New Releases

Acid House Kings
Sing Along With
PS, SWEDEN Last copies. Singer/guitarist Niklas Angergård, his bassist brother Johan and guitarist Joakim Ödlund formed the Swedish twee-pop trio Acid House Kings in 1991, inspired by their shared disappointment over the breakup of Felt and common dissatisfaction with Morrissey's Kill Uncle album; signing to the German label Marsh Marigold, the group issued their debut EP Play Pop! in early 1992, followed later that year by the full-length Pop, Look & Listen! The group's rediscovery of childhood favorites the Pet Shop Boys informed 1994's Monaco G.P. EP; disappointed by the record's lack of chart success, Acid House Kings maintained a low profile for the next three years, finally resurfacing in 1997 with the single "Yes! You Love Me." Advantage Acid House Kings followed the next year, with the single "We're the Acid House Kings" closing out 1999. Niklas Angergård also played in the great Red Sleeping Beauty. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Labrador-075
LP
$13.75

AFCGT
AFCGT
PS, US LP & bonus 45 and DL codes! AFCGT (a convenient vernacular for A Frames and Climax Golden Twins) descends from a decrepit longhouse on the shores of a dark lake where the self-inflicted wounds from a windy forest of flailing, whipping branches gave birth to the white heat oddities from this their self-titled new album. Conjoined a little over two years ago, the group has already been dishing out vinyl; recording a 10-inch EP, a full-length LP, and appearing on a 7-inch compilation. AFCGT will be available as both a vinyl LP (with bonus 7-inch) and as a digital album (without bonus 7-inch), though not on CD.
Subpop
LP/45
$17.50

Aguayo, Matias
Rollerskate
PS, US 1st single from Ay Ay Ay. It's easy to get drawn into the organic earthiness of Aguayo's musicianship - his voice is the source of the song, ingeniously layered & contextualized into what seems like an endless mantra. Remixes by MARCUS ROSSKNECHT, DIEGORS & THE DON, SANFUENTES & ALEX THUNDERS, & REBOLLEDO
Kompakt-204
12
$12.50

Ale Mania
Lustful Fistful
PS, US Made up of the same 3/5 of the Sess that make up Beaters, here we have the drummer for both of those bands, Andrew Montoya, taking the lead with his own fusion of late- 70s funk, 60s psych, and 80s punk & new wave. Pulling from a similar paranoia-induced vein as Beaters, Ale Mania trades that band's angry nature with a sense of dancing
away the fear & sadness, with some room for fun creeping in here & there
Volar-004
45
$6.25

Algernon
Ghost Surveillance
PS, US This is the third album by this instrumental post-rock/post-jazz/progressive instrumental quintet from Chicago who use dual guitars, vibes, bass and drums. Their sound is a alluring combination of indie rock, 'modern music' and beyond. RIYL Tortoise, Can, Neu!
Cuneiform-297
CD
$13.75

American Dollar, The
Atlas
PS, US The American Dollar follow-up to their much-lauded 2008 release 'A Memory Stream', Atlas come through with praise both from reviewers and fans. A lengthy, lush and visceral experience, 'Atlas' delivers the bands most complex and dense arrangements yet, while still maintaining the airy ambient soundscapes the band is best known for.
yesh-005
CD
$12.25

Animal Collective
Campfire Songs
PS, US Paw Tracks is proud to present the reissue of Animal Collective's 2003 album Campfire Songs. Since the CD's original issue on catsup plate recently went out of print it is our intention to simply keep the cd in print for as long as possible.An idea originally thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in college, Campfire Songs is not a record of songs sung around a campfire but a record that hints at songs emerging from the fire itself: "We wanted to give the music the feeling and atmosphere of the outdoors and the warmth of a fire, so people could bring it indoors."
PawTracks
CD
$12.50

Anne Arbor
La Habitacion de Musica
PS, SPAIN There are some well-educated aesthetes and provocateurs that are willing to bring a breath of fresh air and a cleansing break to clichés. Autonomous and creative minds making their own entertainment and disinclined to follow today's trends. Some will say that it is just romanticism, or narcissism of a self-chosen few as a remedy for the poverty of everyday life. Others will call it aesthetic perfectionism, sly postmodernist games or fervent evangelism of pop (the only pure faith and devotion is music, isn't it?). There is obviously something brewing at the factory of Anne Arbour, a nurturing environment for pop songs. Along with a passion for concept, melodies and presentation, Peter Anne (the Intel shows that he was once pulling the strings of Penelope Trip. Edwin Moses and Vigil) and Nathalie Arbor (her voice is very similar to the lead singers of Nosoträsh), they share a meticulously groomed and detailed-oriented sensibility. They are somehow seasoned veterans and strategists in the indie scene (they were never Ã1/4ber-hipsters though) and this record is part of their master plan. Is this the Next Big Thing in Music? Not really but a wave of positivity is here and we sincerely hope that the pop weather changes in their favor. Are musicians the lowest form of life? I am afraid it's the opposite, isn't it? AA arrives here with as much fanfare as any new group could desire. However AA defines the musical mood of grandeur and decay through a wardrobe of images and personae somewhere at the intersection of aristocracy, alien and the Dyonisian days. Maybe they have achieved an aristocratic existence, dedicated to beauty, collecting and cherishing antiques and objets d'art, visiting exotic places, feasting your eyes. Disorentiating duo? Fortunate partners in crime? Well, AA are literate, playful, ironic and quirky.
Siesta-248
CD
$19.00

Babe Rainbow
Shaved EP
PS, US Warp Records' newest electronic music producer, 26 year old Vancouver, BC native Babe Rainbow (aka Cameron Reed) is a self described purveyor of "surf-step," which basically applies the hazy atmospherics of a West coast shoreline to some abstract form of dubstep, creating a wholly new sound, while still fitting squarely within the iconic Warp artist roster that includes such luminaries as Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus and Clark. Despite this being Babe Rainbow's first official studio release, Reed has already attracted a ton of blog love with his hazy and intense re-edits of Wavves and You Say Party! We Say Die!, along with his own whirling tracks.
Warp-9291
12
$10.00

Barker, Kevin
You & Me
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Gnomonsong-014
LP
$14.25

Beach House
Teen Dream
PS, US Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. DVD with videos for each song!
Subpop
CD/DVD
$14.00

Beach House
Teen Dream
PS, US Vinyl version with DVD and DL codes! Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. Teen Dream will be packaged with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album.
SubPop
LP/DVD
$17.50

Beautiful Losers
Nobody Knows the Heaven
PS, US The music drips w/ deep nostalgia for the decadent "beautiful people" who lived & breathed & then found a home in the songs of Lou Reed & Leonard Cohen, pervaded throughout w/ a kind of psychedelic sadness
LionProductions-622
CD
$15.00

Beck, Thavius
Dialogue
PS, US On Dialogue, his third full-length for Mush Records, Thavius Beck continues to push the boundaries of hip-hop beat making, grounding lo-fi digital drum kits in icy layers of synths and sliced up samples. Fresh off of production duties on Saul Williams' Niggy Tardust album with Trent Reznor, Beck's work on Dialogue is razor sharp. This release also finds Thavius spending more time in front of the mic, delivering the type of rhymes that originally gained him notoriety as a member of Global Phlowtations. The consummate iconoclast, Beck cleverly critiques many of America's ills with a dry, satirical wit that never falls into preechiness. With each passing release, Thavius Beck continues to prove that the only musical boundaries he sees are ones he has already left behind. Composer of mercurial soundtracks for uncertain times, Thavius Beck conjoins various strains of electronic music to arrive at a daringly ambitious sound. He has received recognition in The Wire, Spin, and Urb for his solo releases under the moniker Adlib, the Labwaste project with fellow LA artist Subtitle, his recent production for fellow Mush artist K-The-I???, his early work with Global Phlowtations, numerous guest appearances, and producing alongside Trent Reznor for and touring in support of and accompanying Saul Williams. An exceptional programmer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Thavius Beck's many talents allow him to take a song from idea to completion without ever having to leave his cluttered studio. Uncompromising vision and an ear for the unusual are staples of this writer/producer's work.
Mush-266
CD
$9.00

Big Sexy Noise
Big Sexy Noise
PS, US Big Sexy Noise follow up their vinyl mini album, released earlier this year, with a full blown Self Titled CD. The band, fronted by Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk alt-rockers James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Ian White, have recorded a further five Johnston/Lunch originals plus a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover to complement the original six tracks. Big Sexy Noise is the primaeval bump, grind and holler of White's thuggish drums, Johnston's moronic low-tuned riffing and Edwards' brutal organ and sax interventions led by Lunch's take-no-prisoners vocals.
Sartorial-044
CD
$13.75

Bird Show Band
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Amish-041
LP
$16.75

Bird Show Band
S-T
PS, US Bird Show is Ben Vida, (TOWN & COUNTRY, SOFT CIRCLE, SINGER). The last three Bird Show albums have been on Kranky, this is a colaboration featuring Jim Baker and Josh Abrams, as well as Dan Bitney and John Herndon (TORTOISE, ISOTOPE 217). The album combines elements of 70's
Sun Ra, Weather Report's "Black Market," Raymond Scott and Delia Derbishire.
Amish-041
CD
$13.25

Black Diamond Heavies
Alive As Fuck: Masonic Lodge,Covington, KY
PS, US Now available on CD. Recorded live on a hot-ass night of July the 24th 2009 at Dr. Johnny Walker's (Soledad Brothers/Cut In the Hill Gang) flat in Covington, Kentucky, this is the BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES absolutely live and kicking out the jam Southern style. "When they hammer away at max. tempo, they sound like The Stooges, with the Asheton brothers replaced by a really really loud Fender Rhodes piano. When they slow it down and groove, they sound like a broken down Booker T & The MGs/the theme from 'Taxi' being run-over by a taxi. They are, in parts, genuinely funky, and as jazz as a rock concert gets these days. They swing." - Paul Fuzz/Electric Roulette
AliveRecords-0102
CD
$13.75

Blair
Die Young
PS, US Blair's first full-length is a collection of songs written over the span of five years. Half of the record was written in New Orleans, and half while living in California. The songs have turbulent titles. It's a record about violence and daydreaming - it's the angst of heart, and dreamy escapism, of a 20 something girl all wrapped up in melodies.
AutumnToneRecords-009
CD
$11.25

Blank Realm
Heatless Ark
PS, US Vinyl debut by this consistently impressive Australian psych collective with 2 previous cassette albums on NNF. This one finds them moving into weird-punk song terrain, almost a fried improv no-wave vibe in places. Beautifully silkscreened sleeves.
NotNotFun-176
LP
$13.50

Blind Man's Colour
Wooden Blankets
PS, US 6 song EP 12" from 2 Florida 19 year olds creating lucid psychedelic pop.
Kanine
12
$12.25

Blind Pilot
3 Rounds & A Sound
PS, US Portland band exploded onto scene (NPR's Best New Band of 2008) on the strength of this record, which is now finally available remastered on limited 180gm
vinyl. Toured the West Coast from Bellingham to San Diego via bicycle before hitting up all the big festivals in 2009. Dig the rustic folk-pop stylings!
Expunged-007
LP
$16.50

Blockhead
The Music Scene
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
CD
$13.00

Blockhead
The Music Scene
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
LP
$14.75

Blue Cheer
Outsideinside [reissue]
PS, US Blue Cheer's 2nd album fully matches its predecessor's primal power: a bracing orgy of volume, distortion, & aggression.
Sundazed-5298
LP
$16.50

Blue Cheer
Vincebus Eruptum [reissue]
PS, US Landmark 1968 debut is widely regarded as Ground Zero of the heavy metal explosion. Feat. classic lineup of LEIGH STEPHENS, DICKIE PETERSON, & PAUL WHALEY and incl. mind-melting reading of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues"
Sundazed-5297
LP
$16.50

Blue Rodeo
The Things We Left Behind
PS, US Blue Rodeo's The Things We left Behind is the real deal. Recorded at the band's Woodshed Studio in downtown Toronto, the album feels like an lp with a double gate-fold sleeve, two discs and four distinct sides programmed to take the listener on a trip. Upon first listen, it is immediately clear that you are listening to a Blue Rodeo album like no other.
TeleSoulRecords-003
DCD
$14.75

Boesel, Jason
Hustler's Son
PS, US Boesel headed into the studio in March of 2009 with a core group of collaborators: Mystic Valley Band member Nik Freitas, Blake Mills (Band of Horses), and producer Jonathan Wilson (Elvis Costello 'Momofuku' and Jenny Lewis 'Acid Tongue'). He eventually sought out the additional talents of Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Orenda Fink (O + S, Azure Ray), David Rawlings (Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), and fellow Rilo Kiley member Blake Sennett. The results is an 11-song Americana album filled with powerful imagery and a sound that brings new colors to the sonic palette of country-folk greats like Townes Van Zandt, mid-'70s California rock, and the alt-country scene of today.
Team Love Records
CD
$13.00

Bolan, Marc & T. Rex
Spaceball: The American Radio Sessions
PS, US The complete American radio recordings from Marc Bolan & T.Rex early 70's trips to try and break America, featuring acoustic versions of many T.Rex Hits. Original interviews and jingles have been added to this collection along with a complete, up until now, 'lost' radio session in Chicago. All the pictures in this package were taken on the road on the promotional tour of the USA. All the tracks on this collection have all been re-mastered.
Applebush-005
CD
$20.75

Boyd, C.J.
Aerial Roots
PS, US Deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone... "Aerial Roots", the latest album from C.J. Boyd, contains three songs, and clocks in at just under 45 minutes. Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, CJ Boyd's bass playing builds upon a foundation of great bassists like Charles Mingus and Edgar Meyer. C.J. Boyd's aesthetic sensibility seeks to wed minimalism with a chamber-esque maximalism. Often flowing from singular, meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex walls of sound, CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. Utilizing only various bass instruments and some human-mouth-sounds, creating these lush arrangements is no small feat. Never suffering from the structure less experimentation so prevalent in improvised music, CJ Boyd's vision remains intact throughout the duration of "Aerial Roots".
JoyfulNoiseRecordings-041
LP
$12.00

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
PS, US This barely organized enclave ingests & disgorges outsider free music a la Smegma & other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK's A Band, 5 Starcle Men, & the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk, Destijl, & Ultra Eczema
Siltbreeze-131
LP
$16.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Give It Back
PS, US Originally released in 1997 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start, and later for TVT and Tee Pee. BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Arecords-006
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Take It From The Man
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre's obsession with the Rolling Stones continues unabated on the bril-liant Take It From the Man!; where the group resurrected psychedelic-era excesses on the previous Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, here they jump further back in time to the Stones' mid-'60s period, with even more superlative results. From the opening "Vacuum Boots" onward, Take It From the Man! is gritty, swaggering R&B-influenced rock, delivered with remarkable assurance and atti-tude; singer Anton Newcombe is half madman and half shaman, and he commands each delirious moment with absolute mastery, emerging not so much a disciple of Mick Jagger but as a serious threat to the throne.
ARecords-005
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork . Truth in advertising: the Brian Jonestown Massacre's sophomore album does, as promised, spring forth from the Rolling Stones' long-underrated 1967 masterpiece Their Satanic Majesties Request, copping not only Mick and Keith's leering bad-boy attitude but also their their rock-and-roll-circus spirit. Opening with the brilliant "All Around You (Intro)," a tongue-in-cheek guide to the mind-altering journey ahead, the record is a kaleidoscopic, drug-fueled freakout - like the Stones' namesake album, Second Request is painted by Eastern drones and psychedelic tangents, each track bubbling with dozens of sound effects including sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels. Travelling through the past, darkly, the Massacre arrives on the other side unscathed; their music is too rich to be merely retro, and too knowing to be merely slavish - the Stones themselves haven't made a record this strong or entertaining in years.
Arecords-004
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Methodrone
PS, US Originally released in 1995 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus and Mary Chain . Methodrone clearly is the sum of its influences. Thankfully BJM does a very solid job with them throughout the album's course of over 70 minutes.
Arecords-008
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Bravery, Repetition And Noise
PS, US Originally released in 2001 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Bravery, Repetition and Noise is a dark dreamy album, rich in atmosphere, layered in waves of sound. The album's antecedents are clear, inspired by psychedelia as they were by punk's nihilism, pulling both strands into a doom-laden, experimental sound quite distinct from anything that had come before or since. BJM uses this as their touchstone, lovingly re-creating the moods and atmospheres of the past.
Arecords-003
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Zero EP
PS, US Originally released in 2000 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Taking into consideration the last time we heard from the Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999's one-off EP of country-folk ramblings, Bringing It All Back Home Again), longtime fans of the BJM might still be a little taken aback by the songs on this 36-minute EP at first, as this is somewhat of a departure from what BJM shaman and group leader Anton Newcombe has previously written and recorded with a revolving-door membership of sidemen and -women. That is why the title and artwork (with its colorful pinwheel flowers) goes out of its way to imply that there are "zero" songs from the album Bravery included here.
Arecords-010
CD
$7.75

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Thank God For Mental Illness
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. At the risk of further belaboring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music in 1996, the Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of the Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak; the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning - rarely are bands quite so productive, or quite so consistently amaz-ing. Thank God is the BJM's down-and-dirty country-blues outing, all 13-odd tracks supposedly re-corded on a single July day at a cost of just $17.36 .
Arecords-007
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Spacegirl And Other Favorites
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. The Brian Jonestown Massacre has been somewhat of a musical commune for many respected musicians over the years, a band from the 1990's that has spurned other great bands ever since. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, The Silver Rockets, The Black Angels, The Ravenettes, The Dilettantes (to name a few) are all part of this musical family tree.
Arecords-009
CD
$13.00

Brokaw, Chris
Solo Acoustic Vol. 3
PS, US 12-string arrangements from a true master of the instrument, Brokaw (CODEINE, THE NEW YEAR) shows a range from waltzes to ballads to experiments & rhythms. Ltd to 500
VDSQ-003
LP
$17.00

Buffalo
Dead Forever
PS, Australia "Dead Forever..., the legendary 1972 debut by Buffalo, was the first to be released outside the UK on the prestigious Vertigo label. It remains one of the first truly sinister albums from an Aussie band of the day. Highlights of this collection of heavy psychedelic blues included covers of Free's 'I'm a Mover' and the Blues Images' 'Pay My Dues', plus the band-penned tracks 'Leader', 'Suzie Sunshine', 'Bean Stew' and the melancholy, atmospheric ballad 'Forest Rain'. The album's centrepiece is the awe-inspiring title track; 'Dead Forever' -- its dense, heavy riffing, multi-tracked solos, throbbing basslines, rasping vocals and a weird echoed sound to the drums created the 'definitive' Buffalo sound that would be fully unleashed on their subsequent classics Volcanic Rock and Only Want You For Your Body. The line-up for this album was: Dave Tice (vocals - later vocalist for UK R&B band The Count Bishops), Alan Milano (vocals), Paul Babli (drums), Peter Wells (bass - later guitarist for Rose Tattoo) and John Baxter (guitar). The 3rd. release in Aztec Music's reissue of all 5 Buffalo titles, Dead Forever... features 5 bonus tracks (2 by pre Buffalo band Head), new digital remaster, 24 page booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Ian McFarlane -- packaged in a 6 panel digi-pak."
AztecMusic
CD
$21.25

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own
PS, US VINYL VERSION
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own
PS, US Recorded with Howard Bilerman at the mighty Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, Quebec, nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains,standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon.Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in theYukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Burk, Greg
Many Worlds
PS, US On his fourth release for 482, BURK (PIANO, SMALL PERCUSSION) expands & refines concepts from his earlier work in startling new ways. With HENRY COOK (SAX, FLUTE, WASHINT), RON SEGUIN (BASS, PERCUSSION), & MICHAEL LAMBERT (DRUMS, PERCUSSION) he crafts a disc of extraordinary power, stunning beauty, & timbral intrigue. Each chord, gesture, & composition leads to the next while maintaining autonomy, conjuring
worlds while connecting them
482Music
CD
$11.75

Burning Hearts
Night Animal
PS, US Finish musicians Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) & Jessika Rapo (Le Futur Pompiste) come together as Burning Hearts. It was
inevitable that this pair of bands, whose music shares a poise & sophistication rarely heard anywhere, never mind within the modest environs of Finland, would
find each other. Full of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring as a lover's
embrace, and a tone of intimacy that could only come from collaboration that is fully simpatico
Shelflife-065
45
$6.75

Burning Star Core
Operator Dead... Post Abandoned
PS, US
NoQuarter-014
CD
$11.50

Bust
#61
PS, US AMERICA FERRERA on cover! Celebrate your curves with sexy lingerie for bodacious booties. What today's tweens know about sex. Rupaul, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aubrey Plaza, VV Brown & more.
ZINE
$4.75

Captain Marryat
S-T [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Captain Marryat were from Glasgow, Scotland and they recorded this demo album in 1974, released in a tiny pressing on the Thor label, hoping to get an EMI or Chrysalis deal, who both showed interest in the band at the time. They wanted to record only a single, but instead came up with a complete album of self-composed tracks. Since it was not that easy for a Scottish band to get attention down in London, this album was the only pressing ever done and was sold at band gigs only. Five musicians, great organ, vocals, extra heavy fuzz-guitar with drums and bass -- amazing underground songs, influenced by Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Beggars Opera -- a true lost classic. Dig on the truly tribal percussion, searing guitar leads and drugged-out keys on the fully-instrumental and galloping "Dance Of Thor." The band formed in the early '70s, around 1971 to 1975, generating quite a following while playing all around Scotland and the Borders at various venues including Burns Howff in Glasgow which was a very popular venue as other bands such as Alex Harvey Band, Nazareth and Beggars Opera also played there. Shadoks was lucky to find the band themselves to make a deal so this beauty can finally conquer the world of rock music. Members include: Jimmy Rorrison, Hugh Finnegan, Allan Bryce, Tommy Hendry, and Ian McEleny.
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Cars & Trains
The Roots, The Leaves
PS, US The Roots, The Leaves is the sophomore effort of Portland, Oregon based multi-instrumentalist cars & trains (Tom Filepp), a more personal and emotive foray than his 2007 full length debut Rusty String. Tom deftly mixes out-of-the-box electronics and found sounds seamlessly with a myriad of instruments-woodwinds, banjos, acoustic guitars, strings and glockenspiel-that situate "The Roots, The Leaves" at a curious intersection between more folk-oriented electronic groups like Tunng and the distinctive Pacific Northwest experimental folk sound of K Records/The Microphones/Mt. Eerie renown.
FakeFourInc.-014
CD
$10.50

Cassette
Shining Like A New Dime
PS, US SAMANTHA JONES returns with new cast once again as CASSETTE to touch base with a new EP of beautiful compositions. Songs of simplicity, layers, folk, wisdom, reverb, melody, motherhood, string arrangements, and even a few electronic beats. Songs written by a woman who has given to more aggressive bands before such as VANBUILDERASS, CRUSTACEANS, BITCHIN', SLANG, RUMBLESEAT, and currently HONEST ARROW.
BakeryOutlet -027
CD
$8.75

Cave In
Planets Of Old
PS, US CAVE IN, The insurmountable Hydra Head all-star traveling team has... yep, you guessed it... officially un-disbanded! Unless you're the type to follow a band's wikipedia page closely enough to notice an update the moment it occurs, this news is of the breaking variety... and what's more, Hydra Head has got 4 brand new CAVE IN tracks for those of you, who after four years of radio silence, still wear your now rusted-over Jupiter pins with pride...
HydraHeadRecords-184
CD5/DVD
$12.00

Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis
The Road [OST]
PS, US Soundtrack for the film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel. An evocative score featuring violin & piano w/ beautiful fleeting melodies & eerie sound loops filled w/ terror & suspense.
Mute
CD
$15.00

Ceephax Acid Crew
United Acid Emirates
PS, US British acid house / drum 'n' bass musician ANDY JENKINSON, brother of Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher), has been releasing records under the name CEEPHAX ACID CREW for over a decade on labels such as Rephlex, Firstcasks, and Breakin Records. Planet Mu has long wanted to make a record with Jenkinson, and they are proud to present United Acid Emirates-the definitive Ceephax album. The tracks are surprisingly straightforward-Jenkinson has stripped away the drum 'n' bass and 303 histrionics of his previous work, leaving an album that at its core is a joyfully melodic and sweetly eccentric analog piece. Crossing different BPMs and moods, United Acid Emirates is an epic release with a strong '80s feel and a sound influenced by computer game music, Italo disco, synth pop, techno, and house-all handmade on Jenkinson's ancient analog synths. From the early house feel of "Life Funk" and the 16-bit techno dash of "Sidney's Sizzler" to the Italo shimmer of "Topaz" and the lush Human League synths 'n' acid of "Parkway," United Acid Emirates showcases Ceephax at his best. This soon-to-be classic puts him up there with Aphex and his recent analog experiments. CD version features two extra tracks.
PlanetMu-255
CD
$13.50

Ceephax Acid Crew
United Acid Emirates
PS, US VINYL VERSION
PlanetMu-255
DLP
$17.50

Ceremony
Someday
PS, US Before A Place To Bury Strangers there was Skywave, a 3-piece band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Ollie left to move to NYC and formed APTBS but John and Paul stayed behind and continued on under the name of Ceremony. Their Killer Pimp LP & CD "Rocket Fire" is due out early 2010 but it's being preceded by a HOT 7" single for the song "Someday." It's one of those songs that are so incredibly infectious numerous people have already reported repeating it over and over and over again! While there's no doubt comparisons to APTBS will be made (they are friends and were in the same band, after all), Ceremony are far more focused on making catchy pop tunes than blowing out your eardrums or speakers.
KillerPimp-013
45
$4.25

Cex
Being Ridden
PS, US
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-055
DLP
$12.25

Chatham, Rhys
Bern Project
PS, US In the summer of 2008, RHYS CHATHAM visited Bern, Switzerland for a guitar trio performance with local musicians that the club had recruited for him. Rhys was blown away by the skills of the drummer & bass player and talked about plans to form a trio - half a year later he was back in Bern &
introduced JULIAN SARTORIUS (DRUMS) & MAGO FLUECK (BASS) to new compositions he brought along
Hinterzimmer-008
CD
$17.50

Chicago Underground Duo
Boca Negra
PS, US Fifth DUO album feat. ROB MAZUREK (EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, ISOTOPE 217, MANDARIN MOVIE) & CHAD TAYLOR
(FRED ANDERSON, IRON & WINE, MARC RIBOT), recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Containing both composed & improvised music, powerful grooves along
with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity & polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. CD packaged in 4 panel mini-LP style jacket
ThrillJockey-228
CD
$14.00

Chicago Underground Duo
Boca Negra
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ThrillJockey-228
LP
$14.00

Cinematic Orchestra, The
Man With A Movie Camera (DVD re-issue)
PS, US Ninja Tune are proud to present the 'Man With A Movie Camera' DVD. Featuring the entire film soundtracked live in the studio by The Cinematic Orchestra, plus a short documentary about the making of the record (first aired on C4), the superb video to "All That You Give" (featuring Fontella Bass) and further extras, it's a great package. And not just for Cinematics fans or scholars of 30s documentaries, either!
NinjaTune-9078
DVD
$14.75

Citay
Dream Get Together
PS, US Citay makes a joyous return on Dream Get Together, the San Francisco cosmic wanderers' expansive third album. Many of the touchstones from Citay's previous work remain intact - flourishes of Led Zeppelin, Eno/Fripp, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Popul Vuh and ELO can be heard throughout - but a newfound swagger pushes Dream Get Together way over the top. Seldom has there been a more obvious choice for an album-opener than "Careful With That Hat," a song propelled by a deep groove and swing that practically begs the listener to stand up and air-drum wildly. The vocals soar, the lead guitars catch fire and the mammoth solo (courtesy of guitarist Josh Pollock) builds to an ecstatic explosion. This is the shot across the bow. Citay have arrived on Dream Get Together. Led by songwriter Ezra Feinberg, Citay has made a career out of studio exploration, recalling a time when studio excess was the norm. Producer Tim Green, of the Fucking Champs, is no stranger to sonic indulgence, and together Feinberg and Green have woven together a musical tapestry that is both heavy and sweet. In Citay, the metal leanings of Green's band are replaced by an altogether different brand of fantasy rock.Dream Get Together has an embroidered and epic beauty that flies over the ocean while snuggling up to the ears. Joining Feinberg in Citay is drummerWarren Huegel, whose
rhythmic sensibilities are best exemplified not only by his thunderous beats, but also his percussion decorations that lift the Citay sound from the ground up. Flanking Feinberg's acoustic six string live are the electric guitars of Sean Smith and Josh Pollock. Bassist Diego Gonzalez holds it all together throughout. Feinberg shares vocal duties on Dream Get Together with Tahlia Harbour and Meryl Press, whose sweet, soaring voices play the perfect foil to the bombast. One of many highlights of Dream Get Together is "Mirror Kisses," a song Feinberg wrote specifically for guest vocalist Merrill Garbus (of Tune-Yards) to sing in three-part harmony with Harbour and Press of Citay.With the soaring Ebow guitars and vocal harmonies, "Mirror Kisses" is Citay at its most lush and melodic. In contrast, "Hunter" is Citay at its most excessive - a triumphant instrumental anthem that somehow bridges the gap between Klaus Schulze and The Scorpions.With a spaced-out synth solo by Josh Robinow of Howlin' Rain, "Hunter" is a majestic ride. Dream Get Together closes with a gorgeous rendition of Galaxie 500's "Tugboat," in which Citay replaces the reverb-y electric guitars with clean acoustic strumming and Fripp-ed out sonics, preserving the beauty of the original while making the song their own.
DeadOceans-038
CD
$11.50

Citay
Dream Get Together
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DeadOceans-038
LP
$12.25

City of Satellites
Machine Is My Animal
PS, US On Machine Is My Animal, City of Satellites deliver on the exceptional promise of their debut EP The Spook - and then some. This pristine album synthesizes '80s pop aesthetics with '00s production values to create a truly monumental sound. From the Eastern-influenced synth lines of superb opener "BMX" to the crystalline drift of closer "Sky Rider", Machine Is My Animal carries the listener through a glistening science fiction future, as viewed from a wistful child's window. On single "Stranger Than Fiction", swirling synth sounds, Thomas Diakomichalis' propulsive drumming and Jarrod Manuel's pure vocal tones glide beautifully. Its aching melodies to the fore, the song taking heartrending turns before dissolving into the ether. "Skeletons" glides and weaves like a hovercraft over the course of seven levitating minutes, before the epic title track stomps across a dystopian future like a Transformer with a conscience, its robot heart bleeding as its surveys the devastation it has wrought. This balance between cold synthesized tones and a warm emotional heart creates a delicious balance throughout.
HiddenShoal-061
CD
$13.00

Clipd Beaks
To Realize
PS, US VINYL VERSION
LovePumpUnited-026
LP
$13.75

Clipd Beaks
To Realize
PS, US After two woozy, psychedelic, and often-claustrophobic records that touched upon their great potential (2006's Preyers EP and 2007's Hoarse Lords), the Oakland-based Clipd Beaks have birthed something pretty damn amazing. 'To Realize' is a turning-point. A record of personal and artistic growth. Sonically expansive, lyrically profound, and deeply moving. It recalls the societal hangover depicted in the great California rock records of the early 70's, while sitting firmly in the noisy, chaotic present day. It's a tribute to love, to moving forward, to rejecting doom.
LovePumpUnited-026
CD
$10.50

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP
PS, US Re-released, featuring 4 new, unreleased tracks.
Downtown
CD5
$6.25

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Downtown
12
$7.00

Colorlist
Square White Lie
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Kaleidoscopic flux of sounds that pools all kinds of ideas & influences into an organic wash, often transcendental & meditative, occasionally
blissed out, & once in a while a bit fevered. Slips easily into a playlist of Miles, Eno, Pharoah, Aphex Twin, & Tortoise. Limited 180gm LP includes download
coupon. CHARLES GORCZYNSKI (SAX, HARMONIUM, ELECTRONICS) & CHARLES RUMBACK (DRUMS & BELLS)
482Music
LP
$22.00

Connors, Loren & Darin Gray
The Lost Mariner: 10 Year Anniversary [reissue]
PS, US Just past 10 years ago this debut collaboration between primitive American blues guitarist Loren Connors and the confounding electric bassist Darin Gray was issued on CD. The Lost Mariner was the first in a pair of releases by the upstart Family Vineyard label. Now with a decade of hindsight and a nod to looking ahead, here is a 700 edition LP reissue of the studio session considered by Connors to be one of his finest. Since this album's 1999 release Connors has released a series of sorrowful solo albums and multi-disc collections on Family Vineyard while Gray formed the cinematic On Fillmore (with Wilco's Glen Kotche) and continued collaborations with Jim O'Rourke, Akira Sakata, Chris Corsano and others. The Lost Mariner is an improvised dialogue between these two musicians. Structure is there, but it roams as it sways, constantly adjusting and reinventing itself as the two react to its mysterious design. For this reissue the LP is sleeved inside stunning cover art (an Albert Pinkham Ryder painting) and contains the bonus At The Old Factory 7-inch. This raw, live snapshot of a 1999 performance comes on colored vinyl in a full-color sleeve designed by Katie Leming (Cro-Magnon, Bird).
FamilyVineyard-002
LP
$13.75

Cooper, Ailce
Love It To Death
PS, US 24 Kt. Gold, numbered limited edition. Alice Cooper's third album, Love It to Death, can be pinpointed as the release when everything began to come together for the band. Their first couple of albums (Pretties for You and Easy Action) were both largely psychedelicacid rock affairs and bore little comparison to the band's eventual rip-roaring, teenage-anthem direction. The main reason for the quintet's change was that the eventually legendary producer Bob Ezrin was on board for the first time and helped the Coopers focus their songwriting and sound, while they also perfected their trashy, violent, and theatrical stage show and image. One of the band's most instantly identifiable anthems, "I'm Eighteen," was what made the album a hit, as well as another classic, "Is It My Body." But like Alice Cooper's other albums from the early '70s, it was an incredibly consistent listen from beginning to end. The garage rocker "Caught in a Dream" as well as the ass-kicking "Long Way to Go" and a pair of epics -- the Doors-esque "Black Juju" and the eerie "Ballad of Dwight Fry" -- showed that Alice was easily in league with other high-energy Detroit bands of the era (MC5, Stooges). Love It to Death was the first of a string of classic releases from the original Alice Cooper group. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
Audio Fidelity - AUDF57
CD
$25.50

Creshevsky, Noah
Twilight Of The Gods
PS, US Active in electronic composition since 1971, CRESHEVSKY delights in presenting extreme & unpredictable juxtapositions in which the integration of electronic & acoustic sources & processes creates virtual "superperformers" by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past human capacities
Tzadik-8069
CD
$15.25

Curgenven, Robert
Oltre
PS, US "Transparence" resonating dubplate | turntable | field recordings | guitar feedback | ventilator/fan.
The "Transparence" dubplate, developed at O ' in Milan, Italy, works within the physical limitations of the vinyl medium, employing the object as sound source and also sound medium, to become an instrument in its own right. Using the non-linear acoustics of the gallery at O, the dubplate was recorded, and later cut to disc in Berlin, at very low volume. This ephemeral audio signal becomes present during playback only at high volume, which subsequently produces, by design, a unique physical response from the room, air and amplification - creating deep undertones and blossoming overtones via these manifold resonance's; simultaneously, the action of the stylus gently abrades the soft vinyl surface, causing the dubplate's sound to gradually disappear and evolve, successively losing higher frequencies whilst acquiring new artifacts and crackle. OLTRE documents this degradation and transformation over two months of live performances. The integrated system of subsonic feedback from ventilators, acoustically gated binaural microphones, modal micro-variations in guitar feedback, field-recordings from across remote areas of Australia and the live, physical interplay of the turntable, dubplate and stylus, combine to create a field which moves beyond the original recordings and their individual spaces.
Line-042
CD
$12.25

Darker My Love/Audacity
Under The Covers, Vol. 1
PS, US DML's version of "Mr. Alvarez" is a departure from their usual psych territory, leaning more towards a bubble-gum covered beach beatle. Audacity's version of "Summer Is Here" is somewhere between Todd Rundgren's "You Need Your Head", Black Flag, & a nursery rhyme. Less psych barn burner, more avante-garde, OC punk feel. LIMITED TO 300. Vol. 2 out in February feat. Fresh & Onlys, Grass Widow, So Cow, Davila 666, & more
IHateRockNRoll-005
45
$7.50

Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Anti
DLP
$20.75

Decoy
Volume 1: Spirit
PS, UK Decoy is UK-based Alexander Hawkins (pipe organ), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums). The disturbing, distorted Hammond organ sound is a natural fit for a free-jazz combo. With a pedigree including low-cost church pipe organ substitute, novelty instrument (re: Walt Disney's "Blame It On The Samba," part of his 1948 animated film Melody Time, where a Carmen Miranda-ered Ethel Smith plays a Hammond as it's blown to bits by 'toon Aracuan) and jazz-cool tool bar-none courtesy of Smiths -- Jimmy and Dr. Lonnie -- McGriff, Patton, Young, et al, the B3 and Leslie cabinet's overblown bastard tones one minute toying, the next destroying, were made to play the freedom sound. Alexander Hawkins has a pipe organ background (which is the ideal grounding for the Hammond -- you can hear his churchy tones during this album's playout) and exploits the potential of the C3 to the full -- pulls out all the stops, in fact. From the interstellar sounds of the opening "Outside In" and slick be-bopisms of "Decoy" to some fine spine-juddering scronches interspersed in "Shadows," rhythm team Noble and Edwards never let it rest as they interject, inject, impose, prompt, inspire, and kick-ass to make a proper sonic palette for the organ platform. It takes great players at the top of their game to play solo and rhythm at one and the same time without compromising either role and Noble and Edwards together are able to effectively lock down a groove over some truly inventive stretching of a traditionally-rigid instrument.
Weavil-040
CD
$15.00

Derakushi
1st
PS, US Shun Suzuki (sax, voice), Luis Inage (bass), Norikazu Oziro (drum), Kuzuha (guitar). "Avant-garde, free jazz, psychedelic new group! (A. sax, guitar, bass, drums) Japanese Borbetomagus type."
PSF-192
CD
$19.25

Destroyer
City of Daughters / Thief
PS, CANADA Restocked! Reissue of the second and third Destroyer albums (not including cassettes), back on vinyl where they belong, and in superior versions. The original City of Daughters (1998) LP suffered from frequency related glitches which caused it to skip on many turntables. The original Thief (2000) mix was never satisfying, and the LP/CD was shoddily mastered into mono. Now Thief has been remixed by the original team of Daniel Bejar, David Carswell and John Collins at JC/DC Studios and is available in the intended stereo for the first time ever. Both albums have been remastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering and have never sounded better. The two covers have been re-worked by original artist Lester Smolenksi and printed by Stoughton as an "old style", tip-on, gatefold jacket. Initial pressing of 1000 copies. * Destroyer have released four albums and an EP on Merge Records since 2002, with a new album slated for release this year. * Head Destroyer, Daniel Bejar, is the secret weapon of Matador Records artists New Pornographers. * Original LPs have been eBay fare for most of the 00's. This package is superior on all fronts.
Nominal-003
DLP
$19.50

Dinowalrus
%
PS, US VINYL VERSION
KanineRecords-471
LP
$13.75

Dinowalrus
%
PS, US 3-person drum n' drone band out of Brooklyn. The band relies heavily on the use of self-sustaining electronic devices to push its sound into cosmic brain-melting freakouts, lush atmospheric haze, &/or juvenile twee-skronk. Didactic experiments in infinite reverb, uber- & anti- "dance-ability," delaytreated
xylophones, dime-store voice changers, deep-fried drum machines, pop-neo-orientalism, layered fuzz, & layered haircuts
KanineRecords-471
CD
$11.00

Divide The Sea
Man
PS, US South Carolina has long served as a hotbed for innovative metallic hardcore, and DIVIDE THE SEA are no exception. Having cut their teeth playing in various forms together for years, these five southern gentlemen exhibit their familiarity with one another throughout their debut full length, simply entitled Man. Swaying between gut churning heaviness and potent emotional delivery, Man serves as a powerful introduction to DIVIDE THE SEA and the bright future ahead of them.
Blood&InkRecords-1036
CD
$12.25

DJ Food
The Shape of Things That Hum EP
PS, US "Sentinel (Shadow Guard)" is the first ever studio collaboration between Kev and longtime DJ partner and Solid Steel producer DK. A track of contrasts - harp, acoustic guitar and ringing electronics versus filthy bass, heavy drums and rattling percussion. All held together by Ninja labelmate King Cannibal working the mixing desk, the results are driving and sinuous, but subtle, too.
ISI-ZEN-12252
12
$9.00

DJ Hidden
The Words Below Limited Editions Vinyl Series Vol. 3
PS, GERMANY This 12" is the third and last volume of DJ Hidden's "The Words Below's" limited vinyl edition, which contains two remixes of tracks from the album, by DJ Hidden himself and Eye-D, his partner in crime from The Outside Agency. These two tracks are not to be found on the CD version of the album.
AdNoiseam-124
12
$11.25

Druid Perfume
Other Worlds b/w Weird Wally Wigwam
PS, US In which DRUID PERFUME gonna unmask the Batman! Fucked up & fucking great; explore the fourth world! Issued in collaboration with the esteemed Detroit record company Italy Records! Sleeve by JAMIE EASTER; terrifying! LIMITED TO ONLY 250
M'lady'sRecords-016.5
45
$6.00

Durutti Column, The
Paean to Wilson
PS, UK Paean to Wilson is arguably Vini Reilly and the Durutti Columns most important and consistent piece of work since the demise of the original and seminal Factory Records in the early 1990â€(tm)s. Manchester International Festival of Music commissioned it, for their festival in July 2009. Vini had already composed pieces for Tony to listen to whilst he was ill in hospital and it was from here that the project developed. "Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: "So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics." If Wilson were with us, he would have chuckled. The Granada presenter-turned-Factory Records boss spent years urging his first signing to stop singing, and concentrate on the virtuosity that led Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante to call Reilly "the greatest guitarist in the world". Two years after his death, Wilson got his way, one of many lovely touches in a very personal, emotional and often warmly funny musical tribute. Wilson signed Joy Division and Happy Mondays, yet never gave up on this cult band he adored, working with them even after his legendary label went bankrupt. A complex man, Wilson was an academic thinker who reveled in Steve Coogan's affectionate, Alan Partridge-style send-up of him as a "twat". And this tribute was no different. At one point, Reilly - known for melancholy - launched into something resembling an Irish jig. "Tony loved to laugh," he explained. "He loved absurdities."

After the humour came exquisitely mournful music. With Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell augmented by bass, keyboard, violin, electric piano, drum machine and trumpet, the band's beautiful pieces reflected Wilson's love of rock and classical. Reilly's plangent guitar work showed grief's emotional spectrum, from sadness to overdriven anger. As in life, Wilson had the last word, his recorded voice expounding thoughts on socialism with an eerie echo. Silence followed as Manchester pondered the loss of one of its truly larger-than-life characters. Then everybody cheered." The bonus disc first appeared in 2005 via Wilson's project F4, as being the fourth version of Factory Records. Originally it was download-only release, Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital, It Was Heaven Sent). This is the first time that it has appeared on a physical format. It was a six track CD of personal dedications by Vini ironically the last piece being Anthony. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this instrumental tribute by The Durutti Column. We have consciously chosen the release date as 24th January marking the 32nd anniversary of the day Factory Records formed in 1978. Their publishing company was m24j - movement of the twenty fourth of January. Two showcase live dates have been confirmed at the time of writing: 24/01/10 - Lowry Theatre, Manchester 31/1/10 - Leicester Sq Theatre, London
Kooky-029
DCD
$19.00

Eat Skull
Jerusalem Mall
PS, US EAT SKULL return with a follow-up of sorts to last year's Siltbreeze released debut, Sick To Death. Three new tracks. "Don't put baby in the corner. "Jerusalem Mall" is a newer Christmas time jingle for these hopeful times. Backed with two Sick to Death outtakes unavailable on vinyl till now. No one puts baby in the corner." Limited edition pressing.
Woodsist
45
$5.25

Eels
End Times
PS, US Eels 8th studio album is the sound of an artist growing older in uncertain times. Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in E's LA basement, it's a "divorce album" with a modern twist. The artist equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity.
Vagrant
CD
$13.50

Eels
End Times (LP/7")
PS, US LP plus bonus 4 track 7 inch (the tracks constitute the bonus CDEP in the deluxe version of the CD)
Cobraside-1141
LP
$18.75

Einsturzende Neubauten
Kollaps
PS, GERMANY 2003 release. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten (trans. "Collapsing New Buildings"). The band's use of junk metal, power drills, jackhammers and other surprising instrumentation would come to define their challenging and continually inventive career, making them not only one of the originators of industrial music, but one of the world's most influential and far-reaching forces at the intersection between avant-garde and rock music. Formed in 1980 in the wave of the Dadaist movement Die Geniale Dilletanten, after a series of devastating live performances and personnel changes (one of which briefly involving electronic musician Gudrun Gut), the band's line-up cemented itself with core members Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit (previously of Hamburg-based post-punk band Abwärts) and N.U. Unruh. On Kollaps, a violent collision of urban primitivism and punk sensibilities, the trio declared war on every conventional way of listening, combining an intense mess of atonal guitar drones with brutal scrap metal percussion. At a time in Germany in which the wall encircling West Berlin transformed the city into a state-subsidized, near-paradisiacal freak-enclave for artists, Einstürzende Neubauten offered cathartic cascades of noise, employing steel parts, tin drums, drills, hammers, saws and untuned electric guitars, all crowned by Bargeld's bloodcurdling screams and feverish, apocalyptic texts. Kollaps, with its atonal essence, embodied exactly what the title suggested: decay and destruction, illness, doom and death. Years later, with the fall of the Berlin wall behind it, Kollaps still sounds as radical and extreme an artistic statement as ever. This expanded digipack reissue includes 10 bonus tracks, including 9 tracks from Stahldubversions, a rare 1982 cassette release. CD comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with 23-page attached booklet.
Potomak
CD
$15.00

Einsturzende Neubauten
Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T./Drawings Of O.T.
PS, GERMANY 2002 release. Originally released in 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten's second album marks a radical progression in the band's sound as well as a revolutionary step forward in the realms of industrial and experimental music. Bassist Marc Chung (ex-Abwärts) and electronics engineer Alexander Hacke (later a member of Crime And The City Solution) joined the band during this time, and singer Blixa Bargeld also became a full-time member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Despite each members' background, Einstürzende Neubauten's ethos -- "Destruction is not negative, you must destroy to build" -- treaded on ground that was explicitly anti-music. Through their intuitive compositional approach and application of found, industrial objects into song forms, the band's sonic trajectory was intent on generating entirely alternate modes of music-making. In contrast to the all-out destructive barrage of their debut, however, Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. reveals an astonishing maturity in its varied and dynamic range of textures while still being no less uncompromising. From the gritty live wire pulse of opening track "Vanadium-I-Ching" to the disorienting field recording and jarring mechanical upheaval of "Hospitalistiche Kinder/Engel Der Vernichtung" to the panicked steel abrasions of "Neun Arme," this album is a masterpiece of what-the-fuck urban primitivism. Most effective of all is "Armenia," one of the most essential songs the band has ever made, with its subtle, slow-building tension and haunting Armenian orchestration taking Bargeld's signature inhuman screams to uncharted levels of psychological turmoil. This digitally-remastered reissue includes 3 bonus tracks and comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with an attached 16-page booklet of lyrics in German and English.
Potomak
CD
$15.00

Electric Egypt
Impressions Of The Inexpressible Invisible
PS, JAPAN Electric Egypt provides the listener a medium suited for a 40-minute journey of celestial travel with his debut album Impressions Of The Inexpressible Invisible. Listening to the album without interruption is recommended. Throughout its length are well-intergraded samples of both science fiction film and radio shows, which together engrave a vocal narrative to his already impressive story and reverberated tones. Features Parisian group Electric Conversation members As Valet & Zig16 and south Carolinan Psychedelic beat-maestro 10th Letter.
Moamoo-012
CD
$17.25

Emika
Drop the Other
PS, US "Drop The Other," the first e.p. from Emika - and already one of the year's most auspicious debuts. Even before release, Emika's already received airplay from tastemaking DJs like Zane Lowe + Mary Anne Hobbs. On "Drop The Other," eerie, near-classical piano collides into glitched-out edits and skitering drum patterns, while speaker-shattering lows rub against Emika's own hushed, cryptic vocals, the iconoclastic blend marking her an artist that makes a habit of defying expectation. Just when you think you know what you're hearing, Emika flips the script: the cinematic sound architecture evokes the deepest techno, but the tempo moves too slow, the beats too jagged; the sub-bass, meanwhile, could shudder the most underground dubstep club, but it's paired with haunting, syncopated vocal hooks that suggest Aaliyah's work with Timbaland taken to its darkest extreme.
ISI-ZEN-12240
12
$9.00

Estroe
Elemental Assets
PS, GERMANY This is the debut full-length release by hotly-tipped Rotterdam-based Estroe. The CD consists of tracks produced by Estroe over the span of a few years, in which she spent a lot of time enhancing her production techniques and developing her creativity. As the artist herself explains: "Some tracks were made in rough times, while others were made under happy circumstances, and perhaps you can tell. For me, music is an emotional vent allowing me to express my feelings and freeing me of my restlessness. This makes the album very personal and I am terribly excited to share it with the world and with you." Directly inspired by her recent life experiences and passions, "Flirtatious Concubine" was produced right after a particularly-inspiring booking in Tokyo, and "Inspirited Away" came to life thinking about two producers who really inspired Estroe: Steve Rachmad and John Beltran. Elemental Assets is reflective of her DJ-work -- full of versatile techno with room for deep undercurrents as well as pure dancefloor work. Her style is warm, subtle, but at the same time very energetic. Two guest vocalists, Miss Kittin and Sam Leigh-Brown, also help lift these delicately-crafted tech-house tracks to the next level.
Connaisseur-003
CD
$16.25

Everly Brothers, The
Beat & Soul [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "For the second album in a row, the Everlys presented an entire LP of rock & roll covers (and one original), most of which had originally been hits in the 1950s -- "Love Is Strange," "Money," "Hi Heel Sneakers," "My Babe," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Lonely Avenue," and so on. While the performances are pretty good -- and the vocals perennially better than good... "Love Is Strange" almost made the Top Ten in the U.K., and the sole original, "Man With Money," was a quality effort that was covered by several British groups including, unexpectedly, the Who (though their version was not released until the 1990s).
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Everly Brothers, The
In Our Image [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. Another lost Everlys classic, this 1966 album collected most of the singles the duo had recorded over the past year or so, many of which hit the charts in Britain but flopped in America. Which is why this LP only reached #104 on the Billboard charts, but don't let that stop you-this is prime Everly Brothers, full of their trademark sound but showing hints of the British Invasion and folk-rock currents coursing around them in pop music. First time on CD.
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Everly Brothers, The
Two Yanks in England [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "At first glance, this seems like a cash-in on the British Invasion. Recorded in London in 1966, no less than eight of the 12 songs were written by the Hollies (who released their own versions of many of the tunes). There are also covers of hits by the Spencer Davis Group and Manfred Mann. With a harder rock guitar sound (though not overdone or inappropriate) than previous Everlys discs, the duo's interpretations are actually worth hearing in their own right. The harmonies are fabulous, and indeed, the Everlys improve a few of the Hollies' songs substantially. "So Lonely" and "Hard Hard Year," in particular, have a lot more force, transforming the tunes from decent Hollies album tracks to excellence. Because so much of the material is non-original, this couldn't be placed in the top rank of Everly Brothers recordings. But it is a good effort that shows them, almost ten years after "Bye Bye Love," still at the top of their game and still heavily committed to a rock & roll sound."
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Explode Into Colors
Paper
PS, US A limited one time pressing of two new anthems from this epic Portland 3 piece. With a special embossed all-white sleeve, and full color art insert by Adee Roberson. This record completes the trilogy of 2009's uniform 7"s, the others by M'lady's and Kill Rock Stars. PITCHFORK: "This Northwest all-girl three-piece builds their songs like prickly, droning Jenga towers on a sturdy base of steady drums. The other instruments may make the tower wobble as they lay down off-kilter bursts of singing or a lopsided riff, but the even, tribal percussion keeps everything righted...the rhythmic heaviness is so pervasive that even Claudia Meza's singing is percussive...EIC's Lisa Schonberg is proof positive that women can be kick-ass drummers."
JustForTheHellOfIt-003
45
$7.00

Far Out
Nihonjin [reissue]
PS, UK Prior to metamorphosing into Far East Family Band, Japan's Far Out released this sole, space-y, guitar-drenched psychedelic prog album in 1971. Although the Floyd influences are highly apparent, the band produces an original sound which defines its own unique identity rather than being a reflection of the British and American bands that were dominating the genre. Although there is a keyboard-dominated opening, synthesizers are relegated to a supporting role, and their sparse presence is restricted to occasional sound effects. The psychedelic ambiance comes largely from the guitars, electric sitars and intelligent percussion. The original album contained just two single-sided tracks, and the intense guitar soloing, fantastic sound effects, including gongs and howling wind drones, combine to create an album of sparse beauty which effortlessly merges exotic Asian instrumentals with a psych sound occasionally reminiscent of Saucerful Of Secrets. Numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Farm Band, The
S-T [reissue]
PS, KOREA This is the first-ever CD reissue of The Farm Band's communistic classic from 1972 -- remastered in a 24-bit remaster. In the late 1960s, Stephen Gaskin, a countercultural icon, made a name for himself teaching a weekly class on the meaning of the psychedelic experience in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District. At the start of the '70s, he led a hippie exodus to Tennessee, where he created "The Farm," just about the only successful hippie commune from that era still standing. This is the first album by Gaskin and The Farm Band, who fall somewhere between the Grateful Dead and Jethro Tull, performing long, psycho blues suites with good guitar solos, flute and violin (several tracks last more than eight minutes). They released four albums between 1972 and 1977, generating more country boogie, good-time, free-loving vibes. Housed in a handsome paper gatefold sleeve that precisely reproduces the original gatefold LP sleeve in miniature form. Includes liner notes and rare photos.
RivermanMusic
CD
$16.25

Feeling Of Love
OK Judge Revival
PS, US The newest LP from Metz, France's FEELING OF LOVE is a blues-wrangling nightmare, full of nods to THE JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, and French glue-wavers CRASH NORMAL. This newest full-length studio album is an awesome follow up to their first LP and the one-sided 12-inch from last few years. Songs include amazing slide guitar riffs over drum machines, synths and tight rhythm section. This album is a complete reminder of why we have such a fondness for their first few releases and 7-inches; their tracks are driving grooves with a wild blues edge, all followed up with that magical French synthesis that delivers a "can't miss" experience. Awesome cover art, printed sleeves and limited to our usual 500 copies on black vinyl."
KillShaman-041
LP
$15.00

Felt Letters
600,000 Bands b/w "Lone Wolf-No Club
PS, US Astounding debut from this Washington, DC group made up of IAN SVENONIUS (NATION OF ULYSSES, MAKE-UP), BRENDAN CANTY (RITES OF SPRING, FUGAZI), & TOM BUNNELL. In the 1970s & 1980s, such a lineup was referred to as a "supergroup", as if the respective performers were supermen. Well, this is a supersingle! In a Rough Trade-style sleeve designed by IAN SVENONIUS
M'lady'sRecords-015
45
$6.00

Field, The
Yesterday & Today: Remixed
PS, US The Field's Yesterday & Today (KOM 193LP) is one of 2009's most celebrated releases. Now, the cycle is complete with a collection of interpretations picked from 3 of today's leading newcomers in crossover electronic/indie music. Gold Panda has been causing a massive stir with his remixes for Bloc Party and HEALTH, and here he elegantly samples the vinyl from "I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet" into a savvy dub-stepped Dilla-esque roller. Other remixes by Rainbow Arabia and Walls.
Kompakt-203
12
$11.50

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)
Heartland
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
DLP
$17.50

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)
Heartland
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Folsom, Robert Lester
Music & Dreams
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. The first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia's Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of soft rock, staid yet breezy.
MexicanSummer
LP
$19.00

Foster, Josephine
Graphic As A Star
PS, US Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Emily Dickinson gems & sings them w/ a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs & folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy & Foster's music, making a natural & inevitable whole.
Fire-136
CD
$14.25

Four Tet
There Is Love In You
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$19.25

Four Tet
There Is Love In You
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.25

Frankel
Anonymity Is The New Fame
PS, US Anonymity is the New Fame is more than just a song and album title for Los Angeles songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist Michael Orendy. It's a working philosophy and a way to live an artist's and musician's life in a world of showboaters and technological exhibitionists. It's a way to stay yourself in a world where every sound and feeling shoved through the same narrow channels start to sound like a repetitive buzz of buzz.
AutumnToneRecords-008
CD
$11.25

Fraser, Brooke
What To Do With Daylight [Abridged]
PS, US In anticipation of a brand-new solo album tentatively slated for the Spring of 2010, "What To Do With Daylight" is being released in the U.S. to reinforce the successes Brooke has experienced over the course of the last couple years. To date, the album has only been available as an import and, more recently, digitally. With the public demand at a high level for all things Brooke Fraser, this is a great catalog item which will prove to be an evergreen seller over the course of time.
WoodandBone-51882
CD
$7.75

Fredrik
Trilogi
PS, US On stage this sextet can be seen playing banjo, clarinet, cello, wind up music boxes & hand made instruments along side
bass, guitars & drums. This second outing is more consistently inward-looking & takes on themes like social realities & subconscious geography. The melodies are
more serpentine & the textures decidedly darker. However, Fredrik's warm, sensitive lead voice & operatic choir work still lends the material the same comforting
elegance as on the debut. Three EP's bearing the titles "Holm", "Ava" and "Ner", all fictional names roughly signifying "Frozen Forest Island", "Water Through Sound" and "The Inside Underground" are combined here on one disc. Beautiful Gatefold Package using deluxe recycled paper stock
Kora-017
CD
$11.25

Freescha
Slower Than Church Music
PS, US Restock. Limited to 900 vinyl edition of their CD of the same name, which is also available. Electronica, spacerock, ambient, blissed out perfection. Most highly recommended!!!
Attack9-002
LP
$9.75

Freescha
Kids Fill The Floor
PS, US Restock. Pronounced freesha. Southern California electronics. Kids Fill the Floor, Freescha's first full length album released on their own Attacknine label, brings 13 songs from the creative pairing & friendship of the San Fernando Valley born Nick Huntington and Michael McGroarty. Their Californian brand of organic electronic songs are observed and enjoyed by fans the world over, as well as by other music figures such as; Two Lone Swordsmen, Moby, Casino Versus Japan, Hermann & Klein, Opiate, Manual, and Marumari. Freescha was chosen for URB magazine's "Next 100" artists to watch for in their year-end special issue. Freescha's debut album serves as both an artifact of the musicians' creative friendship as much as it embodies the very affinities that bring them together. California is a carefree, albeit melancholy vision for the songs they've cultivated for Kids Fill the Floor. From the obscured tones and nocturnal whisperings, come strange familiarities of past lives that leave you humming them long after the tunes have ceased. For Freescha, the coastlines and the evening fields are a song you hear before you fall to sleep. Recommended for fans of Organ music, John Denver, E.L.O, Tones on Tail, claymation, tide-pooling, old trails, bumble bees and Sasquatch. Future projects: Split 12"/CD with artist, Casino Versus Japan (3 exclusive tracks) Miy Paluk records (UK label) will feature a Freescha track on their upcoming compilation. Freescha are currently writing & recording for what will be their next album scheduled for release in 2004. "A ghostly, timeless, parallels, otherworldliness pervades every track taking it way beyond mere zeros and ones. File under church music from distant galaxies" -Andrew Weatherall (Two Lone Swordsmen, WARP) "i swear i've listened to those freescha cd's more than any other cd's in the last 6 months. they're so great. i love them." -Moby "...misters Huntington and Mcgroarty lost the map a while ago, but they've since killed the headlights and let go of the wheel, letting the logic of the lost highway guide them, at least until daybreak." -vietnambla.
Attack9-002
DLP
$13.00

Fresh & Onlys
Second One To Know
PS, US San Francisco's FRESH & ONLYS return to the 7-inch format. You get "Second One To Know" and "Hated or Loved," recorded spring 2009. Both tracks are taken from the super limited Bomb Wombs cassette on Fuck It Tapes. Full-color glue pocket sleeves. Two of the band's best songs yet!
Woodsist
45
$6.25

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles
PS, US MID-PRICE 2 CD and 2 LP compilation of Fucked Up's many,many hard-to-find uncollected 7" and 12" tracks. Entitled Couple Tracks, it contains 25 songs.Couple Tracks spans an extraordinarily varied (and extraordinarily collectible) musical career that has mainly been documented on 7"singles released around the world on many labels in many countries.All songs on full-length CD and LP for the first time! Including 5totally unreleased tracks.
Matador
DCD
$13.25

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Matador
DLP
$17.50

Fuzz Manta
Smokerings
PS, GERMANY After a very long and mysterious journey it's finally here: The debut album of Danish heavy hippie hardrockers Fuzz Manta. You take two guitars, mix them up with bass and drums, and finally you add one powerful female vocal. Stir it all up for a while with blues, hardrock, stoner and an over all heavy hippie approach to life, send it out on a number of adventures along the highways and offroads of Denmark, Austria and Germany and you end up with Smokerings. Fuzz Manta is five devoted musicians united by their deep dedications and desires in music. All five members have contributed to the songwriting on Smokerings, and this results in a huge variation in the repertoire. A great trademark for this album is the variety within each song. Fuzz Manta use several ideas within each song, taking the listener to new and unforeseen places all the time, although always bound together by their melodic, heavy sound. And Fuzz Manta's influences are wide: Individual inspiration comes from everything in between The Beatles, Motorpsycho, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Free, Kyuss, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and even Tool. Allow yourself to join Fuzz Manta on this album made of pure soul and heart. Smokerings is the baby of a long lasting love of playing and composing. Although a pretty young band (Fuzz Manta was formed in late 2006) the musicians have many years of experience from a wide range of other bands (a few mentioned: The Davolinas, Cherry Overdrive, Triggerbells, Aron, Hellroute 16). Smokerings is a do-it-yourself production and the band has been deeply involved in every step of the process from songwriting to recording and mixing.
BadDeal
CD
$20.50

Gainsbourg, Charlotte
I.R.M.
PS, US A musical collaboration between Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck. Over the course of a year and a half of writing and recording together, Beck's role grew to encompass all aspects of the creative process: He wrote all of the music and co-wrote the lyrics and produced and mixed the recording. Beck brought in many of his regular collaborators, including Joey Waronker and James Gadson on drums, Brian LeBarton on keyboards, David Ralicke on trumpet and Beck's father, David Campbell, for string arrangement. IRM is Gainsbourg's first album in nearly four years, following 5:55, which was released in 2006 to much acclaim.
Elektra/WEA
CD
$13.75

Gang Gang Dance
God's Money
PS, US "God's Money is an album of whims and metamorphoses...thoroughly enveloping, with a mesmerizing, vertiginous charm." - New York Times "God's Money never suspends movement: It continues to pulse and breath even in its quietest moments. And in each piece, there exists an amazing freeform beauty as well as a great sense of rhythm and melody hidden within ostensible chaos. " - Pitchfork We are pleased to offer Gang Gang Dance's landmark second studio album on LP again. Originally released in 2005 the record originally only received a limited pressing on vinyl and has been unavailable on LP for several years. With God's MoneyGang Gang Dance created a modern sound which reorientated the palette of electronic music into an organic context; manipulating sound, rhythm and melody in an almost mercurial manner. Painstakingly recorded over the course of 2004 at Junkyard Audio Salvage, the band utilized whatever means were available to them to craft their sound: drums of all shapes, sizes and circuits, various keyboards occasional aluminum chair. Blending their hypnotic rhythms into a highly structured compositional style or soaring in the lofty heights of practiced improvisation, this record follows in the footsteps of the bands previous output, simultaneously marking new ground, and pointing to their future musical directions. During writing and recording God's Money the band were playing to packed houses in NYC, Europe and it with such a heightened level of musicianship they turned even the most casual of spectators into full on believers. God's Money is a pinnacle of Gang Gang Dance's uncompromising sonic pursuit which has spanned the better part of their now near ten year history. Some of this can be gleamed from previous groups the God's Money may be interpreted as the band's high-water mark of sorts it is much more the raising of the tide as they continued to push the boundaries of the palette of sound itself with no sign of waning.
TheSocialRegistry-019
LP
$13.75

Gentle Giant
In a Glass House [Remastered]
PS, US Remastered! Gentle Giant was reduced to a quintet on In a Glass House with the departure of elder brother Phil Shulman, but its sound is unchanged, and the group may actually be tighter without the presence of his saxophones. The time signatures are still really strange, and the tempo changes are sometimes jarring, as is the wide range of dynamics, but this is also one of the group's most pleasing records -- they rock out in various places, and elsewhere perform all kinds of little experiments with percussion instruments ("An Inmate's Lullaby"), or create a strange, otherworldly sort of modern medieval-style music ("Way of Life"). None of it except possibly "A Reunion" is light listening, but the challenge does yield some rewarding sounds. -Bruce Eder, AMG
Alucard Records - ALCD10000C
CD
$9.50

Gentle Giant
Free Hand [Remastered]
PS, US Remastered! Free Hand is perhaps Gentle Giant's most realized effort. After the excellent In a Glass House, the group further developed its Renaissance-medieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex recordings in progressive rock history. Their vocal approach to the four-part fugue "On Reflection" was revolutionary for its time and is looked upon as one of the genre's defining moments. Despite the complexity of the arrangements, the music never sounds academic and in fact is very accessible thanks to several melodic hooks. The combination of superb musicianship, dry wit, and creative compositions make this an essential and historical recording. - Robert Taylor, AMG
Alucard Records - ALCD10003G
CD
$9.50

Girls
Laura b/w Oh Boy
PS, US Limited edition single with non album b-side
TruePantherSounds
45
$4.75

Glass Rock
Tall Firs Meet Soft Location
PS, US Glass Rock is a song, is a band, is a way of life. Glass Rock is the crystallized movement formed by the molten lava makeout of the two bands of the album title: Tall Firs meet Soft Location. It's a werewolf and a rhino on a first-date rampage of Korean Food and poppers, doing the Cabbage Patch on the boardwalk, kissing babies with beer breath, all with truthful love in their hearts. The core elements of the Soft Location sound are Kathy Leisen's haunting voice and boneyard guitar, and Matt Kantor's slo-mo jet fuel bass jamminating. Add Tall Firs: Ryan Sawyer's could-blow-your-pants-off-but-prefer-to-slowly-work-them-over-your-hips drumming and Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan's creamy dual-savant guitar stylings: two dudes who don't even know how the other guy's guitar is tuned but nonetheless have brought the tandem knockout reverb dropkick since 1991. The band actively refuses to discuss influences, even with one another. With two pairs of childhood friends in the band, the music just happens and the listener is left to speculate. The dilettante thinks Chan Marshall or an Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison caught an extra-rad time machine ride and now inhabits every moment from 1955-2013 simultaneously. The serious aficionado is thinking Martha Reeves, Amon Dull II, the Gories, Otis Redding. But Heads know: This thing is wigs, Pepsi commercials, Sam Cooke, hardcore festivals, and free stuff on craigslist. In reality, Glass Rock are a prisonyard football team: a motley collection of wizened lifers, small-time pimps, and the wrongly convicted. Leisen is their Burt Reynolds. A painter on the Outside, she woke up back in the huskau of a recording studio after Awesome Michael ratted her and Kantor out to Ecstatic Peace. In the yard Tall Firs were hanging around bench-pressing twice their body weight. This record documents their crushing and dramatic defeat of the prison guards, and their harrowing escape during the ensuing melee. There is nothing contrived about this band. Neither derivative nor hybridized, GnR II are truly Chimeric. This ain't reference-rock. This is the half man/half shark/half alligator sung of in days of yore, with inflatable Sasquatch feet and one popsicle arm. This thing will get bestial with you on the dancefloor, and will hold you tight on a pre-dawn canoe ride; staring at the stars crying at the wonder and terror of it all.
EcstaticPeace-088
LP
$15.00

Gonjasufi
Kowboyz & Indians
PS, US Only 100 Available!
Gonjasufi... a mystical individual caught between the Mojave desert, the LA streets and somewhere more cosmic. His soul-baring vocals are something to behold - described by friend and collaborator Flying Lotus as "Timeless Incredible Filth". The 2nd single from desert-dwelling spiritualist Gonjasufi is set to be released from Warp on Febuary 9th as a limited 7". With the success of the first single, Holidays, which featured a foil-printed 'prayer book' and sold out in less than a week, these small-run singles are looking more and more like collectors items in advance of Gonjasufi's debut full length, A Sufi and A Killer, out March 9th, which is already garnering big praise from peers and press. A-side track "Koyboyz & Indians" is featured on the forthcoming full length and shows off Gonja's distinctive voice shrouded with producer The Gaslamp Killer's 70s psychadelic middle-eastern samples and electronic touches, while the B-side is exclusive to this single, and is a slow burning sinister melding of mournful vocals-by-candlelight and a sleaze-infused funk.
Warp-9269
45
$4.50

Grong Grong
To Hell N' Back [expanded reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Adelaide, proto-grunge outfit Grong Grong bludgeoned Australian audiences throughout 1983-1984, with their dark and aggressive take on punk rock. The band filtered its influences of The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Flipper and Pere Ubu through a suburban Australian mindset, sounding like no one before or since. In 1983, they supported Dead Kennedys and impressed frontman Jello Biafra so much, they became the first and only Australian band to release an album on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. This deluxe reissue on the much-acclaimed Australian archival label, Memorandum features the band's posthumously-released 1986 self-titled LP, plus rare studio demos, expanded live cuts, and nugget-y rehearsal tapes. All tracks have been digitally-remastered from original source tapes and are available for the first time on CD. The package also contains a DVD with concert and rehearsal footage, displaying the band in all their noisy, chaotic glory. Presented in a deluxe gatefold wallet with a detailed booklet stuffed with liner notes, photos, and original art, this will be a highly-desirable package for fans of this extremely influential band and connoisseurs of the Australian underground scene of the '70s and '80s. DVD is all-region NTSC format.
Memorandum
CD/DVD
$17.75

Groundhogs
Solid [reissue]
PS, US In the tradition of the best bands of the era, the GROUNDHOGS took something known, like "the blues", and twisted it into something entirely new, so that over three decades later their sound still has a character all its own. Led by the extremely talented and inventive guitar wizard / idea-man TONY MCPHEE, with CLIVE BROOKS and PETER CRUICKSHANK as the hard-hitting rhythm section, Solid (1973) was one of a string of excellent albums by the band during this period, but on this album, the band really stretches out, boldly trying out a number of effects and instruments (mellotron, for example) mostly with great success.
VinylLovers
LP
$22.75

Guru Guru
Essen 1970 [reissue]
PS, US The third Essen Pop & Blues Festival took place in the Gruga Hall between 22 and 25 October 1970, and featured a set by GURU GURU. Garden of Delights has acquired the rights to these tapes. A lot of studio processing without any noticeable changes in the sound had become necessary to make the Guru Guru gig suitable for release. The 36-page color booklet contains everything a collector might be looking for: a detailed history of early Guru Guru, an 11-page discography, reprints of covers and partly unpublished band photos.
GardenofDelights-075
CD
$20.00

Hail The Size
I Can't Die In L.A.
PS, US 12 Original Songs by Charles Ezell & Matt North featuring Maria McKee (Lone Justice). Maria McKee sings three duets and lends her highly unsung piano talents to eight tracks. "Now that's a good record..." Steve Earle, Air America Radio. "Reminiscent of Townes Van Zandt." No Depression "A roots-rocking romp with more than a hint of Hayes Carll." Beat Surrender UK
GoodDrummer-001
CD
$11.00

Hammill, Peter
This (Remastered)
PS, US A last hurrah for the Peter Hammill quartet came on This in 1998, though the contributions here were rather more individual than as a collective unit. One of Peter's most wide-ranging re-leases, this runs the gamut from an extended ambient piece, "The Light Continent", to some very direct near-pop songs.
Fie!-9118
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
X My Heart (Remastered)
PS, US The pHQ undertook a number of tours after Roaring Forties and so it was natural that the (occasional) group was on Peter's mind when time came to record the next studio album. This was X My Heart. It might have been a blueprint for future work with the line-up, but in the event there were to be no more more live shows for this set-up. It features one of his most beautiful ballads, "Earthbound," which features heartfelt vocals and a gorgeous string accompaniment. "Narcissus (Bar & Grill)" will delight fans with its classic Hammill style, while "A Better Time" shows that he's one of the more underrated vocalists in rock music today. Definitely one of his finest, and a good place to start for newcomers to the unpredictable and challenging world of Peter Hammill.
Fie!-9111
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
Roaring Forties (Remastered)
PS, US Cargo UK brings three remastered recordings from the 1990s that cover the period in which Peter worked with the pH quartet - Manny Elias on drums, Stuart Gordon violin and David Jackson saxes. The sequence began with Roaring Forties, a set which included not only a long-form piece, "A Headlong Stretch," which recalled much of Peter's earlier work in breadth, ambition and complexity, but also some very direct approaches to songwriting and playing in "Sharply Unclear" and "Your Tall Ship."
Fie!-9107
CD
$13.75

Happy Hollows, The
Spells
PS, US The Happy Hollows' catchy yet dissonant sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90's college rock, garage punk, art rock, and 80's pop. Listening inspires visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious.
AutumnToneRecords-010
CD
$11.25

Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
PS, US You may know Harvey Milk's "s/t" release as the Bob Weston Sessions, an unreleased full-length that has been floating around the .blogspot world for some time. This limited Tour Edition is the first time this record has been made available on a physical format and the audio has been re-mastered for a more enjoyable listening experience.
HydraHeadRecords-181
CD
$12.00

Hatakeyama, Chihei
A Long Journey
PS, UK I first met Chihei at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival in 2006. Its very fitting really because when I asked him a bit about the background of the album, Chihei described A Long Journey as follows: "An essential part of the album are my experiences when I went to Bellingham and San Francisco in 2006. I used field-recording material recorded in San Francisco. "A Long Journey" is a metaphor for life, my image of the journey of birth to death." Since I was a high-school student I have been interested in the Shinto religion of Japan. Shinto teaches us that everything has a spiritual essence (a "Kami"). This loosely translates as a spirit, or god even. There being a myriad of these Kami, they reside in everything but some places are considered to have a more scared spirit within them. Quite often these are rocks, rivers, trees, mountains and other such calming natural places, hence why so many shrines are built in such unique areas. Given the nature of A Long Journey, even the track titles themselves, I am reminded of how I feel when I visit these sacred places. Whilst people might not believe in religion and its after-thoughts, there is something about such places that creates a space within, a quiet space of peace and calm. In the music and indeed the titles themselves, it is this very feeling I get when I listen to A Long Journey. Its very focused on its field recordings, but it also highlights what a fabulously talented musician Chihei is, with very direct guitar-based pieces, as well as gorgeous piano elements. That it features the enormously talented (and future Home Normal artist) Federico Durand, only highlights its beautiful mystery (after all...Federico does much of his recording high up in the mountains of his native Argentina).
It was a heavy snowfall the winter we met in Bellingham, and we spent a few days together with good friends, enjoying the misty seas, views and snow-covered tree dense walks just outside the town. As Chihei made his way to San Francisco, it must have been quite a continuation of this feeling, with San Francisco's calming charm and gray misty views. The great thing about Kami is that they are not limited to Japan of course, they are found everywhere after all. If "A Long Journey" is a metaphor for life, then it is a life of peace and tranquility, filled with Kami, and that is not a bad journey at all. -- Ian Hawgood
HomeNormal-011
CD
$13.50

Hawthorne, Mayer
Green Eyed Love
PS, US Following the release of his debut album A Strange Arrangement, Detroit's soul sensation MAYER HAWTHORNE brings the pulse of "Green Eyed Love" to this limited green vinyl 12-inch.
StonesThrow-2236
12
$10.00

Henry Clay People, The
For Cheap Or For Free
PS, US The Henry Clay People are a rock and roll band from Los Angeles. With common comparisons to Pavement and The Replacements they play a type of no-frills, pretension-free rock that has sorely been missing from LA.
AutumnToneRecords-005
CD
$11.25

Hexes & Ohs
Bedroom Madness
PS, CANADA The story behind the Montreal-based electro pop duo begins with a pair of high school sweethearts and spans a decade of couplehood, musical projects and everything in between. With the release of their debut full-length Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover (2005) on Noise Factory Records, Edmund and Heidi have crafted their best, most focused work to date in the form of infectious pop compositions driven by the interplay of charming, glitchy electronics with engaging, sharp melodies. Their dynamic and energetic live show has earned them invitations to CMJ, Pop Montreal, Canadian Music Week, North By North East, Ladyfest, Halifax Pop Explosion and the CBC radio 3 national tour, sharing stages with indie legends like Mates of State, Sloan, Ivy, Japanther, as well buzz making newcomers Tokyo Police Club, Pony Up! and Most Serene Republic. Hexes & Ohs' debut album topped the campus radio charts, reaching the #2 position nationally and remaining in the top 10 for several months. The album's single "Whadaya Know?" also made CBC radio 3's list of top 50 singles of 2005.
NoiseFactory-753
CD
$13.50

Home
Seventeen
PS, US Prologue (in which...)
Pianist Eric Morrison and guitarist Andrew Deutsch meet in a performing arts high school in South Florida, and soon start collaborating on camcorder movies. The two ramble around various Floridian cities, moving from filmmaking to music. Eventually, they land in Tampa where they meet bassist Brad Truax and drummer Sean Martin and formally dub themselves Home (a nod to a fictional band in a soap opera they were writing). As the recordings started to pile up, they form a label/collective called Screw Music Forever and begin to offer $1 cassettes at local record stores. In a freak happenstance, one of these cassettes lands in the lap of a Relativity Records A&R man, who soon rolls up smoking large cigars and offering money for Home IX. After Home IX, Sean gets a hold of some bad shellfish and disappears for 10 years. Home carries on, making six more albums. Then, Sean reemerges, just as Brah Records befriends Home, with the notion of creating a musical tribute to fucking, resulting in Home's first Brah release, Sexteen. Phase I (in which...) The Home boys, in post-coital bliss return from traveling the land (metaphorically) having spent their wad on Home Sexteen and begin to envision an Alternate Reality (heretofore notated as "AR") from which to begin writing Home XVII. The basic story arc finds each member's life so suddenly destroyed that they are forced to all move back into a communal living space to start over and retreat to the poprock origins of their genesis. Par exemplar: A) Andrew returns home to find his entire apartment building decimated and all physical manifestations of his identity completely erased. B) Eric is excommunicated by his wife when she discovers he is a crossdresser and he embarks on a sweet but ill-conceived plan to win her back by exploding the sun on her birthday. C) Chris discovers that his lover is an android of unknown design and motive. etc./etc. Home converges in the Devils IsleWetLab Studio and records the skeleton tracks of Home XVII. Phase II (in which...) The Actual Reality (heretofore notated as "AR") Home embarks on a leisurely summer of overdubbery, during which they decide to tackle the long-overdue task of digitizing and mastering their first eight albums which have dangerously oxidized in a Makers Mark wooden box for nearly 15 years. Somewhere in analyzing these early recordings, Home becomes re-interested in the sound of songs in their genesis; the (wholley) imperfect object that is felt but not yet processed. Phase III (in which...) Each member of (AR) Home is cast about to their individual places of comfort to record their pressing concerns. The carefully crafted uber-story abandoned for passing fancy. The MS-16 fullness for the redline compression of a 4-track.When they reconvene, they sort through some 60+ songs to file down to the "new" Home XVII, a scattershot sampling of moments and perspectives that somewhat awkwardly
leaves archeological traces of cross-dressing and identity destruction.
Jagjaguwar-015
LP
$12.25

Home Blitz
Out of Phase
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! "Here's the music that we've all been waiting for. It's called Out of Phase and it's the first full-length album from New Jersey's HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. Out of Phase forges a blazing thirtee- track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even Oi territories, and it's got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priest's Defenders of the Faith)."
RichieRecords-024
LP
$16.75

Honda, Yuka
Heart Chamber Phantoms
PS, US Versatile composer/performer who has worked with CIBO MATTO, YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON, MIKE WATT, etc. Mixing funky beats, hip samples, & instruments both acoustic & electric, Yuka's dramatic sense of sound & color creates a hypnotic groove for young moderns. Endlessly listenable,
her first CD in over 5 years is also her very best.
Tzadik-7722
CD
$15.25

Hood Vs. Duo 14
S/T
PS, US On sale: Limited edition 10" vinyl. Last 14 copies. A 4 song remix project with Duo Fourteen remixing Hood. Hood-dub. You gotta have it.
555-24
10
$6.25

Hot Cha Cha
World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars
PS, US The much anticipated debut full-length from the ladies of HotChaCha. Expanding upon many of the ideas laid out on their debut EP, and adding new instrumentation and sophistication of to their arrangements. The songs presented here run the gamut from staccato sing-a-longs to slowly building atmospheric explorations. Plus, you can dance to it.
ExitStencil-024
CD
$9.25

Hot Cha Cha
World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars
PS, US Also available in LP! COMES WITH DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CODE.
ExitStencil-024
LP
$12.50

Howling Hex
Rogue Moon
PS, US The Hex go rogue, with this ltd.
early-Hex collage/montage LP on Golden Lab Recordings.
Rowf-014
LP
$20.50

Hutchens, Daniel
Love Songs For Losers
PS, US Drawing from the same well as the likes of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Hutchens grasps the duality of the American South and it's denizens -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
AutumnToneRecords-001
CD
$11.25

Ikonika
Sahara Michael / Fish
PS, US Hyperdub's original female producer Ikonika comes with this long-awaited release that lives up to all expectations, presenting two brilliant tracks that set the scene for her de-but album due early in 2010.
Hyperdub-029
CD
$10.50

Infinite Body
Carve Out The Face Of My God
PS, US Kyle Parker, better known as Infinite Body, is no stranger. He burrows deep inside what a song is, how to strip down something so far to where it just becomes two things, sound and feeling. Infinite Body started in August 2007, after performing and collaborating within the land of LA's harsh noise world (Haircut Mountain Transit, Gator Surprise, Men Who Can't Love). After years of making "Harsh" sounds with the other groups, Kyle started Infinite Body to encompass all things beautiful and began performing and recording this new project. On record, at times it can be hypnotizing and emotionally charging, other times it inspires you to think about life and drift off. Live it takes another form, learning the ropes from the noise world Infinite Body sets out to bliss out your mind, soul and ears by taking over your senses (he plays LOUD and he has a lot of lights that warp and dance with the music). It becomes an extremely vibrating, beautiful, and rewarding experiment. Infinite Body has toured with No Age two times, and was one of the openers on the "No Dearhunter Tour" (Dan Deacon, Deerhunter and No Age's collaborative round robin tour). After a self released CD titled "White Hymn", which has won over many listeners, and a few limited 12"s, Infinite Body recorded "Carve Out The Face Of My God" for PPM. It is a step in a new direction with swells, peaks, and valleys of ethereal noise and field recordings arranged for Infinite body's extreme contextual mind. This vaporous and concise recording effort marks Infinite Body's transition into deeper waters and opening up to the world around him. Feel free to write PPM HQ with any questions concerns or comments, this is definitely a record worth owning for multiple occasions and is intended for the realness of yourself.
PostPresentMedium-028
CD
$10.50

Infinite Body
Carve Out The Face Of My God
PS, US VINYL VERSION
PostPresentMedium-028
LP
$9.50

Interference
Viva La Interference
PS, US In recent years there has been no shortage of people trying to shine a light on the Downtown NYC music scene of the early 1980s. A redrafting has occurred with each book or box set, with a cast list being based upon whatever hope it at least challenges the convention, adding Interference to that list and suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned. Forming out of the musical insurgence that was the NoiseFest at White Columns Gallery in 1981; Interference Anne DeMaranis,David Linton and Michael Brown. DeMaranis had just parted ways with an early incarnation of Sonic Youth and co-curated the NoiseFest with . Linton had headed to NYC a few years earlier with then school/band mate Lee Renaldo, eventually hooking up with Rhys Chatham for a three year stretch. Brown, then a twenty six year old PhD candidate at NYU, had recently broke rank with Rhys Chatham and drafted a wholly unconventional percussive approach to the fender bass. From their inception through their eventual fragmentation 30 months later, Interference charted their course across the stages available to them: CBGB's, , etc., ultimately swelling to a quartet with the addition of fellow Rhys Chatham veteran Joe Dizney. In 1982 they recorded this LP at Radio City, engineered by and with guest appearances by Elliot Sharp and . Originally slated for release on Josh Baer and Glen Branca's legendary Neutral records, the record has remained unreleased, aside from a scant number of self-released cassettes. After the bands demise, Linton remained entrenched in the New York underground art and music scene, through involvement with , , and Soundlab, which lead him to the early 21st century downtown electronic scene. It was from here that David recruited the remixers which make up the forward thinking companion LP of this release: David Last,Doily and Criterion (Brooklyn Beats), Binsang AKA Toshio Kajiwara (Phenomena), QPE (Agriculture) and the 8-bit Gameboy tag team of Bubblyfish & glomag. is pleased to present the music of Interference
both the original unissued LP, painstakingly remastered from the original master tapes, and couples it with an additional remix LP.
TheSocialRegistry-040
DLP
$14.25

Iron Bong
The Witchwoods
PS, US This is the third album from these mysterious Texas acid rockers, Iron Bong. The first two albums Big Hits and Holy Smoke sold out very quick. Holy Smoke is particularly collectible at this point. European, American and Japanese buyers have known Lost Worldwide now for years and have come to expect the finest psych today from the label. We do not do re-issues. We do cutting edge creative psych music of today. Iron Bong Big Hits climbed as high as #14 on the Italian Subterreanea Charts. Crohinga Well said of Iron Bong "one of the more recent and outstanding Texas bands with the guitar and songwriting powers of Drew Wallace backing them...Big Hits a heavy psyched out affair and one of the ultimate Texas psych albums". The Dallas Observer say's of Iron Bong "this album reminds us that punk rock is still the voice of dissent". Ptolemaic Terrascope says "positively a bong load of Texan acid psychedelia then, heading for your head and primed to cause maximum disruption on impact...a trip through every known psychedelic signature, all milled together into a hash cake of staggering proportions". The Witchwoods is a very melodic guitar ride with Talking Salamanders and Manimators. These songs rock very hard in the vein of Led Zeppelin mixed with the dark psych of the Butthole Surfers. The sweet production and vocals of Eno meet Spirit.
Lost-018
LP
$11.00

Jailbreak
The Rocker
PS, US Jailbreak is the duo of pedal steel/vocalist Heather Leigh and drummer Chris Corsano. The name foregrounds the kind of outlaw violence with which the two reformulate rock/roll instants by bringing free jazz fire power to amp-humping sex beats. Their musical alliance goes all the way back to the legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Fest, the birthplace of the 'New Weird America', where Corsano and his long-term saxophone partner Paul Flaherty joined Leigh and Christina Carter for a quartet show that took the roof off the building and the skin off their fingers. Since then Corsano and Leigh have worked together as part of Taurpis Tula and as members of Thurston Moore's Dream/Aktion Unit. Jailbreak play improvised music that dispenses with traditional notions of call and response or dialogue in favour of a profound simultaneity that would birth instant forms from the application of high energy strategies. Leigh's steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar sources and deforms them with overdriven electricity, playing a form of future-blues exploded by super-charged currents. Corsano detonates time, literally blows it to pieces, in favour of a profound polyrhythmic feel that would confuse past and future. Yet the whole thing rocks like it hasn't a braincell to spare, re-connecting avant garde tactics and ass-whooping rama-lama with alla the revolutionary fanfare of the most radical counter-cultural two-chord punk. 700 edition LP. "For those of you who've been worried that the Free Power Noize scene has become a little too tame, (and seriously who isn't somewhat concerned about that), a new screamin' creamin' duo - Jailbreak - expoldes to the rescue. The Rocker is a blast-furnace of blisteringly joyous witch-howling assaults on the essence of whips and chains and repressive injustice gone legal. Both of these magisterial musicians are capable of extreme dynamics and subtleties, but those concepts don't get in the way of this monster-truck of a record. And why should they when drums and guitar can slash and burn in a riotous electric smash fest like this crazed merry madcap of an album. Over the top . . . Way!" - Paul Flaherty, 10/10/09
FamilyVineyard-068
LP/DVD
$12.25

Johannsson, Johann
And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
PS, US An accompaniment to Marc Craste's animated film Varmints, this is a collection of achingly beautiful orchestral work balanced on a bed of Johannson's patented electronics
Type-064
LP
$19.75

Johnston, Freedy
Rain on the City
PS, US Freedy Johnston seemingly went into hiding after 2001's Right Between the Promises, playing the occasional live gig, releasing an archival live disc, and putting together a collection of old four-track demos, but otherwise staying out of sight. Rain on the City marks his first collection of new songs since his tenure with the majors came to an end early in the decade, and while Right Between the Promises sometimes sounded like Johnston was forcing the cheerfulness after 1999's dour and downbeat Blue Days Black Nights, Rain on the City strikes a more comfortable balance between the bright and blue sides of Johnston's musical personality, and in terms of getting a sound that suits his songs, this is his most effective set since This Perfect World in 1994. Producer Richard McLaurin knows when to let the performances stay spare on "Lonely Penny" and "The Kind of Love We're In," and he also knows when and how to let Johnston rock, and when the guitars and drums kick in on "Don't Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl," the effect is nothing less than thrilling. Johnston also seems to have gotten his stride back as a songwriter, and these 11 tunes are full of the sharp but thoughtful wordplay and unique characters that make his best work so pleasurable; quite simply, it's hard to imagine anyone else writing something quite like "The Devil Raises His Own," "Venus Is Her Name," or the title track, and his dusty Midwestern tenor brings these stories to vivid life, which listeners can soak up like they would a good book. Rain on the City lacks the consistency of Johnston's masterpiece, Can You Fly, or its follow-up, This Perfect World, but unlike the albums that followed, this collection is a beautiful example of Johnston playing to his strengths and reminding us why he's one of the best and most singular American songwriters at work today. With any luck, it won't take quite so long for him to make something this comfortable but pleasantly surprising again. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Bar/None Records
CD
$13.00

JPLS
The Depths
PS, CANADA This is the second full-length album by JPLS for the M_nus label. The Depths is a collection of complex, challenging compositions that beam in from the depths of the M_nus universe. Fusing classic minimal techno with industrial electronica, he has created a brooding, deep-space opera that needs to be experienced in its epic entirety before individual aspects can be extracted to exploit their dancefloor potential. All JPLS releases are dominated by an underlying concept -- a self-imposed set of values that are stretched to their logical limits and beyond. 2007's Twilite set the tone, containing a set of tracks strictly conceived between the hours of 3 and 5 a.m. Then there was the application of delay and overlays to create a "non-standard" harmonic content and defeat the machines on the Combination EP. This time around, inspiration has been derived from theoretical physics, specifically the idea of sub-sub atomic movement and interaction. During the course of the album, JPLS explores continuous creation, the transformation of sound into energy and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. The collection begins with "Reset," a 12 and-a-half minute exercise in construction and deconstruction. The vast soundscape pulses with expectation before a host of mutated percussion starts scything its way across the stereo field. The electro-magnetism and gravitational pull of "Zero Point" creates more elegantly-hewn glaciers of sound that slowly disintegrate into white noise, reforming in different spatial arrangements while the melody slowly fractures into anti-melody. "Displacement" features a relentless kick that beats a path straight through the core of a spinning, turbulent vortex. "Basis" adopts a straighter structure modified by electrified percussion fills -- physical sounds vanish before reappearing in different forms, converting to energy, and then back again. The booming, broken electro of "Fold" twists an undulating bass line in on itself, adding an additional layer of random harmonics to the spectrum before the shuffling triplets of "Collapse" introduces an alien vocal. "Convolution" is a perfectly-executed marriage of stripped-down beats and deep harmonic percussion programming that underlines the unique way JPLS approaches electronic composition. "State" rounds it all off with bleeps and gentle melodies that draw ever closer until they reveal themselves as giants; their residual energy leaving imprints that linger long after disintegration. The album loops perfectly, maintaining its cyclical nature by utilizing the same pads for the end as the beginning. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Minus-084
CD
$14.25

Jukebox The Ghost
Let Live and Let Ghosts
PS, US Instantly catchy, piano-driven indie pop from Washington, DC's Jukebox The Ghost. Critics and fans rave about the group's quirky lyrics, inventive songwriting, and flamboyant, energetic live shows. They've performed with Ben Kweller, Regina Spektor, Kanye West, Le Loup, Ra Ra Riot, Tokyo Police Club, and Travis Morrison, among others. "Calling Jukebox The Ghost a 'mix between Ben Folds, They Might Be Giants, and Queen' certainly grabs my attention, especially when it turns out to be completely accurate" - VH1's Best Week Ever.
RebelGroup
CD
$15.00

Kawabata, Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke
Maru Sankaku Shikaku
PS, US ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE main man KAWABATA MAKOTO links up with LSD MARCH guitarist MICHISHITA SHINSUKE to create another amazing platter of fantastic sounds and vibes. Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) finds the duo moving on from the electric guitars of their previous duo releases to an all acoustic album featuring ethnic instruments from around the globe. Two side-long pieces mesh drone music with an ebb and a flow usually found on soundtracks or the soundtrack in one's head. New psychic territorial landscapes the cosmic cartographer mapped yesterday before tomorrow. Limited to 500 copies on swirled colored vinyl in gorgeous gatefold sleeves.
Prophase
LP
$24.00

Kerretta
Vilayer
PS, US Building on their reputation for intense instrumental rock, the first full length album from this New Zealand threepiece
combines catchy riffs with an often twisted heavy rock sensibility. Delicate guitar melodies & obscure atmospheres segue into brutal, driving rhythms on this
well-formed & multi-layered album. With catchy hooks scattered throughout, Kerretta stands apart from the paint by numbers delay pedal abuse bands of the past.
Midium-017
CD
$13.50

Kilbey, Steve & Martin Kennedy
Unseen Music/Unheard Words
PS, US Steve Kilbey's silky evocative voice seductively narrates his dreamy lyrics over Kennedy's cooly opiated atmospheric song structures, recalling nothing so much as The Church at their most stately, subdued and grand. For fans of: Brian Eno, Thievery Corporation, All India Radio & The Church
SecondMotion-015
CD
$13.75

Kings Go Forth
Don't Take My Shadow (Tom Moulton Remixes)
PS, US Kings Go Forth pivot from a garage-y Curtis Mayfield sound to swooping male harmonies that hearken back to the glory days of The Esquires with interchanging leads and heart-stopping falsettos. The in-your-face stomp of the drums go the beat heavy route of rap and hiphop while the pulse and swing of the bass owes as much to two-tone and ska as it does to James Jamerson. "Don't Take My Shadow" contains the mixes from famed producer Tom Moulton (invented the 12" single, the remix and the breakdown section(!)).
LuakaBop-4508
CD
$8.75

Konntinent
Opal Island
PS, UK Among many obvious definitions of the "heart" is this: "the vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities." It's the first word I think of when I hear the work of Antony Harrison (the man behind the Konntinent moniker). And when you listen to his work, its really obvious why. The Konntinent sound is very much based on microelements I guess, at least this time around. Unlike his earlier drone-based work, "Opal Island" has much more of Antony's guitar playing to the fore, as it does the gorgeous vocals of Lisa Madisson on "Dry eyed" as well as Antony's own beautifully subtle singing. It has odd rhythms coming in and out, piano, weird glitchy sounds and tones I can't quite place. It's all in the craftsmanship you see. Its very rare to come across an artist who actually makes "songs" which can also be defined as "pieces" - and as such his work is so hard to place. All I am left to do is to go back to the image of the heart. In Japan, there is a faux-English usage of the word, made adjective...the Japanese say "heartful." Its on billboards, products and people use it all the time. Its basically used to describe something which is full of emotion and induces said emotion in others. Whilst the word admittedly does my head in when I am in Japan, in a nice and concise way it covers my feelings for the music Antony Harrison creates. Opal Island is a very "heartful" album, as Antony is himself a very "heartful" artist and songsmith.. And whilst linguists will not initially thank me, after hearing this record, you just might get what I mean. -- Ian Hawgood
Photography by Ian Hawgood
HomeNormal-010
CD
$13.50

Kryptonics
Rejectionville [anthology reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Rejectionville is the definitive 37-track anthology of this perennially under-appreciated garage power-pop outfit from Perth, Western Australia. Kryptonics emerged in 1985 from the same creative melting-pot that spawned The Stems and The Triffids. Over a 7-year period they recorded some fantastic garage-soaked tunes, with an array of line-ups that included future members of Lubricated Goat, You Am I, New Christs, Hard-Ons, The Chevelles, Challenger 7 and (the reformed) Radio Birdman. The Kryptonics existed in the pre-digital era and their vinyl catalog (which now demands high prices on eBay) has never previously been issued on CD. Subsequently, they have remained one of the more enigmatic bands to emerge from the much-celebrated '80s Australian garage-rock'n'roll scene. A band that many have heard of, rather than heard. Rejectionville includes the band's entire recorded output plus an extra CD of unreleased live and studio tracks. It documents the band's journey from young Scientists/Cramps wannabes to a more mature, Detroit rock-flecked power-pop sound. This 2CD is presented in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 28-page booklet full of liners, photos and a "Pete Frame"-style family tree that maps the band's extensive genome. This is an essential purchase for the Australian garage/rock'n'roll enthusiast as well as those already familiar with the band.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

L/M/R/W
Drifts
PS, UK Four amazing musicians spread over three collaborations on one release. "Drifts" is an engaging and beautiful work. Three compositions / pieces of music / soundscapes / acoustic structures / audio landscapes are collected on the disc. Are they improvised? Are they composed? Are they structured? A combination of any possibility? Does it matter? L stands for Leo Fabriek adding harmonium to Birthday and subtle piano touches to Tegendraads. M stands for Mariska Baars who also composes solo as Soccer Committee but never is shy to engage in collaboration. The only "she" of the gang adds guitar and voice on Birthday and voice on Clay. R stands for Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) and is the only one featured on all three tracks adding guitar, sampler, and effects and editing to Birthday and Tegendraads. On Clay he seems to control the controls. W stands for Wouter van Weldhoven who also releases solo compositions. On Birthday and Tegendraads he contributes tape recorders and melodica. The collaborators, the recordings and the title of the release fit perfectly together. Each track has a distinct and individual approach and voice of it's own. Track 1 Birthday has an almost static feel. Each sound seems to be frozen and locked in it and layered over and over each other until new overtones shine through the thick fog of sound creating an almost orchestral density. Track 2 Clay has a more quiet beginning. The sense of a voice fades in and takes over the piece. While the voice changes in pitch the track opens up like wings spreading further in the stereo field. After a peak the sounds slowly seem to be crawling back and hiding in the speakers leaving the voice on it's own again. Track 3 Tegendraads has a calming effect which lets the listener lean back and breathe while the piano notes drop randomly through the track like raindrops falling from the sky at the end of a storm. A voice speaks to the listener that has a soothing effect. The sounds and tones seem to stay more in place not wanting to move forward or backward while circling around and holding each other by the hand. A perfect ending to a superb release! Drifts drifts (1) and drifts (2) and drifts (3) and... SteinbrÃ1/4chel (www.synchron.ch).
HomeNormal-009
CD
$13.50

La Casa, Eric
Zone Sensible 2/Dundee 2
PS, AUSTRALIA For the best part of a decade, Eric La Casa's attention to sonic phenomena has resulted in some of the finest contemporary Musique Concrete to emanate from France. A listener of the highest order, La Casa's methodology for sound recording allows for a versatile examination of both urban and natural environments and it is these interests that are captured on this new edition for Room40. With an ability to find unique perspectives on his sound subjects La Casa's site-specific works "Zone Sensible" and "Dundee" seek to draw a detailed focus and expose unfamiliar, incidental and previously unheard sound worlds. Zone Sensible, exclusively composed from recordings of bees in the Olivier Darne's hives, located in the Saint Denis suburb of Paris, reveals a chaotic, frenetic microcosm that speaks to the density of the real, whilst hinting at our ears to experience a dance of oscillations - wings beating with boundless energy. As a contrast to this microcosm, Dundee, composed with recordings of Dundee city (during a 10 days residency at DCA museum), sees La Casa turn his microphones outward. Rendering a captivating sound map of sorts, "Dundee" was developed in collaboration with USA Film experimentalist Ken Jacobs' "nervous magic lantern", on a 6 channels device. From these recordings LA Casa composed variations and movements in interaction with Ken Jacobs' processing - a contemplation from the real to abstracted life.
Room40-421
CD
$15.00

La Chansons
King & Queen Of The Dance Floor
PS, US Atlanta husband & wife dance pop duo, GREG & CARSON KELLER took their name from an old French children's book
found at Carson's parents' house. While their sound has progressed since their inception in 2004, their name "Chansons", meaning songs, still applies. Their focus has always been on writing songs that are catchy, well-crafted, & from the heart. As for the "La" in La Chansons, they still don't know if it's correct or not, but they don't really care. They like how it sounds, & it reminds them of singing.
Stickfigure-045
CD
$10.50

Land Of Talk
Fun & Laughter
PS, US Four new songs with 3 videos from "Some Are Lakes". Screen printed art designed by the band in a special limited edition package.
SaddleCreek-143
CD5
$7.25

Larkin, Kenny
The Chronicles
PS, NETHERLANDS Originally released in 2008, this CD compilation gathers all of the tracks from Detroit-to-L.A. producer Kenny Larkin's The Chronicles 12" series. All tracks have been re-mastered for this release. This 2CD, which will be released as a limited-edition of 1,000 units, will come in a DVD packaging created by Newsgroup and includes a free download of a DJ-mix by Kenny Larkin himself. This CD gives a great retrospective overview of his work, including both the dancefloor burners and deeper material Kenny Larkin has released under different labels and aliases such as Pod and Dark Comedy. A winner for DJs and collectors alike.
RushHour-104
DCD
$18.75

Last Dinosaur, The
Hooray! For Happiness
PS, SPAIN The Last Dinosaur is Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden. This album was recorded on and off between December 2007 and March 2009. No computers were used in the recording of this music.
Dearstereofan-05
CD
$16.25

Le Switch
And Now...Le Switch
PS, US Honky-tonk keyboards and fiddle ablaze, Le Switch give alt-country a riotous ragtime rip.
AutumnToneRecords-004
CD
$11.25

Leroy Franklin Starbird Band
Star Bird
PS, US In 1981, Leroy Franklin went into the San Antonio studio of Manny Guerra with a group of session musicians to record his 2-sided masterpiece, "Star Bird." The A-side, a spiritual, funky slice of Modern Soul, is reason enough for DJs & collectors to put this 45 in their box. The flip, a spontaneous anti-drug rap over "Star Bird's" instrumental track is a dancefloor filler. Recorded just over a year after "Rapper's Delight," "Star Bird II" is
quite possibly, the first Rap record ever recorded in Texas.
LightInTheAttic-45001
45
$9.50

Lid Emba
Terminal Muse: Red
PS, US The first installment in the 3 CD Terminal Muse series, dedicated to the disease of creative impulse. Fish-eye lensed precision, prog-inflected, electrik & organik.
"Think Autechre with a smile on it's face & a song in it's heart" - Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Stickfigure-046
CD
$10.50

Lilys
Zero Population Growth: Bliss Out v.15
PS, US Restock Vinyl LP. Serious Krautrock! It's the lost NEU! Record !!! It's no secret that Kurt Heasley has an uncanny knack for duplicating the sound of any pop/rock genre with all the authenticity and vitality of the original. His group The Lilys has always been an evolving and revolving meeting of musical friends for his whimsical recording and touring projects. And in this respect The Lilys latest incarnation is no different. But wait, this Lilys is entirely different from all previous. For Zero Population Growth, Kurt teamed up with long time fellow DC scenesters and artists in their own right Trevor Kampman (hollAnd) and Archie Moore (Velocity Girl, Lilys, Heartworms). The boys have collectively and successfully created a new Krautrock masterpiece modeled after NEU!, Harmonia, Kraftwerk. Zero Population Growth sounds absolutely, authentically period, Germany 1975. It is a medium, which Kurt, Archie and Trevor have all wanted to work in for some time. And Just as Kurt astonished so many with his keen ability to duplicate the Kevin Sheild's MBV sound, and was the first of many to do so, with In the Presence of Nothing (Slumberland/SpinART), and cop the The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles and The Beach Boys on subsequent releases Better Can't Make You Life Better (Che/Primary) and The Three Way (Sire), Kurt shows how exquisitely talented he is at recycling this genre. So, say Hallo zu der neu Lilies von Deutchland!!! All tracks were recorded at Studio 45 in Hartford, CT 12 track/1" by Kurt Heasley, Michael Deming and Rick Bogdan. Only period synthesizers and equipment was used. With direction from Kurt Heasley, all tracks were custom mixed by Trevor Kampman at his No Name Studio in WDC and by Archie Moore at Omega Studios, Rockville, MD. And it's part of the Bliss Out series!
Darla-091
12
$7.50

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
PS, US VINYL VERSION
SmalltownSupersound-159
LP
$15.00

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
PS, US Special limited edition (1000) version with bonus tracks, includes remixes by AEROPLANE, IDJUT BOYS, PRINS THOMAS & DOLLE JOLLE. Christabelle aka SOLALE teams with Lindstrom to create a disco-pop full length. An edgy pop album of structured chaos & hypnotic beats. Lindstrom provided the structure for Christabelle to let loose & improvise most of the lyrics on the spot while they jammed. "One of my most anticipated albums of 2010" -Tim Breihan, Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-159
CD
$14.50

Little Girls
Concepts
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full length album on 180-gram vinyl. Previous release on Mexican Summer.
PaperBag
LP
$19.00

Little Girls
Concepts
PS, US After the success of their "Thrills" 12" on Mexican Summer, comes their proper full length release. Influenced by 80's no-wave post punk scene and the early 80's golden era of hip-hop. RIYL: Can, Joy Division, Wire and the Clean.
PaperBag-047
CD
$9.25

LoneLady
Intuition
PS, US Intuition follows the release of the first single from LoneLady, Immaterial. The A-side of the single is 'Intuition' taken from the debut album 'Nerve Up' (released on February 23rd) and the B-side is a cover of The Fall's track 'Hotel Bloedel'.
Warp-9289
45
$4.50

Los Campesinos!
Romance Is Boring
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Arts&Crafts-502
LP
$21.75

Los Campesinos!
Romance Is Boring
PS, US Filled out w/ added brass, strings, drum machines & electronics, packed w/ guest spots from the likes of Jamie Stewart (XIU XIU), Zac Pennington (PARENTHETICAL GIRLS) & Jherek Bischoff (DEAD SCIENCE)
Arts&Crafts-502
CD
$15.25

Lowe, Robert A.A. & Rose Lazar
Eclipses
PS, US Full-length of music from ROB LOWE (LICHENS) packaged with 12" X 36" double-sided color poster feat. artwork of LOWE & ROSE LAZAR. An extension of the Gyromancy art book+CD, Eclipses pushes out beyond natural terrestrial landscapes into those slightly more cosmic or alien in scope.
Recorded at home utilizing semi-modular & polyphonic analogue synthesizers. LP-only release, limited to 750, incl. download coupon,
ThrillJockey-234
LP
$14.00

Machinefabriek
Nerf
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD. Three tracks made with edited acoustic and electric guitar recordings. Very minimal.
Machinefabriek-004
CD5
$10.50

Machinefabriek
Slovensko
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD! Heavily treated field recordings from Slovakia.
Machinefabriek-005
CD5
$10.50

Machinefabriek
The Breathing Bridge
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD. For the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010, processed field recordings from the Erasmus Bridge.
Machinefabriek-006
CD5
$10.00

Magnetic Fields
Realism
PS, US With no synths, no drum kits, and every instrument unplugged, the pristine Realism is the flip-side to the brash noise-pop of The Magnetic Fields' 2008 Distortion. Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt calls it "folk," but with is wide range of instrumentation and orchestrated arrangements, says Merritt, "Realism is a more kaleidoscopic approach to a genre."
Nonesuch-519594.2
CD
$15.50

Magnetic Fields
Realism
PS, US Vinyl version!
Nonesuch-519594.1
LP
$19.00

Major Stars
Return To Form
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Drag City
LP
$14.50

Major Stars
Return To Form
PS, US Major Stars atomized you to bits on the last record and only now are you returning to a fully formed entity. And here, Major Stars will blow you to pieces again: 8 pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. The guitars trio of WAYNE ROGERS, KATE VILLAGE & TOM LEONARD is into their 3rd full album as the signature rock of the easties - more likened to the sounds of Motorpsycho than any of that psych-rock these days.
Drag City
CD
$12.50

Male
All Are Welcome
PS, US Re-promo/reintroduction. This title was released last year and has been recalled from CID. Male is Jonathan Krohn and Ben Mjolsness, an improvisational duo working with other experimental and jazz artists from the Chicago area. Their debut, All Are Welcome was founded on the concept that each element be recorded in one take. Each musician was assigned a time to show up, had the option of listening to the tracks that Mjolsness and Krohn produced the first day, and recorded. Jeremy Lemos (White/Light) lent his expertise in the recording and mixing process but aside from cutting incidentals, the songs remained the same.
OtherElectricities-016
CD
$12.25

Manana
Interruptions
PS, US Powerful, stirring & epic soundscapes influenced by Mew & Sigur Ros.
Quince-076
CD
$14.25

Mas Rapido
Dumb Is King!
PS, US Third album under the Mas Rapido banner from Frank & Donna, the duo formerly known as Toothpaste 2000 and before that Cowboy & Spingirl. Guitar-pop supremo!
Parasol-CD-118
CD
$10.00

MC5
Anthology 1965-1971
PS, US ANTHOLOGY 1965-1971 represents a hearty two-disc helping of the Five, more comprehensive than previous collections. Present, of course, is the original uncensored version of "Kick Out the Jams," along with a number of alternate and live versions of their most famous songs. Spin (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "With their dimed amps, teased fros, and roach-clip politics, the Motor City Five kicked out the hardest, most American rock of the era..."
Cleopatra - CLE8754
DCD
$13.00

Medication
This Town
PS, US The one-man home-recording project has built itself up into a fully-automated live band over the past year, but the seductive recordings contained herein, lush in their simplistic, beautiful morosity & minimally-orchestrated fragility, have continued to seep into the fabric that defines the season better than any other modern contenders. Mikey Hyde's songwriting development is steeped in the winning revelatory combination of isolation & reverberation, and as the static-laden echoes rise & fall against the imaginary backdrop of your mind, it's tough to fight off the therapeutic effects Medication will have on your physical & mental well-being.
HoZac-049
LP
$12.75

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 12
PS, US Volume 12 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 13
PS, US Volume 13 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Mess Folk
Something I Remember
PS, US With an immediate slop/savant aesthetic that conjures a drooling, drugged-out & agitated ball of putrescence, Mess Folk keep their blurry message straight to the point & deliver three devastating punk cuts simmering in anxiety, depression & the delusional inner turmoil that sets in after months of cabin fever. The deranged, discombobulated vocals go so perfectly with the frantic razored guitar slashings & choppy songwriting that eeks out resemblances of discarded Electric Eels & Urinals ruination/infatuation, radiating with a sticky familiarity you just can't quite put your finger on
HoZac-046
45
$6.00

Mickey
She's So Crazy
PS, US Rather than run down the list of their various past projects, it's best to take Mickey for exactly what they've become: a top-notch gutter-level glitter punk band that runs circles around everyone else, both live & now on record. What makes them special are the combined forces of experienced & inexperienced nuances that really shine on their recordings and will soon show the world how their now signature brand of glammed-up/dumbed-down shambolic pop music can hold up incredibly well under any circumstances"
HoZac-048
45
$6.00

Midlake
Acts of Man b/w Rulers, Ruling All Things (ON SALE)
PS, UK Limited-edition 180g 12" vinyl featuring 2 tracks from the band's highly anticipated new full-length, The Courage of Others, due out in February. Includes a DL code for both songs!
BellaUnion-228
12
$7.25

Minamo
Duree
PS, US "Back in 1999, on the forefront of the Japanese electronic/acoustic microsound scene, was the then two-piece live improvisation band Minamo (two more members were added in 2001 to make the current four-piece lineup). Their live concerts helped pioneer this hybrid of delicate and natural instrumentation with microscopic electronics and subtle digital processing bringing an organic richness to a genre that threatened to remain coldly digital. Fans of Minamo not lucky enough to see them create their music live have enjoyed their studio albums and collaborative releases which captured these performances and processed them into hypnotic drones and electro-acoustic soundscapes. Durée, their last studio work since 2007's collaboration with Tape, and their follow-up to Shining on 12k (12k1031, now out of print), takes influence from the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson's concept of 'pure durée,' an idea that one's consciousness is a constant flow and not something that can be divided, reversed, or measured. Minamo used these ideas in creating their music, despite the contradiction of the time-stamped CD format, to try to subvert the ideas of compartmentalized 'time' and 'space.' With a strong sense of non-linearity and flow taken from Bergson's ideas, Minamo have created a colorful, skittering wash of music, noise, and texture that embraces a sense of out-there-ness. Minamo are Yuichiro Iwashita (acoustic guitar, percussion), Namiko Sasamoto (keyboards, saxophone, percussion), Keiichi Sugimoto (electric guitar, computer, nintendo, bells, recording/mixing) and Tetsuro Yasunaga (percussion, harmonium, analog synthesizer, pedals, small instruments). Like all of their music, Durée was recording during long, live, improvisational sessions and later finessed and mixed in the studio for release. Their process this time around, however, was much more analog than before. While they have always incorporated guitars, computers and synthesizers into their work, Durée captured performances created with an abundance of acoustic and percussion instruments and analog synths, keeping digital effects to a minimum and preferring the dirty sound of guitar pedals. The process this time around came easier due to the natural musical communication built between the members over the past 10 years. Durée simply finds more playing and interaction than editing and programming as compared to previous releases and, according to Sugimoto, is finally the mark where Minamo wants to be, and a template for work to come."
12k-1058
CD
$12.50

Mixtapes & Cellmates
Rox
PS, JAPAN Stockholm combo Mixtapes & Cellmates return with "Rox," their highly anticipated second album. Previous albums and EPs were compared with The Radio Dept and Postal Service. The band is now a 5 piece with a new drummer and three lead singers. While the rock elements of guitar feedback, up-down rhythms, and judicious keyboard usage hint at the influence of Primal Scream's "Give Out But Don't Give Up", the group's distinct melodies and fantastic song writing are intact and better than ever. "Rox" was engineered by Johan Gustafsson (Last Days of April) and recorded at Studio Grondahl. The Japanese edition of "Rox" features two exclusive bonus tracks: "Summer" and "Apoidea."
QuinceRecords-77
CD
$14.75

Moebius
Tonspuren
PS, Germany Krautrock klassic! New re-issue of the 1983 first true Moebius (Harmonia/Cluster) solo album, Tonspuren, collects ten short electronic pop songs that coast along on lo-fi rhythms and an assortment of creaking, chirping and wheezing synthesizer lines. Although most feature rather simple melodies, Moebius stretches out a bit on "Contramio" and "Furbo." ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
BureauB
LP
$16.25

Moebius
Tonspuren
PS, Germany Krautrock klassic! New re-issue of the 1983 first true Moebius (Harmonia/Cluster) solo album, Tonspuren, collects ten short electronic pop songs that coast along on lo-fi rhythms and an assortment of creaking, chirping and wheezing synthesizer lines. Although most feature rather simple melodies, Moebius stretches out a bit on "Contramio" and "Furbo." ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
BureauB
CD
$16.25

Mojo
#195 (February 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Mondo Drag
New Rituals
PS, US Limited Edition LP on colored vinyl. Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
LP
$13.00

Mondo Drag
New Rituals
PS, US Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
CD
$13.00

Moonface
Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums
PS, US This is physically available only in the vinyl format (approximately 20 minutes of music on a single side of a 12-inch record). It is also available in digital formats. The vinyl edition and some digital editions will be accompanied with a dream journal, on which the music is based.
Jagjaguwar-146
12
$11.50

More, Mandy
But That Is Me [reissue]
PS, UK First time on CD! UK theatrical singer Mandy More's sole album was released without fanfare in the UK in June of 1972 on the Philips label. Featuring gorgeously melodic baroque pop sung with power and emotion and truly skilled orchestration (including a groovy, cowbell-embellished cover/reinterpretation of "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys), it has developed a devoted following and makes its long-awaited CD debut here. An enigma for decades, Mandy's story is told for the first time in the accompanying booklet, which also contains previously-unseen photographs. The set is completed by five non-LP single sides and an entire second disc of alternative takes and demos from the same period that the album was recorded, making it truly essential for all fans of classic singer-songwriting.
Sunbeam-5073
DCD
$22.25

Morrison, Van
T.B. Sheets
PS, US Van Morrison, weaned on blues records while growing up in Belfast, concentrates pungent feeling in his voice on this mid1960s singles session for Bang Records. Breaking loose from Eric Gale's blues-rooted guitar, the twenty-one-year-old blends sensuality, despair, and courage facing a dying woman friend in "T.B. Sheets" and at the same time creates an emotional-mythic bond with John Lee Hooker that's solidified by Morrison's appearances on the elder statesman's Never Get Out of These Blues Alive and Mr.Lucky.
Friday Music
CD
$13.00

Mummies
Death By Unga Bunga
PS, US EXCLUSIVE! REPRESS!! CD only Mummies release! What the fuck! For the first time ever: 22 tracks of pure fool's gold, like you've never heard them before...now, with bass! Apparently THE MUMMIES did have a bass player, as these master tapes reveal. Tracks culled from their now ridiculously overpriced, collector's item 45s, incl a very special, never before released, hide-the-salami bonus track
Estrus-2100
CD
$13.00

Muslimgauze
Uzi Mahmood
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Uzi Mahmood was recorded to satisfy a specific request. Soleilmoon wanted a 12-inch single that DJs could play in nightclubs. The idea was to introduce MUSLIMGAUZE to a potentially enormous new audience. Two weeks after agreeing to record a disco album for Soleilmoon, Uzi Mahmood was delivered to the label. But instead of the agreed on two or three tracks, he sent an eleven song compact disc, followed a week later by a 90-minute digital audio tape containing the entire CD plus two more pieces. Four songs were eventually selected for the experiment, and in the spring of 1998 a dirty-and-dubby 12-inch EP was released. Two more songs were later used to replace a pair of corrupted tracks on the master tape for Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass, released on CD in 1999. The music was well received by fans, but the hoped-for dance floor revolution never happened, and the little record with the unconventional beats went out of print a few years later. Fast forward to the present: The year is 2009 and the four-song EP has been out of print for more than five years, seven more songs lie waiting in the vault, still unreleased, and the two tracks tacked onto Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass are the only ones in wide circulation. Now available as a two CD set. Disc one has the eleven tracks from the original master, disc two has the two extra songs that came on the DAT.
Soleilmoon-161
DCD
$16.75

MV & EE
Home Comfort
PS, US Here is the first ever all live LP of MV & EE material and it is the perfect example of the scene in the tapers pit. The familiar tunes which have become staples in their set shine with an unheard intensity with killer solos and sonic excursions into the unknown, and then there is the deep of their singular 'environments', their space which manages to showcase the pastoral freakouts and cosmic raga forms so singular to this unique band. Home Comfort distills the gems of their live shows onto sweet wax. For those familiar with MATT and ERIKA's cottage label Heroine Celestial Agriculture, known to the heads as 'Heroine,' this LP reads like a best of curated by the 'you are there' Swingin' Pig and the results are a stunning cross section of their duo exchange, funky trio with WOODS' JEREMY EARL and big band exploratory stomp with DOC DUNN, MUSKOX, and WILLIE LANE of the GOLDEN ROAD. Here is the true sound of MV & EE with the songs, the extended jams and the feeling. This seminal duo and all they sail with need to be heard live and need to be heard live often, what a glorious document from the tapers pit. That's tapers pit twice in a paragraph, class. Peace."-Woodsist. Limited to 550 copies.
Woodsist-039
LP
$14.75

My Brightest Diamond
Shark Remixes
PS, US The music of My Brightest Diamond lends itself well to remixes. Shara Worden's exquisite voice provides the perfect lead (or backing track) for any sort of deconstructing
or restructuring of her original music. My Brightest Diamond and Asthmatic Kitty desired to create a cohesive and conceptual project as opposed to a mere remix album. They brought on four remixers (Alfred Brown, DM Stith, Son Lux and Roberto Carlos Lange (Epstein, Savath and Savalas, ROM) and commissioned them to each create a separate EP of remixed material. The EPs are beautifully packaged and hand numbered (edition of 1500) and signed by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond.
AsthmaticKitty-039
DCD
$18.25

Mycale
Book Of Angels Volume 13
PS, US A whole new approach to Masada music: Expressive & passionate vocalists BASYA SCHECTER, AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB, MALIKA ZARRA, &
SOFIA RREI KOUTSOVITIS come together in an intimate a cappella setting to interpret 11 songs from Zorn's remarkable Book of Angels. Dynamic & evocative New Jewish Music.
Tzadik-7378
CD
$15.25

Myelin Sheaths
Do The Mental Twist
PS, US As each song contained within offers up a thundering blast of icy guitars & pulse-pounding rhythms, each more intense than the last, Myelin Sheaths have found a perfect
platform to desecrate the chill & melt the frozen wilderness around them. The endlessly reverberated dual male/female vocals blend together on the b-side's "Drugstore Pharmacy" so well that you can feel the sky open up & suck you straight into heaven, as it washes away the troubles clouding your weary consciousness
HoZac-047
45
$6.00

Native
Wrestling Moves
PS, US In April 2009, Native began recording their debut full-length, "Wrestling Moves" with producer Chris Common (Pelican, These Arms Are Snakes) at Red Room Studios in Seattle, WA. The album has already drawn comparisons to 90's post-hardcore acts like Braid, Jawbox, and At The Drive In
SargentHouse-027
CD
$8.75

Nerve City
Red Tops
PS, US Ease the winter solitude with 3 impeccably satisfying noisy folk vibrations from Nerve City, one of the brightest home-recording projects to explode into a gripping live band, all the while holding a line of desperate tension & aggressive simplicity. Strong handle on jangling 60s guitar & misanthropic melody coupled with savage recording methods. Debut LP out soon on Sweet Rot, 12"" EP out soon on Sacred Bones
HoZac-045
45
$6.00

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett
PS, US Her most tightly coiled long-player yet, a heavy handful of songs that are reaching for the ripe & the light. An intense devotional,
a determined spirit journey & a collection of great slow-dance songs. Throughout the album we see Scout in deep focus. She's in an empty space & her voice snaps
against the walls, behind weird shadows we can't make out. The songs string together, almost as one, her guitar growls & bites, and the black velvet of space hovers. Just when the tension in the room & the filament of guitar can't glow any brighter, suddenly a band erupts, accompaniment to her vision - and then back down to Scout & guitar.
DragCity-424
CD
$13.25

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-424
LP
$14.50

Nice Nice
Sea Waves
PS, US Nice Nice's Sea Waves is the 2nd single leading up to their debut album (April 6th). Sea Waves is a sprawling psychedelic monolith, the song introduces itself with an imposing frenetic rhythm before breaking apart into a glorious sonic kaleidoscope, and is backed with non-album track 'We Stayed'.
Warp-9290
45
$4.50

Night Control
Life Control
PS, US The follow up to last year's Death Control CD that garnered such praise, Life Control is an experiment further into the forays of the disjunct and fractured pop music that CHRISTOPHER CURTIS SMITH is so akin to producing. Life Control sees NIGHT CONTROL venturing further into the dark depths of sonic experimentation and ambience, circling back around to Derrida's deconstruction theory and applying it to pop music. Sounds are manipulated, affected and tortured into loosely structured pop gems covered in organic acoustic guitars, blown out guitars and some of the most interested mixes of live and programmed drums. Expect to see this CD all over the place once again as Night Control has brought their signature sound to the next level of weird and interesting. This is the perfect soundtrack or city walking.
KillShaman-042
CD
$13.50

Northern Portrait
Criminal Art Lovers
PS, US Highly anticipated debut album from distinguished Danish band Northern Portrait! Following the very well received "Fallen Aristocracy" and "Napoleon Sweetheart" EPs in 2008, the band spent most of 2009 refining its live set with shows in the UK, Denmark, Germany and USA including performances at the prestigious San Francisco Popfest and Indietracks Festival. These shows also provided an opportunity to preview some of the songs that comprise "Criminal Art Lovers" to favorable response. The resulting ten-track album is a triumph for the band that solidifies their status as one of indiepop's most loved new bands. Lead track "The Maunchhausen in Me" starts things off in decidedly jangling fashion with 12-string guitars plus Autoharp and glockenspiel adding a special touch to the sound. Navigating between truth and semi-truth can be a difficult thing-sometimes fainting might be the only way out. "When Goodness Falls" is an incredibly catchy song about people who are scared to remain true to themselves, and what a wonderful feeling it is to go against their will and completely, intentionally disappoint them. Musically bright, the song is the natural heir to the Smiths classic "This Charming Man." Third track "Crazy" is the only previously released song on the album, although this is a slightly different mix than the one contained on the debut single. The mix of acoustic and electric Rickenbackers jangle in all the right places and the vocals suit the music perfectly. A song that has been around since the very first days of Northern Portrait, it is a modern pop classic that has been incredibly well received for good reason. "The Operation Worked But The Patient Died" is the sound of Northern Portrait trying to write a British Sea Power song. With a touch of The La's and Sleeper-esque guitars, the song adds a dose of essential drama to the album. Meanwhile, superb title track "Criminal Art Lovers" is a song about beatniks on picnics, busy tourists, and the comfy life...or perhaps just a not-so-good day at the office. With nice bursts of percussion, the song builds to an extraordinarily melodic ending that will have you reaching straight for the repeat button. Side two begins with lush guitar track "Life Returns To Normal." Lyrically the song draws upon a poem about Volvo Estate cars, perhaps providing the line "my estate will take you anywhere" a clever double meaning. In any event, the song is another classic that will have you dancing by the end. This will serve you well as the album continues with "Murder Weapon" keeping things sonically upbeat, even if the song is inspired by an article in British Vogue about women's sophisticated cruelty towards one other when it comes to fashion and style. "What Happens Next?" is an up-tempo and energetic song about the collision of people with completely different agendas. It is one of the earliest Northern Portrait songs, initially recorded with the two tracks that would go on to serve as lead tracks for the bands initial EPs. Returning to the same rhythm as 'When Goodness Falls', the song is a favorite of the Northern Portrait live repertoire.
With its slow build-up and rich sound, "That's When My Headaches Begin" has a certain wide screen feel to it that takes the listener somewhere beyond the other tunes found on the album. Musically inspired by early Suede, the lyrics return to the theme from the Napoleon Sweetheart EP track 'In An Empty Hotel'. Ending the record on a positive note, "New Favourite Moment" is a catchy, Rickenbacker dance track with an instrumental chorus, so people won't have to learn any lyrics and can focus on twisting their bodies instead! Just try to resist... Building on the amazing promise demonstrated by its two EPs, Northern Portrait have delivered the consummate debut album as "Criminal Art Lovers" is the first certified album of the year contender for 2010.
Matinee-054
CD
$12.25

Nowik, William
Pan Symphony In E Minor
PS, SPAIN Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. One of the newest and most surprising discoveries in the '60s & '70s rock rarities field, William Nowik's Pan Symphony In E Minor caused a big hype among collectors. Certainly easy to understand, as it's an ace album no one had heard of before. Guitarist William Nowik recorded this obscure instrumental record back in 1974 somewhere in New York. It has such a deep feeling, and is nothing anyone could have done without really loving it aside of any commercial view. Psychedelic, progressive, very early Floyd-sounding at times, Crimson-esque, and a kind of sound that reminds of the early '70s British underground but with an experimental, trippy touch. Fourteen tracks in total, but played like suites. Seems only 200 copies were pressed and never distributed, so it needed 35 years to be discovered! This wonderful reissue comes with the intended original artwork (it came out in a green and black cover instead of the black and white that William wanted), has nice remastered sound and includes a booklet with rare, unseen photos and extended liner-notes.
Guerssen-029
CD
$16.25

Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris
Live At Jazz Festival Saalfelden
PS, US The second full length release by the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris documents their stunning European debut performance at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2007, one of the best creative music events in the last three decades. Beautifully captured by ORF (Austrian Radio), the music exposes in a dramatic way the relentless creative energy and versatility of this unique living organism that defies any categorizations and represents a total encounter in the moment.
Nublu Orchestra is assembled from the multifaceted range of musicians that call Nublu home. Band-members from Brazilian Girls, Wax Poetic, Kudu, I Led 3 Lives, and regular Nublu guests Graham Haynes and Eddie Henderson all sit under the baton of Butch Morris, the inventor of Conduction(r).
CD-NUB-022
CD
$9.00

Nurse With Wound
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine & an Umbrella
PS, US Reissue of classic 1979 debut album from one of the most important & influential
industrial noise bands of all time. Includes bonus material, plus an expanded booklet
UnitedJnana-2003
CD
$16.00

Oh No Ono
Eggs
PS, US Oh No Ono is an experimental pop quintet from the tiny Danish town of Aalborg. Their music, intricate and otherworldly, defies conventions and expectations (and sometimes gravity). The ten dense, hypertextured sour-sweet-sad opuses found on their US debut album, Eggs, are truly breathtaking to behold; the band creates bewitching pop symphonies that unfold themselves more with each successive listen.
FriendlyFireRecordings-015
CD
$13.75

OK Go
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
PS, US Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it - a compelling follow-up to OK Go's acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No.
Capitol
CD
$12.00

Okapi
Love Him
PS, US On Love Him, Italian turntablist & sampling artist, okapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of
more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896- 1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolery
& slot- machine soundcards, lies the break-NOT- core, bubble-gum experimental turntablism of this new full-length from Italy's own "Daft Giraffe.
IllegalArt-020
CD
$13.00

Out of Focus
Four Letter Monday Afternoon [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Double CD reissue of their third album, originally issued in 1972. Final double album by more jazzy underground rockers/bonus track.
Kuckuck
DCD
$25.00

Out of Focus
S-T [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Reissue of the 2nd album by this group, originally issued in 1971. Second psych rock album/rock from Germany/guitar, flute, organ/long tracks.
Kuckuck
CD
$14.25

Ovo/Claudio Rocchetti
Split
PS, US The dark mist of guitar scrape & crunching drums of OVO meet the cinematic musical landscapes of the deconstructivist deejay CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI (3/4HADBEENELIMINATED, OLYVETTY). 2 songs by the duo recorded during the "Crocevia" session and 1 track of old records & dusty analogue instruments sounds by Rocchetti
Wallace
45
$8.00

Patton, Charley
Moon Going Down: Electrically Recorded [reissue]
PS, US One of the earliest figures in American music, CHARLEY PATTON is not only often credited with being the father of the Delta Blues, but perhaps equally importantly was one of the first true "rock stars" of American music. Not that he played rock music, but he acted like a modern rock star: flashy clothes, flashy stage performances, virtuoso guitar playing, and a "live fast / die young" lifestyle. The tracks found here feature another giant of the Delta blues: WILLIE BROWN. Although Willie Brown was an accomplished vocalist and his guitar playing was second to none, Brown was perhaps best known as a sideman (and for his seminal "Make Me A Pallet On The Floor"), accompanying Robert Johnson, Son House and, as heard here, Charley Patton. He appeared on many of Patton's sessions recorded between 1930-1934 and his amazing guitar playing can be heard here on "Moon Going Down," "Some Summer Day," as well as on his own "Dry Well Blues." Much of the material recorded here was recorded in 1934 in NYC, just months before his death. "Hang It On The Wall" and "Poor Me." recorded in February, were the last songs he ever recorded.
Monk-311
LP
$22.25

Pharaoh Overlord
II
PS, US
NoQuarter-003
CD
$11.50

Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
PS, US Members of DEAD MOON. Rock 'n' roll that's rough, ragged, & honest
Vice-80014
CD
$13.50

Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Vice-80014
LP
$16.00

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer
PS, US The Flexible Entertainer is Pit Er Pat's fourth full length album and their first as a completely re-imagined duo. The new material was mostly recorded live and incorporates electronic and acoustic drums seamlessly. The energy is high and exhilarating. Play it multiple times at high volume for the best listening results. The instrumentation is electric guitar, synthesizer, voices, kick drum, snare drum, crash cymbal, hi hat, MPC, melodica, conga and cuica. "Sharp like darts, [Pit Er Pat's] brightly kinetic songs soar, swoop and attack." - Time Out NY
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ThrillJockey
LP
$14.00

Points
Beat in Hell
PS, US A new 7-inch from Washington DC-based garage punk basher THE POINTS. Blistering guitar, brain-bashing percussion, and the lo-fi analog sonic storm of BLACK ICE's organ will be enough to melt the diamond off your needle. This record includes "Beat in Jell," a menacing two-and-a-half-minute song that has all of the elements you love about The Points-fuzzed out guitars, spitfire vocals, and minimalist drum patterns that will send you straight into a fit of hysteria. "F Dali" is the other A-side to this gem, with straight dspm, possible Guiness Book of World Records fastest 4/4 beat recorded by a human, and high end ear piercing scream of melody from the organ, it will satisify for your melted face. The B-side is the track "Shout." This song clocks in a bit over five minutes, so expect longer thrills and even more beer spills. There is also a nice theremin treatment, for you, the listener. Overall, melodies and structure, this one is sure to be an unforgetable sound."
Windian
45
$4.50

Poirier
Low Ceiling
PS, US So with his past as an influence and drawing on the current heavy cross over of electronic music/reggae & dancehall (which he in part has contributed heavily to), Poirier set about rounding out this three EP series with four instrumental bangers that have as much in common with Caribbean music hybrids as they do with classic techno (particularly of the Detroit variety) It's four tracks of minimal percussion, 808 kicks, and stabbing synths. All party starters in their own right and when compiled with the other EP's shows the diversity of Poirier's production...and that you don't always need a vocal to run the dance.
ISI-ZEN-12253
12
$9.00

Polysics
Absolute Polysics
PS, US 8th studio album. Their unique brand of synth/guitar fueled punk rock nods to everyone from Devo, XTC and Melt-Banana. Fourteen high-energy tracks firing on all cylinders.
MySpace-10200
CD
$13.00

Postdata
Postdata
PS, US Postdata is Paul Murphy of Wintersleep's first solo effort. Recorded at home in Nova Scotia with his brother Michael, spliced together from "thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams", this self titled debut is a beautiful and haunting album. Postdata will be released January 26th, 2010.
SillyOldSongsProductions-001
CD
$8.75

Predator
Honest Man
PS, US BRANNON GREENE & MIKE "BISON" BEAVERS cranked out brilliant hardcore punk as FRANTIC, & now (along with JOHN NECRO) they summon up the same youthful attitude & dark ingenuity they nailed before. Forerunners in the Atlanta punk scene after only a few months. Full length out soon on Douchemaster
Rob'sHouseRecords-055
45
$5.50

Proper, Mason
There Is A Moth In Your Chest
PS, US
DovecoatRecords-0008
CD
$7.75

Proper, Mason
There Is A Moth In Your Chest
PS, US 180g LP.
DovecoatRecords-0015
LP
$11.25

Purling Hiss
S-T
PS, US Purling Hiss is one of Philly's Best! Purling Hiss is the side-project of Holy Mountain recording artists, Birds of Maya, guitarist Mike Pollize. Birds of Maya are a full-on psychedelic rock band from Philly. Apparently, Birds just aren't full-on enough to satisfy Pollize's far-out tendencies. On his debut solo record, Pollize plays bass, drums, and guitar, relentlessly, as if he's playing to save his life. This recording is so intense that the pressing plant told us they'd risk breaking their equipment if they cut the lacquers with the original master. We sent 'em a new master and it sounds great! For Fans Of: Birds of Maya, Earthless, Loop, High Rise, Les Rallizes Denudes, and lo-fi blown-out psych. First pressing is limited to 333 copies!!!
Permanent-010
LP
$18.75

Quail Lungs
Dumb DaDaDum
PS, US Quail Lungs is a mysterious song writing project from cardinal human, and Portland Oregon resident Travis Bonilla; and others? PPM is putting this 7" out because it sounds like something we found... 'cause we did. We've never even seen this guy play live, but the songs are top quality and just dark enough to ask questions. Do Quail Lungs like Syd Barret and large amounts of coffee? Do they like The Kinks enough to try them with Morphine? How come we can't stop listening to the A side "Dum Dadadum" and the B side "You Can't Believe in Anything, You Can't Believe in Nothing"? Expect more music and crafting, but maybe no more answers? Quail Lungs for 2010 is a good look, get into it. Limited to 500 Copies.
PostPresentMedium-029
45
$4.25

Rashomon
Finishing Line
PS, US 2nd full-length album from Rashomon (aka GUAPO founding member MATT THOMPSON) is a sonic re-imagining of John Krish's film "The Finishing Line" as a haunted meditation on the power of memory, drawing the listener into a claustrophobic sense of unease & mounting horror. An amalgam
of library music, 1970s prog soundtracks, musique concrete & spectral jazz, the music is by turns creepy, terrifying, artless then all the way back to creepy again
Hinterzimmer-007
CD
$17.50

Ratas del Vaticano
S-T
PS, US Four songs by the great Monterrey, Mexico punk band, their first release after their Siltbreeze-released LP, their Killed By Death-meets-Dead Moon punk winning over audiences across the US. Along with their neighbors Los Llamarados, XYX, and Inservibles, Ratas play a large part in the recent resurgence of Mexican punk & general musical weirdness that has caught on this side of the border
Volar-003
45
$6.25

Rauelsson
La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha
PS, US Features LAURA GIBSON. RIYL: Juana Molina, Bon Iver
Hush-090
LP
$19.25

Real Estate
Heights
PS, US ***PLEASE NOTE: First pressing sold out! Once we blow through our batch we'll be taking pre-orders for the next allotment. Comes w/DL codes. Real Estate's Martin Courtney (songwriter, vocals, guitar), Alex Beeker (bass) and Matthew Mondanile (guitar; also of Ducktails and Predator Vision) all hail from suburban New Jersey and their songs evoke the soft bliss of giving your formative, teenage years enough time to waste and beer upon which to glug. Joined now by suburban Massachusetts' Etienne Duguay on drums, the fact that Real Estate only ever sound like a gaggle of grown-up teenage pals is testament to the ease of carving out your own niche in a town that's the same as countless others across America.
MexicanSummer
12
$15.75

Record Collector
#371 (January 2010)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits
PS, US The five subjects in sequence of appearance are: Wile E. Coyote, the Warner Bros. cartoon character; George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, former presidents of the United States of America; John Wayne, the actor; and Ad Reinhardt, the artist. Their portraits in words & music will hang in the halls of
your mind, taking shape as their features are described against backdrops of familiar & characteristic music performed by Red Krayola (Alex Dower, Tom Rogerson, Q, Tom Watson, Jim O'Rourke, Mayo Thompson, Gina Birch). Songs include "Texas Our Texas," "Georgia on My Mind," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Piano Sonata No. 6" and more.
DragCity-384
CD
$13.25

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-384
LP
$14.50

Retribution Gospel Choir
2
PS, US Sometimes, it just needs to be loud. For the members of Retribution Gospel Choir, that time is now. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. The rough heft, aggressive dynamics and emotional release found on the 10 tracks on 2 will surprise fans of Low's gorgeously restrained, spartan rock 'n' roll. Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Retribution Gospel Choir
2
PS, US Vinyl version w/DL codes. Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. 2 is Retribution Gospel Choir's 2nd full-length and Sub Pop debut! Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Richter, Max
Memoryhouse [reissue]
PS, US Originally released in 2002 but long out of print, Max Richter's gorgeous debut album will finally see a much-awaited reissue via FatCat's 130701 imprint. Recorded by Richter with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and critically lauded on its original release, Memoryhouse is quite deservedly held very dear to the broad-reaching "post-classical" field. Championed as much in musical academia as by fans of film score and of contemporary music, Richter's pieces share common ground with composers such as Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and Steve Reich in their depth, patience and articulacy, but also capture the swooning serenity and grace of quieter moments from Sigur Rós or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Contemporaries Nico Muhly, Eluvium, Jóhan Jóhansson, or labelmate Hauschka provide a loose comparison point, but Max's evocative sense of vision is stunningly singular,as is his extraordinary ability to suddenly open up a piece of music like opening one's eyes to glorious sunshine. Memoryhouse is bright, sparkling, exhilarating, warming, gripping, heartbreaking, comforting and rousing, and never loses its awe-inspiring sense of identity and imagination. It is enveloping - one can get lost in the lovingly-composed intricacies and interaction between instruments - or can be a subtle, albeit chill-inducing, soundtrack to the everyday.
FatCat-1309
DLP
$14.25

RJD2
Colossus
PS, US 4th solo album. Part Impressions, part Daft Punk, part Thin Lizzy. He is helped along by vocalists Kenna (STAR TRAK), Phonte Coleman (LITTLE BROTHER), Aaron Livingston (The Roots' "Guns are Drawn").
RJElec.Connections
CD
$13.75

RJD2
Colossus
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
RJElec.Connections
DLP
$16.00

Roadside Graves, The
My Son's Home
PS, US Each song is unique in sound with exceptional lyrics that strike you between the eyes. For those unfamiliar with them, many liken their sound to a blend of Felice Brothers, Trainwreck Riders, Kris Kristofferson, and The Band with a sprinkling of Gaelic influence in the vein of The Waterboys.
AutumnTonesRecords-007
CD
$11.25

Royal Trux
Untitled (3rd Album) [reissue]
PS, US Sighs of life from '92 - post-grunge,
or pre-postrock? Actually, it's untitled. Among the decade's best.
DragCity-010
CD
$12.50

Royal Trux
Untitled (3rd Album) [reissue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-010
LP
$15.75

Rural Alberta Advantage
Drain The Blood b/w Eye Of The Tiger
PS, US The "Drain the Blood" single includes the B-side cover of "Eye of the Tiger".
SaddleCreek
45
$3.75

Scanners
Submarine
PS, US UK's most venerable rock outfit are back with their sophomore release. "Since the days of Joy Division and the like, nobody has really grabbed the Moog and run with it as well as these guys..." LA WEEKLY.
DimMak-146
CD
$13.25

Schibbinz
Livin' Free
PS, SPAIN Previously released on vinyl, now available in a CD version. In 1967, a bunch of U.S. and Argentinean kids recorded a magical album which has remained unknown for many years due to its extreme rarity, with less than a handful of copies known to exist. Released in 1968 in Argentina by Phonexa, the Schibbinz album could be regarded as the ultimate teen garage folk-rock album, ever. An album of fragile beauty, full of teen charm, innocent vocals, jangly guitars, charming, lo-fi sound and a lost-in-time atmosphere. Guerssen Records is proud to present this mega-rare album to the world, with the production fully benefitting from the band's involvement and assistance. The original master tapes were lost, but the sound has been carefully-remastered from an original near-mint copy. Extensive, detailed liner-notes and lots of cool pictures from the band's archives are all included in a 4-page insert. Also includes 3 unreleased bonus tracks not available on the vinyl version.
Guerssen-028
CD
$16.25

Schmidt, Irmin & The Inner Space
Kamasutra
PS, GERMANY Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack to the German erotic/educational film from 1968, composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space -- the precursor to the legendary German Krautrock band Can. Assembles Can's original line-up of Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney. Bonus track "I'm Around You Everyday" is exclusive to the CD version. For fans of: Can, the '60s sexual revolution, Vampyros Lesbos, Schulmädchenreport, Barbara Schöne.
CrippledDickHotWax
CD
$16.25

Scratoa!
Live en San Anton
PS, US Killer Pimp is excited to announce the release of first music to surface from Marc Ngyuen Tan since the last Colder album. Live en San Antón is the result of a three-day session of improvised music by Marc Nguyen and Guillaume Ollendorff recorded in the barrio San Antón, in the southern Spanish city of Alicante in April 2008. Marc & O. have known each other for 13 years: they once worked together for a company that sold missiles and celebrity magazines; they later played and toured together in Colder. Guillaume has made music here and there (Tsé, The Mainstream Ensemble, Dust and Chimes) and now, has a life as an independent publisher of Philosophy. After all these years, this is the first time they have actually recorded together. Says Marc, "The intent of Scratoa! should be understood at the very moment you press play. It sounds like it is named. As some kind of big musical lapsus, the kind of ones kids do everyday with toys. A Vomited and improvised - somehow elegant, sometimes not - non sense. A musical role playing game experiment in ten parts, where Tex Avery, Baruch Spinoza and Herbie Hancock's spirits have been called over three nights to conduct a crowd of gorillas, frogs, cats, birds and ducks in heat, forgotten cartoon characters, families of gypsies and guitars, local pagan marching bands, and drunk kids armed with fire crackers. Experiencing Scratoa! will probably not cure any disease nor it will help you improve some social skills either. But listening to this first session may however be recommended for all these tiny moments of your life when all you fancy is just a good old fix of primitive poetry."
KillerPimp-012
CD
$11.00

Seabear
Lion Faced Boy
PS, GERMANY This is the first single from the second Seabear album, We Built A Fire. While "Lion Face Boy" features the classic Seabear indie-folk-virtues, the flipside "Cold Summer" surprises with an intense and unsettling ballad that breaks new territory. Seabear started out as a one-man project of singer/guitarist Sindri Már Sigfússon, but grew into today's collective of 7 Icelanders with their 2007 debut album The Ghost That Carried Us Away.
Morr/ANumberOfSmallThings
45
$7.00

Skelton, Richard
Landings
PS, US Imbued w/ a real sense of narrative - & of place - that is both epic in scale & yet intimate in feel. And so, we are taken on a literal journey across the threshold of "Noon Hill Wood," w/ its achingly-beautiful, interleaved bowed melodies, drifting through ranks of pine, larch & birch. "Greens Within
Brook" is a crushing Eno-esque ballad for concertina, recorded by the banks of a fledgling stream as the ice melted one wintry morning.
Type-055
CD
$14.25

Skelton, Richard
Landings
PS, US DLP version contains an extra CD of bonus material.
Type-055
DLP
$25.25

Skullflower
Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
PS, US All must bow before the pagan wall of drone..." "So reads the opening line of SKULLFLOWER's website. Hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early '90s was truly a revelation. IIIrd Gatekeeper and Obsidian Shaking Codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and I approach guitar-based heavy music. To grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and MATTHEW BOWER has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years. Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament evokes Wagnerian sonic bombast, a Nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. Each spin brings new themes to the forefront. Not easy listening by anyone's standards, Strange Keys is not for the faint of heart-but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded."-Steve Von Till (Neurosis / Neurot Recordings). Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN brings psychoacoustics into three-dimensional experience.
NeurotRecordings-067
DCD
$17.50

Slow SIx
Tomorrow Becomes You
PS, US At the turn of the millennium in downtown New York, in an era of Moby and the Strokes, Slow Six was pulling up in front of clubs, loading in music stands, video projectors, a battery of string players, and a desktop computer (!) programmed with custom software. Reading down their twenty-minute electro-acoustic scores to stunned audiences, Slow Six helped redefine what was possible when those who grewup with both classical and rock music re-imagined their surrounding musical landscape in their own image. Today, so-called "cross-over" music is near ubiquitous, from The Wordless Music Series to bands like The Books and composers like Nico Muhly. Yet it is now, following their 2007 sophomore release for the prestigious classical label New Albion, that Slow Six returns to their experimental rock roots with "Tomorrow Becomes You", an emotionally unrestrained full-length infused with taught rhythms, unraveling melodies, and detailed ambiences that owe as much to Tortoise and The Dirty Three as Steve Reich and Brian Eno. In keeping with the Slow Six mantra, this is still music that changes - and changes us - slowly over time - the virtuosic, minimalist hocketing in "The Night You Left New York" slowly giving way to its eruptive guitar-soaked finale. But a new, welcomed optimism runs through "Tomorrow Becomes You" - never has the band's light shown so brightly as in the record's finale, "These Rivers Between Us". Tignor's signature software creations (free from the band's site), which he uses to transform live sound, also make key appearances, creating unique electronic landscapes from talk radio on "Because Together We Resonate" and the players' own performances on "Sympathetic Response System (part 2)".
WesternVinyl-071
CD
$11.50

Snyder, Doug & Bob Thompson
Daily Dance
PS, US HOT REISSUE! Amazing, unique, celebrated, & genuinely rare artifact from Rural Ohio. After stepping out of a Stooges show in 1971, SNYDER & THOMPSON set up a studio in their kitchen & attempted to record an even heavier record. The resulting LP, self-released & limited to 500, immediately became an underground legend. Songs start
with a semblence of a groove or rhythm until they quickly deteriorate into a wall of psychedelic noise, a frenzy of distorted guitar & improvised drumming. The type of album
that quickly achieves mythical status, begging many questions yet leaving so few answers
Cantor-002
LP
$17.00

Soundpool
But It's So
PS, US Classic pop songwriting fused with hard driving disco backbeats... hooky bass lines... layered, shoegazey guitars and floating, atmospheric synths with Kim Field's unmistakably sincere and distinctively un-affected ethereal vocals. Both songs are from the forthcoming LP & CD Mirrors In Your Eyes, Soundpool's third full-length album, due early 2010 on Killer Pimp. This 7" is limited to 500 copies.
KillerPimp-014
45
$4.25

Spacemen 3
Performance (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Recorded live in Amsterdam in 1988, on the Perfect Prescription tour, this is a fine document of their early, noisier sound, a hopped up version of the band's more woozy recorded output
Fire-040
LP
$17.00

Spacemen 3
Perfect Prescription (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US This is the album on which they perfected their woozy, psychedelic drone-pop, moving beyond mere tribute to their influences into a world all their own. A concept record about a drug trip, from the euphoric high of album opener "Take Me To The Other Side," to the drowsy, disturbed finish of "Call The Doctor," this is, arguably, the band's finest moment & the album that best represents the creative collaboration of main members SONIC BOOM & JASON PIERCE
Fire-016
LP
$17.00

Spacemen 3
Sound of Confusion (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Originally released on Glass in 1986, this is the debut album from the Spacemen 3 led by Sonic Boom (SPECTRUM) & Jason Pierce (SPIRITUALIZED). Featuring covers of 13th Floor Elevators, The Stooges, & Juicy Lucy amongst some originals, this is the
band's 1st foray into the deep, stoned, trance-inducing, psychedelic sound they would master on later albums
Fire-015
LP
$17.00

SPC ECO
SPC ECO 3-D (Japanese Version)
PS, JAPAN Dean Garcia (Curve) returns with SPC ECO, a nu-gaze outfit whose singer is none other than Dean's daughter Rose Berlin. "SPC ECO 3-D" is their first album and features Rose's angelic vocals, heavy bass grooves, twinkling keyboards, guitar noise, and British styled electro beats. Joey Levenson (So Young) provides guitar fx, and the resulting amalgam is a colorful and shimmering shoegaze music of sugary pop goodness. The Japanese edition of the album includes three bonus tracks: two remixes plus "Silver Clouds," an exclusive track featuring Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis).
Quince-71
CD
$14.75

Spencey Dude & The Doodles
Flirting b/w I Won't Cheat On You
PS, US Another rad San Fran band to add to your collection. Debut contains 4 amazing pop songs so instantly contagious Rob's
House could have split them up over 2 singles and sold 'em like crack. No load-blowing here, either, so expect many more hits. Incl. members of GRIS GRIS & DUTCHESS & THE DUKE. LIMITED TO 700
Rob'sHouseRecords-056
45
$5.50

Spoon
Written In Reverse
PS, US Ltd edition, pink vinyl. "Written In Reverse" is the 1st single from Transference. Features an exclusive B-side "Mean Red Spider"
Merge-376
45
$4.50

Spoon
Transference
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Merge-365
LP
$17.50

Spoon
Transference
PS, US Follow up to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. 11 new gems that honor the SPOON tradition while pushing the envelope of the band's sound ever further.
Merge-365
CD
$14.00

State Champion
Stale Champagne
PS, US VINYL ONLY. Debut from Louisville native Ryan Davis & friends. Reminiscent of 'SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO', 'RED APPLE FALLS', & 'BLEACH.' Limited edition, clear vinyl, gatefold package w/ Spot UV printing
SohpomoreLounge-020
LP
$14.50

State Champion
Stale Champagne
PS, US VINYL ONLY. Debut from Louisville native Ryan Davis and friends. Remincent of SWEETHEARD OF THE RODEO, BLEACH, and SMOG. Limited edition, clear vinyl, gatefold package, plus bonus paintings.
SohpomoreLounge-020
CD
$14.50

Stephens, Leigh
Red Weather [reissue]
PS, US After leaving BLUE CHEER in 1969, guitarist LEIGH STEVENS, whose pulverizing roar was an essential element of the band's original sound, made his solo debut. Feat. a more eclectic context that encompasses elements of avant-psychedelia & electric blues.
Sundazed-5299
LP
$16.50

SubArachnoid Space
Eight Bells
PS, US 180 gram vinyl includes MP3 coupon. Gatefold featuring stunning new artwork from Stephen Kasner. The album continues in the same heavy, lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Release records, fusing wicked metallic crunch w/ ethereal, effects-laden guitar freakouts & some of their most narcotized jamming yet. Blazing luminous axe-howl over hypnotic heavy acid riffage & dense squalls of sound.
Strange Attractors
LP
$17.50

Sunburned Hand of the Man
A
PS, US Second album with producer Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet. Directed by Kieran like actors in a film, Sunburned is taken off the bandana smokestage of their previous collaboration -- Fire Escape -- and put onto a sweat-soaked 4am lysergic dance floor. Kieran uses the band like his live instrument laptop and sampler. The results are truly stunning which makes this record into one of the best moments of each artist's respective musical careers. With artwork by California visionary and band favorite Raymond Pettibon, A has looks that kill along with the sounds that thrill. Includes double-sided poster of Pettibon artwork.
EcstaticPeace
LP
$16.75

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
PS, US Anthemic, bombastic, life-affirming indie pop! Debut full-length from buzzy Florida band praised by NY TIMES: "'Velvet Underground and punk riffs, reverberating textures, African-style guitar filigrees, grunge crescendos, power-pop choruses headed for anthems and, yes, some surf-rock twang." ROLLING STONE: "Giant-sized choruses, festooned in glitter and lit up with neon." PICTHFORK: "Lo-fi clangor, glo-fi harmonies, punchy retro-garage concision, never-out-of-style classic rock song-craft."
KanineRecords-482
CD
$11.00

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
PS, US VINYL VERSION, blue wax in a gatefold jacket, includes DL codes.
KanineRecords-482
LP
$13.75

Tactics
The Sound Of The Sound: Vol. 2 1984-1988 [anthology reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Sydney band Tactics existed for a decade from 1978 to 1988 during which time they helped define the Australian "new wave" sound. Along the way, they released five essential (and long-deleted) albums and a handful of now-collectible and impossibly rare singles and EPs. With influences ranging from The Velvet Underground and Television to Arthur Lee's Love and reggae, Tactics was difficult to categorize, and miles away stylistically from the identikit punk bands they often shared stages with. Lyrical themes of suburban displacement and uncertainty stemmed from singer Dave Studdert's awareness of existentialist writers like Rimbaud, Nietzsche and Foucault, as well as his appreciation and understanding of indigenous Australia, and in particular, Aboriginal song cycles. Sound Of The Sound Vol. 2 is a 42-track, 2CD compilation that focuses on the band's later output between 1984 and 1988, when they experienced their closest shave with Australian mainstream success. It features the Blue And White Future Whale album (1986), the previously-unheard demos for their final album, The Great Gusto (considered by the band to be far superior to the actual album), plus rare singles, B-sides and unreleased live tracks and demos. The package is presented in a handsome 6-panel wallet with a lush 20-page booklet stuffed with photos and Studdert's evocative liners.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

Talk Normal
Secret Cog EP
PS, US DUSTED MAGAZINE: "On this five-song E.P., Brooklyn-based duo Talk Normal -- drummer Andrya Ambro and guitarist Sarah Register -- create a nice racket that does a deft job of splitting the difference between harsh sonics and the essential song-oriented structures required of noise rock... Sure, there are some obvious touchstones here -- Sonic Youth, Magik Markers, Ut, Teenage Jesus -- but the songs never feel derivative. Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the band's aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. Talk Normal are making their music amidst an increasingly cluttered underground landscape, and the duos seeming intrepidness in the face of that fact shines through."
JustForTheHellOfIt-002
12
$13.75

Tape & Bill Wells
Fugue
PS, US First recording to feat. Swedish trio TAPE & legendary Scottish musician BILL WELLS. With the use of piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, electronics, drums, & synth, Fugue is truly a unique & timeless recording from these legendary & prolific artists. LP incl. download coupon, limited to 900.
Immune-008
LP
$14.00

Thee Oh Sees
Quadrospazzed
PS, US San Francisco's THEE OH SEES return with a limited edition, one-sided 12-inch featuring the song "Quadrospazzed" recorded live by CHRIS WOODHOUSE. Includes a B-side etching by WILLIAM KHEIN. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies.
CastleFace
12
$12.00

Third Eye, The
Brother [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Shadoks reissues on CD the third and final album by South African heavy-prog outfit The Third Eye, which was originally released in 1970 on Polydor. The music is closer to the album Awakening..., without the brass arrangements, and with more organ-based compositions with beautiful vocals and guitars. The amazing drumming and bass holds the tracks firmly together and drives them forward. Comparable to bands from the U.S. and UK underground such as Electric Flag, Chicago and Keef Hartley Band. If bands from South Africa hadn't been banned in Europe and USA at the time, albums by The Third Eye would have become as popular as the previously-mentioned bands from U.S. and UK. All three Third Eye recordings are killer albums and you should not miss any of them. Members include: Ron Selby (lead guitar), Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Dawn Selby (piano, Hammond organ), Robbie Parvid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Third Eye, The
Searching [reissue]
PS GERMANY Shadoks reissues the second album by South African heavy proggers The Third Eye. Searching shortly followed after their debut, originally released by Polydor in 1969. Today, originals of this album are rare as gold-dust and among 2 or 3 others, the most valuable collector's items from South Africa. Many collectors who have basically everything in their collection are missing this one. The music is heavier, the lyrics full of political statements, and it's more psychedelic and a bigger step down into the musical underground. The 14-minute track "Awakening" is really amazing with tons of great organ parts and extra heavy fuzz-guitar. Members include: Ron Selby (lead guitar), Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Dawn Selby (piano, Hammond organ), Robbie Pavid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Third Eye, The
Awakening... [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Shadoks presents the first of three albums reissued on CD by heavy prog/psych South African band The Third Eye. The original pressing came out on Polydor in 1969, and thanks to the cooperation of band members Dawn Selby (Hammond organ) and her brother Ron Selby (guitar), this project came to life again. The Third Eye started playing in 1968, based in Durban -- a coastal city several hundred miles away from the recording and musical hub of Johannesburg. Awakening... came out in 1969 when Dawn Selby was only 14 years old. Just imagine her age when you listen to the blistering organ and piano tracks. Followed by two more albums Searching (1969) and Brother (1970), The Third Eye produced a veritable volcano of work in a short period of time, even challenging fellow peers Freedoms Children for the title of heaviest band in South Africa. Awakening... is the most complex of all three of their albums, with great brass arrangements, piano, Hammond organ, fuzz-guitar and soul-infused vocals. Musically headed in the direction of bands such as Electric Flag, The Flock's Dinosaur Swamps, Chicago, The Nice, and Al Cooper, this is pure electric underground of the best sort. Other members include: Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Robbie Pavid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
Convertible
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! The fourth full-length album from Pensacola/San Francisco-based underground tour de force THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB. Fourteen tracks pressed on colored vinyl. Includes a download code.
NoIdea-260
LP
$12.00

Thompson, Bob
Sound Of Speed [reissue]
PS, US Originally recorded for the Dot label, "The Sound Of Speed" is Thompson's 1960 "concept" LP. Each composition evokes a different mode of modern transport, from Vespa scooters to Le Mans racers to rocket ships. Overlooked gem from a bygone era of orchestral elegance mastered in wide-angle stereo & pressed on 180gm vinyl
Sundazed-5287
LP
$16.50

Tillman, J.
"Wild Honey Never Stolen"/"Borne Away On A Black Barge"
PS, US These two tiny songs, one being "Wild Honey Never Stolen" and the other being one called "Borne Away On A Black Barge" are little stories about a post-apocalypse landscape and a reworking of the last stand of King Arthur, respectively. Both were meant to be more or less sing-alongs, the idea of including lyrics and sheet music was considered, but it was ultimately decided that that would be pretentious and weird. Josh plays guitar, piano, bass, banjo, mandolin and a lot of drums and Bill Patton plays ukulele. This limited edition 70 gram 7" record features original artwork by Toby Leibowitz.
WesternVinyl-069
45
$6.25

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man
PS, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
LP
$13.00

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man
Ps, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
CD
$13.00

Tormentors, The
Hanging 'Round [reissue]
PS, US A truly experimental psych/rock/pop album from 1967. Featuring some very good garage, psych, and British Invasion sounds. Fuzzed out guitar, great vocal harmonies, and some really bizarre background sounds.
GearFab
CD
$12.50

Trago, Tom
Voyage Direct
PS, NETHERLANDS Tom Trago is part of the new school of Amsterdam producers. He is also an accomplished DJ and is the "Trago" in Yuro&Trago with Cinnaman (known from their 2007 debut Primary Roots, 2008). Voyage Direct is Tom Trago's long-awaited follow-up to his first EP on Rush Hour, 2006's Live With The BBQ. This 7-track mini-album shows his diversity within the genre of house, reaffirming that house music can still be sexy, deep, raw, emotional and passionate. The package includes the promo-released "Passion," plus a host of new tracks, and two bonus tracks. Highlights could be the piano-led schaffel-meditation of "Lost In The Streets Of NYC," the raw, almost motorik/disco rhythm of "On The Side," or the swing of "Brothers Of String," but in fact, every track is a highlight in its own right. A must-have for any house connoisseur or lover of Detroit-ish touches. Trago is a true original in the burgeoning Amsterdam scene, and an innovator in tiny touches that make everything fit perfectly to make your body move.
RushHour-025
CD
$16.25

Travel By Sea
Days Of My Escape
PS, US An atmospheric and organic gallery of moody and rootsy vignettes.
AutumnToneRecords-003
CD
$11.25

Tubers
Anachronous
PS, US Organic creations, blooming beneath the soil while drawing nutrients from their surroundings, soon to be unearthed, cooked, and consumed by native populations. Also, Floridian slang for two populations. The first; those who float upon inflatable inner tubes in aimless, lackadaisical delight down the state's many freshwater springs. The second; those who seek adventure tucked away in the innermost furl of a wave just before it washes ashore. Finally, four longtime friends who make music for the purpose of challenging themselves and hopefully those around them. They draw inspiration from their namesakes and channel these feelings through guitars, throats, and drums. Angular riffs swerve throughout the mix atop surf-influenced rhythms, with the aggressive trappings of previous efforts remaining apparent but not overbearing. They speak in dialects and metaphors, fluctuating seamlessly amongst obtuse structures, shifting momentums, and rolling cascades. Features members of TWELVE HOUR TURN, TRUE NORTH, STRIKEFORCE DIABLO, ASSHOLEPARADE, WE MODERNS, and others. For fans of Obits, Rites of Spring, Wipers, Milemarker, and Fugazi.
NoIdea-262
CD
$12.00

Tubers
Anachronous
PS, US VINYL VERSION
NoIdea-262
LP
$12.00

Tyla And The Dogs
Bloody Hell Fire
PS, US Brand new 23 track 2 CD set from Tyla and The Dogs. The album features current liveb favourites "111", "Supreme Creator" and "The Rave" and includes some of Tyla's finest songs to date. This band were formed from the seminal Dogs D'Amour.
Houseof111
DCD
$20.75

U.S. Girls
Go Grey
PS, US 2nd full-length is an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals & muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, & explode. A journey of lush vistas, warm currents, & complex beauties
Siltbreeze-127
LP
$16.00

Unbunny
Black Strawberries
PS, US It took Unbunny's devoted fans to make this special release happen! Extremely limited-edition, only 300 pressed on 180g white vinyl.
CatbirdSpecialProjects
LP
$20.00

Uncle Tupelo
Anodyne
PS, US
Rhino
LP
$24.00

Uncut
#153 (February 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Vampire Weekend
Contra
PS, US Like the first album, Contra was produced by keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and is the realization of a whole and unique musical vision that sees the band stretching out and adding new textures, instrumentation, and rhythms into their sound.Primarily recorded in New York with a springtime sojourn to Mexico, Contra feels altogether fresh, joyous, and like nothing else but is immediately recognizable as the sound of Vampire Weekend.
XLRecordings
CD
$14.00

Vampire Weekend
Contra
PS, US VINYL VERSION
XLRecordings
LP
$14.75

Vanderslice, John
D.I.A.L.O
PS, US Limited! "D.I.A.L.O." is the second 7" single taken from John Vanderslice's 2009 release, Romanian Names. The song is a highlight from an album with no shortage of highlights, and paired with the exclusive non-album track "DoWhat YouWant"makes for an incredible 1-2 punch. The fried out fuzz-pop of "DoWhat YouWant" plays a perfect foil to the spacey sonics of "D.I.A.L.O." Containing two instant classics, one per side, this is the way a great 7" single should be.
DeadOceans-036
45
$4.75

Various
An Taobh Tuathail Vol. 3
PS, IRELAND An Taobh Tuathail Vol. III is the new compilation CD from cult underground music show An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side) which celebrates ten years on the air this year. The 15 track compilation is once again compiled by mainman 'Cian Ó Cíobháin'. In his own words Ó Cíobháin says: "The CD features torch songs from contemporary female vocalists such as Essie Jain and Roshi feat. Pars Radio. It also includes elegiac electronica from Gdsank-based composer Jacasek and The Caretaker, an artist currently residing in Berlin, whose explorations in music and memory have intrigued me. There's a beautiful song from Austin band Peter & The Wolf which has been played regularly on the show since its release in 2006, that I was eager to include and thankfully got the go-ahead to do so. Also, to have stellar songs from established artists like Animal Collective and Circlesquare on the disc means a lot to me. Closer to home, the CD includes tracks by Dublin's Rollers/Sparkers, Kilkenny's R.S.A.G. and Galway's Loner Deluxe and B-Movie Lightning. B-Movie Lightning is Mike Smalle, previously of Cane 141 whose tracks were featured on the other two compilations. This is his début release under the new pseudonym. He played it at a party one night last year and bowled over everyone in the room: I asked him there and then if I could include it. I could rave about all the songs on the disc - how Mount Kimbie's magical dub-excursion was the first track played on the show in 2009, when I came back after Christmas, or how the Factory Kids tune came to be on the CD, because the composer, Tim Chaplin, listens to the show via satellite in Warwickshire and has regularly been sending me his songs since he stumbled upon the programme. But there are spatial limitations to this press release, so I'll let the disc speak for itself...".
Psychonavigation-034
CD
$13.50

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Numero-030
DLP
$19.00

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk
PS, US Four years after A Gospel Funk Hymnal, Numero returns with not quite a New Testament, rather a re-examintaion of a weighty tome. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers & performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration & invention. They were faithful to a spirit, not an ordained sound
Numero-030
CD
$15.75

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control
PS, US 2LP version, ltd to 500 on orange vinyl
Polyvinyl-191
DLP
$16.00

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control
PS, US 41+ members strong - the JOAN OF ARC extended family comes together for 18 exclusive songs curated by JOA frontman Tim Kinsella. Features new songs by TIM KINSELLA, OWEN, CALE PARKS (ALOHA), VACATIONS (ex-CHIN UP CHIN UP), GHOSTS & VODKA (ex-CAP'N JAZZ), EUPHONE, CAIRO GANG, DISAPPEARS, BIRDSHOW, A TUNDRA, WHITE/LIGHT
Polyvinyl-191
CD
$9.50

Various
The Perfumed Garden: 82 Rare Flowerings from the British Underground 1965-73
PS, US 5 Disc Box Set!
Past & Present
5XCD-BOX
$55.50

Various
Matinee Grand Prix, The
PS, US Brilliant new collection of songs from Matinee's truly international coterie of popstars. The disc kicks off with a firm favorite from Denmark's Northern Portrait entitled "Stirling Moss" which establishes a car racing theme rather nicely. Scottish popkids Strawberry Whiplash answer the challenge with new smash "Boy In The Bubble Car," while Australian legends The Lucksmiths deliver their swansong recording with the predictably stunning "Get-to-bed Birds." Sweden's The Electric Pop Group is represented with perhaps their strongest song to date "Believers," while Clay Hips-American expats living in Germany and Ireland-don't disappoint channeling their inner Pet Shop Boys with "Disappointed." The album's centerpoint sees the return of England's mighty Tender Trap after four years with the new classic "Danger Overboard," and Australia has its second contender with the very welcome return of Simpa¡tico and new favorite "Australian Idle." Finland's Cats on Fire begin the year with a fantastic new song called "The Hague," while Scotland is back in fine form with Bubblegum Lemonade and "Cuts Like A Dream." Finally, American hipsters Math and Physics Club break a two-year silence with a great new song called "I Keep To Myself," and Australia's The Guild League soundtrack the final lap of the compilation with the lovely "Bookmark." Demonstrating the continuing strength of the label's roster, this timeless collection is a vital release for the Matinee faithful and a fantastic introduction to some of the best indie bands of today.
Matinee-050
CD
$12.25

Various
My Estrogeneration
PS, US 1st ever NNF vinyl compilation w/ exclusive tracks from ZOLA JESUS, TICKLEY FEATHER, POCAHAUNTED, INCA ORE, TOPAZ RAGS, HNY, TALK NORMAL, ISLAJA, L.A. VAMPIRES, U.S. GIRLS, & VALET. Ltd to 500
NotNotFun-150
LP
$11.75

Various
Casual Victim Pile
PS, US Casual Victim Pile = an anagram of "Live Music Capital". You can safely assume that with all due respect to the City of Austin's attempts to promote itself as such. This compilation is only meant to reflect what I like in Austin circa 2008-2010 But there's something to be said for a highly arbitrary take on things...Whether or notthere's a genuine tie to the region's musical history is up for debate - Gerard Cosloy, Austin TX, 9/2009
Matador
CD
$11.00

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976
PS, US The heaviest, rarest, best fuzz-funk-psych singles from Brazil, compiled on one CD.
World Psychedelic
CD
$16.75

Various
Dengue Fever Presents: Electic Cambodia
PS, US 14 newly remastered 1960s surf garage psychedelic rockers never released outside Cambodia, chosen by the members of DENGUE FEVER from their collection of rare Cambodian cassettes
Minky
LP
$21.25

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976
PS, US Double LP Version
World Psychedelic
DLP
$18.00

Various
Private Space
PS, JAPAN This compilation is made special to feature the most popular Japanese post-classical/electronica artists. It is easy to listen to and helps you relax, providing a much deeper listening experience after repeated listening. These bright sounds perfectly suit listening in your "Private Space" while dozing off and the precious melodies made by these Japanese artists will last forever, not just momentarily.
p*dis-6505
CD
$16.25

Various
Casual Victim Pile
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Matador
DLP
$15.50

Various Artists
Unpiecing The Jigsaw: Velvet Underground Tribute
PS, US The idea for this 4 cd set came from collecting together all the tribute tracks originally released on the 3 legendary Immagi-nary Records tribute albums in the early 90's and tying them up in one set along with the excellent incisive John Tobler audio interview with Lou Reed and along the way we found a couple of rare 1980's live tracks of Nico performing Velvet's material. The influence of The Velvet Underground on rock greatly exceeds their sales figures and chart numbers. They are one of the most important rock and roll bands of all time, laying the groundwork in the Sixties for many tangents rock music would take in ensuing decades. Features Nirvana, Echo & The Bunnymen, Swervedriver, Screaming Trees and more.
Ozit-16
CD-BOX
$25.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
CD
$13.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
LP
$20.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
CD
$13.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
LP
$15.50

Veirs, Laura
July Flame
PS, US Her seventh album explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, pastoral dales, fireworks and warm nights, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and security and the realization that such things rarely exist. The album breaks from Veirs' previous full-band efforts, although many of the same players make appearances on the album, including longtime collaborators Karl Blau and Steve Moore. String arrangements are featured more on this album than on others; the brilliant improviser Eyvind Kang plays viola on many songs, and legendary arranger Stephen Barber composed hauntingly beautiful string quartet arrangements for three songs. PITCHFORK: "Neo-folkie takes the best aspects of her two previous records and distills them into her best album. MMJ's Jim James and the Decemberists' Chris Funk guest."
RavenMarchingBand-006
CD
$12.00

Veirs, Laura
July Flame
Ps, US Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls "the best album of 2010," explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and the realization that such things rarely exist.
RavenMarchingBand-006
LP
$13.75

Venia
Frozen Hands
PS, US Hailing from Minneapolis, MN, VENIA has a positive, multi-faceted message that stands in stark contrast to the nature of many of their hardcore contemporaries.
Blood&InkRecords-1034
CD
$12.25

Vermillion Sands
Miss My Gun
PS, US The second installment in the Sacred Bones 12-inch EP series comes from Treviso, Italy's VERMILLION SANDS who sound like they could be the house band at the dystopian oceanside resort that features prominently in the JG Ballard short story collection from which the group takes their name. The Vermillion Sands' ramshackle female fronted country tinged garage rock gives off some serious Mekons-meets-Headcoatees vibes or a femme fronted counterpart to the records Dan Melchoir has been pumping out as of late. Reverbed whips and twangs and a little mouth harp underlie some serious hooks and melodies. Look out for the debut full length out soon of Fat Possum.
SacredBones-026
12
$13.50

Vibracathedral Orchestra
Joka Baya
PS, US The ever-mysterious VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts MICK FLOWER and ADAM DAVENPORT with frequent collaborators JOHN GODBERT (TOTAL) and JOHN MOLONEY (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. Joka Baya offers up a set of shorter pieces on the A-side in a high-fidelity style that contrasts the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. The percussive grooves are overlaid with SUNROOF!!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. The roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with Moloney's drums battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis.
VHF-119
LP
$13.50

Vibracathedral Orchestra
The Secret Base
PS, US The second of three new LPs from the VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA. The Secret Base starts up at full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with MICK FLOWER's overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his Japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with CHRIS CORSANO their urgency. The sound is dark and rough, almost Xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. The percolating krautrock stylings of "If You Can't Smoke 'Em" chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. The entire B-side's 20-plus minutes are devoted to the clanging free sound of "Eyes of Wood," where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates the proceedings.
VHF-120
LP
$13.50

Vibrators, The
Under the Radar
PS,UK New Vibrators albums don't come along too often -- this is their first since 2002's Energize, and their first, too, since frontman Knox returned from a four-year lay-off. But with Nigel Bennett and the rhythm section of Eddie Hedges and Pat Collier joining him, it's business as usual for one of the longest-lived of all original U.K. punk bands, kicking off with the punchy buzzsaw of "DNA Robot," and driving on through 13 more slabs of classic Vibes volatility. There's something so reassuring about it as well -- other survivors from their era may have retained their original sound, but the Vibrators are one of the few who have kept it fresh. Still lacing their punch with humor, still packing the flamboyant minimalism that was their most dramatic calling card, the Vibrators have also hung onto that innate sense of melody that made "Baby Baby" such a blessing all those years ago. And so "We're the Dead," "Darkest Before Dawn," "Nightmare Town," and "The Altar at Midnight" lead a pack that slips effortlessly in alongside the best of the band's past output, and there's only one thing here for you to disagree with. The album closes with a song called "Everything I Do Is Wrong." But it isn't. Everything's right. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
Captain Oi!
CD
$18.50

Virgin Passages
Mandalay
PS, UK This is Virgin Passages' 2006 collection of four-track/live recordings previously released on various formats, including tapes, CD-Rs, vinyl and compilations. The Virgin Passages are a three piece from Staffordshire who make hypnotic spaced out dream-pop that's been compared to David Baker-era Mercury Rev and Jackie O-Motherfucker. Mandalay is not the Virgin Passages' debut album, but a pre-debut compilation of odds-and-ends and bits-and-bobs, basic 4 track recordings, live takes, recordings previously released on EPs and demos. Despite the scrappiness of it all then, it is still hard to imagine, with all the band's visionary and well-formed sound, that it is not their debut. The band sound like a combination of the spacey, experimental Spiritualized, Sigur Ros and the early, Syd Barrett-led, psychedelic Pink Floyd, overdosed on traditional folk and weird instruments. Mandalay is a constant LSD trip, albeit a dark, haunting one.
Fire-100
CD
$14.25

Voicesvoices
Origins
PS, US Sophomore release from LA Duo, VoicesVoices is a six track concept album recorded by Guillermo Scott Herren
(PREFUSE 73). Herren melds the guitar drone, percussive beats, vocal looping of Nico Turner & Jenean Farris to a whole new level. Look for them on tour with Prefuse 73 and Gaslamp Killer in early 2010. "The fact that they only started playing with their (borrowed) guitars and effects boxes just over a year ago makes the band even more of a fabled Echo Park music myth, seemingly ingesting every instrument they lay their hands on, spewing out staggeringly beautiful walls of noise
with a thunderous, raw drum set." -Dazed & Confused.
ManimalVinyl-019
CD
$7.75

Volcano, I m Still Excited
Volcano, I m Still Excited
PS, US 1st time on vinyl! Ltd to 2,000. Often sounding like a much more excited Spoon (w/ a Casio), these are loveably unconventional short pop songs.
Polyvinyl-067
LP
$12.75

Wade, Rick
Presents Harmonie Park Revisited
PS, NETHERLANDS Detroit house legend Rick Wade presents a best-of compilation of tracks issued from his very own Harmonie Park Records. This is Detroit house at its best --13 of his best tracks onto one deluxe packaged CD box, which is limited to 1,000 copies. The compilation touches on both his uplifting party grooves as well as his deeper tracks. Hard-to-get and out-of-print classics like "Fade Away," "Prime Time" and "Forgotten Track" are included as well as an exclusive soulful vocal track. Comes with a free download for a Rick Wade DJ mix. One track features a guest appearance by Evasoul. Pure, swirling Detroit house that is masterfully crafted by a living embodiment of the genre. Do not miss this.
RushHour-107
CD
$16.25

Warning Light
Further On
PS, US Presented as "loud drone music" created by a band, the project is really the collected labors of D HADDON. The project doesn't seem to dwell on the thick &
downtempo, though there certainly are big swells & thick chunks of drone. A kind of airy atmosphere has evolved, an almost Japanese aesthetic of zen-like
atmosphere he branded "eternity drones", an attempt at making music a person could listen to repeatedly for days & days
Stickfigure-040
CD
$10.50

Washed Out/Small Black
Split
PS, US Lovepump United is stoked to release a collaborative 7-inch by Washed Out and Small Black: featuring each band re-imagining and remixing a song off the other's debut EP. The 7-inch follows both acts breakthrough records released in late 2009, featuring a killer Small Black remix of Washed Out's "You'll See It" and a gorgeous, hazy Washed Out remix of Small Black's anthemic "Despicable Dogs." "Despicable Dogs" [by Small Black] is a guaranteed soul-stirrer: Best New Music, 8/10" - PITCHFORK MEDIA
"[Washed Out] crafts impossibly gorgeous pop that mixes up woozy synthesizers, droney shoegaze textures and funky, sometimes danceable beats" - ROLLING STONE
disco and hip-hop that sounds like re-creations of songs faintly remembered...outstanding." - NEW YORK TIMES
LovepumpUnited-033
45
$3.75

Waterloo
First Battle [reissue]
PS, UK Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available in a CD version, including 6 bonus tracks. Regarded as one of the best European progressive rock albums from the '70s, the sole release by Belgian group Waterloo was originally released on the Vogue label and is a highly collectable item worth obscene sums in the collector's market. Released in 1970 and entirely sung in English, this brilliant album is a blend of progressive rock and heavy prog, with obvious Jethro Tull influences but with something else really of their own, making it a very special album. This is a new CD reissue of a classic of European progressive rock history, with 6 bonus tracks and high quality reissue standards, including a booklet with extensive liner notes and photos.
Guerssen-030
CD
$16.25

Waters, Patty
College Tour
PS, US
ESP-Disk'-1055
LP
$20.25

We Are Country Mice
There's No Other/Bullet of a Gun
PS, US Wao Wao Records is a new label formed and operated by Toby Rascal and HBear, two of the key owners of Kanine Records (www.kaninerecords.com ) Now operating in the basement of the Kanine Records' headquarters. Toby totally fell in love with this Kansas this band called We Are Country Mice and decided to start a new imprint to release their music to the world. We Are Country Mice is the kind of band that America loves. This band breathes the true American spirit or creative rock n' roll topped with a ton of originality. PITCHFORK: "They're not lo-fi and there's a healthy dose of country thrown into their distorted, anthemic attack. Singer-guitarist Jason Rueger has a high-pitched snarl and a penchant for breaking up his band's Crazy Horse-style songs with bouts of distortion. In Wilco terms, We Are Country Mice make music that sounds like Being There mashed up with a little Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."
Kanine/WaoWao
45
$4.75

Weekend
All American
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. Ear-splitting fuzz and honey-sweet melodies are the trademark of Weekend's durable, energetic sound. Shoegazer acolytes filtered through a transistor radio, they are not to be confused with the Young Marble Giants spinoff of the same name. This is the new Weekend and they are their own thing, ready to flatten you deaf, grinning ear to ear.
MexicanSummer
10
$17.75

Ween
12 Golden Country Greats
PS, US 5th full-length, originally released in 1996. The group's classic sense of humor filtered through a distinct countrypolitan sound
Plain-142
LP
$17.00

Ween
The Pod [reissue]
PS, US May contain foul language.
Rounder
CD
$12.25

Ween
Mollusk
PS, US Originally released in 1997. After an exercise in country music on 12 Golden Country Greats, the duo returns to its usual genre jumping, though there is a heavy focus on prog-rock
Plain-143
LP
$17.00

Ween
White Pepper
PS, US Originally relased in 2000. The duo are outsider pop geniuses in the greatest sense of the term, brilliant musicians w/ a firm grasp on just about every popular genre in the last 50 years (brit-pop, prog, country, soul, new wave, & beyond) & a quirk streak a mile wide.
Plain-144
LP
$17.00

Weezer
S-T (Blue Album) [Rarities Edition]
PS, US 2010 stand-alone single disc release that contains all the bonus tracks featured on the second disc of the Deluxe Edition release of this album (ie: does NOT contain the original album, only the rarities associated with that release). Perfect for collectors who may have missed the double disc version or for those who are in search of all the great tracks that were initially exclusive to the Deluxe Edition. Commonly referred to as The Blue Album, Weezer's self-titled debut album from 1994 received the Deluxe Edition treatment in 2004. The bonus audio from that collection consisted of b-sides, live and acoustic performances, demos and rare studio recordings. Weezer is proud to release this material by itself in the 'Rarities Edition' series, allowing fans the opportunity to purchase just the bonus material related to one of the most important albums from the '90s.
Geffen
CD
$13.75

Whines, The
Insane OK
PS, US Upstart label Just For the Hell of It Records (based on one of the greatest films of all time, seriously) has unleashed the debut 4-song 7" EP with their mind-numbing VU-inspired twang and throb that just can't be denied. As a shambolic three-piece with Messthetically-pleasing loose ends sticking out from all sides, The Whines have that careless candor in their songs that proves to be that magical touch that so many other bands lack in their recordings. One of the many trappings most minimalist female-fronted modern bands get stuck with is the all-encompassing Kleenex/Liliput comparison, and despite being partially accurate on quite a few instances, it really can be chalked up to lazy journalism. The Whines effectively break free of this typical reference point, and have emerged with this debut 7" full of atypical song styles ranging from the distilled Velvet Underground ambiance on the title track, to the impeccably addictive innocent toe-curling guitar tones on 'Indian Homewrecker,' and pull it all together with a refreshing nonchalance that reiterates the serious potential this band has going.
JustForTheHellOfIt-001
45
$7.00

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology
PS, US Hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk. Features members of the DAP KINGS, POETS OF RHYTHM & EL MICHELS AFFAIR.
Now Again
CD
$16.50

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology
PS, US Vinyl Version!
Now Again
DLP
$17.50

Williams, Tim
When Work Is Done
PS, US
DovecoteRecords-001
CD
$10.50

Wire Magazine
#311
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Wonder Years, The
The Upsides
PS, US The Upsides is a record about hope. In writing The Upsides, THE WONDER YEARS have created a soundtrack for the hopeful. Throughout the LP, the band continually sings, "I'm not sad anymore" in the hopes that everyone still feeling the weight of the past year can soon sing along.
NoSleepRecords-022
CD
$10.75

Worm Ouroboros
S-T
PS, US The doom-edged sound is reminiscent of classic 4AD acts like This Mortal Coil & Cocteau Twins. Delicately crafted structures counterbalance segments of distorted, down-tuned heaviness, resulting in an ethereal & atmospheric vibe that unfolds over the album's 9 tracks.
ProfoundLore-051
CD
$14.00

Wreckery, The
Past Imperfect [retrospective reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Melbourne 5-piece The Wreckery were one of the most popular Australian underground acts of the 1980s. They played a darkly-hued, twisted form of gothic blues, and were greatly influenced by The Birthday Party -- a band with which they were to develop several future connections. This double CD features 24 key tracks selected from the band's large recorded output. All tracks have been completely remastered and are presented here in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 24-page booklet stuffed with photographs, artwork and entertaining liner-notes penned by band leader Hugo Race. Hugo Race was a founding member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds and has been based in Europe since 1990, where he pursues a successful solo career and is currently signed to Glitterhouse Records. Guitarist Ed Clayton-Jones has also performed with the Bad Seeds and collaborated with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey on the soundtrack to And The Ass Saw The Angel. Along with The Birthday Party, (and its many offshoots), The Scientists and Beasts Of Bourbon, The Wreckery helped pioneer the particularly Australian, "dirty-alternative blues" sound made popular again in recent years by other Australians like The Drones, The Stabs, The Devastations, Kill Devil Hills & Penny Ikinger.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

Xhol
Essen 1970 [reissue]
PS, US XHOL's sound was a mix of jazz-rock and psychedelia. The band from Wiesbaden and former XHOL CARAVAN stood out for their pretty lengthy improvisations holding barely any vocals. The band became quite well-known with their two LPs released on Ohr. On Saturday, October 24, 1970, they performed at the third Essen Pop & Blues Festival at the Gruga hall. At that time, HANSI FISCHER, one of the founders, had already gone on to EMBRYO. The whole festival had been recorded semi-professionally on soundboard by ROLAND VERHEYEN. The event's master tapes are partly preserved. Lavishly remastered the CD provides a quite acceptable sound, although the drums seem to be too loud. Xhol's gig had been divided into four pieces blending perfectly into each other.
GardenofDelights-052
CD
$20.00

Xx, The
Vcr b/w Insects
PS, US Limited edition single with non album b-side
YoungTurks/XL
45
$4.75

Yamamoto, Eri Trio
In Each Day, Something Good
PS, US YAMAMOTO has an amazing gift for fresh & melodically indelible compositions. These all-new, all-original pieces are, as part of her 3-album string, nigh unmatched by her pianistic peers in music, and once again brought to life with ebullience & deep sensitivity by her long-running Trio partners (DAVID AMBROSIO, BASS & IKUO TAKEUCHI, DRUMS)
AUMFidelity-059
CD
$12.75

Yello Fever
S-T
PS, US YELLOW FEVER play minimal art pop a la Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, and 1980s Rough Trade. Formed in the summer of 2006, they have released two EPs as well as a 7-inch on Hugpatch records. The album released on THE VIVIAN GIRLS' Wild World imprint compiles both of the EPs and the 7-inch onto one release.
WildWorld
CD
$10.25
Yello Fever
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
WildWorld
LP
$12.00

Youngbloods
Earth Music (Mono Ed.) [reissue]
PS, US An uncommonly solid follow-up, expanding upon the musical directions introduced on their debut. Customized covers of Tim Hardin's "Reason To Believe," Holy Modal Rounders' "Euphoria," & Chuck Berry's "Monkey Business" demonstrate their talent for seamlessly integrating a broad array of influences. Meticulously restored from the pristine, original RCA Victor analog mono master tapes
Sundazed-5322
LP
$16.50

Youngbloods
S-T (Mono Ed.) [reissue]
PS, US Eponymous debut LP incl. the band's best-known song, "Come Together," which became a hit single - & one of the Aquarian Age's definitive peace anthems - 2 years after it's release. Meticulously restored from the pristine, original RCA Victor analog mono
master tapes
Sundazed-5321
LP
$16.50

Forthcoming Releases

A Broken Consort
Crow Autumn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Second release from RICHARD SKELTON. Operating under a variety of guises, Skelton creates powerful instrumental music out of denselylayered acoustic guitar, bowed strignts, piano mandoline and accordion, often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. Evoking equal parts Arvo Part and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Gorecki.
TompkinsSquare-2332
CD
$14.75

A Broken Consort
Crow Autumn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
TompkinsSquare-2349
LP
$14.00

A Certain Ratio
Force (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce an expanded CD re-release of the classic fifth album by iconic post-punk funk outfit A Certain Ratio, originally released by Factory Records in November 1986. Described by drummer Donald Johnson as "the Mike Tyson of funk", Force marked a convincing return to form for Ratio, mixing the robust funk grooves of single Mickey Way with down tempo tracks, as well as Si Firmi O Grido, the percussive tour de force which provides a reliable climax to live performances. In addition to pin-sharp rhythm and groove the album also displayed real consistency, and even a pop sensibility, courtesy of guest vocalist Corinne Drewery of Swing Out Sister. The album was also one of the first to utilize the brand new Akai S900 sampler. Force reached #2 on the indie album chart, buoyed by excellent reviews. "Force is bright, brilliant and hard as nails," wrote NME. "From the stop-watch bass and drums of Mickey Way to the startlingly optimistic snap and crackle of Only Together and Bootsy, Force almost dispenses with the expected melancholy and puts some of the euphoria of the funk to work." Melody Maker were equally impressed. "Ratio have jerked from their sleeves a fine pop record. Force is bright, tight, tense and coherent; a glorious achievement." On this remastered and expanded CD, no less than five bonus tracks have been added to the original eight on the album. These include flipside tracks from single Mickey Way, an ultra rare remix of Bootsy by Robert Racic (previously only available though Factory Australasia) and The Runner, issued on a limited edition Italian EP. ACR continue to gig and record, with 2009 album Mind Made Up scheduled for re-issue through LTM later in 2010.
LTM-2552
CD
$15.00

Aarktica/Various Artists
In Sea Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US A diverse collection of artists in genres ranging from noise to indie-pop to shoegaze and electronic remix and rework Aarktica's 2009 release In Sea. All tracks are exclusive to this release and unavailable elsewhere!
Silber-079
CD
$12.25

Abrasive Wheels
Skum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US The Abrasive Wheels formed at the back end of 1978. Their first EP was Army Song. In 1980 this was picked up by Mr Mike Stone from Clay Records who had produced bands like the Lurkers and GBH. The band went on to release the formidable album 'When the Punks go Marching in'. This had several hits in the Indie charts and reached number 3 as an album. Black Leather Girl was their second album in 1984; this went to number 8 in the Indie charts. Both albums sold in large quantities.
CrashedOutRecordings-03
CD
$13.75

African Head Charge
Songs Of Praise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Led by percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, African Head Charge formed in the early 80s and, under a shifting lineup, have released seven albums of afrocentric dub psychedelia, most of which have been produced by Adrian Sherwood and released on his On-U Sound label. As a precursor to the imminent release of their long-awaited new album Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa, AHC and On-U present a new reissue of Songs Of Praise, which was originally released in 1991 and has been out of print for the better part of five years. Regarded by many as the band's crowning moment, Songs Of Praise was always one of On-U's best and most consistent selling titles, and remains as much in demand today as when it first appeared.
On-U-Sound-9013
CD
$13.75

African Head Charge
Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Adrian Sherwood's mighty On-U Sound imprint, and the next 12 months will see the label's busiest schedule of new releases in more than half a decade. Leading from the front comes 'Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa', the first new studio album in 15 years from the semi-nal spiritual roots collective African Head Charge.
On-U Sound-9014
CD
$13.75

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US A Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio just outside of Seattle. It was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Jon Birgisson (of Sigur Ros). For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle. This time the whole band was invited to participate and the result is their best record yet.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Aloha
Home Acres (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Pushes the tempos & dials up the guitars, w/ the band's slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge amounts. But even as the energy surges, the group casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience & attach w/ equal measure.
Polyvinyl-189
CD
$10.25

Aloha
Home Acres (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Polyvinyl-189
DLP
$14.50

AM
Future Sons & Daughters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US AM brings a heady brew of twinkling Anglified folk-rock-pop,twanging Americana, caressing Philly soul and funky R&B whatchacallit -- and, best of all, joyously unheard points in-between. With, arguably, some of the best bridges and choruses in the bizness, drawing from The Beatles and Badfinger or Curtis Mayfield and Jorge Ben. Produced by Charles Newman (MAGNETIC FIELDS).
Filter-026
CD
$10.25

Andrew W.K.
Close Calls With Brick Walls/Mother Of Mankind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US New York, NY - (November 2009) - After three years of loyal patience, ANDREW W.K. fans can finally experience the "lost? third album from the established party rocker. Previously released in Japan and Korea in 2006, CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS will officially be-come available in the United States on February 23, 2010, being released by STEEV MIKE, as a special two album package (the original CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS on one disc, and an additional CD called MOTHER OF MANKIND, containing rare and unreleased mate-rial). After the recent release of 55 CADILLAC - a compilation of improvised solo piano compositions - CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS / MOTHER OF MANKIND deliver the slamming, inspirational music for which Andrew W.K. is loved, coupled with new sounds and feelings rarely associated with his traditional work. Close Calls With Brick Walls was recorded in multiple sessions throughout 2004 and 2005, using the full Andrew W.K. touring band for the first time. With a full instrumental band, the new album includes exciting new performances, styles, and rhythms. The lyrics are more complex although still very playful, and Andrew?s voice has grown into something much more distinct and expressive.
SteevMike-3214
DCD
$17.25

Another Electronic Musician
States Of Space (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US States of Space is the new album from Jase Rex's 'Another Electronic Musician' project and his 4th full-length for the n5MD imprint. The album gets its title from the physiological effects of his mental state during an emotionally difficult time. It also alludes to how his perception of his environment shaped his thoughts. Rex has sidestepped any stylistic expectations from his previous album, Five, by changing his working environment with the introduction of hardware into what previously was a strictly software based creative process. This more tactile way of working has given Rex room to let the songs breathe more than before and an almost 'less is more' ethos has crept into his music that also implies the album's title. Although this approach may seem more minimalist on paper, it has not at all affected the production, melodicism or density of the Another Electronic Musician sound.
n5MD-171
CD
$12.25

Art Museums
Rough Frame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE February 16TH)
PS, US Cult new wave band The Art Museums tell sordid tales of artists, lovers, and poseurs. Bay Area psych burnouts Josh Alper and Glenn Donaldson converged in San Francisco in the summer of '09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa '85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi.
Woodsist
CD
$11.75

Art Museums
Rough Frame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE February 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Woodsist
LP
$13.00

Attitude Adjustment
Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US 3 albums never before compiled together. For fans of Suicidal Tendencies, Death, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat
Taang-193
CD
$15.50

Avengers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 15TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents. 2CD
Water
DCD
$18.50

Avengers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE jUNE 15TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents
4MenWithBeards
LP
$17.00

Baker, Aidan
Liminoid/Lifeforms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The first solo release from the man behind ambient doom project NADJA. Liminoid is a compostion for large ensemble exploring sonic immersion in drones & textures, rhythms & pulsations incorporating composed & improvised segments. This recording is from its premier at The Music Gallery's Avant Festival in Toronto and it features powerful vocal performances with lyrics that have been adapted from 5th-8th century Coptic Christian texts. Lifeforms is a compostion for strings, prepared/effected guitar & amplified metal works.
Alien8-087
CD
$13.50

Bardo Pond
Bufo Alvarius [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Fire presents as part of their Fire Records Embers series a deluxe remastered reissue of Bardo Pond's first album, Bufo Alvarius, originally released on Drunken Fish in 1995. Bardo Pond is a wide-eyed Philadelphian psychedelic rock unit that exists as a shining point on a graph. A scintillating cross drawn on a celestial arc, marking their place among the 13th Floor Elevators, Calico Wall, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, and, more recently, Jackie-O Motherfucker and MV & EE. Explicitly narcotic -- there's no room for coyness or prissiness in space rock! -- the band was initially an excuse for abyssal guitar drone exploration by brothers Michael and John Gibbons. But Bufo Alvarius (named after a potently hallucinogenic toad), their classic 1995 album, marked an important turning point. It was like the flickering cine-8 film of someone falling off a cliff played backwards. A hazy figure leaping out of the void, pausing at the second their foot touched terra firma. It was the juncture where their music clarified out of chaos and started to coalesce around formations of post-rock, shoegaze and psych structure while always threatening to dissolve into a blizzard of reverb, white noise, fuzz drone and echoplex. This was the album that saw them graduate from cult local concern to cult global passion, stepping out from the monolithic shadows cast by their influences. It is difficult to pick out individual high points on something so clearly designed to be listened to as a whole, but the lysergic ebb and flow of "Capillary River," the aqueous beauty of "Absence" and, of course, the half-hour long centerpiece of "Amen" demand full attention from the listener. The previously-unreleased "Fixed" rounds off an album that is transcendent in all the right meanings of the word.
Fire-137
CD
$14.25

Bass Clef
May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Starting with the same raw material of bass and beats assembled on four-track cassette (it was good enough for Lee Perry), Bass Clef has stepped beyond E8 city limits and into the studio to add African-ist percussion, This Heat-style drum freak-outs, and the usual riot of trombone, Theremin and cowbell familiar to anyone who has experienced Bass Clef live ... and following his storming main-stage performance at Sonar as part of this year?s Radio One showcase, that now includes several million repeat-broadcast-exposed UK listeners.
BlackTapes-011
CD
$13.75

Ben & Vesper
LuvInldleness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US This record began in Ben + Vesper's kitchen so many years ago over three bowls of vegetarian chili, a pan of cornbread, filtered water, and an agreeable dinner guest by the name of Sufjan Stevens. The occasion was an invitation to play at a house-concert series that Ben + Vesper hosted in their living room (which resulted in Sufjan's first live show ever). This unlikely start to Sufjan's performing career also resulted in an ongoing friendship and musical dialogue that has recently inspired Ben + Vesper to dish out another dollop of ambrosial pop songs titled LuvInIdleness. Here is the new EP that finally brought the dinner party full circle as Sufjan, in turn, invited the Jersey-based couple across state lines, harrowing train connections and two great rivers to record 16 minutes of listening glee. If you don't wish to try all this, then put on the CD, and you will be pleased to hear a heavy dose of Sufjan's bright and varied arrangements underpinning each track, and Ben's brother Josh plucking and bowing that unmistakably gorgeous upright bass. One of the greatest achievements of LuvInIdleness is the room provided for Vesper's voice to really shine. On every song, Vesper can be heard striding out from the shadows of a backing vocalist to command each melodic turn with her distinctive range. This gives greater weight to Ben's understated baritone as the two voices form a pleasing union throughout the course of the album. LuvInIdleness is not only a really satisfying listen, but also a celebration of enduring friendship.
SoundsFamilyre-34
CD5
$5.50

Besnard Lakes, The
Albatross b/w Four Long Lines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US A standout track and the first single from Montreal's The Besnard Lakes' upcoming longplayer, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, "Albatross" has all the swagger of a Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac classic or Roy Orbison reimagined as a rollicking, snakeskin-booted Mazzy Star -- dousing it all in gas and throwing the match as we hear its tale of Vancouver's skid row and its inhabitants. On the flip we find "Four Long Lines," a non-album cut that not so much exists within the dark grooves of the vinyl as it does float just above the stereo, embodying the extraterrestrial encounter the song cryptically details. "Saw an alien/On the street/At dawn...Saw Aliens/In the sky/Called out to them, " breathes Jace Lasek's otherworldly falsetto, which stays just beyond definition skating on top of what could be a basement-tape lost cut from Eno's Another Green World.
Jagjaguwar-166
12
$9.00

Best Coast
Something In The Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino (ex - Pocahaunted) with Bobb Bruno (Polar Goldie Cats). Leaving NY behind Bethany returns to Los Angeles with a different perspective on music and the world. She writes great pop songs and has a beautiful voice that sings hooks that are hard to get out of your head. Her aesthetic is semi lo-fi but you can hear the growth within. Best Coast is making headway in Los Angeles and is cramming bars left and right allover, see what all the fuss is about.
PostPresentMedium-030
45
$4.25

Blessure Grave
Judged by Twelve Carried by Six (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Founded as a duo by T. GRAVES & REYNA KAY in September 2008, they blur the lines between Goth, PostPunk, & NeoFolk
genres. Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets & the Cure as influences, they inject a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness and create an interesting mix of old & new but dark all around
Alien8-088
CD
$13.50

Bloom, Kath
Thin Thin Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Few people who enjoyed the signature song 'Come Here' in the movie 'Before Sunrise' knew that the artist was folk singer-songwriter Kath Bloom. Kath had recorded several albums in the late seventies but was largely unknown by 1995. Her rediscovery since then with reissues and tribute album contributions by artists such as Devendra Banhart and Mark Kozelek is reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan's. Kath's new album, Thin Thin Line justifies the enthusiasm.
CaldoVerde-010
CD
$11.25

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Who Killed Sgt Pepper? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album , "Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?". Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized) , Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) & Felix from the Russian band "Amazing Electronic Talking Cave" & other musicians from France , Germany , & Iceland , this is the band's most multi cultured re-lease to date ,while obviously keeping the band's trademark style throughout this album . 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats , to rock , to shoegazing , to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band. This is the new Brian Jonestown Massacre Album "Who Killed Sgt Pepper?"
Arecords-020
CD
$13.75

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US DLP vinyl, 180g, white with purple splatters. Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album, "Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?". Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized), Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) and Felix from the Russian band Amazing Electronic Talking Cave & other musicians from France, Germany and Iceland, this is the band's most multicultured release to date, while obviously keeping the band's trademark style throughout this album. 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats, to rock, to shoegazing, to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band. This is the new Brian Jonestown Massacre Album "Who Killed Sgt Pepper?"
Arecords-020
DLP
$34.25

Brunettes, The
Paper Dolls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US The Brunettes have a meticulous craft in the studio. Writing pop songs, that most fickle of forms, requires a precision that comes naturally to the band, and their records ring perfection in every note. Their sense of fun firmly intact, The Brunettes inject their new batch of songs with a sense of modernity on Paper Dolls. Opener "In Colours" and closer "Thank You" are the entrance and exit into this world, as both sit comfortably with previous efforts; in between, however, principal songwriter Jonathan Bree augments his pop leanings with drum machines and an intimidatingly wide array of synths to fantastic effect. Lyrically, the album combines clever call-and-response levity, an undercurrent of smoldering romance, and a penchant for idiosyncratic storytelling. All are on display on lead single "Red Rollerskates," which finds Bree and co-lead vocalist / instrumentalist Heather Mansfield solving a relatively ordinary problem (Bree walks too fast for his asthmatic girlfriend) with an unusual solution (buying her a pair of red rollerskates and pulling her around with a rope). On "The Crime Machine," Mansfield longs to live as a 1920s kingpin, while "Bedroom Disco" lives up to its title as a stay-at-home party song. The album's title track combines surreal lyrics about a stationery fetish with Bond-movie string arrangements and guitar tremolo.
Lil'Chief
CD
$11.75

Budd, Harold & Clive Wright
Little Windows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US Little Windows completes the trilogy begun with A Song for Lost Blossoms and carried through their previous album Candylion. Little Windows was recorded especially for John Diliberto's popular, syndicated ambient music radio show, Echoes Radio. These recordings were first heard on Echoes Radio in Fall 2009. Little Windows showcases these Artist's individual talents more so than their two previous albums. Only two of the nine tracks are collaborative Budd/Wright works. Four tracks are fully fleshed out Clive Wright solo compositions recorded at his Desert Sky Studio. Three tracks are Harold Budd solo at the piano -- just Harold with a beautiful sounding piano in a beautiful sounding room at Knobworld Studios, Silverlake.
Darla-234
CD
$12.25

Bulldog Courage
From Heartache To Hatred (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US BULLDOG COURAGE is a fierce combination of in-your-face street punk and east coast hardcore all wrapped up in one ugly, defiant package.
ThorpRecords-079
CD
$12.25

Buzzcocks
Another Music in a Different Kitchen [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions. A major punk landmark that is full of fire, wit, speed, philosophical lyrics & gender explorations, as well as the sly psychedelia that always made them stand out from the pack, including the classic track "Orgasm Addict".
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Buzzcocks
Love Bites [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions.
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Buzzcocks
A Different Kind of Tension [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions.
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Cars Can Be Blue
All the Stuff We Do (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Cars Can Be Blue is a two-headed creature that clawed its way out of a swamp known as Keene, NH way back in 2003, when Becky Brooks and Nate Mitchell fused into one musical essence, foisting their rudimentary songwriting skills upon the world and gradually cultivating a legion of morally questionable admirers. The Cars Can Be Blue components seem simple enough: a girl with a guitar, a guy with a ramshackle drum kit, yet this bipolar beast houses a wide swath of darkness shrouded in shiny pop confections...or is it the other way ‘round? IMAGINE Tullycraft fronted by Andrew Dice Clay or Sarah Silverman and you get the idea.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-069
LP
$13.00

Carta
An Index of Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16th)
PS, US RIYL: Low, Six By Seven, Coldplay, The Cure, Stars of the Lid, Charles Atlas, Landing, Ida. Carta returns with a new home on Silber combining all of the 1990s moody pop, slowcore, & post rock sounds into modern indie pop. File under Indie, Post Rock, Alternative, Slowcore, Minimalist Pop.
Sample track: http://www.silbermedia.com/mp3s/carta-building-bridges.mp3
Silber-077
CD
$12.25

Casino Versus Japan
Night On Tape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US While fans wait for the next official Casino Versus Japan album, Attacknine is happy to present Night On Tape, 20 previously unreleased tracks from Casino Versus Japan's recording archives. Casino Versus Japan is Erik Kowalski. His signature style of electronic songs have garnered enjoyment from fans the world over, as well as by other music figures such as; Ulrich Schnauss, Kid 606, Marumari and the folks at the luminary labels Morr Music, Carpark, Darla, & City Centre Offices.
Attack9-018
CD
$12.25

Common Loon
The Long Dream of Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2010)
PS, US Common Loon is a psych-rock-pop duo, Matt Campbell and Robert Hirschfeld, who have known each other since Kindergarten (for real). They are from Illinois. They traffic in otherworldly rock, blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness. Names dropped include Sparklehorse, Sebadoh, Spacemen 3's extended family, Apples In Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Granddaddy...
AHiddenAgendaRecord-096
CD
$10.00

Cotton Candy
Top-Notch & First-Rate (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US COTTON CANDY is MARK ROBINSON (UNREST, AIR MIAMI, FLIN FLON) and EVELYN HURLEY (BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE). 27 tracks ranging from indie-pop to electronic-pop to hard rock. They also show off their advertising jingle chops with covers of rare radio & TV commercials. They were in Believer Magazine's 2009 Music Issue & collaborated with David Shrigley on Tomlab's "Worried Noodles" compilation. TRANSPARENT GREEN VINYL with full-color jacket & labels! 180 gram pressing comes with download code.
TeenBeat-457
LP
$12.75

Dakota Suite
Night Just Keeps Coming In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 2LP+CD version.
KaraokeKalk-051
DLP
$19.50

Dakota Suite
Night Just Keeps Coming In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Collection of adaptations & remixes of the seminal record The End Of Trying, featuring mostly subdued sound animations, flowing piano harmonies & smooth cello arrangements. Artists include: MACHINEFABRIEK, PETER BRODERICK, JASPER LEYLAND, HAUSCHKA, ELEGI, DEAF
CENTER, ARVE HENRIKSEN, GREG HAINES, HANNU, TAPE, SWOD, THE BOATS, JACASZEK, EMANUELE ERRANTE, LOSCIL, DAKOTA SUITE & NICK HAWLEY
KaraokeKalk-051
CD
$16.75

Daughters
Daughters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Daughters' Self-Titled is, the kind of record that you can't stop turning up... The kind that satisfies every cultural/musical requisite a critical listener possesses while simultaneously reinventing the wheel... The kind that's so immediately gratifying that you don't even bother to compare your instincts with what today's internet has to say... The Kind you won't have to remove from your automobile's CD player for several months... its a ten.
HydraHeadRecords-195
CD
$12.00

Demon
Live In Germany (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US REGION 0 : All Region. This film was shot in GERMANY at the Warm up Show for the KEEP IT TRUE FESTIVAL in TURNHALLE, DITTIGHEIM, GERMANY April 7th 2006, This was the first GIG of a 7 date TOUR.
HillstoneProductions-002
DVD
$23.25

Dum Dum Girls
Jail La La (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US First single from "I Will Be", the debut full-length out March 30 on Sub Pop. Having previously released an EP on Captured Tracks, a 7" on HoZac, and a CD EP on Zoo Music, DDG churn out blissful pop that falls somewhere between the Ramones & the Ronettes. Which, in our opinion, is a very good
thing.
SubPop-869
45
$4.75

Dunn, Kyle Bobby
A Young Person's Guide To (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Spread across two CDs with a total running time of nearly two hours, A Young Persons Guide To... is a stunning collection of recordings from New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn.
LowPoint-033
DCD
$16.25

Durutti Column
2001-2009 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US 5CD set. The complete output of Vini Reilly from 2001-2009! Special edition set includes unheard exclusive bonus tracks & art prints of each CD cover.
Artful-067
CD-BOX
$37.50

DVA
Natty/Ganja (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Rinse FM's breakfast show host, DVA is a producer with a unique take on the UK Funky bug, blending the stiff 8-bar funk of grime with a super-supple rhythmic sensibility, sew-ing neon colours with a laid back precision into his tracks.
HyperdubRecords-030
12
$10.50

Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Wet Cement EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010)
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. Three new tracks from Australia's garage-pop titans. Shades of The Saints, The Troggs and Thee Oh Sees but with a sound all their own. ROSE QUARTZ: "Casually great ... Lo-fi singalongs with perfectly satisfying climaxes."
MexicanSummer
45
$4.25

Electric President
The Violent Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic prog rock. For the last 3 years the band has been releasing music on German imprint and indietronic mainstay Morr, now in 2010 they release their first album on CT based Fake Four Inc.
FakeFourInc.-015
LP
$13.00

Electric President
The Violent Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic prog rock. For the last 3 years the band has been releasing music on German imprint and indietronic mainstay Morr, now in 2010 they release their first album on CT based Fake Four Inc.
FakeFourInc.-015
CD
$10.50

Ent
Welcome Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Ent is the solo musical project of Atsushi Horie who hails from Nagasaki in the south of Japan. Horie's main gig is of frontman of the BritPop influenced band STRAIGHTENER (EMI) that has a devoted and somewhat large following in their native Japan. However, Atsushi became attracted to Leftfield electronics and Post-rock which led him to start writing a solo album in 2006 that infused more of those genres' elements in an effort to make something more personal and deeply sentimental. Three years in the making this first album "Welcome Stranger" is a lush album of wide-eyed and unapologetic left of center pop somewhere between The Album Leaf and The Postal Service. Atsushi has succeeded in crafting an album that utilizes his newer influences with the more traditional style of song-craft his band STRAIGHTENER is known for. "Welcome Stranger" also features remixes from Kettel (Sending Orbs), Near The Parenthesis (n5MD) and Helios (Type).
n5MD-172
CD
$12.25

Ex
Maybe I Was The Pilot b/w Our Leaky Homes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 8TH)
PS, US The title "Our Leaky Homes" comes from the title of a chapter of a book called "HEAT (How to stop the planet from
burning)" by English journalist George Monbiot. The main riff of "Maybe I was the Pilot" was borrowed & adapted from a song called "Elosi aberu akipore imaniti abide" by Ugandan singer & adedeu (harp) player Iganitiyo Ekacholi.
ExRecords
45
$9.75

Fang Island
Fang Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description.
SargentHouse-028
CD
$8.75

Far East Family Band
Parallel World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, UK Originally released in 1976 by Nippon Columbia, this is the final album by legendary Japanese space/psych-rockers Far East Family Band. Unlike other albums where the band focused on Pink Floyd-esque psych ballads, on Parallel World, the influence of German producer/electronic music composer Klaus Schulze is more pronounced, merging prog rock with electronic music to create something rather weird and wonderful. Although Schulze oversaw the production of the album rather than playing on it (which he definitely didn't!), the synth star here is Masanori Takahashi who was later to find new age fame and fortune under the name of Kitaro. This is space rock at its finest and the band's extended compositions attracted favorable comparisons with both Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and even at times the vocal style of the Moody Blues. Unfortunately, this was the band's last album, but they went out on a high, achieving the rare feat of appealing to devotees of both Krautrock and electronic psychedelia alike. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Foxx, John
My Lost City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, UK Most of the material on the album was recorded at Foxx's Shoreditch studio, The Garden, between 1981 - 1985. "I hadn't listened to the recordings that are being released as the My Lost City album since they were made, over twenty years ago,' says Foxx. 'When I played them I was struck by the way they evoke a time and a place - and how I'd been unaware of this when they were made. Then they seemed like fragments, unfinished and unsatisfying. A stop on the way to somewhere else."

"Now they seem like a time capsule discovered from under the streets. Made by someone else. Like an old radio tuned into a long gone station. Curious psychic electrical, crackling distantly from the speakers."

"They were recorded in East London. Back then, Shoreditch and Spitalfields were abandoned, dark and forgotten, yet only a step away from the City of London, the country's financial dynamo. I built a studio in the basement of an old Edwardian department store - trees growing from the upper story's when we moved in. I remember trying to make connections in this little laboratory between synthesizers and hymns and cities, churches, electricity and memory."

For two decades the material remained untouched; just some old, forgotten tapes buried away in storage until they were rescued in late 2008. Apart from some minor remixing, they're essentially the sound of analogue synthesizers and a lost era when the area around the now bustling, brutally hip and ultra-expensive Hoxton Square was still an abandoned, deserted area of London. A kind of industrial ghost town.

In recent years, John Foxx has been experimenting as a film-maker (including a pioneering video for L.F.O. and recent performances of his Super 8 project Tiny Colour Movies in Melbourne, London and Barcelona), artist (exhibitions in London and New York and his images have been used on the covers of books by Anthony Burgess and Salman Rushdie) and musician and he's now developing a growing international reputation as a writer - last year he headlined a major literature festival where he reads extracts from his as yet unfinished novel The Quiet Man. He is currently working on new material with Paul Daley (Leftfield) and Benge.
Metamatic-021
CD
$16.25

Frost, Ben
By The Throat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Vinyl version. It's impossible to truly classify where he is coming from musically, but it would be safe to say his fans would also have records from Neurosis, Tim Hecker, Sunn O))) & Fennesz in their collection. Where "Theory of Machines" came sterilized in fluorescent light, "By The Throat" is blood red & cloaked in shadow.
BedroomCommunity-006
LP
$16.25

Funkadelic
Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 6th album from GEORGE CLINTON's pioneering funk-rock outfit, originally released in 1974. Another feather in the increasingly bizzare & brilliant cap of Mr. Clinton
4 Men With Beards
LP
$16.50

Funkadelic
America Eats Its Young (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 4th album from GEORGE CLINTON's funk/psych/rock outfit, originally released in 1972. Deep & heavy grooves propelled by the always amazing guitar, bass & keyboard work of Eddie Hazel, William "Bootsy" Collins, & Bernie Worrell, respectively. Equally sleazy, political, heartfelt, & just plain bizarre. 180 gram 2LP
4MenwithBeards-179
DLP
$23.25

Gentle Friendly
Ride Slow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Using a wide palette of sound that successfully captures the intensity of their live performance, GENTLE FRIENDLY have completed their adventurous debut album, surpassing the band's lo-fi origins & demonstrating an uplifting emotional range. Rounds of echo drench & repetitive rapture glide seamlessly between songs of euphoric warmth to broken stammering rhythms to crushing walls of atmosphere
UpsettheRhythm-031
CD
$16.25

Gentle Friendly
Ride Slow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
UpsettheRhythm-031
LP
$17.00

Gibson, Laura & Ethan Rose
Bridge Carols (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US As the project developed, Gibson began improvising lyrics & wordless vocalizations that tumbled out in long, trailing waves. Rose then reshaped tones & sounds around her words. RIYL: Grouper, Max Richter, William Basinski, Tim Hecker
Holocene-010
CD
$16.50

GiGi
Maintenant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Gigi is the recording project of Vancouver-based songwriter Nick Krgovich and producer/engineer Colin Stewart. In the spring of 2005 Stewart acquired two huge vintage plate reverbs and, eager to use them in a way that befit their history, he asked Krgovich to come up with a couple songs in the vein of classic Phil Spector/Brill Building pop hits and invited a large group of musician friends into the Hive Studios to record the songs live-off-the-floor. The results of that night were amazing, inspiring a string of
recording sessions that took place over the following 3 years, collected here on Gigi's debut album Maintenant. Capturing the spirit of the pop music that flooded the hit parade in the early 60's is a tall order, and the songs on Maintenant decidedly develop a world and language of its own. With a reverent eye on the past and a deep respect for the airtight songsmithery of artists like Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Shadow Morton (among countless others), the songs aren't content to be throwback-y pastiches or polka-dotted retro workouts but rather stand as attempts at working within a specific and incredibly rich tradition of pop music production. There is something deeply satisfying about bringing together a large group of singers and musicians, cramming them into the studio, running through a song a couple times and then hitting "record". The shape of the songs forming on the fly and being coloured by the entire group, the intent and heart of the song crystallizing as the tape rolls. By the same token, the charming flubs and missed cues swirling in a dense cloud of reverb revealing sublime harmonies, soaring brass, and all the bells and whistles one might expect from a Krgovich/Stewart helmed project. In addition to Stewart's engineering and production credits on albums by Black Mountain, Cave Singers and Destroyer, as well as, Krgovich's other groups NO KIDS and P:ANO, GIGI has given the pair an opportunity to unabashedly profess their love of pop music in the most direct way conceivable, and this could not have been accomplished without the talents of the many players and singers that graciously helped out along the way. With singing contributions from artists such as Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, Mirah, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls, Katie Eastburn of Young People, Rose Melberg and Karl Blau, the character studies in the songs are voiced from wildly distinct positions giving the narratives of lovesick loneliness, solitary walks around the neighbourhood at twilight, and friday nights at home with parents watching television in the front room, just that much more poignancy. In the end, what began as a humble experiment four years ago has ballooned into a pop extravaganza that will sit just as comfortably next to your Back To Mono box set as it will your rotary phone, waiting to ring.
Tomlab-132
CD
$12.25

GiGi
Maintenant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Tomlab-132
LP
$14.25

Ginsberg, Pepi
East Is East (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US In East is East, Pepi Ginsberg and her collaborators step into the golden hour of the day and embrace "The most ephemeral of seasons." A mood and a time where we "know that change is coming in the form of a cool wind; we hold on until we let go." The song 'Summer Sick as Love' accomplishes this feeling, with its mythical descriptions of gutter punks and wind ravaged stop-signs. Ginsberg, with arrangements expertly handled by her band, creates a world with East is East, that is "the season in between," and parts the waters, navigating change in the sea of these strange times.
ParkTheVan
LP
$12.50

Glossary
Feral Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Glossary's new album, Feral Fire, is its first for Lucero's Liberty and Lament label (Glossary's Todd Beene also plays in Lucero), and is marked by a testifying batch of R&B and country tinged rock songs that explores the band's dysfunctional relationship with time, religion,materialism, the universe and southern ideals.
RebelGroup
CD
$12.50

Goat, The & The Occasional Others
The Goat Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The Goat is some real nice sh!t. A legendary SKATER amd his Crazy-ass iconic-in-their-own-right budd's all styled up and shredding skate-park-punk riffs under dirrrrty lingo. an american ORIGINAL. OG. Like if a BAD BRAINS fan slurped codeinated 40 water and puked on a MURDER CITY DEVILS fan.
WerewolfHeartRecords-001
CD
$8.75

Gonjasufi
A Sufi And A Killer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US In these recent heady days, hype spreads like digital swine-flu and new artists are subjected to the sea change of an entire career before ever developing their sound. So to exist outside of the spotlight and develop a sound at once ready for the masses online, yet rooted in the fierce individualism of artists past may seem somewhat of a quaint notion until you hear Gonjasufi. At the moment, he stands just outside the spotlight cast on his friends and collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer, but the sonic brotherhood that exists is implicit rather than as similarities in sound. Drawing from unearthed strains of global psychedelia and merging it with a rejuvenated sense of hip-hop clarity currently distinct to the West Coast, Gonjasufi is more than just a songwriter, MC or performer. His debut album "A Sufi And A Killer" recalls moments in love as well as trading sinister threats with enemies, sometimes within the same song. Trading in both the murk of lo-fidelity vintage samples and the concentrated crispness of current West Coast production, "A Sufi And A Killer" is both a roadmap to the riches of the distant past and a signpost to the future.
WarpRecords-10172
DLP
$16.25

Gonjasufi
A Sufi And A Killer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US In these recent heady days, hype spreads like digital swine-flu and new artists are subjected to the sea change of an entire career before ever developing their sound. So to exist outside of the spotlight and develop a sound at once ready for the masses online, yet rooted in the fierce individualism of artists past may seem somewhat of a quaint notion until you hear Gonjasufi. At the moment, he stands just outside the spotlight cast on his friends and collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer, but the sonic brotherhood that exists is implicit rather than as similarities in sound. Drawing from unearthed strains of global psychedelia and merging it with a rejuvenated sense of hip-hop clarity currently distinct to the West Coast, Gonjasufi is more than just a songwriter, MC or performer. His debut album "A Sufi And A Killer" recalls moments in love as well as trading sinister threats with enemies, sometimes within the same song. Trading in both the murk of lo-fidelity vintage samples and the concentrated crispness of current West Coast production, "A Sufi And A Killer" is both a roadmap to the riches of the distant past and a signpost to the future.
WarpRecords-1017
CD
$13.00

Gonzales, Ernest
Been Meaning to Tell You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Gonzales' music offers up sonic interpretations of that sweet & sour, mixing organic & artificial sounds to create an elaborate experience of guitar meeting textured & careful electronics. 180g white vinyl. Includes download card w/ access to 16 song remix album feat. DAEDELUS, MEXICANS WITH GUNS, YPPAH, AETHER, & COPY
TallCorn-006
LP
$17.00

Gultskra Artikler
Galktika (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US Limited edition colored vinyl. Moscow-based Gultskra Artikler (Alexey Devyanin) can't be easily categorized. He's explored multiple styles and approaches, with consistently unpredictable output. His ideas on releases for labels such as Hyperboloid, Lampse, Miasmah and Other Electricities comprise a wealth of concept, intent, and overall exploration. Building on versatile collections of folktronica, field recordings, drone, glitch and avant-garde, he returns with Galaktika.
OtherElectricities-024
LP
$12.25

Guthrie, Robin
Sunflower Stories (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Limited edition of 1000. Digipak. Sunflower Stories is third in a trilogy of EPs from master soundscaper Robin Guthrie following Songs To Help My Children Sleep, released October '09 and Angel Falls, released August '09. We have a few words to describe these songs - uplifting, summery, opulent, dreamlike, exquisite, moving - with Guthrie quietly coaxing beauty out of layers of echoes and always inventive soundscaping. Given the quality of the recent album and two EPs, it's not surprising that as a guitarist and producer, Guthrie has been a massive influence on everyone from My Bloody Valentine through to Antony and the Johnsons, new 4 A.D. Act The Big Pink and M83.
In recent years he's worked with School Of Seven Bells, John Foxx (Ulrich Schnauss, Harold Budd and shared a stage with Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine). Most people know about his work in the Cocteau Twins, but he's also produced Ian McCulloch, Edwyn Collins and Felt, as well as defining the now vogue-ishly fashionable early '90s shoegazing scene with his productions for the likes of Lush and Chapterhouse.
Darla-233
CD5
$8.25

Hawgood, Ian
Slow Films In Low Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, UK 'Slow Films In Low Light' is a collection of remixes and re-workings by friends and artists from my now deleted album 'Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made'. The original album was released on the lovely Rope Swing Cities but I decided I wanted it to be a temporary release given the nature of the album. RSC and I decided to do a small release to coincide with the original, as a limited run CD-R featuring re-workings and remixes of the pieces by friends, namely The Remote Viewer, Geskia!, Ten and Tracer and Pan Am Scan.
HomeNormal-013
CD
$12.25

Hayaino Daisuki
The Invincible Gate Mind Of The Infernal Fire Hell, Or... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US I was like you once... Often a little too lazy to get out of bed to blow a piss, old milky cereal bowls... so yeah, I know exactly what your thinking... your thinking, how could Hayaino Daisuki, arguably the most influential power-thrash outfit ever, outdo what they already pulled off on their debut EP, Headbanger's Karaoke Club Dangerous Fire? But they did... let me break it down. OK so, Hayaino Daisuki has always been the tightest and the fastest band out there, right? Hayaino's new record, other wise known as The Invincible Gate Mind of the Infernal Fire Hell, or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuki? maintains the aforementioned titles while gaining them another... After this record hits the shelves, people like you and me are going to have to start referring to Hayaino Daisuki as the fastest, tightest and most melodic metal band ever! And dude, if your into aggressive music you've come to the right place... listening to this band, and in particular the record in question, is like crossing streams with a fire hose... You know... Obviously you run the risk of injury, but your stoned and growing up in the suburbs...
HydraHeadRecords-177
CD
$9.50

High On Fire
Snakes For The Divine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL
E1Music-2010
DLP
$23.25

High On Fire
Snakes For The Divine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US One of the most highly anticipated releases of 2010, "guaranteed to alter heart rhythms & weaken building infrastructures...as powerful & gargantuan a threesome as metal has produced" - Pitchfork
E1Music-2010
CD
$12.25

Hot Chip
One Life Stand [deluxe expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US CD+DVD special edition.
Astralwerks
CD/DVD
$21.25

Hot Chip
One Life Stand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The band's most boldly accomplished record yet, at once offbeat & anthemic, cerebral & danceable
Astralwerks
CD
$15.50

Jaga Jazzist
One Armed Bandit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US The Norwegian 9-piece return to the fray with the stunning "One Armed Bandit,". All galloping rhythms, arpeggiated harpsichord and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as "Wagner meets Fela Kuti!" Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood viking epic.
NijaTune-152
CD
$13.00

Japanther
Rock N Roll Ice Cream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYL FOR DIRECT STORES ONLY!! PREORDER ASAP- ONLY 500 AVAILABLE. The story behind Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream is an adventure tale of exploring harmonies, writing together & a little bit of that West Coast surf vibe whilst lurking a bit towards Japanther's salad days in Brooklyn to draw on pop hooks & simple drum parts that make skating seem easier & bikes move faster. Produced by Michael Blum, whose past projects include Michael Jackson, Madonna (Like a Prayer, Who's That Girl), Pink Floyd and Suicidal Tendencies. It seemed a daring fish out of water fit for an album envisioned by Japanther as a dance party - and all the kids are invited! Comes with digital download.
MenloPark-7055
LP
$11.75

Jarnow, Al
Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US First collection of work by reknowed public television filmmaker Al Jarnow. His films have been seen by tens of millions of people of the last 40 years on PBS. Here 45 individual films are restored & color corrected in HD and lovingly packaged with a 60 page full color book and 30 minute documentary. Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia & boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters & counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion & cel animation with simple objections found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation. Region 0
Numero-031
DVD
$24.75

Jatun
Blanket of Ash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9th)
PS, US When Jatun's eponymous debut dropped in 2007, dream-pop enthusiasts and headphone purists alike were astounded by its thoughtfully detailed songs and meticulous textures. Subtle, distinct variations embedded in teeming walls of sound egged them on for a louder-than-loud listen. And there was just no denying the nuance cycles of swarming and disintegrating buzz; conduits for robot melodies. With Blanket of Ash, Jatun offers up another does of clandestine vocals, heavy layers and unmistakable intensity: A vinyl-only collection of metallic drone and spackjunk beats for the truly frequency-dependent.
OtherElectricities-022
LP
$12.25

June, Sarah
In Black Robes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Attic core spooky americana w/ a sweet child like voice singing stories of love, cowboys, & death.
Silber-076
CD
$12.50

Knife, The
Tomorrow, In a Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Price/format TBC! Details courtesy of PITCHFORK: "Last year, the Knife recorded a soundtrack to an experimental opera based on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species called Tomorrow, In a Year. (Berlin dance-rock act Mt. Sims and chamber experimentalist Planningtorock also collaborated on the music.) The stage performance premiered in September...it's about as fucked up and amazing-looking (and -sounding) as one would expect from an avant-opera featuring music from the Knife. And now a studio version of the soundtrack is on the way, courtesy of Mute. The 11-minute epic "Colouring of Pigeons" is currently streaming at the Knife's website and it just might rupture your brainspace... Nobody on earth (or elsewhere) is making music like this."
Mute
DCD
$16.25

Lawrence Arabia
Chant Darling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US After spending a few year in NYC and working with some of the finest (Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, TV on the Radio...), Tahiti Boy aka David Sztanke came back to Paris. He'll then gather musicians, calling themselves the Palmtree family. On top of the traditionnal pop combo, they've added percussions, a cello, and Tahiti Boy's keyboards, central elements of their signature groovy psychedelic pop sound.
BellaUnion-000222
CD
$11.25

Local Natives
Gorilla Manor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
FrenchKiss-042
LP
$17.50

Local Natives
Gorilla Manor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, & throbbing tribal beats. Draws a line from the vocal stylings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young & the Zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk & Afro-beat.
FrenchKiss-042
CD
$13.25

LoneLady
Nerve Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and tight guitarist. With little more than thorny determination and a shoestring budget, she built a secluded ramshackle studio in the belly of one of Manchester's crumbling mills and created her debut full length album, "Nerve Up" in the span of four weeks. The aesthetics of this ex-mill were a pure joy for LoneLady, and invoked the ghosts of bands she loves ... (Joy Division, ESG, Wire, Grace Jones, The Fall, Suicide, PiL). Co-produced by Julie and Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, The Breeders, Stereolab), LoneLady has delivered far more than just an assembly of songs in album form, but the outcome of a process of making something out of nothing.
WarpRecords-10186
LP
$13.00

LoneLady
Nerve Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and tight guitarist. With little more than thorny determination and a shoestring budget, she built a secluded ramshackle studio in the belly of one of Manchester's crumbling mills and created her debut full length album, "Nerve Up" in the span of four weeks. The aesthetics of this ex-mill were a pure joy for LoneLady, and invoked the ghosts of bands she loves ... (Joy Division, ESG, Wire, Grace Jones, The Fall, Suicide, PiL). Co-produced by Julie and Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, The Breeders, Stereolab), LoneLady has delivered far more than just an assembly of songs in album form, but the outcome of a process of making something out of nothing.
WarpRecords-10186
CD
$13.00

Loscil
Endless Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US Vinyl with two extra tracks not on the CD version!
Kranky-141
DLP
$16.50

Loscil
Endless Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US The album begins and ends with the sound of rain recorded by Scott in his back yard, precipitation being a constant presence in his home city of Vancouver. Many of the other sounds on the album are derived from these same recordings, processed & combined with other harmonic sounds to create the textures & drones. Something completely new to this release would be vocals, of a sort, a first for any loscil composition, contributed by Daniel Bejar (DESTROYER) on the final track.
Kranky-141
CD
$12.25

Love Is All
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US After releasing two critically acclaimed full-lengths (Nine Times That Same Song, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night) and several EPs on New York-based What's
Your Rupture?, Love Is All returned home to Gothenburg, Sweden after their spring 2009 tour with no record deal in place (and accordingly, no demands) to produce a new album. And so, the band members decided to take their time writing and recording and - gasp! - actually have a good time collaborating on the songs that would eventually comprise their third record: Two Thousand And Ten Injuries. The result is an eclectic collection of pop melodies, anchored by New Wave and punk rock rhythms, that are as refined as they are unpredictable. All told, Two Thousand And Ten Injuries successfully manages.
Polyvinyl
CD
$11.00

Love Is All
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Polyvinyl
LP
$13.25

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

Mako Sica
Dual Horizon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US "Mako Sica" is a translation of what many Native American tribes called "land bad"; hence the moniker of dusty mazes, buttes & spires created by millions of years of erosion in poisoned deserts. Chicago's rich jazz history & punk ideals, however, give them complete freedom to create music which
reflects the spirit of their chosen name. Feat. 2 ex-members of avant/experimental band ROPE, recorded live without overdubs
LaSocieteExpedionnaire-016
LP
$16.00

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Malakai is Hebrew for 'angel.' It's also the name of the red-haired kid from Children Of The Corn. From which the band's name is derived. Why we're not exactly sure. Malakai, strictly speaking, are a duo. They're from Bristol, England. They aren't part of a scene, but they reflect the Bristol vibe these days: groups with dubstep running through their bones, hip hop in the fingers, '60s psychedelia in the heart. At times, the album sounds like a Jamaican garage rock band. Other time it sounds like Merseybeat if the beats were supplied by RZA. Or like Dick Dale surfing the River Severn.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Manual
Drown In Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US Manual, aka Jonas Munk, is a producer from Odense, Denmark specializing in a unique brand of warm, organic music that fuses elements of new and old, electronic and hand-played, analogue and digital. He made his debut 10 years ago with an EP on Hobby Industries, followed by a handful of releases on Morr Music, both as Manual and with Icebreaker International, as well as his band Limp. Later, Munk signed with Darla and expanded his work into the area of minimalist ambient music while still perfecting the original Manual sound. While completely unknown in his native Denmark, Munk is considered an influential artist in the circles of dream pop and electronica, and he has toured all over the world, and collaborated with artists including Ulrich Schnauss, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Auburn Lull and, perhaps more surprisingly, members of Tortoise and Sunburned Hand of the Man. He has also scored a number of documentary films and undertaken production work for other bands and artists. Aside from collaborations, two minimalist ambient albums and a rarities collection from 2007, Drowned in Light is the first Manual album in five years.Manual's style has been described as "one of the most recognizable in electronica". At the core of this lies an ongoing desire to fuse electronic music with the structures and compositional elements of rock and pop and an insistence that electronica can be fresh and innovative without flowing with the latest trends. Never have Munk's unique strategies been more apparent than on his new album Drowned in Light, an ambitious work that showcases Munk's talent for adventurous compositions, his finely-tuned production skills and aptitude for sound-design. On this latest album, drum machine loops and shimmering guitars (electric, acoustic, 12-string and flamenco) are bathed in analogue synth and modular effects, creating a lush, intoxicating sound that looks back to the 1970s and 1980s without a hint of the usual sleek irony or hip retro-revivalism, whilst simultaneously looking forward to a time when boundaries between programmed and played, and synthetic and organic, have become obsolete.
Darla-236
CD
$12.25

Maximum Penalty
Life & Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US As part of the original Hardcore movement, Maximum Penalty has been and still is, one of the most original hybrids of the New York Hardcore sound.
ReaperRecords-030
CD
$11.50

Mazzy Star
Among My Swan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 3rd & final album, originally released in 1996. Having built up a considerable reputation thanks to So Tonight That I Might See, Mazzy Star reappeared after three years with Among My Swan, only to receive widespread indifference. It's a touch surprising -- unlike, say, fellow 1993 breakthroughs the Cranberries, David Roback and Hope Sandoval didn't rapidly descend into self-parody crossed with delusions of grandeur. Instead, they kept on keeping on, proffering the same combination of psych, blues, folk, and art-pop touches that made their earlier releases so captivating. That said, though, at base Among My Swan just isn't as quietly involving as the earlier records, that magical fusion of styles somehow coming across as a little been-there, done-that here. There's nothing quite as immediate as "Fade Into You," nothing as awesomely delicate as "Five String Serenade," as woozy and powerful as "Mary of Silence." There are plenty of songs that try for that, though, and even if Among My Swan won't raise the dead or heal the sick, it's still pleasant enough listening, and sometimes the secret of success is in the details. Keep an ear out for the soft chimes that punctuate "Happy," for instance, or how William Reid from the Jesus and Mary Chain's guest guitar helps turn "Take Everything" into the slow-burning monster it is. Sandoval's singing is as drowsily intoxicating as before, while Roback's ability to create atmospheres is equally fine. Among the better moments: "Rhymes of an Hour," which carefully balances a quieter arrangement with sudden moments that almost but don't quite lead to a full-band jam; the acoustic-based mood-out "All Your Sisters," suggesting such earlier guitar/violin efforts as "Into Dust"; and the soft-landing conclusion, "Look On Down From the Bridge," a bit of a church hymn in its own way, thanks to the organ-led melody. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
Plain
LP
$16.75

Mazzy Star
So Tonight That I Might See (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 2nd album, originally released in 1993. Thanks to the fluke hit "Fade Into You" -- one of the better beneficiaries of alt-rock's radio prominence in the early '90s, a gentle descent of a lead melody accompanied by piano, a steady beat, and above all else, Hope Sandoval's lovely lead vocal -- Mazzy Star's second album became something of a commercial success. All without changing much at all from where the band was before -- David Roback oversaw all the production, the core emphasis remained a nexus point between country, folk, psych, and classic rock all shrouded in mystery, and Sandoval's trademark drowsy drawl remained swathed in echo. But grand as She Hangs Brightly was, So Tonight That I Might See remains the group's undisputed high point, mixing in plenty of variety among its tracks without losing sight of what made the group so special to begin with. Though many songs work with full arrangements like "Fade Into You," a thick but never once overpowering combination, two heavily stripped-down songs demonstrate in different ways how Mazzy Star makes a virtue out of simplicity. "Mary of Silence" is an organ-led slow shuffle that easily ranks with the best of the Doors, strung-out and captivating all at once, Sandoval's singing and Roback's careful acid soloing perfect foils. "Wasted," meanwhile, revisits a classic blues riff slowed down to near-soporific levels, but the snarling crunch of Roback's guitar works wonders against Sandoval's vocals, a careful balance that holds. If there's a left-field standout, then unquestionably it's "Five String Serenade." A cover of an Arthur Lee song -- for once not a Love-era number, but a then-recent effort -- Roback's delicate acoustic guitar effortlessly brings out its simple beauty. Tambourine and violin add just enough to the arrangement here and there, and Sandoval's calm singing makes for the icing on the cake. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
Plain
LP
$16.75

McCann, Sean
Lullabies For Bloodshot Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US While he shares song writing duties in the band Great Big Sea, singer-songwriter Sean McCann is now releasing his first solo project. During a brief summer vacation, Sean wrote and recorded the songs that make up Lullabies For Bloodshot Eyes - a collection of songs about love, family and life's ups and downs.
LeanGroundMusic-001
CD
$8.75

Midlake
The Courage Of Others (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith's sweeping vocals. Recorded over the course of two years in their Denton, Texas studio, The Courage of Others is the result of the band's quest to create a complete work. It is an album in the classic sense, meant to be digested in a single sitting and given the opportunity to become more than its constituent parts. Here the band blends early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars to propel themselves toward new sounds and emotions. Creeping and epic, The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music's most unique torchbearers.
BellaUnion-00224
CD
$12.00

Midlake
The Courage Of Others (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION, 180g LP.
BellaUnion-02224
LP
$15.50

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Mighty Baby are one of the best-loved bands to have emerged from Britain's late 1960s underground, and this is the fullest live record of them in existence. Taped as they opened for Quintessence at Malvern's Winter Gardens on February 20th, 1971, the set finds the quintet poised between the driving psychedelia of their 1969 debut and the more contemplative sound of their second and final album, A Jug Of Love. It's rounded off by two bonus tracks recorded at Glastonbury in June of the same year, and comes complete with a booklet featuring rare images and notes from band members Ian Whiteman and Mike Evans, making it an essential artIfact for the Babe's many admirers.
Sunbeam-5064
CD
$16.25

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK VINYL VERSION Gatefold jacket.
Sunbeam-5064
DLP
$31.25

Miracle Condition
Miracle Condition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Vinyl with digital download
TizonaRecords-007
LP
$16.00

Miracle Condition
Miracle Condition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Formed in 2006 by Mark Shippy (Shorty, US Maple), Pat Samson (US Maple) and Matt Carson the group has carved out it's own genre of powerful, cinematic soundscapes reminiscent of the early 90's shoegaze movement. Miracle Condition proves to be quite a departure from Shippy & Samson's earlier group - trading in the mantle of rock deconstructionists for curators of the deep space soundtrack. Eliptical drones, charging percussion, fragile melodies & below the surface vocal work from Shippy & Carson creates a calculated brand of beautiful tension
TizonaRecords-007
CD
$15.00

Monotones, The
Are...The Revolution! The Sound! The Beat Of A New Generatio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US The Monotones make your foot tap, butt wiggle, and head bob to the seamless combination of Britpop meets 2tone ska, the best since The Specials!
BlackbirdMusic-7002
CD
$8.75

Moon Duo
Escape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Woodsist
LP
$13.00

Moon Duo
Escape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US San Francisco's Moon Duo was formed in 2009 by Sanae Yamada and Erik Johnson (Wooden Shjips). Inspired initially by the legendary John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals, the pair plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew. They released two acclaimed records in 2009: the Love on the Sea 12-inch single on Sick Thirst and the Killing Time EP on Sacred Bones. Escape, their debut long-player on Woodsist, marks the fullest realization yet of the young group's evolving sound.
Woodsist
CD
$11.75

Motorpsycho
Heavy Metal Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, NORWAY Details, price & U.S. release date confirmed! This is the third full-length release from Norway's Motorpsycho on the Rune Grammofon label. It's extraordinary when a band 20 years into their career are able to deliver a string of three great albums in under two years, like Motorpsycho have done with Little Lucid Moments (RCD 2073CD/RLP 3073LP), Child Of The Future (RLP 2088LP) and now Heavy Metal Fruit. This record is co-produced by Kåre Vestrheim, the prominent Norwegian producer known from his work with Marit Larsen, Hanne Hukkelberg, Shining and others, and rumor has it that he's had more influence on the finished result than other producers before him. It's a varied and dynamic album and it's fair to say that it encompasses all the well-known aspects that have made Motorpsycho an institution in Norwegian music. We get metal, classic rock, Moogs, mellotrons, prog, psychedelia and jazzy freakouts before it all ends with the 20-minute long, majestic "Gullible's Travails," an obvious candidate to become the finest piece of music they have ever committed to record. There are guest appearances from the above-mentioned singer Hanne Hukkelberg and ace ECM trumpeter Mathias Eick on loan from Jaga Jazzist.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$16.25

Motorpsycho
Heavy Metal Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, NORWAY The 180g vinyl DLP edition is a three sided affair with the 4th side sporting great etched artwork by Kim Hiorthøy. The lavish sleeve comes as a triple gatefold with printed inner sleeves.
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$25.75

My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anthing [2010 remaster] (DELAYED... PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2010???)
PS, UK New, 2010 re-issue in a digipak, digitally remastered by Kevn Shields. Maybe. Maybe not.
SonyBMG
CD
$21.75

My Bloody Valentine
Loveless [2010 expanded remaster] (DELAYED... PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2010???)
PS, UK New, expanded, digipak version of MBV's otherworldly 1991 shoegaze classic, digitally remastered by MBV honcho Kevin Shields. Second disc is reported to be a alternate and previously unreleased version of Loveless remastered from original analog tapes. Maybe. Maybe not.
Sony
DCD
$23.00

N.A.M.B.
BMAN (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US N.A.M.B. is a band from Turin, Italy. Ask them what the initials stand for, and you will probably get a different answer every time. Visit their Myspace page one day, and you might see the caption "Nascere Artisti Morire Buffoni" ("Born Artists, Die Clowns"), but the following day it could be something entirely different, like "Neuroni Annoiati Masticano Boiate" ("Bothered Neurons Chew Rubbish") 'BMAN', their second album, is a magnificent sonic adventure, with a psychedelic flair reminiscent of The Flaming Lips, dynamics and industrial elements á la Nine Inch Nails, massive stadium-friendly tunes and, beating underneath it all, a big heart of soulful pop.
MonotremeRecords-43
CD
$13.75

Offthesky
Hiding Nature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, UK Well, what's to say about Jason Corder? He's been pretty much my favorite artist since I first heard his Resting Bell release, "Rare Decay." Of course I love lots of music but rarely has an artist put out so much amazing work, under various monikers, as Jason. I love his work so much; I am releasing him across all my labels - Home Normal, Tokyo Droning and Nomadic Kids Republic. That's how varied his work is, and gosh darn it, why not? Jason has been with the Home Normal "project" (as I initially termed it) since its inception. The early pieces from Hiding Nature were with me at the end of 2008 and were one of the main reasons for starting the label. He spent the past year finalizing it and, I have to say (and I know I may be biased here), I think this is his chef-d'oeuvre. The album is obviously an Offthesky record, with its minute attention to detail and its beautiful, often creeping, sometimes sporadic, bursts of melody. Essentially Jason's plan was to make an album of heavily processed vibraphone pieces, yet it became so much more featuring clever use of warbly guitar tones and textures throughout, and incredible haunting vocal arrangements on "Frozen Fountain," for example. It ranges from the melodic brilliance of "Hand Held Lightly" to the more experimental playfulness of "Clockwort," from the guitar chords mixed with bleeps of melody on "Little Subtle Secret" to the delicately processed vibraphone of "Rest But Not Least." Its a complete listening experience by one of the most talented producers around today, an astonishing record and the most fun I have heard in melodious experimentation in some time, maybe ever. As Jason himself says, "Enjoy this with your nearest breathing thing." And I have, and I will, again and again and again and... -- Ian Hawgood
HomeNormal-012
CD
$13.50

Orkustra, The
Adventures In Experimental Electric Orchestra... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 2010)
PS, US '...From The San Francisco Psychedelic Underground' Limited to 1000, comes with DL codes. Greetings to everyone who craves an authentic Haight-Ashbury experience. Bobby BeauSoleil now has the pleasure of offering you the opportunity to hear these uncommon recordings from his past band. This will be the definitive Orkustra release, compiling almost all of the recordings the band made (on a 4 track in their rehearsal space) and will feature paintings and liner notes from composer of Lucifer Rising Soundtrack, Bobby BeauSoleil.
MexicanSummer
DLP
$32.50

Orton, Beth
Trailer Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Vinyl Re-issue! Orton's debut album is one of the most innovative & impressive records of the 90s. A beautifully inspired mix of folk & electronica. Absolutely cutting edge & w/ killer songwriting to boot, a pop album like no other before or since
Plain
LP
$16.50

Overnight Lows
City of Rotten Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US LP on 150-gram vinyl w/ digital download included
Goner-054
LP
$16.00

Overnight Lows
City of Rotten Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Former members of THE COMAS. Mix a sick & sickened attitude w/ a classic Angry Samoans/Queers aesthetic: establish a blazing guitar riff, yell some memorable antisocial blather over it, hit a chorus, & get out
Goner-054
CD
$14.25

Painted Hills
S-T (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2010)
PS, US Please welcome the self-titled debut album from Painted Hills, Painted Hills are led by former Beachwood Sparks guitarist/singer/songwriter/dude Josh Schwartz who was also a member of Further and more recently The Tyde. Think pastoral psych-pop and starry-eyed cosmic americana, influenced by the 70s Laurel Canyon scene and the 80s Paisley Underground in L.A. The band, who call Sierra Madre, California home, also features members of The Whispering Pines. This album will be released in March/April on Ric Menck's Bird Song imprint via Parasol as a digital download, a 11-song CD and as a 13-song vinyl 2LP in a gatefold jacket.
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CD
$10.00