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Adams, Keith John
Unclever
PS, US Unclever is the new album by The Keith John Adams. It was recorded in 2006/2007 at Bel Air studios in Athens, Georgia. Jason NeSmith produced and played drums, while Kay Stanton played bass. KJA played guitars and sung. Unclever is his most rocking record to date, following the pop of 2005's Pip and the alt-folk of 2002's Sunshine Loft. The "bandness" of the album also led to the addition of the "The". Keith's Athens connection was fostered by local label Happy Happy Birthday To Me, which released Pip in 2005.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-091
CD
$12.25

Ambarchi, Oren & Avenaim, Robbie
Clockwork
PS, AUSTRALIA Its initial release - an edition of 100 3" CD-Rs on Ambarchi's Jerker Productions label back in 1999 - let it slide by just enough aesthetic radars to register among cognoscenti. Coupled with Ambarchi's solo work from the era, the recording marked a shift from the gonzo-rock of the duo's previous band, Phlegm. Things happen throughout Clockwork that had never really happened before. Recorded in front of a live audience for that 'what we did on our holidays' feel, Avenaim and Ambarchi unravel their detourned instrumental panoply into a series of parallel universe propositions - (ie. If Ambarchi's concurrent vinyl-only Stacte series was Alvin Lucier and Cluster collaborating for Mego, then Clockwork is Mickey Hart's Gamelan Orchestra performing Ionisation.) The scarcity of both Clockwork and Stacte within the sphere of known sound lent a subtle distortion to received wisdom of both Ambarchi's and Avenaim's development. The jump from their 1999 duo disc on Tzadik, The Alter Rebbe's Nigun, to their recent collaborative recordings with Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, and Otomo Yoshihide, is indeed a wide and almost inexplicable chasm. Those in contact with Ambarchi's solo recordings for the Touch label, or with Avenaim's live performances in Australia, would be partially clued in to the shifts in approach that occurred in the intervening period. This reissue of Clockwork - its reinstatement in the 'marketplace' for immediate edification and dissemination - is not just timely; it is also one of 2005's headiest pleasures. And that one of the most important pieces of the Ambarchi/Avenaim puzzle will finally achieve its deserved position within a trajectory of non-idiomatic improvisation (I'll say transitional, lest Lawrence English side-swipe me,) well, one doesn't need to sound that final gong to induce the respectful applause of the concert patron. This is, you might say, a photograph of the clockwork of time between...
Room40-404
CD
$15.00

Amplified Heat
How Do You Like the Sound of That?
PS, US Debut album of Deep South boogie-blues rock with a nifty psychedelic waycoolness from hirsute Austin trio.
Arclight
CD
$14.25

Autistici
Volume Objects
PS, US Abstract Ambience - Broken Space. In the desire to make recorded sound as tactile as possible Autistici (UK), recently featured on 12k's Blueprints compilation (12k1039), has sculpted found objects, broken acoustic instruments, synthesizers and environmental recordings into Volume Objects. Expertly realized and designed, Volume Objects is loose and organic but demands careful listening. Melody and form are hinted at and then in a whisper, a crackle, are gone. A sense of narrative and place created as if a hundred tiny objects are scattered in front of you, a fractured story that you thought you once remembered. The packaging for this release includes an 8-page booklet of black & white photography by Taylor Deupree inspired by the music and titles of the audio pieces. All printed materials in this package have been printed on 100% recycled paper.
12K-1045
CD
$12.25

Big Takeover, The
#61 (A.C. Newman Cover)
PS, US Interviews withNEW PORNOGRAPHERS * MAXIMO PARK * THE SHINS, pt. 2 * EMMA POLLOCK (DELGADOS) * THE CRIBS * DON MCGLASHAN (MUTTON BIRDS) pt. 2 * LITTLE STEVEN (Underground Garage/Sopranos) * THE PIPETTES * FIELDS * THE POINTED STICKS * MARY WEISS (SHANGRI-LA'S) * ROGUE WAVE * OKKERVIL RIVER * SEA WOLF * SONDRE LERCHE * SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME * WHEAT * OK GO * HAZEY JANES * ARI SHINE * CHELSEA * GREAT NORTHERN * TOMMY WOMACK * EARWIG * THE JONESES * TUNECORE DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION

Editorials: Rick Rubin, Radiohead, "Record Men," and the Revenue Redirect * Ackerman: On the End of Record Labels * Sommer: On Blue Oyster Cult

Live Reviews:Jon Auer * Bad Brains * Booker T & the MGs * Elvis Costello * Decemberists * John Doe (X) * Roky Erickson * Fiery Furnaces * Long Blondes * Morrissey * Only Ones * Sea and Cake * Sloan * Ralph Stanley * Stooges * Richard Thompson * Toxic Reasons * Voxtrot * Hippiefest (Zombies/Rascals/Badfinger/Mitch Ryder etc.)

Hundreds of CD Reviews: Bad Religion * Bags * Blonde Redhead * Bongos * Bon Mots * Clash * Clientele * Bo Diddley * The Eat * Editors * Effigies * Feist * Flying Burrito Brothers * For Against * Adam Franklin * House of Love * Howling Wolf * Ed Kuepper * Interpol * Junius * Len Price 3 * Libertines U.S. * Loose Salute * New Model Army * Robert Pollard * Ray Price * Radiohead * R.E.M. * Saints * Stephen Hero * Wedding Present * Wilco * Wire * and more!
Bigtakeover-061
ZINE
$5.99

Bryant, Shelby
Cloud-Wow Music
PS, US Ex-CLEARS mainman makes happy synth pop a la Charlie Brown's Vince Guaraldi on acid. Retro gear & pure, ruthless hooks a plenty.
SmellsLikeRecords
CD
$13.25

Burial
Untrue
PS, US New album from mystery artist, just who is Burial? A new record of weird soul music, which lovingly processes spectral female voices into vaporized R&B and smudged 2-step garage. Vocal lines are blurred, smeared, pitched up pitched down and pitch bent until their content is cast adrift from their original context & they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void. The radioactivity of this album is all that you'll need to keep you warm this winter. PITCHFORK REVIEW: "Like Burial, Untrue is a homage to UK garage, or two-step-- a short-lived, oft-mourned fusion of breakbeats and house music that peaked in the late 90s before morphing into offshoots dubstep, grime, and bassline house... There's nothing on Untrue that's likely to work in the dance club, but that's beside the point. Top-heavy with sad string passages and mournful vocal loops, Untrue is an album meant to be heard at home, in the car, on headphones-- his songs feel almost like beautiful secrets being whispered to a listener."
Hyperdub-002
CD
$15.00

Candlesnuffer
Wakool
Ps, AUSTRALIA Recorded over a series of four Sunday afternoons, Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures applied to instruments including banjo, electro acoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. In part an antidote to laborious studio process, this project privileges live stereo recordings without additional overdubs, processing or equalization. The varied and spontaneous nature of David's effortless playing across an eclectic range of instruments was recorded transparently to direct the aural focus on the dynamics and nuances comprising each performance. In some ways Wakool is pure documentation of process, simply demonstrating David's formidable range of concepts and techniques developed over an extraordinary period of experimentation and research commencing in the late 70s. On the other hand David's meticulous preparation of each instrument combined with his prodigious knowledge of improvisational practice provides a complexity that negates the need for sophisticated studio process. Wakool stands as a testament to David's sustained and unwavering commitment to improvisation, which he executes with enthusiasm, vigour and inventiveness that easily posits him as the most vital figure in the Australian musical avant-garde. --Philip Samartzis
Room40-412
CD
$15.00

Cooper, Rod
Friction
PS, AUSTRALIA From Rod Cooper: Friction is the culmination of over a decade of instrument building practice and design. My predominant choice of material is metal. I am attracted to its qualities like a shiny lure that reflects light and filters sound. Each instrument can take up to three years to design and several weeks to construct. Initially I focused on percussion and bowing, however recent instruments have employed continues bowing mechanisms. Coming from a background of sculpture and later working as a furniture designer, gives me the freedom to imagine wild objects and the discipline to actually produce them. I was never satisfied playing a traditional instrument, yet I had a burning desire to make music. My instruments are like a riddle, which I have solved through my own means. In my life I have spent much time in nature and I feel this comes out through my music as much as the industrial qualities of metal are apparent. The more intentional aspects of my sound are the open space, or the big sound as other people have put it to me. Most of the tracks are pieces of music composed specifically for each instrument and are just recorded as one take. The instrument is the composition. Comfort through dissonance.
Room40-406
CD
$15.00

Coyote
Outsides
PS, US This 4 man extravaganza defies all expectations by constantly reinventing itself, swirling in concentric circles backwards & forwards, thrusting & pumping out tune after tune w/ purpose & conviction. "Outsides" is no exception, delivering subtle, yet raging power. Feat. members of MAN MAN, the VAZ & BOTTOM OF THE HUDSON.
HotDogCity-017
CD
$9.50

Cursive
Bad Sects
PS, US Following the 2006 release of "Happy Hollow", Cursive launched a remix site that allowed users to register and download separated tracks for the song "Bad Sects" (the second single from "Happy Hollow"). Remixers submitted their rearranged versions for a Bad Sects Remix Contest. The band posted some of their favorite submissions on the site and chose the winning remix to be used as a b-side on a future single. Available digitally and as a 12-inch LP is the winning remix by A Crude Mechanical, along with a strings remix done by a friend of the band, the album cut, and instrumental. The five runner-up remixes are available for listening at www.badsects.com.
SaddleCreek
CD5
$7.00

Daft Punk
Alive 2007 [deluxe version]
PS, US Special order only. Limited availability, we'll do our best! DELUXE VERSION set in a hardbound 55 -page book. BONUS disc features the live set encore: "Human", "Together", "One More Time (Reprise)", "Music Sounds Better With You", "Stardust (Instr.)". Enchanced with the "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" live video.
Virgin
DCD
$29.75

Daft Punk
Alive 2007
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Playing like a flawlessly sequenced and paced greatest hits album, this live set finds Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo connecting the booms among their three albums while officially cementing one of the year's most rewarding and welcomed comebacks."
Virgin
CD
$18.75

Deupree, Taylor
Landing
PS, AUSTRALIA With 'Landing' American sound artist Taylor Deupree offers another vision of subtle shifting audio. A progression from the full-length Northern (12K), Landing matches acoustic instruments across broad washes of warm sonic texture and floating spatial movement. Removed from the falling sheets of silent snow swelling outside his home, Deupree's Landing creates a generous and temperate sonic environment - both reflective and measured. An audio escape from chillier climes. BIO: Taylor Deupree (b. 1971) is a sound artist, graphic designer, and photographer residing in New York. On January 1st, 1997, he founded 12k, a record label that focuses on minimalism and contemporary musical forms. In 12k's 10 years of existence Deupree has released over 40 CDs by a roster of international sound artists and has developed 12k into one of the most respected experimental electronic labels in the world. In September 2000, Deupree and sound artist Richard Chartier formed LINE, a sublabel of 12k that curates its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.
Room40-411
CD
$13.50

DJ Olive
Sleep
PS, AUSTRALIA As one of the pioneers of 'sleep' parties in the low level apartment blocks and converted industrial lots in Brooklyn during the early nineties, DJ Olive's latest long player collects together his experiments in ambient sound spaces. It's a celebration of filtered texture, hidden melody and gentle turntable flickers. Like Buoy his debut solo record for ROOM40, Sleep is delivered with a simple message 'please listen to this quietly, it's a sleeping pill' and while its aim might be to induce unconsciousness, this mission is completed more through a diligent understanding of the possibilities of ambient sound than through repetition or minimalist approaches. A refined and emotive composition, Sleep shifts through a variety of phases, reflecting in some ways on the nature of our sleep patterns. As each section unfolds, DJ Olive reveals his characteristic sensibility for spatial mixes and in the process generates some of the most remarkable and refined post-ambient music to be created in the 20th century. Free floating audio clouds paint a subtle portrait of dimly lit late night spaces, faded whispers, close bodies huddled and in the corner DJ Olive's echoed lullabies coloring the audio sphere.
Room40-413
CD
$15.00

Evans, Nate
Pardon My Innocent Heart b/w Main Squeeze
PS, US From the landmark Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation.
Twinight
45
$5.25

Fishboy
Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State
PS, US Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as the bedroom solo project of front man Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium. Six years and several shoe boxes full of cassette tapes later, Michener moved from the suburbs to the Texas rock-and-roll Mecca of Denton with a handful of low budget recordings released by the close-knit Austin music collective Business Deal Records. It's here that the little project became a full-fledged rock band that has since taken on several forms, the most current of which meshes the band's lo-fi twee pop roots with a loud, energetic rhythm section topped with the occasional horn, piano, or organ, the result of which is somewhere along the lines of fellow Texans Daniel Johnston and Britt Daniel (Spoon) joining the Danielson Famile to play for Anthony Daniels (C3PO) and Daniel Day Lewis (moustache) as they both drink Jack Daniels on a Sunday afternoon. Since 2005 the band has toured across the nation more than a few times and has walked away with a couple of broken vans and a few gold nuggets, the first of which is a partnership with the Athens, Georgia label Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records. The second is a greater appreciation of their home, the folks that surround them, and the rich history of Texas music. These themes run deep through the band's new album, Albatross: How We Failed To Save The Lone Star State With The Power Of Rock And Roll, a record that Michener calls "a rock opera about how myself, the band, and the ghost of Buddy Holly attempt to save Texas by going on a tour/crime spree in order to perform all 8,030 of the songs I've written in my sleep since I was in the womb." As well as a new album, the next year will feature a 7" as part of the HHBTM Singles Club, appearances on HHBTM, Business Deal, and Asthmatic Kitty compilations, a trip to the 2007 CMJ new music festival, and a couple more of those US tours (the ghost of Buddy Holly has yet to be confirmed.)
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-089
CD
$12.25

Fox, Robin/Thomas, Clayton
Substation
PS, AUSTRALIA Apart from being recognized as two of Australia's leading improvising musical forces, Clayton Thomas and Robin Fox are also acknowledged for their unrelenting experiments and divergent acoustic approaches in relation to their instrument of choice. Over the past 3 years, Robin Fox has developed some of the most powerful live processing tools in Australia through his research with MAXMSP. Clayton Thomas on the other hand has expanded his performance styles, moving between blistering free jazz explosions to introverted and delicate expanded preparations on his 100 year old double bass. The results of this pairing are, as you'd expect, are as diverse as they are spectacular. Unrelenting double bass movements are reprocessed into microtonal washes of sound - vibrated objects are transformed into uncharacteristic acoustic phenomena. This record expands on the techniques of electro-acoustic traditions and aligns both acoustic and electronic sounds in an integrated sonic environment where the lines between player and machine, instrument and processing are blurred and redefined.
Room40-412
CD
$15.00

Gist, The
The Gist: Embrace The Herd Embrace The Herd
PS, UK Welcome reissue of long deleted 1983 album from the Gist, featuring Stuart Moxham, half of the creative force behind the much beloved Young Marble Giants, who still boast a huge international cult following (YMG's seminal album "Colossal Youth" has just been reissued as an expanded edition from Domino). Features a series of sonic sketches recalling "a bedsit Brian Eno", produced by Phil Legg (Terence Trent D'Arby, Pasadenas, etc). "An intriguing debut. I keep returning to 'The Herd'. Great ideas and a welcome spirit" (Melody Maker). "Strange yet human" (Sounds). Also profiled in Mojo Magazine's Great Lost Albums series in 1997, eulogized by Johnny Black. As well as the original studio album, the CD is also packaged with four bonus tracks. A much missed album this will be a welcome release to many.
CherryRed-339
CD
$15.50

Gold Medalists
City Lights Us On Fire
PS, US Famed as the drummer monster behind noise/metalheads Total Shutdown and indie-rockers EE, Peter Nguyen is now releasing his debut album.
Actually-011
CD
$12.50

Griswold, Erik
Altona Sketches
PS, AUSTRALIA From Erik Griswold Bolts, screws, paper, rubber strips, and bits of cardboard are wedged, laced, and screwed between the piano strings to create layers of interlocking microtonal scales. These form a matrix of possibilities that are explored, sounded and discovered in a series of improvised musical moments. Cross rhythms. Imperfect memories. Bio: Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, American born composer and pianist Erik Griswold has been a leading force in Australian contemporary composition for prepared piano for many years. Splitting his time between solo pursuits and his work with percussionist partner Vanessa Tomlinson, his compositions have been presented across the globe in the US, UK, China and other locations in Asia and Europe. Altona Sketches was conceived following a lengthy session of prepared piano improvisations delivered in support of a one-man juggling show with Australia's highly regarded contemporary circus troupe Circa. The album splits its sound palette between short and sweet excursions into music boxes and prepared toy piano and lengthier explorations of Griswold's unique prepared piano approaches.
Room40-407
CD
$15.00

Hecker, Tim
Norberg, Sweden
PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded at the Norberg Festival (Sweden) amidst the mineshafts and cluttered buildings strewn throughout parts the city, this 21 minute live piece summarizes much of what makes Tim Hecker's music so vital and compelling. Adept at counter-pointing the most ferocious of distorted platters with smooth beds of ambient sound and potent melodic overtones, Tim Hecker creates music with a vast depth. On Norberg, this depth seems almost endless, as layer upon layer of sound are compiled into a swelling and all together visceral oceanic sound wave. Recently touring Australia and New Zealand and performing at ROOM40'S annual festival Open Frame, this CD comes on the back of some incredible live performances in the Southern Hemisphere. BIOGRAPHY: Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Mille Plateaux, ROOM40, Kranky, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as "structured ambient", "tectonic color plates" and "cathedral electronic music". More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to song craft that is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as "foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole". His Radio Amor was recognized as a key recording of 2003 by The Wire magazine. His Harmony in Ultraviolet was in Pitchfork's Top 20 of key
recordings for 2006.
Room40-414
CD
$15.00

Hecker, Tim
Atlas
PS, US Tim Hecker sent us a red cd-r demo ages ago underneath his Jetone alias. We were instantly taken with the singular quality of his music and weren't surprised to find his work consistently on the top of the pile in all the genres it simultaneously straddles. With releases for such mighty labels as Kranky, Mille Plateaux and Alien8, Tim has honed his craft for more than a decade, focusing it to an ultra-fine point in the last few years. "Atlas" is a vinyl-only ep pressed in a short run 500 copies. "Atlas One" synthesizes tides of the densest distortion to form sweepingly washed-out melodies in a manner consistent with his most recent releases. Side two's piano-sourced piece, "Atlas Two" feels almost breezy in comparison to what one has come to expect from him. Rest assured, it's none the less forceful for it.
Audraglint-117
10
$9.50

Helvetica
S-T
PS, US "Helvetica" is a feature length independent film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (that celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. It encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. Includes 96 minutes of bonus footage and additional interviews. "A thoroughly engaging and gleefully funny investigation into the world's most ubiquitous typeface. One of the wittiest, slyly intelligent and quietly captivating documentaries this year" - Time Out London. "Beautiful cinematography, a kick ass soundtrack, and one quotable interview after another. 'Helvetica' is truly a work of art" - Austin Chronicle.
Plexifilm
DVD
$22.00

Higgs, Daniel
Metempsychotic Melodies
PS, US
HolyMountain-144
LP
$16.00

Husky Rescue
Ghost Is Not Real
PS, UK Finally a decent price for Finnish dream-poppers HR's second album, issued in early 2007, which never saw a US release. Helsinki-based lo-fi band, originally a one man show orchestrated by Makro Nyberg with the intention of producing cinematic music inspired by the "power of films and hypnotic quality of photography". Even though the band has changed, now a four-sometimes-five member band with one hell of a chic lead songstress, the original intentions are still there on the group's latest album Ghost Is Not Real, a collection of songs that, as the above quote suggests, makes for perfect company as we waltz through time and space into the dead of winter.
CatSkills
CD
$16.25

M83
Digital Shades Vol. 1 (ON SALE)
PS, UK Digital Shades Vol. 1 is the precursor to the fourth album from M83, essentially the brainchild of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of Antibes, France. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony decided to develop a musical direction already heard on some earlier M83 tracks and he started to write and record a collection of ambient works. Having long been a Krautrock and Eno fan this was a kind of music that Anthony has always been familiar with. Recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet, who had previously worked on Before the Dawn Heals Us, Anthony was able to work without pressure, knowing he could work on the record at his own time and pace. The idea of digital, relevant during all the process (from creating the music to sharing it), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol.1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series.
Mute/EMI
CD
$19.00

McGregor, George
Temptation is Hard To Fight b/w Everytime I Wake Up
PS, US From the landmark Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation, this feat. a previously unreissued cut. LIMITED TO 500
Twinight
45
$5.25

Mikaela's Fiend/Abe Vigoda
Split
PS, US Two high points of the West Coast all ages underground are joined on this release, the return of our stellar vinyl team ups. Abe Vigoda have toured the US multiple times, earning accolades from all corners & spreading their hybridized tropical punk. Mikaela's Fiend have been wowing basements & youth centers since forming as teenagers in 2003. Pressing of 500
ZumMedia-021
45
$5.25

Mystiques
So Good To Have You Home Again b/w Put Out The Fire
PS, US From the landmark Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation.
Twinight
45
$5.25

Os Mutantes
Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado [re-issue]
PS, US "The Divine Comedy or I Walk Disconnected" Reissue of their third album from 1970 which is considered their best by many. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Three Brazilian teenagers start a garage band. They know nothing of music theory, have no equipment (they built their own guitar pedals and used tin cans as cymbals), but lots and lots of cannabis. Though the existence of Os Mutantes is in itself unremarkable, what is mind-blowing is the top-notch quality of the music. These three teens, Rita Lee (vocals), Sergio Baptista (guitar), and Arnaldo Baptista (drums), while attempting to mimic their heroes in the states, were able to surpass them. This was due to their inability to adequately imitate (due to their geographic isolation), and the band's unfettered creativity. For these reasons, their meld of otherworldly guitar noise, crisp harmonies, and propulsive drumming found no equal among American counterparts like the 13th Floor Elevators and the Electric Prunes. While these bands just picked up where Sgt. Pepper's left off, Os Mutantes made music that had no point of reference until almost 30 years later. This album is one of their best, and it showcases the band's ability to morph genres into their own warped originality."
PlanetRhythm
CD
$15.75

Pink Floyd
Ummagumma (2PC)
PS, US You need this.
Capitol
DCD
$23.00

Pop Culture Press
#65
PS, US Pop Culture Press #65, with the mercurial New Pornographers on the cover. With extensive stories on San Francisco's Summer of Love, Steve Earle, Squeeze, the Meat Puppets, Earlimart, Buffalo Tom, Peter Case, Fountains of Wayne, writer Larry Brown, and--in one of his final interviews--the legendary Porter Wagoner, we think it's our best issue yet. And our magnificent CD sampler, featuring Glenn Mercer, the Pillpugs, Miracle Brah, the Trolleyvox, Dave Gleason's Wasted Days, and much more, speaks for itself.
PopCulturePress-065
CD
$4.75

Roux, Sebastien
Revers Ouest
PS, AUSTRALIA "This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood ..." Or perhaps is it the story of this woman coming here to meet a beloved stranger, at the Grange-Auloup street? or maybe their story?" - Sébastien Roux. Revers Ouest* is a radio phonic work based on text fragments drawing a futuristic and mental description of the Nantes city. It's an isolated utopist vision of architecture, buildings made like concrete waves. The texts are read by two actors, whose voices are used as a musical material and digitally processed, becoming a ghostly trail of the characters they represent. The piece, by mixing a fragmented story with heavily processed acoustic sources, aims to intricate radio art genres like documentary and hörspiel with more 'musical' forms such as electroacoustic and contemporary classical music. The first version of the piece was commissioned by Sonor festival and co-produced by La Muse en Circuit. It was premiered on the 31/03/2007 in Lieu Unique (Nantes).
Room40-431
CD
$15.00

Satie, Erik
Socrate (Symphonic Drama) / Mass For The Poor Messe Des Pauvres / Piano Pieces By Francis Poulenc
PS, UK These recordings of Erik Satie's symphonic drama 'Socrate' (1916) and the beautiful 'Mass for the Poor' are both very rare. They have been out of print for five decades and here are restored and released digitally for the first time. Erik Satie's compositions have been recorded by such diverse musicians as John Cage, Gary Numan, Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and one of his greatest admirer's was Frank Zappa! Erik Satie has an international fanbase amongst whom he has attained god-like status. Satie's sumptuous melodies (what he described as 'Furniture Music') remain attractive to the modern ear; compositions such as 'Gymnopedies' (included here in a performance by Francis Poulenc from 1956) are amongst the most famous of the 20th century. Classical, avant-garde and independent outlets the world over, should all do well with this little beauty. Francis Poulenc -Prelude de la "porte heroique du crel" / Gymnopedie No 1 / Sarabande No 2 / Gnossienne No 3 Avant-dernieres pensees / Next-to-Last Thoughts / Idylle/ Aubade / Medidation Descriptions automatiques / Automatic Descriptions / Sur un vaisseau / A Ship / Sur une lanterne / A Lantern / Sur un Casque / A Helmet Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois / Sketches and enticements of a Fat Wooden Man / Tyrolienne torque / Danse maigre / Prelude posthume Mass for the Poor (Messe des Pauvres) Marilyn Mason, Organ Chorus directed by David Randolph / Kyrie Eleison / Priere des Orgues / Commune qui mundi nefas / Chant Ecclesiastique / Piere pour les voyageurs et les mrins en danger de mort / Priere pour le salut de mon ame Socrate-Symphonic Drama Paris Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Conducted by Rene Leibowitz / Portrait of Socrates (the Banquet) / The Banks of the Ilissus (Phedre) / The Death of Socrates (Phedon) Phedon; Socrates; The Servant.
El-130
CD
$15.50

Scorn
Stealth
PS, GERMANY 15 years since his début and 5 since his last studio album: Mick Harris breaks the silence and delivers with "Stealth" one of his most massive works so far. Staying faithful to his trademark sound, this corner-stone of a musician, constantly redefining the boundaries of electronic music, delivers here 8 salvoes of monumental bass, sparse dry beats and deep drones. Let it be heard: Scorn is back.
AdNoiseam-088
DLP
$20.25

Shake Some Action
The Ultimate Power Pop Guide (Book w/ CD)
A lovely 9" X 9" mini-coffee-table book that comes with an awesome rarities CD added with it. [more]
PBPOWERPOPBOOK /NotLame Book
BOOK/CD
$29.95

Steinbruchel
Opaque + Re
PS, AUSTRALIA In spring 2003 Steinbrüchel received an invitation from the Swiss music festival, Taktlos" in Berne to contribute a track for their listening room equipped with a surround 5.1 sound system. During the two-day festival in November 2003 Steinbrüchel's track entitled "opaque" was played back in cycle mode (among tracks from various other artists). The listening room focused on the experience of being able to listen to music in a very quiet and large environment - unlikely to most home listening situations. Additionally the possibility of working in surround gave the musicians a chance to create very special audio sculptures in the space. The track "opaque" by Steinbrüchel and five remixes is being released by the Australian label room40. The remixes were created by the internationally well-known artists Oren Ambarchi (AUS), Taylor Deupree (US), Frost (AUS), Toshiya Tsunoda (JP) and Chris Abrahams (NZ). Each of the contributing artists was chosen for his unique working method (Oren for his work with guitar, Taylor for processed sounds, Frost guitar feedback, Toshiya for field recordings and Chris for piano). To make the remixes more varied and special, each artist received only three samples/soundfiles from the original track, but none of the artists have received the same samples or even have heard the original "opaque" track by Steinbrüchel before the release of the CD.
Room40-411
CD
$15.00

Tenniscoats
Totemo Aimasho
PS, AUSTRALIA In essence Tokyo's Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective conscious. Matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs, the duo of Saya and Takashi Ueno (assisted by a plethora of floating members), create some of the most compelling music currently emanating from Japan. On Totemo Aimasho - loosely translated as Lets Meet Very Much - Tenniscoats find themselves traveling across countries, scribing audio journal entries from Australia, Japan and the UK. Recorded in all three countries over 18 months, this edition bares witness to the divergent sonic nature of the group. From the sweetly psychedelic 'Cacoy' through to the ambience of 'Aurora Curtains' and the synthesized folk of 'To Do First' this record paints an audio portrait of Tenniscoats vast and evocative musical prowess. Produced by ROOM40 honcho Lawrence English and co-produced by John Chantler and Saya, the title Totemo Aimasho sums up so much about the process of it's creation - a record of anticipated meetings, disparate spaces and excited exchanges.
Room40-4415
CD
$15.00

Text Of Light
Rotterdam.1
PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2005, this explosive piece from Text Of Light typifies their abilities as a vivid freeform improvisational unit. Ranaldo and Licht's measured guitar work sets a basis on which Kreiger's blaring saxtronics, Barnes' percussive explorations and DJ Olive's swirling turntable incursions can intertwine and augment one another. This piece ebbs and flows, each of the players listening intently and guiding the proceedings with disarmingly sublime yet focused intensity. Like all their recorded works to date, this piece was delivered in tandem with a live film projection - this interaction between 20th Century abstract and experimental film and live improvised performance at the very core of the unit. Text Of Light on Rotterdam 1 are: Alan Licht: guitar Lee Ranaldo: guitar, electronics, Ulrich Krieger: sax, sax-tronics, DJ Olive: turntables, powerbook, Tim Barnes: drums, percussion.
Room40-410
CD
$13.50

To My Boy
Messages
PS, US "(To My Boy) pretty much define the futurepop sound...their catchy songs are born out of a mutual love for 80s pop and bands such as Devo and OMD" - Dazed & Confused. "Compact, eccentric, wholly wonderful" - Artrocker. The group has toured with the likes of Klaxon, Tapes 'n Tapes, and Shitdisco.
XL
CD
$13.25

Tsurubami
Tenrin
PS, POLAND Acid Mothers Temple side project. Makoto Kawabata (guitars), Nobuko Emi (drums), Hiroshi Higashi (bass). 2 tracks, over 58 minutes of unforgettable sound experience.
Vivo-2007033
CD
$15.00

Tusk
The Resisting Dreamer
PS, US Tusk includes members of Pelican, Young Widows, and Kayo Dot. This is a four-song feeding frenzy of eerie power dirges, echo-chamber intrigue, and soaring space rock finesse. Like Jesus Lizard kicking it with Throbbing Gristle and Bauhaus. "(Tusk) blend grind, atmospheric metal, black metal, and a myriad of other styles into one great release" - Punknews.
Tortuga
CD
$12.50

Ulf Henningsson (editor)
The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 [book+ bonus CD]
PS, SWEDEN *** SPECIAL ORDER ONLY, EXPECT 2 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY. Subtitled: From Psychedelic Experiments to Political Propaganda. Incredibly nice looking hardcover book, in English-only, that totally lives up to expectations in regards to documenting the Swedish musical underground, 1967-1979. *** Includes a Baby Grandmothers bonus live CD (recorded 1967, completely different content than the recent Subliminal Sounds release). 236 pages, amazing artist photos & perfect quality printing. t covers the fuzz guitar groups, the experimental bands, the power trios, the radical political groups and the psychedelic acts. Early pioneers like International Harvester, Made In Sweden, Hansson & Karlsson and Mecki Mark Men paved the way for renowned acts like November, Träd, Gräs & Stenar, Hoola Bandoola Band, Blå Tåget, Nationalteatern and Kebnekajse, as well as the mavericks of Knutna Nävar and Rävjunk. All are included, as well as highly collectable acts like Radiomöbel, Taste of Blues, Gandalf and Epizootic. This superbly produced full-color book presents all the essential facets of 400 artists and their records with a collector's valuation guide for the original vinyl records and with all sleeves lovingly depicted! Albums, EPs and singles, as well as all international releases are included! An exclusive BONUS CD is included inside the book! It's a previously unreleased 32-minute recording by Baby Grandmothers, from the legendary Club Filips in Stockholm, 1967.
PremiumPublishing
BOOK/CD
$46.75

Varese, Edgard
Complete Works
PS, UK One of the founding fathers of modern music Edgard Varese, was fifty years ago experimenting with sound collage and sampling that are commonplace in today's popular music. Amongst the composers who claimed him to be an influence were Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and a teenage Frank Zappa with his profound effect on the latter so much so that it can be heard throughout Zappa's work from the Mothers Of Invention onwards. "The Complete Works Volume 1" is the exact same record that turned Frank Zappa on! The recordings are savage and beautiful and far ahead of their time; they have never previously been released on compact disc.
El-125
CD
$15.50

Various
Bomber Command At War Volume 2
PS, UK CD41 is proud to present another unique archive audiobook CD, Bomber Command at War 1939-45, featuring actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. The second volume of Bomber Command at War features 75 minutes of rare audio material, most of it unheard for more than 60 years. As well as first-person accounts of early raids on Germany 1940-42 by Hampden and Wellington crews, the selection also covers operations by heavy bomber types such as the Stirling and Lancaster, and low-level strikes by Mosquitos and Beaufighters. Notable missions include the famous Lancaster raids on Augsburg (1942) and the 'Dambusters' attack on the Ruhr dams (1943), as well as the pinpoint Mosquito strikes against Amiens jail and the Aarhus Gestapo headquarters (both 1944). Other historic recordings include actuality recordings during a Stirling raid on Dortmund in 1943, and a devastating 1000-plane strike on German positions near Caen in August 1944. The disc also includes complete recordings of nightingales recorded in a Surrey wood during a raid on Mannheim in 1943, and the moving 'An Airman's Letter to his Mother' from 1940, read by John Gielgud. All materials are authentic wartime recordings which have been carefully digitally remastered for CD. The booklet includes detailed historical notes by James Hayward. This unique CD is must for all military and aviation historians, researchers and collectors of historic sound recordings.
CD41-030
CD
$17.00

Various
Try Me Out: Ballroom Beat Vol. Two: 20 Previously Uncomped Slices of Prime British Beat 1964-66
PS, UK Welcome to Try Me Out, 20 tempting portions of prime British beat previously uncomped on CD. Psychic Circle's second-ever release was I Walk The Lonely Night, a collection of British beat rarities which concentrated on the inexplicably overlooked, melodic pop side of the genre. They subtitled the album Ballroom Beat Volume 1 to indicate that the music contained within was a bit more all-embracing than the hard-rocking R&B which emanated from smoky blues basements. What we have here is volume two, full of artistes who typify Saturday night in a provincial dance hall. You'll find a Scottish band who only had records released in Germany, one of Brian Epstein's less successful discoveries, two different early versions of King Crimson, a Coronation Street actor trying his hand at pop, and the band that would soon become Marmalade, plus, of course, a host of further delights. Resistance is futile. Compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Bern Elliott & The Klan, The Echo Sounds, The New York Public Library, The League Of Gentlemen, The Rustiks, Marshall Scott Etc., Bobby Shafto, Dean Ford & The Gaylords, The Epics, The Peeps, Chris Sandford & The Coronets, The Gobbledegooks, The Addicts, Sammy King & The Voltairs, Trendsetters Ltd., Gidian, Ricky Ford & The Tennesseans, Don Charles, The Showtimers and The Pathfinders.
PsychicCircle-7016
CD
$15.00

Various
Fairy Cakes For Tea: Fairytales Can Come True Volume Two: 20 Previously Uncomped Popsike Gems 1966-71
PS, UK The Psychic Circle label is proud to present another 20 sparkling, pink icing-covered, pop-psych confections previously uncomped on CD. The first collection, Our Fairytales Can Come True, visited the melodic, pop side of British and European psych, and met with a really positive response, so what could the label do but offer up another trayful of sweet refreshment. Delve into the froth and you will find The Merseys operating under a pseudonym, an obscure Cat Stevens-composed weird-out, popsters Peter & Gordon showing that psychedelia had not passed them by, beat legend Sean Buckley with a new name, an unknown Oak version of a Deram gem, plus a host of similar pleasures. This is Fairy Cakes For Tea. Let it work its magic upon you. Compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Other artists include: Crackers, Grand Union, The Youth, The Starlites, Lloyd Banks, Roek's Family, Scott Henderson, Dave Andrews & The Sugar, Sasperella, The Factotums, The Bats, 14, The Guards, Fluff, Peter, Mike Quinn & The Breadcrumbs, Chuckles, Oliver Norman and Rescue Co. No. 1.
PsychicCircle-7015
CD
$15.00

Various
Nothing Comes Easy: Basement Beat Volume 1
PS, UK Over the past 20 years there have been countless compilations of prime, raw British Beat. Many of these have featured tracks that have appeared several times already. This might give the impression that this particular well has run dry. The Psychic Circle label admits that the gushing torrent of undiscovered pure R&B frenzy has now been reduced to a babbling country brook, but if you dig deep enough, there are still some untapped reserves of top quality beat waiting to be unearthed. Nothing Comes Easy is a compilation of 20 such gems, previously uncomped on CD. Some of these bands may be familiar to you as they have appeared on other collections of this genre, some have never been comped until now. Artists include: The UK Bonds, The Pirates, The Dee-Tees, The Gamblers, The Peasants, Barry Benson, The Rats, The Panthers, Rey Anton & The Peppermint Men, The Luvvers, The Times, The Zephyrs, Winston G, The Cheatin' Hearts, Guy Darrell, The Marauders, The Liverpool Five, Tommy Bruce, The Mark Four and Ten Feet. The Psychic Circle label is run by legendary psych musician Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond).
PsychicCircle-7010
CD
$15.00

Various
Mix A Fix - UK Floor Fillers Vol. 2
PS, UK Psychic Circle presents another toe-snapping collection of soulful, mod-hued sides from the UK. Amongst these splendid tracks you'll find an ex-Hollie, a couple of your favorite Merseybeaters thinking they were in Detroit, the pre-prog sound of Gentle Giant, a Eurovision entrant getting down to some serious Hammond grooving, and a Scottish fridge salesman discovered by Ken Dodd. A disparate bunch to be sure, but no less excellent for that. Mix A Fix assembles 20 previously uncomped tracks in great sound, all you have to do is enjoy it. Artists include: Haydock's Rockhouse, Eddie's Crowd, The Mojos, Gidian, George Paul Jefferson, Winston G, The Mike Stuart Span, Louisa Jane White, Don Fardon, Carl King, Gene Latter & The Detours, David James, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, The Soulmates, Ansley Gordon, Keith Field, The Rockets, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Philip Goodhand-Tait & The Stormsville Shakers and Roger Peacock. The Psychic Circle label is run by legendary psych musician Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond).
PsychicCircle-7009
CD
$15.00

Various
Pregnant Rainbows for Colourblind Dreamers... Swedish Prog 1967-1979 [4CD+book]
PS, SWEDEN *** SPECIAL ORDER ONLY, EXPECT 2 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY. This 4 CD set contains 71 colourful tracks from 71 legendary Scandinavian prog acts. Taking its name from one of the bonus tracks, this stand alone box set is designed as a listening companion to the critically acclaimed reference book "The Encyclopedia of Swedish Progressive Music 1967-1979". Of the 410 artists profiled in the book, we have selected 71 acts to represent the very essence of what the era had to offer musically. Explore the experimental groups, the power trios and the psychedelic acts. Over five hours of music, with the majority of the tracks previously unreleased on CD. Whereas most other compilations from this part of the Swedish rock era have focused on its political angle, this time we take the opposite route. It's time to let the music do the talking! Play it loud - headphones are recommended for optimal effect - and you're in for a ride... Over five hours of music. Includes a 48-page colour booklet packed with facts, unpublished photos, original record sleeves and other rare memorabilia. Informative liner notes by Ulf Henningsson, editor of the book The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 (available separately).
PremiumPublishing
CD-BOX
$54.25

Various
Airport Symphony
PS, AUSTRALIA An incredible 2CD housed in a metal box with sash - a true work of art. Alain De Botton suggests in his book 'The Art Of Travel', the act of transit between social, cultural and geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture, landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement, exoticism, disorientation and even fear that occupy the daily life of the traveler. At points of departure and arrival on these journeys increasingly lies an airport. Like business hotels across the globe, the airport acts as a uniform presence - rotating gates, the clunk of baggage, the vague chatter of tourist and traveler alike and the occasional interruption of muffled announcements. Vast halls echoing with the shifting of bodies intent on exodus and return. As Socrates wrote, 'Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives [sic]'. Indeed, as the choreography of pre-flight checks is conducted following the gentle rock of the plane leaving the air bridge to a soundtrack of gentle pressurized drone and air conditioned hiss, a meditation commences. This moment of consideration is heightened, as the reflected sound of the engines scorching the tarmac surface is vacuumed into the void of open air and as the plane leaves the earth there is (in every traveller no matter how still experienced) a sense of silent awe at the marvels of the physics of flight. Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, documents and synthesizes the experiences of travel. Each piece represents a personal meditation on aspects of travel in the modern age and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. Each of the pieces features a source recording made in and around Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 -in a raw form or transformed by processing. Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion and even at rest. Lawrence English, June 2007. All field recordings by Lawrence English. FEATURING WORKS BY: DAVID GRUBBS - THE CHIMNEY SWIFTS, RICHARD CHARTIER - RETRIEVAL_PATH, FRANCISCO LÓPEZ - UNTITLED # 203, CAMILLA HANNAN - DOUBLE GLAZED, TAYLOR DEUPREE - FEAR OF FLYING, CHRISTOPHE CHARLES - AIRPORT SYMPHONY: A BRIEF LIFE, DALE LLOYD - AIRS FOR BEACONS / SIGNALS FOR PORTS, MARC BEHRENS - 3 WINGED ZONES, TOSHIYA TSUNODA- PEAK TO PEAK, TIM HECKER - BLUE EMBER BREEZE, STEPHAN MATHIEU - LUX-SCN, FENNESZ - VERONA, BURKHARD BEINS - TARMAC BERLIN EDIT, JASON KAHN - TRANSIT, ULRICH KRIEGER - NOISE-POLLINATION, KEIICHI SUGIMOTO - TUM, CHRISTOPHER WILLITS - PLANE, JOEL STERN - TERMINAL DREAMER.
Room40-417
CD
$18.25

Various
Pop Ambient 2008
PS, US LP version. This sees the welcome return of some much-lauded favorites such as THE FIELD, MARKUS GUENTNER, DJ KOZE, THOMAS FEHLMANN & many other artists who have seduced & soothed the raging beast within us w/ songs that ripple & hum w/ harmonious splendor.
Kompakt-165
LP
$15.50

Volcano The Bear
Amidst the Noise & Twigs
PS, US The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Classic Erasmus Fusion album from VTB. Who knew that amidst the noise and the twigs there was music, sweet, sweet music?! As usual, our heroes are found keeping things stripped to the bone trumpet, but dripping with a juicy, melodic marrow. The record pours slowly and resolutely like a folk-psych dream urn, loaded with full metal banjoes; crumhorns at 12 O'clock, and autoharps at defcon 5.The experimentalism is this time couched in shifting tides of self-spun acidic harvest ballads that noisily well up into proto-Kraut thrums and tribal night trips around the pyre. A rural, squelchy, DIY delicacy which stinks of occidental embouchure so crystal crisp that every skkrrrr, pphaaapph and brrruuuummmm resonates like a small, sound-specific god, intertwined with beautifully skewed notes, voices and rhythms. Amidst The Noise And Twigs plays like a recently discovered field recording of some obscured Celtic clan who accidentally stumbled onto psychedelia 600 years ahead of its time. These pipers truly rock the gates of dawn. First edition of 1,000 copies packaged in full color book-bound cases with an eight page booklet.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$17.75

Willits, Christopher
Plants And Hearts
PS, AUSTRALIA Christopher Willits is a ceaseless creative force focused on teasing out the most from his instruments of choice - the guitar. With Plants + Hearts, he sets out on a divergent exploration into the tonal qualities of guitar, rendering out a composition that references in equal doses the minimal harmonic shifts of Terry Riley and the phasing works of Steve Reich. Incorporating 4hz isochronic pulses and panning at the same frequency, this work encourages for formation of 4hz brainwave patterns associated with states of meditation, deep relaxation, enhanced creativity, light sleep and lucid dreaming. Using a MS (mid side) recording of guitar made by Ryan Kleeman at UMKC, the unique mixing technique of panning the cardioid M of the M-S array left and right four times at one second intervals alters spatial cues, and phase relationships. WARNING: this recording may cause dizziness and an sense of vertigo. It is not advised to drive while listening to this music. From Willits "I've always wanted to release a pure droning guitar piece and equally wanted to incorporate 4hz pulses and panning into something long form. These long drones, were recorded MS giving me some great stuff to experiment with, and allowed me blend these concepts in an unusual way."
Room40-413
CD
$15.00

Zane Trow
For Those Who Hear Actual Voices
PS, AUSTRALIA From Zane Trow: Someone a long way off, or in the next street on a still day, or in the office across the hall in the rain, might be playing something that sounds a bit like music. Bio: For over three decades, Zane Trow has been fascinated with the potentials of delay systems, echoed reverberations and transformational sound. On For Those Who Hear Actual Voices, he sifts through a series of singular sound moments, dropping them into oceans of delay, washing them out in a raw, yet focused way that suggests an understanding of spatial environments. For Those Who Hear Actual Voices was created intermittently between November 03 and February 04 in Room L208 of QUT Performance Studies Department, Brisbane Australia.
Room40-405
CD
$15.00

Forthcoming Releases

4 Bonjour's Parties
Pigments Drift Down To The Brook (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US 4 BONJOUR'S PARTIES is a seven member strong ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. Their debut full-length release, "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook", with it's expansive, chamber-music approach to song structure and production, hints at modern risk-takers Architecture In Helsinki and The Arcade Fire. Alternating between sweet and majestic, the combination of male and female vocals, sung both in English and Japanese, is an aural wonder. Keyboards and wind instruments lay on top of a bed of dream-rock guitar, bass, and drums, creating moments of 60's guitar pop, Neu inspired repetition, and modern electronics, all within the same expansive track. "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook" marks 4 Bonjour's Parties as a band that deserves close attention.
Mush-256
CD
$9.00

Aloha
Light Works (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Aloha's most gorgeous, ambitious, and fully realized songs on a 30-minute long mini-album. Richly detailed, moody, intensely rhythmic, and flowing with melody. Aloha multi-instrumentalist and studio wizard TJ Lipple mixes in the studio magic while leaving the free-spirited vibe of the recording sessions intact. Piano, brass, oddly tuned guitars, drums, bass, mallet instruments, and vintage keyboards fill out the arrangements.
Polyvinyl
CD5
$8.50

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

Bodies Of Water
Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy.
SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12
CD
$11.50

Bonde Do Role
Marina Gasolina (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Brazilian Bonde Do Role return with a ten track EP of new material and remixes, just in time for your office Christmas party! A new version of live favorite "Marina Gasolina", three new baile-funk bump and grinders, and remixes by the likes of Peaches, Ladytron, CSS, and Architecture In Helsinki - not released in North America - round out this release.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$7.00

By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos
Complex Full of Phantoms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Coming off the heels of the scarcely limited 3" CD series - and a full two years after the release of their debut album - BY THE END OF TONIGHT has finally dropped the anvil of badass on us with six new jams. In the two years since the release of their brilliant "A Tribute To Tigers", BTEOT have toured almost non-stop, playing every rock club, living room (or even barn) that would have them. Their relentlessness has paid off, as their half of this split album with good friends and like-minded power jammers TERA MELOS is far and away their most accomplished work to date. Not to be outdone, Sacramento's Tera Melos have also been on the road more than they've been home this year, touring with the likes of Fall of Troy and Horse the Band. Their frantic, absurdly complex songs are the perfect compliment to By the End of Tonight's darker, more sinister instrumental metal. Though both bands play a hyper-catchy, addictive form of spastic punk, Tera Melos brings to mind a hybrid of fellow Sacramento speed freaks Hella and Cap'n Jazz, while BTEOT draws an unfathomable arc between Blink 182 and The Jesus Lizard. The combination makes this by far the strongest release to date from either band.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-128
LP
$7.50

Cex
Exotical Privates (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US 4 remixes from Cex's critically acclaimed album Actual F*cking.
Automation-007
LP
$6.75

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

Duritti Column, The
Circuses & Bread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 15TH)
PS, UK The legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Circuses & Bread was originally released by the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. Stand-out tracks include All That Love & Maths Can Do and the single Tomorrow. This expanded edition of Circuses & Bread also features ten bonus tracks, including the rare Japanese single For Noriko/Love Fading, compilation album tracks Verbiers and The Aftermath, and four previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline. The bonus cuts also include the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, the late Anthony H. Wilson (Factory Records founder and Durutti Column manager). The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve.
LTM-2510
CD
$17.00

Eux Autres
Cold City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra), a Portland-based duo, plays pop music. The band consists of brother and sister Heather and Nicholas Larimer. Heather plays drums, Nicholas plays guitar, and they both sing. Practices frequently devolve into shoving matches. Eux Autres write compact songs with sparse instrumentation. Their music has been unfairly described as "fun." But while the surface of the songs might seem nonchalant, the lyrics offer skewed observations and fierce barbs. Most of their songs are about a) military history b) being "done wrong" or c) sports. Sadly, Eux Autres are the only people who notice this. The band sounds like the unrequited love song Doug Martsch would have penned for Francoise Hardy, had the time/space continuum conveniently collapsed. Eux Autres' debut 7", was released in 2003, and their first full-length CD, Hell Is Eux Autres, recorded by Jeff Stuart Saltzman and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney/Quasi), was self-released in 2004 and re-released in 2006 by Grenadine Records (Montreal, QC). The band's second album, Cold City, will be released in late 2007 on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (Athens, GA).
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-092
CD
$12.25

Funkarma
Comply (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 11TH)
PS, US contains four original tracks with the trademark funckarma sound. nice lush synths and exciting beats. track list: A1 - Comply A2 - Raides B1 - Sploid B2 - Ymadyn.
BinaryDilemma-003
12
$8.25

Growing
The Social Club Nº 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Marking their recent addition to THE SOCIAL REGISTRY'S roster, Olympia-via- Brooklyn's GROWING present their first contribution to the label with this installment in our ongoing 7" series. Consisting of members Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, Growing's already legendary status among ambient and noise-rock circles has solidified their reputation. The two songs found on this 7" represent the best of the band, spotlighting their uncanny ability to extract alien and ethereal sounds from the now-traditional format of the electric guitar.
TheSocialRegistry-058
45
$5.50

Hedberg, Johan
5-spars EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, SWEDEN Labrador proudly presents the solo debut from Johan Hedberg of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. "5-spårs EP" (mean "Five track EP" in Swedish) is nothing less than brilliant - a splendid mix of electronica, Tropicalia and pop. Welcome to the sound of a true pop genius. In the summer of 2007 Johan Hedberg bought a computer with an installment plan. This new gear gave him inspiration to do some productions on his own. With the motto "fast production and no turning back" Johan's way of working is quite the opposite of the one of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. The latter is famous for re-recording, re-writing, re-making and polishing their songs over and over again before they're finished. Surprisingly or not, the fast way of making art works perfectly for his solo productions. "5-spårs EP" will be released in a limited edition of 500 copies on 10" vinyl.
Labrador-110
10
$11.00

Hey Willpower
Hundredaire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The title "Hundredaire" (let you go) is a play on words of Kelis and Andre 3000's "Millionaire". An homage with a life of its own. No money, same problems. WILL SCHWARTZ from HEY WILLPOWER sings it like he means it; a postmodern take on a love gone awry. Inspired by real life events, and masterpieces like "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Walk On By", it's a story everyone can understand. Whether it's the beat of the snare that happened to be there, the Yamaha "Bar Mitzvah Keyboard" on which Will plays the lead riff, or the vocal choir that catapults the simple phrase in the chorus "Let You Go" straight into your heart, there's something for anyone who has felt the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.
Tomlab-071
45
$5.50

Hey Willpower
Hundredaire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The title "Hundredaire" (let you go) is a play on words of Kelis and Andre 3000's "Millionaire". An homage with a life of its own. No money, same problems. WILL SCHWARTZ from HEY WILLPOWER sings it like he means it; a postmodern take on a love gone awry. Inspired by real life events, and masterpieces like "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Walk On By", it's a story everyone can understand. Whether it's the beat of the snare that happened to be there, the Yamaha "Bar Mitzvah Keyboard" on which Will plays the lead riff, or the vocal choir that catapults the simple phrase in the chorus "Let You Go" straight into your heart, there's something for anyone who has felt the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.
Tomlab-071
CD5
$5.50

Jeremy Jay
We Were There (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The new single "We Were There" will be released this Winter as JEREMY JAY's 2nd Single this year on K. Hot on the heels of his 1st single "Airwalker", The single "We Were There" was recorded in Angel Town with Nick Pahl on drums.
Krecords-113
45
$3.75

Kane, Jonathan
The Little Drummer Boy EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Do JONATHAN KANE'S fat-bottomed grooves take your breath away, make you lose your mind? Well, it's the holidays, and Jonny can give as well as he can take, so here's his gift to you, boys and girls. It's a classic, "The Little Drummer Boy", done in his inimitable style, with layers of guitars, snow-drift-deep bass -- and you'd better believe there's drums. Hop into this sleigh -- it's jacked-up, tricked-out, it's got 850 horses and not a restrictor plate in sight. Yep, it's always a Blue Christmas when Jonathan Kane comes to town.
TableoftheElements-809
CD5
$9.00

Killers
Don't Shoot Me Santa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Enhanced w/"Don't Shoot Me Santa" video. All proceeds go to Red Foundation Charitable Trust. J card w/ slimline sleeve.
Island-0010247-32
CD5
$3.25

Lets Go Naked
Insides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, UK This is 16 track career retrospective compiles singles, selected album tracks, unreleased gems and 2 new tracks from Brisbane's Lets Go Naked. Re-mastered and first time on CD. John Peel favorites. Band now reformed, writing and recording new material for 2008 release - launch gigs in Brisbane and Sydney. Band contains well known Brisbane TV celebrity, news anchor man Andrew Lofthouse and ex The Go Betweens John Wilsteed. Let's Go Naked had an initial burst of activity in the eighties with the release of the album "Everything" on Sydney's Waterfront Records. This album found Let's Go Naked as exponents of the Brisbane sound, with an angular, driven guitar style, incorporating keyboard sounds for certain tracks. Think the Go Betweens early records. The "Three Limbs" single on Trust Records then found Let's Go Naked emerging with their own refreshing sound. This track became a favourite of the late John Peel on his BBC shows bringing Lets Go Naked to a wider audience. The late eighties and nineties found Let's Go Naked exploring this sound, recording intermittently, including the single "Sometimes"; finding perfect moments and moving on to the next one. The new century seen renewed interest in Let's Go Naked, initially prompting the re-mixing of a few lost gems and ultimately writing and recording again. Two recent new tracks appear on this retrospective and find the band in rude form. Recording is well under way on a new album for 2008 release. October 2007 saw a return to the stage at The Zoo in Brisbane for a well received re-union show. Lets Go Naked are Murray Power (vocals, guitar), Andrew Lofthouse (bass guitar, backing vocals and keyboards), Nick Patterson (drums and backing vocals) and ex Go Between John Wilsteed (guitars). Rosalinda McGovern, Martin Thompson, Steve McKensie and Anthony Perrott have also been members and contribute to the retrospective CD.
Egg-022
CD
$15.00

Libertines
Time For Heroes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Time For Heroes" is a timely reminder of the unique talent of Albion's favorite sons, bringing together the tracks that defined a generation, from the epochal debut, "Up The Bracket" to their self-titled follow-up. Includes "Don't Look Back In To The Sun", never before available on either of their albums. Also includes the classic singles "Can't Stand Me Now", "Time For Heroes", fan picks "What A Waster", "Boys In The Band", and live favorites / b-sides "The Delaney" and "May Day". "Like The Clash before them, The Libertines draw primarily from decades of rock tradition - blues, dub, a healthy whiff of the English countryside, and a few gorgeous rock riffs straight from the brainstem of Chuck Berry - and fuse them into an unruly and triumphant monster of an album" - Pitchfork.
RoughTrade
CD
$10.75

Lubelski, Samara
Parallel Suns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US With "Parallel Suns" SAMARA LUBELSKI has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound.
TheSocialRegistry-056
LP
$10.25

Merzbow
Higanbana (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 11TH)
PS, POLAND An hour with the king of noise.
Vivo-023
CD
$15.00

Minus Story
Make The Dead Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Make the Dead Come" is a limited edition mini-album that MINUS STORY created as a creative outlet in the middle of making their upcoming full-length "My Ion Truss" (due out June 19, 2007). In between recording sessions for "My Ion Truss" with producer JOHN CONGLETON (THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY) at Electrical Audio and Low Key, the band self-recorded "Make the Dead Come" on their 8-track in Kansas City. A thematic continuation and resolution of the death/ghost songs from their last two full-lengths "No Rest For Ghosts" and "The Captain Is Dead Let the Drum Corpse Dance, Make the Dead Come" is a darker and scarier journey with the group of Boonville, MS natives. On it, they rejoice in their trademark intuitive & distorted self-recorded style, which they've warmly named the Wall of Crap. This is their first recording with new band member Lucas Oswald, who contributes hammer dulcimer and background vocals.
Jagjaguwar-114
CD5
$7.50

Nourallah, Salim
Snowing In My Heart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US SALIM NOURALLAH isn't a superheroŠhe's a father, a husband, and an award winning musician and producer. His latest effort "Snowing In My Heart" is filled with melancholy tempered with acceptance and honesty. Salim's lyrics paint a picture of a man accepting loss and powerlessness over the effects of time and age. Despite subject matter, the songs feel upbeat, with their driving rhythm section and unforgettable pop hooks. This is what makes "Snowing In My Heart" so remarkable.
WesternVinyl/TapeteRecords-04
CD
$11.50

Null, KK
BaryoGenesis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 11TH)
PS, POLAND From KK NULL- "The album opens up with the sound of insects & birds which I recorded live at wetland in Kakadu National park in Australia, that symbolizes organic life/organism (including our human bodies) composed of baryons. Then, abstract electronic noise overlaps them and takes you into a journey through deep inner and far outer spaces at any scales. However, you don't have to care about what I say here, I just hope this music inspires you as much as it does myself, and enjoy with your open mind and free imagination!! Technical note: all the music on this album was basically composed and created in my home studio and it was performed live along with some improvised processing, playing a synthesizer and my voice on top of that."
Vivo-0312007
CD
$15.00

Pants Yell!
Alison Statton (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The title pays homage to the lovely young Welsh girl who fronted Young Marble Giants & Weekend. The songs pay
homage to failed relationships & the uncertainty of youth via a batch of intelligently informed compositions; one that should appease fans of Jens Lekman, Orange Juice & the early Belle & Sebastian records. Female vocals float through the back drops as trumpets & saxophones spurt lost Stax lines, a glockenspiel chimes, guitars feedback, drums flail & a young man sings sweetly about all the things young men should sing sweetly about. Alison Statton confirms Andrew Churchman's position as top-notch modern songwriter. His words & themes flirt as much with the films of Truffaut as they do with Jonathan Richman's earnestness & the Go-Betweens'golden days of mellifluous pop truisms.
SoftAbuse-025
CD
$11.50

Planivaar
The Green Boat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK 2007 has been the busiest year yet for the artists' co-operative Make Mine Music with eight releases so far including full-length albums by Epic45, Library Tapes and All Sides. The latest name to be added to the Make Mine Music roster is Planivaar whose debut release for the label is the mini-album "The Green Boat". Planivaar began in 2005 as the experimental side project of artist Mark Lippett. There is no set approach but generally the music blends atmospheric guitar and keyboard with samples and found sounds. The first album, "The Orange Balloon", was released on net label Earth Monkey Productions in 2005, followed by the CD album "The Yellow Square" on Split Femur Recordings earlier this year. 2007 also marked the live debut of Planivaar where the performances were partially improvised sets of new music. "The Green Boat" is based on one of these concerts with added samples and overdubs. A thirty-minute drifting performance split into five connected pieces, the music on "The Green Boat" was inspired by late night conversations at a time when it would be wise to go to sleep.
Makeminemusic-041
CD
$9.75

Radiohead
In Rainbows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 1ST)
PS, US New album from the music industry's most quietly entertaining shaker-uppers. Music is really good too.
ATO
CD
$14.25

Radiohead
Box Set [Limited Edition, 7CD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Former label "Capitolizes" on the hubbub surrounding Radiohead's new album by releasing a box set containing the band's first 7 albums. That is all.
Capitol
7XCD
$88.00

Randomnumber
Modern Ambivalence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 18TH)
PS, JAPAN Modern Ambivalence is the fourth album by Leeds long standing proponent of electronic music, RandomNumber. Modern Ambivalence is the latest incarnation of an evolving style which has taken shape over the past eight or so years which flowered from early noise experiments that gave way to a tentative and primitive electronica that was released on the now defunct, yet legendary CDR label, Fencing Flatworm. Since these early digital musings Robson's music has charted a course of increasing melody and of rhythmical complication with releases for California's Rocket Racer 2002's Understand Your Date & Time of Nowhere and Mogwai's Rock Action 2001's NME Dance single of the Week "The Fact That I Did" EP, Towards The Forlorn Society (2003) for Catmobile Records took the trademark sound to it's limit with it's brittle and unsettling mix of rhythmic obfuscation and winter smeared synth impressionism that tested the boundaries of home brewed electronic music. During this period, other more accessible EPs and mixes appeared for labels as diverse as Vacuous Pop and Irritant (who gave homes to early releases by Kid606, Knifehandchop and Printed Circuit). Shows with the likes of I Am Robot & Proud, Printed Circuit, Kid 606 and Cex would see the randomNumber live performance taken across the waters to France, USA, Mexico and Canada throughout the whole 2002 to 2004 period and would represent Robson's most prolific period of international touring as a solo artist. The tensions of these awkward, yet compelling mid-period pieces soon gave way to a more confident and relaxed sound that was no less compromising in it's desire to chart the dark and melancholic landscape of contemporary electronica, but presented a more coherent and accessible sound that appealed to a wider audience. Golden Acre Sleeps (Highpoint Lowlife) (2006) ushers in the dawn of a Post-Electronica era of scene fragmentation and ghettoisation with bedroom producers increasingly marginalized into obscurity or MP3 mediocrity, against this backdrop, Golden Acre comes across as a breath of fresh air from the very grassroots of the scene. Throughout this recent period, the randomNumber sound continues to develop, as Golden Acre was being released to a world increasingly enthralled by the new breed of over confident pretty boys with guitars, giddy on corporate expense accounts, Robson continues to be a credible live performer at both rock and electronic shows, playing with the likes of Thee More Shallows, Pram, Clark, A Silver Mount Zion, Christ and Bracken to name a few, showcasing material from the Modern Ambivalence sessions.
Moamoo-006
CD
$15.00

Schlarb, Chris
Twilight and Ghost Stories (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A work of personal identity and deep catharsis, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" is a dense 40-minute modern composition featuring a disparate cross-section of musicians from the avant-garde, independent folk, jazz and electronic communities (including DIRTY PROJECTORS, SUFJAN STEVENS, WALTER KITINDU, CASTANETS, PARKER PAUL, BHOB RAINEY, and MICK ROSSI). A creative and accomplished jazz guitarist, CHRIS SCHLARB cut his teeth producing hip-hop tracks, teaching music workshops and co-founding the free music collective CREATE (!). Chris Schlarb is also one-half of I HEART LUNG, which Tiny Mix Tapes called "some of the most energetic free-jazz to spit out of America." Spanning all of these endeavors, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" finds Schlarb playing acoustic piano, organ, electric and acoustic guitar as well as tapes and percussion.
AsthmaticKitty-404
CD
$11.50

Sigur Ros
Heima [Deluxe Edition] (With Book, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet.
XLRecordings
DVD
$35.00

Sigur Ros
Heima (2PC, Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet.
XLRecordings
DVD
$19.00

Society of Rockets, The
Our Paths Related [LP vinyl & album download ticket] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 27TH)
PS, US And away we go... Part 70s fuzz-soul, part bleary-eyed shoegaze, part California sunshine-pop, the Society of Rockets' experiment machine chugs on, devouring all parts and functions in its wake and spitting out an ever-widening array of dizzying psych-rock gems. The latest full-length release in a long line of left-turns and surprises, "Our Paths Related" is a cosmo-tour of potentialities, a series of violent hybrids and stylistic feints, rooted heavily in the often (and unjustly) ignored black rock wing of psychedelia: early Funkadelic, Muddy Waters' "Electric Mud", Chains and Black Exhaust. But this is just the framework, the launching pad - a jumping off point to which other systems and avenues can be joined and explored. The sonic experiments of the album play against each other, each element running headlong into the others... At this point in the band's career (both in its previous incarnation as the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association and on previous albums "Sunset Homes" and "Where the Grass Grows Black"), the 10-?member strong collective has rambled across a wide swathe of American musical territory, from quiet country-tinged balladry to ceiling-shattering garage rock, and, much like similarly restless heroes Neil Hagerty and Jason Pierce, the band continues to push the boundaries of their playing in an effort to find more room to grow. With its energetic wall of sound and kaleidoscopic backdrop of experimental films, combining equal parts distorted guitars, three-part harmonies, and Stax-Volt horns The SOR deliver the record-collector's version of a raucous Sunday church service. Hallelujah, and welcome to the congregation.
Underpop
LP
$10.00

Songs:Ohia
The Ghost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Ghost" is a dark affair. As a matter of content, its themes are bleak, on the verge of total blackness. Loneliness, alienation, desperation, and dark, anxious nights. As a matter of atmosphere, the album is even darker. Surface noise has never been so important to a record's mood and tone. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded on a highway, but this is a dark fucking highway at a lonely, desperate hour and the only set of keys you have are those to the car that won't take you any closer to home. It's dead and you're scared and totally alone. It's just such an occasion that JASON MOLINA sings and plays of in a roundabout way on "The Ghost". Recorded in one day direct to Jason's boom box with the tiny little microphone, this brand new batch of songs was written in a very short period in the early months of 1999. For Jason, fidelity was never an issue, in fact it was a tool. The boom box's inefficient battery-powered motor is just as integral to the recording as the vocal and guitar performance that occurred that February afternoon in Jason's room on his day off of work. This recording may be noisy but it is not a demo. It was originally made available in limited quantities-to be sold on the SONGS: OHIA tour of the East Coast with Drunk in the Spring of 1999 and the European tour in the early Summer 1999, however Secretly Canadian recently discovered enough parts of this release to resurrect it one more time.
SecretlyCanadian-027
CD
$11.50

Songs:Ohia
Protection Spells (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Protection Spells" is a collection of songs recorded over a period of several SONGS: OHIA tours. Presented here are nine entirely improvised pieces. The approach to these songs involved no rehearsals, no second takes, no additions and no going back. What you have here are songs that just happened in real time. The many musicians on these recordings were friends, bandmates, and, at times, total strangers. I have long hoped to offer the listener a chance to have some of these great accidents on record. It is a direct look at my songwriting process, only a little more risky, and nobody has any idea what direction we are going until we all start working on it together. I think that the years of improvised music I played in the past helped to strengthen the risk-taking with these songs. Here the goal was to still have basic songs without falling into long freak-out noise experiments, saving that kind of exploration for live settings. You will notice the appearances and disappearances of ideas that could never be recreated, not that they are all brilliant, but they are certainly not forced. The seemingly arbitrary moments of strange repetition the lyrics, the clear lack of a preconceived system of established song parts, all are the marks of improvised songwriting. Since even the singing had no idea what the floorplan of the song was to be, there were some unanticipated troubles and some shy steps taken, but I have preserved these mappings of the dangerous musical byroads that Songs: Ohia has always depended on. I hope you enjoy this. -Jason Molina, July 10,2000
SecretlyCanadian-037
CD
$11.50

Tender Forever
Wider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US When it's love, you can say all the right things. We can teach wolves to whistle. We can kiss while the planets spin and fall around us. This sensation is just the beginning of TENDER FOREVER'S second full-length album, "Wider." Tender Forever is Melanie Valera, the striking singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer who touched us last year with her breakout LP "The Soft and the Hardcore". Each song on "Wider" moves you deeper into that warm, dimly lit place we all want to be: the eloquent, blunt, fantastic tragedy where big harmonies, insanely contagious hooks and a turn of phrase can make you feel that the world is good; that those calluses can yield; that the soft focus of the future feels clear and present.
Krecords-188
CD
$11.50

Tender Forever
Wider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US When it's love, you can say all the right things. We can teach wolves to whistle. We can kiss while the planets spin and fall around us. This sensation is just the beginning of TENDER FOREVER'S second full-length album, "Wider." Tender Forever is Melanie Valera, the striking singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer who touched us last year with her breakout LP "The Soft and the Hardcore". Each song on "Wider" moves you deeper into that warm, dimly lit place we all want to be: the eloquent, blunt, fantastic tragedy where big harmonies, insanely contagious hooks and a turn of phrase can make you feel that the world is good; that those calluses can yield; that the soft focus of the future feels clear and present.
Krecords-188
LP
$10.25

Tex La Homa
Some Lost Bliss (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US UK based singer, composer & producer Matt Shaw in one of his many guises. This cd is heartbreakingly pretty and scarily lovely, blending Matt's quiet vocals with lo-fi guitars & electronics to create a sequence of chilled-out,cinematic ballads.
AllIsNumber-004
CD
$10.25

Throw Me The Statue
About To Walk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US The title track the "About To Walk" ltd. ed. single is a Neutral Milk Hotel-fueled concoction of fuzzed synths, doubled bedroom beats and epic vocal harmonies. Also present are the upbeat handclapper "Lolita" and Elverum-esque "The Old Believer." Conceived and fronted by Scott Reitherman, THROW ME THE STATUE will release its debut full length, "Moonbeams" February 19th, 2008 on SECRETLY CANADIAN.
SecretlyCanadian-178
CD5
$3.75

Woelv
Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Click here for photos of the book that's included with the LP: http://www.opaon.ca/ouebe/index.html
Could a single person use her voice to represent many? "Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?" (Alone in the forest in the middle of the day, are you scared? in English. Tout Seul for short) is the new record by WOELV. It is a record about present times, but may very well be about what has happened in the past and what might just happen again in the future. The music itself is dark and insistent. It is in a bad mood, yet it still has some hope left in its vocal chords that gives it its spine. The music could sound naughty and too difficult at first, but really it wants to be like a nurturing force that very softly asks the questions we would not want