain the stripped-down sound of their early work but update it with subtle touches of techno and trip-hop. On "Feel It," pulsating synths throb behind the soothing vocals of Coyle and Saree Williams. The Lotus Eaters had never used a female singer before, and the addition of Williams' lovely voice on "Feel It" heightens the track's sensual ambiance. While the jangly "Sara" is appealingly retro, the Lotus Eaters are most impressive when they're attempting the unexpected like the sped-up trip-hop rhythms of "Face of the Century" or the otherworldly psychedelia of "Lost in Flow." Fans of the group's youthful innocence might be stunned by the graphic bondage scenes detailed in the gripping "Minimal Emotion," but the Lotus Eaters grew up in their long absence. However, the band didn't get old; they simply got better. It might be difficult for some to connect with Silentspace at first, but it's almost impossible to let go after repeated spins; like the group, it's a sleeping beauty. CherryRed CD $17.75 Louris, Gary Acoustic Vagabonds PS, US Jayhawks/Golden Smog guy's new EP. Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks, and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. This EP is the companion piece to the critically acclaimed solo debut by Louris, Vagabonds. Produced by Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes, the CD features stripped down, more intimate versions of six standout tracks from Vagabonds. Ryko CD5 $8.50 Lowfish Frozen & Broken PS, CANADA Lowfish, a.k.a. Toronto's Gregory De Rocher, ranks among the worlds leading electronica producers. He has released records on some of independent dance music's most influential labels, has charted in North America and is noted for his punishing sets of live electronics. His clinical production style is both very modern and built on the DNA of early new wave and IDM. Sometimes dark, often melodic and multi-layered, Lowfish tracks strive for meaning, timelessness and quality. The weapons of choice are what they have been from the start; semi-operational analog synths, temperamental drum machines and scratchy recording gear. The name Lowfish is a reference to these dusty machines and his early lo-fi "ish" sound - thus Lowfish. With six albums and a stack of singles behind him, 2008 has seen Lowfish aggressively pushing his sound forward. He's been hard at work distilling his pristine electro and throbbing analog buzz into a new techno variant. The playfulness of yesteryear is somewhere deep in the background with the fine detail of machinery and staccato bass lines taking the fore. The result is "Frozen and Broken". Ten brand new tracks of edgy analog electronica reminiscent of Lowfish's famed Suction Records era IDM and an aberrant dance floor sound built from his most deviant sound palette to date. NoiseFactory-941 CD $13.50 Magic Lantern High Beams PS, US After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC's most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML's oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band's wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like 'Deathshead Hawkmoth' and 'Vampires In Heat' through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers ('Feasting On Energy') and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie ('Cactus Raga'). These are all of the Lanterns' classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def, thanks to Bobb Bruno's attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11x17 poster. Edition of 500. NotNotFun LP $17.00 Manual/Orange Crush Split EP [3" CD] PS, UK Limited to 500 copies. TRACKS: Manual: 'Miraparque', Orange Crush: 'A New Horizon', Orange Crush & Manual: 'Calderone', Manual: 'Ponderosa'. Silence-28 CD $8.25 McGregor, Chris Our Prayer PS, UK Another previously-unreleased gem from South African pianist/composer Chris McGregor and his cohorts in '60s UK free jazz. Our Prayer was culled from the same sessions that produced the also never-released Up To Earth in 1969 and was produced by Joe Boyd and engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques studio. The previous year they had signed to Joe Boyd's illustrious Witchseason production company alongside Fairport Convention, John and Beverley Martyn, Nick Drake and the Incredible String Band. Our Prayer comprises a magical trio set, focusing on McGregor's piano playing, accompanied by the Blue Note's Louis Moholo on drums and Barre Phillips on double bass. Both Our Prayer and Up To Earth records were planned for release in 1969 before being shelved as the McGregor group morphed into the spectacular big band, the Brotherhood of Breath, and all energies were transferred to recording the Brotherhood's debut album. Fledgling CD $16.25 Melodium Cerebro Spin PS, US Melodium speaks; there starts a romantically slow game of pong between the hemispheres of brain. The sound speeds. I listen, and there is harmony now between the players, and reluctance towards competition. They play on. Melodically Melodium speaks. Faster, onward towards the polyrhythmic rally! All praise repetitive motion, be stilling thus Zen. The tones of play fashion an energetic path, a melodic relation of right and left. Only when Melodium pauses for a breath do I remember moments can be filled with splitting silence; that I am here and this is somewhere other then the pong game of my mind. Keep speaking. Melodium is the moniker of Laurent Girard, a rather prolific electronic musician from Nantes, France with an obsession for melodies. Weaving bits of guitar, piano, synthesizer, flute or bits of voice and texture to create patterns in sound and small personal soundtracks that are at once somber, while retaining a feeling of sunny optimism. Golden waves of sound with rough-hewn edges that sound both dreamy and melancholic and simultaneously warm and shiny. AudioDregsRecordings-071 CD $12.25 Menahan Street Band Make the Road By Walking PS, US A collaboration of musicians from SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, EL MICHELS AFFAIR, & BUDOS BAND. W/ influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield & Mulatu Astatke, the group creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush. Daptone CD $13.50 Midori Hirano Klo:yuri PS, JAPAN The intricate fusion of the piano, strings, and electronics created a structural beauty reminiscent of chamber music in her first album "LushRush." The album founded upon her musical sophistication foretold a new generation of music and was best illustrated by listeners as "post classical." Almost two years since then, Noble is happy to once again release an album by Midori Hirano in her 2nd album, "Klo;yuri". Midori's murmuring vocal heard only in a few of the songs in her previous album are back again in almost half of the tracks with a slightly stronger voice in comparison to the last. The artist worked alone on almost everything from the composition to remix in her previous album. This time, Hiromits Shoji of Soundworm has taken on the mix and mastering to bring tenfold the depth and strength to the album with his unique musical structuring. The tingling excitement of improvisation and the spiritual melody like sacred music...the fragile but thoughtful voice and suggestive lyrics like an ancient European... Midori Hirano's new album is a woven fabric of originality that proves the artistic maturation of the artist and her sounds with its deep stoicism and beauty is awaiting for you to enter its labyrinth of sound. Noble-1235 CD $17.00 Mountains Sewn PS, US 2006 release, restocks. "Apestaartje co-founders Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp follow up their critically-acclaimed self-titled debut as Mountains with this second offering of slowly evolving sound. Recorded over several lengthy excursions outside the confines of the city in upstate New York and Connecticut, Sewn invokes a sense of ease and delicate precision. A beautiful combination of clean crisp texture and warm pulsating harmony that shows a group developing and expanding their sound with an extreme attention to detail that reflects new layers in each melody and texture. Eight tracks that combine live instrumentation (guitar, piano, accordion, harmonica etc..), binaural field recordings and resonant electronic processing to create a wide range of electro-acoustic experience. From the folkish acoustic guitar of 'Sewn Two' and 'Bay,' to the densely layered organic din of 'Hundred Acre' and the psychedelic minimalism of 'Sheets', Sewn shows a group as equally invested in melody as it is in experimentation. Music for listening." Apestaartje CD $12.00 Music, The Strength In Numbers PS, UK New album. UME CD $12.25 Nadja Trembled PS, US Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by Utech in the summer of 2006 on limited cdr. The principal live recordings from Toronto have been remixed/remastered & include a rare performance of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely." The core of the release, though, is "Tremble", a cascading improvisation of drift & atmospherics revealed to audiences on an occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity w/which Nadja create & why the band has become so highly regarded. Exclusive material has also been added to the ultimate document of Nadja at their most electric & empyreal. Limited Edition of 900 Utech CD $15.50 Negura Bunget Om PS, US Another crucial vinyl release of this superb album. NEGURA BUNGET is now considered as one of the best underground black metal bands in the world and are finally back after the acclaimed CD N Crugu Bradului. OM is a stellar opus, a concept-album dealing with Purification, part of a Ritual to transform the listener into an evolved individual. Vinyl version includes a bonus track not found on the Audioblobe released CD. Enucleation DLP $22.00 Nico Desertshore PS, US 1970 Reprise album finds Nico reunited with her Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale as producer, main instrumentalist & harmony vocalist. Co-produced by Joe Boyd (legendary producer of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & Incredible String Band), contains 8 songs of deep haunting beauty featuring Nico's dark voice & harmonium & is one of her very best solo LPs. Used as soundtrack for 1971 Philippe Garrel's experimental French film "La Cicatrice Interieure". Reissue has new exclusive liners by Dawson Prater & Dean Roberts. Audiophile remastering from original tapes. 180gm vinyl w/ original art. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Norma Book of Norma PS, US Swedish shoegaze/dreamrock duo Norma's new album is available now. Those of you who snapped up their incredible debut EP (available again, very limited stock) understand what's at stake here. Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Modern references may be Silverbullit, 120 Days, Serena Maneesh and the Lionheart Brothers. Novoton CD $13.00 North Ruins (LP/CD) PS, US Reissue of their sophomore effort, now on a deluxe LP/CD combo. This is the bands final album before picking up vocalist Kyle Hardy & stands out among the instrumentals of bands such as Pelican & Red Sparowes. CavityRecords LP $17.50 Nudge Infinity Padlock PS, US 4 song EP addressing the fragility of memory, the hopelessness of the drug war, the death of close friends & other similarly breezy topics. Contains 2 ancient tunes, 2 recent tunes, 2 sung by Honey, 2 sung by Brian. These conflicted pop songs are a gorgeous bummer. LIMITED TO 500. Audraglint CD $6.75 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Lantern PS, US Collapsible 10" x 12" hanging paper lantern with original art by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Wall Decal Set PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by David Barnes; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized) Polyvinyl MISC $31.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Wall Decal Set PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by Gemini Tactics; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized) Polyvinyl MISC $31.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Tote Bag PS, US Sturdy black canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and original print by David Barnes. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Tote Bag PS, US Sturdy natural canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and two-sided print by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Button Set PS, US Set of nine 1.25" buttons designed by David Barnes and Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged on a 5"x7" card in a clear poly bag. Polyvinyl MISC $23.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes T-Shirt PS, US Original design by David Barnes printed on an ultra soft blue American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl TS $20.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics T-Shirt PS, US Original design by Gemini Tactics printed on an ultra soft orchid color American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl TS $20.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP on 180 gram vinyl includes giant die-cut poster exclusive to the LP. Polyvinyl LP $21.75 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping PS, US Skeletal Lamping absolutely delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. It's unpredictable, completely unique, and epic. And while of Montreal's albums have always been epic, Skeletal Lamping is an unprecedented achievement that will be talked about for years. Super-duper 32-panel pop-up/accordion/gatefold sleeverino. Polyvinyl CD $14.00 Organ, The Thieves EP PS, US Posthumous final recordings from pre-Mermaids oufits. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Though the Organ broke up in late 2006, the group reunited a little over a year later to record the handful of tracks that would have appeared on their second album, had they survived long enough to finish it. Thieves finds the Organ's music evolving even after the fact -- these songs are quieter and more contemplative than nearly anything on Sinking Hearts or Grab That Gun... Thieves' production is cleaner and more direct than the band's previous work, highlighting Sketch's haunting voice and melodies... Some of the Organ's prettiest and most mature moments are tucked away here, and Thieves plays like a fitting wake for the band." Mint CD5 $10.50 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Everything With You b/w The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart PS, US Since forming in early 2007, the POBPAH have released a handful of EPs & comp tracks on classy labels like Slumberland, Atomic Beat & Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation. The band's breathless noise-pop sound has garnered them critical acclaim from such quarters as Stereogum, Big Takeover, Skatterbrain, Drowned In Sound, Clash Magaine & many others. The 1st cut is from their debut album (due Jan.2009) - a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship. An infectious blast of pop perfection - timeless noise pop gems. Slumberland 45 $6.25 Panthers Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Remixes) PS, US Ex-Troubleman group & anthemic stoner rock act PANTHERS commissioned remixes for their single "Goblin City," the lead trk from their 2nd album, 'The Trick' (Vice, 2007). Around the release of that album, they asked HOLY GHOST! & RUN-ROC (aka DJ McNany) to execute respective remixes of this single. The remixes are properly released here together on vinyl. Holy Ghost! deliver one of the most relentlessly snappy disco dubs in quite some time, while Run-Roc concocted an excellent, old school acid house remix. DFA 12 $8.00 Park Hotell Free For Friends PS, SWEDEN Park Hotell come from Luleå in Northern Sweden and they've been sneaking around the indie-scene for a while now. The members have played with both Mattias Alkberg BD and The Bear Quartet. In October Park Hotell will release their debut album. It was recorded in the Hives' Studio Gröndahl earlier this year. Demon producer Jari Haapalainen (Bear Quartet guitarist and producer for Ed Harcourt, Concretes and Camera Obscura) produced and played the drums, and the twin sisters Johanna and Miriam E. Berhan from Taxi Taxi! sang the backing-vocals. A bit less fuzzy-wuzzy and a bit more streamlined and jet-propelled these new recordings offer guitars that recalls Kevin Shields riding tempos stolen from The Wedding Present. UltraRadio CD $14.00 Parties Can't Come Down PS, US Catchy, 60's-inspired pop songs blanketed by powerful harmonies. Lead vocals are shared, adding variety & texture to memorable melodies. Drawing comparisons to Asteroid #4, Velvet Underground, & Luna, this strong, dynamic power pop four-piece inspires even the truest wallflower to put down the punch & join the party. RainbowQuartz CD $13.50 Parts & Labor Receivers PS, US Brooklyn noise-punk outfit Parts & Labor has dramatically altered their wall-of-sound: Their fourth album, Receivers, finds P&L focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they are now utilizing the full possibilities of a band that was once a scrappy punk trio, and now a mature art-rock quartet. It's is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and even the spaced out psychedelia of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd. Jagjaguwar-133 LP $12.25 Parts & Labor Receivers PS, US Brooklyn noise-punk outfit Parts & Labor has dramatically altered their wall-of-sound: Their fourth album, Receivers, finds P&L focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they are now utilizing the full possibilities of a band that was once a scrappy punk trio, and now a mature art-rock quartet. It's is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and even the spaced out psychedelia of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd. Jagjaguwar-133 CD $11.50 Piano Creeps Future Blues (For Me & You) PS, US Beautiful pop songs from members of 90's alt-pop band MADDER ROSE. The band made four albums, toured the world, headlining the Melody Maker stage at England's Reading Festival & enjoying critical approval. After Madder Rose, Billy Coté created the nihilist slackhop project Jazz Cannon while Mary Lorson explored her inner auteur on three Saint Low discs (Cooking Vinyl). While all this was going on, Kathy Ziegler was touring as a multi-instrumentalist with Abra Moore, Jim Lauderdale, and Donna the Buffalo, winning international songwriting competitions & finding time to write/produce three excellent solo albums. LIMITED TO 500! Kora CD $11.25 Pioulard, Benoit Temper PS, US The double LP vinyl version of this release also includes the Precis album, issued on vinyl for the first time. Kranky DLP $14.75 Pioulard, Benoit Temper PS, US Composed throughout a yr that involved graduation from university & a cross-continental relocation, its 16 tracks arose in specific periods of intense creative energy. W/ soft-edged vocals & a broad palette of instruments that lately incl. harmonium & cello, he constructs diverse arrangements that skirt the borders of pop w/ beautiful, detailed atmospheres. Kranky CD $12.25 Pit Er Pat High Time PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited edition wax comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ huge fold out insert & free MP3 download code. ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Pit Er Pat High Time PS, US PIT ER PAT's recorded output has no easily definable style. It instead represents their evolution as modern musicians, whose affinity for pop & melody is filtered through their desire to have a truly singular voice. Modern Music if you will. Their musical focus remains firmly grounded in rhythm, while incorporating a strong sense of melody & harmony to dance above the complex rhythms & to stretch the layers to new heights. Here they employed a variety of new instruments incl. electric kalimba, horns, bobo balaphone, Burmese temple gongs, agogo bells, timbale, congas, bongos, bells, chimes, etc - more normally used in traditional & spiritual music. These tools helped the band escape into new experiments - be they mystical or introspective explorations of the terrible joy of existence. The gentle & driving grooves are irresistable as delicate layers reveal w/ every listen. CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket. ThrillJockey CD $13.00 Plinth/Textile Ranch The Rest, I Leave To The Poor PS, UK "The Rest, I Leave To The Poor" is a postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch (Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44-minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherworldly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice. MakeMineMusic-051 CD $14.25 Plinth/Textile Ranch The Rest, I Leave To The Poor PS, UK A postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch (Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44 minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherworldly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice. Plinth, of course, is no stranger to Victoriana. In 2007, the Dorset based multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Dorset Paeans record label released, 'Plays Victorian Machine Music' - an EP made up entirely from sounds generated by antiquated parlor machines and music boxes. MakeMineMusic-051 CD $16.25 Pocahaunted Chains PS, US Yellow colored vinyl release from L.A.'s blissed-out drone outfit, Pocahaunted. Pick it up for the Fleetwood Mac cover. TeenageTeardrops LP $13.75 Pompeii Nothing Happens For A Reason PS, US The follow-up to their debut, "Assembly". Imagine if you somehow found a way to release your heartfelt admissions and fears with grace and intelligence. Enter Austin quintet Pompeii, whose subtly haunting indie rock anthems are laden with smart, soaring instrumentals and just the right amount of discretion. A harmonic masterpiece filled with grand symphonic nuances. Eyeball CD $12.50 Primeridian Da Mornin Afta PS, US PRIMERIDIAN is back! This one produced exclusively by beat-makers from the UK & Europe, this has a different vibe from previous works. They still showcase their soulful & smooth hip hop vibe w/ songs like "Take You There" feat. IMANI from THE PHARCYDE. Other musical/production guests incl. YAW, NICOLAY, WILLOW, J-ROSE, DJ STEADY, NALEDGE (from KIDZ IN THE HALL), etc. To add vocal variety, SIMEON & TREE have added a 3rd MC to the fold, who goes by the name RACE. Fans of the PRIME won't be disappointed, as the crew stays close to their roots keeping the music soulful & creative. AllNatural CD $11.50 Quatrain Quatrain [Bonus Tracks] PS, US Mention the sole and frighteningly rare 1968 LP by L.A.'s Quatrain among devoted psych collectors, and the response will likely be a unison chorus of solemnly nodding heads. Slip a copy of this lost, heavy monster on the turntable, however, and those same heads will bang hard in wah-wah-smeared, acid-rock ecstasy. From '65 to '69, Quatrain was a regular attraction on the Southern California scene, working as the house band at the popular Topanga Corral and up and down the Sunset Strip. 'We played places like the Hullabaloo, the Stratford,' recalls Quatrain drummer Jim Lekas. 'We shared bills with The Byrds, Love, Buffalo Springfield, went up against Spirit in a battle of the bands. We used to play with The Leaves all the time. It was just an incredible period, so much great music going on. And we were right there in the middle of it.' Produced and engineered by future Neil Young producer David Briggs, Quatrain burns with stinging fuzz-guitar leads ('Fragments,' 'Ask Me No Questions,' the cryptic 'Flowing Robes') and floats and flickers like orange sunshine ('Rollin,' 'The Tree')." Featuring 8 previously-unissued bonus tracks, and extensive liner notes that fold out into a poster. Sundazed CD $17.00 Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month S/T PS, US VINYL VERSION, includes CD too. SoftAbuse-028 LP $13.75 Radiohead Amnesiac [Limited Edition] (Limited Edition, 2PC) PS, US Capitol 2X10 $22.00 Rapoon Obscure Objects of Desire PS, POLAND This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted. It's about the unobtainable, all consuming and immaterial. About the irrelevant and the irrational. The dark torments, the lighthearted banter as well as the victories and the defeats. It's about the achievements, the failures the loves and the losses. When all of the aforementioned are accounted for, there remains only "The obscure objects of desire". Vivo-039 CD $15.50 Red Favorite S-T PS, US A cycle of compositions for guitars, electronics & voices created by Jeremy Pisani - first released as a limited edition CD on Spirit of Orr. Streamline LP $14.75 Religious Knives The Door PS, US Consisting of members of Double Leopoards, Mouthus, etc, RK has been an active 4-piece for a little more than a year now. They have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles, long gone burns & one full-length. Here they traced a path away from the clamour they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals & solemn basslines in reedy organs, recalcitrant modular synths & spare Kraut repetition. The seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these 8 hands such a set plays as anything but, instead a (cough) syrupy stroll in search of the ghosts of rock's classicist past. EcstaticPeace CD $10.00 Restiform Bodies TV Loves You Back PS, US A dark & dense, art-twisted, New Wave-inflected hip-pop marvel. Strains of ghettotech, crunk & hyphy magically twirp & twirl w/ Eno-like atmospherics & buoyant bass swells, while rapper/songbird PASSAGE warps his vocals over blistering synth. Anticon CD $16.00 Restiform Bodies TV Loves You Back PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anticon LP $16.00 RTX JJ Got Live Ratx PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 RTX JJ Got Live Ratx PS, US Flashy virtuoso drums, full-wave synth sweeps & shred guitar that will knock you on your ass. Jennifer's pipes are smokin' & she's offering no mercy. Skyscraping power chords, arcing from the walls of solid concrete blocks. Huge hooks that would twist the biggest shark in the pond. DragCity CD $13.25 Runaway Brooklyn Club Jam PS, US Debut DFA release from Brooklyn-based duo comprised of minimal-techno auteur MARCOS CABRAL (Trapez) & disco gadabout JACQUES RENAULT (Editions Disco), w/ remix work under their collective belt for Moby & LCD Soundsystem. BRENNAN GREEN, a fixture behind the booming NYC disco scene, offers a can't-miss remix of the thumping, anthemic original. DFA 12 $8.00 Sea And Cake Car Alarm PS, US This 2008 album is their 8th full-length & finds TSAC at their most inspired & most rockin' in quite some time. Here they manage to perfectly combine some of their best past efforts ('The Biz,' 'Nassau,' 'The Fawn,' etc.) into one great record. The exciting sound of a well-oiled band in fine form - perfectly seamless. Great stuff! CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket. ThrillJockey CD $14.00 Sea And Cake Car Alarm PS, US Vinyl version comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ free MP3 download code. ThrillJockey LP $12.00 Secret Machines S-T PS, US New album. TSM CD $15.25 Spacemen 3 DJ Tones PS, UK Spacemen 3 have a limited edition (2000 copies) 5 track mini-album released by Space Age Recordings in cardboard sleeve wallet on October 20th which features 2 previously unreleased Spacemen 3 tracks, a radically different mix of the classic Spacemen 3 cover of the Red Krayola's 'Transparent Radiation' and appearing for the first time on CD, the ultra rare remix of 'I Love You' (originally only 50 promo white label vinyl copies were ever pressed). Rounding off this mini-album is a studio version of Ecstasy Symphony. Track listing: These Blues Transparent Radiation (violin mix) Modulated Tones I Love You (remix) Ecstasy Symphony Spacemen 3 consisted of the core duo of Jason Pierce (Spiritualized) and Sonic Boom a.k.a Peter Kember (Spectrum & E.A.R.) who formed the group in Rugby , Warwickshire, having met at art college. Other members of what would become a fluid lineup over the years included Pete Bain (Bassman, also of The Darkside), Natty Brooker, Sterling Roswell (Rosco), Will Carruthers, Jonny Mattock (Slipstream), and for the final few shows, Mark Refoy (also of Slipstream). From the outset Spacemen 3 had a very defined set of aesthetic principles. They based almost their entire sound on their own concept of minimalism - droning guitars, feedback, as few chords as possible, pounding drums - with their motto 'Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to'. Their minimalism bled into their stage show as well. Sitting down to play their guitars and covered in the spinning colours of a cheap psychedelic light show, their stage 'act' was very anti-performance. Another striking aspect of Spacemen 3 was their willingness to cover and share their influences. Song titles, lyrics and interviews were peppered with references to bands and artists they believed shared their 'minimal is maximal' aesthetic. The Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, the Stooges, the MC5, early Captain Beefheart, free jazz musician Sun Ra, the Silver Apples, 1960s garage punk such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, the Electric Prunes, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and other surf bands, 1980s rockabilly groups the Cramps, the Gun Club, Tav Falco, blues and gospel acts like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, the Staple Singers and John Lee Hooker, and the production techniques of Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Delia Derbyshire were just some of the names mentioned by the band. SpaceAge-028 CD $16.25 Spectrum & Silver Apples A Lake of Teardrops [re-issue] PS, UK Pete Kember a.k.a. Sonic Boom of Spectrum worked with the seminal 60's act Silver Apples on a six track mini album originally released by Space Age Recordings in 1998. Having been out of print for many years now a limited re-pressing of 500 copies will be available from 20th October to meet demand for this release. From the opening surging waves of 'Streams Of Sorrow' with its controlled chaos and intoxicating vocals, through 'The Edge's' mesmerizing monotone backing to Simeon's 90's beat poetry - like Allen Ginsberg reincarnated into his most abstract nightmare, 'Whirlwind' with its plaintive vocals and warped ambience held together by a trademark Sonic Boom drone pattern, to '(I Don't Care if You) Never Come Back's' almost industrial-tribal percussion, fleshed out by those unique Silver Apples oscillations and Spectrum's ever present sense of wayward genius. 'A Lake Of Teardrops' is a spellbinding trip into the minds of two of the finest experimental composers ever. SpaceAge-016 CD $16.25 Springsteen, Bruce/Suicide Dream Baby Dream PS, UK This is the first in Blast First Petite's year-long series of monthly(ish) limited edition 10" vinyl EPs celebrating the 70th birthday of Suicide's Alan Vega. The first track is "The Boss" himself Bruce Springsteen doing a cover of "Dream Baby Dream," live from his 2005 Devils & Dust Tour -- exclusively available here. Totally haunting and unexpected! The flipside features Suicide performing that song on the Midnight Special live TV show in 1978 -- recently recovered from a lost Suicide vault and previously unreleased -- as well as a ripping cover of "Mr. Ray" by now-defunct contemporary New York band, Beat The Devil. Subsequent editions in this series will include tributes by artists such as The Horrors, Peaches, Primal Scream, SUNN O)))/Pansonic, Lydia Lunch, The Klaxons, Julian Cope, Liars, Spiritualised, and Grinderman. Edition of 4,000 black vinyl. Cover image: Stars by Edward Mapplethorpe (brother of Robert Mapplethorpe), 1994. BlastFirstPetite 10 $14.25 Stills, The Oceans Will Rise PS, US THE STILLS formed in Montreal in 2000, & shortly thereafter relocated to NYC as one of the 1st signings to Vice Recordings. The band rose to prominence in 2004 w/ the release of their debut album, 'Logic Will Break Your Heart.' In late 2007, Arts & Crafts signed the band to a worldwide recording deal. Once again working w/ producer Gus van Go, The new material, beginning w/ the anthemic lead single, "Being Here," conveys a rejuvenated, reinvigorated sense of being. Arts&Crafts CD $16.00 Stills, The Oceans Will Rise PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Arts&Crafts LP $17.00 Stone Breath Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Expanded) PS, US The third in series of Stone Breath reissues, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". The deep woods folk & acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define "wyrdfolk." Expanded here to two CDs with many rare & previously unreleased recordings. Hand/Eye DCD $15.25 Super XX Man Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds PS, US New album. TenderLoving CD $12.25 Swarm Still At War PS, US Philly's premier drum n' bass crew steps up to the plate with this double CD album and mix, combining hip hop, dancehall and old skool jungle influences into a melting pot of dynamic beats. Created by Mason, DStar, Trust, MC Armanni, and MC Sharpness, Gasm's Still at War is a powerful collection of urban anthems, Philly street-style. TRACKLIST: CD 1: ALBUM 1. Mason & Dstar feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 2. Trust - Saving Grace 3. Mason & Noah D - The Product 4. Dstar - Roll Callz 5. Dstar - Just How Blind 6. Mason - Devil's Poem 7. Dstar - 2Rude! 8. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 9. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 10. Dstar - Fist Extra Artillery 11. Trust feat. Mental Sharp - P.H.I.L.L.Y VIP 12. Mason feat. MC Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 13. Noah D - Cool and Deadly CD2: MIX 1. Swarm - Intro 2. Mason & Dstar Feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 3. Perpetuum - Fate of a Legend 4. Mason - Devil's Poem 5. Dstar - Evilution 6. Ixis - Smash to Bits 7. Dstar - Marshal Law 8. Mason - Rada 9. Dstar - 2Rude! 10. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata & Focus - Burgandy 11. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 12. Dstar - Ya Sexy Gal 13. Mason - A&B 14. Dstar - 40K 15. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata - Ricochet 16. Mason feat. Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 17. Dstar - Fist (A Special Dedication) 18. Chino - Rush 19. Perpetuum - 10s 20. Mason & Dstar vs. Focus - The Big Shutdown 21. Mason & Noah D -The Product 22. Dstar - Just How Blind 23. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Breakout 24. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 25. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Only You 26. Noah D - Cool and Deadly 27. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Saving Grace 28. Dstar - Roll Callz Gasm/OhmResistance-001 DCD $13.75 Swervedriver Ejector Seat Reservation [expanded re-issue] PS, UK Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1995 album from the British shoegaze-rock legends featuring three rare bonus tracks ('Maelstrom', 'The Directors Cut Of Your Life' and 'Just Sometimes') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total. Sony CD $16.75 Tar Babies Face The Music/Respect Your Nightmares PS, AUSTRALIA Originally issued on the Lexicon Devil label in 2005. In 1982, the Tar Babies were burning up half-pipes and blazing venues with their hyper-speed punk rock. More well known for their late '80s LPs on the famed SST label, in which they veered towards a more DC-influenced "punk-funk" sound, and the subsequent acclaim that their drummer, Dan Bitney, acquired with Tortoise, the Babies were also one of the great, and tragically overlooked Midwestern hardcore bands of the original era, releasing two phenomenal 12" EPs on their own Bone Air imprint in '83 and '85, respectively. This CD hopes to rectify that obscurity by putting these two long-out-of-print discs back onto the marketplace for the first time on CD, with a ton of bonus material as a special treat. Inside you will find: The complete Face The Music and Respect Your Nightmares EPs, which featured early production work by Bob Mould and Butch Vig; "The Ocean" track from the Master Tapes 2LP; "Caleb's Getting Mad" from their 5-song demo cassette from 1982 (the other tracks are on FTM); five previously-unreleased songs from the era, taken from the vaults of the TB's Bucky Pope, as well as alternate versions of two EP tracks; reproductions of the original artwork from the EPs, plus a collage of flyers, photos and reviews from the era in a 10-panel booklet. Liner notes from Bucky Pope himself. All of this has been digitally edited, sequenced and fiddled with by Melbourne-via-Chicago audio whiz-kid, Casey Rice. The music the Tar Babies were pumping out in '82/'83 was an awesome collision course of Black Flag-style tension/release and heart-thumping thrash copped from a heavy diet of Minor Threat 7"s. Think the ferocity of early Die Kreuzen, Negative Approach, Necros, and you're in the ballpark. By '85, things had changed. The pace had slowed a touch, and most of all, Bucky was pumping out highly inventive riffs in an angular Eddie Hazel/Hendrix/Greg Ginn vein. Sharing the stage with a host of HC heroes and a bevy of SST folks criss-crossing the U.S. on their never-ending tours, the band caught the attention of Mr. Ginn and the rest is history. That is, of course, except for their 1982-1985 output. That is all here, and it's a rip-snorting collection. 25 tracks and 47 minutes of trailblazing, fist-pumping slampit rama-lama from a time when people really meant it. LexiconDevil CD $12.25 Telepathe Chrome's On It PS, US Telepathe give us a glimpse of a pop future that confidently fuses kraut jams, urban beats and Gang Gang Dance-style rhythms into a hypnotic, droning whole. If this is the sound of what's to come, then we certainly have something to look forward to. - Drowned In Sound. Telepathe started as a side project for Melissa Livaudis and Busy Gangnes, who were part of First Nation and Bloodlines respectively. IamsoundRecords CD $6.50 Tobacco Fucked Up Friends PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Fucked Up Friends is the Anticon debut of Black Moth Super Rainbow member Tobacco. It's completely analog and almost completely instrumental, aside from a cameo by Aesop Rock on lead-off single "Dirt." Tobacco secluded himself in rural Pennsylvania to record the album using analog synths and tape machines, which keeps it at a fair distance from the current dominance of laptop wizardry. Fucked Up Friends has been described as "darker, starker, and altogether more badass" than his work with BMSR, which, to put it simply, should attract the musically adventurous." Anticon CD $15.00 Transmission Sublimity PS, UK This is one amazing ride from a four-headed creative monster on heat that manages to blend musical beauty, torrential passion and sheer malevolence, sometimes in the space of one track...First sound on opening track Albion is Youth's unmistakable heaving bass before Big Paul Ferguson steams in with the heaviest drums in the business. Once the original Killing Joke rhythm section is underway on a crunching post-punk funk vamp, Simon Tong's guitar appears in shrapnel clusters lashed by Tim Bran's unearthly synth. Musical fireworks might be expected from a line-up like this and Sublimity, the second album by Transmission, doesn't disappoint. The pedigree is impeccable: Youth's production credentials, his time with Paul in the Joke before ahead-of-its-time super funk ensemble Brilliant. Simon's stint in the Verve line-up which made Urban Hymns then Gorillaz and Damon Albarn and Paul Simenon's The Good, The Bad & The Queen. Dreadzone co-founder Tim Bran plays with Subsonar and The Orb. The group started gestating after Youth and Simon became friends during the Urban Hymns sessions, which the former co-produced. Tim entered the fray then, Paul in Spring 2005 after he met Youth at a Malicious Damage party and heard some demos. Three months later they recorded debut album Beyond Light in three days at London's legendary Olympic studios. MaliciousDamage-636 CD $16.25 Tuneful Trolley Island In The Sky PS, UK Discovered and championed by Jay And The Americans, The Tuneful Trolley were a psych-pop sextet with a knack for writing and performing solid Beatles-esque rock. With a sizable following in their home base of Long Island, New York, The Tuneful Trolley released Island In The Sky in 1968 to national indifference, this despite containing all the elements of an instant smash. Island In The Sky is a glorious atoll, indeed, landscaped with fuzz guitars, oboes, melodic Beach Boys-esque harmonies, and garage pop sensibilities. All this from a band in their mid-teens! The lads wrote most of their material, and recorded their own tracks! This first-ever CD issue of their long-out-of-print Capitol LP is supplemented by rare Mono single mixes, none of which have ever been issued on CD. The 16-page color booklet also includes rare, unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of original band members. Produced by Sandy Yaguda of Jay And The Americans. Remastered from the original master tapes! NowSound CD $17.00 Various Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples PS, US By 1967, East St. Louis, Illinois, once dubbed an "All American" city by the US Chamber Of Commerce, had become St. Louis, Missouri's evil twin. Unemployment, drug addiction & vicious gang activity put a dark & heavy lid on a bi-state area that once cooked-up world-changing talent by the likes of Chuck Berry, Josephine Baker & Miles Davis. But both cities still spawned heroes, and ALLEN MERRY was one of them. Already a living legend for his early work w/ Ray Charles & Ike Turner, Merry channeled his talent into teaching, forming the YOUNG DISCIPLES through the South End Community Center to keep kids off the streets, out of the gangs & into the studio, where young men & women spiraling downward could ride the spiral groove upward on Merry's own YODI, GATEWAY & MERRY labels. W/ nearly 80 local youths involved from both sides of the Mississippi, the YOUNG DISCIPLES (named after one of the area's most notorious gangs) encompassed solo acts, duos, male & female vocal groups, a massive horn section & a troupe of African dancers. Every sweat-drenched recording incl. here emerged from this grass-roots organization that changed, if not saved, lives. LP forthcoming Numero CD $15.75 Various Birmingham Sound: Soul of Neal Hemphill Vol. 2 PS, US Volume 2, celebrating the body of work recorded at the original Sound of Birminham & Hemphill studios in Midfield, AL focusing on the soul music created between the mid 60's/late 70's. It gives a rare glimpse into the beautiful output from a group of artists who based the descrimination of their peers on their ability to create music in a city historically known for violence & racial divide. Feat FREDERICK KNIGHT, WES LEWIS & many more. RabbitFactory CD $14.25 Various The Swedish Model PS, SWEDEN This is a compilation with the best songs from Swedish label collective "The Swedish Model". It's the cream of the crop of Swedish indie music. Collecting tracks from the labels Adrian Recordings, Flora & Fauna, Hybris, I Made This, No Method, Songs I Wish I Had Written and Tenderversion. The compilation includes songs from acts such as Fine Arts Showcase, Mai, Audrey, Familjen, Moto Boy, Juvelen, Gentle Touch and Division of Laura Lee amongst others. Full track list: 1. Fine Arts Showcase - Friday On My Knees 2. Mai - Silly 3. Robert Svensson - Young Enough 4. Rigas - Born Not To Run 5. Elias and the Wizzkids - The Dance 6. Audrey - Bleak 7. Parken - Åt Helvete Med Himlen 8. Familjen - Det Snurrar I Min Skalle 9. Mats Katt - No Sleep Until Shoreditch 10. Moto Boy - Young Love 11. Juvelen - Money Don't Talk 12. Gentle Touch - Pieter Van Den Hoogenband 13. September Malovelence - Who Watches The Watchmen 14. Division Of Laura Lee - Central Park 15. Dmitry Fyodorov - Leisure Hybris-1 CD $12.25 Various 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground PS, US This is Raï music from Algeria as you've not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music historians and Raï fans. Due to censorship and government-controlled music diffusion, this scene and lyrical style was forced underground and banned from broadcasts, yet slowly built a small following around the seaside cabarets of Wahran (Oran). This period witnessed the rise of artists such as Groupe El Azhar ("The Flowers" group) and Messaoud Bellemou, who can comfortably be considered the godfather of the modern Raï sound. His group, L'Orchestre Bellemou, rewrote a heritage of centuries by using modern instruments and especially the trumpet, which became, during the 1970s, the backbone of the Wahrani genre. Reinterpreting the gasba melodies on trumpet, Bellemou backed singers such as Boutaiba Sghir and Sheikh Benfissa who carried on the lyrical tradition of their forefathers singing about daily preoccupations and problems as well as love affairs, alcohol, or simply owning an automobile! Toward the late 1970s, Cheb Zergui brought a newer ingredient: an electric guitar with a wah-wah pedal. Thankfully, the late 1960s saw the development of vinyl pressing in Algeria. This new industry allowed many small artists including the Wahrani "scene" to record and release singles documenting their repertoire. This compilation is a selection of this proto-Raï scene's vinyl 45s. This LP is limited to a one-time pressing of 1500 copies on 180 gram vinyl and comes in a full-color deluxe gatefold jacket with photos of the musicians and informative liner notes by the man who compiled it, Hicham Chadly. SublimeFrequencies LP $22.25 Various Parlez Vous Pop? PS, GERMANY Parlez Vous Pop? is a compilation of 16 enchanting songs in broken French from the '60s and '70s. French is the language of love. The words flow as smoothly as a vintage Bordeaux, like the suggestively sweet nothings Serge Gainsbourg whispered into Jane Birkin's ear. Ah, France, famed for laisser-faire, laisser-allez and exquisite cuisine -- something patently lacking in the wirtschafts-wonderful Germany of the '50s and '60s (not to mention the United Kingdom). Songs sung in French were not only pleasant to the ear, they promised a better, more luxurious life. Even chansons laced with melancholy hinted at a certain lightness of heart. Some artists -- or their record labels -- simply wanted to see if they could make an impression on the French market, singers like Roy Black, Mary Roos, Peter Kraus or Freddy Quinn, as well as British stars such as Dusty Springfield and Sandy Shaw. Others, notably Reinhard Frédérik Mey, Caterina Valente, Vicky Leandros, were genuine Francophiles and released entire albums in the French language. For some -- Manfred Krug, Alexandra, Marianne Faithful or Ireen Sheer, for example -- it was more a question of having a bit of fun singing one or two French numbers to include on their LPs. The majority of them may have struggled to perfect their French accent, but the near-misses are perhaps the most charming of all. While some of the German performers get very close indeed, with Marlene Dietrich and Manfred Krug earning particular recognition from their French counterparts, the British singers just cannot roll their "R"s or accentuate the "E" at the end of a word. Elsewhere, Alexandra sounds like an exiled East Prussian and Lys Assia gets her tenses in a twist but ce n'est pas grave -- as long as it swings. The booklet contains liner notes from the unique, magnifique Françoise Cactus, vocalist with the Franco-German band Stereo Total. BureauB CD $16.25 Wee Scary Beasties Creepy Lullabies (2X7") PS, US BOO! The Beasties are back with a new collection of tunes that will help pull the cobwebs right out of your ears. But don't let the name fool you; Chicago's kiddie band crew more regularly known as the Wee Hairy Beasties follow up their 2006 Bloodshot Records debut album, "Animal Crackers," with a treat just in time for your Halloween sweet tooth. WEE SCARY BEASTIES-led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD and SALLY TIMMS with the incredible vocal prowess of KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) and the mighty jug band talents of front porch old-timey blues band DEVIL IN A WOODPILE-have formed their own record label, WEE BEATZ, to bring you a second dose of kid-friendly tunes that adults will love too. WSB get in the holiday groove with the sweet and spooky "CREEPY LULLABIES," a double 7" that will haunt the dreams of both parents and kids alike. This adorably eerie two single set tells nighttime stories about lonely vampires, monsters busting a move, and a super-rocking punk jumper about a veggie-patch dweller named Pumpkinhead! Listeners beware: the closing lullaby and Wee Scary Ending will make the werewolves howl from miles away. There are songs with a spooky finger-popping flavor, fresh ghoul-filled harmonies, a secret special message to listeners and as always, Devil in a Woodpile's bright and bouncy instrumentationwashboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was. WeeBeatz 45 $8.25 Whispertown 2000 Swim PS, US Known for their dreamy harmonies, countless hooks, & a sound that is both completely modern & nostalgic. RIYL: Jenny Lewis, FIery Furnaces, Mates of State, Tilly & the Wall. Acony CD $12.00 White Hinterland Luniculaire PS, US Luniculaire. It sounds French, but it is in fact a word invented byWhite Hinterland, taking parts of French words "lunaire" (lunar) and "funiculaire" (funicular, as in railway) to form the title of their second release. This EP is a highly ambitious recording containing five songs all sung in French, and it expands upon the wide palette of musical ideas heard onWhite Hinterland's debut, Phylactery Factory. Featuring two original songs, plus covers of songs made famous by Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Fontaine and Françoise Hardy,White Hinterland feels right at home amid the musical tradition laid out by these legends. From the opening groove of "Requiem Pour Un Con," it is obvious thatWhite Hinterland is exploring a plethora of musical ideas on Luniculaire. The funky rhythms and scorching guitar of the Gainsbourg classic captures the spirit of the original, but it's Casey Dienel's vocals that make this so special. Hearing Dienel sing in French is a revelation - without the distraction of English words you hear what a powerful instrument her voice is.White Hinterland's "Chant de Grillon" explores a wider range of sonic textures, many created by the layered guitar work of Alexis Gideon, while the spooky and atmospheric "Mon Ami La Rose" (originally made popular by Hardy) is subtle and beautiful. The original version of "J'ai 26 Ans" was performed by Brigitte Fontaine with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and here Dienel plays the role of Fontaine while her band toys with flourishes of African rhythms and Eastern drones. Throughout Luniculaire, and especially on "J'ai 26 Ans" and "Requiem Pour Un Con,"Matt Meyer's percussion work is sublime - he layers an array of strange sounds and noises, while maintaining the heavy groove throughout. The EP's closer, "Lunirascible" has Dienel's voice at the center, and like Julie Tippetts, Elizabeth Fraser or contemporary ScottWalker, Dienel offers vocals meant not to deliver words, but simply tones, melody and texture. Like some groovy, strange and psychedelic artifact clamored about by crate-digging record collectors, Luniculaire is more than just an EP. It is a testament toWhite Hinterland's deep musical vision and a taste of the greatness to come. DeadOceans-020 CD5 $7.50 Whitehouse Asceticists 2006 PS, UK 'However artfully framed on white gallery walls, I can look you in the eyes and see what you spend your time doing when it gets dark and messy.' To experience the incredible Asceticists 2006, is to bare your fragile soul beyond what you would normally wish to know amidst ear-shredding Afro-noise madness of each of the seven tracks. VeryFriendly/SusanLawly LP $22.50 Wicked King Wicker Flydust PS, US LTD ED OF 500! 2nd album by this brutal doom/noise act a la Skullflower, Sunn O))), Noru. Comes w/ record labels & inner sleeve handdecorated by the band! Noiseville LP $18.25 Williams, Lucinda Little Honey PS, US New album. LostHighway CD $15.75 Williams, Lucinda Little Honey PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LostHighway LP $17.50 Windy & Carl Songs For the Broken Hearted PS, US Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. These 10 songs are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger & longing, to warmth, admiration & joy. This fall, they will have been together for 19 yrs. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, & trouble in any paradise, the highs & the lows, the reality of time & depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long. Kranky CD $12.25 Windy & Carl Songs For the Broken Hearted PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kranky DLP $15.00 Would-Be-Goods Eventyr PS, US Highly anticipated fifth album 'Eventyr' from revered London quartet Would-Be-Goods is released 20 years after the classic debut album 'The Camera Loves Me' on '80s cult label èl Records. It is their third album for Matinée Recordings, after the well received 'Brief Lives' (2002) and 'The Morning After' (2004). "Sad stories are more beautiful" sings Jessica Griffin on the opening track, and those words could be the motto for the album as most of its songs are inspired by folk tales-timeless archetypal stories composed in northern Europe in the 19th century. 'Eventyr', meaning 'adventures' or 'fairy tales', was the title of Hans Christian Andersen's classic collection of stories, and in songs such as 'Melusine' and 'Heart of Tin', the Would-Be-Goods show that tales of imagination can evoke the joys and sorrows of life more vividly than dreary realism. Some of the songs stay closer to home: 'In Bohemia', 'The Girl at No. 7' and 'The Ghost of Mr. Minton' depict the arty low life of mid-century London to magnificent effect. Musically, though, 'Eventyr' is not a folk album: the songs distill '50s and '60s styles into something entirely new, traveling through baroque pop, bossanova and rockabilly. The album was developed slowly over two years and sees Andy Warren-formerly of Adam and the Ants and The Monochrome Set and bass player on the first two Would-Be-Goods albums-return to join Debbie Green on drums and backing vocals, Peter Momtchiloff on lead guitar, and Jessica on lead vocals and guitar. Another classic album from a band that never goes out of style! Matinee-047 CD $12.25 Yacht Summer Song PS, US Debut DFA release from Portland, OR-based artist(s) YACHT. Here we get the song "Summer Song," a love letter to tourmates LCD Soundsystem. Besides the single, this also feat. 2 brand new, previously unreleased trks - all acting as a preview of the 2009 forthcoming full-length 'See Mystery Lights' for DFA. As with all other DFA vinyl, you need this omprised of minimal-techno auteur MARCOS CABRAL (Trapez) & disco gadabout JACQUES RENAULT (Editions Disco), w/ remix work under their collective belt for Moby & LCD Soundsystem. BRENNAN GREEN, a fixture behind the booming NYC disco scene, offers a can't-miss remix of the thumping, anthemic original. DFA 12 $8.00 Forthcoming Releases 1900s, The Medium High EP (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND) PS, US Beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky new limited edition mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel. Parasol-CD-111 CD5 $5.00 23 Skidoo Seven Songs + Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, UK Expanded reissue on CD by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Fetish Records in February 1982, the mini album Seven Songs topped the indie charts and established 23 Skidoo as a groundbreaking commercial force. "Intoxicating - one of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures" (Paul Morley, NME, 1982); "23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense" (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD includes seven bonus tracks from the singles Last Words and Tearing Up The Plans. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2528 CD $16.25 88, The Not Only... But Also (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Island CD $11.25 Abelcain & Cdatakill Passage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY All good things are three: Abelcain and Cdatakill, two of the most essential breakcore act to have ever graced this scene, pair up once again on "Passage", a full length CD presenting for the first time their tracks from the "Six Stigmata" and "Playing with Knives" record, enriched by four new collaborations. Hard-hitting, highly varied and presenting anew some cornerstone material of the breakcore sound, "Passage" is a mandatory release not only for fans of these two veterans, but for anybody who intends on understanding what breakcore is about. Following 2007's two collaborative 12" ("Bleeding Hearts vol 1 and 2", adn82 & adn83), Cdatakill invites another fiendish friend to Ad Noiseam, this time his long-time partner and co-shredder Abelcain. Both acts, which are among the very few veterans of the American breakcore scene to be still active, have finally given birth to a full length CD, which present their repeated collaborations over the years. "Passage" is the long awaited release on CD of two split 12" by these twoacts (released by Zhark Intl and Low Res in 2002) and four new tracks written specially for this project. Armed with a decade of beats and rhythms shattering, Cdatakill and Abelcain have both matured, but look back dearly at their first collaborations. "Passage" opens with three tracks written by each musician, in which Marty Frank (Abelcain) presents his staccato drumming and sudden breaks, while Zak Roberts (Cdatakill) already leave space for some dark sci-fi soundscapes between his breakcore avalanches. These tracks are followed by four from the "Playing With Knives" 12", in which some of each acts' best known tracks are remixed by the other one (such as Abelcain's hard hitting "Faust" or Cdatakill's epic "Imperial Passage"). Finally, let's fast-forward six years to 2008 and see what sort of new treatment Abelcain and Cdatakill reserved to each other's material. The first hasn't slowed down his tempo a bit, and adds some extra oomph to two tracks taken from Cdatakill's moody "Valentine" album. Zak Roberts's gritty and complex remixes of recent Abelcain track close the circle. Cdatakill and Abelcain, two acts at the very centre of the breakcore scene, finally go through their rites of passage together, and demonstrate again that their dry, fast and dark blend of the genre is as relevant and necessary as ever. Artwork by Magnus Blomster. Tracks 1 to 6 were originally released on Zhark International as "The Six Stigmata" (zhark12005) in 2002. Tracks 7 to 10 were originally released on Low Res as "Playing With Knives" (low 011) in 2002. AdNoiseam-104 CD $16.25 Abshire, Ariel Exclamation Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Darla Records hasn't been this excited about a new release by a new Pop/Americana artist since My Morning Jacket's first record. Ariel performs her original songs live at venues across Austin, Texas -- by herself and with music legend Alvin Crow. Her voice can be heard on soundtracks for films by Robert Rodriguez and Trevor Romain, and she is the youngest female singer to perform before thousands at the Austin Music Awards. Music critic Margaret Moser has compared her voice to that of Brenda Lee and Lou Ann Barton. Ariel has been called the "authentic foil to Britney Spears," by National Geographic's Traveler Magazine. This young woman was born to sing. TRACKLISTING: 1. Exclamation Love 2. Goddamn New Mexico 3. Nervous 4. I Didn't Know People Could Do That 5. Unknown Encounter 6. Thin Skin 7. Spots 8. Hotel Hallway 9. Subscriptions and Lies 10. Picking Up 11. Everybody Does Darla-214 CD $12.25 Acid Mothers Temple Glorify Astrological Martyrdom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata & company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks & freaked out pitched up vocals. Important CD $13.25 Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals Cardinology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. All initial LP orders include special 7" piece and all LP packaging includes mp3 download code plus a super-cool "surprise". LostHighway LP $17.00 Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals Cardinology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. LostHighway CD $15.00 All the Saints Fire On Corridor X (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "These guys have evolved into an impossible-to-dislike distorto-heavy groove drone that their English forebears like Spacemen 3 and Loop thrilled with 20 years ago" - Stomp And Stammer. Touch&Go LP $12.50 Andrews, Drew Only Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Guitarist from The Album Leaf and co-founder of Via Satellite debuts his first solo album. An absorbing and atmospheric record featuring soft and intricate guitar, synthesizers, and Andrews' feathery vocals floating above it all. Contributors include members of The Album Leaf and The Black Heart Procession. Limited edition of 500 white 180 gram vinyl with MP3 download card. MintyFresh LP $16.50 Apples In Stereo Stephen, Stephen / Same Old Drag [picture disc+DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US This is special collaboration with The Apples In Stereo and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert show. Robert (Apples in stereo) likes the Colbert show, and wrote the song for this TV show and sent it to them. Stephen Colbert liked it so much he invited Apples In Stereo to play at his TV show. So this is the song for Stephen Colbert, presented by HEARTFAST that put out special edition of picture 7" w/DVD. Yes, you can not only listen to the music but you can also watch their video. Side B is a song, taken from their latest album called New Magnetic Wonder on Yep Roc. Heartfast-004 45/DVD $16.25 Asobi Seksu Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New York's greatest bands. Polyvinyl 45 Black Moth Super Rainbow Drippers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US New album appears to be a singles and rarities collection with a scratch-n-sniff cover! Let me know what 'scent' they've chosen... Graveface CD $11.25 Bloc Party Intimacy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Atlantic CD $14.25 Brethren Of The Free Spirit The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Guitarist/composer JAMES BLACKSHAW & lutenist/composer JOZEF VAN WISSEM. Intricate phrases circle & spiral in on themselves, & in the end it's the subtle shifts in rhythm & tonal coloration that provide a kind of transcendence in a sea of repetition Important CD $13.25 Brethren Of The Free Spirit The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! Important DLP $23.25 Briggs, Anne Time Has Come (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Briggs, Anne S-T (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Broken Note Crux / Zealot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY Broken Note puts the grist back in dubstep for their first record on Ad Noiseam, and demonstrates how heavy, dark and efficient this genre can be. Shattered, colossal and bridging dubstep and breakcore, the two tracks on this 12" are guaranteed to pack dance floors and ruin a few subwoofers. Having cut their teeth with a début 12" on Peace Off's heavy dubstep sub label Ruff in early 2008, the London-based duo Broken Note present their sophomore effort on Ad Noiseam with this "Crux / Zealot" (adn102). While dubstep has over the years mutated in various sub-genres and variations, Broken Note's blend is of the colossal and dark kind. Tapping in breakcore for the density of their sound, shattering their 2-step influences in a myriad of details, and not afraid of supporting their mammoth-like basses with rude, heavy beats, these musicians come up with something that finally proves that dubstep can be as massive as it was famed to be. This record's dub plates have already proved to be highly efficient DJ tools, packing dance floors for months. Here comes the loud, heavy and low end-rich final cut. A remarkable record from a striking act. AdNoiseam-102 12 $11.00 Burnes, Andrew Telescope (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS happily presents the long-overdue solo debut of ANDREW BURNES. Burnes, along with DAVID DANIELL, is a founding member of the ethereal, post-blues ensemble San Agustin; he's also a member of Haunted House, alongside Loren Mazzacane Connors; and he's performed in improv settings with the likes of Ken Vandermark and Thurston Moore. Finally committed to vinyl, he doesn't disappoint: "Telescope" is a glittering chunk of sound, as Burnes transforms that particular emblem of Americana, the steel guitar, into one vast, slowly undulating drone. Andrew Burnes' name may not be familiar, but fans of the genre needn't worry. Back in 1993, Table of the Elements' original Guitar Series featured what was only the second US solo release from a similarly unknown artist: Jim O'Rourke. You can trust us again with this one. TableoftheElements-98 LP $14.25 Cakebuilder Feeding The Worms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY File Under: dubstep, breakcore. From its symphonic opening to its sweeping heavy basses, Cakebuilder's second record for Ad Noiseam shows that things are still deep in Winnipeg. Bridging angry, dark dubstep and a highly melodic drive, Cakebuilder opens a new gate for the genre, where "dub" is replaced by something a lot colder and orchestral. Cinematic dubstep of the blackest shade. AdNoiseam-095 12 $11.00 Carter, Christina Original Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings. Kranky CD $12.25 Castanets Vs. Ero Dub Refuge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Dub Refuge" turns a minimalist folk record (CASTANETS' "City of Refuge") into a ghostly dub, subverting dub tradition while still nodding in the direction of King Tubby, Scientist, Burning Spear, and Sly and Robbie. "Dub Refuge" works because Castanets and ERO GRAY (aka Papa Alabaster, sometimes bass player for Castanets, and member of Brooklyn-based Rad Unicorn) are both preoccupied with ghostly, ephemeral and messy sounds. Ero and the Castanets share a haunted quality in their music, a unique dedication to risk, and a reverence for accident in folk music. (Stray string squeaks, cracking voices and odd echoes can be more rewarding than intentional harmonies or suavely competent riffs.) At it's best, Castanets music accomplishes an eerie and very difficult balancing act between the disaster-surfing of experimental and noise music, and the sort of calm competence shown by classic country singers. "The City of Refuge" sessions exemplified this balance, and here on "Dub Refuge", Ero has emphasized both aspects without destroying either. AsthmaticKitty-42 LP $11.50 Cheap Trick At Budokan! 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US For the first time, the DVD premieres the previously unseen historic 1978 Tokyo concert, aired only once on Japanese TV. Bonus features include a new interview with the band plus two songs taped at 2008 Budokan Anniversary Show. Two CDs feature At Budokan: The Complete Concert, newly remastered, while an additional disc includes the audio counterpart to the DVD plus four bonus songs not included in the original film. SonyLegacy 3CD/DVD $47.50 Cobra Verde Haven't Slept All Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album? Scat CD $10.00 Crystal Antlers EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Touch&Go 12 $8.75 Crystal Stilts Alight Of Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 20TH) PS, US Alight of Night delivers on the promise of those early singles. There is an unmistakable flavor of The Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts' spectral avant-garage also references the spooked '60s Texas psych of The 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of The Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. A strong pop element brings to mind the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Jesus and Mary Chain B-sides and Meat Whiplash. Slumberland CD $13.00 Cure, The 4:13 Dream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Their 13th release, hence the title. "There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They're very upfront and dynamic," says Robert Smith of the new songs. "People will be surprised how stripped-down and in your face the record is." Geffen CD $15.75 Daniell, David I-IV-V-I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US DAVID DANIELL is one of the hardest-working guitarists in avant-garde show business. He leads the troops in Rhys Chatham's guitar armies; he was a member of Jonathan Kane's rollicking band February; and he performs regularly in a duo with Tortoise's Doug McCombs. He's collaborated with Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore, and Loren Connors; and his guitar work with his own band, San Agustin, is the stuff of which fleeting blues-drone dreams are made. With influences rooted in blues, American minimalism, and post-punk ideologies, Daniell's guitar playing is always inspired; when fused with his intricate electro-acoustic compositions, the results are breathtaking. TableOfElements-99 LP $14.25 Danielson Trying Hartz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Trying Hartz" samples the first decade of the DANIELSON/DANIELSON FAMILE/ BR. DANIELSON oeuvre (all the years before "Ships"), attesting generously to the movement of the work as a whole, from proto-minimalist eccentric gospel band to prog-metal-dread outfit to music hall choir to indie rock one-man band to outsider art celebrity to family man and family member. It's a perfect starter volume for listeners who have not had the pleasure of engaging with the evolution of this unusual, surprising, and incredibly moving musical consortium. And yet: please note that no verbal account of the work can possibly summon the effect of the decade digested in this assemblage. After all, as Daniel sings, "My Lord is known by His song." Not by His press releases. The ecstatic vision of the Danielson project is the unnamable part, the impossible to describe part, and this ecstatic vision is cumulative. It's not what Daniel says, though he always says it well, it's the circumstances in which he says it, with family gathered around him, whether related by blood or not; it's the reiteration of the spiritual thematic material, a reiteration that sounds nothing like early 20th century gospel-it's far more poeticized, it's far more elemental-but which has all the seriousness and all the joy of that long ago music. Ecstatic vision. You won't get it by reading these lines, nor even by reading the lyrics. You will get it by listening to this distillation of ten years' work and the earlier albums and going to the shows. Then you will experience the humble but devious and complicated grassroots movement that is Danielson. "Trying Hartz" is an essential place to start. SecretlyCanadian-180 DCD $11.50 Dear Nora Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Self-explanatory! MagicMarker DCD $15.75 Deerhunter Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kranky LP $11.50 Deerhunter Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". Kranky CD $12.25 Desolation Wilderness White Light Strobing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood. Krecords-198 LP $10.25 Desolation Wilderness White Light Strobing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood. Krecords-198 CD $11.50 Dreamend Long Forgotten Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. If we are to believe everything we read THEN the vinyl version includes the CD version for free, contains 4 extra songs (16 minutes worth of music), a handmade pop-up gatefold by William Schaff (GYBE!, Okkervil River etc), and an extra CD of demos and alternate versions. Graveface LP/DCD $21.00 Earth The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version. LIMITED TO 5000! SouthernLord DLP $20.00 Envy/Jesu Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind JUSTIN K. BROADRICK wrote, recorded, mixed, & produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January-May 2008 Conspiracy LP $16.75 Envy/Thursday Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) (LP + CD) PS, US More than two years after THURSDAY first put the idea in our heads, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places. Recorded in Spring 2008, both bands turn in some of their most inspired work yet. In addition, Thursday invited Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev to remix the dark instrumental "In Silence" into the pitch-black closing track, "Appeared And Was Gone," providing the perfect transition into the massive dynamics of ENVY. Beginning with the subtle electronics of the symphonic opener, "An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction," Envy thrashes and burns through a trio of thoughtful face-melters. Pressed on audiophile-quality 180 gram vinyl and featuring original artwork by acclaimed poster artist, Dan Grzeca, this deluxe set includes a free copy of the CD format beautifully incorporated into the exquisite package design. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-146 LP/CD $14.25 Fireman Electric Arguments (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Mysterious duo of PAUL MCCARTNEY & YOUTH. The album's opener "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" is classic rock & an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff w/ loud drums & soaring vocals. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing The Changes," a euphoric upbeat song w/ an instantly memorable melody. ATO CD $16.50 Flaming Lips, The Christmas On Mars [deluxe edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" Deluxe edition DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Bonus CD is the film's soundtrack, which we think is all unreleased material. CD tracklist: 01 Once Beyond Hopelessness / 02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One / 03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed / 04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic / 05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within / 06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes / 07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two / 08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World / 09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia / 10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects / 11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps / 12 Once Beyond Hopelessness Warners DVD/CD $24.50 Flaming Lips, The Christmas On Mars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Warners DVD $18.00 Frontier Ruckus Orion Songbook (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Matthew Milia & crew bring 14 hair-raising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships & realizations of ones home. Milia's loquacious melodies are enhanced by the swelling saw & trumpet of Zachary Nichols, the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, the soulful harmonies of Anna Burch & the spidery banjo of David Jones. Sounds like Stephen C. Foster writing & producing the newest Neutral Milk Hotel record. QuiteScientific CD $11.00 Funckarma Dubstoned vol. 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY More than just dubstep: Funckarma make this genre theirs and re-write its foundation anew with this barrier breaking record. Heavy but sharp, clear but dub-influenced, mid-tempo but infectious, the second volume of Funckarma's take on the dubstep genre is a new take at one of today's dominant genre by unequaled producers. Almost ten years have passed since Funckarma's first records on the Djak-UP Bitch label, but the Funcken brother haven't shown any sign of fatigue along the way. With records on Neo Ouija, N5md and Hymen (among others) and remarked side projects such as their albums with Shadow Huntaz on Skam or Cane and Quench, these two producers have shown that they had their ears right open to new sounds, styles and atmospheres. Ad Noiseam is proud to welcome these two virtuosos to the fold, for the second volume of their dubstep-oriented series (who started with a first volume on the Highpoint Lowlife label in the middle of 2008). "Dubstoned vol. 2" shows Funckarma appropriating the dubstep trend and mixing it with their science fiction sounding, bass-heavy electronic dub. Not an act to just follow a recipe or embrace a trend, Funckarma however turns dubstep into a moody, science-fiction sounding electronic monster, full of sharp edits, dynamic changes and insidious hip hop influences, the whole thing perfectly demonstrated by the "Nays Of Dight" opener. Escaping the dominant blend of dubstep but broadening the genre by adding to it the mixture of genres and sounds that has become typical of Funckarma, "Dubstoned vol. 2" is a heavy but fresh take at one of today's most commanding sound, and should be an ear opener for many. Adnoiseam-99 12 $11.00 Future Clouds & Radar Peoria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album from Cotton Mather maestro. StarAppleKingdom CD $15.00 Glissade Further (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Limited to 500! The band's sometimes drone-y, always distortion-heavy sounds are reminiscent of the haze- induced vibes of bands like Flying Saucer Attack, Spacemen 3 or early Spectrum. This limited vinyl version has been completely remixed by the band & also includes the stellar 'Burned in Blue' EP, long out of print & newly remixed as well - all housed in a heavy, gatefold jacket. 14 hypnotic, blissed-out, instrumental space jams from North Carolina's finest psychedelic shoegazers. DeepSpace DLP $19.50 Grampall Jookabox Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening. AsthmaticKitty-51 LP $11.50 Grampall Jookbox Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening. AsthmaticKitty-51 CD $11.50 Gregor Samsa Rest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. 140 gram double vinyl in beautiful custom package. Will go quickly. Kora DLP $25.00 Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns Berezka / Monkey Lament (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US 12" multi-colored Vinyl split w/ Free CD Version. Second in a series of vinyl only releases, Other Electricities presents Berezka/Monkey Lament (OE014) by Russian avant-folk artist Gultskra Artikler and the UK drone outfit Lanterns. Complementary by nature of thoughtful experimentation, kindred by their undeniably enveloping output, Berezka/Monkey Lament brings the creations of Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns together in a familiar format, with unique contributions from each. Exclusive tracks and artwork dawn each side of a limited edition marble colored vinyl, displaying the artists' visions for their side of this entrancing combination record. Limited to 500 and includes a free CD version of the album. OtherElectricities-014 LP $12.25 Handsome Family Drunk by Noon/Blizzard (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, "Odessa" (1995), that has been covered by ANDREW BIRD, CERYS MATTHEWS (CATATONIA), SALLY TIMMS & JON LANGFORD (MEKONS), THE SADIES, and NORA O'CONNOR. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month after month. Side AA's "The Blizzard" is their EXCLUSIVE, sublime cover of the 1964 Jim Reeves countrypolitan classic. A sad, SAD story of a man whose love for his pony is stronger than his love for hisgirl or even himself. Beautiful picture sleeve has 2 pieces of original Rennie Sparks art. Two aces! CarrotTop 45 $4.50 Harry Pussy You'll Never Play This (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced & peppered American free rock from a Clinton era three piece. This Miami trio left rug burn on modern music in the 90's. Here a deluxe remastering of their out of print releases with a swank digipak filled with sweaty photos & heart-racing energy sounds. Complies the long out of print self released tour 12", the Cherry Smash live 10", live at Salon Zwerge 12", Pelt & Frosty spilt 7"s & the De Stilj 7"s. Load CD $12.50 Hello Seahorse! Holy a Las Ocho (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US MagicMarker CD $15.75 Hototogisu Pale Fatal Sister (DELAYED: PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release. Important-210 DLP $24.50 HPC Halfbreed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY At a very young age, the Norwegian one-man project HPC started creating electronic music that ranged from danceable electronica and psych-trance to hard-/speed-/breakcore, ambient and noise. After some experimentation and development he felt the time for a first release was right and now 'halfbreed' has been realized. In his own words, HPC's aim is to build an aural exposure of his personal view of life by creating music beyond predictable schedules and clichés in electronic music. With this debut he has perfectly accomplished what he had in mind. HPC presents a fusion of heavy syncopated beats and pulsing low-end bass, balanced by synth textures and soundtrackish samples - inducing atmospheres that dwell between unbridled ecstasy and subliminal hypnosis. Tracks like 'machine' and 'run' are a fine example of the terrifying and liberating climax of rhythmic power's crescendo. Feel free to file 'halfbreed' between illbient, dubstep and darkest ambient that has accumulated hard tech aggressiveness. With this album HPC hit the target - and this is only the beginning... Hymen-769 CD $15.75 Hushpuppies Silence Is Golden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US French rock band's debut stateside release. Their impeccable English suggest their origins could just as easily be Williamsburg, Portland, or London while their stripped down, in your face guitar-meets-Farfisa and wall of vocal chorus jams speak a language beyond borders. Sharp songs, heavy on melody and big on guitar riffs. So big, that the folks behind Guitar Hero are including the Hushpuppies track "You're Gonna Say Yeah" on the upcoming "Guitrar Hero World Tour". "Hushpuppies are a stylish garage rock band who have listened a lot to The Who, drink a lot of vodka, and drive their scooter up the wall" - Spex. MintyFresh CD $12.00 Hyvonen, Frida Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Having come out of a year of isolation, Frida Hyvönen paired up once again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in Stockholm's famous Atlantis studio and made her second full-length Silence Is Wild. Whereas Hyvönen's 2006 debut Until Death Comes was lean and percussive with her distinctive oompah-styled piano and direct lyrics, Silence Is Wild stretches her voice across lush arrangements of piano, strings, choirs, and synths. Piano-based antecedents and contemporaries such as Carole King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Plush, and Antony and the Johnsons generally feel like appropriate touchstones for discussing the Swedish singer-songwriter's recorded work. Lyrically, however, Hyvönen is in more open waters, as she forges her own stylistic path as a songwriter. On Silence is Wild, Hyvönen continues to take an utterly modern approach to classic songwriting forms: blending the confessional with the fictional; mixing wit with a sexuality that shifts from the refined to the raw; all the while using language which dances effortlessly between the timeless and the contemporary, referencing high art and pop culture in a transcendent manner which masterfully puts Hyvönen at the top of a new international class of singer-songwriters. SecretlyCanadian-184 CD $11.50 Hyvonen, Frida Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. SecretlyCanadian-184 LP $11.50 Ida Ten Small Paces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Ida's third record pieces together a scrapbook of an album, a total of 15 tracks recorded in almost as many places. Some four-track, some studio, and some bedroom tracks find their home on this beautiful album that led to Ida's work with Capital Records. Double gatefold 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $14.50 Ida I Know About You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US On their second full-length, Ida absolutely shines. The duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell are joined by Michael Littleton (Blood on the Wall) on drums. IKAY finds Ida discovering the recognizable voice that has defined their 15-year career. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $16.50 Ida Tales of Brave Ida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Tales of Brave Ida is marked by spare yet clean production and is a stunning debut thatís an absolute essential for Ida fans one and all. Recorded in 1993, ToBI is a drumless effort featuring the duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell and was written during the time of Mitchell's collaborations with Lisa Loeb. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $16.50 Jean on Jean S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US When Molly Schnick's longtime band OUT HUD broke up in 2005, she started from the beginning. Over the next three years, she developed the sound slowly, adding layers of strings, vocals, guitars, organs & percussion when appropriate. The results of her labors are the nine songs that make up the self-titled album. The sound is warm, lush & orchestrated, like Colin Blunstone's 'One Year' or Judee Sill's 'Heart Food' KanineRecords CD $10.00 Joan of Arc My Summer-Long High Wipeout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" is Joan of Arc at their best; "The Surrender" is an alternate version from the ones on JOA's latest full-length Boo Human; "A Man Needs A Maid" is a Neil Young Harvest cover. This 7" includes a digital download code for all three songs. Polyvinyl 45 $4.00 Johannsson, Johann Fordlandia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth. Johannsson makes stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, which frequently combines electronic processing with classical orchestrations. "Fordlandia" is the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. A fascinating, immersive, and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies. 4AD CD $13.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008) 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] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) 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 Kaiser Chiefs Off with Their Heads (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Motown CD $12.25 Korine, Harmony Collected Fanzines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Long out of print, Harmony Korine's 'zines are comprehensively collected in this new book. Full-color soft-cover edition featuring the eight fanzines in chronological order. Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony & Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They'd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like "Mae West go east." DragCity BOOK $22.25 K-The-I??? Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US K-THE-I??? marks a thunderous return to MUSH with his latest full-length, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Production on the album is handled entirely by THAVIUS BECK, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' "Niggy Tardust" alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, "Broken Love Letter", focused on past loves gone wrong, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers. Mush-264 CD $9.00 Langhorne Slim When The Sun's Gone Down [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Re-issue of the critically acclaimed debut - repackaged w/a bonus disc containing 5 previously unreleased tracks. Narnack DCD $14.25 Larsen La Fever Lit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Featuring legendary dub diva/post-punk- cabaret icon Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety a.k.a. Annie Bandez (CRASS, NWW, COIL, C93), La Fever Lit could be considered their most focused album yet, but at the same time it's also their most experimental & floating. Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness, & the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety Important CD $13.25 Larsen LLL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US LP only live set released as a companion to Larsen's new full length. Features frequent collaborators JOHANN JOHANNSSON, BABY DEE & JULIA KENT. Material recorded live in Italy & Austria. LIMITED TO 500. Important DLP $23.25 Larvae Loss Leader (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY A work in two acts, Larvae's third full-length album is a perfect snapshot of this band's tastes and talents. With a touching and poetic first part made of epic guitar melodies and drone atmospheres and a second act going back to Larvae's beatier and heavier "Monster Music" past, "Loss Leader" is at times poignant, at times playful. Another well thought step forward for the band (in two directions at once), and another impressive work for Larvae. Coming two years after "Dead Weight", so far the band's best known and most complete work, "Loss Leader" sees Larvae break the silence with something that is more than a regular album. Where "Dead Weight" was a commanding work of coherence in variations, melting many sounds and styles together, "Loss Leader" is clearly split in two very different parts. The first four tracks, forming the "Turning Around" EP are a testimony of this American band taste for long guitar tracks, highly emotional build-ups and delicate drumming. Maybe some of the rockiest Larvae material so far, these four melodic jewels take this act's sound where they had left us on the calmest tracks of "Dead Weight" (the fourth track, "Heavy" was actually part of the "Dead Weight" sessions), and dive forward in an instrumental world somewhere between post-rock and shoe-gaze, between drony backgrounds and fierce but introvert harmonies. Contrasting with this low-key beginning, the second half of the album, dubbed "Monster Music 2", is the direct sequel to Larvae's very first EP ("Monster Music", adn28, released in 2003). For if Larvae is clearly an act with a foot in the poetic side of rock, they are also cross-referencing electronic musicians at heart. Godzilla and his fiends are therefore back for a new round of sweeping basses and heavy beats. And still, where the first "Monster Music" was a down tempo heavy hitter (of the kind that would be called "dubstep" if it was released today). The sequel bows to Larvae's new-found calm, as shown for example in the closing "Oxygen Destroyer", which kicks off by pumping strong beats, before leaving room for wide and more humane tones. Larvae have come a long way since their beginnings, one could hardly think of a better snapshot of what this act is truly about than "Loss Leader": multi-talented, touching and intelligent. AdNoiseam-101 CD $16.25 Legends, The Seconds Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US After two years of absence The Legends return with the noisiest pop single to ever come out of Sweden. "Seconds away" balances perfectly between the unbearable and pure loveliness. "I need noise now, so this new single sounds like someone drilling a whole in your head. In a pleasant way that is. It's called "Seconds away" and is about the wonders of Tryptizol. The B-side, "Over and over" is actually one of those sad love songs I had promised myself never to write again. But it was out of my hands; life forced me to write it. Sorry about that... Pallers has done a truly wonderful remix of it. It might actually beat the original, which is both a very good thing and slightly depressing at the same time." Johan [aka The Legends]. The one-man band The Legends has confused, and annoyed, it's surroundings with a total lack of will to compromise and sudden changes in musical direction since 2003. Right now Johan is in the famous Summersound studios together with a large number of distortion pedals and broken amplifiers to record a fourth The Legends album. The Legends made their debut with the critically acclaimed album "Up against the Legends" in the fall of 2003. Live the band was somewhere between 8-10 people of which two had a slight idea about how to play their instrument and none was close to sober. -" I wanted to make pop melodies so simple and obvious that they could get to the audience no matter how the songs were played. This time the audience will, hopefully, rather fight to hear the melodies through a wall of feedback". Labrador-116 CD5 $5.25 Little Joy S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! RoughTrade LP $14.00 Little Joy S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Little Joy is Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), and Binki Shapiro - three friends who got together to demo songs and produce this self-titled debut, named after their corner bar. Produced by Noah Georgeson (Devandra Banhart). RoughTrade CD $12.00 Longwave Secrets Are Sinister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US New album. The group's fourth full-length expands on their trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band's penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, & more driving sensibility. OriginalSignal CD $10.25 Lorna Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom. WordsOnMusic-24 CD $11.50 Love Is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US A full three years since their debut (which was re-released a couple times and then remixed), the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep. WhatsYourRupture? CD $11.50 Lucksmiths, The First Frost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Over the course of fifteen years and almost as many albums and international tours, Australian band The Lucksmiths have penned some of the most adored songs this side of the pop underground and have built up a massive fanbase of both Europeans and ex-pats in the process. Their last album Warmer Corners, received much praise (Pitchfork : idiosyncratic but accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere not so much in presentation as in presence) Loud & Quiet named it their 2nd favourite album of the year, Two singles lifted from the album A Hiccup in Your Happiness and The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco both received heavy rotation on the nations broadcasters, the latter also finding its way onto Qantas in-flight playlist for March 2006 an achievement not celebrated lightly by a band with an enduring penchant for the somewhat ridiculous and irrelevant. A trip to Tasmania has yielded First Frost Their finest and most eclectic album to date. Camped out in the wilderness, the band was free to explore and expand the musical palette, and with all 4 members contributing songs, the end result is a 14-song offering bound to surprise anyone who thought they had The Lucksmiths pegged as sounding too much like The Lucksmiths Matinee-049 CD $12.25 Lukestar Lake Toba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Norway's Lukestar present an album of otherworldly guitars, energetic drumming, and ethereal, dreamy, power falsetto vocals. "A solid collection of pulsing indie-rock songs with half-shouted hooks and guitars unwinding like fractal art" - Pitchforkmedia.com. Flameshovel CD $14.00 M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, UK Digital Shades Vol. 1 is the precursor to the fourth album from M83, essentially the brainchild of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of Antibes, France. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony decided to develop a musical direction already heard on some earlier M83 tracks and he started to write and record a collection of ambient works. Having long been a Krautrock and Eno fan this was a kind of music that Anthony has always been familiar with. Recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet, who had previously worked on Before the Dawn Heals Us, Anthony was able to work without pressure, knowing he could work on the record at his own time and pace. The idea of digital, relevant during all the process (from creating the music to sharing it), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol.1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series. Mute/EMI CD $15.25 Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler. 12K-1048 CD $12.25 Mahjongg Free Groove Rider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Stylistically, MAHJONGG is boundless and indefinable. From their very first EP through K's "Kontpab" (released earlier this year), Mahjongg have dabbled in beatbox punk, afro-beat revivalism and junkyard whimsy. The continual shifts in their albums is an earnest attempt to realize global harmonies, but if given only one side of a 7" which side of Mahjongg would come out to play? The Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series provides the answer and "Free Groove Rider" is their most refracted pop statement yet. Using a swirling vocoder and intermittent dance beats, this single flickers like a channel-surfer finding pop sensibilities in between the static. The B-side, a remix by Selector Dub Narcotic (Calvin Johnson), ups the playfulness by reducing the static in favor of an unkempt, bubbling mix of melodica and reemerging synths. Krecords-114 45 $3.75 Manual Confluence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Confluence is Danish producer Jonas Munk's third installment in his series of ambient albums, following the much loved The North Shore from 2003 and Bajamar from 2006. Unlike Munk's better known work, which centers around electronica and shoegazing aesthetics as well as a love of 1980s production techniques, these ambient works are completely without beats, or even time signatures, and are delicately constructed out of slowly evolving streams of guitar that has been processed into oblivion and back. But even compared to the standard set by the two aforementioned albums, Confluence is surprisingly dark and minimalist. These eight new compositions move slowly and seamlessly, like the ebb and flow of the changing tide, with subtle layering and filtering providing the essential means of movement. Darla-216 CD $12.25 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Mythical Beast Scales (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Like a would-be soundtrack to some forgotten Wagnerian saga, this debut full-length unleases sonic elements akin to trudging minions in an epic struggle for tonal supremacy. Their music is dank, grim & heavy as hell, but at its heart lies an indestructible momentum & spirit in no small part due to Corrine's Valkarie-esque presence. LanguageOfStone CD $13.25 New Order Power, Corruption & Lies [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Technique [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1989 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with nine non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Brotherhood [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. BROTHERHOOD is a document of growth for New Order's ever-expanding sonic landscape. Packaged in the stark, utilitarian style that was the Factory label's trademark, the album belies its minimalist presentation with a sprawling, intricately crafted collection of pop gems, inspiringly diverse, yet uniformly infused with the band's trademark sincerity and off-kilter melodic sense. The album opens with the deceptively straight drum hits of "Paradise", which quickly adopts an intense double-tracked vocal and with it, an air of danger that offsets its soaring melody. New Order developed into masters of intellectually stimulating dance music, an elusive combination of qualities. The album's biggest hit "Bizarre Love Triangle" exemplifies this rare mixture--atop a throbbing, heavily sequenced dance beat is played out a drama complete with consistently engaging musical shifts, dramatic lyrical turns, and a chorus that's instantly memorable and nothing short of gorgeous. The wistful vulnerability of "All Day Long" dissolves into a sprawling, regal affair and the supremely sweet "Every Little Counts" show yet another dimension to New Order's sonic richness. Rhino CD $23.00 New Order Low Life [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. With LOW-LIFE, New Order truly hit their stride with their highly individual combination of infectious rhythms, inventive composition and performances full of conviction. The vulnerable lyrics and earnest delivery of Bernard Sumner are in top form; his voice is at last a completely developed instrument, clear and comfortable as it wraps itself around such memorable tracks as the opening "Love Vigilantes", a solid, purely guitar-driven narrative. Following immediately and in sharp contrast is LOW LIFE's biggest success, "The Perfect Kiss", a sequencer-fueled dance classic which boasts what is undoubtedly pop music's only frog sample solo. "Sunrise" has an epic feel, filled with driving leads and Sumner's signature scratchy, frenetic rhythm playing. The album takes a serene turn on "Elegia", a beautiful, airy composition of echoey guitar lines and swirling synth textures. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Movement [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album, includes 10 non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, including their debut singles/EP. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making. Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 No Neck Blues Band Clomeim (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Locust DLP $25.00 No Neck Blues Band Clomeim (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US A distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, & Krautrock zenith Faust at their finet hour. This is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior w/ a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover & a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages. Locust CD $13.00 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kemado LP $17.50 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US "The starkness & spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the noisemongering of punk & the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits. With quiet pluckings of banjo & angry, anarchic hollers, its songs jumble the sacred & profane" - NY Times Kemado CD $13.50 Paramount Styles Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound. Konkurrent CD $13.25 Parks, Cale Sparklace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A little over a year since the release of Aloha and White Williams drummer Cale Parks' solo debut album Illuminated Manuscript comes Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums. Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a snare out of place. Listen carefully as it settles in, fragile but not without momentum. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Past Lives Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Features ex-members of The Blood Brothers and Shoplifting. "Beyond Gone" announces the band's arrival; guitars seethe and snarl. "Strange Symmetry" recalls the hypnotizing lock-step of The Monorchid; continually building. "Skull Lender" rides a feral gallop of desire for memory erasure. The plinky din of jackpot slots couches the fateful ascent of "Reverse the Curse", and "Chrome Life" is a Neu-inspired run to the sun. SuicideSqueeze CD $10.00 Past Lives Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Vinyl version comes with coupon for free digital download. SuicideSqueeze LP $12.00 Pavement Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times. Matador DCD $16.50 Pavement Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice! Matador DCD/LP $23.00 Piano Magic Dark Horses (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, UK Their music has run the gauntlet between electronica, post-rock, baroque, modern classical and even glitch, though in recent years Piano Magic has settled on a unique, romantic, classic British alternative rock that echoes the most vibrant work of their prime inspirations. 'Dark Horses,' the latest in their now annual 4-track EP transmissions, nods, consciously or otherwise, to the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths and The Chameleons, whilst managing to sound indisputably like Piano Magic. These songs are built on pummeled drums, chainsaw guitars, cathedral reverbs, insistent bass and Glen Johnson's reliably Morrissey-esque observations on a life less sweet. 'Dark Horses' is Piano Magic's first record for the exceptional independent, Make Mine Music. The label is exclusively financed and maintained by its bands and therefore, the proceeds of each record sold go immediately back to those who made the music. Despite operating almost entirely beneath the radar in their native UK, since their first release back in 1996, Piano Magic have managed to successfully carve out a niche of their own that constantly defies expectation and sidesteps music industry convention. By never staying long on any one label, playing most of their concerts abroad and consistently redefining their sound, the band has not only survived against all odds but built up a solid, devout worldwide fan base. Their 12 long players and 18 other format releases have featured collaborations with Vasti Bunyan, Low, Tarwater, Hefner and Cornershop, amongst others. They've sound-tracked a film by Spanish director, Bigas Luna, signed on and off with the likes of 4AD, Darla, Morr Music, Important Records, toured in Russia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and England. Even so, Piano Magic remains, unashamedly, a "cult phenomena," not destined for recognition until perhaps a decade after they finally call in the ghost. When not fronting Piano Magic, Glen Johnson operates as Textile Ranch - his new long-player, a collaboration with Victorian music machinist, Plinth - is out this month (also on Make Mine Music). Johnson's alternate project of electro-pop, under the name Future Conditional released a splendid album, 'We Don't Just Disappear,' on LTM last year. MakeMineMusic-054 CD $12.25 Plagenhoef, Scott and Ryan Schreiber The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber. Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, The Shins), hip hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), it features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known. Kicking it off in 1977 with the birth of punk and independent music, The Pitchfork 500 runs chronologically, with each chapter representing a distinct period and offering a narrative of how the musical landscape of the day influenced its artists. The book opens with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno, the "art-rock godfathers" who set the tone and tenor for the next thirty years, and wraps up in the present, when bands connect with new audiences through social networking sites and prime-time TV placements -- and when a single mp3 can turn a niche indie artist into a global sensation. Sidebars like "Yacht Rock," "Runaway Trainwrecks," "Nanofads," and "Career Killers" call out some far-from-classic musical trends and identify the guiltiest offenders. Softcover, 224 pages. PitchforkMedia BOOK $13.00 Pop Levi Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks. Counter CD $15.25 Rasputeen & Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather Rasputeen in Heavy Leather (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, GERMANY Composed and performed by catholic boys in heavy leather, Rasputeen and Rasputeenette, Anno Domini 2008. Original photos by Rasputeenette. Graphics by Korova Milk. First 11 copies packed in a heavy-duty latex mask. Rotor Siffredi and Joke Stryker first met in 1989 as young recruits in the Vatican City's Swiss Guard. After many years of serving and protecting the Holy Father they got a bit bored and discovered their mutual fascination for loud music and heavy leather. BazookaJoe-13 CD5 $10.25 Reed, Lou Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Matador CD $13.25 Reed, Lou Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador DLP $20.00 Riles, Zak S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Riles' (GRAILS) creative contributions to the group are immeasurable, & can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact, some of the pieces on this record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh, & the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Important CD $13.25 Risil Non Meters Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US A collective of musicians that are all connected to each other in some form or fashion. Their membership includes Guillermo Herren (PREFUSE 73, SAVATH & SAVALAS), Zach Hill (HELLA), Tyondai Braxton (BATTLES), John McEntire (TORTOISE), Alejandra Deheza (SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS), & Eva Puyuelo Muns (SAVATH & SAVALAS) Important CD $13.25 Risil Non Meters Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Important DLP $23.25 Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Infrasonic CD $15.00 10/20/2008 9:52:22 AM Schaeffer, Janek Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again. Line-036 CD $12.25 School of Seven Bells Alpinisms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music. GhostlyInternational CD $10.50 Skeletons Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Already up so early in the morning of 2008, SKELETONS were hibernating in the safest, quietest, warmest place in the world: Times Square, New York. In a haunted WWII-era ballroom they recorded through the wintry nights when the studio was on fire. Taking breaks at 5am, standing under heat lamps listening to Hot Jazz outside the Time Warp Hotel, soaking up the empty streets with the leftover creeps while the tourists sleep. It's just the same struggle any old human has to go through to make anything: make it to work on time, make an excuse, make babies, make war, make breakfast without getting into a fight. The child of this struggle is "Money", pre-made, for you, entering the world October 7th in the USA, and October 28th in the UK and Europe via TOMLAB. Tomlab-123 CD $12.25 Slipstream Mantra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, UK 'Mantra' is the 5th and long awaited new album from Slipstream and follows their much loved and critically acclaimed, 'Transcendental', release of 2003. With new track 'Psycho Paul' having already featured in the soundtrack of hit BBC3 comedy series, 'Ideal' (screened in April/May 2008). Written by Slipstream as homage to their favorite comedy show, the show's writer and big Slipstream fan, Graham Duff, loved the song so much that he actually wrote a scene to fit the track, much to the bands delight and amazement! This same scene became a trailer for the show and has since seen some 11000 plus hits on You Tube! Enraptured-59 CD $16.25 Slomo Bog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US This hones the ritual clatter of their first album, 2005's The Creep, into a more cumbersome affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail & Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer & guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to the proceedings w/the recital of his poem Land, written especially for this album. Important CD $13.25 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP in special colored vinyl. Geffen DLP $17.00 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Geffen CD $16.25 Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Communion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN All new 2008 double album from Swedish retro-rock Godfathers. A new beginning, or a spectacular finale? Either way it's 24 long-awaited new songs, more like Extended Revelation than Origin, with some spacey, psychedelic suites, or so I gather. And no, I don't believe that's really the cover art....but then again, one never knows. Akashic/WMS DCD $25.00 Starflyer 59 Dial M (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US You have come to expect Starflyer 59 to be the most reliable, most dependable, yet most undeniably unpredictable messengers of album after album of quality independent rock tunes. Over ten albums deep, over fifteen years time, from the early guitar-heavy shoegazing era to the ethereal moodiness of The Fashion Focus years to the latest incarnations and recreations of themselves as keyboard-driven masters of chorus, this is and always will be a band who will deliver great songs with new sounds. Tooth&Nail CD $14.00 Submerged Violence As First Nature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more. OhmResistance CD $12.25 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA) PS, SWEDEN 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 Technical Itch You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH) PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy. OhmResistance-9M CD $13.00 Telescopes Singles Compilation 1989-1991 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A collection of Telescopes A's & B's from the "What Goes On" to "Creation" years. Including extra tracks from the original Perfect Needle EP. Singles Compilation 1989-1991 gives us 14 timeless tracks ranging from abrasive to ethereal. Produced by Richard Formby & Stephen Lawrie. Highly recommended to all fans of shoegaze & space rock ala My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fuxa & Spacemen 3. With the recent success of My Bloody Valentine's reunion tour, look for The Telescopes to be the next big thing! Telescopes to tour the USA in 2009 along with Fuxa performing most of these classic tracks. MindExpansion-2036 CD $13.25 Travis Ode to J. Smith (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US New album. Fontana CD $15.25 Various Fading Yellow Volume 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'Hymns for Today: UK Pop-Folk-Sike Sounds 1968-1975'. Limited Edition eighth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "It's been a long hiatus but at last here are two excellent new volumes of the cult Fading Yellow series. Vol. 8 is collection of British artist album tracks of the period 1968-75... A beautiful confection of pastoral shades and cotton wool clouds floating in a hazy Summer sky. Predominantly mid-paced and lightly orchestrated, these are often acoustic based songs with electric underpinning. A few, in the interval, have become more familiar, notably the two fine selections by Jan & Lorraine from their recently reissued Gipsy People album. The majority however will be new to your ears. The track selection and flow is pretty much faultless as one track melts effortlessly into the next, working its magic on the ears. In some instances, tracks are surprising reworkings of the most unlikely songs. For instance Raw's (aka New York Public Library) rendition of 'What To Do', from their US and Germany released only Raw Holly album consists of covers of Buddy Holly songs - this one is an orchestrated tabla and sitar version! There are the short sharp spurts like the enigmatic (because there is nothing known about him) Michael Blount with 'Acorn Street' from his 1971 Patchwork album, which at 1.58 leaves you wanting a lot more of the same. P.C. Kent's 'After Dark' is from their self-titled Deram Nova album and is pleasingly pop (think a lighter version of Blossom Toes's 'Postcard' for instance) whilst Vigrass & Osborne's 'Ballerina' (which was also a single or a B side I think) has all the atmosphere, heavy with pathos of Mike Batt's series title track 'Fading Yellow' from Vol.1. Storyteller's 'Alice Brown', Fuchsia's 'Me And My Kite' and Evensong's 'The Smallest Man In The World' are also excellent. Overall, the FY signature brand of soundscape is very much perpetuated here and fans of the series will lap this up. There are as usual liner notes and band pics in the booklet which help contextualise the music nicely. Buy with confidence." FlowerMachine-1008 CD $15.00 Various Fading Yellow Volume 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'The Other Side of Life: Timeless UK Pop-Sike & Other Delights, 1966-1972'. Limited Edition ninth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "Here we are squarely back in singles territory. Pop Workshop's 'Fairyland' is a good starter and manages to be both brash and gentle at the same time. Suzi Klee's 'Punch And Judy Girl' is a plaintive and tremulous pop ballad by this 'Swiss Miss' (I've always wanted to use that somewhere!); it comes across like Jan and Lorraine produced by Mike Batt (only it was produced by Georgio Gomelsky!). Dave Christie's 'Penelope Breedlove' makes its commercial compilation debut (and is also included on Psychic Circle's Fairytales Can Come True comp also out this month); a fabulous and atmospheric pean to the object of his affections, this is NOT the same version as the 6AX acetate compiled on Syde Tryps Vol.7. Although it's the same song, the two versions are markedly different in arrangement and timing, so you certainly need both. Pussyfoot's 'Hasty Words' is another beauty with its lilting 3/3 waltz timing and a lovely choral vocal job to boot. Mike Leslie's 'Office Girl' has been a long time want of mine in the original, a delightful ode to a lonely clerical worker lost in the urban crowd as the singer puckers up the courage to approach her. It deserved to be more than a B side too. Rodney Bewes' 'Dear Mother Love Albert' is the topside to the already compiled and much sought after 'Meter Maid' and it has a similar vibe - was this the actual TV series signature tune or was it written as a single in its own right I wonder? It sounds way too magically bendy for 1970 television! Christian's 'Other Side Of Life' is another restless orch popper with more than a passing reminder of The Apple's 'Other Side' as well. A good string arrangement adds a lot to it. Tony Ritchie seems to have recorded quite a few sides in Europe including the excellent 'Rain On My Window' included here with its urgent "loner" vibe that would have suited Paul & Barry Ryan for instance c.1967. Maybe it's about time a Tony Ritchie anthology was compiled? This is another excellent collection of emotionally challenging sides. You may encounter some of these sides individually occasionally but it is only when they are compiled with this level of aesthetic skill that they fully bloom." FlowerMachine-1009 CD $15.00 Various Teenbeat Number One Record Label (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Twenty-three all new tracks with track-by-track narration by Brooklyn librarian Lisa Goldstein. The latest volume in Teenbeat's series of mix-tapes made from new songs by Teenbeat artists and friends. Includes tracks by +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOLLAND, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, PHIL KRAUTH & more! Teenbeat-4110 CD $8.75 Wallpaper On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-194 LP $10.25 Wallpaper On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Keeping a steady sneer but subtracting angst and teenage romanticism WALLPAPER on their debut album "On the Chewing Gum Ground" captures the modern era that they ostentatiously do not feel a part of. Wallpaper's core members started working on music together in middle school, and "On the Chewing Gum Ground" represents much of their adult work over the past four years. Hailing from Auburn, Washington - a place just close enough to the ocean to make weekend trips and understand what the Beach Boys are about - they mix '50s rockabilly and '60s surf mixed with the crucial wave of '80s underground music. The strength allure of the album comes in the juxtaposition of pop sensibilities with lyrics sung like a sliding shimmy but written with a call for a pop-cultural reform. Krecords-194 CD $11.50 Week That Was, The S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music. MemphisIndustries CD $15.25 Ween At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Classic live set in two formats. Chocodog CD/DVD $21.75 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 Wild Beasts Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US The debut from Leeds-based, four-piece Wild Beasts is a collection of ten beautiful, eccentric, very British tales. An incredibly confident record showcasing the band's pop sensibility as well as their humorous side. Delightful, romantic, magical, and timeless. "It's sublime stuff, full of variety, subtlety, intelligence, and warmth" - Artrocker. DominoRecordingCo. CD $13.00 Wild Beasts Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DominoRecordingCo. LP $17.50 Wilderness (k)no(w)here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast. Jagjaguwar-127 LP $11.50 Wilderness (k)no(w)here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast. Jagjaguwar-127 CD $11.50 Wino A Bottle of Pills with a Bullet Chaser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US At two hours in length, "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" compiles every song ever recorded by Wino. In addition to the many singles and lone album, the set includes six previously unreleased tracks, plus the live track "Dogs," recorded during one of their final live performances. Largely inspired by Swans, Crain and the Amphetamine Reptile roster, WINO were one of the loudest, darkest and most eclectic bands in Louisville during the 1990s, and their influence can be heard today in loads of Louisville bands. Expertly digitally remastered from all of the original master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, High On Fire), "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" is the perfect commemoration to the band that inspired dozens of later Louisville bands and helped launch TEMPORARY RESIDENCE a dozen years ago. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-140 DCD $11.50 Witmer, Denison Carry the Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US New album. Militia CD $12.25 Wrangler/Scanner 1968 Moog Modular PICTURE DISC (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, UK Limited to 300. Two Ra Chord blasts of 'Switched on Bach' beauty performed by WRANGLER and SCANNER who first met whilst fighting over a copy of 'Switched on Paddy Kingsland' at a record fair. These Supraphon pyjama wearing artisans have by loving of various knobs and switches, the sweet caressing of sequencers and event generators and manipulation of patch cords, created the sounds and rhythms for a discerning ear. Whilst Benge / Winters and Scanner have avoided the trap of being academic beard noodlers with this release, they have invoked the spirit of John Baker, White Noise and of course Bob Moog. Featuring sounds made exclusively on the Moog Modular System 3C and the Formant Modular Synthesiser this seven inch is a radiophonic joy, working as a platter to play out as well as a companion piece to their Twenty Systems meisterwork. Fans of Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno or the recent John Baker Tapes are recommended to check this. StaticCaravan-165-7 45 $10.25 Yorkston, James When The Haar Rolls In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US The fourth album by Scotland's Yorkston brings back all the ambition, beauty, pathos, and full, lush arrangements of his previous albums. The sonic palette includes timpani, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, piano, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, and wine glasses, surrounding the songs with warmth and grandeur, like the haar in the title (heavy North Sea fog that blankets the Scottish coast). "What distinguishes 'Haar' is the combination of his warm, close to your ear talk-sung vocals with the band's sea-churn playing and his gorgeous songwriting" - 4 stars, Independent. DominoRecordingCo. CD $13.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders** 5th Dimension “The Magic Garden” CD $15.50 Baker, Aidan “Green & Cold” CD $20.00 Brother JT “Purgatory Sweet Purgatory (8")” 45 $10.00 Carter, Tom “Shots At Infinity 2” LP $16.25 Cristal “Re-Ups” LP $22.00 Day Blindness “S-T” LP $13.00 Dry Rib “Whose Last Trickle” CD $10.25 Epic 45 “England Fallen Over” CD5 $13.00 Final Solution “Brotherman OST” CD $14.25 Funkadelic “Maggot Brain” LP $16.75 Golden Animals “Free Your Mind And Win A Pony” CD $12.25 Golden Animals “Free Your Mind And Win A Pony” LP $13.00 Guerrero, Tommy “Return of the Bastard” CD $12.00 Guerrero, Tommy “Return of the Bastard” LP $12.00 Human Eye “Fragments of the Universe Nurse” LP $12.00 Inara George & Van Dyke Parks “An Invitation” CD $17.00 June, Sarah “This Is My Letter To The World” CD $12.50 KatJonBand “S/T” LP $11.50 KatJonBand “S/T” CD $11.50 LCD Soundsystem “Big Ideas” 12 $8.00 Makoto, Kawabata & Michishita Shinsuke “Basement Echo” CD $13.00 Mirrors “A Green Dream” DLP $18.00 Mock Orange “Captain Love” CD $13.25 Norma “Norma 1 EP” CD5 $7.00 O'Rourke, Jim “Long Night” DCD $19.50 Pets, The “Misdirection” LP $11.00 Pink Reason “Winona” 45 $5.25 Qua “Silver Red” CD $13.50 Scharber, Quinn & The... “Being Nice Won't Save Milwaukee” CD $12.00 Snake Flowers 2 “Renegade Daydream” CD $10.25 Soundtrack of Our Lives, The “A Present From The Past” DCD $26.50 Tindersticks “The Hungry Saw [import]” CD $13.75 Ugly Things “#27” ZINE $8.00 Unsane “Visqueen” LP $17.00 Various “Audible Geography” CD $15.25 Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” DLP $30.00 Various “A Visit To The Spaceship Factory 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog” CD $15.00 Various “The Golden Apples Of The Sun” CD $12.00 Widow Babies “The Mike Watt EP” CD5 $8.75 Wilson, Phil “Industrial Strength (2X7")” 45 $7.25