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Adult.
Why Bother?
PS, US Uneasy listening music for uneasy times. A time to contextualize "folk" for our intent & advocate the importance of being folk. Folklore defines a distinctive culture, the common people, real people. Uncomfortable, restless, disturbed, perturbed, awkward & anxious. This hopes to spread the word of weird... Abnormal motivations, ready & willing. This album, of all their albums, they feel is the most accurate culmination of our disordered hysteria
ThrillJockey-185
CD
$14.25

Adult.
Why Bother?
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-185
LP
$14.00

Andrews, Ken
Secrets of the Lost Satellite (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US Secrets of the Lost Satellite combines tripped-out instrumentation with a vast array of sonic color creating a demanding, visceral appeal. Live instruments (drums, piano, and guitar) mingled with electronic elements. Strong, hooky vocals keep the album on course. This album most definitely pulls the listener into an eerie, enticing space/dream world. Our pal, Jeff Garber (Ghost of PMO's past) contributes guitar on a track!
DinosaurFight
CD
$14.00

Atkins, Chet
Eclectic Guitar
PS, UK Chet Atkins played a major role in creating what came to be known as 'The Nashville sound'. Through his smooth and eclectic jazzy guitar playing and ambitious production ideas he brought a hitherto unknown sophistication to country music that would see it break through into the mainstream during the sixties and seventies. As a guitarist (compared by many with Django Reinhardt and Andres Segovia) he sold 35 million records and directly influenced talents as diverse as George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Eric Clapton, The Ventures, Mark Knopfler and even Ted Nugent. He played guitar on Elvis Presley's breakthrough single 'Heartbreak Hotel' (which he also arranged), on Hank Williams' 'Jambalaya' and on the Everly Brothers hits 'Wake Up, Little Susie' and 'Bye Bye Love.' He produced sessions for Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves and for the Everly Brothers. As head of A & R at RCA he discovered Waylon Jennings, and Charley Pride. He was dubbed 'The King of Music Row' a reference to the Nashville strip where the record labels were based. 'Eclectic guitar' showcases Chet Atkins' incredible virtuosity and versatility and his extraordinary taste. Here jazz standards such as 'Honeysuckle Rose' and Tenderly sit comfortably alongside his first big pop hit 'Mr Sandman,' classical repertoire such as 'Minute Waltz' and beautifully played country and rock tunes 'Alice Blue Gown' and 'St Louis Blues'. The overall effect is quite wonderful. Sunrise Serenade / Honeysuckle Rose / Caravan / Mister Sandman / Intermezzo / Tenderly / Minute Waltz / Minuet-From French Harpsicord Suite, Prelude From Six Short Preludes / Little Rock Getaway / Ochi Chomya (Dark Eyes) / La Golodrina (The Swallow) / Indian Love Call / Alice Blue Gown / St Louis Blues / Gavotte In D / Malaguena / Waltz In A-Flat / Adelita / Petite Waltz / Liza
El-103
CD
$14.25

Audion
Mouth To Mouth Remixes
PS, US Brand new release from MATTHEW DEAR, feat. 3 reworkings of last year's "Mouth to Mouth", which Pitchfork described "as gripping as a cliffhanger." 2 different versions from HEARTTHROB & new version from KONRAD BLACK!
SpectralSound-042
12
$8.25

Autumn Shade
Ezra Moon
PS, US The nom de plume of Jes Lenee', a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent. A classically trained piano prodigy, ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, AS is a marriage of her piano prowess & folk-inspired guitar strumming, imbued in a heady ambiance & enveloped in some of the most heavenly, intimate vocals to have come down the pike in some time. Unique sepia-toned microcosm, one that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, avant-rock & indie singer/songwriter. Colored by additional instrumentation of violin, hammer dulcimer & percussion, and a healthy penchant for sonic experimentation.
StrangeAttractors-049
CD
$12.50

Bears
Self-Titled
PS, US Bears has been described by You Ain't No Picasso as a record that "recalls the tenderness of twee, the poeticism of Morrissey and the pop stylings of many of the bands on Matinée"-but that's only part of the story. And while the group shares an affinity for acts like Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura, their music is pure unbridled pop, in the best possible way. Catchy, carefree and, most importantly, free of any indie pretension.
Bears-001
CD
$10.00

Berne, Tim
Science Friction (3XCD)
PS, US Mind Over Friction A mega reissue of 2002's amazing "Science Friction" studio disc paired with a reissue of the double live disc. All music features Craig Taborn: electronics & keys, Tom Rainey on drums, w/Marc Ducret on guitar & was produced by David Torn who also does some intense processing & remixing of Tim's work. Beautiful art as usual. ""Pretty insane,"" says Berne. ""A remarkably accessible piece of uncompromising new music from undoubtedly the best group Tim Berne has ever led / takes the possibilities of composed & improvised new jazz to another level.""-THE GUARDIAN (UK). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Screwgun-7018
3XCD
$29.00

Bicycle Rider
All Traffic/When We Were Young
PS, US Chicago punk band circa '98-2000. Bridges the Gap between '70s mod-punk, '80s alternative & '90s emo where the Jam meets Braid, by way of Husker Du. Produced by MATT ALLISON (Alkaline Trio, Lawrence Arms, Rise Against).
Baum-52101
CD
$9.00

Big City
Chedda b/w Stick Up
PS, US Members Psycho Les (Beatnuts), Al Tariq aka Fashion (Beatnuts) & Problemz (Missin Linx) have made a huge impact on the hip hop world together & individually. If you like how this one sounds just wait until their debut album drops this Spring.
NatureSounds-025
12
$6.25

Bitch
#35
PS, US It's the SUPER ISSUE!! Major mommy lit! Scintillating superheroines! Titanic third waves! plus Judy Chicago! All w/ the usual Bitch list, movies, music & book reviews.
ZINE
$5.50

Bjork, Brant
Tres Dias
PS, US Brand new 8 track acoustic album! Recorded in LA just before Xmas.
Duna-014
LP
$11.25

Black Hollies/Dansettes
SPLIT
PS, US The Black Hollies return on side A with a brilliant cover of the Joe South by way of Deep Purple classic "Hush," featuring backing vocals & Hammond accompaniment from THE DANSETTES. On the flip, The Dansettes step to the front w/their sultry, soulful vocals tearing the roof off of the brand new Motown-infused "40 Days." A classic pairing of bands joined together in perfect harmony.
ErnestJenning-029
45
$5.00

Bonnie Prince Billy
Strange Form of Life
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-337
12
$11.00

Bonnie Prince Billy
Strange Form of Life
PS, US Another haunting chapter from "The Letting Go" is highlighted for your edification. The gauzy webs of this song gleam w/ clarity divorced from its siblings. Also a part of this EP package is a video enhancement, bringing format-hopping excitement & surprise into your life. Pop it into the computer & give the video (directed by Jennifer Parsons) an eye.
DragCity-337
CD5
$10.00

Brother Reade
Northcack Aphonicrobotic Killatracktonic
PS, US Two southern punk bookworms who also happen to be the best new hip hop group L.A. has seen in a long while. Killyou Meyou's amazing production & beats sway from abstract & experimental to bomb dropping, while Jael's hook-filled lyrical bombasts cut jugulars. "The missing link between Madlib's dust & RZA's gloom." -Urb Magazine
No.3Records
CD
$6.75

Bulemics
Still Too Young To Care
PS, US Their scum rock crippled career laced w/drug & groupie, abuse & general madness is collected here w/rarities spanning from late '96 til now w/tracks from the Man's Ruin/Junk Records years . Includes dvd w/over 1 hr of videos, live footage & extras
Scarey-033
CD
$16.00

Bust
#44
PS, US The Science of Sleep's Charlotte Gainsbourg on the cover & feat. Ab Fab's Jennifer Saunders, Iggy Pop, Amy Winehouse, & female sex tourists!
ZINE
$4.75

Cadence Weapon
Breaking Kayfabe
PS, US Every now & again, a hip-hop artist emerges & threatens to take the music from its growing commercial context back to its essence. Enter this 20-year-old rapper/producer, hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, son of a Brooklyn DJ, nephew of a funk musician, & child of fresh music. Rollie Pemberton returns w/ a more focused sound w/ clever songwriting & impressive rhymes paired w/ the electrotones of UK grime & West Coast hip-hop.
Upperclass-010
CD
$15.00

Cadence Weapon
Breaking Kayfabe
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Upperclass-010
LP
$16.50

Callahan, Bill
Diamond Dancer
PS, US Bill Callahan is the man who used to record under the name Smog. Now he is Bill Callahan. This is the story of a young lady having an epiphany on the dance floor while dancing alone. With its propulsive, gossamer beat it is sure to be a dance floor favorite from 2007 onwards. For those too shy to dance, it will surely make them wish they were dancing. More dance music is found on the exclusive B-side.
DragCity-335
CD5
$5.00

Charles Atlas/Textile Ranch
Split
PS, UK The Static Caravan house of recordings deigns fit to issue a split CD EP by Textile Ranch and New York ambient conceptualists, Charles Atlas. Textile Ranch offer up 4 new slices of digital automation under such preposterous titlements as 'Murderer/Gardener,' 'Bear Is Ours,' 'We Both Hurt Our Heads' and 'Huguenots.' Susanne Bauszat (Tropes/Early Autumn Break) and Chris Bauer (Early Autumn Break) both stick their oars into 'Murderer/Gardener.' Charles Atlas opts for the more geographical, 'Oakland' and 'Genova.' Charles Atlas is an instrumental duo (often expanding into a trio or quartet) who utilize effected guitar, piano, synthesizer, melodica, trumpet, drum loops, samples, and other instrumentation to paint expansive musical pastures on the crowded walls of the urban centres they and their audiences call home. They have recorded for quality street labels such as Ochre, Static Caravan and Audraglint. Textile Ranch is the work of one Glen Johnson. Glen is also the founder member of the band Piano Magic. A band that have released music with a lexicon of good labels and collaborated with rediscovered poets before they were rediscovered. Vashti Bunyan, Alan Sparhawk from Low, Ben Ayres from Cornershop, John Grant of The Czars and Angle David-Guillou of Klima (the latter, recently signed to the Peacefrog label). Textile Ranch is the work of one Glen Johnson. Since the bands first release on very friendly he has been carrying out extensive personal research into the shoes of one Joseph Merrick after being commissioned by Nike to write the music to accompany their latest advertisement for trainers designed by David Lynch.
StaticCaravan-061
CD
$14.50

Concretes, The
Kids EP (ON SALE)
PS, US Vocalist Victoria has left the band, but has that stopped The Concretes? No effing way! Lisa and Maria are handling the vocal duties and the pop-orchestra behind them remains melodic and inventive. Think frosty starry-eyed folktronica and if you need some updated namedropping Jim says Concretes 2.0 is a bit more like Maria's folksier band Heikki and even sorta El Perro Del Marry in spots. EP features "Kids" from the upcoming album 'Hey Trouble' plus exclusive b-sides: "Another Day To Waste", "Reasons", and a lovely cover of Graham Nash's "Military Madness".
LickingFingers-023
CD5
$5.00

Cunniff, Jill
City Beach
PS, US Singer/songwriter & former member of LUSCIOUS JACKSON explains solo debut as a "mood record made to bring the beach to caged up city dwellers. I hope it will also bring the city to homesick urbanites everywhere." The twelve-track album is a breezy, earnest yet celebratory piece-aglow with motherly wisdom and metrical nods to the unassailable grit & color of urban life.
MilitiaGroup-045
CD
$12.50

Cyann & Ben
Sweet Beliefs
PS, US An epic, intimate record that draws upon a wide variety of sonic influences, giving the space rock template a dramatic makeover by adding a much needed romantic grandeur. Their music offers an otherworldly splendor: psychedelic, noble, fragile, experimental & incandescent all at once, it is the sound of Sonic Youth reared on Pink Floyd's lost masterpiece Soundtrack To More, or maybe Low picking Mogwai to pieces.
Ever-004
CD
$15.50

Daimonji
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
PS, POLAND New project of Tatsuya Yoshida, Hoppy Kamiyama, Nasuno Mitsuru. If you like music of Seikazoku, Musica Transonc, Ruins, Altered States & Pugs you will be amazed by this album!
Vivo-21
CD
$15.00

Dalek
Abandoned Language
PS, US After two long years, their masterpiece is finally unveiled, an album the band have described as their "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Pet Sounds" a la Dälek. Still as layered as their previous work but complex enough for fans of avant noise while being accessible enough for mainstream hip hop audiences. Packed w/avant hip hop guests incl. ROB SWIFT (X-MEN). Incl. 16pp booklet w/art by Paul Romano (MASTODON).
ErnestJenning-031
DLP
$18.25

Damon
Song of a Gypsy (LP + 7")
PS, SPAIN Repressed on vinyl. "Damon. This is the artistic name of David Del Conte, a genius American gypsy musician who is responsible for probably the rarest and most sought-after psychedelic music album of all time. We're talking about his debut album, Song of a Gypsy, which was originally released in 1969. This album has a totally unique sound, with the 'crooner-like' voice of Damon, the omnipresent melodic fuzz guitar of Charlie Carey and truly atmospheric melodies. Guerseen is very proud to be able to re-release Song of a Gypsy on vinyl format. This will come with the rarer gatefold cover (there were two original pressings, one in single cover and one in gatefold, with different artwork). This fabulous vinyl production comes with an extra 33rpm EP including the four tracks that were released on their two bloody rare singles, including an insert with photos and liner-notes, making this a very special release if all previous things weren't enough."
Guerseen
LP
$25.00

Decemberists
Practical Handbook
PS, US Feat. a live recording on Nov. 4, 2005 in Portland, OR @ the Roseland Theatre, 5 videos for songs off "Picaresque" & "Her Majesty", as well as a documentary shot during the recording of "The Crane Wife". Also filled w/ quirky details that fans love, like outtakes.
KillRockStars-434
DVD
$14.50

Dengue Fever
Escape From Dragon House
PS, US Fronted by Cambodian pop star Chhom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop-heavily influenced by American surf, rock & early psychedelic garage bands-with their own eclectic mix of American & international styles. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness & girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the bands own
M80-100
CD
$16.75

Destroyalldreamers
Glare/Halo EP
PS, US 180g BLACK VINYL 12". Destroyalldreamers captivated us to no end with their gorgeous debut album in 2004 (the year's best shoegaze record, handsdown!) We were ecstatic to have them record a special limited record just for us, and we are quite excited to present it to you. Housed in a gorgeous die-cut jacket in the Claire's Echo series by Aaron Winters, with a slip-in full color heavy card cover image, backed with a beautiful close-up shot of a guitar in b&w. Destroyalldreamers does destroy indeed, with their beautiful and intense sonic landscapes. The instrumental outfit from Montreal keeps you on the edge of your seat as they weave through tapestries of billowing, effected guitars to create massive layers of beauty and noise. Fans of Slowdive, Explosions in the Sky, Paik, etc. definitely fall in love with Destroyalldreamers the moment they hear them. The EP is kicked off with the incredible "Her Brother Played the Riot" - a monumental side-long track eclipsing 20 minutes that had to broken into 3-parts on the forthcoming album. Here it appears on vinyl exclusively. On the flip, we are treated to three shorter but equally powerful tracks: Dead on Arrival (100% exclusive to this release), A Summer Without You (another taster from the forthcoming album on WAMR), and A La Guerre Comme A La Mer (another 100% exclusive track that will not appear elsewhere).
ClairesEcho
12
$12.25

Dirty Projectors
The Glad Fact
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
WesternVinyl-026
LP
$11.50

Ditty Bops, The
Moon Over the Freeway
PS, US
Warner
CD
$14.00

Drawing Voices
S/T
PS, US The 20th Century painter Francis Bacon is continuously cited for his remark, "Painting is the projection on canvas of one's own nervous system." The project Drawing Voices attempts to expose the nervous system through audio, video, and meta-technologies. Through the amplification of marks being made while drawing or writing, experiments are set up to reveal the potential of these sounds to communicate. This CD includes sounds from various Drawing Voices sessions used in collaboration with musician/artist Aaron Turner.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Durutti Column, The
Sporadic Three
PS, UK The Durutti Column is Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell. In a career spanning the past four decades, and over 25 albums, they have written and performed as one of Manchester's most influential and prolific acts from their beginnings as Factory Records first signing to their fifth and latest album release on Kooky. 'Sporadic Three', released this spring, is the third in a series of special collections some 16 years since the original 'Sporadic Recordings'. As highlighted over his long and illustrious career, Vini Reilly is a prolific songwriter. Ideas and tracks just fly from Vini, and he's currently in the form of his life. Unfortunately, most of these tracks, or initial versions of songs, never make it to final release. The basic idea then behind The Sporadic Recordings series is to release material that never makes it onto studio albums. This collection follows the same premise and contains new and exclusive tracks, outtakes, versions, and home demos. Reilly's off cuts contain more ideas than most of us have over the course of a lifetime. A key interest for Durutti Column fans lies around the listener being able to hear a re-work, adaptation or different instrumentation used by Reilly as he regularly re-visits music from the past. The music of The Durutti Column has been commissioned for films such as 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Requiem Again', in addition to various works for television. Morrissey chose Vini Reilly to play and write on his first solo album 'Viva Hate'. The other two collections 'The Sporadic Recordings' and 'Return of the Sporadic Recordings' have sold out within a matter of weeks.
Kooky-025
CD
$17.00

East Ghost West Ghost
S/T
PS, US Eclectic, irksome instrumental jams from Rob Christiansen. It feels like Ennio Morricone playing in a sandbox while Here Come the Warm Jets plays softly on the Hi-Fi. Beautiful, hand-made packaging.
TriumphantElephantTriumverate-02
CD
$6.50

Einsturzende Neubauten
Palast Der Republik
PS, US This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more. Song Titles: Haus Der Luege, Armenia, Weilweilweil, Youme & Meyou, Perpetuum Mobile, Dead Friends (Around the Corner), Grundstueck, GS:1, GS:2, Unseasonable Weather, GS:3, Vox Populi, Was Ist Ist, Ein leichtes leises Saeuseln, Sabrina, Alles. Plus: Encore performances of Die Befindlichkeit des Landes and Redukt.
MVD-4564
DVD
$17.00

Elastik Band, The
S/T
PS, US Known almost exclusively for their extremely politically incorrect 1967 Nuggets cult favorite "Spazz" (track #2), the Elastik Band was actually a highly talented group that could play just about any popular style in vogue during the mid-to-late 60s, much like the Knickerbockers. Thus, at times they sound like the Byrds with vibraphone ("Mixed Emotions," #3), the Mamas & the Papas ("All I Need," #10), the Syndicate of Sound ("Lose Yourself," 19), and even what sounds like a parody of the Zombies ("Fire and Desire," #9). But the group excelled at the 12-string guitar and multipart harmonies of groups like the Byrds and Beau Brummels, as many tracks on the disc attest. They also had a few curiosities besides "Spazz": "Popcorn" (#7) being the closest, though "Mrs. Pig" (#17) would also qualify. The last track is from an Australian radio broadcast in 1968 in which the DJ begins playing the song "Spazz" but cuts it off before completion and calls it "offensive." This disc, released on lead singer David Cortopassi's private label, represents the band's complete output of their own compositions (they also recorded a Jimmy Webb tune at one point), some never before released. Hopefully the release, though belated, will show that the Elastik Band was far more than a novelty one-hit wonder.
Digital Cellars-EBCD-10
CD
$13.50

Evripisis And His Tragedies
S/T
PS, US This is the first sign that Evripidis and His Tragedies are a truly unique band and have developed their own style. In Evripidis' song writing there is space for pre-Beatles pop as heard on "Ru Ru I'd love to...", to the sinister and grotesque "Transylvania, Some nights are sleepless" and "Cause I shall rise again", the picaresque cabaret "Red is the sky above the harbour" and romanticism "I want to be there", "Long-Lasting Lovers" or "Straydog" and also singles as "It's June Again!" and "Gregory (we're coming out in the light)". Conceptually, Evripidis use polarity (reality and fantasy, romanticism and sexual tension, self-parody and idealisation, catastrophe and comedy) to create a work guided by humour and his flirtation with daily tragicomedies. The result is an album that is personal, daring, original and ambitious.
Touchme-01
CD
$13.50

Exits, The
S/T
PS, UK The Exits formed in 1977 around the Battersea and Tooting areas of south London and signed to Lightning Records (then riding high with Anthea & Donna's huge number one hit "Uptown Top Ranking"), scoring a top ten hit in the punk/independent charts with their lone 1978 single, "The Fashion Plague" b/w "Cheam". They quickly became something of a live draw in south London and played several high profile shows including one at the London Dungeon supporting Screaming Lord Sutch! Their set was largely comprised of songs written by bassist/vocalist Colin Swan and guitarist/vocalist Geno Buckmaster which evoked the best of Elvis Costello, Pete Townshend and Graham Parker but they also threw covers of Tommy James & The Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now" and Small Faces' "Tin Soldier" in for good measure. A second single, "Keep On Tryin'", was slated for release and an album's worth of high-quality demos laid down in early 1979. Gigs promoting the 'forthcoming album' showed great promise. Sadly, Lightning slowly backed away from the sounds of the new wave, preferring to concentrate on the lucrative soul/disco market and The Exits recordings were left in limbo...until now! Not surprisingly, the band soon folded with Swan and Buckmaster re-emerging a year later as '60s/mod pop heroes The Direct Hits. But that's another story... With the band's full co-operation we have unearthed those unreleased Exits album demos and are proud to present them on CD for the first time. - Featuring the band's story in their own words with previously unseen photos and memorabilia! - These are the roots of The Direct Hits, one of the 1980s' great cult pop secrets! - A must for fans of new wave, punk, power pop and the cool '60s sounds of The Who, Small Faces and The Kinks!
Rev-Ola-196
CD
$14.25

Fine Lines
Set You Straight
PS, US Sophmore full length following acclaimed 2004 release. Each track
catchier than the next, featuring punk speedballs, a slower guitar vamper & an amazing 60s style garage smackdown, there is not a dud in the bunch. Press & radio campaign surround the release. Follows a 2006 SXSW showcase, US & European tour ending w/ the Primitive Festival in Holland. US tour planned for this year kicked off by the International Pop Takeover festival in Chicago this April.
LicoriceTree-1010
CD
$11.75

Fingered
DVDZINE
PS, US The 2nd offering from Fingered dvdzine focuses ont the activities of the ever fertile artistic community in the San Francisco Bay area. Includes a video tour diary put together by ERASE ERRATA , performances by FUCKWOLF, BLACK FICTION, CLIPD BEAKS & TUSSLE. LIMITED to 300. Comes packaged in an eye-catching, hand sewn, white canvas bag
DVD/ZINE
$12.75

Fisher, Morgan
Water Music
PS, UK First released by Cherry Red fifteen years ago to an enthusiastic response from press and public, who saw the album as a pioneer of the new direction in ambient music. The album, originally recorded in Japan, has now been remixed and extended for a year 2000 CD release. Experimental musician, neo-glam popstar, guru devotee, Morgan Fisher has straddled careers and idioms as diverse as they come in the rock world. From his first band 'Love Affair', through 'Mott The Hoople' to Japan where he now resides as a composer and solo artist (having recorded over 20 albums in the last 22 years), Morgan Fisher's career path could never be described as dull! Water In The City / Ice Melting / The Great Lakes / After The Rain / We Are All Water / Breathing Rain / We Are On The Brink / We Are All Water (remix)
CherryRed-178
CD
$14.25

Frazer, Paula
Now It's Time
PS, US This is a heartbreaking, beautiful testament to love & loss, w/ a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends alternative country roots w/ dark, psychedelic tones & warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. This is a return to form for those who miss Tarnation, & an incredible starter for beginners.
Birdman-095
CD
$15.00

Frazer, Paula
Now It's Time
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman-095
LP
$15.00

Gang Font & Interloper
S-T
PS, US Musical combustion is about to take place. Feat. GREG NORTON (HUSKER DU) & DAVE KING (BAD PLUS). Rife w/ intricate & ingenious instrumental interplay, this is a recording that is as bombastic as it is intricate, weaving thumping bass & murderous drums w/ schizophrenic guitars & otherworldly keboards creating a frantic vitality that is rarely heard elsewhere.
ThirstyEar
CD
$13.25

Geisha Girls
Disappearing Act
PS, US The latest fabulous release from those OC press darlings, the Geisha Girls! If you took early Cure vocals, Gang of Four cadences, Minutemen intensity, Mission of Burma stylings & later Middle Class-isms, you'd get an idea of what this 3 piece sounds like. Then throw in some pure fuggin originality &, voila, you got it punk
No.3Records
CD
$10.00

Germans
Cape Fear
PS, US Recording It was a most regal & cauldecraffe story that lead to the formation of what is now called "Germans." Imagine Snarey, The Sick Prince, looking down from His throne, framed on the wall of 8 Lippincott. What would He see? A table of 5 noble Torontonian vandegards on a quest for His High Music. Together, Germans have managed to write & record the most cauldecraffe album this side of Princeland - Cape Fear.
ArenaRock-056
CD
$14.00

Giant Skyflower Band
Blood of the Sunworm During
PS, US During a sabbatical from regular duties in THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Glenn Donaldson (never one to rest) dreamt of Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multi-instrumentalist Shayde Sartin to "smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs," and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal "Magick Brother" as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. The duos debut offering examines in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities "Painted Word" LP in the mid-80s, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like- minded acts such as Nagisa Ni Te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, "Blood of the Sunworm" consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together - on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters.
SoftAbuse-019
CD
$11.50

Giffoni, Carlos/Prurient
Heavy Rain Returns
PS, UK Noise/experimental - Two of North America's greatest now living noise artists get together in Bushwick, New York for one harsh collaboration. This is some brutal stuff, man! They succeed extremely well to create something unique, but also where you hear the influences they both bring into the vortex of hi- & lo-tech electronic noise. Noise music became the new black in 2006. And this album gives us hope for an even more explosive 2007. "Heavy Rain Returns" is a truly monumental album. Recorded in Bushwick, New York City - it's an intense trip into harsh noise and electronic sickness, with some deep black metal influences. Carlos Giffoni is maybe best known for his great "Welcome Home" record for Important and his curator skills are infamous through his No Fun Fest in Brooklyn which is the world's most extreme music festival. He has also collaborated with Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo and Fe-Mail. Prurient is Dominick Fernow who is operating the Hospital Productions label and shop out of a basement in New York. His albums "Black Vase" and the latest "Pleasure Ground" for Load Records are both highly recommended and loved. Here we hear two of the US-noise scene's absolutely most important creators together - and man, it's pure energy hitting you hard. The noise is ON!
Ideal-030
CD
$17.00

Gomez, Robert
Brand New Towns
PS, US He's a troubadour of the darkest cloth, crafting atmospheres as vast as the midnight Texas sky. Payingno mind to simple genres on this debut, he explores the textures of mood, often finding his voice in the seemingly saddest spots.
BellaUnion-413
CD
$14.50

Good Shoes
Photos On My Wall
PS, US "Gloriously giddy art-pop magnificence from south London that lies somewhere between Futureheads & Kaiser Chiefs. Add a dollop of XTC dynamics & the roar of the US post hardcore underground & you're somewhere near to understanding what makes these boys so special." - NME
Brille-007
CD5
$5.75

Hail Social
Modern Love & Death
PS, US Second album by Philadelphia's Hail Social.
NONE
CD
$11.00

Health
Where You From
PS, US Greensboro, NC local heroes led by Jonathan Moore (also of Tigerbearwolf) unleash their backwoods Americana slacker anthems and call to mind a woozy night around the hookah listening to Pavement, The Velvet Underground, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Unforgettable songwriting, quietly unique passages of instrumentation, and unexpectedly big hooks. Addicitve.
ErnestJenning
CD
$12.25

Hume, Kevin
The Truth About Ants and Aphids
PS, US An 11-track, four-part song cycle; sounds like indie pop/folk with classical elements, songs centered around vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, etc, but also prominently features strings, brass and woodwinds, performed by some of the finest musicians in New Mexico (no lie); lead single "Towns Where We Live" was featured several times on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Kevin Hume previously released 2 albums on cdr label Asaurus under the name Black Spartacus, The Seven Dreams of the Leviathan and Andromeda. Seven Dreams received modest but very positive critical reaction.
PremiumFantasy-001
CD
$9.75

Ignatz
II
PS, US Here BRAM DEVENS walks further down the Appalachians in the year
2050. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost & unworldly creature. His sound builds further upon his debut album, w/ the difference that on one of the 6 tracks he doesn't use any effects. He even sings & talks more & creates his own musical world around it. Joined by PAUL LABREQUE (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) & SILVERSTER ANFGANG (Belgium), but still proves that his solo work towers above his other collaborations.
Kraak-053
CD
$13.25

I'm From Barcelona
Let Me Introduce My Friends [expanded domestic version] (ON SALE)
PS, US Mute's U.S. version comes with two bonus tracks: "Glasses" and "The Painter".
Mute
CD
$14.00

Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song
PS, US With 11 new, memorable & genuinely moving songs, this is the kind of intimate recording where each note seems essential. From the socially conscious opening track, to the longful closing lines, Peris's hauntingly beautiful voice communicates w/ immediacy. The tracks are further lit by gentle lines of melodic piano, upright bass and baritone acoustic guitar.
Badman
CD
$15.00

Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Badman
LP
$15.00

International Noise Conspiracy
Live at Oslo Jazz Festival
PS, US
AlternativeTentacle
CD
$15.00

Jones, Glenn
Against Which The Sea Continually Beats
PS, US Glenn Jones has led Bostons "avant -garage" instrumental rock band CUL DE SAC, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. Here he brings an indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential & innovative melding of sound & form. Eleven tunes travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artists' own dialect.
StrangeAttractors-046
CD
$12.50

Jonesy
Ricochet (1972-73)
PS, UK Jonesy are the last great secret of the early seventies progressive rock era. A wildly acclaimed British group whose influences vary from Frank Zappa, can, neu, Ian Carr's nucleus and King Crimson, Popol Vuh and the west coast pop art experimental band. The original vinyl editions of their three original albums (from which this compilation is drawn) on Pye's specialist dawn label are expensive collectables. The music has aged well and for once the inflated price tag is entirely justifiable. The group were brilliant musicians, pioneers who were not above creating under the influences of strange substances. The music is very psychedelic and hugely compelling. 1958 / Ricochet / No Alternative / Reprise / Preview / Questions And Answers / Children / Know Who Your Friends Are / Jonesy.
El-104
CD
$14.25

Kalli
While the City Sleeps
PS, US Ex-Without Gravity frontman. This album continues the tradition of beauty & pain finding a nesting ground in the heart of a young man.
OneLittleIndian-790
CD
$16.75

Kemp, Rose
Handful of Hurricanes
PS, US Breaking out of the British rock world w/ her folk roots & a lonely, beckoning voice, she's quickly earning her rightful place in the Bristol DIY music scene. Born of British folk-rock heritage, she's the daughter of Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp from the seminal British 70s band Steeleye Span. Shes got the eerie rock transcendence of The Pixies, the naked beauty of Regina Spektor, the vocal bravado of Amanda of The Dresden Dolls.
OneLittleIndian-711
CD
$16.75

King Kong
Buncha Beans
PS, US This is not a thematic rock opera. As Ethan tells us, "Beans dont mean anything. Thats the point. Like a bunch of beans on a table top." His albums always have themes. Here theres lots of songs about dilemmas: for instance, weather songs, a theme dating back to "Funny Farm". Feat. PETE TOWNSEND on drums. Let the musical fruit rock your funky soul!
DragCity-324
CD
$13.00

Ladykillers
Welcome to Rock & Roll Kid
PS, US Stumbling out of the bars of L.A. & onto your stereo playing rock n roll the way it should be: tight, fast, fueled on liquor & sex! The ever escaping perfect girl, the last drink, the last smoke, the broken heart. It's all here & it fucking rocks.
No.3Records
CD
$10.00

Land Of Talk
Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
PS, US This Montreal-based, female fronted guitar rock juggernaut is influenced by early PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. For fans of Blonde Redhead, Metric, Cat Power, PJ Harvey. "...a collection of shimmering, chord-rich songs that brighten and buzz like a sparkler on a summer night" - Paste Magazine.
RebelGroup
CD
$8.00

Lea Shores, The
Guillotine
PS, UK The Lea Shores provide string-laden psychedelia from South London's paisley underground. Six strong they deliver guitar driven melodies supported by the mesmerising harmonies of twin brothers Simon and Nick Webb and aural sound-scapes from band violinist and Brian Eno cohort Nell Catchpole. Andy Bell of Ride and Oasis fame had this to say about them; "The Lea Shores are my favourite new band... I saw them supporting Brian Jonestown Massacre in Stockholm and was hooked straight away. Since then I've seen them in London a couple of times and they are pulling bigger crowds each time. The music is psychedelic and layered... distorted guitars and harmonies but underneath it's almost folk music. They should be big... they're already fucking epic!" They are to play The Royal Albert Hall at the end of March supporting Kasabian at their personal request and are sure to go from strength to strength.
Weekender-014
45
$6.75

Leng Tch'e
Marasmus
PS, US These Belgian grinders drop the hammer w/ this new full length. A heavier & more measured bludgeoning than previous records, this sees them incorporating more pronounced death metal riffage to their pummeling grind assult... squarely at the forefront of the modern extreme scene.
Relapse-7072
CD
$13.00

Lesbian
Power Hor
PS, US Heavy, melodic, dramatic & dynamic. The Seattle-based quartet's multifaceted debut album heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the 4 tracks shifts moods, dynamics & styles. In any given song, they deftly lunge from black metal-style blast-beat-&-16th-note-guitar-lines into '70s styled stoner rock riffing & then leap into lush melodic passages reminiscent of GYBE!
HolyMountain-31772
CD
$15.00

Liberty
People Who Care Are Angry
PS, US Originally released on Mortarhate in 1986, this surprising album in the best non-violent, "meat is murder" anarcho-punk tradition displays a powerful blend of classic protest folk-punk tunes making it an interesting attempt to blend multiple influences & a political message that is the trademark of the original label.
GetBack-159
LP
$11.75

Little Heroes
Cinematic Americana
PS, US The record begins with the steady hum of a cello contrasted with an off-timed picked acoustic guitar, soon joined by soft, sparse vocals, the low thump of bass & drums, and eerie piano, building to a beautiful blistering crescendo. Their strength is in the simple diversity of their songwriting, switching effortlessly between sweaty noise pop to subtle soundscapes. A definite must for fans of The Shins, Pete Yorn, & Red House Painters
Wednesday-1403
CD
$8.50

Loch Lomond
Lament for Children
PS, US Ritchie Youngs solo recording project. EP complies live performances from 2003-2006, ranging from Young by himself to a ten-person band. During this time, many different recording sessions took place in various studios & homes. "The hopeless tone in Ritchie Youngs voice tells of a terrible life of unfortunate circumstances. Even the old Scottish folk song from which Loch Lomond takes its name is the story of a broken heart & the springtime weather that does nothing to heal it. It works, though, because Youngs voice-with its gloomy, morose manner-needs the subhuman relief that noise readily provides. Ultimately it is a record wallowing in its own despair as much as it is a record that took great, inspired care to make-and its definitely a record to avoid after a breakup." -Rolling Stone
Hush-069
CD5
$10.50

Locust, The
New Erections
PS, US The Locust has been throwing up in the face of conventional music since 1995, when the band formed from the pieces of San Diego hardcore stalwarts Swing Kids and Struggle. Their songs are fast, atrociously ultra violent, and drenched in sci-fi noise, gruesome keyboards, and herky jerky, bestial scream/sing vocals, described by one journalist as "a car wreck with vocals." This is the follow-up to their 2003 Anti/Epitaph debut "Plague Soundscapes". With longer tracks and Mars Volta producer Alex Newport at the helm, "New Erections" should find new fans for this adventurous quartet.
Anti
CD
$12.50

Loney, Dear
The City, The Airport
PS, UK This is a UK import 7" put out by Something in Construction records overseas and now brought to the states by us for you.
SomethinginConstruction
45
$3.50

Loudest Whisper
The Children of Lir
PS, UK The Loudest Whisper originated in rural Fermoy, Co. Cork in the early '60s. This psychedelic folk classic was recorded in 1974, and has gone on to become one of the rarest records ever issued in Ireland. The Children of Lir was a musical score, based around the mystical legend of the Irish King Lir, and his children who are condemned to live as swans. A glorious mixture of catchy melodies, soaring harmonies and biting acid guitar, it's presented here complete with a 12-page booklet featuring rare photos and detailed sleevenotes, as well as six bonus tracks (including demos, non-album 45s and the soundtrack to the work's original broadcast on Irish television), making it the most comprehensive edition of The Children Of Lir ever assembled.
Sunbeam
CD
$15.00

Low
Drums & Guns
PS, US The eighth full-length from Minnesota's Low, and their second for Sub Pop. While these songs feature new elements (looped vocals, drum machines, etc.), and are thoroughly, radiantly contemporary, they remain undeniably Low's. "Drums And Guns" possesses the unique, subtle beauty and power we've come to expect from this band, but it's also profoundly exciting in ways that are easy to forget music can be.
Subpop
CD
$12.00

Low
Drums & Guns
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Lusine
Podgelism
PS, US A new collection of remixes. It is a many-sided view of the Lusine sound, characterized by highly textured melodies & surgically precise glitch rhythms aligned by floor-shaking kickdrums. Feat. renowned techno producers John Tejada, Robag Wruhme & Apparat. This is unified by the strength of its source material & the like-minded inventiveness of its contributors.
GhostlyInternational-068
CD
$13.50

Mason, Willy
If the Ocean Gets Rough
PS, US This new collection of songs is his strongest material to date. He's developed his already accomplished songwriting skills w/ more ambition & instrumentation, joining personal tales w/ socio-cultural commentary, effortlessly expressing his own experiences while making them our own. This music is moving beyond words & reaches the listener in a place that mere songs rarely touch.
Astralwerks
CD
$13.25

McCarthy Trenching
S-T
PS, US This album is the distillation of two collections of songs. "Old Habits" recorded in November of 2003 by Ted Stevens, was a self released 9 song collection of drinking songs & waltzes. The dipsomaniacal "ItsGot Nothing to Do with the Drinking" was recorded in the winter of 2005-06, & had been given to only a handful of family & friends. Collaborators include Ted Stevens, Ryan Fox, Pat Oakes, Tim Kasher, Orenda Fink, Adrianne Verhoeven, Steve Bartolomei, Alex McManus, Bill Hoover,Renee Ledesma Hoover, & Mark Maziarz.
TeamLove-012
CD
$12.50

McCarthy Trenching
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove-012
LP
$12.50

Metz, Adam
2400 S. Klonopin Ave.
PS, US 1st solo album marries the mod-punk thunder of his former group, Bicycle Rider, to melodic influences of '60s chamber pop, alt-country & '70s AOR. Produced by Metz & recorded w/ members of Bright Eyes, Him & Baby Teeth, the album captures the bleakness & disillusionment of 2 years of disappointment; the stunning mix by L.A.'s Dan Horne & Scott Ford brightens the dark corners.
Baum-52102
CD
$9.00

Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
PS, US
Sony
CD
$17.00

Mojo
Classic: The Greatest Album Covers (Vol. 2 Issue #3)
PS, UK
ZINE
$14.00

Moskitoo w/ Frank Bretschneider, Taylor Duepree, & Mark Fell
Moskitoo Remixes
PS, US Limited edition of 500. The Moskioo remix cd is a 4-track single featuring remixes from Moskitoo's full length cd Drape (12k1041). Released as a limited edition of 500, the remix cd features "Wham & Whammy" remixes by Raster/Noton founder Frank Bretschneider and SND's Mark Fell. 12k's Taylor Deupree remixes "Skie" and the album version of "Wham & Whammy" is present as well. Bretschneider's remix comes in his signature style of ultraclean bleeps and boucning machine beats, layered with Moskitoo's delicate vocals. Mark Fell takes a decidedly different approach chopping the original into hundreds (thousands) of fragments and recombining them into a jittery and jarring recontextualization. Deupree's "Skie" remix adds organic tones and new layers of guitar and ambience to the lazy calm of the original.
12K-2006
CD5
$6.50

Mouthful of Bees
The End
PS, US Just like old fashioned rock n' roll from this Minneapolis native band. Doused w/ reverb & healthy distortioned guitars, the band is fronted w/ a solid background in riff-rock & innovative songwriting.
Afternoon-031
CD
$10.00

MSTRKRFT
Work on You
PS, US Ex-DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979er Jesse Keeler & sidekick AHP drop new single incl. "Album Version," "Radio Edit," "Para One Remix" and "Community Revolution in Progress."
LastGang
12
$5.75

Nadja
Touched
PS, US Second release by the up & coming ambient doom band. Ambient music pushed to its' breaking point. Parts of the album feature the use of clean undistorted vocals, which is rather unique in the genre and hints at the sound of such bands as Codeine, Swans, & Joe Preston's Thrones project.
Alien8-077
CD
$12.50

Night in the Box
Hustle, Prayer & Thief
PS, US The Minneapolis based post folk outfit uses elements of bluegrass, blues & roots music but also allows the energy of punk rock seep through the cracks resulting in an eccentric Americana sound w/ a punch.
Afternoon-027
CD
$10.00

Northern Chorus
Millions Too Many
PS, US They fit together all the pieces of the puzzle to make their finest album yet. While the band has expanded its line-up w/original violinist Erin Aurich rejoining & the addition of new drummer Craig Halliday, it has done the opposite w/ song structure. The songs are more concise & the arrangements more grandiose but the band has refined their direction.
SonicUnyon-113
CD
$14.50

Oasis
Morning Glory: Classic Album Under Review
PS, US Oasis (What's The Story?) Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review is a documentary film which revisits and re-assesses this powerhouse of a record. With the use of archive footage, long forgotten videos and contributions from those around at the time, this program uncovers why the bands second album is arguably their most satisfying. Features include live and studio performances of tracks from Morning Glory, reviewed by a panel of esteemed experts, band interviews, rarely seen photographs and archive footage. Bonus feature; When Oasis Met Blur the full recording from the moment the Britpop heavyweights met at the same radio station in 1995.
SexyIntellectual-516
DVD
$17.00

Orchids
Good To Be a Stranger
PS, SPAIN The enigmatic five piece band formed in Glasgow have released some of the finest pop songs of their generation since humble beginnings in Penilee, a suburb of the city, where the three founder members grew up and started the band in 1986. Their first six singles and three albums were met with widespread critical acclaim, much of this from out-with the UK. They graduated from the gentle lo-fi craft of their first album, Lyceum, in 1989 ("A minor classic - don't let is pass you by" said NME) through to the ground breaking and progressive sounds of their third, aptly titled, Striving For The Lazy Perfection ("lithe, evocative and memorable music" - M M) in 1994 with "sixth member" Ian Carmichael of One Dove at the studio controls. In the intervening years they released Unholy Soul in 1991 ("Sarah Records answer to the Beach Boys Pet Sounds") and some truly original singles & EPs that, in keeping with a stance sometimes perceived as awkward and single minded, were always kept apart from album projects. The ethos was always more about value for money for their fans than genuine stubbornness, however. The singles included what many believe to be the high point of their career to date, Something For The Longing as well as final single Thaumaturgy in 1993. Reformed in 2004 after a break of Paddy McAloon proportions they are now ready to take another swipe at the tedious world of the music business with an album that takes them back to their musical roots. Recorded at Riverside Studios, home to other better known homegrown acts such as Travis, Teenage Fanclub and Trash Can Sinatras, their new record Good To Be A Stranger is a fabulous collection of new songs that will feed the hungry appetite of the fan base that has grown over the intervening years. Ahead of their time in the early 90's, it is only now that many have realised how fascinating and mature those earlier releases were. Good To Be A Stranger is released on Madrid based label Siesta on --- March 2007 and the band will be heading out to play live gigs for the first time in twelve years to promote the new release - nothing like keeping your fans waiting! Offers of gigs in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Singapore and the USA illustrate how the World Wide Web has allowed their global reputation to grow. Later in 2007, a cover of The Go Betweens' song Magic In Here will also appear on a Grant McLennan tribute album, Love Goes On, released on USA's Rare Victory Records. You can also currently hear one of the new songs Down To The Ocean on Siesta Records compilation Erre Que Erre. "The best Scottish pop band since Orange Juice" - Melody Maker "A blissful mix of the best Scottish bands of the last few years" - NME" "Eclectic. Every single song is a gem" - Exclaim "Luxuriant textures, immaculate pop fizz with enviable purpose" - MM "Songs of emotional wit and sparkling indie pop" - All Music Guide "Languid and alluring" - Tangents "The tension between wanting to wig out and grow more evanescent is evident" - Uncut "They brought together all the best parts of the 80's Scottish music scene, while adding something that's hard to pin down, yet made them so very special" - Exclaim!
Siesta-226
CD
$14.00

Other Men
Wake Up Swimming
PS, US Feat. ROB CROW (PINBACK, HEAVY VEGETABLE), MANOLO TURNER & TRAVIS NELSON (HEAVY VEGETABLE). After 11 yrs, they have reformed & renamed the band & picked up directly where they left off. Going forward, they seem intent on creating new sounds from the depths of a played-out genre. Teething on the concepts of light & space, whilst never abandoning a frenetic undercurrent that constantly threatens to pull the listener under for the last time.
Robcore-001
CD
$13.25

Paley, Tom
Beware Young Ladies! (ON SALE)
PS, SWEDEN New recordings from underground folk legend Tom Paley, with special guest Bert Deivert, recorded in Sweden in early 2006. Tom has been recordings since the 50s! Tom Paley was born and raised in NYC, where he first fell in love with old-time music. He began playing guitar and 5-string banjo and quickly excelled at both instruments. He briefly performed in a duo with the great folk musician Woody Guthrie in the late 50s. Later he helped form The New Lost City Ramblers, with Mike Seeger and John Cohen. This group inspired a greater mainstream interest in traditional music. The Ramblers considered their live concerts primarily as opportunities to share great old songs they had discovered with their fellow folk performers. After The Ramblers broke up Paley formed The Old Reliable String Band (with Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose). Tom moved to Sweden, where he lived from 1963 to 1965, before moving to England where he has resided ever since. Tom continues to tour in America and Europe both solo and with other musicians.
Gravitation-023
CD
$11.00

Palomar
All Things, Forests
PS, US Maintains the charm & playfulness of their previous releases but w/songwriting that has rocketed to a new level. Careful arrangements & conceptual depth help make a great leap forward while wrestling w/the tangled feelings of loss, doubt, joy, wistfulness & the struggle to keep going.
Misra-042
CD
$14.75

Panda Bear
Person Pitch
PS, US This ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member boldly returns w/ his long-awaited 3rd solo. Yrs in the making, this marks a dramatic departure from hiss previous record. The acoustic instruments have been replaced w/ samplers & electronics. Fusing his dramatic life changes over the past few yrs w/ his ever-increasing sonic palette, this is suffused w/ the kind of feel good modern toe-tapping pop that seems harder & harder to find these days.
PawTracks-014
CD
$14.50

Panther
Secret Lawns
PS, US Charlie is Panther, and Panther is some mutant form of Charlie Salas-Humara. Churning out shattered pop hits that few have the ears to comprehend, Portland, Oregon's Panther is a one-man disaster squad. The music is hard match of damaged soul, falsetto disco and broken synth fueled freakouts which is as addictive as it is challenging. Panther isn't easily ignored for his unpredictable and energetic solo performances tainted with throbbing bass, minimalistic hooks and jittery dance routines. Panther's influences run deep and take as much from Pop and R&B as Free Jazz and Punk. In the past year Panther has infiltrated MTV2 (up for Video of the Year), Spin Magazine, and modern dance academia. While touring with both Ratatat and Gossip, he has managed to polarize audiences thoroughly between the immediate super-fans and super confused gawkers. Panther's live performance is as much dance as it is music, and as much art as it is performance. Secret Lawns is the eagerly anticipated full-length follow up from last year's Yourself 12" and you'll discover that Panther knows no boundaries, not only in terms of genre but also social and societal. Panther recorded and played most of the instruments himself, excluding guest accompaniments from members of Yacht, White Rainbow, Plants, Point Line Plane, and E*Rock. The first 1000 copies of Secret Lawns come with a limited edition packaging and DVD which features several videos as well as the debut of
Floor Dancing.
FrykBeat-031/2
LP
$12.25

Paper Airplanes
Boyhood
PS, US Exuberant indie rock from Wichita, Kansas. Their music can be likened to a cross between early-Built To Spill, the organic sensibilities of Ticonderoga and the playful abandon of Deerhoof. As one reviewer puts it, "This is the way indie-rock is supposed to sound: a jumbled-up rollercoaster of sonic arguments that manage to agree just long enough to remember the chorus"
5040OrFight-030
CD
$12.25

Pharoah Overload
Live in Suomi Finland
PS, POLAND Recorded 12.05.2006 at Kipsari, Helsinki, Finland. Personnel: Hans Joachim Irmler, Julius Jääskeläinen, Pekka Jääskeläinen, Jussi Lehtisalo, Tomi Leppänen, Janne Westerlund. Remixed by Hans Joachim Irmler. Premastered at Fauststudio Scheer-Germany. 5 TRACKS. TOTAL 50:40. Genre: STONER ROCK. Packaging : 3 fold-out digipack sleeve.
Vivo-028
CD
$15.00

Ponys, The
Turn Out The Lights
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$12.25

Ponys, The
Turn Out The Lights
PS, US A classic twin-guitar rock band fronted by the impassioned vocals of Jered Gummere, THE PONYS' songwriting range from psych jams to pounding rockers to twisted singer-songwriter material, evoking influences from Television and Dream Syndicate to The Only Ones and The Jesus and Marychain. Turn The Lights Out is denser, noisier and more fucked-up than its two predecessors, and sounds bigger to boot. The complex interplay between the guitars and the reverb-drenched vox and keys emerges more effectively than ever before in Agnello's massive production.
Matador
CD
$11.50

Powerhouse Sound
Oslo/Chicago: Breaks
PS, US Collaboration that started in '05 between KEN VANDERMARK (tenor sax), LASSE MARHAUG (electronics, drums, SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) & INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATN & NATE MCBRIDE (bass) grew to include a Chicago based touring unit, where KV & NM are joined by JEFF PARKER & JOHN HERNDON (TORTOISE). The music is built from the perspective of the bass & uses LEE PERRY, JAMES BROWN, COXSONNE DODD & Public Enemy's collage of HANK SHOCKLEE. Double CD includes both incarnations & is a jazz/funk out soundclash of int'l titans. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Atavistic-177
DCD
$17.25

Qualia
Nevada's Greatest
PS, US A compelling mixture of lush synth's, sequenced beats, & sparse guitars, this debut pulls from a wide range of influences, from electro-industrial to krautrock & country. Built upon confiident storytelling & clever songwriting, the end result is a group of unique, singable & dancable songs about the trials of finding oneself in the western world.
WTII-045
CD
$13.25

Radical Face
Ghost
PS, US All of the songs are short stories; even if again & again the narrators voice is transmitted to the instruments, the piano, the guitars, an accordion. Ben Coopers alter ego has created a songwriter album. Or rather a song-writing album, the tracks as carefully arranged interiors, chamber folk, pocket symphonies, passionate melodies. Another one of these houses full of stories. He recorded the guitars & drum-patterns, the banjos, organs & keyboards & sang in chorus w/ himself.
MorrMusic-069
CD
$16.75

Radical Face
Ghost
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-069
LP
$16.75

Record Collector
#335
PS, UK
ZINE
$14.00

Red Crayola
Soldier Talk
PS, US Having been missing in action for 28 yrs, this vital, much acclaimed work is now available again. It 1st on Radar Records & was their 1st new commercial release since 1968. It reflects the world as it sat, awash in punk rock & its cognates, dreading mass destruction. This album is petit-guignol, a travesty of expression; its screams & sighs, a theatre of terror.
DragCity-079
CD
$13.25

Reuber
Sudpol
PS, US He creates unusual electronic pastiches that weave a massive selection of esoteric & unexpected samples into a stunning, vibrant patchwork that constantly pulls in different directions. His instinct for unusual juxtapositions goes well beyond the postmodern irony of incorporating aboriginal music into a psychedelic techno collage -- he has a true ear for combinations that work. Much like shifting curtains of the Aurora Australis, this is cosmic.
Staubgold-075
CD
$15.50

Rev, Martin
Cheyenne
PS, US Reissue, originally released in 1991 on Alive records. Part electronic rock band, part performance art project, Suicide found its home in the NYC art scene. Rev's Cheyenne is considered by some to be Suicide's second album minus vocals, but it is way more than that! It is a fantastic look into the creative process of one of the most influential & ground breaking groups/artists of all time. These finely crafted gems set the stage for what became some of Suicide's greatest material. "Rev effortlessly captures the sounds of New Yorks cavernous avenues filtering , phasing & modulating the sounds of the Empire city" -Sonic Boom. Includes 3 bonus tracks produced by Charles Ball & the Cars frontman, Ric Ocasek. LIMITED to 1000!
MindExpansion-2009
CD
$11.50

Revutsky, Roman
Incomplete
PS, MEXICO Roman Revutsky possesses a genuine sensibility of pop that stands either way over sad structured rock or complex electronic music sequences. Roman is a singer/songwriter who, directly from the four walls of his house in freezing Siberia, still has the warmth to keep his tender heart alive, pumping strange stories told by a soft and charming voice that will hardly be unnoticed. With a naïve attitude, Revutsky fills the gap nineties indietronica left between rock and electronic music: earnestness and reality. Though his music doesn't properly fit in that genre, Roman will probably enchant enthusiast followers of this kind of pop music with his awkwardly hypnotic lyrics. "The tracks he has recorded and made available are irresistibly charming (his voice, prominantely accented, is reserved but strangely moving, like a Siberian Stephin Merritt), and though its impossible to be sure of how his album will sound once completed, I have a hard time imagining it being anything less than stellar." MOCKING MUSIC (CA).
SoundSister-06
CD5
$7.50

RTX
Western Xterminator
PS, US Lights flicker & bells chime. The far-out sound of thunder draws nearer. Jennifer Herrema & her horsemen are returned & this is the recollection of their long journey. The west wasnt rolled over w/out a few ritual sacrifices down the road. Our survival still depends on it & in the sun-drenched new frontier, RTX have your back. This runs the rock up the flagpole & rolls it around in strong winds.
DragCity-331
CD
$13.25

Rwake
Voices of Omens
PS, US Emerging from deep in the backwoods of the American subconcious, they represent the dirty south w/ their intensely unique style of acid drenched metal. Hitting below the bible belt in a anarcotic dazed fury of epic proportions, the thick, tar black riffing & vicious male/female vocal attack plunge the listener head first into the abyss.
Relapse-6712
CD
$13.25

Secretary Bird
S-T
PS, US New project from Mike Semple (FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ, GIANT SAND, CAMPFIRE GIRLS) melds sincere songwriting enhanced by his hypnotic & lackadaisically melodic singing style all propelled by his 70's Brit influenced guitar work. "Think 'Psychocandy' meets 'The Days of Wine & Roses' w/a bit of Wilco." An album that melds the countrified influences of his old hometown Tucson w/ expansive rock of LA.
InDeGoot-1011
CD
$12.25

Shins
From Tugboats To Polar Bears: Short films by Matt McCormick
PS, US Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick makes films that combine found and orginal sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. In his new documentary Towlines, Matt explores the role of the tugboat in modern society, while in The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal he makes the observation that the process of destroying one art form unwitingly creates another. Matt has also worked with artists and musicians including THE SHINS, MIRANDA JULY, THE POSTAL SERVICE, and CALVIN JOHNSON. 85 min/2004/DVD
MM
DVD
$16.25

SJ Esau
Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed
PS, US This Bristol-based bedroom production virtuoso's debut is a masterful balance of songcraft & sonic manipulation. Spanning 12 alternately expansive & explosive tracks this treads the common ground between Slint, Arab Strap, Fog, Sonic Youth & Mogwai, which is to say, it's an album that successfully integrates genre-less exploration, detailed composition, inspired collaboration, & a sense of humor.
Anticon-070
CD
$15.00

SJ Esau
Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon-070
LP
$14.25

Stop Smiling
#29 (MAGAZINE/7")
PS, US INCLUDES LIMITED BOREDOMS 7" w/ 2 songs from the Super Roots series, "8" taken from Super Roots 6 & "Jungle Taitei" taken from Super Roots 8. PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE w/multiple covers of artist WILLIAM EGGLESTON, LARUEN GREENFIELD ("Thin"), & photographer DAN WINTERS. Incl. photo essays by Eric Johnson, David Black & Jason Fulford. plus Zen Sekiza, Daniell Levitt, Brian Calvasina, interview w/ Guy Maddin, Will Self, tons more.
ZINE
$8.25

Sun Ra
Toward The Stars
PS, UK Sun Ra is simply one of the best-loved and most highly respected progressive jazz musicians in history. 'Toward the Stars' showcases' the incredible music Sun Ra was making at the outset of his career in the mid fifties. This music is decades ahead of its time. Numbers like 'Sun Song' and 'India' may owe something to Les Baxter and Martin Denny but their intonation is somehow much deeper. Sun Ra influenced Miles Davis and David Bowie and dozens upon dozens of others. In serious international jazz circles he is hardly less than a deity. The first and perhaps definitive 'independent artist'! Spaceship Lullaby / Can This Be Love? / Call For All Demons / Lullaby For Realville / Future / Sun Song / Urnack / Demon's Lullaby / Piano Interlude / India / Kingdom Of Not / Advice To Medics / El Is A Sound Of Joy / Dreams Come True
FiveFour-019
CD
$14.25

Sway
Winter Heart EP
PS, US BLACK VINYL 180g 12". Sway are somewhat of an enigma. This much we know: they hail from Southern Callifornia; they play incredible dreampop; they are super sweet and friendly as hell, but equally elusive; they have sold through two CDEPs in no-time flat, with virtually no distribution or label backing. In fact, at press time, we are not sure if the band is still in existence (!). They have gone through a name change, briefly known as Keepee for a period of about 10 minutes, before they decide to screw that and stay Sway as they should be. Shame that there are at least a dozen other bands with the same moniker, yet all inferior. Sway are the real deal. Sway somehow creates literal LANDSCAPES of sound, with a hugely expansive sonic range that somehow makes your ears feel as though they stretch to the ends of the desert, capturing every drop of beauty with impressive clarity. Their dreamy pop songs are sheer and utter bliss Layers of guitars heap on top, both chiming and ringing, as well as gliding and effected. Ethereal male vocals make a perfect match, as they are not too strong nor too weak, and beautiful as any we've heard. The Winter Heart EP is such a wicked tease - Sway's two previous EPs were short enough as it was, leaving fans clamoring for a full length. Now, after years of silence, Sway return with the shortest EP of their career - and yet it is in that brevity that part of their brilliance lies. If anyone is not left crying - *screaming* - for more more MORE after hearing this EP, the sheer pinnacle of Sway's career, then I challenge that soul to see if they are indeed alive! It leads off with "Winter Heart", a beautiful epic number nestled perfectly into the space of just a few minutes. Side A closes out with "Days Are Long", which then leads to side B, kicking off with "Days (Reprise)", and wrapped up with "Base Audit". It's a perfect soundtrack for walking down your snowpacked street, headphones on, but feeling warm all over. Likewise, it sounds just as perfect while kicked back on the deck of your boat with 95 degree sun beaming down on your smiling face. LIMITED to 100 pink vinyl copies (mailorder-direct only), and 200 black vinyl copies, all pressed on heavy audiophile-quality 180-gram virgin vinyl. Housed in a gorgeous die-cut jacket in the Claire's Echo series by Aaron Winters, with a slip-in full color heavy card cover image of pink flowers, backed with a lovely photo of the elusive band in b&w.
Claire'sEcho
12
$12.25

Tape Op
#58
PS, US The new issue of the #1 recording magazine! Features on Memphis(the city), Terry Manning(from Stax to recording Bjork in the ocean, The Posies, studio fatigue, gear reviews , cd reviews and more.
ZINE
$4.00

Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Living With The Living
PS, US Along w/ the punk sound & energy found in their previous works, this finds soul, funk & R&B injected into the trajectory. s a message of compassion not unlike that of one of Teds denim-clad, working-class-empowering forebears. As weve learned from those artists, vital, impassioned music is often the direct result of a dire political climate. A voice of dissent w/ a firm grasp of the past & a hopeful eye to the future, they are rebels w/ out a pause.
Touch&Go-302
CD
$12.50

Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Living With The Living
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Touch&Go-302
DLP
$14.75

Thee Fine Lines
Set You Straight
PS, US
LicoriceTree-1010
CD
$11.75

Thomas, Rosie
These Friends of Mine
PS, US Produced by SUFJAN STEVENS w/ help by DENISON WITMER. After 3 successful releases on Subpop, she set out to write & record a record to satisfy hew own creative needs. This is a delightfully personal record full of subtle hooks & melodies.
Nettwork
CD
$15.50

Thorn, Tracey
Out Of The Woods
PS, US Singer & co-songwriter of EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL. This effortlessly mixes the dance-driven, electronic feel of EBTGs recent direction w/ a return to her acoustic pop roots. In short, it's sophisticated pop that sounds as at home in the café as it does in a clubs lounge & will effortlessly appeal to both the old & new Everything But The Girl fans.
Astralwerks
CD
$16.50

Thorn, Tracey
Out Of The Woods
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks
LP
$15.25

Unknown Instructors
Master's Voice
PS, US 10 tracks of mind melting guitar psychotronics by Joe Baiza, lockstep backbeat from George Hurley & Mike Watt, and the vocal stylings of Dan McGuire, David Thomas & Raymond Pettibon. "The Way Things Work is a challenging freeform blast of intelligent noir beat poetry that plumbs the same depths of freakiness that Sun Ra & the MC5 did in days of yore" -Creem. Cover art by Raymond Pettibon.
SmogVeil-066
CD
$10.50

Unsane
Visqueen
PS, US Near legendary East Village noise/scum rockers who, while less heralded, mopped the floor with their contemporaries in Helmet, Cop Shoot Cop & Pussy Galore. Now back with their trademark crunch displayed over a more diverse pallette. Produced by Adam Schneider (Cave In, Daughters). Woo!
Ipecac-085
CD
$15.25

Various
Cherrystones Word
PS, US Cherrystones is the sound of psychedelic-soundtracks-folk-rock-prog-noise-moog-and-library-records & also an excavator of exciting, seemingly unfamiliar genres. Many heavy sounds that are held in high regard now were 1st uncovered on his previous compilations. His compilations have a beautiful flow like a radio transmission from planet dada. Feat. BRAINBOX, DEAD MOON, GEORGE BRIGMAN, THE DEVIANTS, CHROME, MIDNIGHT CIRCUS & many
many other
TlonUqbor-1001
CD
$11.25

Various
Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label
PS, US The fourth volume in our Eccentric Soul series examines the oil stained underside of the Motor City sound. There are no gold records, million dollar buyouts, or quaint museums at the end of the story, just a handful of four figure 45s, a box of photographs, and a condemned building. If Detroit was once an ocean of soul, the Big Mack label was certainly an island. Big Mack lasted an incredible twenty years without so much as a sniff of a hit. Dogged by lack of airplay, distribution, and a general lack of understanding of the music business, the label failed on almost every level except where it counted; the music. From soulful doowop to blistering garage funk, a left at sultry R&B and then a quick dodge into budget Hendrix wailing over a steel drum break, this disc is the epitome of Eccentric Soul. Artists include Bob & Fred, the Manhattens, Edd Henry, Ms Tyree Jones, the Essence, the Performers, Mae Young, the Soul President, the Sleepwalkers, the Grand Prix's, and L. Hollis & the Mackadoos.
Numero-009
CD
$16.00

Various
Revenge Of The Psychocats
PS, UK In 2003 Cherry Red Records issued the first ever DVD compilation to feature the Psychobilly genre - "Psycho Cats" (CRDVD32). Following the continuing success of this release (and many others from the Psychobilly genre) - Cherry Red are delighted to announce the release of the follow-up DVD to "Psycho Cats" - "Revenge Of The Psycho Cats". The Psychobilly scene sprang to life in the early 1980's, with bands combining the spirit and sound of Punk with classic rock n' roll and country influences to produce a new and unique genre. Psychobilly became immensely popular, with devoted fans attending shows and festivals up and down the country. Some of the scene's most popular bands and songs are featured, including The Meteors
with Indie Chart hit "Please Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit", Demented Are Go, Long Tall Texans and Guana Batz., along with many cult classic treats from the Psychobilly scene's bizarre extremes. With both live footage and some very creative promo video material, "Psycho Cats" is a must see for any fan of the Psychobilly Genre. Covering nearly twenty years of rockin' mayhem, this DVD is proof positive of the enduring influence of raw mutant Psychobilly. The Meteors - Please Don't Touch, Demented Are Go - The Chase, Long Tall Texans - Mad About You, The Highliners - Henry The Wasp, Frenzy - Robot Riot, The Pharaohs - You're On Your Own, Batmobile - Mystery Street, The Klingonz - Klingzones, Guana Batz - Just Love Me, The Sharks - Jack The Ripper, Radium Cats - Pink Hearse, King Kurt - Zulu Beat, Taggy Tones - Crazy Kid, The Hellbillys - Drivin' Wheel, Turnpike Cruisers -Love You For Lunch, The Meteors - Rawhide, Demented Are Go - Zombie Stalk, Long Tall Texans - Who's Sorry Now?, Way Out West - Satellite Baby, Restless - Ice Cold, Lost Souls - Lysergic Acid Overdose, The Caravans - I Want You Back, Mad Sin - Body Snatchers, The Hangmen - Hang 'Em High, Frantic Flintstones - Alley Cat King, The Sharks - Bye Bye Girl, Surf Rats - Freddy's Fingers, Thee Waltons - Rubber Chicken, The Hellbillys - Motor Psychos, Turnpike Cruisers - Extra Flesh.
CherryRed-152
DVD
$21.00

Various
Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation
PS, US This is the Big Dig, the Tutankamen of R&B: Twinight. After two years of interviews, cold calls, storage spaces, half truths, unknowns, and dead ends, we've finally completed a large piece of Chicago's secret soul history. Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation takes a look beyond their hit maker Syl Johnson, and instead focuses on the records that never had a shot at the charts. It's the story of struggling disc jockeys moonlighting as producers, high school talent show winners, major label cast offs, minor label upgrades, girlfriends with decent voices, and master purchases traded for chart position. It happened after midnight, and it happened right here in our backyard. Comprising 40 tracks in all by 22 artists, among them Renaldo Domino, Dynamic Tints, Annette Poindexter, Nate Evans, Radiants, Notations, Mystiques, Kaldirons, Perfections, Mist, Harrison & The Majestic Kind, Schiller Street Gang, Velma Perkins, Jimmy Jones, Sidney Pinchback, Stormy, Johnny Williams, Elvin Spencer and Pieces Of Peace. This comprehensive two CD set includes a complete label history (32 pages), a baker's dozen of unpublished photos and three unreleased tracks, including two that were only rumored to exist.
Numero-013
DCD
$21.00

Villalobos, Gina
Miles Away
PS, US Gina's nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. She's the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are. Hailed as the new "Queen of Country Rock" and seemingly out of nowhere. Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection. And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audience's out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts. Eventually nothing else exists...it is a truly transcendent experience. Though she's been knocking around the music business since the mid 90's, it wasn't until she released her critically acclaimed 'Rock N Roll Pony' in 2005 that Gina made that all important international breakthrough, with an endorsement from BBC radio 2 DJ Bob Harris - making the record a must have commodity. Avoiding the sophomore jinx, Gina's second offering succeeds. She unveiled her new album 'Miles Away' in the UK on May 8th 2006 to the same, if not more enthusiastic, critical plaudits, and support from BBC radio 2 her acclaimed predecessor, Rock N Roll Pony received. This along with a 6 week US national tour supporting World Party sets the stage for her upcoming US release of 'Miles Away', which is widely anticipated in the Americana/Alt Country circles in which she first gained attention.
FaceWest-KM-003
CD
$10.50

Volt
Rorhat
PS, US Brilliant 3 piece out of Chemnitz, Germany. This is hard rock. Boris the drummer hits so hard, you won't believe that the shells & skins can stand it! Nico the bass player creates some utterly inhuman rumble, and then there's Andre. HIs growl is so unworldly that to describe it as vocals would lead you astray. His voice is an instrument of terror that makes the body tremble. For fans of all honest music
ExileOnMainstream-023
CD
$14.00

Watt, Ben
Buzzin' Fly Vol. 1
PS, US REISSUE. 2004 release which was hailed as a "house music classic," now in new digipak packaging. Ben Watt is a leading international DJ & A&R guru well known as one half of Everything But The Girl. The 11 track 70 min. CD contains 4 unreleased gems, one brand new exclusive Watt remix & 6 rare handpicked licenses.
BuzzinFly-001
CD
$15.75

Weavers, The
Hard, Ain't It Hard (The Weavers Greatest Songs)
PS, UK The Weavers - Hard, Ain't It Hard - (The Weavers Greatest Songs) "The Weavers are out of the grassroots of America. I salute them for their great work in authentic renditions of ballads, folk songs, ditties, nice antiques of word and melody. When I hear America singing, The Weavers are there." Carl Sandburg. In the (allegedly) whitebread nice-nice late 1940s early 1950s, one of the biggest hit making musical groups in the US was made up of four erm...slightly odd-looking Communist sympathisers, one of whose biggest hits was composed by a Black convicted murderer...HA! you couldn't make it up, could you?..Hmmm...That's what the FBI thought..... The Weavers had perhaps the most extraordinary musical pedigree of any group in the history of folk or popular music. More than 50 years after their heyday, however, their origins, the level of their success, the forces that cut the group's future off in its prime, and the allure that keeps their music selling are all difficult to explain < as, indeed, none of this was all that easy to explain even at the time. How could a song as pleasant and tuneful and plain NICE as "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" be subversive? The quartet went from being embraced by the public, (selling over four million records), to being reviled and rejected over the political backgrounds of its members, and disbanding after only four years together. Yet, despite the controversy that surrounded them, and the fact that their work was interrupted at its peak, the Weavers managed to alter popular culture in about as profound a manner as any artist this side of Bob Dylan. The songs that they wrote or popularized, including "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," "Wimoweh," "Goodnight Irene," "Wreck of the John B," "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and "On Top of Old Smoky," continued to get recorded (and occasionally to chart) 50 years after the group's own time. As a companion piece to the RevOla release of their legendary Carnegie Hall concert, here are the big hits....from the mirror-dimension period when The Weavers were a top hit group on a major label and smiled at mainstream America from every TV set....until Senator McCarthy and his ilk stepped in... Goodnight Irene / Wimoweh / When The Saints Go Marching In / On Top Of Old Smoky / Tzena, Tzena, Tzena / The Roving Kind / So Long / Hard, Ain't It Hard / Lonesome Traveler / Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / The Wreck Of The John B / Rock Island Line / Sylvie / Midnight Special.
Rev-Ola-202
CD
$14.25

Welcome
Sirs
PS, US Debut from Seattle's Welcome subverts & recontextualizes the band's unique alternative pop lineage, sitting somewhere between the fractured, exploratory idealism of 60's psych pop & such non-conformist US alt-rock luminaries as Unwound, the Breeders, Lilys or Deerhoof. Dynamic, stunningly arranged & prone to fly off at unpredictable angles, Sirs possesses a gnarled beauty. Spiked shards of guitar offset against warm, bittersweet West Coast-tinged melodies, underpinned by a driving, articulate rhythm section.
FatCat-065
CD
$12.50

Willowz
Chautauqua
PS, US This provides the energy & rawness of their first 2 albums infused with a thicker rock sound & stronger focus on songwriting. Old boundaries no longer apply as this set of songs is expressed with true storyteller fervor. Their tracks have been featured in many Michael Gondry movies & he has directed their videos.
DimMak-105
CD
$13.25

Yellow6
Painted Sky
PS, UK A debut on Resonant from a man with a wealth of back catalogue on labels such as Enraptured, Darla, Bearos, Ochre, Awkward Silence and many, many more, spanning almost a decade. Yellow 6 is the solo project of Jon Attwood, a guitarist based in Leicestershire (the first UK-based artist to release an album on Resonant!) who has released six full length albums, five live albums and one remix album, on top of several mini-albums and EPs, singles and contributions to numerous compilations. Painted Sky was recorded between 2004 and 2006, and strips away many of the layers of previous outings, resulting in a collection of melodic, organic guitar and piano soundscapes backed with subtle percussion. More ambient than post rock, Painted Sky draws comparisons to Labradford, Cocteau Twins, Durutti Column, Slowdive, Windy & Carl and Erik Satie, as opposed to the quiet/loud exponents; this is quiet/quiet, with an overall air of wistful melancholy. The previous releases of Yellow 6 have established a solid following, both in terms of fanbase and press.
Resonant-022
CD
$13.00

Young, Neil
Live at Massey Hall 1971
PS, US
Reprise
CD
$17.25

Zimiamvian Night
S/T
PS, US Mike Bennett's guitar-based ambient drone is draped across sounds created on the other side of the world. Using New Zealander Christopher Orczy's harmonium works from his 'October' release as a basis, Bennett recreates an entirely new majestic work. The result is a chilly, nearly mournful depiction of the sound of northern lights as they ascend & fall in the night sky. It was a dark cavernous foray into Zoviet-style old-school ambient w/ tape loops & guitar-based drone. This new work is a leap forward in texture & atmosphere 2 years in the making.
Infraction-014
CD
$13.25

Zincs
Black Pompadour
PS, US They have succeeded in marrying their classic song-forms w/ a brighter electric sound to make a vital album for the times. What makes them such a singular band is how they weave such dark prose into their beautiful melodies, a reward that the casual listener could miss on first hearing. From the electric chimes to the pulsing synthesizers, this dashes expectations like a bullet through a fish-bowl & represents that rare thing amongst groups, a genuine progression. Feat. EDITH FROST
ThrillJockey-178
CD
$13.25

Forthcoming Releases

Abruptum
Evil Genius (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Formed in 1989 by IT and All. IT had planned to create the band already in 1987 but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right member to do The same year, they recorded their first two demos. There are a multitude of myths surrounding this cult act. The band further became legendary due to the fact that IT was one of the leaders within what was called the Satanic Black Circle. IT left the scene completely after several events within the circle & threats to him & his family.
SouthernLord-075
CD
$14.00

Alsace Lorraine
Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) (ON SALE)
PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well.
Darla-178
CD
$12.25

Antelope
Reflector (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Meditative, stripped down punk music that uses the melody vs. repetition equation to produce tightly crafted gems. For fans of Fugazi, Lungfish, The Fall, The Evens, Television.
Dischord-157
CD
$10.25

Antelope
Reflector (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Dischord-157
LP
$10.25

Antiguo Automata Mexicano
Kraut Slut (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine, a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas".
StaticDiscos-019
CD
$12.25

Arcade Fire
Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge-285
DLP
$17.50

Arctic Monkeys
Brianstorm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US This pre-album single serves to prepare you for the coming onslaught that is the rocking brilliance of their new release, "Favourite Worst Nightmare". Like some cruel bait-and-switch, this record opens with a lovely string quartet before a rude intrusion of frantic drums and squealing guitars send them packing (apparently inspired by The Jesus Lizard no less). The second track, "Brianstorm" barrels out of the gate with an itchy energy. "Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend" is a taut, suspenseful track featuring a guest verse from Dizzee Rascal.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$4.75

Army Of Me
Citizen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Army Of Me was named one of the top unsigned bands in America by Alternative Press, and the article started a barrage of major label interest for the Washington, DC-based band. On the surface, their music could fit snugly into the playlist of any mainstream radio station. The epic guitars and soaring vocals are more reminiscent of early Coldplay and U2 than of quirkily trendy indie pop. Below the surface, however, Army Of Me carries the self-starter scars of one of the hardest working bands in showbiz.
Doghouse
CD
$12.50

Arthur, Che
Iron (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US The culmination of almost 3 years of writing and recording, recorded mostly by himself and featuring Arthur on most of the instruments, Iron displays musical depth, range & fierce individualism.
Sickroom-041
CD
$12.50

Axolotl
Memory Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 1ST)
PS, US Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards and various other acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl. In the last couple of years Axolotl have released numerous cd, cdr and vinyl releases many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on ebay. Memory Theater collects the best of these out of print releases into one convenient package designed by Karl Bauer. Axolotl has collaborated with the likes of the Skaters, Magik Markers, Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Skygreen Leopards, Religious Knives, and Mouthus. Axolotl has toured Europe and the United States and shared the stage with the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Boris, Charlambides, Chris Corsano, Double Leopards, Excepter, Sightings, the Skaters, Terrestrial Tones, Tomutonttu, and Yellow Swans.
Important-120
CD
$12.00

Black Tie Revue
Code Fun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Their hooky keyboard driven power-pop has been drawing ravenous fans everywhere they play. Often compared to power pop bands likeThe Only Ones, The Wildhearts & The Records, the band is everything great about being young, geeky & American: adictively hooky, powerful, flagrantly irresponsible three-chord pop songs, loud guitars & new-wave keyboards, & a whole lot of jumping around.
Gearhead-074
CD
$11.50

Blonde Redhead
23 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$11.00

Blonde Redhead
23 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US As rich and densely layered as their last album, "Misery Is A Butterfly", but the overall mood of wistfulness, melancholy, and regret has been replaced by one of mystical wonder and renewed energy. "It's art music and heart music, with equal appeal to a Serge Gainsbourg fan as to a Sonic Youth fan, without ever sounding like either act" - LA Times. "An otherworldly, richly cinematic adventure" - Q Magazine.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Bloomfield, Mike
Junko Partner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of his era. A maestro of guitar, & an excellent composer & interpreter, he introduced young & old alike to a world of pure & authentic blues. This excellent album was released just after his death.
Akarma-376
CD
$15.75

Blunstone, Colin
One Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US The debut solo album from the lead singer of legendary psych/pop group THE ZOMBIES, originally released in '71. Produced by fellow Zombies Rod Argent & Chris White, it is classic Baroque pop w/ lush string arrangements & Argent's unique keyboard sound. Feat. the hit "Say You Don't Mind," a number of originals & a beautiful cover of Tim Hardin's "Misty Roses."
Water-193
CD
$14.00

Briggs, Anne
Time Has Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US She was a huge influence on such luminaries as Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior & Linda Thompson. Originally released in '71. This album feat. many self- penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. She only released 2 albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival.
Water-192
CD
$14.00

Bright Eyes
Cassadaga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek-103
DLP
$16.50

Bright Eyes
Cassadaga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US A swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting w/ bombastic confidence & country swagger & at others loose-limbed & mesmeric. An album so full of soaring strings & female harmonies that it feels almost buoyant in comparison to previous releases. Feat. ANDY LEMASTER (NOW IT'S OVERHEAD), BEN KWELLER, JANET WEISS (EX-SLEATER-KINNEY), JASON BOESEL (RILO KILEY), JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE), M. WARD, MARIA TAYLOR & many others!
SaddleCreek-103
CD
$11.50

Brown, Steven
Brown Plays Tenco + Live 1988 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, UK Steven Brown is a core member of cult avant garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music For Solo Piano (1983), Searching For Contact (1987), Half Out (1991), Nine Rain (1996) and Decade (2003). Brown Plays Tenco was recorded in Italy in 1987 and features Steven's own interpretations of five songs written by cult artist Luigi Tenco. Born in Cassine in 1938, Tenco scored many hits as a singer in Italy during the 1960s, but shot himself through the head at the San Remo Festival in 1967 after Ciao amore ciao (Hello, Love, Hello), failed to reach the final. The suicide note explained that his suicide was a gesture of protest against the jury's taste in music. Never available on CD before, Brown Plays Tenco has now been digitally remastered with twelve bonus tracks recorded live in Italy in 1988. These include in-concert renditions of songs by Luigi Tenco as well as solo material by both Brown (Besides All That, rwf) and Tuxedomoon (What Use?, Egypt , Lowlands Tone Poem). Artist Resume: Steven Brown was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Tuxedomoon formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd group albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Suite En Sous-Sol, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. The latest TM album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006.
LTM-2428
CD
$16.25

Celestial
Dream On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty.

"Precious songs, in the Sarah Records vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo

"stay true to their roots and produce a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows no limits." - 4 Lighthouses

"wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice to JAMC in five songs" - Groove
SkippingStones-009
CD
$9.50

Centro-Matic
Operation Motorcide EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, SPAIN Will Johnson's problem is not a creative drought. He never stops composing. But then he has to decide to which one of his projects each song will go: Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel or his solo albums. He says that thinking about it for a long time can make him consider eliminating a song. After deciding that he is going to shelve one, he gets uptight. He wonders what would have happened with that song he dismissed, if it would have given more strength to his records, or if a hit has been lost on the way. With "Fort Recovery" his muse visited him and left the tap of inspiration on. Even though the final work ended up being a long record (the European version even includes three extra tracks which are not on the American one), some really significant compositions were rejected. The trickiest problem was dismissing songs. Listen to these eight tracks from those sessions and, if you don't mind me asking, which ones wouldn't you have left out?
HoustonParty-138
CD5
$9.50

Chinese Stars
Listen To Your Left Brain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Having honed their chaotic four-on-the-floor post-punk dance style into an unequivocal signature. Here, the Chinese Stars set in motion a tsunami of new waves, crafting an atmosphere of propulsive sonic escapism fueled by noodle-stringed guitar riffs, seat-of-your-pants lyrics, and hallucinatory synths. This is a fast-forward audio movement, taking music back to the base pleasures. Razor-sharp, aural pop art: the overblown are busted.
SkinGraft-086
LP
$14.50

Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BYO-113
LP
$13.75

Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Third LP from Portland, OR popsters channels the 70's style LA punk attitude of brevity, urgency & punchy pop hooks. Produced by Pat Meares (EXPLODING HEARTS).
BYO-113
CD
$13.75

Cocker, Jarvis
Jarvis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US
RoughTrade
CD
$15.75

CocoRosie
Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Here the girls continue to experiment w/ their disparate voices & clashing personalities, juxtaposing devastating ballads w/ exhilarating tracks. This is a departure from their earlier obscured blur of stained glass rêve to what they describe as ""a more self-exploitive memoir."" A lush, orchestral array of sounds & beauty - A vaudevillian opera, if you will. W/ producer Valgeir Sigur?sson (Bjorks main studio conspirator since Dancer in the Dark).
TouchandGo-306
CD
$12.50

CocoRosie
Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TouchandGo-306
LP
$14.25

Copy
Hair Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AudioDregs-067
LP
$9.75

Copy
Hair Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Last year, COPY (who's known as Marius Libman to friends and family) proved that geography isn't everything. Because while Europe and the East Coast once monopolized the modern electro-house sound, Portland now lays claim to its own innovator who has taken the genre to new and unexpected places. His debut, Mobius Beard (Audio Dregs), displayed a knack for morphing headphone-friendly synthpop with floor shaking dance music (...or wait, is it the other way around?) that tore up stereos and clubs throughout the city of Portland and beyond. After a year-long string of legendary, sweatsoaked live sets that invetably erupted into epic dance parties, COPY was voted "Best New Band" by the Willamette Week, solidifying his place as a rising star within the local music scene. Outside of Portland, his infectious brand of instrumental dance music made fans of the likes of Tim Sweeney (DFA), Lovefoxxx (CSS) and countless DJs, audiophiles, hipsters and music nerds alike, who found his style undeniable; somewhere between Ratatat, Timbaland, and MSTRKRFT. And with the release of his notorious "Diva Mixtape Vol.1" under the guise of DJ COPY, new life was breathed into the likes of Mariah Carey and TLC, turning mid-90s RnB jams into triumphant, upbeat bangers that snuck their way into the hearts of many unsuspecting listeners who weren't exactly expecting to roll down the windows and pump their brakes to Whitney Houston this side of the millenium.
AudioDregs-067
CD
$12.25

Courvoisier, Sylvie
Signs & Epigrams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US This Swiss born composer/ improviser is one of the most creative & imaginative pianists in new music. She is a member of Mephista & the leader of her own quintet & the trio Abaton. Here she chamber music. Mystical, moody & beautiful.
Tzadik-8033
CD
$15.25

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

Daphne Loves Derby
Good Night Witness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Second LP from Seattle indie rockers builds on ideas found on classic albums from Sinatra, Eagles, Janis Ian & Cardigans.
Outlook-1012
CD
$14.50

Draper, Linda
Keepsake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City. The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK)
PlantingSeeds-048
CD
$12.25

Dying Californian, The
Coarsegold (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US The sound of The Dying Californian is rooted in American tradition, influenced by country and folk as much as rock. With floating melodies and complex harmonies, it is difficult to place it into a genre. It is as much at home in a drunken hootenanny as in a late and lonesome night. It all just fits. The Dying Californian's third release on Turn Records is titled Coarsegold. Three years in the making, the album marks a jumping point in the bands signature style and sound, refined and redefined. The story of the album starts 3 years ago when Nathan Dalton, the primary songwriter for The Dying Californian found himself with a new job that had him traveling throughout California, staying in a variety of different places, often, for weeks as a time. On one lengthy trip, Dalton found himself holed up in the small town of Coarsegold, the geographic center of California. Neither northern or southern, western or eastern, simply Coarsegold, California - a town existing somewhere in between. It was here that Dalton found a new center for his own writing, influenced by the stark contrasts of California as well as the isolation and inspiration that only come from being on the road. He began to pen a new record; handheld tape recorders, lyrics on napkins, music on motel notepads, wherever he could find to write it down, he would. Coarsegold, the geographic center of California, the heart, also serves as the pinion for the record.
Turn-021
CD
$9.75

Dylan, Bob
Nashville Skyline (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US It's a country album plain & simple, w/ Dylan abandoning his fabled talk-sing voice & evangelical message for a soothing, down home country croon.
Sundazed-5124
LP
$17.00

El Perro Del Mar
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TheControlGroup
LP
$14.00

Elope
9 Distilled Dreams (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH??? 2007)
PS, SWEDEN COMING SOON! Perhaps Elope's finest album to date...and that's saying something consideing how brilliant 'The No Name Record' and '3WD' are... It is also their very mellowest. '9 Distilled Dreams' is the mainly acoustic companion piece to the rocking '3WD' released earlier this year. Check out Jim's Pick page for a sound sample.
Gravitation-026
CD
$10.50

Flying Luttenbachers
Destroy All Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Fully re-mastered, extended edition of FL's landmark 1995 album. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter & renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. This comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter.
SkinGraft-085
CD
$14.50

Foxx, John/Louis Gordon
Sideways (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, UK John Foxx and electro DJ Louis Gordon release Sideways, their fifth album since meeting up just over 10 years ago. The album brings together sci-fi-themed electronic pop songs with trash psychedelia and film music to create the pair's most adventurous recordings to date. In fact, over 25 years after launching his solo career with the minimalist electro pop of Metamatic, Foxx has been enjoying a recent renaissance. In addition to the critically acclaimed From Trash, Foxx brought to life his Tiny Colour Movies album with a stunning performance at the Brighton Film Festival and continued his long-term Cathedral Oceans project with rare screenings at other UK film festivals. He also started work on various collaborative projects with Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and the actor Vincent Gallo, which are due for release later in 2007. According to Foxx, Sideways explores his fascination with 'things that have all been considered at one time or another as trash - science fiction, TV, B-movies, synthesizers, psychedelia, pop music, comics - all the stuff I love!'
Metamatic-13
DCD
$16.25

Future Conditional
We Don't Just Disappear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, UK Future Conditional is the all-new electro-pop project from Piano Magic mainstays Glen Johnson and Cedric Pin. Drawing inspiration from classic analog synth-pop by the likes of New Order, Kraftwerk, OMD and Section 25, the album We Don't Just Disappear updates the retro-futurist mix with a stellar selection of guest vocalists, including Melanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Bobby Wratten (Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars), Angele David-Guillou (Klima/Piano Magic), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby). The 10-track album was produced by Glen and Cedric in 2006. Standout tracks include Switchboard Girl (sung by Melanie), Broken Robots (sung by Angele) and the title track, featuring Bobby. "Future Conditional isn't just an exercise in nostalgia. We are, in some way paying homage to the groups we love and inspire us, but we're also experimenting with the glacial electro/human emotional interface. The future is a robot with a human heart." (Glen Johnson). Piano Magic will release their new album Part-Monster in May 2007, and featured vocalist Angele will release an album as Klima on Peacefrog in March. Windsor for the Derby contributed to the soundtrack of the latest Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette, and Trembling Blue Stars also release a new album in spring 2007. Busy people!
LTM-2478
CD
$16.25

Gil, Gilberto
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Released in 71 while he was living in London, this is the 3rd s/t release from the bossa nova & tropicalia legend. It's somber, straightforward tone is a welcome change from the experimental, psychedelic assault of his '69 long player. Feat. 7 originals & a cover Steve Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home," also contains 3 bonus tracks incl. covers of Jimi Hendrix & the Beatles.
Water-191
CD
$14.00

Hearts Of Black Science
The Ghost You Left Behind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, UK From Gothenburg, Sweden comes the latest Scandinavian pop phenomenon Hearts of Black Science. Formed by Daniel Änghede and Tomas Almgren, Hearts of Black Science set up a studio within an abandoned subterranean power plant outside Gothenburg. Isolated from the outside world, they experimented and developed their sound - melancholic and dark pop melodies, yet also uplifting and positive, not afraid to be inspired by a broad range of styles, gothic and metal, shoegaze and eighties pop. In 2006 the band released an two EPs that sold out in just 2 months, and got over 100,000 hits on MySpace. 'The Ghost You Left Behind' is the glorious culmination of those months of isolation - this collection of songs is all that's great about Scandinavian pop, sounding completely fresh. References: mixing up a bit of Doves, some Ladytron, a smattering of Mew and maybe M83 would be a good start, but there's a darker side as well, Depeche Mode covered by Air, or The Killers covered by Ulrich Schnauss.
ClubAC30-4032
CD
$14.50

Hearts Of Black Science
Empty City Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, UK Highly recommended Swedish synth-rock act's "official" debut single. Features an edit of the title track, "Revolvers", and They Made Me Do It Remix of the title.
ClubAC30-3025
CD5
$6.25

Hoyem, Sivert & The Volunteers
Exiles [2006] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, NORWAY Second solo album from Madrugada vocalist Sivert Høyem and his band The Volunteers. Heroic guitar rock from one of Norwegian Rock's most acclaimed singer and songwriter. Highly recommended.
EMI/HektorGrammofon-001
CD
$15.00

Junior Boys
Dead Horse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US This EP gathers a dizzying array of talents from the world of electronic music to bring a personal touch to the music of Junior Boys: Carl Craig's contribution is a subtle and brooding epic, Hot Chip's is a dreamy organic take, Tensnake shifts gears from minimalist house to four-on-the-floor electric dreams, and Kode 9 offers a deep space futurist dub, providing a ghostliness that's equal parts Eno and Fennesz.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$4.75

Kaiser Chiefs
Yours Truly, Angry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US New album feat. their hit single "Ruby".
Universal
CD
$12.25

Kaiser Chiefs
Yours Truly, Angry (DELUX) (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Deluxe edition incl. 24pp booklet+DVD w/ 6 new live tracks rec. in Berlin 2006 & 10 min. documentary.
Universal
DCD
$19.25

Klaxons
Myths of the Near Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US After exploding on the scene in a dayglo burst of punk riffs, hedonism & classic Brit art school conceptual cheek, they return w/their debut album looking to prove they're more than just a flash in the art damaged new new wave pan. 11 tracks rocket by in 35 mins w/more energy than high explosives. A raw manifesto that will bemuse oldsters & invigorate fans. "9/10"-NME
Geffen
CD
$9.75

Larsen
Musm II A Collection of Previously Unreleased and Rare Tracks 1996-2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Originally released as a limited edition CD for Larsen's US tour in 2003 and then re-issued 1 year later on vinyl by Seattle based label Enterruption Musm has since been out of print. Finally, Important Records is making it officialy available in a new revised and expanded version with 6 extra tracks and brand new artwork. Musm II includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen have released since their first full length. No Arms,No Legs, Identification Problems was recorded and produced by Martin Bisi in 1996, and now almost impossible to find. It is represented here by 2 ambient tracks and a brand new editing of some sounds from that album. Also included are 4 previously unreleased mixes from the album Rever (produced by Michael Gira) the award winning soundtrack of some short silent animated movies by Winsor McCay,compillation tracks, collaborations with Julia Kent (Antony and The Johnsons) and an odd version of Syd Barrett's Vegetable Man.
Important-135
CD
$12.25

Larsen & Friends
Abeceda (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) CD +_DVD
PS, US This CD/DVD set captures an extremely special evening for Larsen, one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective revealing more an a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino Italy. For one night only Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino Italy. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil and cultural radicalist Karel Teige and his Abeceda - a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva which minimalised text down to its basic components establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images. To Abeceda Larsen brings their minimalist beauty and melody with this live
performance incorporating music, dance and projections. With Larsen are their close musical friends David Tibet (Current 93), Baby Dee ( Current 93 member and acclaimed solo performer), Johann Johannsson (Touch/4AD) The music swells in gentle pulses of soflty stated melody. Emotion clings to each note while glistening shimmers of electonics dance quietly in the mix. The DVD reminds us of what a rich visual experience Abeceda was and is. As The Wire so perfectly put it in a extensive write up of the evening, David Tibet's performance "Provides a vital link between the music and the visuals... At one point he connects beautifully connects perfectly with the dancer, breathing deeply into the microphone in time with her movements." Visual projections, created by Bellissimo, portray a woman in a 20's style bathing suit, much like Teige's original work, portraying letters of the alphabet which slowly become obscure by Teige's brilliant typography. Thanks to Larsen's definitive discipline and their kindred visual and musical collaborators. Abeceda is an event of great subtlety and complexity. It is truly a gift that this performance was so perfectly documented in both an audio and visual format. Where the work of Karel Teige was a tremendous gift for the eyes, Larsen & Friend's Abeceda is a gift for both the eyes and the ears. Hats off to Bellissimo, the design team responsible for Larsen's distinctive packaging, for putting the finishing touches on a perfect evening and a perfect package. "My dear friends Fabrizio and Larsen honoured me by asking me to interpret the alphabet for their project ABECEDA in the light of Nezval's verses for Karel Teige. Being neither an admirer of dada, surrealism or the avant-garde, I escaped from them all by taking a train from the seaside town of Hastings where I live, to London, after kissing my cats goodbye. I looked at the blurs of sheep, tree, hedge, sea, pond passing me like living clouds. I looked at each letter of the alphabet, and covered Nezval's text with my hand. I ordered the letter to tell me what it looked like. I disbelieved its answer. Letters always lie. So I peered at the shape of the letter and wrote down my immediate responses.
Important-129
CD/DVD
$14.75

Let's Go Sailing
The Chaos in Order (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Delightful confection of lilting indie pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies, sophisticated arrangements & affecting, heart on the sleeve vocals from singer/songwriter Shana Levy. An LP of bittersweet pleasures perfect for late nights, rainy days & wandering upon the waves.
GR2
CD
$11.50

Lewis, Wyndham
The Enemy Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by WW1, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in penniless exile in America , yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. His many books include Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), Blasting & Bombardiering (1937), The Revenge for Love (1937) and the trilogy The Human Age. His artworks include Workshop (1913), A Battery Shelled (1919), Tyro (1920) Red Portrait (1937), The Surrender of Barcelona (1937) and Portrait of T.S. Eliot (1938), and are regularly exhibited by galleries including the Tate, Hayward, Imperial War Museum and others. The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy that so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in his dug-out near Ypres in 1917. The CD features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
LTM-2411
CD
$15.25

Limbeck
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Their third full-length is equal parts rock, Americana, pop, and country. "Limbeck" proves that these four former punk rockers from Orange County and Milwaukee have finally grown into their cowboy boots and crafted a disc that everyone from The Bamboozle to Bonnaroo can appreciate. "This California indie band works a terrain similar to that of the Old 97's, who helped invent a more upbeat, carefree alt-country" - Rolling Stone. For fans of The Format, Wilco, The Replacements, The Beach Boys.
Doghouse
CD
$12.50

Lindt, Virna
Play/Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UK The first release on CD of 'Play/Record', the second album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organization in 1985. Written and produced by Virna Lindt during a three-week holiday in London, Play/Record tackles girls who cannot stand the colour red, the numbing effect of the new media, and subterfuge and skulduggery in her adopted home town (the single My Home Town). The album has been digitally remastered by close collaborator Tot Taylor, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. Unfortunately Virna abandoned music forever after creating Play/Record, leaving the world a poorer place. Contemporary reviews for Play/Record: "Ms Lindt deftly conveys a sense of breezy, delirious Sixties camp. Arch instrumentals such as the title track and Add It Up are nothing short of wondrous, and the album is a delightful and accurate evocation of a period when music was allowed to be fun" (Melody Maker); "A uniquely crafted voiceover masterpiece, the diverse tempo moves from the sunny waft of single My Home Town to the more sombre tones of Any Colour But Red" (Sounds); "Lush, intelligent and very, very sexy" (Underground). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and liner/recording notes.
LTM-2489
CD
$16.25

Lindt, Virna
Shiver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UKAn extended CD reissue of 'Shiver', the debut album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1983. Written and produced by Virna Lindt and Tot Taylor, the acclaimed Shiver album offers 12 slices of chic, Cold War pop informed by 1960s spy thriller soundtracks and musique concrete, including the singles Attention Stockholm and I Experienced Love. The album has been digitally remixed and re-modelled from the original mastertapes, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. The new edition of Shiver also features bonus track The Windmills of Your Mind, a rare Michel Legrand cover version from The Thomas Crown Affair originally recorded for the Crepuscule movie compilation Moving Soundtracks. Contemporary reviews for Shiver:"Intrepid undercover agent disguised as a top international fashion model sets out on a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, armed only with a firm sense of fair play and a gadget-filled powder compact" (NME); "Euro-eccentric. Virna Lindt casts herself as a mysterious blonde in a loving pastiche of Continental movie music" (Sounds); "Only the surly amongst you can fail to acknowledge the splendour of Virna Lindt's new single I Experienced Love, and the equally thrilling Shiver lp, the epitome of Compact's sleek, chic Sixties tease" (The Face); "Imagine a pastiche of all those old Sixties spy series, like Danger Man, The Avengers and The Man From Uncle. Well, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go with it" (London Evening Standard). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and detailed dossier on Virna Lindt. Also available: Virna Lindt: Play/Record (LTMCD 2489), V/a : A Young Person's Guide to Compact (LTMCD 2488).
LTM-2487
CD
$16.25

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3rd)
PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant.
OtherElectricites-006
CD
$12.25

Mad EP/RA
Ultrafood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Split and collaboration record between Mad EP (known for his releases on Ad Noiseam and Hymen) and Ra (Coredump, Planet Mu, Sublight).
AdNoiseam-077
12
$9.50

Marcus, Joshua
Make/Believe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Featuring duet compositions for the banjo & upright bass, these songs are both easy to listen to & hard to forget, as the subtle melodies deliver potent lyrics in an inviting manner that inspires the listener to sing along. Marcuss songwriting is powerful & astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from lifes many juxtapositions. He has been the subject of considerable praise & has been featured on NPRs All Songs Considered.
Contraphonic-062
CD
$9.75

Merzbow
Merzbear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear is the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records. Merzbear pulses and pounds with distorted
droning heavy guitar feedback, pulsing noise-blasts and swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Sythi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and reincorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days w/ his homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi & electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Cover art by Jenny Akita.
Important-136
LP
$12.25

Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke
Electric Dress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including Merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. Documents one of nowadays very rare Merzbow's all analog live shows, one of Jim O'Rourke's rare live appearances since his move to Japan and the culmination of Carlos Giffoni's Japan Synth Destruction Tour. All this at the same time! 100% Essential! Electric Dress is recommended for fans of analog period Merzbow, early noise and Industrial Music, academic electronic and analog synth music-And for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music.
NoFunProductions-015
CD
$12.25

Moonbabies, The
Moonbabies At The Ballroom (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US New album from Swedish duo! The Moonbabies third full-length album "At The Ballroom" is their finest work to date. Swedish duo Ola Frick and Carina Johansson started their career in the late nineties honing their songwriting craft. The first album "June and Novas" was released 2001 and the follow up "The Orange Billboard" from 2004 saw them make some major leaps with releases in the US and in continental Europe. The new album contains the track "War On Sound" (which first appeared on the War On Sound Mini-Album, that was featured on popular US TV show "Grey's Anatomy" as well as the Grey's Anatomy Vol. 2 CD collection), plus 10 new songs, the best of their career.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-088
CD
$9.00

Morrison, Van
Blowin' Your Mind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US This is his spellbinding 1967 debut album.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Mortuus
De Comtemplanda Morte (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US After the well received 7" released in '05 this enigmatic Swedish duo is back w/ another hard to tame beast. 6 tracks of the darkest Death/Black metal. This band combines the intense discipline of Occult practice w/ the worship of Death in a way that so many before have attempted to do. This album exudes the acrid stench of decay & emptiness that should be inherent of Black/Death metal.
SouthernLord
CD5
$10.00

Mus
La Vida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, SPAIN La Vida (The Life) is the most bright and vital album matching the best work of Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, or Trembling Blue Stars. Mus now leave behind the darkness of past works. Mus sing in their native Austurianu, a Spanish dialect used in Asturias. 16 page booklet including lyrics in English, Spanish and Asturianu. Mus is an international band based in Asturias (the north of Spain). Mus is lead by the couple Monica Vacas (lead vocal) and Fran Gayo (main composer). On the new record and live Mus is six people, featuring members of Edwin Moses, Vigil, and The Nacho Vegas band. Mus have released records on Acuarela (Spain), Darla (US), Pehr (US), Pop Art (Greece), and Avant Garden (Taiwan).
GreenUFOs-028
CD
$14.25

My Midnight Creeps
Histamin [2007] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, NORWAY New album from Norwegian garagerock supergroup featuring guitarists from Madrugada and Ricochets. Rocks, and more importantly, rolls like Union Carbide Productions, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps. Totally.
EMI/MMC-002
CD
$15.00

My Midnight Creeps
S-T [2005] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, NORWAY 2005 debut album from Norwegian garage-rock "supergroup" My Midnight Creeps led by guitarists for Madrugada and Ricochets. Rocks and, more importantly rolls like classic Union Carbide Productions, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps. Highly recommended.
Tuba/MMC-001
CD
$15.00

Mystery Jets
Diamonds In The Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US The beauty of it thus far: they've been born of paradoxical simplistic complexities, glorious sing alongs rise out of intriguing & technically mesmerizing verses. The epic synth-led solo on display here comprises few notes yet still manages to sound like the whole world is singing it. Enlisting the help of Brit-pop legend Stephen Street this debut is fed through the pop-aliser & comes out the other side polished, accessible & better.
DimMak-106
CD5
$6.25

Panthers
The Trick (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP "Things Are Strange" with a follow-up record so concisely intense it demands attention from all areas; from jaded riff-rock devotees to the most indifferent pop listener and everyone in between. Recorded in 2006 by renowned producer and engineer Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice), "The Trick" is the third full-length offering from this Brooklyn-based quartet and their second on Vice. Ten tracks of calculated abandon.
Vice
CD
$11.50

Pinhas, Richard
Iceland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Limited repress of third solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, & the first to be issued after the demise of Heldon. Currently performing & recording w/noisecore freaks WOLF EYES! "A slower, more classical recording w/the capacity to hypnotize the listener without their knowledge."-AP
Cuneiform-044
CD
$12.50

Pinhas, Richard
Chronolyse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Limited repress of first solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, one of the first to meld rock & electronics. Half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging & mix aggression w/the repetition of Philip Glass or Terry Riley, & half w/all of HELDON in a 30 minute King Crimson-ish stormy drone epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass & drums later sampled on the second UNKLE LP.
Cuneiform-030
CD
$12.50

Poem Rocket
Invasion! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US A sumptuous smorgasbord of acoustic and amplified sonic delights, and their best album ever. An incredibly sophisticated, expansive, and densely layered double album. "This week's most beautiful pop record" - Melody Maker. "...a new type of organism...the songwriting is just too inventive to bog down in matchmaking" - Alternative Press.
Atavistic
CD
$17.50

Preakness
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Atlanta indie rockers w/a penchant for catchy hooks, straight forward song structures & a reverence for the sloppy simplicity of long-lost indie classics. Energetic, intuitive drumming coupled w/natural harmonies & solid bass lines. Have shared the stage w/ Celebration, Sound Team, Ultrababyfat & Portastatic.
EskimoKiss-013
45
$5.25

Pretty Things
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Led by the raucous vocals of PHIL MAY & the stinging lead guitar of DICK TAYLOR, their first American album was stuffed w/ powerful workouts.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Purient/Mindflyer
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Pressed in an edition of 500. 1/4 of the pressing is on double sided color vinyl. This means that side A is blue and side B is red. 3/4 of the pressing is a red/blue swirl. Double sided screen printed jackets. Some things are never better than late and this 7" is one of them. We'd been planning this for about 4 years but somehow it kept getting set aside and forgotten. Then one day a package shows up and it's the artwork and audio.
Important-123
45
$8.25

Reininger, Blaine L.
Elektra / Radio Moscow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece.
LTM-2482
CD
$16.25

Remate
No Land Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, SPAIN REMATE is a musician trained in classical music since was wearing short trousers and long socks. His first hero was a heroine, a skinny Bielorrusian piano teacher, who taught him how to play piano for hours without hurting his hands and wrists. The second hero was a Southafrican guitar teacher with a curly toupée, who instilled him the significance of the posture if you wish to turn into a good guitarist. After these pre-Olympics he became a singer-songwriter without limits: from folk to blues, from rock to gospel, from country to pop, always with the ambition of the one who knows that you must deserve your own influences, and that having style means much more than quoting other stylists. His distinctive features are, apart from playing piano avoiding pain, and having a good posture and/or a stance of defiance with the guitar... to be a very good singer, sometimes high-pitched ("Ballads Don't Change Things", 2004), and keen (also in person); at the beginning his voices sounded like a drunk Ry Cooder or between J. J. Cale and Neil Young; then (since "On Junk", 2005) a cocktail of Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Wagner without Kurt (he would have a voice as cavernous as his operas). Lately his singing has been non dissimilar to Bob Dylan yapping in a small town library. The process, of course, finally turns up to Remate's signing to Acuarela for a brand new ouvre created like a labour of love. "No land Recordings", his new double album with 25 songs, is jam-packed with clouds of latex, giant wings, toxic passion, dinosaurs, enemies, falls, one-eyed singers, pain in vain, kitties and beautiful ladies, love at first sight, howls, fireflies, propeller beanies, TV shows, sports, calls, Superman, glowing colours, bankruptcy, tenderness, mends. Whereabouts are the best songs being born? Where do they grow up like unhappy children? Which are the shops where you can buy propeller beanies?
Acuarela-1074
DCD
$13.50

RJD2
Things Go Instrumental (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS. US Highly anticipated instrumental versions of SOUL POSITIONs "Things Go Better With RJ & Al". He indulges his cinematic side a bit on the intro, w/ strings brought in leisurely, & the sounds of a booming thunderstorm caving in on the listener. But he also puts aside his cinematic loops to deliver his roughest & toughest beats, brassy, sassy funk ala DJ Premier complete w/ the cuts.
BustownPride-010
CD
$12.50

Rockey, Lee
Lee Rockey Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Portland Oregon, art museum, early 1976. In the auditorium, drums electric violin & cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre-recorded electronic skronks, flutes, & off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a Paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary & funny & beautiful. This was the 2nd (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances.
Destijl-060
LP
$16.00

Rollins, Henry
Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US This set documents his 2004 tour. This show happening at San Jose State in N. California. Disc 2 being the show at the University of California @ Bakersfield, Oct. 21, 2004.
2.13.61
DCD
$11.00

Rough Bunnies
Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available
only in Sweden.
Yipsilanti-032
LP
$15.00

Rumskib
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Darla is proud to release the debut record by Danish nu-gaze group Rumskib. Rumskib is the Odense, Denmark duo of Keith Canisius (Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, Producer) and Tine Louise Kortermand (Singer). Keith produced the debut record with Jonas Munk (Manual), who programmed the beats, made the electronic sounds, and played synthesizer. Rumskib's debut record begins with a Simple Minds New Gold Dream style intro. A rough & repetitive MBV Loveless style guitar line kicks in. Next an aggressive baggy beat begins to pump making Rumskib sound nearly like Curve. Then a very lovely surprise: A very pretty, Lush style guitar change comes and simultaneously the wall of sound vocal harmonies begin - like Emma, Miki... and Bjork! There's no denying Rumskib are derivative, however, Rumskib has such command of all the genre's key sound elements and their own pop songs are so damn good the band gloriously claim the new shoegaze sound as their own. Rumskib's sound is at once modern and classic, blending a strong love for early 90s shoegazer bands such as Chapterhouse and Lush with the sensibilities of grand Scandinavian 80s pop such as A-Ha and Roxette, all flavored with harsh noise-rock guitars and crunchy micro-programmed beats. Sometimes their sound is up-tempo, almost danceable like The Cardigans meet St. Etienne. At other times their sound is thick, heavy, and romantic recalling The Cocteau Twins or Simple Minds. Rumskib manage to be both surrealist and accessible; complex but straight forward. Vocalist Tine Louise creates harmonies so beautiful one would think they came from some mysterious wonderland (or Victorialand?) and Keith Canisius' lyrical call & response guitar playing is intelligent and evocative. Combine all this with well crafted compositions and Jonas Munk's trademark head-spinning, multi-layered sound sculptures, and you've got a work of undeniable beauty. Track list: 01. Hearts On fire, 02. Springtime, 03. Dreampoppers Tribute, 04. Where Are The Flowers, 05. Ferris Wheel Blackout, 06. Think Eyes Away, 07. You're My Japan, 08. Sneak, 09. Crucial Love Games, 10. Ovation Outsiders, 11. Girl Afraid, 12. Love At First Sight. ""Re-evokes my dancing feet with the fragrance of Liz Fraser insanity there on top.. humm..There' s some serious celebration going on in Scandinavia now." -- SERENA MANEESH ""Springtime" kills, kills again, and then kills some more. And then bathes in in the blood of its own awesomeness." --JATUN
Darla-164
CD
$12.25

Rylan, Jessica
Interior Designs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more "classic" in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with this collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular as well as analog synthesizers Rylan built herself. Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her designs are influenced by plants, and the historically outmoded. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde. Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in March, 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation
and the LEF Foundation. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Rylan has performed across the United States, Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, L.A., and New York City. She has performed with with Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Hrvatski, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Tim Barnes, Charalambides, Amps for Christ, Chris Corsano.
Important-134
CD
$12.25

Satie, Erik
Cubist Works 1913-1924 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), following the success of previous releases Vexations, Socrate, Musique de la Rose + Croix and Dada Works, on which we present selected Satie recordings with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde. Cubist Works offers four works composed by Satie between 1913 and 1924 for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as the seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). The 60 minute CD also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer and poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel and premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. The solo piano works on this CD are performed by Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2406
CD
$16.25

Section 25
Communicants (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, UK NTSC Region 0 DVD. Multi-region format. LTM is proud to announce a new live DVD Communicants from cult post-punk group Section 25, previously with Factory Records, whose brand new studio album Part-Primitive is released in May 2007. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984). Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 across Europe. Communicants offers a professional multi-camera shoot of their triumphant homecoming show at Blackpool Empress Ballroom in October 2006 (as guests of New Order), as well as bonus performances from Brussels, Dublin, Athens, Paris, London and Poulton. The 70 minute DVD also features interview material with Larry and Vin, and footage shot on the road. As well as SXXV classics Dirty Disco, Friendly Fires, New Horizon and Looking From A Hilltop, new songs Gene and Can't Let Go are also featured. Section 25 will be promoting Communicants with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new studio album, Part-Primitiv, is also available (LTMCD 2500).
DVD
$18.00

Section 25
Part-Primitiv (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a brand new studio album from cult post-punk group Section 25, who previously recorded four studio albums with the celebrated Factory Records label. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984) with Martin Hannett and Bernard Sumner as the respective producers. Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 and have since visited France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Dublin, London and Poulton-le-Fylde. Part-Primitiv was produced by the band at West Orange Studio, Preston, in 2007. Stand-out tracks include Can't Let Go, Dream, Carbon and You Never Make Your Mind Up. As the title suggests, the new album combines raw post-punk power with retro-futurist electronics, including two tracks written and sung by Jenny. Section 25 will be promoting Part-Primitiv with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new live DVD, Communicants, is also available (LTMDVD 2496).
LTM-2500
CD
$16.25

Semiconductor
Worlds in Flux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US From the Brighton based duo, Ruth Jarman & James Gerhardt, who since 1999 have been making stunning, cutting-edge digital artworks in the form of sound-films, music videos & live animation. Guided by their obsessive interests in landscape, architecture, geology, geography, chaos/systems theory & artificial intelligence, they explore the varied processess of digital animation & the computer's potential to unite sound & image. This DVD offers a comprehensive overview of their work feat. 3 music videos (MUM & QT?), 4 live cinema pieces & 4 short films. Also includes exclusive music from MAX RICHTER, CRISTIAN VOGEL & ENSEMBLE.
FatCat-014
DVD
$15.00

Shaky Hands
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Debut full-length from Portland jangly-pop wunderkinds. Sliding bouncy go-go beats under shambling guitars & reedy, swooning vocals, SH make the kind of catchy, soulful indie rock tailormade for brokedown car stereos & river-rat boomboxes. Sloppily romantic warmth thats equal parts summer sunshine & candlelit mellow, pre-party buzz & scruffy day-after fuzziness. The result is a fully formed and confident debut; a big-hearted, starry-eyed bear hug of a record full of youthful energy & tumbling vigor.
HoloceneMusic-005
CD
$15.25

Shiner
Making Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US This EP was the very first piece of plastic on Anodyne Recs & is one of the most sought after slabs of volume & ferocity on eBay & represents a delicate, formative moment in the "life & times" of a real pioneer & true songwriter.
Anodyne
CD
$12.50

Sincere Trade
Between You And Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, CANADA Carl W. Heindl aka Sincere Trade has been creating a stir in the Toronto electronic music scene for the past couple of years and we are pleased to give you Sincere Trade's second album "Between You And Me" the follow up to his debut album "If You Cannot Beat Them" (Dross:tik Records). Sincere Trade shows his penchant for cerebral micro-dot dance music, texturing complex beats that twist and decay over lush gloomy pads, the chatter of static and broken vocal shards, A deeply emotional weave of melody and rhythm lending to a massive cinematic sound. Highly evocative.
Sublight-3601
CD
$12.25

Slipstream
Transcendental (plus Yellow 6 Remix disc) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, UK Reissue. Hailing from Northampton, England, itself just a short space hop from Rugby, the mythical home to eminent space psych heavyweights, Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized and the musical equivalent of Area 51, to the X-File-phobes among you. Where prior to Slipstream Refoy cut his teeth as a member of both these legendary ensembles, appearing on Spacemen 3's final album 'Recurring' before space walking to join the cosmic crew of Jason Pierce and Spiritualized. Elegant guitar signatures romance the inner senses creating a calming sea like tranquillity, all the while instilling a sensation of travelling on a single seated galactic roller coaster across the universe, intoxicated by the ebb and flow of the hypnotic kaleidoscope textures, colourful, tender, charming and tripping. From the opening track, the sensually touching 'Everything and Anything' to the Stylus like hollowed atmospherics of 'Claire's ghost' featuring the narration talents of comic book writer, Alan Moore (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), 'Transcendental' explores and utilises feelings, styles, imaginations and tempers them to sublime effect. The dreamy drone sultriness of 'Sophie's blues', the awesome magnificence of 'Tonight's the night' parading a fusion of the Dream Academy and the musical 'Cats', the space blues of 'Midnight train', the Lennon / Lloyd Cole -isms of 'I know nothing' and the monumental Bunneymen-esque driving 60's psyche apocalyptic groove of 'Deep in the night'. A perfect cruise control companion for the dreamers and spaced out cadets. Finally to give one last special touch to Transcendental, Refoy invited respected fellow artist, Jon Attwood, AKA Yellow 6, to do some exclusive extended remixes for the album, Y6 working his unique trademark mastery of magic and sonic terraforming onto the proceedings to breathtaking expectations!
Enraptured-039
DCD
$16.25

Sonic Youth
Destroyed Room: B-Sides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Goofin-012
DLP
$16.00

Stafraenn Hakon
Gummi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, UK Much-anticipated brand new full length from one of the leading lights of Iceland's burgeoning alternative music scene, following 2004's "Ventill/Poki" and the accompanying debut UK tour. Stafraenn Hakon is the pseudonym of Olafur Josephsson, and "Gummi" is his fourth album release for UK indie Resonant - the first two effectively being full releases for his bedroom recordings. While "Ventill/Poki" represented his first material recorded with a supporting cast - a progression that was very evident in comparison to his previous output - "Gummi" marks a further giant leap forward in every respect. Having established himself as a predominantly instrumental artist, Josephsson will surprise many with the inclusion of six full vocal tracks among the nine included here - featuring Birgir Hilmarsson (Blindfold/Ampop) on five tracks and Efterklang's Casper Clausen on one, alongside other guest musicians and collaborators. While recognising the need to constantly evolve in order to maintain and expand upon your audience, the key elements that have always marked out Stafraenn Hakon from the crowded post-rock platform are still very much in place; delicate, intricate instrumentation and atmospherics, building slowly and organically, drawing in the listener. Sure to be his biggest album to date, "Gummi" is housed in a full colour CD wallet featuring stunning hand-drawn artwork, and will be supported by UK tour dates around the release.
Resonant-023
CD
$15.00

Stars Of The Lid
Their Refinement Of The Let Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Painstakingly recorded, processed & assembled over the last 5 yrs, SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling 2 CDs & 3LPs, clocking in at over 2hrs. They take time itself & stretch, compress & turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon. They've created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece.
Kranky-100
DCD
$13.00

Stars Of The Lid
Their Refinement Of The Let Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kranky-100
3XLP
$18.00

Stefana, Alessandro
Poste E Telegraffi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
Ps, US Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Allesandro Stefana. Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world within his compositions and arrangements. With constant references to traditional music and rural blues he utilizes electric and acoustic instrumentation with tremendously compelling results. Acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars along with banjo, kalimba, baliphones and found objects were all carefully combined with some primitive electronic instruments such as an arpeggiator, omnichord and home made vinyl loops. His sound is entirely original yet clearly rooted in traditions such as Film Music, Blues, Experimental, Ambient and Avante Garde musics. Stefana manages his cast of collaborators very well. Most tracks on Poste E Telegrafi are duets with these musicians keeping the sound and arrangement simple and pure. Instruments breathe and pulse with life and excitement in this highly original album. To call this a "promising debut" would be to dismiss the tremendous success delivered by Poste E Telegrafi.
Important-138
CD
$12.25

Submerged
Stars Lights The End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, CANADA SUBMERGED teams up with Grammy award winning producer BILL LASWELL, avant-garde Japanese trumpeter TOSHINORI KONDO and drummer GUY LICATA a second time to give us the follow up to last years Method of Defiance "The Only Way To Go Is Down" album and his first solo titled album SUBMERGED "STARS LIGHTS THE END". Once again we find bass arrangements of infinite complexity by Bill Laswell mashing with Kondo's horns while distorted guitars and abrasive synths battle against one another all the while producing a perfect fusion between instrumental and software generated music. "Guy Licata, is a monster, he has got the skills to compete with any software geek in beat mangling, reaching easily two hundred BPMs." - Igloo Magazine. Submerged "Stars Lights The End" keeps Method of Defiance's hard edged drum n bass blasts, experimental dub and jazz elements only this time leans slightly toward a more aggresive sound than "The Only Way to Go Is Down". Stars Lights The End features bruising sound edits and beat contributions from Corrupt Souls, D`nee and Mark Filip. Expect extreme high quality sound again courtesy of Michael Fossenkemper who also mastered Method Of Defiance's "The Only Way To Go is Down".
Sublight-3701
CD
$12.25

Sur La Mer
Prelude to the Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US The brainchild of ATSU NAGAYAMA (Boredoms, Prescriptions), who wrote & arranged all of the material for this debut EP. Nagayama enlisted the help of friends Dino, Julie Liu (Rex, Tortoise), Jason McDermott, Kim Ambriz (Rabbit Rabbit), and Fred Erskine (June of '44, Hoover) when it came time to record. The results speak for themselves-provocative, captivating & ambient instrumental bliss.
ThirtyGhosts-004
CD5
$7.75

Torske, Bjorn
Kokt Kveite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Bjorn Torske delivers another killer 12". This one shows us more of the soundworld that Torske is in these days. With references to 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Residents, Idut Boy & Count Ossie and his unique blend of quirky, avant-garde, dubbed out, psychedelic sounds Torske creates a whole new genre; the free-disco. This 12" contains 3 tracks "Kokt Kveite" & "Soloppgang Over Yukigaya" (written by Torske togehter with Cato canari and Ole Andre Farstad) as well as the bonus "Yukigaya Bonus". 25 minutes of new music!
SmalltownSupersound-12912
12
$9.25

Twilight Sad
Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen WInters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US The ambitious debut full length album following the critically acclaimed EP from last year adds an epic scope to the band's already evident focus on sonically detailed, emotive & eloquent song. They are as much a product of their geography as their diverse musical influences who range from Van Dyke Parks to Phil Spector & Daniel Johnston to Arab Strap.
FatCat-055
CD
$13.25

Van Doesburg, Petro
Repertoire De Stijl: Bauhaus: Dada (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK LTM are pleased to present an overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Pétro van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus soirees in Europe between 1920 and 1925. Born in Holland in 1899, Pétro met De Stijl movement founder and propagandist Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar (where Theo was associated with the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school) and then Paris. A Conservatory-trained pianist, Pétro accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany in 1922/23. Following Theo's death in 1931, Pétro established the De Stijl archive and was a buyer for Peggy Guggenheim. She died in 1975. The material on this 76 minute CD includes pieces by Erik Satie, Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-17) offers an application of Piet Mondrian's neo-plastic principles to musical composition. The music is performed by noted Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen. The CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2495
CD
$16.25

Various
A Young Person's Guide To Compact (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM are pleased to announce a remastered CD edition of the highly collectible label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1982. Founded in London in 1981, The Compact Organisation was the brainchild of composer-svengali Tot Taylor. Chic, cheerful and redolent of hip New York label Ze, Compact's stylish and stylized roster included ice-cool Swedish model agent Virna Lindt, Neasden soul queen Mari Wilson, funk contenders Shake/Shake, American retro diva Miss Cynthia Scott and ironic pop artists The Beautiful Americans. All these and more are featured on the wonderful label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact. Originally released as a double album in a bespoke limited edition box (copies now sell for over £1000), the album rounds up early singles on the label as well as key album tracks. Rarities include the non-album singles Model Agent and Young & Hip by Virna Lindt, and a live version of Rave by Mari Wilson, recorded at a Compact showcase in London in October 1981. The remastered 71 minute CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and Compact ephemera from the box set, as well as detailed liner notes by Tot Taylor.
LTM-2488
CD
$16.25

Various
The Camp Burlesque Original Soundtrack Album [CD+DVD] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE EARLY 2007)
PS, US Features songs and performances by Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, Dave Alvin, Big Sandy, Peter Case, John Doe, Rick Vito, Tito & Tarantula, the Cruzados (featuring Bob Dylan), the Martini Kings, and many more. Initial pressing will include the movie on DVD.
BirdSong-102
CD
$11.00

Veirs, Laura
Saltbreakers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her third Nonesuch release is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic gospel choirs to fuzzed-out guitars, and driving alt-rock rhythms.
Nonesuch
CD
$14.00

Venetian Snares
Pink+Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, CANADA Venetian Snares, aka Gonk the 8-legged Viking, is back with yet another record that sounds nothing like Boards of Canada! From the catchy title track opener "Pink + Green" which blends demented punk vocals with hyper-complex grooves and gut gurgling bass blasts you can just tell this is something fresh and funky from producer Aaron "funk" Funk. Not to worry though the sub-rattling low-end blasts and jackhammering hardcore anthems are still here and in full effect on tracks like "Sporto Fucking Sellout Cocksuckerface" and "Husikam Rave Dojo" that revisit the days of pilled out candy raving. This is cyberpunk at it's finest! Welcome to the interzone! 15 year old K-heads will love this shit! If you hated albums like Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole and Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006, you will hate this even more! This is not some crybaby n00bcore bullshit, this is rave at it's roughest like only Mr. Snares can bring it.
Sublight-204
CD
$11.00

Voyces, The
Kissing Like It's Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US After one listen to The Voyces Planting Seeds Records' debut -"Kissing Like It's Love" - and you'll be hooked to their glowing tuneful style. The band echoes the sounds of pop music's past as well as its ever so fervent future. Principal songwriter Brian Wurschum creates the well crafted pop song, recalling the mid 60's era of The Beatles, the folk rock of Simon & Garfunkel, and the 70's mini rock epics ala Pink Floyd. Their style maybe placed in a box and labeled anywhere from: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic Folk Rock, New York Folk, and everywhere in between. The sunny California shine of the title track "Kissing Like It's Love" launches the groups long awaited LP with it's sugary sweet chorus. The soft ballad "Hair Up High" follows with its elegant smooth guitar strums and the band's signature harmonies. The majestic beauty of "Call It Home" continues the album's melodic element, while the introspective acoustic interlude "Please Wash Away" appears with its stripped down heartfelt vocals, acoustic guitar and light piano taps. "Humming" chimes in with one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear this decade - instantly memorable. "Top Of My Lungs," showcases even more of the Wurschum magic: Jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and a song destined to be a classic. The album's closing number - the delicate "Where The Little Girls Still Throw Roses," features Brian's warm vocal, light guitar picking and makes for the perfect ending. Whether blending funky pop, epic rockers or near psychedelia, "Kissing Like It's Love" collects ten tracks of pure pop heaven you're sure to fall for. The Voyces are led by singer/songwriter Brian Wurschum (Guitar, Vocals) and also features Jude Kastle (Vocals), Frank Careno (Bass), Steve Dawson (Lead Guitar) and Eric Puente (Drums). The band was formed in 1999, with its origins in Southern California. Brian and company later moved east to New York City and was quickly embraced by the east villages' anti-folk scene. The Voyces have shared stages with acts as diverse as America, Cracker, and Regina Spektor among countless others - while frequenting venues (both in California and New York) such as the famed Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge, The Knitting Factory and The Roxy. Live dates are sure to follow in support of "Kissing Like It's Love." The Voyces have created an impressive catalog of music. Their first self released LP, 2003's "The Angels Of Fun" showcased their fine blend of folk rock and celestial harmonies. The acoustic gem "Relate To Me" was featured on Jack Johnson's Motion Picture Soundtrack, "Thicker Than Water" (2003) furthering the groups worldwide fan base. They followed in 2004 with an appearance on Planting Seeds Records critically acclaimed collection "Sunsets And Silhouettes," which also features amazing performances from Linda Draper, Camera Obscura, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Freeheat (Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus & Mary Chain) among the 18 tracks. In 2006 the band contributed the song "Poor Little Fool" to a loving tribute to rock legend and country rock pioneer Rick Nelson, titled "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" - with performances from pop Icons Marshall Crenshaw, Jeffrey Foskett (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson), John Beland (Flying Burrito Brothers), Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Primary 5 (ex Teenage Fanclub) and many more. The band also released "Love Arcade" in 2006 - a collection of the bands hits, demos, and fan favorites.
PlantingSeeds-049
CD
$12.25

Wolfgang
Wicked Truth About Loving A Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Robot pop dynamo is back! 80s synth-pop, twee-electro, floor-packing dance numbers from Wolfgang, who was designed to be the first robot pop star nearly 20 years ago. Wolfgang's songs illustrate the experience of love & heartache, of the initial joy & eventual hopelessness that accompanies unrequited love for a man.
Hypnote-101
CD
$11.00

XBXRX
Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl-129
LP
$12.00

XBXRX
Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US Continuing to progress, they expand their musical horizons, incorporating a wider palette of textures, rhythm & structure as well as gaining a newfound clarity in the vocals. Never wishing to repeat themselves, they've made a conscious effort to move beyond the non-stop blastbeat/screaming assault of previous releases, while retaining the vigorous exhilaration that people expect from them.
Polyvinyl-129
CD
$12.00

Xiu Xiu
Remixed & Covered (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US The 1st disc, a batch of covers, is an exercise in sisterly fan-domand inspired innovation. Feat. LARSON, OXBOW, MARISSA NADLER, WHY?, DEVENDRA BANHART & others!!! The remix half feat. GOLD CHAINS, SON, KID606, TO LIVE & SHAVE IN reach your arms into them & get pulled into their reality for awhile.You might not come back the same.
5RueChristine
DCD
$14.25

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Barr/This Song Is A Mess “Split” 45 $5.50
Bethany & Rufus “900 Miles” CD $16.25
Call Me Lightning “Soft Skeletons” CD $14.50
Car vs. Driver “The Completeist” DCD $11.75
Circle “Tower” CD $11.75
Coach & Four “The Great Escape” CD $9.75
DJ Hidden “After Before” 12 $9.50
DJ Hidden “The Later After” CD $13.50
Ellingsen, Haakon “Bounty” CD $13.50
Frith, Fred “Impur” CD $16.00
F-Space “Preliminary Impact Report” CD $13.25
Fu Manchu “We Must Obey” CD $16.00
Gypsy Kiss “S-T” CD $10.00
Harmonia “Deluxe” CD $16.50
Hawg Jaw “Don't Trust Nobody” CD $11.75
Hazard County Girls “Divine Armor” CD $9.25
Hot Cross “Risk Revival (Digipack Packaging)” CD $13.00
Indecision Alarm, The “S-T” CD $5.50
Joakim “Monsters & Silly Songs” CD $17.00
Komomaznuk “For Real/Love” 12 $9.50
Luscious Jackson “Greatest Hits” CD $17.25
Makes Nice “Candy Wrapper & Twelve Other Songs” CD $13.25
Milenasong “Seven Sisters” CD $15.50
Minsk “The Ritual Fires of Abandonment” CD $14.50
Mueller, Jon/M. Tellinga “Bowl, Helicopter” CD5 $10.75
No Depression “#68” ZINE $4.25
One AM Radio “This Too Will Pass (Digipack Packaging)” CD $12.50
One Ensemble “Wayward the Fourth” CD $12.50
Radio Moscow “S-T” CD $13.50
Radio Moscow “S-T” LP $15.50
RJD2 “The Third Hand” DLP $14.25
RJD2 “The Third Hand” CD $11.50
Rock Mania “#1” ZINE $8.00
Samamidon “But This Chicken Proved” CD $14.50
Sandoz Lab Technicians “Western Lands” CD $11.75
Scary, Bryan “Shedding Tears” CD $12.75
Souleyman, Omar “Highway to Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria” DCD $16.25
Souvenir “64” CD $16.75
Tokens, The “Intercourse” CD $13.50
Utah Carol “Rodeo Queen” CD $9.25
Wolf & Cub “Vessels” CD $11.50

Parasol New Arrivals • March 20, 2007
Hi friends, We’d like to start off the update by filling you in on what our little Parasol pet has been up to. You may recall a couple of updates back our new friend had taken complete control of the office after we had shut down for the day. We would come back the next morning to find our workspace in a shambles. This time you’ve really done it, friend. Our pal, Jared del Deo, sent over a copy of his newest project titled, The Qualitarians housed in a beautiful, one of a kind case along with elaborate knick knacks to boot. But lo and behold, our furry friend, who I like to call “Oh Sheila”, decided to that she would like the one of a kind box for herself and proceeded to demolish the contents within. Oh well, what are you going to do? Or should I say, what are you going to do next, Oh Sheila? This week we’ve been bumpin’ the new Low and Ted Leo and The Pharmacists at full volume and we recommend you do the same, friends. Also, this just in, we’ve got one copy each of the Bee Gees “Studio Albums 1967-1968 [Box Set]" (pre-disco wank era, this is the good stuff) and the Johnny Cash “Unearthed” 5CD box set. Act now and we will part with these gems for a measly couple of buck over cost! That will be all for this week. Enjoy the update keep your ear to the ground. Soon, Roy/Paul/Oh Sheila (you sneaky little thing, you)
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	Low "Drums & Guns" CD $12.00 (Sub Pop) The eighth full-length from Minnesota's Low, and their second for Sub Pop. While these songs feature new elements (looped vocals, drum machines, etc.), and are thoroughly, radiantly contemporary, they remain undeniably Low's. "Drums And Guns" possesses the unique, subtle beauty and power we've come to expect from this band, but it's also profoundly exciting in ways that are easy to forget music can be.
New Releases Adult. Why Bother? PS, US Uneasy listening music for uneasy times. A time to contextualize "folk" for our intent & advocate the importance of being folk. Folklore defines a distinctive culture, the common people, real people. Uncomfortable, restless, disturbed, perturbed, awkward & anxious. This hopes to spread the word of weird... Abnormal motivations, ready & willing. This album, of all their albums, they feel is the most accurate culmination of our disordered hysteria ThrillJockey-185 CD $14.25 Adult. Why Bother? PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey-185 LP $14.00 Andrews, Ken Secrets of the Lost Satellite (Digipack Packaging) PS, US Secrets of the Lost Satellite combines tripped-out instrumentation with a vast array of sonic color creating a demanding, visceral appeal. Live instruments (drums, piano, and guitar) mingled with electronic elements. Strong, hooky vocals keep the album on course. This album most definitely pulls the listener into an eerie, enticing space/dream world. Our pal, Jeff Garber (Ghost of PMO's past) contributes guitar on a track! DinosaurFight CD $14.00 Atkins, Chet Eclectic Guitar PS, UK Chet Atkins played a major role in creating what came to be known as 'The Nashville sound'. Through his smooth and eclectic jazzy guitar playing and ambitious production ideas he brought a hitherto unknown sophistication to country music that would see it break through into the mainstream during the sixties and seventies. As a guitarist (compared by many with Django Reinhardt and Andres Segovia) he sold 35 million records and directly influenced talents as diverse as George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Eric Clapton, The Ventures, Mark Knopfler and even Ted Nugent. He played guitar on Elvis Presley's breakthrough single 'Heartbreak Hotel' (which he also arranged), on Hank Williams' 'Jambalaya' and on the Everly Brothers hits 'Wake Up, Little Susie' and 'Bye Bye Love.' He produced sessions for Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves and for the Everly Brothers. As head of A & R at RCA he discovered Waylon Jennings, and Charley Pride. He was dubbed 'The King of Music Row' a reference to the Nashville strip where the record labels were based. 'Eclectic guitar' showcases Chet Atkins' incredible virtuosity and versatility and his extraordinary taste. Here jazz standards such as 'Honeysuckle Rose' and Tenderly sit comfortably alongside his first big pop hit 'Mr Sandman,' classical repertoire such as 'Minute Waltz' and beautifully played country and rock tunes 'Alice Blue Gown' and 'St Louis Blues'. The overall effect is quite wonderful. Sunrise Serenade / Honeysuckle Rose / Caravan / Mister Sandman / Intermezzo / Tenderly / Minute Waltz / Minuet-From French Harpsicord Suite, Prelude From Six Short Preludes / Little Rock Getaway / Ochi Chomya (Dark Eyes) / La Golodrina (The Swallow) / Indian Love Call / Alice Blue Gown / St Louis Blues / Gavotte In D / Malaguena / Waltz In A-Flat / Adelita / Petite Waltz / Liza El-103 CD $14.25 Audion Mouth To Mouth Remixes PS, US Brand new release from MATTHEW DEAR, feat. 3 reworkings of last year's "Mouth to Mouth", which Pitchfork described "as gripping as a cliffhanger." 2 different versions from HEARTTHROB & new version from KONRAD BLACK! SpectralSound-042 12 $8.25 Autumn Shade Ezra Moon PS, US The nom de plume of Jes Lenee', a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent. A classically trained piano prodigy, ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, AS is a marriage of her piano prowess & folk-inspired guitar strumming, imbued in a heady ambiance & enveloped in some of the most heavenly, intimate vocals to have come down the pike in some time. Unique sepia-toned microcosm, one that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, avant-rock & indie singer/songwriter. Colored by additional instrumentation of violin, hammer dulcimer & percussion, and a healthy penchant for sonic experimentation. StrangeAttractors-049 CD $12.50 Bears Self-Titled PS, US Bears has been described by You Ain't No Picasso as a record that "recalls the tenderness of twee, the poeticism of Morrissey and the pop stylings of many of the bands on Matinée"-but that's only part of the story. And while the group shares an affinity for acts like Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura, their music is pure unbridled pop, in the best possible way. Catchy, carefree and, most importantly, free of any indie pretension. Bears-001 CD $10.00 Berne, Tim Science Friction (3XCD) PS, US Mind Over Friction A mega reissue of 2002's amazing "Science Friction" studio disc paired with a reissue of the double live disc. All music features Craig Taborn: electronics & keys, Tom Rainey on drums, w/Marc Ducret on guitar & was produced by David Torn who also does some intense processing & remixing of Tim's work. Beautiful art as usual. ""Pretty insane,"" says Berne. ""A remarkably accessible piece of uncompromising new music from undoubtedly the best group Tim Berne has ever led / takes the possibilities of composed & improvised new jazz to another level.""-THE GUARDIAN (UK). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Screwgun-7018 3XCD $29.00 Bicycle Rider All Traffic/When We Were Young PS, US Chicago punk band circa '98-2000. Bridges the Gap between '70s mod-punk, '80s alternative & '90s emo where the Jam meets Braid, by way of Husker Du. Produced by MATT ALLISON (Alkaline Trio, Lawrence Arms, Rise Against). Baum-52101 CD $9.00 Big City Chedda b/w Stick Up PS, US Members Psycho Les (Beatnuts), Al Tariq aka Fashion (Beatnuts) & Problemz (Missin Linx) have made a huge impact on the hip hop world together & individually. If you like how this one sounds just wait until their debut album drops this Spring. NatureSounds-025 12 $6.25 Bitch #35 PS, US It's the SUPER ISSUE!! Major mommy lit! Scintillating superheroines! Titanic third waves! plus Judy Chicago! All w/ the usual Bitch list, movies, music & book reviews. ZINE $5.50 Bjork, Brant Tres Dias PS, US Brand new 8 track acoustic album! Recorded in LA just before Xmas. Duna-014 LP $11.25 Black Hollies/Dansettes SPLIT PS, US The Black Hollies return on side A with a brilliant cover of the Joe South by way of Deep Purple classic "Hush," featuring backing vocals & Hammond accompaniment from THE DANSETTES. On the flip, The Dansettes step to the front w/their sultry, soulful vocals tearing the roof off of the brand new Motown-infused "40 Days." A classic pairing of bands joined together in perfect harmony. ErnestJenning-029 45 $5.00 Bonnie Prince Billy Strange Form of Life PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-337 12 $11.00 Bonnie Prince Billy Strange Form of Life PS, US Another haunting chapter from "The Letting Go" is highlighted for your edification. The gauzy webs of this song gleam w/ clarity divorced from its siblings. Also a part of this EP package is a video enhancement, bringing format-hopping excitement & surprise into your life. Pop it into the computer & give the video (directed by Jennifer Parsons) an eye. DragCity-337 CD5 $10.00 Brother Reade Northcack Aphonicrobotic Killatracktonic PS, US Two southern punk bookworms who also happen to be the best new hip hop group L.A. has seen in a long while. Killyou Meyou's amazing production & beats sway from abstract & experimental to bomb dropping, while Jael's hook-filled lyrical bombasts cut jugulars. "The missing link between Madlib's dust & RZA's gloom." -Urb Magazine No.3Records CD $6.75 Bulemics Still Too Young To Care PS, US Their scum rock crippled career laced w/drug & groupie, abuse & general madness is collected here w/rarities spanning from late '96 til now w/tracks from the Man's Ruin/Junk Records years . Includes dvd w/over 1 hr of videos, live footage & extras Scarey-033 CD $16.00 Bust #44 PS, US The Science of Sleep's Charlotte Gainsbourg on the cover & feat. Ab Fab's Jennifer Saunders, Iggy Pop, Amy Winehouse, & female sex tourists! ZINE $4.75 Cadence Weapon Breaking Kayfabe PS, US Every now & again, a hip-hop artist emerges & threatens to take the music from its growing commercial context back to its essence. Enter this 20-year-old rapper/producer, hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, son of a Brooklyn DJ, nephew of a funk musician, & child of fresh music. Rollie Pemberton returns w/ a more focused sound w/ clever songwriting & impressive rhymes paired w/ the electrotones of UK grime & West Coast hip-hop. Upperclass-010 CD $15.00 Cadence Weapon Breaking Kayfabe PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Upperclass-010 LP $16.50 Callahan, Bill Diamond Dancer PS, US Bill Callahan is the man who used to record under the name Smog. Now he is Bill Callahan. This is the story of a young lady having an epiphany on the dance floor while dancing alone. With its propulsive, gossamer beat it is sure to be a dance floor favorite from 2007 onwards. For those too shy to dance, it will surely make them wish they were dancing. More dance music is found on the exclusive B-side. DragCity-335 CD5 $5.00 Charles Atlas/Textile Ranch Split PS, UK The Static Caravan house of recordings deigns fit to issue a split CD EP by Textile Ranch and New York ambient conceptualists, Charles Atlas. Textile Ranch offer up 4 new slices of digital automation under such preposterous titlements as 'Murderer/Gardener,' 'Bear Is Ours,' 'We Both Hurt Our Heads' and 'Huguenots.' Susanne Bauszat (Tropes/Early Autumn Break) and Chris Bauer (Early Autumn Break) both stick their oars into 'Murderer/Gardener.' Charles Atlas opts for the more geographical, 'Oakland' and 'Genova.' Charles Atlas is an instrumental duo (often expanding into a trio or quartet) who utilize effected guitar, piano, synthesizer, melodica, trumpet, drum loops, samples, and other instrumentation to paint expansive musical pastures on the crowded walls of the urban centres they and their audiences call home. They have recorded for quality street labels such as Ochre, Static Caravan and Audraglint. Textile Ranch is the work of one Glen Johnson. Glen is also the founder member of the band Piano Magic. A band that have released music with a lexicon of good labels and collaborated with rediscovered poets before they were rediscovered. Vashti Bunyan, Alan Sparhawk from Low, Ben Ayres from Cornershop, John Grant of The Czars and Angle David-Guillou of Klima (the latter, recently signed to the Peacefrog label). Textile Ranch is the work of one Glen Johnson. Since the bands first release on very friendly he has been carrying out extensive personal research into the shoes of one Joseph Merrick after being commissioned by Nike to write the music to accompany their latest advertisement for trainers designed by David Lynch. StaticCaravan-061 CD $14.50 Concretes, The Kids EP (ON SALE) PS, US Vocalist Victoria has left the band, but has that stopped The Concretes? No effing way! Lisa and Maria are handling the vocal duties and the pop-orchestra behind them remains melodic and inventive. Think frosty starry-eyed folktronica and if you need some updated namedropping Jim says Concretes 2.0 is a bit more like Maria's folksier band Heikki and even sorta El Perro Del Marry in spots. EP features "Kids" from the upcoming album 'Hey Trouble' plus exclusive b-sides: "Another Day To Waste", "Reasons", and a lovely cover of Graham Nash's "Military Madness". LickingFingers-023 CD5 $5.00 Cunniff, Jill City Beach PS, US Singer/songwriter & former member of LUSCIOUS JACKSON explains solo debut as a "mood record made to bring the beach to caged up city dwellers. I hope it will also bring the city to homesick urbanites everywhere." The twelve-track album is a breezy, earnest yet celebratory piece-aglow with motherly wisdom and metrical nods to the unassailable grit & color of urban life. MilitiaGroup-045 CD $12.50 Cyann & Ben Sweet Beliefs PS, US An epic, intimate record that draws upon a wide variety of sonic influences, giving the space rock template a dramatic makeover by adding a much needed romantic grandeur. Their music offers an otherworldly splendor: psychedelic, noble, fragile, experimental & incandescent all at once, it is the sound of Sonic Youth reared on Pink Floyd's lost masterpiece Soundtrack To More, or maybe Low picking Mogwai to pieces. Ever-004 CD $15.50 Daimonji I'm Getting Sentimental Over You PS, POLAND New project of Tatsuya Yoshida, Hoppy Kamiyama, Nasuno Mitsuru. If you like music of Seikazoku, Musica Transonc, Ruins, Altered States & Pugs you will be amazed by this album! Vivo-21 CD $15.00 Dalek Abandoned Language PS, US After two long years, their masterpiece is finally unveiled, an album the band have described as their "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Pet Sounds" a la Dälek. Still as layered as their previous work but complex enough for fans of avant noise while being accessible enough for mainstream hip hop audiences. Packed w/avant hip hop guests incl. ROB SWIFT (X-MEN). Incl. 16pp booklet w/art by Paul Romano (MASTODON). ErnestJenning-031 DLP $18.25 Damon Song of a Gypsy (LP + 7") PS, SPAIN Repressed on vinyl. "Damon. This is the artistic name of David Del Conte, a genius American gypsy musician who is responsible for probably the rarest and most sought-after psychedelic music album of all time. We're talking about his debut album, Song of a Gypsy, which was originally released in 1969. This album has a totally unique sound, with the 'crooner-like' voice of Damon, the omnipresent melodic fuzz guitar of Charlie Carey and truly atmospheric melodies. Guerseen is very proud to be able to re-release Song of a Gypsy on vinyl format. This will come with the rarer gatefold cover (there were two original pressings, one in single cover and one in gatefold, with different artwork). This fabulous vinyl production comes with an extra 33rpm EP including the four tracks that were released on their two bloody rare singles, including an insert with photos and liner-notes, making this a very special release if all previous things weren't enough." Guerseen LP $25.00 Decemberists Practical Handbook PS, US Feat. a live recording on Nov. 4, 2005 in Portland, OR @ the Roseland Theatre, 5 videos for songs off "Picaresque" & "Her Majesty", as well as a documentary shot during the recording of "The Crane Wife". Also filled w/ quirky details that fans love, like outtakes. KillRockStars-434 DVD $14.50 Dengue Fever Escape From Dragon House PS, US Fronted by Cambodian pop star Chhom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop-heavily influenced by American surf, rock & early psychedelic garage bands-with their own eclectic mix of American & international styles. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness & girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the bands own M80-100 CD $16.75 Destroyalldreamers Glare/Halo EP PS, US 180g BLACK VINYL 12". Destroyalldreamers captivated us to no end with their gorgeous debut album in 2004 (the year's best shoegaze record, handsdown!) We were ecstatic to have them record a special limited record just for us, and we are quite excited to present it to you. Housed in a gorgeous die-cut jacket in the Claire's Echo series by Aaron Winters, with a slip-in full color heavy card cover image, backed with a beautiful close-up shot of a guitar in b&w. Destroyalldreamers does destroy indeed, with their beautiful and intense sonic landscapes. The instrumental outfit from Montreal keeps you on the edge of your seat as they weave through tapestries of billowing, effected guitars to create massive layers of beauty and noise. Fans of Slowdive, Explosions in the Sky, Paik, etc. definitely fall in love with Destroyalldreamers the moment they hear them. The EP is kicked off with the incredible "Her Brother Played the Riot" - a monumental side-long track eclipsing 20 minutes that had to broken into 3-parts on the forthcoming album. Here it appears on vinyl exclusively. On the flip, we are treated to three shorter but equally powerful tracks: Dead on Arrival (100% exclusive to this release), A Summer Without You (another taster from the forthcoming album on WAMR), and A La Guerre Comme A La Mer (another 100% exclusive track that will not appear elsewhere). ClairesEcho 12 $12.25 Dirty Projectors The Glad Fact PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! WesternVinyl-026 LP $11.50 Ditty Bops, The Moon Over the Freeway PS, US Warner CD $14.00 Drawing Voices S/T PS, US The 20th Century painter Francis Bacon is continuously cited for his remark, "Painting is the projection on canvas of one's own nervous system." The project Drawing Voices attempts to expose the nervous system through audio, video, and meta-technologies. Through the amplification of marks being made while drawing or writing, experiments are set up to reveal the potential of these sounds to communicate. This CD includes sounds from various Drawing Voices sessions used in collaboration with musician/artist Aaron Turner. HydraHead CD $12.50 Durutti Column, The Sporadic Three PS, UK The Durutti Column is Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell. In a career spanning the past four decades, and over 25 albums, they have written and performed as one of Manchester's most influential and prolific acts from their beginnings as Factory Records first signing to their fifth and latest album release on Kooky. 'Sporadic Three', released this spring, is the third in a series of special collections some 16 years since the original 'Sporadic Recordings'. As highlighted over his long and illustrious career, Vini Reilly is a prolific songwriter. Ideas and tracks just fly from Vini, and he's currently in the form of his life. Unfortunately, most of these tracks, or initial versions of songs, never make it to final release. The basic idea then behind The Sporadic Recordings series is to release material that never makes it onto studio albums. This collection follows the same premise and contains new and exclusive tracks, outtakes, versions, and home demos. Reilly's off cuts contain more ideas than most of us have over the course of a lifetime. A key interest for Durutti Column fans lies around the listener being able to hear a re-work, adaptation or different instrumentation used by Reilly as he regularly re-visits music from the past. The music of The Durutti Column has been commissioned for films such as 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Requiem Again', in addition to various works for television. Morrissey chose Vini Reilly to play and write on his first solo album 'Viva Hate'. The other two collections 'The Sporadic Recordings' and 'Return of the Sporadic Recordings' have sold out within a matter of weeks. Kooky-025 CD $17.00 East Ghost West Ghost S/T PS, US Eclectic, irksome instrumental jams from Rob Christiansen. It feels like Ennio Morricone playing in a sandbox while Here Come the Warm Jets plays softly on the Hi-Fi. Beautiful, hand-made packaging. TriumphantElephantTriumverate-02 CD $6.50 Einsturzende Neubauten Palast Der Republik PS, US This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more. Song Titles: Haus Der Luege, Armenia, Weilweilweil, Youme & Meyou, Perpetuum Mobile, Dead Friends (Around the Corner), Grundstueck, GS:1, GS:2, Unseasonable Weather, GS:3, Vox Populi, Was Ist Ist, Ein leichtes leises Saeuseln, Sabrina, Alles. Plus: Encore performances of Die Befindlichkeit des Landes and Redukt. MVD-4564 DVD $17.00 Elastik Band, The S/T PS, US Known almost exclusively for their extremely politically incorrect 1967 Nuggets cult favorite "Spazz" (track #2), the Elastik Band was actually a highly talented group that could play just about any popular style in vogue during the mid-to-late 60s, much like the Knickerbockers. Thus, at times they sound like the Byrds with vibraphone ("Mixed Emotions," #3), the Mamas & the Papas ("All I Need," #10), the Syndicate of Sound ("Lose Yourself," 19), and even what sounds like a parody of the Zombies ("Fire and Desire," #9). But the group excelled at the 12-string guitar and multipart harmonies of groups like the Byrds and Beau Brummels, as many tracks on the disc attest. They also had a few curiosities besides "Spazz": "Popcorn" (#7) being the closest, though "Mrs. Pig" (#17) would also qualify. The last track is from an Australian radio broadcast in 1968 in which the DJ begins playing the song "Spazz" but cuts it off before completion and calls it "offensive." This disc, released on lead singer David Cortopassi's private label, represents the band's complete output of their own compositions (they also recorded a Jimmy Webb tune at one point), some never before released. Hopefully the release, though belated, will show that the Elastik Band was far more than a novelty one-hit wonder. Digital Cellars-EBCD-10 CD $13.50 Evripisis And His Tragedies S/T PS, US This is the first sign that Evripidis and His Tragedies are a truly unique band and have developed their own style. In Evripidis' song writing there is space for pre-Beatles pop as heard on "Ru Ru I'd love to...", to the sinister and grotesque "Transylvania, Some nights are sleepless" and "Cause I shall rise again", the picaresque cabaret "Red is the sky above the harbour" and romanticism "I want to be there", "Long-Lasting Lovers" or "Straydog" and also singles as "It's June Again!" and "Gregory (we're coming out in the light)". Conceptually, Evripidis use polarity (reality and fantasy, romanticism and sexual tension, self-parody and idealisation, catastrophe and comedy) to create a work guided by humour and his flirtation with daily tragicomedies. The result is an album that is personal, daring, original and ambitious. Touchme-01 CD $13.50 Exits, The S/T PS, UK The Exits formed in 1977 around the Battersea and Tooting areas of south London and signed to Lightning Records (then riding high with Anthea & Donna's huge number one hit "Uptown Top Ranking"), scoring a top ten hit in the punk/independent charts with their lone 1978 single, "The Fashion Plague" b/w "Cheam". They quickly became something of a live draw in south London and played several high profile shows including one at the London Dungeon supporting Screaming Lord Sutch! Their set was largely comprised of songs written by bassist/vocalist Colin Swan and guitarist/vocalist Geno Buckmaster which evoked the best of Elvis Costello, Pete Townshend and Graham Parker but they also threw covers of Tommy James & The Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now" and Small Faces' "Tin Soldier" in for good measure. A second single, "Keep On Tryin'", was slated for release and an album's worth of high-quality demos laid down in early 1979. Gigs promoting the 'forthcoming album' showed great promise. Sadly, Lightning slowly backed away from the sounds of the new wave, preferring to concentrate on the lucrative soul/disco market and The Exits recordings were left in limbo...until now! Not surprisingly, the band soon folded with Swan and Buckmaster re-emerging a year later as '60s/mod pop heroes The Direct Hits. But that's another story... With the band's full co-operation we have unearthed those unreleased Exits album demos and are proud to present them on CD for the first time. - Featuring the band's story in their own words with previously unseen photos and memorabilia! - These are the roots of The Direct Hits, one of the 1980s' great cult pop secrets! - A must for fans of new wave, punk, power pop and the cool '60s sounds of The Who, Small Faces and The Kinks! Rev-Ola-196 CD $14.25 Fine Lines Set You Straight PS, US Sophmore full length following acclaimed 2004 release. Each track catchier than the next, featuring punk speedballs, a slower guitar vamper & an amazing 60s style garage smackdown, there is not a dud in the bunch. Press & radio campaign surround the release. Follows a 2006 SXSW showcase, US & European tour ending w/ the Primitive Festival in Holland. US tour planned for this year kicked off by the International Pop Takeover festival in Chicago this April. LicoriceTree-1010 CD $11.75 Fingered DVDZINE PS, US The 2nd offering from Fingered dvdzine focuses ont the activities of the ever fertile artistic community in the San Francisco Bay area. Includes a video tour diary put together by ERASE ERRATA , performances by FUCKWOLF, BLACK FICTION, CLIPD BEAKS & TUSSLE. LIMITED to 300. Comes packaged in an eye-catching, hand sewn, white canvas bag DVD/ZINE $12.75 Fisher, Morgan Water Music PS, UK First released by Cherry Red fifteen years ago to an enthusiastic response from press and public, who saw the album as a pioneer of the new direction in ambient music. The album, originally recorded in Japan, has now been remixed and extended for a year 2000 CD release. Experimental musician, neo-glam popstar, guru devotee, Morgan Fisher has straddled careers and idioms as diverse as they come in the rock world. From his first band 'Love Affair', through 'Mott The Hoople' to Japan where he now resides as a composer and solo artist (having recorded over 20 albums in the last 22 years), Morgan Fisher's career path could never be described as dull! Water In The City / Ice Melting / The Great Lakes / After The Rain / We Are All Water / Breathing Rain / We Are On The Brink / We Are All Water (remix) CherryRed-178 CD $14.25 Frazer, Paula Now It's Time PS, US This is a heartbreaking, beautiful testament to love & loss, w/ a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends alternative country roots w/ dark, psychedelic tones & warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. This is a return to form for those who miss Tarnation, & an incredible starter for beginners. Birdman-095 CD $15.00 Frazer, Paula Now It's Time PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Birdman-095 LP $15.00 Gang Font & Interloper S-T PS, US Musical combustion is about to take place. Feat. GREG NORTON (HUSKER DU) & DAVE KING (BAD PLUS). Rife w/ intricate & ingenious instrumental interplay, this is a recording that is as bombastic as it is intricate, weaving thumping bass & murderous drums w/ schizophrenic guitars & otherworldly keboards creating a frantic vitality that is rarely heard elsewhere. ThirstyEar CD $13.25 Geisha Girls Disappearing Act PS, US The latest fabulous release from those OC press darlings, the Geisha Girls! If you took early Cure vocals, Gang of Four cadences, Minutemen intensity, Mission of Burma stylings & later Middle Class-isms, you'd get an idea of what this 3 piece sounds like. Then throw in some pure fuggin originality &, voila, you got it punk No.3Records CD $10.00 Germans Cape Fear PS, US Recording It was a most regal & cauldecraffe story that lead to the formation of what is now called "Germans." Imagine Snarey, The Sick Prince, looking down from His throne, framed on the wall of 8 Lippincott. What would He see? A table of 5 noble Torontonian vandegards on a quest for His High Music. Together, Germans have managed to write & record the most cauldecraffe album this side of Princeland - Cape Fear. ArenaRock-056 CD $14.00 Giant Skyflower Band Blood of the Sunworm During PS, US During a sabbatical from regular duties in THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Glenn Donaldson (never one to rest) dreamt of Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multi-instrumentalist Shayde Sartin to "smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs," and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal "Magick Brother" as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. The duos debut offering examines in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities "Painted Word" LP in the mid-80s, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like- minded acts such as Nagisa Ni Te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, "Blood of the Sunworm" consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together - on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters. SoftAbuse-019 CD $11.50 Giffoni, Carlos/Prurient Heavy Rain Returns PS, UK Noise/experimental - Two of North America's greatest now living noise artists get together in Bushwick, New York for one harsh collaboration. This is some brutal stuff, man! They succeed extremely well to create something unique, but also where you hear the influences they both bring into the vortex of hi- & lo-tech electronic noise. Noise music became the new black in 2006. And this album gives us hope for an even more explosive 2007. "Heavy Rain Returns" is a truly monumental album. Recorded in Bushwick, New York City - it's an intense trip into harsh noise and electronic sickness, with some deep black metal influences. Carlos Giffoni is maybe best known for his great "Welcome Home" record for Important and his curator skills are infamous through his No Fun Fest in Brooklyn which is the world's most extreme music festival. He has also collaborated with Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo and Fe-Mail. Prurient is Dominick Fernow who is operating the Hospital Productions label and shop out of a basement in New York. His albums "Black Vase" and the latest "Pleasure Ground" for Load Records are both highly recommended and loved. Here we hear two of the US-noise scene's absolutely most important creators together - and man, it's pure energy hitting you hard. The noise is ON! Ideal-030 CD $17.00 Gomez, Robert Brand New Towns PS, US He's a troubadour of the darkest cloth, crafting atmospheres as vast as the midnight Texas sky. Payingno mind to simple genres on this debut, he explores the textures of mood, often finding his voice in the seemingly saddest spots. BellaUnion-413 CD $14.50 Good Shoes Photos On My Wall PS, US "Gloriously giddy art-pop magnificence from south London that lies somewhere between Futureheads & Kaiser Chiefs. Add a dollop of XTC dynamics & the roar of the US post hardcore underground & you're somewhere near to understanding what makes these boys so special." - NME Brille-007 CD5 $5.75 Hail Social Modern Love & Death PS, US Second album by Philadelphia's Hail Social. NONE CD $11.00 Health Where You From PS, US Greensboro, NC local heroes led by Jonathan Moore (also of Tigerbearwolf) unleash their backwoods Americana slacker anthems and call to mind a woozy night around the hookah listening to Pavement, The Velvet Underground, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Unforgettable songwriting, quietly unique passages of instrumentation, and unexpectedly big hooks. Addicitve. ErnestJenning CD $12.25 Hume, Kevin The Truth About Ants and Aphids PS, US An 11-track, four-part song cycle; sounds like indie pop/folk with classical elements, songs centered around vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, etc, but also prominently features strings, brass and woodwinds, performed by some of the finest musicians in New Mexico (no lie); lead single "Towns Where We Live" was featured several times on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Kevin Hume previously released 2 albums on cdr label Asaurus under the name Black Spartacus, The Seven Dreams of the Leviathan and Andromeda. Seven Dreams received modest but very positive critical reaction. PremiumFantasy-001 CD $9.75 Ignatz II PS, US Here BRAM DEVENS walks further down the Appalachians in the year 2050. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost & unworldly creature. His sound builds further upon his debut album, w/ the difference that on one of the 6 tracks he doesn't use any effects. He even sings & talks more & creates his own musical world around it. Joined by PAUL LABREQUE (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) & SILVERSTER ANFGANG (Belgium), but still proves that his solo work towers above his other collaborations. Kraak-053 CD $13.25 I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends [expanded domestic version] (ON SALE) PS, US Mute's U.S. version comes with two bonus tracks: "Glasses" and "The Painter". Mute CD $14.00 Innocence Mission We Walked In Song PS, US With 11 new, memorable & genuinely moving songs, this is the kind of intimate recording where each note seems essential. From the socially conscious opening track, to the longful closing lines, Peris's hauntingly beautiful voice communicates w/ immediacy. The tracks are further lit by gentle lines of melodic piano, upright bass and baritone acoustic guitar. Badman CD $15.00 Innocence Mission We Walked In Song PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Badman LP $15.00 International Noise Conspiracy Live at Oslo Jazz Festival PS, US AlternativeTentacle CD $15.00 Jones, Glenn Against Which The Sea Continually Beats PS, US Glenn Jones has led Bostons "avant -garage" instrumental rock band CUL DE SAC, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. Here he brings an indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential & innovative melding of sound & form. Eleven tunes travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artists' own dialect. StrangeAttractors-046 CD $12.50 Jonesy Ricochet (1972-73) PS, UK Jonesy are the last great secret of the early seventies progressive rock era. A wildly acclaimed British group whose influences vary from Frank Zappa, can, neu, Ian Carr's nucleus and King Crimson, Popol Vuh and the west coast pop art experimental band. The original vinyl editions of their three original albums (from which this compilation is drawn) on Pye's specialist dawn label are expensive collectables. The music has aged well and for once the inflated price tag is entirely justifiable. The group were brilliant musicians, pioneers who were not above creating under the influences of strange substances. The music is very psychedelic and hugely compelling. 1958 / Ricochet / No Alternative / Reprise / Preview / Questions And Answers / Children / Know Who Your Friends Are / Jonesy. El-104 CD $14.25 Kalli While the City Sleeps PS, US Ex-Without Gravity frontman. This album continues the tradition of beauty & pain finding a nesting ground in the heart of a young man. OneLittleIndian-790 CD $16.75 Kemp, Rose Handful of Hurricanes PS, US Breaking out of the British rock world w/ her folk roots & a lonely, beckoning voice, she's quickly earning her rightful place in the Bristol DIY music scene. Born of British folk-rock heritage, she's the daughter of Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp from the seminal British 70s band Steeleye Span. Shes got the eerie rock transcendence of The Pixies, the naked beauty of Regina Spektor, the vocal bravado of Amanda of The Dresden Dolls. OneLittleIndian-711 CD $16.75 King Kong Buncha Beans PS, US This is not a thematic rock opera. As Ethan tells us, "Beans dont mean anything. Thats the point. Like a bunch of beans on a table top." His albums always have themes. Here theres lots of songs about dilemmas: for instance, weather songs, a theme dating back to "Funny Farm". Feat. PETE TOWNSEND on drums. Let the musical fruit rock your funky soul! DragCity-324 CD $13.00 Ladykillers Welcome to Rock & Roll Kid PS, US Stumbling out of the bars of L.A. & onto your stereo playing rock n roll the way it should be: tight, fast, fueled on liquor & sex! The ever escaping perfect girl, the last drink, the last smoke, the broken heart. It's all here & it fucking rocks. No.3Records CD $10.00 Land Of Talk Applause Cheer Boo Hiss PS, US This Montreal-based, female fronted guitar rock juggernaut is influenced by early PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. For fans of Blonde Redhead, Metric, Cat Power, PJ Harvey. "...a collection of shimmering, chord-rich songs that brighten and buzz like a sparkler on a summer night" - Paste Magazine. RebelGroup CD $8.00 Lea Shores, The Guillotine PS, UK The Lea Shores provide string-laden psychedelia from South London's paisley underground. Six strong they deliver guitar driven melodies supported by the mesmerising harmonies of twin brothers Simon and Nick Webb and aural sound-scapes from band violinist and Brian Eno cohort Nell Catchpole. Andy Bell of Ride and Oasis fame had this to say about them; "The Lea Shores are my favourite new band... I saw them supporting Brian Jonestown Massacre in Stockholm and was hooked straight away. Since then I've seen them in London a couple of times and they are pulling bigger crowds each time. The music is psychedelic and layered... distorted guitars and harmonies but underneath it's almost folk music. They should be big... they're already fucking epic!" They are to play The Royal Albert Hall at the end of March supporting Kasabian at their personal request and are sure to go from strength to strength. Weekender-014 45 $6.75 Leng Tch'e Marasmus PS, US These Belgian grinders drop the hammer w/ this new full length. A heavier & more measured bludgeoning than previous records, this sees them incorporating more pronounced death metal riffage to their pummeling grind assult... squarely at the forefront of the modern extreme scene. Relapse-7072 CD $13.00 Lesbian Power Hor PS, US Heavy, melodic, dramatic & dynamic. The Seattle-based quartet's multifaceted debut album heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the 4 tracks shifts moods, dynamics & styles. In any given song, they deftly lunge from black metal-style blast-beat-&-16th-note-guitar-lines into '70s styled stoner rock riffing & then leap into lush melodic passages reminiscent of GYBE! HolyMountain-31772 CD $15.00 Liberty People Who Care Are Angry PS, US Originally released on Mortarhate in 1986, this surprising album in the best non-violent, "meat is murder" anarcho-punk tradition displays a powerful blend of classic protest folk-punk tunes making it an interesting attempt to blend multiple influences & a political message that is the trademark of the original label. GetBack-159 LP $11.75 Little Heroes Cinematic Americana PS, US The record begins with the steady hum of a cello contrasted with an off-timed picked acoustic guitar, soon joined by soft, sparse vocals, the low thump of bass & drums, and eerie piano, building to a beautiful blistering crescendo. Their strength is in the simple diversity of their songwriting, switching effortlessly between sweaty noise pop to subtle soundscapes. A definite must for fans of The Shins, Pete Yorn, & Red House Painters Wednesday-1403 CD $8.50 Loch Lomond Lament for Children PS, US Ritchie Youngs solo recording project. EP complies live performances from 2003-2006, ranging from Young by himself to a ten-person band. During this time, many different recording sessions took place in various studios & homes. "The hopeless tone in Ritchie Youngs voice tells of a terrible life of unfortunate circumstances. Even the old Scottish folk song from which Loch Lomond takes its name is the story of a broken heart & the springtime weather that does nothing to heal it. It works, though, because Youngs voice-with its gloomy, morose manner-needs the subhuman relief that noise readily provides. Ultimately it is a record wallowing in its own despair as much as it is a record that took great, inspired care to make-and its definitely a record to avoid after a breakup." -Rolling Stone Hush-069 CD5 $10.50 Locust, The New Erections PS, US The Locust has been throwing up in the face of conventional music since 1995, when the band formed from the pieces of San Diego hardcore stalwarts Swing Kids and Struggle. Their songs are fast, atrociously ultra violent, and drenched in sci-fi noise, gruesome keyboards, and herky jerky, bestial scream/sing vocals, described by one journalist as "a car wreck with vocals." This is the follow-up to their 2003 Anti/Epitaph debut "Plague Soundscapes". With longer tracks and Mars Volta producer Alex Newport at the helm, "New Erections" should find new fans for this adventurous quartet. Anti CD $12.50 Loney, Dear The City, The Airport PS, UK This is a UK import 7" put out by Something in Construction records overseas and now brought to the states by us for you. SomethinginConstruction 45 $3.50 Loudest Whisper The Children of Lir PS, UK The Loudest Whisper originated in rural Fermoy, Co. Cork in the early '60s. This psychedelic folk classic was recorded in 1974, and has gone on to become one of the rarest records ever issued in Ireland. The Children of Lir was a musical score, based around the mystical legend of the Irish King Lir, and his children who are condemned to live as swans. A glorious mixture of catchy melodies, soaring harmonies and biting acid guitar, it's presented here complete with a 12-page booklet featuring rare photos and detailed sleevenotes, as well as six bonus tracks (including demos, non-album 45s and the soundtrack to the work's original broadcast on Irish television), making it the most comprehensive edition of The Children Of Lir ever assembled. Sunbeam CD $15.00 Low Drums & Guns PS, US The eighth full-length from Minnesota's Low, and their second for Sub Pop. While these songs feature new elements (looped vocals, drum machines, etc.), and are thoroughly, radiantly contemporary, they remain undeniably Low's. "Drums And Guns" possesses the unique, subtle beauty and power we've come to expect from this band, but it's also profoundly exciting in ways that are easy to forget music can be. Subpop CD $12.00 Low Drums & Guns PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Lusine Podgelism PS, US A new collection of remixes. It is a many-sided view of the Lusine sound, characterized by highly textured melodies & surgically precise glitch rhythms aligned by floor-shaking kickdrums. Feat. renowned techno producers John Tejada, Robag Wruhme & Apparat. This is unified by the strength of its source material & the like-minded inventiveness of its contributors. GhostlyInternational-068 CD $13.50 Mason, Willy If the Ocean Gets Rough PS, US This new collection of songs is his strongest material to date. He's developed his already accomplished songwriting skills w/ more ambition & instrumentation, joining personal tales w/ socio-cultural commentary, effortlessly expressing his own experiences while making them our own. This music is moving beyond words & reaches the listener in a place that mere songs rarely touch. Astralwerks CD $13.25 McCarthy Trenching S-T PS, US This album is the distillation of two collections of songs. "Old Habits" recorded in November of 2003 by Ted Stevens, was a self released 9 song collection of drinking songs & waltzes. The dipsomaniacal "ItsGot Nothing to Do with the Drinking" was recorded in the winter of 2005-06, & had been given to only a handful of family & friends. Collaborators include Ted Stevens, Ryan Fox, Pat Oakes, Tim Kasher, Orenda Fink, Adrianne Verhoeven, Steve Bartolomei, Alex McManus, Bill Hoover,Renee Ledesma Hoover, & Mark Maziarz. TeamLove-012 CD $12.50 McCarthy Trenching S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeamLove-012 LP $12.50 Metz, Adam 2400 S. Klonopin Ave. PS, US 1st solo album marries the mod-punk thunder of his former group, Bicycle Rider, to melodic influences of '60s chamber pop, alt-country & '70s AOR. Produced by Metz & recorded w/ members of Bright Eyes, Him & Baby Teeth, the album captures the bleakness & disillusionment of 2 years of disappointment; the stunning mix by L.A.'s Dan Horne & Scott Ford brightens the dark corners. Baum-52102 CD $9.00 Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank PS, US Sony CD $17.00 Mojo Classic: The Greatest Album Covers (Vol. 2 Issue #3) PS, UK ZINE $14.00 Moskitoo w/ Frank Bretschneider, Taylor Duepree, & Mark Fell Moskitoo Remixes PS, US Limited edition of 500. The Moskioo remix cd is a 4-track single featuring remixes from Moskitoo's full length cd Drape (12k1041). Released as a limited edition of 500, the remix cd features "Wham & Whammy" remixes by Raster/Noton founder Frank Bretschneider and SND's Mark Fell. 12k's Taylor Deupree remixes "Skie" and the album version of "Wham & Whammy" is present as well. Bretschneider's remix comes in his signature style of ultraclean bleeps and boucning machine beats, layered with Moskitoo's delicate vocals. Mark Fell takes a decidedly different approach chopping the original into hundreds (thousands) of fragments and recombining them into a jittery and jarring recontextualization. Deupree's "Skie" remix adds organic tones and new layers of guitar and ambience to the lazy calm of the original. 12K-2006 CD5 $6.50 Mouthful of Bees The End PS, US Just like old fashioned rock n' roll from this Minneapolis native band. Doused w/ reverb & healthy distortioned guitars, the band is fronted w/ a solid background in riff-rock & innovative songwriting. Afternoon-031 CD $10.00 MSTRKRFT Work on You PS, US Ex-DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979er Jesse Keeler & sidekick AHP drop new single incl. "Album Version," "Radio Edit," "Para One Remix" and "Community Revolution in Progress." LastGang 12 $5.75 Nadja Touched PS, US Second release by the up & coming ambient doom band. Ambient music pushed to its' breaking point. Parts of the album feature the use of clean undistorted vocals, which is rather unique in the genre and hints at the sound of such bands as Codeine, Swans, & Joe Preston's Thrones project. Alien8-077 CD $12.50 Night in the Box Hustle, Prayer & Thief PS, US The Minneapolis based post folk outfit uses elements of bluegrass, blues & roots music but also allows the energy of punk rock seep through the cracks resulting in an eccentric Americana sound w/ a punch. Afternoon-027 CD $10.00 Northern Chorus Millions Too Many PS, US They fit together all the pieces of the puzzle to make their finest album yet. While the band has expanded its line-up w/original violinist Erin Aurich rejoining & the addition of new drummer Craig Halliday, it has done the opposite w/ song structure. The songs are more concise & the arrangements more grandiose but the band has refined their direction. SonicUnyon-113 CD $14.50 Oasis Morning Glory: Classic Album Under Review PS, US Oasis (What's The Story?) Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review is a documentary film which revisits and re-assesses this powerhouse of a record. With the use of archive footage, long forgotten videos and contributions from those around at the time, this program uncovers why the bands second album is arguably their most satisfying. Features include live and studio performances of tracks from Morning Glory, reviewed by a panel of esteemed experts, band interviews, rarely seen photographs and archive footage. Bonus feature; When Oasis Met Blur the full recording from the moment the Britpop heavyweights met at the same radio station in 1995. SexyIntellectual-516 DVD $17.00 Orchids Good To Be a Stranger PS, SPAIN The enigmatic five piece band formed in Glasgow have released some of the finest pop songs of their generation since humble beginnings in Penilee, a suburb of the city, where the three founder members grew up and started the band in 1986. Their first six singles and three albums were met with widespread critical acclaim, much of this from out-with the UK. They graduated from the gentle lo-fi craft of their first album, Lyceum, in 1989 ("A minor classic - don't let is pass you by" said NME) through to the ground breaking and progressive sounds of their third, aptly titled, Striving For The Lazy Perfection ("lithe, evocative and memorable music" - M M) in 1994 with "sixth member" Ian Carmichael of One Dove at the studio controls. In the intervening years they released Unholy Soul in 1991 ("Sarah Records answer to the Beach Boys Pet Sounds") and some truly original singles & EPs that, in keeping with a stance sometimes perceived as awkward and single minded, were always kept apart from album projects. The ethos was always more about value for money for their fans than genuine stubbornness, however. The singles included what many believe to be the high point of their career to date, Something For The Longing as well as final single Thaumaturgy in 1993. Reformed in 2004 after a break of Paddy McAloon proportions they are now ready to take another swipe at the tedious world of the music business with an album that takes them back to their musical roots. Recorded at Riverside Studios, home to other better known homegrown acts such as Travis, Teenage Fanclub and Trash Can Sinatras, their new record Good To Be A Stranger is a fabulous collection of new songs that will feed the hungry appetite of the fan base that has grown over the intervening years. Ahead of their time in the early 90's, it is only now that many have realised how fascinating and mature those earlier releases were. Good To Be A Stranger is released on Madrid based label Siesta on --- March 2007 and the band will be heading out to play live gigs for the first time in twelve years to promote the new release - nothing like keeping your fans waiting! Offers of gigs in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Singapore and the USA illustrate how the World Wide Web has allowed their global reputation to grow. Later in 2007, a cover of The Go Betweens' song Magic In Here will also appear on a Grant McLennan tribute album, Love Goes On, released on USA's Rare Victory Records. You can also currently hear one of the new songs Down To The Ocean on Siesta Records compilation Erre Que Erre. "The best Scottish pop band since Orange Juice" - Melody Maker "A blissful mix of the best Scottish bands of the last few years" - NME" "Eclectic. Every single song is a gem" - Exclaim "Luxuriant textures, immaculate pop fizz with enviable purpose" - MM "Songs of emotional wit and sparkling indie pop" - All Music Guide "Languid and alluring" - Tangents "The tension between wanting to wig out and grow more evanescent is evident" - Uncut "They brought together all the best parts of the 80's Scottish music scene, while adding something that's hard to pin down, yet made them so very special" - Exclaim! Siesta-226 CD $14.00 Other Men Wake Up Swimming PS, US Feat. ROB CROW (PINBACK, HEAVY VEGETABLE), MANOLO TURNER & TRAVIS NELSON (HEAVY VEGETABLE). After 11 yrs, they have reformed & renamed the band & picked up directly where they left off. Going forward, they seem intent on creating new sounds from the depths of a played-out genre. Teething on the concepts of light & space, whilst never abandoning a frenetic undercurrent that constantly threatens to pull the listener under for the last time. Robcore-001 CD $13.25 Paley, Tom Beware Young Ladies! (ON SALE) PS, SWEDEN New recordings from underground folk legend Tom Paley, with special guest Bert Deivert, recorded in Sweden in early 2006. Tom has been recordings since the 50s! Tom Paley was born and raised in NYC, where he first fell in love with old-time music. He began playing guitar and 5-string banjo and quickly excelled at both instruments. He briefly performed in a duo with the great folk musician Woody Guthrie in the late 50s. Later he helped form The New Lost City Ramblers, with Mike Seeger and John Cohen. This group inspired a greater mainstream interest in traditional music. The Ramblers considered their live concerts primarily as opportunities to share great old songs they had discovered with their fellow folk performers. After The Ramblers broke up Paley formed The Old Reliable String Band (with Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose). Tom moved to Sweden, where he lived from 1963 to 1965, before moving to England where he has resided ever since. Tom continues to tour in America and Europe both solo and with other musicians. Gravitation-023 CD $11.00 Palomar All Things, Forests PS, US Maintains the charm & playfulness of their previous releases but w/songwriting that has rocketed to a new level. Careful arrangements & conceptual depth help make a great leap forward while wrestling w/the tangled feelings of loss, doubt, joy, wistfulness & the struggle to keep going. Misra-042 CD $14.75 Panda Bear Person Pitch PS, US This ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member boldly returns w/ his long-awaited 3rd solo. Yrs in the making, this marks a dramatic departure from hiss previous record. The acoustic instruments have been replaced w/ samplers & electronics. Fusing his dramatic life changes over the past few yrs w/ his ever-increasing sonic palette, this is suffused w/ the kind of feel good modern toe-tapping pop that seems harder & harder to find these days. PawTracks-014 CD $14.50 Panther Secret Lawns PS, US Charlie is Panther, and Panther is some mutant form of Charlie Salas-Humara. Churning out shattered pop hits that few have the ears to comprehend, Portland, Oregon's Panther is a one-man disaster squad. The music is hard match of damaged soul, falsetto disco and broken synth fueled freakouts which is as addictive as it is challenging. Panther isn't easily ignored for his unpredictable and energetic solo performances tainted with throbbing bass, minimalistic hooks and jittery dance routines. Panther's influences run deep and take as much from Pop and R&B as Free Jazz and Punk. In the past year Panther has infiltrated MTV2 (up for Video of the Year), Spin Magazine, and modern dance academia. While touring with both Ratatat and Gossip, he has managed to polarize audiences thoroughly between the immediate super-fans and super confused gawkers. Panther's live performance is as much dance as it is music, and as much art as it is performance. Secret Lawns is the eagerly anticipated full-length follow up from last year's Yourself 12" and you'll discover that Panther knows no boundaries, not only in terms of genre but also social and societal. Panther recorded and played most of the instruments himself, excluding guest accompaniments from members of Yacht, White Rainbow, Plants, Point Line Plane, and ERock. The first 1000 copies of Secret Lawns come with a limited edition packaging and DVD which features several videos as well as the debut of Floor Dancing. FrykBeat-031/2 LP $12.25 Panther Secret Lawns PS, US Charlie is Panther, and Panther is some mutant form of Charlie Salas-Humara. Churning out shattered pop hits that few have the ears to comprehend, Portland, Oregon's Panther is a one-man disaster squad. The music is hard match of damaged soul, falsetto disco and broken synth fueled freakouts which is as addictive as it is challenging. Panther isn't easily ignored for his unpredictable and energetic solo performances tainted with throbbing bass, minimalistic hooks and jittery dance routines. Panther's influences run deep and take as much from Pop and R&B as Free Jazz and Punk. In the past year Panther has infiltrated MTV2 (up for Video of the Year), Spin Magazine, and modern dance academia. While touring with both Ratatat and Gossip, he has managed to polarize audiences thoroughly between the immediate super-fans and super confused gawkers. Panther's live performance is as much dance as it is music, and as much art as it is performance. Secret Lawns is the eagerly anticipated full-length follow up from last year's Yourself 12" and you'll discover that Panther knows no boundaries, not only in terms of genre but also social and societal. Panther recorded and played most of the instruments himself, excluding guest accompaniments from members of Yacht, White Rainbow, Plants, Point Line Plane, and ERock. The first 1000 copies of Secret Lawns come with a limited edition packaging and DVD which features several videos as well as the debut of Floor Dancing. FrykBeat-031/2 CD/DVD $13.75 Paper Airplanes Boyhood PS, US Exuberant indie rock from Wichita, Kansas. Their music can be likened to a cross between early-Built To Spill, the organic sensibilities of Ticonderoga and the playful abandon of Deerhoof. As one reviewer puts it, "This is the way indie-rock is supposed to sound: a jumbled-up rollercoaster of sonic arguments that manage to agree just long enough to remember the chorus" 5040OrFight-030 CD $12.25 Pharoah Overload Live in Suomi Finland PS, POLAND Recorded 12.05.2006 at Kipsari, Helsinki, Finland. Personnel: Hans Joachim Irmler, Julius Jääskeläinen, Pekka Jääskeläinen, Jussi Lehtisalo, Tomi Leppänen, Janne Westerlund. Remixed by Hans Joachim Irmler. Premastered at Fauststudio Scheer-Germany. 5 TRACKS. TOTAL 50:40. Genre: STONER ROCK. Packaging : 3 fold-out digipack sleeve. Vivo-028 CD $15.00 Ponys, The Turn Out The Lights PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $12.25 Ponys, The Turn Out The Lights PS, US A classic twin-guitar rock band fronted by the impassioned vocals of Jered Gummere, THE PONYS' songwriting range from psych jams to pounding rockers to twisted singer-songwriter material, evoking influences from Television and Dream Syndicate to The Only Ones and The Jesus and Marychain. Turn The Lights Out is denser, noisier and more fucked-up than its two predecessors, and sounds bigger to boot. The complex interplay between the guitars and the reverb-drenched vox and keys emerges more effectively than ever before in Agnello's massive production. Matador CD $11.50 Powerhouse Sound Oslo/Chicago: Breaks PS, US Collaboration that started in '05 between KEN VANDERMARK (tenor sax), LASSE MARHAUG (electronics, drums, SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) & INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATN & NATE MCBRIDE (bass) grew to include a Chicago based touring unit, where KV & NM are joined by JEFF PARKER & JOHN HERNDON (TORTOISE). The music is built from the perspective of the bass & uses LEE PERRY, JAMES BROWN, COXSONNE DODD & Public Enemy's collage of HANK SHOCKLEE. Double CD includes both incarnations & is a jazz/funk out soundclash of int'l titans. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Atavistic-177 DCD $17.25 Qualia Nevada's Greatest PS, US A compelling mixture of lush synth's, sequenced beats, & sparse guitars, this debut pulls from a wide range of influences, from electro-industrial to krautrock & country. Built upon confiident storytelling & clever songwriting, the end result is a group of unique, singable & dancable songs about the trials of finding oneself in the western world. WTII-045 CD $13.25 Radical Face Ghost PS, US All of the songs are short stories; even if again & again the narrators voice is transmitted to the instruments, the piano, the guitars, an accordion. Ben Coopers alter ego has created a songwriter album. Or rather a song-writing album, the tracks as carefully arranged interiors, chamber folk, pocket symphonies, passionate melodies. Another one of these houses full of stories. He recorded the guitars & drum-patterns, the banjos, organs & keyboards & sang in chorus w/ himself. MorrMusic-069 CD $16.75 Radical Face Ghost PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! MorrMusic-069 LP $16.75 Record Collector #335 PS, UK ZINE $14.00 Red Crayola Soldier Talk PS, US Having been missing in action for 28 yrs, this vital, much acclaimed work is now available again. It 1st on Radar Records & was their 1st new commercial release since 1968. It reflects the world as it sat, awash in punk rock & its cognates, dreading mass destruction. This album is petit-guignol, a travesty of expression; its screams & sighs, a theatre of terror. DragCity-079 CD $13.25 Reuber Sudpol PS, US He creates unusual electronic pastiches that weave a massive selection of esoteric & unexpected samples into a stunning, vibrant patchwork that constantly pulls in different directions. His instinct for unusual juxtapositions goes well beyond the postmodern irony of incorporating aboriginal music into a psychedelic techno collage -- he has a true ear for combinations that work. Much like shifting curtains of the Aurora Australis, this is cosmic. Staubgold-075 CD $15.50 Rev, Martin Cheyenne PS, US Reissue, originally released in 1991 on Alive records. Part electronic rock band, part performance art project, Suicide found its home in the NYC art scene. Rev's Cheyenne is considered by some to be Suicide's second album minus vocals, but it is way more than that! It is a fantastic look into the creative process of one of the most influential & ground breaking groups/artists of all time. These finely crafted gems set the stage for what became some of Suicide's greatest material. "Rev effortlessly captures the sounds of New Yorks cavernous avenues filtering , phasing & modulating the sounds of the Empire city" -Sonic Boom. Includes 3 bonus tracks produced by Charles Ball & the Cars frontman, Ric Ocasek. LIMITED to 1000! MindExpansion-2009 CD $11.50 Revutsky, Roman Incomplete PS, MEXICO Roman Revutsky possesses a genuine sensibility of pop that stands either way over sad structured rock or complex electronic music sequences. Roman is a singer/songwriter who, directly from the four walls of his house in freezing Siberia, still has the warmth to keep his tender heart alive, pumping strange stories told by a soft and charming voice that will hardly be unnoticed. With a naïve attitude, Revutsky fills the gap nineties indietronica left between rock and electronic music: earnestness and reality. Though his music doesn't properly fit in that genre, Roman will probably enchant enthusiast followers of this kind of pop music with his awkwardly hypnotic lyrics. "The tracks he has recorded and made available are irresistibly charming (his voice, prominantely accented, is reserved but strangely moving, like a Siberian Stephin Merritt), and though its impossible to be sure of how his album will sound once completed, I have a hard time imagining it being anything less than stellar." MOCKING MUSIC (CA). SoundSister-06 CD5 $7.50 RTX Western Xterminator PS, US Lights flicker & bells chime. The far-out sound of thunder draws nearer. Jennifer Herrema & her horsemen are returned & this is the recollection of their long journey. The west wasnt rolled over w/out a few ritual sacrifices down the road. Our survival still depends on it & in the sun-drenched new frontier, RTX have your back. This runs the rock up the flagpole & rolls it around in strong winds. DragCity-331 CD $13.25 Rwake Voices of Omens PS, US Emerging from deep in the backwoods of the American subconcious, they represent the dirty south w/ their intensely unique style of acid drenched metal. Hitting below the bible belt in a anarcotic dazed fury of epic proportions, the thick, tar black riffing & vicious male/female vocal attack plunge the listener head first into the abyss. Relapse-6712 CD $13.25 Secretary Bird S-T PS, US New project from Mike Semple (FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ, GIANT SAND, CAMPFIRE GIRLS) melds sincere songwriting enhanced by his hypnotic & lackadaisically melodic singing style all propelled by his 70's Brit influenced guitar work. "Think 'Psychocandy' meets 'The Days of Wine & Roses' w/a bit of Wilco." An album that melds the countrified influences of his old hometown Tucson w/ expansive rock of LA. InDeGoot-1011 CD $12.25 Shins From Tugboats To Polar Bears: Short films by Matt McCormick PS, US Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick makes films that combine found and orginal sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. In his new documentary Towlines, Matt explores the role of the tugboat in modern society, while in The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal he makes the observation that the process of destroying one art form unwitingly creates another. Matt has also worked with artists and musicians including THE SHINS, MIRANDA JULY, THE POSTAL SERVICE, and CALVIN JOHNSON. 85 min/2004/DVD MM DVD $16.25 SJ Esau Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed PS, US This Bristol-based bedroom production virtuoso's debut is a masterful balance of songcraft & sonic manipulation. Spanning 12 alternately expansive & explosive tracks this treads the common ground between Slint, Arab Strap, Fog, Sonic Youth & Mogwai, which is to say, it's an album that successfully integrates genre-less exploration, detailed composition, inspired collaboration, & a sense of humor. Anticon-070 CD $15.00 SJ Esau Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anticon-070 LP $14.25 Stop Smiling #29 (MAGAZINE/7") PS, US INCLUDES LIMITED BOREDOMS 7" w/ 2 songs from the Super Roots series, "8" taken from Super Roots 6 & "Jungle Taitei" taken from Super Roots 8. PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE w/multiple covers of artist WILLIAM EGGLESTON, LARUEN GREENFIELD ("Thin"), & photographer DAN WINTERS. Incl. photo essays by Eric Johnson, David Black & Jason Fulford. plus Zen Sekiza, Daniell Levitt, Brian Calvasina, interview w/ Guy Maddin, Will Self, tons more. ZINE $8.25 Sun Ra Toward The Stars PS, UK Sun Ra is simply one of the best-loved and most highly respected progressive jazz musicians in history. 'Toward the Stars' showcases' the incredible music Sun Ra was making at the outset of his career in the mid fifties. This music is decades ahead of its time. Numbers like 'Sun Song' and 'India' may owe something to Les Baxter and Martin Denny but their intonation is somehow much deeper. Sun Ra influenced Miles Davis and David Bowie and dozens upon dozens of others. In serious international jazz circles he is hardly less than a deity. The first and perhaps definitive 'independent artist'! Spaceship Lullaby / Can This Be Love? / Call For All Demons / Lullaby For Realville / Future / Sun Song / Urnack / Demon's Lullaby / Piano Interlude / India / Kingdom Of Not / Advice To Medics / El Is A Sound Of Joy / Dreams Come True FiveFour-019 CD $14.25 Sway Winter Heart EP PS, US BLACK VINYL 180g 12". Sway are somewhat of an enigma. This much we know: they hail from Southern Callifornia; they play incredible dreampop; they are super sweet and friendly as hell, but equally elusive; they have sold through two CDEPs in no-time flat, with virtually no distribution or label backing. In fact, at press time, we are not sure if the band is still in existence (!). They have gone through a name change, briefly known as Keepee for a period of about 10 minutes, before they decide to screw that and stay Sway as they should be. Shame that there are at least a dozen other bands with the same moniker, yet all inferior. Sway are the real deal. Sway somehow creates literal LANDSCAPES of sound, with a hugely expansive sonic range that somehow makes your ears feel as though they stretch to the ends of the desert, capturing every drop of beauty with impressive clarity. Their dreamy pop songs are sheer and utter bliss Layers of guitars heap on top, both chiming and ringing, as well as gliding and effected. Ethereal male vocals make a perfect match, as they are not too strong nor too weak, and beautiful as any we've heard. The Winter Heart EP is such a wicked tease - Sway's two previous EPs were short enough as it was, leaving fans clamoring for a full length. Now, after years of silence, Sway return with the shortest EP of their career - and yet it is in that brevity that part of their brilliance lies. If anyone is not left crying - screaming - for more more MORE after hearing this EP, the sheer pinnacle of Sway's career, then I challenge that soul to see if they are indeed alive! It leads off with "Winter Heart", a beautiful epic number nestled perfectly into the space of just a few minutes. Side A closes out with "Days Are Long", which then leads to side B, kicking off with "Days (Reprise)", and wrapped up with "Base Audit". It's a perfect soundtrack for walking down your snowpacked street, headphones on, but feeling warm all over. Likewise, it sounds just as perfect while kicked back on the deck of your boat with 95 degree sun beaming down on your smiling face. LIMITED to 100 pink vinyl copies (mailorder-direct only), and 200 black vinyl copies, all pressed on heavy audiophile-quality 180-gram virgin vinyl. Housed in a gorgeous die-cut jacket in the Claire's Echo series by Aaron Winters, with a slip-in full color heavy card cover image of pink flowers, backed with a lovely photo of the elusive band in b&w. Claire'sEcho 12 $12.25 Tape Op #58 PS, US The new issue of the #1 recording magazine! Features on Memphis(the city), Terry Manning(from Stax to recording Bjork in the ocean, The Posies, studio fatigue, gear reviews , cd reviews and more. ZINE $4.00 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Living With The Living PS, US Along w/ the punk sound & energy found in their previous works, this finds soul, funk & R&B injected into the trajectory. s a message of compassion not unlike that of one of Teds denim-clad, working-class-empowering forebears. As weve learned from those artists, vital, impassioned music is often the direct result of a dire political climate. A voice of dissent w/ a firm grasp of the past & a hopeful eye to the future, they are rebels w/ out a pause. Touch&Go-302 CD $12.50 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Living With The Living PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Touch&Go-302 DLP $14.75 Thee Fine Lines Set You Straight PS, US LicoriceTree-1010 CD $11.75 Thomas, Rosie These Friends of Mine PS, US Produced by SUFJAN STEVENS w/ help by DENISON WITMER. After 3 successful releases on Subpop, she set out to write & record a record to satisfy hew own creative needs. This is a delightfully personal record full of subtle hooks & melodies. Nettwork CD $15.50 Thorn, Tracey Out Of The Woods PS, US Singer & co-songwriter of EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL. This effortlessly mixes the dance-driven, electronic feel of EBTGs recent direction w/ a return to her acoustic pop roots. In short, it's sophisticated pop that sounds as at home in the café as it does in a clubs lounge & will effortlessly appeal to both the old & new Everything But The Girl fans. Astralwerks CD $16.50 Thorn, Tracey Out Of The Woods PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Astralwerks LP $15.25 Unknown Instructors Master's Voice PS, US 10 tracks of mind melting guitar psychotronics by Joe Baiza, lockstep backbeat from George Hurley & Mike Watt, and the vocal stylings of Dan McGuire, David Thomas & Raymond Pettibon. "The Way Things Work is a challenging freeform blast of intelligent noir beat poetry that plumbs the same depths of freakiness that Sun Ra & the MC5 did in days of yore" -Creem. Cover art by Raymond Pettibon. SmogVeil-066 CD $10.50 Unsane Visqueen PS, US Near legendary East Village noise/scum rockers who, while less heralded, mopped the floor with their contemporaries in Helmet, Cop Shoot Cop & Pussy Galore. Now back with their trademark crunch displayed over a more diverse pallette. Produced by Adam Schneider (Cave In, Daughters). Woo! Ipecac-085 CD $15.25 Various Cherrystones Word PS, US Cherrystones is the sound of psychedelic-soundtracks-folk-rock-prog-noise-moog-and-library-records & also an excavator of exciting, seemingly unfamiliar genres. Many heavy sounds that are held in high regard now were 1st uncovered on his previous compilations. His compilations have a beautiful flow like a radio transmission from planet dada. Feat. BRAINBOX, DEAD MOON, GEORGE BRIGMAN, THE DEVIANTS, CHROME, MIDNIGHT CIRCUS & many many other TlonUqbor-1001 CD $11.25 Various Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label PS, US The fourth volume in our Eccentric Soul series examines the oil stained underside of the Motor City sound. There are no gold records, million dollar buyouts, or quaint museums at the end of the story, just a handful of four figure 45s, a box of photographs, and a condemned building. If Detroit was once an ocean of soul, the Big Mack label was certainly an island. Big Mack lasted an incredible twenty years without so much as a sniff of a hit. Dogged by lack of airplay, distribution, and a general lack of understanding of the music business, the label failed on almost every level except where it counted; the music. From soulful doowop to blistering garage funk, a left at sultry R&B and then a quick dodge into budget Hendrix wailing over a steel drum break, this disc is the epitome of Eccentric Soul. Artists include Bob & Fred, the Manhattens, Edd Henry, Ms Tyree Jones, the Essence, the Performers, Mae Young, the Soul President, the Sleepwalkers, the Grand Prix's, and L. Hollis & the Mackadoos. Numero-009 CD $16.00 Various Revenge Of The Psychocats PS, UK In 2003 Cherry Red Records issued the first ever DVD compilation to feature the Psychobilly genre - "Psycho Cats" (CRDVD32). Following the continuing success of this release (and many others from the Psychobilly genre) - Cherry Red are delighted to announce the release of the follow-up DVD to "Psycho Cats" - "Revenge Of The Psycho Cats". The Psychobilly scene sprang to life in the early 1980's, with bands combining the spirit and sound of Punk with classic rock n' roll and country influences to produce a new and unique genre. Psychobilly became immensely popular, with devoted fans attending shows and festivals up and down the country. Some of the scene's most popular bands and songs are featured, including The Meteors with Indie Chart hit "Please Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit", Demented Are Go, Long Tall Texans and Guana Batz., along with many cult classic treats from the Psychobilly scene's bizarre extremes. With both live footage and some very creative promo video material, "Psycho Cats" is a must see for any fan of the Psychobilly Genre. Covering nearly twenty years of rockin' mayhem, this DVD is proof positive of the enduring influence of raw mutant Psychobilly. The Meteors - Please Don't Touch, Demented Are Go - The Chase, Long Tall Texans - Mad About You, The Highliners - Henry The Wasp, Frenzy - Robot Riot, The Pharaohs - You're On Your Own, Batmobile - Mystery Street, The Klingonz - Klingzones, Guana Batz - Just Love Me, The Sharks - Jack The Ripper, Radium Cats - Pink Hearse, King Kurt - Zulu Beat, Taggy Tones - Crazy Kid, The Hellbillys - Drivin' Wheel, Turnpike Cruisers -Love You For Lunch, The Meteors - Rawhide, Demented Are Go - Zombie Stalk, Long Tall Texans - Who's Sorry Now?, Way Out West - Satellite Baby, Restless - Ice Cold, Lost Souls - Lysergic Acid Overdose, The Caravans - I Want You Back, Mad Sin - Body Snatchers, The Hangmen - Hang 'Em High, Frantic Flintstones - Alley Cat King, The Sharks - Bye Bye Girl, Surf Rats - Freddy's Fingers, Thee Waltons - Rubber Chicken, The Hellbillys - Motor Psychos, Turnpike Cruisers - Extra Flesh. CherryRed-152 DVD $21.00 Various Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation PS, US This is the Big Dig, the Tutankamen of R&B: Twinight. After two years of interviews, cold calls, storage spaces, half truths, unknowns, and dead ends, we've finally completed a large piece of Chicago's secret soul history. Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation takes a look beyond their hit maker Syl Johnson, and instead focuses on the records that never had a shot at the charts. It's the story of struggling disc jockeys moonlighting as producers, high school talent show winners, major label cast offs, minor label upgrades, girlfriends with decent voices, and master purchases traded for chart position. It happened after midnight, and it happened right here in our backyard. Comprising 40 tracks in all by 22 artists, among them Renaldo Domino, Dynamic Tints, Annette Poindexter, Nate Evans, Radiants, Notations, Mystiques, Kaldirons, Perfections, Mist, Harrison & The Majestic Kind, Schiller Street Gang, Velma Perkins, Jimmy Jones, Sidney Pinchback, Stormy, Johnny Williams, Elvin Spencer and Pieces Of Peace. This comprehensive two CD set includes a complete label history (32 pages), a baker's dozen of unpublished photos and three unreleased tracks, including two that were only rumored to exist. Numero-013 DCD $21.00 Villalobos, Gina Miles Away PS, US Gina's nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. She's the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are. Hailed as the new "Queen of Country Rock" and seemingly out of nowhere. Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection. And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audience's out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts. Eventually nothing else exists...it is a truly transcendent experience. Though she's been knocking around the music business since the mid 90's, it wasn't until she released her critically acclaimed 'Rock N Roll Pony' in 2005 that Gina made that all important international breakthrough, with an endorsement from BBC radio 2 DJ Bob Harris - making the record a must have commodity. Avoiding the sophomore jinx, Gina's second offering succeeds. She unveiled her new album 'Miles Away' in the UK on May 8th 2006 to the same, if not more enthusiastic, critical plaudits, and support from BBC radio 2 her acclaimed predecessor, Rock N Roll Pony received. This along with a 6 week US national tour supporting World Party sets the stage for her upcoming US release of 'Miles Away', which is widely anticipated in the Americana/Alt Country circles in which she first gained attention. FaceWest-KM-003 CD $10.50 Volt Rorhat PS, US Brilliant 3 piece out of Chemnitz, Germany. This is hard rock. Boris the drummer hits so hard, you won't believe that the shells & skins can stand it! Nico the bass player creates some utterly inhuman rumble, and then there's Andre. HIs growl is so unworldly that to describe it as vocals would lead you astray. His voice is an instrument of terror that makes the body tremble. For fans of all honest music ExileOnMainstream-023 CD $14.00 Watt, Ben Buzzin' Fly Vol. 1 PS, US REISSUE. 2004 release which was hailed as a "house music classic," now in new digipak packaging. Ben Watt is a leading international DJ & A&R guru well known as one half of Everything But The Girl. The 11 track 70 min. CD contains 4 unreleased gems, one brand new exclusive Watt remix & 6 rare handpicked licenses. BuzzinFly-001 CD $15.75 Weavers, The Hard, Ain't It Hard (The Weavers Greatest Songs) PS, UK The Weavers - Hard, Ain't It Hard - (The Weavers Greatest Songs) "The Weavers are out of the grassroots of America. I salute them for their great work in authentic renditions of ballads, folk songs, ditties, nice antiques of word and melody. When I hear America singing, The Weavers are there." Carl Sandburg. In the (allegedly) whitebread nice-nice late 1940s early 1950s, one of the biggest hit making musical groups in the US was made up of four erm...slightly odd-looking Communist sympathisers, one of whose biggest hits was composed by a Black convicted murderer...HA! you couldn't make it up, could you?..Hmmm...That's what the FBI thought..... The Weavers had perhaps the most extraordinary musical pedigree of any group in the history of folk or popular music. More than 50 years after their heyday, however, their origins, the level of their success, the forces that cut the group's future off in its prime, and the allure that keeps their music selling are all difficult to explain < as, indeed, none of this was all that easy to explain even at the time. How could a song as pleasant and tuneful and plain NICE as "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" be subversive? The quartet went from being embraced by the public, (selling over four million records), to being reviled and rejected over the political backgrounds of its members, and disbanding after only four years together. Yet, despite the controversy that surrounded them, and the fact that their work was interrupted at its peak, the Weavers managed to alter popular culture in about as profound a manner as any artist this side of Bob Dylan. The songs that they wrote or popularized, including "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," "Wimoweh," "Goodnight Irene," "Wreck of the John B," "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and "On Top of Old Smoky," continued to get recorded (and occasionally to chart) 50 years after the group's own time. As a companion piece to the RevOla release of their legendary Carnegie Hall concert, here are the big hits....from the mirror-dimension period when The Weavers were a top hit group on a major label and smiled at mainstream America from every TV set....until Senator McCarthy and his ilk stepped in... Goodnight Irene / Wimoweh / When The Saints Go Marching In / On Top Of Old Smoky / Tzena, Tzena, Tzena / The Roving Kind / So Long / Hard, Ain't It Hard / Lonesome Traveler / Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / The Wreck Of The John B / Rock Island Line / Sylvie / Midnight Special. Rev-Ola-202 CD $14.25 Welcome Sirs PS, US Debut from Seattle's Welcome subverts & recontextualizes the band's unique alternative pop lineage, sitting somewhere between the fractured, exploratory idealism of 60's psych pop & such non-conformist US alt-rock luminaries as Unwound, the Breeders, Lilys or Deerhoof. Dynamic, stunningly arranged & prone to fly off at unpredictable angles, Sirs possesses a gnarled beauty. Spiked shards of guitar offset against warm, bittersweet West Coast-tinged melodies, underpinned by a driving, articulate rhythm section. FatCat-065 CD $12.50 Willowz Chautauqua PS, US This provides the energy & rawness of their first 2 albums infused with a thicker rock sound & stronger focus on songwriting. Old boundaries no longer apply as this set of songs is expressed with true storyteller fervor. Their tracks have been featured in many Michael Gondry movies & he has directed their videos. DimMak-105 CD $13.25 Yellow6 Painted Sky PS, UK A debut on Resonant from a man with a wealth of back catalogue on labels such as Enraptured, Darla, Bearos, Ochre, Awkward Silence and many, many more, spanning almost a decade. Yellow 6 is the solo project of Jon Attwood, a guitarist based in Leicestershire (the first UK-based artist to release an album on Resonant!) who has released six full length albums, five live albums and one remix album, on top of several mini-albums and EPs, singles and contributions to numerous compilations. Painted Sky was recorded between 2004 and 2006, and strips away many of the layers of previous outings, resulting in a collection of melodic, organic guitar and piano soundscapes backed with subtle percussion. More ambient than post rock, Painted Sky draws comparisons to Labradford, Cocteau Twins, Durutti Column, Slowdive, Windy & Carl and Erik Satie, as opposed to the quiet/loud exponents; this is quiet/quiet, with an overall air of wistful melancholy. The previous releases of Yellow 6 have established a solid following, both in terms of fanbase and press. Resonant-022 CD $13.00 Young, Neil Live at Massey Hall 1971 PS, US Reprise CD $17.25 Zimiamvian Night S/T PS, US Mike Bennett's guitar-based ambient drone is draped across sounds created on the other side of the world. Using New Zealander Christopher Orczy's harmonium works from his 'October' release as a basis, Bennett recreates an entirely new majestic work. The result is a chilly, nearly mournful depiction of the sound of northern lights as they ascend & fall in the night sky. It was a dark cavernous foray into Zoviet-style old-school ambient w/ tape loops & guitar-based drone. This new work is a leap forward in texture & atmosphere 2 years in the making. Infraction-014 CD $13.25 Zincs Black Pompadour PS, US They have succeeded in marrying their classic song-forms w/ a brighter electric sound to make a vital album for the times. What makes them such a singular band is how they weave such dark prose into their beautiful melodies, a reward that the casual listener could miss on first hearing. From the electric chimes to the pulsing synthesizers, this dashes expectations like a bullet through a fish-bowl & represents that rare thing amongst groups, a genuine progression. Feat. EDITH FROST ThrillJockey-178 CD $13.25 Forthcoming Releases Abruptum Evil Genius (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Formed in 1989 by IT and All. IT had planned to create the band already in 1987 but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right member to do The same year, they recorded their first two demos. There are a multitude of myths surrounding this cult act. The band further became legendary due to the fact that IT was one of the leaders within what was called the Satanic Black Circle. IT left the scene completely after several events within the circle & threats to him & his family. SouthernLord-075 CD $14.00 Alsace Lorraine Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) (ON SALE) PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well. Darla-178 CD $12.25 Antelope Reflector (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Meditative, stripped down punk music that uses the melody vs. repetition equation to produce tightly crafted gems. For fans of Fugazi, Lungfish, The Fall, The Evens, Television. Dischord-157 CD $10.25 Antelope Reflector (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Dischord-157 LP $10.25 Antiguo Automata Mexicano Kraut Slut (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine, a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas". StaticDiscos-019 CD $12.25 Arcade Fire Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge-285 DLP $17.50 Arctic Monkeys Brianstorm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US This pre-album single serves to prepare you for the coming onslaught that is the rocking brilliance of their new release, "Favourite Worst Nightmare". Like some cruel bait-and-switch, this record opens with a lovely string quartet before a rude intrusion of frantic drums and squealing guitars send them packing (apparently inspired by The Jesus Lizard no less). The second track, "Brianstorm" barrels out of the gate with an itchy energy. "Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend" is a taut, suspenseful track featuring a guest verse from Dizzee Rascal. DominoRecordingCo. CD5 $4.75 Army Of Me Citizen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Army Of Me was named one of the top unsigned bands in America by Alternative Press, and the article started a barrage of major label interest for the Washington, DC-based band. On the surface, their music could fit snugly into the playlist of any mainstream radio station. The epic guitars and soaring vocals are more reminiscent of early Coldplay and U2 than of quirkily trendy indie pop. Below the surface, however, Army Of Me carries the self-starter scars of one of the hardest working bands in showbiz. Doghouse CD $12.50 Arthur, Che Iron (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US The culmination of almost 3 years of writing and recording, recorded mostly by himself and featuring Arthur on most of the instruments, Iron displays musical depth, range & fierce individualism. Sickroom-041 CD $12.50 Axolotl Memory Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 1ST) PS, US Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards and various other acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl. In the last couple of years Axolotl have released numerous cd, cdr and vinyl releases many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on ebay. Memory Theater collects the best of these out of print releases into one convenient package designed by Karl Bauer. Axolotl has collaborated with the likes of the Skaters, Magik Markers, Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Skygreen Leopards, Religious Knives, and Mouthus. Axolotl has toured Europe and the United States and shared the stage with the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Boris, Charlambides, Chris Corsano, Double Leopards, Excepter, Sightings, the Skaters, Terrestrial Tones, Tomutonttu, and Yellow Swans. Important-120 CD $12.00 Black Tie Revue Code Fun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Their hooky keyboard driven power-pop has been drawing ravenous fans everywhere they play. Often compared to power pop bands likeThe Only Ones, The Wildhearts & The Records, the band is everything great about being young, geeky & American: adictively hooky, powerful, flagrantly irresponsible three-chord pop songs, loud guitars & new-wave keyboards, & a whole lot of jumping around. Gearhead-074 CD $11.50 Blonde Redhead 23 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $11.00 Blonde Redhead 23 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US As rich and densely layered as their last album, "Misery Is A Butterfly", but the overall mood of wistfulness, melancholy, and regret has been replaced by one of mystical wonder and renewed energy. "It's art music and heart music, with equal appeal to a Serge Gainsbourg fan as to a Sonic Youth fan, without ever sounding like either act" - LA Times. "An otherworldly, richly cinematic adventure" - Q Magazine. 4AD CD $13.25 Bloomfield, Mike Junko Partner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of his era. A maestro of guitar, & an excellent composer & interpreter, he introduced young & old alike to a world of pure & authentic blues. This excellent album was released just after his death. Akarma-376 CD $15.75 Blunstone, Colin One Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US The debut solo album from the lead singer of legendary psych/pop group THE ZOMBIES, originally released in '71. Produced by fellow Zombies Rod Argent & Chris White, it is classic Baroque pop w/ lush string arrangements & Argent's unique keyboard sound. Feat. the hit "Say You Don't Mind," a number of originals & a beautiful cover of Tim Hardin's "Misty Roses." Water-193 CD $14.00 Briggs, Anne Time Has Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US She was a huge influence on such luminaries as Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior & Linda Thompson. Originally released in '71. This album feat. many self- penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. She only released 2 albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival. Water-192 CD $14.00 Bright Eyes Cassadaga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SaddleCreek-103 DLP $16.50 Bright Eyes Cassadaga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US A swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting w/ bombastic confidence & country swagger & at others loose-limbed & mesmeric. An album so full of soaring strings & female harmonies that it feels almost buoyant in comparison to previous releases. Feat. ANDY LEMASTER (NOW IT'S OVERHEAD), BEN KWELLER, JANET WEISS (EX-SLEATER-KINNEY), JASON BOESEL (RILO KILEY), JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE), M. WARD, MARIA TAYLOR & many others! SaddleCreek-103 CD $11.50 Brown, Steven Brown Plays Tenco + Live 1988 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, UK Steven Brown is a core member of cult avant garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music For Solo Piano (1983), Searching For Contact (1987), Half Out (1991), Nine Rain (1996) and Decade (2003). Brown Plays Tenco was recorded in Italy in 1987 and features Steven's own interpretations of five songs written by cult artist Luigi Tenco. Born in Cassine in 1938, Tenco scored many hits as a singer in Italy during the 1960s, but shot himself through the head at the San Remo Festival in 1967 after Ciao amore ciao (Hello, Love, Hello), failed to reach the final. The suicide note explained that his suicide was a gesture of protest against the jury's taste in music. Never available on CD before, Brown Plays Tenco has now been digitally remastered with twelve bonus tracks recorded live in Italy in 1988. These include in-concert renditions of songs by Luigi Tenco as well as solo material by both Brown (Besides All That, rwf) and Tuxedomoon (What Use?, Egypt , Lowlands Tone Poem). Artist Resume: Steven Brown was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Tuxedomoon formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd group albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Suite En Sous-Sol, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. The latest TM album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. LTM-2428 CD $16.25 Celestial Dream On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty. "Precious songs, in the Sarah Records vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo "stay true to their roots and produce a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows no limits." - 4 Lighthouses "wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice to JAMC in five songs" - Groove SkippingStones-009 CD $9.50 Centro-Matic Operation Motorcide EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, SPAIN Will Johnson's problem is not a creative drought. He never stops composing. But then he has to decide to which one of his projects each song will go: Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel or his solo albums. He says that thinking about it for a long time can make him consider eliminating a song. After deciding that he is going to shelve one, he gets uptight. He wonders what would have happened with that song he dismissed, if it would have given more strength to his records, or if a hit has been lost on the way. With "Fort Recovery" his muse visited him and left the tap of inspiration on. Even though the final work ended up being a long record (the European version even includes three extra tracks which are not on the American one), some really significant compositions were rejected. The trickiest problem was dismissing songs. Listen to these eight tracks from those sessions and, if you don't mind me asking, which ones wouldn't you have left out? HoustonParty-138 CD5 $9.50 Chinese Stars Listen To Your Left Brain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Having honed their chaotic four-on-the-floor post-punk dance style into an unequivocal signature. Here, the Chinese Stars set in motion a tsunami of new waves, crafting an atmosphere of propulsive sonic escapism fueled by noodle-stringed guitar riffs, seat-of-your-pants lyrics, and hallucinatory synths. This is a fast-forward audio movement, taking music back to the base pleasures. Razor-sharp, aural pop art: the overblown are busted. SkinGraft-086 LP $14.50 Clorox Girls J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BYO-113 LP $13.75 Clorox Girls J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Third LP from Portland, OR popsters channels the 70's style LA punk attitude of brevity, urgency & punchy pop hooks. Produced by Pat Meares (EXPLODING HEARTS). BYO-113 CD $13.75 Cocker, Jarvis Jarvis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US RoughTrade CD $15.75 CocoRosie Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Here the girls continue to experiment w/ their disparate voices & clashing personalities, juxtaposing devastating ballads w/ exhilarating tracks. This is a departure from their earlier obscured blur of stained glass rêve to what they describe as ""a more self-exploitive memoir."" A lush, orchestral array of sounds & beauty - A vaudevillian opera, if you will. W/ producer Valgeir Sigur?sson (Bjorks main studio conspirator since Dancer in the Dark). TouchandGo-306 CD $12.50 CocoRosie Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TouchandGo-306 LP $14.25 Copy Hair Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! AudioDregs-067 LP $9.75 Copy Hair Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Last year, COPY (who's known as Marius Libman to friends and family) proved that geography isn't everything. Because while Europe and the East Coast once monopolized the modern electro-house sound, Portland now lays claim to its own innovator who has taken the genre to new and unexpected places. His debut, Mobius Beard (Audio Dregs), displayed a knack for morphing headphone-friendly synthpop with floor shaking dance music (...or wait, is it the other way around?) that tore up stereos and clubs throughout the city of Portland and beyond. After a year-long string of legendary, sweatsoaked live sets that invetably erupted into epic dance parties, COPY was voted "Best New Band" by the Willamette Week, solidifying his place as a rising star within the local music scene. Outside of Portland, his infectious brand of instrumental dance music made fans of the likes of Tim Sweeney (DFA), Lovefoxxx (CSS) and countless DJs, audiophiles, hipsters and music nerds alike, who found his style undeniable; somewhere between Ratatat, Timbaland, and MSTRKRFT. And with the release of his notorious "Diva Mixtape Vol.1" under the guise of DJ COPY, new life was breathed into the likes of Mariah Carey and TLC, turning mid-90s RnB jams into triumphant, upbeat bangers that snuck their way into the hearts of many unsuspecting listeners who weren't exactly expecting to roll down the windows and pump their brakes to Whitney Houston this side of the millenium. AudioDregs-067 CD $12.25 Courvoisier, Sylvie Signs & Epigrams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US This Swiss born composer/ improviser is one of the most creative & imaginative pianists in new music. She is a member of Mephista & the leader of her own quintet & the trio Abaton. Here she chamber music. Mystical, moody & beautiful. Tzadik-8033 CD $15.25 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 Daphne Loves Derby Good Night Witness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Second LP from Seattle indie rockers builds on ideas found on classic albums from Sinatra, Eagles, Janis Ian & Cardigans. Outlook-1012 CD $14.50 Draper, Linda Keepsake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City. The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK) PlantingSeeds-048 CD $12.25 Dying Californian, The Coarsegold (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US The sound of The Dying Californian is rooted in American tradition, influenced by country and folk as much as rock. With floating melodies and complex harmonies, it is difficult to place it into a genre. It is as much at home in a drunken hootenanny as in a late and lonesome night. It all just fits. The Dying Californian's third release on Turn Records is titled Coarsegold. Three years in the making, the album marks a jumping point in the bands signature style and sound, refined and redefined. The story of the album starts 3 years ago when Nathan Dalton, the primary songwriter for The Dying Californian found himself with a new job that had him traveling throughout California, staying in a variety of different places, often, for weeks as a time. On one lengthy trip, Dalton found himself holed up in the small town of Coarsegold, the geographic center of California. Neither northern or southern, western or eastern, simply Coarsegold, California - a town existing somewhere in between. It was here that Dalton found a new center for his own writing, influenced by the stark contrasts of California as well as the isolation and inspiration that only come from being on the road. He began to pen a new record; handheld tape recorders, lyrics on napkins, music on motel notepads, wherever he could find to write it down, he would. Coarsegold, the geographic center of California, the heart, also serves as the pinion for the record. Turn-021 CD $9.75 Dylan, Bob Nashville Skyline (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US It's a country album plain & simple, w/ Dylan abandoning his fabled talk-sing voice & evangelical message for a soothing, down home country croon. Sundazed-5124 LP $17.00 El Perro Del Mar S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TheControlGroup LP $14.00 Elope 9 Distilled Dreams (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH??? 2007) PS, SWEDEN COMING SOON! Perhaps Elope's finest album to date...and that's saying something consideing how brilliant 'The No Name Record' and '3WD' are... It is also their very mellowest. '9 Distilled Dreams' is the mainly acoustic companion piece to the rocking '3WD' released earlier this year. Check out Jim's Pick page for a sound sample. Gravitation-026 CD $10.50 Flying Luttenbachers Destroy All Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Fully re-mastered, extended edition of FL's landmark 1995 album. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter & renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. This comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter. SkinGraft-085 CD $14.50 Foxx, John/Louis Gordon Sideways (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, UK John Foxx and electro DJ Louis Gordon release Sideways, their fifth album since meeting up just over 10 years ago. The album brings together sci-fi-themed electronic pop songs with trash psychedelia and film music to create the pair's most adventurous recordings to date. In fact, over 25 years after launching his solo career with the minimalist electro pop of Metamatic, Foxx has been enjoying a recent renaissance. In addition to the critically acclaimed From Trash, Foxx brought to life his Tiny Colour Movies album with a stunning performance at the Brighton Film Festival and continued his long-term Cathedral Oceans project with rare screenings at other UK film festivals. He also started work on various collaborative projects with Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and the actor Vincent Gallo, which are due for release later in 2007. According to Foxx, Sideways explores his fascination with 'things that have all been considered at one time or another as trash - science fiction, TV, B-movies, synthesizers, psychedelia, pop music, comics - all the stuff I love!' Metamatic-13 DCD $16.25 Future Conditional We Don't Just Disappear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, UK Future Conditional is the all-new electro-pop project from Piano Magic mainstays Glen Johnson and Cedric Pin. Drawing inspiration from classic analog synth-pop by the likes of New Order, Kraftwerk, OMD and Section 25, the album We Don't Just Disappear updates the retro-futurist mix with a stellar selection of guest vocalists, including Melanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Bobby Wratten (Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars), Angele David-Guillou (Klima/Piano Magic), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby). The 10-track album was produced by Glen and Cedric in 2006. Standout tracks include Switchboard Girl (sung by Melanie), Broken Robots (sung by Angele) and the title track, featuring Bobby. "Future Conditional isn't just an exercise in nostalgia. We are, in some way paying homage to the groups we love and inspire us, but we're also experimenting with the glacial electro/human emotional interface. The future is a robot with a human heart." (Glen Johnson). Piano Magic will release their new album Part-Monster in May 2007, and featured vocalist Angele will release an album as Klima on Peacefrog in March. Windsor for the Derby contributed to the soundtrack of the latest Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette, and Trembling Blue Stars also release a new album in spring 2007. Busy people! LTM-2478 CD $16.25 Gil, Gilberto S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Released in 71 while he was living in London, this is the 3rd s/t release from the bossa nova & tropicalia legend. It's somber, straightforward tone is a welcome change from the experimental, psychedelic assault of his '69 long player. Feat. 7 originals & a cover Steve Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home," also contains 3 bonus tracks incl. covers of Jimi Hendrix & the Beatles. Water-191 CD $14.00 Hearts Of Black Science The Ghost You Left Behind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, UK From Gothenburg, Sweden comes the latest Scandinavian pop phenomenon Hearts of Black Science. Formed by Daniel Änghede and Tomas Almgren, Hearts of Black Science set up a studio within an abandoned subterranean power plant outside Gothenburg. Isolated from the outside world, they experimented and developed their sound - melancholic and dark pop melodies, yet also uplifting and positive, not afraid to be inspired by a broad range of styles, gothic and metal, shoegaze and eighties pop. In 2006 the band released an two EPs that sold out in just 2 months, and got over 100,000 hits on MySpace. 'The Ghost You Left Behind' is the glorious culmination of those months of isolation - this collection of songs is all that's great about Scandinavian pop, sounding completely fresh. References: mixing up a bit of Doves, some Ladytron, a smattering of Mew and maybe M83 would be a good start, but there's a darker side as well, Depeche Mode covered by Air, or The Killers covered by Ulrich Schnauss. ClubAC30-4032 CD $14.50 Hearts Of Black Science Empty City Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, UK Highly recommended Swedish synth-rock act's "official" debut single. Features an edit of the title track, "Revolvers", and They Made Me Do It Remix of the title. ClubAC30-3025 CD5 $6.25 Hoyem, Sivert & The Volunteers Exiles [2006] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, NORWAY Second solo album from Madrugada vocalist Sivert Høyem and his band The Volunteers. Heroic guitar rock from one of Norwegian Rock's most acclaimed singer and songwriter. Highly recommended. EMI/HektorGrammofon-001 CD $15.00 Junior Boys Dead Horse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US This EP gathers a dizzying array of talents from the world of electronic music to bring a personal touch to the music of Junior Boys: Carl Craig's contribution is a subtle and brooding epic, Hot Chip's is a dreamy organic take, Tensnake shifts gears from minimalist house to four-on-the-floor electric dreams, and Kode 9 offers a deep space futurist dub, providing a ghostliness that's equal parts Eno and Fennesz. DominoRecordingCo. CD5 $4.75 Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US New album feat. their hit single "Ruby". Universal CD $12.25 Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry (DELUX) (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Deluxe edition incl. 24pp booklet+DVD w/ 6 new live tracks rec. in Berlin 2006 & 10 min. documentary. Universal DCD $19.25 Klaxons Myths of the Near Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US After exploding on the scene in a dayglo burst of punk riffs, hedonism & classic Brit art school conceptual cheek, they return w/their debut album looking to prove they're more than just a flash in the art damaged new new wave pan. 11 tracks rocket by in 35 mins w/more energy than high explosives. A raw manifesto that will bemuse oldsters & invigorate fans. "9/10"-NME Geffen CD $9.75 Larsen Musm II A Collection of Previously Unreleased and Rare Tracks 1996-2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Originally released as a limited edition CD for Larsen's US tour in 2003 and then re-issued 1 year later on vinyl by Seattle based label Enterruption Musm has since been out of print. Finally, Important Records is making it officialy available in a new revised and expanded version with 6 extra tracks and brand new artwork. Musm II includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen have released since their first full length. No Arms,No Legs, Identification Problems was recorded and produced by Martin Bisi in 1996, and now almost impossible to find. It is represented here by 2 ambient tracks and a brand new editing of some sounds from that album. Also included are 4 previously unreleased mixes from the album Rever (produced by Michael Gira) the award winning soundtrack of some short silent animated movies by Winsor McCay,compillation tracks, collaborations with Julia Kent (Antony and The Johnsons) and an odd version of Syd Barrett's Vegetable Man. Important-135 CD $12.25 Larsen & Friends Abeceda (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) CD +_DVD PS, US This CD/DVD set captures an extremely special evening for Larsen, one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective revealing more an a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino Italy. For one night only Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino Italy. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil and cultural radicalist Karel Teige and his Abeceda - a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva which minimalised text down to its basic components establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images. To Abeceda Larsen brings their minimalist beauty and melody with this live performance incorporating music, dance and projections. With Larsen are their close musical friends David Tibet (Current 93), Baby Dee ( Current 93 member and acclaimed solo performer), Johann Johannsson (Touch/4AD) The music swells in gentle pulses of soflty stated melody. Emotion clings to each note while glistening shimmers of electonics dance quietly in the mix. The DVD reminds us of what a rich visual experience Abeceda was and is. As The Wire so perfectly put it in a extensive write up of the evening, David Tibet's performance "Provides a vital link between the music and the visuals... At one point he connects beautifully connects perfectly with the dancer, breathing deeply into the microphone in time with her movements." Visual projections, created by Bellissimo, portray a woman in a 20's style bathing suit, much like Teige's original work, portraying letters of the alphabet which slowly become obscure by Teige's brilliant typography. Thanks to Larsen's definitive discipline and their kindred visual and musical collaborators. Abeceda is an event of great subtlety and complexity. It is truly a gift that this performance was so perfectly documented in both an audio and visual format. Where the work of Karel Teige was a tremendous gift for the eyes, Larsen & Friend's Abeceda is a gift for both the eyes and the ears. Hats off to Bellissimo, the design team responsible for Larsen's distinctive packaging, for putting the finishing touches on a perfect evening and a perfect package. "My dear friends Fabrizio and Larsen honoured me by asking me to interpret the alphabet for their project ABECEDA in the light of Nezval's verses for Karel Teige. Being neither an admirer of dada, surrealism or the avant-garde, I escaped from them all by taking a train from the seaside town of Hastings where I live, to London, after kissing my cats goodbye. I looked at the blurs of sheep, tree, hedge, sea, pond passing me like living clouds. I looked at each letter of the alphabet, and covered Nezval's text with my hand. I ordered the letter to tell me what it looked like. I disbelieved its answer. Letters always lie. So I peered at the shape of the letter and wrote down my immediate responses. Important-129 CD/DVD $14.75 Let's Go Sailing The Chaos in Order (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Delightful confection of lilting indie pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies, sophisticated arrangements & affecting, heart on the sleeve vocals from singer/songwriter Shana Levy. An LP of bittersweet pleasures perfect for late nights, rainy days & wandering upon the waves. GR2 CD $11.50 Lewis, Wyndham The Enemy Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by WW1, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in penniless exile in America , yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. His many books include Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), Blasting & Bombardiering (1937), The Revenge for Love (1937) and the trilogy The Human Age. His artworks include Workshop (1913), A Battery Shelled (1919), Tyro (1920) Red Portrait (1937), The Surrender of Barcelona (1937) and Portrait of T.S. Eliot (1938), and are regularly exhibited by galleries including the Tate, Hayward, Imperial War Museum and others. The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy that so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in his dug-out near Ypres in 1917. The CD features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. LTM-2411 CD $15.25 Limbeck S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Their third full-length is equal parts rock, Americana, pop, and country. "Limbeck" proves that these four former punk rockers from Orange County and Milwaukee have finally grown into their cowboy boots and crafted a disc that everyone from The Bamboozle to Bonnaroo can appreciate. "This California indie band works a terrain similar to that of the Old 97's, who helped invent a more upbeat, carefree alt-country" - Rolling Stone. For fans of The Format, Wilco, The Replacements, The Beach Boys. Doghouse CD $12.50 Lindt, Virna Play/Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK The first release on CD of 'Play/Record', the second album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organization in 1985. Written and produced by Virna Lindt during a three-week holiday in London, Play/Record tackles girls who cannot stand the colour red, the numbing effect of the new media, and subterfuge and skulduggery in her adopted home town (the single My Home Town). The album has been digitally remastered by close collaborator Tot Taylor, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. Unfortunately Virna abandoned music forever after creating Play/Record, leaving the world a poorer place. Contemporary reviews for Play/Record: "Ms Lindt deftly conveys a sense of breezy, delirious Sixties camp. Arch instrumentals such as the title track and Add It Up are nothing short of wondrous, and the album is a delightful and accurate evocation of a period when music was allowed to be fun" (Melody Maker); "A uniquely crafted voiceover masterpiece, the diverse tempo moves from the sunny waft of single My Home Town to the more sombre tones of Any Colour But Red" (Sounds); "Lush, intelligent and very, very sexy" (Underground). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and liner/recording notes. LTM-2489 CD $16.25 Lindt, Virna Shiver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UKAn extended CD reissue of 'Shiver', the debut album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1983. Written and produced by Virna Lindt and Tot Taylor, the acclaimed Shiver album offers 12 slices of chic, Cold War pop informed by 1960s spy thriller soundtracks and musique concrete, including the singles Attention Stockholm and I Experienced Love. The album has been digitally remixed and re-modelled from the original mastertapes, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. The new edition of Shiver also features bonus track The Windmills of Your Mind, a rare Michel Legrand cover version from The Thomas Crown Affair originally recorded for the Crepuscule movie compilation Moving Soundtracks. Contemporary reviews for Shiver:"Intrepid undercover agent disguised as a top international fashion model sets out on a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, armed only with a firm sense of fair play and a gadget-filled powder compact" (NME); "Euro-eccentric. Virna Lindt casts herself as a mysterious blonde in a loving pastiche of Continental movie music" (Sounds); "Only the surly amongst you can fail to acknowledge the splendour of Virna Lindt's new single I Experienced Love, and the equally thrilling Shiver lp, the epitome of Compact's sleek, chic Sixties tease" (The Face); "Imagine a pastiche of all those old Sixties spy series, like Danger Man, The Avengers and The Man From Uncle. Well, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go with it" (London Evening Standard). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and detailed dossier on Virna Lindt. Also available: Virna Lindt: Play/Record (LTMCD 2489), V/a : A Young Person's Guide to Compact (LTMCD 2488). LTM-2487 CD $16.25 Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3rd) PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant. OtherElectricites-006 CD $12.25 Mad EP/RA Ultrafood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Split and collaboration record between Mad EP (known for his releases on Ad Noiseam and Hymen) and Ra (Coredump, Planet Mu, Sublight). AdNoiseam-077 12 $9.50 Marcus, Joshua Make/Believe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Featuring duet compositions for the banjo & upright bass, these songs are both easy to listen to & hard to forget, as the subtle melodies deliver potent lyrics in an inviting manner that inspires the listener to sing along. Marcuss songwriting is powerful & astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from lifes many juxtapositions. He has been the subject of considerable praise & has been featured on NPRs All Songs Considered. Contraphonic-062 CD $9.75 Merzbow Merzbear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear is the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records. Merzbear pulses and pounds with distorted droning heavy guitar feedback, pulsing noise-blasts and swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Sythi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and reincorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days w/ his homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi & electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Cover art by Jenny Akita. Important-136 LP $12.25 Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke Electric Dress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including Merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. Documents one of nowadays very rare Merzbow's all analog live shows, one of Jim O'Rourke's rare live appearances since his move to Japan and the culmination of Carlos Giffoni's Japan Synth Destruction Tour. All this at the same time! 100% Essential! Electric Dress is recommended for fans of analog period Merzbow, early noise and Industrial Music, academic electronic and analog synth music-And for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music. NoFunProductions-015 CD $12.25 Moonbabies, The Moonbabies At The Ballroom (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US New album from Swedish duo! The Moonbabies third full-length album "At The Ballroom" is their finest work to date. Swedish duo Ola Frick and Carina Johansson started their career in the late nineties honing their songwriting craft. The first album "June and Novas" was released 2001 and the follow up "The Orange Billboard" from 2004 saw them make some major leaps with releases in the US and in continental Europe. The new album contains the track "War On Sound" (which first appeared on the War On Sound Mini-Album, that was featured on popular US TV show "Grey's Anatomy" as well as the Grey's Anatomy Vol. 2 CD collection), plus 10 new songs, the best of their career. AHiddenAgendaRecord-088 CD $9.00 Morrison, Van Blowin' Your Mind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US This is his spellbinding 1967 debut album. Sundazed LP $17.00 Mortuus De Comtemplanda Morte (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US After the well received 7" released in '05 this enigmatic Swedish duo is back w/ another hard to tame beast. 6 tracks of the darkest Death/Black metal. This band combines the intense discipline of Occult practice w/ the worship of Death in a way that so many before have attempted to do. This album exudes the acrid stench of decay & emptiness that should be inherent of Black/Death metal. SouthernLord CD5 $10.00 Mus La Vida (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, SPAIN La Vida (The Life) is the most bright and vital album matching the best work of Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, or Trembling Blue Stars. Mus now leave behind the darkness of past works. Mus sing in their native Austurianu, a Spanish dialect used in Asturias. 16 page booklet including lyrics in English, Spanish and Asturianu. Mus is an international band based in Asturias (the north of Spain). Mus is lead by the couple Monica Vacas (lead vocal) and Fran Gayo (main composer). On the new record and live Mus is six people, featuring members of Edwin Moses, Vigil, and The Nacho Vegas band. Mus have released records on Acuarela (Spain), Darla (US), Pehr (US), Pop Art (Greece), and Avant Garden (Taiwan). GreenUFOs-028 CD $14.25 My Midnight Creeps Histamin [2007] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, NORWAY New album from Norwegian garagerock supergroup featuring guitarists from Madrugada and Ricochets. Rocks, and more importantly, rolls like Union Carbide Productions, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps. Totally. EMI/MMC-002 CD $15.00 My Midnight Creeps S-T [2005] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, NORWAY 2005 debut album from Norwegian garage-rock "supergroup" My Midnight Creeps led by guitarists for Madrugada and Ricochets. Rocks and, more importantly rolls like classic Union Carbide Productions, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps. Highly recommended. Tuba/MMC-001 CD $15.00 Mystery Jets Diamonds In The Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US The beauty of it thus far: they've been born of paradoxical simplistic complexities, glorious sing alongs rise out of intriguing & technically mesmerizing verses. The epic synth-led solo on display here comprises few notes yet still manages to sound like the whole world is singing it. Enlisting the help of Brit-pop legend Stephen Street this debut is fed through the pop-aliser & comes out the other side polished, accessible & better. DimMak-106 CD5 $6.25 Panthers The Trick (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP "Things Are Strange" with a follow-up record so concisely intense it demands attention from all areas; from jaded riff-rock devotees to the most indifferent pop listener and everyone in between. Recorded in 2006 by renowned producer and engineer Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice), "The Trick" is the third full-length offering from this Brooklyn-based quartet and their second on Vice. Ten tracks of calculated abandon. Vice CD $11.50 Pinhas, Richard Iceland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Limited repress of third solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, & the first to be issued after the demise of Heldon. Currently performing & recording w/noisecore freaks WOLF EYES! "A slower, more classical recording w/the capacity to hypnotize the listener without their knowledge."-AP Cuneiform-044 CD $12.50 Pinhas, Richard Chronolyse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Limited repress of first solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, one of the first to meld rock & electronics. Half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging & mix aggression w/the repetition of Philip Glass or Terry Riley, & half w/all of HELDON in a 30 minute King Crimson-ish stormy drone epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass & drums later sampled on the second UNKLE LP. Cuneiform-030 CD $12.50 Poem Rocket Invasion! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US A sumptuous smorgasbord of acoustic and amplified sonic delights, and their best album ever. An incredibly sophisticated, expansive, and densely layered double album. "This week's most beautiful pop record" - Melody Maker. "...a new type of organism...the songwriting is just too inventive to bog down in matchmaking" - Alternative Press. Atavistic CD $17.50 Preakness S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Atlanta indie rockers w/a penchant for catchy hooks, straight forward song structures & a reverence for the sloppy simplicity of long-lost indie classics. Energetic, intuitive drumming coupled w/natural harmonies & solid bass lines. Have shared the stage w/ Celebration, Sound Team, Ultrababyfat & Portastatic. EskimoKiss-013 45 $5.25 Pretty Things S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Led by the raucous vocals of PHIL MAY & the stinging lead guitar of DICK TAYLOR, their first American album was stuffed w/ powerful workouts. Sundazed LP $17.00 Purient/Mindflyer Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Pressed in an edition of 500. 1/4 of the pressing is on double sided color vinyl. This means that side A is blue and side B is red. 3/4 of the pressing is a red/blue swirl. Double sided screen printed jackets. Some things are never better than late and this 7" is one of them. We'd been planning this for about 4 years but somehow it kept getting set aside and forgotten. Then one day a package shows up and it's the artwork and audio. Important-123 45 $8.25 Reininger, Blaine L. Elektra / Radio Moscow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece. LTM-2482 CD $16.25 Remate No Land Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, SPAIN REMATE is a musician trained in classical music since was wearing short trousers and long socks. His first hero was a heroine, a skinny Bielorrusian piano teacher, who taught him how to play piano for hours without hurting his hands and wrists. The second hero was a Southafrican guitar teacher with a curly toupée, who instilled him the significance of the posture if you wish to turn into a good guitarist. After these pre-Olympics he became a singer-songwriter without limits: from folk to blues, from rock to gospel, from country to pop, always with the ambition of the one who knows that you must deserve your own influences, and that having style means much more than quoting other stylists. His distinctive features are, apart from playing piano avoiding pain, and having a good posture and/or a stance of defiance with the guitar... to be a very good singer, sometimes high-pitched ("Ballads Don't Change Things", 2004), and keen (also in person); at the beginning his voices sounded like a drunk Ry Cooder or between J. J. Cale and Neil Young; then (since "On Junk", 2005) a cocktail of Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Wagner without Kurt (he would have a voice as cavernous as his operas). Lately his singing has been non dissimilar to Bob Dylan yapping in a small town library. The process, of course, finally turns up to Remate's signing to Acuarela for a brand new ouvre created like a labour of love. "No land Recordings", his new double album with 25 songs, is jam-packed with clouds of latex, giant wings, toxic passion, dinosaurs, enemies, falls, one-eyed singers, pain in vain, kitties and beautiful ladies, love at first sight, howls, fireflies, propeller beanies, TV shows, sports, calls, Superman, glowing colours, bankruptcy, tenderness, mends. Whereabouts are the best songs being born? Where do they grow up like unhappy children? Which are the shops where you can buy propeller beanies? Acuarela-1074 DCD $13.50 RJD2 Things Go Instrumental (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS. US Highly anticipated instrumental versions of SOUL POSITIONs "Things Go Better With RJ & Al". He indulges his cinematic side a bit on the intro, w/ strings brought in leisurely, & the sounds of a booming thunderstorm caving in on the listener. But he also puts aside his cinematic loops to deliver his roughest & toughest beats, brassy, sassy funk ala DJ Premier complete w/ the cuts. BustownPride-010 CD $12.50 Rockey, Lee Lee Rockey Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 1ST) PS, US Portland Oregon, art museum, early 1976. In the auditorium, drums electric violin & cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre-recorded electronic skronks, flutes, & off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a Paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary & funny & beautiful. This was the 2nd (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances. Destijl-060 LP $16.00 Rollins, Henry Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US This set documents his 2004 tour. This show happening at San Jose State in N. California. Disc 2 being the show at the University of California @ Bakersfield, Oct. 21, 2004. 2.13.61 DCD $11.00 Rough Bunnies Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available only in Sweden. Yipsilanti-032 LP $15.00 Rumskib Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Darla is proud to release the debut record by Danish nu-gaze group Rumskib. Rumskib is the Odense, Denmark duo of Keith Canisius (Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, Producer) and Tine Louise Kortermand (Singer). Keith produced the debut record with Jonas Munk (Manual), who programmed the beats, made the electronic sounds, and played synthesizer. Rumskib's debut record begins with a Simple Minds New Gold Dream style intro. A rough & repetitive MBV Loveless style guitar line kicks in. Next an aggressive baggy beat begins to pump making Rumskib sound nearly like Curve. Then a very lovely surprise: A very pretty, Lush style guitar change comes and simultaneously the wall of sound vocal harmonies begin - like Emma, Miki... and Bjork! There's no denying Rumskib are derivative, however, Rumskib has such command of all the genre's key sound elements and their own pop songs are so damn good the band gloriously claim the new shoegaze sound as their own. Rumskib's sound is at once modern and classic, blending a strong love for early 90s shoegazer bands such as Chapterhouse and Lush with the sensibilities of grand Scandinavian 80s pop such as A-Ha and Roxette, all flavored with harsh noise-rock guitars and crunchy micro-programmed beats. Sometimes their sound is up-tempo, almost danceable like The Cardigans meet St. Etienne. At other times their sound is thick, heavy, and romantic recalling The Cocteau Twins or Simple Minds. Rumskib manage to be both surrealist and accessible; complex but straight forward. Vocalist Tine Louise creates harmonies so beautiful one would think they came from some mysterious wonderland (or Victorialand?) and Keith Canisius' lyrical call & response guitar playing is intelligent and evocative. Combine all this with well crafted compositions and Jonas Munk's trademark head-spinning, multi-layered sound sculptures, and you've got a work of undeniable beauty. Track list: 01. Hearts On fire, 02. Springtime, 03. Dreampoppers Tribute, 04. Where Are The Flowers, 05. Ferris Wheel Blackout, 06. Think Eyes Away, 07. You're My Japan, 08. Sneak, 09. Crucial Love Games, 10. Ovation Outsiders, 11. Girl Afraid, 12. Love At First Sight. ""Re-evokes my dancing feet with the fragrance of Liz Fraser insanity there on top.. humm..There' s some serious celebration going on in Scandinavia now." -- SERENA MANEESH ""Springtime" kills, kills again, and then kills some more. And then bathes in in the blood of its own awesomeness." --JATUN Darla-164 CD $12.25 Rylan, Jessica Interior Designs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more "classic" in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with this collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular as well as analog synthesizers Rylan built herself. Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her designs are influenced by plants, and the historically outmoded. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde. Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in March, 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Rylan has performed across the United States, Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, L.A., and New York City. She has performed with with Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Hrvatski, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Tim Barnes, Charalambides, Amps for Christ, Chris Corsano. Important-134 CD $12.25 Satie, Erik Cubist Works 1913-1924 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), following the success of previous releases Vexations, Socrate, Musique de la Rose + Croix and Dada Works, on which we present selected Satie recordings with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde. Cubist Works offers four works composed by Satie between 1913 and 1924 for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as the seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). The 60 minute CD also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer and poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel and premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. The solo piano works on this CD are performed by Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward. LTM-2406 CD $16.25 Section 25 Communicants (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, UK NTSC Region 0 DVD. Multi-region format. LTM is proud to announce a new live DVD Communicants from cult post-punk group Section 25, previously with Factory Records, whose brand new studio album Part-Primitive is released in May 2007. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984). Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 across Europe. Communicants offers a professional multi-camera shoot of their triumphant homecoming show at Blackpool Empress Ballroom in October 2006 (as guests of New Order), as well as bonus performances from Brussels, Dublin, Athens, Paris, London and Poulton. The 70 minute DVD also features interview material with Larry and Vin, and footage shot on the road. As well as SXXV classics Dirty Disco, Friendly Fires, New Horizon and Looking From A Hilltop, new songs Gene and Can't Let Go are also featured. Section 25 will be promoting Communicants with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new studio album, Part-Primitiv, is also available (LTMCD 2500). DVD $18.00 Section 25 Part-Primitiv (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a brand new studio album from cult post-punk group Section 25, who previously recorded four studio albums with the celebrated Factory Records label. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984) with Martin Hannett and Bernard Sumner as the respective producers. Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 and have since visited France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Dublin, London and Poulton-le-Fylde. Part-Primitiv was produced by the band at West Orange Studio, Preston, in 2007. Stand-out tracks include Can't Let Go, Dream, Carbon and You Never Make Your Mind Up. As the title suggests, the new album combines raw post-punk power with retro-futurist electronics, including two tracks written and sung by Jenny. Section 25 will be promoting Part-Primitiv with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new live DVD, Communicants, is also available (LTMDVD 2496). LTM-2500 CD $16.25 Semiconductor Worlds in Flux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US From the Brighton based duo, Ruth Jarman & James Gerhardt, who since 1999 have been making stunning, cutting-edge digital artworks in the form of sound-films, music videos & live animation. Guided by their obsessive interests in landscape, architecture, geology, geography, chaos/systems theory & artificial intelligence, they explore the varied processess of digital animation & the computer's potential to unite sound & image. This DVD offers a comprehensive overview of their work feat. 3 music videos (MUM & QT?), 4 live cinema pieces & 4 short films. Also includes exclusive music from MAX RICHTER, CRISTIAN VOGEL & ENSEMBLE. FatCat-014 DVD $15.00 Shaky Hands S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Debut full-length from Portland jangly-pop wunderkinds. Sliding bouncy go-go beats under shambling guitars & reedy, swooning vocals, SH make the kind of catchy, soulful indie rock tailormade for brokedown car stereos & river-rat boomboxes. Sloppily romantic warmth thats equal parts summer sunshine & candlelit mellow, pre-party buzz & scruffy day-after fuzziness. The result is a fully formed and confident debut; a big-hearted, starry-eyed bear hug of a record full of youthful energy & tumbling vigor. HoloceneMusic-005 CD $15.25 Shiner Making Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) PS, US This EP was the very first piece of plastic on Anodyne Recs & is one of the most sought after slabs of volume & ferocity on eBay & represents a delicate, formative moment in the "life & times" of a real pioneer & true songwriter. Anodyne CD $12.50 Sincere Trade Between You And Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, CANADA Carl W. Heindl aka Sincere Trade has been creating a stir in the Toronto electronic music scene for the past couple of years and we are pleased to give you Sincere Trade's second album "Between You And Me" the follow up to his debut album "If You Cannot Beat Them" (Dross:tik Records). Sincere Trade shows his penchant for cerebral micro-dot dance music, texturing complex beats that twist and decay over lush gloomy pads, the chatter of static and broken vocal shards, A deeply emotional weave of melody and rhythm lending to a massive cinematic sound. Highly evocative. Sublight-3601 CD $12.25 Slipstream Transcendental (plus Yellow 6 Remix disc) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, UK Reissue. Hailing from Northampton, England, itself just a short space hop from Rugby, the mythical home to eminent space psych heavyweights, Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized and the musical equivalent of Area 51, to the X-File-phobes among you. Where prior to Slipstream Refoy cut his teeth as a member of both these legendary ensembles, appearing on Spacemen 3's final album 'Recurring' before space walking to join the cosmic crew of Jason Pierce and Spiritualized. Elegant guitar signatures romance the inner senses creating a calming sea like tranquillity, all the while instilling a sensation of travelling on a single seated galactic roller coaster across the universe, intoxicated by the ebb and flow of the hypnotic kaleidoscope textures, colourful, tender, charming and tripping. From the opening track, the sensually touching 'Everything and Anything' to the Stylus like hollowed atmospherics of 'Claire's ghost' featuring the narration talents of comic book writer, Alan Moore (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), 'Transcendental' explores and utilises feelings, styles, imaginations and tempers them to sublime effect. The dreamy drone sultriness of 'Sophie's blues', the awesome magnificence of 'Tonight's the night' parading a fusion of the Dream Academy and the musical 'Cats', the space blues of 'Midnight train', the Lennon / Lloyd Cole -isms of 'I know nothing' and the monumental Bunneymen-esque driving 60's psyche apocalyptic groove of 'Deep in the night'. A perfect cruise control companion for the dreamers and spaced out cadets. Finally to give one last special touch to Transcendental, Refoy invited respected fellow artist, Jon Attwood, AKA Yellow 6, to do some exclusive extended remixes for the album, Y6 working his unique trademark mastery of magic and sonic terraforming onto the proceedings to breathtaking expectations! Enraptured-039 DCD $16.25 Sonic Youth Destroyed Room: B-Sides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Goofin-012 DLP $16.00 Stafraenn Hakon Gummi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, UK Much-anticipated brand new full length from one of the leading lights of Iceland's burgeoning alternative music scene, following 2004's "Ventill/Poki" and the accompanying debut UK tour. Stafraenn Hakon is the pseudonym of Olafur Josephsson, and "Gummi" is his fourth album release for UK indie Resonant - the first two effectively being full releases for his bedroom recordings. While "Ventill/Poki" represented his first material recorded with a supporting cast - a progression that was very evident in comparison to his previous output - "Gummi" marks a further giant leap forward in every respect. Having established himself as a predominantly instrumental artist, Josephsson will surprise many with the inclusion of six full vocal tracks among the nine included here - featuring Birgir Hilmarsson (Blindfold/Ampop) on five tracks and Efterklang's Casper Clausen on one, alongside other guest musicians and collaborators. While recognising the need to constantly evolve in order to maintain and expand upon your audience, the key elements that have always marked out Stafraenn Hakon from the crowded post-rock platform are still very much in place; delicate, intricate instrumentation and atmospherics, building slowly and organically, drawing in the listener. Sure to be his biggest album to date, "Gummi" is housed in a full colour CD wallet featuring stunning hand-drawn artwork, and will be supported by UK tour dates around the release. Resonant-023 CD $15.00 Stars Of The Lid Their Refinement Of The Let Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Painstakingly recorded, processed & assembled over the last 5 yrs, SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling 2 CDs & 3LPs, clocking in at over 2hrs. They take time itself & stretch, compress & turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon. They've created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece. Kranky-100 DCD $13.00 Stars Of The Lid Their Refinement Of The Let Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kranky-100 3XLP $18.00 Stefana, Alessandro Poste E Telegraffi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH) Ps, US Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Allesandro Stefana. Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world within his compositions and arrangements. With constant references to traditional music and rural blues he utilizes electric and acoustic instrumentation with tremendously compelling results. Acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars along with banjo, kalimba, baliphones and found objects were all carefully combined with some primitive electronic instruments such as an arpeggiator, omnichord and home made vinyl loops. His sound is entirely original yet clearly rooted in traditions such as Film Music, Blues, Experimental, Ambient and Avante Garde musics. Stefana manages his cast of collaborators very well. Most tracks on Poste E Telegrafi are duets with these musicians keeping the sound and arrangement simple and pure. Instruments breathe and pulse with life and excitement in this highly original album. To call this a "promising debut" would be to dismiss the tremendous success delivered by Poste E Telegrafi. Important-138 CD $12.25 Submerged Stars Lights The End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, CANADA SUBMERGED teams up with Grammy award winning producer BILL LASWELL, avant-garde Japanese trumpeter TOSHINORI KONDO and drummer GUY LICATA a second time to give us the follow up to last years Method of Defiance "The Only Way To Go Is Down" album and his first solo titled album SUBMERGED "STARS LIGHTS THE END". Once again we find bass arrangements of infinite complexity by Bill Laswell mashing with Kondo's horns while distorted guitars and abrasive synths battle against one another all the while producing a perfect fusion between instrumental and software generated music. "Guy Licata, is a monster, he has got the skills to compete with any software geek in beat mangling, reaching easily two hundred BPMs." - Igloo Magazine. Submerged "Stars Lights The End" keeps Method of Defiance's hard edged drum n bass blasts, experimental dub and jazz elements only this time leans slightly toward a more aggresive sound than "The Only Way to Go Is Down". Stars Lights The End features bruising sound edits and beat contributions from Corrupt Souls, D`nee and Mark Filip. Expect extreme high quality sound again courtesy of Michael Fossenkemper who also mastered Method Of Defiance's "The Only Way To Go is Down". Sublight-3701 CD $12.25 Sur La Mer Prelude to the Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US The brainchild of ATSU NAGAYAMA (Boredoms, Prescriptions), who wrote & arranged all of the material for this debut EP. Nagayama enlisted the help of friends Dino, Julie Liu (Rex, Tortoise), Jason McDermott, Kim Ambriz (Rabbit Rabbit), and Fred Erskine (June of '44, Hoover) when it came time to record. The results speak for themselves-provocative, captivating & ambient instrumental bliss. ThirtyGhosts-004 CD5 $7.75 Torske, Bjorn Kokt Kveite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Bjorn Torske delivers another killer 12". This one shows us more of the soundworld that Torske is in these days. With references to 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Residents, Idut Boy & Count Ossie and his unique blend of quirky, avant-garde, dubbed out, psychedelic sounds Torske creates a whole new genre; the free-disco. This 12" contains 3 tracks "Kokt Kveite" & "Soloppgang Over Yukigaya" (written by Torske togehter with Cato canari and Ole Andre Farstad) as well as the bonus "Yukigaya Bonus". 25 minutes of new music! SmalltownSupersound-12912 12 $9.25 Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen WInters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US The ambitious debut full length album following the critically acclaimed EP from last year adds an epic scope to the band's already evident focus on sonically detailed, emotive & eloquent song. They are as much a product of their geography as their diverse musical influences who range from Van Dyke Parks to Phil Spector & Daniel Johnston to Arab Strap. FatCat-055 CD $13.25 Van Doesburg, Petro Repertoire De Stijl: Bauhaus: Dada (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK LTM are pleased to present an overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Pétro van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus soirees in Europe between 1920 and 1925. Born in Holland in 1899, Pétro met De Stijl movement founder and propagandist Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar (where Theo was associated with the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school) and then Paris. A Conservatory-trained pianist, Pétro accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany in 1922/23. Following Theo's death in 1931, Pétro established the De Stijl archive and was a buyer for Peggy Guggenheim. She died in 1975. The material on this 76 minute CD includes pieces by Erik Satie, Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-17) offers an application of Piet Mondrian's neo-plastic principles to musical composition. The music is performed by noted Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen. The CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward. LTM-2495 CD $16.25 Various A Young Person's Guide To Compact (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM are pleased to announce a remastered CD edition of the highly collectible label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1982. Founded in London in 1981, The Compact Organisation was the brainchild of composer-svengali Tot Taylor. Chic, cheerful and redolent of hip New York label Ze, Compact's stylish and stylized roster included ice-cool Swedish model agent Virna Lindt, Neasden soul queen Mari Wilson, funk contenders Shake/Shake, American retro diva Miss Cynthia Scott and ironic pop artists The Beautiful Americans. All these and more are featured on the wonderful label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact. Originally released as a double album in a bespoke limited edition box (copies now sell for over £1000), the album rounds up early singles on the label as well as key album tracks. Rarities include the non-album singles Model Agent and Young & Hip by Virna Lindt, and a live version of Rave by Mari Wilson, recorded at a Compact showcase in London in October 1981. The remastered 71 minute CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and Compact ephemera from the box set, as well as detailed liner notes by Tot Taylor. LTM-2488 CD $16.25 Various The Camp Burlesque Original Soundtrack Album [CD+DVD] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE EARLY 2007) PS, US Features songs and performances by Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, Dave Alvin, Big Sandy, Peter Case, John Doe, Rick Vito, Tito & Tarantula, the Cruzados (featuring Bob Dylan), the Martini Kings, and many more. Initial pressing will include the movie on DVD. BirdSong-102 CD $11.00 Veirs, Laura Saltbreakers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her third Nonesuch release is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic gospel choirs to fuzzed-out guitars, and driving alt-rock rhythms. Nonesuch CD $14.00 Venetian Snares Pink+Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, CANADA Venetian Snares, aka Gonk the 8-legged Viking, is back with yet another record that sounds nothing like Boards of Canada! From the catchy title track opener "Pink + Green" which blends demented punk vocals with hyper-complex grooves and gut gurgling bass blasts you can just tell this is something fresh and funky from producer Aaron "funk" Funk. Not to worry though the sub-rattling low-end blasts and jackhammering hardcore anthems are still here and in full effect on tracks like "Sporto Fucking Sellout Cocksuckerface" and "Husikam Rave Dojo" that revisit the days of pilled out candy raving. This is cyberpunk at it's finest! Welcome to the interzone! 15 year old K-heads will love this shit! If you hated albums like Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole and Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006, you will hate this even more! This is not some crybaby n00bcore bullshit, this is rave at it's roughest like only Mr. Snares can bring it. Sublight-204 CD $11.00 Voyces, The Kissing Like It's Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US After one listen to The Voyces Planting Seeds Records' debut -"Kissing Like It's Love" - and you'll be hooked to their glowing tuneful style. The band echoes the sounds of pop music's past as well as its ever so fervent future. Principal songwriter Brian Wurschum creates the well crafted pop song, recalling the mid 60's era of The Beatles, the folk rock of Simon & Garfunkel, and the 70's mini rock epics ala Pink Floyd. Their style maybe placed in a box and labeled anywhere from: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic Folk Rock, New York Folk, and everywhere in between. The sunny California shine of the title track "Kissing Like It's Love" launches the groups long awaited LP with it's sugary sweet chorus. The soft ballad "Hair Up High" follows with its elegant smooth guitar strums and the band's signature harmonies. The majestic beauty of "Call It Home" continues the album's melodic element, while the introspective acoustic interlude "Please Wash Away" appears with its stripped down heartfelt vocals, acoustic guitar and light piano taps. "Humming" chimes in with one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear this decade - instantly memorable. "Top Of My Lungs," showcases even more of the Wurschum magic: Jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and a song destined to be a classic. The album's closing number - the delicate "Where The Little Girls Still Throw Roses," features Brian's warm vocal, light guitar picking and makes for the perfect ending. Whether blending funky pop, epic rockers or near psychedelia, "Kissing Like It's Love" collects ten tracks of pure pop heaven you're sure to fall for. The Voyces are led by singer/songwriter Brian Wurschum (Guitar, Vocals) and also features Jude Kastle (Vocals), Frank Careno (Bass), Steve Dawson (Lead Guitar) and Eric Puente (Drums). The band was formed in 1999, with its origins in Southern California. Brian and company later moved east to New York City and was quickly embraced by the east villages' anti-folk scene. The Voyces have shared stages with acts as diverse as America, Cracker, and Regina Spektor among countless others - while frequenting venues (both in California and New York) such as the famed Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge, The Knitting Factory and The Roxy. Live dates are sure to follow in support of "Kissing Like It's Love." The Voyces have created an impressive catalog of music. Their first self released LP, 2003's "The Angels Of Fun" showcased their fine blend of folk rock and celestial harmonies. The acoustic gem "Relate To Me" was featured on Jack Johnson's Motion Picture Soundtrack, "Thicker Than Water" (2003) furthering the groups worldwide fan base. They followed in 2004 with an appearance on Planting Seeds Records critically acclaimed collection "Sunsets And Silhouettes," which also features amazing performances from Linda Draper, Camera Obscura, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Freeheat (Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus & Mary Chain) among the 18 tracks. In 2006 the band contributed the song "Poor Little Fool" to a loving tribute to rock legend and country rock pioneer Rick Nelson, titled "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" - with performances from pop Icons Marshall Crenshaw, Jeffrey Foskett (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson), John Beland (Flying Burrito Brothers), Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Primary 5 (ex Teenage Fanclub) and many more. The band also released "Love Arcade" in 2006 - a collection of the bands hits, demos, and fan favorites. PlantingSeeds-049 CD $12.25 Wolfgang Wicked Truth About Loving A Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Robot pop dynamo is back! 80s synth-pop, twee-electro, floor-packing dance numbers from Wolfgang, who was designed to be the first robot pop star nearly 20 years ago. Wolfgang's songs illustrate the experience of love & heartache, of the initial joy & eventual hopelessness that accompanies unrequited love for a man. Hypnote-101 CD $11.00 XBXRX Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl-129 LP $12.00 XBXRX Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US Continuing to progress, they expand their musical horizons, incorporating a wider palette of textures, rhythm & structure as well as gaining a newfound clarity in the vocals. Never wishing to repeat themselves, they've made a conscious effort to move beyond the non-stop blastbeat/screaming assault of previous releases, while retaining the vigorous exhilaration that people expect from them. Polyvinyl-129 CD $12.00 Xiu Xiu Remixed & Covered (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US The 1st disc, a batch of covers, is an exercise in sisterly fan-domand inspired innovation. Feat. LARSON, OXBOW, MARISSA NADLER, WHY?, DEVENDRA BANHART & others!!! The remix half feat. GOLD CHAINS, SON, KID606, TO LIVE & SHAVE IN reach your arms into them & get pulled into their reality for awhile.You might not come back the same. 5RueChristine DCD $14.25 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Barr/This Song Is A Mess “Split” 45 $5.50 Bethany & Rufus “900 Miles” CD $16.25 Call Me Lightning “Soft Skeletons” CD $14.50 Car vs. Driver “The Completeist” DCD $11.75 Circle “Tower” CD $11.75 Coach & Four “The Great Escape” CD $9.75 DJ Hidden “After Before” 12 $9.50 DJ Hidden “The Later After” CD $13.50 Ellingsen, Haakon “Bounty” CD $13.50 Frith, Fred “Impur” CD $16.00 F-Space “Preliminary Impact Report” CD $13.25 Fu Manchu “We Must Obey” CD $16.00 Gypsy Kiss “S-T” CD $10.00 Harmonia “Deluxe” CD $16.50 Hawg Jaw “Don't Trust Nobody” CD $11.75 Hazard County Girls “Divine Armor” CD $9.25 Hot Cross “Risk Revival (Digipack Packaging)” CD $13.00 Indecision Alarm, The “S-T” CD $5.50 Joakim “Monsters & Silly Songs” CD $17.00 Komomaznuk “For Real/Love” 12 $9.50 Luscious Jackson “Greatest Hits” CD $17.25 Makes Nice “Candy Wrapper & Twelve Other Songs” CD $13.25 Milenasong “Seven Sisters” CD $15.50 Minsk “The Ritual Fires of Abandonment” CD $14.50 Mueller, Jon/M. Tellinga “Bowl, Helicopter” CD5 $10.75 No Depression “#68” ZINE $4.25 One AM Radio “This Too Will Pass (Digipack Packaging)” CD $12.50 One Ensemble “Wayward the Fourth” CD $12.50 Radio Moscow “S-T” CD $13.50 Radio Moscow “S-T” LP $15.50 RJD2 “The Third Hand” DLP $14.25 RJD2 “The Third Hand” CD $11.50 Rock Mania “#1” ZINE $8.00 Samamidon “But This Chicken Proved” CD $14.50 Sandoz Lab Technicians “Western Lands” CD $11.75 Scary, Bryan “Shedding Tears” CD $12.75 Souleyman, Omar “Highway to Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria” DCD $16.25 Souvenir “64” CD $16.75 Tokens, The “Intercourse” CD $13.50 Utah Carol “Rodeo Queen” CD $9.25 Wolf & Cub “Vessels” CD $11.50