New
Releases
Abe Vigoda/Mikaela's Fiend
Split
PS, US 2 high points of the West Coast all ages underground are joined
on this release, the return of ZUM MEDIA's stellar vinyl team ups.
ABE VIGODA have toured the US multiple times, earning accolades from
all corners & spreading their hybridized tropical punk. Now that
their debut on the PPM label is outta print, you might want to snag
this now! MIKAELA'S FIEND have been wowing basements & youth centers
since forming as teenagers in 2003. Pressing of 500
ZumMedia
45
$5.25
Acid
Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno
Pink Lady Lemonade: You're From Outer Space
PS, UK This really could be AMT's first 'summer album.' Unlike previous
Cosmic Inferno albums this one doesn't reach in the red status often
-- it's more out there, like they've gone back to their mountain retreat
and taken too much mushroom tea perhaps. But when it does finally
soar, Kawabata's guitar has never sounded so alive. The first AMT&TCI
studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist
with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. The popular AMT standard 'Pink
Lady Lemonade' showcases a 21st century acid rock update on the '60s
San Francisco psychedelic sound. On 'Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From
Space,' the Cosmic Inferno crew give PLL a new lease of life and reinvent
it as a trippy/chilled out monster. As it rolls on, they sing, adding
new riffs and taking it to the stars and back. It's like hearing it
for the first time all over again.
RiotSeason
CD
$18.25
Ahmed, Ilyas
The Vertigo of Dawn
PS, US CD version of the limited edition LP. Packaged in a matching
fabric textured, golden hued, mini lp style gatefold cover with black
& blood red printing, plus insert &
woven Japanese inner sleeve.
TimeLag
CD
$13.50
All Girl Summer Fun Band
Looking Into It
PS, US A stunning NEW pop album filled w/the band's signature crunch-fuzz
guitars & dead-on melodic sense.
AGSFBMusic
CD
$13.75
Apache Beat
Blood Thrills
PS, US Bringing the same rugged post-rock swagger, AB refine their
signature sound on this sophomore single. Stomping dirges of Nick
Cave and the exacting delicacy of legendary Krautrock forbears Cluster.
Intricate avant-rock made complete by assured, pinpoint guitarwork
and serpentine synth lines. VERY LIMITED!
SummerLovers
45
$6.00
Apollo Sunshine
Shall Noise Upon
PS, US A celebration of darkness & light, love & death, friends
& lovers. Featuring members of Drug Rug, Tulsa and Viva Viva.
PITCHFORK: "In the age of the mp3, you have to like a band that
respects your attention span and ability to sit through a 38-minute
album, giving you something that works as a whole beyond its considerable
highlights. Apollo Sunshine does that on their third LP, turning out
an eclectic and thoughtfully sequenced running order that runs the
gamut from pastoral folk to distorted-everything blues-punk to Latin-tinged
indie pop to orchestral interludes. It's indie rock that wants to
be and is a dozen things at once, and the band members have the songs
to make it work."
HeadlessHeroes
CD
$14.25
Asunder
Works will Come Undone
PS, US A monument of crushing & moving artistic funeral-death
doom. Massive, elegant, experimental, brimming with godsend epic heaviness,
& captured on pure analog via legendary producer Billy Anderson
(Neurosis, Melvins, Mr. Bungle, High On Fire)
Kreation
LP
$16.00
Bang! Bang!
Industry
PS, US 5th release from Chicago band reminicent of CBGB's era Blondie
mixed w/ CSS & the Raveonettes. The group returns w/ a reinvention
of their signature sound & spits back w/ a heavier, sludgier vibe.
Morphius
CD
$9.25
Barn Owl
From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light
PS, US Since first bearing witness to Barn Owl's mythically desolate
amplifier alchemy last year, we've been rabid fans/fanatics. But like
lots of badass bands, BO are a rolling stone, heavy on the transformation
tip, and the BO of today is an altered beast from the one that folkily
fingerpicked Bridge To The Clouds and their self-titled disc way back
when. And in case we're not being clear: this is a beautiful thing.
From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light burns with the sun-dead majesty
of a Death Valley burial ground, all wasted waterless expanse and
cracked earth smoke blowing in the dry wind. Heavy western drone revelations
bleed into forlorn guitar drift, downcast percussion plods across
the plain, a skull on its side lies in the sands. Evan Caminiti and
Jon Porras have somehow flawlessly evolved Barn Owl into a blazing
new universe, and From Our Mouths is the first mission statement from
their new spectral/aesthetic outpost, a stunning and timeless eight-song
suite of grim cinematic electricity. Tune in, drop dead, rot on. In
swank matte jackets with 'four-armed demon warrior-yogi' artwork by
the band. Edition of 435.
NotNotFun
LP
$15.75
Belle And Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
PS, US Repress! Double-LP in gatefold sleeve.
RoughTrade
DLP
$26.00
Black Angels
Doves
PS, US Side A features the album version of Doves while Side B offers
Doves in G Minor.
LightInTheAttic
45
$6.25
Blau, Karl
Nature's Got Away
PS, US "Nature's Got Away" made it to tape fresh off of
a tour in Spring 2007 where KARL BLAU traveled to Japan and performed
with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher
Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats,
and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written
on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic
Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan
(Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore,
Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson;
with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's
Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))).
Krecords-192
LP
$10.25
Blau, Karl
Nature's Got Away
PS, US "Nature's Got Away" made it to tape fresh off of
a tour in Spring 2007 where KARL BLAU traveled to Japan and performed
with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher
Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats,
and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written
on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic
Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan
(Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore,
Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson;
with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's
Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))).
Krecords-192
CD
$11.50
Blitzen Trapper
Furr
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.00
Blitzen Trapper
Furr
PS, US Furr is the fourth record by Portland sextet Blitzen Trapper
and the follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed Wild Mountain Nation.
Written in the gaps of the group's frenetic touring schedule and recorded
mostly in a hoary old telegraph building close by the Willamette River,
the new record refines and expands on the far-ranging yet distinctive
songcraft that lies at the heart of Blitzen Trapper's unique appeal.
Subpop
CD
$13.00
Boduf Songs
How Shadows Chase the Balance
PS, US This album is a further step away from the "folk"
label, which never seemed all that appropriate to Mathew's work in
any case. If you record solo w/ an acoustic guitar the description
is somewhat inevitable. But the results might more rightly be construed
as "acoustic death metal" considering the themes of death,
alienation, fear, hatred & isolation that are his forte, as well
as his affinity for gothic imagery.
Kranky
CD
$12.25
Boy 8 Bit
Suspense Is Killing Me
PS, US This is the label run by Mr. Popularity DIPLO! 3 orig. trks,
by BOY 8 BIT & a remix by NYC producer/DJ star DROP THE LIME.
MadDecent
12
$7.50
Bridez
Fake Blood Jacket
PS, US Trash brat lo-fi fuzzed out noise pop brewings from California.
"...Channels a range of muddy garage, early Yeah Yeah Yeah's,
Royal Trux, Redd Kross and even bits of early Hole." -Heeb Magazine
GiftedChildren
CD
$10.25
Brightblack Morning Light
Motion To Rejoin
PS, US Haunting, beautiful, and weird in equal doses, Brightblack's
second album for Matador was recorded entirely under solar power.
Deeper and heftier than their much loved 2006 self-titled LP, this
record recalls musicians as diverse as Lee Perry, Bob Dylan, My Bloody
Valentine, Neil Young, and Otis Redding, with sounds ranging from
folk to gospel to experimental electronics. "Ethereal, lovely...a
narcotic, blues-infused sound that recalls Mazzy Star and Morcheeba"
- Rolling Stone. "Sounds like The Band in a coma" - Spin.
Matador
CD
$13.25
Brightblack Morning Light
Motion To Rejoin
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.50
Broderick, Peter
Home
PS, US Unlike his previous piano & string-based recordings, this
is a collection of folk songs based around layers of vocals &
guitars.
Hush
CD
$13.25
Budd, Harold/Clive Wright
A Song For Lost Blossoms
PS, US A new record of ambient melody and transcendental mood portals
from minimalist/modernist master Harold Budd and friend guitarist/composer/producer
Clive Wright. A Song For Lost Blossoms nicely builds on both artists'
previous ambient work. A Song For Lost Blossoms was recorded live
and in studio at different locations including the artists' homes,
at REDCAT (Roy E. Disney Concert and Theater), Los Angeles, and Clive
Wright's Desert Sky Studio, Joshua Tree, CA. These recordings represent
the very best of Harold and Clive's work together over the period
2004 to 2006. Artist and friend Anna LaCazio reads her poem, "A
Song for Lost Blossoms", the title track. Harold Budd is recognized
as "The Godfather of Ambient Music". His works are the cornerstones
of the modern minimal and ambient canon. Clive Wright is a founding
member of the platinum selling pop/rock band Cock Robin and has worked
as writer, producer and guitarist with Human Drama, Tears for Fears
members, Montell Jordan, The Black Eyed Peas and Peter Gabriel. Budd
and Wright met as residents of the beautiful and remote Southern California
desert community of Joshua Tree. With only just a little imagination
one can easily hear the influence of the Southern California desert
environment; the sounds of its stark beauty, serene quiet and otherworldly
presence. Cover art painting by Billy Al Bengston. Mastered by Eric
Ryan, Ravenswork with similar EQ settings as Harold's classics The
White Arcades and Lovely Thunder.
Darla-198
CD
$12.25
Burkett, Joshua
Where's My Hat?
PS, US A lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released
cdr edition, but here's the real deal. An absolutely lovely album
and surely Joshua's finest dose yet. Oozing with a perfectly warm
lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of joshua's most direct & achingly
melancholy song forms. The kind of record you'll want to spin again
& again to soothe a busy mind. Packed in a mini lp style heavy
artpaper gatefold cover with full color art, Japanese woven inner
sleeve, etc. edition of 1000 copies.
TimeLag
CD
$12.25
Bust
#53
PS, US SARAH SILVERMAN on cover! Feature on funny girls Margaret Cho,
Kristen Schaal & Silverman. Learn how to make your own jam &
make your own cheese; girly bike rides; guitar goddess Marnie Stern;
Sri Lankan travel tips; Michelle Obama drama; guide to green entertaining;
fall fashion & more!
ZINE
$4.75
Cage, John
Composition In Retrospect
PS, US 2008 reprinting, originally published in 1993. Paperback, 184
pages. "Written in his characteristic 'mesostics' (linked lines
of prose poetry), Composition In Retrospect is a statement of methodology
in which John Cage examines the central issues of his work: indeterminacy,
nonunderstanding, inconsistency, imitation, variable structure, contingency.
Finished only shortly before his death in 1992, Composition In Retrospect
completes the documentation of Cage's thought that began thirty years
earlier with his classic collection Silence. Given Cage's vigilant
attention to the present, the text can serve as an introduction and
invitation to his work as much as a summary or conclusion. Also included
in this volume (as Cage requested) is 'Themes and Variations,' a 1982
piece inspired by friends and heroes such as Jasper Johns, Buckminster
Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, and Erik Satie. Together these two works make
for a book that is both a testament to the artists Cage admired, and
a clear statement of his own ars poetica."
ExactChange
BOOK
$14.25
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Town Topic
PS, US The "Town Topic" EP is the soundtrack to video artist
and photographer Laurel Nakadate's debut feature film, "Stay
The Same Never Change." Laurel commissioned CASIOTONE FOR THE
PAINFULLY ALONE'S Owen Ashworth to proved all of the music for "Stay
The Same Never Change", right down to the character's ring tones.
The "Town Topic" EP consists of thirteen short instrumental
pieces, book-ended by tow vocal tracks that were recorded specifically
for the film. This EP also collects tracks from two limited, vinyl-only
EPs (the "Town Topic" 7", released by OIB Records in
Brighton, England, and STSNC Instrumentals 7", released by People
In A Position To Know Recordings, Inc. in Olympia, WA), plus one bonus
track, the previously unreleased "Lesley Gore on the Tami Show
(instrumental)."
Tomlab-122
CD5
$7.50
Celestial
Crystal Heights
PS, SWEDEN "You never dream about tomorrows, you only you only
dream about yesterdays. There and back again, there and back again..."
This is the anticipated second album from Celestial, the work of Swede
Andreas Hagman. The album is filled with beautiful pieces of dreamy
pop, jangly guitars, ace melodies and vocals from heaven. We believe
this release will be loved by those who appreciate the essence of
Creation and Sarah Records, Swedish pop, The Field Mice, Ride, Trembling
Blue Stars, My Favorite, Language of Flowers and Camera Obscura. The
wonderful vocals on the recordings belong to Malin Dahlberg (Douglas
Heart, Laurel Music, We Are Soldiers We Have Guns) and Ulrika Nymark
(Northern Fields). While first album "Dream On" draw resemblance
to C86, JAMC or a sun kissed Ride the new album shows a band changing
towards a slightly cleaner sound-scape still cherishing their old
7" singles.
MusicIsMyGirlfriend-016
CD
$12.25
Chairlift
Does You Inspire You
PS, US That twee-sweet little electro-pop song in Apple's new iPod
commercials (for the Nano-Chromatic) is Chairlift's "Bruises".
Order up! While the trio frequently shares the live stage w/groups
like Yeasayer & MGMT, their sound is wholly unique to the scene,
but still kind comparisons to Sweden's The Knife abound. Fronted by
Caroline Polachek, whose soulful vocals bring to mind both Kate Bush
& Chan Marshall, the band artfully fuses whimsical electro-pop
w/folk & tasteful psychedelic imagery.
Kanine
CD
$11.00
Che
Sounds of Liberation
PS, US VINYL REPRESS! Soulful syncopated rhythms of sun drenched high
desert weirdness... sounds skither from behind the bleached stucco
& crumbling cinderblocks to crawl across the parched asphalt of
your mind. The debut release of this great Desert Rock supergroup
feat. DAVE DINSMORE (UNIDA) on bass, ALFREDO HERNANDEZ (KYUSS) on
drums & BRANT BJORK (FU MANCHU, KYUSS) on guitar & vocals.
Was originally released on the late, great Man's Ruin label way back
when.
LowDesertPunk
LP
$12.50
Chop Chop
Screens
PS, US Catherine Cavanagh will tell you that her reasons for making
a new album are personal and will firmly deny that the new songs are
a "response" to Christina Aguilera's latest two-disc statement.
Catherine is Chop Chop's singer, songwriter and [instrument-player].
She got help on this album from a few drunk, wayward Boston musicians
she lured into her attic studio for an occasional session. Catherine's
band mates are Chris Cupcake who plays bass, Carlos Cola XXII on drums,
and CC Moniker on guitar. "Screens" is the name of Chop
Chop's new album. Like its predecessor, the songs combine pop, rock,
and electronica, with influences ranging from the 1930s to the Bee
Gees to Run DMC. This time around, quaintly analog instruments like
the French horn, a keymonica, and a toy Zylophone have been tossed
into the mix alongside cranky, craggy digital synthesizers and electric
guitars. Screens will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will
make you dance, it will haunt you and mysteriously force its way to
the beginning of your iPod shuffle queue.
Archenemy-34
CD
$12.25
Christmas Decorations
Far Flung Hum
PS, US The third album finds the group again broadening the palette
used in their unique take on modern experimental electronic music.
The sound is both warmly present & otherworldly, think early Zoviet
France or maybe Asmus Teichens remixing a Finnish folk collective.
Acoustic banjo & pump organ drones meld w/ pedal-processed ethnic
percussion, subtly treated guitar washes, & pointillistic analog
synthesis, to create deep compositions that chart unexpected terrain
& reveal new layers upon each listen.
Wodger
LP
$18.25
Chunklet
#20
PS, US CHUNKLET is back in 2008! Issue 20 of the reviled yet loved
mag & this is easily the best to date. Feat. interviews w/ comedians
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, PAUL F. TOMPKINS & JON GLASER. Also has extensive
articles on a Rock Journalist Application Form, Drug Use, Rockopoly
(Chunklet's answer to Monopoly), Whirlyball (with quotes and photos
of Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, The Shins, Mogwai, The Black
Lips and countless others), Subliminal Frequencies (a label with Sun
City Girls connections) and countless, countless other articles! All
original content. No reviews. No interviews w/ boring musicians.
ZINE
$10.00
Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast
Harvest Hunt
PS, US This fair pairing has been in the wings for a few years now
by our count, but tripped things come to those who wait, so better
late-as-shit than never. Cloudland Canyon have been spanning geographies
(Brooklyn, Germany, Memphis) and genres (Krautrock, drone, psych-pop)
since at least 2002, but only recently has their technological studio-sorcery
began to gather steam and affect the more far-flung populations (powered
in no small part by their partnership with Kranky Records). Anyone
who's gotten lost in CC's latest, Lie In Light, knows this duo is
currently at the pinnacle of their potency, and their offering here
('Harvest Hunt') is a fantastic mechanical motorik ascent into symphonic
hypnosis. Comparisons to classic Teutonic psych outfits of yesteryear
are warranted but inadequate: this is music of today, for tomorrow.
On the flip, beloved Not Not Fun in-laws Mythical Beast return to
the vinyl spotlight with two luminous soul meditations conjured during
the past winter's grey maze of days. Both ballads burn with Corinne's
voice-for-the-voiceless defiance, wind-draped and incensed by Jeremiah
and Aaron's subtle electric string energies. Naked music for open
spaces, empty skies, endless nights. High-audio 45 RPM LPs (NNF's
first!) in matte-jackets with cloud-skull artwork by Blackblack beauty
Diva Dompe. Edition of 415.
NotNotFun
12
$13.75
Cold War Kids
Loyalty to Loyalty
PS, US Second release by Cold War Kids following the success of their
acclaimed album "Robbers and Cowards".
Downtown
CD
$15.25
Cope, Julian
Copeulation
PS, UK "Issued for the first time as a DVD collection, the videos
of Julian Cope and Teardrop Explodes display some seminal moments
of genius and English pop/rock history. This collection tracks ten
years in the life of Julian Cope, through times when he burnt out,
rose again, burnt out, and then rose again -- showing why he got the
epithet 'flawed genius.' Beginning with his work as part of legendary
UK rock band The Teardrop Explodes and continuing onto his highly
successful solo career -- the DVD charts the extraordinary musical
and personal journey that Cope experienced during the period. Many
believe that he was a weirdo pretending to be normal -- but the theory
of a normal guy pretending to be sub-normal and displaying genius
is more than borne out by the contents of this DVD. These are the
complete works of an enigma." Running time: 60 mins. 5.1 Surround
Sound, NTSC format, Region-free.
CherryRed
DVD
$18.75
Co-Pilgrim
Pucker Up Buttercup
PS, AUSTRALIA Sparkling & beautiful down beat pop gem from British
troubadour Mike Gale. Co-Pilgrim was started in August of 2005 by
Mike Gale following the demise of his former band Black Nielson. 'Pucker
Up Buttercup was released on Low Transit Industries across Australia
in March of 2007. The album received glowing reviews and substantial
airplay. Gale had been toying with the idea of adding a female vocalist/guitarist
for a while so when he met Alysia Manceau at one of her former bands
shows in Melbourne he decided to ask if she'd be interested in joining
Co-Pilgrim. Alysia Manceau is a self taught musician who began playing
guitar at the age of five. After Studying film and television at RMIT
in Melbourne she realised that her true passion in life was music.
Writing and performing locally in Melbourne since 2000 as a solo artist,
Her formidable underground reputation as one of Melbournes most unique
singers and guitarists led to her becoming a founding member in Alternative
Country/Rock and Roll band Ned And The Meds. Luckily for Gale, Manceau
agreed to take up his offer of joining Co-Pilgrim formally and the
two have been working together since, indeed, such was the pairs belief
in their new found unison that Gale moved into Manceau's sharehouse
in order to live and breath together with the music they create, which
is a beautiful blend of folk and country, with emphasis on space and
harmonies. The newly strengthened Co-Pilgrim have been performing
frequently around Melbourne for the past six months as well as recording
a demo CD of future single and album material.
LowTransitIndustries-039
CD
$13.50
Cotton Jones Basket Ride
The River Strumming
PS, US COTTON JONES BASKET RIDE is the new band fronted by singer-songwriter
Michael Nau (former frontman of PAGE FRANCE). "The River Strumming"
is a delightful slab of fuzzed-out dream folk that thumps with a musical
heartbeat in a manner not dissimilar to that of forward thinking modern-day
shamen like Will Hart and Brightblack Morning Light. This album completed
itself, so to speak, forming in pieces over a six month span while
the band was working on its debut full-length "Paranoid Cocoon"
(to be released in late 2008). Nau and company initially set out to
make a cohesive record, and made just the opposite. Some songs were
recorded on one machine in December, finished on another machine in
March, destroyed in April, then attached to another song in May. Likewise,
it fits so well with the sort of records that ST. IVES is in love
with releasing - the three-legged dogs of the world, the records that
don't quite fit elsewhere, barely even within an artist's own body
of work. "The River Strumming" is limited to 300 vinyl copies
in hand-made packaging - each LP hand-wrought (as all St. Ives releases
are) by the band itself - and is not expected to remain in stock long.
St.Ives-19
LP
$11.50
Culteral Amnesia
Press My Hungry Button
PS, GERMANY "A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia
spanning 1980-1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released
cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are
previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished late albums
that the band consider amongst their strongest songs."
VinylOnDemand-045
DLP
$32.50
Danielson Famile
Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)
PS, US September marks the beginning of a season in which we look
back upon and celebrate some of our favorite DANIELSON titles from
a rich back catalog that has spanned over a decade. This epic journey
of retrospection begins with the vinyl reissues of "Tell Another
Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block" and "Fetch The Compass Kids"
(both being released on SECRETLY CANADIAN) and "Tri-Danielson!!!
(Alpha/Omega)" (being released on SOUNDS FAMILYRE). In addition
to being back in print for the first time since 2001, these reissues
have some unique attributes such as: "Tell Another Joke At The
Ol' Choppin' Block" is now available as a 2x12" LP format
(as opposed to the 2x10" format in which it debuted) and includes
4 bonus songs from a live WFMU session from 1996. "Tri Danielson!!!
(Alpha/Omega)" has been partially remixed and fully remastered
and makes its vinyl return dressed up in a brilliant new gatefold
jacket along with a very special bonus track. Remember this is just
the kick off of a busy season for Danielson, so stay tuned.
SoundsFamilyre-01
DLP
$14.25
Danielson Famile
Fetch the Compass Kids
PS, US
SecretlyCanadian-045
LP
$11.50
Danielson Famile
Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block
PS, US
SecretlyCanadian-042
DLP
$14.25
Dead Confederate
Wrecking Ball
PS,US THE ONION AV CLUB: "Dead Confederate's Wrecking Ball sounds
like Bleach-era Nirvana covering My Morning Jacket. (That's a good
thing.) The Georgia band stirred up some buzz in January with its
self-titled EP, a strained, aching redefinition of roots-rock that
hinted at something bigger and better. Consider Wrecking Ball the
fulfillment of that promise: Howling with impassioned anger about
various bleak, gloomy subjects, Hardy Morris masters a musical tension
that's reminiscent of Kurt Cobain (especially on the pounding "Goner"
and frantic "Start Me Laughing"), with undeniably catchy
riffs surging through his band's noise. And while the psychedelic,
echoing alt-country guitar should appeal to early MMJ fans, Dead Confederate
is considerably more baleful and abrasive... Dead Confederate's alt-country/grunge
hybrid doesn't just feel like a compelling debut, it feels like a
compelling new genre."
Razor&Tie
CD
$12.25
Death In June
The World That Summer 1986-2006
PS, UK Available separately for the first time are the six bonus songs
from The World That Summer, re-recorded in 1989 and 2006. These tracks
were last seen for a few short weeks in 2006 as the second disc in
the 2CD stone box edition of the 20th Anniversary Edition of The World
That Summer. This edition is presented in a simple but elegantly finished
cardboard sleeve.
Ner
CD
$11.25
Del Reys, The
Savage Instrumental
PS, US Surf, garage and big beat instrumental waycoolery featuring
Ric Menck! The California Del Reys Of The San Fernando Valley, or
simply The Del Reys, as they're known to fans, formed in 2005 over
a mutual love for rockin' instrumental music. They have been labeled
a "surf group" by the media, but don't strictly adhere to
a reverb-drenched, tidal wave of sound. Instead, the Del Reys include
elements of fuzz, garage rock, heavy British blues, 50's rock &
roll, and even country & western into their eclectic approach.
The band consists of Tony Marsico (Cruzados, Matthew Sweet, Martini
Kings), Ric Menck (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs), and
Pete Phillips (Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, Six Finger Satellite).
Their debut album was recorded on a cheap 2 track recorder because
they wanted to achieve a "trashy, primitive" sound similar
to their biggest idols, Link Wray & the Wray Men. The Del Reys
are intent on a basic, no frills approach that rocks hard, but they
also have a romantic side.
Ric-Tone
CD
$14.00
Dora Flood
Dream Out Your Window
PS, US New album from West Coast psych-dream-shoegazers. Over the
course of their 6 lps and 1 ep, the band dora flood has produced some
of the most notable shoegazing dream-pop to come out of the United
States. Their brand new effort, Dream out Your Window, is perhaps
the band's most enchanting album distilling years of psychedelic rock
and dreamy, melodic pop into an aural elixir so potent, it is sure
to leave you on Cloud 9. With praise coming from discerning music
magazines like Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Losing Today and Ptolemaic
Terrascope, it is no wonder that audiences leave their shows feeling
that they witnessed something of a secret, psychedelic phenomenon.
These live close encounters, as well as their classic studio work,
leave listeners with bold memories of pounding grooves, lush orchestration,
and melodies so timeless that they take up residence in the heads
of those fortunate enough to cross their path.
Self-Released
CD
$13.00
Dungen
4 (ON SALE)
PS, US Extends the acclaimed Swedish outfit's sound past psychedelia
into something far more rare. Moving beyond mere stylistic concerns,
this finds Gustav Ejstes' focus on the extremes of their sound separating
into two entities. Blazing, raw guitar workouts have their own time
& place, but now, so do strirringly orchestrated, jazz-cooled
compositions w/cinematic undertones.
Kemado
CD
$12.25
Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version.
LIMITED TO 5000!
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.00
Elephant Micah
Hindu Windmills
PS, US Digital version of the out of print LP. As far as we're concerned
Elephant Micah should have been a household name for years now. Stripped
of all superfluous sound, and presented with the sort of stark realness
that creates a deeply psychedelic mood without being in the least
bit overt. Recorded direct to hand held cassette recorder using only
acoustic guitar and vocals, with just sparse backing from a little
percussion, cello, electric piano and double-tracked vocals, the gauzy
overdubs of past releases have all but vanished here. At the same
time the lyrical depth & intimacy have easily doubled, creating
some of the most affecting country-tinged melancholy you will ever
lay ears on. Heavy mini-lp-style craft paper gatefold cover with elusive,
ghostly two color offset printing, plus a double sided fold out insert
& woven Japanese inner sleeves.
TimeLag
CD
$12.00
Emaciator
Coveting
PS, US Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist Jon
Borges has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade,
he's pursued increasingly suicidal tendencies under his Pedestrian
Deposit guise (which is currently on hiatus), splicing subdued loops
of morbid beauty against savage canyons of harsh noise histrionics.
Lately, though, he's been straying more and more from this aggressive
exercise in contrasts in favor of his Emaciator alias, which draws
from the same dark wellspring of bitter memories and bipolar rage
but, instead of unleashing it in grand frenzies, bottles everything
up inside until it seeps out of the pores. Early efforts/cassettes
retained a strain of buzzing nausea reminiscent of his PD days, but
the last 12 months have witnessed a complete abandonment of any ties
to the past. Times are still bleak, sure, but the grey prisms of brooding
ambience Borges now conjures and slowly collapses convey a depth of
mood and subtlety far surpassing simple signifiers like indifference,
resentment, or remorse. Coveting collects together five exquisite
Emaciator compositions (including two particularly riveting songs
that were debuted live at Echo Curio) for a harrowing 40 minutes of
troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced
self-reflection. Meditation is a myth; desire does not sleep. Black
vinyl LPs in shrinkwrapped jackets with photography and layout by
Borges. Mastered by Pete Swanson, edition of 430
NotNotFun
LP
$15.75
Ewers, Suki
Kind of Hazy
PS, UK Former member of Opal and Mazzy Star. After performing for
several years with Anemone, a band once touted as the missing link
in the country music/dream pop connection, Suki spent the last couple
of years in the studio working with Joe Kennedy on a set of nine songs.
These were eventually sent off to be mixed & masterd by Kramer.
The result is hazy, bittersweet pop in the vein of Galaxie 500 &
Felt. The songs are at once dreamy & enigmatic yet immediately
accessible. Suki manages to evoke much of the same delicately pretty
gloominess as Opal while adding her own serenely melodic warmth. "A
female-fronted The Clientele with a slightly more American brand of
melancholy." -Filter Magazine.
MindExpansion-2020
CD
$13.00
Fitt
Hawk Eye
PS, US The Fitt out of Pittsburgh, PA have released their second EP
and it is as powerful as a train derailment. 6 songs brutally smashed
onto and into this 7". All of them grinding, crushing, and churning
like a tornado of rock n roll. Pat's gravely voice keeps grating like
an axe on a grinding wheel. The Fitt have only gotten heavier, a mix
of punk, rock, with a huge hint of Fudge Tunnel noise. This ep comes
with a download card for the six songs from Fizzkicks.com
BigNeck
45
$5.50
Flaherty, Paul
Aria Nativa
PS, US "Aria Nativa" is more than PAUL FLAHERTY'S third
solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic
dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio,
visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances,
its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps
to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free power blues dips
into the well of wretchedness and raises with fists of mirth. It's
the sorta record that splays naked the artist for all: equal parts
wise ass and universal vision. From his early 1970s woodshedding through
a dozen plus albums each with drum buddies Randall Colburne and Chris
Corsano, and collaborators Bill Nace, Wally Shoup and Sunburned Man
of the Hand, Flaherty remains a total wildcat - on and off the alto/tenor
horns. For this LP his massive tonal craft is equally matched by Ken
Hill's gorgeous cover shot of a snow blown grave and "No More
America" - Ken DelPonte's epic poem that spans nearly five decades
and fills the back jacket, framing the atmosphere the music was recorded
under. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of
the album that includes a bonus track of "No More America"
read by the author.
FamilyVineyard-57
LP
$12.50
Fotheringay
Fotheringay 2
PS, UK This is what would have been -- and now IS -- the second release
for UK folk-rock legends Fotheringay, including all members Sandy
Denny, Pat Donaldson, Trevor Lucas, Gerry Conway, and Jerry Donahue.
These are the original recordings from 1970. Fotheringay remain one
of the great might-have-beens of British music. They lasted less than
a year, and released just one album, but their disappearance robbed
the early '70s scene of a group of musicians capable of taking folk-rock
to new heights of subtlety and musicianship. Now, the nine songs on
that debut album; assumed for almost four decades to be their sole
testament, are joined by the eleven that would have constituted a
follow-up. Sadly, they broke up during the recording sessions for
their second album. Incredibly, all the tapes survived in various
record company archives. Thirty-eight years later, the surviving members
of the group have mixed all the material to finally complete this
remarkable album. When originally released, the debut album went straight
into the Top Twenty in both Melody Maker and NME, and is now an acknowledged
classic recording of British folk-rock. It is very, very rare that
musicians get the chance to complete a project begun 38 years earlier.
The second Fotheringay album has been eagerly awaited by all fans
of Sandy Denny, British folk-rock, and by pretty much everyone in
general.
Fledg'ling
CD
$16.25
Frazier Chorus
Sue
PS, UK Frazier Chorus hailed from Brighton and consisted of Tim Freeman,
Michelle Allardyce, Kate Holmes and Chris Taplin (Holmes is now one
half of electro/pop outfit Client along with ex-Dubstar singer Sarah
Blackwood). Their finest hour, "Sue" is now expanded with
all of the accompanying b-sides from the singles Sloppy Heart, Dream
Kitchen and Typical! The release also includes their unique take on
the Sex Pistols anthem Anarchy In The UK, along with Spoonhead, which
is available for the first time on CD, plus extended mixes of Dream
Kitchen, Typical!, and Forty Winks. The accompanying booklet includes
lyrics to all of the songs, along with new liner notes from singer/songwriter
Tim Freeman. Freeman is the brother of acclaimed comedy actor Martin
Freeman, whose character Tim in The Office was based on his sibling
a fact of which he is actually quite proud! TRACKS: 1. DREAM KITCHEN
2. STORM 3. FORTY WINKS 4. HA HA HAPPINESS 5. SLOPPY HEART 6. LIVING
ROOM 7. SUGAR HIGH 8. FORGETFUL 9. TYPICAL 10. SKI HEAD 11. LITTLE
CHEF 12. ANARCHY IN THE UK 13. STRING 14. BORN WITH A HEADACHE 15.
DOWN 16. SPOON HEAD BONUS TRACKS:::::: 17. DREAM KITCHEN EXTENDED
MIX 18. TYPICAL EXTENDED MIX 19. FORTY WINKS EXTENDED MIX
CherryRed-371
CD
$14.25
Friendly Fires
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$13.00
Friendly Fires
S-T
PS, US One of the most exciting bands from the UK. Last year's super
limited 7-inch "Paris" was judged the single of the week
in both the NME and The Guardian for its deft combination of clattering
percussion and a blissed out, hum along hook. Other songs on this
release contain driving punk funk grooves with unstoppable pop melodies,
joyous vocals, wonky waltz-like rhythms, and My Bloody Valentine atmospherics.
It's all the more impressive when you consider the band recorded this
entirely themselves on a laptop.
XL
CD
$12.00
Fuck Buttons
Colours Move
PS, US This is the second single to be released from Fuck Buttons'
highly-acclaimed Street Horrrsing. "Sweet Love For Planet Earth"
is remixed by Andrew Weatherall, a respected DJ/record producer who
first came to prominence through his remixes of The Happy Mondays,
New Order, My Bloody Valentine, etc., in the early '90s. He is also
a self-proclaimed Fuck Buttons fan: "Like listening to Fripp
and Eno in 1973 through a pair of massive speakers that have been
slashed with a carving knife."
ATP
12
$8.75
Gasman
Superlife
PS, US 9th album from this Portsmouth, UK, musician/producer. This
album is full of beatless, electronic lullabies & other moments
where majestic synth notes are paired w/ '90s trance. Another winner
from the GASMAN's trademark "Gaylord" sound.
PlanetMu
CD
$16.00
Genghis Tron
Board Up the House Remixes Vol. 1
PS, US The inaugural album in the ambitious "Board Up The House
Remixes" SERIES opens with ZOMBI'S Steve Moore expanding the
very beginning of "Board Up The House" into a sprawling
European film noir soundtrack; Jesu's Justin K Broadrick takes the
schizophrenic grind of "Colony Collapse" and transforms
it into a dirty booty-bass track just screaming for a Missy Elliott
hook; Rob Crow incidentally pioneers Mariachi-core by adding some
Spanish guitar and festive vocals to "Things Don't Look Good";
and Eluvium reimagines the 10-minute closer "Ergot" as an
outer space funeral dirge for the 24th Century. Packaged in a jacket
featuring "remixed" album art by Jon Beasley, this pressing
is a limited edition of 1,000 copies on a special colored vinyl that
corresponds to the artwork. Future volumes in this series will be
released by Lovepump United, Anticon, Crucial Blast and Relapse Records.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-142
12
$11.50
Golden Smog
Stay Golden, Smog
PS, US First-ever compilation from the alt-rock supergroup - boasing
members from SOUL ASYLUM, THE JAYHAWKS, WILCO, UNCLE TUPELO &
THE REPLACEMENTS. Features 16 seminal classics & two previously-unissued
tracks.
Rhino
CD
$16.25
Grubbs, David
Optimist Notes The Dusk
PS, US "A step into the void" is how Grubbs (GASTR DEL SOL)
describes his first solo album since 2004. Here Grubb's presents five
longish songs & one eleven-minute instrumental floor rumbler,
and the album can't be said to fall in either a pop or experimental
genre. Much like Gastr Del Sol's recordings, arrangements take their
own sweet, otherworldly time to unfold, and you're likely to discover
that the undertow is stronger than you reckoned & that you wind
up a
disorienting distance from where you began.
DragCity
CD
$13.25
Grubbs, David
Optimist Notes The Dusk
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75
Hayes, Gemma
Hollow Of Morning
PS, US Co-produced by long-time cohort & collaborator David Odlum,
who worked w/Gemma on her Mercury-nominated debut, "Night on
My Side," this is a ten-track filigree of melody & subtle
harmonic rhythms. It's a sparkling album awash w/melody & poignant
turns of phrase. An independent flare shot into the night sky that
is both searching & illuminating. Guests include KEVIN SHIELDS
(MBV) & PAUL NOONAN (BELL XI).
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50
Herrman, Bernard
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
PS, UK Published in 1932, some 17 years before George Orwell's equally
dystopian 1984, Brave New World was prompted by Aldous Huxley¹s
visit to the United States and his shock at the all-embracing commercialization
he encountered. Set in the 26th century, the book depicts a world
in which the masses are socially engineered and subconsciously indoctrinated
for their roles in society, and kept docile and content by a combination
of drugs (Soma), promiscuous sex, synthesized Muzak and mindless entertainment
(the Feelies). Solitary pursuits such as reading are discouraged in
favor of group activities, while the nuclear family has been replaced
by the Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres that control every aspect
of the period between artificial conception and childhood. This extraordinary
musical radio production of Huxley¹s masterpiece attracted a
suitably stellar cast of performers including the author himself in
the role of narrator and the great film composer Bernard Hermann.
A titan of cinema now remembered for such undisputed masterpieces
as Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Here, his palette was necessarily
constrained by budgetary considerations, but he nevertheless deployed
his slender resources - organ and percussion instruments - with typical
ingenuity. In the first part of the programme we hear eight cues of
Bernard Herrmann¹s original score followed by the original radio
production in it¹s entirety with Herrmann¹s music as broadcast
by the CBS Radio Workshop in January and February. TRACKS: 1-9: Brave
New World Original Score Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
10: Brave New World - Part One Narrated by Aldous Huxley Original
Score Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann 11: Brave New World
- Part Two Narrated by Aldous Huxley Original Score Composed and Conducted
by Bernard Herrmann
El-154
CD
$14.25
High Places
S-T
PS, US The debut album following on the heels of their singles CD
collection on Thrill Jockey Recs, which was highlighted as 'Best New
Music' by PITCHFORK. HIGH PLACES is MARY PEARSON & ROB BARBER.
The duo has an "exquisite corpse" style of songwriting where
they exchange ideas back & forth, challenging one another's expectations,
pushing songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. They gravitate
toward the organic over the electronic, and that natural aesthetic
adds warmth & intimacy to the recordings. Huge press buzz from
New York Times, Tokion, Fader, Plan B, Tiny Mix Tapes, Stereogum,
Paste, Venus, etc. Both the CD & LP versions are presented in
old-style tip-on gatefold jackets
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00
High Places
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.25
Howling Hex
Earth Junk
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75
Howling Hex
Earth Junk
PS, US All-new, all-different record. An electric country-pop hoedown
for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal & repetitive
as all rock & roll while creating a bit of curiosity and perplexity,
Howling Hex are convinced that they owe the audience something of
value for their money - Earth Junk! This album is a ramble in the
dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art
in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations.
DragCity
CD
$13.25
I Heart Lung
Interoceans
PS, US On 'Interoceans", I HEART LUNG blends first-take methods
with Oblique Strategies: carefully composed, meticulously recorded
pieces rooted in improvisation, revised and augmented over time. The
results are a compelling vision of chaos and beauty as Chris Schlarb's
electric guitar drones and Tom Steck's free-jazz drumming hold and
flutter with shimmering acoustic guitars, soaring pedal steel and
beautifully captured field recordings. When Kris Tiner's trumpet follows
Nels Cline's electric sitar three minutes into "Interoceans II,"
it's like Don Cherry's loving spirit doting on universal music drones.
AsthmaticKitty-408
CD
$11.50
Jesus & Mary Chain, The
Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
PS, US 4 x CD boxset, 80 tracks total, made of awesome.
Rhino
CD-BOX
$61.00
Kalinich, Stephen John
A World Of Peace Must Come
PS, US Long lost psych poetry album by legendary Beach Boys song-writer,
and co-produced by Brian Wilson at his home in 1969. Deluxe booklet
features liner notes by Beach Boys archivist Alan Boyd, unseen photos,
archival material, and full lyrics.
LightInTheAttic-039
CD
$14.75
Kidnappers
Ransom Notes & Telephone Calls
PS, US Reissue of this 2003 LP by these German folks.
FDH
LP
$11.25
Kiss The Anus of A Black Cat
Nebulous Dreams
PS, US Minimalist instrumentation & hypnotic ultra-dramatic vocals
are wrapped in equal parts doom-ridden heresy, while the percussion
is stripped down of hazy emotions & stretched into a pure vessel
of magical strength. A divine doom folk/rock cloud that shares apocalyptic
interests w/such visionaries as Current 93, Woven Hand, Richard Youngs
& Comus.
Conspiracy
CD
$16.75
Kiss The Anus of A Black Cat
Nebulous Dreams
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Conspiracy
LP
$16.75
Kool DJ Dust
The Disco Opera
PS, SWEDEN The unbelievable Disco Opera, starring Kool Dj Dust. Dust
has sampled and edited together super obscure material into perfect
disco rocks, which he dramaturgically arranges into a galactic drama,
visualized as a comic strip. Bringing to mind Idjut Boys, Pilooski,
Rune Lindbaek and Radio Soulwax, Dust's just as unique, crate digging
genius and party manic but with a disco flavor to it that will roll
like a mirror ball around the globe. A Kool Dj Dust mix will be on
Beats In Space in September. Support from Tim Sweeney (DFA), Erol
Alkan, Aeroplane, Tode Terje, Tensnake, Skull Juice, Rune Lindbaek
etc.
Service-033
CD
$16.25
Langhorne Slim
When The Sun's Gone Down [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of the critically acclaimed debut - repackaged w/a
bonus disc containing 5 previously unreleased tracks.
Narnack
DCD
$14.25
La's, The
S-T
PS, US Originally released in 1990 on the Go! Discs label, this self
titled debut is a tasty nugget of classic British pop (Kinks, Small
Faces) matched w/ the post punk jangle of groups like the Smiths &
XTC.
Plain
LP
$16.00
Lewis, Jenny
Acid Tongue
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DLP with CD.
WB/WEA
DLP/CD
$23.75
Lewis, Jenny
Acid Tongue
PS, US Femme fatale Jenny Lewis has never sounded so passionate and
her songs never so hard-hitting and acerbic as on her aptly titled
solo disk, Acid Tongue. The album follows 2006's Rabbit Fur Coat (which
Spin named among the best albums of that year) and a series of acclaimed
albums with indie rock fave Rilo Kiley. Featuring collaborations with
She & Him's M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, plus Elvis Costello and
Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes, Acid Tongue proves to be wicked
good.
WB/WEA
CD
$14.25
Liars
Leopard On My Right
PS, US 2 new EXCLUSIVE songs on a picture 7" and rare 4 song
live footage on DVD, all in one package.
HeartFast
45/DVD
$17.00
Loto Ball Show
Levy On The Eyeway
PS, US Fronted by Loto Ball (aka Hopeless) of The Phantom Limbs, which
just finished a tour w/ Silver Apples. "Loto is one of the most
talented & demented frontcreatures in all of underground rock.
Loto Ball Show borders on 'Exotica'- but thankfully without the "Lounge"
damage. As a painter & a musician, everything he touches seems
to turn into a Lio strip. I will always be fascinated."-JELLO
BIAFRA Comes w/ digital download.
GiftedChildren
LP
$13.50
Lymbyc Systym
Love Your Abuser Remixed
PS, US LYMBYC SYSTYM'S has made many new friends in the last year
and a half as they've toured in support of their MUSH RECORDS debut,
"Love Your Abuser". They've asked some of those friends
- The Album Leaf, The One AM Radio, Daedelus, This Will Destroy You,
and Back Ted-N-Ted - to remix some of the material from their album.
In addition Mush Records' Black Country Bibio and Austinite Reference
turn in masterful reworkings. Each artist adds their unique touches
to Lymbyc Systym's already epic source material, Working simultaneously
as a companion piece to 2007's Love Your Abuser and as a compelling
album on its own, Love Your Abuser Remixed is further testament to
Lymbyc Systym's powerful presence in the instrumental music scene.
Mush-261
CD
$9.00
Lynn, Terry
Kingstonlogic 2.0
PS, US Terry Lynn comes to Last Gang Records by way of Waterhouse;
an impoverished are of Kingston, Jamaica. Her sound is as penatrating
as her message, Daft Punk meets Marley meets Malcolm X.
LastGang
CD
$14.25
Magnetophone
Wires And Traps
PS, UK Magnetophone are Birmingham natives Matt Huish Saunders and
John Hanson. Friends since childhood; as boys they would often be
found under water, weighed down by bricks and playing Stylophones.
Displaying a gift for linguistic manipulation which has continued
to sustain their career, they named this ritual the "Alpha Beti
Bon-Tempi Underwater Electro-Hydro Sound-Fusion" About Wires
and Traps EP Magnetophone bring their unique vision of electronic
music to First Fold with this carefully structured EP, each track
features a different acoustic instrument as a musical base, created
as melancholic Steve Reich inspired arpeggios, the songs then build
up with ever changing vocal phases, swirling synthetic sounds and
expanding melodies, that culminate into the finely crafted electronica
we have come to expect from Magnetophone.
FirstFold-005
CD
$15.50
Mancini, Henry
The Versatile Henry Mancini
PS, UK Henry Mancini s first album, a languid and vastly superior
piece of exotica initially released in 1957 as Driftwood and Dreams
re-issued here for the first time on compact disc in both stereo and
the original beautiful mono version. For these historic sessions,
Mancini recruited the renowned Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida,
to bring a distinctly tropical feel that would have been beyond the
reach of even the most seasoned American player and to add a crucial
touch of the other-worldly, the soprano Loulie "Lulu" Jean
Norman, whose wordless vocals would later achieve global recognition
on the theme from Star Trek. Donald Fagen called Henry Mancini the
"High Priest of Hollywood Cool", and this masterful album
is full of stylish Mancini motifs that anticipate such future triumphs
as Moon River, Baby Elephant Walk, The Days of Wine and Roses, The
Pink Panther and The Party. High quality bonus material includes The
Four Freshmen's exquisite recording Mancini s What s It Gonna Be,
written for the film Rock, Pretty Baby, the rare Mancini single of
instrumental material from the same movie, Hot Rod and Big Band Rock
and Roll, and another Hank composition Cha Cha Cha for Gia from Four
Girls in Town. TRACKS: 1. POINCIANA (MONO) 2. BALI HAI (MONO) 3. FLAMINGO
(MONO) 4. THE WHISPERING SEA (MONO) 5. RETURN TO PARADISE (MONO) 6.
THE NAKED SEA (MONO) 7. THE BREEZE AND I (MONO) 8. DRIFTWOOD AND DREAMS
(MONO) 9. MOON OF MANAKOORA (MONO) 10. SLEEPY LAGOON (MONO) 11. EBB
TIDE (MONO) 12. OFF SHORE (MONO) 13. POINCIANA (STEREO) 14. BALI HAI
(STEREO) 15. FLAMINGO (STEREO) 16. THE WHISPERING SEA (STEREO) 17.
RETURN TO PARADISE (STEREO) 18. THE NAKED SEA (STEREO) 19. THE BREEZE
AND I (STEREO) 20. DRIFTWOOD AND DREAMS (STEREO) 21. MOON OF MANAKOORA
(STEREO) 22. SLEEPY LAGOON (STEREO) 23. EBB TIDE (STEREO) 24. OFF
SHORE (STEREO) 25. WHAT S IT GONNA BE (PERFORMED BY THE FOUR FRESHMEN)
26. HOT ROD (FROM THE FILM ROCK, PRETTY BABY) 27. BIG BAND ROCK AND
ROLL (FROM THE FILM ROCK PRETTY BABY) 28. CHA CHA CHA FOR GIA (FROM
THE FILM FOUR GIRLS IN TOWN)
El-155
CD
$14.25
Marmoset
Record In Red
PS, US MARMOSET'S "Record In Red" is full of apples and
cherries. With this, their second full-length, Marmoset have released
a near masterwork of pop pleasure. Indeed, the 13 songs on "Record
In Red" vary widely in style and sound, ranging from the Church-like
acoustic stylings of "Golden Cloak" and "Torn Cup,
Fly Up Above", the FAITH-era Cure tone of "Walking Thru
The Lake", the moody pop melodies resembling Richard Davies'
work with the Moles, the haunting confessional of "December 4th",
the epic dementia of "Summertime Is Easy", to the Kim Deal
inspired "Frendamine". Every song is decidedly different
than the one before, but the album hangs together with a neurotic
thread so fine that it's completely invisible to the gallery.
SecretlyCanadian/JoyfulNoise-035
LP
$12.25
Mason Proper
Olly Oxen Free
PS, US Five dudes from Michigan named for an obscure phrase relating
to Freemasonry. Met up w/ producer Chris Coady (TV ON THE RADIO, YYY's,
BLONDE REDHEAD) to make this record.
Dovecote
CD
$12.00
Mercury Rev
Snowflake Midnight/Strange Attractor
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! The new album and the full-length instrumental
companion piece, 'Strange Attractors', pressed on 180 gram wax. PITCHFORK:
"They've pulled a Kid A by turning down Sean "Grasshopper"
Mackowiak's guitars, breaking down lyrics into mantric incantations,
pulling the drumsticks out of Jeff Mercel's hands, and immersing themselves
in electronic programming (spurred by experiments with an image/music
randomizer program) in an effort to make Mercury Rev, well, more mercurial...
More than anything, the clicked-and-cut beats and fidgety sound effects
are symbolic of the band's reignited sense of adventure and mischief."
YepRoc
DLP
$18.25
Mercury Rev
Snowflake Midnight (ON SALE)
PS, US Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury
Rev's newest work Snowflake Midnight. Recorded almost exclusively
in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, Snowflake Midnight sees
MR continue experiments with laser harps, ad-hoc computer programs
and random note generators resulting in a record that moves with grace
between avant garde and traditional pop sensibilities. Standout tracks
"Butterfly's Wing" and "Senses on Fire" exhibit
the emphasis on letting the music define itself, as free as possible
from human interference. Zooming in at nearly any magnification, Snowflake
Midnight appears to be a resplendent fractal folding in upon itself,
into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and
yet so subtly self-aware, that it never fails to resemble itself as
a whole. FYI: The band will be gibving away a bonus instrumental album
entitled Strange Attractors on their website beginning 9/30. MOJO
MAGAZINE: "A snowflake; a raindrop; a butterfly's wing: such
are the micro-details via which Mercury Rev get macro here. If the
dizzying existential frisson of Holes from Deserter's Songs left you
wobbly, parts of Snowflake Midnight might have a similarly tectonic
effect on your psyche."
YepRoc
CD
$13.75
Michna
Magic Monday
PS, US Adrian Michna found his way as a DJ under his EGG FOO YOUNG
alias, earning him an URB "Next 100" nod in the process.
Production gigs for Bonde do Role & Diplo followed, allowing Michna
to put his deftness at both the drum machine & the trombone to
good use, creating tracks out of dense blankets of sound & texture.
Apart from the tightly woven musical amalgam of hip-hop, booty &
electro, it's the detailed process that makes Michna's debut album
move. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the album is its rich element
of musicality; in an era when hip-hop tracks have devolved into two-note
keyboard loops, songs like "Skunk Walk" live up to their
name with full-bodied funk & live horns. When Ghostly owner, Sam
Valenti IV, asked Adrian which samples to clear, Adrian replied, "What
samples?"
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.50
Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HQ 180 vinyl in gatefold sleeve with MP3 coupon.
Matador
LP
$20.00
Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling
PS, US Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely layered
guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a new array
of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before at their
electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain masters of
the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also expanded
the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound.
Matador
CD
$13.50
Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling {Deluxe CD/DVD}
PS, US Limited deluxe CD+DVD in gatefold digipak includes video for
"Batcat", directed by Dominic Hailstone (Aphex Twin), plus
the Vincent Moon (The National) short film about Mogwai, "Before
It Sounds". Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely
layered guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a
new array of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before
at their electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain
masters of the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also
expanded the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound.
Matador
DCD
$17.00
Monkey
Journey to the West
PS, US Blur mainman Damon Albarn with fellow Gorillaz brainstormer
Jamie Hewlett tackle a legendary Chinese legend and create a modern
"rock" opera. PITCHFORK: "After two top-selling albums
created under the guise of a cartoon band, artist and designer Jamie
Hewlett and Blur's Damon Albarn followed Gorillaz with, no shit, Monkey.
The simian in question is the lead character in Journey to the West,
one of China's oldest and most endearing stories, a tale originally
written in the late 16th century that's considered one of the country's
four great novels. Oh and, with the help of director Checn Shi-Zeng,
Albarn and Hewlett adapted it into a modern opera. On paper these
ideas-- audacious, uncommercial, completely uncool-- should bomb.
But Albarn has always had a conceptual bent to his projects, and after
successfully acting as a conduit between African and Western music,
heading a supergroup that actually worked, and the shock success of
Gorillaz, it might be time to stop underestimating him."
XL
CD
$13.25
Moon Upstairs
Guarding The Golden Apple
PS, US On double gatefold LP. "The Moon Upstairs have pulled
off a difficult feat, bringing together disparate, yet connected,
styles & making something cohesive w/ their own individual stamp
on it. If you give this album a bit of a chance, the songs will get
under your skin & stay with you & that's the best trick of
all."-Dusted Magazine
GiftedChildren
LP
$16.75
Nagisa Ni Te
Yosuga
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-129
LP
$18.25
Nagisa Ni Te
Yosuga
PS, US It's been four years since the release of NAGISA NI TE'S previous
album "Dream Sounds", and now - after much work - their
seventh album "Yosuga" has been completed. JAGJAGUWAR is
once again very proud to deliver the band's most recent work to North
America and Europe. "Yosuga" also marks the first time that
Jagjaguwar has released a Nagisa Ni Te title on vinyl (not to mention
the still popular compact disc format!). The Japanese duo of Shinji
Shibayama and Masako Takeda deliver an album that consists of both
beautiful arrangements and soft melodies. Yosuga - the meaning of
which refers to the source or grounds upon which the body and mind
rely - is one of Nagisa Ni Te's finest efforts.
Jagjaguwar-129
CD
$11.50
Nelson, Willie
Stardust [expanded re-issue]
PS, US At the height of outlaw country, Willie Nelson pulled off perhaps
the riskiest move of the entire bunch. He set aside originals, country,
and folk and recorded Stardust, a collection of pop standards produced
by Booker T Jones. Well, it's not entirely accurate to say that he
put away country and folk, since these are highly idiosyncratic interpretations
of "Georgia on My Mind," "All of Me," "Moonlight
in Vermont," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," blending
pop, country, jazz, and folk in equal measures. It's not that Willie
makes these songs his own, it's that he reimagines these songs in
a way that nobody else could, and with his trusty touring band, he
makes these versions indelible. It may be strange to think that this
album, containing no originals from one of America's greatest songwriters,
is what made him a star, and it continues to be one of his most beloved
records, but it's appropriate, actually. Stardust showcases Nelson's
skills as a musician and his entire aesthetic -- where there is nothing
separating classic American musical forms, it can all be played together
-- perhaps better than any other album, which is why it was a sensation
upon its release and grows stronger with each passing year. ~ Stephen
Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Sony
CD
$12.25
NRBQ
Scraps
PS, US The wildly eclectic New Rhythm & Blues Quintet, better
known to its worldwide legion of adoring fans as NRBQ (or just the
Q!), is the only band on the planet that can play rockabilly, bar-band
blooze, Beatles sound-alikes and Sun Ra-style free jazz in the same
set and remain standing. By the time keyboardist Terry Adams, vocalist
Frank Gadler, bassist Joey Spampinato, drummer Tom Staley and fabulous
new guitarist Al Anderson released Scraps, their wonderful second
album in 1972, they had relocated from Florida to New Jersey-and,
like their name says, they were actually a quintet for the only time
in their career. From the infectious "Howard Johnston's Got His
Ho-Jo Working" to the loveably understated "Magnet,"
Scraps is loaded with NRBQ classics that lived up to the eye-popping
press garnered by their self-titled 1969 debut.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00
O'Hagan, Sean & Jean Pierre Muller
Musical Paintings Vol. 1 BOOK+CD
PS, US 96 page hardcover book that catalogs images from the first
two art installations from O'Hagan & Muller, "Waterloo to
Waterloo" and "The Musical Wheel." Additionally, the
book contains an enhanced CD with the musical material from both shows
as well as a computer version of "The Musical Wheel." Muller's
colorful contemporary pop-art visual commentaries are accompanied
by O'Hagan in fullest 20th century soundtrack mode - multi layered,
yet light compositions twisted with electronic rhythms & modulations.
Together, they create an engaging, thought-provoking A/V experience,
whether viewed in the gallery or in front of the speakers at home.
DragCity-377
CD
$16.50
Ovo
Croce Via
PS, US A darker slant than their previous full length, OvO's guitars
scrape & drums pound but the organic crunch & high fidelity
of this release will convince you that this is music taken further
& harder. An avant masterpiece, it takes cues from the tar covered
hordes wearing jean jackets & introduces a very natural middle
finger of wigginess. Stefania Pendretti's vocals soar for the sky
& rest like a golden piece of corn in the steaming morass of dunt.
Guitar undulates like a wriggling eel, with Bruno Dorella's drums
providing crunching headburn.
Load
CD
$12.50
Ovo
Croce Via
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$12.50
Papa November
Book One/Azmaveth
PS, UK About Papa November The name Papa November comes from a now
inactive short-wave radio numbers station that features the voice
of a girl repeating the words Papa November between blasts of discordant
noise, equally, blasts of short-wave noise, radio crackle and radio
drones permeate Papa November's music. Papa November, as a musical
project, was started by Stuart Tonge in 1997, who was inspired by
a desire to create his own language in sound. Stuart set to work,
enlisting the efforts of Katy Acquaye who wrote the lyrics, sang and
co-produced most Papa November releases between 2001 and 2006. Papa
November has released music on Static Caravan, Speedowax and Bearos
records. Papa November currently concerns itself with creating soundtracks
to imaginary dystopias. Papa November's album debut for First Fold
is inspired by the apocryphal Book of Azmaveth. The story is divided
into twelve parts over six chapters. In response Papa November created
twelve instrumental pieces to complement the structure of the book.
The music serves as a kind of dark soundtrack to the long forgotten
dystopian world that Azmaveth inhabits.
FirstFold-004
CD
$15.50
Peppermint Rainbow, The
Will You Be Staying After Sunday?
PS, UK Baltimore quintet The Peppermint Rainbow scored a US Top 10
hit in 1969 with the super-groovy Will You Be Staying After Sunday.
Produced by Green Tambourine hit maker Paul Leka, the album that followed
featured 10 more slices of juicy bubblegum pop including a second
Top 10 smash, Don t Wake Me Up In The Morning, Michael . The band
cut two further singles both added here but by late 69 it was all
over as the sound of love faded from the airwaves. ** First time on
CD in the UK for this bubblegum classic! ** Re-mastered by Norman
I ll ave you Butler Blake! ** Liner notes by pop-meister supreme Duglas
T Stewart! ** Lovely packaging by Pepperbox! ** Essential for all
fans of US bubblegum, harmony pop and just plain full-on grooviness!
Rev-ola-263
CD
$14.25
Peter Bjorn And John
Seaside Rock (ON SALE)
PS, US *VERY*LIMITED* vinyl-only release, in stock, in quantity! Includes
coupon to download the tracks for free. As homage to Peter Bjorn And
John's respective Swedish hometowns, they wanted to feature the voice
and dialect from each of the three areas they grew up in. So, apart
from the instrumental soundtrack to the lonely childhood of northern
Scandinavia, you can also hear three monologues about some sort of
seaside. The stories are read by a real saxophone player from Norsjo,
a grandfather from Vika and the hairdresser Siw from Pitea.
AlmostGold
LP
$20.50
Phantom Buffalo
Take To The Trees
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! "Packaged in a lovely heavy weight '60s
style gatefold cover with elaborate full color art by the band, plus
an insert. Pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. Hand numbered limited
edition of 300 copies."
TimeLag
LP
$26.00
Phantom Buffalo
Take To The Trees
PS, US "Well, its been a damn long time since we released their
debut album Shishimumu back when they were called The Ponys, but we
sure are happy there's finally a proper follow-up, even if it took
six years to happen. If anything, the long wait says something to
the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial
concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. In fact,
Take To The Trees picks up just about right where Shishimumu left
off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic
pop perfection. Of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth
to the songwriting here, but there's still plenty of slightly naive
& youthful charm. And to be certain, the world these guys create
is just as surreal now as its always been. Musically, things come
together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric
guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling
moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones.
Vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and
layering heavenly. The mood of the album floats through drifting fragile
melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups,
often all within the same track. Beautifully recorded, but never over
polished...just the way a great pop record should be. So forget all
pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for Kill Rock Stars ain't
such a bad thing at all. Packaged in a mini LP style gatefold cover,
with folded insert & woven Japanese inner sleeve. Edition of 1000."
TimeLag
CD
$13.00
Pixies, The
Trompe le Monde [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
4AD
LP
$15.00
Pixies, The
Bossanova [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
4AD
LP
$15.00
Polysics
We Ate the Machine
PS, US Polysics return to the US following the success of their 2007
debut "Polysics or Die!!! Vista." Formed in 1998 and named
after the 'Polysix' model of a Korg synthesizer, Polysics is a frenetic,
high-energy new wave band born out of the awe-inspiring stimulation
of Tokyo, Japan. Over the course of nearly a decade, Polysics have
built an impressive discography. If you don't love fun, crazy Japanese
rock, you're a damn liar.
MySpace
CD
$14.25
Proper, Mason
Olly Oxen Free
PS, US
Dovecoat
CD
$12.00
Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month
S/T
PS, US Donovan's steadily growing reputation as a first rate darkly
romantic penman (thanks to contributions to The Skygreen Leopards
& solo as Verdure) has culminated with his latest endeavor. Rather
than aping or ducking genres, Quinn has crafted a bright spectrum
of songs best described as 'American.' Xian folk, languid indie pop,
VU cool, loner country & west coast psych are touchstones, with
Quinn's singular lyrical abilities & taste for sun-baked song
steadily at the fore. Ever the flower bed romantic, Quinn has - at
the risk of over-simplification - written a classic "break-up
record;" albeit filtered through surrealistic tenderness &
riddled with red herrings & feelings of betrothal. Though not
exactly lost in a sea of scarves, Quinn is indebted to the vulnerability,
humor & bitterness present in the works of Ronnie Lane, Skip Spence,
Nikki Sudden & Basement Tapes-era Dylan.
SoftAbuse-028
CD
$11.50
Ratatat
Shempi
PS, US
XL
12
$5.00
Real Tuesday Weld, The
The London Book of the Dead
PS, UK These were made for Cargo UK Collective stores only and are
limited to 500 copies. Already ripping it up with rave reviews and
radio on the other side of the Atlantic (New York Public Radio's JOHN
SCHAFFER's ALBUM OF THE YEAR), The Real Tuesday Weld's first conventional
album in the UK since their critical hit 'I Lucifer' (an Independent,
Times and Telegraph album of the week) is an extraordinary sonic collage
of electronic rhythms, spoken word, bluegrass, violins, woodwind,
and harmonized crooner vocals. A further flowering of the band's trademark
'Antique Beat' sound - the album's unique combination of old shellac
sounds vintage radio transmissions and glitchy electronics provide
a setting for lyrical concerns of life, love, dreams and death. Future
single "Last Words' is the signature song in the upcoming indie
classic: 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' starring 'Juno's' Michael
Serra' and three of the videos made to accompany the album have already
been given special features on Youtube. The limited special edition
version of the album will contain a hardbound 40-page color book of
extraordinary commissioned collages by the artist Catherine Anyango.
Look out for reviews in, among others, Flux, Notion, Mojo, Word and
national press in Sept/Oct.
AntiqueBeat-665
CD
$21.00
Record Collector
#354 (October 2008)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25
Replacements, The
Please To Meet Me [remaster, expanded re-issue]
PS, US Their fifth full-length and second for a major label, Pleased
To Meet Me was also the band's first following the official departure
of guitarist Bob Stinson, part of the legendary founding line-up that
also included lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars
(drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass). Rhino's newly REMASTERED & EXPANDED
edition of this 1987 album classic features the original 11-song set
plus 12 rare bonus tracks, half of them previously unreleased. The
album was recorded in Memphis, TN with producer Jim Dickinson (whose
association with Big Star forged the connection with the 'Mats). Memorable
tracks include "Alex Chilton," "The Ledge," "I
Don't Know," "Red Red Wine" and "Can't Hardly
Wait." Among the dozen bonus rarities are a previously unreleased
alternative version of "Alex Chilton" and previously unissued
demos for "Valentine," "Bundle Up," "Empty
As My Heart," "Time Is Killing Us" and "Kick It
In." Also similarly re-issued: Sorry Ma..., Stink, Let It Be,
Hootenanny, Tim, All Shook Down and Don't Tell A Soul.
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75
Replacements, The
All Shook Down [remaster, expanded re-issue]
PS, US A stripped-down, largely acoustic set first released in 1990,
was their last album for the label, and proved to be their final one
as a band as well. While it features lead singer and songwriter Paul
Westerberg still making music with his fellow founding members Chris
Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass), the album is generally considered
to be essentially Westerberg's inaugural solo effort. Rhino's new
edition features the original 13-song set remastered plus 11 bonus
tracks, including 8 previously unreleased rarities. Stand-out tracks
include "Sadly Beautiful," "Merry Go Round" and
the title track. Among the 11 bonus cuts are 8 previously unissued
demos, including ones for "Sadly Beautiful," "Happy
Town," "When It Began" and "One Wink At A Time."
Also similarly re-issued: Sorry Ma..., Stink, Let It Be, Hootenanny,
Tim, Please To Meet Me and Don't Tell A Soul.
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75
Replacements, The
Don't Tell A Soul [remaster, expanded re-issue]
PS, US The band's third album for Sire features three-quarters of
the legendary founding line-up of lead singer and songwriter Paul
Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass) - Slim Dunlap
replaces original guitarist Bob Stinson, who departed after 1985's
Tim. Rhino's new edition of this 1989 classic - which Rolling Stone
called "an audacious album"- features the original 11-song
set remastered plus 8 bonus tracks, including three previously unreleased
rarities. Highlights include "I'll Be You," a #1 Billboard
modern rock track and the band's first single to chart on the Hot
100, along with album opener "Talent Show," "Achin'
To Be" and "Back To Back." Among the 8 bonus tracks
are "Date To Church" with Tom Waits and previously unissued
finds including a demo for "Talent Show" and an alternate
mix of "We'll Inherit The Earth." Also similarly re-issued:
Sorry Ma..., Stink, Let It Be, Hootenanny, Tim, Please To Meet Me
and All Shook Down.
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75
Replacements, The
Tim [remaster, expanded re-issue]
PS, US After emerging from and defining the Minneapolis music scene
of the early 1980s and issuing a series of seminal releases on Twin/Tone,
The Replacements signed to Sire Records mid-decade. The first of their
four now-classic full-lengths for the label, TIM was also the band's
last album fueled by the legendary original line-up of lead singer
and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and brothers Bob
and Tommy Stinson (guitar and bass, respectively). Rhino's newly edition
of this 1985 tour de force features the original 11-song set remastered
plus 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Produced by original Ramones
drummer Tommy Erdelyi, TIM is #136 on Rolling Stone's list of the
"500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". Highlights include "Bastards
Of Young," "Hold My Life," "Kiss Me On The Bus"
and "Left Of The Dial." Previously unissued bonus rarities
include three tracks recorded at a 1985 session with Westerberg's
idol, Alex Chilton, among them an electric outtake of "Can't
Hardly Wait." Also similarly re-issued: Sorry Ma..., Stink, Let
It Be, Hootenanny, Please To Meet Me, All Shook Down and Don't Tell
A Soul.
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75
Replacements, The
Please To Meet Me [remaster, vinyl re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Original album remastered on 180 gram virgin
vinyl.
Rhino/Ryko
LP
$17.75
Replacements, The
Tim [remaster, vinyl re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION!! The original album remastered on 180 gram virgin
vinyl.
Rhino/Ryko
LP
$17.75
Rev, Martin
Les Nymphes
PS, US Instrumentalist in the legendary duo SUICIDE.
File13
CD
$13.50
Richter, Max
24 Postcards in Full Colour
PS, US With his fourth album, Berlin-based MAX RICHTER further cements
his status as one of the leading lights of modern composition. "24
Postcards In Full Colour" is a dazzling conceptual exercise of
great beauty and emotional resonance. Each of the album's 24 tracks
is a classically-composed ringtone, an evocative miniature whose theme,
though fully developed, hints at a larger piece; thus Richter explores
the fugitive nature of memory through reprises and repetition throughout
this intriguing album. With a sonic pallette consisting of string
quintet, solo piano, 16-track 2-inch tape, transistors, found shortwave
radio, vinyl clicks, dust, scratches and rumble, and acoustic guitars,
Richter's latest effort is both beautifully detailed and sonically
rich.
FatCatRecords-1307
CD
$11.50
Rokes, The
Let's Live For Today: The Rokes In English 1966-68
PS, UK The Rokes were Brits who went to Italy in 1963 and became one
of the biggest bands in the land for the rest of the decade. They
chalked up numerous Italian language hits and recorded four albums
as well as becoming an enormous live draw and TV favorites. However,
scattered across those albums were a number of English language songs
that somehow came off sounding like a Euro-tinged blend of The Beatles,
Hollies, Kinks and Pretty Things. In 67, The Rokes released the first
English language version of Let s Live For Today, a song they d already
cut in Italian. It went on to become a huge US hit in the hands of
The Grass Roots and was covered by scores of bands. Rollicking beat
gems like No No No and Ride On slowly morphed into more sophisticated
fare such as the sitar-drenched Ripe Apples and the sinister psychedelic
rocker When The Wind Arises , both of which were released in the UK
in a belated attempt to break them here. Here, for the first time
on CD, are virtually all of The Rokes English language recordings
from 1966 to 1968. ** Re-mastered by Nick Robbins in the usual exemplary
style! ** In-depth liner notes by 60s beat fiend Stefan Granados and
features lots of rare photos and memorabilia! A must for all lovers
of 60s beat, pop and psych.
Rev-ola-262
CD
$14.25
Romance of Young Tigers
I Have Supped Full Of Horrors
PS, US A lot of bands can shove a wall of sound in your face. Plenty
of bands have a guy or two who is technically "amazing."
Very few bands can unite both into an engrossing, captivating listen...
& even fewer can do so w/o percussion. It is in this rare air
that the group hovers high above the glut of instrumental rock to
inundate listeners in recent times.
MagicBullet
CD
$13.50
RSAG (Rarely Seen Above Ground)
Organic Sampler
PS, IRELAND RSAG aka Jeremy Hickey is a multi-instrumentalist who
records, performs and produces all his own material. The 'Organic
Sampler', which is musically many steps further and sideways, and
the genesis of the new visual experience - sound and vision hand in
hand - a multi-media rock and roll cornucopia; the future is here
- look and listen.
Psychonavigation-026
CD
$15.50
Rundgren, Todd
Arena
PS, US New album from genius dude.
HiFiRecordings
CD
$12.00
Serena-Maneesh
S-M Backwards
PS, NORWAY While working on their new album, Serena-Maneesh &
Smalltown Supersound wanted to give you a glimpses of the early days.
Tweaked & all beautifully pushed to the red. Most of the material
on this double album was released as two EPs prior to the self titled
debut; "Zuruck" & "Fixxations", both on Honeymilk,
covering the time 1999-2003. This is the first time the material has
been released outside of Norway. In addition to the original EP material
this double album also contains new re-wrappings/mixes, videos &
much more, over 80 minutes of Serena-Maneesh.
SmalltownSupersound-143
DCD
$21.75
Shedd, Tracy
Cigarettes & Smoke Machines
PS, US Tracy's helpful reminder on the opening track from her latest
album of smart, pointed pop is a direct & economic assertion backed
by sharp musicianship & just the right amount of reverb. Cigarettes
& Smoke Machines, is Shedd's most accomplished record in a career
that has now spanned four full-lengths. A fan of artists that drape
their vocals in various shrouds (My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins,
The Jesus & Mary Chain), Tracy decided that she never really wanted
her vocals up front, an edict that permeated her previous recordings.
Now, Shedd lets go & we benefit from vocal performances that establish
the arresting emotional core of her latest record.
Teenbeat-442-2
CD
$11.50
Shedd, Tracy
Cigarettes & Smoke Machines
PS, US Tracy's helpful reminder on
