New Releases
+/- (Plus/Minus)
Self-Titled Debut DVD
PS, US Debut DVD from +/- (Plus/Minus) features 14 professionally
produced videos compiled by Chris Deaner (+/- & KELLY CLARKSON
drummer & video director). Incl. vids from an animated short to
a horror film to live performance. Incl. videos by Chris Deaner, Patryk
Rebisz, Rik Cordero, Doug Spice, Orrin Anderson, Paul Kloss, Myactivedriveway.
+/- (PLUS/MINUS) is the band started by Versus members James Baluyut
and Patrick Ramos in 2001. Chris Deaner joined them shortly thereafter.
They still plan to conquer the world with their electronic dreamy
pop meets teeth crunching rock. They hail from a city in New York
state aptly named New York.
TeenBeat-403
DVD
$16.25
Aceyalone
Lightning Strikes
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Decon-060
LP
$16.00
Aceyalone
Lightning Strikes
PS, US Produced by Bionik / feat.Chali (JURASSIC 5) & Jah Orah.The
LA legend,a former member of Freestyle Fellowship, is back w/ his
1st new concept album in a series of albums inspired by other genres,
this is the dancehall record.
Decon-060
CD
$15.00
Acid Mothers Temple
Stones, Women, Records
PS, JAPAN Japan Import. Acid Mothers Temple SWR, the ultimate power
trio of Yoshida Tatsuya from Ruins,& Tsuyama Atsushi & Kawabata
Makoto from AMT, present their shocking 2nd album.
Magaibutsu-033
CD
$20.00
Ainotamenishis
Live '418
PS, US A loud,heavy guitar group from Tokyo who were birthed from
one oviduct marked "Velvet Underground" & a massive
salpinx marked "Gaseneta."Their brand of controlled panic
is sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about
the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie,harsh, & utterly essential.
HolyMountain-017
LP
$15.00
Anderson, Jason
Tonight
PS, US
Eca
CD
$11.50
Anderson, Lindsay
If
PS, US The solo debut from L'Altra co-founder Lindsay Anderson, is
an intimate recording of carefully crafted, openly expressive songs.
Anderson has refined her songwriting by freeing her already distinctive
voice that has been featured with notable artists such as Will Oldham,
Edith Frost, and Telefon Tel Aviv. Supported by a stellar cast of
equally creative musicians, including members of Wilco, Califone,
The Vandermark 5, Smog, and The Aluminum Group.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Angels of Light
We Are Him
PS, US New album from Michael Gira & Co.
YoungGod
CD
$15.25
Animal Collective
Peacebone
PS, US New EP of AC's ever-evolving spazz-pop glories features the
crazy-beautiful "Peacebone" from the upcoming full-length
album 'Strawberry Jam' (due 9/11), plus non-album track "Safer"
and swanky remixes by Black Dice and Pantha du Prince.
Domino
CD5
$5.75
Architecture In Helsinki
Places Like This
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50
Architecture In Helsinki
Places Like This
PS, US Architecture in Helsinki is a six piece outfit of musical chameleons,
formed in Melbourne, Australia, and now scattered across the globe.
The band has developed a reputation for sensational live shows and
a large, loyal fanbase. With two very successful albums already under
their belt (2004's Fingers Crossedand 2005's In Case We Die), Architecture
in Helsinki now hit the ground running with their third album, Places
Like This. Upon first listen, it's no wonder that blogs and music
sites are already chattering away insistently about the record. Places
Like Thisis ten songs of instantly lovable pop brilliance, fizzing
with electrical currents, channeling calypso rhythms and tropicalia
flavors with lashings of percussion a-go-go. The album packs a kaleidoscopic
punch that isn't far from astounding. Pop effervescence hasn't sounded
this fresh in ages.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50
Barlow, Lou
Holding Back The Year b/w Refused
PS, UK
Domino
45
$5.50
Blakes
Streets
PS, US Features three live-favorites from the band's upcoming full
length as well as two brand-new cuts.The Blakes recall the stinging
cathiness of the early Who, Kinks & other 60s spitfire rock bands.
Teaser-debut is a limited edition, foil stamped digipak.
LightintheAttic
CD5
$5.00
Blank Dogs
The First Two Weeks
PS, US I guess what you need to know is printed right on the cover.
"A Freedom School Records Production of Blank Dogs "The
First Two Weeks" featuring songs written and recorded from February
23rd 2007 until March 7th 2007" Six songs of fuzzed out snyth
bedroom damage. A really great, weird and msyterious record.
FreedomSchoolRecords
12
$8.50
Blues Control
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$14.00
Boca Chica
Transform Into Beasts
PS, US Easily one of the important local releases of the year."
-The Pittsburgh City Paper. BC's music shifts between lush, string
laden indie folk; quirky & wistful alt-alt country jams &
the occasional beery retro country romp. Pritts' loping, occasionally
surreal songs are best compared to other genre bending artists such
as Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine & Bright Eyes. Voted one of
the city's best bands by the '06 Pittsburgh City Paper poll, Boca
Chica has been
garnering praises far & wide
BocaChica-002
CD
$11.75
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
PS, US NOW ON 180 GRAM COLORED SPLATTER VINYL!!! LIMITED!
CommitteetoKeepMusicEvil
DLP
$25.00
Butterflies of Love
Famous Problems
PS, UK ALL MUSIC GUDE: "Any band that would name themselves The
Butterflies of Love (a French euphemism for pubic crabs) probably
has a higher level of cynicism than the average Joe, and the third
album from the Connecticut-based group, Famous Problems, would tend
to confirm this; this is dark, faintly garage-influenced indie rock...with
an extra helping of fuzzed-out guitars and cheap organ up front...while
no one is about to accuse these guys of being Party Gods, they sure
know how to write a song and make a record, and Famous Problems connects
solidly after a few spins. Leaders Jeff Greene and David Greene bring
strong, emotionally expressive melodies to these tunes, and their
vocals communicate a dozen shades of angst without edging into self-pity
or narcissism, documenting busted lives in the less fashionable environs
of the East Coast with journalistic accuracy and a poet's balance
of sorrow and compassion. The Greene's band mates back them up with
simple but forceful rock and roll that brings forth both the beauty
and the sorrow of their psych-tinged folk rock with maximum emotional
impact."
FortunaPop
CD
$16.25
C.C.C.C.
Early Works (4XCD)
PS, US 4xCD box set. Box set from Japanese psychedelic noise legends
C.C.C.C. collecting unreleased live material, including very early
recordings from some of their first shows in 1990 and their 1992 us
tour, along some long unavailable studio classics like the Phantasmagoria
tape. Extensive liner notes by original member Fumio Kosakai (now
in Incapacitants, and many others) about the band beginnings and his
take on the C.C.C.C. vision. An essential document in the unique C.C.C.C.
sound which Kosakai describes best as "psychedelic, cosmic and
erotic". produced by C.C.C.C. founder Hiroshi Hasegawa. Extensive
audio restoration and mastering by James Plotkin. Comes in delux slipcase
box and digipack packaging.
NoFunProductions-020
4XCD
$39.25
Caribou
Andorra
PS, US Dan Snaith,under the guise of Caribou (formerly Manitoba),marries
the kaleidoscopic grandeur w/ which he's become associated, w/ pop
melodies & harmonies crammed so densely from beginning to end
that they jump over each other in forcing their way out of the speakers.The
is so vividly 3D that it is almost impossible to believe it was performed
and recorded entirely by Snaith at his home in London.
Merge
CD
$11.50
Caribou
Andorra
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$14.50
Carta
The Glass Bottom Boat
PS, UK The fruits of a lengthy process involving an ever-changing
line-up featuring a revolving door of San Francisco musicians, this
is the long-awaited debut from Carta, now with settled personnel surrounding
core member Kyle Monday. Engineered by Beulah's Eli Crews and featuring
Sacha Galvagna and Jared Matt Greenberg (Charles Atlas) and Alexander
Kort (Subtle) amongst others, 'The Glass Bottom Boat' is a remarkably
accomplished album, as one might expect considering the pedigree of
those involved. Having found a home on eclectic UK label Resonant,
Carta's audience should be broad and widespread, with their overall
sound avoiding pigeonholes. The album is mostly instrumental, predominantly
downtempo but with constant emphasis on melody. The title track features
full vocals from Sarah Bell, and sounds like the best thing Espers
have ever recorded. Packaged in lavish six-panel digipak. Early review
from US site www.thesilentballet.com: 'It's rare that we see an album
that is so grounded in reality, yet simultaneously this is immaculately
breathtaking.'
Resonant-026
CD
$15.00
Cave Singers, The
Seeds of Night b/w After the First Baptism
PS, US The first taste of what has quickly become one of my most listened
to records in ages. The Cave Singers are new band from Seattle and
their debut album Invitation Songs is out on September 25TH!
Matador
45
$3.75
Chesnutt, Vic
North Star Deserter
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation-046
LP
$18.00
Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz
Classical Katz
PS, UK Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz : Classical Katz along
with the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Fred
Katz were the leading practitioners of chamber jazz, devoted to a
mid-century blend of classical and jazz music that called itself third
stream; it was the shape of things to come for progressive jazz. Eric
Dolphy and Gabor Szabo were amongst the figures who would eventually
work with Hamilton. Our set couples the entire, highly regarded album
"Zen" by cellist Fred Katz where he is backed by Hamilton
and the Quintet along with the highlights of the Quintet's own 1956
set. Both albums are highly sought after and long out of print. This
Hamilton-Katz line-up would feature famously the following year (1957)
in the Burt Lancaster- Tony Curtis film "The Sweet Smell Of Success";
a great cinematic moment in jazz. Lord Randall Suite For Horn / Allegro
/ Zen / Science- Fiction / Pluck It / Classical Katz / Loma / Granada
/ Katz-Up / Montuna The Chico Hamilton Quintet With Fred Katz, Paul
Horn, John Pisano, Carson Smith / I Know (Theme) No1 / Chanel No5
/ September Song / Siete-Cuatro / Mr. / Jo Jones / Satin Doll / Lillian
/ Reflections / Caravan / I Know (theme) NO3
FiveFour-024
CD
$15.00
Coathangers
S-T
PS, US Imagine if you will a marriage of the Beastie Boys circa Some
Old Bullshit & the Slits when they were still a punk band &
you're in the right ballpark. They're newcomers to Atlanta's vibrant
punk, pop & experimental music scene, but the group has risen
quickly through the ranks to become one of the city's most talked
about acts. These women are real deal feminists, armed w/ a brash
& irreverent sense of humor. They're more likely to be caught
cracking jokes w/ Andrew W.K. than sharing tea & vegan cookies
with Kathleen Hannaha's crew!
Rob'sHouseRecords-030
CD
$12.50
Colette
Push
PS, US Given her art for stylistically blending her own beautiful
classically trained voice w/ some of the most cutting edge production
of her career, this aims to take her into the large global dance &alternative
pop worlds.Inspired by her house music upbringing in the birth place
of the beat, Chicago, this harks back to the days where electro, house,
hip hop & freestyle music ruled the airwaves.
Om-277
CD
$14.00
Coliseum
No Salvation
PS, US They detonate 13 blasts of high impact hardcore on this album,
melding the best elements of hardcore, punk & rock w/ the urgency
& desperation of the most vital hardcore forefathers. This bleeds,
sweats & cries their passion, power & D.I.Y. principles.
Relapse
CD
$13.25
Concentrick
Aluminum Lake
PS, US This is the sonic endeavor of one Tim Green, the very same
who engineers your favorite records, the heaviest records, mostly
done in his very own Louder Studios; the one who revolutionizes your
collection of fine metal w/ the records by his band, THE FUCKING CHAMPS.
You will find his signature melodic layers of augmented fourths &
fifths here, but know this: not all these layers are flung from an
electric fret board, many rise from acoustic guitars & vintage
analogue synths! It unifies your cold, helpless being in a world that
seeks to drag you down, arming you with a weightless arsenal.
DragCity
CD
$13.25
Dear, Matthew
Asa Breed
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Ghostly-065
LP
$14.00
Dinosaur L
24->24
PS, US Releases from 81 & 82 respectively represent the entire
discography of NYC's mysterious Dinosaur L, produced by Arthur Russell
w/ more than a few out-there & inspired effects that messed w/
many a head, club staples transformed over time into dancefloor titans.
Traffic
CD
$14.75
Dondero, David
Simple Love
PS, US
TeamLove
CD
$15.00
Earlimart
Mentor Tormentor (ON SALE)
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Earlimart have always been guilty of a sin
that punk made seem unforgivable: craftsmanship. The Los Angeles-based
band's intelligently arranged, folk-flecked songs echo the late-period
Beatles because they can. But their lack of self-conscious "quirks"
or headline-snaring gimmicks can make them sound like throwbacks to
90s indie." VENUS ZINE: "On it's fifth release, L.A.-based
Earlimart continues to whisk folky harmonies and strummy, understated
guitar into tasty, ready to serve portions of power-pop lite. On Mentor
Tormentor, written and produced by core members Aaron Espinoza and
Ariana Murray, the band sticks with what it does best by delivering
the engaging melodies and heart-on-sleeve romanticism its fans expect."
ShoutFactory
CD
$14.00
Earwig
Center Of The Earth
PS, US A smart mid-western 3 piece that works between studied lo-fi
ineptitude & infectious pop hookery. They are a high energy, stripped
down, underground-rock trio "An essential collection of bright
power-pop" The Big Takeover "Superbly crafted, the rhythm
section swings like a monster." - The Columbus Dispatch
LFM-023
CD
$10.75
Enigk, Jeremy
Missing Link
PS, US
567
CD
$15.75
Epoxies
My New World
PS, US New 5-song EP.
Metropolis
CD5
$8.25
Factums
Alien Native
PS, US A contempo 3 piece hailing out've Seattle feat.ex-members of
A FRAMES & THE INTELLIGENCE.Originally released as a CD in '04,
this shows a band burrowed deep in the mystery &menace of the
nascent gnarl of experimental art rock. It's a great swab of past-sounding
electro-junkoid rumble absorbed into the mind & matter of present
day pre-analog excavators.
Siltbreeze-087
LP
$14.25
Ferrari, Luc
Didascalies (CD/DVD)
PS, US Now packaged w/ a DVD feat. him at work on this, his last experiment.
He's considered one of the most legendary musical figures of the 20th
century, whose work & aesthetic continues to influence several
generations of contemporary composers. Right from the start, the idea
had been to release 3 very different CDs: one horspiel, one of concrete
music & one CD of instrumental works. Also documents the composition
of a new version of "Tautologos," his last recorded piece,
w/ woven piano & viola breaking down, starting anew in an opposite
direction w/ bandoneon, DX7 & books being closed every 2 &
a half min. About a month later, he passed away
SubRosa
CD/DVD
$16.25
Fizzies
Contest Popularity
PS, US With the aid of super producers ET THORNGREN (Grand Master
Flash, Bob
Marley, Von Bondies), G MURDER (Eels, Ben Lee, Karen O) & tag
team duo TOM BANGHART & MOIRA MARQUIS (Rufus Wainright), East
Hollywood based trio have created an infectious & eclectic power-pop
gem. Ranging from 4-on-the-floor dance to lo-fi fuzz, this album pervasively
catchy. Currently 19th most added on CMJ!
Mariposa-030
CD
$8.50
Flaming Lips
U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City [MVI album]
PS, US PITCHFORK: "The Flaming Lips' first live document features
a gigantic UFO, an army of fans in alien and Santa costumes, streamers,
strobes, smoke machines, balloons, and massive amounts of confetti--
and that's just the first song. Most bands build up to this sort of
explosive spectacle, but for the Lips, it's a starting point. Their
shows are as much about spectacle as they are about music, which explains
the hybrid technology on UFOs at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in
Oklahoma City. This document, which is neither simply an album nor
simply a concert film, is being issued as an MVI album, which means
it plays on DVD players but not CD players, and contains bonus digital
material." What Is MVI? With a higher storage capacity than a
standard CD, the Music Video Interactive Disc (MVI) contains new interactive
features including, superior sound quality, a wide range of video
features, and interactive digital content. MVI discs play in all standard
DVD players, computers, and game consoles with DVD drives but do not
play in conventional CD players. Digital music files are compatible
with all MP3 devices.
Warner/WEA
DVD-MVI
$20.00
Foreign Born
On the Wing Now
PS, US Their sound is a dark, acoustic, psychedelic mixture of influences
that range from Roy Orbison/John Lennon to the Fall/Jesus & Mary
Chain/Brian Eno. With songs that sound so much larger than life both
in the studio & on the stage & w/ such energy, enthusiasm
& collaboration, armed w/ a complex, & almost hypnotic draw
on percussion, an Enoeqsue shoe-gazed lead guitar, & all melded
together by the ghostly driving force that is the bass.
DimMak-115
CD
$13.25
Francis, Robert
One By One
PS, US Recalls the voice of a simpler & more truthful era when
people were crazier & sang about shit that mattered. From the
time he was born, he was surrounded by music of all genres thanks
to his eccentric classical-record-producer & pianist father, a
Hari Krishna brother & 2 older sisters who were in various rock
bands (his sister Juliette Commagere is the singer of L.A. indie band
HELLO STRANGER in which Robert played bass)
Aeronaut-037
CD
$13.50
Giant Robot
#49
PS, US Adrian Tomine, Rebel Alliance, Donuts & Chinese Food, Idol
Threat, The Cosplay Show, The Last Executioner, Ten Wimpy Robots,
High Tekkon, Big Bangkok & tons more about Asian pop culture &
beyond!
ZINE
$4.75
Giantess
S-T
PS, US Formerly known as Canada's "The Battles". Giantess
is a blistering exercise in profundity, veering wildly from accelerated
rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with
tongue planted firmly in cheek). Giantess delivers with the poetic
grandeur of Bryan Ferry or Graeme Downs at their absolute peak, and
with the muscle & pathos of The Soft Boys or Jesus of Cool-era
Nick Lowe. Giantess is first & foremost a relationship record
that relies on sentiments both ridiculously absurd & vastly astute.
A British influence looms large in Stephen Wood's brilliant songwriting-
comparisons to Ray Davies & John Lennon are commonplace -in much
the same way those pillars informed Robert Pollard's forays into songs.
Likewise, Giantess' erstwhile approach thrusts the genre forward with
liberal swaths of heart, wit, warmth, melody & raw power.
SoftAbuse-23
CD
$12.25
Gnac
The Arrival of the Fog
PS, UK The fifth (brand new) studio album from GNAC, the sophisticated
instrumental project from Mark Tranmer. (The name is pronounced knee-ak,
as in the last syllable of cognac.) The Arrival of the Fog follows
acclaimed predecessors Sevens (1999), Biscuit Barrel Fashion (2001)
and Twelve Sidelong Glances (2006). Biscuit Barrel Fashion was released
on the Poptones label, and declared album of the month by Russian
Playboy magazine. Twelve Sidelong Glances was variously praised by
the international press as "brilliantly melodic" and "a
collection of pop vignettes of overwhelming beauty that draw on minimalism,
nouvelle vague soundtracks and intimate and ethereal English pop.
Intensely romantic and lighter than air." The recently reissued
Sevens was given 4/5 stars by Uncut magazine. The Arrival of the Fog
centers on ten new instrumental pieces recorded in Tokyo , Osaka ,
Wollongong and Hebden Bridge between October 2006 and May 2007. The
moods vary from Barry to Roubaix , Reilly to Delerue. Standout tracks
include the opening title track, Nautical Episodes and What To Make
of Jagged Graphs. The 70-minute CD also includes two extended bonus
tracks, Bright Days In Winter and Winter Blanket. Mark Tranmer is
currently writing soundtrack music, working on an album for female
vocalists, and playing selected GNAC live shows. He also writes the
music for The Montgolfier Brothers.
LTM-2491
CD
$17.00
Golden Dogs
Big Eye Little Eye
PS, US Skirting the line between ready-for-TV pop addictiveness &
grimy knife's-edge guitar bombast, the Canadian group seamlessly blends
hooks & crunch into a bright, art-conscious swirl as catchy as
it is cool. The band has torn a jagged rift through the clubs of Canada,
jumping off amps & pushing PA's to their limit from Toronto to
Vancouver. Hooky enough for the pop fiends, hard enough for the dope
fiends.
YepRoc
CD
$12.00
Gonzalez, Jose
Hand On Your Heart b/w Sensing Owls
PS, SWEDEN Two of my favorite Jose songs resting beautifully together
on heavy-weight wax.
Imperial
45
$7.50
Good Life
Heartbroke
PS, US The first single from their 4th full-length Help Wanted Nights
(to be released September 11, 2007). Accompanied by non-album track
"Thirty-Year Evaluation," this release is available digitally
& as a limited edition 7" w/ B-side etching in hand-screened,
individually numbered packaging.
SaddleCreek-106
45
$3.75
Harp
September/October 2007
PS, US DAVID CROSS, PATTON OSWALT, EUGENE MIRMAN, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
on cover & 20 pages of comedy mayhem. Also features RILO KILEY,
EISLEY, SPOON, IRON & WINE. Over 100 DVD, CD & book reviews.
ZINE
$4.00
Hawkwind
Space Ritual [collector's edition]
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Aside from Sun Ra, few artists captured that
sense of mind-warping, my-God-it's-full-of-stars astronomical mysticism
in their music like Hawkwind. With their tendency towards extended
jams full of disorienting electronic drones and drummer Simon King's
motorik rhythms, they had a certain creative kinship with their Krautrock
contemporaries. But their racket could also be as unrelentingly punchy
and violent as anything from the Stooges' Fun House, especially considering
guitarist Dave Brock's Ron Asheton-esque affinity for blistering,
wah-wah-drenched riffs and Nik Turner's freeform sax outbursts...
It was all put to good use by their lyrics and their philosophy, much
of which was inspired by the writing of sci-fi author and sometime
collaborator Michael Moorcock, and typically themed around interstellar
travel, metaphysics and Pythagoras' theory of celestial-mathematical
"music of the spheres." ...The set has been expanded from
its original "88 minutes of brain damage" (as a 1973 print
ad hilariously put it) to just over two hours, with most of the added
material devoted to a few alternate takes and the restoration of a
few minutes here and there that had to be cut for the original United
Artists double LP. (A bonus DVD includes the whole shebang in Dolby,
and despite it being in PAL format, North American viewers should
be able to hear it on their PCs or DVD players.)"
EMI
DCD/DVD
$30.00
Hayman, Darren
Minehead EP
PS, UK 500 only seven inch vinyl.
StaticCaravan-131-7
45
$8.00
Hazlewood, Lee
Something Special
PS, US Recorded in '67 but shelved at the time &then only released
in Germany some 20 yrs later.His unique blend of country, pop ,jazz,
folk & blues can be found here but w/ songs that are even slighty
more off-the-wall than usual,perhaps explaining the reluctance on
the part of MGM to release the record.
Water-203
CD
$14.00
Hazlewood, Lee
Lee Hazlewood-ism: Its Cause and Cure
PS, Italy Re-issue of Haze's 1967solo album. Oddball arrangements
make this a spooky treat.
Water
CD
$17.00
Holloways, The
So This Is Great Britain? [expanded]
PS, US Expanded debut album from very British British act, huge in
England, planning assault on The Colonies.
TVT
CD
$12.25
Hot Hot Heat
Let Me In EP
PS, US
Reprise
CD5
$7.25
Howling Hex
XI
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$16.00
Howling Hex
XI
PS, US Every member of the 5 piece band contributes to songwriting
& singing. The result is not just rock 'n' roll, but also the
very portrait of a grim dystopia, sculpted appropriate to the landscape.
You've never experienced today before today - & you havent heard
XI before, either.The album is full of worlds on fire, antlers, ambulances
& slaughter. They bend & unblend genres, tapping into the
mythical archetype of an emptied urban landscape: some skulls rolling
down a steep city street. But, wait a minute. These are thinking skulls,
brains intact.
DragCity
CD
$13.25
Imperial Teen
Hair, The TV, The Baby & The Band
PS, US Their first record in over 5 yrs, but they never miss a beat.
You can feel how much fun these guys & gals are having making
music together.This is a band that is comfortable in it's own skin
& supremely confident in the possibilities. Recorded over 3 weeks
at Kingsize Studios, the band captures the raw spontaneity & chemistry
that make them a unique group of friends & musicians.
Merge
CD
$11.50
Japanther
Skuffed Up My Huffy
PS, US Five years, 1000 shows later, Japanther enters into legendary
territory, naturally combining catchy hooks, heart pounding beats
& frenetic energy with DIY aesthetics. Their 5th full length delivers
the goods: from the opening notes of the first track you realize that
Japanther have taken it now one step further & have delivered
an album that combine their studio promise with their razor live shows.
MenloPark-7046
CD
$11.50
Joan As Police Woman
Real Life
PS, US The album features ANTONY from ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS as
well as JOSEPH ARTHUR, & has been getting rave reviews & interviews/features
in various publications.
Cobraside
LP
$12.50
Kiefer, Christian
Dogs & Donkeys
PS, US Perhaps because of his interest in poetry & fiction, Kiefer's
latest project has a novelistic quality. This album is "about"
economics. The imagery bisects territory staked out by T.S. Eliot
& Saul Bellow & mixes w/the poetry of James Wright. Features
legendary keyboard man GARTH HUDSON of THE BAND, WILCO guitarist NELS
CLINE & the sweet vocal harmonies of LOW's ALAN SPARHAWK &
MIMI PARKER. The effect is a devastatingly beautiful musical journey
Undertow-036
CD
$11.75
Kinski
Down Below It's Chaos
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$13.00
Kinski
Down Below It's Chaos
PS, US New album. Down Below It's Chaos is Kinski's 3rd full-length
for Sub Pop. With the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet
urgent vocals courtesy of Chris Martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic
mix of Kinski's expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty.
With majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms,
and swirling sonic textures, Down Below It's Chaos sums up Kinski's
past and propels them into the ozone. What's left of it, that is.
SubPop
CD
$12.50
Ladybirds
Regional Community Theater
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: " Ladybirds is the brainchild of Gym
Class Heroes keyboardist Tyler Pursel and singer Teeter Sperber, bolstered
by a quartet of guesting vocalists. If cupcakes made music, it would
probably sound like Regional Community Theater, fluffy and airy with
plenty of sugary icing on top, this is toy town electro-pop, the music
a bubbling mix between a kiddie keyboard and a teen's Nintendo, with
a bowl of popcorn covered with a whole lot of cheese thrown in for
good measure... Cultural pop references, wry twisting of everyday
colloquialisms, the turning inside out of common words and phrases,
like the best cartoons, the Ladybirds work on two levels, enchanting
the kids whilst simultaneously capturing the imagination of adults.
Awash in poppy classics, this regional community theater is obviously
ready for Broadway."
Creep
CD
$15.00
Lee, Ben
Ripe
PS, US
NewWest
CD
$17.25
Leviathan
Verrater
PS, US The tracks on this double album (1st CD "Schadenfreude,"
2nd CD "Krankheit") are culled from the 1st 13 Leviathan
discs. This offers an excellent into what Leviathan has to offer,
albeit one in which the project's faster songs are largely absent.
You also get a very finely packaged album. A definite must buy for
any black metal fan.
Tumult-088
DCD
$16.25
Leviathan/Crebain
Split
PS, US Two of black metal's new elite join forces to unleash a massive
&
brutal torrent of buzzing, crushing, malevolent blackened grimness
on this split. Cold & crushing, grim & hateful, buzzing &
pummelling brutality from these 2 misanthropic miscreants.
Tumult
CD
$12.50
Liars
S-T
PS, US What do you expect from Liars? Noise? Concept? Both? This LP
delivers neither! Recorded on the heels of 2006's 'Drum's Not Dead'
somewhere between LA and Berlin, Liars' 4th album marks another bold
transition for Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross. For
the new album Liars have foregone theory for a more practical approach,
one based on traditional song structures and instrument usage. Even
mainman Angus is shocked! They've foregone theory for a more practical
approach,one based on traditional song structures &instrument
usage.An album that manages to balance the old, experimentally minded
Liars w/ an excitingly insidious new pop edge.
Mute
CD
$15.25
Liars
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
LP
$16.00
Loves, The
Technicolour
PS, UK
FortunaPop
CD
$16.25
Low Budgets
Leave Us a Loan
PS, US "Minimal effort equals maximum pleasure" is their
credo & this Philly 4 piece are serious about being laidback.
Songs about pizza menus, beer bellies, &"livin' la vida broka",w/
its Devo meets Descendents attitude, showcases the bands urgency to
shake your booty while you save your looty.Viva la value-rock. Feat.
Joe Jack Talcum of DEAD MILKMEN.
Chunksaah-030
CD
$10.75
M. Ward
Duets for Guitars #2
PS, US 1st time available on vinyl! 180 gram audiophile quality virgin
vinyl. Coming on the heels of his 6 year stint in the indie rock/folk
trio Rodriguez, M. Ward crafted these tunes on his travels between
San Luis, Chicago & finally Portland. Recorded by longtime friend
Adam Selzer at the then fledgling Type Foundry Studio in Portland,
this album is about as intimate as it could get. The voices are hushed
& whispered. The guitars are subtle yet precise, hinting at the
virtuosity that would rear its head on future releases & collaborations.
Taking pages from the book of Fahey & w/nods to Leadbelly &
Woody Guthrie, this album is the perfect starting point in your obsession
w/ M. Ward.
JealousButcher-061
LP
$12.00
M.I.A.
Kala
PS, US Even more globe-trekking and genre bending than her debut &
recorded in India, Trinidad, Australia, London, NY, and uhh, Baltimore.
17 DOTS: "The new M.I.A. record, Kala, is (a) absolutely ridiculous,
(b) some crazy-ass back-to-the-future-music time-warp kinda deal,
(c) a country mile better than the already-great Arular, (d) the smartest/sickest/slickest
pastiche/homage/collage/mélange of pop music I have ever heard."
Interscope
CD
$10.00
Madrugada
Live At Tralfamadore
PS, NORWAY Finally available at an OK price. Drawing on their landmark
concert in front of 8000 fans at the sold out Oslo Spektrum in December
2005 as well as cherry-picking tracks from spectacular headline appearances
at the Oya festival in Oslo and the Bodo Spektrum in August 2005 and
l'Ancienne Belgique in Brussels in March 2003, Madrugada have delivered
a stunning live album which was released in Norway in record time
- 12 days after the Spektrum event! - and went straight into the charts
there at Number 1 while selling Platinum within days! Features special
guest appearance by Kid Congo Powers on slide guitar.
EMI
CD
$20.00
Manual
Lost Days, Open Skies and Streaming Tides
PS, US The long awaited Manual double-CD 'Lost Days, Open Skies and
Streaming Tides' - a collection of rarities, remixes, covers, unreleased
pieces and brand new tracks - including a new collaboration with Cocteau
Twins mainman Robin Guthrie. Spanning the period from 2002, around
Ascend, up to now, this is a collection that covers the entire spectrum
of Jonas Munks stylings; from the minimalist drone soundscapes, to
the over-the-top 1980s influenced shoegazing electronica à
la his masterpiece Azure Vista, from the sweet pop-influenced gems
to abstract blissed-out timeless ambient. Munk's trademarks are all
over the 19 pieces on this double disc set: the highly adventurous
sense of composition that is still so unheard of in electronic music
- always taking the listener on a colourful journey instead of relying
on repetitions like pretty much every other electronic artist -, the
mix of well-programmed beats and electronics against surreal, shimmering,
heavily treated guitars, and the sunbathed 1980s romantic melancholia
that has become Jonas Munk's signature sound. It is hard to think
of a more perfect introduction to Munk's music, and for fans of his
work this is simply a must!
Darla-165
DCD
$13.75
Mass Shivers
Estatic Eyes Glow Glossy
PS, US Second release from the lava-hot face melters. This is driving
music, a ROCK album with hints of Beefheartian guitar stylings, beats
not far from Jaki Liebeziet and screams from Steven Tyler's 80's heyday.
Sickroom-045
CD
$12.50
Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Don't You Give It To Me
PS, US 40 yrs on from his chart-topping hit "Village of Love"&Fortune
Records classics "I Had a Dream,"this Detroit soul legend's
new album sounds like the record he should have made in '70.With a
backing band comprised of guitarist Matthew Smith (OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY),bassist
Troy Gregory (DIRTBOMBS), & drummer Dave Shettler (SSM)
Alive
CD
$13.50
MC5
The Bing Bang! Best Of The MC5
PS, US The Motor City Five-better known as The MC5-formed in Lincoln
Park, Michigan in 1964. Using a deafening sonic assault and their
status as the White Panther Party's official band, they delivered
messages as furious as their music, voicing the movement's "total
assault on the culture" and manager John Sinclair's radical politics.
With their fellow Detroit-area cohorts the Stooges, they also laid
the foundation for punk and punk-metal, influencing rock ‘n
roll with unprecedented force and velocity. Powered by members including
legendary guitarists Fred "Sonic" Smith and Wayne Kramer
and vocalist Rob Tyner, the Five released three original albums: Kick
Out The Jams, Back In The U.S.A., and High Times. All three are sampled
from on this career-spanning 21-track single disc collection, which
also includes three rare early singles and a '72 live take on "Thunder
Express."
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Mekons
Natural
PS, US Removed from the restraints of conventional studio technology,
they navigate an undulating sonic landscape of lavish melodies, mantric
chants & shimmering acoustic experimentation, all the while displaying
the same natural grace & precision that drives the sparkling salmon
forever upstream through the fierce current to mate & die. It's
a celebration of ritual, paganism & sacrifice - both ancient &
modern. They formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1977, so by any
bugger's reckoning this must be their 30th anniversary!
Quarterstick-098
CD
$14.25
Melody Club
At Your Service
PS, US Swedish electro-pop/dance-rock act's US debut combines the
best bits of their two album releases.
SaturdayTeam
CD
$12.25
Mendoza Line
30 Year Low
PS, US Heartbreaking new album paired with a covers and rarities collection.
PREFIX MAGAZINE: "There are albums inspired by breakups, and
then there are breakup albums. The Mendoza Line's double-disc 30 Year
Low is definitely the latter. It documents the dissolution of main
members Tim Bracy's and Shannon McArdle's romantic and working relationship.
The first album documents that very personal breakup. The second is
a covers and rarities collection that features the Mendoza Line's
takes on Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," Bob Dylan's "It
Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," and Bruce Springsteen's
"Tougher Than the Rest," among others. After 30 Year Low,
McArdle will no longer be in the Mendoza Line, and Bracy will continue
on with the project." (John Zeiss)
Glurp
DCD
$15.25
Menomena
Friend & Foe
PS, US 180 gram vinyl in an awesome gatefold sleeve.
Barsuk-060
LP
$16.50
Midlake
Trials of Van Occupanther [Bonus Tracks]
PS, NZ Bonus tracks from Occupanther/Balloon Maker sessions. Amazing!!!
EtchNSketch
DCD
$27.00
Mighty Baby
S-T [expanded] (ON SALE)
PS, UK Yet another genius recording from post-Action late-60s, early
70s UK psychedelic pop group Mighty Baby, comparable to early-Who,
The Action (duh),The Creation, etc. Their original self-titled album
plus 5 additional tracks by The Action. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "This
hour-long CD is one of the best bodies of British psychedelia ever
released. It contains the complete Mighty Baby album from Head Records,
expanded to 13 tracks with the addition of five tracks cut by the
Action during its 1967 transition period... The beauty of the original
Mighty Baby album tracks is that they're psychedelia with a solid
beat, none of that noodle-rock that drugged-up Brits usually engaged
in...some of the most energetic psychedelia to come out of England,
and anyone who enjoys psychedelic guitar will love Martin Stone's
and Alan King's work on this album. A near perfect meld of garage
rock and psychedelic sensibilities." (Bruce Eder)
BigBeatUK
CD
$17.00
Modern Lovers
S-T + 8
PS, US Compiled from demos the band recorded w/ John Cale,this captures
an angst-ridden, minimalist form of art-punk derived from The Velvet
Underground. Released in '76. This reissue contains the original album
as well as 8 BONUS TRACKS!
Castle
CD
$13.50
Nadja
Guilted By The Sun
PS, US Toronto's Nadja (just one dude really) kicks it with this bottom
heavy, blown out E.P. Def. a good time. Both of these Elevation releases
are limited and will not be around long so do not miss out. Good stuff.
Elevation
CD5
$8.50
National
Mistaken For Strangers b/w Blank Slate
PS, UK Back at the end of May the National freaked out the whole city
by booking five nights of shows at the Bowery Ballroom AND selling
out every show well in advance. For the shows we made an exclusive
version of the UK "Mistaken For Strangers" 7" with
a unique sleeve and labels. There were some left over so here they
are for your buying pleasure.
BeggarsBanquet
45
$3.75
New Pornographers
Challengers
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00
New Pornographers
Challengers
PS, US The fourth album is airier, more spacious, and more relaxed
than its jackhammer predecessors. In general, Carl Newman's songwriting
is slightly more scrutable this time around; his lyrics still ring
with wry perception and political metaphor, but they betray some of
the magnanimity that comes with new love. The sophisticated, rich
production values and complex range of songwriting allow us to extend
the group's audience to new groups: AAA radio listeners, fans of Neko
Case's solo work, and coffee drinkers in general.
Matador
CD
$13.25
New Young Pony Club
Fantastic Playroom
PS, US It's a singular chemistry between front woman Tahita Bulmer
and Andy Spence that's marked New Young Pony Club as one of 2007's
most talked-about, must-hear, must-see bands. NYPC singles "Ice
Cream" (used in a recent Intel commercial campaign) and "The
Bomb" have already proved irresistible. And they have made good
on Tahita and Andy's hopes: to put the fun back in music, and get
people dancing. Now NYPC have done more than perhaps would be reasonably
expected of a great singles band: they've made a great album, Fantastic
Playroom. It's everything you hope every album is going to be. Packed
with tunes, yes - but literate, funny, sad, just-weird-enough, crazy,
sexy and cool to boot. (Sometimes, dancebased music forgets it's allowed
to be all these things.) From an undeniable "Get Lucky"/"Hiding
On The Staircase"/"Ice Cream"/"The Bomb"
opening salvo to the potential-future-NYPC-direction and quite Grace
Jones-y "FAN" via the overtly pop "Grey", it gets
everything right.
Modular/Interscope
CD
$11.00
Newell, Martin
A Summer Tamarind
PS, UK Martin Newell - The last English pop eccentric, brings out
his first solo album for several years. Many people try for an authentic
60s sound, Newell actually lives it. This sunny-days mixture wears
its Beatles / Kinks influences like a double-breasted paisley jacket
is also surprisingly modern though. Contained herein are eleven bomb-proof
three and a half-minute pop songs dressed with chiming Rickenbacker
12-string guitars, great garden-shed drumming and the type of gorgeous
harmonies that no-one else bothers doing anymore. A Summer Tamarind
is nothing less than a post-punk Rubber Soul and probably the best
thing that Martin Newell has done since his Andy Partridge-produced
Greatest Living Englishman album.
CherryRed-323
CD
$15.00
No Age
Weirdo Rippers
PS, US PITCHFORK: "A loud duo with art credibility, a massive
touring schedule, and a one-man label in its ranks brings Lightning
Bolt to mind; but No Age have a softer surf-psychedelic side that
conjures another twosome: old Olympia favorites Kicking Giant. Or,
as another Pitchfork staffer pointed out, the best K Records fuzz-rock
band of all time, Lync. No Age, though, goes into an even airier,
bedroom-pretty realm, with a punk rawness to their delivery. Their
oft-chanted hooks (see "Boy Void" or "Every Artist
Needs A Tragedy") are out-of-phase, the approach sloppy and spastic.
At the same time, these songs come off soporific, restful, and totally
in control. Nothing grates. It all feels soft and up-close."
FatCat
CD
$14.25
No Depression
#71
PS, US JOSH RITTER on the cover. Features on him, Lori McKenna, Peter
Case, Rilo Kiley, Lloyd Green, & tons more from the mag that is
surveying the past, present, & future of American music.
ZINE
$4.25
Northern State
Can I Keep This Pen
PS, US Electro hip-hop fun ride from ex-Sony artists finally free
of their deal with The Man. Produced by Chuck Brody of SHITAKE MONKEY
(WU TANG CLAN, YOKO ONO), & ADROCK of BEASTIE BOYS. Pushing the
limits of their classic old school hip hop w/new electro currents.
Ipecac-092
CD
$15.00
Numbers
Now You Are This
PS, US There isn't an easy comparison for the dire, wounded poise
of this album, a secret pact between beauty & fear. The songs
are pensive & worry-stained, all minimal, bluntly entrancing riffs,
insistent drumming & tense, reverberant synthesizers. Surprisingly,
the most disquieting aspect of the songs is their subtle charm, 13
catchy tracks of dazed & charged near collapse that unexpectedly
catch in your mind.
KillRockStars-461
CD
$13.25
Odd Nosdam
Level Live Wires
PS, US 8-track cassettes, samplers, synths & Dictaphones, lost
records & found sounds, field recordings & happy accidents
are brought to stirring life by this humble collagist. His fascination
w/ these odd moments gives this its enveloping draw. Each bit that
becomes a part of a song is an otherwise static & eventually staid
sound that could have become mere memory.
Anticon-074
CD
$15.00
Orange Goblin
The Big Black
PS, US
MusicCartel
CD
$16.00
Park Hotell
The Guest Who Stayed Forever [enhanced 2CDEP mini-album]
PS, SWEDEN New double-CD mini-album from Lulea, Sweden band take the
spastic pop reverberations of their previous work, ramping up the
elements of shimmery shoegaze, C-86, Madchester, and outright echoing
pop. A little New Order/Joy Division, some Cure, a little more Wedding
Present, some Close Lobsters, and sigh... Six new songs and 2 vidoes.
Mixed by Bjorn Yttling from Peter Bjorn and John and Mattias Glava.
Bear Quartet frontman Mattias Alkberg, who knows great pop when he
hears it says: "Such marvelous and sad pop that I get goosebumps
just thinking about it."
GloryCrew
DCD
$11.00
Perishers
Let There Be Morning
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Nettwerk
LP
$13.75
Prinzhorn Dance School
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks/DFA
LP
$16.00
Prinzhorn Dance School
S/T
PS, US They deliver a torrent of edgy, single riff, bare bones, DIY
rock that sounds like if The Fall were to jam w/The White Stripes
& then fire half the members. Sparse, idiosyncratic outsider rock
& a fresh rush of honest noise. PITCHFORK: "The latest finding
from [DFA honchos] James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy is the Portsmouth,
England group Prinzhorn Dance School. The duo of Tobin and Suzi Horn
make sharp, stripped-down post-punk recalling the best of Young Marble
Giants, only without any hint of cuteness."
Astralwerks/DFA
CD
$13.00
Pygmy Lush
Bitter River
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoboticEmpire-062
LP
$16.00
Pygmy Lush
Bitter River
PS, US These 14 songs span nearly the entire underground/independent
music spectrum, ranging from tracks that sound like The Black Heart
Procession to Born Against to Tom Waits to The Jesus Lizard to Bob
Dylan to One-Eyed God Prophesy to Nirvana to...you get the picture,right?
Members & ex-members of PG.99, MAJORITY RULE, Malady, City of
Caterpillar, Crestfallen, Hissing Choir, & more.The CD version
comes w/a 16-page lyric bk & 2 bonus tracks.
RoboticEmpire-062
CD
$10.00
Real Tuesday Weld, The
London Book of The Dead
PS, US New album.
SixDegrees
CD
$17.25
Residual Echoes
First EP
PS, US California's Residual Echoes (full length on Holy Mountain)
kicks it in a sort of desert spastastic way that you hoped the Meat
Puppets would have stuck with. A total surprise and highly recommended.
Elevaton
CD5
$8.50
Riddle, Nelson
We Love Nelson Riddle
PS, UK Nelson Riddle is simply the greatest orchestral arranger of
popular music and an American institution. He was responsible for
the careers of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and alongside Henry
Mancini dominated the era. Riddle's incredible reputation is due to
the utmost refinement of his work and involvement in such successes
as the Batman TV show and Stanley Kubrick's controversial film "Lolita".
Our set collates rare solo recordings made when Nelson was working
with Sinatra at the very top; his work is the sound of mid-century
America.
El-118
CD
$15.00
Riggs, Dax
We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
PS, US The album feat. members of the last incarnation of deadboy
& the Elephantmen: Alex Bergeron (bass), Adam Clement (drums),
& Sean Keating Produced by Matt Sweeney, who also contributed
guitar to some tracks. The final track, "Dethbryte", was
remixed by Andrew W.K. 1st album to be released by Dax Riggs (ACID
BATH, etc) under his own name.
FatPossum
CD
$15.50
Rilo Kiley
Under the Blacklight (ON SALE)
PS, US Rilo Kiley's most recent album, 2004's More Adventurous, prompted
Elvis Costello to praise the best lyric writing that I've heard in
many a day, Coldplay to invite the band on its 2005 arena tour and
a plethora of critics to vote the disc onto annual best of lists.
That album sold 175,000 while Jenny Lewis' solo record, 2006's Rabbit
Fur Coat, sold 100,000. Now the gloriously decadent Under The Blacklight,
the group's fourth album but first for Warner Bros., focuses even
more intensely on what one critic has called lead singer-songwriter
Jenny Lewis' tangle of indie pop, torch song and too-cool-for-school
cynicism. With Under The Blacklight, Rilo Kiley is ready to shine.
Warner
CD
$13.00
Satanized
Sickness & Health: The Secular Chansons of Satanized
PS, US Debut from chaotic Philly noise rock collective. Scathing treble
& heavy rhythms, alternately slicing & pummeling the listener,
are given substance with an undercurrent of high musical complexity.
"W/ meat-head punk & heady, avant noise rock, Satanized blends
the high brow w/ the low brow to produce a sound that would be akin
to Black Flag, if they went to Berklee College of Music."-Philadelphia
Weekly
BadMaster-010
CD
$10.00
Shock Cinema
Our Way is Revenge
PS, US The debut includes 6 original angular, punk, though still largely
"pop" tracks & 2 remixes. JAY CLARK (PRETTY GIRLS MAKE
GRAVES) reworks "Howling Door" & GIOVANNI MARKS (aka
SUBTITLE) remixes the all-in-French "Art of Noir." Collective
influences include Can, David Lynch, Barrington Levy, Ghostface Killah
& Os Mutantes.
KanineRecords-262
CD
$9.25
Sleep
Holy Mountain
PS, US You need this.
Earache
CD
$13.50
Sleep
Dopesmoker
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeePee
LP
$18.00
Spider
Way To Bitter Lake
PS, US Beautifully subtle and patient, debut release from Jane Herships
is brimming w/ imagination & intamacy. Her lyrics & melodies
decorate your thoughts w/ images of fantasy & youthful wonders
that you'd long forgotten. A truly stunning debut from a beautiful
new voice in homespun folk. "After listening to this disc, all
we can say is Marissa Nadler & Joanna Newsom better watch their
backs" -Aquarius Records
Storyboard-006
CD
$12.50
Strate Coats, The
EP
PS, US Greg Ashley's (Gris Gris, The Mirrors (Tx.) and solo artist)
teenage rip off records/KBD styled punk band from 1998 finally sees
a release. Had it come out back then there'd be tons of potential
glue-sniffers forgoing weeks of huffing to afford an original copy.
8 songs (including a cover of the KBD classic "Bummer Bitch"
by Freestone). As dumb and fun as teenage records can be.
HookorCrook
45
$5.25
Studio
West Coast
PS, US New album from mysterious Swedish dance-pop duo, their US debut.
STYLUS MAGAZINE: "There's a little bit of dub, a smidgen of Krautrock,
a whole lot of post-punk, and more than a touch of disco and early
'90s British and European dance pop in West Coast, all handled beautifully
and coalescing into something that, if not unique, is certainly laden
with enough individual character as to stand out. Studio's debut album
is one of the best of both 2006 and 2007."
Information
CD
$17.75
Sunroof!
Panzer Division Lou Reed
PS, US Feat. Mick Flower (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA) on guitar &
John Moloney (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) on drums. This live shot
of electricity gradually ramps up from their dueling guitars to the
point where the drums come crashing in after about 6 min., leading
to a furious crescendo that lasts for the remainder of the 19-min.
track. Absolutely blistering demolition work, which, in spite of their
visceral impact, reach a state of zen-like stasis after a couple of
minutes.
VHF-105
CD
$13.25
Tangorodrim
Justus Ex Fide Vivit
PS, US Underground alcoholic black metal band from Israel (aiming
to seperate themselves from the scene & remain relatively obscure)
compiled of 3 Russian immigrants. They play raw & intense black
metal in the vein of oldschool bands such as Hellhammer, Darkthrone
& Mayhem.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00
Temple, Luke
Snowbeast
PS, US
Millpond
CD
$15.75
Tickley Feather/Serpents of Wisdom
Split
PS, US Tickley Feather side is dosed w/all the lush space whisper
'n ache of Gilli Smyth or Helen Johnstone pasted & cut over an
aural veneer of determined instrumentation that has become a hallmark
amongst the finest in the Finnish underground.-Siltbreeze Rec's.Touring
w/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE in the fall. The Serpents Of Wisdom side is an
obscure psych monster. Limited to 300 copies
Badmaster-006
45
$6.75
Touch Me Nots, The
Sheldon Munn
PS, US One of my favorite new bands by a long shot, the Touch-Me-Nots
are an Oakland, CA. Duo that specialize in tear it up style rock'n'roll
that isn't far off from the legendary Gibson Brothers. Highly recommended.
Yakisakana
10
$10.50
Touch Me Nots, The/Red Rockets
Split
PS, US Yet another split 7" from one of my current favorite bands
the Touch-Me-Nots. Here they square off against the Red Rockets with
two songs apiece. The Touch-Me-Nots cover Jonathan Richman's "This
Kind Of Music". Recommended.
RoachandSquirrel
45
$5.25
Trencher
Lips
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$12.50
Trencher
Lips
PS, US Casio-grinder trio from London play brutally fast, funny and
complex songs, all bashed out on bass, drums and keyboard. Strong
underground following with many collectibles and odd releases and
legendary live shows. For fans of Grind Core, Locust, An Albatross
Southern
CD
$12.50
Various
Delirium Of The Senses: Psychedelia In Italian Cinema
PS, UK This album demonstrates the incredible aptitude of Ennio Morricone's
golden generation of Italian composers for psychedelia. That most
hallucinogenic of all films, Fellini's "Toby Dammit" is
featured with a selection from Nino Rota's famous score along with
a panorama of superlative performances and rare recordings from such
masters as Morricone, Piero Piccioni and Umiliani, Berto Pisano and
Claudio Gizzi (former music director for the films of Andy Warhol)
who's main title for Roman Polanski's notorious "What?"
is included here in digital format for the first time. TRACKLISTING:
Ennio Morricone- Forza G (Psichedelico Jazzistico) From Forza G, Berto
Pisano-High Altar From Sissingnore, Berto Pisano-Sidestep From Sissingnore,
Piero Piccioni- Due Maschi Per Alexa (Psychedelic Dream) From Due
Maschi Per Alexa, Piero Piccioni-I Giovanni Tigre (Track 8) From I
Giovanni Tigre, Piero Piccioni The Redcoat (New Edit) From Sacco Alla
Regina, Nino Rota-The Awards From Fellini Toby Dammit, Armando Trovajoli-Il
Filo Dei Giorni From L'arcidiavolo, Armando Trovajoli-L'attesa From
L'arcidiavolo, Ennio Morricone-Queimada Seconda From Queimada, Ennio
Morricone-Venta Del Mar (Vii) From Ecce Homo-I Sopravvissuti, Ennio
Morricone-Astratto 1 From Verushka, Ennio Morricone-Le Fotografie
From Verushka, Ennio Morricone-Ric Happening From Metti Una sera a
Cena, Ennio Morricone-Beat N.3 From Theorem, Antón García
Abril-4 3 2 1...Morte! (Psychedelic Scene), Piero Umiliani-Le Isole
Dell'amore (Shake) From Le Isole Dell'amore, Piero Umiliani-Bambola
Omicida From 5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto, Piero Umiliani Danza
Citar Free From 5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto, Piero Piccioni-Katmandu'
From Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Piero Piccioni-Inventions From
Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Piero Piccioni-Inventions (# 2) From
Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Luis Bacalov-Rebus (Sequence 1) From
Rebus, Armando Trovajoli-Abbiamo Capito (Tema D'amore-Raga Indiano)
From Il Profeta, Armando Trovajoli-Abbiamo Capito (Tema D'amore- Variazioni)
From il profeta, claudio gizzi-what ? From che? (what?).
BellaCasa-07
CD
$15.00
Various
Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
PS, US This 16th record in Numero's Library of the Lost, looks at
the unknown side of the early 70s kid soul revolution. Beyond the
Osmonds, the Five Stairsteps & the Brighter Side Of Darkness lay
hundreds of aspiring children (or parents) bent on becoming the next
Michael. Incl. a detailed & photo stuffed bk that breaks down
the phenomena, while the disc straddles that line between historical
artifact & wild mix tape.
Numero-016
DCD
$16.00
Various
The Fruit Of The Original Sin
PS, UK The first complete CD release of the classic 1981 compilation
album The Fruit of the Original Sin, first released on chic Belgian
indie label Les Disques du Crepuscule. Originally released as a deluxe
double album package in November 1981, The Fruit of the Original Sin
featured 24 exclusive tracks from the international avant garde and
new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records and Postcard rosters.
Then, as now, the contributing artists include William S. Burroughs,
The Durutti Column, Paul Haig, Tuxedomoon, Wim Mertens, DNA, Richard
Jobson, Marine, The French Impressionists and Peter Gordon. The program
also includes an extended interview with acclaimed French author Marguerite
Duras. The original double album now features 8 bonus tracks, including
both sides of long-lost singles by Paul Haig (Soon/Summertime) and
noted New York visual artist Lawrence Weiner (Deutsche Angst/Where
It Came From), as well as a rare track (Matters of Theory) by The
Lost Jockey, the modernist ensemble-featuring composer Andrew Poppy.
The 12 page facsimile booklet features original artwork by Benoit
Hennebert and Jean-François Octave, as well as archive images
and detailed liner notes. The original cover art by Hennebert is widely
recognized as one of his very best designs. This new double CD edition
has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and
features 125 minutes of material. Most of the tracks featured here
remain unavailable elsewhere. The CD follows on the success of our
2006 re-release of the 1980 Crepuscule compilation From Brussels With
Love.
LTM-2497
DCD
$17.75
Various
Dream Frequencies Volume 1
PS, UK A new series from The Telescopes Antenna label, dedicated to
contemporary artists, concerning music and art either communicated
from or evocative of dream states. Compiled by Stephen Lawrie with
hand written illustrations and paintings from Bridget Hayden, volume
#1 is a narcoleptic mix of experimental free drone noise and repetition,
featuring contributions from Vibracathedral Orchestra, Birds of Delay,
Development of Shape, Dreams of Tall Buildings, Moon, The Library
Tapes, Sculptress, The Dust Collectors, Bologna Pony, The Telescopes,
Jazzfinger, Number None, Unexplained Transmissions & Astral Social
Club. A ltd edition of 500 copies only.
Antenna-005
CD
$16.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 4
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 3
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 2
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 1
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Road To Nowhere
PS, US Incredible indie-rock comp with NICK OLIVERI, FU MANCHU, THE
DWARVES, BURNING BRIDES, WINNEBAGO DEAL, BRANT BJORK, BABY WOODROSE,
& more, plus a debut track from "THE FREAKS" (Ruben
Romano of Nebula, John McBain of Monster Magnet, Scott Reeder of Kyuss,
Isaiha Mitchell of Earthless, and Jack Endino famed engineer)
PoisonTree-004
CD
$10.25
Various
Little Darla Has A Treat For You Volume 25: Endless Summer 2007 Edition
PS, US The World's most popular compilation series. 2xCD. 35 tracks
(32 exclusive tracks). The package/artwork layout features beautiful
rare fruit photos taken by members of the California Rare Fruit Growers
club. Only from Darla, the musical paradise in the garden of eden.
Features work by Darla family artists and labels. AARKTICA remixed
by AARON SPECTRE, ATONE, AZ-ROTATOR, CALIFORNIA ORANGES, KEITH CANISIUS,
CDATAKILL, COOPER, CORAZON, LINDA DRAPER, FOLLOW THE TRAIN, FRANK
& WALTERS, FUTURE CONDITIONAL, STAFRAENN HAKON, HELL ON WHEELS,
JAPANCAKES, JATUN, JUPITER APPLE, LAND OF ILL EARTHQUAKES, LIGHTS
OUT ASIA, LULLATONE, MAHOGANY remixed by ULRICH SCHNAUSS, MIAOU, MY
LITTLE AIRPORT, NUURO, PONIES IN THE SURF, PORT ROYAL, BLAINE REININGER,
RF & LILI DE LA MORA, SECTION 25, SPRITES, SUBMERGED, .tape.,
TREMBLING BLUE STARS, THE VOYCES, YELLOW6.
Darla-190
DCD
$9.50
Venture Lift
Futuretoreal
PS, UK Beautiful debut album from Woodstock, NY native Stanton Warren.
12 songs of guitar driven gems with a 60's psychedelia feel. highly
recommended to fans of the Pink Floyd, Mojave 3, Fuxa, Mercury Rev,
Spiritualized & Azusa Plane. Prepare to be amazed. space rock
is back! First appeared on the highly praised Mind Expansion Compilation.
LIMITED to 1000, only 400 for distribution!
MindExpansion-2014
CD
$12.75
VHS or Beta
Bring on the Comets
PS, US Louisville's VHS OR BETA makes its boldest move yet with the
release of their third full-length album, Bring On The Comets. Bring
On The Comets provides heartfelt anthems with a newfound discovery
of musical freedom, a shedding of previous expectation and boundary,
and an undeniable return to pop music. The first single, "Can't
Believe A Single Word," is a storming piano-driven mini-epic,
with Pfunder's soaring, dramatic vocals swelling to a fist-pumping
chorus. The title track, is a grand, slide-guitar infused larger-than-life
adventure."Fall Down Lightly," vitally captures every element
of VHS OR BETA's revamped new sound: here, discordant punk-funk mutates
into a classic filter-disco groove, giving way to a startlingly catchy
chorus describing a relationship's tumble into l'amour fou. VHS OR
BETA-today a trio comprising core members vocalist/guitarist Craig
Pfunder, bassist Mark Palgy and drummer Mark Guidry- recorded Bring
On The Comets with up-and-coming producer Brendan Mason (Secret Machines,
David Bowie) in Asheville, NC and Nashville, TN.
Astralwerks
CD
$12.50
VHS or Beta
Bring on the Comets
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks
DLP
$19.00
Vibert, Luke
Lover's Acid
PS, US Re-released on budget-priced CD
PlanetMu-098
CD
$5.00
Vibert, Luke
Lover's Acid
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! First time on triple vinyl!!! 3 long-out-of-print
& soughtafter EPs available together for the first time: 2000's
'95-99 EP, 2002's Homewerk EP & 2005's Lover's Acid EP. Sweet
analog melodies, classic drum machines, & breaks abound. This
is arguably the funkiest & most dancefloor record to which Vibert
has affixed his name. A future classic.
PlanetMu-098
3XLP
$19.00
Warm In the Wake
American Prehistoric
PS, US An epic 15 track song cycle that leads the listener into a
land of sonic adventure.An eclectic mix of analog soundscapes,cosmic
harmonies &understated yet impeccable balladry.
Livewire
CD
$15.00
Waterboys, The
Book of Lightning
PS, US New album from Mike Scott & Co.
Decca
CD
$18.25
We Are Wolves
Fight and Kiss
PS, US On their sophomore album, they use mystical powers to bring
their sound to a new level of auditive threat. TOTAL MAGIQUE unleashes
the raw sounds of the trio in a mesmerizing whirlwind of electro psychedelic
kraut punk."This is tres cool, gritty, real deal - brash, brazen
& rockin', adventurous & infectious. We are smitten."
- Montreal Gazette
DaretoCare-029
45
$4.75
Wolfington, John
American Dreamsicle
PS, US As on his previous full-length, Steve Shelley (of SONIC YOUTH)
& Tim Foljahn (of TWO DOLLAR GUITAR) contribute drums & bass
to the bulk of this album. Recorded at New York's Magic Shop w/ Brian
Thorn, this shimmers with a more direct sound a la Plastic Ono Band
& After the Gold Rush era Neil Young.
SmellsLikeRecords
CD
$10.00
Yura Yura Teikoku
Sweet Spot
PS, US Finally a domestic release. Released two years ago in Japan
"Sweet Spot" just might be Yura Yura Teikoku's crowning
achievment containing some of their most out and most accesible moments.
If you were wondering what the fuss was about this is the perfect
place to find out. Highly recommended.
MeshKey
CD
$11.50
Z-Trip
Shifting Gears
PS, US
Hollywood
LP
$10.50
Forthcoming
Releases
Aarktica
Matchless Years (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 13TH)
PS, US Pop/rock/experimental group lead by New York's Jon DeRosa featuring
Mascott's Kendall Meade and Drum Corps' Aaron Spectre as well as other
musicians known for their own work. As with previous records Matchless
Years was recorded by Charles Newman at Mother West Studio, NYC. On
Matchless Years Aarktica embraces the spirit of the best works of
brethren Jesus And Mary Chain, Spiritualized, and Magnetic Fields,
as well as a progression toward "dark disco" and a meshing
of 1950's vocal pop sensibilities atop Aarktica's established atmospheric
sound. The tradition of moody pop aural heroin has never sounded so
comfortable. Matchless Years is by far Aarktica's strongest and most
accessible work to date and is sure to gain them new fans. Personell:
Jon DeRosa - vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, pump organ, harmonium,
gamelan bells. Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps) - drum programs, Chris Carrico
(ex-Crucifer) - electric guitar, Charles Newman (Magnetic Fields,
Stephin Merritt producer)- organ, keyboard, Mike Pride - drums, percussion,
Seth Misterka - alto saxophone, James Duncan - trumpet, Gretta Cohn
(ex-Bright Eyes/Cursive)- cello, Kendall Jane Meade (Mascott) - backing
vocals, Ernie Adzentoivich - electric & upright bass. Produced
by Charles Newman. Tracklisting: 1. Seventy Jane, 2. I Name You Sleep,
3. Intro to Arms, 4. Arms, 5. Summer Tabla Dub, 6. Happiness Boys,
7. Matchless, 8. Slow Sorrow, Oh. Also Available: AARKTICA -Bleeding
Light CD (Darla: DRL-155), AARKTICA-Or You Could Just Go Through Your
Whole Life And Be Happy Anyway/Bliss Out v.18 CD (Darla: DRL121),
AARKTICA-Pure Tone Audiometry CD (Silber: sil026), AARKTICA-No Solace
In Sleep CD (Silber: sil012). PRESS: "Aarktica is cold, pure,
and almost inescapably tranquil." -PITCHFORK.
Darla-177
CD
$12.25
Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Psychedelic Navigator (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US AcidMothersGuruGuru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary
and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata
Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple.
The result is a fiery fantasy filled, loud/soft, colorful trans-generational
psychedelic collaboration. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru started in a
spontaneous session in March of 2006 in Nagoya, Japan. When the improvisation
commenced the passionate excitement was clear to all in the room and
it was then that this special psychedelic trio began. A Japanese tour
was planned, an album was recorded and this recording is the fruit
of this mutual musical admiration. While all involved will admit that
this is a dream of collaborations it was the Acid Mothers Temple guys
who were worshipping Guru Guru in their teens. The Acid Mothers Guru
Guru is two generations of psychedelic rock joining forces for the
21st century.
Important-160
CD
$12.25
Adams, Ryan
Heartbreaker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US REISSUE of this classic first album in a gatefold sleeve. Remastered
from the original analog tapes Bonus photos & lyrics not included
w/ the Cooking Vinyl version.
Cobraside
LP
$12.50
Allen, Daevid
Good Morning! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK In 1975, following his departure from GONG, the highly influential
group he had founded, Daevid Allen sought musical solace in the village
of Deja on the island of Mallorca. Here he encountered a group of
Catalan musicians, Euterpe, with whom Allen began collaborating. Recorded
in Mallorca, the album "GOOD MORNING" was released by Virgin
Records in 1976 to great acclaim, being a unique work that was regarded
by fans and critics as being equally as good as anything he recorded
with GONG, if not better. Filled with Allen's startling original musical
observations, "GOOD MORNING" appeared briefly on CD in the
early 1990's and vanished quickly. Long sought after by the legions
of GONG / DAEVID ALLEN followers, ESOTERIC RECORDINGS is proud to
announce the reissue of this album with fully restored artwork and
superb 24-bit digitally remastered sound. THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL
CD RELEASE FOR THIS CLASSIC ALBUM IN SIXTEEN YEARS. EsotericRecordings-2004
CD
$15.00
Angels Of Light
We Are Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US
YoungGod-35
LP
$18.75
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Strawberry Jam" feels like space dust and radar
falling on the desert and making it bloom. It's the sound of a band
spinning wildly and intoxicated, at the cusp of their powers, as thick
and rich and sweet and colorful as it sounds.
Domino
CD
$14.00
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$17.50
Apparat
Walls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US ON DOUBLE VINYL! It describes a circle that pulls many elements
together into a protected, enclosed space where they jostle &
roam free: strings & mallet instruments; rock guitar & gravelly
sawtooth synths; stuttering digital percussion & muscular studio
drumming. What might be most striking about is the way it creates
a kind of single,sustained mood; this is an album for listening to
all in one go, front to back. This is one of those road-trip records,
one of those coming-down records, one of those bedding-down records.
Shitkatapult
DLP
$18.00
Askew, Ed
Little Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Recorded in one continuous take in NYC, 1970. Made with little
more than magnetic tape, Ed's voice, and the stunningly modern arrangements
of his beloved Martin Tiple, "Little Eyes" is as grand,
sad, and beautiful a statement as can be expressed. His off-key lilt
hangs like a seductive pink mist, and settles deeply; you'll hear
these songs long after they're over. Attempting to publicize an unreleased
record, Ed did a string of radio gigs between NY and New Haven, and
the best of them are collected here. Lovely and wild.
DeStijl
CD
$12.50
Ateleia
Nightly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US With "Nightly," ATELEIA's JAMES ELLIOTT artfully
evokes the humid krautrock of POPOL VUH within a whirlpool of lush
minimalism, nimble electronica and digital psychedelia. It is a voyage
up a primeval river of sound within a steaming jungle of invisible
detail -- where the ultimate destination is forever out of reach.
TableoftheElements-808
CD5
$9.00
Axe Riverboy
Tutu To Tango (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Tahiti 80's frontman and principle songwriter, Xavier Boyer,
one of the most distinctive and loved voices in indie rock, further
propels French rock on its upward spiral with this long awaited solo
record, recorded under the name Axe Riverboy, (an anagram of Xavier's
name). A blend of superb songwriting, sing-a-long choruses, ringing
guitars, and compressed pianos. A warm rediscovery of rock and pop
with folk overtones, brilliantly drawn from the sounds upon which
early Tahiti 80 thrived.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Bailiff, Jessica
Old Things (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 4TH)
PS, BELGIUM Old things explains why it took Jessica Bailiff so long
to put out her third record. This album brings you a collection of
rarities and unreleased material, recorded between 1999 and 2002,
whilst also working on her critically acclaimed records on Kranky.
Some songs have the familiar sound of her first records (Alan Sparhawk
of Low still plays on one of them), but already hint in the direction
of the more folky current sound. track list: Your sounds make patterns
in my eyes Helpless Warren (Home version) Shadow Crush, version 2
Amethyst depression Maybe tomorrow Let time breathe Nicholson square
2 For April Figure eight (For Jonathan)
Morc-45
CD
$14.25
Band Of Horses
Cease to Begin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US These songs are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and
more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the
last record, 2006's "Everything All The Time" (scanned nearly
85K). Produced by Phil Ek.
Subpop
CD
$14.00
Band Of Horses
Cease to Begin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.25
Banhart, Devendra
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Recorded in Topanga Canyon in the Santa Monica mountains. Neil
Young lived there while recording "After The Gold Rush"
and the area has also been home to Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Joni
Mitchell, Mick Fleetwood, and members of The Doors. Those ghosts inhabit
the sound and vibe of these recording sessions. Banhart's whole "freak
folk" tag is gone, replaced with this classic, gorgeous rock
album. Some songs are fragile and solipsistic, others have a pronounced
tropicalia influence, and
still others are wildly electric and epic.
XL
CD
$13.25
Basalt Fingers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This one is two side-long triple electric guitar jams by BEN
CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Comets on Fire), Elisa Ambrogio
(MAGIK MARKERS) & Brian Sullivan (MOUTHUS, Eskimo King, White
Rock). Extremely dense & crunchy -hold this one back to set the
mood at your next summer of love party.Pressed on 180g black vinyl
& will come from an edition of around 800 hand-numbered copies.Look
out for the beautiful wrap-around multi-colored silkscreened cover.Incl.a
pressed CD (not CD-R) of the same material-not available separately.
TLR-039
LP
$22.00
Beirut
Flying Club Cup (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US The orkestar has solidified into a core group of 8 & has
grand plans for replicating this album live. Recording was done w/
Owen Pallet (FINAL FANTASY) at the Masonic church studio owned by
The Arcade Fire. W/ in the spectacle & intimacy,you can hear a
love letter to the joie de vivre that defines our existence.Listen
closer, & you also hear the emergence of a singular musical talent-Mr.Zachary
F.Condon, at present living in Paris-unbounded by cultural borders
& by where his heart travels.
BaDaBing!-055
CD
$13.25
Besnard Lakes, The
Casino Nanaimo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US In early 2007, THE BESNARD LAKES released a full-length album
on JAGJAGUWAR that quickly made it onto numerous and budding best-albums-of-the-year
short-lists by a whole range of music-listening pedigree. Now these
inspired Montrealers continue what they've started, re-stoking the
flames and releasing two additional tracks. Side A is "Casino
Nanaimo", a place where repetitive sound and lights engulf addicted
gamblers all vying for space on the eternal wheel of fortune. And
then there is side B, "Devastation (alternate version)",
the unedited and original straight-to-two-track nine-minute version,
recorded live-off-the-floor at Breakglass Studios.
Jagjaguwar-116
12
$9.00
Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This debut succinctly epitomizes all that's special about Atlanta's
favorite flower punk sons: the uncontained energy, undeniable songcraft,
and unrivaled showmanship are all on full display, as is a newfound
sense of the world around them. Songs like "Katrina" and
"Bad Kids" spare none of the Black Lips' trademark smirk
and smear, but also demonstrate a purpose and perspective not always
at the forefront of the band's music. "Good Bad Not Evil"
traffics in the kind of ragged rock harmony missing from record stores
for so long.
Vice
CD
$12.50
Blind Willie Johnson
Nobody's Fault But Mine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK "Blind" Willie Johnson straddled that spooky border
between blues and spirituals. Among musicians, he is considered one
of the greatest slide or bottleneck guitarists, as well as one of
the most revered figures of depression-era gospel music. Covered by
everyone from Peter, Paul and Mary to Led Zeppelin to Fairport Convention
