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Beaujolais
- Love At Thirty
(Parasol Records)
CD $10.00
On Sale: $9.00
Listen: Friday
The Thirteenth: The Loft
•
Birthday
Card
New
this week from Parasol Label Group: Beaujolais
is Chicagoan J.A. Ziemba, former frontman for Wolfie
and The
Like Young. Love At Thirty is Beaujolais’
debut album, an album about personal cataclysm and
catalyst, about being wounded and being healed. It
also happens to be an incredible pop and garage-rock
record, and in our opinion the best songs Joe has
ever written. Conceptual. Personal. Monumental.
Check out the Love
At Thirty
release page for a free mp3.
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More
key new releases for Tuesday, July 1st:
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Studio – Yearbook
2 CD $16.25
Women – Self-Titled
CD $13.50
Polar – Feedback
CD+DVD $21.75
Earlimart –
Hymn & Her CD $14.25
Meneguar – The
In Hour LP $13.75
Farflung – A
Wound In Eternity CD $11.00
Baby Woodrose – Blows
Your Mind! [re-issue]
CD $20.50
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Dead
Man - Euphoria (Meteor
City) CD $11.00 
Listen:
High
Or Low •
A
Pinch Of Salt
Jim's
Pick: Sweet,
slowburn, psych-rock jams from shaggy Swedish troupe,
the follow-up to their 2006
debut. Dead Man strike camp where the fallow folk-pop
foothills meet psychedelia’s purple mountain
majesties, finding common ground with contemporaries
like Black Mountain and Elope. The throwback vibe
borders on mellow – okay, narcotic – with
pastoral undulations that will make tie-dyed Deadheads,
Zepplin zealots, Iron Butterfly disciples and Floyd
fanatics giddy as Syd. Turn on, tune in, drop something.
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detail]
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Sigur
Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum…
(XL) CD $9.25 
Listen:
Gobbledigook
•
Inní
mér syngur vitleysingur
Like the Notwist last week Sigur Ros have traveled
a few light years closer to the terrestrial, with
a dash of humanity leavening the otherworldliness,
'sunny' is the operative word here, outside a couple
epic, glacial ballads. Their elemental folk still
inhabits its own special cosmos, indeed. It's lovely.
And the Animal Collective comparisons? Maybe "Gobbledigook",
just a little bit? [more
detail]
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Released
June 24th:
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The Watson Twins – Fire
Songs CD $15.00
Jay Reatard – Singles
06-07 CD+DVD $17.00
Hercules & Love Affair – Self-Titled
CD $14.25
Be Your Own Pet –
Get Damaged EP CD5 $4.25
The Grip Weeds – Infinite
Soul: Best of… CD $12.25
Camper Van Beethoven - Popular
Songs… CD $14.25
Liz Phair – Exile
In Guyville
[re-issue] CD+DVD $15.00
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Notwist – The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
CD $11.50 
Notwist – The Devil, You + Me
(Domino) Deluxe
CD $15.50 
Listen:
Where
In The World
A more organic and acoustic
endeavor and, dare-we-say-it, stronger? front-to-back
than its celebrated predecessor,
Neon Golden.
A sweetly melancholy possession/exorcism that trades
some of their trademark "Pick
Up the Phone" despair for what sounds a lot
like hopefulness; while still intimate and personal.
Made by humans for other humans, which is nice. [more
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Endless Boogie – Focus Level (No
Quarter) CD $13.00 
Listen:
Smoking
Figs In The Yard •
Bad
River
First CD release
from hairy NYC foursome; the name says it all. A devoutly
unholy gumbo of grimy guitar jams referencing Canned
Heat, Creedence, Blue Cheer, The Dead and Hawkwind;
sprinkled with Beefheartian guttural utterances, woven
into gnarly garage-psych grooves, where southern-fried
spacerock climbs aboard thee motorik kozmische. Kick
back, smoke figs, enjoy the boogie… Endlessly.
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Released June 17th:
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Adem – Takes
CD $12.50
Tilly & the Wall – O
CD $11.50
Clouds – We
Are Above You CD $12.50
Wolf Parade – At
Mount Zoomer CD $12.50
Sebadoh – Bubble
& Scrape [re-issue] CD $12.50
Bowerbirds – Hymns
for a Dark Horse CD $11.50
Silver Jews – Lookout
Mountain, Lookout Sea CD $13.00
Dennis Wilson - Pacific
Ocean Blue
[re-issue] DCD $28.50
My Brightest Diamond – A
Thousand Shark's Teeth CD $11.50
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Jason & The Scorchers - Fervor/Lost
& Found [re-issue] (Caroline)
CD $15.25
Listen:
Absolutely
Sweet Marie •
White
Lies
Saturday Shift: First CD on the player
Saturday is the recent (2008) re-issue of Nashville
rockers Jason & The Scorchers' 1983 debut EP and
1985 album, reprised with a hot new mastering job
and original cover art. This country-rock awesomeness
is considered Summer In A Bottle around these parts.
In this case a square bottle, with a black label,
as frequently hoisted by rock & rollers of that
era. [more
detail]
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Wooden Shjips - Vol. 1 (Holy Mountain)
CD $13.50
Listen:
Shrinking
Moon for You
Magnanimous Holy Mountain release of previously vinyl-only
and mostly unavailable stupendousness from Left Coast,
lo-fi, psych-o-naut messiahs. The only thing fuzzier
than the epic, acid-fuzz-guitar-organ freakscapes
within are these dudes’ shjort-term memories.
OK, it is similar to the limited 2nd CD that came
with initial copies of their debut
full-length CD, but this official release tacks
on tracks from The SOL (Summer Of Love) 45 as well.
[more
detail]
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Blood
Music - Don Quite
(Make It Happen) CD $15.00
Listen: Eagles
In The Water •
Lovely
Love
Jim's
Pick: Album #2 from former First Floor
Power dude Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the follow-up to Sing
A Song Fighter!, his charming fizz-pop debut.
Lithe, lilting pop led by voice and piano, for fans
of the croony, orchestral, sampledic-pop sounds of
Jens Lekman and Sufjan Stevens, sung in a voice imbued
with child-like wonder and wild-eyed naiveté,
cavorting baroquely with saucy synths, strings, horns
and ebullient rhythms; the electric sound of joy,
indeed. [more
detail]
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Released June 10th:
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Antennas – Lies
CD5 $0.25
Sloan – Parallel
Play CD $13.75
Pentemple – O)))
Presents… CD $14.00
Dominique Leone – Self-Titled
CD $14.50
My Morning Jacket – Evil
Urges CD $13.00
Joan As Policewoman – To
Survive CD $13.75
Radio Dept. – Freddie
& the Trojan Horse CD5 $9.75
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Fleet Foxes - Self-Titled (Sub
Pop) CD $12.50
Listen:
White
Winter Hymnal •
Ragged
Wood
Where their Sun
Giant EP was pretty good, this new
full-length is spectacular, leagues ahead in scope
and rendering. A lovely rock-wilderness wrapped in
choral/gospel/harmony grandeur, equal parts melancholy
and evangelical rapture, psychedelic in the echoing
spaces, this becomes the perfect soundtrack to summer
twilight and beyond. Like My Morning Jacket and Band
of Horses holed up with CSN&Y. [more
detail]
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Mark
Kozelek -
Nights of Passed Over
(Caldo Verde)
Hardback BOOK+CD $48.00
ON SALE: $45.00
Now available in a comprehensive 2008 U.S. edition,
this updated, hardback, 256-page, all-English edition
includes Kozelek’s lyrics from his Red House
Painters/Sun Kil Moon/solo albums and compilations,
set lists; plus a new preface by Mark. Packaged with
an exclusive 12-song bonus CD entitled
the Nights LP with live and rare recordings
from the last decade or so, nine songs exclusive and
previously unreleased. [tracklist,
more detail]
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Wildbirds
& Peacedrums - Heartcore
(The Leaf Label)
CD $15.25
Listen: I
Can't Tell In His Eyes •
Doubt/Hope
Jim's
Pick: Cathartic
proto-folk/cave-soul/meta-jazz with plenty of freak
appeal, Wildbirds & Peacedrums are a bethrothed
duo from Gothenburg, Sweden. Fans of Scout Niblett,
PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas, and Fiery Furnaces
chanteuse Eleanor’s oddest moments will find
wild-eyed salvation in W&P’s revelatory
art-rock minimalism. [more
detail]
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Released June 3rd:
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Shearwater - Rook
CD $12.00
Jaguar Love – Self-Titled
CD5 $4.00
The M's – Real
Close Ones CD $12.00
Ed Harcourt – Beautiful
Lie CD $15.00
Club 8 – Jesus
Walk with Me CD5 $10.00
Accidental – There
Were Wolves CD $13.00
Low – You
May Need a Murderer DVD $15.75
Centro-matic/South San Gabriel – Dual
Hawks DCD $16.25
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines
(Ecstatic Peace)
CD $10.00
Listen:
Eyes
of Light •
Burning
Saturday Shift: First
CD on the player is the recent platter from badass
Brooklyn scuzz-rockers, who have got [Made In Detroit]
stamped somwehere on their gnarly chassis. Those searching
for a full-frontal Stooges fetish, along with fans
of The Ponys, Mudhoney and My Midnight Creeps, will
find anthems aplenty. [more
detail]
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La
Scala - The Harlequin (High Wheel)
45+CD5 $7.50
Listen: Parallel
Lines
Turns out former Mother/Menthol
mainman and Bowie-esque chameleon Balthazar de Ley
leads Chicago's La Scala. Melodramatic, visceral pomp-rock
intertwined with Euro folk, Gainsbourgian exotica
and a smear of glammy cabaret mascara. So totally
post-war, with an urgent new wave zing that Menthol
fans will be ecstatic about. Four songs on 7”
vinyl, CD adds a fifth song. [more
detail]
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Pistepirkko - (Well
You Know) Stuff Is Like We Yeah!
(Bone Voyage) CD $15.00
Listen: Suburban
Ladyland •
Zombie
Jim's
Pick: Since their
humble beginnings in the mid-80s Finnish cult act
22-PP have bestowed upon us 12 full-length albums
(including The
Others) and an essential
2002 retrospective. With (WYK)SILWY!
this quirky, veteran psych-pop trio deploy their awesome
super-powers on behalf of song and songcraft; simple,
but as always, skewed in the most compelling ways.
Their sweetest and most beguiling album yet.
[more detail]
Also available in
limited DCD version.
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Released May 27th:
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Mogwai – Young
Team [expanded re-issue] DCD $15.75
The Black Watch – Icing
the Snow Queen CD $9.00
The Clientele – Last
Night a Forest Grew CD5 $8.25
Spiritualized – Songs
in A & E [regular] CD $12.25
DJ Spooky – Sound
Unbound… CD+DVD $16.25
Midnight Juggernauts –
Dystopia CD $14.25
The Lodger – Life
Is Sweet CD $14.25
Complete
New Release Details...updated each Tuesday.
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Mudhoney
- The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop) CD
$12.50
Listen: I'm
Now •
And
The Shimmering Light
Time has bent over backward for Mark Arm & crew
and your summer drinking sessions will benefit mightily.
Sounds like a sweaty, savvy garage band turned up
to 12. No bells, no whistles, just four badass bros
conjuring killer songs, gargantuan garage rock grooves
and licks so lascivious you'll blush. [more
detail] Meanwhile: celebrating
band/label milestone, Superfuzz
Bigmuff gets the
deluxe re-issue treatment.
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Mason
Jennings - In the Ever (Brushfire)
CD $15.00
ON
SALE: $13.75
Listen: Fighter
Girl •
Soldier
Boy
New album from Minneapolis songsmith gets us all swoony,
but hell, we're still a little wobbly from 2006's
Boneclouds.
In the Ever is full of homey, folksy, pop-spirituals
and homespun storytellin’, all sung in a voice
of cozy camaraderie; as much Jonathan Richman as it
is John Cunningham, backed by rootsy tunes that are
as much about Leadbelly as they are Led Zeppelin.
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