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

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

88, The
Not Only... But Also
PS, US New album.
Island
CD
$11.25

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

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

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

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

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

Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals
Cardinology
PS, US New album.
LostHighway
CD
$15.00

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

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

Analogue Minefield
Visions In Sonic Sense
PS, UK 3D digipak with 3D-spex!!! Analogue Mindfield's Gizzy D explains that the groups wants to, "create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes". This ferociously creative outfit indeed harks back to a golden age when reggae called itself roots and planted socially conscious lyrics into the public's consciousness. Delivered with sensitivity and passion over stellar riddims, laid down by musicians with an intrinsic feel for the groove, whilst adding a 21st century update in message and incoming musical influences, the results are 100% dynamite. The three main participants are Gizzy D, Snapper J and Kitty B, who are joined on their third studio album, Visions In Sonic Sense, by a supporting cast of singers and players including MC Ishu (Step 13, Manasseh Soundsystem), MC Jaz (DJ Reeza, Scribble Orchestra and now Analogue Mindfield's new live MC), techno forager Suspira (Transient Dreams who have worked with Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles), Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das on occasional bass and G Frequency (Goontrax, Domination Records) providing some luscious double bass and top turntablism. From the upbeat politically-biting skank of Political Patsy to haunting female-sung ballad Reflections, they handle conscious roots outings like Mediocracy and the brass-splattered toast of Eire Beag like the great Jamaican vocal groups of the 70s but still take the form to new vistas in roots dub ballad Dread Up, all bathed in a rich dub afterglow. Be Careful Out There could be a new street anthem for the 21st century while Music Man seems to put an 80s electro-pop outing through the dub blender. Over the years, Analogue Mindfield have worked with a diverse array of UK and Jamaican musicians and made a substantial impact with their first two albums, 2006's Digital Brainwave and last year's A Fine Adjustment of Time. Their third album is a mature affirmation of their vision and talent for working with sympathetic co-conspirators while grasping the original multi-cultural roots ethic and taking it into modern times. As to be expected from a Malicious Damage act, Analogue Mindfield don't confine themselves to the one genre they might be identified with: Soul Crew brings in elements of UK free party dub-techno while Burnt Out plants its incisive rhythms over a drum 'n' bass charge. The possibilities are infinite. Leftfield's Cheshire Cat once described the band as, "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with vibrant brass-driven skankŠ like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts!" while Primal Scream's mighty Mani declared, "You've got to get Weatherall to listen to these tracks man, he'll fookin' love em!" So will you.
MaliciousDamage-638
CD
$16.25

Another Electronic Musician
Five
PS, US For most of n5MD's existence the "IDM" ( Intelligent Dance Music) genre descriptor has been used sparingly and only for those artists that utilize a more strict electronic pallet. We shy away from such a specific genre tag because, for the most part, the music created by our artists lacks the "D" of DM...yes, dance. That trend changes with Another Electronic Musician's latest album "Five", Jase Rex's fifth release under the n5MD group of labels. Five puts the dance back into Intelligent Dance Music through the fusion of Techno, House, Electro, and Jazz with Rex's now signature sculpted sound. He has created something unique while leaving the genre's subtler signposts intact to lead the way. "Five" pushes and pulls you to where IDM used to before it went astray with its over the top cuts and glitch and puts the focus back in the mind and hips.
n5MD-163
CD
$12.00

Army Navy
S-T
PS, US Best described as impeccably crafted melody over blankets of guitar fuzz that creates a delicate balance between melancholy & joyful resignation. For inspiration, the band looks to groups like Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, The Posies, & the Libertines.
FeverZone
CD
$12.50

Baker, Aidan
I Too, Wish To Be Absorbed
PS, US Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry. Toronto based composer Aidan Baker works under his own name, under the name Nadja along with bassist Leah Buckareff and also with the trio ARC. Hailing from the Great White North, Baker incorporates guitar, drums, bass, voice and tape loops into his myriad work hauling down a long iceberg of frigid doom, bliss and sound collage. He has also composed work for the The Penderecki String Quartet & The Uxbridge Chamber Choir and he is also a published poet. The first disc in the set features shorter, perhaps more accessible tunes with a wide range of instrumentation and songs ranging from minimal drone to delicate post-rock to ambient trip-hop. The second disc features longer, more drone/experimental-oriented pieces, primarily using the guitar (with the odd tapeloops and vocals) as the primary sound source. Adventures in ambience. Sonic immersion. Introspective dronescapes.
Important-219
CD
$14.75

Band, The
Music from Big Pink (Limited Edition)
PS, US
Capitol
LP
$18.00

Band, The
S-T (Limited Edition)
PS, US
Capitol
LP
$18.00

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

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

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

Bloc Party
Intimacy
PS, US New album.
Atlantic
CD
$14.25

Bloom, Kath
Terror
PS, AUSTRALIA "One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking." - Devendra Banhart "I consider myself her biggest fan." - Josephine Foster Terror is the follow-up to Finally, avant-folk legend Kath Bloom's 2006 return to active musical duty. The new album was recorded at Barking Spider Studios in Warren, Connecticut with Kath and her husband Stan Bronski. Kath was born and raised in New Haven, CT, where she learned to play guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery. She met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976 and together they recorded six limited edition albums of fragile folk and blues melodies between 1981 and 1984. Chapter Music will be re-releasing four of these albums - Sing The Children Over, Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight - as a pair of two disc sets in the coming months. There is also a tribute album in the works, with songs by Bill Callahan, The Concretes, Mark Kozelek, Scout Niblett and others. Her new songs, however, reveal a singer and songwriter as accomplished and affecting as Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch. Most tracks primarily feature Kath's gentle guitar picking, haunting vocals, and mournful harmonica, although guitarist Marty Carlson (owner of Barking Spider Studios), husband Stan and longtime collaborator Tom Hanford added finishing touches to many tracks. The material ranges in vintage from brand new (i.e. "Marty, I just wrote this yesterday") to as far back as her days with Loren (Something To Tell You). After her collaborations with Connors, Kath entered a period of child-rearing and family life, returning to recording in the early 90s. Director Richard Linklater discovered Bloom's music and featured her song Come Here in a pivotal scene in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. By then, Bloom had begun recording again in earnest, self-releasing a series of cassettes and CD-Rs. Finally, released on Chapter Music in 2006 was her first non CD-R release since 1984. Presently, Kath trains horses and plays with her band Love at Work (which includes Tom Hanford and husband Stan) offering a musical tour de force of programs for children and adults, as well as playing solo shows in the Northeastern US.
ChapterMusic-61
CD
$15.00

Bloom, Kath & Loren Connors
Sing The Children Over/Sand In My Shoe
PS, AUSTRALIA Chapter music is honored to announce the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early 80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown New Haven, CT, Kath Bloom and Loren Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on his now legendary nine volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations, he and Kath's performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Haven's Grove Street cemetery, while Loren's idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s. By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effort.
ChapterMusic-63
DCD
$15.00

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

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

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

Brown Wing Overdrive
ESP Organism
PS, US Angry shamans, burning circuitry, lonely poltergeists, sandpaper, dental work, alarm clocks, hallucinogenic claw hammer banjos, trash trucks, human beat boxes, chaotic analog synths & modular meltdowns-three young certifiable lunatics come together to dig deeper into the depths of the human psyche than anyone ever could or should. Influenced by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Aleister Crowley, & pollution, this bizarre trio of musical misfits create acoustic/electronic compositions that will keep you on the edge of madness until the last frightening sound
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

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

Camera Obscura
Underachievers Please Try Harder
PS, US REISSUE ON 180gm VINYL!
Merge
LP
$15.50

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

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

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

Cheval Sombre
I Found It Not So
PS, UK Because the night belongs to lovers, or in this case the remnants of love: some records are ideal listening for specific times of the day, and the latest languid single from Cheval Sombre is best savored in the twilight. I Found It Not So and Where Did Our Love Go - a re-imagining of the Supremes' lovelorn plea - are coupled here on VAN172, a pairing of moonlit laments cloaked in hushed tones and quiet yearning. These two sides of softly building melancholia find Cheval Sombre teaming up with Sonic Boom, who features here as well as lending production touches, and with Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna...) and Britta Phillips (Luna). I Found It Not So is infused with a sense of sleepy reverie; a low-key lullaby which echoes and chimes while floating around your sub-conscious. Sumptuously trip-wired with sveltely layered psychotropic glazes of looping out of body transcendental hypnotics, plangent guitar melodies creep and intertwine, moving to a warm climax. It's all topped off with barely-there vocals, a whispered dream filled with a sense of longing which belies the almost post-coital atmosphere. Likewise, the low-key facsimile of Where Did Our Love Go licks off all traces of a sugary Motown coating and reveals a dark, vulnerable tale of loss, regret and desire. Yep it's a cover of the legendary Holland / Dozier / Holland penned gem and the composition that was to give the Supremes their first number one hit way back in '64. Okay three releases (two on Static Caravan) in fairly quick succession from New York poet / musician Christopher Porpora or as he's better known to those cosmic kids with their finger on the pulse - Cheval Sombre. As well as "It's a Shame / Little Bit of Heaven" which sold out on pre-sale, there is a green vinyl 7" on Trensmat. A full-length Cheval Sombre LP will be released early 2009 on Double Feature Records, the new label run by Dean Wareham. Edition of 500 on 7" wax with artwork by Ben Javens.For fans of Galaxie 500, Spaceman 3, Luna, Sonic Boom and Low.
StaticCaravan-172-7
45
$7.25

Cobra Verde
Haven't Slept All Year
PS, US New album?
Scat
CD
$10.00

Comet Gain
Book of California B/W Love Without Lies
PS, US The Band Books of California is a bleeding heart ballad for hopeless romantics. A nostalgic dream of loves lost under the glow of the California sun. Both songs are performed by the classic Comet Gain Lineup & produced in an all too treble-y, too bass-y, too much too soon Milou Studios way.
WhatsYourRupture
45
$6.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crystal Stilts
Alight Of Night
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$12.00

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

Cure, The
4:13 Dream
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Geffen
LP
$13.50

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

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

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

Deerhunter
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
PS, US THERE'S A BONUS DISC IN HERE!!! Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". The bonus disc contains an entire second album recorded a few months after Microcastle. the physical digital version will be a 2 CD affair and the vinyl will have a bonus CD inside. PITCHFORK: "The resulting 2xCD set captures urgent and imaginative songs that reorganize 4AD haze, off-kilter indie pop, crashing garage-punk, forward-leaning krautrock, and hypnotic Kranky ambience into a singular-sounding call-to-arms."
Kranky
DCD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

Eagles of Death Metal
Heart On
PS, US LIMITED EDITION new album from pop-rock-death metal effort by Josh Homme of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE.
Downtown
CD
$16.00

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

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

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

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

Farina, Mark
Mushroom Jazz Vol.6
PS, US To the un-initiated, Mark Farina is the master of the blend! This sixth edition in this legendary series sees cuts from KING KOOBA, COLOSSUS, KERO ONE, JAZZUAL SUSPECTS, and more, as well as a bumpin' brand new Farina original track entitled "Life". 20 tracks in all.
OmRecords
CD
$16.00

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

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

Food For Animals
Belly
PS, UK For many, the current state of alt. Hip-hop has been, well, rather sad lately. It's heroes either burned out or gone astray. The ideology that filled so many notebooks with raps, now feels a bit mainstream; the music that moved so many young men with backpacks, now somehow stale. The labels that brought so much awesome music now, like so many, struggling to keep their heads above water. Some have said the movement is dead, but we know better. Hip-hop is something that can never die, and especially not now, when the world seems to be more screwed up than we thought it could be. So it comes as our extreme pleasure to offer to you today what we think will be one of the most groundbreaking debut full-lengths in recent memory. Food For Animals, straight outta Washington DC, this power trio (Vulture V, Ricky Rabbit, aided now by Hy on vocals) deliver their first full-length full of busted speaker beats, bizarre noise-soundscapes and slammin raps delivered with every bit of force like the hurricane they fly through. When Chuck D said, "bring the noise" he had no idea noise like this was possible. The music, a combination of raw digital noise, elephant size beats, samples of everything from jazz to top-40 twisted, distorted, and distorted again. It's loud as hell. It's the noise music people spoke of in the 30's. Belly is a statement. A manifesto. A record that screams- literally- and pushes the listener around, it's tough as hell, raucous, and actually might mean something in the long-term.
CockRockDisco-017
CD
$16.25

Fredrik
Na Na Ni
PS, US What started out as a side project to The LK by the two pop visionaries Fredrik & Lindefelt, pretty soon grew to become a six piece featuring members of some of the very finest of the swedish pop & experimental underground. Drawing on traditional european folk influences like The Fairport Convention or Bo Hansson, crooning songwriters as well as a host of eclectic references like Moondog, Steve Reich, Jim O'Rourke, Maja Ratke or Barbara Morgenstern, Fredrik forges a sound that is as daring & eclectic as it is homecomingly soothing
Kora
CD
$11.25

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

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

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

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

Funckarma
Vell Vagranz
PS, US "Vell Vagranz" is Don and Roel Funcken's first full CD of original material under the Funckarma alias since 2006's "Bion Glent" (Sublight). This new album shows Funckarma at their most diverse by folding in other electronic music sub-genres into their already potent mix. Ambient, Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Downtempo, and even some Post-Industrial motifs are all drawn into the Funckarma vortex to be reformed into the alien sonic shroud that embodies their trademark zig-zag suture stitched beats, frenetic basswork and lush emotional gauze. Plus with some help from Seaming, Kettle, Spyweirdos, Landau, and phinx find Funckarma at their most synergistic since 2001s "Solid State" (Dub). "Vell Vagranz" is proof that Funckarma are one of those rare and seasoned artists who can make any style sound like their own unique and personal creation even when trying something out of their creative character.
n5MD-164
CD
$12.00

Future Clouds & Radar
Peoria
PS, US New album! Austin-based art-pop band is the eclectic multi-instrumental ensemble led by Robert Harrison (formerly of Cotton Mather). On their second effort, they focus their kaleidoscopic vision into a single cinematic narrative about mortality. Throughout, Harrison remains true to his genre-hopping eclecticism, leading the journey through a maze of fuzz-box vocals and ethereal keys. PASTE MAGAZINE: "A triumph of schizophrenic musical vision...a beautiful and brilliant mess...magnificent pop gems."
StarAppleKingdom
CD
$15.00

Gang Gang Dance
Saint Dymphna
PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again.
TheSocialRegistry-050
CD
$11.50

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

Gigantics
Die Already
PS, US 5-man production team assisted by ONRY OZZBORN (aka Reason & Count Draven of Grayskul/Oldominion). Their debut feat. the voices of over 50 of the most influential & talented artists in independent hip hop today - pulling these disparate artists from their respective groups & weaving them into a dream team. Notworthy appearances by successful artists like AESOP ROCK, MURS, MR. LIF, SWOLLEN MEMBERS, ELIGH, PIGEON JOHN, P.O.S., AWOL ONE, SOLILLAQUIST OF SOUND, JOSH MARTINEZ
Camobear
CD
$16.00

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

Glass Candy
Beat Box (LP/7")
PS, US 8.1 ON PITCHFORK! Released on the great ITALIANS DO IT BETTER label, here GLASS CANDY takes the reins w/ 9 trks of electro-synth-pop dance magic. LP vinyl comes w/ a BONUS 7" feat 2 unreleased trks - "High B" & "The Gate." Everyone needs to check this duo out!
ItaliansDoItBetter
LP
$16.25

Gregor Samsa
Rest
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. 140 gram double vinyl in beautiful custom package. Will go quickly.
Kora
DLP
$25.00

Grey
Sisters of the Wyrd
PS, US All female heavy doom trio
Kreation
LP
$16.00

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

Handful of Dust
Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards / The Philosophik Mercury
PS, US Double-disc re-issue from the core duo of Bruce Russell (DEAD C) & ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion & chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting & engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, & other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, & Hijokaidan
NoFun
DCD
$18.25

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

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

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

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

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

Hit The Jackpot
Soul Money Gang Vibe
PS, AUSTRALIA Adelaide trio Hit The Jackpot play simple, noisy pop songs, swapping instruments and sharing vocals. They believe that enthusiasm and sincerity are more important than technical proficiency, and take inspiration from the likes of Beat Happening, Dinosaur Jr. and The Clean. It's appropriate, then, that they are releasing their new album Soul Money Gang Vibe through Chapter Music, the home of Australian DIY music for more than 15 years. The ten tracks on the album were recorded in the second half of 2007 at the band's own home studio. Cobbled together over the last few years, this studio has also been used by the likes of Kiosk, Birth Glow, Lindsey Lowhand and Batrider. Hit the Jackpot formed as a two-piece in early 2003, comprising young couple Jess Thomas and Kynan Lawlor. With a sparse but dynamic lineup of drums and guitar they played just a handful of shows before supporting Sonic Youth on their 2004 Australian tour. They released a self-titled EP around the same time, which ended up in the number three spot in Adelaide radio station 3D's Top 100 for 2004. Hit The Jackpot were joined by Sebastien Calabretto (and a bass guitar) in 2005 and released their debut album Clowns in 2006. With Seb leaving for the grey shores of England early in 2008, Hit the Jackpot have now recruited old friend Scott O'Hara (Lindsey Lowhand, True Radical Miracle), and are gearing up for a national tour in support of the new album. Aside from Sonic Youth, Hit the Jackpot have played alongside such international acts as Calvin Johnson, Les Savy Fav, J. Mascis, Dan Deacon and Pretty Girls Make Graves, as well as Australian artists such as My Disco, The Lucksmiths, Crayon Fields, Clue to Kalo, Oren Ambarchi, Wolf and Cub, Architecture in Helsinki and Love of Diagrams.
ChapterMusic-60
CD
$15.00

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

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

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

Hunx And His Punx
You Don't Like Rock & Roll B/W Gimmie Gimmie Back Your Love
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 TOTAL (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 CLEAR viny)! LRadeiceosr &d sgents get ready - its HUNX & HIS PUNX!
This totally absurd record contains 2 finely crafted bubblegum punk numbers from Hunx (w/ songwriting help from Nobunny) that will be stuck in your head all day. And, speaking of something stuck in your head - this comes w/ a scratch-off pornographic cover! Its really something to see... unless you don't like rock & roll!
RobsHouse
45
$5.25

Indian Jewelry
Free Gold
PS, US Their most scathing pop album to date. Dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, & a lot of attitude. Now on LP!
LovepumpUnited
LP
$16.50

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

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

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

Julie's Haircut/Sonic Boom
N-Waves/U-Waves
PS, US Sonic Boom is Peter Kember, former member of the seminal SPACEMEN 3.
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75

Kaiser Chiefs
Off with Their Heads
PS, US New album.
Motown
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Magnetic Fields
Get Lost
PS, US REISSUED FOR THE 1ST TIME EVER ON 180gm VINYL! This classic 1994 release contains 13 songs from the worst year of STEPHIN MERRIT's life (head honcho of MF) & is one of the best selling titles in the Merge catalog. Re-sequenced by Merrit himself & lovingly remastered for LP & presented on audiophile vinyl. MF fans will surely want to snatch this up! Comes w/ MP3 download coupon of the entire album. 100% recycled material used in the packaging! Also, keep an eye out for more Magnetic Fields vinyl reissues from Merge coming in 2009!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Manda Rin
My DNA
PS, US Solo debut from lead singer and co-founder of sensational cult punk trio BIS
RetardDisco
CD
$11.50

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

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

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

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

Nadja/Leah Buckareff/Aidan Baker
Trinitarian
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. This will not be repressed. Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition. Ousia - substance, presence, or essence Hypostasis - As above, only referring more to reality rather than an individual Perichoresis - A christian term for the mutual/simultaneous existence of the father (god) and son (god).
Important-215
LP
$22.75

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

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

No Neck Blues Band
Clomeim
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Locust
DLP
$25.00

Norma
Norma 1 EP
PS, SWEDEN BACK IN STOCK, VERY LIMITED, NOW OR NEVER. 2007 CDEP features 4 *exclusive* songs (that do not appear on the new 2008 full-length CD) in handmade carton jackets, limited to 500 numbered copies. Highly recommended. Norma are very serious about ther music. Despite that they never get boring or theorizing. Their music is warm and welcoming. Norma is as much a band as a concept containing both visual and musical experiences. Their goal is to look outside the classical band format and try to broaden the cooperation with all sorts of creative minds. Their music is influenced by a lot of genres, ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie and the biggest influence is landscapes in all forms. Their ambition is to capture the minimalistic sound of just being three but also to challenge it and despite that sound grand. Playing live they try to give the audience much more than just a musical experience, using video, atmospheric sounds, theatrical elements and a balance between lightness and darkness.

EARDRUMS MUSIC: ""I was blown away when I first heard this track from the swedish trio Norma's debut ep, out on Novoton now. Their music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that I don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. I'm also amazed by the composition and the small details that suddenly surfaces and surprises. When the main song on the single is 8:33 minutes long, I guess those surprises are kind of necessary..."
Novoton-013
CD5
$7.00

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

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

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin
PS, US New York outfit O'Death's third LP, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, feels like a giddy junkyard hoedown, from the panicked fiddle screeches of opener "Low Tide" to the celebratory gallop of closer "Lean-To." At times it sounds morose or contemplative, but underneath the melancholy is a gospel fervor-bashed from paint buckets, banjos, guitars and anything else in kicking distance-that defines their sound. Since 2007's buzzed-about Head Home, the quintet, which contains vocalist/guitarist Greg Jamie, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gabe Darling, fiddle player Bob Pycior, bassist Newman and drummer David Rogers-Berry, has evolved the possessed americana-meets-gypsy-punk of recent years into a more urgent, unrelenting celebration of life, death and everything in between. NEW YORK TIMES: "The starkness & spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the noisemongering of punk & the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits. With quiet pluckings of banjo & angry, anarchic hollers, its songs jumble the sacred & profane."
Kemado
CD
$13.50

O'Death
Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kemado
LP
$17.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Risil
Non Meters Vol. 1
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Robedoor
Shrine to the Possessor
PS, US This one is pure darkness- no light, no air, just tortured souls & echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels. Limited to 500
MusicFellowship
LP
$16.75

Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
PS, US New album.
Infrasonic
CD
$15.00

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

Russell, Arthur
Love is Overtaking Me
PS, US The most rare and, at the same time, arguably the most accessible songs of Russell's vast catalog. 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk, & country songs compiled from over 8 hours of material. Chris Taylor (GRIZZLY BEAR) contributed mixing, restoration & editing to the album, whose tracks were selected by Audika's Steve Knutson, Ernie Brooks & Russell's companion, Tom Lee.
Audika
CD
$15.50

Saint Etienne
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne
PS, UK DISC ONE: 1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart / 2. Nothing Can Stop Us / 3. Join Our Club / 4. Avenue [Edit] / 5. You're in a Bad Way / 6. Hobart Paving / 7. Who Do You Think You Are / 8. Pale Movie / 9. Like a Motorway / 10. Hug My Soul / 11. He's on the Phone / 12. Sylvie / 13. Heart Failed / 14. Action / 15. A Good Thing / 16. Side Streets / 17. Burnt Out Car [Xenomania Mix] / 18. This Is Tomorrow / DISC TWO: 1. Kiss and Make Up / 2. Filthy / 3. Spring / 4. People Get Real / 5. Mario's Cafe / 6. Goodnight Jack [Original 1998 Version] / 7. The Bad Photographer / 8. Lose That Girl / 9. Lover Plays the Bass / 10. How We Used to Live / 11. Boy Is Crying / 12. Finisterre / 13. Soft Like Me / 14. Shower Scene / 15. Stars Above Us / 16. Teenage Winter / 17. I Was Born on Christmas Day
Universal
DCD
$27.25

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

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

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

Secret History, The
Desolation Town EP
PS, US The Secret History was formed in 2007 by songwriter Michael Grace Jr, best known for acclaimed post-wave indie band 'My Favorite'. TSH is a collaboration with vocalist Lisa Ronson, daughter of Bowie guitarist, and glam rock legend Mick Ronson. The Secret History continues as a vehicle for Grace's myth and monster laden storytelling, which sprawls across a dreamlike landscape; part New York, part Italy, part Nowhere. The sound itself is a kind of continental art rock, combining the rainy jangles of mope, the stomp of glam, the innocence of the girl groups, and the anxiety of disco. Comparisons to Roxy Music, Eno, The Smiths and others begin to scratch the surface. The Desolation Town ep is the perfect introduction to a band committed to destroying rock n' roll from the inside and releasing its love-worn prisoners back into the streets...headphones on...never walking alone.
LeGrandeMagistery-048
CD5
$9.00

Sickboy
Time To Play
PS, GERMANY Sickboy's exhilarating, enthusiastic and insane-as-ever fifth full length album features this musician's most infectious, catchiest and most efficient material. While the noise might be gone for good, Sickboy's new clothes are of the colourful party kind. Mixing old school rave, new school electro, breaks and madness, Sickboy hits the nail on its head and invite everybody to play, rave and party non-stop. Refreshing! More madness from the source of it all. Sickboy, one of the most seminal breakcore / mash-up / whatever artist of the current European scene takes everybody to the utmost rave of 2008.
Adnoiseam-106
CD
$16.25

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

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

Smaldone, Micah Blue
Red River
PS, US This is the 3rd full-length from Portland, Maine's MICAH BLUE SMALDONE after previous releases on North East Indie & Tequila Sunrise. Influenced by greats like Skip James, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Will Oldham, etc - a wonderful listen! About the album, Micah says ""This new one reaches a little further both into the past & into the future. It is simple faith in the goodness of people, the depth of love, & the infinite wisdom of nature, which allows for this path to be cut w/ patience, humility, & an eagerness to share. So let this album be a little way-mark, & never a hitching post."" He recently played on the new Jack Rose album & also plays in the group Fire on Fire (Young God Recs). CD version comes in a mini-LP style gatefold package w/ 8 pg booklet. Currently on tour supporting Death Vessel & also plays in the Death Vessel band. ""Even though the arrangements are more elaborate, the songs themselves have a primitive clarity. Lyrics are dark & rich w/ imagery... Lines can be violent, even lurid, yet even the most bloody verses have the plainspoken grace & essentialism of American folk art.""-DUSTED. RECOMMENDED!
Immune
CD
$13.00

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP in special colored vinyl.
Geffen
DLP
$17.00

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns [deluxe edition]
PS, US With bonus DVD.
Geffen
CD/DVD
$20.50

Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns
PS, US New album! This is Northern Irish pop-rock quintet Snow Patrol's fifth album, following 2006's Eyes Open. Recorded in Germany and Ireland with Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, Bloc Party, REM) once more at the helm, the album sees them exploring a somewhat rockier, although still decidedly radio-friendly, direction than on the introspective Eyes Open. As evinced by the single 'Take Back the City', the band's knack for writing catchy pop hooks remains intact.
Geffen
CD
$16.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun Kil Moon
April
PS, US Limited amount available from Parasol. Black & White marble Vinyl!
VinylFilms-2008
LP
$18.00

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

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

Teknoist, The
Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies
PS, GERMANY Hard, relentless, creative, monstrous, and still friendly: The Teknoist's first full-length album is a storm of shattered pounding beats, anthemic riffs, and aggressive breaks. And still, it is also a humane and deep work that knows when to take the time to seduce its listener. Between the most insane moshpit and inventive melodies, here comes hurricane of yet uncharted magnitude. We warned you that he would be back. Half a year after having invited The Teknoist to share a record with Eustachian on the successful "Pillaged & Plundered" 12", Ad Noiseam presents the mad man's first full length album, coming after several years worth of records for such labels as Deathchant, Planet Mu, Death$sucker, Peace Off or Cock Rock Disco.. And mind you, he hasn't used this time to slow down one bit. A hurricane is a good metaphor for this album, in which Mike Hayward (a.k.a. The Teknoist) unleashes an hour long of his relentless broken rhythms, his pounding beats and his insidious melodies. A storm indeed, of destroyed drums and friendly melodies, of anthemic riffs and humane hooks.
AdNoiseam-103
DLP
$20.25

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

Tokumaru, Shugo
Exit
PS, US Sometimes his music sounds like a roomfull of clockwork toys having a rave. Other times, it is sweet, slow & mournful. There are cowboy guitar riffs rubbing shoulders w/traditional Japanese instruments. Percussion sometimes means a drum kit & sometimes an ashtray, if not both
AlmostGold-
CD
$13.25

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

Travis
Ode to J. Smith
PS, US New album.
Fontana
CD
$15.25

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

Various
Happy Sweet 16 Carrot Top Records
PS, US "Happy Sweet Sixteen Carrot Top Records" Special, very limited edition CD made for the CTR Sweet Sixteen celebration at The Hideout September 26-27, 2008. Includes ALL EXCLUSIVE TRACKS, each with a 16 theme by nearly every band ever released by the label. Tracks by TALL DWARFS, HANDSOME FAMILY, KATJONBAND, ANTIETAM, MEGAN REILLY, ARCHER PREWITT, BITTER TEARS, COCTAILS, David Greenberger of DUPLEX PLANET, RETSIN, NAYSAYER, PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA (POI DOG PONDERING), SLIPSTREAM, LYS GUILLORN, and birthday phone messages from SPECK MOUNTAIN & DARLING DOWNS. Gorgeous cover art by Archer Prewitt & beautiful letterpress printing by John Upchurch. All organized by Mark Greenberg of The Coctails.
Hi-Ball
CD
$10.50

Various
Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal - The '90's Vol. 3 (BOOK/CD)
PS, US This vol. highlights the albums & bands of the '90s that stood on the shoulders of giants & gave metaPl tuhbisl igsehninergation's greatest hits. Full of reviews & recollections of hundreds of rarities & mainstream metal albums from this period. Incl. little known trivia that brings these albums back to life. Sure to attract any metal fan, this user-friendly guide documents dozens of bands & hundreds of albums. "Excellent! It's one of the very few guides that gets under the skin of the music & interprets what was in the mind of its creators."-Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden. Comes w/ FREE CD feat. '90s metal by SKREW, FATES WARNING, GWAR, CANNIBAL CORPSE, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, much more!
CollectorsGuide
BOOK
$24.25

Vivian Girls
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! We HEART the VGs, y'all! Breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade who dish out seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven w/ chest-pounding waves of beautiful pop-rock feedback. This is a reissue of the original 500 copy pressing (now out of print) released on the Mauled By Tigers label, which sold out in 10 days. RIYL: The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Vaselines & The Shop Assistants.
InTheRed
LP
$10.50

Wax Fang
La La Land
PS, US THE ONION A.V. CLUB: "What's going on in Kentucky? Judging by My Morning Jacket's new record and its hometown tourmate Wax Fang, it's like a flair for theatricality is being transmitted through the Louisville water. But while MMJ's turn to prog went for funky twists, it's immediately clear from the grandiose opening of Wax Fang's La La Land that frontman Scott Carney is fully intent on creating a Pink Floyd-esque prog-rock opera. From spacey, eerie psychedelia to whistling to references to World War II, the album conveys a vision as strongly as The Wall did, but with a less-polished, basement aesthetic that provides vivid moments of needed brightness. Spanning soaring whirls of energetic guitar pop ("The Doctor Will See You Now") and rolling, break-of-dawn mini-epics reminiscent of Arcade Fire (the closing "Wake Up Sleepyhead!"), La La Land is a fiercely focused collection with an impressive, bold ambition and artistic cohesiveness. It's a strong effort, but even if Carney's dream of resurrecting Roger Waters doesn't work out, Wax Fang could probably compose some incredible Off-Broadway rock musicals."
Don'tPanicRecords
CD
$14.75

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

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

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

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

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

Zeller
Audio Vandalism
PS, GERMANY Audio vandalism is the first release by the young artist JB Zeller who is based in Southern France. This release includes eleven tracks that were recorded between 2005 and 2008. Zeller is affected by 'all kinds of subversive music' (ranging from breakcore and industrial music to dubstep) in such a way that he is able to assimilate these different musical facets into his own style. Needless to say, the results are unique and subversive in their own right. Audio Vandalism is an aggregation of complex beat layers, deep dark bass, distorted synth textures, ominous samples and algid ambiences that are interwoven with atrabilious melody lines. Straightforward electro-industrial meet the complexness of breakbeats merged with whirls of noise, captured media coverage and a hint of melancholy. This album can be seen as a missing link between heavy, metric electronica, straight-line jungle-core and saturnine movie soundtracks. Join the Audio Vandalism!
Hymen-770
CD
$16.25

Forthcoming Releases

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asobi Seksu
Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New York's greatest bands.
Polyvinyl
45
$6.25

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Collects the Gibb Bros' pre-disco baroque-pop genius, originally release on LP in 1969. Could be the first time on CD? ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anyone needs conclusive proof that the brothers Gibb weren't always the chest-medallion-flashing kings of mainstream disco or, since about 1980 on, meaningless AOR washouts, the nearly 40-minute collection of the Bee Gees' earliest hits will suffice in spades. At their (perhaps, in hindsight) surprising best, the threesome, along with capable if generally unremarkable rhythm section members Melouney and Colin Peterson, created a slew of tender, affecting, and quite lovely hits. While the Stonesproto-metal crowd of the time probably thought them unbearably wimpy, their songwriting acumen, combined with their harmonies, fine production by Robert Stigwood, and ace orchestral/band arrangements by Bill Shephard, holds up astonishingly well... Considering that everyone from Catherine ("Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You") and Jimmy Somerville ("To Love Somebody") to Low ("I Started a Joke") and Jose Feliciano ("I've Gotta Get a Message to You") has covered something from this collection is testimony to the songs' continuing influence."
Reprise
CD
$12.25

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Second volume of the trio's pre-disco baroque-pop best, originally released in 1973. Includes the fairly rare "Morning Of My Life", which also happens to be one of their best orch-pop songs.
Reprise
CD
$8.25

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Gatefold HQ 180 gram vinyl.
Matador
LP
$20.00

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This limited, deluxe double CD contains an entire live show broadcast on BBC Evening Session in mid-2001 with another four never before heard songs.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, the group rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The regular CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period.
Matador
CD
$13.25

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

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

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

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

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

Bronnt Industries Kapital
Häxan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK The world of horror soundtracks has long been an inspiration for Bronnt Industries Kapital, the musical project revolving around Bristol-based composer Guy Bartell, and it is no surprise that Bronnt should return the favor by delivering a horror soundtrack of its own. Häxan (1922, dir. Benjamin Christensen) is a fusion film using dramatization, documentary and animation to explore the themes of witchcraft and superstition. Met with outrage on its release, it has since been reappraised as a classic. Bronnt was commissioned to write a new soundtrack to accompany the film's first release on DVD in Europe (TVD3758) in 2007, and it is this soundtrack which forms the group's second album, the follow up to 2005's acclaimed Virtute et Industria. Much of Häxan was shot at night to enhance the sinister mood of the film, and Bronnt utilized a similar schedule to evoke the awe of the Sabbat. The soundtrack was composed and performed using a wide range of instrumentation, including clockwork devices, transistor organs, mellotron, clarinet, guitars, bespoke string instruments, pianos, tone generators, analog synthesizers and elaborate processing and manipulation through antique tape machines and plate reverbs. The resulting scope of the soundtrack is vast, ranging from minimalist clockwork lullabies to lush orchestral ensemble pieces, heavenly analog sound collages to hellish electrical miasmas, all imbued with a darkly hypnagogic ambiance worthy of Christensen's strange world populated by mechanical demons and castles in the clouds.
StaticCaravan-168
CD
$16.25

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

Calder
Lower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Calder formed in Iceland when musical instrument maker Lárus Sigurðsson and Ólafur Josephsson, who is perhaps best known for his recordings under the alias Stafrænn Hákon, met and decided to join forces. Their first collaborations resulted in self-titled five-track album of improvised, experimental instrumentals that was released through Ólafur's Vogor Recordings and later picked up by UK indie Unlabel. Lárus' background is in classical music, having played with various Icelandic musicians and self-released a handful of solo recordings. His recent album Jarðhörpusálmar was improvised and recorded using musical instruments that he had designed and built himself. Ólafur Josephsson has been experimenting with ambient guitar arrangements under the name Stafrænn Hákon since 1999. He has released his music through various labels including his own Vogor Recordings, the Resonant Label and Awkward Silence Recordings, with the music progressing and becoming increasingly refined since his debut album Eignas Jeppa in 2001. After the creative success of Calder's debut, a second album was conceived in 2005 when Lárus and Ólafur started exchanging ideas, shaping and molding their music, with the material composed in a truly collaborative way - Lárus handed Ólafur acoustic melodic ideas and Ólafur added electronic elements, with tracks gradually acquired shape, depth and life. With this new music, melody, structure and beats have come more to the fore, although the beautiful and haunting guitar atmospherics are still evident, running like a thread through the album. 2008 saw the completion of this process and the resulting album has been entitled Lower. The music can perhaps best be described as a fusion of experimental, ambient, classical and acoustic music.
MakeMineMusic-052
CD
$16.25

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

Cat Power
Dark End Of The Street (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Six-song vinyl EP containing mostly unreleased recordings from the "Jukebox" sessions. In keeping with the "Jukebox" theme , all the songs here are covers: "Auld Triangle", "Dark End Of The Street", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", "Fortunate Son", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "It Ain't Fair". Limited deluxe double gatefold 10-inch vinyl.
Matador
2X10
$14.00

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

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

CSS
Move (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Remixes by Cut Copy, Metronomy & Frankmusik!
Subpop
12
$5.00

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

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

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

Deer Tick
War Elephant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New album from intriguing solo-acoustic troubadour dude. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, has been on a non-stop tour since graduating from high school in 2004. He often performs without amplification, delivering tunes with just his voice and guitar, an experience that gives his vocals the primal power of a turn of the (last) century mountain balladeer. McCauley's a singer/songwriter with finely crafted literary lyrics married to folkie melodies that sport influences from rock, blues, country, and pop, as evidenced by his cover of Anthony Newley's "What Kind of Fool Am I?." McCauley transforms the tune into a country waltz, straining to reach the high notes, replacing Newley's measured regret with desperation and agony, although the mood is broken by a goofy, loping instrumental bridge just before the last two verses. The rest of the album, originals penned by McCauley, is more straightforward -- tunes about lost love, loneliness, and heartache delivered simply, highlighting McCauley's emotionally charged, unadorned vocals."
Partisan
CD
$15.00

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full details forthcoming. Price could change.
Kranky
LP
$11.50

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

Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version. LIMITED TO 5000!
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Headlights
Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Features remixes from The Album Leaf, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Son Lux, as well as Cale Parks and T.J. Lipple of Aloha. Limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies in an eco-friendly recycled digipack.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

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

Hotel Hotel
The Sad Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Indie-ambient post rocker of heavily effected guitars & violins, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of If Thousands, Remora, Aarktica, Mogwai, Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, & Godspeed You Black Emperor. File under Indie Ambient, Guitar Experiments, Post Rock, Shoegazer.
Silber-064
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008)
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

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

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

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

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

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

Library Tapes
A Summer Beneath the Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Library Tapes follow up the highly acclaimed Make Mine Music album Höstluft with the beautiful and atmospheric long player A Summer Beneath the Trees. A Summer Beneath the Trees steps away from the minimal sound of previous Library Tapes releases, with rich layers of sound and more varied instrumentation, and strings taking a more prominent role. Joining Library Tapes main man David Wenngren (piano, laptop and field recordings) are Peter Broderick (Bella Union, Type, Kning Disk) who adds violin, guitar, accordion, trumpet, celeste, viola and banjo on the six of the album's nine tracks, and Danny Norbury (Static Caravan, Ono) who plays cello on three tracks. The trademark ageing clicks and glitches of earlier releases are largely absent, and there is a newfound warmth and depth to these recordings. The album moves Library Tapes further into the realm of modern classical and cinematic soundtracks, with the music bringing to mind Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman and Max Richter. Based in Gothenburg in Sweden, David Wenngren has also released music under the name Forestflies and has extensively toured UK, Europe and USA, playing live with the likes of Sylvain Chauveau, Greg Haines and Akira Rabelais.
MakeMineMusic-053
CD
$16.25

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

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

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

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

Lorna
Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom.
WordsOnMusic-24
CD
$11.50

Los Campesinos!
We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, Los Campesinos! prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity, and most importantly, energy, with the announcement of their new record. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed: ten brand new tracks recorded in Seattle from June 12-23rd with Mr John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wedding Present, Wu Tang) and mixed immediately after at Monnow Valley in Wales.
Arts&Crafts
CD/DVD
$15.25

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

Low
Santa Is Coming/The Coming Of Jah (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US 2 new tracks w/ sweet punch out ornament cover!
Subpop
45
$4.75

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

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

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

Magnificents
Year Of Explorers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The latest release from this Scottish band is an epic saga of stolen synths, left-handed guitars, trans-European expressways, covert product placement, and serious studio tomfoolery. Where their eponymous debut was primarily fueled by raw punk power and electrifying excess, this record demonstrates a more measured method. They've toured with the Beta Band, Mogwai, Stereolab, and Trans Am.
Mush
CD
$10.75

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

Minotaur Shock
Amateur Dramatics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Audio Dregs is pleased to announce the release of a longtime favorite from Bristol UK, Minotaur Shock; the musical side of David Edwards. There are currently 3 albums by him available, a compilation of old hits and some EPs out there, but this is his first stateside release now available on Compact Disc! How cool is that? "I'd describe Amateur Dramatics as school band meets Italo meets chamber music rubbing up on electro with a slice of acid, a sprinkling of minimalism and a short attention span. It's got saxophones, violins, clarinets and the insides of my grandma's mini-piano on it. It was influenced by many things, notably Fleetwood Mac, Detroit techno, Frank Zappa, Cluster, Andrew Poppy, Bowie, Italo house, Glass/Reich, Gentle Giant and Todd Rundgren. It was all written, arranged, recorded and produced by me mostly at home (occasionally in other people's houses). All instruments were done by me except clarinet, flute and saxophone which were played by the wonderful Emily Wakefield, and violin which was played by the excellent James Underwood of the Iskra String Quartet. Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner provided vocals for 'This Plane Is Going To Fall'." -David Edwards, June 2008
AudioDregsRecordings-073
CD
$12.25

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

Nerves, The
One Way Ticket (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Their bare, skeletal sound made every lick seem memorable. They excelled in energy.
People compared them to the early Beatles or the Dave Clark Five." - Kenneth Funsten.
Formed in 1975 by guitarist JACK LEE, bassist PETER CASE, and drummer PAUL COLLINS, the Nerves are one of the most influential garage/punk pop outfits to come out of the mid-70's LA scene, and certainly one of the least documented... until now. Mostly remembered for their classic "Hanging On The Telephone," a Jack Lee composition which has been covered over the years by a myriad of artists from BLONDIE to L7 to CAT POWER, the Nerves were above all a high energy rock'n'roll band with all three members composing and singing. Playing fast, ear-catching garage pop songs, sometimes wearing matching suits, the trio had more than a bit of the stripped down street energy of the Los Angeles's early punk movement. They shared the stage with the Ramones and Mink Deville during their infamous US "Magical Blistering Tour," played the Punk Palace and the legendary Masque in Hollywood, and headlined shows with the Avengers, the Zeros, The Dils, The Screamers and Shock, to name just a few. After the band's break-up in 1978, Peter Case and Paul Collins formed The BREAKAWAYS, and later went on to front the legendary PLIMSOULS and The BEAT, respectively. Following the success of "Hanging On the Telephone," JACK LEE has mostly focused on his songwriting career, releasing an album in 1981. Both Peter and Paul are still recording and touring. PETER CASE's latest album "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" (Yeproc 2007) was nominated for a Grammy. This collection, authorized for the first time ever by the three band members, features the band's 1976 EP (now regarded as a power pop classic), as well as demos and previously unreleased live recordings, REMASTERED and complete with notes and photos. The CD is a Digipack. Track listing : 1. One Way Ticket 2. Paper Dolls 3. Hanging On The Telephone 4. When You Find Out 5. Working Too Hard 6. Give Me Some Time 7. Walking Out On Love (Breakaways) 8. Thing Of The Past (Plimsouls) 9. It's Hot Outside (Jack Lee) 10. Many Roads To Follow (demo) 11. Are You Famous? (live) 12. Why Am I Lonely? (live) 13. You Won't Be Happy (live) 14. Any Day Now (live) 15. Letter To G. (live) 16. Come Back And Stay (live) 17. I Need Your Love (live) 18. Stand Back and Take a Good Look (demo) 19. Are You Famous (demo - CD only) 20. Letter To G. (demo - CD only). Produced by The Nerves
AliveRecords-
CD
$20.00

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

Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

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

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

Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

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

Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

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

Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

No Age
Teen Creeps (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Non album b-side!
Subpop
45
$3.50

Norma
Book of Norma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Swedish shoegaze/dreamrock duo Norma's new album is available 11/4. Those of you who snapped up their incredible debut EP (available again, very limited stock) understand what's at stake here. Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Modern references may be Silverbullit, 120 Days, Serena Maneesh and the Lionheart Brothers.
Novoton
CD
$13.00

Northern Valentine
The Distance Brings Us Closer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Northern Valentine is built around husband & wife team Robert (guitar) & Amy Brown (violin & keyboards). They have been recording since 1997 & have six limited release albums to their credit in numerous incarnations with various additional musicians. On The Distance Brings Us Closer Robert & Amy are joined by Jeffrey Bumiller (of Doctor Scientist & Lunch with Beardo) on guitar, Marc Carazo on bass guitar, & Ben Fleury- Steiner (of Light of Shipwreck & owner of Gears of Sand Records) on guitar. The recordings on the Distance Brings Us Closer were live in their studio using a stereo field recorder without post-production or overdubbing, just the band members improvising off of each other on planned themes. The result is a very live & blended spacious sound rather than the sterility & separation that can often be found on a multi-tracked album version of a live improvisational drone band.
Silber-068
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US **SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice!
Matador
DCD/LP
$23.00

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

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

R.E.M.
Murmur: 25th Anniversary Edition [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Two-CD 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features R.E.M.'s debut album, remastered, plus an additional disc with a previously unreleased concert recorded at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto, three months after Murmur's April 1983 release. The 16-song live performance boasts nine of Murmur's 12 songs, including "Radio Free Europe," three songs from the Chronic Town EP, early renditions of "7 Chinese Bros." and "Harborcoat," as well as "Just A Touch", eventually a track included on R.E.M.'s fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. The live set also features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again", which R.E.M. recorded in the studio for the b-side of "Radio Free Europe." Exclusive essays by producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, as well as former I.R.S. executives Jay Boberg, Sig Sigworth, Carlos Grasso round out the deluxe edition.
IRS/Universal
DCD
$28.00

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

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

Reverend Green/Drawlings
Be Good To Earth This Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This 7-inch comes courtesy of Care Kacky's 45s, the singles division of Paw Tracks. Side A is Reverend Green (a.k.a. Brad Truax of Home and Jah Division). Antony Hagerty (Antony & The Johnsons) along with Kria Brekkan (Mum) lend their distinct voices on this inspirational meditation on self development and the importance of earth awareness. On the flip is the first solo recording of Abby Portner's Drawlings, recorded with the help of Dave Portner (Animal Collective, Terrestrial Tones) and Rusty Santos (The Presence). A haunted children's carol that'll make you glad you're inside by the fire.
PawTracks
45
$4.75

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

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl.
XL
DLP
$20.00

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

So So Glos, The
Toursim/Terrorism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US
GreenOwl
CD
$12.50

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

Soy Un Caballo
Les Heures De Raison (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The duo Soy Un Caballo (Spanish for "I am a horse") features Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas). They write and perform songs of exquisite fragility. "Delicate, wispy melodies vie with choral refrains...smooth as silk, cool as a cucumber and light as a feather" - Subba-Cultcha. "An album that enchants and leaves you to imagine" - Wire.
MintyFresh
CD
$10.00

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA)
PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

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

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

Vallance, Ed
Modern Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US
RebelGroup
CD
$8.50

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

Various
MMM050 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Make Mine Music releases a collection of exclusive tracks showcasing the work of artists on the innovative label, as it reaches its landmark 50th release on Monday 24 November. The compilation includes new recruits Piano Magic and Calder, label favorites Epic45 and the musical return of label founder Scott Sinfield aka Portal. After quietly releasing a range of critically acclaimed albums and EPs, Make Mine Music now boldly states its manifesto. These are difficult times for the music industry with file sharing, illegal downloads and falling sales. The traditional music business model is failing and record labels are scrabbling to find a way to survive. Artists too are campaigning for better copyright laws and greater shares of royalties through coalitions. But these still rely on an outdated model of releasing music. For Make Mine Music, this isn't a crisis. It's a golden opportunity. Make Mine Music is a truly radical independent label, run and owned by the artists themselves. The artists pay for the manufacture and promotion of their own records and correspondingly receive 100% of any income generated. There are no management pockets to line, no shareholders to please, no restrictive contracts or demands placed upon the artists. Six years and 50 releases after its inception, Make Mine Music is proof that there is another way. It's time for other artists and labels to catch up. Tracklisting: Millimetrik Ignacio Ramonet et le Metronidazole, Avrocar Two Silver Czars, Schengen The Prince (From Ueno), The Doldrums Try A New Thing, Glen Johnson A Pause in the Night, Portal Prana (Slow Burner), Piano Magic Western Gothic, Yellow6 Day in Pripyat, Planivaar Slow Motion, Epic45 In All the Empty Houses, All Sides Marathon, Innerise Dreams at E38th Street, Weyland No, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Story, Still Crescent In A Northern Landscape, Jelly Antler Back to School (Original Edit), Calder Old.
MakeMineMusic-050
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

Wee Hairy Beasties
Holidays Gone Crazy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US WEE HAIRY BEASTIES, led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD & SALLY TIMMS, vocalist KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, Rock*A*Teens), & the mighty talents of jug band purveyors DEVIL IN A WOODPILE, are back with their new albun on their very own label, WEE BEATZ! Brand new songs for some holidays that exist ("Pumpkinhead") and some that don't ("Dinosaur Christmas")! There are tunes with Shangri-Las finger-popping flavor, fresh seat-of the- pants harmonies, a musical nod to Slade (yes, Slade!), and some very special guests: actual kids singing along in wide-open, b-i-n-g-o style! And, as always, bright and bouncy instrumentation-washboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was. A rollicking good time for big and little folks alike!
Weebeatz-002
CD
$11.75

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

13th Floor Elevators “Going Up: The Very Best Of The 13th Floor Elevators” CD $13.00
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno “Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008” CD $15.50
All That The Name Implies “S-T” CD $16.25
Arms “Kids Aflame (CD/DVD)” CD/DVD $16.25
Band Of Annuals “Repondez” CD $13.75
Band Of Annuals “Let Me Live” CD $13.75
Bug “London Zoo” CD $16.00
Clear Light “S-T” CD $14.50
Cluster “Cluster '71” LP $16.75
Cluster & Eno “S-T” LP $16.75
Coldplay “Viva La Vida” LP $22.94
Curless, Dick “Tombstone Every Mile” CD $12.25
Doormouse “Stanley Yerkowski presents: Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator” CD $11.75
Duchesses “Estupet” CD $13.50
El Vez “Gospel Show In Madrid” DVD $25.00
Giant Sand “Provisions” CD $14.50
Hammer No More The Fingers “S-T” CD5 $7.00
Handsome Family “Songbook” BOOK $11.00
Hatewave “Free Ringetones” CD $13.50
Jandreus, Peter “The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987” BOOK $52.00
Jem “Down to Earth” CD $12.50
Krallice “S-T” CD $14.25
Lackthereof “Your Anchor” CD $10.00
Love “Love Story” DVD $30.00
Lovely Little Girls “Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags” CD $13.50
Makoto, Kawabata “We Don't Know Where We Came From” LP $20.00
McArdle, Shannon “Summer of the Whore” CD $15.00
Michael Night “I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This” CD $17.75
Mirah “Old Days Feeling” CD $10.50
New York Dolls “A Hard Night's Day” CD $13.00
NRBQ “Interstellar Kustom Shop” 10 $13.50
P.W. Long “God Bless The Drunkard's Dog” CD $15.25
Parson Red Heads, The “Spaceland Presents: The Parson Red Heads at the Echo” CD $16.00
Parson Red Heads, The “Field Mouse Carnival (Extended Play)” CD5 $6.25
Passenger “Wicked Man's Rest” CD $13.75
Pia Fraus “Ten Remixes Of Yenissey” CD $13.50
Pia Fraus/Ulrich Schnauss “Mute The Birds / Ships Will Sail SPLIT 7"” 45 $11.00
Pilgrim Fathers “Short Circular Walks In The Hope Valley” CD $15.75
Primal Scream “Beautiful Future” CD $20.50
Prurient “Arrowhead” CD $18.00
Ra Ra Riot “Rhumb Line” CD $11.00
Reiner, Kai “Kai Reiner” CD $10.00
Roden, Steve “Airforms” CD $12.25
Schirach, Otto Von “Oozing Bass Spasms” CD $17.75
Sky Juice “Hard To Kill” LP $17.00
Slepcy “We Are The Newest Battle Models” CD $11.75
Supersister “To The Highest Bidder” CD $19.00
Taiga Remains “Crushed Radiant Deities” CD $10.50
Telepathique “Last Time on Earth” CD $15.00
Terminal 11 “Illegal Nervous Habits” CD $11.75
Times, The “Pop Goes Art” CD $15.50
Times, The “Enjoy / Up Against It” CD $15.50
U.S. Girls “Introducing” LP $16.00
Ugly Things “#26” ZINE $10.00
Various “Molten Strings, Train Wrecks & Birdsong” CD $10.50
Various “Forwards In Backwards Time” DCD $13.25
Various “Psychedelic Days Volume 2 (6X7")” 45 $50.00
Various “Circular Grooves Volume 2 (6X7")” 45 $50.00
Various “Wild N Ravin' Volume 2 (6X7")” 45 $50.00
Weezer “S-T (The Red Album)” LP $20.00
Williams, Andre “Can You Deal With It?” CD $11.75
Wilson, Dennis “Pacific Ocean Blue” 3XLP $35.00
Wright, Peter “At Last a New Dawn” DCD $20.50

Parasol New Arrivals • October 28, 2008
Howdy all, First off, I've been down and out this week with a tolerable case of the flu. But rest assured, I've got a handful of new audio antidotes to insure a speedy recovery. Please do yourself a favor and wrap your ears around the new Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Starflyer 59, Dead C, O' Death, M83, Glass Candy, Hunx & His Punx, and Indian Jewelry. Flex your head, Roy
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Parasol Mail Order Pick of the Week
	Deerhunter "Microcastle/Weird Era Cont." CD $12.25 (Kranky) New album from Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox & Co explores other-dimensional dronescapes with a thumping pop heart. It's no surprise that baroque, sugary-sweet melodies, akin to Beach Boys and Grizzly Bear simultaneously, abound in Deerhunter's Spacemen 3/Spiritualized (and extended family) psych-vibrancies. What is surprising is the 11th hour addition of a full-length bonus album, Weird Era Cont., making this highly-anticipated new release a double-album masterpiece. Win, win! Sound samples on our front page.
Roy's Vinyl Pick of the Week
	Crystal Stilts "Alight Of Night" LP $12.00 (Slumberland) Alight of Night delivers on the promise of those early singles. There is an unmistakable flavor of The Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts' spectral avant-garage also references the spooked '60s Texas psych of The 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of The Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. A strong pop element brings to mind the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Jesus and Mary Chain B-sides and Meat Whiplash. Sound samples on our front page.
Thrillsville: Parasol staff's weekly picks
Jim picks: Park Hotell - Free For Friends CD Angie picks: Band Of Annuals - Let Me Live CD Roy picks: Crystal Stilts "Alight Of Night" LP $12.00 (Slumberland)
New Releases 23 Skidoo Urban Gamelan PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Illuminated Records in August 1984, the album Urban Gamelan consolidated Skidoo's position as supreme avant-gardists with uncommon commercial nous. "Coup thundered over the horizon earlier this year. A mighty 45, it's a vinyl TV cop show car chase driven by Sketch Martin's bass, with Aswad's horn section blazing away in hot pursuit" (NME, 1984); "Skidoo allowed black America back in. And they let the rest of the world get a look in, too." (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD features three bonus tracks including the original 12" single mixes of Language and the mighty Coup - the latter oddly similar to the 1997 smash by the Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2530 CD $16.25 23 Skidoo Just Like Everybody PS, UK Initially active between 1979 and 1986, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Their classic singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs (an indie chart #1), The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Just Like Everybody (disc one) is a compilation covering 1980 to 1986, and includes the full 12" versions of Skidoo's signature singles such as Last Words, Coup, Language and Assassin, as well as key album tracks, and both sides of rare debut Ethics from 1980. The second disc, Just Like Everybody (Part Two), gathers together 17 tracks recorded by the group during the 1990s, and was originally released on the band's own Ronin label in 2002. Digitally remastered, most of the tracks and mixes on this double CD set are exclusive, and are not repeated on the other 23 Skidoo CDs in LTM's reissue program. The booklet also features a detailed history of the group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2532 DCD $18.00 88, The Not Only... But Also PS, US New album. Island CD $11.25 A Cuckoo Destination Unknown PS, US "There is something reassuringly old fashioned about A Cuckoo, a singular individual who dwells on the Yorkshire Moors and has a fixation with sepia-toned Edwardiana, music boxes and the like... MOJO would like to add that we hope that A Cuckoo's forthcoming album will be available on 78. It would seem impolite if it wasn't." - MOJO By the age of 17 A Cuckoo had already played in respected UK bands Blue Aeroplanes and House of Love. In his early 20s he started to create and produce his own music. In the meantime he ended up working nearly full time as a composer for the BBC, which is where he "learnt how to orchestrate and paint sonic pictures." Quietly A Cuckoo began putting some of the rough ideas that he was developing up on MySpace. The page quickly began to gather a list of complimentary comments and was visited by A Girl called Eddy (former Le Grand Magistery recording artist, currently signed to Anti), who asked what the situation was with the release of his material. "Um, they're only rough snippets!" replied A Cuckoo, so A Girl Called Eddy put him in touch with Matthew Jacobson from Le Grand Magistery who insisted he finish the album so he could release it. The result is 'Destination Unknown'. A magical and dusty esoteric mix of styles that seems to effortlessly project a work of humble yet visionary compositions and poetry. Filled with music boxes, accordions, mandolins, bells, a quartet, acoustic guitars, and endless melody. "Great songs" - Chris Difford of Squeeze LeGrandMagistery-045 CD $12.25 A Handful Of Dust Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury PS , US Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990. NoFunProductions-34 DCD $16.25 A Sunny Day In Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal [re-issue] PS, US NEW PRESSING. PITCHFORK 8.0! Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers & all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's ASDIG adds lush female vocals & dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin & Lauren's vocals trading off phrase for phrase glisten for thirteen storied track. It succeeds in marrying ASDIG's love of indie rock & languid atmosphere, recalling the best aspects of Slowdive's Souvlaki & early Aphex Twin. MisOjosDiscos CD $11.50 Abelcain & Cdatakill Passage PS, GERMANY All good things are three: Abelcain and Cdatakill, two of the most essential breakcore act to have ever graced this scene, pair up once again on "Passage", a full length CD presenting for the first time their tracks from the "Six Stigmata" and "Playing with Knives" record, enriched by four new collaborations. Hard-hitting, highly varied and presenting anew some cornerstone material of the breakcore sound, "Passage" is a mandatory release not only for fans of these two veterans, but for anybody who intends on understanding what breakcore is about. Following 2007's two collaborative 12" ("Bleeding Hearts vol 1 and 2", adn82 & adn83), Cdatakill invites another fiendish friend to Ad Noiseam, this time his long-time partner and co-shredder Abelcain. Both acts, which are among the very few veterans of the American breakcore scene to be still active, have finally given birth to a full length CD, which present their repeated collaborations over the years. "Passage" is the long awaited release on CD of two split 12" by these two acts (released by Zhark Intl and Low Res in 2002) and four new tracks written specially for this project. Armed with a decade of beats and rhythms shattering, Cdatakill and Abelcain have both matured, but look back dearly at their first collaborations. "Passage" opens with three tracks written by each musician, in which Marty Frank (Abelcain) presents his staccato drumming and sudden breaks, while Zak Roberts (Cdatakill) already leave space for some dark sci-fi soundscapes between his breakcore avalanches. These tracks are followed by four from the "Playing With Knives" 12", in which some of each acts' best known tracks are remixed by the other one (such as Abelcain's hard hitting "Faust" or Cdatakill's epic "Imperial Passage"). Finally, let's fast-forward six years to 2008 and see what sort of new treatment Abelcain and Cdatakill reserved to each other's material. The first hasn't slowed down his tempo a bit, and adds some extra oomph to two tracks taken from Cdatakill's moody "Valentine" album. Zak Roberts's gritty and complex remixes of recent Abelcain track close the circle. Cdatakill and Abelcain, two acts at the very centre of the breakcore scene, finally go through their rites of passage together, and demonstrate again that their dry, fast and dark blend of the genre is as relevant and necessary as ever. Artwork by Magnus Blomster. Tracks 1 to 6 were originally released on Zhark International as "The Six Stigmata" (zhark12005) in 2002. Tracks 7 to 10 were originally released on Low Res as "Playing With Knives" (low 011) in 2002. AdNoiseam-104 CD $16.25 Abshire, Ariel Exclamation Love PS, US Darla Records hasn't been this excited about a new release by a new Pop/Americana artist since My Morning Jacket's first record. Ariel performs her original songs live at venues across Austin, Texas -- by herself and with music legend Alvin Crow. Her voice can be heard on soundtracks for films by Robert Rodriguez and Trevor Romain, and she is the youngest female singer to perform before thousands at the Austin Music Awards. Music critic Margaret Moser has compared her voice to that of Brenda Lee and Lou Ann Barton. Ariel has been called the "authentic foil to Britney Spears," by National Geographic's Traveler Magazine. This young woman was born to sing. TRACKLISTING: 1. Exclamation Love 2. Goddamn New Mexico 3. Nervous 4. I Didn't Know People Could Do That 5. Unknown Encounter 6. Thin Skin 7. Spots 8. Hotel Hallway 9. Subscriptions and Lies 10. Picking Up 11. Everybody Does Darla-214 CD $12.25 Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals Cardinology PS, US New album. LostHighway CD $15.00 Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals Cardinology PS, US VINYL VERSION. All initial LP orders include special 7" piece and all LP packaging includes mp3 download code plus a super-cool "surprise". LostHighway LP $17.00 Aldebaran Forgotten Tombs PS, US Heavy doom outfit from Portland. Kreation LP $16.00 Analogue Minefield Visions In Sonic Sense PS, UK 3D digipak with 3D-spex!!! Analogue Mindfield's Gizzy D explains that the groups wants to, "create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes". This ferociously creative outfit indeed harks back to a golden age when reggae called itself roots and planted socially conscious lyrics into the public's consciousness. Delivered with sensitivity and passion over stellar riddims, laid down by musicians with an intrinsic feel for the groove, whilst adding a 21st century update in message and incoming musical influences, the results are 100% dynamite. The three main participants are Gizzy D, Snapper J and Kitty B, who are joined on their third studio album, Visions In Sonic Sense, by a supporting cast of singers and players including MC Ishu (Step 13, Manasseh Soundsystem), MC Jaz (DJ Reeza, Scribble Orchestra and now Analogue Mindfield's new live MC), techno forager Suspira (Transient Dreams who have worked with Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles), Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das on occasional bass and G Frequency (Goontrax, Domination Records) providing some luscious double bass and top turntablism. From the upbeat politically-biting skank of Political Patsy to haunting female-sung ballad Reflections, they handle conscious roots outings like Mediocracy and the brass-splattered toast of Eire Beag like the great Jamaican vocal groups of the 70s but still take the form to new vistas in roots dub ballad Dread Up, all bathed in a rich dub afterglow. Be Careful Out There could be a new street anthem for the 21st century while Music Man seems to put an 80s electro-pop outing through the dub blender. Over the years, Analogue Mindfield have worked with a diverse array of UK and Jamaican musicians and made a substantial impact with their first two albums, 2006's Digital Brainwave and last year's A Fine Adjustment of Time. Their third album is a mature affirmation of their vision and talent for working with sympathetic co-conspirators while grasping the original multi-cultural roots ethic and taking it into modern times. As to be expected from a Malicious Damage act, Analogue Mindfield don't confine themselves to the one genre they might be identified with: Soul Crew brings in elements of UK free party dub-techno while Burnt Out plants its incisive rhythms over a drum 'n' bass charge. The possibilities are infinite. Leftfield's Cheshire Cat once described the band as, "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with vibrant brass-driven skankŠ like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts!" while Primal Scream's mighty Mani declared, "You've got to get Weatherall to listen to these tracks man, he'll fookin' love em!" So will you. MaliciousDamage-638 CD $16.25 Another Electronic Musician Five PS, US For most of n5MD's existence the "IDM" ( Intelligent Dance Music) genre descriptor has been used sparingly and only for those artists that utilize a more strict electronic pallet. We shy away from such a specific genre tag because, for the most part, the music created by our artists lacks the "D" of DM...yes, dance. That trend changes with Another Electronic Musician's latest album "Five", Jase Rex's fifth release under the n5MD group of labels. Five puts the dance back into Intelligent Dance Music through the fusion of Techno, House, Electro, and Jazz with Rex's now signature sculpted sound. He has created something unique while leaving the genre's subtler signposts intact to lead the way. "Five" pushes and pulls you to where IDM used to before it went astray with its over the top cuts and glitch and puts the focus back in the mind and hips. n5MD-163 CD $12.00 Army Navy S-T PS, US Best described as impeccably crafted melody over blankets of guitar fuzz that creates a delicate balance between melancholy & joyful resignation. For inspiration, the band looks to groups like Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, The Posies, & the Libertines. FeverZone CD $12.50 Baker, Aidan I Too, Wish To Be Absorbed PS, US Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry. Toronto based composer Aidan Baker works under his own name, under the name Nadja along with bassist Leah Buckareff and also with the trio ARC. Hailing from the Great White North, Baker incorporates guitar, drums, bass, voice and tape loops into his myriad work hauling down a long iceberg of frigid doom, bliss and sound collage. He has also composed work for the The Penderecki String Quartet & The Uxbridge Chamber Choir and he is also a published poet. The first disc in the set features shorter, perhaps more accessible tunes with a wide range of instrumentation and songs ranging from minimal drone to delicate post-rock to ambient trip-hop. The second disc features longer, more drone/experimental-oriented pieces, primarily using the guitar (with the odd tapeloops and vocals) as the primary sound source. Adventures in ambience. Sonic immersion. Introspective dronescapes. Important-219 CD $14.75 Band, The Music from Big Pink (Limited Edition) PS, US Capitol LP $18.00 Band, The S-T (Limited Edition) PS, US Capitol LP $18.00 Bathgate, Chris Wait, Skeleton (CD/BOOK) PS, US Released as the second in an ongoing series of hand made, bound & stamped booklets, this EP features 6 brand new songs from Chris, on the heels of his well received full length album. The pages are printed on vellum & feature prints of trees among handwritten lyrics. "If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young & enormously promising career, its the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty." - NPR Song of The Day QuiteScientific CD $13.50 Black Time Double Negative PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! IntheRed LP $11.75 Blithe Sons, The The Great Orthochromatic Wheel PS, US The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse ) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist songs forms summoned by a miniature orchestra of eclectic instruments. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside. The indoor set consists of slow-motion ballads built on hymn-like organ, nylon string guitar, analog drum machine & stark percussion. The outdoor side offers a web of exotic wind-instruments & battery-powered electronics reverberating in a cavernous hall cut in the side of a sea-cliff. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for a free MP3 version of the album. The Blithe Sons have released five other full-length albums since 2001 for Family Vineyard, Chocolate Monk and Jewelled Antler. In 2007 the Sons curated the sixth volume of Music Fellowship's triptych series bringing together Pekko Kappi and Claypipe for a three-way split CD. FamilyVineyard-62 LP $12.50 Bloc Party Intimacy PS, US New album. Atlantic CD $14.25 Bloom, Kath Terror PS, AUSTRALIA "One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking." - Devendra Banhart "I consider myself her biggest fan." - Josephine Foster Terror is the follow-up to Finally, avant-folk legend Kath Bloom's 2006 return to active musical duty. The new album was recorded at Barking Spider Studios in Warren, Connecticut with Kath and her husband Stan Bronski. Kath was born and raised in New Haven, CT, where she learned to play guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery. She met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976 and together they recorded six limited edition albums of fragile folk and blues melodies between 1981 and 1984. Chapter Music will be re-releasing four of these albums - Sing The Children Over, Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight - as a pair of two disc sets in the coming months. There is also a tribute album in the works, with songs by Bill Callahan, The Concretes, Mark Kozelek, Scout Niblett and others. Her new songs, however, reveal a singer and songwriter as accomplished and affecting as Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch. Most tracks primarily feature Kath's gentle guitar picking, haunting vocals, and mournful harmonica, although guitarist Marty Carlson (owner of Barking Spider Studios), husband Stan and longtime collaborator Tom Hanford added finishing touches to many tracks. The material ranges in vintage from brand new (i.e. "Marty, I just wrote this yesterday") to as far back as her days with Loren (Something To Tell You). After her collaborations with Connors, Kath entered a period of child-rearing and family life, returning to recording in the early 90s. Director Richard Linklater discovered Bloom's music and featured her song Come Here in a pivotal scene in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. By then, Bloom had begun recording again in earnest, self-releasing a series of cassettes and CD-Rs. Finally, released on Chapter Music in 2006 was her first non CD-R release since 1984. Presently, Kath trains horses and plays with her band Love at Work (which includes Tom Hanford and husband Stan) offering a musical tour de force of programs for children and adults, as well as playing solo shows in the Northeastern US. ChapterMusic-61 CD $15.00 Bloom, Kath & Loren Connors Sing The Children Over/Sand In My Shoe PS, AUSTRALIA Chapter music is honored to announce the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early 80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown New Haven, CT, Kath Bloom and Loren Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on his now legendary nine volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations, he and Kath's performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Haven's Grove Street cemetery, while Loren's idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s. By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effort. ChapterMusic-63 DCD $15.00 Bohren & der Club of Gore Dolores PS, US Hailing from Germany, the Bohren quartet bring you their 6th release. Their extremely slow melodious blend of saxophone, piano, organ, fender, vibes, bass and drums, has been labeled "horror jazz" by critics. Each toneseems to be chosen w/ infinite patience. Ipecac CD $16.25 Bookish, Simon Everything/Everything PS, US An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", Everything/Everything is a new departure for Simon Bookish, being his first album for TOMLAB. Additionally, whilst previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, Everything/Everything does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments. Scored for an ensemble dominated by saxophones, brass, piano, harp and Far sa organ, it features luminaries from both the jazz and experimental classical music scenes. Whilst this is almost certainly his most pop oriented release to date, Everything/Everything, as it's name suggests, nds room for moments of racing Philip Glass minimalism, lop-sided disco, expressionist cabaret, and even an eery ambient interlude. Lyrically, the album's concept is "the - good of information" in our modern age, taking in chemistry and ecology, language and art, sometimes surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, a weird blur of fact and action, delivered in Bookish's distinctive English eccentric vocal. It's only natural that Simon Bookish would want to tackle this chaos of stuff, since 'Simon Bookish' is the pseudonym of London-based composer Leo Chadburn, whose diverse recent work has included everything from sound-art installations in Bregenz, Austria, improvisation and guest spots with Leafcutter John and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford, and computer music for contemporary dance at the Royal Opera House to an acclaimed appearance with the National Theatre as "The Singer" in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle". Tomlab-121 CD $12.25 Broken Note Crux / Zealot PS, GERMANY Broken Note puts the grist back in dubstep for their first record on Ad Noiseam, and demonstrates how heavy, dark and efficient this genre can be. Shattered, colossal and bridging dubstep and breakcore, the two tracks on this 12" are guaranteed to pack dance floors and ruin a few subwoofers. Having cut their teeth with a début 12" on Peace Off's heavy dubstep sub label Ruff in early 2008, the London-based duo Broken Note present their sophomore effort on Ad Noiseam with this "Crux / Zealot" (adn102). While dubstep has over the years mutated in various sub-genres and variations, Broken Note's blend is of the colossal and dark kind. Tapping in breakcore for the density of their sound, shattering their 2-step influences in a myriad of details, and not afraid of supporting their mammoth-like basses with rude, heavy beats, these musicians come up with something that finally proves that dubstep can be as massive as it was famed to be. This record's dub plates have already proved to be highly efficient DJ tools, packing dance floors for months. Here comes the loud, heavy and low end-rich final cut. A remarkable record from a striking act. AdNoiseam-102 12 $11.00 Brown Wing Overdrive ESP Organism PS, US Angry shamans, burning circuitry, lonely poltergeists, sandpaper, dental work, alarm clocks, hallucinogenic claw hammer banjos, trash trucks, human beat boxes, chaotic analog synths & modular meltdowns-three young certifiable lunatics come together to dig deeper into the depths of the human psyche than anyone ever could or should. Influenced by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Aleister Crowley, & pollution, this bizarre trio of musical misfits create acoustic/electronic compositions that will keep you on the edge of madness until the last frightening sound Tzadik CD $15.25 Cakebuilder Feeding The Worms PS, GERMANY File Under: dubstep, breakcore. From its symphonic opening to its sweeping heavy basses, Cakebuilder's second record for Ad Noiseam shows that things are still deep in Winnipeg. Bridging angry, dark dubstep and a highly melodic drive, Cakebuilder opens a new gate for the genre, where "dub" is replaced by something a lot colder and orchestral. Cinematic dubstep of the blackest shade. AdNoiseam-095 12 $11.00 Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder PS, US REISSUE ON 180gm VINYL! Merge LP $15.50 Carter, Christina Original Darkness PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings. Kranky CD $12.25 Caspian You Are The Conductor PS, US Caspian weaves precise, textured webs in which you become completely immersed & then profoundly affected - hypnotized & forced to look inward. MyleneSheath 12 $14.75 Chandeliers Thrush PS, US Electronic art-funk band CHANDELIERS, residents of Chicago's Shape Shoppe loft/recording studio, present their debut LP, The Thrush, on the newly formed Obey Your Brain imprint. Comprised of multi-instumentalists from Chicago's blossoming young avant-rock scene, Chandeliers are a phenomenon in unclassifiable modern music. Having adopted the collective spirit of kraut-rock bands like Can and Faust, the group functions as a unified whole with no dominant members. This approach gives them a more intuitive and unpredictable approach to composing. An album with the flow of a mix-tape, The Thrush is at home bangin' in your trunk or hypnotizing on your headphones. Kraftwerk is a clear reference, but with influences ranging from Eastern melodies to the sonically dirty rhythmic propulsion of Konono No.1, and the crunked-out, psychedelic hip-hop of J-Dilla, Chandeliers always keep listeners on their toes. Includes a download code for a digital version of the album as well as two bonus videos. Upcoming East Coast tour with Baltimore's Thrust Lab this fall. ObeyYourBrain LP $12.00 Cheval Sombre I Found It Not So PS, UK Because the night belongs to lovers, or in this case the remnants of love: some records are ideal listening for specific times of the day, and the latest languid single from Cheval Sombre is best savored in the twilight. I Found It Not So and Where Did Our Love Go - a re-imagining of the Supremes' lovelorn plea - are coupled here on VAN172, a pairing of moonlit laments cloaked in hushed tones and quiet yearning. These two sides of softly building melancholia find Cheval Sombre teaming up with Sonic Boom, who features here as well as lending production touches, and with Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna...) and Britta Phillips (Luna). I Found It Not So is infused with a sense of sleepy reverie; a low-key lullaby which echoes and chimes while floating around your sub-conscious. Sumptuously trip-wired with sveltely layered psychotropic glazes of looping out of body transcendental hypnotics, plangent guitar melodies creep and intertwine, moving to a warm climax. It's all topped off with barely-there vocals, a whispered dream filled with a sense of longing which belies the almost post-coital atmosphere. Likewise, the low-key facsimile of Where Did Our Love Go licks off all traces of a sugary Motown coating and reveals a dark, vulnerable tale of loss, regret and desire. Yep it's a cover of the legendary Holland / Dozier / Holland penned gem and the composition that was to give the Supremes their first number one hit way back in '64. Okay three releases (two on Static Caravan) in fairly quick succession from New York poet / musician Christopher Porpora or as he's better known to those cosmic kids with their finger on the pulse - Cheval Sombre. As well as "It's a Shame / Little Bit of Heaven" which sold out on pre-sale, there is a green vinyl 7" on Trensmat. A full-length Cheval Sombre LP will be released early 2009 on Double Feature Records, the new label run by Dean Wareham. Edition of 500 on 7" wax with artwork by Ben Javens.For fans of Galaxie 500, Spaceman 3, Luna, Sonic Boom and Low. StaticCaravan-172-7 45 $7.25 Cobra Verde Haven't Slept All Year PS, US New album? Scat CD $10.00 Comet Gain Book of California B/W Love Without Lies PS, US The Band Books of California is a bleeding heart ballad for hopeless romantics. A nostalgic dream of loves lost under the glow of the California sun. Both songs are performed by the classic Comet Gain Lineup & produced in an all too treble-y, too bass-y, too much too soon Milou Studios way. WhatsYourRupture 45 $6.25 Connors, Loren The Moon Last Night PS, US The Moon Last Night perfectly captures the complex and contemporary guitar style of Loren Connors - totally desolate yet wound in echoy, rich black clouds that weep of Mississippi ghost blues and chiming strings. This two-part suite combines the artist's love of choral music, Giacinto Scelsi and the naked Venusian guitar style he evangelized across a string of private press LPs in the late 1980s. Conjured solely from a Fender six-string and reverb effects, solitary notes swirl and loft gently from distant points before collecting into booming clusters. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment during the winter of 2008, the rustles of clothes and a creaking chair appear throughout. Like a kaleidoscope or the cover art itself - a 1973 painting by Connors - subterranean layers of composition and melodic streams are uncovered in each listen. Pressed in an edition of 500 one-sided translucent yellow LPs Connors has released over 50 albums since his 1978 debut, and since 1999 he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative albums with Suzanne Langille, John Fahey, David Grubbs, Christina Carter, Jandek, and Jim O'Rourke. FamilyVineyard-61 LP $12.50 Creed, Helios Not Without Sorcery PS, US LTD ED 5-trk EP to support HELIOS CREED's 2008 30-city "Dual Forces" tour. Contains 2 songs exclusive to this release & 3 songs from his forthcoming CD/2LP for Transparency. Helios (ex-founder of the legendary noise-rock act CHROME) plays guitar, bass & synth, as well as vocals; Paul Della Pella plays drums. Transparency CD5 $10.75 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower of their classic sound initially essayed on its predecessor, Bayou Country. One of the differences between the two albums is that Green River is tighter, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity. Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally. Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music. This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom. Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realize the "world is smolderin'." Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult. For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Pendulum: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Opening slowly with the dark, swampy "Born on the Bayou," Bayou Country reveals an assured Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that has found its voice between their first and second album. It's not just that "Born on the Bayou" announces that CCR has discovered its sound -- it reveals the extent of John Fogerty's myth-making. With this song, he sketches out his persona; it makes him sound as if he crawled out of the backwoods of Louisiana instead of being a native San Franciscan. He carries this illusion throughout the record, through the ominous meanderings of "Graveyard Train" through the stoked cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Keep on Chooglin'," which rides out a southern-fried groove for nearly eight minutes. At the heart of Bayou Country, as well as Fogerty's myth and Creedence's entire career, is "Proud Mary." A riverboat tale where the narrator leaves a good job in the city for a life rolling down the river, the song is filled with details that ring so true that it feels autobiographical. The lyric is married to music that is utterly unique yet curiously timeless, blending rockabilly, country, and Stax R&B into something utterly distinctive and addictive. "Proud Mary" is the emotional fulcrum at the center of Fogerty's seductive imaginary Americana, and while it's the best song here, his other songs are no slouch, either. "Born on the Bayou" is a magnificent piece of swamp-rock, "Penthouse Pauper" is a first-rate rocker with the angry undertow apparent on "Porterville" and "Bootleg" is a minor masterpiece, thanks to its tough acoustic foundation, sterling guitar work, and clever story. All the songs add up to a superb statement of purpose, a record that captures Creedence Clearwater Revival's muscular, spare, deceptively simple sound as an evocative portrait of America." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy & the Poor Boys: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Make no mistake, Willie & the Poor Boys is a fun record, perhaps the breeziest album CCR ever made. Apart from the eerie minor-key closer "Effigy" (one of John Fogerty's most haunting numbers), there is little of the doom that colored Green River. Fogerty's rage remains, blazing to the forefront on "Fortunate Son," a working-class protest song that cuts harder than any of the explicit Vietnam protest songs of the era, which is one of the reasons that it hasn't aged where its peers have. Also, there's that unbridled vocal from Fogerty and the ferocious playing on CCR, which both sound fresh as they did upon release. "Fortunate Son" is one of the greatest, hardest rock & rollers ever cut, so it might seem to be out of step with an album that is pretty laid-back and friendly, but there's that elemental joy that by late '69 was one of CCR's main trademarks. That joy runs throughout the album, from the gleeful single "Down on the Corner" and the lazy jugband blues of "Poorboy Shuffle" through the great slow blues jam "Feelin' Blue" to the great rockabilly spiritual "Don't Look Now," one of Fogerty's overlooked gems. The covers don't feel like throwaways, either, since both "Cotton Fields" and "The Midnight Special" have been overhauled to feel like genuine CCR songs. It all adds up to one of the greatest pure rock & roll records ever cut." Fantasy CD $11.50 Creedence Clearwater Revival Self-Titled: 40th Anniversary [expanded re-issue] PS, US Remastered with bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Released in the summer of 1968 -- a year after the summer of love, but still in the thick of the Age of Aquarius - Creedence Clearwater Revival's self-titled debut album was gloriously out-of-step with the times, teeming with John Fogerty's Americana fascinations. While many of Fogerty's obsessions and CCR's signatures are in place -- weird blues ("I Put a Spell on You"), Stax R&B (Wilson Pickett's "Ninety-Nine and a Half"), rockabilly ("Susie Q"), winding instrumental interplay, the swamp sound, and songs for "The Working Man" -- the band was still finding their way. Out of all their records (discounting Mardi Gras), this is the one that sounds the most like its era, thanks to the wordless vocal harmonies toward the end of "Susie Q," the backward guitars on "Gloomy," and the directionless, awkward jamming that concludes "Walking on the Water." Still, the band's sound is vibrant, with gutsy arrangements that borrow equally from Sun, Stax, and the swamp. Fogerty's songwriting is a little tentative. Not for nothing were two of the three singles pulled from the album covers (Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q," Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You") -- he wasn't an accomplished tunesmith yet. Though "The Working Man" isn't bad, the true exception is that third single, "Porterville," an exceptional song with great hooks, an underlying sense of menace, and the first inkling of the working-class rage that fueled such landmarks as "Fortunate Son." It's the song that points the way to the breakthrough of Bayou Country, but the rest of the album shouldn't be dismissed, because judged simply against the rock & roll of its time, it rises above its peers." Fantasy CD $11.50 Crystal Stilts Alight Of Night PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Slumberland LP $12.00 Crystal Stilts Alight Of Night PS, US Alight of Night delivers on the promise of those early singles. There is an unmistakable flavor of The Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts' spectral avant-garage also references the spooked '60s Texas psych of The 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of The Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. A strong pop element brings to mind the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Jesus and Mary Chain B-sides and Meat Whiplash. Slumberland CD $13.00 Cure, The 4:13 Dream PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Geffen LP $13.50 Cure, The 4:13 Dream PS, US Their 13th release, hence the title. "There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They're very upfront and dynamic," says Robert Smith of the new songs. "People will be surprised how stripped-down and in your face the record is." Geffen CD $15.75 Danielson Our Givest (Remix) PS, US SecretlyCanadian-191 45 $4.75 Dears, The Missiles PS, SPAIN The Dears have not gone away and come back, but they have been transformed: by experience, by necessity, by life and its manifold curveballs. And with their new album, MISSILES, they have emerged as elder statesmen of the Canadian indie rock renaissance... Recorded quickly, the album is a feast of stripped-down arrangements and raw emotion served up like a rustic meal, its songs polished but still containing traces of the rough soil from which they were born. The most explicit example is the affecting final track, Saviour, whose vocal track - an original demo take, recorded with a hand-held microphone only moments after the final lyrics were written - remains unadulterated, vulnerable amongst the organ swells and chorus of children's voices. The music is restrained, yet there is an urgency to the lyrics. Lightburn is the confessor: first decoding, then submitting. Yanchak, whose striking voice is more present than on past albums, is the protector: nurturing and unbreakable. Dangerbird CD $15.25 Deerhunter Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. PS, US THERE'S A BONUS DISC IN HERE!!! Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". The bonus disc contains an entire second album recorded a few months after Microcastle. the physical digital version will be a 2 CD affair and the vinyl will have a bonus CD inside. PITCHFORK: "The resulting 2xCD set captures urgent and imaginative songs that reorganize 4AD haze, off-kilter indie pop, crashing garage-punk, forward-leaning krautrock, and hypnotic Kranky ambience into a singular-sounding call-to-arms." Kranky DCD $12.25 Diplo Diplo & Sanatgold Mix PS, US REPRESSED & NEW LOWER PRICE!! 8.0 ON PITCHFORK! Guests AMANDA BLANK, KID CUDI, MARK RONSON & more, incl. 3 exclusive tracks, plus remixes from XXXCHANGE, RADIOCLIT, SWITCH, MUMDANCE, DIPLO & more, dancehall dubplated from TONY MATTERHORN, CUTTY RANKS, TURBULENCE, more. 35 trks in all for a one in a million mixtape. Highlights incl. a live band version of the Bad Brains' "Right Brigade," SANTOGOLD's favorite influences showcased by DIPLO as well: Devo, Sir Mixalot, Aretha, Jazzbo, Desmond Dekker, The Clash & more. MadDecent CD $11.00 Dissard, Marianne L'Entredeux PS, US NOW ON LP! Chanson meets Americana in a beautifully orchestrated & sensual album by Marianne Dissard & Joey Burns of CALEXICO. Made in Tucson, Arizona w/ Burns & John Convertino (Calexico) Naïm Amor (Amor Belhom Duo, ABBC), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) & scores of Tucson collaborators. LePopMusik LP $18.75 DJ Rupture Uproot PS, US His 1st release since returning to Brooklyn after 7 yrs in Spain, offers his most intimate work to date. RUPTURE is not a DJ to rest on previous highs, but who constantly looks for new ones. He proved that he can DJ fast & dense w/ his influential 'Gold Teeth Thief' & 'Minesweeper Suite' mixes - now it's time for the sensual slow dance of a (relatively) smooth turntablist experience that deepens on repeat listens. How many DJs do you know who commission a string quartet for their latest mix? This is surely his most "listenable" mix to date, blended seamlessly w/ elements from UK dubstep & Brooklyn dancehall to Berlin abstraction, not to mention Brazil (Maga Bo), Finland (Clouds), Australia (Dead Leaf) & more. This explores a wealth of new material - almost half of it previously unreleased - in a mix that is deep, contemplative & contagious Agriculture CD $18.00 Dreamend Long Forgotten Friend PS, US VINYL VERSION. If we are to believe everything we read THEN the vinyl version includes the CD version for free, contains 4 extra songs (16 minutes worth of music), a handmade pop-up gatefold by William Schaff (GYBE!, Okkervil River etc), and an extra CD of demos and alternate versions. Graveface LP/DCD $21.00 Dreamend Long Forgotten Friend PS, US Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Songs loosely based on stories & memories of a relative from the far past. Music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities & ghost towns. Banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape, drumming is minimal and guitars are the ghosts. Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together. Packaged in a 15pt chipboard gatefold sleeve w/ a 12 page booklet of photos by Christy Romanick. Graveface CD $12.50 Eagles of Death Metal Heart On PS, US LIMITED EDITION new album from pop-rock-death metal effort by Josh Homme of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. Downtown CD $16.00 Electric Six Flashy PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Electric Six's fifth album kicks off with the brassy, Latin-tinged "Gay Bar Part Two," which has absolutely nothing to do with the original "Gay Bar" but everything to do with Dick Valentine and company's finely honed sense of the ridiculous. Harking back to one of their Fire hits with this songtitle was intended as a shameless marketing ploy, but Flashy feels like a shout-out to the band's first album in other ways: the band dials down the disco-rock of albums like Switzerland and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master in favor of the gloriously bombastic hard rock-meets-new wave of Fire's album tracks...keeping it deliciously unclear if Electric Six are the highest of the lowbrow or the lowest of the highbrow." Metropolis CD $15.25 Envy/Jesu Split (DELAYED) PS, US Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind JUSTIN K. BROADRICK wrote, recorded, mixed, & produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January-May 2008 Conspiracy LP $16.75 Fairport Convention What We Did On Our Holidays PS, US Their 2nd album, originally released in '69, is the first to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. Contains some of their finest moments, incl. Denny's own "Fotheringay," Richard Thompson's "Meet Me On The Ledge" & their stunning take on Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine." It's also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Fall of the Bastards Dusk of an Ancient Age PS, US Lengendary Black Thrash. Kreation LP $16.00 Farina, Mark Mushroom Jazz Vol.6 PS, US To the un-initiated, Mark Farina is the master of the blend! This sixth edition in this legendary series sees cuts from KING KOOBA, COLOSSUS, KERO ONE, JAZZUAL SUSPECTS, and more, as well as a bumpin' brand new Farina original track entitled "Life". 20 tracks in all. OmRecords CD $16.00 Final Solution Brotherman OST PS, US Continuing a tradition that began w/ "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" & culminated w/ "Shaft" & "Superfly", this was a blaxploitation film set to hit screens in 1975. Before even one ft of film was shot, the plug was pulled & the movie was cancelled. Dragged around for 30 yrs by songwriter CARL WOLFOLK, the tapes of his life's work have finally been mixed. This deluxe set is housed in the standard slipcase w/ a plush bk detailing the known history of the film & the group behind the music. Great, funky, fun melodies throughout! Numero DLP $19.00 Flaherty, Paul & Bill Nace & Thurston Moore S-T PS, US ALREADY NEARLY OUT OF PRINT - ORDER NOW! PAUL FLAHERTY has been a direct lifeline to the radical free-reed lineage of Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Peter Brotzmann & Arthur Doyle for as long as we can recall. In the '90s Flaherty met BILL NACE through a mutual musician friend, Chris Corsano, in Northampton, MA - an area that fostered a contemporary free-noise-space-weird underground where free thinking minds were liberated to godhead heights. The 2 played together as a duo for quite some time around this period. THURSTON MOORE (of SONIC YOUTH) had been tracking Flaherty's comet whilst perusing dog-eared copies of Cadence mag in the early 90s. He eventually booked the infamous Flaherty-Colbourne group for their 1st ever NYC gig at the legendary nowdefunct Cooler club. In 98 Moore & his family escaped to free-zone Northampton & immediately fell in Flaherty &, eventually, Nace. From time to time Nace, Moore & Flaherty would collect their energies & throw down live trio sessions which still resonate through the valley's ear(s). This trio CD is a session from late winter of early 2008 feat. 3 trks ("sex" & "drugs" & "lavender"), 1 short, 2 looong. A primo example of this threesome's focus & sonic storytelling - ferocious yet pensive. EcstaticPeace CD $10.00 Food For Animals Belly PS, UK For many, the current state of alt. Hip-hop has been, well, rather sad lately. It's heroes either burned out or gone astray. The ideology that filled so many notebooks with raps, now feels a bit mainstream; the music that moved so many young men with backpacks, now somehow stale. The labels that brought so much awesome music now, like so many, struggling to keep their heads above water. Some have said the movement is dead, but we know better. Hip-hop is something that can never die, and especially not now, when the world seems to be more screwed up than we thought it could be. So it comes as our extreme pleasure to offer to you today what we think will be one of the most groundbreaking debut full-lengths in recent memory. Food For Animals, straight outta Washington DC, this power trio (Vulture V, Ricky Rabbit, aided now by Hy on vocals) deliver their first full-length full of busted speaker beats, bizarre noise-soundscapes and slammin raps delivered with every bit of force like the hurricane they fly through. When Chuck D said, "bring the noise" he had no idea noise like this was possible. The music, a combination of raw digital noise, elephant size beats, samples of everything from jazz to top-40 twisted, distorted, and distorted again. It's loud as hell. It's the noise music people spoke of in the 30's. Belly is a statement. A manifesto. A record that screams- literally- and pushes the listener around, it's tough as hell, raucous, and actually might mean something in the long-term. CockRockDisco-017 CD $16.25 Fredrik Na Na Ni PS, US What started out as a side project to The LK by the two pop visionaries Fredrik & Lindefelt, pretty soon grew to become a six piece featuring members of some of the very finest of the swedish pop & experimental underground. Drawing on traditional european folk influences like The Fairport Convention or Bo Hansson, crooning songwriters as well as a host of eclectic references like Moondog, Steve Reich, Jim O'Rourke, Maja Ratke or Barbara Morgenstern, Fredrik forges a sound that is as daring & eclectic as it is homecomingly soothing Kora CD $11.25 Frightened Rabbit Liver! Lung! FR! PS, US Liver! Lung! FR! is Frightened Rabbit at their very best - live. The intimate, mostly-acoustic set documented here was recorded in July 2008 in Glasgow and mixed by Mice Parade's Adam Pierce. Among other surprises, special guests pop up here and there: James Graham from The Twilight Sad contributes vocals to an incredible version of "Keep Yourself Warm," while Glasgow scene staple Ross Cook adds rollicking mandolin to "Old Old Fashioned." The stripped-down instrumentation brings singer Scott Hutchison's vocal delivery - now wrenching, now soaring - to the fore, showcasing the emotive lyrics and memorable melodies that have earned the band their passionate following. FatCatRecords-083 CD $9.00 Fripp & Eno Evening Star [re-issue] PS, US Perhaps more pastoral than truly ambient, & in part indicative of the type of music that Eno would feature on his later "Music for Films" albums this was a firm step away from the long form pieces that made up "No Pussyfooting". DGM/InnerKnot CD $15.50 Fripp & Eno No Pussyfooting [re-issue] PS, US Using Eno's twin tape recorder/loop method Fripp provided two takes w/Eno selectively manipulating which signals were committed to the final tape. The result was "The Heavenly Music Corporation" which became one of the most significant & influential pieces of electronic music ever recorded. Re-mastered & expanded using the original master tapes by Simon Heyworth, overseen by Robert Fripp. DGM/InnerKnot DCD $16.25 Funckarma Dubstoned vol. 2 PS, GERMANY More than just dubstep: Funckarma make this genre theirs and re-write its foundation anew with this barrier breaking record. Heavy but sharp, clear but dub-influenced, mid-tempo but infectious, the second volume of Funckarma's take on the dubstep genre is a new take at one of today's dominant genre by unequaled producers. Almost ten years have passed since Funckarma's first records on the Djak-UP Bitch label, but the Funcken brother haven't shown any sign of fatigue along the way. With records on Neo Ouija, N5md and Hymen (among others) and remarked side projects such as their albums with Shadow Huntaz on Skam or Cane and Quench, these two producers have shown that they had their ears right open to new sounds, styles and atmospheres. Ad Noiseam is proud to welcome these two virtuosos to the fold, for the second volume of their dubstep-oriented series (who started with a first volume on the Highpoint Lowlife label in the middle of 2008). "Dubstoned vol. 2" shows Funckarma appropriating the dubstep trend and mixing it with their science fiction sounding, bass-heavy electronic dub. Not an act to just follow a recipe or embrace a trend, Funckarma however turns dubstep into a moody, science-fiction sounding electronic monster, full of sharp edits, dynamic changes and insidious hip hop influences, the whole thing perfectly demonstrated by the "Nays Of Dight" opener. Escaping the dominant blend of dubstep but broadening the genre by adding to it the mixture of genres and sounds that has become typical of Funckarma, "Dubstoned vol. 2" is a heavy but fresh take at one of today's most commanding sound, and should be an ear opener for many. Adnoiseam-99 12 $11.00 Funckarma Vell Vagranz PS, US "Vell Vagranz" is Don and Roel Funcken's first full CD of original material under the Funckarma alias since 2006's "Bion Glent" (Sublight). This new album shows Funckarma at their most diverse by folding in other electronic music sub-genres into their already potent mix. Ambient, Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Downtempo, and even some Post-Industrial motifs are all drawn into the Funckarma vortex to be reformed into the alien sonic shroud that embodies their trademark zig-zag suture stitched beats, frenetic basswork and lush emotional gauze. Plus with some help from Seaming, Kettle, Spyweirdos, Landau, and phinx find Funckarma at their most synergistic since 2001s "Solid State" (Dub). "Vell Vagranz" is proof that Funckarma are one of those rare and seasoned artists who can make any style sound like their own unique and personal creation even when trying something out of their creative character. n5MD-164 CD $12.00 Future Clouds & Radar Peoria PS, US New album! Austin-based art-pop band is the eclectic multi-instrumental ensemble led by Robert Harrison (formerly of Cotton Mather). On their second effort, they focus their kaleidoscopic vision into a single cinematic narrative about mortality. Throughout, Harrison remains true to his genre-hopping eclecticism, leading the journey through a maze of fuzz-box vocals and ethereal keys. PASTE MAGAZINE: "A triumph of schizophrenic musical vision...a beautiful and brilliant mess...magnificent pop gems." StarAppleKingdom CD $15.00 Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again. TheSocialRegistry-050 CD $11.50 Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna PS, US Named after the patron saint of outsiders, taboo subject matter and general disorder, Gang Gang Dance have completed Saint Dymphna - a stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed God's Money. After a three years of complex and sporadic recording, complete with jetsetting, breakdowns, a Whitney Biennial appearance, plus the Retina Riddim DVD+CD and RAWWAR EP, the band have yielded a true masterpiece in The Social Registry canon. We couldn't be happier to throw this one out and let the world become enamored again. TheSocialRegistry-50 LP $12.25 Giffoni, Carlos Adult Life PS, US This is shining and pure electronic music. Adult Life continues Carlos Giffoni's work in slow-building drones and prickly, trebly peaks, but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them Cluster, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream. The caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises Adult Life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. Carlos Giffoni describes this as some of his most musical work to date, a pure electronic excursion into more grounded troupes which almost paradoxically work out completely new sonic concepts and ideas. Original Illustrations for this full length by Megan Ellis. NoFunProductions-40 CD $12.25 Gigantics Die Already PS, US 5-man production team assisted by ONRY OZZBORN (aka Reason & Count Draven of Grayskul/Oldominion). Their debut feat. the voices of over 50 of the most influential & talented artists in independent hip hop today - pulling these disparate artists from their respective groups & weaving them into a dream team. Notworthy appearances by successful artists like AESOP ROCK, MURS, MR. LIF, SWOLLEN MEMBERS, ELIGH, PIGEON JOHN, P.O.S., AWOL ONE, SOLILLAQUIST OF SOUND, JOSH MARTINEZ Camobear CD $16.00 Girl Talk Feed The Animals PS, US Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing. Girl Talk has been known to underground audiences for several years, but it wasn't until 2006 that Gillis crossed over and caught the attention of a larger audience. With Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and even Beck including Night Ripper in their "best albums of 2006" lists, Girl Talk has gone on to be booked by major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Virgin, All Points West, Pitchfork, DEMF, etc.), and solicited for remixes (Beck, Thrill Jockey, Tokyo Police Club, Grizzly Bear, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn & John, TeddyBears, and Of Montreal). And with roughly 200 live shows over the last couple of years, Gillis has consistently played larger venues to capacity crowds (every date on his 2007 North American tour with Dan Deacon sold out). PRESS QUOTES: "One endlessly entertaining mega mash-up" - Rolling Stone "Gillis' craft is stunning and his tastes are exquisitely diverse" - Blender "A masterpiece that employs an estimated 300 samples" - SPIN "Massively recommended ... the voracious music fan's dream" --- Pitchfork "Media assassins Illegal Art come forth with yet another brilliant Girl Talk record." - XLR8R "Sounds like your favorite mash-up DJ after about 11 espressos" - Entertainment Weekly "Mashes together booty-shaking rap, iconic indie rock, and, uh, ABBA" - MTV.com. IllegalArt-117 CD $14.25 Glass Candy Beat Box (LP/7") PS, US 8.1 ON PITCHFORK! Released on the great ITALIANS DO IT BETTER label, here GLASS CANDY takes the reins w/ 9 trks of electro-synth-pop dance magic. LP vinyl comes w/ a BONUS 7" feat 2 unreleased trks - "High B" & "The Gate." Everyone needs to check this duo out! ItaliansDoItBetter LP $16.25 Gregor Samsa Rest PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. 140 gram double vinyl in beautiful custom package. Will go quickly. Kora DLP $25.00 Grey Sisters of the Wyrd PS, US All female heavy doom trio Kreation LP $16.00 Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns Berezka / Monkey Lament PS, US 12" multi-colored Vinyl split w/ Free CD Version. Second in a series of vinyl only releases, Other Electricities presents Berezka/Monkey Lament (OE014) by Russian avant-folk artist Gultskra Artikler and the UK drone outfit Lanterns. Complementary by nature of thoughtful experimentation, kindred by their undeniably enveloping output, Berezka/Monkey Lament brings the creations of Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns together in a familiar format, with unique contributions from each. Exclusive tracks and artwork dawn each side of a limited edition marble colored vinyl, displaying the artists' visions for their side of this entrancing combination record. Limited to 500 and includes a free CD version of the album. OtherElectricities-014 LP $12.25 Handful of Dust Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards / The Philosophik Mercury PS, US Double-disc re-issue from the core duo of Bruce Russell (DEAD C) & ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion & chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting & engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, & other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, & Hijokaidan NoFun DCD $18.25 Harry Pussy You'll Never Play This PS, US Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced & peppered American free rock from a Clinton era three piece. This Miami trio left rug burn on modern music in the 90's. Here a deluxe remastering of their out of print releases with a swank digipak filled with sweaty photos & heart-racing energy sounds. Complies the long out of print self released tour 12", the Cherry Smash live 10", live at Salon Zwerge 12", Pelt & Frosty spilt 7"s & the De Stilj 7"s. Load CD $12.50 Heavy Hands Smoke Signals PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LanguageofStone LP $14.75 Heavy Hands Smoke Signals PS, US An album of proto-metal power & simplicity wed to the deftest of melodic turns. LanguageofStone CD $13.25 Henry Cow Stockholm and Goteborg PS, US The first new release for 30 years from this legendary audience-splitting British group, and the first featuring Georgina Born, the group's bassist between 1976-78. Remixed and re-mastered from the original Swedish radio tapes. Stockholm and Goteborg is the first volume of a 9 CD and one DVD set of unreleased material commemorating the band's 40th anniversary. LIMITED ReR CD $15.00 Herman Dune Next Year in Zion PS, US On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving, this is the Paisian duo's debut long-player. On Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and intricately constructed pop songs. On the heels of two handmade EPs from Everloving in 2008 (I Wish That I Could See You Soon and 1-2-3/Apple Tree), Next Year In Zion is the Parisian duo's debut long-player for the Los Feliz, California indie. It is the sound of Herman Dune, all grown up. Everloving CD $15.75 Hit The Jackpot Soul Money Gang Vibe PS, AUSTRALIA Adelaide trio Hit The Jackpot play simple, noisy pop songs, swapping instruments and sharing vocals. They believe that enthusiasm and sincerity are more important than technical proficiency, and take inspiration from the likes of Beat Happening, Dinosaur Jr. and The Clean. It's appropriate, then, that they are releasing their new album Soul Money Gang Vibe through Chapter Music, the home of Australian DIY music for more than 15 years. The ten tracks on the album were recorded in the second half of 2007 at the band's own home studio. Cobbled together over the last few years, this studio has also been used by the likes of Kiosk, Birth Glow, Lindsey Lowhand and Batrider. Hit the Jackpot formed as a two-piece in early 2003, comprising young couple Jess Thomas and Kynan Lawlor. With a sparse but dynamic lineup of drums and guitar they played just a handful of shows before supporting Sonic Youth on their 2004 Australian tour. They released a self-titled EP around the same time, which ended up in the number three spot in Adelaide radio station 3D's Top 100 for 2004. Hit The Jackpot were joined by Sebastien Calabretto (and a bass guitar) in 2005 and released their debut album Clowns in 2006. With Seb leaving for the grey shores of England early in 2008, Hit the Jackpot have now recruited old friend Scott O'Hara (Lindsey Lowhand, True Radical Miracle), and are gearing up for a national tour in support of the new album. Aside from Sonic Youth, Hit the Jackpot have played alongside such international acts as Calvin Johnson, Les Savy Fav, J. Mascis, Dan Deacon and Pretty Girls Make Graves, as well as Australian artists such as My Disco, The Lucksmiths, Crayon Fields, Clue to Kalo, Oren Ambarchi, Wolf and Cub, Architecture in Helsinki and Love of Diagrams. ChapterMusic-60 CD $15.00 Hospital Ships Oh, Ramona PS, US Bedroom-pop solo album from Jordan Geiger(MINUS STORY, SHEARWATER). Influenced by the sounds of the Flaming Lips song from which the name Hospital Ships is drawn, Geiger's debut exudes a seasoning of classic influences including John Lennon, The Zombies & ELO. Packaged in a a18pt chipboard gatefold sleeve and lovingly hand assembled. Graveface CD $12.50 Hototogisu Pale Fatal Sister PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release. Important-210 DLP $24.50 HPC Halfbreed PS, GERMANY At a very young age, the Norwegian one-man project HPC started creating electronic music that ranged from danceable electronica and psych-trance to hard-/speed-/breakcore, ambient and noise. After some experimentation and development he felt the time for a first release was right and now 'halfbreed' has been realized. In his own words, HPC's aim is to build an aural exposure of his personal view of life by creating music beyond predictable schedules and clichés in electronic music. With this debut he has perfectly accomplished what he had in mind. HPC presents a fusion of heavy syncopated beats and pulsing low-end bass, balanced by synth textures and soundtrackish samples - inducing atmospheres that dwell between unbridled ecstasy and subliminal hypnosis. Tracks like 'machine' and 'run' are a fine example of the terrifying and liberating climax of rhythmic power's crescendo. Feel free to file 'halfbreed' between illbient, dubstep and darkest ambient that has accumulated hard tech aggressiveness. With this album HPC hit the target - and this is only the beginning... Hymen-769 CD $15.75 Hunx And His Punx You Don't Like Rock & Roll B/W Gimmie Gimmie Back Your Love PS, US LTD ED OF 600 TOTAL (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 CLEAR viny)! LRadeiceosr &d sgents get ready - its HUNX & HIS PUNX! This totally absurd record contains 2 finely crafted bubblegum punk numbers from Hunx (w/ songwriting help from Nobunny) that will be stuck in your head all day. And, speaking of something stuck in your head - this comes w/ a scratch-off pornographic cover! Its really something to see... unless you don't like rock & roll! RobsHouse 45 $5.25 Indian Jewelry Free Gold PS, US Their most scathing pop album to date. Dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, & a lot of attitude. Now on LP! LovepumpUnited LP $16.50 International Jetsetters Heart Is Black EP PS, US "Honey-dipped 60's melodies drenched in oceanic swells of guitar noise..." - Oxford Bands, UK International Jetsetters is an Oxford based five piece. The band was formed in March 2007 by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer (The Jesus And Mary Chain) and bass player Bert Audubert. The line-up also features drummer Loz Colbert (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Ride), lead guitarist Paul Crozer, and vocalist Fi McFall. The Jetsetters have been best described by the British press (Nightshift Magazine) as "an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards." "Heart Is Black" is International Jetsetters debut six-song release. The EP blasts into the stratosphere with the full throttle, melodic guitar buzz, of "Inside Out" followed swiftly by the rhythm heavy groove of "Inside Yourself". "Never Slows Down" and "My Redemption" showcase Fi McFall's range as a singer. The low, breathy tones of the opening verses gradually ascend to pulsating choruses where she resonates like a siren. The title track "Heart is Black" strums and thumps with a dark atmospheric burn. The disc closes with a bit of a twist - A glaring early version of "Never Slows Down". International Jetsetters "Heart Is Black" CDEP hits quick and begs for repeated listens. It's a nice glimpse into what's in store from Oxford, UK's latest export. PlantingSeeds-057 CD5 $9.75 Johannes, Eero S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PlanetMu DLP $19.25 Johannes, Eero S-T PS, US After compilation tracks on Harmoenia & Flogsta Dancehall, multitalented Finnish graphic designer & electronic musician EERO JOHANNES PITKAENEN comes correct w/ his debut release, a S/T album on Planet Mu Records. Part of the internationally famous Scandinavian "Skweee" scene, his music stretches from Italo to electro-funk, Miami bass to R 'n' B, & beyond. ABOUT SKWEEE: Originally from Scandinavia, combines very simple synth leads & basslines with funk, R&B, & soul rhythms. It is a flourishing community based around online networks that are moving beyond those frontiers thanks to their personal overhaul of dance music. PlanetMu CD $16.00 Julie's Haircut/Sonic Boom N-Waves/U-Waves PS, US Sonic Boom is Peter Kember, former member of the seminal SPACEMEN 3. ASilentPlace CD $16.75 Kaiser Chiefs Off with Their Heads PS, US New album. Motown CD $12.25 Kemialliset Ystavat/Sunroof Split Series #19 PS, US Kemialliset Ystävät (it translates as 'chemical friends') are a loose collective from Tampere in southern Finland. Existing in dialogue amongst (and beyond) the hugely creative, diverse microcosm of the Finnish scene including artists like Avarus, Lau Nau, Es, Paavoharju, Islaja, Anaksimandros, and labels like Fonal, 247 Laatijaa, and Lal Lal Lal, Kemialliset Ystävät has become an influential node on the outsider noise/folk/ psych underground, finding international acclaim. Almost entirely self-taught and using a bewildering array of instruments and approaches, their sonic arsenal includes detuned guitars, bass, traditional / vernacular instrumentation (mandolins, balalaikas, etc.) hand percussion, all manner of electronic instruments, effects, toys and circuit-bent items, treated samples and vinyl manipulation. Playfully taking their own unique and unpredictable path, they have layered and fused together traditional Finnish (at times almost medieval-sounding) instrumentation and melodies with avant-garde electronics, psychedelic folk/rock, noise, electro-acoustic, and percussive tribal rhythms, creating a sense of ritualistic magic and flexible, group-mind improvisation, with the whole often subjected to brutal and precise editing. FatCatRecords-76 LP $11.50 Koushik Out My Window PS, US KOUSHIK's debut album, following several years of building his name through a series of low-key EPs on Stones Throw & remixes for Madvillain, Four Tet, & Light In The Attic Records. RIYD: Panda Bear, Four Tet, RJD2, Caribou/Manitoba. "He cobbles together frugal astral jazz, gentle funk, & 60s pop & folk using an array of keyboards & samplers - & its nice. The end result is a delectable pop record, w/ Koushik's heavy ambience & amorphous production combining to nudge his songs to their tingling crescendos."-PITCHFORK StonesThrow CD $16.00 Ladyhawke Paris Is Burning PS, US Aka Pip Brown from New Zealand releases her debut US EP. Serious song crafting with elements of vintage pop, electro and rock. Full length album due in November Modular CD5 $5.00 Lake Oh, The Places We'll Go PS, US "Oh, the places we'll go! Oh, we don't actually know!" The title track lyrics, with a nod to Dr. Seuss, have a wide-eyed, wondrous feeling, (and a hint of agnosticism) which finds itself popping up throughout the record. On their first K release, LAKE crafts up-beat, dance-able, psychedelic, uniquely sincere and unaffected pop songs, ranging from the jubilant, echoey, post-soul groove of Heaven to the sweet, polyrhythmic Green Arrows-inspired Bad Dream. Recorded at home, largely on cassette 8-track, this album, actually LAKE's third, has a slightly lo-fi, homemade feel as well showing evidence of their influence from prolific artists Karl Blau and R. Stevie Moore. Oh, the Places We'll Go represents a new direction for LAKE - more synthesizers, more up-beat, rhythmically-based songwriting - but it is also in keeping with their aesthetic, with contributing horn players and percussionists, male and female singers, group harmonies, sweet melodies and homespun production. LAKE's core membership is Ashley Eriksson, Eli Moore, Lindsay Schief, Andrew Dorsett, and Markly Morrison, a group of long-time friends based in Olympia, WA. The members of the band came from Washington, the Los Angeles area, and the Midwest but soon found themselves drawn together in the inspiring forests of the Pacific Northwest, and thus LAKE was born. Each is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in their own right, and contributing melodies and complementing one another's strong points has become the process for LAKE's intimately nurtured songwriting. Krecords-196 CD $11.50 Lake Oh, The Places We'll Go PS, US "Oh, the places we'll go! Oh, we don't actually know!" The title track lyrics, with a nod to Dr. Seuss, have a wide-eyed, wondrous feeling, (and a hint of agnosticism) which finds itself popping up throughout the record. On their first K release, LAKE crafts up-beat, dance-able, psychedelic, uniquely sincere and unaffected pop songs, ranging from the jubilant, echoey, post-soul groove of Heaven to the sweet, polyrhythmic Green Arrows-inspired Bad Dream. Recorded at home, largely on cassette 8-track, this album, actually LAKE's third, has a slightly lo-fi, homemade feel as well showing evidence of their influence from prolific artists Karl Blau and R. Stevie Moore. Oh, the Places We'll Go represents a new direction for LAKE - more synthesizers, more up-beat, rhythmically-based songwriting - but it is also in keeping with their aesthetic, with contributing horn players and percussionists, male and female singers, group harmonies, sweet melodies and homespun production. LAKE's core membership is Ashley Eriksson, Eli Moore, Lindsay Schief, Andrew Dorsett, and Markly Morrison, a group of long-time friends based in Olympia, WA. The members of the band came from Washington, the Los Angeles area, and the Midwest but soon found themselves drawn together in the inspiring forests of the Pacific Northwest, and thus LAKE was born. Each is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in their own right, and contributing melodies and complementing one another's strong points has become the process for LAKE's intimately nurtured songwriting. Krecords-196 LP $10.25 Langhorne Slim When The Sun's Gone Down [expanded re-issue] PS, US Re-issue of the critically acclaimed debut - repackaged w/a bonus disc containing 5 previously unreleased tracks. Narnack DCD $14.25 Larvae Loss Leader PS, GERMANY A work in two acts, Larvae's third full-length album is a perfect snapshot of this band's tastes and talents. With a touching and poetic first part made of epic guitar melodies and drone atmospheres and a second act going back to Larvae's beatier and heavier "Monster Music" past, "Loss Leader" is at times poignant, at times playful. Another well thought step forward for the band (in two directions at once), and another impressive work for Larvae. Coming two years after "Dead Weight", so far the band's best known and most complete work, "Loss Leader" sees Larvae break the silence with something that is more than a regular album. Where "Dead Weight" was a commanding work of coherence in variations, melting many sounds and styles together, "Loss Leader" is clearly split in two very different parts. The first four tracks, forming the "Turning Around" EP are a testimony of this American band taste for long guitar tracks, highly emotional build-ups and delicate drumming. Maybe some of the rockiest Larvae material so far, these four melodic jewels take this act's sound where they had left us on the calmest tracks of "Dead Weight" (the fourth track, "Heavy" was actually part of the "Dead Weight" sessions), and dive forward in an instrumental world somewhere between post-rock and shoe-gaze, between drony backgrounds and fierce but introvert harmonies. Contrasting with this low-key beginning, the second half of the album, dubbed "Monster Music 2", is the direct sequel to Larvae's very first EP ("Monster Music", adn28, released in 2003). For if Larvae is clearly an act with a foot in the poetic side of rock, they are also cross-referencing electronic musicians at heart. Godzilla and his fiends are therefore back for a new round of sweeping basses and heavy beats. And still, where the first "Monster Music" was a down tempo heavy hitter (of the kind that would be called "dubstep" if it was released today). The sequel bows to Larvae's new-found calm, as shown for example in the closing "Oxygen Destroyer", which kicks off by pumping strong beats, before leaving room for wide and more humane tones. Larvae have come a long way since their beginnings, one could hardly think of a better snapshot of what this act is truly about than "Loss Leader": multi-talented, touching and intelligent. AdNoiseam-101 CD $16.25 Lineland Logos For Love PS, US For a split second the actuality of language stood only to bear witness and inspire the sonic structures of love being erected around me, and in this moment I believed in principle of purpose. Only when English was interjected did I sense the imposing future and separate out the soundscape of this melodic passing clan from the music streaming through the speakers. Logos for Love presenting a variety of acoustic instrumentation pressed into each other with modern blips and squiggles like a structure of so much brightly colored modeling clay with an illuminated jeweled interior, embracing the ancient rhythms and language over the impeding future. Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, Hüsker Dü to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial fourtrack Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion (Audio Dregs 2003) over a three-year period, during which Felder expanded the material using music software on the home-built Dynavox 2000 computer and a growing array of vintage keyboards and novelty instruments. Songs have appeared on a few compilations and in several short independent films, including Back and Forthby James and Jeff Israel. AudioDregsRecordings-070 CD $12.25 Loquat Secrets of the Sea PS, US Growing up on a lake in Minnesota, living near one in southern Germany and finally meeting her bandmates on a little peninsula called San Francisco, water has surrounded Loquat singer/guitarist Kylee Swenson her whole life. And during the two years of writing and recording Loquat's second full-length album, Secrets of the Sea, the organic-meets- electronic guitar pop quintet weathered many crests and troughs. Swenson and bass player Anthony Gordon got married. Family members passed on. The turmoil of creating music prevailed. Produced by the Rondo Brothers (Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Bernie Worrell), the process of making Secrets of the Sea was a gravitational push and pull of emotion, from pain and frustration to happiness and solace. Recently finished with mixes by Talking House engineer Justin Lieberman (New Order, Blackalicious, The Matches), mastering by Bernie Grundman (Michael Jackson, Prince) and a remix by Zion-I's Amplive, Loquat can finally put its studio aggravations to rest. TalkingHouse CD $11.00 Louris, Gary Acoustic Vagabonds PS, US Jayhawks/Golden Smog guy's new EP. Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks, and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. This EP is the companion piece to the critically acclaimed solo debut by Louris, Vagabonds. Produced by Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes, the CD features stripped down, more intimate versions of six standout tracks from Vagabonds. Ryko CD5 $8.50 M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 PS, UK Digital Shades Vol. 1 is the precursor to the fourth album from M83, essentially the brainchild of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of Antibes, France. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony decided to develop a musical direction already heard on some earlier M83 tracks and he started to write and record a collection of ambient works. Having long been a Krautrock and Eno fan this was a kind of music that Anthony has always been familiar with. Recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet, who had previously worked on Before the Dawn Heals Us, Anthony was able to work without pressure, knowing he could work on the record at his own time and pace. The idea of digital, relevant during all the process (from creating the music to sharing it), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol.1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series. Mute/EMI CD $15.25 Magnetic Fields Get Lost PS, US REISSUED FOR THE 1ST TIME EVER ON 180gm VINYL! This classic 1994 release contains 13 songs from the worst year of STEPHIN MERRIT's life (head honcho of MF) & is one of the best selling titles in the Merge catalog. Re-sequenced by Merrit himself & lovingly remastered for LP & presented on audiophile vinyl. MF fans will surely want to snatch this up! Comes w/ MP3 download coupon of the entire album. 100% recycled material used in the packaging! Also, keep an eye out for more Magnetic Fields vinyl reissues from Merge coming in 2009! Merge LP $15.50 Manda Rin My DNA PS, US Solo debut from lead singer and co-founder of sensational cult punk trio BIS RetardDisco CD $11.50 Manual Confluence PS, US Confluence is Danish producer Jonas Munk's third installment in his series of ambient albums, following the much loved The North Shore from 2003 and Bajamar from 2006. Unlike Munk's better known work, which centers around electronica and shoegazing aesthetics as well as a love of 1980s production techniques, these ambient works are completely without beats, or even time signatures, and are delicately constructed out of slowly evolving streams of guitar that has been processed into oblivion and back. But even compared to the standard set by the two aforementioned albums, Confluence is surprisingly dark and minimalist. These eight new compositions move slowly and seamlessly, like the ebb and flow of the changing tide, with subtle layering and filtering providing the essential means of movement. Darla-216 CD $12.25 Manual/Orange Crush Split EP [3" CD] PS, UK Limited to 500 copies. TRACKS: Manual: 'Miraparque', Orange Crush: 'A New Horizon', Orange Crush & Manual: 'Calderone', Manual: 'Ponderosa'. Silence-28 CD $8.25 Melodium Cerebro Spin PS, US Melodium speaks; there starts a romantically slow game of pong between the hemispheres of brain. The sound speeds. I listen, and there is harmony now between the players, and reluctance towards competition. They play on. Melodically Melodium speaks. Faster, onward towards the polyrhythmic rally! All praise repetitive motion, be stilling thus Zen. The tones of play fashion an energetic path, a melodic relation of right and left. Only when Melodium pauses for a breath do I remember moments can be filled with splitting silence; that I am here and this is somewhere other then the pong game of my mind. Keep speaking. Melodium is the moniker of Laurent Girard, a rather prolific electronic musician from Nantes, France with an obsession for melodies. Weaving bits of guitar, piano, synthesizer, flute or bits of voice and texture to create patterns in sound and small personal soundtracks that are at once somber, while retaining a feeling of sunny optimism. Golden waves of sound with rough-hewn edges that sound both dreamy and melancholic and simultaneously warm and shiny. AudioDregsRecordings-071 CD $12.25 Mythical Beast Scales PS, US Like a would-be soundtrack to some forgotten Wagnerian saga, this debut full-length unleases sonic elements akin to trudging minions in an epic struggle for tonal supremacy. Their music is dank, grim & heavy as hell, but at its heart lies an indestructible momentum & spirit in no small part due to Corrine's Valkarie-esque presence. LanguageOfStone CD $13.25 Nadja/Leah Buckareff/Aidan Baker Trinitarian PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. This will not be repressed. Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition. Ousia - substance, presence, or essence Hypostasis - As above, only referring more to reality rather than an individual Perichoresis - A christian term for the mutual/simultaneous existence of the father (god) and son (god). Important-215 LP $22.75 Nico Desertshore PS, US 1970 Reprise album finds Nico reunited with her Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale as producer, main instrumentalist & harmony vocalist. Co-produced by Joe Boyd (legendary producer of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & Incredible String Band), contains 8 songs of deep haunting beauty featuring Nico's dark voice & harmonium & is one of her very best solo LPs. Used as soundtrack for 1971 Philippe Garrel's experimental French film "La Cicatrice Interieure". Reissue has new exclusive liners by Dawson Prater & Dean Roberts. Audiophile remastering from original tapes. 180gm vinyl w/ original art. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 No Neck Blues Band Clomeim PS, US A distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, & Krautrock zenith Faust at their finet hour. This is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior w/ a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover & a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages. Locust CD $13.00 No Neck Blues Band Clomeim PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Locust DLP $25.00 Norma Norma 1 EP PS, SWEDEN BACK IN STOCK, VERY LIMITED, NOW OR NEVER. 2007 CDEP features 4 exclusive songs (that do not appear on the new 2008 full-length CD) in handmade carton jackets, limited to 500 numbered copies. Highly recommended. Norma are very serious about ther music. Despite that they never get boring or theorizing. Their music is warm and welcoming. Norma is as much a band as a concept containing both visual and musical experiences. Their goal is to look outside the classical band format and try to broaden the cooperation with all sorts of creative minds. Their music is influenced by a lot of genres, ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie and the biggest influence is landscapes in all forms. Their ambition is to capture the minimalistic sound of just being three but also to challenge it and despite that sound grand. Playing live they try to give the audience much more than just a musical experience, using video, atmospheric sounds, theatrical elements and a balance between lightness and darkness. EARDRUMS MUSIC: ""I was blown away when I first heard this track from the swedish trio Norma's debut ep, out on Novoton now. Their music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that I don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. I'm also amazed by the composition and the small details that suddenly surfaces and surprises. When the main song on the single is 8:33 minutes long, I guess those surprises are kind of necessary..." Novoton-013 CD5 $7.00 North Ruins (LP/CD) PS, US Reissue of their sophomore effort, now on a deluxe LP/CD combo. This is the bands final album before picking up vocalist Kyle Hardy & stands out among the instrumentals of bands such as Pelican & Red Sparowes. CavityRecords LP $17.50 Nudge Infinity Padlock PS, US 4 song EP addressing the fragility of memory, the hopelessness of the drug war, the death of close friends & other similarly breezy topics. Contains 2 ancient tunes, 2 recent tunes, 2 sung by Honey, 2 sung by Brian. These conflicted pop songs are a gorgeous bummer. LIMITED TO 500. Audraglint CD $6.75 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin PS, US New York outfit O'Death's third LP, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, feels like a giddy junkyard hoedown, from the panicked fiddle screeches of opener "Low Tide" to the celebratory gallop of closer "Lean-To." At times it sounds morose or contemplative, but underneath the melancholy is a gospel fervor-bashed from paint buckets, banjos, guitars and anything else in kicking distance-that defines their sound. Since 2007's buzzed-about Head Home, the quintet, which contains vocalist/guitarist Greg Jamie, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gabe Darling, fiddle player Bob Pycior, bassist Newman and drummer David Rogers-Berry, has evolved the possessed americana-meets-gypsy-punk of recent years into a more urgent, unrelenting celebration of life, death and everything in between. NEW YORK TIMES: "The starkness & spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the noisemongering of punk & the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits. With quiet pluckings of banjo & angry, anarchic hollers, its songs jumble the sacred & profane." Kemado CD $13.50 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kemado LP $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Tote Bag PS, US Sturdy black canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and original print by David Barnes. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping PS, US Skeletal Lamping absolutely delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. It's unpredictable, completely unique, and epic. And while of Montreal's albums have always been epic, Skeletal Lamping is an unprecedented achievement that will be talked about for years. Super-duper 32-panel pop-up/accordion/gatefold sleeverino. Polyvinyl CD $14.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Lantern PS, US Collapsible 10" x 12" hanging paper lantern with original art by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Button Set PS, US Set of nine 1.25" buttons designed by David Barnes and Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged on a 5"x7" card in a clear poly bag. Polyvinyl MISC $23.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Wall Decal Set PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by Gemini Tactics; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized) Polyvinyl MISC $31.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes Wall Decal Set PS, US Deluxe removable and repositionable wall decal set contains over 50 pieces of original art by David Barnes; covers one large wall. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Packaged flat in a clear poly bag, 12.5" X 12.5" (LP sized) Polyvinyl MISC $31.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP on 180 gram vinyl includes giant die-cut poster exclusive to the LP. Polyvinyl LP $21.75 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics T-Shirt PS, US Original design by Gemini Tactics printed on an ultra soft orchid color American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl TS $20.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: David Barnes T-Shirt PS, US Original design by David Barnes printed on an ultra soft blue American Apparel tri-blend short sleeve track shirt. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl TS $20.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Collection: Gemini Tactics Tote Bag PS, US Sturdy natural canvas tote bag, approx 15" x 15" with deep handles and two-sided print by Gemini Tactics. Includes Skeletal Lamping 320 kbps MP3 album download. Polyvinyl MISC $17.50 Parts & Labor Receivers PS, US Brooklyn noise-punk outfit Parts & Labor has dramatically altered their wall-of-sound: Their fourth album, Receivers, finds P&L focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they are now utilizing the full possibilities of a band that was once a scrappy punk trio, and now a mature art-rock quartet. It's is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and even the spaced out psychedelia of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd. Jagjaguwar-133 LP $12.25 Parts & Labor Receivers PS, US Brooklyn noise-punk outfit Parts & Labor has dramatically altered their wall-of-sound: Their fourth album, Receivers, finds P&L focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they are now utilizing the full possibilities of a band that was once a scrappy punk trio, and now a mature art-rock quartet. It's is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and even the spaced out psychedelia of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd. Jagjaguwar-133 CD $11.50 Piano Magic Dark Horses PS, UK Their music has run the gauntlet between electronica, post-rock, baroque, modern classical and even glitch, though in recent years Piano Magic has settled on a unique, romantic, classic British alternative rock that echoes the most vibrant work of their prime inspirations. 'Dark Horses,' the latest in their now annual 4-track EP transmissions, nods, consciously or otherwise, to the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths and The Chameleons, whilst managing to sound indisputably like Piano Magic. These songs are built on pummeled drums, chainsaw guitars, cathedral reverbs, insistent bass and Glen Johnson's reliably Morrissey-esque observations on a life less sweet. 'Dark Horses' is Piano Magic's first record for the exceptional independent, Make Mine Music. The label is exclusively financed and maintained by its bands and therefore, the proceeds of each record sold go immediately back to those who made the music. Despite operating almost entirely beneath the radar in their native UK, since their first release back in 1996, Piano Magic have managed to successfully carve out a niche of their own that constantly defies expectation and sidesteps music industry convention. By never staying long on any one label, playing most of their concerts abroad and consistently redefining their sound, the band has not only survived against all odds but built up a solid, devout worldwide fan base. Their 12 long players and 18 other format releases have featured collaborations with Vasti Bunyan, Low, Tarwater, Hefner and Cornershop, amongst others. They've sound-tracked a film by Spanish director, Bigas Luna, signed on and off with the likes of 4AD, Darla, Morr Music, Important Records, toured in Russia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and England. Even so, Piano Magic remains, unashamedly, a "cult phenomena," not destined for recognition until perhaps a decade after they finally call in the ghost. When not fronting Piano Magic, Glen Johnson operates as Textile Ranch - his new long-player, a collaboration with Victorian music machinist, Plinth - is out this month (also on Make Mine Music). Johnson's alternate project of electro-pop, under the name Future Conditional released a splendid album, 'We Don't Just Disappear,' on LTM last year. MakeMineMusic-054 CD $12.25 Pit Er Pat High Time PS, US PIT ER PAT's recorded output has no easily definable style. It instead represents their evolution as modern musicians, whose affinity for pop & melody is filtered through their desire to have a truly singular voice. Modern Music if you will. Their musical focus remains firmly grounded in rhythm, while incorporating a strong sense of melody & harmony to dance above the complex rhythms & to stretch the layers to new heights. Here they employed a variety of new instruments incl. electric kalimba, horns, bobo balaphone, Burmese temple gongs, agogo bells, timbale, congas, bongos, bells, chimes, etc - more normally used in traditional & spiritual music. These tools helped the band escape into new experiments - be they mystical or introspective explorations of the terrible joy of existence. The gentle & driving grooves are irresistable as delicate layers reveal w/ every listen. CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket. ThrillJockey CD $13.00 Pit Er Pat High Time PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited edition wax comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ huge fold out insert & free MP3 download code. ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Plinth/Textile Ranch The Rest, I Leave To The Poor PS, UK A postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch (Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44 minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherworldly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice. Plinth, of course, is no stranger to Victoriana. In 2007, the Dorset based multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Dorset Paeans record label released, 'Plays Victorian Machine Music' - an EP made up entirely from sounds generated by antiquated parlor machines and music boxes. MakeMineMusic-051 CD $16.25 Pompeii Nothing Happens For A Reason PS, US The follow-up to their debut, "Assembly". Imagine if you somehow found a way to release your heartfelt admissions and fears with grace and intelligence. Enter Austin quintet Pompeii, whose subtly haunting indie rock anthems are laden with smart, soaring instrumentals and just the right amount of discretion. A harmonic masterpiece filled with grand symphonic nuances. Eyeball CD $12.50 Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month S/T PS, US VINYL VERSION, includes CD too. SoftAbuse-028 LP $13.75 Rapoon Obscure Objects of Desire PS, POLAND This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted. It's about the unobtainable, all consuming and immaterial. About the irrelevant and the irrational. The dark torments, the lighthearted banter as well as the victories and the defeats. It's about the achievements, the failures the loves and the losses. When all of the aforementioned are accounted for, there remains only "The obscure objects of desire". Vivo-039 CD $15.50 Rasputeen & Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather Rasputeen in Heavy Leather PS, GERMANY Composed and performed by catholic boys in heavy leather, Rasputeen and Rasputeenette, Anno Domini 2008. Original photos by Rasputeenette. Graphics by Korova Milk. First 11 copies packed in a heavy-duty latex mask. Rotor Siffredi and Joke Stryker first met in 1989 as young recruits in the Vatican City's Swiss Guard. After many years of serving and protecting the Holy Father they got a bit bored and discovered their mutual fascination for loud music and heavy leather. BazookaJoe-13 CD5 $10.25 Restiform Bodies TV Loves You Back PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anticon LP $16.00 Restiform Bodies TV Loves You Back PS, US A dark & dense, art-twisted, New Wave-inflected hip-pop marvel. Strains of ghettotech, crunk & hyphy magically twirp & twirl w/ Eno-like atmospherics & buoyant bass swells, while rapper/songbird PASSAGE warps his vocals over blistering synth. Anticon CD $16.00 Riles, Zak S-T PS, US Riles' (GRAILS) creative contributions to the group are immeasurable, & can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact, some of the pieces on this record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh, & the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Important CD $13.25 Risil Non Meters Vol. 1 PS, US A collective of musicians that are all connected to each other in some form or fashion. Their membership includes Guillermo Herren (PREFUSE 73, SAVATH & SAVALAS), Zach Hill (HELLA), Tyondai Braxton (BATTLES), John McEntire (TORTOISE), Alejandra Deheza (SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS), & Eva Puyuelo Muns (SAVATH & SAVALAS) Important CD $13.25 Risil Non Meters Vol. 1 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Important DLP $23.25 Robedoor Shrine to the Possessor PS, US This one is pure darkness- no light, no air, just tortured souls & echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels. Limited to 500 MusicFellowship LP $16.75 Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus PS, US New album. Infrasonic CD $15.00 RTX JJ Got Live Ratx PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 Russell, Arthur Love is Overtaking Me PS, US The most rare and, at the same time, arguably the most accessible songs of Russell's vast catalog. 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk, & country songs compiled from over 8 hours of material. Chris Taylor (GRIZZLY BEAR) contributed mixing, restoration & editing to the album, whose tracks were selected by Audika's Steve Knutson, Ernie Brooks & Russell's companion, Tom Lee. Audika CD $15.50 Saint Etienne London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne PS, UK DISC ONE: 1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart / 2. Nothing Can Stop Us / 3. Join Our Club / 4. Avenue [Edit] / 5. You're in a Bad Way / 6. Hobart Paving / 7. Who Do You Think You Are / 8. Pale Movie / 9. Like a Motorway / 10. Hug My Soul / 11. He's on the Phone / 12. Sylvie / 13. Heart Failed / 14. Action / 15. A Good Thing / 16. Side Streets / 17. Burnt Out Car [Xenomania Mix] / 18. This Is Tomorrow / DISC TWO: 1. Kiss and Make Up / 2. Filthy / 3. Spring / 4. People Get Real / 5. Mario's Cafe / 6. Goodnight Jack [Original 1998 Version] / 7. The Bad Photographer / 8. Lose That Girl / 9. Lover Plays the Bass / 10. How We Used to Live / 11. Boy Is Crying / 12. Finisterre / 13. Soft Like Me / 14. Shower Scene / 15. Stars Above Us / 16. Teenage Winter / 17. I Was Born on Christmas Day Universal DCD $27.25 School of Seven Bells Alpinisms PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music. GhostlyInternational CD $10.50 Sea And Cake Car Alarm PS, US Vinyl version comes in a high gloss LP jacket w/ free MP3 download code. ThrillJockey LP $12.00 Sea And Cake Car Alarm PS, US This 2008 album is their 8th full-length & finds TSAC at their most inspired & most rockin' in quite some time. Here they manage to perfectly combine some of their best past efforts ('The Biz,' 'Nassau,' 'The Fawn,' etc.) into one great record. The exciting sound of a well-oiled band in fine form - perfectly seamless. Great stuff! CD comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold mini-LP jacket. ThrillJockey CD $14.00 Secret History, The Desolation Town EP PS, US The Secret History was formed in 2007 by songwriter Michael Grace Jr, best known for acclaimed post-wave indie band 'My Favorite'. TSH is a collaboration with vocalist Lisa Ronson, daughter of Bowie guitarist, and glam rock legend Mick Ronson. The Secret History continues as a vehicle for Grace's myth and monster laden storytelling, which sprawls across a dreamlike landscape; part New York, part Italy, part Nowhere. The sound itself is a kind of continental art rock, combining the rainy jangles of mope, the stomp of glam, the innocence of the girl groups, and the anxiety of disco. Comparisons to Roxy Music, Eno, The Smiths and others begin to scratch the surface. The Desolation Town ep is the perfect introduction to a band committed to destroying rock n' roll from the inside and releasing its love-worn prisoners back into the streets...headphones on...never walking alone. LeGrandeMagistery-048 CD5 $9.00 Sickboy Time To Play PS, GERMANY Sickboy's exhilarating, enthusiastic and insane-as-ever fifth full length album features this musician's most infectious, catchiest and most efficient material. While the noise might be gone for good, Sickboy's new clothes are of the colourful party kind. Mixing old school rave, new school electro, breaks and madness, Sickboy hits the nail on its head and invite everybody to play, rave and party non-stop. Refreshing! More madness from the source of it all. Sickboy, one of the most seminal breakcore / mash-up / whatever artist of the current European scene takes everybody to the utmost rave of 2008. Adnoiseam-106 CD $16.25 Slipstream Mantra PS, UK 'Mantra' is the 5th and long awaited new album from Slipstream and follows their much loved and critically acclaimed, 'Transcendental', release of 2003. With new track 'Psycho Paul' having already featured in the soundtrack of hit BBC3 comedy series, 'Ideal' (screened in April/May 2008). Written by Slipstream as homage to their favorite comedy show, the show's writer and big Slipstream fan, Graham Duff, loved the song so much that he actually wrote a scene to fit the track, much to the bands delight and amazement! This same scene became a trailer for the show and has since seen some 11000 plus hits on You Tube! Enraptured-59 CD $16.25 Slomo Bog PS, US This hones the ritual clatter of their first album, 2005's The Creep, into a more cumbersome affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail & Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer & guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to the proceedings w/the recital of his poem Land, written especially for this album. Important CD $13.25 Smaldone, Micah Blue Red River PS, US This is the 3rd full-length from Portland, Maine's MICAH BLUE SMALDONE after previous releases on North East Indie & Tequila Sunrise. Influenced by greats like Skip James, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Will Oldham, etc - a wonderful listen! About the album, Micah says ""This new one reaches a little further both into the past & into the future. It is simple faith in the goodness of people, the depth of love, & the infinite wisdom of nature, which allows for this path to be cut w/ patience, humility, & an eagerness to share. So let this album be a little way-mark, & never a hitching post."" He recently played on the new Jack Rose album & also plays in the group Fire on Fire (Young God Recs). CD version comes in a mini-LP style gatefold package w/ 8 pg booklet. Currently on tour supporting Death Vessel & also plays in the Death Vessel band. ""Even though the arrangements are more elaborate, the songs themselves have a primitive clarity. Lyrics are dark & rich w/ imagery... Lines can be violent, even lurid, yet even the most bloody verses have the plainspoken grace & essentialism of American folk art.""-DUSTED. RECOMMENDED! Immune CD $13.00 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns PS, US VINYL VERSION. Double LP in special colored vinyl. Geffen DLP $17.00 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns [deluxe edition] PS, US With bonus DVD. Geffen CD/DVD $20.50 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns PS, US New album! This is Northern Irish pop-rock quintet Snow Patrol's fifth album, following 2006's Eyes Open. Recorded in Germany and Ireland with Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, Bloc Party, REM) once more at the helm, the album sees them exploring a somewhat rockier, although still decidedly radio-friendly, direction than on the introspective Eyes Open. As evinced by the single 'Take Back the City', the band's knack for writing catchy pop hooks remains intact. Geffen CD $16.25 Spacemen 3 DJ Tones PS, UK Spacemen 3 have a limited edition (2000 copies) 5 track mini-album released by Space Age Recordings in cardboard sleeve wallet on October 20th which features 2 previously unreleased Spacemen 3 tracks, a radically different mix of the classic Spacemen 3 cover of the Red Krayola's 'Transparent Radiation' and appearing for the first time on CD, the ultra rare remix of 'I Love You' (originally only 50 promo white label vinyl copies were ever pressed). Rounding off this mini-album is a studio version of Ecstasy Symphony. Track listing: These Blues Transparent Radiation (violin mix) Modulated Tones I Love You (remix) Ecstasy Symphony Spacemen 3 consisted of the core duo of Jason Pierce (Spiritualized) and Sonic Boom a.k.a Peter Kember (Spectrum & E.A.R.) who formed the group in Rugby , Warwickshire, having met at art college. Other members of what would become a fluid lineup over the years included Pete Bain (Bassman, also of The Darkside), Natty Brooker, Sterling Roswell (Rosco), Will Carruthers, Jonny Mattock (Slipstream), and for the final few shows, Mark Refoy (also of Slipstream). From the outset Spacemen 3 had a very defined set of aesthetic principles. They based almost their entire sound on their own concept of minimalism - droning guitars, feedback, as few chords as possible, pounding drums - with their motto 'Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to'. Their minimalism bled into their stage show as well. Sitting down to play their guitars and covered in the spinning colours of a cheap psychedelic light show, their stage 'act' was very anti-performance. Another striking aspect of Spacemen 3 was their willingness to cover and share their influences. Song titles, lyrics and interviews were peppered with references to bands and artists they believed shared their 'minimal is maximal' aesthetic. The Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, the Stooges, the MC5, early Captain Beefheart, free jazz musician Sun Ra, the Silver Apples, 1960s garage punk such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, the Electric Prunes, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and other surf bands, 1980s rockabilly groups the Cramps, the Gun Club, Tav Falco, blues and gospel acts like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, the Staple Singers and John Lee Hooker, and the production techniques of Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Delia Derbyshire were just some of the names mentioned by the band. SpaceAge-028 CD $16.25 Spectrum & Silver Apples A Lake of Teardrops [re-issue] PS, UK Pete Kember a.k.a. Sonic Boom of Spectrum worked with the seminal 60's act Silver Apples on a six track mini album originally released by Space Age Recordings in 1998. Having been out of print for many years now a limited re-pressing of 500 copies will be available from 20th October to meet demand for this release. From the opening surging waves of 'Streams Of Sorrow' with its controlled chaos and intoxicating vocals, through 'The Edge's' mesmerizing monotone backing to Simeon's 90's beat poetry - like Allen Ginsberg reincarnated into his most abstract nightmare, 'Whirlwind' with its plaintive vocals and warped ambience held together by a trademark Sonic Boom drone pattern, to '(I Don't Care if You) Never Come Back's' almost industrial-tribal percussion, fleshed out by those unique Silver Apples oscillations and Spectrum's ever present sense of wayward genius. 'A Lake Of Teardrops' is a spellbinding trip into the minds of two of the finest experimental composers ever. SpaceAge-016 CD $16.25 Starflyer 59 Dial M PS, US You have come to expect Starflyer 59 to be the most reliable, most dependable, yet most undeniably unpredictable messengers of album after album of quality independent rock tunes. Over ten albums deep, over fifteen years time, from the early guitar-heavy shoegazing era to the ethereal moodiness of The Fashion Focus years to the latest incarnations and recreations of themselves as keyboard-driven masters of chorus, this is and always will be a band who will deliver great songs with new sounds. Tooth&Nail CD $14.00 Stills, The Oceans Will Rise PS, US THE STILLS formed in Montreal in 2000, & shortly thereafter relocated to NYC as one of the 1st signings to Vice Recordings. The band rose to prominence in 2004 w/ the release of their debut album, 'Logic Will Break Your Heart.' In late 2007, Arts & Crafts signed the band to a worldwide recording deal. Once again working w/ producer Gus van Go, The new material, beginning w/ the anthemic lead single, "Being Here," conveys a rejuvenated, reinvigorated sense of being. Arts&Crafts CD $16.00 Stills, The Oceans Will Rise PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Arts&Crafts LP $17.00 Stone Breath Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Expanded) PS, US The third in series of Stone Breath reissues, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". The deep woods folk & acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define "wyrdfolk." Expanded here to two CDs with many rare & previously unreleased recordings. Hand/Eye DCD $15.25 Submerged Violence As First Nature PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more. OhmResistance CD $12.25 Sun Kil Moon April PS, US Limited amount available from Parasol. Black & White marble Vinyl! VinylFilms-2008 LP $18.00 Super XX Man Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds PS, US New album. TenderLoving CD $12.25 Swervedriver Ejector Seat Reservation [expanded re-issue] PS, UK Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1995 album from the British shoegaze-rock legends featuring three rare bonus tracks ('Maelstrom', 'The Directors Cut Of Your Life' and 'Just Sometimes') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total. Sony CD $16.75 Teknoist, The Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies PS, GERMANY Hard, relentless, creative, monstrous, and still friendly: The Teknoist's first full-length album is a storm of shattered pounding beats, anthemic riffs, and aggressive breaks. And still, it is also a humane and deep work that knows when to take the time to seduce its listener. Between the most insane moshpit and inventive melodies, here comes hurricane of yet uncharted magnitude. We warned you that he would be back. Half a year after having invited The Teknoist to share a record with Eustachian on the successful "Pillaged & Plundered" 12", Ad Noiseam presents the mad man's first full length album, coming after several years worth of records for such labels as Deathchant, Planet Mu, Death$sucker, Peace Off or Cock Rock Disco.. And mind you, he hasn't used this time to slow down one bit. A hurricane is a good metaphor for this album, in which Mike Hayward (a.k.a. The Teknoist) unleashes an hour long of his relentless broken rhythms, his pounding beats and his insidious melodies. A storm indeed, of destroyed drums and friendly melodies, of anthemic riffs and humane hooks. AdNoiseam-103 DLP $20.25 Teknoist, The Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies PS, GERMANY Hard, relentless, creative, monstrous, and still friendly: The Teknoist's first full-length album is a storm of shattered pounding beats, anthemic riffs, and aggressive breaks. And still, it is also a humane and deep work that knows when to take the time to seduce its listener. Between the most insane moshpit and inventive melodies, here comes hurricane of yet uncharted magnitude. We warned you that he would be back. Half a year after having invited The Teknoist to share a record with Eustachian on the successful "Pillaged & Plundered" 12", Ad Noiseam presents the mad man's first full length album, coming after several years worth of records for such labels as Deathchant, Planet Mu, Death$sucker, Peace Off or Cock Rock Disco.. And mind you, he hasn't used this time to slow down one bit. A hurricane is a good metaphor for this album, in which Mike Hayward (a.k.a. The Teknoist) unleashes an hour long of his relentless broken rhythms, his pounding beats and his insidious melodies. A storm indeed, of destroyed drums and friendly melodies, of anthemic riffs and humane hooks. AdNoiseam-103 CD $16.25 Telepathe Chrome's On It PS, US Telepathe give us a glimpse of a pop future that confidently fuses kraut jams, urban beats and Gang Gang Dance-style rhythms into a hypnotic, droning whole. If this is the sound of what's to come, then we certainly have something to look forward to. - Drowned In Sound. Telepathe started as a side project for Melissa Livaudis and Busy Gangnes, who were part of First Nation and Bloodlines respectively. IamsoundRecords CD $6.50 Tokumaru, Shugo Exit PS, US Sometimes his music sounds like a roomfull of clockwork toys having a rave. Other times, it is sweet, slow & mournful. There are cowboy guitar riffs rubbing shoulders w/traditional Japanese instruments. Percussion sometimes means a drum kit & sometimes an ashtray, if not both AlmostGold- CD $13.25 Transmission Sublimity PS, UK This is one amazing ride from a four-headed creative monster on heat that manages to blend musical beauty, torrential passion and sheer malevolence, sometimes in the space of one track...First sound on opening track Albion is Youth's unmistakable heaving bass before Big Paul Ferguson steams in with the heaviest drums in the business. Once the original Killing Joke rhythm section is underway on a crunching post-punk funk vamp, Simon Tong's guitar appears in shrapnel clusters lashed by Tim Bran's unearthly synth. Musical fireworks might be expected from a line-up like this and Sublimity, the second album by Transmission, doesn't disappoint. The pedigree is impeccable: Youth's production credentials, his time with Paul in the Joke before ahead-of-its-time super funk ensemble Brilliant. Simon's stint in the Verve line-up which made Urban Hymns then Gorillaz and Damon Albarn and Paul Simenon's The Good, The Bad & The Queen. Dreadzone co-founder Tim Bran plays with Subsonar and The Orb. The group started gestating after Youth and Simon became friends during the Urban Hymns sessions, which the former co-produced. Tim entered the fray then, Paul in Spring 2005 after he met Youth at a Malicious Damage party and heard some demos. Three months later they recorded debut album Beyond Light in three days at London's legendary Olympic studios. MaliciousDamage-636 CD $16.25 Travis Ode to J. Smith PS, US New album. Fontana CD $15.25 Various Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples PS, US By 1967, East St. Louis, Illinois, once dubbed an "All American" city by the US Chamber Of Commerce, had become St. Louis, Missouri's evil twin. Unemployment, drug addiction & vicious gang activity put a dark & heavy lid on a bi-state area that once cooked-up world-changing talent by the likes of Chuck Berry, Josephine Baker & Miles Davis. But both cities still spawned heroes, and ALLEN MERRY was one of them. Already a living legend for his early work w/ Ray Charles & Ike Turner, Merry channeled his talent into teaching, forming the YOUNG DISCIPLES through the South End Community Center to keep kids off the streets, out of the gangs & into the studio, where young men & women spiraling downward could ride the spiral groove upward on Merry's own YODI, GATEWAY & MERRY labels. W/ nearly 80 local youths involved from both sides of the Mississippi, the YOUNG DISCIPLES (named after one of the area's most notorious gangs) encompassed solo acts, duos, male & female vocal groups, a massive horn section & a troupe of African dancers. Every sweat-drenched recording incl. here emerged from this grass-roots organization that changed, if not saved, lives. LP forthcoming Numero CD $15.75 Various Happy Sweet 16 Carrot Top Records PS, US "Happy Sweet Sixteen Carrot Top Records" Special, very limited edition CD made for the CTR Sweet Sixteen celebration at The Hideout September 26-27, 2008. Includes ALL EXCLUSIVE TRACKS, each with a 16 theme by nearly every band ever released by the label. Tracks by TALL DWARFS, HANDSOME FAMILY, KATJONBAND, ANTIETAM, MEGAN REILLY, ARCHER PREWITT, BITTER TEARS, COCTAILS, David Greenberger of DUPLEX PLANET, RETSIN, NAYSAYER, PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA (POI DOG PONDERING), SLIPSTREAM, LYS GUILLORN, and birthday phone messages from SPECK MOUNTAIN & DARLING DOWNS. Gorgeous cover art by Archer Prewitt & beautiful letterpress printing by John Upchurch. All organized by Mark Greenberg of The Coctails. Hi-Ball CD $10.50 Various Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal - The '90's Vol. 3 (BOOK/CD) PS, US This vol. highlights the albums & bands of the '90s that stood on the shoulders of giants & gave metaPl tuhbisl igsehninergation's greatest hits. Full of reviews & recollections of hundreds of rarities & mainstream metal albums from this period. Incl. little known trivia that brings these albums back to life. Sure to attract any metal fan, this user-friendly guide documents dozens of bands & hundreds of albums. "Excellent! It's one of the very few guides that gets under the skin of the music & interprets what was in the mind of its creators."-Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden. Comes w/ FREE CD feat. '90s metal by SKREW, FATES WARNING, GWAR, CANNIBAL CORPSE, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, much more! CollectorsGuide BOOK $24.25 Vivian Girls S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! We HEART the VGs, y'all! Breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade who dish out seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven w/ chest-pounding waves of beautiful pop-rock feedback. This is a reissue of the original 500 copy pressing (now out of print) released on the Mauled By Tigers label, which sold out in 10 days. RIYL: The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Vaselines & The Shop Assistants. InTheRed LP $10.50 Wax Fang La La Land PS, US THE ONION A.V. CLUB: "What's going on in Kentucky? Judging by My Morning Jacket's new record and its hometown tourmate Wax Fang, it's like a flair for theatricality is being transmitted through the Louisville water. But while MMJ's turn to prog went for funky twists, it's immediately clear from the grandiose opening of Wax Fang's La La Land that frontman Scott Carney is fully intent on creating a Pink Floyd-esque prog-rock opera. From spacey, eerie psychedelia to whistling to references to World War II, the album conveys a vision as strongly as The Wall did, but with a less-polished, basement aesthetic that provides vivid moments of needed brightness. Spanning soaring whirls of energetic guitar pop ("The Doctor Will See You Now") and rolling, break-of-dawn mini-epics reminiscent of Arcade Fire (the closing "Wake Up Sleepyhead!"), La La Land is a fiercely focused collection with an impressive, bold ambition and artistic cohesiveness. It's a strong effort, but even if Carney's dream of resurrecting Roger Waters doesn't work out, Wax Fang could probably compose some incredible Off-Broadway rock musicals." Don'tPanicRecords CD $14.75 Whispertown 2000 Swim PS, US Known for their dreamy harmonies, countless hooks, & a sound that is both completely modern & nostalgic. RIYL: Jenny Lewis, FIery Furnaces, Mates of State, Tilly & the Wall. Acony CD $12.00 White Hinterland Luniculaire PS, US Luniculaire. It sounds French, but it is in fact a word invented byWhite Hinterland, taking parts of French words "lunaire" (lunar) and "funiculaire" (funicular, as in railway) to form the title of their second release. This EP is a highly ambitious recording containing five songs all sung in French, and it expands upon the wide palette of musical ideas heard onWhite Hinterland's debut, Phylactery Factory. Featuring two original songs, plus covers of songs made famous by Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Fontaine and Françoise Hardy,White Hinterland feels right at home amid the musical tradition laid out by these legends. From the opening groove of "Requiem Pour Un Con," it is obvious thatWhite Hinterland is exploring a plethora of musical ideas on Luniculaire. The funky rhythms and scorching guitar of the Gainsbourg classic captures the spirit of the original, but it's Casey Dienel's vocals that make this so special. Hearing Dienel sing in French is a revelation - without the distraction of English words you hear what a powerful instrument her voice is.White Hinterland's "Chant de Grillon" explores a wider range of sonic textures, many created by the layered guitar work of Alexis Gideon, while the spooky and atmospheric "Mon Ami La Rose" (originally made popular by Hardy) is subtle and beautiful. The original version of "J'ai 26 Ans" was performed by Brigitte Fontaine with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and here Dienel plays the role of Fontaine while her band toys with flourishes of African rhythms and Eastern drones. Throughout Luniculaire, and especially on "J'ai 26 Ans" and "Requiem Pour Un Con,"Matt Meyer's percussion work is sublime - he layers an array of strange sounds and noises, while maintaining the heavy groove throughout. The EP's closer, "Lunirascible" has Dienel's voice at the center, and like Julie Tippetts, Elizabeth Fraser or contemporary ScottWalker, Dienel offers vocals meant not to deliver words, but simply tones, melody and texture. Like some groovy, strange and psychedelic artifact clamored about by crate-digging record collectors, Luniculaire is more than just an EP. It is a testament to White Hinterland's deep musical vision and a taste of the greatness to come. DeadOceans-020 CD5 $7.50 Wicked King Wicker Flydust PS, US LTD ED OF 500! 2nd album by this brutal doom/noise act a la Skullflower, Sunn O))), Noru. Comes w/ record labels & inner sleeve handdecorated by the band! Noiseville LP $18.25 Would-Be-Goods Eventyr PS, US Highly anticipated fifth album 'Eventyr' from revered London quartet Would-Be-Goods is released 20 years after the classic debut album 'The Camera Loves Me' on '80s cult label èl Records. It is their third album for Matinée Recordings, after the well received 'Brief Lives' (2002) and 'The Morning After' (2004). "Sad stories are more beautiful" sings Jessica Griffin on the opening track, and those words could be the motto for the album as most of its songs are inspired by folk tales-timeless archetypal stories composed in northern Europe in the 19th century. 'Eventyr', meaning 'adventures' or 'fairy tales', was the title of Hans Christian Andersen's classic collection of stories, and in songs such as 'Melusine' and 'Heart of Tin', the Would-Be-Goods show that tales of imagination can evoke the joys and sorrows of life more vividly than dreary realism. Some of the songs stay closer to home: 'In Bohemia', 'The Girl at No. 7' and 'The Ghost of Mr. Minton' depict the arty low life of mid-century London to magnificent effect. Musically, though, 'Eventyr' is not a folk album: the songs distill '50s and '60s styles into something entirely new, traveling through baroque pop, bossanova and rockabilly. The album was developed slowly over two years and sees Andy Warren-formerly of Adam and the Ants and The Monochrome Set and bass player on the first two Would-Be-Goods albums-return to join Debbie Green on drums and backing vocals, Peter Momtchiloff on lead guitar, and Jessica on lead vocals and guitar. Another classic album from a band that never goes out of style! Matinee-047 CD $12.25 Wrangler/Scanner 1968 Moog Modular (Picture Disc) PS, UK Limited to 300. Two Ra Chord blasts of 'Switched on Bach' beauty performed by WRANGLER and SCANNER who first met whilst fighting over a copy of 'Switched on Paddy Kingsland' at a record fair. These Supraphon pyjama wearing artisans have by loving of various knobs and switches, the sweet caressing of sequencers and event generators and manipulation of patch cords, created the sounds and rhythms for a discerning ear. Whilst Benge / Winters and Scanner have avoided the trap of being academic beard noodlers with this release, they have invoked the spirit of John Baker, White Noise and of course Bob Moog. Featuring sounds made exclusively on the Moog Modular System 3C and the Formant Modular Synthesiser this seven inch is a radiophonic joy, working as a platter to play out as well as a companion piece to their Twenty Systems meisterwork. Fans of Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno or the recent John Baker Tapes are recommended to check this. StaticCaravan-165-7 45 $10.25 Zeller Audio Vandalism PS, GERMANY Audio vandalism is the first release by the young artist JB Zeller who is based in Southern France. This release includes eleven tracks that were recorded between 2005 and 2008. Zeller is affected by 'all kinds of subversive music' (ranging from breakcore and industrial music to dubstep) in such a way that he is able to assimilate these different musical facets into his own style. Needless to say, the results are unique and subversive in their own right. Audio Vandalism is an aggregation of complex beat layers, deep dark bass, distorted synth textures, ominous samples and algid ambiences that are interwoven with atrabilious melody lines. Straightforward electro-industrial meet the complexness of breakbeats merged with whirls of noise, captured media coverage and a hint of melancholy. This album can be seen as a missing link between heavy, metric electronica, straight-line jungle-core and saturnine movie soundtracks. Join the Audio Vandalism! Hymen-770 CD $16.25 Forthcoming Releases 1900s, The Medium High EP (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND) PS, US Beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky new limited edition mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel. Parasol-CD-111 CD5 $5.00 23 Skidoo Seven Songs + Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, UK Expanded reissue on CD by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Fetish Records in February 1982, the mini album Seven Songs topped the indie charts and established 23 Skidoo as a groundbreaking commercial force. "Intoxicating - one of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures" (Paul Morley, NME, 1982); "23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense" (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD includes seven bonus tracks from the singles Last Words and Tearing Up The Plans. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present. LTM-2528 CD $16.25 Acid Mothers Temple Glorify Astrological Martyrdom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata & company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks & freaked out pitched up vocals. Important CD $13.25 All the Saints Fire On Corridor X (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "These guys have evolved into an impossible-to-dislike distorto-heavy groove drone that their English forebears like Spacemen 3 and Loop thrilled with 20 years ago" - Stomp And Stammer. Touch&Go LP $12.50 Andrews, Drew Only Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Guitarist from The Album Leaf and co-founder of Via Satellite debuts his first solo album. An absorbing and atmospheric record featuring soft and intricate guitar, synthesizers, and Andrews' feathery vocals floating above it all. Contributors include members of The Album Leaf and The Black Heart Procession. Limited edition of 500 white 180 gram vinyl with MP3 download card. MintyFresh LP $16.50 Apples In Stereo Stephen, Stephen / Same Old Drag [picture disc+DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US This is special collaboration with The Apples In Stereo and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert show. Robert (Apples in stereo) likes the Colbert show, and wrote the song for this TV show and sent it to them. Stephen Colbert liked it so much he invited Apples In Stereo to play at his TV show. So this is the song for Stephen Colbert, presented by HEARTFAST that put out special edition of picture 7" w/DVD. Yes, you can not only listen to the music but you can also watch their video. Side B is a song, taken from their latest album called New Magnetic Wonder on Yep Roc. Heartfast-004 45/DVD $16.25 Asobi Seksu Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New York's greatest bands. Polyvinyl 45 $6.25 Bee Gees, The Best of Bee Gees [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Collects the Gibb Bros' pre-disco baroque-pop genius, originally release on LP in 1969. Could be the first time on CD? ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anyone needs conclusive proof that the brothers Gibb weren't always the chest-medallion-flashing kings of mainstream disco or, since about 1980 on, meaningless AOR washouts, the nearly 40-minute collection of the Bee Gees' earliest hits will suffice in spades. At their (perhaps, in hindsight) surprising best, the threesome, along with capable if generally unremarkable rhythm section members Melouney and Colin Peterson, created a slew of tender, affecting, and quite lovely hits. While the Stonesproto-metal crowd of the time probably thought them unbearably wimpy, their songwriting acumen, combined with their harmonies, fine production by Robert Stigwood, and ace orchestral/band arrangements by Bill Shephard, holds up astonishingly well... Considering that everyone from Catherine ("Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You") and Jimmy Somerville ("To Love Somebody") to Low ("I Started a Joke") and Jose Feliciano ("I've Gotta Get a Message to You") has covered something from this collection is testimony to the songs' continuing influence." Reprise CD $12.25 Bee Gees, The Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Second volume of the trio's pre-disco baroque-pop best, originally released in 1973. Includes the fairly rare "Morning Of My Life", which also happens to be one of their best orch-pop songs. Reprise CD $8.25 Belle And Sebastian The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Gatefold HQ 180 gram vinyl. Matador LP $20.00 Belle And Sebastian The BBC Sessions [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US This limited, deluxe double CD contains an entire live show broadcast on BBC Evening Session in mid-2001 with another four never before heard songs. Matador DCD $16.50 Belle And Sebastian The BBC Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, the group rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The regular CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period. Matador CD $13.25 Black Moth Super Rainbow Drippers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US New album appears to be a singles and rarities collection with a scratch-n-sniff cover! Let me know what 'scent' they've chosen... Graveface CD $11.25 Brethren Of The Free Spirit The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Guitarist/composer JAMES BLACKSHAW & lutenist/composer JOZEF VAN WISSEM. Intricate phrases circle & spiral in on themselves, & in the end it's the subtle shifts in rhythm & tonal coloration that provide a kind of transcendence in a sea of repetition Important CD $13.25 Brethren Of The Free Spirit The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! Important DLP $23.25 Briggs, Anne Time Has Come (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Briggs, Anne S-T (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Bronnt Industries Kapital Häxan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, UK The world of horror soundtracks has long been an inspiration for Bronnt Industries Kapital, the musical project revolving around Bristol-based composer Guy Bartell, and it is no surprise that Bronnt should return the favor by delivering a horror soundtrack of its own. Häxan (1922, dir. Benjamin Christensen) is a fusion film using dramatization, documentary and animation to explore the themes of witchcraft and superstition. Met with outrage on its release, it has since been reappraised as a classic. Bronnt was commissioned to write a new soundtrack to accompany the film's first release on DVD in Europe (TVD3758) in 2007, and it is this soundtrack which forms the group's second album, the follow up to 2005's acclaimed Virtute et Industria. Much of Häxan was shot at night to enhance the sinister mood of the film, and Bronnt utilized a similar schedule to evoke the awe of the Sabbat. The soundtrack was composed and performed using a wide range of instrumentation, including clockwork devices, transistor organs, mellotron, clarinet, guitars, bespoke string instruments, pianos, tone generators, analog synthesizers and elaborate processing and manipulation through antique tape machines and plate reverbs. The resulting scope of the soundtrack is vast, ranging from minimalist clockwork lullabies to lush orchestral ensemble pieces, heavenly analog sound collages to hellish electrical miasmas, all imbued with a darkly hypnagogic ambiance worthy of Christensen's strange world populated by mechanical demons and castles in the clouds. StaticCaravan-168 CD $16.25 Burnes, Andrew Telescope (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS happily presents the long-overdue solo debut of ANDREW BURNES. Burnes, along with DAVID DANIELL, is a founding member of the ethereal, post-blues ensemble San Agustin; he's also a member of Haunted House, alongside Loren Mazzacane Connors; and he's performed in improv settings with the likes of Ken Vandermark and Thurston Moore. Finally committed to vinyl, he doesn't disappoint: "Telescope" is a glittering chunk of sound, as Burnes transforms that particular emblem of Americana, the steel guitar, into one vast, slowly undulating drone. Andrew Burnes' name may not be familiar, but fans of the genre needn't worry. Back in 1993, Table of the Elements' original Guitar Series featured what was only the second US solo release from a similarly unknown artist: Jim O'Rourke. You can trust us again with this one. TableoftheElements-98 LP $14.25 Calder Lower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, UK Calder formed in Iceland when musical instrument maker Lárus Sigurðsson and Ólafur Josephsson, who is perhaps best known for his recordings under the alias Stafrænn Hákon, met and decided to join forces. Their first collaborations resulted in self-titled five-track album of improvised, experimental instrumentals that was released through Ólafur's Vogor Recordings and later picked up by UK indie Unlabel. Lárus' background is in classical music, having played with various Icelandic musicians and self-released a handful of solo recordings. His recent album Jarðhörpusálmar was improvised and recorded using musical instruments that he had designed and built himself. Ólafur Josephsson has been experimenting with ambient guitar arrangements under the name Stafrænn Hákon since 1999. He has released his music through various labels including his own Vogor Recordings, the Resonant Label and Awkward Silence Recordings, with the music progressing and becoming increasingly refined since his debut album Eignas Jeppa in 2001. After the creative success of Calder's debut, a second album was conceived in 2005 when Lárus and Ólafur started exchanging ideas, shaping and molding their music, with the material composed in a truly collaborative way - Lárus handed Ólafur acoustic melodic ideas and Ólafur added electronic elements, with tracks gradually acquired shape, depth and life. With this new music, melody, structure and beats have come more to the fore, although the beautiful and haunting guitar atmospherics are still evident, running like a thread through the album. 2008 saw the completion of this process and the resulting album has been entitled Lower. The music can perhaps best be described as a fusion of experimental, ambient, classical and acoustic music. MakeMineMusic-052 CD $16.25 Castanets Vs. Ero Dub Refuge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Dub Refuge" turns a minimalist folk record (CASTANETS' "City of Refuge") into a ghostly dub, subverting dub tradition while still nodding in the direction of King Tubby, Scientist, Burning Spear, and Sly and Robbie. "Dub Refuge" works because Castanets and ERO GRAY (aka Papa Alabaster, sometimes bass player for Castanets, and member of Brooklyn-based Rad Unicorn) are both preoccupied with ghostly, ephemeral and messy sounds. Ero and the Castanets share a haunted quality in their music, a unique dedication to risk, and a reverence for accident in folk music. (Stray string squeaks, cracking voices and odd echoes can be more rewarding than intentional harmonies or suavely competent riffs.) At it's best, Castanets music accomplishes an eerie and very difficult balancing act between the disaster-surfing of experimental and noise music, and the sort of calm competence shown by classic country singers. "The City of Refuge" sessions exemplified this balance, and here on "Dub Refuge", Ero has emphasized both aspects without destroying either. AsthmaticKitty-42 LP $11.50 Cat Power Dark End Of The Street (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US Six-song vinyl EP containing mostly unreleased recordings from the "Jukebox" sessions. In keeping with the "Jukebox" theme , all the songs here are covers: "Auld Triangle", "Dark End Of The Street", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", "Fortunate Son", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "It Ain't Fair". Limited deluxe double gatefold 10-inch vinyl. Matador 2X10 $14.00 Cheap Trick At Budokan! 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US For the first time, the DVD premieres the previously unseen historic 1978 Tokyo concert, aired only once on Japanese TV. Bonus features include a new interview with the band plus two songs taped at 2008 Budokan Anniversary Show. Two CDs feature At Budokan: The Complete Concert, newly remastered, while an additional disc includes the audio counterpart to the DVD plus four bonus songs not included in the original film. SonyLegacy 3CD/DVD $47.50 Crystal Antlers EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Touch&Go 12 $8.75 CSS Move (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Remixes by Cut Copy, Metronomy & Frankmusik! Subpop 12 $5.00 Daniell, David I-IV-V-I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US DAVID DANIELL is one of the hardest-working guitarists in avant-garde show business. He leads the troops in Rhys Chatham's guitar armies; he was a member of Jonathan Kane's rollicking band February; and he performs regularly in a duo with Tortoise's Doug McCombs. He's collaborated with Tim Barnes, Thurston Moore, and Loren Connors; and his guitar work with his own band, San Agustin, is the stuff of which fleeting blues-drone dreams are made. With influences rooted in blues, American minimalism, and post-punk ideologies, Daniell's guitar playing is always inspired; when fused with his intricate electro-acoustic compositions, the results are breathtaking. TableOfElements-99 LP $14.25 Danielson Trying Hartz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Trying Hartz" samples the first decade of the DANIELSON/DANIELSON FAMILE/ BR. DANIELSON oeuvre (all the years before "Ships"), attesting generously to the movement of the work as a whole, from proto-minimalist eccentric gospel band to prog-metal-dread outfit to music hall choir to indie rock one-man band to outsider art celebrity to family man and family member. It's a perfect starter volume for listeners who have not had the pleasure of engaging with the evolution of this unusual, surprising, and incredibly moving musical consortium. And yet: please note that no verbal account of the work can possibly summon the effect of the decade digested in this assemblage. After all, as Daniel sings, "My Lord is known by His song." Not by His press releases. The ecstatic vision of the Danielson project is the unnamable part, the impossible to describe part, and this ecstatic vision is cumulative. It's not what Daniel says, though he always says it well, it's the circumstances in which he says it, with family gathered around him, whether related by blood or not; it's the reiteration of the spiritual thematic material, a reiteration that sounds nothing like early 20th century gospel-it's far more poeticized, it's far more elemental-but which has all the seriousness and all the joy of that long ago music. Ecstatic vision. You won't get it by reading these lines, nor even by reading the lyrics. You will get it by listening to this distillation of ten years' work and the earlier albums and going to the shows. Then you will experience the humble but devious and complicated grassroots movement that is Danielson. "Trying Hartz" is an essential place to start. SecretlyCanadian-180 DCD $11.50 Dear Nora Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Self-explanatory! MagicMarker DCD $15.75 Deer Tick War Elephant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US New album from intriguing solo-acoustic troubadour dude. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, has been on a non-stop tour since graduating from high school in 2004. He often performs without amplification, delivering tunes with just his voice and guitar, an experience that gives his vocals the primal power of a turn of the (last) century mountain balladeer. McCauley's a singer/songwriter with finely crafted literary lyrics married to folkie melodies that sport influences from rock, blues, country, and pop, as evidenced by his cover of Anthony Newley's "What Kind of Fool Am I?." McCauley transforms the tune into a country waltz, straining to reach the high notes, replacing Newley's measured regret with desperation and agony, although the mood is broken by a goofy, loping instrumental bridge just before the last two verses. The rest of the album, originals penned by McCauley, is more straightforward -- tunes about lost love, loneliness, and heartache delivered simply, highlighting McCauley's emotionally charged, unadorned vocals." Partisan CD $15.00 Deerhunter Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 16TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full details forthcoming. Price could change. Kranky LP $11.50 Desolation Wilderness White Light Strobing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood. Krecords-198 LP $10.25 Desolation Wilderness White Light Strobing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "White Light Strobing" is the debut album of the band DESOLATION WILDERNESS. Recorded in the winter of 2008, supposedly the dark months but there is a beauty hidden there, too. Sound waves transmuted through archaic vacuum tubes and dusty transistors, magnetized on to a playable medium. A rush of air pressure, a few more charged ions here and there. Somehow, out of chaos comes order, a record of an event at a specific time and place. "White Light Strobing", Strobing, like what movies do, or sunlight, or even sound: More than meets the eye. "White Light Strobing" contains songs straight from the wide-awake dream world about simple things (love, escape, the open road) which transform before your ears into something else entirely. Similar to the experience of being inside all day and then walking outside to find yourself blinded by the light of the sun, blinking in a daze. What just happened? More than meets the eye. The meanings of words are transcended by their texture, what they rest upon. Lingual poetry as visual poetry as aural poetry; sung in any language, it is understood. Krecords-198 CD $11.50 Earth The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version. LIMITED TO 5000! SouthernLord DLP $20.00 Envy/Thursday Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) (LP + CD) PS, US More than two years after THURSDAY first put the idea in our heads, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places. Recorded in Spring 2008, both bands turn in some of their most inspired work yet. In addition, Thursday invited Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev to remix the dark instrumental "In Silence" into the pitch-black closing track, "Appeared And Was Gone," providing the perfect transition into the massive dynamics of ENVY. Beginning with the subtle electronics of the symphonic opener, "An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction," Envy thrashes and burns through a trio of thoughtful face-melters. Pressed on audiophile-quality 180 gram vinyl and featuring original artwork by acclaimed poster artist, Dan Grzeca, this deluxe set includes a free copy of the CD format beautifully incorporated into the exquisite package design. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-146 LP/CD $14.25 Fireman Electric Arguments (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Mysterious duo of PAUL MCCARTNEY & YOUTH. The album's opener "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" is classic rock & an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff w/ loud drums & soaring vocals. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing The Changes," a euphoric upbeat song w/ an instantly memorable melody. ATO CD $16.50 Flaming Lips, The Christmas On Mars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Warners DVD $18.00 Flaming Lips, The Christmas On Mars [deluxe edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" Deluxe edition DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Bonus CD is the film's soundtrack, which we think is all unreleased material. CD tracklist: 01 Once Beyond Hopelessness / 02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One / 03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed / 04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic / 05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within / 06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes / 07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two / 08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World / 09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia / 10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects / 11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps / 12 Once Beyond Hopelessness Warners DVD/CD $24.50 Frontier Ruckus Orion Songbook (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Matthew Milia & crew bring 14 hair-raising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships & realizations of ones home. Milia's loquacious melodies are enhanced by the swelling saw & trumpet of Zachary Nichols, the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, the soulful harmonies of Anna Burch & the spidery banjo of David Jones. Sounds like Stephen C. Foster writing & producing the newest Neutral Milk Hotel record. QuiteScientific CD $11.00 Glissade Further (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Limited to 500! The band's sometimes drone-y, always distortion-heavy sounds are reminiscent of the haze- induced vibes of bands like Flying Saucer Attack, Spacemen 3 or early Spectrum. This limited vinyl version has been completely remixed by the band & also includes the stellar 'Burned in Blue' EP, long out of print & newly remixed as well - all housed in a heavy, gatefold jacket. 14 hypnotic, blissed-out, instrumental space jams from North Carolina's finest psychedelic shoegazers. DeepSpace DLP $19.50 Grampall Jookabox Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening. AsthmaticKitty-51 LP $11.50 Grampall Jookbox Ropechain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US "Ropechain" braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening. AsthmaticKitty-51 CD $11.50 Handsome Family Drunk by Noon/Blizzard (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, "Odessa" (1995), that has been covered by ANDREW BIRD, CERYS MATTHEWS (CATATONIA), SALLY TIMMS & JON LANGFORD (MEKONS), THE SADIES, and NORA O'CONNOR. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month after month. Side AA's "The Blizzard" is their EXCLUSIVE, sublime cover of the 1964 Jim Reeves countrypolitan classic. A sad, SAD story of a man whose love for his pony is stronger than his love for his girl or even himself. Beautiful picture sleeve has 2 pieces of original Rennie Sparks art. Two aces! CarrotTop 45 $4.50 Headlights Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US Features remixes from The Album Leaf, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Son Lux, as well as Cale Parks and T.J. Lipple of Aloha. Limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies in an eco-friendly recycled digipack. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Hello Seahorse! Holy a Las Ocho (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US MagicMarker CD $15.75 Hotel Hotel The Sad Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Indie-ambient post rocker of heavily effected guitars & violins, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of If Thousands, Remora, Aarktica, Mogwai, Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, & Godspeed You Black Emperor. File under Indie Ambient, Guitar Experiments, Post Rock, Shoegazer. Silber-064 CD $12.25 Hushpuppies Silence Is Golden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US French rock band's debut stateside release. Their impeccable English suggest their origins could just as easily be Williamsburg, Portland, or London while their stripped down, in your face guitar-meets-Farfisa and wall of vocal chorus jams speak a language beyond borders. Sharp songs, heavy on melody and big on guitar riffs. So big, that the folks behind Guitar Hero are including the Hushpuppies track "You're Gonna Say Yeah" on the upcoming "Guitrar Hero World Tour". "Hushpuppies are a stylish garage rock band who have listened a lot to The Who, drink a lot of vodka, and drive their scooter up the wall" - Spex. MintyFresh CD $12.00 Hyvonen, Frida Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. SecretlyCanadian-184 LP $11.50 Hyvonen, Frida Silence Is Wild (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Having come out of a year of isolation, Frida Hyvönen paired up once again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in Stockholm's famous Atlantis studio and made her second full-length Silence Is Wild. Whereas Hyvönen's 2006 debut Until Death Comes was lean and percussive with her distinctive oompah-styled piano and direct lyrics, Silence Is Wild stretches her voice across lush arrangements of piano, strings, choirs, and synths. Piano-based antecedents and contemporaries such as Carole King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Plush, and Antony and the Johnsons generally feel like appropriate touchstones for discussing the Swedish singer-songwriter's recorded work. Lyrically, however, Hyvönen is in more open waters, as she forges her own stylistic path as a songwriter. On Silence is Wild, Hyvönen continues to take an utterly modern approach to classic songwriting forms: blending the confessional with the fictional; mixing wit with a sexuality that shifts from the refined to the raw; all the while using language which dances effortlessly between the timeless and the contemporary, referencing high art and pop culture in a transcendent manner which masterfully puts Hyvönen at the top of a new international class of singer-songwriters. SecretlyCanadian-184 CD $11.50 Ida Ten Small Paces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Ida's third record pieces together a scrapbook of an album, a total of 15 tracks recorded in almost as many places. Some four-track, some studio, and some bedroom tracks find their home on this beautiful album that led to Ida's work with Capital Records. Double gatefold 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $14.50 Ida Tales of Brave Ida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Tales of Brave Ida is marked by spare yet clean production and is a stunning debut thatís an absolute essential for Ida fans one and all. Recorded in 1993, ToBI is a drumless effort featuring the duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell and was written during the time of Mitchell's collaborations with Lisa Loeb. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $16.50 Ida I Know About You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US On their second full-length, Ida absolutely shines. The duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell are joined by Michael Littleton (Blood on the Wall) on drums. IKAY finds Ida discovering the recognizable voice that has defined their 15-year career. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code. Polyvinyl DLP $16.50 Jean on Jean S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US When Molly Schnick's longtime band OUT HUD broke up in 2005, she started from the beginning. Over the next three years, she developed the sound slowly, adding layers of strings, vocals, guitars, organs & percussion when appropriate. The results of her labors are the nine songs that make up the self-titled album. The sound is warm, lush & orchestrated, like Colin Blunstone's 'One Year' or Judee Sill's 'Heart Food' KanineRecords CD $10.00 Joan of Arc My Summer-Long High Wipeout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" is Joan of Arc at their best; "The Surrender" is an alternate version from the ones on JOA's latest full-length Boo Human; "A Man Needs A Maid" is a Neil Young Harvest cover. This 7" includes a digital download code for all three songs. Polyvinyl 45 $4.00 Johannsson, Johann Fordlandia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth. Johannsson makes stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, which frequently combines electronic processing with classical orchestrations. "Fordlandia" is the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. A fascinating, immersive, and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies. 4AD CD $13.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Korine, Harmony Collected Fanzines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Long out of print, Harmony Korine's 'zines are comprehensively collected in this new book. Full-color soft-cover edition featuring the eight fanzines in chronological order. Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony & Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They'd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like "Mae West go east." DragCity BOOK $22.25 K-The-I??? Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US K-THE-I??? marks a thunderous return to MUSH with his latest full-length, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Production on the album is handled entirely by THAVIUS BECK, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' "Niggy Tardust" alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, "Broken Love Letter", focused on past loves gone wrong, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers. Mush-264 CD $9.00 Larsen LLL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US LP only live set released as a companion to Larsen's new full length. Features frequent collaborators JOHANN JOHANNSSON, BABY DEE & JULIA KENT. Material recorded live in Italy & Austria. LIMITED TO 500. Important DLP $23.25 Larsen La Fever Lit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Featuring legendary dub diva/post-punk- cabaret icon Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety a.k.a. Annie Bandez (CRASS, NWW, COIL, C93), La Fever Lit could be considered their most focused album yet, but at the same time it's also their most experimental & floating. Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness, & the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety Important CD $13.25 Legends, The Seconds Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US After two years of absence The Legends return with the noisiest pop single to ever come out of Sweden. "Seconds away" balances perfectly between the unbearable and pure loveliness. "I need noise now, so this new single sounds like someone drilling a whole in your head. In a pleasant way that is. It's called "Seconds away" and is about the wonders of Tryptizol. The B-side, "Over and over" is actually one of those sad love songs I had promised myself never to write again. But it was out of my hands; life forced me to write it. Sorry about that... Pallers has done a truly wonderful remix of it. It might actually beat the original, which is both a very good thing and slightly depressing at the same time." Johan [aka The Legends]. The one-man band The Legends has confused, and annoyed, it's surroundings with a total lack of will to compromise and sudden changes in musical direction since 2003. Right now Johan is in the famous Summersound studios together with a large number of distortion pedals and broken amplifiers to record a fourth The Legends album. The Legends made their debut with the critically acclaimed album "Up against the Legends" in the fall of 2003. Live the band was somewhere between 8-10 people of which two had a slight idea about how to play their instrument and none was close to sober. -" I wanted to make pop melodies so simple and obvious that they could get to the audience no matter how the songs were played. This time the audience will, hopefully, rather fight to hear the melodies through a wall of feedback". Labrador-116 CD5 $5.25 Library Tapes A Summer Beneath the Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, US Library Tapes follow up the highly acclaimed Make Mine Music album Höstluft with the beautiful and atmospheric long player A Summer Beneath the Trees. A Summer Beneath the Trees steps away from the minimal sound of previous Library Tapes releases, with rich layers of sound and more varied instrumentation, and strings taking a more prominent role. Joining Library Tapes main man David Wenngren (piano, laptop and field recordings) are Peter Broderick (Bella Union, Type, Kning Disk) who adds violin, guitar, accordion, trumpet, celeste, viola and banjo on the six of the album's nine tracks, and Danny Norbury (Static Caravan, Ono) who plays cello on three tracks. The trademark ageing clicks and glitches of earlier releases are largely absent, and there is a newfound warmth and depth to these recordings. The album moves Library Tapes further into the realm of modern classical and cinematic soundtracks, with the music bringing to mind Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman and Max Richter. Based in Gothenburg in Sweden, David Wenngren has also released music under the name Forestflies and has extensively toured UK, Europe and USA, playing live with the likes of Sylvain Chauveau, Greg Haines and Akira Rabelais. MakeMineMusic-053 CD $16.25 Little Joy S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Little Joy is Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), and Binki Shapiro - three friends who got together to demo songs and produce this self-titled debut, named after their corner bar. Produced by Noah Georgeson (Devandra Banhart). RoughTrade CD $12.00 Little Joy S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! RoughTrade LP $14.00 Longwave Secrets Are Sinister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US New album. The group's fourth full-length expands on their trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band's penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, & more driving sensibility. OriginalSignal CD $10.25 Lorna Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom. WordsOnMusic-24 CD $11.50 Lorna Writing Down Things To Say (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom. WordsOnMusic-24 CD $11.50 Los Campesinos! We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, Los Campesinos! prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity, and most importantly, energy, with the announcement of their new record. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed: ten brand new tracks recorded in Seattle from June 12-23rd with Mr John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wedding Present, Wu Tang) and mixed immediately after at Monnow Valley in Wales. Arts&Crafts CD/DVD $15.25 Love Is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US A full three years since their debut (which was re-released a couple times and then remixed), the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep. WhatsYourRupture? CD $11.50 Low Santa Is Coming/The Coming Of Jah (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US 2 new tracks w/ sweet punch out ornament cover! Subpop 45 $4.75 Lucksmiths, The First Frost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Over the course of fifteen years and almost as many albums and international tours, Australian band The Lucksmiths have penned some of the most adored songs this side of the pop underground and have built up a massive fanbase of both Europeans and ex-pats in the process. Their last album Warmer Corners, received much praise (Pitchfork : idiosyncratic but accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere not so much in presentation as in presence) Loud & Quiet named it their 2nd favourite album of the year, Two singles lifted from the album A Hiccup in Your Happiness and The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco both received heavy rotation on the nations broadcasters, the latter also finding its way onto Qantas in-flight playlist for March 2006 an achievement not celebrated lightly by a band with an enduring penchant for the somewhat ridiculous and irrelevant. A trip to Tasmania has yielded First Frost Their finest and most eclectic album to date. Camped out in the wilderness, the band was free to explore and expand the musical palette, and with all 4 members contributing songs, the end result is a 14-song offering bound to surprise anyone who thought they had The Lucksmiths pegged as sounding too much like The Lucksmiths Matinee-049 CD $12.25 Lukestar Lake Toba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Norway's Lukestar present an album of otherworldly guitars, energetic drumming, and ethereal, dreamy, power falsetto vocals. "A solid collection of pulsing indie-rock songs with half-shouted hooks and guitars unwinding like fractal art" - Pitchforkmedia.com. Flameshovel CD $14.00 Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler. 12K-1048 CD $12.25 Magnificents Year Of Explorers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US The latest release from this Scottish band is an epic saga of stolen synths, left-handed guitars, trans-European expressways, covert product placement, and serious studio tomfoolery. Where their eponymous debut was primarily fueled by raw punk power and electrifying excess, this record demonstrates a more measured method. They've toured with the Beta Band, Mogwai, Stereolab, and Trans Am. Mush CD $10.75 Mahjongg Free Groove Rider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Stylistically, MAHJONGG is boundless and indefinable. From their very first EP through K's "Kontpab" (released earlier this year), Mahjongg have dabbled in beatbox punk, afro-beat revivalism and junkyard whimsy. The continual shifts in their albums is an earnest attempt to realize global harmonies, but if given only one side of a 7" which side of Mahjongg would come out to play? The Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series provides the answer and "Free Groove Rider" is their most refracted pop statement yet. Using a swirling vocoder and intermittent dance beats, this single flickers like a channel-surfer finding pop sensibilities in between the static. The B-side, a remix by Selector Dub Narcotic (Calvin Johnson), ups the playfulness by reducing the static in favor of an unkempt, bubbling mix of melodica and reemerging synths. Krecords-114 45 $3.75 Minotaur Shock Amateur Dramatics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH) PS, US Audio Dregs is pleased to announce the release of a longtime favorite from Bristol UK, Minotaur Shock; the musical side of David Edwards. There are currently 3 albums by him available, a compilation of old hits and some EPs out there, but this is his first stateside release now available on Compact Disc! How cool is that? "I'd describe Amateur Dramatics as school band meets Italo meets chamber music rubbing up on electro with a slice of acid, a sprinkling of minimalism and a short attention span. It's got saxophones, violins, clarinets and the insides of my grandma's mini-piano on it. It was influenced by many things, notably Fleetwood Mac, Detroit techno, Frank Zappa, Cluster, Andrew Poppy, Bowie, Italo house, Glass/Reich, Gentle Giant and Todd Rundgren. It was all written, arranged, recorded and produced by me mostly at home (occasionally in other people's houses). All instruments were done by me except clarinet, flute and saxophone which were played by the wonderful Emily Wakefield, and violin which was played by the excellent James Underwood of the Iskra String Quartet. Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner provided vocals for 'This Plane Is Going To Fall'." -David Edwards, June 2008 AudioDregsRecordings-073 CD $12.25 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Nerves, The One Way Ticket (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US "Their bare, skeletal sound made every lick seem memorable. They excelled in energy. People compared them to the early Beatles or the Dave Clark Five." - Kenneth Funsten. Formed in 1975 by guitarist JACK LEE, bassist PETER CASE, and drummer PAUL COLLINS, the Nerves are one of the most influential garage/punk pop outfits to come out of the mid-70's LA scene, and certainly one of the least documented... until now. Mostly remembered for their classic "Hanging On The Telephone," a Jack Lee composition which has been covered over the years by a myriad of artists from BLONDIE to L7 to CAT POWER, the Nerves were above all a high energy rock'n'roll band with all three members composing and singing. Playing fast, ear-catching garage pop songs, sometimes wearing matching suits, the trio had more than a bit of the stripped down street energy of the Los Angeles's early punk movement. They shared the stage with the Ramones and Mink Deville during their infamous US "Magical Blistering Tour," played the Punk Palace and the legendary Masque in Hollywood, and headlined shows with the Avengers, the Zeros, The Dils, The Screamers and Shock, to name just a few. After the band's break-up in 1978, Peter Case and Paul Collins formed The BREAKAWAYS, and later went on to front the legendary PLIMSOULS and The BEAT, respectively. Following the success of "Hanging On the Telephone," JACK LEE has mostly focused on his songwriting career, releasing an album in 1981. Both Peter and Paul are still recording and touring. PETER CASE's latest album "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" (Yeproc 2007) was nominated for a Grammy. This collection, authorized for the first time ever by the three band members, features the band's 1976 EP (now regarded as a power pop classic), as well as demos and previously unreleased live recordings, REMASTERED and complete with notes and photos. The CD is a Digipack. Track listing : 1. One Way Ticket 2. Paper Dolls 3. Hanging On The Telephone 4. When You Find Out 5. Working Too Hard 6. Give Me Some Time 7. Walking Out On Love (Breakaways) 8. Thing Of The Past (Plimsouls) 9. It's Hot Outside (Jack Lee) 10. Many Roads To Follow (demo) 11. Are You Famous? (live) 12. Why Am I Lonely? (live) 13. You Won't Be Happy (live) 14. Any Day Now (live) 15. Letter To G. (live) 16. Come Back And Stay (live) 17. I Need Your Love (live) 18. Stand Back and Take a Good Look (demo) 19. Are You Famous (demo - CD only) 20. Letter To G. (demo - CD only). Produced by The Nerves AliveRecords- CD $20.00 New Order Movement [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album, includes 10 non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, including their debut singles/EP. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making. Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Brotherhood [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. BROTHERHOOD is a document of growth for New Order's ever-expanding sonic landscape. Packaged in the stark, utilitarian style that was the Factory label's trademark, the album belies its minimalist presentation with a sprawling, intricately crafted collection of pop gems, inspiringly diverse, yet uniformly infused with the band's trademark sincerity and off-kilter melodic sense. The album opens with the deceptively straight drum hits of "Paradise", which quickly adopts an intense double-tracked vocal and with it, an air of danger that offsets its soaring melody. New Order developed into masters of intellectually stimulating dance music, an elusive combination of qualities. The album's biggest hit "Bizarre Love Triangle" exemplifies this rare mixture--atop a throbbing, heavily sequenced dance beat is played out a drama complete with consistently engaging musical shifts, dramatic lyrical turns, and a chorus that's instantly memorable and nothing short of gorgeous. The wistful vulnerability of "All Day Long" dissolves into a sprawling, regal affair and the supremely sweet "Every Little Counts" show yet another dimension to New Order's sonic richness. Rhino CD $23.00 New Order Low Life [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. With LOW-LIFE, New Order truly hit their stride with their highly individual combination of infectious rhythms, inventive composition and performances full of conviction. The vulnerable lyrics and earnest delivery of Bernard Sumner are in top form; his voice is at last a completely developed instrument, clear and comfortable as it wraps itself around such memorable tracks as the opening "Love Vigilantes", a solid, purely guitar-driven narrative. Following immediately and in sharp contrast is LOW LIFE's biggest success, "The Perfect Kiss", a sequencer-fueled dance classic which boasts what is undoubtedly pop music's only frog sample solo. "Sunrise" has an epic feel, filled with driving leads and Sumner's signature scratchy, frenetic rhythm playing. The album takes a serene turn on "Elegia", a beautiful, airy composition of echoey guitar lines and swirling synth textures. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Power, Corruption & Lies [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique. Rhino DCD $23.00 New Order Technique [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1989 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with nine non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood. Rhino DCD $23.00 No Age Teen Creeps (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Non album b-side! Subpop 45 $3.50 Norma Book of Norma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Swedish shoegaze/dreamrock duo Norma's new album is available 11/4. Those of you who snapped up their incredible debut EP (available again, very limited stock) understand what's at stake here. Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound. This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don't hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Modern references may be Silverbullit, 120 Days, Serena Maneesh and the Lionheart Brothers. Novoton CD $13.00 Northern Valentine The Distance Brings Us Closer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Northern Valentine is built around husband & wife team Robert (guitar) & Amy Brown (violin & keyboards). They have been recording since 1997 & have six limited release albums to their credit in numerous incarnations with various additional musicians. On The Distance Brings Us Closer Robert & Amy are joined by Jeffrey Bumiller (of Doctor Scientist & Lunch with Beardo) on guitar, Marc Carazo on bass guitar, & Ben Fleury- Steiner (of Light of Shipwreck & owner of Gears of Sand Records) on guitar. The recordings on the Distance Brings Us Closer were live in their studio using a stereo field recorder without post-production or overdubbing, just the band members improvising off of each other on planned themes. The result is a very live & blended spacious sound rather than the sterility & separation that can often be found on a multi-tracked album version of a live improvisational drone band. Silber-068 CD $12.25 Paramount Styles Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound. Konkurrent CD $13.25 Parks, Cale Sparklace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A little over a year since the release of Aloha and White Williams drummer Cale Parks' solo debut album Illuminated Manuscript comes Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums. Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a snare out of place. Listen carefully as it settles in, fragile but not without momentum. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Past Lives Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Vinyl version comes with coupon for free digital download. SuicideSqueeze LP $12.00 Past Lives Strange Symmetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Features ex-members of The Blood Brothers and Shoplifting. "Beyond Gone" announces the band's arrival; guitars seethe and snarl. "Strange Symmetry" recalls the hypnotizing lock-step of The Monorchid; continually building. "Skull Lender" rides a feral gallop of desire for memory erasure. The plinky din of jackpot slots couches the fateful ascent of "Reverse the Curse", and "Chrome Life" is a Neu-inspired run to the sun. SuicideSqueeze CD $10.00 Pavement Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times. Matador DCD $16.50 Pavement Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US *SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice! Matador DCD/LP $23.00 Plagenhoef, Scott and Ryan Schreiber The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber. Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, The Shins), hip hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), it features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known. Kicking it off in 1977 with the birth of punk and independent music, The Pitchfork 500 runs chronologically, with each chapter representing a distinct period and offering a narrative of how the musical landscape of the day influenced its artists. The book opens with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno, the "art-rock godfathers" who set the tone and tenor for the next thirty years, and wraps up in the present, when bands connect with new audiences through social networking sites and prime-time TV placements -- and when a single mp3 can turn a niche indie artist into a global sensation. Sidebars like "Yacht Rock," "Runaway Trainwrecks," "Nanofads," and "Career Killers" call out some far-from-classic musical trends and identify the guiltiest offenders. Softcover, 224 pages. PitchforkMedia BOOK $13.00 Pop Levi Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks. Counter CD $15.25 R.E.M. Murmur: 25th Anniversary Edition [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, US Two-CD 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features R.E.M.'s debut album, remastered, plus an additional disc with a previously unreleased concert recorded at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto, three months after Murmur's April 1983 release. The 16-song live performance boasts nine of Murmur's 12 songs, including "Radio Free Europe," three songs from the Chronic Town EP, early renditions of "7 Chinese Bros." and "Harborcoat," as well as "Just A Touch", eventually a track included on R.E.M.'s fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. The live set also features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again", which R.E.M. recorded in the studio for the b-side of "Radio Free Europe." Exclusive essays by producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, as well as former I.R.S. executives Jay Boberg, Sig Sigworth, Carlos Grasso round out the deluxe edition. IRS/Universal DCD $28.00 Reed, Lou Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador DLP $20.00 Reed, Lou Berlin OST (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Matador CD $13.25 Reverend Green/Drawlings Be Good To Earth This Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US This 7-inch comes courtesy of Care Kacky's 45s, the singles division of Paw Tracks. Side A is Reverend Green (a.k.a. Brad Truax of Home and Jah Division). Antony Hagerty (Antony & The Johnsons) along with Kria Brekkan (Mum) lend their distinct voices on this inspirational meditation on self development and the importance of earth awareness. On the flip is the first solo recording of Abby Portner's Drawlings, recorded with the help of Dave Portner (Animal Collective, Terrestrial Tones) and Rusty Santos (The Presence). A haunted children's carol that'll make you glad you're inside by the fire. PawTracks 45 $4.75 Schaeffer, Janek Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again. Line-036 CD $12.25 Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl. XL DLP $20.00 Skeletons Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Already up so early in the morning of 2008, SKELETONS were hibernating in the safest, quietest, warmest place in the world: Times Square, New York. In a haunted WWII-era ballroom they recorded through the wintry nights when the studio was on fire. Taking breaks at 5am, standing under heat lamps listening to Hot Jazz outside the Time Warp Hotel, soaking up the empty streets with the leftover creeps while the tourists sleep. It's just the same struggle any old human has to go through to make anything: make it to work on time, make an excuse, make babies, make war, make breakfast without getting into a fight. The child of this struggle is "Money", pre-made, for you, entering the world October 7th in the USA, and October 28th in the UK and Europe via TOMLAB. Tomlab-123 CD $12.25 So So Glos, The Toursim/Terrorism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US GreenOwl CD $12.50 Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Communion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN All new 2008 double album from Swedish retro-rock Godfathers. A new beginning, or a spectacular finale? Either way it's 24 long-awaited new songs, more like Extended Revelation than Origin, with some spacey, psychedelic suites, or so I gather. And no, I don't believe that's really the cover art....but then again, one never knows. Akashic/WMS DCD $25.00 Soy Un Caballo Les Heures De Raison (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH) PS, US The duo Soy Un Caballo (Spanish for "I am a horse") features Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas). They write and perform songs of exquisite fragility. "Delicate, wispy melodies vie with choral refrains...smooth as silk, cool as a cucumber and light as a feather" - Subba-Cultcha. "An album that enchants and leaves you to imagine" - Wire. MintyFresh CD $10.00 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA) PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Gravitation CD $13.00 Technical Itch You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH) PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy. OhmResistance-9M CD $13.00 Telescopes Singles Compilation 1989-1991 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US A collection of Telescopes A's & B's from the "What Goes On" to "Creation" years. Including extra tracks from the original Perfect Needle EP. Singles Compilation 1989-1991 gives us 14 timeless tracks ranging from abrasive to ethereal. Produced by Richard Formby & Stephen Lawrie. Highly recommended to all fans of shoegaze & space rock ala My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fuxa & Spacemen 3. With the recent success of My Bloody Valentine's reunion tour, look for The Telescopes to be the next big thing! Telescopes to tour the USA in 2009 along with Fuxa performing most of these classic tracks. MindExpansion-2036 CD $13.25 Vallance, Ed Modern Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US RebelGroup CD $8.50 Various Fading Yellow Volume 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'Hymns for Today: UK Pop-Folk-Sike Sounds 1968-1975'. Limited Edition eighth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "It's been a long hiatus but at last here are two excellent new volumes of the cult Fading Yellow series. Vol. 8 is collection of British artist album tracks of the period 1968-75... A beautiful confection of pastoral shades and cotton wool clouds floating in a hazy Summer sky. Predominantly mid-paced and lightly orchestrated, these are often acoustic based songs with electric underpinning. A few, in the interval, have become more familiar, notably the two fine selections by Jan & Lorraine from their recently reissued Gipsy People album. The majority however will be new to your ears. The track selection and flow is pretty much faultless as one track melts effortlessly into the next, working its magic on the ears. In some instances, tracks are surprising reworkings of the most unlikely songs. For instance Raw's (aka New York Public Library) rendition of 'What To Do', from their US and Germany released only Raw Holly album consists of covers of Buddy Holly songs - this one is an orchestrated tabla and sitar version! There are the short sharp spurts like the enigmatic (because there is nothing known about him) Michael Blount with 'Acorn Street' from his 1971 Patchwork album, which at 1.58 leaves you wanting a lot more of the same. P.C. Kent's 'After Dark' is from their self-titled Deram Nova album and is pleasingly pop (think a lighter version of Blossom Toes's 'Postcard' for instance) whilst Vigrass & Osborne's 'Ballerina' (which was also a single or a B side I think) has all the atmosphere, heavy with pathos of Mike Batt's series title track 'Fading Yellow' from Vol.1. Storyteller's 'Alice Brown', Fuchsia's 'Me And My Kite' and Evensong's 'The Smallest Man In The World' are also excellent. Overall, the FY signature brand of soundscape is very much perpetuated here and fans of the series will lap this up. There are as usual liner notes and band pics in the booklet which help contextualise the music nicely. Buy with confidence." FlowerMachine-1008 CD $15.00 Various MMM050 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, UK Make Mine Music releases a collection of exclusive tracks showcasing the work of artists on the innovative label, as it reaches its landmark 50th release on Monday 24 November. The compilation includes new recruits Piano Magic and Calder, label favorites Epic45 and the musical return of label founder Scott Sinfield aka Portal. After quietly releasing a range of critically acclaimed albums and EPs, Make Mine Music now boldly states its manifesto. These are difficult times for the music industry with file sharing, illegal downloads and falling sales. The traditional music business model is failing and record labels are scrabbling to find a way to survive. Artists too are campaigning for better copyright laws and greater shares of royalties through coalitions. But these still rely on an outdated model of releasing music. For Make Mine Music, this isn't a crisis. It's a golden opportunity. Make Mine Music is a truly radical independent label, run and owned by the artists themselves. The artists pay for the manufacture and promotion of their own records and correspondingly receive 100% of any income generated. There are no management pockets to line, no shareholders to please, no restrictive contracts or demands placed upon the artists. Six years and 50 releases after its inception, Make Mine Music is proof that there is another way. It's time for other artists and labels to catch up. Tracklisting: Millimetrik Ignacio Ramonet et le Metronidazole, Avrocar Two Silver Czars, Schengen The Prince (From Ueno), The Doldrums Try A New Thing, Glen Johnson A Pause in the Night, Portal Prana (Slow Burner), Piano Magic Western Gothic, Yellow6 Day in Pripyat, Planivaar Slow Motion, Epic45 In All the Empty Houses, All Sides Marathon, Innerise Dreams at E38th Street, Weyland No, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Story, Still Crescent In A Northern Landscape, Jelly Antler Back to School (Original Edit), Calder Old. MakeMineMusic-050 CD $12.25 Various Teenbeat Number One Record Label (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Twenty-three all new tracks with track-by-track narration by Brooklyn librarian Lisa Goldstein. The latest volume in Teenbeat's series of mix-tapes made from new songs by Teenbeat artists and friends. Includes tracks by +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOLLAND, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, PHIL KRAUTH & more! Teenbeat-4110 CD $8.75 Various Fading Yellow Volume 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH) PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'The Other Side of Life: Timeless UK Pop-Sike & Other Delights, 1966-1972'. Limited Edition ninth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "Here we are squarely back in singles territory. Pop Workshop's 'Fairyland' is a good starter and manages to be both brash and gentle at the same time. Suzi Klee's 'Punch And Judy Girl' is a plaintive and tremulous pop ballad by this 'Swiss Miss' (I've always wanted to use that somewhere!); it comes across like Jan and Lorraine produced by Mike Batt (only it was produced by Georgio Gomelsky!). Dave Christie's 'Penelope Breedlove' makes its commercial compilation debut (and is also included on Psychic Circle's Fairytales Can Come True comp also out this month); a fabulous and atmospheric pean to the object of his affections, this is NOT the same version as the 6AX acetate compiled on Syde Tryps Vol.7. Although it's the same song, the two versions are markedly different in arrangement and timing, so you certainly need both. Pussyfoot's 'Hasty Words' is another beauty with its lilting 3/3 waltz timing and a lovely choral vocal job to boot. Mike Leslie's 'Office Girl' has been a long time want of mine in the original, a delightful ode to a lonely clerical worker lost in the urban crowd as the singer puckers up the courage to approach her. It deserved to be more than a B side too. Rodney Bewes' 'Dear Mother Love Albert' is the topside to the already compiled and much sought after 'Meter Maid' and it has a similar vibe - was this the actual TV series signature tune or was it written as a single in its own right I wonder? It sounds way too magically bendy for 1970 television! Christian's 'Other Side Of Life' is another restless orch popper with more than a passing reminder of The Apple's 'Other Side' as well. A good string arrangement adds a lot to it. Tony Ritchie seems to have recorded quite a few sides in Europe including the excellent 'Rain On My Window' included here with its urgent "loner" vibe that would have suited Paul & Barry Ryan for instance c.1967. Maybe it's about time a Tony Ritchie anthology was compiled? This is another excellent collection of emotionally challenging sides. You may encounter some of these sides individually occasionally but it is only when they are compiled with this level of aesthetic skill that they fully bloom." FlowerMachine-1009 CD $15.00 Wallpaper On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-194 LP $10.25 Wallpaper On The Chewing Gum Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US Keeping a steady sneer but subtracting angst and teenage romanticism WALLPAPER on their debut album "On the Chewing Gum Ground" captures the modern era that they ostentatiously do not feel a part of. Wallpaper's core members started working on music together in middle school, and "On the Chewing Gum Ground" represents much of their adult work over the past four years. Hailing from Auburn, Washington - a place just close enough to the ocean to make weekend trips and understand what the Beach Boys are about - they mix '50s rockabilly and '60s surf mixed with the crucial wave of '80s underground music. The strength allure of the album comes in the juxtaposition of pop sensibilities with lyrics sung like a sliding shimmy but written with a call for a pop-cultural reform. Krecords-194 CD $11.50 Wee Hairy Beasties Holidays Gone Crazy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US WEE HAIRY BEASTIES, led by MEKONS JON LANGFORD & SALLY TIMMS, vocalist KELLY HOGAN (Neko Case, RockATeens), & the mighty talents of jug band purveyors DEVIL IN A WOODPILE, are back with their new albun on their very own label, WEE BEATZ! Brand new songs for some holidays that exist ("Pumpkinhead") and some that don't ("Dinosaur Christmas")! There are tunes with Shangri-Las finger-popping flavor, fresh seat-of the- pants harmonies, a musical nod to Slade (yes, Slade!), and some very special guests: actual kids singing along in wide-open, b-i-n-g-o style! And, as always, bright and bouncy instrumentation-washboard, slide guitar, thumping upright bass, clarinet and harmonica-percolates like the best Harman-Ising cartoon bug band that ever was. A rollicking good time for big and little folks alike! Weebeatz-002 CD $11.75 Week That Was, The S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music. MemphisIndustries CD $15.25 Ween At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US Classic live set in two formats. Chocodog CD/DVD $21.75 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 Wild Beasts Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US The debut from Leeds-based, four-piece Wild Beasts is a collection of ten beautiful, eccentric, very British tales. An incredibly confident record showcasing the band's pop sensibility as well as their humorous side. Delightful, romantic, magical, and timeless. "It's sublime stuff, full of variety, subtlety, intelligence, and warmth" - Artrocker. DominoRecordingCo. CD $13.00 Wild Beasts Limbo, Panto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DominoRecordingCo. LP $17.50 Wilderness (k)no(w)here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast. Jagjaguwar-127 CD $11.50 Wilderness (k)no(w)here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US WILDERNESS' third full-length album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was conceived as one musical piece, and the impetus for this composition came from an invitation to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long at Long's exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in Spring of 2008. The eight identifiable parts of "(k)no(w)here" are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each part. Created in ways different than the previous Wilderness self-titled album (2005) and the Wilderness "Vessel States" album (2006), "(k)no(w)here" still retains the Wilderness sound, with some evolution. On the new album, James Johnson is sometimes joined vocally by Colin McCann (aka THE LORD DOG BIRD, whose self-titled debut was released by JAGJAGUWAR in the Summer of 2008). And, as on previous albums, McCann performs on guitar, Brian Gossman on bass, and William Goode on drums, but the resulting community of all these parts comes across as more dynamic, and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast. Jagjaguwar-127 LP $11.50 Wino A Bottle of Pills with a Bullet Chaser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US At two hours in length, "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" compiles every song ever recorded by Wino. In addition to the many singles and lone album, the set includes six previously unreleased tracks, plus the live track "Dogs," recorded during one of their final live performances. Largely inspired by Swans, Crain and the Amphetamine Reptile roster, WINO were one of the loudest, darkest and most eclectic bands in Louisville during the 1990s, and their influence can be heard today in loads of Louisville bands. Expertly digitally remastered from all of the original master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, High On Fire), "A Bottle Of Pills With A Bullet Chaser" is the perfect commemoration to the band that inspired dozens of later Louisville bands and helped launch TEMPORARY RESIDENCE a dozen years ago. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-140 DCD $11.50 Witmer, Denison Carry the Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH) PS, US New album. Militia CD $12.25 Yorkston, James When The Haar Rolls In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH) PS, US The fourth album by Scotland's Yorkston brings back all the ambition, beauty, pathos, and full, lush arrangements of his previous albums. The sonic palette includes timpani, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, piano, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, and wine glasses, surrounding the songs with warmth and grandeur, like the haar in the title (heavy North Sea fog that blankets the Scottish coast). "What distinguishes 'Haar' is the combination of his warm, close to your ear talk-sung vocals with the band's sea-churn playing and his gorgeous songwriting" - 4 stars, Independent. DominoRecordingCo. CD $13.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders* 13th Floor Elevators “Going Up: The Very Best Of The 13th Floor Elevators” CD $13.00 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno “Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008” CD $15.50 All That The Name Implies “S-T” CD $16.25 Arms “Kids Aflame (CD/DVD)” CD/DVD $16.25 Band Of Annuals “Repondez” CD $13.75 Band Of Annuals “Let Me Live” CD $13.75 Bug “London Zoo” CD $16.00 Clear Light “S-T” CD $14.50 Cluster “Cluster '71” LP $16.75 Cluster & Eno “S-T” LP $16.75 Coldplay “Viva La Vida” LP $22.94 Curless, Dick “Tombstone Every Mile” CD $12.25 Doormouse “Stanley Yerkowski presents: Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator” CD $11.75 Duchesses “Estupet” CD $13.50 El Vez “Gospel Show In Madrid” DVD $25.00 Giant Sand “Provisions” CD $14.50 Hammer No More The Fingers “S-T” CD5 $7.00 Handsome Family “Songbook” BOOK $11.00 Hatewave “Free Ringetones” CD $13.50 Jandreus, Peter “The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987” BOOK $52.00 Jem “Down to Earth” CD $12.50 Krallice “S-T” CD $14.25 Lackthereof “Your Anchor” CD $10.00 Love “Love Story” DVD $30.00 Lovely Little Girls “Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags” CD $13.50 Makoto, Kawabata “We Don't Know Where We Came From” LP $20.00 McArdle, Shannon “Summer of the Whore” CD $15.00 Michael Night “I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This” CD $17.75 Mirah “Old Days Feeling” CD $10.50 New York Dolls “A Hard Night's Day” CD $13.00 NRBQ “Interstellar Kustom Shop” 10 $13.50 P.W. 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