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

Affinity
S-T
PS, US Featuring 8 rare tracks, not found on their original LP, including two tracks from their rare single and two tracks from their 1969 EMI acetate.
Lilith-145
CD
$18.00

Affinity
S-T
PS, US ALSO ON 2LP!
Lilith-145
DLP
$29.50

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

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

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

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

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

Baby Dee
Safe Inside the Day
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-351
LP
$13.25

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

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

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

Birdie
Catherine Avenue
PS, US A big, stunning Great American Rock Record. The band spins sweeping anthems told in California semi-gloss, with twinges of West Coast Country and big-hearted Southern balladry. It's an album about place and location, about the way that geography affects us. California itself figures heavily as a character on the record; two of the band's members are Southern ex-pats and the lyrics often address the bewilderment of finding oneself transplanted to Los Angeles. If you need musical analogues then we hear Fleetwood Mac, Grandaddy, CSNY, Rilo Kiley, and Brill Building pop, but that's by no means a complete list. This is ambitious orchestral music decked out in gorgeous harmonies, ringing pianos, and some pretty killer guitar work that knows a thing or two about dynamism. It knows when to take a breather, and it knows when to go for the knockout. 3HIVE REVIEW: "Biirdie brings the heartache like a slow-approaching thunderstorm."
LoveMinusZero
CD
$11.00

Black Mountain
In The Future [deluxe edition]
PS, US Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The DELUXE EDITION, at the same price as the regular version, includes second disc with 3 additional recordings.
Jagjaguwar-090
DCD
$11.50

Black Mountain
In The Future [deluxe edition]
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-090
DLP
$12.25

Blood On The Wall
Liferz
PS, US Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "Awesomer". PITCHFORK: "Steeped in classic indie rock, this muscular trio makes no bones about blasting faux-Pixies or Sonic Youth songs well into the red."
TheSocialRegistry-060
CD
$11.50

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

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

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

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

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

Buzzcocks
30
PS, US New live album from punk-pop legends and orgasm addicts, still jackin' it 30 years on. Recorded on their 2006 reunion tour.
CookingVinyl
CD
$13.75

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

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

Carroll, Barton
Lost One
PS, US The Lost One is a collection of twelve cinematic country songs by Barton Carroll. Since 2002, Barton Carroll has toured and recorded extensively with Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann, playing guitar, steel guitar, and upright bass. Carroll has also toured, playing various instruments with Azure Ray, Dolorean, and Micah P. Hinson. The album title, The Lost One, was stolen from one of the classic films of the Noir canon, a genre that Carroll is hooked on. Like the film, the songs tell stories of souls who, burdened by their past, fear they will not be redeemed. Carroll's sardonic and self effacing wit is evident. Musically, the record is a mixture of the mountain music that Carroll grew up hearing in Western North Carolina, and the sweet, sad, melodic sensibility of Alex Chilton. Carroll has a sincere, durable voice well suited for storytelling and folk songs.The Lost One was produced by Martin Feveyear, who engineered and produced the 2005 Crooked Fingers release, Dignity and Shame. Feveyear is a veteran producer and engineer, having worked with such artists as Mark Lanegan, Damien Jurado, and John Wesley Harding.
SkybucketRecords
CD
$15.00

Cartridge Family
Shine Like a Bottle
PS, US The Cartridge Family's Shine Like a Bottle takes you back to a time when hyphens had not yet been invented, an era when a description as straightforward as "rock and roll" would suffice. Here's what you don't get with Shine Like a Bottle: A whole lot of frills. Here's what you do get: Guitars that could never be accused of being shy. Sneaky hooks. Keyboards with the same personality as the guitars. Echoes of the Faces and Blonde on Blonde and rock bands that like country music but don't feel like they have to prove it and a dozen other things that represent what's always been good in the music world. (Doublenaught)
DoublenaughtRecords
CD
$15.75

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

Cat Power
Jukebox (Deluxe)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover!!!
Matador
LP
$25.00

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

Cat Power
Jukebox [regular version]
PS, US Her second album of covers!!!
Matador
CD
$13.25

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

Cha Cha Cohen
All Artists Are Criminals
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 2002 album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Cha Cha Cohen
S-T
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 1999 debut album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Costa, Matt
Unfamiliar Faces [re-issue]
PS, US Second album on Jack Johnson's Brushfire label. Full of more folky beautiful songs. Produced by Tom Dumont.
Brushfire
CD
$15.00

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

Davis, Betty
They Say I'm Different
PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45.
LightInTheAttic
LP
$21.75

Davis, Betty
S-T
PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45.
LightInTheAttic
LP
$21.75

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

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

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

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

Discwashers
Vinyl Record Fluid
PS, US
misc
$4.95

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

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

Drag the River
You Can't Live This Way
PS, US The 15-cut album was put to tape before the band slowly disintegrated over the course of a few months last year. Although the band officially broke up last summer, Drag the River is saying its final goodbyes to fans with one last album.
SuburbanHome
CD
$11.00

Drawbacks, The
Slightly Less Vague
PS, US So most of the kids in Falkoping like to pimp out their Volvos, hang around in a parking lot, and maybe form a heavy metal band. There's not too much else to do 250 miles from Stockholm, in a town where the express train passes but doesn't stop. Heck, it's even 2 hours from Gothenburg. Fortunately though, the Drawbacks had other ideas... With one foot firmly placed on the Swedish west coast, and the other somewhere in the American indie-rock scene, the Drawbacks craft a brand of hooky and dynamic guitar pop. Tobias (guitar & lead vocals), Wilhelm (bass & vocals), Johan (drums & vocals), Klas (guitar & vocals), and Martin (keyboards) have been playing for several years, gigging both in Sweden and abroad. As Tobias says, they "spent a considerable amount of time learning how to deliver some kind of emotional context" through their songs, and they've gotten quite good at it. After a few self-released demos, Slightly Less Vague is the Drawbacks' first official release. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
ChocolateHearts-05
CD
$7.50

Drive By Truckers
Brighter Than Creation's Dark
PS, US Brighter Than Creation's Dark from Drive-By Truckers is a 19-song 75+ minute southern gothic rock n' roll masterpiece. Featuring songs from Patterson, Cooley and Shonna. The album also features contributions from Legendary Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham.
NewWestRecords
CD
$18.25

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

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

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

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

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

Envy
Abyssal
PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132
LP
$11.50

Envy
All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129
LP
$11.50

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

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

Evangelicals
The Evening Descends
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DeadOceans-004
LP
$11.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fessenden
v1.1
PS, US Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion while drones interplay with staccato chords. "v1.1" represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, where hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture. Praise for Fessenden: "Playing on a rusty knife edge, these artists mould a new genre of inquisitive reduction of technical abuse..." -Touching Extremes "Contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound." -Vital Weekly "Like drifting Arctic waters in an atomic sub, slowly diving, headset plugged directly into the hull."- Avant Music News "One of the more patient ensembles I've heard, Fessenden members seem to be in no hurry to move things along here...just a few compass degrees this way or that...Fessenden provides a nice trip." -KFJC
OtherElectricites-010
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

Fleshtones, The
Take A Good Look
PS,US The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look, the band has reduced its Super Rock sound down to pure muscle and bone. Fuzzy guitars, vintage organ and cocksure swagger abound as the band re-stakes its claim on early 60s garage. Co-produced by session vet Ivan Julian (The Clash, Richard Hell, Elton John), the album seethes with party anthems and head-bopping mod rhythms
YepRoc
CD
$14.50

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

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

Folk Spectre, The
The Blackest Medicine
PS, US Black vinyl with silk screened covers. Limited to 500. Solo tunes by Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers, GHQ, Vanishing Voice, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, etc. This is music from the American underground. The feeling is dark and fucked up and somehow sublime. A solid statement of loner home-made goodness. A pop statement from behind a veil of dirt.
Woodsist
LP
$14.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello, Blue Roses
Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LocustMusic
LP
$17.25

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

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

Holland, Michael
Simple Truths and Pleasures
PS, GERMANY This is the third solo release by Michael Holland, from Carrboro, North Carolina. Michael was a founding member of Jennyanykind, which released several critically-acclaimed albums on Elektra/Time Warner, Yep Roc and other labels between 1992-2003. Burned out by many tours through 48 states, label changes from minors to majors and back and in a state of complete emptiness and sadness, he received the Harry Smith Anthology as a gift and it completely changed his view towards music. His new masterpiece, Simple Truths and Pleasures is once again performed with members of the Big Fat Gap Bluegrass Band from NC -- the vast majority of it recorded live in the studio. More traditional than the previous record, the earthly songs reflect influences by Earl Scruggs, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, Doc Watson and especially Hank Williams. The music is a perfect and very melodic mixture of truly timeless Southern musical forms: acoustic country, folk, bluegrass, honky tonk, old time string band, blues and gospel, led by Michael Holland's warm and haunting voice.
Moll-025
CD
$15.00

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

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

Holy Fuck
LP
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$13.25

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

Instruments Of Science And Technology
Music From The Films Of R. Swift
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SecretlyCanadian-148
LP
$11.50

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

Japancakes
The Sleepy Strange
PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Building on the accessible experimentation on If I Could See Dallas and the Down the Elements EP, Japancakes' aptly named second album, The Sleepy Strange, is dreamy and earthy, complex and immediate, and challenging and soothing. Though their modus operandi -- repeating melodic phrases for hours at a time to highlight the subtle shifts in tone and rhythm - - remains the same, The Sleepy Strange is the band's most cohesive work to date; yet it keeps all of the spontaneous beauty of their previous releases. If anything, the slightly more focused sound highlights the band's strong melodies and interplay, making it one of the warmest, most inviting post-rock albums since Jim O'Rourke's Eureka, which also featured a fair amount of Japancakes' secret weapon, the pedal steel guitar. Whether it takes the lead, as on the opening waltz "The Waiting," or adding to the weightless beauty of "Disconnect the Cables"' avant soft rock, the group's masterful use of the instrument gives the music a dreamy, strangely western-tinged timelessness. The surprisingly propulsive "Soft N EZ" adds naive-sounding analog synths to fiddles and pedal steel, highlighting the group's highly inventive (and somewhat startling) mix of styles and sounds within one track. This is also Japancakes' most varied album, both musically and emotionally; "This Year's Beat" subtly shifts from brooding to assuring, while the loopy, languid title track and the dark string- and keyboard-driven finale, "Vinyl Fever," couldn't be farther apart in sound or mood. Hypnotically beautiful, The Sleepy Strange is the best representation yet of Japancakes' exciting repetitions, and one of 2001's best albums. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE.
Darla-191
CD
$12.25

Japancakes
If I Could See Dallas
PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Japancakes' improvisational drone pop symphonies defy easy classification, stretching a single chord to its breaking point and picking up the pieces to create dense but inviting soundscapes which somehow find the common ground between the soothing wash of ambient and the propulsive energy of rock. For If I Could See Dallas, group ringleader Eric Berg and engineer Andy Baker handcrafted the disc's 11 instrumentals from snatches of studio performances, giving the songs a form and shape their live set no doubt lacks, but the cumulative effect is no less hypnotic -- for all of the record's cosmic glow, the recurring presence of steel guitar keeps the music rooted in terra firma, a paradox which makes the music that much more difficult to pinpoint in any single time or place. The evolutionary process, which guides each song, is almost imperceptibly subtle, their circular melodies shaded by analog synths and strings that bubble in and out of the mix -- creating music that arrives without traveling, Japancakes is that rare experiment as fascinating in practice as it is in theory. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE
Darla-186
CD
$12.25

Japancakes
Down The Elements
PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Eric Berg's heady instrumental visions maintain something of an unintentional defiance that suggests that the 21st century technology is still a far-off proposition. By focusing on cello strains, droning bass and guitar lines, and insistently groovy acoustic drum patterns, it appears that he and his other Athens, GA, cohorts don't recognize the cut-and-paste, sample-centric age that most rock is now generated in. This EP, which is sandwiched between two larger efforts of equally hypnotic textures, creates moods that are far more demanding of a listener's attention than much of the ambient music produced by the synthesists the world over. The wonderfully infectious riff that propels "A.W. Sonic" somehow manages to sustain its drawing power for the majority of the track's 11-minute lifespan. "Sputnik" and the title track are the disc's straight-ahead electronic fare, but they are so skillfully arranged it's as if they'd been secretly peering in the Orb's laboratory for years. As a lower cost introduction to what Berg has begun to achieve from an experimental rock concept gone right (unlike most), Down the Elements is immensely satisfying. -- ALL MUSIC GUIDE.

Originally released as an EP by Kindercore in 2000, Down The Elements clocks in at 37:58 minutes, which makes it a full length in the real world. These recordings were made at the same time as those for If I Could See Dallas. Eclectic, mostly upbeat, instrumental explorations like Trans Am meets Tangerine Dream backed with beautiful blips and burbles sure to sooth.
Darla-189
CD
$9.00

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

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

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

Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester
Music for Theatre and Radio Play
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Dekorder-022
LP
$17.00

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

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

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

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

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

Magoo
Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today [re-issue]
PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of Magoo's 1998 album.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$12.25

Mahjongg
Kontpab
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-191
LP
$10.25

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

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

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

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

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

McCombs, Cass
Dropping The Writ
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$13.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

North Mississippi Allstars
Hernando
PS, US Hernando also marks the first release since 2005's critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Electric Blue Watermelon. Where EBW was a tribute to the tradition of the Hill Country Blues legacy that has always influenced the band, the brothers Dickinson -- Luther (guitars, vocals) and Cody (drums) -- and bassist Chris Chew, decided to cut the lines from the past with the new record and create their most personal sonic statement to date. To celebrate this newfound unity in independence, they called the record Hernando, which is the name of the town the trio grew up in together. "This is definitely our most focused record of original music that we've done," says Luther. "This records stands alone... we don't draw as much on our Hill Country roots. We're a blues rock band and set out to make a blues rock record."
SongsoftheSouth
CD
$16.75

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

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

Owens, Buck
Live in Scandinavia
PS, US Buck Owens' legendary live albums from Carnegie Hall, Japan and London were landmark efforts that captured Buck and the Buckaroos at their peak, but he also recorded other live albums overseas. The most obscure of Buck's live releases was his April 1970 show in Oslo, Norway that featured Don Rich with the Buckaroos, Buck's son Buddy Alan and the Hagers. Fiery and intense, it reflects that unique early '70s period when Buck was experimenting and broadening his sound beyond his old style. With only a couple thousand copies pressed for the Norwegian market, this was Buck's rarest album. Track Listing: Opening Announcement By Gunner Bide/Up On Cripple Creek/Okie From Muskogee/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/Buckaroo/Murray Kash Introduces Buddy Alan Owens/Freeborn Man/Big Mama's Medicine Show/Murray Kash Introduces the Hagers/I'm Jesse James/Six Days On the Road/Murray Kash Introduces Buck Owens/Medley: Act Naturally-Together Again/Gunner Bide Wishes Buck Owens Welcome/Medley: Love's Gonna Live Here-Cryin' Time-Sam's Place/Medley: I've Got a Tiger By the Tail/Open Up Your Heart/Orange Blossom Special/Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'/Tall Dark Stranger/Johnny B. Goode. (Sundazed)
SundazedMusicInc.-111662
CD
$18.75

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

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

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

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

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

Prurient
And Still, Wanting CD + 5" Vinyl
PS, US CD + 5" vinyl. A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. This special 1000 copies first edition of the CD comes with a Bonus 5" vinyl with tracks that won't be available anywhere else.
NoFunProductions-027
CD
$15.00

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

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

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

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

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

Ramsey, Tyler
A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea (ON SALE)
PS, US Debut album from the new guitarist for Band of Horses. Ramsey is best known for his guitar work. Crafting delicate, finger-style guitar picking reminiscent of John Fahey and Leo Kottke, but with a sum effect that is all his own. Indie folk, Country Blues, Finger style guitar - Ramsey is a composer of intricate, ethereal songs of melancholy and rumination. POPMATTERS REVIEW: "These days, Tyler Ramsey's probably best known for playing guitar with Band of Horses, but he's also forging a strong solo identity. A Long Dream finds the Asheville, NC musician trafficking in gentle, largely acoustic arrangements that recall the deft guitar playing of Leo Kottke or John Fahey."
EchoMountain
CD
$12.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sambassadeur
Migration
PS, SWEDEN Migration is a sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meet deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the most heartfelt melodies. Biography: Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the "Between the Lines"-EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home which gave the production a primitive quality that labeled them by some as being a lo-fi-twee act. This was never the bands intention. If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home-computer while watching their kids being taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change. The EP "Coastal Affairs", released in may 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without loosing their enigmatic qualities, songs like "Kate" and "Marie" introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the opportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late august 2007 with "Subtle Changes".
Labrador-106
CD
$12.25

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

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

Saviours
Into Abaddon
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kemado
LP
$16.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sin Ropas
Fire Prizes [picture disc]
PS, USW Originally released by Zeal/Konkurrent in the fall of 05', this fantastic album gets a limited run, pic disc release worthy of the sounds embedded in it's grooves .The jacket w/ a die cut tree reveals the full-color innersleeve & when you pull the last layer back the picture disc is revealed. Brent Green provided the artwork for the inner-sleeve & pic disc.
Shrug-003
LP
$20.00

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

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

Smith, Elliot
XO
PS, US Originally released in '98. Though firmly in the McCartney/Lennon/Rundgren/Davies school of songwriting Smith was nothing if not an
original.
Plain-126
LP
$16.25

Smith, Elliott
Figure 8
PS, US His 2nd for the Dreamworks label, & fifth overall, this is a lush & beatifully melancholy collection of pop songs.
Plain-127
DLP
$20.00

Sneaky Pete Kleinow
Anthology
PS, US Sneaky Pete Kleinow was best known as a mind-altering pedal steel guitarist, and an integral part of the sound of Gram Parsons' original Flying Burrito Bros. Every rock fan worth his salt knows Sneaky as the brilliant steel player zigzagging his way across The Gilded Palace of Sin, the Burritos' stunning 1969 debut, and as the band member on the album cover decked out in an all-black Nudie suit with a golden pterodactyl on the chest, where Superman's red "S" would have been. And that was Sneaky, to a T: super-hero steel guitarist to no less than the Rolling Stones, Booker T. & the MG's, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Doug Sahm, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon - among countless others. Here's a brilliant taste of the pedal steel guitar genius of Sneaky Pete Kleinow. Long may he wave. Track Listing:Beat the Heat/Hickory Wind/Sister/Oklahoma Stomp/From Me to You/Sleepy Lagoon/Silverbird/It Makes No Difference/Ain't No Easy Way/Louisiana/Love of the Common People/Cannonball Rag/Fly the Bright Sea/Woman/Sneak Attack/Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)/Sleepwalk/Faded Love: The Flying Burrito Bros.
SundazedMusicInc.
CD
$18.75

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

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

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

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

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

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

Super Furry Animals
Hey, Venus! [bonus disc]
PS, US New album plus bonus material.
RoughTradeUS
DCD
$15.00

Super Furry Animals
Hey Venus! [Bonus CD]
PS, US "A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. The expanded US edition contains an enhanced bonus disc with four b-sides and three videos. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine.
RoughTradeUs
DCD
$15.00

Super Furry Animals
Hey Venus! [bonus disc]
PS, US A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine.
RoughTrade
DCD
$13.25

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

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

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

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

Team Robespierre
Everything's Perfect
PS, US Powered by a dirty punk rock ethos, synth hooks & programmed dance beats, Team Robespierre has helped resurrect a Brooklyn punk scene that has been waiting to embrace the raw energy of our nation's basements & late night warehouse dance parties. With a sound that melds the future & the past, the Team brings back memories of 80s new wave & 90s hardcore.
Impose-003
CD
$10.00

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

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

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

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

Times New Viking
Rip It Off
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00

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

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

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

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

Van Zandt, Townes
Rear View Mirror
PS, US Originally released in 1993, this has, until now, been out of print & in high demand. Remastered w/ new artwork it is a great look into Townesi 'ntimate live performances at the peak of his career. Accompanied by acoustic guitar, bass & fiddle on most tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was re-recording much of his repertoire. That album never appeared, but in 1993, the tiny Austin-based Sundown label released Rear View Mirror, a 17-track album running nearly 58 minutes and containing newly recorded versions of Van Zandt songs dating back to 1968. Though a cover note claims "unique instrumentation," that seems to consist of only of an occasional second guitar and a fiddle. (Sparse applause indicates the recording had been made in a club.) Many of Van Zandt's best-known songs are included -- "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "To Live Is to Fly," "Tecumseh Valley," and others -- and while this is not the best set of recordings of those songs, the tendency of Van Zandt's albums to go out of print might mean this is the only one you would find in your nearest record bin, in which case the album is highly recommended."
FatPossum
CD
$15.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

Various
Happy New Year 2008
PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds!
Elefant-258
45
$7.50

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

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

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

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

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

Warlocks
Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeePee
LP
$15.00

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

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

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

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

Whitest Boy Alive
Dreams
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Asound/Bubbles
LP
$22.00

Wire Magazine
#287
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.50

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

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

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

Forthcoming Releases

a.P.A.t.T.
Black and White Mass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa - minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilising all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. 'Black and White Mass' sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some of a.P.A.t.T.'s most accessible compositions to date, whilst still retaining an element of surprise. Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a (usually) 6 peice amalgamation of all that has come before & all that will slowly catch up in the end. Beyond genre defying: every instrument and style you can think of, mashed up together in jawdropping live performances. The experimental and chaotic beeps, buzzes and blips of a.P.A.t.T., (described on the BBC Merseyside website as sounding like Frank Zappa having a fist fight with Mighty Mouse) have steadily built up a growing army of admirers. They were featured on the promotional video for Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid, and have recently staged a multi-media installation called 'Quartet', featuring four films projected whilst the band performed inside. As if this wasn't enough, they even found time to compose the incidental music for the BBC Radio Merseyside alternative music show, PMS. a.P.A.t.T. officially began with the completion of a C90 cassette tape in 1998. It was decided from the offset that the way the music was formed on this tape (disjointed, non-specific, omni-style) was to influence the revolving multi-instrumentalist approach, and dictate the 'anti-hierarchical' line-up of the act. It was not until 2002 and the introduction of digital recording techniques that a.P.A.t.T. were to make an 'official' release. Following several lineup changes, software changes, hardware changes, various support slots and a Dutch tour, a.P.A.t.T. teamed up with London label, Lowsley Sounds, to release their first full album, (L.P.) in 2004. Although hopes were high for this release and it sold well, a.P.A.t.T. were never satisfied with the final outcome, wanting to push things further musically. 2006 saw more line up changes and the continuation of the recordings for that "perfect album". Which brings us to "Black and White Mass". "a.P.A.t.T. are a motherfucking experience. Probably the only UK band i can think of to come up with their vision of the dark, vicious and fuck me, rather scary vision of the ACID PUNK dropped onto us from the visions of Gibby from the Butthole Surfers. We love them. You need to hear this. It's insane" [Alan Mcgee, Creation/Poptones].
PickledEgg-68
CD
$17.75

All Golden In The Afternoon
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Rachel Goldstar (Experimental Aircraft/Eau Claire/Monster Movie) and Carlos Jackson(ex-Polyphonic Spree/The Shells) present an explosive debut. This Texas duo prove they are a band you are going to want to watch out for in the future. Down the rabbit hole we go... picture Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Pram & Seefeel all getting together for a jam session & you might be close. AITGA's fuzzy laid-back guitar driven songs are a breath of fresh air & have a way of making you want to take the day off of work & just float away. This wonderful debut ep features 6 songs that flow together seamlessly & leave you begging for more. Welcome to wonderland Alice! Ltd to 1000 copies, only 600 copies to be distributed.
MindExpansion-2012
CD
$8.25

Antarctica Takes It!
The Penguin League (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Debut album by a four piece, from Santa Cruz, CA, whose joyous folk pop has been compared to Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists and Beirut. A bedroom band put together by 22-year-old Dylan McKeever, Antarctica Takes It! recorded the songs on "The Penguin League" straight onto a friend's laptop, using the computer's internal microphone. No problem if you're a straightforward rock'n'roll band, but Dylan's songs boasted an array of accordions, glockenspiels, cellos, ukuleles, trumpets, harmonicas and pianos. The result should have been extremely lo-fi - and in places it is (you can actually hear the instruments battling for airspace at some points). But, overall, thanks to Dylan's patience and prodigious talent, "The Penguin League" conjures a tiny orchestra out of thin air. From the opening "I'm No Lover", which sees mariachi horns collide with a rattling folk melody, to the magical "Flightless Birds", which transports "Pet Sounds" to the Antarctic wastes, this is a record that sounds like it's anywhere but a suburban bedroom on the American West Coast. In fact, lyrically and spiritually, Antarctica Takes It! reside, as their names suggests, slightly further south. The album's highlight, "Antarctica", sees the band knee deep in a polar expedition, while the photos for the cover and CD booklet were provided by Dr Samuel Silverstein, who headed the 1967 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Dr Silverstein also writes about his photos in the booklet, which makes this the first album to be released with sleeve notes by an Antarctic explorer. Press/Radio: Reviews in Uncut, NME, The Guardian, Plan B, Pitchfork, PopMatters, with more TBC.
HowDoesItFeelToBeLoved-003
CD
$16.25

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

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

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

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

Bitcrush
Epilogue in Waves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting.
n5MD-156
CD
$12.00

Black Hollies
Casting Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US After wide acclaim from their debut album and a practice regiment that has left their jaw-dropping live shows tighter than a pegged pant leg, they've reached a little further into space, introduced a wonderfully psychedelic element to their sound & come out on the other side with Casting Shadows, a powerful rock album full of unforgettable nuggets. Member of RYE COALITION. "A mash up of British Invasion blues, guitar heroics & psychedelia that would bring a smile to Brian Jones' face" -Rolling Stone.
ErnestJenning-036
CD
$11.50

Brittle Stars
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Red vinyl. Classic 90's pop effort from the lazy south.
RuinedPotential-07
10
$16.25

Bubblegum Lemonade
Ten Years Younger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Magnificent debut release from a 60's influenced indie-pop affair from Glasgow, Scotland. Bubblegum Lemonade is principally a man called Laz, a 12-string Rickenbacker enthusiast with more than a few Velvet Underground, Byrds, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Razorcuts records in his collection. Title track 'Ten Years Younger' updates the Mary Chain's take on The Velvets with nice bursts of electronica and beautiful female backing vocals courtesy of Sandra from fellow Glaswegians Strawberry Whiplash. 'The Tomorrow People' is a wonderful 60's-drenched jangle pop gem that should please even the most ardent Byrds or Razorcuts fan, while 'Unsafe at Any Speed' is Ralph Nader meets the Mary Chain with liberal dollops of reverb and distortion. Finally, 'That Thing You Do!' is a glorious cover of the title song from the mid-90's hit movie of the same name. Written by Adam Schlesinger (Ivy, Fountains of Wayne), the song was originally credited to the fictitious band The Wonders and needed to be roughed up a bit as it is here. With insanely catchy songs, masterful 12-string guitars, shimmering pop melodies, and the feedback drenched sounds of the Mary Chain, Bubblegum Lemonade is an extraordinary addition to the Matinée roster proving that old school indie will never go out of style. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve.
Matinee-064
CD5
$6.50

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

Can
Ege Bamyasi [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue.
Mute-9378
CD
$12.25

Can
Tago Mago [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue.
Mute-9377
CD
$12.25

Cardopusher
Down To The Wire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Luis Garban of Venezuela has released heaps of records these past couple years for labels such as Ad Noiseam, Peace-off, Intellectual Violence, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco & Wrong Music, but for Terminal Dusk he reveals his passion for dubstep. 'Down To The Wire' contains high energy levels, sick low bass and brilliantly selected reggae samples. This album is executed perfectly and includes remixes from two fellow dubstep heads: Atki2 & Starkey. Side A kicks off with 'Maybe Next Time' dropping the warbly and brutal bass and some hot B-boy samples. Give in to the head nod effect. Next up is 'Keep On Truckin' with a wall of low end synth leads & Bollywood style atmospheres. Rounding off the A side is 'Knock Yuh Out' and it's a badman, turning up the energy. Flip for the B side and 'Everything Is A New Surprise' kicks in with an ultra disgusting bassline & pitched up bongos, massive! Next are the remixes, Starkey starts it off with his remix of 'Knock Yuh Out' which takes the original to another level, slows it down a bit, and offers some proper dubstep swagger. Atki2 finishes the record with his rendition of 'Keep On Truckin', bringing the Bristol styles, a classic remix.
TerminalDusk-007
12
$10.50

Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis
Assassination of Jesse James (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US
Mute
CD
$15.25

Chessie
Manifest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US They continue their musical exploration of the railway environment, this time focusing on the freight trains & railway corridors that simultaneously divide & connect America's landscapes. It's an exhilarating journey through a realm of extremes, where stillness is shattered by jarring motion & cacophony subsides into silence. Using guitars, bass, drums, signal processing, samples, analog synths, organs, horns, & other instruments, they capture the interplay between the manufactured & natural worlds that railroads inhabit.
PlugResearch-084
CD
$11.50

Coniglio, Enrico
'dyanMU (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album.
Psychonavigation-022
CD
$15.50

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

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

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

Dengue Fever
Venus On Earth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group & the genre. PREFIX MAG: "Though constantly hailed by local outlets like the Los Angeles Times as the city's most "original pop band," the Cambodian-American psyche-surf rock quintet has sat patiently at the precipice of a national break for several years now. The group shifted into overdrive the last two years: an appearance on the Broken Flowers soundtrack; a documentary about singer Chhom Nimol's homecoming and the band's first trip to Cambodia, called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong; and now its third album, Venus on Earth. On it, Nimol's gorgeous Khmer and English vocals are paired with the band's inventive blend of garage rock, Cambodian folk and Ethio-jazz."
M80Music
CD
$16.25

Devastations
Yes U (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Moody, meandering rock that recalls Talk Talk at first blush.
BeggarsBanquetUS
CD
$12.50

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

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

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

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

Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$13.00

Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) have recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary work to date. Keep Your Eyes Ahead marries the Portland duo's signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a newfound appreciation for minimalism. The finger picking on "Shed Your Love" is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise, but Brandon's serene, self-assured delivery remains front and center. While songs from the band's early releases spanned up to 7 minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track on Keep Your Eyes Ahead (fiery anthem "Hallelujah") clocks in at 4 and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft has become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandon's voice, especially on driving tracks like "Keep Your Eyes Ahead." The band also took its time on the album. After the bulk of official recording was completed, a listen through all the demos and snippets on Brandon's hard drive convinced Benjamin there were more gems in the rough (which is how both "Hallelujah" and "Keep Your Eyes Ahead," as well as the mid-tempo "Back to This" were rediscovered and retooled). Produced by the band, Keep Your Eyes Ahead confirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything they've ever done. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership that's been invigorated. And that's exactly how the songs will make you feel: invigorated.
SubPop
CD
$13.00

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

Hitchcock, Robin
Shadow Cat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, UK Robyn Hitchcock has taken time out from working with The Venus 3 (which features various members of REM) and John Paul Jones (who has been busy with his former band Led Zeppelin lately...) to compile an exclusive album, Shadow Cat, for London's premier oddball label Sartorial Records. This collection of previously unreleased material from the Hitchcock vaults dates from 1993-99, providing the missing link between The Egyptians on A&M and the Warner Bros years. Shadow Cat itself features Moris Tepper, mainstay of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, on lead acoustic guitar, and all tracks are Hitchcock originals, but for the Hendrix cover "The Wind Cries Mary" (on which Sartorial boss Terry Edwards plays Hammond organ). Aside from Edwards making a further appearance on "Never Have To See You Again", Robyn performs all instruments & vocals. From the concise opening cut, For Debbie Reynolds, to the concluding title track, the quality of the songwriting & performance shines through - "out-take" albums are all too often cobbled together from unreleased (unrealizable!) material. Not so here. These 14 tracks were whittled down from around 30 contenders, carefully edited & remastered to create a cohesive album - even to the point of sequencing the songs as two sides, despite it not being manufactured on vinyl. Essential for those who have followed Robyn from his early days in The Soft Boys (with Kimberley Rew, Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe) to his work with film director Jonathan Demme and beyond, this release also serves as a fine introduction to the work of one of Englands most treasured songwriters. Enjoy! Track listing SIDE 1: 1 For Debbie Reynolds, 2 Never Have To See You Again, 3 Love Affair, 4 The Wind Cries Mary, 5 High On Yourself, 6 Because You're Over, 7 The Cat Walks Her Kind Of Line. SIDE 2: 8 Statue With A Walkman, 9 The Green Boy, 10 Real Dot, 11 Nothing But Time, 12 Beautiful Shock, 13 Baby-Doll, 14 Shadow Cat.
Satorial-030
CD
$17.75

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

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

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

Human Bell
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Feat. David Heumann (ARBOURETUM, CASS MCCOMBS, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY) and Nathan Bell (LUNGFISH, P.W. LONG, Mighty Flashlight, & Television Hill). Their gorgeous guitar duets form an instrumental canvas painted in the warm colored hues of folk & rock music, & simultaneously a blank canvas for the listeners themselves to paint. Their songs are delicately crafted w/ an immaculate clarity, expressiveness, & most of all, openness.
ThrillJockey-191
CD
$14.00

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

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

Isabelle Antena
Transmissions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK 28 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is proud to present the very first DVD by Isabelle Antena, the acclaimed easy and electro-samba pioneer from Paris , acclaimed by everyone from Nouvelle Vague to Thievery Corporation. Transmissions gather together 16 remastered video clips for singles and key album tracks recorded between 1982 and 2000, together with 12 tracks from a live concert at the Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, on 26 June 1991. Stand-out clips and tracks include Seaside Weekend, Easy Street, Poisson des Mers du Sud, Laying on the Sofa, Romancia del Amor, Jouez le Cinq, and the classic 1982 clip for debut single The Boy From Ipanema by the original Antena trio. The DVD also includes some amusing 'lost in translation' style interview extracts. The 1991 live footage from Japan runs for more than an hour, and features Antena favorites such as Antena, Be-Pop and Eclat de Nuit, on which Isabelle is backed by a crack jazz band including Fritz Sundermann and Marco de Meersman, as well as guest musicians from Japan. Artist biography: chic trio Antena formed in Paris in 1981. After scoring cult hits with wry single The Boy From Ipanema and classic mini album Camino Del Sol in 1982, the band left Crepuscule for major label releases on Island and Mercury. Going solo, Isabelle Antena returned to Crepuscule in 1986, and since then has released a further twelve albums, her writing spanning jazz, funk and Latin, and achieving notable success in Japan and the Far East. The most recent Isabelle Antena album, Easy Does It, appeared in 2005. A new Antena album, Toujours du Soleil, was released in 2006.
LTM-2494
DVD
$21.75

Jet Age, The
What Did You Do During the War, Daddy? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th)
PS, US This the Jet Age's (ex-Hurricane Lamps) follow up to 2006's critically acclaimed Breathless. Boasting brilliant tunes, breathtaking performances, and-dare we say?-a headline-grabbing concept at its heart, WDYDDTW,D? is sure to be one of the most talked about records of this election year. MAGNET: "As consistent as the Lamps were across their five albums, the Jet Age's Breathless marks a huge step forward, from Tischler's songwriting to the musicians' performances to the production and overall ambience. Lamps devotees, don't worry; Tischler is still unleashing bright shards of his trademark riffery and serving up literate epistles in his Roger Daltrey-meets-Robert Smith voice... With this debut, his band has clearly hit an early high."
Sonicboomerang-008
CD
$8.25

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

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

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

Lazarus
Like Trees We Grow To Be Satellites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Limited to 325. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Lyrics and artwork screened on the inside of jacket.
RuinedPotential-05
LP
$16.25

Louris, Gary
Vagabonds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US (Digipack Packaging) 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 has 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. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances.
Rykodisc
CD
$16.00

Lungfish
Rainbows from Atoms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Re-mastered version of the band's third cd, originally released in 1993. (Don't forget that Lungfish's singer is DANIEL HIGGS, who has embarked on a burgeoning solo career.) Out of print for several years, remastered at Silver Sonya.
Dischord
CD
$10.25

Mangion, Suzy
The Other Side of the Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drum kit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy Mangion began her public music making as one half of school boy/girl band George, in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album 'The Magic Lantern' on Pickled Egg Records in 2003. An EP, 'All Good Things', was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album, 'A Week of Kindness', was jointly released on both labels. Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album 'Writers Without Homes' (4AD) - contributing vocals on two tracks, which have been described by many as the album's highlights and has recorded two albums with Arbol, an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and 'Dreams Made of Paper' (Lejos Discos). Last year she made a guest appearance on the Big Eyes Family Players's album, 'Do The Musiking'. Suzy is also one half of The Winter Journey. 'The Other Side of the Mountain' is Suzy's first solo album, and was recorded between January and July 2006. Musically, it follows on very much from where George left off, hardly surprising, given that Suzy was responsible for writing and performing about 90% of their material. "Suzy Mangion's voice cuts through the muggy layer of post modernism, to deliver songs that beautifully capture a sense of perpetual loss through the passing of time itself" [The Wire] "When she's not collaborating with the likes of Arbol and Piano Magic, Suzy Mangion writes intimate torch songs with multi-instrumentalist Michael Varty. One minute she sounds like Joni Mitchell crooning over a Wurlitzer, the next she's whispering like Vincent Gallo's long lost cousin over a fragile score of guitars, chimes, strings and loops. Either way, the results are never less than mesmerizing" [Uncut] "George's adventures in bricolage proffer to the listener the saddest, prettiest songs about early surgical cinema, living in memory or a fearful search for joy, that they will hear for a long time" [Sleazenation] "George's suite of beautiful songs makes no vulgar attempt to grab your attention, and its inward_looking focus put me in mind of the woody folkisms of Vashti Bunyan, previously the last word in this kind of hushed English Fireside reverie" [The Sound Projector].
PickledEgg-067
CD
$17.75

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

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

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

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

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

Peculiar, Vinny
Goodbye My Angry Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, UK There are times you can hear Nick Cave and Johnny Cash in these power pop meets kitchen sink drama songs but a better comparison might be Stephen Duffy for the romance-against-the-odds, me-against-the-world, railing-against-the-dying-of-the-light feeling of this record." Manchester song-writing maverick, performance poet and Smiths associate Vinny Peculiar has cultivated an alternative music career spanning the past 10 years collaborating with a diverse range of artists from Bill Drummond to Bonehead. 'Goodbye My Angry Friend', his 7th studio album, is an ambitious, vengeful, tuneful and intriguing collection of songs. Produced by sonic magpie Tim Browne it fuses influences that are, to many a pop music connoisseur, poles apart...from Nick Cave to The Darkness...from Johnny Cash to Queen. Here is a record that, for better or worse, plays by its own rules. The opening salvo reflects upon the death of the Vinny Peculiar alter ego whilst 'Kiss Me [I'm a Social Worker]' reeks of abuse and mistrust. 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' is a tenderly affecting paean of mood disorder and melody. 'Lazy Bohemians' portrays and gently dismembers a world of would be revolutionary misfits...a world in which Vinny stars as idler in chief. From garage band symphonies to rock and roll nursery rhymes here is a record of audacious musicality from an artist not simply content to sit on the edge. Vinny Peculiar is prepared to jump.
Pronoia-007
CD
$17.75

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

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

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

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

Robots In Disguise
We're In The Music Biz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK 'Get 'em out for the boys,' is the reaction many women in music still face. In fact, that's the phrase - albeit in French - that one photographer used when shooting ROBOTS IN DISGUISE aka DEE PLUME (guitar and vocals) and SUE DENIM (bass and vocals) for a French glossy, which probably prefers to remain nameless. But while many would rant, huff & puff or simply cave in, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE decided to celebrate the launch of their 3rd album, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ, by beating the boys at their own game. The maverick electro-pop duo with a reputation for their fashion-forward style appears on the cover with immaculate hair and make-up wearing skinny-minny shirts and ties. But what's this? Those girls are naked but for layer of skillfully applied body paint! 'We like to subvert people's expectations of us as a band and have a bit of fun with it,' says agent provocateuse, Dee. 'People have seen those pictures and it's so unexpected that they've not even clocked it,' says Sue. Part riot grrl princesses, part monsters of DIY musical mayhem, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE have enjoyed cult success in France and Germany where they've toured extensively around their first two albums, but now they're setting their sights closer to home, supporting The Gossip on tour this summer and picking up fans from the likes of CSS, The Klaxons, Princess Superstar and Chicks on Speed. WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ sees the Robots developing their signature sound and tell-it-like-it-is lyrics, with a sharper, boppier and frequently impossibly catchy feel. Produced by Chris Corner (Sneaker Pimps/ I Am X) in Berlin, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ includes the hit single, THE SEX HAS MADE ME STUPID, a hedonistic, future indie-dance classic of what happens when you get off with someone you like. The sex, the drink, the illegal substances - the sheer addictive mess and mayhem that inevitably ensue from acting on attraction. Get it out for the girls... Confirmed Press includes The London Paper, The Fly, Record Collector, Stool pigeon, Mojo, AXM, SubVert Magazine, Loaded, Mixmag, NME, Artrocker, DJ Magazine, Maxim. Loads more expected but too early to confirm as yet. Track listing 1 We're in the music biz, 2 Cant stop getting wasted, 3 The sex has made me stupid, 4 Animals, 5 The tears, 6 I don't have a god, 7 I live in Berlin, 8 I'm hit, 9 Everybody's going crazy, 10. Dont copy me.
President-3
CD
$17.75

Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar
Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US
N2O
CD
$14.25

Saville, Robin/Doll Boy
Player Piano/ Prelude No.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Like Burton and Taylor, some artists and labels are always linked. Isan/ Robin Saville go way back with the Static Brothers and we are chuffed as can be to release Robin's first solo single, a precursor for his debut album. Dollboy have also stepped inside the Caravan before, donning mittens and knocking back a Cab Sav while holing up with the extended family, otherwise known as those dudes from Tunng. Try finding that release nowadays. MC Doll (homeless Oliver Cherer) Boy and his producer (social worker Robin Saville) strode into the van with the idea of a split single, and who are we to turn our backs on such street savvy? It's best to say that this hummus and sesame seed breadstick is a mighty fine appetizer for Robin's debut solo album. Planned for a release with Static Caravan, it's due to see the light of day in 2008. For the past ten years, Robin Saville has been precisely fifty percent of isan, a frankly seminal electronica outfit whose influence has been acknowledged around the world. This is his first solo release, a bouncy, weaving, piano-led lurcher which harks back to the duo's earlier, more carefree roots. He also likes to grow vegetables and make jam. Sublime electronica AND advice about vegetable seeds for your garden? Now that's what we call good value. Following a long list of highly regarded releases since 2004, Dollboy returns with a re-voicing of JS Bach's Prelude No 1 in C Major (from The Well Tempered Clavier), a characteristically swoonsome piece of organic-electronic jingle-jangle majesty, featuring the sound of water-filled bowls and a 1942 glass glockenspiel. What ensues is two minutes of clicks, whirrs and beautiful sounds, bringing Bach into the binary age - kick back, grab a glass of red wine and admire the warm glow. 250 only seveninch vinyl in a hand-painted sleeve.
StaticCaravan-145-7
45
$9.25

Sequins, The
The Death of Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Long awaited 12 track debut album from the best Best Midlands indie pop band. Formed around the nucleus of Warwick University, the five-piece deliver an album that builds upon the potential shown in their two singles and transgresses that already high watermark. Sharing a firm lineage with the Postcard and Sarah Records aesthetics, The Sequins draw upon the best jangly guitar pop and artrock to create a signature sound that puts them out of step with the current zeitgeist. Eschewing the contemporary fashion with cold-hearted irony, The Sequins aren't afraid to indulge their playful side or embrace the unfashionable. This is music free of guilty pleasures and full of unabashed joy. Although employing spider-like guitars and dizzying time signatures in equal measure, they never once forget the importance of melody or a good chorus. Recorded in South London in two short sessions, The Death of Style is endearingly lo-fi but sparkles in all the right places, providing a perfect snapshot of the live sound that has brought The Sequins many devoted fans in the past year. Limited to 1000 specially designed album sleeves, each release comes replete with it's own sequins and a front cover which encourages fans to create their own unique designs. Press: "this is immutable yet frail pop that makes my heart beat faster and faster. 9/10" Drowned In Sound. "An absolute must for indiepopsters everywhere" -The Fly. "Blissfully-tuneful indie-pop contenders" - NME. "Wide eyed melodies and breakneck energy" - Rough Trade. "Sharp jangling rhythms that swoop and soar" - SoundsXP. "I'm too lost in the world of Sequins and can't work out what I was going to do..." - John Kennedy, XFM.
ToughLove-014
CD
$16.25

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

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

Songs Of Green Pheasant
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH)
PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Timeless effort from the UK's Duncan Sumpner. Picture- window jacket with printed vellum. Artwork by Esteban Rey.
RuinedPotential-06
LP
$21.75

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

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

Strawberry Whiplash
Who's In Your Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Astonishing debut from a promising new band from Glasgow, Scotland where everyone is in a pop bandit's in the blood, it's in the water and it's in the contract. Sandra and Laz have built a feedback wall of sunshine sound out of old fuzz boxes and reverbed drums that recalls some of the best C-86 pop from The Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh, The Primitives, or The Revolving Paint Dream. The debut single includes the infectious lead track 'Who's In Your Dreams?' which is creating quite the buzz on international indie blogs already. It's a hip shaking pop gem with tambourines, splendid melodies, loads of reverb and just the recommended dosage of ba-da-ba's. 'It Rains On Other Planets' is a shimmering wall of sound with noisy guitars, steady drumming, piercing organ and handclaps, while 'My Day Today' is an immediate 150 bpm pop hit with jangling guitars and keyboards that in a parallel universe would fill dance floors to capacity. Final track 'Factory Girl' is a harmonic wall of pop based around the Warhol Superstar phenomenon think Mary Chain meets The Primitives and you're nearly there. An especially invigorating addition to the Matinée catalog, Strawberry Whiplash are early contenders for favorite new band of 2008! Limited to 1000 copies in custom mini jacket sleeve.
Matinee-065
CD5
$6.50

subtractiveLAD
Apparatus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26th)
PS, US 'Apparatus,' SubtractiveLAD's fourth album, finds Stephen Hummel elaborating upon previous granular motifs. Those familiar with his progression will notice that Hummel's sound has matured and become grounded in an honest and open place. As such musical growth would imply, Apparatus is the album in which Hummel appears to be most comfortable with his ideas and usage of sound. It is this comfort, which allows Apparatus to envelop the listener in a profoundly personal way. Lofty classic ambient refrains, shoegaze splendor and muted broken beat trickery are all stylistic fair game. Comparisons can be made to a wide rage of artists such as Ben Frost, Eno, Namlook, and even label mate Bitcrush. As each SubtractieLAD album seems to top the previous, the anticipation is building for what is to come from this bright talent in electronic music.
n5MD-155
CD
$12.00

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

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

Various
Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Tanya Donelly, Britta Phillips, Lori McKenna, Jill Sobule with John Doe, Elk City, Veruca Salt, Kristin Hersh, Josie Cotton, The Watson Twins, and Julie Peel are just some of the outstanding artists covering Neil Young's most popular songs for charity on this 21 track Double CD. All proceeds from this benefit record go to Casting for Recovery. Casting For Recovery is a national nonprofit support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer. Casting for Recovery provides an opportunity for women whose lives have been profoundly affected by the disease to gather in a beautiful, natural setting and learn fly-fishing, "a sport for life." The weekend retreats incorporate counseling, educational services and the sport of fly-fishing to promote mental and physical healing. Track Listing: Disk 1: 1. TANYA DONELLY "Heart Of Gold" 2. BRITTA PHILLIPS "I Am A Child" 3. KATE YORK "Comes A Time" 4. LORI MCKENNA "The Needle And The Damage Done" 5. JILL SOBULE with JOHN DOE "Down By The River" 6. VERUCA SALT "Burned" 7. JOSIE COTTON "Cowgirl In The Sand" 8. DALA "A Man Needs A Maid" 9. DARCIE MINER " Ohio " 10. CARMEN TOWNSEND "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" Disk 2: 1. EURO-TRASH GIRL "Cinnamon Girl" 2. JULIE PEEL "I Believe In You" 3. LUFF "Tell Me Why" 4. DALA " Ohio " 5. ELK CITY "Helpless" 6. AMILIA K. SPICER "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 7. LOUISE POST " Sugar Mountain " 8. THE WATSON TWINS "Powderfinger" 9. KRISTIN HERSH "Like A Hurricane" 10. CINDY WHEELER (CAULFIELD SISTERS) "Old Man" 11. HEIDI GLUCK (SOME GIRLS) "Walk On".
AmericanLaundromat-012
CD
$12.25

Various
Living Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, US A collection of ALL NEW & UNRELEASED songs (except for one) by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection and flow in one continuous track. Featuring The Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon, Black Dice, Fischerspooner, Rings, Doldrums, Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O'Neil, Palms, Avey Tare of Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall, and many more.
RareBookRoom-001
DCD
$13.00

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

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

A.A. Bondy “American Hearts” CD $13.50

Black Strobe “Burn Your Own Church” LP $14.00

Blues Control “Puff” LP $13.00

Bosmann, Karl “Eskalation” LP $34.00

Bot Ox “Babylon By Car” 12 $8.00

Bröderna Lindgren “Vuxen Barnmusik 2007” CD $20.50

Cannery “There Is Life In This Old Land” CD $14.25

Catanzarite, Stephen “U2's Achtung Baby (33 1/3 Paperback Book)” BOOK $10.95

Club 8 “The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming” LP $18.00

Crash That Took Me “Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes” CD $11.75

Durutti Column, The “Lips That Would Kiss” CD $17.00

Esplendor Geometrico “1980-1989|First Decade” 3XLP $88.00

Evaporators “Gassy Jack & Other Tales” CD $16.50

Harris, Noah “The Sea & Age EP” CD5 $7.00

Heartbreak Scene “Szabo Songbook” CD $8.50

Hitmen, The “Self-Titled [re-issue]” DCD $21.75

Hitmen, The “It Is What It Is [re-issue]” DCD $21.75

Isis “Holy Tears” CD5 $6.25

Malmberg, Eric “Verklighet & Beat” CD $13.75

Moby Grape “Moby Grape '69 [Bonus Tracks]” CD $18.75

MV & EE With The Golden Road “Gettin' Gone [DLP version]” DLP $22.50

Petrusich, Amanda “Nick Drake's Pink Moon (33 1/3 Paperback Book)” BOOK $10.95

Radiohead “In Rainbows” LP $17.50

Rare Bird “As Your Mind Flies By” CD $20.25

Remains, The “The Remains [2007 Bonus Tracks]” CD $18.75

Rigas “The Hardest Pocket To Pick” CD $13.75

Rogue Wave “Asleep at Heaven's Gate” LP $14.00

Sea Wolf “Leaves In The River” CD $13.50

Seabear “Teenage Kicks” 45 $6.00

Seavault “Mercy Seat” 45 $6.00

Smith, Jimmy “Back at the Chicken Shack [RVG] (Remastered)” CD $12.25

Stone, David Scott “Plays The Modular Synth” CD $10.00

Stooges “Weirdness” LP $20.00

Striborg “Nefaria” DLP $16.50

Valentine, Matt “PK Dick b/w We Can't Build You” 45 $8.00

Various “Plum [10 x 7" boxset]” 45-BOX $40.00

Various “Poem, Ballader Och Lite Blues - Aterbesoket” DCD $23.00

White, Jim “S-T” CD $11.75

White, John “S-T” CD $12.00

Wiese, John & Ortmann, Andy “Grux” LP $25.00

Wilson, Carl “Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love (33 1/3 Paperback Book)” BOOK $10.95

Wolves In The Throne Room “Two Hunters” CD $14.25

Woods “How To Survive In The Woods” CD $13.25

Parasol New Arrivals • January 22, 2008
Hey all, Wow! This has been a pretty heavy day for new releases. With the likes of Cat Power, Times New Viking, Super Furry Animals, Holy Fuck, Richard Swift and scads of other gems released today. We’ll have our hands full in the mail order department but give us a shout if anything catches your eye. We’re keeping it short and sweet today, just like Paul. Be well, Roy & Paul
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	Tyler Ramsey "A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea" CD ON SALE $12.50 This debut album from N. Carolina’s Tyler Ramsey (who also just happens to be the new guitarist for Band of Horses) has been breaking our hearts for the last week with it's moody guitar romanticism and Smokey Mountain melancholy. Full of Fahey/Kottke-esque guitar caress (or so we're told) and spectral M. Ward/Neil Young "moments" (which are obvious, even to us), along with the occasional bonfire reverie: lotsa glowing embers and swirling sparks... But I tell you what, mostly it sounds like a parallel-universe Red House Painters, and upon listening you will know exactly why Band Of Horses picked him as their new guitarist. It is uncanny, be it coincidence or fate! Listen to sound samples on our front page.
Parasol Label Group Stuff for January 22nd
	NEWS: Check out the Gazelle release page for their debut album Sunblown, and download a special alternate-master mp3 of their monolithic rocker “The First Rays”. Gazelle’s album will be available via mailorder, um, soon, we hope, and nationwide in April or May. REVIEWS: Earlier this month the good folks at NPR chose “Amnesia” from Richard Lloyd’s new album The Radiant Monkey as their Song Of The Day. VENUES: The Big Apple’s last chance to see the final date of ex-Television guitarist Richard Lloyd’s, January Residency/Odyssey at Otto's Shrunken Head (538 East 14th St) in NYC with his band The Sufimonkey Sunday night, January 27th at 9PM. Free admission, but it's a small venue and it’s the last night!
New Releases Adorable Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives. CherryRed-327 CD $15.50 Affinity S-T PS, US Featuring 8 rare tracks, not found on their original LP, including two tracks from their rare single and two tracks from their 1969 EMI acetate. Lilith-145 CD $18.00 Affinity S-T PS, US ALSO ON 2LP! Lilith-145 DLP $29.50 Alcest Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde PS, US Epic, elemental post-metal shoegaze guitar rock from one-man-band and a female vocalist, a hurricane of pink noise likened to Jesu, M83, My Bloody Valentine and Sigur Ros. Highly recommended! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The relationship between heavy metal and the so-called "shoegazer" movement of the early '90s might not be apparent in writing, but with Justin Broaderick's amazing transmutation of his grinding industrial metal in Napalm Death and Godflesh into the dark, sonic bliss of his current incarnation as Jesu, it doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore. Immediately upon first listen the connection between one-man band Neige's French "black metal" roots and his current neo-psychedelic explorations under the Alcest moniker doesn't seem so far-fetched, natural even. Playing all the instruments on Alcest's debut full-length Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde ("Memories of a Future World") Neige builds layers upon layers of ecstatically distorted guitars that evoke obvious comparisons to My Bloody Valentine's sonic extravaganzas and less obvious nods to the brooding minor-key post-metal of Jesu, only perhaps a bit sunnier. There are only six songs on Souvenirs, and the formula deviates only slightly, but the mission statement is evident from the opening crunch of the first track "Printemps Emeraude," as the foundation of majestic guitar swells and stately minimalist drums is laid and the journey begins, and the listener is seemingly transported over great distances and through lifetimes via hypnotic repetition and a series of dynamic shifts which are probably more important than the actual songs themselves. The feelings elicited are those of yearning, nostalgia, triumph and blissful peace, all without a single lyric in (discernible) English. And really, the best factor arising from the meeting of metal and shoegaze is that this is a guitar album -- a monstrous, churning, epic guitar album -- without a single guitar solo!" (Brian Way) ProfoundLore CD $14.25 American Mars Western Sides PS, US Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, their ethereal sound is an impassioned & moody brand of indie-Americana. Under the direction of the band's pedal steel player & producer DAVID FEENY (Blanche, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes), the band's ranging impulses are brought together to create something more than the sum of its songs. Gangplank CD $10.00 Arbol You Traveled My Heart Inside Out PS, SPAIN Arbol´s 3rd release "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" is out now. Miguel Marín, aka Arbol, continues to walk a path that the enigmatic lushness of his previous work cannot erase. Where a clearing in the forest of "Dreams made of paper" (Lejos Discos, 2005) forced us to linger over songs that poured down on us as a sudden and marvelous light before continuing on our mottled passage, the select track of "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" opens like a delta to new and wide pastures, bringing calm waters to soak the feet of the city. For this new release, Miguel has collaborated with Suzy Mangion, D-fried and the Japanese singer Eri Makino. It was recorded between 2004 and 2007 in London, Barcelona and Tokyo and confirms the crucial role played by Miguel Marín in the development of imaginary soundtracks as an independent musical genre. "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" shows the influences that Arbol´s music has been subject to in recent years as he moved between three completely different cities, three distinct ways of seeing music and life. LejosDiscos-009 CD $15.00 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day PS, US Baby Dee is an internationally traveled singer, songwriter & performer. This is her 3rd album. Produced by MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, who also played on the record, along w/ ANDREW WK, ROBBIE LEE, MAX MOSTON, WILLIAM BREEZE, JOHN CONTRERAS, JAMES LO & LIZ KESSEL, all of whom bring extra fullness to Dee's old-world pop sensibilities. This is such a great album, filled w/ deeply moving songs & sharply produced in vivid images. DragCity-351 CD $13.25 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-351 LP $13.25 Baja Wolfhour PS, US Daniel Vujanic´s third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled, intensively displays the composer/musician´s exciting approach towards a "free electronica" genre. Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, maximized-minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of sedative post-post-rock, "Wolfhour" plays with postmodern expectations as much as possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There is at least as much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic´s compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Beginnings sound like ends and vice versa. Sounds teleport. Comments on Baja's Sound: "Mirroring the obstinacy and arbitrary nature of human emotions, Vujanic is using electronic music in a way that makes it less a statement about media or a contemporary discussion about subverting conventional songwriting than a tool of matter-of-factness..." - Coke Machine Glow "If the indie rock just isn't getting it done for you anymore, Baja's enveloping, intangible compositions may be just the guide you need to more engaging musical territory. Tiny Mix Tapes ...beautifully strange thing in between postrock, notebookindie, jazzy bitparts and occasional guitar eruptions and - yes, indeed - pop..." (10 points) - VISIONS Magazine. OtherElectricites-011 CD $12.25 Battle of Land and Sea S-T PS, US To describe the sound of The Battle of Land & Sea, one might call up images of abandoned sea-worn ships floating through a thick coastal fog. And upon first listen you might call to mind Cat Power, or the soft glow of Songs of Green Pheasant. But eventually, you start to hear what makes the music of Portland based Sarah O'Shura so special. You get a glimpse of a world through the eyes of a someone on a musical pilgrimage, whether the tales are laden with sorrow or joy, they are enchanting & hopeful. Spooky & beautiful...calling out all the old ghosts from past recordings on beautifully warbled vinyl, they recreate an old jazz club atmosphere but with a little sawdust on the floor. Notenuf-008 CD $13.25 Believer January 2008 PS, US The 50th issue! Interview w/ illustrator-graphic novelist CHARLES BURNS, Lydia Davis on SAMUEL BECKETT, baking Toll House cookies in Iraq, the ever entertaining NICK HORNBY, book reviews & much more. Get your read on. Published by McSweeney's. ZINE $9.25 Birdie Catherine Avenue PS, US A big, stunning Great American Rock Record. The band spins sweeping anthems told in California semi-gloss, with twinges of West Coast Country and big-hearted Southern balladry. It's an album about place and location, about the way that geography affects us. California itself figures heavily as a character on the record; two of the band's members are Southern ex-pats and the lyrics often address the bewilderment of finding oneself transplanted to Los Angeles. If you need musical analogues then we hear Fleetwood Mac, Grandaddy, CSNY, Rilo Kiley, and Brill Building pop, but that's by no means a complete list. This is ambitious orchestral music decked out in gorgeous harmonies, ringing pianos, and some pretty killer guitar work that knows a thing or two about dynamism. It knows when to take a breather, and it knows when to go for the knockout. 3HIVE REVIEW: "Biirdie brings the heartache like a slow-approaching thunderstorm." LoveMinusZero CD $11.00 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] PS, US Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The DELUXE EDITION, at the same price as the regular version, includes second disc with 3 additional recordings. Jagjaguwar-090 DCD $11.50 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar-090 DLP $12.25 Blood On The Wall Liferz PS, US Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "Awesomer". PITCHFORK: "Steeped in classic indie rock, this muscular trio makes no bones about blasting faux-Pixies or Sonic Youth songs well into the red." TheSocialRegistry-060 CD $11.50 Bodies Of Water Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy. SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12 CD $11.50 Broach, Chris Airplanes. Gravity. Distance. Space. Crowds. Alcohol. Sex. Panic. Depression. Mania. PS, US Lucid CD $14.00 Buddyrevelles September, November PS, US Listen to that Telecaster chime! Those intertwining vocal lines! Those dynamic yet dancey rhythms! The Buddyrevelles really are one of the best pop bands around, and their debut CD (released in 1998 on Motorcoat Records) proves that 14 times over. NoKarma-065 CD $10.50 Buddyrevelles American Matador PS, US "'One, Two' is a perfect example of the benefits resulting from the slightly thicker, more complex sound the band has chosen to explore on their latest record. Time changes, layered guitars, and a generally expanded musical vocabulary make American Matador's better moments a true step forward for an already excellent band ... and when the grand finale arrives, and drummer Dan Reinholdt's kit explodes like fireworks, any conceivable doubt disintegrates: American Matador is an awesome record." -Pitchfork [8.0] NoKarma-066 CD $10.50 Bust #49 PS, US All about EVE, the lady rapper graces this month's cover. Reno 911's Niecy Nash, Alison Goldrapp, Justice, career waitresses, be a tax master, fashion lovers unite & more! ZINE $4.75 Buzzcocks 30 PS, US New live album from punk-pop legends and orgasm addicts, still jackin' it 30 years on. Recorded on their 2006 reunion tour. CookingVinyl CD $13.75 Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers PS, US Recieved 7.4 on PITCHFORK. Debut from Tampa based chamber pop trio combines inherent pop sensibilities rich with lush sonic textures. Their sound results in a style the band calls "Heroin Pop," an amalgam of Sparklehourse, Hope Sandoval, Tindersticks and Leonard Cohen. NewGranada-011 CD $8.50 Canned Heat Vintage PS, US Here's how they sounded in '66 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings. A perfect match, considering that Wilson & Hite were avid record collectors & blues aficionados. Lilith-139 CD $18.00 Carroll, Barton Lost One PS, US The Lost One is a collection of twelve cinematic country songs by Barton Carroll. Since 2002, Barton Carroll has toured and recorded extensively with Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann, playing guitar, steel guitar, and upright bass. Carroll has also toured, playing various instruments with Azure Ray, Dolorean, and Micah P. Hinson. The album title, The Lost One, was stolen from one of the classic films of the Noir canon, a genre that Carroll is hooked on. Like the film, the songs tell stories of souls who, burdened by their past, fear they will not be redeemed. Carroll's sardonic and self effacing wit is evident. Musically, the record is a mixture of the mountain music that Carroll grew up hearing in Western North Carolina, and the sweet, sad, melodic sensibility of Alex Chilton. Carroll has a sincere, durable voice well suited for storytelling and folk songs.The Lost One was produced by Martin Feveyear, who engineered and produced the 2005 Crooked Fingers release, Dignity and Shame. Feveyear is a veteran producer and engineer, having worked with such artists as Mark Lanegan, Damien Jurado, and John Wesley Harding. SkybucketRecords CD $15.00 Cartridge Family Shine Like a Bottle PS, US The Cartridge Family's Shine Like a Bottle takes you back to a time when hyphens had not yet been invented, an era when a description as straightforward as "rock and roll" would suffice. Here's what you don't get with Shine Like a Bottle: A whole lot of frills. Here's what you do get: Guitars that could never be accused of being shy. Sneaky hooks. Keyboards with the same personality as the guitars. Echoes of the Faces and Blonde on Blonde and rock bands that like country music but don't feel like they have to prove it and a dozen other things that represent what's always been good in the music world. (Doublenaught) DoublenaughtRecords CD $15.75 Castanets Strong Animal PS, US This limited edition 7" includes a remix of "Strong Animal" from CASTANETS recent "In the Vines" full-player, as well as "Golden", an outtake from that same album. The remix was part of a series of remixes given out via the interweb to help promote "In The Vines". This one was too deliciously geared for dance floors so we felt that not putting it to wax was a crime to the night. West Coaster and Hero to All, RAFTER, manned boards and faders and clickers for it. Bass up, mids wherever. Artwork is by Castanets good friend Tara Jane ONeil. Here's to big airplanes and weekend agoraphobics. AsthmaticKitty-034 45 $3.75 Cat Power Jukebox (Deluxe) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover!!! Matador LP $25.00 Cat Power Jukebox [deluxe version] (ON SALE) PS, US Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. This deluxe version comes in a silver-foil gatefold cover with a bonus disc of extra tracks. Backed by Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi). Guest appearances from Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan), Larry McDonald (Toots & The Maytals, Taj Mahal), Teenie Hodges (Al Green, Memphis Rhythm Band), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham). MOJO: "She inhabits other people's songs with a fierce conviction that's sometimes startling.". Matador DCD $15.00 Cat Power Jukebox [regular version] PS, US Her second album of covers!!! Matador CD $13.25 Celletti, Alessandra Way Out PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a new studio album from Alessandra Celletti, the virtuoso Italian composer/pianist whose previous CDs include acclaimed interpretations of works by Glass, Satie and Gurdjieff. Way Out is Alessandra's third album of original material, following Overground (1997) and Chi Mi Darà le Ali (2006). Recorded in Rome in 2007, Way Out marks an innovative exploration of several musical styles, including vocal tracks sung by Alessandra as well as a number of her exquisite solo piano compositions. She is joined on most of the tracks by drummer Fabio Ferri, while Renzo Pin provided English-language lyrics. Stand-out tracks include Dear To Me, Burning and Hundred Points, the latter a future pop classic complemented by a brilliant animated video clip made by Tony Sbarbaro. A unique set that defies classification, Way Out also features one bonus song, the beautiful title track from Alessandra's previous artist album, Chi Mi Darà le Ali. The memorable cover image is the painting Pensando alla Guerra by artist Isobel Blank. Short biography: Alessandra Celletti studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome . After graduating she continued her studies with Vera Gobbi Belcredi, specializing in French piano works of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In 1994 she released Les sons et les parfums, an album of pieces by Debussy, Ravel and Satie. Since then she has followed an irregular artistic path, characterized by sudden departures from classical music. Her second album, Viaggio a Praga, an exploration of the work of Bohemian composers, saw Alessandra awarded a scholarship by the Czech Republic in 1997. On returning to Italy she began working with Kha Records. Her collection Esoterik Satie proved hugely popular in France , and Gnossienne #1 was used by Guy Ritchie in his 2005 movie Revolver. Alessandra is now preparing to release two new albums. The Golden Fly will appear in Italy in October 2007, and Way Out by LTM in January 2008. LTM-2505 CD $17.00 Cha Cha Cohen All Artists Are Criminals PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 2002 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Cha Cha Cohen S-T PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 1999 debut album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Chairlift Evident Utensil PS, US This single on white vinyl w/ full color jacket is the 1st official release for Chairlift! As if that wasn't exciting enough, the B side features a MGMT remix. Fans of MGMT, Of Montreal, Feist, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, synth pop, limited vinyl. KanineRecords-291 45 $4.75 Chico Hamilton Quintet/Elmer Bernstein OST: Sweet Smell Of Success PS, UK One of the most important films of the fifties, Sweet Smell Of Success boasts one of the great jazz scores; a combination of abstract jazz themes written and performed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet and a furious orchestral score by the masterful Elmer Bernstein. These albums were released seperately in 1957 - both became very considerable rarities - and are here combined in a single edition in digital format for the first time. Sweet Smell Of Success is memorable for the vicious performances of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and its uniquely nasty view of the tough underbelly of New York fifty years ago. It was directed by Alexander mackendrick ('The Ladykillers' 'Whisky Galore' 'The Man In The White Suite' 'Mandy') Its audience is with jazz and film buffs and the eternally stylish; strong export potential everywhere. El-132 CD $15.50 Clark, Gene Self -Titled "White Light" PS, US Further proof that '71 could very well have been the best yr ever for pop music is this LP. Following his '66 departure from The Byrds, as well as a release w/ the Gosdin Brothers & 2 w/ Doug Dillard as Dillard & Clark, Gene cut this w/ guitarist/produced Jesse Ed Davis, Burrito Brother Chris Ethridge & pianist Ben Sidran. 4MenwithBeards-116 LP $16.25 Clark, Guy Texas Cookin' PS, US Originally released in '76, this sophomore effort for RCA is another fine set of country tunes that run the gamut of emotions from goofy & playful to brutally heartbreaking, sometimes within the same song. Feat. a ridiculous talented set of players that includes Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Gimble, Chip Young, Jerry Jeff Walker & Rodney Crowell,this is an Outlaw Country classic. DBKWorks-540 CD $16.50 Clark, Guy Old No. 1 PS, US His debut from '75 is one of the all time classic country singer-songwriter records. From the rollicking Texas swing of opener "Rita Ballou" to the fingerpicked heartbreak of closer "Let Him Roll" there is not a stinker to be found. Feat. EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL & a young STEVE EARLE. DBKWorks-539 CD $16.50 Collections Of Colonies Of Bees Birds PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD "Birds" is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling - and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. TableOfTheElements-810 CD $13.00 Conjerti, Morreale & Dibley Earth Free PS, US Originally a U.S. private release from 1973. Very rare and tremendous acid electric folk rockers with terrific harmonies and haunting lyrics. You can feel the '60s still alive in their overall sound. This is one of the tops in this genre and should be owned by every card-carrying member of 'private collectors club.' Songs 'Water To Wine," "Race To The Sun" and the title track, plus many more rule! Lyrics on back of LP. Exact cover has been reproduced. Void LP $14.00 Costa, Matt Unfamiliar Faces [re-issue] PS, US Second album on Jack Johnson's Brushfire label. Full of more folky beautiful songs. Produced by Tom Dumont. Brushfire CD $15.00 Currie, Jason What Is Love For PS, US Solo album of plush ballads from Del Amitri frontman. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A sumptuous set of lovely, meticulously arranged songs, sung with earnest emotion and empathy. Comparisons to much of McCartney's love tunes are in order. Imagine an album filled with variations on "My Love" and you're close to what Currie creates here. The melodies are simple yet elegant, the production clean and crisp with few signs of the sappy gunk this could easily have turned into. The singer's vocals are instantly recognizable, but in this format of music from the heart they seem even more impressive, as he's obviously connected to the material and not aiming for chart success. When he reaches into the higher end of his register on "Where Did I Go?" accompanied by strings and a somewhat surprising strangulated guitar solo, the drama is riveting. It will take a few spins for this to kick in, but when it does, small variations on the piano based format such as the gritty guitar that jumps out of "Out of My Control" and the squawking, David Bowie-styled sax in "Something in That Mess" become gripping interludes in the introspective mood. Clearly this material wouldn't have cut it on a Del Amitri album, at least all of it together, but the consistent tone works to this disc's advantage. It's a perfect soundtrack for rainy days and Sundays, or as accompaniment to anyone who has ever lost a love and needed to hear those sentiments expressed with honesty, sympathy and warmth." Rykodisc CD $16.25 Davis, Betty They Say I'm Different PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45. LightInTheAttic LP $21.75 Davis, Betty S-T PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45. LightInTheAttic LP $21.75 Dead Western S-T PS, US A haunting, bewildering, beautiful voice, reminiscent of Scott Walker (circa Climate of Hunter). This bellowing voice, like an ancient reptile, slithers & wraps itself around the most tender acoustic melodies. Limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl w/ die-cut, full color sleeves. WeirdForest-040 45 $5.25 Destroy All Monsters Bored PS, UK American group Destroy All Monsters caused quite a stir when they first appeared in the UK. Featuring guitarist Mike Davis who had previously played in The MC5, Ron Asheton - bass player from The Stooges and drummer Rob King, the band were completed by vocalist and ex-model Niagara. The band recorded only three singles for Cherry Red, all of which are contained on this mid-price CD (Tracks 1 > 6). Track seven - 'Goin' To Lose' - was previously unreleased. CherryRed-094 CD $15.50 Devine & Griffiths Wheels To Get To Heaven PS, UK Ian Devine is guitarist with Manchester post-punk band Ludus and one half of the duo Devine & Statton. This is the new album recorded with Amanda Griffiths on vocals. To narrow the field, this is a record that sits in the same emotional and musical league as the third release from The Velvet Underground, the first album by The Smiths, Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon', Nico's 'The Chelsea Girls', Carole King's 'Tapestry' or Joni Mitchell's 'Court and Spark'. And how to justify such a grand claim? It all comes back to the music, and the world opened up by the music. 'Wheels To Get To Heaven' is a near perfect conflation of darkness and light: that such enchanting, mesmeric songs make eloquent not simply such sadness, but such heartfelt vulnerability to the curves and ragged edges of seemingly commonplace days. Anhrefn-017 CD $15.50 Dimes, The Silent Generation PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the songs provide snapshots of a bygone America...the Dimes' soft rock delivery is completely modern, investing the tales with the humanitarian romance of a Frank Capra movie. The Dimes have done what most bands dream of, creating an alternate universe of warm pop music with a sunny vibe that'll keep toes tapping and plaster a sunny smile on every listener's face." PetMarmoset CD $11.50 Discwashers Vinyl Record Fluid PS, US misc $4.95 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Same PS, UK Almost immediately after the demise of The Monkees in 1970, there was industry clamour for a reunion and publisher Christian Dewalden came forward with an offer to finance the project. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were enthusiastic but as Mike Nesmith wasn't interested and Peter Tork couldn't be found a kind of pseudo-Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written The Monkees first number one 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'The Monkees Theme (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees)' and '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone'. So Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was born. With the Monkees logo under copyright and not available for their use, the foursome set off on tour as 'the great golden hits of the Monkees - the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em.' DJBH made its first public appearance on July 4, 1975 at six flags over mid-America in St. Louis, Missouri, where they were met by 12,500 of the same screaming fans who had followed the Monkees 10 years previously. Performing a raft of Monkee hits (Peter Tork had joined DJBH onstage at Disneyland) the band appeared on 'American Bandstand' and 'Don Kirshner's rock concert' and toured the States for a year before heading to the far east. They have the distinction of being the first American band to play in Thailand (they had to cut their hair to be allowed into the country!). The success of the American tour secured a contract with capitol records. The subsequent 'Dolenz Jones Boyce & Hart' was produced by Boyce & Hart and though light and very pop, is regarded as the most coherent Monkeerelated release since 1967¹s 'Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones'. El-052 CD $15.50 Donna Summer (aka Jason Forrest) Panther Tracks v. 1 PS, UK File under: electronic, break core, hardcore. He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as "Shamelessly Exciting" was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, "Panther Tracks" is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Break core, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B'more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, "Panther Tracks" builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like "Peepers" and "Boomshakalaka". While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Break beat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as "Party People", "Get Down" and "Rock Rock Rock". No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, "Panther Tracks" is like the ultimate Rave; it's fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long. CockRockDisco-010 12 $10.50 Drag the River You Can't Live This Way PS, US The 15-cut album was put to tape before the band slowly disintegrated over the course of a few months last year. Although the band officially broke up last summer, Drag the River is saying its final goodbyes to fans with one last album. SuburbanHome CD $11.00 Drawbacks, The Slightly Less Vague PS, US So most of the kids in Falkoping like to pimp out their Volvos, hang around in a parking lot, and maybe form a heavy metal band. There's not too much else to do 250 miles from Stockholm, in a town where the express train passes but doesn't stop. Heck, it's even 2 hours from Gothenburg. Fortunately though, the Drawbacks had other ideas... With one foot firmly placed on the Swedish west coast, and the other somewhere in the American indie-rock scene, the Drawbacks craft a brand of hooky and dynamic guitar pop. Tobias (guitar & lead vocals), Wilhelm (bass & vocals), Johan (drums & vocals), Klas (guitar & vocals), and Martin (keyboards) have been playing for several years, gigging both in Sweden and abroad. As Tobias says, they "spent a considerable amount of time learning how to deliver some kind of emotional context" through their songs, and they've gotten quite good at it. After a few self-released demos, Slightly Less Vague is the Drawbacks' first official release. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. ChocolateHearts-05 CD $7.50 Drive By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark PS, US Brighter Than Creation's Dark from Drive-By Truckers is a 19-song 75+ minute southern gothic rock n' roll masterpiece. Featuring songs from Patterson, Cooley and Shonna. The album also features contributions from Legendary Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham. NewWestRecords CD $18.25 Durutti Column, The Fidelity PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Fidelity was originally released by Les Disques du Crepuscule in April 1996, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Elli Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar style, the album also features sleek programmed beats and synth textures. The expanded Fidelity CD also features one bonus track, My Only Love, originally issued in 1995 on a free CD with a guitar magazine. The attractive booklet for this digitally remaster includes background notes, and the text of the original press release. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2512 CD $17.00 Durutti Column, The Lips That Would Kiss PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Lips That Would Kiss collects together a selection of key tracks and singles recorded for Factory Benelux, Les Disques du Crepuscule and Sordide Sentimental between 1980 and 1986. Chief among these are the pristine singles Lips That Would Kiss b/w Madeleine (1980) and Danny b/w Enigma (1981), both recorded with legendary producer Martin Hannett. The remastered 75 minute CD also includes the rare 12" EP for Factory Benelux from 1982, Deux Triangles, several unique tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums, and no less than nine tracks from the unreleased 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline, several of which feature Tuxedomoon man Blaine L. Reininger on violin. The booklet features archive images, and a cover based on the original 1980 sleeve for the Lips That Would Kiss single by artist Jean-Francois Octave. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2484 CD $17.00 Durutti Column, The Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981 PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Live In Bruxelles 13.8.1981 comprises a complete live performance by Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell at the Place de la Monnaie (Muntplein), together with a revealing after-show chat with Vini. The 10 song live set contains DC favorites such as Conduct and Sketch for Summer, as well as several rarely heard numbers including Stains, Danny and Messidor. The attractive booklet for this digitally remastered CD includes a facsimile of the original event programmed, as well as background notes and archive images of Brussels. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guest appeared on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group was managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2499 CD $17.00 Durutti Column, The Circuses & Bread PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Circuses & Bread was originally released by the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. Stand-out tracks include All That Love & Maths Can Do and the single Tomorrow. This expanded edition of Circuses & Bread also features ten bonus tracks, including the rare Japanese single For Noriko/Love Fading, compilation album tracks Verbiers and The Aftermath, and four previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline. The bonus cuts also include the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, the late Anthony H. Wilson (Factory Records founder and Durutti Column manager). The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2510 CD $17.00 Eels, The Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1 PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Throughout the myriad problems that have informed his music, Mark Oliver Everett has continued to churn out plenty of product with his main musical project, Eels. To celebrate the group's longevity, Everett (or just simply "E," as you may know him better) is emptying his vaults with this massive release. Meet the Eels features some favorites like "Novocain for the Soul" as well as a remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by Jon Brion and a cover of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On." Other oddities include covers of Prince and Daniel Johnston, BBC performances, and a DVD of the band playing Lollapalooza in 2006. Add to that original artwork and copious liner notes by E." Geffen CD/DVD $20.75 Envy Abyssal PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 LP $11.50 Envy Abyssal PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 CD $9.00 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 LP $11.50 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting PS, US Originally released in 2001 on respected Japanese punk label H.G. FACT, "All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" introduced ENVY to Americans when it was licensed for limited release in 2003 on DIM MAK RECORDS. Their original pressing sold out almost immediately, and the album has been scarcely available ever since. The vinyl now regularly fetches over $100 on eBay, and the CD is equally difficult to score without paying increasingly undesirable import fees. Along with their now-legendary follow-up, "A Dead Sinking Story", All the Footprints is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 CD $9.00 Evangelicals The Evening Descends PS, US "The Evening Descends"Š and worlds collide. First you hear the prodigious musical skill: the deft guitar work, the clever pop sensibility, the wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a trio of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have EVANGELICALS, a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, OK. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, "The Evening Descends" is the first great album of 2008. DeadOceans-4 CD $11.50 Evangelicals The Evening Descends PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DeadOceans-004 LP $11.50 Ex Reverie Door Into Summer PS, US When teenage imaginings transcend childhood's end & lodge w/ concrete ferocity within the sound world of adult reality, one can find a unique realm wherein dulcimers & glam-rock guitar frenzies manifest w/ uniform importance. The trick is knowing not to discern a difference. This heralds a return to a reality deeper than most modern folksinger neo-realists can manage to muster. LanguageofStone-004 CD $13.25 Fair Weather Beginning From An End PS, UK ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW's CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED WITH 6 BONUS TRACKS. Following the demise of AMEN CORNER, Andy Fairweather Low and fellow musical cohorts Blue Weaver, Clive Taylor and Dennis Byron underwent a musical transition into the band FAIR WEATHER. Heading into a "Progressive" direction the band adopted a harder edge and were the first act to sign to RCA Records' progressive imprint NEON (an attempt to rival Philips' VERTIGO label). Perhaps the most successful NEON signing, the band secured a UK TOP TEN hit in "Natural Sinner" before releasing their sole album, "Beginning from an End". Featuring guest contributions from DAVE EDMUNDS on "I Hear You Knockin'", although the album was a success in Europe, FAIR WEATHER lasted a mere 13 months before disbanding. This ESOTERIC reissue gathers together the album and six tracks released over three singles to comprise this definitive edition remastered reissue. EsotericRecordings-2028 CD $20.25 Fairport Convention What We Did On Our Holidays PS, US Their 2nd, originally released in '69, is the 1st to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. This finds them moving away from the California folk-rock of their debut album towards a more British approach to similar material. It is also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals & many consider this lineup to be the finest in their long & varied career. Water-211 CD $14.00 Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking PS, US Originally released in '69, Ian Matthews left midway through the recording. As a result the band looked further into their own country's folk traditions for influence, as their decidely British style was cemented by the addition of Dave Swarbrick's fiddle. Water CD $14.00 Farr, Gary Strange Fruit PS, UK GARY FARR's LONG LOST CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACK. "Strange Fruit" is a great undiscovered work of the acoustic rock / classic rock genres, cited by some as a minor masterpiece. In the late 60's Gary Farr made the transition from leader of R&B outfit The T-Bones to a noted singer-songwriter. Recording an album for Marmalade Records, Farr then signed to CBS Records in 1970, recording this sole album for the label. Sessions featured contributions from RICHARD THOMPSON on lead guitar and leading lights of the underground MIGHTY BABY. Unavailable on CD for many years, "Strange Fruit" is a record made by an often overlooked singer-songwriter made available once more by Esoteric Recordings and is certain to appeal to all who adore acoustic music both melancholic and uplifting. The reissue also features the first ever CD appearance of the single edit of "Revolution of the Season". EsotericRecordings-2029 CD $20.25 Feelies, The Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years. Water CD $14.00 Fessenden v1.1 PS, US Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion while drones interplay with staccato chords. "v1.1" represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, where hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture. Praise for Fessenden: "Playing on a rusty knife edge, these artists mould a new genre of inquisitive reduction of technical abuse..." -Touching Extremes "Contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound." -Vital Weekly "Like drifting Arctic waters in an atomic sub, slowly diving, headset plugged directly into the hull."- Avant Music News "One of the more patient ensembles I've heard, Fessenden members seem to be in no hurry to move things along here...just a few compass degrees this way or that...Fessenden provides a nice trip." -KFJC OtherElectricites-010 CD $12.25 Fine Arts Showcase, The Sings Rough Bunnies PS, SWEDEN RESTOCKING THIS TITLE BY LATE-JAN, EARLY-FEB! Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub! The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious." Adrian-051 CD $14.00 Finn, Liam I'll Be Lightning PS, US Debut album from the spawn of Crowded House's Neil Finn. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: I'll Be Lighting finds Liam coming into his own as a singer/songwriter not unlike how Neil did around the time of True Colours, a remarkable parallel in musical development that, when combined with the passing similarity in their songwriting styles, can perhaps tie Liam a little too closely to his father. Like his dad, Liam has an ear for hooks and a predilection for melodic craft, but he is not only his own man, he is certainly the product of his own generation, raised on classic pop dating back to the Beatles but obsessed with indie singer/songwriters of the '90s, specifically Elliott Smith. I'll Be Lightning has the same spare, dreamy qualities of Smith's music, but Liam Finn isn't as haunted as Smith, even if he has a similar knack for floating melodies. Despite a fair share of brokenhearted ballads here, this isn't an overly melancholy album; it can be comforting in its spells of sadness, partially because they're balanced by lighter material that meshes with the slower, sadder songs to give this depth, a richness in lyric and music uncommon to young singer/songwriters.... The 14 songs here seem stronger upon each listen, with the songs soon seeming indelible. This kind of gift is rare, but it has been passed on from father to son in a way that is similar yet quite different and equally valuable, as this excellent debut makes plain." YepRoc CD $15.00 Fireflies Snowstorm PS, US 5 song EP. Fireflies is the home recording project of Chicago's Lisle Mitnik. Taking inspiration from Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, The Field Mice, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Françoise Hardy. Melancholic pop that will ease you through the cold winter. 27Records-008 CD5 $4.00 Fleshtones, The Take A Good Look PS,US The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look, the band has reduced its Super Rock sound down to pure muscle and bone. Fuzzy guitars, vintage organ and cocksure swagger abound as the band re-stakes its claim on early 60s garage. Co-produced by session vet Ivan Julian (The Clash, Richard Hell, Elton John), the album seethes with party anthems and head-bopping mod rhythms YepRoc CD $14.50 Flower Travellin' Band Satori PS, UK Previously issued on CD by Phoenix Records (and o/p already), now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. Reissue of the second Flower Travellin' Band album, originally issued by Atlantic Records in Japan in 1971. Satori is a conceptual hard rock/psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass. Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style turned him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Robert Plant while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin. Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African six-string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this is a real rock classic of the type they simply don't make any more. Phoenix LP $20.00 Flying Lotus 1983 PS, US PlugResearch-076 LP $10.00 Folk Spectre, The The Blackest Medicine PS, US Black vinyl with silk screened covers. Limited to 500. Solo tunes by Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers, GHQ, Vanishing Voice, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, etc. This is music from the American underground. The feeling is dark and fucked up and somehow sublime. A solid statement of loner home-made goodness. A pop statement from behind a veil of dirt. Woodsist LP $14.00 Formby, Richard Volume 1 PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm,looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. Limited to 1000 copies. MindExpansion-2011 CD $11.50 Formby, Richard Volume 1 PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm,looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. MindExpansion-2011 CD $11.50 Gainsbourg, Serge Les Annees Psychedelique 1966-1971 PS, US Culling its music from rare vinyl (Gainsbourg's ultra-rare 7" B-side from the Mister Freedom OST) & master tapes (the superb & never commercially released "La Horse" & the breakbeat classic "Requiem Pour Un Con") & utilizing tasteful restoration & remastering, this latest anthology promises to be the 1st time that many of these songs will be heard by the record-buying public. And w/ bonus beats to boot. LeSmokeDisques DLP $16.75 Giant Robot #51 PS, US Damon & Naomi, Hot Links, Meet John Jay, Blog Jam. Street Beat female streetwear, Joan Chen, Tang Wei & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond! ZINE $4.75 Greenwood, Jonny There Will Be Blood OST PS, US Radiohead guy Jonny G's acclaimed film-score. PITCHFORK: "Radiohead renaissance man Jonny Greenwood makes his Hollywood film score debut with this soundtrack to director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest outing, set in a desolate California town circa 1920." Nonesuch CD $17.25 Grouper Wide PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! WeirdForest-027 LP $15.00 Hamill, Claire October PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "October" is Claire's second album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. Produced by Paul Samwell Smith (who had recently worked with Cat Stevens), "October" is a highlight of Claire's early career and is certain to appeal to those who appreciate the art of the singer songwriter. The Esoteric reissue includes "Baby What's Wrong" as a bonus tracks. With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2032 CD $20.25 Hamill, Claire One House Left Standing PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "One House Left Standing" is Claire's first album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. The Esoteric reissue includes four bonus tracks, three of which are unreleased, including a version of "Meet Me On the Corner" featuring Gerry Rafferty and Steeler's Wheel as backing musicians and the evocative single B-side "Alice in the Streets of Darlington". With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2031 CD $20.25 Handsome Ned Name Is Ned PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A two-disc anthology may seem a little extreme for an artist who never released a full album during his lifetime. However, in the case of the Handsome Ned set The Name is Ned, it is a welcome introduction to a nearly forgotten Canadian singer/songwriter. When Handsome Ned died in 1987 at the age of 29, he left behind a wealth of recordings, from studio tracks to live recordings and radio appearances... A fairly even mix of originals and covers and an impressive array of guests. Murray McLauchlan shows up on a version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone," Lydia Lunch can be heard hyping Handsome Ned's radio show before a live, acoustic version of "Sea of Heartbreak," and for the finale, Blue Rodeo invites Handsome Ned onstage at the Horseshoe Tavern to sing the Merle Haggard classic "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down." However, while the cover songs have a charm of their own and help to shed light on Handsome Ned's influences, it's the original songs that display the depth of Handsome Ned's talent... Clearly a labor of love for those involved (Handsome Ned's brother contributed the liner notes), is a worthy reminder of a talented Canadian artist." OtherPeoplesMusic DCD $15.00 Heaven Brass Rock 1 PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE JAZZ ROCK ALBUM REISSUED ON CD OFFICIALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME- 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. Heaven, a jazz rock group from Portsmouth, burst forth onto the British rock scene in 1970 when they appeared at the legendary Isle of Wight festival sharing a bill with The Who, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix et al. Making a stunning debut, the band (now managed by festival organiser Rikki Farr), soon secured a recording deal with CBS Records who signed the band for a large advance. The resulting double album "Brass Rock 1" appeared in 1971, adorned in a lavish fold-out sleeve. Well received critically, the album failed to achieve the expected success and Heaven soon disbanded, leaving behind a fine example of classic jazz rock. Officially released on CD for the first time, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is digitally remastered from the original master tapes and restores the artwork of the album in full. EsotericRecordings-2030 CD $20.25 Heeb Magazine #15 PS, US THE GOY ISSUE. Cheryl Hines on the cover. Includes feature on her, a hairy Christmas w/ Zach Galifianakis, strip deidel & tons more from this awesomely funny magazine also known as the New Jew Review. Shalom! ZINE $5.25 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty PS, US Visual artist Sydney Vermont and her man DAN BEJAR (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) formed Hello, Blue Roses in Vancouver in 2005. Sydney writes the songs & Dan arranges them. Song ideas were knocked back and forth over a period of 2 years. Last year Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to be together, write, read and think about life differently; It was in the balmy climes of their home away from home - Malaga, Spain - that the originals that make up their debut album, The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty... took real shape. In mid 2007, Hello, Blue Roses committed these songs to tape with the help of friends and family after their return to Vancouver at longtime fave spot JC/DC studios. Roses cite 60s faves (Bridget St. John, Bill Fay, the group sing of Trees Community), 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) and the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) as musical influences to their sparsely populated, timeless pop sound. LocustMusic CD $13.00 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LocustMusic LP $17.25 Hey Willpower P.D.A. PS, US "Which band can claim to take over the dancefloor with a twist of R'n'B, Radiopop and Electronica? Who has the secret recipe for a sound that equally stimulates teenagers and people in their 30ies? Who sounds as sexy as Justin Timberlake and The Soft Pink Truth combined? And who was the cover star of the San Francisco Guardian in May 2005 with the headline "dance, punk, dance"? HEY WILLPOWER is one of the hottest acts in the R'n'B Underground emerging from the US." Tomlab-081 CD $12.25 Hiorthoy, Kim My Last Day PS, US LIMITED VINYL SmalltownSupersound-087 LP $14.50 Holland, Michael Simple Truths and Pleasures PS, GERMANY This is the third solo release by Michael Holland, from Carrboro, North Carolina. Michael was a founding member of Jennyanykind, which released several critically-acclaimed albums on Elektra/Time Warner, Yep Roc and other labels between 1992-2003. Burned out by many tours through 48 states, label changes from minors to majors and back and in a state of complete emptiness and sadness, he received the Harry Smith Anthology as a gift and it completely changed his view towards music. His new masterpiece, Simple Truths and Pleasures is once again performed with members of the Big Fat Gap Bluegrass Band from NC -- the vast majority of it recorded live in the studio. More traditional than the previous record, the earthly songs reflect influences by Earl Scruggs, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, Doc Watson and especially Hank Williams. The music is a perfect and very melodic mixture of truly timeless Southern musical forms: acoustic country, folk, bluegrass, honky tonk, old time string band, blues and gospel, led by Michael Holland's warm and haunting voice. Moll-025 CD $15.00 Holsapple, Peter & Chris Stamey Mavericks [expanded re-issue] PS, US The original 12-song album remastered plus 6 bonus tracks. Collector'sChoice CD $15.25 Holy Fuck LP PS, US If electronic music is a highly sophisticated robot operated by hi-tech computers, Holy Fuck are the evil counterpart, hell bent with battery operated gadgets, keyboards, and analogue tape. Balanced somewhere between an experimental noise-out and a free-for-all dance party. NME named them in the top three new bands of this year's Glastonbury Festival. MP3 coupon sold with vinyl. Early limited edition tour EP sold out immediately. XL CD $13.25 Holy Fuck LP PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $13.25 Illiad, The A Sad Day On Pluto PS, GERMANY The Illiad is a young quintet from Ohio. A creatively produced demo put World In Sound's attention to the band leader Kyle Pittman, an introverted and deeply emotional singer and guitarist. A Sad Day On Pluto was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007 and contains 13 original tunes reflecting a tasty spectrum between early Pink Floyd jamming, '60s garage/flower-power and loner folk style, and features very catchy lyrics combined with interesting 'psychedelicate' melodies. Pittman's music captures a unique style of composing fresh music with the influences of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Velvet Underground, Marc Bolan and David Bowie. The mixing, mostly done by Pittman himself is truly a 'trip in time' -- a 'stereo-experimental' '60s style like Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn! The song 'Are You A Librarian' can be heard on Trip In Time Vol.2 (Psychedelic Rock Reflections). With expressive vocals, screeching guitar hooks and sunny Farfisa sounds in these electric tunes and classic ballads, The Illiad create the beginning of a fantastic voyage into a concrete vision of dreamy songs. WorldInSound CD $17.00 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SecretlyCanadian-148 LP $11.50 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift PS, US For the critical listener, INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY sounds like Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos had a love child in the 70's and subsequently marooned him/her/it on an Oort Cloud. If they had, this might have been the recording their love child beamed back to Earth. This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for RICHARD SWIFT, who has raised eyebrows and turned heads over the past few years for his unmistakably beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all three releases, it appears that Swift considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new musical recipes. With Instruments of Science and Technology, Swift has resurrected the earliest forms of electronic music, thrown in a few dashes of dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown-and created a new hybrid dish. So fire up the hooka coals, turn on that full screen iTunes visualizer, and pump these jams as loud as your speakers/neighbors will allow. SecretlyCanadian-148 CD $11.50 Japancakes The Sleepy Strange PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Building on the accessible experimentation on If I Could See Dallas and the Down the Elements EP, Japancakes' aptly named second album, The Sleepy Strange, is dreamy and earthy, complex and immediate, and challenging and soothing. Though their modus operandi -- repeating melodic phrases for hours at a time to highlight the subtle shifts in tone and rhythm - - remains the same, The Sleepy Strange is the band's most cohesive work to date; yet it keeps all of the spontaneous beauty of their previous releases. If anything, the slightly more focused sound highlights the band's strong melodies and interplay, making it one of the warmest, most inviting post-rock albums since Jim O'Rourke's Eureka, which also featured a fair amount of Japancakes' secret weapon, the pedal steel guitar. Whether it takes the lead, as on the opening waltz "The Waiting," or adding to the weightless beauty of "Disconnect the Cables"' avant soft rock, the group's masterful use of the instrument gives the music a dreamy, strangely western-tinged timelessness. The surprisingly propulsive "Soft N EZ" adds naive-sounding analog synths to fiddles and pedal steel, highlighting the group's highly inventive (and somewhat startling) mix of styles and sounds within one track. This is also Japancakes' most varied album, both musically and emotionally; "This Year's Beat" subtly shifts from brooding to assuring, while the loopy, languid title track and the dark string- and keyboard-driven finale, "Vinyl Fever," couldn't be farther apart in sound or mood. Hypnotically beautiful, The Sleepy Strange is the best representation yet of Japancakes' exciting repetitions, and one of 2001's best albums. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE. Darla-191 CD $12.25 Japancakes If I Could See Dallas PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Japancakes' improvisational drone pop symphonies defy easy classification, stretching a single chord to its breaking point and picking up the pieces to create dense but inviting soundscapes which somehow find the common ground between the soothing wash of ambient and the propulsive energy of rock. For If I Could See Dallas, group ringleader Eric Berg and engineer Andy Baker handcrafted the disc's 11 instrumentals from snatches of studio performances, giving the songs a form and shape their live set no doubt lacks, but the cumulative effect is no less hypnotic -- for all of the record's cosmic glow, the recurring presence of steel guitar keeps the music rooted in terra firma, a paradox which makes the music that much more difficult to pinpoint in any single time or place. The evolutionary process, which guides each song, is almost imperceptibly subtle, their circular melodies shaded by analog synths and strings that bubble in and out of the mix -- creating music that arrives without traveling, Japancakes is that rare experiment as fascinating in practice as it is in theory. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE Darla-186 CD $12.25 Japancakes Down The Elements PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Eric Berg's heady instrumental visions maintain something of an unintentional defiance that suggests that the 21st century technology is still a far-off proposition. By focusing on cello strains, droning bass and guitar lines, and insistently groovy acoustic drum patterns, it appears that he and his other Athens, GA, cohorts don't recognize the cut-and-paste, sample-centric age that most rock is now generated in. This EP, which is sandwiched between two larger efforts of equally hypnotic textures, creates moods that are far more demanding of a listener's attention than much of the ambient music produced by the synthesists the world over. The wonderfully infectious riff that propels "A.W. Sonic" somehow manages to sustain its drawing power for the majority of the track's 11-minute lifespan. "Sputnik" and the title track are the disc's straight-ahead electronic fare, but they are so skillfully arranged it's as if they'd been secretly peering in the Orb's laboratory for years. As a lower cost introduction to what Berg has begun to achieve from an experimental rock concept gone right (unlike most), Down the Elements is immensely satisfying. -- ALL MUSIC GUIDE. Originally released as an EP by Kindercore in 2000, Down The Elements clocks in at 37:58 minutes, which makes it a full length in the real world. These recordings were made at the same time as those for If I Could See Dallas. Eclectic, mostly upbeat, instrumental explorations like Trans Am meets Tangerine Dream backed with beautiful blips and burbles sure to sooth. Darla-189 CD $9.00 Jarvinen, Anna Jag Fick Feeling PS, SWEDEN This is the debut solo full-length release from Stockholm-based Anna Järvinen, former member of Sweden's Granada from 1998-2004. Granada released three albums and one EP on record labels such as Universal, V2 and Look Left Recordings, and were produced by Björn Olsson and Mattias Glavå, who also heavily contributed to this record. Jag Fick Feeling was recorded in the Kungssten industry area in Gothenburg during a rainy summer and cold winter with members of Dungen and The Works, amongst many others. For this record, Järvinen tried to make music she has always loved, with melodies that she grew up hearing: "...the soundtrack to Brideshead Revisited, The Carpenters, Elton John's darling '70s tunes, Vesa Matti Loiri's interpretations of Eino Leino's poetry, Woody Allen movies, Pentti Saarikoski, nature poetry, drug and alcohol abuse, nostalgia, the Finland of my dreams, falling in love, sorrow, homesickness." As a result, Jag Fick Feeling is full of longing, made with delicate orchestration, flute, vibraphone, piano and autoharp. On top of it all, Anna Järvinen's clear-as-a-bell voice rings with a tone not unlike The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler. Each song is sung in Swedish, but the heart doesn't. Hapna CD $15.00 Jettie Kites for Charity PS, US Swedish sensation JETTIE is back w/ their new album. A band whose overseas critical acclaim has garnered press attention and fans the world over, JETTIE's sound is reminiscent to that of early REM or Scandinavian contemporaries Johan and Daryll Ann. A dark and stark, truly powerful and uplifting listen, JETTIE's brand of tortured yet anthemic pop brilliance is undeniably some of the best "BIG" rock being made today. AP: "Moody, orchestral rock that sounds so big it's hard to believe Jettie's music can actually fit on a tiny silver disc." Eyeball CD $9.50 Jud's Gallery SWF Sessions Volume 1 PS, GERMANY New version of this archival CD, originally released as the first CD on Long Hair back in 2001. "Vol. 1 presents the band Jud's Gallery from Offenburg (Southwest Germany). In two sessions they recorded 9 songs 1972/74 in perfect studio quality. Intelligent Kraut-progressive-rock, self-composed long tracks with heavy-blues-rock and classical influence. A new chapter with unreleased original Krautrock. Continues the sound by those legendary labels as Brain, Pilz and Ohr." LongHair CD $23.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!! Dekorder-022 LP $17.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more! Dekorder-022 CD $15.00 Little Wings Magic Wand PS, GERMANY With "Magic Wand" by Little Wings Ahornfelder widens its genre variance once more to include an album we believe to be so genuinely beautiful that here's the first non instrumental album so far. After Kyle Field, the singer and head behind the changing lineup of Little Wings, released his book of drawings "Put It In A Nutshell" on Ahornfelder early 2007 it's wonderful to release his music now too. Little Wings sound is characterized the most by Kyle Field's notable voice. With a very unique sound he creates lush folky guitar-based tunes revolving around situations he may have experienced. But it's the poetic, stream of conscious way these images are described that establishes the special atmosphere of Kyle's lyrics. Sometimes they're reminding of the Beach Boys, sometimes more like contemporary American lo-fi-folk. In any way, you here a nature- and sea-loving man expressing his way of living and seeing his surrounding. And with the words and imagery he chooses his songs each establishes associations and feelings beyond simple tunes. With his always changing band recorded an album that may well be the one sounding more like a studio-recording than the albums before. The way perfect pop tunes and more expressive passages are alternating makes this work so special and abiding. Ahornfelder-10 CD $16.00 Magik Markers Boss PS, US Limited vinyl version of the most Magik Markers album (CD is on Ecstatic Peace), on their very own label Arbitrary Signs. "Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.' BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited." ArbitrarySigns LP $17.00 Magnetic Fields, The Distortion (ON SALE) PS, US New album! STEREOGUM: "The Magnetic Fields can't be accused of false advertising in titling studio album eight Distortion: Each tune's wrapped in a fuzzy, clamoring shell, even when the feedbacking acoustic piano and guitar hum's relegated to deep in the background. Distortion's consistent textural palette's reminiscent of Holiday's "Desert Island," but this is all about icy New York City, or some other place where it snows. Besides distortion, the songs are coated in the lonesome darkness of The Charm Of The Highway Strip. Sigh. On the whole, it sports more sonic depth than 2004's sorta minor, stringier i. Let's consider it a baker's dozen of sad-and-out-of-love songs... Let's also consider it incredibly beautiful." Nonesuch CD $15.00 Magoo Soateramic Sounds of Magoo [expanded re-issue] PS, SCOTLAND The original 1997 album and 6 bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brief tracks on Soateramic Sounds... are a giddy cacophony of fuzzy pop gems. Magoo's songs are noisy, quirky, and occasionally low-fi, but above all they're hooky, with sing-along choruses and friendly melodies packed into every second. It's quite a likeable approach -- some of the album's tracks are rockers, others are mid-tempo pop songs, and still others, surprisingly enough, are atmospheric and rather mellow. Each song casually dedicates itself to churning out snappy, memorable structures. Between the band's charming generosity with melody, their scattered and idiosyncratic approach to instrumental presentation, and their inexhaustible supply of hooks, Soateramic Sounds... proves to be an immensely satisfying listen." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Magoo Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today [re-issue] PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of Magoo's 1998 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Mahjongg Kontpab PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-191 LP $10.25 Mahjongg Kontpab PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms. Krecords-191 CD $11.50 Marah Angels of Destruction! PS, US Their 6th album finds the kids from Philly in a brave new world: new sobriety, new members & new songs. Culled from a Niagara-like output of songs over the past year, it is, as David Bielanko puts it, "...the tip of the iceberg and the bottom of the well." The album swings w/ abandon & rocks w/ greasy soul. YepRoc-2108 CD $14.75 Matthews, Ian Tigers Will Survive PS, US Feat. backing from British band Quiver. This is a brilliant collection of originals & choice covers (incl. Eric Andersen's classic "Close The Door Lightly When You Go" & an a capella version of The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron". Mellow folk-rock jams of the highest order. Water-210 CD $14.00 Matthews, Ian If You Saw Through My Eyes PS, US One of the founding members of Fairport Convention, he left in 1969 to pursue a solo career. Finding him reunited with former bandmates Sandy Denny & Richard Thompson this album feat. many fantastic originals & 3 well chosen covers. Water-209 CD $14.00 McCombs, Cass Dropping The Writ PS, US The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experiences. This is his first release on Domino and follows 2002's EP "Not The Way", 2002's full-length "A", and 2005's "PREfection". Domino CD $13.25 McCombs, Cass Dropping The Writ PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $13.25 Menck Hey War Pigs (ON SALE) NO PS, US On his new 45rpm vinyl single Velvet Crush drummer and very occasional solo singer-songsmith Ric Menck covers former Soft Boys and Katrina & The Waves guitarist-songwriter Kimberly Rew's pissed-off protest anthem "Hey War Pigs" (so very fitting) backed by his dry-hump version of "Teenage Head" by The Flaming Groovies. Black wax in a plain paper sleeve. In addition to founding Velvet Crush Menck is and has been a member of The Drats, The Reverbs, The Springfields, The Paint Set, The Big Maybe, The Stupid Cupids, Pop The Balloon, Choo Choo Train, Duffy, The Tyde, Frausdots, Aimee Mann and Matthew Sweet. ActionMusik-110 45 $2.50 Metabolismus The Social Club Nº 7 PS, US The METABOLISMUS collective has been making music since the mid-1980's, self- releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl Lps. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by SAMARA LUBELSKI and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen. TheSocialRegistry-052 45 $5.50 MGMT Oracular Spectacular PS, US An enigmatic & prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds & hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. Sony CD $13.00 Mojo #171 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK New issue of the best music magazine on the planet. Features on cover stars Radiohead, The Cult, Zeppelin, Adam Ant, Joni Mitchell, The Zombies, Can, Henry Diltz's Laurel Canyon-era photolog, 8 For 2008, plus an esteemed reviews section. Comes with a free 15-track CD of oldschool and newschool electronic pop-music featuring Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, The Human League, Farley Jacikmaster Funk, The Peppers, Tangerine Dream, Arthur Russell, The Sounds of Tomorrow, John Foxx, and Severed Heads alongside The Knife, Matthew Dear, Clouddead, Xela, The Gentle Rain, and Fujiya & Miyagi. ZINE $10.00 Mono The Sky Remains The Same As Ever PS, US "The Sky Remains The Same As Ever" is a nearly two-hour document of the recording sessions for "You Are There", and the several worldwide tours that followed its release. In addition to the dozen live songs that are documented in all their sweaty fury, the film captures the decidedly less glamorous aspects of being an underground rock band from a foreign country, expressing sentiments through body language out of necessity, and driving...lots and lots of driving. Most effectively, the film displays the friendships that have made MONO's journeys enjoyable, and the fanatical dedication that has made it all possible. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-135 DVD $14.25 Monosov, Ilya Seven Lucky Plays Or Songs To Fix A Broken Heart PS, US This is his private celebration of the human experience & are based on his poems & stories written from 1996-2007. His early exposure to Russian dissident culture greatly affected his life & art. Influenced from a young age by his parents's passion for literature, art, & poetry; as well as by the music of Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, Miles Davis, & African American folk music traditions. Feat. Margaret Weink (FERN KNIGHT), mandolin & harp by Jesse Sparhawk, & electric guitar by GREG WEEKS. LanguageofStone CD $13.25 Moorcock, Michael & Deep Fix The New World's Fair PS, UK Classic sci-fi rock album - now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes with unreleased bonus tracks. Features members of Hawkwind & Snowy White. New essay by Nik Turner. Leading Science Fantasy author Michael Moorcock enjoyed a long collaboration with Space Rock kings HAWKWIND eventually forming his own outfit Deep Fix to record this conceptual album in 1975. Featuring Members of HAWKWIND and guitarist SNOWY WHITE, "The New Worlds Fair" was a stunning work inspired by Moorcock's writings and was wonderfully conceived and delivered. The ESOTERIC reissue is remastered from the original tapes and includes 7 bonus tracks, 3 of which are previously unreleased. The booklet features an essay by HAWKWIND founder & friend of Michael Moorcock NIK TURNER. It an essential release for fans of HAWKWIND, MOORCOCK and Science Fantasy. EsotericRecordings-2026 CD $20.25 Mueller, Jon Metals PS, US Percussionist JON MUELLER works with rhythms that come from gong frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort, to stunning effect: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the years that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own. TableoftheElements-108 CD $13.00 Munch Munch Wedding PS, US After being cherry picked to accompany the likes of Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, and TV on the Radio on the recent DAVID SHRIGLEY CD+book "Worried Noodles", MUNCH MUNCH return with a new single this January 22nd on TOMLAB. The A side, 'Wedding' defines Munch Munch's sound. With prominent synth similar to Of Montreal, and the distinct vocals of Klaxons, this track is a piece of raucous DIY charm. Complex drums and synth move in to a jingle pop ditty with 'Endolphins'. Like Architecture in Helsinki, Munch Munch are able to blend funk elements into the proceedings, making this track easy for every stripe of listener to enjoy. It is as hypnotic as Steve Reich-esque patterns play counterpoint to old school Neptunes style breakdowns. The end to this delectable slice of musical initiative is 'Wet Nightmare' - the shortest track on the single, but by no means the least noteworthy. Like a Christmas song on speed, it grabs your attention and holds you tight, ending in a crescendo of frantic gusto. Recording frantic pop explosions in their bedrooms, they mix abstract lyrics, unpredictable structures, and ecstatic playfulness into a unique sound that appears to be the start of a fruitful career. Tomlab-109 45 $5.50 Nada Surf Lucky (Digipack Packaging) PS, US Barsuk CD $14.00 No Depression #73 PS, US SHELBY LYNN on the cover. Features on her OTIS TAYLOR, BAND OF HORSES, & TONS more cool stuff you'd ever want to know about the alt. country scene. ZINE $4.25 North Mississippi Allstars Hernando PS, US Hernando also marks the first release since 2005's critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Electric Blue Watermelon. Where EBW was a tribute to the tradition of the Hill Country Blues legacy that has always influenced the band, the brothers Dickinson -- Luther (guitars, vocals) and Cody (drums) -- and bassist Chris Chew, decided to cut the lines from the past with the new record and create their most personal sonic statement to date. To celebrate this newfound unity in independence, they called the record Hernando, which is the name of the town the trio grew up in together. "This is definitely our most focused record of original music that we've done," says Luther. "This records stands alone... we don't draw as much on our Hill Country roots. We're a blues rock band and set out to make a blues rock record." SongsoftheSouth CD $16.75 Nurse With Wound Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered] PS, US This early album, re-mastered & packaged in a digipak, contains all 3 tracks from the original vinyl version, as well as their re-workings which later appeared on the CD "Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven." The record, first released in 1983, feat. one of their earliest collaborations w/David Tibet of Current 93. Jnana/Durtro CD $15.00 Os Mutantes S-T [re-issue] PS, RUSSIAN FEDERATION With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock and a good dose of pure experimentalism, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, AND Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus. Lilith CD $19.00 Owens, Buck Live in Scandinavia PS, US Buck Owens' legendary live albums from Carnegie Hall, Japan and London were landmark efforts that captured Buck and the Buckaroos at their peak, but he also recorded other live albums overseas. The most obscure of Buck's live releases was his April 1970 show in Oslo, Norway that featured Don Rich with the Buckaroos, Buck's son Buddy Alan and the Hagers. Fiery and intense, it reflects that unique early '70s period when Buck was experimenting and broadening his sound beyond his old style. With only a couple thousand copies pressed for the Norwegian market, this was Buck's rarest album. Track Listing: Opening Announcement By Gunner Bide/Up On Cripple Creek/Okie From Muskogee/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/Buckaroo/Murray Kash Introduces Buddy Alan Owens/Freeborn Man/Big Mama's Medicine Show/Murray Kash Introduces the Hagers/I'm Jesse James/Six Days On the Road/Murray Kash Introduces Buck Owens/Medley: Act Naturally-Together Again/Gunner Bide Wishes Buck Owens Welcome/Medley: Love's Gonna Live Here-Cryin' Time-Sam's Place/Medley: I've Got a Tiger By the Tail/Open Up Your Heart/Orange Blossom Special/Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'/Tall Dark Stranger/Johnny B. Goode. (Sundazed) SundazedMusicInc.-111662 CD $18.75 Pascal (SWE) Galgberget PS, SWEDEN Second album from Swedish sensations Pascal, whose first album, Forbi Fabriken, was on many Swedish music critics "best of" lists in 2006. Unpolished pop with stalwart Swedish punk roots, primal and persuasive, dropping hints like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Hakan Hellstrom, Bob Hund, Velvet Underground, The Cramps, 60s rock-n-roll... A huge, happy rush, sung in Swedish! Novoton-014 CD $14.00 Patchen, Kenneth/Lawrence Ferlinghetti Rebel Poets Of America PS, UK Two of the most brilliant poets of the beat generation, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti performing their compelling works in a jazz context This edition captures the movement in poetry toward all-inclusiveness, and a belief that the language and music of the street had their own beauty, integrity and significance, rooted as they were in the experience of ordinary people. Patchen is one the most important american writers of the 20th century and Ferlinghetti wrote 'Coney Island Of The Mind' which sold a million copies. In terms of both attitude and style, Patchen and Ferlinghetti paved the way for Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Captain Beefheart. Strong export potential to America and to jazz culture specialists in Japan. El-133 CD $15.50 Pelican Australasia PS, US FINAL PRESSING, for real this time, on GOLD/SILVER VINYL with all new gatefold artwork, designed & screen printed by Delicious Design League. LIMITED to 1000. Interloper-03 LP $24.50 Pelican After The Ceiling Cracked PS, US These accomplished Chicagoans have been kicking ass and taking names on an international basis for years now. This DVD features Pelican's already legendary live set from The Scala in Kings Cross, London, on December 20, 2005, interviews, live bonus material shot at various stops on the band's past US tours, a video for "Autumn Into Summer", and an extensive photo gallery. Also included is a three-inch audio CD containing two versions of the song "Pink Mammoth" - one of which features all the members of Seattle rock destroyers These Arms Are Snakes, "End Of Seasons", a Prefuse 73 remix medley of "Aurora Borealis", and the untitled track from "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw". "They've always arrived in town to pop your eardrums; now, though, they're gonna make you bleed in seconds rather than hours" - Drowned In Sound. HydraHead DVD $15.50 Picabia, Francis La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse) PS, UK A unique CD by influential avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, featuring two interpretations of his provocative 1920 Dadaist piece for piano, together a spoken word extract from 1945. Written in 1920, La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse) consists of "three notes repeated to infinity" and was performed for the first - and last - time at the Festival Dada, staged at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 May 1920. A landmark event, the Festival Dada included contributions from Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and launched the Dada phenomenon in Paris. La Nourrice Américaine was performed on the day by Marguerite Buffet, duration unknown. It seems likely that Picabia's only venture into musical composition was inspired by talks with his friends Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Edgard Varese. On this CD fast and slow interpretations are included, both performed by pianist Tom Feldschuh and each lasting for 20 minutes. The CD also includes a rare spoken word piece by Picabia (in the French language), recording a visit to the artist's Paris atelier in July 1945. Artist biography: Born in Paris in 1879, artist, poet and theorist Francis Picabia is recognized as a key figure in the development of abstract art and the avant-garde in the 20th Century. After 1913 he made several visits to New York, where he was active in avant-garde circles and took part in the Armory Show. In 1917 he founded the celebrated periodical 391, and was an active participant in Paris Dada. A friend of composer Erik Satie, the pair collaborated on the ballet Relâche in 1924. Picabia later resumed abstract painting and writing poetry; a lover of fast cars, he is said to have owned 150 different vehicles. Picabia died in 1953. LTM-2509 CD $17.00 Prurient And Still, Wanting CD + 5" Vinyl PS, US CD + 5" vinyl. A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. This special 1000 copies first edition of the CD comes with a Bonus 5" vinyl with tracks that won't be available anywhere else. NoFunProductions-027 CD $15.00 Pumuky Los Exploradores Perdidos PS, SPAIN BEST EP OF DECEMBER IN SPANISH MAGAZINE ROCKDELUX. Notice to seafarers, as of today, we are making available the new recording by Pumuky "Los exploradores perdidos" ("The lost explorers"). Amidst the fog, sounds rise and, like a veil, cover the ship piloted by Canaries artist Jaír Ramírez. Having definitely lost its island coastal navigation route, Pumuky uses old navigation charts, as shown by the extraordinary packaging signed Burnao, in order to give sense to its introspection. This is no Conrad-style metaphysical journey though: it is about crossing a storm of eroticism without going mad in the lulls of disappointment. There is much to be discovered in this drifting disc, and seafarers with the necessary instinct to compose a cocktail of horizons, such as David Cordero from Ursula, Abraham Boba, or Pedro Cantudo from Jubilee y Limousine. All of them are led by Pumuky, whose travels take shape in these 5 spectral songs full of tenderness. The explorers seem lost, yes, but we are still in good hands. LejosDiscos-008 CD5 $10.00 Quarteto Em Cy Aleluia 1964-66 PS, UK The last truly great undiscovered vocal group of the sixties...Mamas & Papas, Free Design, the Association, Harper's Bizarre. Prominent in the first generation of the bossa nova movement; made seminal album "os afros sambas" with Vinicius and Baden Powell. Worked with Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marcos Valle. Centrepiece of this set is the 1965 album they recorded with the male Brazilian vocal group Tama Trio under the auspices of arranger Luiz Eca. It is a masterpiece. El-131 CD $15.50 Radiohead In Rainbows PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Radiohead LP $17.50 Radiohead In Rainbows PS, US New album from the music industry's most quietly entertaining shaker-uppers. Music is really good too. ATO CD $14.25 Rafter Sex Death Cassette PS, US Inspired by influences as diverse as Guided By Voices, R Stevie Moore, Fela Kuti, Lightning Bolt, Fushitsusha, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Cody Chestnutt, "SEX DEATH CASSETTE" is an album full of hope, determination and chaos. It'll leave you with sweat dripping down your face onto your swelled lip; fresh, liquid salt, the quintessential flavor of late night post-disco parties and booty slinging good times. After dancing to this album, you're heavy with it, like too much cough syrup on a stomach full of hi-quality sushi. RAFTER executes the helter-skelter boogie-down production so gracefully that it is no mystery why those in-the-know recruit him, including the likes of Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture, Arab on Radar, The Album Leaf, Rocket from the Crypt, Danielson, Black Heart Procession, The Peppermints, Hot Snakes, his own band Bunky, and fellow ASTHMATIC KITTY artists (Castanets, Liz Janes, and Sufjan Stevens). AsthmaticKitty-037 CD $11.50 Ramsey, Tyler A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea (ON SALE) PS, US Debut album from the new guitarist for Band of Horses. Ramsey is best known for his guitar work. Crafting delicate, finger-style guitar picking reminiscent of John Fahey and Leo Kottke, but with a sum effect that is all his own. Indie folk, Country Blues, Finger style guitar - Ramsey is a composer of intricate, ethereal songs of melancholy and rumination. POPMATTERS REVIEW: "These days, Tyler Ramsey's probably best known for playing guitar with Band of Horses, but he's also forging a strong solo identity. A Long Dream finds the Asheville, NC musician trafficking in gentle, largely acoustic arrangements that recall the deft guitar playing of Leo Kottke or John Fahey." EchoMountain CD $12.50 Record Collector #345 (January 2008) PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Ringenberg, Jason Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007 PS, US Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock performers, laying waste to gritty bar rooms and fancy stages from Nashville to L.A. A key patriarch of both the alt-country and Americana explosions of the 1990s, Jason is roots music royalty and his creative lineage is detailed here on the two-disc collection Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007. The set includes tracks from all phases of Ringenberg's storied solo career - new versions of Scorchers classics, re-mastered original solo material, rarities and new unreleased tracks. YepRoc DCD $17.00 Rings Black Habit PS, US First Nation has become Rings. Rings is the new First Nation. This is their new record. It is called Black Habit. New York's First Nation was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosko, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective's Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band. Black Habit delivers in a major way. Rings have clearly developed their own style: a loose tribal pop sound that thrives on vocal harmonies and pulsating drum rhythms. Black Habit's energy is full of beauty, elegance and simplicity. The new name represents the group in many ways: the group's circular compositions, the bonds between them, their decision-making processes, and their feminine beliefs, interlocking, connected, whole, and continuous. PawTracks-020 CD $14.25 Road Can't Talk PS, US ROAD sound like Massive Attack going on a trip to brazil and Africa, taking with them the soul of Terry Callier and the raw funk of Gorillaz. Features guest vocals from the likes of Terry Callier, Earl Zinger (2 banks of 4), Valerie Etienne (Galliano, Kylie & Jamiroquai), Lucy Jules (Brand New Heavies, George Michael & Beverly Knight), Rosina Kazi (Lal), Elliot May (Basement Jaxx), Lorna Brown (Terry Callier), Jeanine levy and Will Mathews (Lo-finger & Rub Ultra), and the result is an infectious, fresh debut album. StereoDeluxe CD $17.75 S.T. Mikael Mind of Fire PS, SWEDEN After an 11 year silence, here's a new album by the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, S.T. Mikael. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-'90s... Now that he's finally back, here's a chance at last for the world to join his psychedelic world again. The music, stretching out in many different directions, has been done freely and spontaneously in an extremely relaxed and happy environment. He also joins forces with Dungen's Reine Fiske and Fredrik Björling, whose musical expertise now also grace the grooves. These otherworldly acid tripper recordings now exist in the real world and S.T. Mikael proves, once again, to be a gifted songwriter and an unconventional performer with a very personal ear for acoustics and an emotional honesty seldom seen these days. Melodic folk-rock elements flow with waves of heavy fuzz-phase leads; weird, detached, haunted vocals echo over the band and the whole thing seems to teeter on the brink of psychedelic oblivion. This is not psychedelic revival, but the psychedelic NOW. His soaring vocals, surreal lyrics, fragile, folky melodies, heavy fuzz riffs, mind-bending soul funk and penchant for the spiritual and mystical make this a fascinating voyage that is so mind-twisting, soul-swirling, upper psychedelic that your third eye takes you on a joyride through an altered state! This album makes your brain start thinking in those pebble-splash-pond-mind circular expanding waveforms that reveal the password to tomorrow. The CD also contains 9 previously-unreleased vintage recordings and unique spoken introductions by Mikael. Limited edition of 2,000 copies only. SubliminalSounds-022 CD $16.25 Sambassadeur Final Say [single] PS, SWEDEN Track listing: 1. "Final Say" / 2. "Crooked" Labrador-112 CD5 $5.00 Sambassadeur Migration PS, SWEDEN Migration is a sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meet deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the most heartfelt melodies. Biography: Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the "Between the Lines"-EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home which gave the production a primitive quality that labeled them by some as being a lo-fi-twee act. This was never the bands intention. If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home-computer while watching their kids being taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change. The EP "Coastal Affairs", released in may 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without loosing their enigmatic qualities, songs like "Kate" and "Marie" introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the opportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late august 2007 with "Subtle Changes". Labrador-106 CD $12.25 Samurai S-T PS, UK Classic Progressive rock album - Now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes. New essay & interview with Dave Lawson. "Samurai" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Released on the short lived Greenwich Gramophone label in 1972, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. Evolving from the equally excellent band WEB (whose album "I Spider" is a classic of the genre), the musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. Sadly the group disbanded shortly after the release of the record resulting in limited sales. However, the influence of the album was not lost as both DAVE LAWSON and TONY REEVES soon joined DAVE GREENSLADE to form the group GREENSLADE, effectively taking up the musical mantle laid down by SAMURAI. This Esoteric reissue features a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2025 CD $20.25 Saviours Into Abaddon PS, US Merging howling lyrical venom with an endless arsenal of corrosive guitar orchestrations, harmonized leads and runaway locomotive rhythms, San Fran's SAVIOURS have been rapidly garnering international attention as one of the best heavy bands active today. The self-described "piss-angry metal band", known for its ferocious live performances and original stamp on the classic power and thrash metal of decades past, entered Los Angeles' A&M/Henson Studios in late August with producer Joe Barresi (Melvins, Kyuss, Tool) to record its sophomore album, Into Abaddon. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: "Saviours have quickly established themselves as some of the best purveyors of rock-tinged metal in the Bay Area, playing guitar riffs so big they could choke a whale" Kemado CD $13.00 Saviours Into Abaddon PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kemado LP $16.50 Scenics How Does It Feel To Be Loved: The Scenics Play the Velvet Underground PS, US This quickly immerses the listener into a warm frenzy of fuzzy energy. First formed in '76 by Andy Meyers & Ken Badger, they were one of the most intrepidly inspired bands of the Toronto new wave/punk scene. They now return w/ a full-length collection of Velvet Underground covers recorded live between 1977-81 in Toronto. Jangly, inverted pop aesthetics & wild mood swings of feverish noise dominate these ten tracks, making this an abrasive wash of harmonious distortion. DreamTower-001 CD $16.25 Scientists, The Swampland: Birth Of The Scientists PS, UK Formed in Perth, Australia, but later to relocate to Melbourne and then London, Kim Salmon's Scientists played a brand of minimalist punked-up swamp blues that saw them become legends on at least three continents. Just about everyone loves the Scientist, from Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (both of whom have asked the band to play with them) to Sub Pop to Henry Rollins - in fact, the entire US alt-rock hierarchy. And what's not to like - this new compilation for the UK features the strongest tracks from the band's legendary Blood Red River recordings, notably 'Swampland', one of the most evocative and best loved Australian songs of all time. But that's not all: as well as the studio recordings, with Kim's permission we've unearthed some dynamite live recordings from 1982 that have never been released anywhere before. The packaging includes a mammoth essay on the band's history written by Alex Ogg, with full co-operation and humorous asides from Kim, plus photos and memorabilia. A handy starting point for those new to the band, featuring as it does the cream of the Scientists' work from their acclaimed early Melbourne period, but spiced up with some amazing live tracks for the established fan. CherryRed-345 CD $15.50 Set In Sand Nothing Against The Ocean PS, JAPAN "Nothing Against The Ocean" is the debut CD of Set In Sand, licensed by Hue (JAPAN) from Abandon Building Records (US). Set in Sand (one of the many aliases of producer Lendin Hopes) was brought into this world around 2000, originally designed as a purely electronic and instrumental project working within the nether-regions of IDM. Early Set in Sand creations followed the blueprint for experimental electronic song crafts, disjointed percussion and glitchy filtered melodies with subtle instrumentation and vocal samples offering a hint of things to come. Two net releases came out in this vein, the self released "Are You Listening EP" and the full length "You Say You Can't Sleep Alone" by German label Subsource. Around 2004 Lendin reconnected with his singer-songwriter roots, adding acoustic guitar and vocals to a large portion of his compositions. Examples of this style can be found on the net release "Mini Splintered Things" hosted by the good folks at Drift Records. In addition to these three net releases Set in Sand has contributed songs to a number of compilations including "Assemblage Sessions 1 and 2 CD's" (Abandon Building), "Subvaritrax" (Subvariant), "Ctrl-Space" (Modsquare), "The Karaoke Hymnal" (Peppermill Records) and "Calderas of the Mind" and "Heart on the Right Spot" ( Project Mooncircle/ Botanica Del Jibaro). Set in Sand is also the producer for the whacky Hip Hop duo Flowtation Addvice (who's debut "Terrain Clouds" is due out on Abandon Building in early 08.) With "NATO" Lendin has synthesized all the elements of his early work into a weird piece of sonic experimentation masquerading as a sort of Pop album. Half of the albums 8 songs feature vocals, a surreal blend of androgynous singing and hyperactive MC work. The music is based around skeletons of guitar and programmed beats with multiple layers of digital nonsense wrapped around them. A most distinct touch is Lendin's use of live drums in complimentary patterns over the grounding electronic percussion. It results in a blurring mesh of chaotic calm, establishing a kind of fresh voice in the world of beatmaking. In other words it's pretty decent stuff. Hue-1039 CD $16.25 Shalabi, Sam Eld PS, US Third solo outing was conceived in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 while Shalabi was living there and further realized in Montreal & Vancouver. His ideas were to compose songs for singers he knew and enjoyed and to create a 'modern Arabic pop' record. Features well over 25 musicians. Alien8-074 CD $13.50 Silver Apples Contact [re-issue] PS, US This is a reissue of the second album Contact by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1969. This enigmatic duo, armed only with percussion, vocals and an early, specialized synthesizer, is often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake; bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W.B. Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the "Simeon") which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk. Contact ushered in the band's recorded popularity and a national tour was quickly organized. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeon's banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor. Such was the level of Simeon's growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the album's opening track, "You And I" more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when Kapp folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January 1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the Knitting Factory. Again, the critics were unanimous. As the MC waxed poetic during an introduction to the Silver Apples concert in San Francisco, 1968: "You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, you'll dig it." Phoenix CD $16.25 Silver Apples S-T [re-issue] PS, US This is a reissue of the self-titled first album by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to pretty remarkable critical acclaim. Their debut enjoyed a 10-week stay in Billboard's Top 100 list, and the album's first track, "Oscillations," made the Top 10 list in numerous cities around the U.S. The music critics loved them. "What's so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment" commented one reviewer, quite possibly astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren who met the duo at the Third Annual Avant Garde Arts Festival in 1968, organized by topless cellist Charlotte Moorman. An absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock music's ground-breaking legends. Phoenix CD $16.25 Sin Ropas Fire Prizes [picture disc] PS, USW Originally released by Zeal/Konkurrent in the fall of 05', this fantastic album gets a limited run, pic disc release worthy of the sounds embedded in it's grooves .The jacket w/ a die cut tree reveals the full-color innersleeve & when you pull the last layer back the picture disc is revealed. Brent Green provided the artwork for the inner-sleeve & pic disc. Shrug-003 LP $20.00 Single Pianístico PS, SPAIN SINGLE is the personal project of Teresa Iturrioz, bass player and brilliant lyricist in such seminal bands of Spanish independent pop music as AVENTURAS DE KIRLIAN and LE MANS. Now Teresa comes back to the front row with her own project, SINGLE, a new musical adventure of her own. A journalist once said LE MANS suggested "an image of Claudine Longet fronting STEREOLAB". Classicism and a fragile voice, fronting leftfield experimentation and sonic avant-garde: a definition that can perfectly fit the new songs by SINGLE. Teresa works once again with Ibon, who appears here in the roles of composer, producer and musician (as well as providing some of the musicians he usually works with on his own solo records, like Antonio from PARADE or Murky from PATRULLERO MANCUSO and GRIMORIO). There's three excellent tracks on this debut EP by SINGLE, that comes wrapped in a wonderful and beautiful cover artwork by Spanish top designer Javier Aramburu. Elefant0371 CD5 $6.75 Sinier, Raoul (aka Ra) Huge Samurai Radish PS, GERMANY File under: electronic, hip hop, break beat. An appetizer to Raoul Sinier (formerly known as "Ra") 's third studio album "Brain Kitchen" (to come on Ad Noiseam in 2008), "Huge Samurai Radish" sees this multi talented artist present a new menu of his gritty, catchy and personal electronic hip hop, as well as lend the knife to La Caution, Vast Aire (of Cannibal Ox fame), Wisp, Datach'I and Lynx & Ram for five spicy remixes. Tasty and highly addictive. AdNoiseam-089 CD $15.25 Smith, Elliot XO PS, US Originally released in '98. Though firmly in the McCartney/Lennon/Rundgren/Davies school of songwriting Smith was nothing if not an original. Plain-126 LP $16.25 Smith, Elliott Figure 8 PS, US His 2nd for the Dreamworks label, & fifth overall, this is a lush & beatifully melancholy collection of pop songs. Plain-127 DLP $20.00 Sneaky Pete Kleinow Anthology PS, US Sneaky Pete Kleinow was best known as a mind-altering pedal steel guitarist, and an integral part of the sound of Gram Parsons' original Flying Burrito Bros. Every rock fan worth his salt knows Sneaky as the brilliant steel player zigzagging his way across The Gilded Palace of Sin, the Burritos' stunning 1969 debut, and as the band member on the album cover decked out in an all-black Nudie suit with a golden pterodactyl on the chest, where Superman's red "S" would have been. And that was Sneaky, to a T: super-hero steel guitarist to no less than the Rolling Stones, Booker T. & the MG's, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Doug Sahm, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon - among countless others. Here's a brilliant taste of the pedal steel guitar genius of Sneaky Pete Kleinow. Long may he wave. Track Listing:Beat the Heat/Hickory Wind/Sister/Oklahoma Stomp/From Me to You/Sleepy Lagoon/Silverbird/It Makes No Difference/Ain't No Easy Way/Louisiana/Love of the Common People/Cannonball Rag/Fly the Bright Sea/Woman/Sneak Attack/Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)/Sleepwalk/Faded Love: The Flying Burrito Bros. SundazedMusicInc. CD $18.75 Souvenir Extras 64 PS, SPAIN Souvenir's 'Extras 64' has been conceived as the epilogue to their record '64' (Jabalina Música 2007), which was released at the beginning of this year and critically acclaimed as an inspired change of course in the sound of this heterodox Spanish indie band. Initially intended as a single to feature their song 'Si tu sais pas' -an irresistible techno-pop gem which Souvenir wrote and recorded after the release of '64'- it has eventually become a real treat for fans which includes their cover version of Blondie's 'Hanging on the telephone' (which Souvenir are performing live on their current tour), three remixes of songs from '64', and their amazing first-ever video of the song 'Allô, allô'. So 'Extras 64' features two brand new tracks, a video and three remixes which give songs from '64' an even more dance-oriented dimension. For this task Souvenir have chosen artists on their same wavelength, such as Johan Agebjörn (the Swedish producer and songwriter who's responsible for the success of this year's brilliant debutante Sally Shapiro) who has taken 'Allô, allô' to new dancefloor heights, or Spanish singer Miqui Puig, who has remixed 'Une semaine en ballon'. Also, Souvenir's Jaime Cristóbal has revamped his own 'Accident à Londres'. These new 5 dancefloor fillers are topped by a brilliant video produced and directed by Spanish ace company Producciones Entrelíneas. The video takes the avant-garde aesthetics of '64' further on and the result is a pleasure to the eye, with a special mention to Patricia, whose appearance on the video is especially captivating. Iker Spozio, again, is responsible for the 'Extras 64' artwork, and Arturo Vaquero has been in charge of the mastering. Jabalina-030 CD5 $9.50 Spear Of Destiny One Eyed Jacks PS, UK Making its long overdue debut on CD is the second album by Spear Of Destiny, which hit No.22 in the UK National Charts when first released in 1984. Contains the British hit singles 'Liberator' and 'Prisoner Of Love'. Now comes with seven bonus tracks and the whole package has been remastered by Tim Turan. Booklet contains original LP artwork, liner notes by "No More Heroes" author Alex Ogg, lyrics to all the songs plus pictures of all the relevant singles sleeves. Still very much active on the live scene to this very day, vocalist Kirk Brandon also fronts Theatre Of Hate and the Dead Men Walking collective. Anagram-201 CD $15.50 Speare, Jed Sound Works 1982-1987 PS, US JED SPEARE is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works "1982-1987" reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analogue sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early 80s he recorded with the San Francisco groups, Research Library (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), Ultrasheen (7" ep; Subterranean), and Appliances. This 2xCD collects five of Speare's long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. Twelve page booklet features introduction by video artist and writer George Quasha, Speare's detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reprodcutions. Remastered by BHOB RAINEY (nmperign). FamilyVineyard-052 DCD $14.25 Stereo Total Plastico EP PS, SPAIN Limited edition red vinyl. Four songs. Elefant-257 45 $7.50 Suckle Against Nurture PS, SCOTLAND ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "here are a few reasons why you should care about Suckle: they are a band founded by ex-Vaselines Frances McKee, they are on the antiestablishment, flag-waving Chemikal Underground label, and they sound like a female-fronted Tindersticks fighting the urge to vomit up an overdose of Prozac. Partly, this is a consequence of McKee's sinister monotones guiding along melodies that just barely scrape the sky of what a struggling listener could call optimism. "So Happy Before" -- with touching echoes, minimalist piano, and slide guitar -- stretches the very definition of its title, while "Honey Suicide" builds up a subtle premise of angular basslines and soaring, sun-streaked choruses that will have you feeling elated and depressed at the exact same time. Suckle's brand of enchanted unhappiness should not be undervalued: The simple folk-pop of the past may be just a shadow, but this is the sound of a confused personality just aching to be discovered." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Sunburned Hand Of The Man Fire Escape PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SmalltownSuperjazz-134 LP $14.50 Super Furry Animals Hey, Venus! [bonus disc] PS, US New album plus bonus material. RoughTradeUS DCD $15.00 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus! [Bonus CD] PS, US "A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. The expanded US edition contains an enhanced bonus disc with four b-sides and three videos. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine. RoughTradeUs DCD $15.00 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus! [bonus disc] PS, US A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine. RoughTrade DCD $13.25 Tau Emerald Travellers Two PS, US Full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & SHARRON KRAUS. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. They were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together & here is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds & then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. Important-172 CD $12.50 Taunus Harriet PS, GERMANY Taunus was formed by the Berliner steel string guitarists Jan Thoben and Jochen Briesen in early 2001. They were joined by several guests playing percussion, banjo, harmonium and vibraphone at live concerts. Since their first long player Malinche (Schinderwies-Production, 2005) Taunus' lineup keeps changing a bit and is heading towards a more flexible ensemble conception. For the new album Harriet (Ahornfelder, 2007) Derek Shirley, Michael Thieke, Wilm Thoben and F.S. Blumm were invited to play along at the recording sessions. Taunus play acoustic (mostly) instrumental music - you can find elements ranging from folk, finger picked minimal structures to improvised and more open forms in their music. The first record Malinche by Taunus was mostly focused on minimal, interlocking folky guitar patterns. Harriet on the other hand features more contrasting elements: Strictly composed passages, which are rigid and static in character, are combined with free, fluid and improvised parts. Dissonances enter a framework of open tuned folk-harmonics. And on top of the warm and immediate sounds of acoustic instruments an artificial voice generator talks about the inconstancy of concepts and theory. By bridging and sometimes even blurring these contrasts and differences, Taunus expand their way of musical expression. Harriet successfully explores new ways of composing interesting, reflective and charming music based on finger picked guitars. The album is named after Darwin's lady freshwater turtle Harriet, which died in 2006 at the age of 175 years. She was mistakenly thought to be a male exemplar of her species for most of her life. Ahornfelder-12 CD $16.00 Te' If There Is No Word Which Tells Sound, Beautiful Melody PS, JAPAN 1. If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 2. Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 3. There is something sad sound when you knock the deep part of the soul by voice. 4. Just to kill a disagreeable thing. Is it human's thing to do? Just to kill a hateful thing. Doesn't it call it human? Zankyo-027 CD5 $9.00 Te' It Is One's Mind Try To Sing Realstic Sound In Resounds PS, JAPAN 1.Even mightiest soul and mightiest power, it is same as nothing if there is no intellect 2.If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 3.Also love and faith keep up with a daily small deed 4.Those who do not need tomorrow most see tomorrow most pleasantly 5.Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 6.Those who play using word are not in the talent, it is only there's memory 7.Moderation and justice are the nominal which only a superior can use freely 8.When one's mental lost right goal that shown wrong direction to the frustrations 9.You can not call anyone happy, if you do not had been any trouble 10.Human have ability of destroy oneself by logical mind. Zankyo-038 CD $18.00 Team Robespierre Everything's Perfect PS, US Powered by a dirty punk rock ethos, synth hooks & programmed dance beats, Team Robespierre has helped resurrect a Brooklyn punk scene that has been waiting to embrace the raw energy of our nation's basements & late night warehouse dance parties. With a sound that melds the future & the past, the Team brings back memories of 80s new wave & 90s hardcore. Impose-003 CD $10.00 Television Personalities The Good Anarchist PS, SPAIN Limited edition 7". Two songs. Elefant-256 45 $7.50 Tempo No Tempo Repetition PS, US Second EP from Berkeley, California band written, recorded and mixed entirely at home. By brewing a highly-danceable mix of post-punk and new wave (with a dash of emo), Tempo No Tempo allows their admirers to bust a move without losing cool points. DoubleNegative CD $6.00 Three Hour Tour B Side Oblivion (ON SALE) PS, US Ten new songs from Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour. Coop's joined by Adam Schmitt (bass) and Brad Steakley (drums) and the recordings feature guest appearances by John Richardson and Velvet Crush duo Paul Chastain and Ric Menck. MartianRecordCorp CD $14.00 Thuja S-T PS, US This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on color vinyl. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework. The members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with a natural instinct, succeeding in conjuring spectral compositions, which are at once, abstract yet inviting. For this self-titled release, their sixth full-length and first for Important Records, Thuja has assembled recordings from various live performance spaces (the Hemlock, the Oaklandish Gallery, Pehr Space, Kains Greenhouse) and have welcomed a variety of guests into the fold to help assist and expand their microscopic psychedelia toward a new plateau. After eight years, the semiannual gathering of the members of Thuja is almost traditional, but new clearings are still to be discovered in its thickets of sound. This self-titled release is yet another essential artifact from Thuja's ongoing explorations. Important-173 LP $14.75 Times New Viking Rip It Off PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Times New Viking Rip It Off PS, US My Bloody Pollardtine * Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "The songs are pop-punk gnashing and snarling and droning with all the sexual frustration and delicious ennui that's been surgically removed from the radio version" - Pitchfork. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly. Matador CD $12.50 Torske, Bjorn Feil Knapp PS, US Now on Double Vinyl! Weirdly melodic & wonderfully groovy. LIMITED!!! SmalltownSupersound-117 DLP $18.00 Uncut #129 (February 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Under the Radar #20 PS, US Zooey Deschanel & M.Ward on the cover. The most anticipated albums of 2008! Also starring Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Bjorn & John, My Morning Jacket, Midlake, Metric, The Flaming Lips, Camera Obscura, Spiritualized, CSS, Mew & more! ZINE $3.75 Van Zandt, Townes Rear View Mirror PS, US Originally released in 1993, this has, until now, been out of print & in high demand. Remastered w/ new artwork it is a great look into Townesi 'ntimate live performances at the peak of his career. Accompanied by acoustic guitar, bass & fiddle on most tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was re-recording much of his repertoire. That album never appeared, but in 1993, the tiny Austin-based Sundown label released Rear View Mirror, a 17-track album running nearly 58 minutes and containing newly recorded versions of Van Zandt songs dating back to 1968. Though a cover note claims "unique instrumentation," that seems to consist of only of an occasional second guitar and a fiddle. (Sparse applause indicates the recording had been made in a club.) Many of Van Zandt's best-known songs are included -- "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "To Live Is to Fly," "Tecumseh Valley," and others -- and while this is not the best set of recordings of those songs, the tendency of Van Zandt's albums to go out of print might mean this is the only one you would find in your nearest record bin, in which case the album is highly recommended." FatPossum CD $15.50 Vapaa Hum Hum Hum PS, FINLAND Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic 'core' group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive. LastVisibleDog CD $12.25 Various Number of Small Things PS, US This is a compilation of tracks from Morr Music's little sister 7" label, A Number of Small Things. Feat. Markus Acher's (TIED & TICKLED TRIO, ISAN, Masha Qrella, Butcher The Bar, Simon Scott (ex-SLOWDIVE), SEABEAR, BENNI HEMM HEMM, B. FLEISCHMANN, STYROFOAM, LALI PUNA, JENS LEKMAN & more!! MorrMusic-079 DCD $20.00 Various Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli PS, US Bridging the gap between American primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the new age marketing juggernaut of the mid '80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a digipack chipboard slipcase with a 40-page booklet and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmidt, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Crandell, Tree People, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Canan, and Dana Westover. Numero-018 CD $15.75 Various Achtung! German Grooves: 20 Instrumental Dancefloor Killers from the 60s and 70s PS, GERMANY The rehabilitation of German popular musicians continues with this new compilation from the Bureau B label. CD brings together wild rare grooves, slick funk workouts, sleazy soul beats, wah-wah guitars, Fender-Rhodes, Hammond organs, meaty drum breaks, snappy horn sections -- everything the easygoing '60s and '70s had to offer. Alongside orchestral greats like James Last, Max Greger, Peter Thomas and Ambros Seelos, a number of lesser-known, but nonetheless exciting musicians take a deserved bow. Other artists include: Ady Zehnpfennig, Gerhard Narholz, Hans Haider, Don Kelly Band, Kai Warner And His Orchestra, Theo Schumann Combo, Henry Arland, Heinz Kiessling, Orchester Günter Gollasch, Pete Jacques, Hans Ehrlinger And His Orchestra, Catch Up, Helmut Zacharias, Roberto Delgado, Berry Lipman and Orchester Walter Kubiczek. BureauB CD $16.25 Various Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days PS, US Recordings made between the 1920s-'50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls' Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more. DustToDigital DCD/BOOK $40.00 Various Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1 PS, US Available again: An unbelievable collection of dynamic Cambodian music recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both in Cambodia and in the United States. A truly Khmer blend of folk and pop stylings -- Cha-Cha Psychedelia, Phase-shifting Rock, sultry circle dance standards, pulsing Cambodian new wave, haunted ballads, musical comedy sketches, Easy-Listening numbers and raw instrumental grooves presented in an eclectic variety of production techniques. Male and female vocalists share the spotlight, embellished by roller rink organ solos, raunchy guitar leads and MIDI defying synthesizers. Culled from over 150 ageing cassettes found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California, these recordings showcase a pre and post holocaust Cambodian musical lineage that can't be ignored. SublimeFrequencies CD $13.75 Various Happy New Year 2008 PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds! Elefant-258 45 $7.50 Various Once A Hue, Always A Hue PS, JAPAN "Once a hue, always a hue" is a 2nd label compilation of "hue" based in Tokyo. Hue is always looking for the own way to continue to feel something beautiful. "Marginal" is the key word of the label. The 1st compilation called "hue and laugh and cry" was just a good guide to "after-anticon" hip hop. "To infuse the poetic and lyrical mind into hip hop "...that's the concept of this one. Hip hop, electronica, folk...various kind of music is going up and down in your ears, you would be wondering and wandering. They are not to be categorized. But they are all beautiful for the reasons. Including 15 incredible artists (11 tracks are unreleased! ) like Radical Face (Electric President / Morr Music), Astronautalis, Nomad, Factor (side road records), Nuccini! (Giardini Di Miro), Ceschi, Deadpan Darling (Ceschi & Blue Sky, Black Death), etc. TRACK LISTING: 01. Radical Face - If you come back to haunt me * 02. Astronautalis - Sea of Grass * 03. Andrromak & Nomad - Life Up There ! * 04. Otem Rellik - Cassette Tape 05. Neila & Factor - One Last Word * 06. Flowtation Advice - Sea An Enemy * 07. Filkoe - Sa-Crow-Peeah 08. Nuccini! - Nothing Is Like Home * 09. Entropy Project - Firm Ground 10. Pastry Case - Let's Play Soccer 11. Nolto & Factor - A Young Girl's Funeral (1:13pm, June 15, 2001) * 12. Ceschi - Crowded City * 13. Nomad - Weekend * 14. Andrre & Pierre The Motionless - Sunset and Thoughts * 15. Deadpan Darling - Sorry * * = Previously Unreleased. Hue-1038 CD $16.25 Various Garden Of Forking Paths PS, US Compiled by James Blackshaw, compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem & Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, the album serves as a singular & particularly unique musical statement. A compilation of experimental music for solo stringed instruments, with little to no overdubs. "Despite the variation in instrumentation, not to mention the differences in nationality & backgrounds of the performers themselves, it is also interesting to note certain similarities to be found between the five tracks contained on this compilation. Sometimes it can be heard melodically; sometimes within the movement, space or colour of the pieces; sometimes it is simply felt - a purity or emotional resonance that defies analysis & can rarely be articulated into words, at least not by me anyway." -Blackshaw Important-162 CD $12.50 Various Happy New Year 2008 PS, SPAIN Limited edition. Featuring THE SCHOOL, HELEN LOVE, CORAZON, MY LITTLE AIRPORT. To celebrate the holidays, we have finally made our long-awaited wish come true by creating a festive holiday CD single to give away to our mates! With this single we would like to give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the years, especially fans of the label, without their help none of this would be impossible. A special single with songs that will make us forget all the hard times and help us ring in the New Year with bells and whistles. This single will be freely given to anyone who purchases an Elefant order that exceeds 20 euros. For those of you who would like to have more copies to give as holiday gifts to friends and ring in the New Year, there is also the option to buy it at a reduced price. Four songs from the latest signed Elefant artists. The most recent one, THE SCHOOL, a project of 8 restless musicians from Cardiff which put out their first song precisely on this single. Last September, they packed their bags and moved off to London to record, under the guidance of Ian Catt, seven delicious songs which will be put out in two singles at the beginning of the year, a sweet and exquisite carol with a very 50's holiday pop feel to it. Caitlin and Sauna [they are only 6 years old!], our kids HELEN LOVE show their adoration of Joey Ramone is more alive than ever and continues throughout the generations--they create a snowman out of Joey Ramone and this way, Santa Claus won't have any problems finding them!! Absolutely adorable! CORAZÓN inspires us with their brilliant, sad and melancholic carol highlighted with rural folk strokes, providing an authentic flavor of Christmas. Carlos and Nando are placing the final touches to their new and highly anticipated album, an album that includes the production of Ibon Errazkin, practically guaranteeing a classic spot in the Elefant catalogue. To culminate the single, Nicole and P, our friends from Hong Kong, wanted to celebrate the holidays in a special way; they always mention their friends in their songs, so it is of no surprise that the protagonists are the recently married Por and Machoto the happy Newlyweds! Elefant-372 CD5 $6.75 Various Shapes and Sounds Volume Two: Shades of Deepest Purple from the BBC Archives 1967-1971 PS, UK With this second excavation of previously unreleased live BBC session performances spanning the period 1967-1971, Shapes And Sounds becomes a series and Volume Two features a completely different line up of bands from last year's set. Pride of place on this second edition arguably goes to The Gun, with three astonishing performances that were recorded nearly a year before 'Race With The Devil' which illustrate their late '67 menu of mod and psych pop, with cracking versions of Rupert's Peoples 'Hold On,' Paul Simons 'A Most Peculiar Man' and a quite splendid airing of their legendary 'Light On The Wall!' The Casuals surprise with the beat of 'Midnight Confessions' and 'Take Me For A Little While' as well as a fine rendering of 'Jesamine,' while The Mirage perform a live version of their May 1967 single 'The Wedding Of Ramona Blair.' The Alan Bown! play an excellent take of 'Magic Handkerchief' and even more interestingly offer two numbers that never appeared on any Bown release, with the self-penned progressive popper 'Movie Star Baby' and a brilliant interpretation of The Association's 'Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies.' Also with three tracks on Shapes And Sounds are Wales' The Bystanders, who turn in a lovely version of 'Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day' as well as a glorious homage to The Byrds with 'Renaissance Fair.' Even better and long talked about in collectors' circles but never previously released is their absolutely stunning rendition of 'I Am The Walrus,' which Top Sounds are sure will disappoint no one! Sourced from an off-air recording of their only British television appearance on Disco 2, Killing Floor perform 'Milkman' from their Out Of Uranus LP in superb quality (the TV show was wiped decades ago) and of similarly heinous rarity are live tracks from Portrait and Katch 22, who turn in forceful renderings of 'Born To Be Wild' and 'The Price Of Love,' respectively (the latter of which is better than the Status Quo cover!) The sound quality is absolutely superb throughout, with 12 of the 16 tracks sourced from original BBC Transcription records. The other performances have been taken from excellent off-air recordings and similarly shine and though few of the tracks on the collection needed much enhancement at all, all have nevertheless been professionally restored and mastered. The presentation is immaculate and as with the previous Shapes And Sounds release, Artholeghraphics have designed a memorable period flavored package. The LP has a 16 page color booklet based on a vintage Radio Times packed with illustrations, band histories and listings of all their known BBC sessions written and supplied by Nigel Lees, author of much of Record Collector magazine's 'The British Psychedelic Trip' series. Except for the Mirage recording being bootlegged many years ago (in lesser quality!), none of the tracks have ever been commercially available and most have not been heard in public since the '60s. Shapes And Sounds is a legitimate limited edition release, licensed from the BBC with the blessing and co-operation of many band members. TopSounds LP $25.00 Various Good Bye Said The Rain PS, MEXICO Made in Tijuana, Mexico to promote female electronic music producers. These sounds range from indie electronic to ambient to minimal techno and beyond. TRACK LIST: 01. Carrie -Summer dream 02. Iris -Holding hands 03. Kate Simko -In a star orbit (remix of Rebecca Gates) 04. Lucrecia -Patillas 05. AGF -REfail instrumental 06. Robin Judge -Roulette 07. Ilana Ospina -Tenue 08. Purdy Rocks -Spiritual emergency 09. Quio - Gazon Gasolina 10. Alisu -Impresiones 11. Mariena Monjeau -Escenas Borradas 12. Audiofem -Telekinetic 13. Arturo en el barco -Burbujas AtAt-011 CD $9.75 Various I'm Not There [Dylan Biopic OST] PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Sony DLP $20.50 Warlocks Heavy Deavy Skull Lover PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeePee LP $15.00 Wasted Youth Wild And Wandering PS, UK This CD reissue of Wasted Youth's influential classic 'Wild & Wandering' is widely considered to be a fore runner of the Goth movement. It was originally released in 1981 on the Bridge House label. The CD features 5 bonus tracks, including the singles 'Paris France' and 'Do The Caveman'. All the bonus tracks are live recordings taken from the band's album 'Wasted Youth Live'. The CD features all the original artwork, the sleeve notes are written by the band's manager and record company boss, Terence Murphy. There is also a complete band discography included. Wasted Youth's career was short lived but they left a lasting impression with their innovative sound in the post punk days of London in the late 1970's. Wasted Youth's guitarist, Rocco Barker, later of Flesh For Lulu, has been entertaining the nation with his 12 week C4 TV series 'A Place In The Sun - Costa Chaos' which sees him buying and developing a property in Spain. CherryRed-337 CD $15.50 Web I Spider PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON. "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2027 CD $20.25 Weisman, Kurt Spiritual Sci-Fi PS, US While Spiritual Sci-Fi is a result of work that Kurt Weisman has been undertaking for the last 10 years it's certainly also worth noting that he's a multi-instrumentalist in the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers as well as a member of J Mascis' Witch. Kurt's stunning musicality and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. Kurt Weisman is a New England composer in his late 20s around whom all the wheels of life seem distinctly sped up (he's known for his extreme falsetto as well as pitching up his voice beyond Beatle and into cartoon). Hair is cut into strange shapes and then suddenly shorn, moustaches appear and disappear with alarming frequency, cyber punk outfits melt into freak folk into noise into French bohemian complete with beret (red wine hippydancing at uptight in-store free jazz shows). The songs already sound like they're floating above something else when you hear them with just voice and 12-string. These are not regular songs with weird production. The alternative to the expectation refers to the expectation. He seems to know every tricky thing that's ever happened in pop music and how to take it further but then takes that further by giving verse 2 all these ear-stretching variations on verse 1. There's a lot of weird meter stuff, little skips and jumps or little things that get stretched that seem inspired by his own computer micro-editing techniques. Important-150 CD $12.25 White Town Don't Mention The War PS, US Bzangy CD $14.00 Whitest Boy Alive Dreams PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Asound/Bubbles LP $22.00 Wire Magazine #287 PS, UK ZINE $10.50 Yellow Swans At All Ends PS, US This record is an assured record of chiming drone & heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the camp that are more hushed, & whisper w/ the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission w/ dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. WeirdForest-018 DLP $18.25 Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core S-T PS, US Collaborative LP from Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core featuring GMS, Pete Swanson, C. Spencer Yeh & Mike Shiflet. Recorded from 2005 to 2006. Artwork by The Wyvern. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on 140 gram red marbled vinyl. BlossomingNoise LP $17.00 Zillionaire Street Lights Have Been PS, US Tampa group featuring former members of WASHDOWN. Recommended for fans of Codiene, Polvo and Seam. "Depthy and introspective, mixes the moodiness and experimentation of contemporary post-hardcore and the glacial beauty of classic 90's slowcore and elements from throughout the indie-rock spectrum" -Reax Music Magazine NoGranada-013 CD $8.50 Forthcoming Releases a.P.A.t.T. Black and White Mass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa - minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilising all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. 'Black and White Mass' sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some of a.P.A.t.T.'s most accessible compositions to date, whilst still retaining an element of surprise. Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a (usually) 6 peice amalgamation of all that has come before & all that will slowly catch up in the end. Beyond genre defying: every instrument and style you can think of, mashed up together in jawdropping live performances. The experimental and chaotic beeps, buzzes and blips of a.P.A.t.T., (described on the BBC Merseyside website as sounding like Frank Zappa having a fist fight with Mighty Mouse) have steadily built up a growing army of admirers. They were featured on the promotional video for Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid, and have recently staged a multi-media installation called 'Quartet', featuring four films projected whilst the band performed inside. As if this wasn't enough, they even found time to compose the incidental music for the BBC Radio Merseyside alternative music show, PMS. a.P.A.t.T. officially began with the completion of a C90 cassette tape in 1998. It was decided from the offset that the way the music was formed on this tape (disjointed, non-specific, omni-style) was to influence the revolving multi-instrumentalist approach, and dictate the 'anti-hierarchical' line-up of the act. It was not until 2002 and the introduction of digital recording techniques that a.P.A.t.T. were to make an 'official' release. Following several lineup changes, software changes, hardware changes, various support slots and a Dutch tour, a.P.A.t.T. teamed up with London label, Lowsley Sounds, to release their first full album, (L.P.) in 2004. Although hopes were high for this release and it sold well, a.P.A.t.T. were never satisfied with the final outcome, wanting to push things further musically. 2006 saw more line up changes and the continuation of the recordings for that "perfect album". Which brings us to "Black and White Mass". "a.P.A.t.T. are a motherfucking experience. Probably the only UK band i can think of to come up with their vision of the dark, vicious and fuck me, rather scary vision of the ACID PUNK dropped onto us from the visions of Gibby from the Butthole Surfers. We love them. You need to hear this. It's insane" [Alan Mcgee, Creation/Poptones]. PickledEgg-68 CD $17.75 All Golden In The Afternoon S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Rachel Goldstar (Experimental Aircraft/Eau Claire/Monster Movie) and Carlos Jackson(ex-Polyphonic Spree/The Shells) present an explosive debut. This Texas duo prove they are a band you are going to want to watch out for in the future. Down the rabbit hole we go... picture Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Pram & Seefeel all getting together for a jam session & you might be close. AITGA's fuzzy laid-back guitar driven songs are a breath of fresh air & have a way of making you want to take the day off of work & just float away. This wonderful debut ep features 6 songs that flow together seamlessly & leave you begging for more. Welcome to wonderland Alice! Ltd to 1000 copies, only 600 copies to be distributed. MindExpansion-2012 CD $8.25 Antarctica Takes It! The Penguin League (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Debut album by a four piece, from Santa Cruz, CA, whose joyous folk pop has been compared to Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists and Beirut. A bedroom band put together by 22-year-old Dylan McKeever, Antarctica Takes It! recorded the songs on "The Penguin League" straight onto a friend's laptop, using the computer's internal microphone. No problem if you're a straightforward rock'n'roll band, but Dylan's songs boasted an array of accordions, glockenspiels, cellos, ukuleles, trumpets, harmonicas and pianos. The result should have been extremely lo-fi - and in places it is (you can actually hear the instruments battling for airspace at some points). But, overall, thanks to Dylan's patience and prodigious talent, "The Penguin League" conjures a tiny orchestra out of thin air. From the opening "I'm No Lover", which sees mariachi horns collide with a rattling folk melody, to the magical "Flightless Birds", which transports "Pet Sounds" to the Antarctic wastes, this is a record that sounds like it's anywhere but a suburban bedroom on the American West Coast. In fact, lyrically and spiritually, Antarctica Takes It! reside, as their names suggests, slightly further south. The album's highlight, "Antarctica", sees the band knee deep in a polar expedition, while the photos for the cover and CD booklet were provided by Dr Samuel Silverstein, who headed the 1967 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Dr Silverstein also writes about his photos in the booklet, which makes this the first album to be released with sleeve notes by an Antarctic explorer. Press/Radio: Reviews in Uncut, NME, The Guardian, Plan B, Pitchfork, PopMatters, with more TBC. HowDoesItFeelToBeLoved-003 CD $16.25 Antietam Opus Mixtum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US CarrotTop-041 CD $12.00 Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 18TH) PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania. Kranky-114 CD $11.00 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements. Kranky-115 CD $12.25 Birds of Maya Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Debut LP from Philly power-trio. Lo-fi rock recalling '60s/'70s classics like Cream, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, the Stooges, etc. HolyMountain LP $15.00 Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting. n5MD-156 CD $12.00 Black Hollies Casting Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US After wide acclaim from their debut album and a practice regiment that has left their jaw-dropping live shows tighter than a pegged pant leg, they've reached a little further into space, introduced a wonderfully psychedelic element to their sound & come out on the other side with Casting Shadows, a powerful rock album full of unforgettable nuggets. Member of RYE COALITION. "A mash up of British Invasion blues, guitar heroics & psychedelia that would bring a smile to Brian Jones' face" -Rolling Stone. ErnestJenning-036 CD $11.50 Brittle Stars S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Red vinyl. Classic 90's pop effort from the lazy south. RuinedPotential-07 10 $16.25 Bubblegum Lemonade Ten Years Younger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Magnificent debut release from a 60's influenced indie-pop affair from Glasgow, Scotland. Bubblegum Lemonade is principally a man called Laz, a 12-string Rickenbacker enthusiast with more than a few Velvet Underground, Byrds, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Razorcuts records in his collection. Title track 'Ten Years Younger' updates the Mary Chain's take on The Velvets with nice bursts of electronica and beautiful female backing vocals courtesy of Sandra from fellow Glaswegians Strawberry Whiplash. 'The Tomorrow People' is a wonderful 60's-drenched jangle pop gem that should please even the most ardent Byrds or Razorcuts fan, while 'Unsafe at Any Speed' is Ralph Nader meets the Mary Chain with liberal dollops of reverb and distortion. Finally, 'That Thing You Do!' is a glorious cover of the title song from the mid-90's hit movie of the same name. Written by Adam Schlesinger (Ivy, Fountains of Wayne), the song was originally credited to the fictitious band The Wonders and needed to be roughed up a bit as it is here. With insanely catchy songs, masterful 12-string guitars, shimmering pop melodies, and the feedback drenched sounds of the Mary Chain, Bubblegum Lemonade is an extraordinary addition to the Matinée roster proving that old school indie will never go out of style. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve. Matinee-064 CD5 $6.50 Burial Chamber Trio Wvrm (PIC 10") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The 2nd vinyl only release by the the collaborative project between: OREN AMBARCHI, GREG ANDERSON & ATTILA CSIHAR. They return w/ a special picture disc 10" vinyl w/ sick, elaborate packaging designed by Seldon Hunt. The audio material is taken from the groups performance in Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wvrm. LIMITED TO 3000 SouthernLord 10 $14.00 Can Ege Bamyasi [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue. Mute-9378 CD $12.25 Can Tago Mago [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue. Mute-9377 CD $12.25 Cardopusher Down To The Wire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Luis Garban of Venezuela has released heaps of records these past couple years for labels such as Ad Noiseam, Peace-off, Intellectual Violence, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco & Wrong Music, but for Terminal Dusk he reveals his passion for dubstep. 'Down To The Wire' contains high energy levels, sick low bass and brilliantly selected reggae samples. This album is executed perfectly and includes remixes from two fellow dubstep heads: Atki2 & Starkey. Side A kicks off with 'Maybe Next Time' dropping the warbly and brutal bass and some hot B-boy samples. Give in to the head nod effect. Next up is 'Keep On Truckin' with a wall of low end synth leads & Bollywood style atmospheres. Rounding off the A side is 'Knock Yuh Out' and it's a badman, turning up the energy. Flip for the B side and 'Everything Is A New Surprise' kicks in with an ultra disgusting bassline & pitched up bongos, massive! Next are the remixes, Starkey starts it off with his remix of 'Knock Yuh Out' which takes the original to another level, slows it down a bit, and offers some proper dubstep swagger. Atki2 finishes the record with his rendition of 'Keep On Truckin', bringing the Bristol styles, a classic remix. TerminalDusk-007 12 $10.50 Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis Assassination of Jesse James (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Mute CD $15.25 Chessie Manifest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US They continue their musical exploration of the railway environment, this time focusing on the freight trains & railway corridors that simultaneously divide & connect America's landscapes. It's an exhilarating journey through a realm of extremes, where stillness is shattered by jarring motion & cacophony subsides into silence. Using guitars, bass, drums, signal processing, samples, analog synths, organs, horns, & other instruments, they capture the interplay between the manufactured & natural worlds that railroads inhabit. PlugResearch-084 CD $11.50 Coniglio, Enrico 'dyanMU (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album. Psychonavigation-022 CD $15.50 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US A remarkably clear, powerful, and confident recording that should elevate the trio into the pantheon of the great guitar bands of our time. Darlings of both the stoner rock and the modern psychedelia worlds, Dead Meadow transcend both and have created a sound all their own. Packaging includes CD in digipak with tipped-in booklet featuring a gorgeous painting by LA artist Charles Wish. CD enhanced with bonus video. Matador CD $13.25 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador DLP $19.00 Dengue Fever Venus On Earth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group & the genre. PREFIX MAG: "Though constantly hailed by local outlets like the Los Angeles Times as the city's most "original pop band," the Cambodian-American psyche-surf rock quintet has sat patiently at the precipice of a national break for several years now. The group shifted into overdrive the last two years: an appearance on the Broken Flowers soundtrack; a documentary about singer Chhom Nimol's homecoming and the band's first trip to Cambodia, called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong; and now its third album, Venus on Earth. On it, Nimol's gorgeous Khmer and English vocals are paired with the band's inventive blend of garage rock, Cambodian folk and Ethio-jazz." M80Music CD $16.25 Devastations Yes U (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Moody, meandering rock that recalls Talk Talk at first blush. BeggarsBanquetUS CD $12.50 Doleful Lions 7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past. Parasol-CD-108 CD $9.00 Gazelle Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights. AHiddenAgendaRecord-090 CD $9.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Their sophomore follow-up to "Kill Them With Kindness". Based around acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation, this record combines the pop sensibilities of previous efforts with a more restrained approach to songcraft that results in a clearer, concise musical vision. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins). Polyvinyl CD $12.00 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SubPop LP $13.00 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) have recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary work to date. Keep Your Eyes Ahead marries the Portland duo's signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a newfound appreciation for minimalism. The finger picking on "Shed Your Love" is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise, but Brandon's serene, self-assured delivery remains front and center. While songs from the band's early releases spanned up to 7 minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track on Keep Your Eyes Ahead (fiery anthem "Hallelujah") clocks in at 4 and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft has become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandon's voice, especially on driving tracks like "Keep Your Eyes Ahead." The band also took its time on the album. After the bulk of official recording was completed, a listen through all the demos and snippets on Brandon's hard drive convinced Benjamin there were more gems in the rough (which is how both "Hallelujah" and "Keep Your Eyes Ahead," as well as the mid-tempo "Back to This" were rediscovered and retooled). Produced by the band, Keep Your Eyes Ahead confirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything they've ever done. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership that's been invigorated. And that's exactly how the songs will make you feel: invigorated. SubPop CD $13.00 Hexlove Knew Abloom (Life's Hood) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US While he's a current member of Who's Your Favorite Son God & Prints, this is Zac Nelson all by himself going nuts. His enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, & post-"Vision Creation Newsun" Boredoms, & combine it all & play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. HolyMountain CD $13.25 Hitchcock, Robin Shadow Cat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, UK Robyn Hitchcock has taken time out from working with The Venus 3 (which features various members of REM) and John Paul Jones (who has been busy with his former band Led Zeppelin lately...) to compile an exclusive album, Shadow Cat, for London's premier oddball label Sartorial Records. This collection of previously unreleased material from the Hitchcock vaults dates from 1993-99, providing the missing link between The Egyptians on A&M and the Warner Bros years. Shadow Cat itself features Moris Tepper, mainstay of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, on lead acoustic guitar, and all tracks are Hitchcock originals, but for the Hendrix cover "The Wind Cries Mary" (on which Sartorial boss Terry Edwards plays Hammond organ). Aside from Edwards making a further appearance on "Never Have To See You Again", Robyn performs all instruments & vocals. From the concise opening cut, For Debbie Reynolds, to the concluding title track, the quality of the songwriting & performance shines through - "out-take" albums are all too often cobbled together from unreleased (unrealizable!) material. Not so here. These 14 tracks were whittled down from around 30 contenders, carefully edited & remastered to create a cohesive album - even to the point of sequencing the songs as two sides, despite it not being manufactured on vinyl. Essential for those who have followed Robyn from his early days in The Soft Boys (with Kimberley Rew, Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe) to his work with film director Jonathan Demme and beyond, this release also serves as a fine introduction to the work of one of Englands most treasured songwriters. Enjoy! Track listing SIDE 1: 1 For Debbie Reynolds, 2 Never Have To See You Again, 3 Love Affair, 4 The Wind Cries Mary, 5 High On Yourself, 6 Because You're Over, 7 The Cat Walks Her Kind Of Line. SIDE 2: 8 Statue With A Walkman, 9 The Green Boy, 10 Real Dot, 11 Nothing But Time, 12 Beautiful Shock, 13 Baby-Doll, 14 Shadow Cat. Satorial-030 CD $17.75 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Their 3rd full length & shows them at their best; wonderfully quirky, clever, soulful & poppy. The sound has evolved toward a wilder, heavier electronics, though still coupled w/ a signature pop aesthetic. They are equally at home creating songs of intimacy & melancholy as they are dancefloor killers. Astralwerks CD $15.25 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Astralwerks LP $17.00 Hot Chip Made In the Dark [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Deluxe edition with DVD. Astralwerks CD/DVD $18.75 Human Bell S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Feat. David Heumann (ARBOURETUM, CASS MCCOMBS, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY) and Nathan Bell (LUNGFISH, P.W. LONG, Mighty Flashlight, & Television Hill). Their gorgeous guitar duets form an instrumental canvas painted in the warm colored hues of folk & rock music, & simultaneously a blank canvas for the listeners themselves to paint. Their songs are delicately crafted w/ an immaculate clarity, expressiveness, & most of all, openness. ThrillJockey-191 CD $14.00 Ida Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) US, PS Vinyl version, limited to 1,000 deluxe, 180-gram 2 x LPs in double gatefold jacket. Includes free digital downloads from the label plus two bonus tracks. Polyvinyl DLP $14.00 Ida Lovers Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Their first new album in three years and their clearest, most dynamic to date. A collection of songs that invoke the proximity of the invisible and the reality of love with an earned grace that comes from experience, persistence, and an undiminished enthusiasm for making sounds together. This is their seventh album; recorded with Levon Helm (The Band). Packaged in a special, green-friendly digipak and double-gatefold jacket. Polyvinyl CD $11.50 Isabelle Antena Transmissions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK 28 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is proud to present the very first DVD by Isabelle Antena, the acclaimed easy and electro-samba pioneer from Paris , acclaimed by everyone from Nouvelle Vague to Thievery Corporation. Transmissions gather together 16 remastered video clips for singles and key album tracks recorded between 1982 and 2000, together with 12 tracks from a live concert at the Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, on 26 June 1991. Stand-out clips and tracks include Seaside Weekend, Easy Street, Poisson des Mers du Sud, Laying on the Sofa, Romancia del Amor, Jouez le Cinq, and the classic 1982 clip for debut single The Boy From Ipanema by the original Antena trio. The DVD also includes some amusing 'lost in translation' style interview extracts. The 1991 live footage from Japan runs for more than an hour, and features Antena favorites such as Antena, Be-Pop and Eclat de Nuit, on which Isabelle is backed by a crack jazz band including Fritz Sundermann and Marco de Meersman, as well as guest musicians from Japan. Artist biography: chic trio Antena formed in Paris in 1981. After scoring cult hits with wry single The Boy From Ipanema and classic mini album Camino Del Sol in 1982, the band left Crepuscule for major label releases on Island and Mercury. Going solo, Isabelle Antena returned to Crepuscule in 1986, and since then has released a further twelve albums, her writing spanning jazz, funk and Latin, and achieving notable success in Japan and the Far East. The most recent Isabelle Antena album, Easy Does It, appeared in 2005. A new Antena album, Toujours du Soleil, was released in 2006. LTM-2494 DVD $21.75 Jet Age, The What Did You Do During the War, Daddy? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th) PS, US This the Jet Age's (ex-Hurricane Lamps) follow up to 2006's critically acclaimed Breathless. Boasting brilliant tunes, breathtaking performances, and-dare we say?-a headline-grabbing concept at its heart, WDYDDTW,D? is sure to be one of the most talked about records of this election year. MAGNET: "As consistent as the Lamps were across their five albums, the Jet Age's Breathless marks a huge step forward, from Tischler's songwriting to the musicians' performances to the production and overall ambience. Lamps devotees, don't worry; Tischler is still unleashing bright shards of his trademark riffery and serving up literate epistles in his Roger Daltrey-meets-Robert Smith voice... With this debut, his band has clearly hit an early high." Sonicboomerang-008 CD $8.25 Judys, The Washarama [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Klein, Alan Well At Least It's British (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK 60's Brit Pop with an influence on 90's Brit Pop. Includes rare Joe Meek produced tracks. All first time on CD, and first ever reissue. After writing the soundtrack to the quintessential pre- Beatles English pop movie What A Crazy World Alan Klein scored a deal with Decca to write and perform his view of English society at the time. His style of delivery was very distinctive, not unlike contemporary Anthony Newley, and writing like Lionel Bart. Alan was managed by Ken Pitt who also had another client called David Jones, soon to be David Bowie. That the early style of Bowie's delivery is also akin to Kleins must surely be more than coincidence. In the mid 90's Damon Albarn was asked about his influences and said about this LP " ...it was instrumental in me making Modern Life Is Rubbish,and changing and getting an idea of my own self.... I can't believe that David Bowie didn't know him inside out, and the same with Ray Davies. My favourite track goes ' he's a twentieth-century Englishman ' (see Blur's For Tomorrow). It's a fantastic record." Klein went on to tour the world as vocalist in the New Vaudeville Band. For bonus tracks we include the two singles he wrote and recorded in 1962, both produced by Joe Meek, and the 1965 singles including the withdrawn Age Of Corruption. RPM-824 CD $17.00 Lazarus Like Trees We Grow To Be Satellites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Limited to 325. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Lyrics and artwork screened on the inside of jacket. RuinedPotential-05 LP $16.25 Louris, Gary Vagabonds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US (Digipack Packaging) 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 has 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. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances. Rykodisc CD $16.00 Lungfish Rainbows from Atoms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Re-mastered version of the band's third cd, originally released in 1993. (Don't forget that Lungfish's singer is DANIEL HIGGS, who has embarked on a burgeoning solo career.) Out of print for several years, remastered at Silver Sonya. Dischord CD $10.25 Mangion, Suzy The Other Side of the Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drum kit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy Mangion began her public music making as one half of school boy/girl band George, in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album 'The Magic Lantern' on Pickled Egg Records in 2003. An EP, 'All Good Things', was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album, 'A Week of Kindness', was jointly released on both labels. Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album 'Writers Without Homes' (4AD) - contributing vocals on two tracks, which have been described by many as the album's highlights and has recorded two albums with Arbol, an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and 'Dreams Made of Paper' (Lejos Discos). Last year she made a guest appearance on the Big Eyes Family Players's album, 'Do The Musiking'. Suzy is also one half of The Winter Journey. 'The Other Side of the Mountain' is Suzy's first solo album, and was recorded between January and July 2006. Musically, it follows on very much from where George left off, hardly surprising, given that Suzy was responsible for writing and performing about 90% of their material. "Suzy Mangion's voice cuts through the muggy layer of post modernism, to deliver songs that beautifully capture a sense of perpetual loss through the passing of time itself" [The Wire] "When she's not collaborating with the likes of Arbol and Piano Magic, Suzy Mangion writes intimate torch songs with multi-instrumentalist Michael Varty. One minute she sounds like Joni Mitchell crooning over a Wurlitzer, the next she's whispering like Vincent Gallo's long lost cousin over a fragile score of guitars, chimes, strings and loops. Either way, the results are never less than mesmerizing" [Uncut] "George's adventures in bricolage proffer to the listener the saddest, prettiest songs about early surgical cinema, living in memory or a fearful search for joy, that they will hear for a long time" [Sleazenation] "George's suite of beautiful songs makes no vulgar attempt to grab your attention, and its inward_looking focus put me in mind of the woody folkisms of Vashti Bunyan, previously the last word in this kind of hushed English Fireside reverie" [The Sound Projector]. PickledEgg-067 CD $17.75 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Morcheeba World Looking in (DZ RMX) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Another Release from the elusive LOSBUD. This time it is a remix of Britian's Morcheeba's Classic World Looking in, Remixed by DZ (Scuba, Hot Flush, Black Acre, Lodubs). LosBud-1208004 12 $8.25 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News. 4AD CD $13.25 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $14.00 Nyro, Laura More Than A New Discovery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Rev-Ola proudly re-presents the album which introduced to the world the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro! More Than A New Discovery (aka The First Songs) is openly informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy 1960s New York arrangements. Laura's lyrics are already as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise "And When I Die" to the observational approach of "Buy and Sell." Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of 1960s female pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie Sands or the brash, bravura pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take "Stoney End" to the charts three years later. Although Laura's albums would become more and more influential and adventurous, this, her first outing, features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions. Due to production decisions she did mot agree with, Laura Nyro more or less disowned her debut for many years, until the music fan in her began to appreciate the set forms as one might a Motown hit of the period, no matter how overexposed and hackneyed. With new manager David Geffen, a slew of covers of her material hitting the charts, and a controversial showing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Laura Nyro signed a favourable new deal with Columbia Records, making some of the most essential albums of the late 1960s and 1970s...but that is another, quite wonderful story. Listen now to where it all began. Fantastic album by one of our very favourite artists! Beautifully re-mastered in true RevOla style with lovely packaging as usual... A must for all fans of Laura Nyro, and of classic New York girlpop... the set form she made into so much more! Rev-Ola-233 CD $15.50 Peculiar, Vinny Goodbye My Angry Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, UK There are times you can hear Nick Cave and Johnny Cash in these power pop meets kitchen sink drama songs but a better comparison might be Stephen Duffy for the romance-against-the-odds, me-against-the-world, railing-against-the-dying-of-the-light feeling of this record." Manchester song-writing maverick, performance poet and Smiths associate Vinny Peculiar has cultivated an alternative music career spanning the past 10 years collaborating with a diverse range of artists from Bill Drummond to Bonehead. 'Goodbye My Angry Friend', his 7th studio album, is an ambitious, vengeful, tuneful and intriguing collection of songs. Produced by sonic magpie Tim Browne it fuses influences that are, to many a pop music connoisseur, poles apart...from Nick Cave to The Darkness...from Johnny Cash to Queen. Here is a record that, for better or worse, plays by its own rules. The opening salvo reflects upon the death of the Vinny Peculiar alter ego whilst 'Kiss Me [I'm a Social Worker]' reeks of abuse and mistrust. 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' is a tenderly affecting paean of mood disorder and melody. 'Lazy Bohemians' portrays and gently dismembers a world of would be revolutionary misfits...a world in which Vinny stars as idler in chief. From garage band symphonies to rock and roll nursery rhymes here is a record of audacious musicality from an artist not simply content to sit on the edge. Vinny Peculiar is prepared to jump. Pronoia-007 CD $17.75 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Pollard recently poured through a bunch of old cassette tapes & found some great, never-used instrumentals that he either wrote or co-wrote, & he decided to go into the studio & put vocals (& melodies!) over them, just like he 'used to back in the old Guided By Voices days.' The music spans a 20+ yr period, so in essence, this is an album 20 years in the making. HappyJack-015 CD $10.00 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HappyJack-015 LP $10.50 Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Person v.1: 1960 - 65 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, finger poppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstances...with personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in BeBop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, Jazz, funk and whatever history! As soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them! With a whole load of amazing performances recorded live during their record-breaking tours of the 1960s, this is THE Ramsey Lewis Trio album you need...believe it! Amazing and timeless soul-jazz-pop-bossa-boogaloo you'll love! Perfectly remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins of this parish...and wonderfully packaged by Mr. Andy Morten in Zummerzet! Rev-Ola-221 CD $15.00 Raveonettes, The Lust Lust Lust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Vice CD $14.00 Robots In Disguise We're In The Music Biz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK 'Get 'em out for the boys,' is the reaction many women in music still face. In fact, that's the phrase - albeit in French - that one photographer used when shooting ROBOTS IN DISGUISE aka DEE PLUME (guitar and vocals) and SUE DENIM (bass and vocals) for a French glossy, which probably prefers to remain nameless. But while many would rant, huff & puff or simply cave in, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE decided to celebrate the launch of their 3rd album, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ, by beating the boys at their own game. The maverick electro-pop duo with a reputation for their fashion-forward style appears on the cover with immaculate hair and make-up wearing skinny-minny shirts and ties. But what's this? Those girls are naked but for layer of skillfully applied body paint! 'We like to subvert people's expectations of us as a band and have a bit of fun with it,' says agent provocateuse, Dee. 'People have seen those pictures and it's so unexpected that they've not even clocked it,' says Sue. Part riot grrl princesses, part monsters of DIY musical mayhem, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE have enjoyed cult success in France and Germany where they've toured extensively around their first two albums, but now they're setting their sights closer to home, supporting The Gossip on tour this summer and picking up fans from the likes of CSS, The Klaxons, Princess Superstar and Chicks on Speed. WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ sees the Robots developing their signature sound and tell-it-like-it-is lyrics, with a sharper, boppier and frequently impossibly catchy feel. Produced by Chris Corner (Sneaker Pimps/ I Am X) in Berlin, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ includes the hit single, THE SEX HAS MADE ME STUPID, a hedonistic, future indie-dance classic of what happens when you get off with someone you like. The sex, the drink, the illegal substances - the sheer addictive mess and mayhem that inevitably ensue from acting on attraction. Get it out for the girls... Confirmed Press includes The London Paper, The Fly, Record Collector, Stool pigeon, Mojo, AXM, SubVert Magazine, Loaded, Mixmag, NME, Artrocker, DJ Magazine, Maxim. Loads more expected but too early to confirm as yet. Track listing 1 We're in the music biz, 2 Cant stop getting wasted, 3 The sex has made me stupid, 4 Animals, 5 The tears, 6 I don't have a god, 7 I live in Berlin, 8 I'm hit, 9 Everybody's going crazy, 10. Dont copy me. President-3 CD $17.75 Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US N2O CD $14.25 Saville, Robin/Doll Boy Player Piano/ Prelude No.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Like Burton and Taylor, some artists and labels are always linked. Isan/ Robin Saville go way back with the Static Brothers and we are chuffed as can be to release Robin's first solo single, a precursor for his debut album. Dollboy have also stepped inside the Caravan before, donning mittens and knocking back a Cab Sav while holing up with the extended family, otherwise known as those dudes from Tunng. Try finding that release nowadays. MC Doll (homeless Oliver Cherer) Boy and his producer (social worker Robin Saville) strode into the van with the idea of a split single, and who are we to turn our backs on such street savvy? It's best to say that this hummus and sesame seed breadstick is a mighty fine appetizer for Robin's debut solo album. Planned for a release with Static Caravan, it's due to see the light of day in 2008. For the past ten years, Robin Saville has been precisely fifty percent of isan, a frankly seminal electronica outfit whose influence has been acknowledged around the world. This is his first solo release, a bouncy, weaving, piano-led lurcher which harks back to the duo's earlier, more carefree roots. He also likes to grow vegetables and make jam. Sublime electronica AND advice about vegetable seeds for your garden? Now that's what we call good value. Following a long list of highly regarded releases since 2004, Dollboy returns with a re-voicing of JS Bach's Prelude No 1 in C Major (from The Well Tempered Clavier), a characteristically swoonsome piece of organic-electronic jingle-jangle majesty, featuring the sound of water-filled bowls and a 1942 glass glockenspiel. What ensues is two minutes of clicks, whirrs and beautiful sounds, bringing Bach into the binary age - kick back, grab a glass of red wine and admire the warm glow. 250 only seveninch vinyl in a hand-painted sleeve. StaticCaravan-145-7 45 $9.25 Sequins, The The Death of Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Long awaited 12 track debut album from the best Best Midlands indie pop band. Formed around the nucleus of Warwick University, the five-piece deliver an album that builds upon the potential shown in their two singles and transgresses that already high watermark. Sharing a firm lineage with the Postcard and Sarah Records aesthetics, The Sequins draw upon the best jangly guitar pop and artrock to create a signature sound that puts them out of step with the current zeitgeist. Eschewing the contemporary fashion with cold-hearted irony, The Sequins aren't afraid to indulge their playful side or embrace the unfashionable. This is music free of guilty pleasures and full of unabashed joy. Although employing spider-like guitars and dizzying time signatures in equal measure, they never once forget the importance of melody or a good chorus. Recorded in South London in two short sessions, The Death of Style is endearingly lo-fi but sparkles in all the right places, providing a perfect snapshot of the live sound that has brought The Sequins many devoted fans in the past year. Limited to 1000 specially designed album sleeves, each release comes replete with it's own sequins and a front cover which encourages fans to create their own unique designs. Press: "this is immutable yet frail pop that makes my heart beat faster and faster. 9/10" Drowned In Sound. "An absolute must for indiepopsters everywhere" -The Fly. "Blissfully-tuneful indie-pop contenders" - NME. "Wide eyed melodies and breakneck energy" - Rough Trade. "Sharp jangling rhythms that swoop and soar" - SoundsXP. "I'm too lost in the world of Sequins and can't work out what I was going to do..." - John Kennedy, XFM. ToughLove-014 CD $16.25 Snow, Hank Paving The Highway With Tears (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK Resplendent in his lavish and colorful sequin-studded suits, Hank Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums, and was one of the biggest stars of country music practically from it's origins until his passing, a unique man and a unique achievement. Born in Nova Scotia in 1914, Snow embarked on a musical career as a teenager, conquering Canadian radio as "The Yodelling Ranger", until his voice changed and so did his name! In 1950, Snow had the monster hit, "I'm Movin' On", the first of many, and covered by country, R&B and Rock acts to this day...Everyone from Johnny Cash to The Rolling Stones has dome their take of this classic song... Along the way, Hank even briefly managed his young protégé Elvis Presley, introducing him at The Grand Ole Opry as he had done for Hank Williams before him... Hank Snow was a giant of country music, and here we present some of his greatest recordings. A member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, and the Nova Scotia Music Hall Of Fame, there simply isn't a hall of fame complete without Hank! An amazing CD collection of 1950s hits by one of the masters of Country Music! Beautifully packaged by Pepperbox! Wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland! A must for all fans of top flight Americana! Rev-Ola-237 CD $15.50 Solvent Demonstration Tape 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US STRICTLY LIMITED!! These 27 tracks document all the 'hits' of the past decade, some of which are long out of print, as well as introduce 3 previously unreleased songs & Solvent's latest vocoder pop track & recent live-set favorite, "In Light". Also incl. are several examples of his exemplary vocoder-synthpop sound & an ADULT. remix GhostlyInternational-070 CD $13.25 Songs Of Green Pheasant S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Timeless effort from the UK's Duncan Sumpner. Picture- window jacket with printed vellum. Artwork by Esteban Rey. RuinedPotential-06 LP $21.75 Sparrow, The The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-67 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, UK After our amazing release by the legendary Mars Bonfire, here is a follow-up of sorts....now listen carefully....Dennis Edmonton, drummer Jerry Edmonton and bass player Nick St Nicholas had all played together in Toronto 'British Invasion' band, Jack London & The Sparrows in 1965. When the group split from singer Jack London, they added new members, going through a succession of future Canadian music stars, even swapping members back and forth with the legendary Mynah Birds, before settling on permanent members John Kay and Goldy McJohn. Soon, their new, high energy blues-rock style got them the attention of the Rolling Stones agent Jerry Brandt, who got them a prestige gig at Sybil Burton's hot nightclub Arthur in the summer of 1966. A deal with Columbia Records followed, with a single "Tomorrow's Ship" being the result. It failed to chart, as did the followup "Green Bottle Lover", and The Sparrow decamped for California, playing at every legendary venue with everyone you care to mention, to a fair amount of acclaim. In June 1967, however, Dennis Edmonton announced his decision to go solo, changing his name to Mars Bonfire. This effectively fragmented the group, with St. Nicholas and new guitarist Michael Monarch joining members of the Hard Times as T.I.M.E...though Monarch soon left to join the other Sparrows in their new project STEPPENWOLF...who broke through with songs written by Mars Bonfire like "Born To Be Wild"....and were soon rejoined by St. Nicholas... and so it was that all the members of THE SPARROW were involved in the phenomenal success of STEPPENWOLF! A twisty turny story, but, oh my, is the music worth it! The full Columbia recordings of THE SPARROW including the lost audition tapes! Includes the first full-on rock recording of "The Pusher" later made famous by Steppenwolf...Beautifully remastered in true Rev-Ola style, with lovely packaging as usual! First time UK release for this legendary band! Rev-Ola-234 CD $15.50 Stone Breath A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons (EXPANDED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US Originally released in 1998, now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth & spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees & birds that talk, the smell of wet earth & the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances & presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo. Hand/Eye-033 DCD $15.25 Strawberry Whiplash Who's In Your Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Astonishing debut from a promising new band from Glasgow, Scotland where everyone is in a pop bandit's in the blood, it's in the water and it's in the contract. Sandra and Laz have built a feedback wall of sunshine sound out of old fuzz boxes and reverbed drums that recalls some of the best C-86 pop from The Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh, The Primitives, or The Revolving Paint Dream. The debut single includes the infectious lead track 'Who's In Your Dreams?' which is creating quite the buzz on international indie blogs already. It's a hip shaking pop gem with tambourines, splendid melodies, loads of reverb and just the recommended dosage of ba-da-ba's. 'It Rains On Other Planets' is a shimmering wall of sound with noisy guitars, steady drumming, piercing organ and handclaps, while 'My Day Today' is an immediate 150 bpm pop hit with jangling guitars and keyboards that in a parallel universe would fill dance floors to capacity. Final track 'Factory Girl' is a harmonic wall of pop based around the Warhol Superstar phenomenon think Mary Chain meets The Primitives and you're nearly there. An especially invigorating addition to the Matinée catalog, Strawberry Whiplash are early contenders for favorite new band of 2008! Limited to 1000 copies in custom mini jacket sleeve. Matinee-065 CD5 $6.50 subtractiveLAD Apparatus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26th) PS, US 'Apparatus,' SubtractiveLAD's fourth album, finds Stephen Hummel elaborating upon previous granular motifs. Those familiar with his progression will notice that Hummel's sound has matured and become grounded in an honest and open place. As such musical growth would imply, Apparatus is the album in which Hummel appears to be most comfortable with his ideas and usage of sound. It is this comfort, which allows Apparatus to envelop the listener in a profoundly personal way. Lofty classic ambient refrains, shoegaze splendor and muted broken beat trickery are all stylistic fair game. Comparisons can be made to a wide rage of artists such as Ben Frost, Eno, Namlook, and even label mate Bitcrush. As each SubtractieLAD album seems to top the previous, the anticipation is building for what is to come from this bright talent in electronic music. n5MD-155 CD $12.00 Valet Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." Kranky-116 CD $12.25 Various The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Various Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Tanya Donelly, Britta Phillips, Lori McKenna, Jill Sobule with John Doe, Elk City, Veruca Salt, Kristin Hersh, Josie Cotton, The Watson Twins, and Julie Peel are just some of the outstanding artists covering Neil Young's most popular songs for charity on this 21 track Double CD. All proceeds from this benefit record go to Casting for Recovery. Casting For Recovery is a national nonprofit support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer. Casting for Recovery provides an opportunity for women whose lives have been profoundly affected by the disease to gather in a beautiful, natural setting and learn fly-fishing, "a sport for life." The weekend retreats incorporate counseling, educational services and the sport of fly-fishing to promote mental and physical healing. Track Listing: Disk 1: 1. TANYA DONELLY "Heart Of Gold" 2. BRITTA PHILLIPS "I Am A Child" 3. KATE YORK "Comes A Time" 4. LORI MCKENNA "The Needle And The Damage Done" 5. JILL SOBULE with JOHN DOE "Down By The River" 6. VERUCA SALT "Burned" 7. JOSIE COTTON "Cowgirl In The Sand" 8. DALA "A Man Needs A Maid" 9. DARCIE MINER " Ohio " 10. CARMEN TOWNSEND "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" Disk 2: 1. EURO-TRASH GIRL "Cinnamon Girl" 2. JULIE PEEL "I Believe In You" 3. LUFF "Tell Me Why" 4. DALA " Ohio " 5. ELK CITY "Helpless" 6. AMILIA K. SPICER "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 7. LOUISE POST " Sugar Mountain " 8. THE WATSON TWINS "Powderfinger" 9. KRISTIN HERSH "Like A Hurricane" 10. CINDY WHEELER (CAULFIELD SISTERS) "Old Man" 11. HEIDI GLUCK (SOME GIRLS) "Walk On". AmericanLaundromat-012 CD $12.25 Various Living Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US A collection of ALL NEW & UNRELEASED songs (except for one) by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection and flow in one continuous track. Featuring The Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon, Black Dice, Fischerspooner, Rings, Doldrums, Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O'Neil, Palms, Avey Tare of Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall, and many more. RareBookRoom-001 DCD $13.00 Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 29TH) PS, US The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic & painted in a spectrum of acoustic & electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. This marries the ancient w/ the futuristic, each in all their beauty & terror. Traditional gongs collide w/ a rat's nest of computerized layering. Make no mistake. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. KillRockStars CD $13.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders A.A. 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