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

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

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

Afghan Whigs
1965 [re-issue]
PS, US A re-issue of this 1998 release?
SBME
CD
$6.50

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

Arbol
You Traveled My Heart Inside Out
PS, SPAIN Arbol´s 3rd release "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" is out now. Miguel Marín, aka Arbol, continues to walk a path that the enigmatic lushness of his previous work cannot erase. Where a clearing in the forest of "Dreams made of paper" (Lejos Discos, 2005) forced us to linger over songs that poured down on us as a sudden and marvelous light before continuing on our mottled passage, the select track of "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" opens like a delta to new and wide pastures, bringing calm waters to soak the feet of the city. For this new release, Miguel has collaborated with Suzy Mangion, D-fried and the Japanese singer Eri Makino. It was recorded between 2004 and 2007 in London, Barcelona and Tokyo and confirms the crucial role played by Miguel Marín in the development of imaginary soundtracks as an independent musical genre. "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" shows the influences that Arbol´s music has been subject to in recent years as he moved between three completely different cities, three distinct ways of seeing music and life.
LejosDiscos-009
CD
$15.50

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

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

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

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

Beck
Odelay [deluxe edition]
PS, US The original album plus a 16-track bonus disc!
Geffen
DCD
$30.00

Believer
February 2008
PS, US This issue features articles on the troubled symbolism of black history month, the 33 most deranged bequests of all time, the sorrows of young Marx, Poems,interviews & much more. Stock, read, & love this mag. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Believer-051
ZINE
$7.50

Bell, The
Make Some Quiet
PS, US The Bell's new album Make Some Quiet might take you back to a time when you were first discovering bands that acted like the ideal soundtrack to your post-teenage life. We think of Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure, on our trip down fond memory lane... NPR: "The Swedish pop group The Bell doesn't have a name for its drum machine, but if the Bunnymen are going to deny Echo its place in history, this new trio should snap it up. It's not just The Bell's drum machine that gives it a right to the Echo name. The group's wiry guitar-rock also recalls many of the bands that came up in the wake of, or were contemporaries to, the Bunnymen, such as House of Love, The Mighty Lemon Drops and The Church. The Bell's debut CD, Make Some Quiet, draws on these influences throughout, and modern music fans will likely hear Interpol in the group's post-punk pop."
Badman
CD
$13.75

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

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

Birds of Prey
Sulfer and Semen
PS, US Raw, dirty, & extreme metal feat. members of ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, BARONESS, Beaten Back To Pure, & MUNICIPAL WASTE. Too fast for sludge, too grim for death, too precise for punk.
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Black Lips/Subsonics
Split
PS, US 4 songs from two of Atlanta's best!! live at the infamous Clermont Lounge. Recorded back in August to sold out show. BLACK LIPS do "Bad Kids" & "Lean." SUBSONICS do "Hello Beauty" & "Pistol." LIMITED TO 2000
Rob'sHouseRecords-031
45
$5.25

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

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

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

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

Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Wilding in the West
PS, JAPAN New import-only live album from BPB! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Recorded in California in 2007, Wilding in the West is a live Bonnie "Prince" Billy document, incorporating 14 ragged-but-right songs. His band includes guitarist Emmett Kelly, bassist Aram Stith, drummer Alex Neilson, and keyboard player Azita, plus Dawn McCarthy and Paul Oldham on vocals. The material comes largely from 2003's Master and Everyone and 2006's The Letting Go, not so very far away from 2005's live album Summer in the Southeast (which even has a similar design scheme). Billy is an impassioned performer in a live context, and while the quiet beauty of songs from The Letting Go and Master and Everyone is what made them so powerful in the studio, they're not without their charms here."
p-Vine/Spunk
CD
$16.25

Box
Studio 1
PS, US This is the debut release by Raoul Bjorkenheim (SCORTH TRIO), Trevor Dunn (FANTOMAS, ELECTRIC MASADA), Stale Storlokken (SUPERSILENT), Morgan Agren. Something of an international supergroup, the founding of this excellent ensemble is a touch of genius that remains something of a mystery. Hand-picked by writer & film-maker Philip Mullarkey to record & play live as part of the art/film project Box. It quickly became apparent that this avant-garde juggernaut was heading in the right direction.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$18.00

Box
Studio 1
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RuneGrammofon
LP
$19.50

Brittle Stars
S-T
PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Red vinyl. Classic 90's pop effort from the lazy south.
RuinedPotential-07
10
$16.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dead Raven Choir
My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind
PS, US An altogether noisier undertaking than Smolken's other project, WOLFMANGLER. An unholy cross of Black Metal and Folk. The instrumentation is entirely bass centered. Raw, violent & organized.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$14.25

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

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

Destroy All Monsters
Live In Tokyo
PS, US Stretching out into spacey sonic territory, DAM attacks Japan at their crusty best in these performances in Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track, 72 minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics as well as newer exotic oddities.
BookBeat
CD
$14.50

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

Discwashers
Vinyl Record Fluid
PS, US
misc
$4.95

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

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

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

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

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

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

Egg
The Civil Service
PS, UK EGG were exponents of the so-called "Canterbury" style of rock music and were focused around the compositional and keyboard playing skills of Dave Stewart (later in HATFIELD & THE NORTH) and Mont Campbell and Clive Brooks. The band recorded two superb albums for Decca Records between 1969 & 1971 before going their separate ways. In 1974 they recorded their final album for the newly established Virgin Record label. Featuring guest musicians such as STEVE HILLAGE and members of the unique HENRY COW, "The Civil Surface" is now regarded as a classic of the "Canterbury" and "Progressive" genres. This ESOTERIC RECORDINGS release has been remastered from the original tapes and is certain to the many who made the reissues of EGG's previous work such a success.
EsotericRecordings-2003
CD
$20.25

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

Envy
Abyssal
PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132
CD
$9.00

Envy
Abyssal
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132
LP
$11.50

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

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

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

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

Ex, The
In New York: Building A Broken Mousetrap
PS, US Shot at New York's Knitting Factory on an auspicious kickoff day to a US tour - Sept. 11, 2004 - the film is a celebration of life & activism, intertwining exciting live music w/ construction site footage from New York & Amsterdam, protest footage from the Republican National Convention, & city footage. It's the blurred line between building & destruction through & through. 4 songs are captured in 16 mm film, 4 in DV.
Touch&Go
DVD
$12.75

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

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

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

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

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

Finn, Liam
I'll Be Lightning
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
LP
$18.25

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

Fireflies
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon
PS, SWEDEN Fireflies is Lisle Mitnik. He grew up in the tundras of New England playing classical piano and one day he moved to California to go to school and decided to start writing songs. He bought a porta-studio and started recording, combining his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. He try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. We believe that this release will be loved by those who appreciate: The Clientele, Field Mice, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle & Sebastian, Fransoise Hardy and Trembling Blue Stars.
MusicIsMyGirlfriend-014
CD
$13.50

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

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

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

Food
Molecular Gastronomy
PS, US This is the 5th full-length release, now down to the duo of Iain Ballamy (saxophones, alto flute) & Thomas Stronen (drums, electronics). This duo-version is mostly improvised, much in the same way as the music of Stronen's other duo, Humcrush. Ashley Slater, who played w/ Ballamy in Loose Tubes in the late '80s & went on to form Freakpower w/ Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), mixed this record & also contributes on 3 tracks. Maria Kannegaard plays Fender Rhodes on 5 tracks & is also a superb pianist w/ 3 trio-recordings to her name.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$17.00

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

Free Form Funky Freqs
Urban Mythology: Vol. 1
PS, US Feat. VERNON REID, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA & G. CALVIN WESTON. This extraordinary meeting of the minds & souls breaks new ground in the definition of the timeless trio sound using the best elements of improvisation, modern DSP & good old fashioned funk.
ThirstyEar
CD
$13.25

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

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

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

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

Harp
February 2008
PS, US MARS VOLTA on the cover! Features on them, WU-TANG CLAN, DEATH CAB'S CHRIS WALLA, WALK HARD'S JOHN C. REILLY & more. Plus Cat Power's Latest, Post-9/11 Syndrome, Alt-Country Showdown & tons more. Still over 100 reviews!
ZINE
$4.00

Harter, Ali
Worry The Bone
PS, US Debut LP from 23 year old Oklahoma City songstress. Has shared the stage w/such acts as Magnolia Electric Co. & The Actuals. Favors ghostly, lovely acoustic numbers w/old time jazz inflections a la Eleni Mandell or Jolie Holland.
LittleMafia-053
CD
$10.00

Head of Skulls
S-T
PS, US Feat. CHRIS HANSEN (PINEBENDER), ALLISON HOLLIHAN (ABPK) & NOAH LEGER (MILEMARKER, wORLD/INFERNO) w/ their upbeat Kick-Ass Rock Music! Short fast songs that are 100% bubblegum free. They've put in an official bid w/ Mother Earth to become a rock band that people will want to pipe down & have a listen to.
HeadofSkulls-001
12
$8.75

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

Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$13.00

Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
PS, US After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) have recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary work to date. Keep Your Eyes Ahead marries the Portland duo's signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a newfound appreciation for minimalism. The finger picking on "Shed Your Love" is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise, but Brandon's serene, self-assured delivery remains front and center. While songs from the band's early releases spanned up to 7 minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track on Keep Your Eyes Ahead (fiery anthem "Hallelujah") clocks in at 4 and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft has become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandon's voice, especially on driving tracks like "Keep Your Eyes Ahead." The band also took its time on the album. After the bulk of official recording was completed, a listen through all the demos and snippets on Brandon's hard drive convinced Benjamin there were more gems in the rough (which is how both "Hallelujah" and "Keep Your Eyes Ahead," as well as the mid-tempo "Back to This" were rediscovered and retooled). Produced by the band, Keep Your Eyes Ahead confirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything they've ever done. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership that's been invigorated. And that's exactly how the songs will make you feel: invigorated.
SubPop
CD
$12.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jackson, Joe
Rain
PS, US New album! POPMATTERS: "The eclectic pianist/songwriter delivers a treat -- ten perfectly crafted pop songs that recall his best work or maybe are his best work."
Ryko
CD
$17.75

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kessler, Matt
The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries
PS, US The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries is a 40 page illustrated story, showcasing the finest new inventions the science world has to offer, including dancing toilets, blogging minnows, and scripture-reciting bowling balls. These most wonderful inventions are lovingly illustrated so that readers may marvel all the more at these, the science world's most recent and most excellent advancements. The story relates the search conducted by an esteemed board of judges to find that one invention which is truly the most amazing and new.
EyeRocket
BOOK
$7.00

Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester
Music for Theatre and Radio Play
PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more!
Dekorder-022
LP
$17.00

La Rainbow Toy Orchestra
In Love With Toys EP
PS, SPAIN Toy pop played on toys from Spain. Music for dreaming with your eyes opened. Influences of Amiina, Pascal Comelade or Dustin O halloran. CD 3" in cool mini dvd case...
AEIOU-002
CD
$9.00

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

Louis XIV
Slick Dogs and Ponies
PS, US New album from sleazy-in-a-good-way art rockers.
ATL
CD
$14.25

Lowfish
Burn The Lights Out
PS, US Now on CD. Lowfish is back with a new full length LP (2x12) and CD release for this fall 2007. Synth pop gone wild mashed up with breaks , wrapped in emotive melodies and pumped full of bass for the dance floor characterize his new LP . A total of 10 new tracks and two of his golden ones from the Sat.31 ep. Lowfish again determines his destiny in a positive , individualistic styled manner that can be described as complex, yet fully enjoyed by most listeners. Bladerunner , Wave Noir, or William Gibson breaking out the synths are a few words to describe this style Electro. Post Modern for sure considering the artful and seamless interweaving of various close connected genres from past and present coming together to define a sound that is new and only Lowfish. Artwork by 310K with a sleeve done in 60's pop fiery orange and some of the coolest Graphics to come out of the Amsterdam design scene. As always no expense on mastering with professional cuts made by Frankford and Wayne NY city. A lot of work went into this release to deliver the highest quality in overall production and sound.
Satamile-41-2
CD
$9.50

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

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

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

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

Mahjongg
Kontpab
PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms.
Krecords-191
LP
$10.25

Mars Volta
Bedlam in Goliath
PS, US New album from modern prog princes! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "On their first three proper albums, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez played games of quiet-loud-quiet (or loud-quiet-loud), sneaking around stealthily for minutes at a time before detonating another blast of thrash-metal riffing and piercing screams. The Bedlam in Goliath is simply loud-loud-loud, virtually every song played at maximum volume and tempo. But, in fact, instead of being wearisome or exhausting, it's an oddly refreshing album. The band gets closer to their roots in thrash and funk-metal than ever before, avoids using electronics except where they can make a big impact, and finally lets semi-permanent guest John Frusciante occupy a readily discernible role."
UMVD
CD
$15.00

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

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

McGill, Cameron & What Army
Hold On Beauty
PS, US On his 3rd album, Hold On Beauty, Chicago's Cameron McGill returns accompanied by a band and a handful of sing-able choruses. The lineup that accompanied him at Lollapalooza 2006 and throughout the last two years is captured here on 9 songs of pop urgency. The album was recorded in Chicago throughout 2007 and includes keyboard and vocal contributions from Elanors' Noah Harris. The songs take an anthemic, albeit dark, approach to 60s-influenced pop. A veteran performer, originally from Champaign IL, Cameron McGill has spent years delivering his dark, sophisticated pop songs, reflecting the likes of Nick Cave and Warren Zevon. McGill has independently released two albums, 2004's kitchen-sink-pop Stories of The Knife and The Back and the sparse Nebraska-era Springsteen inspired Street Ballads & Murderesques in 2006, both to critical acclaim. An upcoming tour in March takes the band to the SXSW festival in Austin TX.
Post-Important
CD
$10.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O'Death
Spider Home
PS, US With the B-side "Silk Hole" , part of the second round of Gigantic singles series titles.
GiganticMusic
45
$6.00

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

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

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

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

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

Penate, Jack
Matinee
PS, US upbeat to downbeat and heartfelt to joyous. He writes both infectious and intelligent pop songs and has undoubtedly made one of the most exciting records of the year. "Those Brits have the busking thing down...and in the fine tradition that has strung from Billy Bragg to KT Tunstall, Jack is a singing, stomping, clapping bloke with a guitar, a batch of tight tunes, and a self-effacing sense of humor"
XL
CD
$13.25

Pequeña Fiera!
Casiotone For Bears
PS, SPAIN Casiotone for bears plays 10 songs with different casiotone sounds. Lo-fi ambient pop with influences of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine or Grandaddy...toy instruments and a lot of emotional melodies sung by a little child with bear´s head that sings with no words.
AEIOU-001
CD
$11.00

Pollard, Robert
Superman Was a Rocker
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HappyJack-015
LP
$10.50

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

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

Pumuky
Los Exploradores Perdidos
PS, SPAIN BEST EP OF DECEMBER IN SPANISH MAGAZINE ROCKDELUX. Notice to seafarers, as of today, we are making available the new recording by Pumuky "Los exploradores perdidos" ("The lost explorers"). Amidst the fog, sounds rise and, like a veil, cover the ship piloted by Canaries artist Jaír Ramírez. Having definitely lost its island coastal navigation route, Pumuky uses old navigation charts, as shown by the extraordinary packaging signed Burnao, in order to give sense to its introspection. This is no Conrad-style metaphysical journey though: it is about crossing a storm of eroticism without going mad in the lulls of disappointment. There is much to be discovered in this drifting disc, and seafarers with the necessary instinct to compose a cocktail of horizons, such as David Cordero from Ursula, Abraham Boba, or Pedro Cantudo from Jubilee y Limousine. All of them are led by Pumuky, whose travels take shape in these 5 spectral songs full of tenderness. The explorers seem lost, yes, but we are still in good hands.
LejosDiscos-008
CD5
$10.25

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

Radar Brothers
Auditorium
PS, US This is filled w/ beautifully layered melodies of wistful ease & delicate longing. W/ the addition of guitarist Jeff Palmer for the entire recording session on this, they have expanded the range & texture of the trademarked Radar Bros. sun baked & dreamy California psychedelic-soul. The perfect record for a long drive on a tree-lined 2 lane country road.
Merge
CD
$13.00

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

Ramsey Lewis Trio, The
In Person Volume Two: 1965-67
PS, UK Volume two of our mini series featuring the amazing Ramsey Lewis. Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, fingerpoppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstance! With personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in Bebop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, and Jazz history...as soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them!
Rev-Ola-235
CD
$15.50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scary Mansion
Every Joke Is Half the Truth
PS, US Massachusetts-bred Leah Hayes attended art school in New York before moving to France where she played In a band called Satan's Fingers, collaborating with David Ivar from underground pop legends Herman Dune. Growing up playing piano and guitar, Hayes also took up the thunderstick, an Appalachian instrument similar in Tone to the banjo. Her collection of ballpoint pen notebook illustrations "Holy Molly" was published by pantographic in 2004 and her freelance illustration work has appeared in the New York Times, Punk Planet, and Mcsweeney's. Shortly after starting the band Scary Mansion with Ben Shapiro (the Fugue) on drums and Bradley Banks on Bass, Hayes set about recording the tracks that make up "Every Joke Is Half The Truth". Hayes worked with producer Kyle Fischer (Rainer Maria) over an extended six-month period. With the sound of the thunderstick, the resulting tracks alternate between sparse intimate tones and near claustrophobic layers of feedback, all with an attention to the needs of the songs. Hayes' lyrical approach mines themes of alienation and romantic snafus, embodied in characters litigious, predatory, and straw-filled. "Every Joke Is Half The Truth" is Scary Mansion's debut album. Hayes has a Graphic novel due out on fantagraphics February 2008 called "Funeral of the Heart".
Zum-023
CD
$10.00

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

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

Serpentina
Planeando En Tu Azotea
PS, SPAIN The new album of the Valencian group, SERPENTINA, is made up of two siblings, Paco and María Tamarit, with the title "Planeando en tu Azotea" Both of them are members of the conservatory and Paco, who is in charge of composing and creating the beautiful arrangements of the songs, has collaborated in the past few years with numerous bands from this region and he also produced the debut album of CORAZÓN. In this album, we find 12 new hits of luminous and charming pop, with the advance of the video of "Querido Miedo", which is notably the return of the band after a magnificent debut album "Blancamañana" (2004) released on the small independent label from Barcelona, Annika Records In brief, "Planeando en tu Azotea" is a summer breeze of pop songs for short and elegant, while distinguished, melody lovers, packed with dreamy voices and crystal clear instrumentation. A few drops of bitter liquor which help to mitigate the placid sweetness are suggested while listening to this gem.
Elefant-1130
CD
$15.75

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tape Op
Issue #63
PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! PETER GABRIEL discusses the future, The BOOKS on found sounds. Also SYLVIA MASSY, GEORGE MASSENBURG, an article on Racho De La Luna, Gear & music reviews & much more.
ZINE
$4.00

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

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

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

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

Teamforest
Leave
PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners.
Eglantine-015
CD
$13.50

Thao
We Brave Bee Stings and All
PS, US In college she recorded an EP & released a full-length debut, Like the Linen, on a local Virginia label. After playing shows all over the country she landed a spot on the Kill Rock Stars 2006 singer-songwriter compilation The Sound the Hare Heard. Taking a break to tour in Europe w/ Laura Veirs, she spent most of 2007 recording these 11 diverse tracks-- a subtly powerful album concerned w/ admissions of guilt, life revelations, & failed domesticity (with beat boxing!)
KillRockStars-481
CD
$13.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vampire Weekend
S-T
PS, US Genre-splicing Internet Buzz Band makes good on their virtual promise. PITCHFORK: "Vampire Weekend have come along like Belle & Sebastian and the Strokes each did, sounding refreshingly laid-back and uncomplicated, and with simple set-ups that make good songs sound exceedingly easy. Already one of the most talked-about and divisive records of the year, Vampire Weekend's Afro-pop- and prep-inflected debut LP is simple, homespun, and one of the most refreshing and replayable indie records in recent years." [Best New Music]
XL/Beggars
CD
$12.50

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

Vandermark 5
Beat Reader
PS, US Ken Vandermark & Chicago's finest fivesome once again team up w/ Bob Weston to notch out the quintet's 12th album for Atavistic over the course of the last decade plus. Inasmuch as one may contemplate the recorded works of Sonic Youth as a genre unto itself, The V5 may now lay claim to such a distinction: existing simultaneously inside AND outside the realm of Jazz. Vandermark's compositions have recently become even more guided by his respect for (& sonic interpretations of) the traditional arts.
Atavistic-184
CD
$14.00

Various
The Rev-Ola Rock Machine Turns You On
PS, UK At last! We proudly present a sparkling collection of '60s/early '70s pop and rock from the psychedelic end of the Rev-Ola spectrum with a couple from our sister label RPM for good measure. Featuring mostly British acts such as pop-psych heroes Turquoise, Octopus, The Mirage and Sun Dragon as well as singer-songwriters Tony Hazzard and Nick Garrie, it also includes previously un-compiled tracks by cult pop act Majority One and completely unreleased tracks by anglophile acoustic trio Mortimer, UK psych legends Tintern Abbey and Ewan Stephens of Turquoise! The first ever Rev-Ola sampler and features previously unreleased and previously un-compiled tracks! Track annotations by Stefan Granados and Rev- Ola's very own Andy Morten! Re-mastered in the usual dazzling Rev-Ola style and housed in authentic late '60s sampler-style artwork! Octopus - The River Tony Hazzard - Goodnight Sweet Josephine Majority One - Game Sands - River Deep, Mountain High Mortimer - Second Floor The Mirage - Is Anybody Home? Turquoise - Woodstock Chrysalis - April Grove Sun Dragon - Five White Horses Mortimer - Where Dragons Guard The Doors Tintern Abbey - Do What You Must Ewan Stephens - Stand Up And Be Judged Gun - Light On The Wall Majority One - I Nearly Died Nick Garrie - Inkpot Eyes Jawbone - Jeremiah Dreams
Rev-ola-200
CD
$15.50

Various
Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Music
PS, US Recordings made between '18 -'55 compiled by Ian Nagoski. A compilation of 24 recordings from the 1st half of the 20th century of music from Syria, Bali, Scotland, Thailand, Ukraine, China, Cameroon, India, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Japan, Poland, Greece, Java, Portugal, Laos, Sweden & Burma, all newly transferred & mastered from 78 rpm discs, at least 18 of which have never been issued before on CD. Influenced by Pete Whelan's Origin Jazz Library, Pat Conte's Secret Museum of Mankind, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Henry Cowell's Music of the World's People, Alan Bishop & Hisham Mayet's Sublime Frequencies label & much more.
Dust-to-Digital-010
CD
$15.50

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

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

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

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

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

Walla, Chris
Field Manual [deluxe]
PS, US Limited edition deluxe cloth bound book version. Once that's gone will revert to regular CD version. Debut solo album from DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE founding member Chris Walla. Known for his production work for his own band as well as other similarly indie minded recording artists (Tegan & Sara, Decemberists), as well as for his guitar work & arranging roles in DCfC, Walla performs all the instruments on "Field Manual" other than drums, which were contributed by Jason McGerr (Death Cab for Cutie) & Kurt Dahle (The New Pornographers). Walla has delivered an extraordinary album of atmospheric & politically minded alternative pop that displays his singular songwriting vision while simultaneously showing the degree to which his aesthetic has informed Death Cab's sound over the years
Barsuk
CD
$13.50

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

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

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

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

Whitsundays
S-T
PS, US This Edmonton, Alberta band certainly has a knack for writing yellowed, reverb-wrapped pop music, borrowing from the grand tradition of English psychedelia, garage & vintage organ rock. With reverent nods to the whimsy of the Zombies, the bluster of the Animals & the inanity of Syd Barrett, their debut is a vintage gem & a charming hodgepodge of '60s musical ephemera.
FriendlyFire
CD
$12.75

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

Ya Ho Wa 13
Penetration, An Aquarian
PS, US It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. The Source Family lived in Hollywood w/ their leader Father Yod,
who fronted the rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13--considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time.
ColdSweat
CD
$16.75

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

Forthcoming Releases

5ive
Hesperus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US Boston's 5ive were a two-piece with no vocalist or bass player long before being instrumental and having an unorthodox band assemblage became "cool". They have a Kyuss style guitar tone without the bad vocals. Their debut full-length was one of Terrorizer magazine's top twenty of 2001. "Ben Carr's guitars are thickly layered without the sound becoming mushy. The distortion he gets out of his amp makes his riffing sound like balls of flame. Charlie Harrold's drumming complements the guitar playing exceptionally; these are two musicians that are well in tune with each other" - Brainwashed.com.
Tortuga
CD
$12.50

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

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

American Music Club
The Golden Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 19TH)
PS, US Every AMC record is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression. "The Golden Age" is no exception: from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, this album is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music.
Merge
CD
$14.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

British Sea Power
Do You Like Rock Music? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Vinyl version.
RoughTrade
LP
$16.00

British Sea Power
Do You Like Rock Music? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US New album.
RoughTrade
CD
$15.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Devastations
Yes U (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Moody, meandering rock that recalls both Talk Talk and Big Black at the same time? But doesn't sound like Xiu Xiu? Much. As in much more song-oriented and with a transcontinental flair.
BeggarsBanquetUS
CD
$12.50

DeVotchKa
Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening. THE ONION: "DeVotchkA gets pegged with all kinds of farfetched descriptions - but despite all their trappings, which include admittedly exotic elements, Nick Urata and company concoct impeccable pop songs, the kind that fuse memory and memorability with swaying darkness and glittering soul."
Anti
CD
$14.75

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

Dominique A
Sur Nos Forces Motrices (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, SPAIN Four concerts were recorded and trawled through to pick out the best of the best: those moments when the group played perfectly, captivated by and focused on the music; when it played at its best without sacrificing the level of energy that simply makes a concert; when they struck that perfect balance between the brutal, wild side, when the group really puts its foot down, and the subtlety of, at times sophisticated, arrangements, accompanied by brass and keyboards. Yes, but is it a "greatest hit" or not? Let's say it sounds like one massively, but Dominique clearly isn't making it a question of principle. For Dominique, a live version must enhance or surpass the original version. In that respect, we can be reassured. Dominique and his group have come up with a bunch of new ideas. Meaning that this album sweeps through the guy's entire career. No album is forgotten - some songs even sprout new limbs, like L'Amour, squarely presented as an overture. The pillars of his work are all here. Le courage des oiseaux, so often reinvented, has been turned here into rock-funk; La mémoire neuve, Pour la peau, Antonia are al included. The nostalgic side of Dominique A, which he could hardly convey through silence, comes out in Tout sera comme avant and Music hall. Less well known, Le commerce de l'eau and the very rare Empty white blues captivate. Lastly, as a bonus free gift, two unpublished titles have been concocted: Revoir les choses and the highly literary and deeply moving Marina. So there you have it, a new disc from Dominique A boasting no fewer than fifteen titles. A fully rounded disc that should appeal beyond his audience of fans, so much does he go beyond the famous distinction of new "chanson française" to serve up a platter of songs that are simply superb, with singing that is at times soothing and absorbing, rustled up by a top-flight quartet of musicians. It's the precise moment and the ideal way to discover or rediscover the artist that is Dominique A.
GreenUFOs-033
CD
$17.25

Dot Tape Dot
Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, US Daniel Romero is a multi-faceted musician based in Asturias, north of Spain. In a very short time he has molded a very personal discourse based on constructing low-budget electronic pop with lo-fi, toy instruments, combined with stunning homemade visuals. "Tomavistas" is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as dot tape dot, spanning the years 2002 - 2007. "Tomavistas" is born of love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clears out space for a new personal stockpile to be built. These 12 tracks are taken from limited edition compilations, vinyl only releases and "unofficial" albums, from labels in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output. 1. Come to me 2. Df fragment 3. Rosa Luxemburger 4. Slow Birds For Mayo T 5. Miracolo a Milano 6. A Russian Poet 7. Pal Talk 2 (morning) 8. Rounded Tree 9. Ventano 10. Disaster 11. Making Waves 12. With Paul (Bluehouse Edit)
OtherElectricites-012
CD
$12.25

Earth
Bee Made Honey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US This finds Dylan Carlson & the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel & impovisitory direction framed by truly psychedelic production & blazing guitar sounds. They show their affinity w/ a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's & 70's, & the more spiritually aware & exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired & original metamorphosis. Feat. BILL FRISELL doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years!
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years.
Water
CD
$14.00

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

Harmony Rockets
Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Re-issue of Mercury Rev side-project's 1995 debut. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brain-searing Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void is a trip into the furthest reaches of sound, a complete immersion into space noise and melodic chaos. Comprised of a single, 42-minute live performance piece, the Harmony Rockets' guise allows Mercury Rev the opportunity to push their music to its breaking point; instead of the ear-splitting avant freak-out one might have expected, however, the disc seems to exist in slow motion, characterized by ominous waves of sound. Guitars drone, trumpets throb, and Jonathan Donahue's vocals float in and out of the mix like random messages intercepted from another galaxy; the cumulative effect is an amazing distortion of the time-space continuum, a shape-shifting aural world almost alien in its dementia."
ExcelsiorMelodies
CD
$19.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Gentle & Makoto Kawabata
Wrong Cage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, ITALY ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Besides leading his main band, Acid Mothers Temple, and plenty of other side projects, Makoto Kawabata has carried out a number of collaborations over the years; this one, taken from a live show in Italy in May 2002, finds him with the young psych act Jennifer Gentle. In many ways it's very much Jennifer Gentle's show -- of the three songs on the short release, the two that take up the most time are extended versions of tracks from their first two albums. "Bring Them," originally from I Am You Are, makes for a full-on neo-stoner masterpiece."
ASIlentPlace
CD
$16.75

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

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

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

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

Killing Joke
Fire Dances [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks.
Caroline
CD
$12.50

Killing Joke
Night Time [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks.
Caroline
CD
$12.50

Killing Joke
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks.
Caroline
CD
$12.50

Killing Joke
Outside the Gate [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Original album remastered, plus 7 bonus tracks.
Caroline
CD
$12.50

Klein, Alan
Well At Least It's British (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th)
PS, UK 60's Brit Pop with an influence on 90's Brit Pop. Includes rare Joe Meek produced tracks. All first time on CD, and first ever reissue. After writing the soundtrack to the quintessential pre- Beatles English pop movie What A Crazy World Alan Klein scored a deal with Decca to write and perform his view of English society at the time. His style of delivery was very distinctive, not unlike contemporary Anthony Newley, and writing like Lionel Bart. Alan was managed by Ken Pitt who also had another client called David Jones, soon to be David Bowie. That the early style of Bowie's delivery is also akin to Kleins must surely be more than coincidence. In the mid 90's Damon Albarn was asked about his influences and said about this LP " ...it was instrumental in me making Modern Life Is Rubbish,and changing and getting an idea of my own self.... I can't believe that David Bowie didn't know him inside out, and the same with Ray Davies. My favourite track goes ' he's a twentieth-century Englishman ' (see Blur's For Tomorrow). It's a fantastic record." Klein went on to tour the world as vocalist in the New Vaudeville Band. For bonus tracks we include the two singles he wrote and recorded in 1962, both produced by Joe Meek, and the 1965 singles including the withdrawn Age Of Corruption.
RPM-824
CD
$17.00

Le Mans
Rebel Action (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, SPAIN New album from Spanish dream-poppers.
Locomotive
CD
$16.25

Lightspeed Champion
Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Lightspeed Champion is the alter ego of Dev Hynes, musical polymath and former member of cult noise pop band Test Icicles. After their demise in 2006, Hynes began to focus on the more melodic fare that's closer to his heart. On this record, he worked with Mike Mogis (resident producer for Saddle Creek Records) and was backed by an informal band including multi-instrumentalists Mogis and Nate Walcott, The Faint's drummer Clark Baechle, and guest vocalist Emmy The Great, along with moonlighting members of Cursive and Tilly And The Wall. Here, Hynes reveals much about himself; the album being packed with tragic-comic autobiographical numbers.
Domino
CD
$13.00

Louris, Gary
Vagabonds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US (Digipack Packaging) Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances.
Rykodisc
CD
$16.00

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US His first record in three years.
Matador
CD
$13.50

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$13.50

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

Moffat, Aiden John
I Can Hear Your Heart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, UK New solo album from Arab Strap frontman, warning: explicit content! AVERSION: "t should come as no surprise that the onetime Arab Strap singer's first solo album, a spoken-word poetry/prose affair that's usually accompanied by incidental music or other sound effects, is laden in tales of cheating lovers, sexual experimentation and soaked in booze. It might come as a surprise, though, to find out Moffat was holding back with Arab Strap, avoiding the stickiest situations, the dirtiest references and the most damning confessions that come forth in this semi-autobiographical audio tome."
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$15.75

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

Moorcock, Michael & Deep Fix
The New World's Fair (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Classic sci-fi rock album - now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes with unreleased bonus tracks. Features members of Hawkwind & Snowy White. New essay by Nik Turner. Leading Science Fantasy author Michael Moorcock enjoyed a long collaboration with Space Rock kings HAWKWIND eventually forming his own outfit Deep Fix to record this conceptual album in 1975. Featuring Members of HAWKWIND and guitarist SNOWY WHITE, "The New Worlds Fair" was a stunning work inspired by Moorcock's writings and was wonderfully conceived and delivered. The ESOTERIC reissue is remastered from the original tapes and includes 7 bonus tracks, 3 of which are previously unreleased. The booklet features an essay by HAWKWIND founder & friend of Michael Moorcock NIK TURNER. It an essential release for fans of HAWKWIND, MOORCOCK and Science Fantasy.
EsotericRecordings-2026
CD
$20.25

Mould, Bob
District Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US Guitarist/singer/songwriter Mould returns to form as a solo artist on his Anti debut. "District Line" combines the fire of his earliest work in Husker Du, the accessibility of his alternative rock, genre-defining trio Sugar, and the introspection found in his solo releases. He describes it as "stories of my simple life in a complicated town", that being his adopted city of Washington, DC. Working with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Mould has returned to the live band sound of Husker Du and Sugar to kick out ten songs that sound as youthful, energized, and immediate as anything he has ever recorded.
Anti
CD
$15.50

Mould, Bob
District Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$15.50

Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US Vinyl with MP3 coupon.
4AD
LP
$14.00

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

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

Nada Surf
Lucky (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, USNY's Nada Surf has been together for almost a dozen years, becoming one of America's most resilient and truly independent bands. Along with their previous two albums, 2003's "Let Go" and 2005's "The Weight Is A Gift", "Lucky" is the final piece of a rather astounding trilogy that, taken as a whole, manages to express more about the frustrations and joys of modern life than most artists can expect to assemble over a career. Guest appearances include Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Ed Harcourt (English singer-pianist), Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter), and John Roderick (The Long Winters).
Barsuk
CD
$13.00

Nyro, Laura
More Than A New Discovery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th)
PS, UK Rev-Ola proudly re-presents the album which introduced to the world the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro! More Than A New Discovery (aka The First Songs) is openly informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy 1960s New York arrangements. Laura's lyrics are already as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise "And When I Die" to the observational approach of "Buy and Sell." Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of 1960s female pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie
Sands or the brash, bravura pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take "Stoney End" to the charts three years later. Although Laura's albums would become more and more influential and adventurous, this, her first outing, features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions. Due to production decisions she did mot agree with, Laura Nyro more or less disowned her debut for many years, until the music fan in her began to appreciate the set forms as one might a Motown hit of the period, no matter how overexposed and hackneyed. With new manager David Geffen, a slew of covers of her material hitting the charts, and a controversial showing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Laura Nyro signed a favourable new deal with Columbia Records, making some of the most essential albums of the late 1960s and 1970s...but that is another, quite wonderful story. Listen now to where it all began. Fantastic album by one of our very favourite artists! Beautifully re-mastered in true RevOla style with lovely packaging as usual... A must for all fans of Laura Nyro, and of classic New York girlpop... the set form she made into so much more!
Rev-Ola-233
CD
$15.50

Our Sleepless Forest
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, UK Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a frighteningly young three-piece from South London - their first full release, having had an early version of album track 'The Tinderbox' included on the Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation. Having met at school, Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara started experimenting with various musical instruments and sounds using software and basic recording equipment, inspired by the music they were into and with the aim of creating their own wall of sound. After 14 months they emerged with something they were sufficiently happy with to allow it to be heard by others, and ultimately that brings us to the present day - an eight-track, 45-minute debut. Our Sleepless Forest's music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard. Press to follow; opening track 'Nomads' was played by Mary Anne Hobbs a couple of months back, and influential Manchester-based website Angry Ape have lined up an interview with the band. TRACKLISTING: 1. Nomads 2. The Tinderbox 3. Doors In Limbo 4. White Bird 5. Aircastles 6. Afraid of You 7. The Clarion 8. Haze.
Resonant-028
CD
$15.00

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

Raveonettes, The
Lust Lust Lust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US New album from Danish duo, can't wait! Coasting is the easy option. Having the balls to recognize that things aren't right and doing something about them is much harder. It may have taken The Raveonettes' Sune and Sharin a little while but they made the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively- and 'Lust, Lust, Lust' is where the two worlds collide. The songs cover the toughest decisions, the fondest of memories, the scariest of fears and the most tempting of desires all from the most personal viewpoint yet captured in The Raveonettes back-catalogue.
Vice
CD
$14.00

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

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

Saville, Robin/Doll Boy
Player Piano/ Prelude No.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Like Burton and Taylor, some artists and labels are always linked. Isan/ Robin Saville go way back with the Static Brothers and we are chuffed as can be to release Robin's first solo single, a precursor for his debut album. Dollboy have also stepped inside the Caravan before, donning mittens and knocking back a Cab Sav while holing up with the extended family, otherwise known as those dudes from Tunng. Try finding that release nowadays. MC Doll (homeless Oliver Cherer) Boy and his producer (social worker Robin Saville) strode into the van with the idea of a split single, and who are we to turn our backs on such street savvy? It's best to say that this hummus and sesame seed breadstick is a mighty fine appetizer for Robin's debut solo album. Planned for a release with Static Caravan, it's due to see the light of day in 2008. For the past ten years, Robin Saville has been precisely fifty percent of isan, a frankly seminal electronica outfit whose influence has been acknowledged around the world. This is his first solo release, a bouncy, weaving, piano-led lurcher which harks back to the duo's earlier, more carefree roots. He also likes to grow vegetables and make jam. Sublime electronica AND advice about vegetable seeds for your garden? Now that's what we call good value. Following a long list of highly regarded releases since 2004, Dollboy returns with a re-voicing of JS Bach's Prelude No 1 in C Major (from The Well Tempered Clavier), a characteristically swoonsome piece of organic-electronic jingle-jangle majesty, featuring the sound of water-filled bowls and a 1942 glass glockenspiel. What ensues is two minutes of clicks, whirrs and beautiful sounds, bringing Bach into the binary age - kick back, grab a glass of red wine and admire the warm glow. 250 only seveninch vinyl in a hand-painted sleeve.
StaticCaravan-145-7
45
$9.50

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

Sons and Daughters
This Gift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US This Scottish four-piece have fashioned a distinct sound inspired by the melancholy storytelling of Lee Hazlewood, the lyricism of Leonard Cohen, and the raw power of country, blues, and folk filtered through their punk adolescence. "This Gift" develops this sound into a whirlwind of tarnished sixties glamour, referencing celebrity culture, cult films, and literary classics.
Domino
CD
$13.00

Sparrow, The
The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-67 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK After our amazing release by the legendary Mars Bonfire, here is a follow-up of sorts....now listen carefully....Dennis Edmonton, drummer Jerry Edmonton and bass player Nick St Nicholas had all played together in Toronto 'British Invasion' band, Jack London & The Sparrows in 1965. When the group split from singer Jack London, they added new members, going through a succession of future Canadian music stars, even swapping members back and forth with the legendary Mynah Birds, before settling on permanent members John Kay and Goldy McJohn. Soon, their new, high energy blues-rock style got them the attention of the Rolling Stones agent Jerry Brandt, who got them a prestige gig at Sybil Burton's hot nightclub Arthur in the summer of 1966. A deal with Columbia Records followed, with a single "Tomorrow's Ship" being the result. It failed to chart, as did the followup "Green Bottle Lover", and The Sparrow decamped for California, playing at every legendary venue with everyone you care to mention, to a fair amount of acclaim. In June 1967, however, Dennis Edmonton announced his decision to go solo, changing his name to Mars Bonfire. This effectively fragmented the group, with St. Nicholas and new guitarist Michael Monarch joining members of the Hard Times as T.I.M.E...though Monarch soon left to join the other Sparrows in their new project STEPPENWOLF...who broke through with songs written by Mars Bonfire like "Born To Be Wild"....and were soon rejoined by St. Nicholas... and so it was that all the members of THE SPARROW were involved in the phenomenal success of STEPPENWOLF! A twisty turny story, but, oh my, is the music worth it! The full Columbia recordings of THE SPARROW including the lost audition tapes! Includes the first full-on rock recording of "The Pusher" later made famous by Steppenwolf...Beautifully remastered in true Rev-Ola style, with lovely packaging as usual! First time UK release for this legendary band!
Rev-Ola-234
CD
$15.50

Stoltz, Kelly
Circular Sounds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US The fourth LP from San Francisco's Stoltz. Its fourteen songs are a stereophonic advance on the lo-fi psych-fuzz of 2004's "Antique Glow" (Beautiful Happiness) and the mid-fi of the piano-rock of 2006's "Below The Branches" (Sub Pop). Both made #24 in MOJO magazine's "Best Albums" list for their respective years. "Circular Sounds" is very much a pop record in the classic 60s mold. Radio-ready yet retaining the organic warmth that gave his earlier work its character.
SubPop
CD
$13.00

Stone Country
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, UK Stone Country, the Hollywood, CA-based psychedelic country-rock outfit led by gifted singer/songwriter/guitarist Steve Young. Young had moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and began working with Van Dyke Parks and Stephen Stills while keeping his day job as a mailman. He formed Stone Country in 1967 and soon thereafter the band was signed to RCA Records. After releasing several singles, RCA issued the group's only album, Stone Country, in March 1968, produced by Rick Jarrard, who also produced Jefferson Airplane and Harry Nilsson's Pandemonium Shadow Show. The group disbanded when, in 1969, Young signed as a solo artist with A&M Records. This is there only and debut album, a fantastic record that is a must have for any one with even the slightest interest in things of psychedelic or country nature.
Rev-ola-230
CD
$15.50

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

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

They Might Be Giants
Here Come the 123s (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US New album from TMBG for children of all ages.
Disney
CD
$18.75

Tiger Lou
The Loyal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FABRUARY 19TH)
PS, US Domestic release for Tiger Lou's latest. A Spring 2008 tour is in the works as well! Meet Rasmus Kellerman. This is the guy behind Tiger Lou. It's a band; for all intents and purposes, he's the band. He writes the songs, plays and produces them. For now. Kellerman will tell you not to look too close at "just an indie band, like many other indie bands, with a big heart." But not listening closely to Tiger Lou would be to sell it short. The Loyal, the band's second album, is on the surface, just music. A bunch of songs written by some guy from Oxelösund, Sweden. Only these tunes breathe, they're dynamic, alive. Straight from the heart of some guy now living in Stockholm. And he wouldn't say the band had heart if, to some extent, he wanted you to know the music was sincere. Thirteen atmospheric, incorporeal (but alive) tracks that, if you put them under a microscope, would reveal a molecular pattern (and movement) identical to Kellerman's. Maybe that's why he'd like you to look plainly upon his work: he's already seen himself at such a high magnification, a potentially painful zoom into who and what he is, and where he came from.
Eyeball-077
CD
$9.50

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

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

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

Various
Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US Tanya Donelly, Britta Phillips, Lori McKenna, Jill Sobule with John Doe, Elk City, Veruca Salt, Kristin Hersh, Josie Cotton, The Watson Twins, and Julie Peel are just some of the outstanding artists covering Neil Young's most popular songs for charity on this 21 track Double CD. All proceeds from this benefit record go to Casting for Recovery. Casting For Recovery is a national nonprofit support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer. Casting for Recovery provides an opportunity for women whose lives have been profoundly affected by the disease to gather in a beautiful, natural setting and learn fly-fishing, "a sport for life." The weekend retreats incorporate counseling, educational services and the sport of fly-fishing to promote mental and physical healing. Track Listing: Disk 1: 1. TANYA DONELLY "Heart Of Gold" 2. BRITTA PHILLIPS "I Am A Child" 3. KATE YORK "Comes A Time" 4. LORI MCKENNA "The Needle And The Damage Done" 5. JILL SOBULE with JOHN DOE "Down By The River" 6. VERUCA SALT "Burned" 7. JOSIE COTTON "Cowgirl In The Sand" 8. DALA "A Man Needs A Maid" 9. DARCIE MINER " Ohio " 10. CARMEN TOWNSEND "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" Disk 2: 1. EURO-TRASH GIRL "Cinnamon Girl" 2. JULIE PEEL "I Believe In You" 3. LUFF "Tell Me Why" 4. DALA " Ohio " 5. ELK CITY "Helpless" 6. AMILIA K. SPICER "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 7. LOUISE POST " Sugar Mountain " 8. THE WATSON TWINS "Powderfinger" 9. KRISTIN HERSH "Like A Hurricane" 10. CINDY WHEELER (CAULFIELD SISTERS) "Old Man" 11. HEIDI GLUCK (SOME GIRLS) "Walk On".
AmericanLaundromat-012
CD
$13.75

Weakerthans
Reunion Tour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epitaph
LP
$15.50

Web
I Spider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th)
PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON. "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON.
EsotericRecordings-2027
CD
$20.25

Weller, Paul
Wild Wood [deluxe, exanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH)
PS, US The 1993 release single handedly changed Weller's persona to the larger than life "Modfather," the patriarch of Britpop & all things hip. Led by a renewed creative spark & expanded influences including Nick Drake, Traffic & Crosby, Stills & Nash, he produced, according to Q Magazine, a "pastoral coming of age masterpiece." This 43-track deluxe edition reissue includes an expanse of bonus material including b sides, demos, BBC session versions & unreleased tracks.
YepRoc
DCD
$22.50

Wild Swans
Bringing Home the Ashes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Songs about war and religious faith were not exclusive to U2 in the '80s. Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while sustaining their distinctive sound. The haunting voice of Paul Simpson injects every track with emotional weight; whether he is trying to convey joy or sorrow, his icy baritone chills to the bone. His vocals combine Scott Walker's lonely croon with the brooding angst of Ian McNabb from fellow Liverpudlians the Icicle Works... As enthralling as U2 were in the '80s, they never sounded as gorgeous as the Wild Swans do on Bringing Home the Ashes... Simpson's sparkling voice and Kelly's ethereal guitars provide the album with an undeniably romantic feel. Every track is suffused with radiant pop hooks."
WoundedBird
CD
$16.75

Willits, Christopher + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ocean Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH)
PS, US Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto's new release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. Sakamoto's gorgeous processed piano sound reflects Willits' beautiful shimmering clusters of notes, a new aspect of Willits' pioneering guitar/computer approach. Together, their sounds merge effortlessly, creating deep and seamless swells of gigantic melodic waves.
12K-1046
CD
$12.25

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Acnode One “Acnode One” DLP $20.50
Aloha “Light Works” CD5 $8.50
Ambarchi, Oren & Avenaim, Robbie “Clockwork” CD $15.00
Band Of Holy Joy, The “Leaves That Fall In Spring” CD $15.50
Barjed, Mattias & Various Artists “Upp Till Kamp [OST]” DCD $18.00
Blome, Benno “From Antenna to Antenna 1” CD $17.00
Bosmann, Karl “Eskalation” LP $34.00
Bot Ox “Babylon By Car” 12 $8.00
Burial “Untrue” CD $15.00
Carbonara, Eric “Exodus Bulldornadius” CD $13.75
Chromatics “Nite Drive” CD $10.25
Crash That Took Me “Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes” CD $11.75
Destroy The Heart “S-T” CD $9.00
Durutti Column, The “Fidelity” CD $17.00
Evans, Nate “Pardon My Innocent Heart/Main Squeeze” 45 $5.25
Fela Ransome-Kuti And His Koola Lobitos “Highlife Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)” 3XCD $49.50
Fucking Ocean “Le Main Rouge” CD $8.50
Gravelpit “Snow Globe” CD $15.75
Habibiyya “If Man But Knew” CD $15.75
Harcourt, Ed “Until Tomorrow Then: The Best of Ed Harcourt [limited edition, bonus disc]” DCD $18.75
Helm, Levon “Dirt Farmer” CD $16.25
Isis “Holy Tears” CD5 $6.25
Jansen, Steve “Slope” CD $15.25
Jobim, Antonio Carlos “Wave” LP $22.50
Kim Philbys “Whir Whir Whir” CD $13.00
Laakso “Västerbron & Vampires EP” CD5 $8.25
Legendary Pink Dots “Early Recordings 5 LP Box” 5XLP $97.25
Lightning “Lightning 1968-1971” CD $13.00
Man “Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics (2XCD expanded edition)” DCD $20.25
Massi DL “Wonderland” 12 $9.50
McGregor, George “Temptation is Hard To Fight b/w Everytime I Wake Up” 45 $5.25
Merzbow “Higanbana” CD $16.00
Mika “Life in Cartoon Motion [Bonus Track]” CD $12.25
Mystiques “So Good To Have You Home Again b/w Put Out The Fire” 45 $5.25
Mystiques “So Good To Have You Home Again/Put Out The Fire” 45 $5.25
Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation “Nic” CD $17.75
Null, KK “Baryo Genesis” CD $16.00
Onodera, Yui “Suisei” CD $12.00
Os Mutantes “Os Mutantes” LP $22.50
Pancake Mountain “Episodes 3 and 4 (2005)” DVD $15.00
Plastikman “Nostalgik.3” 12 $9.50
Pluramon “The Monstrous Surplus” LP $15.00
Sachiko “Kunado” CD $15.75
Scorn “Stealth” LP $20.25
Shooting Spires “S-T” CD $10.00
Small Knives, The “Smoke and Ribbons” CD $15.75
Supermayer “The Art Of Letting Go” 12 $9.50
Synclair “Synclair Remixes” 12 $9.50
Tea Company, The “Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company” LP $21.75
Tea Company, The “Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company” CD $19.75
Telles, Mario “S-T” CD $15.50
Things “Wild Psychotic Sounds” 12 $9.25
Tusk “The Resisting Dreamer” CD $12.50
Ulf Henningsson (editor) “The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 [book+CD]” BOOK/CD $46.75
Various “Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium” 4XCD $67.75
Various “Plum [10 x 7" boxset]” 45-BOX $40.00
Various “Try Me Out: Ballroom Beat Vol. Two: 20 Previously Uncomped Slices of Prime British Beat 1964-66” CD $15.00
Various “Nothing Comes Easy: Basement Beat Volume 1” CD $15.00
Various “Mix A Fix - UK Floor Fillers Vol. 2” CD $15.00
Various “Trip In Time Vol. 2: Psychedelic Rock Reflections” DCD $21.00
Various “The Art of Field Recording Volume One [4CD boxset]” CD-BOX $61.00
Veirs, Laura “Carbon Glacier” LP $12.00
Veloso, Caetano “Irene” LP $22.50
Warsaw “S-T” LP $19.00

Parasol New Arrivals • January 29, 2008
Hey hey, Call us privileged, and let me tell you why. Our pals over at Gravitation ever so gently posted a copy of the new album by The Tallest Man On Earth titled “Shallow Grave” to tide over our thirsty ears until the release date arrives. This along with a handful of other noteworthy releases have placed their bets and are proving to us that 2008 is going to be a force to reckoned with. Other than that, my wounds are slowly healing from that new feline named Virgil. Let me tell you, he’s the cutest little thing but he thoroughly enjoys drawing blood with his freshly sharpened claws and cutlery-like fangs. Luckily, our advance of The Tallest Man On Earth will distract me from the “said wounds” inflicted by that iron-toothed kitten. All right, as always if anything catches your eye drop us a line or give us a call and we’ll chit chat like we did back in the good ’ol days. If you want blood you've got it, Roy ‘n’ Paul
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	Xiu Xiu "Women As Lovers" CD $13.00 The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic and painted in a spectrum of acoustic & electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. This marries the ancient w/ the futuristic, each in all their beauty and terror. Traditional gongs collide with a rat's nest of computerized layering. Make no mistake. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level.
New Releases Adorable Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives. CherryRed-327 CD $15.50 Affinity S-T PS, US Featuring 8 rare tracks, not found on their original LP, including two tracks from their rare single and two tracks from their 1969 EMI acetate. Lilith-145 CD $18.00 Affinity S-T PS, US ALSO ON 2LP! Lilith-145 DLP $29.50 Afghan Whigs 1965 [re-issue] PS, US A re-issue of this 1998 release? SBME CD $6.50 American Mars Western Sides PS, US Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, their ethereal sound is an impassioned & moody brand of indie-Americana. Under the direction of the band's pedal steel player & producer DAVID FEENY (Blanche, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes), the band's ranging impulses are brought together to create something more than the sum of its songs. Gangplank CD $10.00 Arbol You Traveled My Heart Inside Out PS, SPAIN Arbol´s 3rd release "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" is out now. Miguel Marín, aka Arbol, continues to walk a path that the enigmatic lushness of his previous work cannot erase. Where a clearing in the forest of "Dreams made of paper" (Lejos Discos, 2005) forced us to linger over songs that poured down on us as a sudden and marvelous light before continuing on our mottled passage, the select track of "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" opens like a delta to new and wide pastures, bringing calm waters to soak the feet of the city. For this new release, Miguel has collaborated with Suzy Mangion, D-fried and the Japanese singer Eri Makino. It was recorded between 2004 and 2007 in London, Barcelona and Tokyo and confirms the crucial role played by Miguel Marín in the development of imaginary soundtracks as an independent musical genre. "You Travelled my Heart Inside Out" shows the influences that Arbol´s music has been subject to in recent years as he moved between three completely different cities, three distinct ways of seeing music and life. LejosDiscos-009 CD $15.50 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day PS, US Baby Dee is an internationally traveled singer, songwriter & performer. This is her 3rd album. Produced by MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, who also played on the record, along w/ ANDREW WK, ROBBIE LEE, MAX MOSTON, WILLIAM BREEZE, JOHN CONTRERAS, JAMES LO & LIZ KESSEL, all of whom bring extra fullness to Dee's old-world pop sensibilities. This is such a great album, filled w/ deeply moving songs & sharply produced in vivid images. DragCity-351 CD $13.25 Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-351 LP $13.25 Baja Wolfhour PS, US Daniel Vujanic´s third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled, intensively displays the composer/musician´s exciting approach towards a "free electronica" genre. Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, maximized-minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of sedative post-post-rock, "Wolfhour" plays with postmodern expectations as much as possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There is at least as much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic´s compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Beginnings sound like ends and vice versa. Sounds teleport. Comments on Baja's Sound: "Mirroring the obstinacy and arbitrary nature of human emotions, Vujanic is using electronic music in a way that makes it less a statement about media or a contemporary discussion about subverting conventional songwriting than a tool of matter-of-factness..." - Coke Machine Glow "If the indie rock just isn't getting it done for you anymore, Baja's enveloping, intangible compositions may be just the guide you need to more engaging musical territory. Tiny Mix Tapes ...beautifully strange thing in between postrock, notebookindie, jazzy bitparts and occasional guitar eruptions and - yes, indeed - pop..." (10 points) - VISIONS Magazine. OtherElectricites-011 CD $12.25 Battle of Land and Sea S-T PS, US To describe the sound of The Battle of Land & Sea, one might call up images of abandoned sea-worn ships floating through a thick coastal fog. And upon first listen you might call to mind Cat Power, or the soft glow of Songs of Green Pheasant. But eventually, you start to hear what makes the music of Portland based Sarah O'Shura so special. You get a glimpse of a world through the eyes of a someone on a musical pilgrimage, whether the tales are laden with sorrow or joy, they are enchanting & hopeful. Spooky & beautiful...calling out all the old ghosts from past recordings on beautifully warbled vinyl, they recreate an old jazz club atmosphere but with a little sawdust on the floor. Notenuf-008 CD $13.25 Beck Odelay [deluxe edition] PS, US The original album plus a 16-track bonus disc! Geffen DCD $30.00 Believer February 2008 PS, US This issue features articles on the troubled symbolism of black history month, the 33 most deranged bequests of all time, the sorrows of young Marx, Poems,interviews & much more. Stock, read, & love this mag. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Believer-051 ZINE $7.50 Bell, The Make Some Quiet PS, US The Bell's new album Make Some Quiet might take you back to a time when you were first discovering bands that acted like the ideal soundtrack to your post-teenage life. We think of Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure, on our trip down fond memory lane... NPR: "The Swedish pop group The Bell doesn't have a name for its drum machine, but if the Bunnymen are going to deny Echo its place in history, this new trio should snap it up. It's not just The Bell's drum machine that gives it a right to the Echo name. The group's wiry guitar-rock also recalls many of the bands that came up in the wake of, or were contemporaries to, the Bunnymen, such as House of Love, The Mighty Lemon Drops and The Church. The Bell's debut CD, Make Some Quiet, draws on these influences throughout, and modern music fans will likely hear Interpol in the group's post-punk pop." Badman CD $13.75 Biirdie Catherine Avenue PS, US A big, stunning Great American Rock Record. The band spins sweeping anthems told in California semi-gloss, with twinges of West Coast Country and big-hearted Southern balladry. It's an album about place and location, about the way that geography affects us. California itself figures heavily as a character on the record; two of the band's members are Southern ex-pats and the lyrics often address the bewilderment of finding oneself transplanted to Los Angeles. If you need musical analogues then we hear Fleetwood Mac, Grandaddy, CSNY, Rilo Kiley, and Brill Building pop, but that's by no means a complete list. This is ambitious orchestral music decked out in gorgeous harmonies, ringing pianos, and some pretty killer guitar work that knows a thing or two about dynamism. It knows when to take a breather, and it knows when to go for the knockout. 3HIVE REVIEW: "Biirdie brings the heartache like a slow-approaching thunderstorm." LoveMinusZero CD $11.00 Birds of Maya Vol. 1 PS, US Debut LP from Philly power-trio. Lo-fi rock recalling '60s/'70s classics like Cream, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, the Stooges, etc. HolyMountain LP $15.00 Birds of Prey Sulfer and Semen PS, US Raw, dirty, & extreme metal feat. members of ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, BARONESS, Beaten Back To Pure, & MUNICIPAL WASTE. Too fast for sludge, too grim for death, too precise for punk. Relapse CD $13.25 Black Lips/Subsonics Split PS, US 4 songs from two of Atlanta's best!! live at the infamous Clermont Lounge. Recorded back in August to sold out show. BLACK LIPS do "Bad Kids" & "Lean." SUBSONICS do "Hello Beauty" & "Pistol." LIMITED TO 2000 Rob'sHouseRecords-031 45 $5.25 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar-090 DLP $12.25 Black Mountain In The Future [deluxe edition] PS, US Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The DELUXE EDITION, at the same price as the regular version, includes second disc with 3 additional recordings. Jagjaguwar-090 DCD $11.50 Blood On The Wall Liferz PS, US Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "Awesomer". PITCHFORK: "Steeped in classic indie rock, this muscular trio makes no bones about blasting faux-Pixies or Sonic Youth songs well into the red." TheSocialRegistry-060 CD $11.50 Bodies Of Water Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy. SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12 CD $11.50 Bonnie "Prince" Billy Wilding in the West PS, JAPAN New import-only live album from BPB! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Recorded in California in 2007, Wilding in the West is a live Bonnie "Prince" Billy document, incorporating 14 ragged-but-right songs. His band includes guitarist Emmett Kelly, bassist Aram Stith, drummer Alex Neilson, and keyboard player Azita, plus Dawn McCarthy and Paul Oldham on vocals. The material comes largely from 2003's Master and Everyone and 2006's The Letting Go, not so very far away from 2005's live album Summer in the Southeast (which even has a similar design scheme). Billy is an impassioned performer in a live context, and while the quiet beauty of songs from The Letting Go and Master and Everyone is what made them so powerful in the studio, they're not without their charms here." p-Vine/Spunk CD $16.25 Box Studio 1 PS, US This is the debut release by Raoul Bjorkenheim (SCORTH TRIO), Trevor Dunn (FANTOMAS, ELECTRIC MASADA), Stale Storlokken (SUPERSILENT), Morgan Agren. Something of an international supergroup, the founding of this excellent ensemble is a touch of genius that remains something of a mystery. Hand-picked by writer & film-maker Philip Mullarkey to record & play live as part of the art/film project Box. It quickly became apparent that this avant-garde juggernaut was heading in the right direction. RuneGrammofon CD $18.00 Box Studio 1 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! RuneGrammofon LP $19.50 Brittle Stars S-T PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Red vinyl. Classic 90's pop effort from the lazy south. RuinedPotential-07 10 $16.25 Buddyrevelles September, November PS, US Listen to that Telecaster chime! Those intertwining vocal lines! Those dynamic yet dancey rhythms! The Buddyrevelles really are one of the best pop bands around, and their debut CD (released in 1998 on Motorcoat Records) proves that 14 times over. NoKarma-065 CD $10.50 Buddyrevelles American Matador PS, US "'One, Two' is a perfect example of the benefits resulting from the slightly thicker, more complex sound the band has chosen to explore on their latest record. Time changes, layered guitars, and a generally expanded musical vocabulary make American Matador's better moments a true step forward for an already excellent band ... and when the grand finale arrives, and drummer Dan Reinholdt's kit explodes like fireworks, any conceivable doubt disintegrates: American Matador is an awesome record." -Pitchfork [8.0] NoKarma-066 CD $10.50 Bust #49 PS, US All about EVE, the lady rapper graces this month's cover. Reno 911's Niecy Nash, Alison Goldrapp, Justice, career waitresses, be a tax master, fashion lovers unite & more! ZINE $4.75 Buzzcocks 30 PS, US New live album from punk-pop legends and orgasm addicts, still jackin' it 30 years on. Recorded on their 2006 reunion tour. CookingVinyl CD $13.75 Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers PS, US Recieved 7.4 on PITCHFORK. Debut from Tampa based chamber pop trio combines inherent pop sensibilities rich with lush sonic textures. Their sound results in a style the band calls "Heroin Pop," an amalgam of Sparklehourse, Hope Sandoval, Tindersticks and Leonard Cohen. NewGranada-011 CD $8.50 Canned Heat Vintage PS, US Here's how they sounded in '66 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings. A perfect match, considering that Wilson & Hite were avid record collectors & blues aficionados. Lilith-139 CD $18.00 Carroll, Barton Lost One PS, US The Lost One is a collection of twelve cinematic country songs by Barton Carroll. Since 2002, Barton Carroll has toured and recorded extensively with Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann, playing guitar, steel guitar, and upright bass. Carroll has also toured, playing various instruments with Azure Ray, Dolorean, and Micah P. Hinson. The album title, The Lost One, was stolen from one of the classic films of the Noir canon, a genre that Carroll is hooked on. Like the film, the songs tell stories of souls who, burdened by their past, fear they will not be redeemed. Carroll's sardonic and self effacing wit is evident. Musically, the record is a mixture of the mountain music that Carroll grew up hearing in Western North Carolina, and the sweet, sad, melodic sensibility of Alex Chilton. Carroll has a sincere, durable voice well suited for storytelling and folk songs.The Lost One was produced by Martin Feveyear, who engineered and produced the 2005 Crooked Fingers release, Dignity and Shame. Feveyear is a veteran producer and engineer, having worked with such artists as Mark Lanegan, Damien Jurado, and John Wesley Harding. SkybucketRecords CD $15.00 Cartridge Family Shine Like a Bottle PS, US The Cartridge Family's Shine Like a Bottle takes you back to a time when hyphens had not yet been invented, an era when a description as straightforward as "rock and roll" would suffice. Here's what you don't get with Shine Like a Bottle: A whole lot of frills. Here's what you do get: Guitars that could never be accused of being shy. Sneaky hooks. Keyboards with the same personality as the guitars. Echoes of the Faces and Blonde on Blonde and rock bands that like country music but don't feel like they have to prove it and a dozen other things that represent what's always been good in the music world. (Doublenaught) DoublenaughtRecords CD $15.75 Castanets Strong Animal PS, US This limited edition 7" includes a remix of "Strong Animal" from CASTANETS recent "In the Vines" full-player, as well as "Golden", an outtake from that same album. The remix was part of a series of remixes given out via the interweb to help promote "In The Vines". This one was too deliciously geared for dance floors so we felt that not putting it to wax was a crime to the night. West Coaster and Hero to All, RAFTER, manned boards and faders and clickers for it. Bass up, mids wherever. Artwork is by Castanets good friend Tara Jane ONeil. Here's to big airplanes and weekend agoraphobics. AsthmaticKitty-034 45 $3.75 Cat Power Jukebox (Deluxe) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover!!! Matador DLP $25.00 Cat Power Jukebox [regular version] PS, US Her second album of covers!!! Matador CD $13.25 Cat Power Jukebox [deluxe version] (ON SALE) PS, US Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. This deluxe version comes in a silver-foil gatefold cover with a bonus disc of extra tracks. Backed by Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi). Guest appearances from Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan), Larry McDonald (Toots & The Maytals, Taj Mahal), Teenie Hodges (Al Green, Memphis Rhythm Band), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham). MOJO: "She inhabits other people's songs with a fierce conviction that's sometimes startling.". Matador DCD $15.00 Celletti, Alessandra Way Out PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a new studio album from Alessandra Celletti, the virtuoso Italian composer/pianist whose previous CDs include acclaimed interpretations of works by Glass, Satie and Gurdjieff. Way Out is Alessandra's third album of original material, following Overground (1997) and Chi Mi Darà le Ali (2006). Recorded in Rome in 2007, Way Out marks an innovative exploration of several musical styles, including vocal tracks sung by Alessandra as well as a number of her exquisite solo piano compositions. She is joined on most of the tracks by drummer Fabio Ferri, while Renzo Pin provided English-language lyrics. Stand-out tracks include Dear To Me, Burning and Hundred Points, the latter a future pop classic complemented by a brilliant animated video clip made by Tony Sbarbaro. A unique set that defies classification, Way Out also features one bonus song, the beautiful title track from Alessandra's previous artist album, Chi Mi Darà le Ali. The memorable cover image is the painting Pensando alla Guerra by artist Isobel Blank. Short biography: Alessandra Celletti studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome . After graduating she continued her studies with Vera Gobbi Belcredi, specializing in French piano works of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In 1994 she released Les sons et les parfums, an album of pieces by Debussy, Ravel and Satie. Since then she has followed an irregular artistic path, characterized by sudden departures from classical music. Her second album, Viaggio a Praga, an exploration of the work of Bohemian composers, saw Alessandra awarded a scholarship by the Czech Republic in 1997. On returning to Italy she began working with Kha Records. Her collection Esoterik Satie proved hugely popular in France , and Gnossienne #1 was used by Guy Ritchie in his 2005 movie Revolver. Alessandra is now preparing to release two new albums. The Golden Fly will appear in Italy in October 2007, and Way Out by LTM in January 2008. LTM-2505 CD $17.00 Cha Cha Cohen S-T PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 1999 debut album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Cha Cha Cohen All Artists Are Criminals PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of CCC's 2002 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Chico Hamilton Quintet/Elmer Bernstein OST: Sweet Smell Of Success PS, UK One of the most important films of the fifties, Sweet Smell Of Success boasts one of the great jazz scores; a combination of abstract jazz themes written and performed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet and a furious orchestral score by the masterful Elmer Bernstein. These albums were released seperately in 1957 - both became very considerable rarities - and are here combined in a single edition in digital format for the first time. Sweet Smell Of Success is memorable for the vicious performances of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and its uniquely nasty view of the tough underbelly of New York fifty years ago. It was directed by Alexander mackendrick ('The Ladykillers' 'Whisky Galore' 'The Man In The White Suite' 'Mandy') Its audience is with jazz and film buffs and the eternally stylish; strong export potential everywhere. El-132 CD $15.50 Clark, Gene Self -Titled "White Light" PS, US Further proof that '71 could very well have been the best yr ever for pop music is this LP. Following his '66 departure from The Byrds, as well as a release w/ the Gosdin Brothers & 2 w/ Doug Dillard as Dillard & Clark, Gene cut this w/ guitarist/produced Jesse Ed Davis, Burrito Brother Chris Ethridge & pianist Ben Sidran. 4MenwithBeards-116 LP $16.25 Clark, Guy Old No. 1 PS, US His debut from '75 is one of the all time classic country singer-songwriter records. From the rollicking Texas swing of opener "Rita Ballou" to the fingerpicked heartbreak of closer "Let Him Roll" there is not a stinker to be found. Feat. EMMYLOU HARRIS, RODNEY CROWELL & a young STEVE EARLE. DBKWorks-539 CD $16.50 Clark, Guy Texas Cookin' PS, US Originally released in '76, this sophomore effort for RCA is another fine set of country tunes that run the gamut of emotions from goofy & playful to brutally heartbreaking, sometimes within the same song. Feat. a ridiculous talented set of players that includes Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Gimble, Chip Young, Jerry Jeff Walker & Rodney Crowell,this is an Outlaw Country classic. DBKWorks-540 CD $16.50 Collections Of Colonies Of Bees Birds PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD "Birds" is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling - and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. TableOfTheElements-810 CD $13.00 Costa, Matt Unfamiliar Faces [re-issue] PS, US Second album on Jack Johnson's Brushfire label. Full of more folky beautiful songs. Produced by Tom Dumont. Brushfire CD $15.00 Davis, Betty They Say I'm Different PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45. LightInTheAttic LP $21.75 Davis, Betty S-T PS, US Vinyl version! Limited to 1500, gatefold sleeve with bonus 45. LightInTheAttic LP $21.75 Dead Raven Choir My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind PS, US An altogether noisier undertaking than Smolken's other project, WOLFMANGLER. An unholy cross of Black Metal and Folk. The instrumentation is entirely bass centered. Raw, violent & organized. AuroraBorealis CD $14.25 Dengue Fever Venus On Earth PS, US There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group & the genre. PREFIX MAG: "Though constantly hailed by local outlets like the Los Angeles Times as the city's most "original pop band," the Cambodian-American psyche-surf rock quintet has sat patiently at the precipice of a national break for several years now. The group shifted into overdrive the last two years: an appearance on the Broken Flowers soundtrack; a documentary about singer Chhom Nimol's homecoming and the band's first trip to Cambodia, called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong; and now its third album, Venus on Earth. On it, Nimol's gorgeous Khmer and English vocals are paired with the band's inventive blend of garage rock, Cambodian folk and Ethio-jazz." M80Music CD $16.25 Destroy All Monsters Bored PS, UK American group Destroy All Monsters caused quite a stir when they first appeared in the UK. Featuring guitarist Mike Davis who had previously played in The MC5, Ron Asheton - bass player from The Stooges and drummer Rob King, the band were completed by vocalist and ex-model Niagara. The band recorded only three singles for Cherry Red, all of which are contained on this mid-price CD (Tracks 1 > 6). Track seven - 'Goin' To Lose' - was previously unreleased. CherryRed-094 CD $15.50 Destroy All Monsters Live In Tokyo PS, US Stretching out into spacey sonic territory, DAM attacks Japan at their crusty best in these performances in Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track, 72 minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics as well as newer exotic oddities. BookBeat CD $14.50 Dimes, The Silent Generation PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "While the songs provide snapshots of a bygone America...the Dimes' soft rock delivery is completely modern, investing the tales with the humanitarian romance of a Frank Capra movie. The Dimes have done what most bands dream of, creating an alternate universe of warm pop music with a sunny vibe that'll keep toes tapping and plaster a sunny smile on every listener's face." PetMarmoset CD $11.50 Discwashers Vinyl Record Fluid PS, US misc $4.95 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Same PS, UK Almost immediately after the demise of The Monkees in 1970, there was industry clamour for a reunion and publisher Christian Dewalden came forward with an offer to finance the project. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were enthusiastic but as Mike Nesmith wasn't interested and Peter Tork couldn't be found a kind of pseudo-Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written The Monkees first number one 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'The Monkees Theme (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees)' and '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone'. So Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was born. With the Monkees logo under copyright and not available for their use, the foursome set off on tour as 'the great golden hits of the Monkees - the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em.' DJBH made its first public appearance on July 4, 1975 at six flags over mid-America in St. Louis, Missouri, where they were met by 12,500 of the same screaming fans who had followed the Monkees 10 years previously. Performing a raft of Monkee hits (Peter Tork had joined DJBH onstage at Disneyland) the band appeared on 'American Bandstand' and 'Don Kirshner's rock concert' and toured the States for a year before heading to the far east. They have the distinction of being the first American band to play in Thailand (they had to cut their hair to be allowed into the country!). The success of the American tour secured a contract with capitol records. The subsequent 'Dolenz Jones Boyce & Hart' was produced by Boyce & Hart and though light and very pop, is regarded as the most coherent Monkeerelated release since 1967¹s 'Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones'. El-052 CD $15.50 Drag the River You Can't Live This Way PS, US The 15-cut album was put to tape before the band slowly disintegrated over the course of a few months last year. Although the band officially broke up last summer, Drag the River is saying its final goodbyes to fans with one last album. SuburbanHome CD $11.00 Drawbacks, The Slightly Less Vague PS, US So most of the kids in Falkoping like to pimp out their Volvos, hang around in a parking lot, and maybe form a heavy metal band. There's not too much else to do 250 miles from Stockholm, in a town where the express train passes but doesn't stop. Heck, it's even 2 hours from Gothenburg. Fortunately though, the Drawbacks had other ideas... With one foot firmly placed on the Swedish west coast, and the other somewhere in the American indie-rock scene, the Drawbacks craft a brand of hooky and dynamic guitar pop. Tobias (guitar & lead vocals), Wilhelm (bass & vocals), Johan (drums & vocals), Klas (guitar & vocals), and Martin (keyboards) have been playing for several years, gigging both in Sweden and abroad. As Tobias says, they "spent a considerable amount of time learning how to deliver some kind of emotional context" through their songs, and they've gotten quite good at it. After a few self-released demos, Slightly Less Vague is the Drawbacks' first official release. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. ChocolateHearts-05 CD $7.50 Drive By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark PS, US Brighter Than Creation's Dark from Drive-By Truckers is a 19-song 75+ minute southern gothic rock n' roll masterpiece. Featuring songs from Patterson, Cooley and Shonna. The album also features contributions from Legendary Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham. NewWestRecords CD $18.25 Durutti Column, The Circuses & Bread PS, UK LTM is proud to announce the release of four expanded CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Circuses & Bread was originally released by the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. Stand-out tracks include All That Love & Maths Can Do and the single Tomorrow. This expanded edition of Circuses & Bread also features ten bonus tracks, including the rare Japanese single For Noriko/Love Fading, compilation album tracks Verbiers and The Aftermath, and four previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline. The bonus cuts also include the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, the late Anthony H. Wilson (Factory Records founder and Durutti Column manager). The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else's Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. LTM-2510 CD $17.00 Eels, The Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1 PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Throughout the myriad problems that have informed his music, Mark Oliver Everett has continued to churn out plenty of product with his main musical project, Eels. To celebrate the group's longevity, Everett (or just simply "E," as you may know him better) is emptying his vaults with this massive release. Meet the Eels features some favorites like "Novocain for the Soul" as well as a remix of "Climbing to the Moon" by Jon Brion and a cover of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On." Other oddities include covers of Prince and Daniel Johnston, BBC performances, and a DVD of the band playing Lollapalooza in 2006. Add to that original artwork and copious liner notes by E." Geffen CD/DVD $20.75 Egg The Civil Service PS, UK EGG were exponents of the so-called "Canterbury" style of rock music and were focused around the compositional and keyboard playing skills of Dave Stewart (later in HATFIELD & THE NORTH) and Mont Campbell and Clive Brooks. The band recorded two superb albums for Decca Records between 1969 & 1971 before going their separate ways. In 1974 they recorded their final album for the newly established Virgin Record label. Featuring guest musicians such as STEVE HILLAGE and members of the unique HENRY COW, "The Civil Surface" is now regarded as a classic of the "Canterbury" and "Progressive" genres. This ESOTERIC RECORDINGS release has been remastered from the original tapes and is certain to the many who made the reissues of EGG's previous work such a success. EsotericRecordings-2003 CD $20.25 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 LP $11.50 Envy Abyssal PS, US Following their acclaimed fourth album, "Insomniac Doze", Japan's ENVY return with this face-melting four-song EP. Though acting as a stop-gap between "Insomniac Doze" and their eagerly anticipated next full-length, "Abyssal" sounds more like the missing link between the driving, cacophonous force of their breakthrough third album, "A Dead Sinking Story", and the lush, cinematic tones of "Insomniac Doze". In fact, were it not for its somewhat brief half-hour running time, "Abyssal" would be the ideal Envy album, marrying their vast influences into a transcendent, almost romantic sound that is rarely heard or felt in heavy music. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 CD $9.00 Envy Abyssal PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-132 LP $11.50 Envy All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting PS, US Originally released in 2001 on respected Japanese punk label H.G. FACT, "All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" introduced ENVY to Americans when it was licensed for limited release in 2003 on DIM MAK RECORDS. Their original pressing sold out almost immediately, and the album has been scarcely available ever since. The vinyl now regularly fetches over $100 on eBay, and the CD is equally difficult to score without paying increasingly undesirable import fees. Along with their now-legendary follow-up, "A Dead Sinking Story", All the Footprints is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-129 CD $9.00 Evangelicals The Evening Descends PS, US "VINYL VERSION!!! DeadOceans-004 LP $11.50 Evangelicals The Evening Descends PS, US "The Evening Descends"Š and worlds collide. First you hear the prodigious musical skill: the deft guitar work, the clever pop sensibility, the wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a trio of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have EVANGELICALS, a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, OK. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, "The Evening Descends" is the first great album of 2008. DeadOceans-4 CD $11.50 Ex Reverie Door Into Summer PS, US When teenage imaginings transcend childhood's end & lodge w/ concrete ferocity within the sound world of adult reality, one can find a unique realm wherein dulcimers & glam-rock guitar frenzies manifest w/ uniform importance. The trick is knowing not to discern a difference. This heralds a return to a reality deeper than most modern folksinger neo-realists can manage to muster. LanguageofStone-004 CD $13.25 Ex, The In New York: Building A Broken Mousetrap PS, US Shot at New York's Knitting Factory on an auspicious kickoff day to a US tour - Sept. 11, 2004 - the film is a celebration of life & activism, intertwining exciting live music w/ construction site footage from New York & Amsterdam, protest footage from the Republican National Convention, & city footage. It's the blurred line between building & destruction through & through. 4 songs are captured in 16 mm film, 4 in DV. Touch&Go DVD $12.75 Fair Weather Beginning From An End PS, UK ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW's CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED WITH 6 BONUS TRACKS. Following the demise of AMEN CORNER, Andy Fairweather Low and fellow musical cohorts Blue Weaver, Clive Taylor and Dennis Byron underwent a musical transition into the band FAIR WEATHER. Heading into a "Progressive" direction the band adopted a harder edge and were the first act to sign to RCA Records' progressive imprint NEON (an attempt to rival Philips' VERTIGO label). Perhaps the most successful NEON signing, the band secured a UK TOP TEN hit in "Natural Sinner" before releasing their sole album, "Beginning from an End". Featuring guest contributions from DAVE EDMUNDS on "I Hear You Knockin'", although the album was a success in Europe, FAIR WEATHER lasted a mere 13 months before disbanding. This ESOTERIC reissue gathers together the album and six tracks released over three singles to comprise this definitive edition remastered reissue. EsotericRecordings-2028 CD $20.25 Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking PS, US Originally released in '69, Ian Matthews left midway through the recording. As a result the band looked further into their own country's folk traditions for influence, as their decidely British style was cemented by the addition of Dave Swarbrick's fiddle. Water CD $14.00 Fairport Convention What We Did On Our Holidays PS, US Their 2nd, originally released in '69, is the 1st to feat. the beautifully haunting vocals of the legendary SANDY DENNY. This finds them moving away from the California folk-rock of their debut album towards a more British approach to similar material. It is also the last full LP to feat. IAN MATTHEWS on vocals & many consider this lineup to be the finest in their long & varied career. Water-211 CD $14.00 Farr, Gary Strange Fruit PS, UK GARY FARR's LONG LOST CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACK. "Strange Fruit" is a great undiscovered work of the acoustic rock / classic rock genres, cited by some as a minor masterpiece. In the late 60's Gary Farr made the transition from leader of R&B outfit The T-Bones to a noted singer-songwriter. Recording an album for Marmalade Records, Farr then signed to CBS Records in 1970, recording this sole album for the label. Sessions featured contributions from RICHARD THOMPSON on lead guitar and leading lights of the underground MIGHTY BABY. Unavailable on CD for many years, "Strange Fruit" is a record made by an often overlooked singer-songwriter made available once more by Esoteric Recordings and is certain to appeal to all who adore acoustic music both melancholic and uplifting. The reissue also features the first ever CD appearance of the single edit of "Revolution of the Season". EsotericRecordings-2029 CD $20.25 Fessenden v1.1 PS, US Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion while drones interplay with staccato chords. "v1.1" represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, where hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture. Praise for Fessenden: "Playing on a rusty knife edge, these artists mould a new genre of inquisitive reduction of technical abuse..." -Touching Extremes "Contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound." -Vital Weekly "Like drifting Arctic waters in an atomic sub, slowly diving, headset plugged directly into the hull."- Avant Music News "One of the more patient ensembles I've heard, Fessenden members seem to be in no hurry to move things along here...just a few compass degrees this way or that...Fessenden provides a nice trip." -KFJC OtherElectricites-010 CD $12.25 Finn, Liam I'll Be Lightning PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc LP $18.25 Finn, Liam I'll Be Lightning PS, US Debut album from the spawn of Crowded House's Neil Finn. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: I'll Be Lighting finds Liam coming into his own as a singer/songwriter not unlike how Neil did around the time of True Colours, a remarkable parallel in musical development that, when combined with the passing similarity in their songwriting styles, can perhaps tie Liam a little too closely to his father. Like his dad, Liam has an ear for hooks and a predilection for melodic craft, but he is not only his own man, he is certainly the product of his own generation, raised on classic pop dating back to the Beatles but obsessed with indie singer/songwriters of the '90s, specifically Elliott Smith. I'll Be Lightning has the same spare, dreamy qualities of Smith's music, but Liam Finn isn't as haunted as Smith, even if he has a similar knack for floating melodies. Despite a fair share of brokenhearted ballads here, this isn't an overly melancholy album; it can be comforting in its spells of sadness, partially because they're balanced by lighter material that meshes with the slower, sadder songs to give this depth, a richness in lyric and music uncommon to young singer/songwriters.... The 14 songs here seem stronger upon each listen, with the songs soon seeming indelible. This kind of gift is rare, but it has been passed on from father to son in a way that is similar yet quite different and equally valuable, as this excellent debut makes plain." YepRoc CD $15.00 Fireflies Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon PS, SWEDEN Fireflies is Lisle Mitnik. He grew up in the tundras of New England playing classical piano and one day he moved to California to go to school and decided to start writing songs. He bought a porta-studio and started recording, combining his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. He try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. We believe that this release will be loved by those who appreciate: The Clientele, Field Mice, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle & Sebastian, Fransoise Hardy and Trembling Blue Stars. MusicIsMyGirlfriend-014 CD $13.50 Fireflies Snowstorm PS, US 5 song EP. Fireflies is the home recording project of Chicago's Lisle Mitnik. Taking inspiration from Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, The Field Mice, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Françoise Hardy. Melancholic pop that will ease you through the cold winter. 27Records-008 CD5 $4.00 Fleshtones, The Take A Good Look PS,US The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look, the band has reduced its Super Rock sound down to pure muscle and bone. Fuzzy guitars, vintage organ and cocksure swagger abound as the band re-stakes its claim on early 60s garage. Co-produced by session vet Ivan Julian (The Clash, Richard Hell, Elton John), the album seethes with party anthems and head-bopping mod rhythms YepRoc CD $14.50 Folk Spectre, The The Blackest Medicine PS, US Black vinyl with silk screened covers. Limited to 500. Solo tunes by Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers, GHQ, Vanishing Voice, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, etc. This is music from the American underground. The feeling is dark and fucked up and somehow sublime. A solid statement of loner home-made goodness. A pop statement from behind a veil of dirt. Woodsist LP $14.00 Food Molecular Gastronomy PS, US This is the 5th full-length release, now down to the duo of Iain Ballamy (saxophones, alto flute) & Thomas Stronen (drums, electronics). This duo-version is mostly improvised, much in the same way as the music of Stronen's other duo, Humcrush. Ashley Slater, who played w/ Ballamy in Loose Tubes in the late '80s & went on to form Freakpower w/ Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), mixed this record & also contributes on 3 tracks. Maria Kannegaard plays Fender Rhodes on 5 tracks & is also a superb pianist w/ 3 trio-recordings to her name. RuneGrammofon CD $17.00 Formby, Richard Volume 1 PS, US The first of three CDs to be released on Mind Expansion, Vol 1 features 8 beautifully produced masterpieces of pure sonic bliss. Formby's debut solo album, is very much a sound engineer's album. Seen as something of an Eno for the post-rock generation. Formby builds on warm,looped fragments, cut up drums, guitar chime & organ arrangement, with all the ascending tact of Reich. In his world it's sometime in the 70s', at the height of classical experimentation & kraut motorik. MindExpansion-2011 CD $11.50 Free Form Funky Freqs Urban Mythology: Vol. 1 PS, US Feat. VERNON REID, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA & G. CALVIN WESTON. This extraordinary meeting of the minds & souls breaks new ground in the definition of the timeless trio sound using the best elements of improvisation, modern DSP & good old fashioned funk. ThirstyEar CD $13.25 Gainsbourg, Serge Les Annees Psychedelique 1966-1971 PS, US Culling its music from rare vinyl (Gainsbourg's ultra-rare 7" B-side from the Mister Freedom OST) & master tapes (the superb & never commercially released "La Horse" & the breakbeat classic "Requiem Pour Un Con") & utilizing tasteful restoration & remastering, this latest anthology promises to be the 1st time that many of these songs will be heard by the record-buying public. And w/ bonus beats to boot. LeSmokeDisques DLP $16.75 Hamill, Claire October PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "October" is Claire's second album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. Produced by Paul Samwell Smith (who had recently worked with Cat Stevens), "October" is a highlight of Claire's early career and is certain to appeal to those who appreciate the art of the singer songwriter. The Esoteric reissue includes "Baby What's Wrong" as a bonus tracks. With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2032 CD $20.25 Hamill, Claire One House Left Standing PS, UK CLASSIC FOLK ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES WITH BONUS TRACKS. The possessor of one of the finest voices in popular music, Claire Hamill signed to Island records at the age of 16, recording two albums which featured contributions from JOHN MARTYN, FREE & TERRY REID. "One House Left Standing" is Claire's first album, a masterpiece of folk rock and the art of songwriting and features music of both innocence and maturity. The Esoteric reissue includes four bonus tracks, three of which are unreleased, including a version of "Meet Me On the Corner" featuring Gerry Rafferty and Steeler's Wheel as backing musicians and the evocative single B-side "Alice in the Streets of Darlington". With her songs covered by EVA CASSIDY and cited by KATE BUSH as an influence, this reissue is the first part of a programme that sees the reissuing of Claire's work by Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2031 CD $20.25 Handsome Ned Name Is Ned PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A two-disc anthology may seem a little extreme for an artist who never released a full album during his lifetime. However, in the case of the Handsome Ned set The Name is Ned, it is a welcome introduction to a nearly forgotten Canadian singer/songwriter. When Handsome Ned died in 1987 at the age of 29, he left behind a wealth of recordings, from studio tracks to live recordings and radio appearances... A fairly even mix of originals and covers and an impressive array of guests. Murray McLauchlan shows up on a version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone," Lydia Lunch can be heard hyping Handsome Ned's radio show before a live, acoustic version of "Sea of Heartbreak," and for the finale, Blue Rodeo invites Handsome Ned onstage at the Horseshoe Tavern to sing the Merle Haggard classic "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down." However, while the cover songs have a charm of their own and help to shed light on Handsome Ned's influences, it's the original songs that display the depth of Handsome Ned's talent... Clearly a labor of love for those involved (Handsome Ned's brother contributed the liner notes), is a worthy reminder of a talented Canadian artist." OtherPeoplesMusic DCD $15.00 Harp February 2008 PS, US MARS VOLTA on the cover! Features on them, WU-TANG CLAN, DEATH CAB'S CHRIS WALLA, WALK HARD'S JOHN C. REILLY & more. Plus Cat Power's Latest, Post-9/11 Syndrome, Alt-Country Showdown & tons more. Still over 100 reviews! ZINE $4.00 Harter, Ali Worry The Bone PS, US Debut LP from 23 year old Oklahoma City songstress. Has shared the stage w/such acts as Magnolia Electric Co. & The Actuals. Favors ghostly, lovely acoustic numbers w/old time jazz inflections a la Eleni Mandell or Jolie Holland. LittleMafia-053 CD $10.00 Head of Skulls S-T PS, US Feat. CHRIS HANSEN (PINEBENDER), ALLISON HOLLIHAN (ABPK) & NOAH LEGER (MILEMARKER, wORLD/INFERNO) w/ their upbeat Kick-Ass Rock Music! Short fast songs that are 100% bubblegum free. They've put in an official bid w/ Mother Earth to become a rock band that people will want to pipe down & have a listen to. HeadofSkulls-001 12 $8.75 Heaven Brass Rock 1 PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE JAZZ ROCK ALBUM REISSUED ON CD OFFICIALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME- 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. Heaven, a jazz rock group from Portsmouth, burst forth onto the British rock scene in 1970 when they appeared at the legendary Isle of Wight festival sharing a bill with The Who, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix et al. Making a stunning debut, the band (now managed by festival organiser Rikki Farr), soon secured a recording deal with CBS Records who signed the band for a large advance. The resulting double album "Brass Rock 1" appeared in 1971, adorned in a lavish fold-out sleeve. Well received critically, the album failed to achieve the expected success and Heaven soon disbanded, leaving behind a fine example of classic jazz rock. Officially released on CD for the first time, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is digitally remastered from the original master tapes and restores the artwork of the album in full. EsotericRecordings-2030 CD $20.25 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SubPop LP $13.00 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead PS, US After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) have recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary work to date. Keep Your Eyes Ahead marries the Portland duo's signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a newfound appreciation for minimalism. The finger picking on "Shed Your Love" is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise, but Brandon's serene, self-assured delivery remains front and center. While songs from the band's early releases spanned up to 7 minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track on Keep Your Eyes Ahead (fiery anthem "Hallelujah") clocks in at 4 and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft has become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandon's voice, especially on driving tracks like "Keep Your Eyes Ahead." The band also took its time on the album. After the bulk of official recording was completed, a listen through all the demos and snippets on Brandon's hard drive convinced Benjamin there were more gems in the rough (which is how both "Hallelujah" and "Keep Your Eyes Ahead," as well as the mid-tempo "Back to This" were rediscovered and retooled). Produced by the band, Keep Your Eyes Ahead confirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything they've ever done. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership that's been invigorated. And that's exactly how the songs will make you feel: invigorated. SubPop CD $12.00 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LocustMusic LP $17.25 Hello, Blue Roses Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty PS, US Visual artist Sydney Vermont and her man DAN BEJAR (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) formed Hello, Blue Roses in Vancouver in 2005. Sydney writes the songs & Dan arranges them. Song ideas were knocked back and forth over a period of 2 years. Last year Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to be together, write, read and think about life differently; It was in the balmy climes of their home away from home - Malaga, Spain - that the originals that make up their debut album, The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty... took real shape. In mid 2007, Hello, Blue Roses committed these songs to tape with the help of friends and family after their return to Vancouver at longtime fave spot JC/DC studios. Roses cite 60s faves (Bridget St. John, Bill Fay, the group sing of Trees Community), 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) and the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) as musical influences to their sparsely populated, timeless pop sound. LocustMusic CD $13.00 Hexlove Knew Abloom (Life's Hood) PS, US While he's a current member of Who's Your Favorite Son God & Prints, this is Zac Nelson all by himself going nuts. His enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, & post-"Vision Creation Newsun" Boredoms, & combine it all & play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. HolyMountain CD $13.25 Hey Willpower P.D.A. PS, US "Which band can claim to take over the dancefloor with a twist of R'n'B, Radiopop and Electronica? Who has the secret recipe for a sound that equally stimulates teenagers and people in their 30ies? Who sounds as sexy as Justin Timberlake and The Soft Pink Truth combined? And who was the cover star of the San Francisco Guardian in May 2005 with the headline "dance, punk, dance"? HEY WILLPOWER is one of the hottest acts in the R'n'B Underground emerging from the US." Tomlab-081 CD $12.25 Hiorthoy, Kim My Last Day PS, US LIMITED VINYL SmalltownSupersound-087 LP $14.50 Holland, Michael Simple Truths and Pleasures PS, GERMANY This is the third solo release by Michael Holland, from Carrboro, North Carolina. Michael was a founding member of Jennyanykind, which released several critically-acclaimed albums on Elektra/Time Warner, Yep Roc and other labels between 1992-2003. Burned out by many tours through 48 states, label changes from minors to majors and back and in a state of complete emptiness and sadness, he received the Harry Smith Anthology as a gift and it completely changed his view towards music. His new masterpiece, Simple Truths and Pleasures is once again performed with members of the Big Fat Gap Bluegrass Band from NC -- the vast majority of it recorded live in the studio. More traditional than the previous record, the earthly songs reflect influences by Earl Scruggs, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, Doc Watson and especially Hank Williams. The music is a perfect and very melodic mixture of truly timeless Southern musical forms: acoustic country, folk, bluegrass, honky tonk, old time string band, blues and gospel, led by Michael Holland's warm and haunting voice. Moll-025 CD $15.00 Holsapple, Peter & Chris Stamey Mavericks [expanded re-issue] PS, US The original 12-song album remastered plus 6 bonus tracks. Collector'sChoice CD $15.25 Holy Fuck LP PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $13.25 Holy Fuck LP PS, US If electronic music is a highly sophisticated robot operated by hi-tech computers, Holy Fuck are the evil counterpart, hell bent with battery operated gadgets, keyboards, and analogue tape. Balanced somewhere between an experimental noise-out and a free-for-all dance party. NME named them in the top three new bands of this year's Glastonbury Festival. MP3 coupon sold with vinyl. Early limited edition tour EP sold out immediately. XL CD $13.25 Human Bell S-T PS, US Feat. David Heumann (ARBOURETUM, CASS MCCOMBS, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY) and Nathan Bell (LUNGFISH, P.W. LONG, Mighty Flashlight, & Television Hill). Their gorgeous guitar duets form an instrumental canvas painted in the warm colored hues of folk & rock music, & simultaneously a blank canvas for the listeners themselves to paint. Their songs are delicately crafted w/ an immaculate clarity, expressiveness, & most of all, openness. ThrillJockey-191 CD $14.00 Ida Lovers Prayers PS, US Their first new album in three years and their clearest, most dynamic to date. A collection of songs that invoke the proximity of the invisible and the reality of love with an earned grace that comes from experience, persistence, and an undiminished enthusiasm for making sounds together. This is their seventh album; recorded with Levon Helm (The Band). Packaged in a special, green-friendly digipak and double-gatefold jacket. Polyvinyl CD $11.50 Ida Lovers Prayers US, PS Vinyl version, limited to 1,000 deluxe, 180-gram 2 x LPs in double gatefold jacket. Includes free digital downloads from the label plus two bonus tracks. Polyvinyl DLP $14.00 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SecretlyCanadian-148 LP $11.50 Instruments Of Science And Technology Music From The Films Of R. Swift PS, US For the critical listener, INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY sounds like Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos had a love child in the 70's and subsequently marooned him/her/it on an Oort Cloud. If they had, this might have been the recording their love child beamed back to Earth. This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for RICHARD SWIFT, who has raised eyebrows and turned heads over the past few years for his unmistakably beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all three releases, it appears that Swift considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new musical recipes. With Instruments of Science and Technology, Swift has resurrected the earliest forms of electronic music, thrown in a few dashes of dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown-and created a new hybrid dish. So fire up the hooka coals, turn on that full screen iTunes visualizer, and pump these jams as loud as your speakers/neighbors will allow. SecretlyCanadian-148 CD $11.50 Jackson, Joe Rain PS, US New album! POPMATTERS: "The eclectic pianist/songwriter delivers a treat -- ten perfectly crafted pop songs that recall his best work or maybe are his best work." Ryko CD $17.75 Japancakes The Sleepy Strange PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Building on the accessible experimentation on If I Could See Dallas and the Down the Elements EP, Japancakes' aptly named second album, The Sleepy Strange, is dreamy and earthy, complex and immediate, and challenging and soothing. Though their modus operandi -- repeating melodic phrases for hours at a time to highlight the subtle shifts in tone and rhythm - - remains the same, The Sleepy Strange is the band's most cohesive work to date; yet it keeps all of the spontaneous beauty of their previous releases. If anything, the slightly more focused sound highlights the band's strong melodies and interplay, making it one of the warmest, most inviting post-rock albums since Jim O'Rourke's Eureka, which also featured a fair amount of Japancakes' secret weapon, the pedal steel guitar. Whether it takes the lead, as on the opening waltz "The Waiting," or adding to the weightless beauty of "Disconnect the Cables"' avant soft rock, the group's masterful use of the instrument gives the music a dreamy, strangely western-tinged timelessness. The surprisingly propulsive "Soft N EZ" adds naive-sounding analog synths to fiddles and pedal steel, highlighting the group's highly inventive (and somewhat startling) mix of styles and sounds within one track. This is also Japancakes' most varied album, both musically and emotionally; "This Year's Beat" subtly shifts from brooding to assuring, while the loopy, languid title track and the dark string- and keyboard-driven finale, "Vinyl Fever," couldn't be farther apart in sound or mood. Hypnotically beautiful, The Sleepy Strange is the best representation yet of Japancakes' exciting repetitions, and one of 2001's best albums. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE. Darla-191 CD $12.25 Japancakes Down The Elements PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Eric Berg's heady instrumental visions maintain something of an unintentional defiance that suggests that the 21st century technology is still a far-off proposition. By focusing on cello strains, droning bass and guitar lines, and insistently groovy acoustic drum patterns, it appears that he and his other Athens, GA, cohorts don't recognize the cut-and-paste, sample-centric age that most rock is now generated in. This EP, which is sandwiched between two larger efforts of equally hypnotic textures, creates moods that are far more demanding of a listener's attention than much of the ambient music produced by the synthesists the world over. The wonderfully infectious riff that propels "A.W. Sonic" somehow manages to sustain its drawing power for the majority of the track's 11-minute lifespan. "Sputnik" and the title track are the disc's straight-ahead electronic fare, but they are so skillfully arranged it's as if they'd been secretly peering in the Orb's laboratory for years. As a lower cost introduction to what Berg has begun to achieve from an experimental rock concept gone right (unlike most), Down the Elements is immensely satisfying. -- ALL MUSIC GUIDE. Originally released as an EP by Kindercore in 2000, Down The Elements clocks in at 37:58 minutes, which makes it a full length in the real world. These recordings were made at the same time as those for If I Could See Dallas. Eclectic, mostly upbeat, instrumental explorations like Trans Am meets Tangerine Dream backed with beautiful blips and burbles sure to sooth. Darla-189 CD $9.00 Japancakes If I Could See Dallas PS, US Reissue. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Japancakes' improvisational drone pop symphonies defy easy classification, stretching a single chord to its breaking point and picking up the pieces to create dense but inviting soundscapes which somehow find the common ground between the soothing wash of ambient and the propulsive energy of rock. For If I Could See Dallas, group ringleader Eric Berg and engineer Andy Baker handcrafted the disc's 11 instrumentals from snatches of studio performances, giving the songs a form and shape their live set no doubt lacks, but the cumulative effect is no less hypnotic -- for all of the record's cosmic glow, the recurring presence of steel guitar keeps the music rooted in terra firma, a paradox which makes the music that much more difficult to pinpoint in any single time or place. The evolutionary process, which guides each song, is almost imperceptibly subtle, their circular melodies shaded by analog synths and strings that bubble in and out of the mix -- creating music that arrives without traveling, Japancakes is that rare experiment as fascinating in practice as it is in theory. --ALL MUSIC GUIDE Darla-186 CD $12.25 Jarvinen, Anna Jag Fick Feeling PS, SWEDEN This is the debut solo full-length release from Stockholm-based Anna Järvinen, former member of Sweden's Granada from 1998-2004. Granada released three albums and one EP on record labels such as Universal, V2 and Look Left Recordings, and were produced by Björn Olsson and Mattias Glavå, who also heavily contributed to this record. Jag Fick Feeling was recorded in the Kungssten industry area in Gothenburg during a rainy summer and cold winter with members of Dungen and The Works, amongst many others. For this record, Järvinen tried to make music she has always loved, with melodies that she grew up hearing: "...the soundtrack to Brideshead Revisited, The Carpenters, Elton John's darling '70s tunes, Vesa Matti Loiri's interpretations of Eino Leino's poetry, Woody Allen movies, Pentti Saarikoski, nature poetry, drug and alcohol abuse, nostalgia, the Finland of my dreams, falling in love, sorrow, homesickness." As a result, Jag Fick Feeling is full of longing, made with delicate orchestration, flute, vibraphone, piano and autoharp. On top of it all, Anna Järvinen's clear-as-a-bell voice rings with a tone not unlike The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler. Each song is sung in Swedish, but the heart doesn't. Hapna CD $15.00 Jettie Kites for Charity PS, US Swedish sensation JETTIE is back w/ their new album. A band whose overseas critical acclaim has garnered press attention and fans the world over, JETTIE's sound is reminiscent to that of early REM or Scandinavian contemporaries Johan and Daryll Ann. A dark and stark, truly powerful and uplifting listen, JETTIE's brand of tortured yet anthemic pop brilliance is undeniably some of the best "BIG" rock being made today. AP: "Moody, orchestral rock that sounds so big it's hard to believe Jettie's music can actually fit on a tiny silver disc." Eyeball CD $9.50 Kessler, Matt The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries PS, US The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries is a 40 page illustrated story, showcasing the finest new inventions the science world has to offer, including dancing toilets, blogging minnows, and scripture-reciting bowling balls. These most wonderful inventions are lovingly illustrated so that readers may marvel all the more at these, the science world's most recent and most excellent advancements. The story relates the search conducted by an esteemed board of judges to find that one invention which is truly the most amazing and new. EyeRocket BOOK $7.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more! Dekorder-022 LP $17.00 Kubin, Felix Und Das Mineral Orchester Music for Theatre and Radio Play PS, GERMANY We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved worldwide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980's, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus' Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubin's most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods it's still almost immediately recognizable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers' songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - it's all there, and more! Dekorder-022 CD $15.00 La Rainbow Toy Orchestra In Love With Toys EP PS, SPAIN Toy pop played on toys from Spain. Music for dreaming with your eyes opened. Influences of Amiina, Pascal Comelade or Dustin O halloran. CD 3" in cool mini dvd case... AEIOU-002 CD $9.00 Lazarus Like Trees We Grow To Be Satellites PS, US Limited to 325. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Lyrics and artwork screened on the inside of jacket. RuinedPotential-05 LP $16.25 Louis XIV Slick Dogs and Ponies PS, US New album from sleazy-in-a-good-way art rockers. ATL CD $14.25 Lowfish Burn The Lights Out PS, US Now on CD. Lowfish is back with a new full length LP (2x12) and CD release for this fall 2007. Synth pop gone wild mashed up with breaks , wrapped in emotive melodies and pumped full of bass for the dance floor characterize his new LP . A total of 10 new tracks and two of his golden ones from the Sat.31 ep. Lowfish again determines his destiny in a positive , individualistic styled manner that can be described as complex, yet fully enjoyed by most listeners. Bladerunner , Wave Noir, or William Gibson breaking out the synths are a few words to describe this style Electro. Post Modern for sure considering the artful and seamless interweaving of various close connected genres from past and present coming together to define a sound that is new and only Lowfish. Artwork by 310K with a sleeve done in 60's pop fiery orange and some of the coolest Graphics to come out of the Amsterdam design scene. As always no expense on mastering with professional cuts made by Frankford and Wayne NY city. A lot of work went into this release to deliver the highest quality in overall production and sound. Satamile-41-2 CD $9.50 Lungfish Rainbows from Atoms PS, US Re-mastered version of the band's third cd, originally released in 1993. (Don't forget that Lungfish's singer is DANIEL HIGGS, who has embarked on a burgeoning solo career.) Out of print for several years, remastered at Silver Sonya. Dischord CD $10.25 Magnetic Fields, The Distortion (ON SALE) PS, US New album! STEREOGUM: "The Magnetic Fields can't be accused of false advertising in titling studio album eight Distortion: Each tune's wrapped in a fuzzy, clamoring shell, even when the feedbacking acoustic piano and guitar hum's relegated to deep in the background. Distortion's consistent textural palette's reminiscent of Holiday's "Desert Island," but this is all about icy New York City, or some other place where it snows. Besides distortion, the songs are coated in the lonesome darkness of The Charm Of The Highway Strip. Sigh. On the whole, it sports more sonic depth than 2004's sorta minor, stringier i. Let's consider it a baker's dozen of sad-and-out-of-love songs... Let's also consider it incredibly beautiful." Nonesuch CD $15.00 Magoo Soateramic Sounds of Magoo [expanded re-issue] PS, SCOTLAND The original 1997 album and 6 bonus tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brief tracks on Soateramic Sounds... are a giddy cacophony of fuzzy pop gems. Magoo's songs are noisy, quirky, and occasionally low-fi, but above all they're hooky, with sing-along choruses and friendly melodies packed into every second. It's quite a likeable approach -- some of the album's tracks are rockers, others are mid-tempo pop songs, and still others, surprisingly enough, are atmospheric and rather mellow. Each song casually dedicates itself to churning out snappy, memorable structures. Between the band's charming generosity with melody, their scattered and idiosyncratic approach to instrumental presentation, and their inexhaustible supply of hooks, Soateramic Sounds... proves to be an immensely satisfying listen." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Magoo Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today [re-issue] PS, SCOTLAND Re-issue of Magoo's 1998 album. ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Mahjongg Kontpab PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms. Krecords-191 LP $10.25 Mahjongg Kontpab PS, US MAHJONGG began in Columbia, Mo., which many consider a small, isolated place. Through the communication revolution that has transformed our culture in the past generation, this isolation gave Mahjongg the advantage of encapsulating their community spirit, as cogently summed up on "Kontpab". Mahjongg get real and "Kontpab" keeps you elevated, raking across several strata of dance floor enchantment to sustain the listener in a cocoon of measured propulsion; "listener" transformed by empirical data into a "believer". Hard facts, hard rhythms. Krecords-191 CD $11.50 Mars Volta Bedlam in Goliath PS, US New album from modern prog princes! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "On their first three proper albums, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez played games of quiet-loud-quiet (or loud-quiet-loud), sneaking around stealthily for minutes at a time before detonating another blast of thrash-metal riffing and piercing screams. The Bedlam in Goliath is simply loud-loud-loud, virtually every song played at maximum volume and tempo. But, in fact, instead of being wearisome or exhausting, it's an oddly refreshing album. The band gets closer to their roots in thrash and funk-metal than ever before, avoids using electronics except where they can make a big impact, and finally lets semi-permanent guest John Frusciante occupy a readily discernible role." UMVD CD $15.00 McCombs, Cass Dropping The Writ PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $13.25 McCombs, Cass Dropping The Writ PS, US The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experiences. This is his first release on Domino and follows 2002's EP "Not The Way", 2002's full-length "A", and 2005's "PREfection". Domino CD $13.25 McGill, Cameron & What Army Hold On Beauty PS, US On his 3rd album, Hold On Beauty, Chicago's Cameron McGill returns accompanied by a band and a handful of sing-able choruses. The lineup that accompanied him at Lollapalooza 2006 and throughout the last two years is captured here on 9 songs of pop urgency. The album was recorded in Chicago throughout 2007 and includes keyboard and vocal contributions from Elanors' Noah Harris. The songs take an anthemic, albeit dark, approach to 60s-influenced pop. A veteran performer, originally from Champaign IL, Cameron McGill has spent years delivering his dark, sophisticated pop songs, reflecting the likes of Nick Cave and Warren Zevon. McGill has independently released two albums, 2004's kitchen-sink-pop Stories of The Knife and The Back and the sparse Nebraska-era Springsteen inspired Street Ballads & Murderesques in 2006, both to critical acclaim. An upcoming tour in March takes the band to the SXSW festival in Austin TX. Post-Important CD $10.00 Metabolismus The Social Club Nº 7 PS, US The METABOLISMUS collective has been making music since the mid-1980's, self- releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl Lps. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by SAMARA LUBELSKI and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen. TheSocialRegistry-052 45 $5.50 MGMT Oracular Spectacular PS, US An enigmatic & prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds & hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. Sony CD $13.00 Mono The Sky Remains The Same As Ever PS, US "The Sky Remains The Same As Ever" is a nearly two-hour document of the recording sessions for "You Are There", and the several worldwide tours that followed its release. In addition to the dozen live songs that are documented in all their sweaty fury, the film captures the decidedly less glamorous aspects of being an underground rock band from a foreign country, expressing sentiments through body language out of necessity, and driving...lots and lots of driving. Most effectively, the film displays the friendships that have made MONO's journeys enjoyable, and the fanatical dedication that has made it all possible. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-135 DVD $14.25 Monosov, Ilya Seven Lucky Plays Or Songs To Fix A Broken Heart PS, US This is his private celebration of the human experience & are based on his poems & stories written from 1996-2007. His early exposure to Russian dissident culture greatly affected his life & art. Influenced from a young age by his parents's passion for literature, art, & poetry; as well as by the music of Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, Miles Davis, & African American folk music traditions. Feat. Margaret Weink (FERN KNIGHT), mandolin & harp by Jesse Sparhawk, & electric guitar by GREG WEEKS. LanguageofStone CD $13.25 Morcheeba World Looking in (DZ RMX) PS, US Another Release from the elusive LOSBUD. This time it is a remix of Britian's Morcheeba's Classic World Looking in, Remixed by DZ (Scuba, Hot Flush, Black Acre, Lodubs). LosBud-1208004 12 $8.25 Mueller, Jon Metals PS, US Percussionist JON MUELLER works with rhythms that come from gong frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort, to stunning effect: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the years that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own. TableoftheElements-108 CD $13.00 Munch Munch Wedding PS, US After being cherry picked to accompany the likes of Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, and TV on the Radio on the recent DAVID SHRIGLEY CD+book "Worried Noodles", MUNCH MUNCH return with a new single this January 22nd on TOMLAB. The A side, 'Wedding' defines Munch Munch's sound. With prominent synth similar to Of Montreal, and the distinct vocals of Klaxons, this track is a piece of raucous DIY charm. Complex drums and synth move in to a jingle pop ditty with 'Endolphins'. Like Architecture in Helsinki, Munch Munch are able to blend funk elements into the proceedings, making this track easy for every stripe of listener to enjoy. It is as hypnotic as Steve Reich-esque patterns play counterpoint to old school Neptunes style breakdowns. The end to this delectable slice of musical initiative is 'Wet Nightmare' - the shortest track on the single, but by no means the least noteworthy. Like a Christmas song on speed, it grabs your attention and holds you tight, ending in a crescendo of frantic gusto. Recording frantic pop explosions in their bedrooms, they mix abstract lyrics, unpredictable structures, and ecstatic playfulness into a unique sound that appears to be the start of a fruitful career. Tomlab-109 45 $5.50 North Mississippi Allstars Hernando PS, US Hernando also marks the first release since 2005's critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Electric Blue Watermelon. Where EBW was a tribute to the tradition of the Hill Country Blues legacy that has always influenced the band, the brothers Dickinson -- Luther (guitars, vocals) and Cody (drums) -- and bassist Chris Chew, decided to cut the lines from the past with the new record and create their most personal sonic statement to date. To celebrate this newfound unity in independence, they called the record Hernando, which is the name of the town the trio grew up in together. "This is definitely our most focused record of original music that we've done," says Luther. "This records stands alone... we don't draw as much on our Hill Country roots. We're a blues rock band and set out to make a blues rock record." SongsoftheSouth CD $16.75 Nurse With Wound Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered] PS, US This early album, re-mastered & packaged in a digipak, contains all 3 tracks from the original vinyl version, as well as their re-workings which later appeared on the CD "Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven." The record, first released in 1983, feat. one of their earliest collaborations w/David Tibet of Current 93. Jnana/Durtro CD $15.00 O'Death Spider Home PS, US With the B-side "Silk Hole" , part of the second round of Gigantic singles series titles. GiganticMusic 45 $6.00 Owens, Buck Live in Scandinavia PS, US Buck Owens' legendary live albums from Carnegie Hall, Japan and London were landmark efforts that captured Buck and the Buckaroos at their peak, but he also recorded other live albums overseas. The most obscure of Buck's live releases was his April 1970 show in Oslo, Norway that featured Don Rich with the Buckaroos, Buck's son Buddy Alan and the Hagers. Fiery and intense, it reflects that unique early '70s period when Buck was experimenting and broadening his sound beyond his old style. With only a couple thousand copies pressed for the Norwegian market, this was Buck's rarest album. Track Listing: Opening Announcement By Gunner Bide/Up On Cripple Creek/Okie From Muskogee/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/Buckaroo/Murray Kash Introduces Buddy Alan Owens/Freeborn Man/Big Mama's Medicine Show/Murray Kash Introduces the Hagers/I'm Jesse James/Six Days On the Road/Murray Kash Introduces Buck Owens/Medley: Act Naturally-Together Again/Gunner Bide Wishes Buck Owens Welcome/Medley: Love's Gonna Live Here-Cryin' Time-Sam's Place/Medley: I've Got a Tiger By the Tail/Open Up Your Heart/Orange Blossom Special/Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'/Tall Dark Stranger/Johnny B. Goode. (Sundazed) SundazedMusicInc.-111662 CD $18.75 Pascal (SWE) Galgberget PS, SWEDEN Second album from Swedish sensations Pascal, whose first album, Forbi Fabriken, was on many Swedish music critics "best of" lists in 2006. Unpolished pop with stalwart Swedish punk roots, primal and persuasive, dropping hints like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Hakan Hellstrom, Bob Hund, Velvet Underground, The Cramps, 60s rock-n-roll... A huge, happy rush, sung in Swedish! Novoton-014 CD $14.00 Patchen, Kenneth/Lawrence Ferlinghetti Rebel Poets Of America PS, UK Two of the most brilliant poets of the beat generation, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti performing their compelling works in a jazz context This edition captures the movement in poetry toward all-inclusiveness, and a belief that the language and music of the street had their own beauty, integrity and significance, rooted as they were in the experience of ordinary people. Patchen is one the most important american writers of the 20th century and Ferlinghetti wrote 'Coney Island Of The Mind' which sold a million copies. In terms of both attitude and style, Patchen and Ferlinghetti paved the way for Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Captain Beefheart. Strong export potential to America and to jazz culture specialists in Japan. El-133 CD $15.50 Pelican After The Ceiling Cracked PS, US These accomplished Chicagoans have been kicking ass and taking names on an international basis for years now. This DVD features Pelican's already legendary live set from The Scala in Kings Cross, London, on December 20, 2005, interviews, live bonus material shot at various stops on the band's past US tours, a video for "Autumn Into Summer", and an extensive photo gallery. Also included is a three-inch audio CD containing two versions of the song "Pink Mammoth" - one of which features all the members of Seattle rock destroyers These Arms Are Snakes, "End Of Seasons", a Prefuse 73 remix medley of "Aurora Borealis", and the untitled track from "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw". "They've always arrived in town to pop your eardrums; now, though, they're gonna make you bleed in seconds rather than hours" - Drowned In Sound. HydraHead DVD $15.50 Pelican Australasia PS, US FINAL PRESSING, for real this time, on GOLD/SILVER VINYL with all new gatefold artwork, designed & screen printed by Delicious Design League. LIMITED to 1000. Interloper-03 LP $24.50 Penate, Jack Matinee PS, US upbeat to downbeat and heartfelt to joyous. He writes both infectious and intelligent pop songs and has undoubtedly made one of the most exciting records of the year. "Those Brits have the busking thing down...and in the fine tradition that has strung from Billy Bragg to KT Tunstall, Jack is a singing, stomping, clapping bloke with a guitar, a batch of tight tunes, and a self-effacing sense of humor" XL CD $13.25 Pequeña Fiera! Casiotone For Bears PS, SPAIN Casiotone for bears plays 10 songs with different casiotone sounds. Lo-fi ambient pop with influences of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine or Grandaddy...toy instruments and a lot of emotional melodies sung by a little child with bear´s head that sings with no words. AEIOU-001 CD $11.00 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HappyJack-015 LP $10.50 Pollard, Robert Superman Was a Rocker PS, US Pollard recently poured through a bunch of old cassette tapes & found some great, never-used instrumentals that he either wrote or co-wrote, & he decided to go into the studio & put vocals (& melodies!) over them, just like he 'used to back in the old Guided By Voices days.' The music spans a 20+ yr period, so in essence, this is an album 20 years in the making. HappyJack-015 CD $10.00 Prurient And Still, Wanting CD + 5" Vinyl PS, US CD + 5" vinyl. A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. This special 1000 copies first edition of the CD comes with a Bonus 5" vinyl with tracks that won't be available anywhere else. NoFunProductions-027 CD $15.00 Pumuky Los Exploradores Perdidos PS, SPAIN BEST EP OF DECEMBER IN SPANISH MAGAZINE ROCKDELUX. Notice to seafarers, as of today, we are making available the new recording by Pumuky "Los exploradores perdidos" ("The lost explorers"). Amidst the fog, sounds rise and, like a veil, cover the ship piloted by Canaries artist Jaír Ramírez. Having definitely lost its island coastal navigation route, Pumuky uses old navigation charts, as shown by the extraordinary packaging signed Burnao, in order to give sense to its introspection. This is no Conrad-style metaphysical journey though: it is about crossing a storm of eroticism without going mad in the lulls of disappointment. There is much to be discovered in this drifting disc, and seafarers with the necessary instinct to compose a cocktail of horizons, such as David Cordero from Ursula, Abraham Boba, or Pedro Cantudo from Jubilee y Limousine. All of them are led by Pumuky, whose travels take shape in these 5 spectral songs full of tenderness. The explorers seem lost, yes, but we are still in good hands. LejosDiscos-008 CD5 $10.25 Quarteto Em Cy Aleluia 1964-66 PS, UK The last truly great undiscovered vocal group of the sixties...Mamas & Papas, Free Design, the Association, Harper's Bizarre. Prominent in the first generation of the bossa nova movement; made seminal album "os afros sambas" with Vinicius and Baden Powell. Worked with Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marcos Valle. Centrepiece of this set is the 1965 album they recorded with the male Brazilian vocal group Tama Trio under the auspices of arranger Luiz Eca. It is a masterpiece. El-131 CD $15.50 Radar Brothers Auditorium PS, US This is filled w/ beautifully layered melodies of wistful ease & delicate longing. W/ the addition of guitarist Jeff Palmer for the entire recording session on this, they have expanded the range & texture of the trademarked Radar Bros. sun baked & dreamy California psychedelic-soul. The perfect record for a long drive on a tree-lined 2 lane country road. Merge CD $13.00 Rafter Sex Death Cassette PS, US Inspired by influences as diverse as Guided By Voices, R Stevie Moore, Fela Kuti, Lightning Bolt, Fushitsusha, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Cody Chestnutt, "SEX DEATH CASSETTE" is an album full of hope, determination and chaos. It'll leave you with sweat dripping down your face onto your swelled lip; fresh, liquid salt, the quintessential flavor of late night post-disco parties and booty slinging good times. After dancing to this album, you're heavy with it, like too much cough syrup on a stomach full of hi-quality sushi. RAFTER executes the helter-skelter boogie-down production so gracefully that it is no mystery why those in-the-know recruit him, including the likes of Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture, Arab on Radar, The Album Leaf, Rocket from the Crypt, Danielson, Black Heart Procession, The Peppermints, Hot Snakes, his own band Bunky, and fellow ASTHMATIC KITTY artists (Castanets, Liz Janes, and Sufjan Stevens). AsthmaticKitty-037 CD $11.50 Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Person Volume Two: 1965-67 PS, UK Volume two of our mini series featuring the amazing Ramsey Lewis. Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, fingerpoppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstance! With personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in Bebop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, and Jazz history...as soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them! Rev-Ola-235 CD $15.50 Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Person v.1: 1960 - 65 PS, UK Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The very epitome of groovy, finger poppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstances...with personnel including Ramsey himself, with his roots in BeBop, and Maurice White (founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely in the very midst of soul, Jazz, funk and whatever history! As soon as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew them! With a whole load of amazing performances recorded live during their record-breaking tours of the 1960s, this is THE Ramsey Lewis Trio album you need...believe it! Amazing and timeless soul-jazz-pop-bossa-boogaloo you'll love! Perfectly remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins of this parish...and wonderfully packaged by Mr. Andy Morten in Zummerzet! Rev-Ola-221 CD $15.00 Ramsey, Tyler A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea (ON SALE) PS, US Debut album from the new guitarist for Band of Horses. Ramsey is best known for his guitar work. Crafting delicate, finger-style guitar picking reminiscent of John Fahey and Leo Kottke, but with a sum effect that is all his own. Indie folk, Country Blues, Finger style guitar - Ramsey is a composer of intricate, ethereal songs of melancholy and rumination. POPMATTERS REVIEW: "These days, Tyler Ramsey's probably best known for playing guitar with Band of Horses, but he's also forging a strong solo identity. A Long Dream finds the Asheville, NC musician trafficking in gentle, largely acoustic arrangements that recall the deft guitar playing of Leo Kottke or John Fahey." EchoMountain CD $12.50 Ringenberg, Jason Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007 PS, US Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock performers, laying waste to gritty bar rooms and fancy stages from Nashville to L.A. A key patriarch of both the alt-country and Americana explosions of the 1990s, Jason is roots music royalty and his creative lineage is detailed here on the two-disc collection Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007. The set includes tracks from all phases of Ringenberg's storied solo career - new versions of Scorchers classics, re-mastered original solo material, rarities and new unreleased tracks. YepRoc DCD $17.00 Rings Black Habit PS, US First Nation has become Rings. Rings is the new First Nation. This is their new record. It is called Black Habit. New York's First Nation was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosko, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective's Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band. Black Habit delivers in a major way. Rings have clearly developed their own style: a loose tribal pop sound that thrives on vocal harmonies and pulsating drum rhythms. Black Habit's energy is full of beauty, elegance and simplicity. The new name represents the group in many ways: the group's circular compositions, the bonds between them, their decision-making processes, and their feminine beliefs, interlocking, connected, whole, and continuous. PawTracks-020 CD $14.25 Road Can't Talk PS, US ROAD sound like Massive Attack going on a trip to brazil and Africa, taking with them the soul of Terry Callier and the raw funk of Gorillaz. Features guest vocals from the likes of Terry Callier, Earl Zinger (2 banks of 4), Valerie Etienne (Galliano, Kylie & Jamiroquai), Lucy Jules (Brand New Heavies, George Michael & Beverly Knight), Rosina Kazi (Lal), Elliot May (Basement Jaxx), Lorna Brown (Terry Callier), Jeanine levy and Will Mathews (Lo-finger & Rub Ultra), and the result is an infectious, fresh debut album. StereoDeluxe CD $17.75 S.T. Mikael Mind of Fire PS, SWEDEN After an 11 year silence, here's a new album by the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic ulti-instrumentalist, S.T. Mikael. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-'90s... Now that he's finally back, here's a chance at last for the world to join his psychedelic world again. The music, stretching out in many different directions, has been done freely and spontaneously in an extremely relaxed and happy environment. He also joins forces with Dungen's Reine Fiske and Fredrik Björling, whose musical expertise now also grace the grooves. These otherworldly acid tripper recordings now exist in the real world and S.T. Mikael proves, once again, to be a gifted songwriter and an unconventional performer with a very personal ear for acoustics and an emotional honesty seldom seen these days. Melodic folk-rock elements flow with waves of heavy fuzz-phase leads; weird, detached, haunted vocals echo over the band and the whole thing seems to teeter on the brink of psychedelic oblivion. This is not psychedelic revival, but the psychedelic NOW. His soaring vocals, surreal lyrics, fragile, folky melodies, heavy fuzz riffs, mind-bending soul funk and penchant for the spiritual and mystical make this a fascinating voyage that is so mind-twisting, soul-swirling, upper psychedelic that your third eye takes you on a joyride through an altered state! This album makes your brain start thinking in those pebble-splash-pond-mind circular expanding waveforms that reveal the password to tomorrow. The CD also contains 9 previously-unreleased vintage recordings and unique spoken introductions by Mikael. Limited edition of 2,000 copies only. SubliminalSounds-022 CD $16.25 Sambassadeur Migration PS, SWEDEN Migration is a sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meet deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the most heartfelt melodies. Biography: Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the "Between the Lines"-EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home which gave the production a primitive quality that labeled them by some as being a lo-fi-twee act. This was never the bands intention. If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home-computer while watching their kids being taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change. The EP "Coastal Affairs", released in may 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without loosing their enigmatic qualities, songs like "Kate" and "Marie" introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the opportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late august 2007 with "Subtle Changes". Labrador-106 CD $12.25 Sambassadeur Final Say [single] PS, SWEDEN Track listing: 1. "Final Say" / 2. "Crooked" Labrador-112 CD5 $5.00 Samurai S-T PS, UK Classic Progressive rock album - Now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes. New essay & interview with Dave Lawson. "Samurai" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Released on the short lived Greenwich Gramophone label in 1972, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. Evolving from the equally excellent band WEB (whose album "I Spider" is a classic of the genre), the musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. Sadly the group disbanded shortly after the release of the record resulting in limited sales. However, the influence of the album was not lost as both DAVE LAWSON and TONY REEVES soon joined DAVE GREENSLADE to form the group GREENSLADE, effectively taking up the musical mantle laid down by SAMURAI. This Esoteric reissue features a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2025 CD $20.25 Saviours Into Abaddon PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kemado LP $16.50 Saviours Into Abaddon PS, US Merging howling lyrical venom with an endless arsenal of corrosive guitar orchestrations, harmonized leads and runaway locomotive rhythms, San Fran's SAVIOURS have been rapidly garnering international attention as one of the best heavy bands active today. The self-described "piss-angry metal band", known for its ferocious live performances and original stamp on the classic power and thrash metal of decades past, entered Los Angeles' A&M/Henson Studios in late August with producer Joe Barresi (Melvins, Kyuss, Tool) to record its sophomore album, Into Abaddon. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: "Saviours have quickly established themselves as some of the best purveyors of rock-tinged metal in the Bay Area, playing guitar riffs so big they could choke a whale" Kemado CD $13.00 Scary Mansion Every Joke Is Half the Truth PS, US Massachusetts-bred Leah Hayes attended art school in New York before moving to France where she played In a band called Satan's Fingers, collaborating with David Ivar from underground pop legends Herman Dune. Growing up playing piano and guitar, Hayes also took up the thunderstick, an Appalachian instrument similar in Tone to the banjo. Her collection of ballpoint pen notebook illustrations "Holy Molly" was published by pantographic in 2004 and her freelance illustration work has appeared in the New York Times, Punk Planet, and Mcsweeney's. Shortly after starting the band Scary Mansion with Ben Shapiro (the Fugue) on drums and Bradley Banks on Bass, Hayes set about recording the tracks that make up "Every Joke Is Half The Truth". Hayes worked with producer Kyle Fischer (Rainer Maria) over an extended six-month period. With the sound of the thunderstick, the resulting tracks alternate between sparse intimate tones and near claustrophobic layers of feedback, all with an attention to the needs of the songs. Hayes' lyrical approach mines themes of alienation and romantic snafus, embodied in characters litigious, predatory, and straw-filled. "Every Joke Is Half The Truth" is Scary Mansion's debut album. Hayes has a Graphic novel due out on fantagraphics February 2008 called "Funeral of the Heart". Zum-023 CD $10.00 Scenics How Does It Feel To Be Loved: The Scenics Play the Velvet Underground PS, US This quickly immerses the listener into a warm frenzy of fuzzy energy. First formed in '76 by Andy Meyers & Ken Badger, they were one of the most intrepidly inspired bands of the Toronto new wave/punk scene. They now return w/ a full-length collection of Velvet Underground covers recorded live between 1977-81 in Toronto. Jangly, inverted pop aesthetics & wild mood swings of feverish noise dominate these ten tracks, making this an abrasive wash of harmonious distortion. DreamTower-001 CD $16.25 Scientists, The Swampland: Birth Of The Scientists PS, UK Formed in Perth, Australia, but later to relocate to Melbourne and then London, Kim Salmon's Scientists played a brand of minimalist punked-up swamp blues that saw them become legends on at least three continents. Just about everyone loves the Scientist, from Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (both of whom have asked the band to play with them) to Sub Pop to Henry Rollins - in fact, the entire US alt-rock hierarchy. And what's not to like - this new compilation for the UK features the strongest tracks from the band's legendary Blood Red River recordings, notably 'Swampland', one of the most evocative and best loved Australian songs of all time. But that's not all: as well as the studio recordings, with Kim's permission we've unearthed some dynamite live recordings from 1982 that have never been released anywhere before. The packaging includes a mammoth essay on the band's history written by Alex Ogg, with full co-operation and humorous asides from Kim, plus photos and memorabilia. A handy starting point for those new to the band, featuring as it does the cream of the Scientists' work from their acclaimed early Melbourne period, but spiced up with some amazing live tracks for the established fan. CherryRed-345 CD $15.50 Serpentina Planeando En Tu Azotea PS, SPAIN The new album of the Valencian group, SERPENTINA, is made up of two siblings, Paco and María Tamarit, with the title "Planeando en tu Azotea" Both of them are members of the conservatory and Paco, who is in charge of composing and creating the beautiful arrangements of the songs, has collaborated in the past few years with numerous bands from this region and he also produced the debut album of CORAZÓN. In this album, we find 12 new hits of luminous and charming pop, with the advance of the video of "Querido Miedo", which is notably the return of the band after a magnificent debut album "Blancamañana" (2004) released on the small independent label from Barcelona, Annika Records In brief, "Planeando en tu Azotea" is a summer breeze of pop songs for short and elegant, while distinguished, melody lovers, packed with dreamy voices and crystal clear instrumentation. A few drops of bitter liquor which help to mitigate the placid sweetness are suggested while listening to this gem. Elefant-1130 CD $15.75 Set In Sand Nothing Against The Ocean PS, JAPAN "Nothing Against The Ocean" is the debut CD of Set In Sand, licensed by Hue (JAPAN) from Abandon Building Records (US). Set in Sand (one of the many aliases of producer Lendin Hopes) was brought into this world around 2000, originally designed as a purely electronic and instrumental project working within the nether-regions of IDM. Early Set in Sand creations followed the blueprint for experimental electronic song crafts, disjointed percussion and glitchy filtered melodies with subtle instrumentation and vocal samples offering a hint of things to come. Two net releases came out in this vein, the self released "Are You Listening EP" and the full length "You Say You Can't Sleep Alone" by German label Subsource. Around 2004 Lendin reconnected with his singer-songwriter roots, adding acoustic guitar and vocals to a large portion of his compositions. Examples of this style can be found on the net release "Mini Splintered Things" hosted by the good folks at Drift Records. In addition to these three net releases Set in Sand has contributed songs to a number of compilations including "Assemblage Sessions 1 and 2 CD's" (Abandon Building), "Subvaritrax" (Subvariant), "Ctrl-Space" (Modsquare), "The Karaoke Hymnal" (Peppermill Records) and "Calderas of the Mind" and "Heart on the Right Spot" ( Project Mooncircle/ Botanica Del Jibaro). Set in Sand is also the producer for the whacky Hip Hop duo Flowtation Addvice (who's debut "Terrain Clouds" is due out on Abandon Building in early 08.) With "NATO" Lendin has synthesized all the elements of his early work into a weird piece of sonic experimentation masquerading as a sort of Pop album. Half of the albums 8 songs feature vocals, a surreal blend of androgynous singing and hyperactive MC work. The music is based around skeletons of guitar and programmed beats with multiple layers of digital nonsense wrapped around them. A most distinct touch is Lendin's use of live drums in complimentary patterns over the grounding electronic percussion. It results in a blurring mesh of chaotic calm, establishing a kind of fresh voice in the world of beatmaking. In other words it's pretty decent stuff. Hue-1039 CD $16.25 Shalabi, Sam Eld PS, US Third solo outing was conceived in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 while Shalabi was living there and further realized in Montreal & Vancouver. His ideas were to compose songs for singers he knew and enjoyed and to create a 'modern Arabic pop' record. Features well over 25 musicians. Alien8-074 CD $13.50 Sin Ropas Fire Prizes [picture disc] PS, USW Originally released by Zeal/Konkurrent in the fall of 05', this fantastic album gets a limited run, pic disc release worthy of the sounds embedded in it's grooves .The jacket w/ a die cut tree reveals the full-color innersleeve & when you pull the last layer back the picture disc is revealed. Brent Green provided the artwork for the inner-sleeve & pic disc. Shrug-003 LP $20.00 Smith, Elliot XO PS, US Originally released in '98. Though firmly in the McCartney/Lennon/Rundgren/Davies school of songwriting Smith was nothing if not an original. Plain-126 LP $16.25 Smith, Elliott Figure 8 PS, US His 2nd for the Dreamworks label, & fifth overall, this is a lush & beatifully melancholy collection of pop songs. Plain-127 DLP $20.00 Sneaky Pete Kleinow Anthology PS, US Sneaky Pete Kleinow was best known as a mind-altering pedal steel guitarist, and an integral part of the sound of Gram Parsons' original Flying Burrito Bros. Every rock fan worth his salt knows Sneaky as the brilliant steel player zigzagging his way across The Gilded Palace of Sin, the Burritos' stunning 1969 debut, and as the band member on the album cover decked out in an all-black Nudie suit with a golden pterodactyl on the chest, where Superman's red "S" would have been. And that was Sneaky, to a T: super-hero steel guitarist to no less than the Rolling Stones, Booker T. & the MG's, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Doug Sahm, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon - among countless others. Here's a brilliant taste of the pedal steel guitar genius of Sneaky Pete Kleinow. Long may he wave. Track Listing:Beat the Heat/Hickory Wind/Sister/Oklahoma Stomp/From Me to You/Sleepy Lagoon/Silverbird/It Makes No Difference/Ain't No Easy Way/Louisiana/Love of the Common People/Cannonball Rag/Fly the Bright Sea/Woman/Sneak Attack/Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)/Sleepwalk/Faded Love: The Flying Burrito Bros. SundazedMusicInc. CD $18.75 Snow, Hank Paving The Highway With Tears PS, UK Resplendent in his lavish and colorful sequin-studded suits, Hank Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums, and was one of the biggest stars of country music practically from it's origins until his passing, a unique man and a unique achievement. Born in Nova Scotia in 1914, Snow embarked on a musical career as a teenager, conquering Canadian radio as "The Yodelling Ranger", until his voice changed and so did his name! In 1950, Snow had the monster hit, "I'm Movin' On", the first of many, and covered by country, R&B and Rock acts to this day...Everyone from Johnny Cash to The Rolling Stones has dome their take of this classic song... Along the way, Hank even briefly managed his young protégé Elvis Presley, introducing him at The Grand Ole Opry as he had done for Hank Williams before him... Hank Snow was a giant of country music, and here we present some of his greatest recordings. A member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, and the Nova Scotia Music Hall Of Fame, there simply isn't a hall of fame complete without Hank! An amazing CD collection of 1950s hits by one of the masters of Country Music! Beautifully packaged by Pepperbox! Wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland! A must for all fans of top flight Americana! Rev-Ola-237 CD $15.50 Solvent Demonstration Tape 1997-2007 PS, US STRICTLY LIMITED!! These 27 tracks document all the 'hits' of the past decade, some of which are long out of print, as well as introduce 3 previously unreleased songs & Solvent's latest vocoder pop track & recent live-set favorite, "In Light". Also incl. are several examples of his exemplary vocoder-synthpop sound & an ADULT. remix GhostlyInternational-070 CD $13.25 Songs Of Green Pheasant S-T PS, US Limited to 303. Custom die cut hand screened jacket. Black vinyl. Timeless effort from the UK's Duncan Sumpner. Picture- window jacket with printed vellum. Artwork by Esteban Rey. RuinedPotential-06 LP $21.75 Spear Of Destiny One Eyed Jacks PS, UK Making its long overdue debut on CD is the second album by Spear Of Destiny, which hit No.22 in the UK National Charts when first released in 1984. Contains the British hit singles 'Liberator' and 'Prisoner Of Love'. Now comes with seven bonus tracks and the whole package has been remastered by Tim Turan. Booklet contains original LP artwork, liner notes by "No More Heroes" author Alex Ogg, lyrics to all the songs plus pictures of all the relevant singles sleeves. Still very much active on the live scene to this very day, vocalist Kirk Brandon also fronts Theatre Of Hate and the Dead Men Walking collective. Anagram-201 CD $15.50 Speare, Jed Sound Works 1982-1987 PS, US JED SPEARE is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works "1982-1987" reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analogue sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early 80s he recorded with the San Francisco groups, Research Library (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), Ultrasheen (7" ep; Subterranean), and Appliances. This 2xCD collects five of Speare's long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. Twelve page booklet features introduction by video artist and writer George Quasha, Speare's detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reprodcutions. Remastered by BHOB RAINEY (nmperign). FamilyVineyard-052 DCD $14.25 Stone Breath A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons (EXPANDED) PS, US Originally released in 1998, now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth & spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees & birds that talk, the smell of wet earth & the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances & presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo. Hand/Eye-033 DCD $15.25 Suckle Against Nurture PS, SCOTLAND ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "here are a few reasons why you should care about Suckle: they are a band founded by ex-Vaselines Frances McKee, they are on the antiestablishment, flag-waving Chemikal Underground label, and they sound like a female-fronted Tindersticks fighting the urge to vomit up an overdose of Prozac. Partly, this is a consequence of McKee's sinister monotones guiding along melodies that just barely scrape the sky of what a struggling listener could call optimism. "So Happy Before" -- with touching echoes, minimalist piano, and slide guitar -- stretches the very definition of its title, while "Honey Suicide" builds up a subtle premise of angular basslines and soaring, sun-streaked choruses that will have you feeling elated and depressed at the exact same time. Suckle's brand of enchanted unhappiness should not be undervalued: The simple folk-pop of the past may be just a shadow, but this is the sound of a confused personality just aching to be discovered." ChemikalUnderground CD $12.25 Sunburned Hand Of The Man Fire Escape PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SmalltownSuperjazz-134 LP $14.50 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus! [Bonus CD] PS, US "A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. The expanded US edition contains an enhanced bonus disc with four b-sides and three videos. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine. RoughTradeUs DCD $15.00 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus! [bonus disc] PS, US A collection of twelve autonomous songs ranging in style from country and contemporary rock to orchestral psychedelic pop. A gloriously intricate album jam-packed with the sort of sunny melodies and melancholy arrangements that make every SFA release a symphonic and smart slice of songcraft. "Pure pop excellence" - Harp Magazine. RoughTrade DCD $13.25 Super Furry Animals Hey, Venus! [bonus disc] PS, US New album plus bonus material. RoughTradeUS DCD $15.00 Tape Op Issue #63 PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! PETER GABRIEL discusses the future, The BOOKS on found sounds. Also SYLVIA MASSY, GEORGE MASSENBURG, an article on Racho De La Luna, Gear & music reviews & much more. ZINE $4.00 Tau Emerald Travellers Two PS, US Full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & SHARRON KRAUS. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. They were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together & here is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds & then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. Important-172 CD $12.50 Te' It Is One's Mind Try To Sing Realstic Sound In Resounds PS, JAPAN 1.Even mightiest soul and mightiest power, it is same as nothing if there is no intellect 2.If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 3.Also love and faith keep up with a daily small deed 4.Those who do not need tomorrow most see tomorrow most pleasantly 5.Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 6.Those who play using word are not in the talent, it is only there's memory 7.Moderation and justice are the nominal which only a superior can use freely 8.When one's mental lost right goal that shown wrong direction to the frustrations 9.You can not call anyone happy, if you do not had been any trouble 10.Human have ability of destroy oneself by logical mind. Zankyo-038 CD $18.00 Te' If There Is No Word Which Tells Sound, Beautiful Melody PS, JAPAN 1. If there is no word which tells sound, beautiful melody does not keep in mind 2. Daredevil is child of ignorance & mean and it is inferior to other qualification 3. There is something sad sound when you knock the deep part of the soul by voice. 4. Just to kill a disagreeable thing. Is it human's thing to do? Just to kill a hateful thing. Doesn't it call it human? Zankyo-027 CD5 $9.00 Team Robespierre Everything's Perfect PS, US Powered by a dirty punk rock ethos, synth hooks & programmed dance beats, Team Robespierre has helped resurrect a Brooklyn punk scene that has been waiting to embrace the raw energy of our nation's basements & late night warehouse dance parties. With a sound that melds the future & the past, the Team brings back memories of 80s new wave & 90s hardcore. Impose-003 CD $10.00 Teamforest Leave PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners. Eglantine-015 CD $13.50 Thao We Brave Bee Stings and All PS, US In college she recorded an EP & released a full-length debut, Like the Linen, on a local Virginia label. After playing shows all over the country she landed a spot on the Kill Rock Stars 2006 singer-songwriter compilation The Sound the Hare Heard. Taking a break to tour in Europe w/ Laura Veirs, she spent most of 2007 recording these 11 diverse tracks-- a subtly powerful album concerned w/ admissions of guilt, life revelations, & failed domesticity (with beat boxing!) KillRockStars-481 CD $13.00 Three Hour Tour B Side Oblivion (ON SALE) PS, US Ten new songs from Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour. Coop's joined by Adam Schmitt (bass) and Brad Steakley (drums) and the recordings feature guest appearances by John Richardson and Velvet Crush duo Paul Chastain and Ric Menck. MartianRecordCorp CD $14.00 Thuja S-T PS, US This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on color vinyl. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework. The members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with a natural instinct, succeeding in conjuring spectral compositions, which are at once, abstract yet inviting. For this self-titled release, their sixth full-length and first for Important Records, Thuja has assembled recordings from various live performance spaces (the Hemlock, the Oaklandish Gallery, Pehr Space, Kains Greenhouse) and have welcomed a variety of guests into the fold to help assist and expand their microscopic psychedelia toward a new plateau. After eight years, the semiannual gathering of the members of Thuja is almost traditional, but new clearings are still to be discovered in its thickets of sound. This self-titled release is yet another essential artifact from Thuja's ongoing explorations. Important-173 LP $14.75 Times New Viking Rip It Off PS, US My Bloody Pollardtine * Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "The songs are pop-punk gnashing and snarling and droning with all the sexual frustration and delicious ennui that's been surgically removed from the radio version" - Pitchfork. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly. Matador CD $12.50 Times New Viking Rip It Off PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Torske, Bjorn Feil Knapp PS, US Now on Double Vinyl! Weirdly melodic & wonderfully groovy. LIMITED!!! SmalltownSupersound-117 DLP $18.00 Under the Radar #20 PS, US Zooey Deschanel & M.Ward on the cover. The most anticipated albums of 2008! Also starring Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Bjorn & John, My Morning Jacket, Midlake, Metric, The Flaming Lips, Camera Obscura, Spiritualized, CSS, Mew & more! ZINE $3.75 Vampire Weekend S-T PS, US Genre-splicing Internet Buzz Band makes good on their virtual promise. PITCHFORK: "Vampire Weekend have come along like Belle & Sebastian and the Strokes each did, sounding refreshingly laid-back and uncomplicated, and with simple set-ups that make good songs sound exceedingly easy. Already one of the most talked-about and divisive records of the year, Vampire Weekend's Afro-pop- and prep-inflected debut LP is simple, homespun, and one of the most refreshing and replayable indie records in recent years." [Best New Music] XL/Beggars CD $12.50 Van Zandt, Townes Rear View Mirror PS, US Originally released in 1993, this has, until now, been out of print & in high demand. Remastered w/ new artwork it is a great look into Townesi 'ntimate live performances at the peak of his career. Accompanied by acoustic guitar, bass & fiddle on most tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was re-recording much of his repertoire. That album never appeared, but in 1993, the tiny Austin-based Sundown label released Rear View Mirror, a 17-track album running nearly 58 minutes and containing newly recorded versions of Van Zandt songs dating back to 1968. Though a cover note claims "unique instrumentation," that seems to consist of only of an occasional second guitar and a fiddle. (Sparse applause indicates the recording had been made in a club.) Many of Van Zandt's best-known songs are included -- "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "To Live Is to Fly," "Tecumseh Valley," and others -- and while this is not the best set of recordings of those songs, the tendency of Van Zandt's albums to go out of print might mean this is the only one you would find in your nearest record bin, in which case the album is highly recommended." FatPossum CD $15.50 Vandermark 5 Beat Reader PS, US Ken Vandermark & Chicago's finest fivesome once again team up w/ Bob Weston to notch out the quintet's 12th album for Atavistic over the course of the last decade plus. Inasmuch as one may contemplate the recorded works of Sonic Youth as a genre unto itself, The V5 may now lay claim to such a distinction: existing simultaneously inside AND outside the realm of Jazz. Vandermark's compositions have recently become even more guided by his respect for (& sonic interpretations of) the traditional arts. Atavistic-184 CD $14.00 Various The Rev-Ola Rock Machine Turns You On PS, UK At last! We proudly present a sparkling collection of '60s/early '70s pop and rock from the psychedelic end of the Rev-Ola spectrum with a couple from our sister label RPM for good measure. Featuring mostly British acts such as pop-psych heroes Turquoise, Octopus, The Mirage and Sun Dragon as well as singer-songwriters Tony Hazzard and Nick Garrie, it also includes previously un-compiled tracks by cult pop act Majority One and completely unreleased tracks by anglophile acoustic trio Mortimer, UK psych legends Tintern Abbey and Ewan Stephens of Turquoise! The first ever Rev-Ola sampler and features previously unreleased and previously un-compiled tracks! Track annotations by Stefan Granados and Rev- Ola's very own Andy Morten! Re-mastered in the usual dazzling Rev-Ola style and housed in authentic late '60s sampler-style artwork! Octopus - The River Tony Hazzard - Goodnight Sweet Josephine Majority One - Game Sands - River Deep, Mountain High Mortimer - Second Floor The Mirage - Is Anybody Home? Turquoise - Woodstock Chrysalis - April Grove Sun Dragon - Five White Horses Mortimer - Where Dragons Guard The Doors Tintern Abbey - Do What You Must Ewan Stephens - Stand Up And Be Judged Gun - Light On The Wall Majority One - I Nearly Died Nick Garrie - Inkpot Eyes Jawbone - Jeremiah Dreams Rev-ola-200 CD $15.50 Various Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Music PS, US Recordings made between '18 -'55 compiled by Ian Nagoski. A compilation of 24 recordings from the 1st half of the 20th century of music from Syria, Bali, Scotland, Thailand, Ukraine, China, Cameroon, India, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Japan, Poland, Greece, Java, Portugal, Laos, Sweden & Burma, all newly transferred & mastered from 78 rpm discs, at least 18 of which have never been issued before on CD. Influenced by Pete Whelan's Origin Jazz Library, Pat Conte's Secret Museum of Mankind, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Henry Cowell's Music of the World's People, Alan Bishop & Hisham Mayet's Sublime Frequencies label & much more. Dust-to-Digital-010 CD $15.50 Various Number of Small Things PS, US This is a compilation of tracks from Morr Music's little sister 7" label, A Number of Small Things. Feat. Markus Acher's (TIED & TICKLED TRIO, ISAN, Masha Qrella, Butcher The Bar, Simon Scott (ex-SLOWDIVE), SEABEAR, BENNI HEMM HEMM, B. FLEISCHMANN, STYROFOAM, LALI PUNA, JENS LEKMAN & more!! MorrMusic-079 DCD $20.00 Various Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli PS, US Bridging the gap between American primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the new age marketing juggernaut of the mid '80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a digipack chipboard slipcase with a 40-page booklet and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmidt, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Crandell, Tree People, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Canan, and Dana Westover. Numero-018 CD $15.75 Various Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days PS, US Recordings made between the 1920s-'50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls' Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more. DustToDigital DCD/BOOK $40.00 Various Once A Hue, Always A Hue PS, JAPAN "Once a hue, always a hue" is a 2nd label compilation of "hue" based in Tokyo. Hue is always looking for the own way to continue to feel something beautiful. "Marginal" is the key word of the label. The 1st compilation called "hue and laugh and cry" was just a good guide to "after-anticon" hip hop. "To infuse the poetic and lyrical mind into hip hop "...that's the concept of this one. Hip hop, electronica, folk...various kind of music is going up and down in your ears, you would be wondering and wandering. They are not to be categorized. But they are all beautiful for the reasons. Including 15 incredible artists (11 tracks are unreleased! ) like Radical Face (Electric President / Morr Music), Astronautalis, Nomad, Factor (side road records), Nuccini! (Giardini Di Miro), Ceschi, Deadpan Darling (Ceschi & Blue Sky, Black Death), etc. TRACK LISTING: 01. Radical Face - If you come back to haunt me * 02. Astronautalis - Sea of Grass * 03. Andrromak & Nomad - Life Up There ! * 04. Otem Rellik - Cassette Tape 05. Neila & Factor - One Last Word * 06. Flowtation Advice - Sea An Enemy * 07. Filkoe - Sa-Crow-Peeah 08. Nuccini! - Nothing Is Like Home * 09. Entropy Project - Firm Ground 10. Pastry Case - Let's Play Soccer 11. Nolto & Factor - A Young Girl's Funeral (1:13pm, June 15, 2001) * 12. Ceschi - Crowded City * 13. Nomad - Weekend * 14. Andrre & Pierre The Motionless - Sunset and Thoughts * 15. Deadpan Darling - Sorry * * = Previously Unreleased. Hue-1038 CD $16.25 Various Garden Of Forking Paths PS, US Compiled by James Blackshaw, compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem & Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, the album serves as a singular & particularly unique musical statement. A compilation of experimental music for solo stringed instruments, with little to no overdubs. "Despite the variation in instrumentation, not to mention the differences in nationality & backgrounds of the performers themselves, it is also interesting to note certain similarities to be found between the five tracks contained on this compilation. Sometimes it can be heard melodically; sometimes within the movement, space or colour of the pieces; sometimes it is simply felt - a purity or emotional resonance that defies analysis & can rarely be articulated into words, at least not by me anyway." -Blackshaw Important-162 CD $12.50 Walla, Chris Field Manual [deluxe] PS, US Limited edition deluxe cloth bound book version. Once that's gone will revert to regular CD version. Debut solo album from DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE founding member Chris Walla. Known for his production work for his own band as well as other similarly indie minded recording artists (Tegan & Sara, Decemberists), as well as for his guitar work & arranging roles in DCfC, Walla performs all the instruments on "Field Manual" other than drums, which were contributed by Jason McGerr (Death Cab for Cutie) & Kurt Dahle (The New Pornographers). Walla has delivered an extraordinary album of atmospheric & politically minded alternative pop that displays his singular songwriting vision while simultaneously showing the degree to which his aesthetic has informed Death Cab's sound over the years Barsuk CD $13.50 Warlocks Heavy Deavy Skull Lover PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeePee LP $15.00 Wasted Youth Wild And Wandering PS, UK This CD reissue of Wasted Youth's influential classic 'Wild & Wandering' is widely considered to be a fore runner of the Goth movement. It was originally released in 1981 on the Bridge House label. The CD features 5 bonus tracks, including the singles 'Paris France' and 'Do The Caveman'. All the bonus tracks are live recordings taken from the band's album 'Wasted Youth Live'. The CD features all the original artwork, the sleeve notes are written by the band's manager and record company boss, Terence Murphy. There is also a complete band discography included. Wasted Youth's career was short lived but they left a lasting impression with their innovative sound in the post punk days of London in the late 1970's. Wasted Youth's guitarist, Rocco Barker, later of Flesh For Lulu, has been entertaining the nation with his 12 week C4 TV series 'A Place In The Sun - Costa Chaos' which sees him buying and developing a property in Spain. CherryRed-337 CD $15.50 Weisman, Kurt Spiritual Sci-Fi PS, US While Spiritual Sci-Fi is a result of work that Kurt Weisman has been undertaking for the last 10 years it's certainly also worth noting that he's a multi-instrumentalist in the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers as well as a member of J Mascis' Witch. Kurt's stunning musicality and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. Kurt Weisman is a New England composer in his late 20s around whom all the wheels of life seem distinctly sped up (he's known for his extreme falsetto as well as pitching up his voice beyond Beatle and into cartoon). Hair is cut into strange shapes and then suddenly shorn, moustaches appear and disappear with alarming frequency, cyber punk outfits melt into freak folk into noise into French bohemian complete with beret (red wine hippydancing at uptight in-store free jazz shows). The songs already sound like they're floating above something else when you hear them with just voice and 12-string. These are not regular songs with weird production. The alternative to the expectation refers to the expectation. He seems to know every tricky thing that's ever happened in pop music and how to take it further but then takes that further by giving verse 2 all these ear-stretching variations on verse 1. There's a lot of weird meter stuff, little skips and jumps or little things that get stretched that seem inspired by his own computer micro-editing techniques. Important-150 CD $12.25 Whitest Boy Alive Dreams PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Asound/Bubbles LP $22.00 Whitsundays S-T PS, US This Edmonton, Alberta band certainly has a knack for writing yellowed, reverb-wrapped pop music, borrowing from the grand tradition of English psychedelia, garage & vintage organ rock. With reverent nods to the whimsy of the Zombies, the bluster of the Animals & the inanity of Syd Barrett, their debut is a vintage gem & a charming hodgepodge of '60s musical ephemera. FriendlyFire CD $12.75 Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers PS, US The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic & painted in a spectrum of acoustic & electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. This marries the ancient w/ the futuristic, each in all their beauty & terror. Traditional gongs collide w/ a rat's nest of computerized layering. Make no mistake. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. KillRockStars CD $13.00 Ya Ho Wa 13 Penetration, An Aquarian PS, US It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. The Source Family lived in Hollywood w/ their leader Father Yod, who fronted the rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13--considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. ColdSweat CD $16.75 Zillionaire Street Lights Have Been PS, US Tampa group featuring former members of WASHDOWN. Recommended for fans of Codiene, Polvo and Seam. "Depthy and introspective, mixes the moodiness and experimentation of contemporary post-hardcore and the glacial beauty of classic 90's slowcore and elements from throughout the indie-rock spectrum" -Reax Music Magazine NoGranada-013 CD $8.50 Forthcoming Releases 5ive Hesperus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Boston's 5ive were a two-piece with no vocalist or bass player long before being instrumental and having an unorthodox band assemblage became "cool". They have a Kyuss style guitar tone without the bad vocals. Their debut full-length was one of Terrorizer magazine's top twenty of 2001. "Ben Carr's guitars are thickly layered without the sound becoming mushy. The distortion he gets out of his amp makes his riffing sound like balls of flame. Charlie Harrold's drumming complements the guitar playing exceptionally; these are two musicians that are well in tune with each other" - Brainwashed.com. Tortuga CD $12.50 a.P.A.t.T. Black and White Mass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa - minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilising all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. 'Black and White Mass' sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some of a.P.A.t.T.'s most accessible compositions to date, whilst still retaining an element of surprise. Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a (usually) 6 peice amalgamation of all that has come before & all that will slowly catch up in the end. Beyond genre defying: every instrument and style you can think of, mashed up together in jawdropping live performances. The experimental and chaotic beeps, buzzes and blips of a.P.A.t.T., (described on the BBC Merseyside website as sounding like Frank Zappa having a fist fight with Mighty Mouse) have steadily built up a growing army of admirers. They were featured on the promotional video for Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid, and have recently staged a multi-media installation called 'Quartet', featuring four films projected whilst the band performed inside. As if this wasn't enough, they even found time to compose the incidental music for the BBC Radio Merseyside alternative music show, PMS. a.P.A.t.T. officially began with the completion of a C90 cassette tape in 1998. It was decided from the offset that the way the music was formed on this tape (disjointed, non-specific, omni-style) was to influence the revolving multi-instrumentalist approach, and dictate the 'anti-hierarchical' line-up of the act. It was not until 2002 and the introduction of digital recording techniques that a.P.A.t.T. were to make an 'official' release. Following several lineup changes, software changes, hardware changes, various support slots and a Dutch tour, a.P.A.t.T. teamed up with London label, Lowsley Sounds, to release their first full album, (L.P.) in 2004. Although hopes were high for this release and it sold well, a.P.A.t.T. were never satisfied with the final outcome, wanting to push things further musically. 2006 saw more line up changes and the continuation of the recordings for that "perfect album". Which brings us to "Black and White Mass". "a.P.A.t.T. are a motherfucking experience. Probably the only UK band i can think of to come up with their vision of the dark, vicious and fuck me, rather scary vision of the ACID PUNK dropped onto us from the visions of Gibby from the Butthole Surfers. We love them. You need to hear this. It's insane" [Alan Mcgee, Creation/Poptones]. PickledEgg-68 CD $17.75 All Golden In The Afternoon S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Rachel Goldstar (Experimental Aircraft/Eau Claire/Monster Movie) and Carlos Jackson(ex-Polyphonic Spree/The Shells) present an explosive debut. This Texas duo prove they are a band you are going to want to watch out for in the future. Down the rabbit hole we go... picture Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Pram & Seefeel all getting together for a jam session & you might be close. AITGA's fuzzy laid-back guitar driven songs are a breath of fresh air & have a way of making you want to take the day off of work & just float away. This wonderful debut ep features 6 songs that flow together seamlessly & leave you begging for more. Welcome to wonderland Alice! Ltd to 1000 copies, only 600 copies to be distributed. MindExpansion-2012 CD $8.25 American Music Club The Golden Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 19TH) PS, US Every AMC record is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression. "The Golden Age" is no exception: from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, this album is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music. Merge CD $14.00 Antarctica Takes It! The Penguin League (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Debut album by a four piece, from Santa Cruz, CA, whose joyous folk pop has been compared to Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists and Beirut. A bedroom band put together by 22-year-old Dylan McKeever, Antarctica Takes It! recorded the songs on "The Penguin League" straight onto a friend's laptop, using the computer's internal microphone. No problem if you're a straightforward rock'n'roll band, but Dylan's songs boasted an array of accordions, glockenspiels, cellos, ukuleles, trumpets, harmonicas and pianos. The result should have been extremely lo-fi - and in places it is (you can actually hear the instruments battling for airspace at some points). But, overall, thanks to Dylan's patience and prodigious talent, "The Penguin League" conjures a tiny orchestra out of thin air. From the opening "I'm No Lover", which sees mariachi horns collide with a rattling folk melody, to the magical "Flightless Birds", which transports "Pet Sounds" to the Antarctic wastes, this is a record that sounds like it's anywhere but a suburban bedroom on the American West Coast. In fact, lyrically and spiritually, Antarctica Takes It! reside, as their names suggests, slightly further south. The album's highlight, "Antarctica", sees the band knee deep in a polar expedition, while the photos for the cover and CD booklet were provided by Dr Samuel Silverstein, who headed the 1967 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Dr Silverstein also writes about his photos in the booklet, which makes this the first album to be released with sleeve notes by an Antarctic explorer. Press/Radio: Reviews in Uncut, NME, The Guardian, Plan B, Pitchfork, PopMatters, with more TBC. HowDoesItFeelToBeLoved-003 CD $16.25 Antietam Opus Mixtum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US CarrotTop-041 CD $12.00 Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 18TH) PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania. Kranky-114 CD $11.00 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements. Kranky-115 CD $12.25 Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting. n5MD-156 CD $12.00 Black Hollies Casting Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US After wide acclaim from their debut album and a practice regiment that has left their jaw-dropping live shows tighter than a pegged pant leg, they've reached a little further into space, introduced a wonderfully psychedelic element to their sound & come out on the other side with Casting Shadows, a powerful rock album full of unforgettable nuggets. Member of RYE COALITION. "A mash up of British Invasion blues, guitar heroics & psychedelia that would bring a smile to Brian Jones' face" -Rolling Stone. ErnestJenning-036 CD $11.50 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Vinyl version. RoughTrade LP $16.00 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US New album. RoughTrade CD $15.25 Bubblegum Lemonade Ten Years Younger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Magnificent debut release from a 60's influenced indie-pop affair from Glasgow, Scotland. Bubblegum Lemonade is principally a man called Laz, a 12-string Rickenbacker enthusiast with more than a few Velvet Underground, Byrds, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Razorcuts records in his collection. Title track 'Ten Years Younger' updates the Mary Chain's take on The Velvets with nice bursts of electronica and beautiful female backing vocals courtesy of Sandra from fellow Glaswegians Strawberry Whiplash. 'The Tomorrow People' is a wonderful 60's-drenched jangle pop gem that should please even the most ardent Byrds or Razorcuts fan, while 'Unsafe at Any Speed' is Ralph Nader meets the Mary Chain with liberal dollops of reverb and distortion. Finally, 'That Thing You Do!' is a glorious cover of the title song from the mid-90's hit movie of the same name. Written by Adam Schlesinger (Ivy, Fountains of Wayne), the song was originally credited to the fictitious band The Wonders and needed to be roughed up a bit as it is here. With insanely catchy songs, masterful 12-string guitars, shimmering pop melodies, and the feedback drenched sounds of the Mary Chain, Bubblegum Lemonade is an extraordinary addition to the Matinée roster proving that old school indie will never go out of style. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve. Matinee-064 CD5 $6.50 Burial Chamber Trio Wvrm (PIC 10") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The 2nd vinyl only release by the the collaborative project between: OREN AMBARCHI, GREG ANDERSON & ATTILA CSIHAR. They return w/ a special picture disc 10" vinyl w/ sick, elaborate packaging designed by Seldon Hunt. The audio material is taken from the groups performance in Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wvrm. LIMITED TO 3000 SouthernLord 10 $14.00 Can Tago Mago [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue. Mute-9377 CD $12.25 Can Ege Bamyasi [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US 2008 Mute re-issue. Mute-9378 CD $12.25 Cardopusher Down To The Wire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Luis Garban of Venezuela has released heaps of records these past couple years for labels such as Ad Noiseam, Peace-off, Intellectual Violence, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco & Wrong Music, but for Terminal Dusk he reveals his passion for dubstep. 'Down To The Wire' contains high energy levels, sick low bass and brilliantly selected reggae samples. This album is executed perfectly and includes remixes from two fellow dubstep heads: Atki2 & Starkey. Side A kicks off with 'Maybe Next Time' dropping the warbly and brutal bass and some hot B-boy samples. Give in to the head nod effect. Next up is 'Keep On Truckin' with a wall of low end synth leads & Bollywood style atmospheres. Rounding off the A side is 'Knock Yuh Out' and it's a badman, turning up the energy. Flip for the B side and 'Everything Is A New Surprise' kicks in with an ultra disgusting bassline & pitched up bongos, massive! Next are the remixes, Starkey starts it off with his remix of 'Knock Yuh Out' which takes the original to another level, slows it down a bit, and offers some proper dubstep swagger. Atki2 finishes the record with his rendition of 'Keep On Truckin', bringing the Bristol styles, a classic remix. TerminalDusk-007 12 $10.50 Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis Assassination of Jesse James (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Mute CD $15.25 Chessie Manifest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US They continue their musical exploration of the railway environment, this time focusing on the freight trains & railway corridors that simultaneously divide & connect America's landscapes. It's an exhilarating journey through a realm of extremes, where stillness is shattered by jarring motion & cacophony subsides into silence. Using guitars, bass, drums, signal processing, samples, analog synths, organs, horns, & other instruments, they capture the interplay between the manufactured & natural worlds that railroads inhabit. PlugResearch-084 CD $11.50 Coniglio, Enrico 'dyanMU (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album. Psychonavigation-022 CD $15.50 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador DLP $19.00 Dead Meadow Old Growth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US A remarkably clear, powerful, and confident recording that should elevate the trio into the pantheon of the great guitar bands of our time. Darlings of both the stoner rock and the modern psychedelia worlds, Dead Meadow transcend both and have created a sound all their own. Packaging includes CD in digipak with tipped-in booklet featuring a gorgeous painting by LA artist Charles Wish. CD enhanced with bonus video. Matador CD $13.25 Devastations Yes U (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Moody, meandering rock that recalls both Talk Talk and Big Black at the same time? But doesn't sound like Xiu Xiu? Much. As in much more song-oriented and with a transcontinental flair. BeggarsBanquetUS CD $12.50 DeVotchKa Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening. THE ONION: "DeVotchkA gets pegged with all kinds of farfetched descriptions - but despite all their trappings, which include admittedly exotic elements, Nick Urata and company concoct impeccable pop songs, the kind that fuse memory and memorability with swaying darkness and glittering soul." Anti CD $14.75 Doleful Lions 7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past. Parasol-CD-108 CD $9.00 Dominique A Sur Nos Forces Motrices (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, SPAIN Four concerts were recorded and trawled through to pick out the best of the best: those moments when the group played perfectly, captivated by and focused on the music; when it played at its best without sacrificing the level of energy that simply makes a concert; when they struck that perfect balance between the brutal, wild side, when the group really puts its foot down, and the subtlety of, at times sophisticated, arrangements, accompanied by brass and keyboards. Yes, but is it a "greatest hit" or not? Let's say it sounds like one massively, but Dominique clearly isn't making it a question of principle. For Dominique, a live version must enhance or surpass the original version. In that respect, we can be reassured. Dominique and his group have come up with a bunch of new ideas. Meaning that this album sweeps through the guy's entire career. No album is forgotten - some songs even sprout new limbs, like L'Amour, squarely presented as an overture. The pillars of his work are all here. Le courage des oiseaux, so often reinvented, has been turned here into rock-funk; La mémoire neuve, Pour la peau, Antonia are al included. The nostalgic side of Dominique A, which he could hardly convey through silence, comes out in Tout sera comme avant and Music hall. Less well known, Le commerce de l'eau and the very rare Empty white blues captivate. Lastly, as a bonus free gift, two unpublished titles have been concocted: Revoir les choses and the highly literary and deeply moving Marina. So there you have it, a new disc from Dominique A boasting no fewer than fifteen titles. A fully rounded disc that should appeal beyond his audience of fans, so much does he go beyond the famous distinction of new "chanson française" to serve up a platter of songs that are simply superb, with singing that is at times soothing and absorbing, rustled up by a top-flight quartet of musicians. It's the precise moment and the ideal way to discover or rediscover the artist that is Dominique A. GreenUFOs-033 CD $17.25 Dot Tape Dot Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US Daniel Romero is a multi-faceted musician based in Asturias, north of Spain. In a very short time he has molded a very personal discourse based on constructing low-budget electronic pop with lo-fi, toy instruments, combined with stunning homemade visuals. "Tomavistas" is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as dot tape dot, spanning the years 2002 - 2007. "Tomavistas" is born of love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clears out space for a new personal stockpile to be built. These 12 tracks are taken from limited edition compilations, vinyl only releases and "unofficial" albums, from labels in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output. 1. Come to me 2. Df fragment 3. Rosa Luxemburger 4. Slow Birds For Mayo T 5. Miracolo a Milano 6. A Russian Poet 7. Pal Talk 2 (morning) 8. Rounded Tree 9. Ventano 10. Disaster 11. Making Waves 12. With Paul (Bluehouse Edit) OtherElectricites-012 CD $12.25 Earth Bee Made Honey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH) PS, US This finds Dylan Carlson & the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel & impovisitory direction framed by truly psychedelic production & blazing guitar sounds. They show their affinity w/ a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's & 70's, & the more spiritually aware & exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired & original metamorphosis. Feat. BILL FRISELL doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years! SouthernLord CD $14.00 Feelies, The Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years. Water CD $14.00 Gazelle Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights. Check out the release page for more info and sound samples. AHiddenAgendaRecord-090 CD $9.00 Harmony Rockets Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Re-issue of Mercury Rev side-project's 1995 debut. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The brain-searing Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void is a trip into the furthest reaches of sound, a complete immersion into space noise and melodic chaos. Comprised of a single, 42-minute live performance piece, the Harmony Rockets' guise allows Mercury Rev the opportunity to push their music to its breaking point; instead of the ear-splitting avant freak-out one might have expected, however, the disc seems to exist in slow motion, characterized by ominous waves of sound. Guitars drone, trumpets throb, and Jonathan Donahue's vocals float in and out of the mix like random messages intercepted from another galaxy; the cumulative effect is an amazing distortion of the time-space continuum, a shape-shifting aural world almost alien in its dementia." ExcelsiorMelodies CD $19.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Their sophomore follow-up to "Kill Them With Kindness". Based around acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation, this record combines the pop sensibilities of previous efforts with a more restrained approach to songcraft that results in a clearer, concise musical vision. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins). Polyvinyl CD $12.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.00 Hitchcock, Robin Shadow Cat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, UK Robyn Hitchcock has taken time out from working with The Venus 3 (which features various members of REM) and John Paul Jones (who has been busy with his former band Led Zeppelin lately...) to compile an exclusive album, Shadow Cat, for London's premier oddball label Sartorial Records. This collection of previously unreleased material from the Hitchcock vaults dates from 1993-99, providing the missing link between The Egyptians on A&M and the Warner Bros years. Shadow Cat itself features Moris Tepper, mainstay of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, on lead acoustic guitar, and all tracks are Hitchcock originals, but for the Hendrix cover "The Wind Cries Mary" (on which Sartorial boss Terry Edwards plays Hammond organ). Aside from Edwards making a further appearance on "Never Have To See You Again", Robyn performs all instruments & vocals. From the concise opening cut, For Debbie Reynolds, to the concluding title track, the quality of the songwriting & performance shines through - "out-take" albums are all too often cobbled together from unreleased (unrealizable!) material. Not so here. These 14 tracks were whittled down from around 30 contenders, carefully edited & remastered to create a cohesive album - even to the point of sequencing the songs as two sides, despite it not being manufactured on vinyl. Essential for those who have followed Robyn from his early days in The Soft Boys (with Kimberley Rew, Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe) to his work with film director Jonathan Demme and beyond, this release also serves as a fine introduction to the work of one of Englands most treasured songwriters. Enjoy! Track listing SIDE 1: 1 For Debbie Reynolds, 2 Never Have To See You Again, 3 Love Affair, 4 The Wind Cries Mary, 5 High On Yourself, 6 Because You're Over, 7 The Cat Walks Her Kind Of Line. SIDE 2: 8 Statue With A Walkman, 9 The Green Boy, 10 Real Dot, 11 Nothing But Time, 12 Beautiful Shock, 13 Baby-Doll, 14 Shadow Cat. Satorial-030 CD $17.75 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Their 3rd full length & shows them at their best; wonderfully quirky, clever, soulful & poppy. The sound has evolved toward a wilder, heavier electronics, though still coupled w/ a signature pop aesthetic. They are equally at home creating songs of intimacy & melancholy as they are dancefloor killers. Astralwerks CD $15.25 Hot Chip Made In the Dark [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Deluxe edition with DVD. Astralwerks CD/DVD $18.75 Hot Chip Made In the Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Astralwerks LP $17.00 Isabelle Antena Transmissions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK 28 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is proud to present the very first DVD by Isabelle Antena, the acclaimed easy and electro-samba pioneer from Paris , acclaimed by everyone from Nouvelle Vague to Thievery Corporation. Transmissions gather together 16 remastered video clips for singles and key album tracks recorded between 1982 and 2000, together with 12 tracks from a live concert at the Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, on 26 June 1991. Stand-out clips and tracks include Seaside Weekend, Easy Street, Poisson des Mers du Sud, Laying on the Sofa, Romancia del Amor, Jouez le Cinq, and the classic 1982 clip for debut single The Boy From Ipanema by the original Antena trio. The DVD also includes some amusing 'lost in translation' style interview extracts. The 1991 live footage from Japan runs for more than an hour, and features Antena favorites such as Antena, Be-Pop and Eclat de Nuit, on which Isabelle is backed by a crack jazz band including Fritz Sundermann and Marco de Meersman, as well as guest musicians from Japan. Artist biography: chic trio Antena formed in Paris in 1981. After scoring cult hits with wry single The Boy From Ipanema and classic mini album Camino Del Sol in 1982, the band left Crepuscule for major label releases on Island and Mercury. Going solo, Isabelle Antena returned to Crepuscule in 1986, and since then has released a further twelve albums, her writing spanning jazz, funk and Latin, and achieving notable success in Japan and the Far East. The most recent Isabelle Antena album, Easy Does It, appeared in 2005. A new Antena album, Toujours du Soleil, was released in 2006. LTM-2494 DVD $21.75 Jennifer Gentle & Makoto Kawabata Wrong Cage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, ITALY ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Besides leading his main band, Acid Mothers Temple, and plenty of other side projects, Makoto Kawabata has carried out a number of collaborations over the years; this one, taken from a live show in Italy in May 2002, finds him with the young psych act Jennifer Gentle. In many ways it's very much Jennifer Gentle's show -- of the three songs on the short release, the two that take up the most time are extended versions of tracks from their first two albums. "Bring Them," originally from I Am You Are, makes for a full-on neo-stoner masterpiece." ASIlentPlace CD $16.75 Jet Age, The What Did You Do During the War, Daddy? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US This the Jet Age's (ex-Hurricane Lamps) follow up to 2006's critically acclaimed Breathless. Boasting brilliant tunes, breathtaking performances, and-dare we say?-a headline-grabbing concept at its heart, WDYDDTW,D? is sure to be one of the most talked about records of this election year. MAGNET: "As consistent as the Lamps were across their five albums, the Jet Age's Breathless marks a huge step forward, from Tischler's songwriting to the musicians' performances to the production and overall ambience. Lamps devotees, don't worry; Tischler is still unleashing bright shards of his trademark riffery and serving up literate epistles in his Roger Daltrey-meets-Robert Smith voice... With this debut, his band has clearly hit an early high." Sonicboomerang-008 CD $8.25 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Washarama [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Killing Joke Fire Dances [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks. Caroline CD $12.50 Killing Joke Night Time [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks. Caroline CD $12.50 Killing Joke Brighter Than a Thousand Suns [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Original album remastered, plus bonus tracks. Caroline CD $12.50 Killing Joke Outside the Gate [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Original album remastered, plus 7 bonus tracks. Caroline CD $12.50 Klein, Alan Well At Least It's British (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th) PS, UK 60's Brit Pop with an influence on 90's Brit Pop. Includes rare Joe Meek produced tracks. All first time on CD, and first ever reissue. After writing the soundtrack to the quintessential pre- Beatles English pop movie What A Crazy World Alan Klein scored a deal with Decca to write and perform his view of English society at the time. His style of delivery was very distinctive, not unlike contemporary Anthony Newley, and writing like Lionel Bart. Alan was managed by Ken Pitt who also had another client called David Jones, soon to be David Bowie. That the early style of Bowie's delivery is also akin to Kleins must surely be more than coincidence. In the mid 90's Damon Albarn was asked about his influences and said about this LP " ...it was instrumental in me making Modern Life Is Rubbish,and changing and getting an idea of my own self.... I can't believe that David Bowie didn't know him inside out, and the same with Ray Davies. My favourite track goes ' he's a twentieth-century Englishman ' (see Blur's For Tomorrow). It's a fantastic record." Klein went on to tour the world as vocalist in the New Vaudeville Band. For bonus tracks we include the two singles he wrote and recorded in 1962, both produced by Joe Meek, and the 1965 singles including the withdrawn Age Of Corruption. RPM-824 CD $17.00 Le Mans Rebel Action (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, SPAIN New album from Spanish dream-poppers. Locomotive CD $16.25 Lightspeed Champion Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Lightspeed Champion is the alter ego of Dev Hynes, musical polymath and former member of cult noise pop band Test Icicles. After their demise in 2006, Hynes began to focus on the more melodic fare that's closer to his heart. On this record, he worked with Mike Mogis (resident producer for Saddle Creek Records) and was backed by an informal band including multi-instrumentalists Mogis and Nate Walcott, The Faint's drummer Clark Baechle, and guest vocalist Emmy The Great, along with moonlighting members of Cursive and Tilly And The Wall. Here, Hynes reveals much about himself; the album being packed with tragic-comic autobiographical numbers. Domino CD $13.00 Louris, Gary Vagabonds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US (Digipack Packaging) Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances. Rykodisc CD $16.00 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US His first record in three years. Matador CD $13.50 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $13.50 Mangion, Suzy The Other Side of the Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drum kit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy Mangion began her public music making as one half of school boy/girl band George, in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album 'The Magic Lantern' on Pickled Egg Records in 2003. An EP, 'All Good Things', was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album, 'A Week of Kindness', was jointly released on both labels. Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album 'Writers Without Homes' (4AD) - contributing vocals on two tracks, which have been described by many as the album's highlights and has recorded two albums with Arbol, an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and 'Dreams Made of Paper' (Lejos Discos). Last year she made a guest appearance on the Big Eyes Family Players's album, 'Do The Musiking'. Suzy is also one half of The Winter Journey. 'The Other Side of the Mountain' is Suzy's first solo album, and was recorded between January and July 2006. Musically, it follows on very much from where George left off, hardly surprising, given that Suzy was responsible for writing and performing about 90% of their material. "Suzy Mangion's voice cuts through the muggy layer of post modernism, to deliver songs that beautifully capture a sense of perpetual loss through the passing of time itself" [The Wire] "When she's not collaborating with the likes of Arbol and Piano Magic, Suzy Mangion writes intimate torch songs with multi-instrumentalist Michael Varty. One minute she sounds like Joni Mitchell crooning over a Wurlitzer, the next she's whispering like Vincent Gallo's long lost cousin over a fragile score of guitars, chimes, strings and loops. Either way, the results are never less than mesmerizing" [Uncut] "George's adventures in bricolage proffer to the listener the saddest, prettiest songs about early surgical cinema, living in memory or a fearful search for joy, that they will hear for a long time" [Sleazenation] "George's suite of beautiful songs makes no vulgar attempt to grab your attention, and its inward_looking focus put me in mind of the woody folkisms of Vashti Bunyan, previously the last word in this kind of hushed English Fireside reverie" [The Sound Projector]. PickledEgg-067 CD $17.75 Moffat, Aiden John I Can Hear Your Heart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, UK New solo album from Arab Strap frontman, warning: explicit content! AVERSION: "t should come as no surprise that the onetime Arab Strap singer's first solo album, a spoken-word poetry/prose affair that's usually accompanied by incidental music or other sound effects, is laden in tales of cheating lovers, sexual experimentation and soaked in booze. It might come as a surprise, though, to find out Moffat was holding back with Arab Strap, avoiding the stickiest situations, the dirtiest references and the most damning confessions that come forth in this semi-autobiographical audio tome." ChemikalUnderground CD $15.75 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Moorcock, Michael & Deep Fix The New World's Fair (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Classic sci-fi rock album - now 24-bit remastered from the original master tapes with unreleased bonus tracks. Features members of Hawkwind & Snowy White. New essay by Nik Turner. Leading Science Fantasy author Michael Moorcock enjoyed a long collaboration with Space Rock kings HAWKWIND eventually forming his own outfit Deep Fix to record this conceptual album in 1975. Featuring Members of HAWKWIND and guitarist SNOWY WHITE, "The New Worlds Fair" was a stunning work inspired by Moorcock's writings and was wonderfully conceived and delivered. The ESOTERIC reissue is remastered from the original tapes and includes 7 bonus tracks, 3 of which are previously unreleased. The booklet features an essay by HAWKWIND founder & friend of Michael Moorcock NIK TURNER. It an essential release for fans of HAWKWIND, MOORCOCK and Science Fantasy. EsotericRecordings-2026 CD $20.25 Mould, Bob District Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Guitarist/singer/songwriter Mould returns to form as a solo artist on his Anti debut. "District Line" combines the fire of his earliest work in Husker Du, the accessibility of his alternative rock, genre-defining trio Sugar, and the introspection found in his solo releases. He describes it as "stories of my simple life in a complicated town", that being his adopted city of Washington, DC. Working with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Mould has returned to the live band sound of Husker Du and Sugar to kick out ten songs that sound as youthful, energized, and immediate as anything he has ever recorded. Anti CD $15.50 Mould, Bob District Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anti LP $15.50 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Vinyl with MP3 coupon. 4AD LP $14.00 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News. 4AD CD $13.25 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News. 4AD CD $13.50 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $14.00 Nada Surf Lucky (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, USNY's Nada Surf has been together for almost a dozen years, becoming one of America's most resilient and truly independent bands. Along with their previous two albums, 2003's "Let Go" and 2005's "The Weight Is A Gift", "Lucky" is the final piece of a rather astounding trilogy that, taken as a whole, manages to express more about the frustrations and joys of modern life than most artists can expect to assemble over a career. Guest appearances include Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Ed Harcourt (English singer-pianist), Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter), and John Roderick (The Long Winters). Barsuk CD $13.00 Nyro, Laura More Than A New Discovery (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th) PS, UK Rev-Ola proudly re-presents the album which introduced to the world the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro! More Than A New Discovery (aka The First Songs) is openly informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy 1960s New York arrangements. Laura's lyrics are already as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise "And When I Die" to the observational approach of "Buy and Sell." Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of 1960s female pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie Sands or the brash, bravura pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take "Stoney End" to the charts three years later. Although Laura's albums would become more and more influential and adventurous, this, her first outing, features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions. Due to production decisions she did mot agree with, Laura Nyro more or less disowned her debut for many years, until the music fan in her began to appreciate the set forms as one might a Motown hit of the period, no matter how overexposed and hackneyed. With new manager David Geffen, a slew of covers of her material hitting the charts, and a controversial showing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Laura Nyro signed a favourable new deal with Columbia Records, making some of the most essential albums of the late 1960s and 1970s...but that is another, quite wonderful story. Listen now to where it all began. Fantastic album by one of our very favourite artists! Beautifully re-mastered in true RevOla style with lovely packaging as usual... A must for all fans of Laura Nyro, and of classic New York girlpop... the set form she made into so much more! Rev-Ola-233 CD $15.50 Our Sleepless Forest S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, UK Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a frighteningly young three-piece from South London - their first full release, having had an early version of album track 'The Tinderbox' included on the Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation. Having met at school, Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara started experimenting with various musical instruments and sounds using software and basic recording equipment, inspired by the music they were into and with the aim of creating their own wall of sound. After 14 months they emerged with something they were sufficiently happy with to allow it to be heard by others, and ultimately that brings us to the present day - an eight-track, 45-minute debut. Our Sleepless Forest's music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard. Press to follow; opening track 'Nomads' was played by Mary Anne Hobbs a couple of months back, and influential Manchester-based website Angry Ape have lined up an interview with the band. TRACKLISTING: 1. Nomads 2. The Tinderbox 3. Doors In Limbo 4. White Bird 5. Aircastles 6. Afraid of You 7. The Clarion 8. Haze. Resonant-028 CD $15.00 Peculiar, Vinny Goodbye My Angry Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, UK There are times you can hear Nick Cave and Johnny Cash in these power pop meets kitchen sink drama songs but a better comparison might be Stephen Duffy for the romance-against-the-odds, me-against-the-world, railing-against-the-dying-of-the-light feeling of this record." Manchester song-writing maverick, performance poet and Smiths associate Vinny Peculiar has cultivated an alternative music career spanning the past 10 years collaborating with a diverse range of artists from Bill Drummond to Bonehead. 'Goodbye My Angry Friend', his 7th studio album, is an ambitious, vengeful, tuneful and intriguing collection of songs. Produced by sonic magpie Tim Browne it fuses influences that are, to many a pop music connoisseur, poles apart...from Nick Cave to The Darkness...from Johnny Cash to Queen. Here is a record that, for better or worse, plays by its own rules. The opening salvo reflects upon the death of the Vinny Peculiar alter ego whilst 'Kiss Me [I'm a Social Worker]' reeks of abuse and mistrust. 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' is a tenderly affecting paean of mood disorder and melody. 'Lazy Bohemians' portrays and gently dismembers a world of would be revolutionary misfits...a world in which Vinny stars as idler in chief. From garage band symphonies to rock and roll nursery rhymes here is a record of audacious musicality from an artist not simply content to sit on the edge. Vinny Peculiar is prepared to jump. Pronoia-007 CD $17.75 Raveonettes, The Lust Lust Lust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US New album from Danish duo, can't wait! Coasting is the easy option. Having the balls to recognize that things aren't right and doing something about them is much harder. It may have taken The Raveonettes' Sune and Sharin a little while but they made the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively- and 'Lust, Lust, Lust' is where the two worlds collide. The songs cover the toughest decisions, the fondest of memories, the scariest of fears and the most tempting of desires all from the most personal viewpoint yet captured in The Raveonettes back-catalogue. Vice CD $14.00 Robots In Disguise We're In The Music Biz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK 'Get 'em out for the boys,' is the reaction many women in music still face. In fact, that's the phrase - albeit in French - that one photographer used when shooting ROBOTS IN DISGUISE aka DEE PLUME (guitar and vocals) and SUE DENIM (bass and vocals) for a French glossy, which probably prefers to remain nameless. But while many would rant, huff & puff or simply cave in, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE decided to celebrate the launch of their 3rd album, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ, by beating the boys at their own game. The maverick electro-pop duo with a reputation for their fashion-forward style appears on the cover with immaculate hair and make-up wearing skinny-minny shirts and ties. But what's this? Those girls are naked but for layer of skillfully applied body paint! 'We like to subvert people's expectations of us as a band and have a bit of fun with it,' says agent provocateuse, Dee. 'People have seen those pictures and it's so unexpected that they've not even clocked it,' says Sue. Part riot grrl princesses, part monsters of DIY musical mayhem, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE have enjoyed cult success in France and Germany where they've toured extensively around their first two albums, but now they're setting their sights closer to home, supporting The Gossip on tour this summer and picking up fans from the likes of CSS, The Klaxons, Princess Superstar and Chicks on Speed. WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ sees the Robots developing their signature sound and tell-it-like-it-is lyrics, with a sharper, boppier and frequently impossibly catchy feel. Produced by Chris Corner (Sneaker Pimps/ I Am X) in Berlin, WE'RE IN THE MUSIC BIZ includes the hit single, THE SEX HAS MADE ME STUPID, a hedonistic, future indie-dance classic of what happens when you get off with someone you like. The sex, the drink, the illegal substances - the sheer addictive mess and mayhem that inevitably ensue from acting on attraction. Get it out for the girls... Confirmed Press includes The London Paper, The Fly, Record Collector, Stool pigeon, Mojo, AXM, SubVert Magazine, Loaded, Mixmag, NME, Artrocker, DJ Magazine, Maxim. Loads more expected but too early to confirm as yet. Track listing 1 We're in the music biz, 2 Cant stop getting wasted, 3 The sex has made me stupid, 4 Animals, 5 The tears, 6 I don't have a god, 7 I live in Berlin, 8 I'm hit, 9 Everybody's going crazy, 10. Dont copy me. President-3 CD $17.75 Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US N2O CD $14.25 Saville, Robin/Doll Boy Player Piano/ Prelude No.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Like Burton and Taylor, some artists and labels are always linked. Isan/ Robin Saville go way back with the Static Brothers and we are chuffed as can be to release Robin's first solo single, a precursor for his debut album. Dollboy have also stepped inside the Caravan before, donning mittens and knocking back a Cab Sav while holing up with the extended family, otherwise known as those dudes from Tunng. Try finding that release nowadays. MC Doll (homeless Oliver Cherer) Boy and his producer (social worker Robin Saville) strode into the van with the idea of a split single, and who are we to turn our backs on such street savvy? It's best to say that this hummus and sesame seed breadstick is a mighty fine appetizer for Robin's debut solo album. Planned for a release with Static Caravan, it's due to see the light of day in 2008. For the past ten years, Robin Saville has been precisely fifty percent of isan, a frankly seminal electronica outfit whose influence has been acknowledged around the world. This is his first solo release, a bouncy, weaving, piano-led lurcher which harks back to the duo's earlier, more carefree roots. He also likes to grow vegetables and make jam. Sublime electronica AND advice about vegetable seeds for your garden? Now that's what we call good value. Following a long list of highly regarded releases since 2004, Dollboy returns with a re-voicing of JS Bach's Prelude No 1 in C Major (from The Well Tempered Clavier), a characteristically swoonsome piece of organic-electronic jingle-jangle majesty, featuring the sound of water-filled bowls and a 1942 glass glockenspiel. What ensues is two minutes of clicks, whirrs and beautiful sounds, bringing Bach into the binary age - kick back, grab a glass of red wine and admire the warm glow. 250 only seveninch vinyl in a hand-painted sleeve. StaticCaravan-145-7 45 $9.50 Sequins, The The Death of Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Long awaited 12 track debut album from the best Best Midlands indie pop band. Formed around the nucleus of Warwick University, the five-piece deliver an album that builds upon the potential shown in their two singles and transgresses that already high watermark. Sharing a firm lineage with the Postcard and Sarah Records aesthetics, The Sequins draw upon the best jangly guitar pop and artrock to create a signature sound that puts them out of step with the current zeitgeist. Eschewing the contemporary fashion with cold-hearted irony, The Sequins aren't afraid to indulge their playful side or embrace the unfashionable. This is music free of guilty pleasures and full of unabashed joy. Although employing spider-like guitars and dizzying time signatures in equal measure, they never once forget the importance of melody or a good chorus. Recorded in South London in two short sessions, The Death of Style is endearingly lo-fi but sparkles in all the right places, providing a perfect snapshot of the live sound that has brought The Sequins many devoted fans in the past year. Limited to 1000 specially designed album sleeves, each release comes replete with it's own sequins and a front cover which encourages fans to create their own unique designs. Press: "this is immutable yet frail pop that makes my heart beat faster and faster. 9/10" Drowned In Sound. "An absolute must for indiepopsters everywhere" -The Fly. "Blissfully-tuneful indie-pop contenders" - NME. "Wide eyed melodies and breakneck energy" - Rough Trade. "Sharp jangling rhythms that swoop and soar" - SoundsXP. "I'm too lost in the world of Sequins and can't work out what I was going to do..." - John Kennedy, XFM. ToughLove-014 CD $16.25 Sons and Daughters This Gift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US This Scottish four-piece have fashioned a distinct sound inspired by the melancholy storytelling of Lee Hazlewood, the lyricism of Leonard Cohen, and the raw power of country, blues, and folk filtered through their punk adolescence. "This Gift" develops this sound into a whirlwind of tarnished sixties glamour, referencing celebrity culture, cult films, and literary classics. Domino CD $13.00 Sparrow, The The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-67 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK After our amazing release by the legendary Mars Bonfire, here is a follow-up of sorts....now listen carefully....Dennis Edmonton, drummer Jerry Edmonton and bass player Nick St Nicholas had all played together in Toronto 'British Invasion' band, Jack London & The Sparrows in 1965. When the group split from singer Jack London, they added new members, going through a succession of future Canadian music stars, even swapping members back and forth with the legendary Mynah Birds, before settling on permanent members John Kay and Goldy McJohn. Soon, their new, high energy blues-rock style got them the attention of the Rolling Stones agent Jerry Brandt, who got them a prestige gig at Sybil Burton's hot nightclub Arthur in the summer of 1966. A deal with Columbia Records followed, with a single "Tomorrow's Ship" being the result. It failed to chart, as did the followup "Green Bottle Lover", and The Sparrow decamped for California, playing at every legendary venue with everyone you care to mention, to a fair amount of acclaim. In June 1967, however, Dennis Edmonton announced his decision to go solo, changing his name to Mars Bonfire. This effectively fragmented the group, with St. Nicholas and new guitarist Michael Monarch joining members of the Hard Times as T.I.M.E...though Monarch soon left to join the other Sparrows in their new project STEPPENWOLF...who broke through with songs written by Mars Bonfire like "Born To Be Wild"....and were soon rejoined by St. Nicholas... and so it was that all the members of THE SPARROW were involved in the phenomenal success of STEPPENWOLF! A twisty turny story, but, oh my, is the music worth it! The full Columbia recordings of THE SPARROW including the lost audition tapes! Includes the first full-on rock recording of "The Pusher" later made famous by Steppenwolf...Beautifully remastered in true Rev-Ola style, with lovely packaging as usual! First time UK release for this legendary band! Rev-Ola-234 CD $15.50 Stoltz, Kelly Circular Sounds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The fourth LP from San Francisco's Stoltz. Its fourteen songs are a stereophonic advance on the lo-fi psych-fuzz of 2004's "Antique Glow" (Beautiful Happiness) and the mid-fi of the piano-rock of 2006's "Below The Branches" (Sub Pop). Both made #24 in MOJO magazine's "Best Albums" list for their respective years. "Circular Sounds" is very much a pop record in the classic 60s mold. Radio-ready yet retaining the organic warmth that gave his earlier work its character. SubPop CD $13.00 Stone Country S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, UK Stone Country, the Hollywood, CA-based psychedelic country-rock outfit led by gifted singer/songwriter/guitarist Steve Young. Young had moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and began working with Van Dyke Parks and Stephen Stills while keeping his day job as a mailman. He formed Stone Country in 1967 and soon thereafter the band was signed to RCA Records. After releasing several singles, RCA issued the group's only album, Stone Country, in March 1968, produced by Rick Jarrard, who also produced Jefferson Airplane and Harry Nilsson's Pandemonium Shadow Show. The group disbanded when, in 1969, Young signed as a solo artist with A&M Records. This is there only and debut album, a fantastic record that is a must have for any one with even the slightest interest in things of psychedelic or country nature. Rev-ola-230 CD $15.50 Strawberry Whiplash Who's In Your Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US Astonishing debut from a promising new band from Glasgow, Scotland where everyone is in a pop bandit's in the blood, it's in the water and it's in the contract. Sandra and Laz have built a feedback wall of sunshine sound out of old fuzz boxes and reverbed drums that recalls some of the best C-86 pop from The Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh, The Primitives, or The Revolving Paint Dream. The debut single includes the infectious lead track 'Who's In Your Dreams?' which is creating quite the buzz on international indie blogs already. It's a hip shaking pop gem with tambourines, splendid melodies, loads of reverb and just the recommended dosage of ba-da-ba's. 'It Rains On Other Planets' is a shimmering wall of sound with noisy guitars, steady drumming, piercing organ and handclaps, while 'My Day Today' is an immediate 150 bpm pop hit with jangling guitars and keyboards that in a parallel universe would fill dance floors to capacity. Final track 'Factory Girl' is a harmonic wall of pop based around the Warhol Superstar phenomenon think Mary Chain meets The Primitives and you're nearly there. An especially invigorating addition to the Matinée catalog, Strawberry Whiplash are early contenders for favorite new band of 2008! Limited to 1000 copies in custom mini jacket sleeve. Matinee-065 CD5 $6.50 subtractiveLAD Apparatus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26th) PS, US 'Apparatus,' SubtractiveLAD's fourth album, finds Stephen Hummel elaborating upon previous granular motifs. Those familiar with his progression will notice that Hummel's sound has matured and become grounded in an honest and open place. As such musical growth would imply, Apparatus is the album in which Hummel appears to be most comfortable with his ideas and usage of sound. It is this comfort, which allows Apparatus to envelop the listener in a profoundly personal way. Lofty classic ambient refrains, shoegaze splendor and muted broken beat trickery are all stylistic fair game. Comparisons can be made to a wide rage of artists such as Ben Frost, Eno, Namlook, and even label mate Bitcrush. As each SubtractieLAD album seems to top the previous, the anticipation is building for what is to come from this bright talent in electronic music. n5MD-155 CD $12.00 They Might Be Giants Here Come the 123s (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US New album from TMBG for children of all ages. Disney CD $18.75 Tiger Lou The Loyal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FABRUARY 19TH) PS, US Domestic release for Tiger Lou's latest. A Spring 2008 tour is in the works as well! Meet Rasmus Kellerman. This is the guy behind Tiger Lou. It's a band; for all intents and purposes, he's the band. He writes the songs, plays and produces them. For now. Kellerman will tell you not to look too close at "just an indie band, like many other indie bands, with a big heart." But not listening closely to Tiger Lou would be to sell it short. The Loyal, the band's second album, is on the surface, just music. A bunch of songs written by some guy from Oxelösund, Sweden. Only these tunes breathe, they're dynamic, alive. Straight from the heart of some guy now living in Stockholm. And he wouldn't say the band had heart if, to some extent, he wanted you to know the music was sincere. Thirteen atmospheric, incorporeal (but alive) tracks that, if you put them under a microscope, would reveal a molecular pattern (and movement) identical to Kellerman's. Maybe that's why he'd like you to look plainly upon his work: he's already seen himself at such a high magnification, a potentially painful zoom into who and what he is, and where he came from. Eyeball-077 CD $9.50 Valet Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." Kranky-116 CD $12.25 Various Living Bridge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US A collection of ALL NEW & UNRELEASED songs (except for one) by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection and flow in one continuous track. Featuring The Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon, Black Dice, Fischerspooner, Rings, Doldrums, Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O'Neil, Palms, Avey Tare of Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall, and many more. RareBookRoom-001 DCD $13.00 Various The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Various Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US Tanya Donelly, Britta Phillips, Lori McKenna, Jill Sobule with John Doe, Elk City, Veruca Salt, Kristin Hersh, Josie Cotton, The Watson Twins, and Julie Peel are just some of the outstanding artists covering Neil Young's most popular songs for charity on this 21 track Double CD. All proceeds from this benefit record go to Casting for Recovery. Casting For Recovery is a national nonprofit support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer. Casting for Recovery provides an opportunity for women whose lives have been profoundly affected by the disease to gather in a beautiful, natural setting and learn fly-fishing, "a sport for life." The weekend retreats incorporate counseling, educational services and the sport of fly-fishing to promote mental and physical healing. Track Listing: Disk 1: 1. TANYA DONELLY "Heart Of Gold" 2. BRITTA PHILLIPS "I Am A Child" 3. KATE YORK "Comes A Time" 4. LORI MCKENNA "The Needle And The Damage Done" 5. JILL SOBULE with JOHN DOE "Down By The River" 6. VERUCA SALT "Burned" 7. JOSIE COTTON "Cowgirl In The Sand" 8. DALA "A Man Needs A Maid" 9. DARCIE MINER " Ohio " 10. CARMEN TOWNSEND "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" Disk 2: 1. EURO-TRASH GIRL "Cinnamon Girl" 2. JULIE PEEL "I Believe In You" 3. LUFF "Tell Me Why" 4. DALA " Ohio " 5. ELK CITY "Helpless" 6. AMILIA K. SPICER "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 7. LOUISE POST " Sugar Mountain " 8. THE WATSON TWINS "Powderfinger" 9. KRISTIN HERSH "Like A Hurricane" 10. CINDY WHEELER (CAULFIELD SISTERS) "Old Man" 11. HEIDI GLUCK (SOME GIRLS) "Walk On". AmericanLaundromat-012 CD $13.75 Weakerthans Reunion Tour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Epitaph LP $15.50 Web I Spider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5th) PS, UK CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON. "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON. EsotericRecordings-2027 CD $20.25 Weller, Paul Wild Wood [deluxe, exanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 5TH) PS, US The 1993 release single handedly changed Weller's persona to the larger than life "Modfather," the patriarch of Britpop & all things hip. Led by a renewed creative spark & expanded influences including Nick Drake, Traffic & Crosby, Stills & Nash, he produced, according to Q Magazine, a "pastoral coming of age masterpiece." This 43-track deluxe edition reissue includes an expanse of bonus material including b sides, demos, BBC session versions & unreleased tracks. YepRoc DCD $22.50 Wild Swans Bringing Home the Ashes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 12TH) PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Songs about war and religious faith were not exclusive to U2 in the '80s. Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while sustaining their distinctive sound. The haunting voice of Paul Simpson injects every track with emotional weight; whether he is trying to convey joy or sorrow, his icy baritone chills to the bone. His vocals combine Scott Walker's lonely croon with the brooding angst of Ian McNabb from fellow Liverpudlians the Icicle Works... As enthralling as U2 were in the '80s, they never sounded as gorgeous as the Wild Swans do on Bringing Home the Ashes... Simpson's sparkling voice and Kelly's ethereal guitars provide the album with an undeniably romantic feel. Every track is suffused with radiant pop hooks." WoundedBird CD $16.75 Willits, Christopher + Ryuichi Sakamoto Ocean Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 19TH) PS, US Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto's new release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. Sakamoto's gorgeous processed piano sound reflects Willits' beautiful shimmering clusters of notes, a new aspect of Willits' pioneering guitar/computer approach. Together, their sounds merge effortlessly, creating deep and seamless swells of gigantic melodic waves. 12K-1046 CD $12.25 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Acnode One “Acnode One” DLP $20.50 Aloha “Light Works” CD5 $8.50 Ambarchi, Oren & Avenaim, Robbie “Clockwork” CD $15.00 Band Of Holy Joy, The “Leaves That Fall In Spring” CD $15.50 Barjed, Mattias & Various Artists “Upp Till Kamp [OST]” DCD $18.00 Blome, Benno “From Antenna to Antenna 1” CD $17.00 Bosmann, Karl “Eskalation” LP $34.00 Bot Ox “Babylon By Car” 12 $8.00 Burial “Untrue” CD $15.00 Carbonara, Eric “Exodus Bulldornadius” CD $13.75 Chromatics “Nite Drive” CD $10.25 Crash That Took Me “Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes” CD $11.75 Destroy The Heart “S-T” CD $9.00 Durutti Column, The “Fidelity” CD $17.00 Evans, Nate “Pardon My Innocent Heart/Main Squeeze” 45 $5.25 Fela Ransome-Kuti And His Koola Lobitos “Highlife Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)” 3XCD $49.50 Fucking Ocean “Le Main Rouge” CD $8.50 Gravelpit “Snow Globe” CD $15.75 Habibiyya “If Man But Knew” CD $15.75 Harcourt, Ed “Until Tomorrow Then: The Best of Ed Harcourt [limited edition, bonus disc]” DCD $18.75 Helm, Levon “Dirt Farmer” CD $16.25 Isis “Holy Tears” CD5 $6.25 Jansen, Steve “Slope” CD $15.25 Jobim, Antonio Carlos “Wave” LP $22.50 Kim Philbys “Whir Whir Whir” CD $13.00 Laakso “Västerbron & Vampires EP” CD5 $8.25 Legendary Pink Dots “Early Recordings 5 LP Box” 5XLP $97.25 Lightning “Lightning 1968-1971” CD $13.00 Man “Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics (2XCD expanded edition)” DCD $20.25 Massi DL “Wonderland” 12 $9.50 McGregor, George “Temptation is Hard To Fight b/w Everytime I Wake Up” 45 $5.25 Merzbow “Higanbana” CD $16.00 Mika “Life in Cartoon Motion [Bonus Track]” CD $12.25 Mystiques “So Good To Have You Home Again b/w Put Out The Fire” 45 $5.25 Mystiques “So Good To Have You Home Again/Put Out The Fire” 45 $5.25 Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation “Nic” CD $17.75 Null, KK “Baryo Genesis” CD $16.00 Onodera, Yui “Suisei” CD $12.00 Os Mutantes “Os Mutantes” LP $22.50 Pancake Mountain “Episodes 3 and 4 (2005)” DVD $15.00 Plastikman “Nostalgik.3” 12 $9.50 Pluramon “The Monstrous Surplus” LP $15.00 Sachiko “Kunado” CD $15.75 Scorn “Stealth” LP $20.25 Shooting Spires “S-T” CD $10.00 Small Knives, The “Smoke and Ribbons” CD $15.75 Supermayer “The Art Of Letting Go” 12 $9.50 Synclair “Synclair Remixes” 12 $9.50 Tea Company, The “Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company” LP $21.75 Tea Company, The “Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company” CD $19.75 Telles, Mario “S-T” CD $15.50 Things “Wild Psychotic Sounds” 12 $9.25 Tusk “The Resisting Dreamer” CD $12.50 Ulf Henningsson (editor) “The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967 - 1979 [book+CD]” BOOK/CD $46.75 Various “Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium” 4XCD $67.75 Various “Plum [10 x 7" boxset]” 45-BOX $40.00 Various “Try Me Out: Ballroom Beat Vol. Two: 20 Previously Uncomped Slices of Prime British Beat 1964-66” CD $15.00 Various “Nothing Comes Easy: Basement Beat Volume 1” CD $15.00 Various “Mix A Fix - UK Floor Fillers Vol. 2” CD $15.00 Various “Trip In Time Vol. 2: Psychedelic Rock Reflections” DCD $21.00 Various “The Art of Field Recording Volume One [4CD boxset]” CD-BOX $61.00 Veirs, Laura “Carbon Glacier” LP $12.00 Veloso, Caetano “Irene” LP $22.50 Warsaw “S-T” LP $19.00