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New Releases

13th Chime
Singles: 1981-1983
PS, US Their sound, a merging of deathrock's dark driving aggression & post-punk's sparse arrangements, reflected the realities of life in a small market town in the desolate political lanscape of early 80s Britain. Detailed liners tell the story: from schoolmated in Haverhill to supporting The Adicts & Dead Kennedys & making friends & fans out of John Peel & The Groundhogs' Tony McPhee along the way.
SacredBones
LP
$18.75

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Dark Side Of The Black Moon
PS, US Dark Side Of The Black Moon is the Acid Mothers Temple's follow up to the much loved Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness. LP version includes bonus track and is packaged in a heavy duty tip-on style gatefold LP with artwork by Seldon Hunt. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording & proffy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd, fuzzed out wah guitars and sounds from the cosmos.
Important-253
CD
$13.25

Agent Ribbons
Your Love is the Smallest Doll
PS, SPAIN Limited to 1000. Acuarela singles club series release. Agent Ribbons are Natalie Gordon (guitar and vocals), Naomi Cherie (violin) and Lauren Hess (drums), a Sacramento trio whose music has been described as "Victorian punk" or "White Stripes locked in Wonderland". Their sound is truly a reminiscent of the fifties and sixties blues, something like Nina Simone fronting The Raincoats. They're shiner in small format, as in this 3 song release in which they talk about love, despair and the urgency and anger for life. Forthcoming releases in the series include Darren Hayman, Spain, Chris Brokaw, Tara Jane O'Neil, El Hijo (ex Migala), Nick Castro, Inca Ore, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), The Drift, Bracken, Mount Eerie, Windsor for the Derby, Ben Wetherill, Barzin, The Wowz.
Acuarela-002
45
$9.25

Alexander, Lillian
Let Love Take A Holiday
PS, US Bay-Area Modern Soul & Boogie Funk from 1983. The album has recently gained more attention because of the collectible "A Dream Without You' 7 inch produced from the album. It is also featured on the new British Compilation "Jazz Bizniz 4" (Counterpoint Records).
FamilyGroove
LP
$24.00

Amazing Baby
Rewild
PS, US Vinyl version. 180 gram vinyl in gatefold jacket in limited edition die cut sleeve. Download card included with each LP, along with a bonus track not available on the CD.
ArtistFirst
LP
$15.00

Amazing Baby
Rewild
PS, US NY-based Amazing Baby released their critically acclaimed "Infinite F*cking Cross" EP via free download in 2008. They were the subject of an NME Radar feature in July 2008 and a Rolling Stone Top Singles review in January 2009, among other early press raves and blog ramblings. "Rewild" is a collection of songs self-produced with limitless imagination. This album finds the band making sonic leaps complimentary to, yet well beyond the EP.
ArtistFirst
CD
$9.50

Amber Asylum
Bitter River
PS,US One of the most influential & respected acts in the neo-classical/dark ambient genre, known for their distinct brand of chilling romantic mire & brooding darkness constructed w/ layers of violin, viola, cello, guitar, bass, percussion, & Kris Force's alluring voice.
ProfoundLore
CD
$14.25

Among the Oak & Ash
S-T
PS, US Among The Oak & Ash, Pennsylvania-born New Yorker JOSH JOPLIN and the Mississippi-bred, Nashville-based GARRISON STARR lend their distinctive voices to a dozen traditional folk songs drawn from rural Appalachian and Anglo-American musical idioms. Although much of the material is centuries old, the songs' eloquently simple melodies, and their universal themes of love, loss, longing, cruelty and death, give them a timeless resonance into which Joplin and Starr tap effortlessly. With the duo's evocative harmonies complemented by spare, stripped-down arrangements, Among The Oak & Ash is a powerful testament to Joplin and Starr's interpretive abilities, and to the ageless appeal of these ancient tunes.
VerveForecast
CD
$12.25

Angell, Theo
Tenebrae
PS,US Theo's 4th long-player and second on Amish records. Includes a variety of regionalist folk-stylings - the mountain music one discovers aong the Appalachian trail, a Southern Gothic lyricism, and northwestern eco-spiritualism. Featuring MATT VALENITNE, PG SIX, TARA JANE O'NEIL, among others. CD comes in a deluxe Japanese mini-LP style gatefold package, with beautiful artwork and full lyric sheet
Amish
CD
$15.00

Animal Collective
Summertime Clothes
PS, US IMPORT VINYL! Second track lifted from their "Merriweather Pavillion" album, with remixes coming from ZOMBY,
DAM-FUNK, and LD.
Domino
12
$12.25

Antikaroshi
Crushed Neocons
PS, US Heavily influenced by the DC hardcore scene. Includes memebers of the German underground heroes BROOD. For fans fo Fugazi, Jawbox, Rites of Spring
ExileOnMainstream
CD
$14.25

Aquadorsa
Cloudlands
PS, ITALY Aquadorsa is a new ambient project from Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi. Their first work Cloudlands is a perfect mix of glitch, classical and glacial ambient soundscape. Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer and his research has increasingly focused on the relationship between 'music' and 'landscape ', in an attempt to represent the contemporary crisis of the territory, the loss of nature and identity of places, and the unknown in the evolution of post-urban and post-industrial territory. He has collaborated with various artists including: Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius and Elisa Marzorati. He has produced releases such as Areavirus -Topofonie vol.1" (2007 Psychonavigation), "dyanMU" (2008 Psychonavigation) and digital releases Sapientumsuperacquis on Touch Radio (Touch records) and CrÃ²nicaster (CrÃ²nica Electronica). Gianluigi Gasparetti better know as Oophoi started his own music experiment in 1995 to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His live album The spirals of time, released in 1997 by Amplexus, was voted as one of the best ambient albums of all time. Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva. He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, PrikosnovÃ(c)nie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol, Alio die, Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese.
Tracks:
1. A Pillow of Clouds (5.22)
2. Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence (5.05)
3. The Pond Reflected Her Smile (9.13)
4. Zero Gravity (10.59)
5. Syhan (12.11)
6. Alone in the Rising Fog (18.31)
7. Night of Trembling Stars (06.05)
GlacialMovements-006
CD
$16.25

Arthur and Martha
Navigation
PS, UK 'A British spin on The Postal Service, or Aphex Twin remixing the contents of the seminal C86 album...lovely stuff' NME After three years in the making, Happy Robots are proud to announce the release of 'Navigation' the debut album of Arthur and Martha. Those three years have been tumultuous ones; in which the band battled personal demons driven by the loss of loved ones and broken relationships. Yet the band remained resolute throughout which is reflected in the innocent charm, and upbeat nature, of these 10 new songs. Arthur and Martha are Adam Cresswell and Alice Hubley. Cresswell was founding member of UK folk-a-tronic pop band and John Peel favorites, Saloon who were on Darla until their unexpected break up in 2003. Hubley, despite her years, is also a stalwart of the UK indie scene as a member of kraut-rockers The Exteriors and shouty girl pop band The Duloks. As Arthur and Martha, they employ all manner of kiddie's instruments, moogs and old-school drum machines to build their songs. The album itself ranges from the bleak M83-esque moodiness of the title track to the kraut rock stomp of live favorite 'Squarewave to Heaven'. The album features an extended version of the band's debut single 'Autovia' and forthcoming foamy pop hit 'Music for Hairproducts'. The debut single 'Autovia' received rave reviews from the likes of the NME and Artrocker and multiple Radio 1 plays from Huw Stephens and the band built on this success, gigging with the likes of Lo-Fi Fnk, Grovesnor, Plastic Operator, Sportsday Megaphone and others. The band is flattered to be compared to Kraftwerk, Add N to X, Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell.
HappyRobots-4
CD
$13.50

Asobi Seksu
Familiar Light
PS, US IMPORT VINYL! Single lifted from their recent album, with a TWINS remix of the cut on the flipside.
OneLittleIndian
45
$6.25

Asteroid #4
Introducing
PS, US Orig. released in 1998 on Lounge records. Combining elements of acoustic folk, droning rock, & middle-eastern tinges with a heavy dose of psychedelia. The beauty of this album is a result of its subtlety, & more rewards are discovered upon each listen.
ApolloAudio
LP
$17.00

Asteroid #4
Amazing Dream
PS, US Orig. released on CD only in 2006. A return to the tremolo-driven, echoing space rock of the band's debut, INTRODUCING, leavened with a few of the freakbeat hooks of its follow-up, the CARNABY STREET-OBSESSED KING RICHARD'S COLLECTIBLES. A mix of lulling psychedelia, complex & jangly guitar parts & low-key tunefulness, An Amazing Dream is one of the band's most mature & focused album yet
ApolloAudio
LP
$13.50

Au Revoir Simone
Still Night, Still Light
PS, US 2x10 inch version. 3rd release from the indie pop darlings. Lush, intricately arranged keyboard sounds create a backdrop for the ladies' beautiful vocal harmonies in a soundscape ranging from the intimately delicate to the powerfully psychedelic. The album is a warm, circuitous current of energy that is gorgeously incandescent & instantly familiar
OurSecretRecordCompany
2X10
$16.75

Audionom
Superior
PS, SWEDEN New album from Scandinavian zoomrock motherfuckers, features members of Paper and 1999. Will rock your bones from their sockets.
IdealRecordings
CD
$12.25

Bad Secrets
S-T (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS,US Dark, weird, & hypnotic jams from this improv duo, consisting of members from YOUNG WIDOWS & KODAN ARMADA. The lo-fi nature of this 7-track mini-album works to the group's advantage, setting an overall mood of drunken, haunted desperation. This successfully channels the energy & soul of blues, the mesmerizing spirit of shoegazer & psychedelia, & the harsher elements of desert rock. 9 inch vinyl w/ CD
RoboticEmpire
9"+ CD
$19.25

Barbieri, Gato
In Search Of Mystery
PS,US This 1967 avant-jazz masterpiece from the Argentine tenor saxophonist shows off his volatile, shrieking sound to full & unrelenting affect, fueled by the twin interweaving strings of cellist Calo Scott & bassist Norris Jones, & Bobby Kapp's impressionistic drum splatter
ESP-Disk'
CD
$12.75

Baseball Furies
Throw Them to the Lions
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BigNeck
LP
$11.75

Baseball Furies
Throw Them to the Lions
PS, US Buffalo's sons and now Chicago's own the Baseballl Furies have finally finished their 4th and LAST record. Recorded by BOB WESTON at Electrical Audio. From the sorrowful, 'Left for dead,' to enraged punk blasters ilke 'Are You Going to Point Your Gun At Me?' - this record runs the whole Furies gamut.
BigNeck
CD
$10.00

Beastie Boys
Ill Communication (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS,US 180 gram 2LP
Capitol
DLP
$27.50

Bednarczyk, Tomasz
Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow
PS, US Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow is the third full-length CD from the young Polish musician Tomasz Bednarcyzk. Following Summer Feelings and Painting Sky Together (Room40), Bednarczyk naturally continues his process of utilizing mainly treated piano and guitar to create fragile, lingering structures that hover around only a few fundamental notes. Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow is divided into two sections, split down the middle by "The Sketch," which was written in cooperation with Adrian Klumpes (Triosk). The first half of the album floats like a pellucid veil: higher frequency whispers, surface noise and glassy textures create light, calm drones, and noticeable bass tones are heard for nearly 20 minutes. "The Sketch" serves as a turning point, a snap from light to dark; field recordings of children alongside Klumpes' punctuated piano contrast sharply with the linearity of the surrounding works. The listener is then presented with the final four pieces, which descend into deeper territory. Darkness and murky frequencies prevail, and the surfaces become more distressed and stormy, finally submerging to "Night," which closes the album with its languid, sleepy bass loop that lulls away to silence.
12K-1055
CD
$12.25

Bellrays
Hard, Sweet & Sticky
PS, US Vinyl version. Maximum rock'n'soul... as the band likes to say, "Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher"
Cobraside
LP
$15.00

Bergraven
Till Makabert Vasen
PS,US Par Gustafsson has perfected his already unique rendering of Nordic chants & vehement growls. Though, the real genius is in his ability to give you just enough room to breathe before elegantly knocking the wind right out of you
HydraHead-172
CD
$13.00

Berman, David
Portable February
PS, US Berman's drawings have accented SILVER JEWS lyric sheets, enlivened autograph sessions & eventually provoked more than one request for a collection of the same. This accounts for The Portable February, a cheaply-priced but handsomely-appointed hardcover compendium
of the Berman visual sensibility. Running the gamut from faux-political to faux-New Yorker, Berman's cartoons incorporate strains of high comedy & low comedy, wistful Americana, contemporary art, dream visions & a visual analog to the semi-penetrable personal allusions that have comprised his writing over the years.
DragCity
BOOK
$9.00

Bibio
Ambivalence Avenue
PS, US Focusing on location recording using cassettes, a half-broken sampler, dictaphones, & experimental ways of affecting sounds, he has crafted an unequalled style that is as subtle as it is powerful
Warp-10177
CD
$13.00

Bibio
Ambivalence Avenue
PS, US
Warp-10177
DLP
$17.25

Big Tone
Art Of Ink
PS,US 2LP highlighted by some of today's most notable lyricists including BLU, GUILTY SIMPSON, BREEZE BREWIN, & TA'RAACH
Tres
DLP
$20.00

Biram, Scott H.
Something's Wrong
PS, US Limited, comes packed with digital download code.
Bloodshot
LP
$14.25

Bird Names
Sing the Browns
PS, US Psyche-pop troupe's fifth album. A moody pop album scribbled in loose, intuitive musicianship, kissed with love & friendship. Folk in its frankness, privacy & melancholy; psychedelic in its conjuring the displacement of drug experience; pop in its melody, stickiness and demand of obessive listening
UpsettheRhythm-029
CD
$16.25

Bjork
Voltaic [CD+DVD]
PS, US Deluxe edition with DVD of highlights of Paris and Reykjavik concerts.
Nonesuch
CD/DVD
$21.75

Bjork
Voltaic: Deluxe [DCD+2DVD]
PS, US Deluxe editions of Voltaïc also include a CD of remixes of Volta album tracks by such fellow travelers as Spank Rock, Simian Mobile Disco, Ratatat and Modeselektor, plus a DVD of Volta video clips, including Michel Gondry s take on 'Declare Independence,' set in a drab factory, that manages to reach a colorful, hopeful conclusion-a revolution meant to be televised.
Nonesuch
DCD/2DVD
$47.50

Bjork
Voltaic
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Leave it to Björk to make a live album set that can be treated as part of her regular body of work rather than a side note. While Björk fans have occasionally complained about the amount of repackaging of her albums, Voltaic reaffirms just how important the live aspect is to her music, and provides a couple of different perspectives on it as well. Volta sparked a particularly inspired and lavish tour that, arguably, ended up being bigger than the actual album was, but tapped into the most dramatic, primal, and elegant aspects of Björk's art overall."
Nonesuch
CD
$13.75

Black to Comm
Charlemagne & Pippin
PS, US Single 35+ minute excursion in typical BtC drones w/ added violin. Really organic sounding, loads of textures
Digitalis-026
CD
$11.00

Blackfoot, J.D.
The Ultimate Prophecy
PS, US Exact repro reissue, featuring the original René Magritte-inspired cover art, as originally issued in the U.S. in 1970. "J.D. Blackfoot's The Ultimate Prophecy, originally released on the Mercury label (SR 61288) in 1970, is widely regarded as one of the top US psych albums of all time. The band, which was from Columbus, Ohio, began as a combination of two local groups, The EbbTide and Tree, the latter winning a recording contract with Mercury as a prize in a local band competition. Craig Fuller, later a founding member of Pure Prairie League, joined the band, which by this time had changed its name to J.D. Blackfoot, after some of the material for The Ultimate Prophecy had been written. Shortly after the release of the album, Blackfoot left the group which continued to perform as Osiris, while J.D. himself assembled a new outfit which delivered two well-received albums for Fantasy. The Ultimate Prophecy with its killer psych guitar, combined a strong British sound with the distinctive song-oriented California sound of Grateful Dead and Neil Young, two of the main inspirations for many an aspiring rock musician of the time. However, despite the laid back rural West Coast sound that the band effortlessly cultivates, shades of UK progsters such as Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues often come to the fore revealing what is, in essence the group's true musical intentions. Nevertheless, this is a fine album, beautifully played (drummer Dan Waldron is in many ways the hero of the hour) and extremely well recorded."
Mercury
LP
$13.00

Blessure Grave
Unknown Blessure
PS, US New blood San Diego folk, goth, post punk. A lot of good repetitive hooks on this one w/ some bleak winter hell, frozen world, dead heart vibes makes for a dark.
NightPeople
CASS
$6.75

Blue Mountain Eagle
S-T
PS, US
Fallout-2080
CD
$16.25

Boats, The
Words Are Something Else
PS, UK As the saying goes, a change is as good as a rest. Never the band to rest on their illustrious laurels, or to misinterpret tradition, The Boats deliver a surprise in the form of "Words Are Something Else". Taking their influence from myriad places has always been a subtle hint toward the Boats current psyche, and using the words deep, and techno, while alluding to their new album is a new, if not slightly fashionable (and disconcerting to tradition) statement. The Boats, fashionable, in the same sentence? Well, not really, but the 4/4 underpinning, and synthesis of almost an "acid" character of most of the album is definitely a new facet of the rough diamond that they've shaped over their career. Speaking of shaping, the ease with which Chris Stewart's voice is carved alongside the techno sensibilities makes it sound like he should always have been there. Songs like "Raindrops (Second)" hold an almost Beatles-esque vocal harmony scattered and yet held in place by the insistent kick drum, and deft edits that keep the future firmly in mind, while paying homage to the past. "I Hope You Get Well Soon, I Hope You Get Well Tomorrow" dispenses with any ulterior motives, and reminds us of how entrancing the deeper side of techno can be when passed through such a distinctive filter as The Boats have. All their albums have leaning toward classic genres, and melodies, and yet here they pull the same thing off in a genre they've never been identified with, to a tee. Rest assured the faithful followers of the Boats need have no trepidation regarding such a sideways step they've taken with this record, as this is a Boats album through and through, but it's the surprising ease with which they pull off the foray into unexplored territory that really hits home.
HomeNormal-003
CD
$13.50

Bong/Quttinirpaaq
Split
PS, US "Bong are Newcastle's finest doom stoner band, as you'd expect you got distant vocals, totally wild psych guitar, heavy solid drums, but the thing with Bong that gives them a totally different vibe from all the weak bands is they got a damn sitar in there, and it sounds so damn killer. On the flip we got a slice of Quttinirpaaq. We released a CD-R by this dude last year to some damn good reviews. It's hard to understand how so few people know this dude. It's basically the one man band of Texan Matt Turner who definitely doesn't bust out the Texas blues or country styles. This isn't no straight up doom though, opening with totally weirdo keys and feedback, with what sounds like some droning vocals and bizarre clicks; this is pretty out there. That is until three minutes in when Matt plugs in and then trashes a drum kit, whilst all this other crazy shit is going on. This is a fucking killer act, as far as I am concerned this is genius, not like any other drone doom vibes going on out there right now. Limited to 300 copies." Paste-on cover.
BlackestRainbow
LP
$17.00

Brain Doner
Wasted Fuzz Excessive
PS, US Wasted Fuzz Excessive is the long awaited follow-up to Brian Donor's 2006CE's epic Drain' D Boner, this new album continuing in those dark traditions of declaimed metallic poetry, but extending further into works of epic construction and length. Drive by No Wave Riffs and hoary proto-metal assaults, this Donor record burns at both ends.
BrainDoner-99184
CD
$14.75

Breeders
Last Splash (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 180gm vinyl LP! Following the departure of Tanya Donelly, the breakup of The Pixies, & the return of KELLEY DEAL to the fold, KIM DEAL & THE BREEDERS' hit the alternative big time w/ their 2nd (& last of the decade) record, & its hit singles "Cannonball," "Divine Hammer," & "Saints." The last Breeders album of the '90s, as Kelley suffered & recovered from drug addiction & Kim found a new outlet in The Amps, 'Last Splash' went platinum & brought the massive songwriting talents out from behind the shadow of Black Francis
Plain
LP
$16.75

Breeders
Pod (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 180gm vinyl LP! Though ostensibly a side project of KIM DEAL (of THE PIXIES) & TANYA DONELLY (of THROWING MUSES), THE BREEDERS' 1990 debut has held up as a classic of late '80s/early '90s off-kilter alternative pop, surpassing the contemporaneous work of their main bands. Though Deal would really hit the big time 3 yrs later w/ the band's follow-up, 'Last Splash,' & Donelly would do the same w/ her next band, Belly, this is the band's finest, most coherent, album & perhaps the high point in both their careers. Engineered by the legendary STEVE ALBINI
Plain
LP
$16.75

British Sea Power
Man Of Aran (Soundtrack)
PS, US British Sea Power have written and recorded a new soundtrack for the 1934 film Man Of Aran. The film is being re-released on DVD with the new BSP soundtrack - a release which will be preceded by the band
performing the soundtrack live to the film at BFI Southbank on 23 April. The BSP Man Of Aran package includes two discs - the re- scored Man Of Aran DVD, plus the soundtrack by itself on CD. Man Of Aran is a powerful and provocative dramatised documentary from
the late American filmmaker Robert J Flaherty. In a series of startling black-and-white sequences the film presents daily life on
the inhospitable Aran islands on the west coast of Ireland. The film was both celebrated and controversial on its release. The film was created from half a million feet of film shot by Flaherty while living closely with the islanders. But Man Of Aran isn't a straightforward documentary. The 'family' at the centre of the film weren't related, rather a group of islanders cast as the family unit by Flaherty. The fishing expedition for basking sharks which forms the film's dramatic heart was based around methods that hadn't been
employed on the Aran Islands for decades. Blending reality and staged elements, Flaherty arrived at a compelling document that captures the elemental power of the island's past and present. The film won the
Grand Prix at the 1935 Venice Film Festival and the eminent film critic Pauline Kael described it as, "The greatest film tribute to
man's struggle against a hostile nature."
RoughTrade
CD/DVD
$12.75

Brosseau, Tom
Posthumous Success
PS, US 3rd full-length marks a huge stylistic shift away from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases. He fleshes & clothes his songs' sturdy skeletons, lending them breath, presence, & limb-stretching immediacy. Unchanged, however, are his earnest wit, near-unearthly emotional grasp, & captivating, vibrato-soaked voice. Buoyant, well-crafted, & sprawlingly lovely.
FatCat-081
CD
$11.50

Bryars, Gavin
The Sinking of the Titanic
PS, UK A new CD edition of a celebrated live performance of The Sinking of the Titanic by acclaimed modern British composer Gavin Bryars. Originally released on Les Disques du Crepuscule, this extended 60-minute performance of Bryars' haunting masterpiece was recorded by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at the French festival Le Printemps de Bourges in April 1990. The performance location was the Chateau D'Eau, a disused water tower on three storeys, in an environment conceived by L'Académie de Muséologue Évocatoire, showing works by French artist Christian Boltanski and also featuring documentation relating to the wreck of the Titanic supplied by divers Taurus International. Featured Ensemble musicians are Dave Smith, Roger Heaton, Martin Allen, Alexander Balanescu, Jon Carney and directed by Bryars himself. Bryars explains: 'The Bourges recording is much longer than earlier versions of Titanic and takes account of the peculiar nature of the performing environment. The six musicians were located in the basement area of the three storey water tower, and the public heard the pieces through a specially designed sound system on the middle floor - although only after the sound had passed through the cavernous top floor, which was used as a massive reverberation chamber. The acoustics of the space, previously an underwater one, conditioned the way in which the music was heard.' This new CD edition also features extensive liner notes by Gavin Bryars, as well as updated artwork.
LTM-2525
CD
$15.00

Buda, Luke
Vesuvius
PS, NEW ZEALAND Late 2008 release from Kiwi orch-pop spellcaster and Phoenix Foundation member, truly gorgeous! In 2006 Buda released his first full-length solo album, Special Surprise. The album was extremely well received and described as follows: "Perfectly formed pop artefacts crystallise out of prog-rock overtures; bombastic instrumentals dissolve into heart-melting ballads" (NZ Listener) Following Special Surprise, Buda has been busy with his band The Phoenix Foundation: they released third album Happy Ending, recorded the soundtrack to the movie Eagle Versus Shark, and toured the USA a couple of times. On the domestic front there has been a home and a family. However, out of this whirlwind something exceptional has emerged. Buda has called it Vesuvius. Harbouring an unfortunate and perhaps unfair suspicion of anything too new (they don't make music like they used to!)... at the time of writing the album Buda was most inspired by the supreme ultra studio sounds of 70's super FM pop. Namely; Electric Light Orchestra. So blame it on Jeff Lynne!
ArchHill-035
CD
$12.25

Busdriver
Jhelli Beam
PS, US Both smart and smartass, theatrical without being pompous, and, as always, funny. BD's breath-defying flow teeters precariously on top of samples of classical music, jazz drumming, and proggy guitar parts, without ever losing sight of the electronic music that helped define his sound. Mindfully engaging and booty shaking at the same time. A wholly unique take on what an underground hip-hop album should be. RIYL: Animal Collective, Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio.
Anti
CD
$12.50

Busdriver
Jhelli Beam
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anti
LP
$15.00

Cacaw
Get A Brain
PS, US SUPER LIMITED, LAST COPIES! Fiery, bass-heavy noise-rock that features some equally fierce & at times terrifying female vocals from both Anya & Carrie (COUGHS).
PermanentRecords-004
LP
$17.00

Cake
Motorcade of Generosity
PS, US Cake's debut album will be reissued after long absence at retail. The re-mastered album will feature an enhanced compact disc format that includes previously unreleased, rare live performance footage from the band's first headline tour and a special Motorcade decal insert. A vinyl album configuration which includes a limited edition Motorcade poster and a full album digital download card is also available. Motorcade Of Generosity was forged during a specific era of the worldwide music scene. While all the tracks were completely accessible to anyone who was paying attention to the radio, the album was a strong reaction to the surging, heavy-handed guitar rock that listeners were accustomed to hearing during the mid/late nineties. The band will tour their 2-set Evening With Cake show in the US and Europe throughout 2009.
UpbeatRecords-002
CD
$9.25

Cake
Motorcade of Generosity
PS, US Cake's debut album will be reissued after long absence at retail. The re-mastered vinyl album configuration includes a limited edition Motorcade poster and a full album digital download card. Motorcade Of Generosity was forged during a specific era of the worldwide music scene. While all the tracks were completely accessible to anyone who was paying attention to the radio, the album was a strong reaction to the surging, heavy-handed guitar rock that listeners were accustomed to hearing during the mid/late nineties. The band will tour their 2-set Evening With Cake show in the US and Europe throughout 2009.
UpbeatRecords-002
LP
$16.25

Captain Beyond
S-T
PS, JAPAN Highly recommended by The Parasolarians! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A one-of-a-kind progressive album with rock, heavy metal, and jazz influences with a "space rock" lyrical bend. Formed by former members of Deep Purple (Rod Evans, vocals), Iron Butterfly (Rhino, lead guitar, and Lee Dorman, bass), and Johnny Winter (Bobby Caldwell, drums) Captain Beyond is an album that flows from riff to riff, drumbeat to drumbeat, often with various time signatures within the same song. Taking a tip from the Moody Blues, songs flow directly into each other without benefit of any lag time between selections. Taken as a whole, the album is kind of a rush, as quick, riff-laden guitar lines predominate for a few songs before slowing down temporarily into a lull until the next takeoff. Lyrically, the album differentiates itself by exploring themes of the outer world and meanings of existence, often with references to the moon, sea, sun, and so on. Listeners may get the feeling of taking a journey to space in a rocket ship headed for destination unknown. Musically, the album is superior in all aspects. Rod Evans has a strong rock voice, Rhino plays an enormous amount of hook-laden guitar lines, and Lee Dorman plays complex basslines (for example, at the end of "As the Moon Speaks-Return") that lead to typically rhythmic, nimble Bobby Caldwell drumming. The tightness between musicians is enormous, never lets up for long, and leaves the listener feeling like the ride should continue for the indefinite future."
Fontana/Island
CD
$10.00

Captain Beyond
Sufficiently Breathless
PS, JAPAN ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Captain Beyond's second album must have confused the diehards. Where their self-titled debut had upheld the basic progressive heavy rock blueprint of lengthy instrumental explorations, constant tempo changes, and opaque, yet cinematic lyrics, Sufficiently Breathless downplays them for a subtler, song-oriented production. The predominant mood is snappy and businesslike; no track runs over five and a half minutes. This newfound conciseness certainly benefited such heavy-rocking efforts as "Distant Sun," even as the band stuck to their diverse guns on the moody, acoustic title track and the sleek Latin funk rock of "Bright Blue Eyes" and "Everything's a Circle." The results were intelligent and self-assured, yet the band's never-ending bad luck again intervened when vocalist Rod Evans quit in late 1973, leaving the album adrift. The band would proffer a markedly different style on their return four years later, but anyone dismissing progressive heavy rock as an oxymoron should definitely check out this album first."
Fontana/Island
CD
$10.00

Captain Beyond
Dawn Explosion
PS, JAPAN ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Captain Beyond has a rather legendary status in the ranks of hard '70s rock. Their fame is actually in the "cult status" category. Dawn Explosion, their third album, was a good disc, but really did not live up to the greatness of the first two releases. Still, in showcasing the group's unique blend of hard rock, psychedelia, and progressive-type arrangements, there is definitely some strong material present. The hard-edged and frantic "Icarus" and the nearly ethereal, building mini-epic "Breath of Fire (Part 1 and Part 2)" can arguably stand up to most of the material on the other releases. Where they falter here is on such songs as "If You Please" and "Midnight Memories," which seem to be trying to reach toward accessibility, but come much closer to banality and mediocrity. This disc cannot take away from the tremendous glory of the other albums, though, and several of the tracks certainly still hold up well."
Fontana/Island
CD
$15.00

caUSE co-MOTION
Because Because Because
PS, US
Slumberland
12
$8.00

Cave/California Raisins
Split
PS, US Monstrous jams and heavy riffs on this limited edition vinyl 10" . The Cave side includes two epic psychedelic jams
and the Raisins side is their first release. These dudes get down and dirty with some groove-a-delic punk rock. Hand screened artwork.
Permanent
10
$13.50

Cheese, Richard
Viva La Vodka
PS, US America's loudest lounge singer Richard Cheese performs swingin' Vegas versions of rock, rap, and Top 40 hits, "swankifying" contemporary songs into traditional pop vocal standards. Imagine Sinatra singing Radiohead, and you've got Dick.
Cheese has sold more than 155,000 CDs and has played hundreds of sold out concerts from Las Vegas to London. With his snappy Lounge Against the Machine swing band, his tiger-striped tuxedo, and his enormous microphone, Richard Cheese presents the perfect mix of music, martini, and madcap.
Coverage-012
CD
$11.25

Chickenfoot
S-T
PS,US A brand new supergroup comprised of JOE SATRIANI, CHAD SMITH, MICHAEL ANTHONY and SAMMY HAGAR. Oh boy. 180-grm vinyl
Fontana
DLP
$25.50

Chocolat
S-T
PS,US ALSO ON LP w/ download card
Semprini
LP
$12.50

Chocolat
S-T
PS,US This debut EP is partly indebted to early Kinks, Brian Jones-era Stones, The Yardbirds, The Seeds, The Pretty Things, & Johnny Cash as well as the Velvet Underground w/ a twist of Jacques Dutronc. The band's refined psycho-sexual boogie, modern psychedelia, classic soul-pop songwriting & raw power hasn't gone unrecognized on recent tours w/ Jay Reatard, Black Lips & King Khan
Semprini
CD
$11.75

Chrome Spiders
Black Butterfly
PS, US A new band fronted by Michigan's most beloved Tom Potter from the DIRTBOMBS, BANTAM ROOSTER and SEGER LIBERATION ARMY.
BigNeck
45
$5.50

Circuit Des Yeux
Sirenum
PS, US Take the manic snorts of captain liberty, dissonant as chalk & the next moment as melodic as sharp yet slick, metal teeth. Take the mermaid, 1988, turn the tides, gently, gently away. Selected breath/silences/selected feedback. Take an argument you have here w/ an empty street while the memory of high traffic is leaking back. Sirenum has a real "spiritual food" vibe & it's fucking pain & pleasure relief in this real met en zonder sort of way.
Destijl
LP
$16.75

Clarkson, Jay & Johannes Contag
Over The Mountain
PS, NEW ZEALAND 2008 album from treasured Dunedin/Christchurch gem Jay Clarkson. The release of "Over the Mountain" is a rare and special event. It marks collaboration from two of New Zealand's finest musicians, Jay Clarkson and Johannes Contag (Cloudboy, Mink), who have quietly been producing some of New Zealand's finest musical work. Clarkson was a founding member of '80s underground punk collective The Playthings, who released 2 singles and an album (engineered by later Bats bassist Paul Kean). Following these, Clarkson produced a series of releases with They Were Expendable, a solo album, and a compilation featuring all (bar Playthings) of these acts called "Packet". Most of Clarkson's output was
released by Flying Nun Records. "Over the Mountain" started its life in 2004 as a series of demos recorded round the corner from Alexanderplatz in East Berlin, when Clarkson visited Contag, who had relocated to Germany with Cloudboy the year before. These initial recordings progressed to the Austrian Alps, where for a week Clarkson and Contag set up a studio in an expansive attic - overlooking a deep and green valley bearing cows with clunking bells, snow-topped mountain peaks in full view. Here they recorded the main part of "Over the Mountain".
ArchHill-031
CD
$12.25

Clean, The
Mashed [live album]
PS, NEW ZEALAND 2008 release. We're absolutely delighted to present Mashed, a live album from one of NZ's most influential bands, The Clean!
Featuring cuts from the band's March '07 Bangers & Mash Tour with several thousand keen "Cleaners" in attendance, Mashed captures all the triumphant madness - so whether we were there or not, we can all enjoy David Kilgour's reverberant guitar echoing above the furious and distinctive rhythm section of brother Hamish and bassist Bob Scott (The Bats). Mashed was recorded and mixed by Tex Houston, and features classics like "Point That Thing" and "Anything Could Happen", along with a brand new song and even a cover of the Lou Reed track "I Can't Stand It"! The brilliant cover artwork for Mashed is provided by none other than Hamish Kilgour. One of Dunedin's more influential first-wave punk bands, The Clean formed in '78, carving out a unique, noisy but melodic sound, cited by artists like Pavement and Yo La Tengo as intergal to their musical upbringing.
ArchHill-033
CD
$12.25

Clubroot
S-T
PS, US We are in the midst of a great change; both of our world, and the way we live in it. As with the seasons, these shifts are gradual, but little by little they become part of the present. The dubstep and bass sound continues to experience a parallel state of flux of this evolution, the forms are many, and widely expressive, but none of the many new voices and styles is quite like Clubroot. A St. Alban's resident, Clubroot cut his teeth in the early part of this decade with material bearing a likeness to the futurist ideals of drum and bass producers like Optical, Ed Rush, and Nico. As dubstep began to develop its own musical language, its emerging low end sonic tropes and freedom from rhythmic clutter acted as the catalyst for Clubroot, the moment when he realized what was upon him and was instinctually galvanized into action. His epic debut album is unlike any other yet released in the wider context of dubstep, eschewing high impact rhythmic constructions and muscular bass dynamics in favour of rolling grandeur and elaborately-realised emotive scenes, as thematically profound and vast in conception as it is uniquely expressive. 140 bpm tempos and lurching club-tooled sequences are not part of the Clubroot modus operandi: instead we encounter massive bass vistas, intricate garage-influenced spiralling beats, evocative melodic narratives that unwind to reveal fascinating bright flowers and surges of liquid color, and a sense of stately beauty rarely encountered in electronic music. Like a map of an undiscovered audio landscape, these 10 tracks illustrate a collection of distinct environments which collectively create a whole set of shared senses, their seemingly otherworldly qualities primed to generate vivid emotional responses to be deeply embedded in the memory. Clubroot's irresistible siren pull is already winning over fans among the few who have already been exposed to his expansive gathering clouds of sound. Mary Anne Hobbs was quick to commission a mix for her world-renowned Radio 1 show, and will include Clubroot on her next Planet Mu compilation. Meanwhile, word spreading like a looming thunderstorm across the forums and blogs has generated huge anticipation among forward thinking bass music fans, clamoring for the release of this view into the future.
Lodubs-09002
CD
$12.75

Coalesce
Ox
PS, US The Kansas clan lurches uncontrollably, adding just the right touch of bombast & contrast to make the seething agression all the more impactful, wringing vital emotions from every pore without even a trace of melancholy or regret
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Coalesce
Ox
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00

Codes in the Clouds
Paper Canyon
PS, US Rather than the predictable quiet-loud-quiet formula that most instrumental post-rock ensembles adapt, the group crafts songs that not only swell & recede, they also emotively arc in varied, well-orchestrated passages of sound that feel miticulously composed
ErasedTapes
CD
$18.00

Connors, Loren
The Curse of Midnight Mary
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
FamilyVineyard-64
LP
$12.25

Coral Sea, The
Firelight
PS, US Something beautiful is going on in the west coast, but not the sunsets or the beaches or even the Pacific Ocean, I'm talking about The Coral Sea. Like the vast and colorful vibe the name evokes, The Coral Sea's music, full of depth and harmony, with such a genuine quality that it could only have been inspired by quiet moments alone in the car. The five-piece was formed in 2005 by the lead singer and songwriter Rey Villalobos. Their self-produced first album "Volcano and Heart," was released in 2006. After their debut, they toured the US and the UK, sharing bills with artists such as The Walkmen, St. Vincent, Sea Wolf, The Silversun Pickups, and Frank Black. They have also been in rotation on numerous radio shows, including KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic. Tracks from the album also caught the attention of ABC TV and were featured on two episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Over this past year, the band has focused on creating this new album. Villalobos makes sure to always carry his acoustic guitar with him everywhere he goes, just in case inspiration strikes. One of such places was his car, where the rudiments of the majority of the new album were composed. The band has created a sound that is emotional and vulnerable, as well as structured, layered with atmospheric ambiance. They have blended gorgeous orchestral arrangements with indie rock for a warm, dreamlike quality. Think Yo La Tengo or Sigur Ros coupled with David Bowie.
In describing The Coral Sea's debut album, Relative Theory Records said, "Very few times do you see a band come out of the gates with such emotion and amazing structure as The Coral Sea. I can only hope that this is not their peak, and that The Coral Sea continues to provide us with wonderful albums in the future.
RedClover-003
CD
$10.00

Cortes, Lula
Rosa De Sangue
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TimeLag
LP
$28.25

Cortes, Lula
Rosa De Sangue
PS, US Deluxe 1st ever reissue of this Brazilian private press monster rarity. From crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psyche zones, to hard hitting,
coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked Americana, to acid vocal raga trance... his voice is a smoke & booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, & glowing soulful humor. Psychedelic at heart, but brimming w/ flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, & pure hot blooded rock & roll
TimeLag-041
CD
$14.50

Cromagnon
Orgasm (Cave Rock)
PS,US Free 60's underground tribal music rec. '69. Obscure album of wild rock risen from the primordial mud+slime the late 60s
ESP-Disk'
CD
$12.75

Cultural Decay
Eight Ways to Start A Day: Singles & Demos
PS, US First official release in almost three decades from this fabled Belgian coldwave band. Their sound, a collision of ethereal
one-note synth lines & dark post-punk aggression, recalls the controlled ferocity of Crisis & Southern Deathcult at their best. This record comprises the band's
entire recorded output, & incl. extensive booklet w/ photos, liners, & band history.
SacredBones
LP
$18.75

Cultural Decay
Eight Ways to Start a Day
PS, US Singles & Demos" RECENT. First official release in almost three decades from this fabled Belgian coldwave band. Their sound, a collision of ethereal
one-note synth lines & dark post-punk aggression, recalls the controlled ferocity of Crisis & Southern Deathcult at their best. This record comprises the band's
entire recorded output, & incl. extensive booklet w/ photos, liners, & band history.
SacredBones
CD
$13.50

Dakota Suite
The End of Trying
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
KaraokeKalk
LP
$16.50

Dandelion
S-T
PS, AUSTRALIA There's nothing more natural than three 13-year-old girls getting together in a band and bashing out a few songs about life/school/home/friends/parents etc. What's perhaps more unusual is that the girls get it together to record the tunes, and the songs are of such high quality, and the recording so finely-tuned that when the tape finds its way into the hands of a local musician/ record store guy, he feels compelled to start up a label to get the record out. Vic Conrad actually knew Ariya's mum from a previous era when they would regularly make a beeline to the Union Hotel on a Saturday night to check out the Screaming Believers for maybe the 100th time. So when Kris casually passed Vic a CD of her daughters band at a mutual friends party, there weren't too many expectations on either side. Check this out. OK. I will. The band is Dandelion. On Walking Bird Records.
12 minutes of pure rock'n roll. That's enough. You want more, you play it again. 5 songs. 3 girls. Rock 'n' roll. Tamika, Lauren & Ariya.
Guitar, bass, drums. Turn it up. The Kids are alright.
WalkingBirdRecords-002
CD5
$5.50

Danforths
Amphibian
PS, US Cited as a "headphone band" & justifiably so: Eno-esque sound textures weave together quirky lyricism & bright indie pop. The 15 songs follow the cycle of a relationship through love, betrayal, & regret. RIYL: Magnetic Fields, Panda Bear, Belle & Sebastian. "A patchwork beast full of constant surprises - some delightful, some mystifying, & all interesting" - The Onion
ModernRadio
CD
$9.50

Danger O's, The
Nineteen Ninety Four
PS, US Emerging from the basements and legion halls of the Philadelphia suburbs, the power trio known as the Danger O's have been delivering sense pleasing rock and roll to all living creatures since 2004. After their first release in 2006, the "Little Machines" EP, the guys took their sonic assault on tour through the northeast the northwest. Their music video for the single, "DDR part II," received rotation on the likes of Havok, Fuse and Comcast on Demand which only spread the spine tingling excitement for the Danger O's across the US. With their new release, the LP "Nineteen Ninety Four," the guys combined the polish of power pop with the intensity of the early nineties and found a rock and roll sound that is both familiar and fresh. So prepare your friends, prepare your enemies, and prepare yourself for "Nineteen Ninety Four".
Creep-009
CD
$9.50

Daughters of the Sun
Rings
PS, US Fuzzed out, hypnotic psychedelia that's perfect for when it's 3am and you're one step away from chasing the blue pills your buddy the Flower Man gave you down
the rabbit hole. "Rings" commences with sweeping, upbeat melodies & steady, tribal drums before taking off into the darker, hallucinogenic territory that makes up
most of this record. RIYL: Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Black Mountain
ModernRadio-048
LP
$15.25

Dead Luke
Record Two
PS, US The second offering from DEAD LUKE & the final installment to be included with the box set of records & other assorted ephemera. A two-sider from the warped
mind of this Wisconsin home-recorder. Recommended for psychedelic electronic skronk enthusiasts.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Dead Luke
Record One
PS, US The first of two singles to be included in the Sacred Bones released Dead Luke Box Set (which will include both singles, a four song CD-R, buttons, stickers, & other assorted ephemera). Milwaukee dark sludge from one man. The Troggs cover on this record is a must hear for fans of musical dementia. Handsome handdrawn
Mike Sniper cover art.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Deer Tick
Born On Flag Day
PS, US Highly anticipated 2nd full-length. Unlike "War Elephant," the album features the 3 new members that principle songwriter John J. McCauley III recruited to form the current incarnation, & reflects a natural evolution from a singular vision of one songwriter to something greater
Partisan
CD
$14.75

Deer Tick
Born On Flag Day
PS,US Vinyl version
Partisan
LP
$23.75

Deerhunter
Rainwater Cassette Exchange
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Kranky
12
$8.25

Deerhunter
Rainwater Cassette Exchange
PS, US Certainly not a group to rest on their laurels (especially difficult when they have new songs burning a hole in their collective
back pockets), Deerhunter delivers five new tracks on this extended play. This is not some stop-gap release between albums, or mere leftovers from their most recent Microcastle album, but an all new session.
Kranky
CD5
$7.50

Denny, Sandy
She Moves Through The Fair
PS, US "Stamford Audio, in association with Fledg'ling Records and by special arrangement with the Sandy Denny Estate, is very proud to present the first pressing on beautiful 180 gram vinyl of Sandy Denny's first recordings, unavailable on vinyl until now! The five songs on this LP, recorded at home in London in 1967, capture Sandy proving her vocal and, on two songs, writing mettle at the age of 19, around the same time as her first professional recording sessions with the Saga label, but before her work with The Strawbs, Fairport Convention and Fotheringay. The beauty and purity of Sandy's vocals shine through on these haunting early recordings, setting the template for an all too short career as one of, if not the, finest female singer our shores produced." This is a short release (16 minutes approx), with acetate-quality sound sourcing; previously released on the Fledg'ling A Boxful of Treasures 5CD box.
StamfordAudio
LP
$30.00

Descendents
Somery
PS, US
SST
DLP
$11.50

Descendents
All
PS, US
SST
LP
$9.00

Descendents
I Don't Want to Grow Up
PS, US
SST
LP
$9.00

Dial
S-T
PS,US This austere New Zealand outfit successfully channels the darkest corners of the AmRep catalog, the raw ferocity of classic hardcore, the off-time kilter of math-roc, & the concept that music can actually be dangerous. This focuses more on space & dissonance than technical shreddery - obscenely heavy guitars collide w/ bludgeoning percussion & vicious female vocals
RoboticEmpire
MCD
$6.25

Died Pretty
Free Dirt [deluxe expanded re-issue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Available again! Died Pretty's magnificent 1986 debut LP: Free Dirt is one of the all time classic Australian albums. It followed 3 excellent singles & EPs and signaled the arrival of what would become of our most loved bands over their celebrated 18 year career. Collected here, for the first time, are Died Pretty's first five releases: the Out Of The Unknown and Mirror Blues singles, the Next To Nothing EP, the Free Dirt album and the Stoneage Cinderella single. Plus an additional 10 bonus tracks -- including previously unreleased demos, a live-to-air radio performance from 1986 and other live rarities. This deluxe 2CD version is packaged in an 8 panel digipak, with a 28-page booklet containing many previously unpublished photos. It has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes. RAVE MAGAZINE: "While in 1986, it was Wa Wa Nee and Kids In The Kitchen that got the airplay and the Countdown appearances, a little indie record called Free Dirt by Died Pretty went on to age considerably better than the synthetic grooves of the above-mentioned contemporaries. Much of what later brought Died Pretty a degree of fame can be found in these early tracks. For example, the majestic opening song Life To Go (Landsakes) is a precursor to the stately pop of the band's breakthrough Doughboy Hollow, combining thoughtful songwriting with the distinctive gravelly vocals of charismatic frontman Ron S Peno. That said, the album has a jammier, more psychedelic feel than much of their later work, some tracks even delving into post-punk free jazz a la The Laughing Clowns. There's also rollicking Celtic punk in Wig-Out and glowing indie pop in the beautiful Blue Sky Day. It's a great album, made even more attractive here by being re-packaged with demos, 1986 single Stoneage Cinderella/Yesterday's Letters and a second disc, which includes the band's first 1984 single Out Of The Unknown, the Next To Nothing EP from 1985 and mid-eighties live recordings from Boston, London and Melbourne. For the Oz music scholar, it's a pretty much essential purchase." (4.5 STARS)
AztecMusic
DCD
$25.00

Dinosaur Jr.
Farm
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Pre-order a copy of the new album and we'll drop you an email you a unique code to download MP3s of the two tracks from the tour-exclusive 7", along with a large 17"x22" poster of the album artwork.
Jagjaguawar-150
LP
$14.25

Dinosaur Jr.
Farm: DELUXE
PS,US 1st 10,000 copies will be a deluxe limited edition version, including a 2nd disc containing 4 additional songs. Pre-order a copy of the new album and we'll drop you an email you a unique code to download MP3s of the two tracks from the tour-exclusive 7".
Jagjaguwar-151
DCD
$11.50

Dinosaur Jr.
Farm
PS,US 5th full length record by the original line-up. At times wholly 70's guitar-epic, at times perfect for sitting by a babbling brook w/ Joni & Neil, this encompasses their signature palette - soaring & distorted guitar, unshakable hooks, honey-rich melodies - songs that get into your head &, bouncing around happily, stay there.
Jagjaguwar-150
CD
$11.50

Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
DominoRecordingCo
LP
$15.00

Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
PS, US The follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed and Domino debut "Rise Above". Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation "Dark Was The Night". In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.
DominoRecordingCo
CD
$12.50

Dog Faced Hermans
Hum Of Life
PS, US The follow-up to "Mental Blocks." Recorded in '93, DFH lays down 11 tracks of thumping drums, pulsating bass lines, most unusual guitar squacks, & MARION COUTTS belting out enchanting melodies with voice & her trusty trumpet.
MississippiRecords
LP
$11.75

Drive Like Jehu
Yank Crime (LP/7")
PS, US
Headhunter
LP
$12.75

Dysrhythmia
Psychic Maps
PS, US The band continues to push themselves to new levels of technicality while also adding a healthy dose of melodic songcraft. RIYL: Voivod, Sonic Youth, Hella, Pelican.
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Earth
Radio Live
PS,US Deluxe 180 gram, vinyl-only release comes in a cloth-like textured heavy-weight cardboard sleeve with metallic silver foil printing. Limited to 3000! Comprised of two tracks from a live radio broadcast on KFJC & two tracks from a live performance in Vienna.
SouthernLord
LP
$18.75

Ein Heit
Lightning & the Sun
PS, US SILKWORM with JOEL PHELPS & two of their mentors in a 1997 reunion of this pre-SKWM Missoula band .
TemporaryFreedom
CD
$13.25

Einsturzende Neubauten
Ende Neu
PS,US Vinyl version
Potomak
LP
$16.25

Einsturzende Neubauten
Ende Neu
PS,US Reissue of the 1996 album, originally released on Mute. The quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their craftmanship in new compositional areas. Dark, focused explosions, w/ theatrical strings & tightly-wound vocal structures
Potomak
CD
$18.00

Elliott, Max
Nature o' Nature
PS, US Sparsely arranged folk from ABSINTHE MINDS member MAX ELLIOTT. The central Wisconsin singer/songwriter's dark acid folk hovers close around the lone guitar/vocal arrangements with subtle percussive accompaniment at points. This is not the folk of Jewel or Devendra Banhardt...think along the lines of Beard of Stars-era T-Rex or Simon Finn's Pass The Distance. Raspy voiced tales of death, woe, and redemption.
SacredBones-015
45
$6.25

Elusive Parallelograms
And Everything Changes
PS, US Elusive Parallelograms have been called psychedelic rockers heading back into the future. Each member's influences and playing styles are unique and distinct, culminating in a blend of psychedelic, fuzzed-out guitars, and engaging rhythms. Elusive Parallelograms' eclectic arrangements and diverse sounds step away from conventional songwriting and provide a different musical perspective. "Recommended if you like Chester French, the Von Bondies...Who says
psychedelia-influenced, shoegazer guitar riffs need to last five minutes a pop? These fellas have a knack for condensing the fuzz." -a Spin pick
RainbowQuartz-158
CD
$13.00

Envy/Jesu
Split
PS,US CD version. Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind JUSTIN K. BROADRICK wrote, recorded, mixed, & produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January-May 2008
HydraHead-169
CD
$13.00

Eprhyme
Shomer Salaam b/w My Mouth is a House of Prayer
PS, US
Krecords-124
45
$3.75

Fabolous
My Time (Feat. Jeremih)
PS,US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY. A Side: "My Time" Clean and Dirty versions. B-Side "Throw It In The Bag" Clean and Dirty versions.
DefJam
12
$5.75

Fall, The
Northern Cream, The Fall DVD That Fights
PS, US Northern Cream is a showcase of newly discovered footage of The Fall from 1981 and includes the only known film featuring the band with clarinet player Dave Tucker. The DVD includes unreleased 1981 concert footage, unreleased in-depth documentary, an interview from Mark E. Smith, audio outtakes, and the full Leeds University 1981 concert.
OZIT-08
DVD
$27.00

Falty DL
Human Meadow Remixes
PS,US "Human Meadow" is the stand-out track from the New York garage/2-step/dubstep/hip hop/electronic artist's debut album, & on this remix 12 inch he gets the Planet Mu treatment by some of the biggest names on the label (µ-Ziq, BOXCUTTER, LUKE VIBERT)
PlanetMu
12
$7.25

Features, The
Some Kind of Salvation
PS, US It's been four years since Nashville, TN's best kept secret, The Features, snuck onto our speakers with their critically lauded debut, Exhibit A. The record strengthened their already rabid hometown cult following and won over critics in both the US & UK press while shows with Kings of Leon, the Raconteurs and The Walkmen and sets at Redding & Leeds festivals showed off their brazenly flawless live show. Quite suddenly, The Features disappeared and left us wondering what had happened to the Southern four piece who were bound to become our next favorite band. But now, with trademark pop hooks and stellar songwriting in tow, The Features are returning this spring with an off-kilter masterpiece of a sophomore album, Some Kind of Salvation.
LooseToothRecords-001
CD
$9.00

Fenn, O'Berg
Magic & Return
PS,US 2CD reissue of this legendary supergroup (CHRISTIAN FENNESZ, JIM O'ROURKE & PETER REHBERG). Contains 2 bonus tracks. Unmatched improvised computer music that simply defined a whole genre
EditionsMego
DCD
$20.50

Fiery Furnaces
End Is Near
PS, US New 12" single.
ThrillJockey
12
$9.25

Foreign Born
Person to Person
PS, US An album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs & James Mercer. African high-life guitars are countered w/ New Wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its pallet open to most any influence -- from U2 to the Feelies. If the Walkmen weren't afraid to go out in Bermuda shorts & flip-flops, you may have a sound close to this... like it could be Phil Spector's mid-70's 'lost recordings' inspired by the depth of second-line drum bands from New Orleans.
SecretlyCanadian-182
CD
$11.50

Foreign Born
Person to Person
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
SecretlyCanadian-182
LP
$11.50

Friese-Greene, Tim
10 Sketches for Piano Trio
PS, UK Since leaving the ambit of Talk Talk in 1992, Tim has recorded two albums as Heligoland, but 10 Sketches for Piano Trio is the first to be released under his own name. "It didn't seem right for it to be a Heligoland album," he explains. "It is too singular. And so it is. Because the classic featured line-up of drums, acoustic bass and piano is largely familiar to the ear, we might assume the instruments will take up roles normally associated with jazz. But here the playing and attitude subverts this expectation, and delivers something more primitive on a technical level, more rigorous on a formal level, and something more pared-down harmonically. Halfway, the listener begins to pick up on the disparate influences, from Tims early experience engineering Sex Pistols sessions, to later experiments in ambient minimalism with Talk Talk, including the seminal albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. Recorded in an old malthouse with a piano Tim picked up in a local market, and mixed by Grammy award winner Phill Brown (Eno, Bob Marley, John Martyn) in the valve-heaven of London's Westpoint Studios, 10 Sketches... revels in its contradictions, and defies judgement in relation to anything except absolutes.
Tracklist: Sketch 01 , Sketch 02 , Sketch 03 , Sketch 04 , Sketch 05 , Sketch 06 , Sketch 07 , Sketch 08, Sketch 09 , Sketch 10
LTM-2535
CD
$15.00

Future Islands
Feathers And Hallways
PS, US Masters of marrying upbeat songs with soul searching lyrical content. Part of the Wham City collective.
UpsettheRhythm
45
$6.00

Gable
I'm Okay
PS,US The group uses conventional instruments like cello & brass in unconventional ways that complement their usual array of found sounds, squeaks, & samples. DIY pop songs w/ echoes of The Vaselines, Beat Happening, & Lou Barlow's solo endeavors. Limited to 300
Loaf
LP
$17.75

Ganglians
Monster Head Room (LP/7")
PS, US "Glee. See that's a word I rarely party with in my codex but it's just the one that I would subscribe to Ganglians. Everytime I see these chaps play I come away with a big old grin on my world-weary face. How do they do it? Well it's the lightheartedness in their playing...the angelic Wilson-esque vocal harmonies...then from out of nowhere come those West African guitar stylings! And yet I can never pin down this band's sound... not that that's a bad thing. In fact it's always been a sure sign for me that the music's doing something right. From the lazy day musings of 'To June' to the monumental yarn 'Valient Brave.' Jam this on your next road trip or on your back porch drinking an Arnold Palmer. This is a record for summertime if ever there was one. It's pop music in the best sense of the word...paramount and perennial. Hot on the heels of the recently released self titled Woodsist 12" & the split seven inch with their buds Eat Skull. The CD version of this album is available from Woodsist. Limited to 500 copies on red vinyl." Gatefold sleeve.
WeirdForest
LP
$18.75

Ganglians
Monster Head Room
PS, US "All completely new songs.. This album is pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to, at least that's what was going through our heads." -- Ganglians. "Sacramento's Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. It's not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four, it's a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where it's going. First and foremost it's about uncertain pleasures. It's a bit like choose your own adventure. There's 'codeine balladry'; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you're in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island they've built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you. 11 tracks in just under 50 min."
Woodsist
CD
$12.00

Georgia's Horse
The Mammoth Sessions
PS, US Texas is a graveyard and The Lone Star State is full of ghosts. Once the home of many thousands of military personnel, old bases now stand empty. The only tenants are lizards and snakes. Even the rusted and rotted hulks of planes have been carted off by junk men and souvenir hunters. The roar of the war effort has been replaced by the whisper of the wind. A gentle absence of action. The haunted Americana of Georgia's Horse sounds like it could have come from any of these ghostly deserts.
Their debut album, The Mammoth Sessions sounds like an aftermath of some emotionally violent event that has just left stillness and melancholia in its place. These 13 songs are anchored around the skewed and magnetic vision of singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado and their brittle and skeletal songs are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist Tiziano Hernandez (bass/guitars), Brad Thomason (drums) and Melly Rose (cello).
Fire-128
LP
$15.50

Georgia's Horse
The Mammoth Sessions
PS, US Texas is a graveyard and The Lone Star State is full of ghosts. Once the home of many thousands of military personnel, old bases now stand empty. The only tenants are lizards and snakes. Even the rusted and rotted hulks of planes have been carted off by junk men and souvenir hunters. The roar of the war effort has been replaced by the whisper of the wind. A gentle absence of action. The haunted Americana of Georgia's Horse sounds like it could have come from any of these ghostly deserts. Their debut album, The Mammoth Sessions sounds like an aftermath of some emotionally violent event that has just left stillness and melancholia in its place. These 13 songs are anchored around the skewed and magnetic vision of singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado and their brittle and skeletal songs are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist Tiziano Hernandez (bass/guitars), Brad Thomason (drums) and Melly Rose (cello).
Fire-128
CD
$13.75

God Help the Girl
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Matador
LP
$17.50

God Help the Girl
S-T
PS, US After the success of the most recent Belle And Sebastian album, "The Life Pursuit", band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue his dream of writing a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this breathtaking record. It combines the strengths and feel of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, 60s girl groups, 80s indie, and most of all, classic pop. "Spanning glam, soul, country, and 70s AM rock...Murdoch is at his best detailing his famously quirky characters" - Pitchfork.
Matador
CD
$13.50

Gomberg, Billy
Comme
PS, US Billy Gomberg (b 1979, Chicago ) is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming that gives rise to electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their own abstraction.
Billy's debut CD release displays abstract and complex dimensions of texture and tone that might make more sense at first on a subconscious level before it will on a conscious one. Therefore, it is advised to first approach this music from a pure listening standpoint, free from preconceived notions of musical structure and form since it can defy such prosaic logic.
Billy has exhibited work or performed in New York, Boston, Providence, London, Lisbon, Graz, and Zurich to name a few, plus he was one of the artists featured at the first and/OAR label showcase event in New York City during February of 2009.
Moar-3
CD
$11.50

Goude, Jean Philippe
Pour L'instant (Ici d'Ailleurs)
PS, FRANCE Less than a year after AUX SOLITUDES, we're glad to offer you a return on the development of JEAN-PHILIPPE GOUDE's art with POUR L'INSTANT, a choice of tracks taken from his 5 albums recorded from 1992 to 2005. Compositions, which from now on are part of French audience imagination and probably of our cultural heritage. Closed to Mychael Nyman, Wim Mertens, Steve Reich, his music has been used for French cinema and TV.
IDA-057
CD
$15.00

Grand Prix
The Way of the Racer
PS, NEW ZEALAND 2005 release from NZ Alt/Indie/Punk/Country outfit. Morricone-isms abound.
ArchHill-018
CD
$9.50

Grand Prix
The Speed of Sound
PS, NEW ZEALAND 2009 release. Prolific and reliable Wellington country-rock band are back with album number four - but this time, there's more emphasis on the Rock and a little less of the Country! Old fans need not worry though, that trademark Grand Prix twang, charm and wit has not been lost. Rather, it sounds like they have been been filtered through some kind a 70's Rock album. From bluegrass and country, through rock n' roll, rockabilly and surf, to Motown, Roy Orbison and stacks of reverb, 'The Speed Of Sound' embraces and distills all of their past influences, capturing the basic energy of the band, the rush of testosterone, adrenaline and endorphins that good music should induce!
ArchHill-040
CD
$12.25

Grizzly Bear
Two Weeks
PS,US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY! IMPORT VINYL!
Warp-9262
12
$8.75

Grouper
Cover The Windows And The Walls
PS, US 1st ever CD version of the LP originally released in 2007. Cyclical vocal vapors & guitar/piano shapes levitate on the surface of hissy atmospherics dense w/ a
feedback that conjures up all sorts of latent images from the subtle body/mind. Liz's songs always seem to be perched delicately between layers of blissful fuzz & her stark,
gorgeous song craft. For those who missed out on the extremely limited vinyl pressings, here is your chance to hear this gem! Limited to 1000
RootStrata
CD
$13.25

Guided By Voices
Alien Lanes
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Matador
LP
$19.75

Guthrie, Robin
Angel Falls
PS, US New four song EP by former Cocteau Twins guitarist. Limited to 1000. Digipak. Tracks: 1. Camera Lucida 2. Love Never Dies a Natural Death 3. Red Moon Rising 4. Delicate
Darla-224
CD5
$8.25

Hampson, Robert
Vectors
PS, US Before his involvement w/ acousmatic sound, Hampson was the originator behind guitar-based acts such as LOOP & MAIN. He was also a member of GODFLESH, & collaborated w/ Jim O'Rourke & Organum. This features 3 pieces, 2 of which were commissioned by the Group du Recherches Musicales.
Touch
CD
$15.50

Hancock, Wayne
Viper of Melody
PS, US Wayne's FIRST album to released on vinyl. Limited, comes packed with digital download code.
Bloodshot-163
LP
$14.25

Harmonia
Musik Von Harmonia
PS, US Vinyl repress! Declared "the world's most important rock group" by Brian Eno in the mid-'70s, HARMONIA started off as a side project of the members of krautrock duo CLUSTER & MICHAEL ROTHER of NEU!. Recorded at Cluster's studio in the tiny village of Forst, 'Musik Von Harmonia' was
originally released in 1974 & mixes synthesizer, guitar, & electronic percussion to achieve an important milestone in the development of electronic music.
Lilith-119
LP
$23.50

Harrison, George
Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison
PS, US George Harrison's first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. Special packaging includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes. The collection's 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. This collection is the first to span Harrison's entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles "My Sweet Lord," "Isn't It A Pity," "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)," and "Got My Mind Set On You." Let It Roll also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, "Something," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Here Comes The Sun," from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit at Madison Square Garden.
EMI
CD
$13.75

Hasunuma, Shuta
Pop Ooga
PS, US An endless of array of gorgeous & restless rhythms & melodies that seamlessly folds funky bass & synth lines, graceful guitar, & breathy vocal harmonies into a web of glitch-pop-concrete. Literally blending bells & whistles into an infectious, breezy dose of melodic sunshine, expect to be caught in an addictive, vinyl trance. Features vinyl exclusive bonus track. RIYL: Scritti Politti, Cornelius, Four Tet, Prefuse 73.
WesternVinyl-058
DLP
$15.75

Head Over Heels
S-T
PS, US 180 gram exact repro reissue of this long sought-after hard rock cult classic, originally released in 1971. This is the Michigan power trio's only album, featuring guitarist/vocalist Paul Frank's exceptional guitar solos and bass guitar and vocals from Michael Urso, who later became a member of Rare Earth. Featuring a live cover of Willie Dixon's "Red Rooster."
Capitol
LP
$13.00

Headdress
Lunes
PS, US VINYL VERSION with download codes.
NoQuarter
LP
$12.25

Heavy Winged & Inca Ore
Ring Mining
PS, US Wild collaborative LP by these 2 deep psych visionaries. One side is a studio collab merging HW's pummeling psych-frenzy w/ cascading waves of IO-keyboard bliss. The other side is a rare, unhinged live recording of the single time these outfits ever performed together - imagine HW w/ a freaked out lead
singer. Strange & great.
NotNotFun
LP
$17.00

Hecker, Tim
Harmony in Ultraviolet
PS, US First proper VINYL release for Hecker's breakthrough 2006 album
Kranky
DLP
$16.25

Helm, Levon
Electric Dirt
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Vanguard
LP
$24.50

Helm, Levon
Electric Dirt
PS, US New album!
Vanguard
CD
$15.00

Here We Go Magic
S-T
PS, US
WesternVinyl-057
LP
$12.25

Hermit Thrushes
Slight Fountain
PS, US Harsh chords, complex rhythms, strange orchestration and awkward melody interchangeably weave throughout the songs of Hermit Thrushes. With their sophomore album Slight Fountain, this Philadelphia-based five-piece
displays touchingly naive bedroom lo-fi juxtaposed with disjointed arrangements, noisy multi-instrumental blasts, and nasty pitch-shifts - offering a thoroughly artful blend of indie rock.
JoyfulNoise-036
CD
$11.25

Hess Is More
Hits
PS, US The music of Hess is More is poppy, quirky, playful and cinematic with a unique melodic catch to it. Nublu Records is proud to introduce Hess is More to this side of the Atlantic with Hits, a solid and unique manifesto from a truly original artist. Hess is More's career began in 2005 in Denmark on the label Music for Dreams. Since then, Mikkel Hess has gained an international following amongst hipsters, artists, musicians, tastemakers and train spotters alike. "Yes Boss" has had nearly half a million Youtube views, "Ssshhhh" has hit top #3 download on iTunes Denmark and his tracks have been featured on countless compilations worldwide.
Nublu-020
CD
$8.75

Higher Giant
The First Five
PS, US PS, US Colored Vinyl! The members of this band have previously player for: Token Entry, Kid Dynamite, Grey Area, Lifetime, Black Train Jack, Paint it Black, None More Black, Good Riddance Warzone, The Arsons, and qutie a few others. Jason and Al are some of those memebers. Depiste popular belief, Ernie was not one of Frankie Valli's Four Seasons.
Creep-110
45
$5.25

Higher Giant
The First Five
PS, US The members of this band have previously player for: Token Entry, Kid Dynamite, Grey Area, Lifetime, Black Train Jack, Paint it Black, None More Black, Good Riddance Warzone, The Arsons, and qutie a few others. Jason and Al are some of those memebers. Depiste popular belief, Ernie was not one of Frankie Valli's Four Seasons.
Creep-110
CD5
$6.00

Hipgrave, Christopher
Day
PS, UK Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. once spoke of nature as needing to be held close to humanity, to be a friend, instead of an enemy. "Day", by Christopher Hipgrave, who is a composer, sound designer, and software programmer from England, presents the harmony of the humanity and closeness to nature, while still allowing the time of the day to pass hardly without notice, but with change and closeness. Spanning 7 tracks, and 44 minutes, the simply descriptive titles of "Day" transcend a controlled majesty over the evolving everyday. The times of the day are present, relative to structures of the surrounding world. All found in place: Flowers' petals opening through an extended time-lapse, the trickle of water drops from rubber plants to the ground, the bending of grass blades shifting like razors, with only the temporal echo of the evening warming the last remaining seconds are present. Near the end of the record, the music withdraws into a secluded world that could easily be the crackling of raindrops on a windowsill, heard through the window of a house, in any city, on any rainy day. The world is muted, strong, and pensive. The last minutes breathe with a somber intensity, pumping but gushing through missive pathways, always on target, and withering all the while. Simply relating sounds to nature is a little compliment, but isn't everything, when it is first beginning? If everyday could be as descriptive, and have as many tender moments as this cherished debut contains, each day would be memorable, waiting for the next.
HomeNormal-004
CD
$13.50

His Electro Blue Voice
Duuug
PS, US Italian punks HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE mine territory first scoped out by Crisis, Warsaw, & early Xmal Deutchland. Two sides of serious Italian dark punk. Fans of last year's "Fog" single on S-S Records & their split with Nuit Noire take note.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Holsapple, Peter & Chris Stamey
Here And Now
PS, US The first collaboration in almost two decades by the acclaimed songwriters of The dB's. Holsapple was a touring member of REM, while Stamey played with Alex Chilton. Features legendary saxophonist Branford Marsalis on two tracks, while drummer Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Son Volt, The Mountain Goats), drummer Logan Matheny (Roman Candle, The Rosebuds), and percussionist Gary Greene (Hootie And The Blowfish, Big Head Todd) bring power to other tracks. "With pop this piercingly pure, and Everlys-worthy harmonies to boot, The dB's songwriting team has put together another instant classic" - Blurt.
BarNone
CD
$12.50

Hood, Patterson
Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)
PS, US sophomore solo album from the leader of the Drive-By Truckers. The album was produced by Hood and long-time DBT producer David Barbe (Sugar). Most of his DBT band mates join him on the album as well as Don Chambers, Will Johnson and Scott Danbom from Centro-matic/South San Gabriel. This is also the first time Hood's father David Hood, famed Muscle Shoals bass player, joins him on a record.
RuthStreet-6000
CD
$15.75

Hue, Donny & the Colors
Letter to New Virginia (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US A majestic landscape of harmonica laced hoe down folk. A true gem featuring the whimsical nature of the band in a whole new light, from dark psych folk songs to Shins-like beauty, the band has further developed their sound which has been described as "the closest to magical (sur)realism this city has to offer...a layered, wonderfully complex sound that is two parts symphonic chamber pop, one part folkloric with a sprinkling of nursery rhymes in it" -BYT. LIMITED TO 500!
Kora
CD
$11.75

Hunchback
Werse Houses
PS, US First solo vinyl appearance from this NY/NJ dark punk combo cut straight from the Killdozer/Scratch Acid mold. The B-side sees the band & 'dozer vocalist MICHAEL GERALD take on Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful." Stunning cover art by the sadly deceased underground comic legend RORY HAYES. Recorded by Conrad Uno & mastered by Crypt Records' Tim Warren. Mid-period Touch & Go fans take note!
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Illinois
The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
PS, US The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe is the culmination and first physical component of a series of 6 digital EP's released in 2009. Each one of the 6 EP's released to digital retails included a subsequent video component. After successful review online and praise from a slew of outlets, this Deluxe Edition CD combines all the songs from these releases as well as some bonus tracks, just for good measure. The full-length video with bonus footage will also be available to view online following release.
+1Records-115
CD
$13.75

In The Country
Whiteout
PS, NORWAY Gatefold double LP version, includes voucher for free mp3 download of the whole album. Ambitious, epic and grand in scale, the third album by Norway's piano trio In The Country could very well be their magnum opus. Most of the music was performed and written as a thank you, as is the tradition, after leader Morten Qvenild (Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Shining) was awarded Kongsberg Jazzfestival's prestigious Musician's Award. Along with bass player Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken, on Whiteout, Qvenild allows themes to develop and terrain to broaden, as in exploratory jazz and classic progressive rock music. For example, "Ursa Major" starts out as an almost space-jazz expedition, which then crescendos and decrescendos into over 9 minutes of intertwining piano and post-rock guitar stratospherics.
RuneGrammofon-3086
DLP
$24.50

Into It Over It
52 Weeks
PS, US After playing in many bands, Evan Thomas Weiss decided to embark on a year long project that would result in his writing, recording, and releasing one new song every week...roughly 52 songs. With some help from a few friends, he launched his own website to showcase and allow people to track his progress. By the end of Weiss' "experiment", his site had received over 300,000 unique downloads...more then he ever anticipated. No Sleep Records approached his about releasing the songs and now here they are: all 52 weeks, two CDs, beautifully packaged, completely remixed and mastered.
NoSleep-017
CD
$12.00

Joan Of Arc
Flowers
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50

Joan Of Arc
Flowers
PS, US A record that encapsulates the spirit of the group - a mentality that embraces contradictions & tears apart common musical structures, only to rebuild them without a blueprint. They continue to succeed in doing what many strive for with a new album: creating an obscure combination of familiar, obvious ideas while sticking with the notion that "if it feels good, do it"
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Johansson, Jonathan
En Hand I Himlen
PS, SWEDEN "It seems strange to recommend a songwriter of Jonathan Johansson's caliber on the strength of a cover version, but non-Swedish-speaking audiences may find the most immediate point of entry into his second album (which, given its stylistic differences from his first, his change of moniker, and increased exposure, feels effectively like a debut) to be "Alla Vill Ha Hela VÃ¤rlden." It's an essentially faithful rendition of a familiar song -- Tears for Fears' 1985 hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," rendered in Swedish as "everybody wants the whole world" -- but it provides a good indication of the album's approach: rich, gleaming layers of keyboards and guitars; distinctive but not overpowering midtempo rhythms that land somewhere between danceable and drivingly triumphant, and effortlessly buoyant melodies, delivered in Johansson's gorgeously understated octave-doubled vocals. That he can pull off a welcome reworking of a brilliant pop classic without changing it all that much (save for the translation and a slightly synthier sheen), and then make it fit by filling the rest of the album with originals that feel just as enduring and elemental, is quite a feat. But En Hand I Himlen is not a showy album; if anything, it's relentlessly smooth, gliding from the insistent, Arcade Fire-ish pulse of the title track to the breezy, almost Caribbean lilt of "Innan vi Faller," which flows seamlessly into the loping sweetness of "HÃgsta Take, HÃgsta VÃ¥ningen," and so on from there. One highlight after another, without a single subpar track -- Johansson's solemn, hymn-like choral pieces ("Du Sa" and "Psalm Noll Noll") are just as alluring as his scintillating, pointillist wide-screen electro-pop ("Aldrig Ensam," "Sent fÃr Oss.") Indeed, any of these songs could be a forgotten 20-year-old smash single -- or a worthy candidate for an English-language revisiting two decades hence. Even the album's timely 1980s-era preferentiality, as prominent as it is, slathered in gauzily synthetic textures, is ultimately secondary to the timeless majesty of its melodies. Highly recommended." 4/5 - Allmusic.com - K. Ross Hoffman "Yes, there's more than enough room in your life for another sensitive Swede reviving early-1980s new romantic sounds, especially if said Swede has heart firmly clasped to sleeve and hand reaching so valiantly to heaven as Jonathan Johansson. The Stockholm-based electronic artist harnesses soft vocals and dreamy synths (think A Flock of Seagulls' "Wishing") to a particularly dramatic electric drum and a pulsing bassline (think New Order's... any song). The grandson of a preacher man, Johansson spent three years recording songs in a bunker to get the right sound. "In hand i himlen" is nothing you'd call new, but damned if he doesn't make it all sound freshly autumnal" - Pitchfork
Hybris-072
CD
$16.00

K.U.K.L.
Holidays In Europe
PS, UK IMPORT VINYL! Pre-SUGARCUBES squat punk gear from the burgeoning BJORK repressed on 200gm DMM audiophile vinyl.
OneLittleIndian
LP
$30.00

K11
Voices From Thelema
PS, US A project of Italian sound/installation artist PIETRO RIPARBELLI that deals with the world of radio signals, trans-communication & other invisible phenomena, to
create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. An instrumental trans-communication action wth the short wave
radio receivers realized inside Thelema Abbey. Enhanced CD comes with a short film and a digipak with 32 page booklet with pictures & stills from the film
AuroraBorealis-029
CD
$16.25

Kiila
Tuota Tuota
PS, FINLAND This is the third full-length album by Finland's Kiila. Born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and meal-times, Tuota Tuota ("Well, Well") features an eight-strong core line-up -- but, as always, the composition of the group varies according to need. This is an album that consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of acoustic and electric instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before, and now, it is completely unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk, psych and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sounds. From Incredible String Band-ish folk-troubadour jams to gentle acoustic fireside ballads rendered in plucked guitar and scratchy fiddle lines ala Vetiver or Espers, to freakier space-jazz meanderings, this album's ultimate reward lies in its commitment to solid, glorious song-structure rooted in a long-established folk-rock tradition. The motifs in the songs are not easy to convey in English, but the titles reveal some clues: master of the house, elk antlers, tree bark, sound of rapids, fog, letters, calves, fingers. The words sound archaic, anachronistic or timeless, the language of myth, even -- but can it be something else, too? Tuota Tuota is an excellent culmination of Kiila's history and cultural landscape, proving them to be among Finland's finest founders of the new-growth forest sound.
Fonal-065
LP
$16.25

Kilgour, David & Sam Hunt
Falling Debris [RESTOCKING]
PS, NEW ZEALAND ***Restock shipment on the way from NZ, we'll ship asap.*** A new album from David Kilgour is always cause for a celebration - The Clean frontman and respected solo artist has been making consistently good records for almost 30 years now. However, with 'Falling Debris' he can't (and doesn't) take all of the credit himself. For this record David wrote and recorded all the music to the words of another iconic Kiwi - poet and national treasure Sam Hunt! Following an accidental meeting in Dunedin airport in 2007, Kilgour and Hunt hatched a plan to record an album of musical spoken word together. However, when Kilgour sat down and began singing Hunt's poems, he realised he was being inspired to write better & better music to accompany these special turns of phrase. Sung and played entirely by Kilgour and his band The Heavy Eights (Hunt never appears), 'Falling Debris' is the sound of a band already at one with each other - and 2 of NZ's most revered creative figures collaborating on some of the most affecting indie pop this side of a Clean album! Valuable, serendipitous and very highly recommended.
ArchHill-039
CD
$12.25

Kites/Earth Crown
Split
PS, US A cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci-Fi nightmares & strange out of body experiences. Annihilation synth & tape collage, cut up, sped up & dialed to oblivion. EARTH CROWN steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out & built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, & haunting life can be.
NightPeople
LP
$13.50

Kowalsky, Gregg
Tape Chants
PS, US A series made up of performances & compositions using tapes as the main source material, as well as mono speakers of various cassette players for the piece's amplification. Inspired by experiments with tape loops, cassette players & recorders, analog synths, sine oscillators, mixer feedback, contact mics & various acoustic sound sources. The studio version adds rhythmic textures to the once static drone compositions.
Kranky-131
CD
$12.25

Krefting, Matt
I Couldn't Love You More
PS, US Features appearances from SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN members.
EcstaticPeace-091
CD
$10.00

Kreng
L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu
PS, US These sample-based constructions incorporated sounds from free-jazz, new electronic-generated sounds, classical modernism & vintage geographical recordings. Discordant segments of wailing, top-end violins give way to clunking rhythmic passages of metal marimbas & tuned percussion; free-roaming passages of rasping, low-end bass & the shuffle of free-jazz recall the work of Prestige-era Moondog, as well as aspects of Harry Partch's instrumentation via mid- to latter-day period Tom Waits. Atonal ambiance & slow builds, eerie segues into low murk, & a haunting solo soprano voice are all pulled together to make perfect sense, often in terrifying ways. Limited edition GREEN VINYL
Miasmah
LP
$19.50

Kuni Kawachi & Friends
Kirikyogen
PS, US "After the release of the Challenge album in 1969 by the proto Flower Travellin' Band, Yuya Uchida brought in Kuni Kawachi, organist and leader of The Happenings Four. They spent the early part of 1970 putting together a series of recordings which were very melodic, but psychedelic and strung-out. This project surfaced as Kirikyogen by Kuni Kawachi & Friends, after the demise of The Flower Travellin' Band. Julian Cope rates Kirikyogen at number 25 in his top 50 Jap rock albums of all time: 'An entire album of classic songs, featuring the aforementioned Flower Gods in pole positions throughout. (Akira 'Joe' Yamanaka on lead vocal and Hideki Ishima on guitar). Moreover an early version of Flower's non-LP single 'Map' lurks within, hiding behind the title 'Music Composed Mainly By Humans.' While dry, spaced-out and highly original hard rocking ballads occupy side one, side two is possessed of a hitherto unseen acoustic side of Hideki Ishima's playing in the highly catchy 'Graveyard Of Love,' 'Classroom For Women' and the late Velvets-styled 'Scientific Investigation.' And while Joe's tonsils never get the same rigorous overhauling that his Flower cohorts demand, even his most gentle contributions herein showcase 'that' voice to perfection.'"
Erebus
CD
$16.25

La Roux
Quicksand
PS,US Featuring original track, plus Mad Decent remix #1 and Instrumental track. B-Side features "In For The Kill" Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix and instrumental
Interscope
12
$5.75

Lady GaGa
Love Game (Remixes)
PS,US Featuring original track, instrumental and a capella versions. Remixes include "Dave Aude Radio Edit," "Space Cowboy Remix," and "Robots To Mars Remix"
Interscope
12
$6.75

Leary, Timothy
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
PS, US 1st ever reissue of the album, originally released in 1966. In this unadorned spoken work recording, he presents his ideas on drugs, current events & cultural phenomena, w/ recollections of earlier experiences & experiments; all delivered in a straight ahead, quiet manner, even though the content is downright subversive & confrontational
ESP-Disk
CD
$12.75

Leary, Timothy
Leary On Drugs
PS, US "Psychedelic guru, Timothy Leary was a psychologist who experimented, wrote and lectured about his investigations of mind-expanding drugs. Here is a collection of just some of his effusive output, much of it written as it happened. Follow Leary as he drops acid at a prison with inmates, raises his children while the adults are 'swimming on a sea of jewels,' becomes incarcerated, escapes prison, and generally expounds upon the politics of mind-altering substances before and after they become 'controlled substances' in the U.S.A. This is an authorized collection of Leary's writings and lectures, and includes a dozen photos from the Timothy Leary Archive. Drawings by Jared Power." 192 pages, softcover, 9 x 6 inches.
Re/Search
BOOK
$18.25

Legends
Over and Over
PS,US A brilliantly modern mix of white noise, 60's girls pop, indie & krautrock. Hypnotic washes of distorted synthesizers & sweet bouncy melodies echoes under walls of feedback & crushingly loud shimmering guitars. Pure loveliness! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "have made a point of confounding expectations by engaging in dramatic shifts in style from album to album, with the only constant being Johan Angergård's unfailing way with a catchy melody. On 2009's Over and Over, almost none of the glossy new wave sheen of 2006's Facts and Figures remains; instead, Angergård indulges in a love of noise pop that takes the raw and lo-fi sound of their debut record, Up Against the Legends, and turns up the noise even louder (at least part of the time anyway). It's not the organic noise that comes from guitars and drums crackling with overloaded energy -- it's the white noise that amps make when they are pushed beyond control. It's the difference between a garage rock record of the '60s and the Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy."
Labrador
CD
$12.25

Lemonheads, The
Varshons
PS, US New covers album from Dando & Co. features tributes to Gram Parsons, Wire, G.G. Allin, Townes Van Zandt, Arling & Cameron, Leonard Cohen, Linda Perry and more. Also features duets with guest stars Liv Tyler and Kate Moss, if I'm reading this right. PASTE MAGAZINE: "The Lemonheads' latest-produced by Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes-plays like a Nick Hornby mixtape. With a little luck, this collection of mostly obscure covers could, on a smaller scale, do for Dando what the Rick Rubin-helmed American Recordings did for Johnny Cash."
TheEnd
CD
$14.25

Liechtenstein
Survival Strategies
PS,US Mixes the early-'80s post-punk of the Au Pairs & Kleenex w/ the buzzsaw pop of C-86 bands. RIYL: Love is All, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Vivian Girls.
Slumberland
CD
$10.00

Liechtenstein
Survival Strategies
PS, US Color vinyl 10 inch w/ free digital download code.
Slumberland
10
$10.00

Like Bells
S-T
PS, US Also available in LP! LIMITED. COMES WITH DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CODE
ExitStencil
LP
$12.50

Like Bells
S-T
PS, US Primarily instrumental band formed in 2006 by Oberlin students. Like Bells draws on a wide swath of musical influences, and evokes feelings of Dirty Three, Do Make Say Think, and Sigur Ros. The band transports the listener w/ melodies that are alternately simple, complex, beautiful and powerful
ExitStencil
CD
$9.25

Little Big Adventure
Hateful Eye
PS, US Cool & delicately poignant pop melodies mixed w/ hard distorted drums & warped synthesizers
Labrador
CD5
$7.25

Loop
World in Your Eyes [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Originally a 1987 singles collection, now re-released as a remastered 3CD set. All the band's 12-inches & compilation appearances are in chronological order, w/ some tracks from the very 1st demo, the "16 Dreams" single, Nick Drake & Neil Young songs, the "Prisma Uber Europa" live promo 12-inch, & even the Godflesh cover from their split on Clawfist.
Reactor
3XCD
$20.75

Loop
Gilded Eternity [expanded re-issue]
PS,US Their final album, 1st released in 1990. This 2CD set has been remastered from the original analog sources & includes extra material from the relevant timeframe. The original album in its entirety is on 1 disc, w/ bonus tracks, including Peel Session material & unreleased demos, on the 2nd disc.
Reactor
DCD
$17.75

Love Is All
Last Choice EP
PS, US Sweden's Love Is All are back with the ultimate tale of late night regret. "Last Choice", the stand out track from their release A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, is backed with five all new recordings. Expect the same fanciful anarcho charm that has defined Love Is All as one of the most exciting bands today.
WhatsYourRupture
CD5
$8.25

Love Is All
Last Choice EP
PS, US Vinyl. Sweden's Love Is All are back with the ultimate tale of late night regret. "Last Choice", the stand out track from their release A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, is backed with five all new recordings. Expect the same fanciful anarcho charm that has defined Love Is All as one of the most exciting bands today.
WhatsYourRupture
12
$9.50

Love Is All
Covers
PS,US Limited pressing of 500! The product of drinking & boredom, the members of Love Is All chose their favorite songs & jammed it. Covers include "Kung Fu On The Internet" (Lung Leg), "I Ran" (A Flock Of Seagulls), "So Far Away" (Dire Straits), "Golly Gosh" (Jed Dmochowski), and "Darling Nikki" (Prince).
WhatsYourRupture
12
$9.50

Low Anthem, The
Oh My God Charlie Darwin
PS, US
Nonesuch
CD
$13.50

Lull
Like a Slow River
PS, ITALY Glacial Movements is glad to announce the return of one of the most important representatives of ambient isolationist music ever: the wonderful English artist Mick J. Harris aka LULL (Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death). Like a Slow River is characterized by sharp and minimal atmospheres and dark, cold and huge bodies of ice which slowly move by an endless river. The five compositions of Like a Slow River reach the high expectations of the previous works such as Cold Summer, Continue and Murder Ballads trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You will be led to oblivion.... the freezing darkness of glacial night comes down on your body and mind.... you'll fall into your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial running ...the way to eternity is in front of you.
Tracks:
1. Whiteout (14:30)
2. The sheet (14:37)
3. Like a slow river (14:02)
4. Treeless grounds (12:25)
5. Illusion of unbroken surface (4:31)
GlacialMovements-004
CD
$16.25

Lullatone
Songs That Spin in Circles
PS, US Let Lullatone send you to sleep with their newest collection of lullabies. Originally composed for their newborn son, this set of merry-go-round melodies is the perfect bedtime background music for babies and adults alike. Each track is specially composed to loop seamlessly using the repeat one function on your CD or mp3 player, allowing unlimited long listening. Every melody can be enjoyed seamlessly for hours at a time as you drift to dreams, letting the songs spin in circles and the artwork also uses a special die cut cover to allow the music's disc to spin too! The album also features a high level of sound science to ensure ultimate effectiveness in snooze induction. Underwater recordings, heartbeats as drumbeats and tape hiss as ambient white noise are just the beginning of the shuteye science the duo employed to create their most careful concept album to date. Imagine Calder making sound pieces instead of mobile sculptures or a Raymond Scott's "Soothing for Babies", that babies actually enjoyed. Perhaps if Brian Eno had made Music for Airports For Babies it would sound like this. Or Sigur Ros on Nyquil? Beck has said that he played Lullatone songs in the past to his infant son and Momus has dubbed them "the cutest formalists in town." Lullatone is Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Seymour from Nagoya, Japan who have been releasing conceptual pop albums since 2002, creating artwork, touring the world, and even hosting a Japanese children's TV program. "Songs That Spin in Circles" is their sixth album.
AudioDregsRecordings-075
CD
$13.00

Lynn, Barbara
Here Is Barbara Lynn (DELAYED: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US Originally released on Atlantic in 1968, & featuring many of her Atlantic singles from the time period, this is the deep soul singer at one of the high points of her career. Features the hits "This Is The Thanks I Get" & "You'll Lose A Good Thing"
Water
CD
$14.50

Magick Daggers
Black Diamonds
PS, US 80's goth inspired group, featuring members of GET HUSTLE, SUB-TONIX & ANTIOCH ARROW. 6 gems including a stunning rendition of Marc Almond's "Emerald Ships." A throw-back to the days of early Siouxsie & the Birthday Party
ManimalVinyl-006
CD5
$4.75

Major Lazer
Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do
PS, US Major Lazer is the Grammy nominatied super producer duo of SWITCH and DIPLO - best known for their work with M.I.A. hit "Paper Planes." This album is a reggae and dancehall explosion just in time for summer with guest vocals for friends MAPEI, SANTIGOLD and AMANDA BLANK,
among others.
Downtown
CD
$15.75

Maplewood
Yeti Boombox (DELAYED: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US A NY band that cast its eyes westward, toward the golden shores of California & to the laidback legacies of the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Bros. & CSNY. Features guest performances from Gerry Beckley (AMERICA) & Alan Weatherhead (SPARKLEHORSE). The atmosphere may be a little snowier, & the mood a little spacier, but the Maplewoodian hallmarks are all there: lush harmonies, shimmering guitars, evocative storytelling, & gorgeous soundscapes
Tapete-159
CD
$18.00

Mardie, Montt
Skaizerkite
PS, SWEDEN There are so many things that I love about Montt Mardie. I'm a sucker for his voice. I'm head over heels for that shiny gleaming production, a sound that looks like a Vespa glinting in the Tuscan sun. I'm floating somewhere up with the stars riding on the rocketship of his soaring melodies. My head and heart go turning crazy summersaults in tune with those choruses that explode like roman candles across the cornflower skies of my dreams. Most of all though I love how he threads stories through all his records; how his characters revisit in different songs, each as perfect as the one before. And much as I admire Stuart Murdoch and as much as I like his God Help The Girl record concept and album, I can't help thinking that beside Montt Mardie's songs of Annie and Annabelle, they are left a little wan and pale. It's another hook up with Andreas Mattsson in which Annabelle appears, following up on the delicious "Surprised" on the Clocks duets album. This time around there's a "Wedding In June" and yes, of course that is as somberly romantic as you might expect. And of course Annie makes an appearance again, some four or five years after the High School and Phone Call Dramas. This time Montt rides a charging white horse proclaiming his love and it all sounds like some magnificent happy/sad carousel ride on amphetamines. Breathtaking. The more so since it kicks in after the utterly heartbreaking "Dungeons and Dragons" which frankly is the most desperately wry observation on insecurity and of relationships ending I think I've heard. May the force be with you - indeed.
Hybris-074
CD
$16.00

Margins
S-T
PS, AUSTRALIA The group aims to create sound where that illegitimate term "nothingness" becomes something. The 40 minutes of sound on this debut album contains moments of subtlety, joy, intensity, simplicity & intricacy
LowTransitIndustries
CD
$13.50

Mars Volta
Octahedron
PS, US New album!
WarnerBros
CD
$14.00

Mary Onettes
Dare
PS, US Imagine a Swedish equivalent of The National on a diet of speed & Go-Betweens singles. Three new songs.
Labrador
CD5
$6.50

Masada Quintet
Stolas: Book of Angels V12
PS,US Truly a jazz supergroup, these 5 master musicians explore Zorn's beautiful & exotic tunes w/ profound melodic & harmonic knowledge & a depth of feeling that is a joy to hear.
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

Mathieu, Stephan & Taylor Deupree
Transcriptions
PS, JAPAN 'Transcriptions', a collaborative work by Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Deupree, contains 8 tracks of music that is both historic, decayed, angelic and revolving, while also existing in warmth, purity, and transcendence through acoustic instruments, and vintage synthesizer.
Delving deeply into the history of the earliest recording methods through mechanical phonographs, Stephan Mathieu created a method using wax-cylinders, the predecessor of records, as well as 78s, which have a larger frequency range, to create his music through playback of these pieces of musical history. With a setup consisting of playing the cylinders through two portable gramophones, and then sending them directly into the computer by microphone, Mathieu was able to record the sounds, and perform software processing in realtime, rendering a resulting flow of deteriorated angelic elegance, decomposed beauty, and reborn awakenings.
From this result, Taylor Deupree worked with the recordings, adding acoustic instruments and vintage synthesizer; adding-to, while still maintaining the physicality of the 78s, opening the range of the tracks through unalloyed analog contributions. Upon first listening, it might be thought that the contributions of Taylor Deupree were merely additions to original material, but when listening further, once the music has breathed openly, it can be heard actually how much the cylinder recordings of Stephan Mathieu shape the open pathways of Deupree's acoustics, allowing for a breadth of incredible range. Not merely a compliment, but a modern counterpart.
Through nearly 48 minutes of music, self-described as warm and enveloping, these sounds represent the pivotal movements of the unique, the saturated, and the exploratory, all colliding in what may be sometimes a wave of revolving fuzz, swirling melodies of the supernatural and the human, the delicate echoes of single revolutions, and gentle plucks of the guitar. It is both a conversation, and a translation of both sides. Transcription, after all, means notating the unnoticed.
The result of the century-apart sources combined with the methodology and talent of these two leading experimentalists creates an immutable, impressing magnetism, while still balancing so gently on the vibrations of the decayed, and the frail humanity of the past. (text by Will Long / Celer)
Spekk-019
CD
$17.00

MC5
Back In The USA
PS, US Detroit's MC5 hold nothing back on Back In The USA and High Time, two early '70s dispatches from the front-lines of a war-torn nation. The Five's solution to the American Ruse: rock & roll with heart, guts and soul, punctuated with machine gun blasts of energy and hooks, and teen anthems which revel in the dynamic Guitar Army assault of Brother Wayne Kramer and Fred 'Sonic' Smith, the powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Michael Davis and drummer Dennis Thompson, and the insightful/inciteful vocals and lyrics of Rob Tyner. Exact repros on 180 gram vinyl, from the original analog master tapes.
Sundazed
LP
$19.00

McGlashan, Don
Show of Hands [original soundtrack]
PS, NEW ZEALAND Show Of Hands is a new NZ film directed by Antony McCarten and starring Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall and Stephen Lovatt, which features a soundtrack by Don McGlashan and released by Arch Hill Records. Don McGlashan composed and oversaw the soundtrack featuring performances by himself and his band The Seven Sisters, with guests including Anika Moa, Reb Fountain, Voom, James Ioelu, Sean Donnelly and more.
ArchHill-037
CD
$12.25

McGlashan, Don & The Seven Sisters
Marvellous Year
PS, NEW ZEALAND 2009 studio album from one of NZ's most revered singer-songwriters and former member of 80s 'agit-punk' band Blam Blam Blam, music/theatre/film duo The Front Lawn, and int'l chart-toppers The Muttonbirds. McGlashan has consistently produced songs that have not only achieved popular and critical success, they have, in many cases, become part of New Zealand's cultural psyche.
ArchHill-038
CD
$12.25

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol 6: Kamo
PS, US Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Beginning in January 2009 one volume of 13 Japanese Birds will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released January 2010. Each volume will be a one time pressing of 1000 copies. Available from Important Records is a deluxe hand made numbered bamboo box to hold the 13 cd collection. Cover art by Jenny Akita.
Important-256
CD
$13.25

Metric
Fantasies
PS, US Now on Vinyl! A densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro & rock, this album's dream like quality stays true to the band's aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory
MetricMusic-80019
LP
$18.00

Mi And L'au
Good Morning Jokers
PS, SPAIN Mira Anita Mathilda Romantschuk is an ethereal looking Finnish girl who sings like an elf, with a sharpened, chilly voice. She used to work as a model in Paris when she met Laurent Leclre, the composer and guitar player to whom Devendra Banhart dedicated "Gentle Soul".
Laurent had composed music for some films, and was plenty of inspiration, but he still had not been able to channel it. When he met Mi he found his own intense and indescribable musical language, as indescribable as the fire crackle or a January blizzard. The combination was perfect: "Imagine a glacier with ember inside", Michael Gira said when he produced their first work with Young God Records.
Mi & Lau stayed for a while in Paris until they decided to get lost in nature and lock themselves with their guitars in a hut, surrounded by snow, in the lost boreal moors. Cold, loneliness and music inspired such sonorities that the castrating marketing labels can't define, as many other times when it comes to real creators.
Lu declares that his roots are in the European classical music which is true in comparison to all North American pop, rock and jazz, but don't expect an expert display or academic formalism from Mi & L'au, but soul, strength and feelings. Such strong feelings expressed with so much harshness that can even make you feel pain while listening to the duo.
They've been 4 years around the World, visiting any place where people were well disposed towards their tender, queer and ghostly music. They've finally landed in the Mediterranean. Valencia, the hyper-cheerful and comfortable capital of the Spanish East coast, is their home now and it's been there where Mi and L'au have recorded their new work, "Good Morning Jokers". Don't you think that because they're in the bright flower's land, their work lacks melancholy and darkness of their characteristic sound?
Mistery and intelligence, tenderness and fear, beauty and misery combine in a disturbing and queer potion that is listened with pleasure, but at the same time makes the listener become uneasy, finding that suddenly is hidden away in somebody else's world, filled with an irresistible and unlikely beauty and ambiguous as sirens songs and fairies tears.
"Good Morning Jokers" is a deep and demanding new musical experience that won't leave anybody indifferent.
Borne/Acuarela-005
CD
$13.50

Miike Snow
S-T
PS,US Miike Snow is composed of Swedish duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, and American Andrew Wyatt. Karlsson and Winnberg are best known for producing Britney Spears's "Toxic" This album here is a collection of cute electronic twinged indie pop.
Downtown
CD
$15.75

Miike Snow
S-T
PS, US Miike Snow is composed of Swedish duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, and American Andrew Wyatt. Karlsson and Winnberg is best known for producing Britney Spears's "Toxic" Here is a collection of cute electronic twinged indie pop.
Dowtown
DLP
$19.00

Minsk
Ritual Fires Of Abandon
PS, US VINYL LIMITED TO 1000
GileadMedia
DLP
$17.50

Moby
Wait For Me
PS,US A radical departure from his recent albums. More experimental, a little more challenging, maybe not as easy to like, but more artistically & creatively satisfying
Mute
LP
$19.75

Modest Mouse
Autumn Beds b/w Whale Song
PS, US Limited edition! Second single "Autumn Beds" off of Modest Mouse's upcoming EP No One's First and You're Next. The new album is a collection of unreleased tracks from Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
Epic
45
$9.50

Monster Magnet
Spine of God [Bonus Track]
PS, US A glorious and unapologetic celebration of pure indulgence, Spine of God is the ultimate stoner goof, a brilliant satire of headbanger culture so pitch perfect that it's almost tempting to take it at face value. Bearing the warning "It's a satanic drug thing...you wouldn't understand," the record is a complete mind-fuck -- the production is positively viscous, a hallucinatory sludge of echo-drenched vocals, bone-rattling drums, and reverbed guitars which seem to stretch on into infinity; frontman Dave Wyndorf is like a shamanic idiot savant floating in a sea of bongwater, growling proclamations like, "If Satan lived in heaven, he'd be me" in the midst of deadpan fantasy freakouts which name-check every teenage metalhead staple, from Led Zep to Playboy to whippets. (There's even a toweringly psychedelic ode to everyone's favorite room deodorizer, "Ozium.") Monster Magnet's genius is that their music speaks directly to the audience it's poking fun at -- Spine of God's sheer sonic intensity is brain-warping stuff even without chemical additives, and its themes of sex, drugs, and evil are so hilariously over the top that it's impossible not to be charmed by the absolute mindlessness of it all. No matter what, proof positive that the road of excess leads anywhere but the palace of wisdom. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
SPV
CD
$11.25

Mos Def
Estatic
PS,US New album from new solo lp from Mos Def.
Downtown
LP
$19.00

Mothboy
Beg/Movement
PS, GERMANY A couple of years after his remarked "Deviance" second album, London's Mothboy returns to Ad Noiseam with this appetizer to his third full length, in the form of an energetic and bassy-as-ever EP, and brings his friends to the party.
The opening "Beg" is a perfect example of Mothboy's sense for dance floor tunes, with its huge sub-bass and strong basslines. Syncopated and addictive, it gets dirtier and more garage-oriented with a gritty remix by well-known Starkey. On the B-side, "Movement" is more of a nod toward Mothboy's persistent and acute taste in Hip Hop, as he pairs up with New York vocalist Kes Evergreen for a fast paced, epic but playful track which mixes grime, hip-hop and, as usual with this boy, heavy sharp basses. Ad Noiseam glitch-hop Lapsed and turntablist Nonnon finally take this song to turn it into a more intricate and breakbeat-rich track, while staying true to its original club feeling.
Mothboy is the stage name of London-based Simon Smerdon. After playing bass in several bands in the 90's, he focused his energy on electronic music, and quickly earned the praise of many peers, even regularly collaborating with Mick Harris of Scorn in the early 2000's. Besides numerous collaborations with acts such as 65daysofstatic, Akira The Don, and label mates Cardopusher and Mad EP, Mothboy has already released two full lengths albums and a single on Ad Noiseam. His third full album, "Bunny", is expected in the second half of 2009.
Adnoiseam-096-2
12
$11.00

Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, The
Succubus
PS, GERMANY After the corpses, the succubus. While rehearsing for their post "Mutations EP" shows, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble recorded a new improv session under their Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation moniker on the 15th of January 2009. Faithful to the original TKDE concept of drawing inspiration from movies, they recording what later became "Succubus" while watching Jess Franco's film of the same name. This iconic 1969 movie, with its strong erotic mood, fragmented story line and oneiric photography encompasses perfectly the goal and means of TKDE / TMFJDC, in the way the band builds mesmerizing, deep and otherworldly atmospheres.
More jazz-oriented than their heavier previous CD, "Succubus" leaves more room to Charlotte Cegarra's vocals and Hilary Jeffery's trombone, while the narrative is still led by Gideon Kiers (of Telco Systems)'s drums and Jason Kohnen (Bong-Ra)'s bass. Sensual, mysterious, pulsating and hazy, while "Succubus" is certainly not a new soundtrack to Jess Franco's film, it is definitely something to be listened to in one take, and conveys the same feeling of displacement and lust.
A new stone in the discography of the two headed entity that is TKDE / TMFDJC, "Succubus" displays the "corporation" in its most macabre yet entrancing side. Audio cinema has seldom sounded so lustful.
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is another name under which The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble record and release their improvised and more doom and drone oriented material. TMFDJC's first CD, the live "Doomjazz Future Corpses!" was released on Ad Noiseam in 2007. TKDE's "Mutations" was released on the label in early 2009, and will be followed by the band's second album, "Here Be Dragons", in the fall of 2009.
Adnoiseam-112-2
CD
$16.25

Naked On The Vague
Chitty Chat b/w Goodbye Dear Cliche
PS, US Australia's Naked on the Vague return for another two-sider of serious harsh downer vibes. Drum, synth, bass & vocal ferocity from
this male/female duo that comes out sounding like a surprisingly more danceable version of Whitehouse. Fans of last year's Skulltones 7-inch & Siltbreeze fulllength
won't be disappointed. The band will be touring the US with Blank Dogs.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

New Riders Of The Purple Sage
S-T
PS, US
Columbia-85388
CD
$7.75

Nice Face
Thing In My Head
PS, US Mid-tempo guitar & drum machine driven bedroom punk from this faceless one-man act. Clear the room at your next family function with this pair of unbalanced
ballads. Another great Mike Sniper designed cover.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Nice Face
Mnemonic Device
PS, US "Mnemonic Device" is a slower plodding mid-tempo song driven by a hypnotic repeating keyboard line & fuzzed out vocals. "Situation Is Facing Utter Annihilation" on the flip is the punkest Nice Face track to date bridging the gulf between disjointed no-fi punk rock & sinister synth & drum machine derangement. Keep an eye out for forthcoming live dates from this heretofore bedroom-only project.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Niobe
Blackbird's Echo
PS, US
Tomlab-125
CD
$12.25

Niobe
Blackbird's Echo
PS, US
Tomlab-125
LP
$14.25

Notes and Scratches
This Side
PS, US From Chicago - this collection of pop songs is described by Joshua Dumas, principal songwriter, as "the spaces between things: between past and present, remembering and forgetting, forever and never again." Using archaic and often broken equipment, the band coaxed these songs out of a guitar once owned by Neil Young and a temperamental organ that's appeared on many classic Americana records
Whistler
45
$4.00

Nurse With Wound
Alice The Goon
PS, US Previously a vinyl-only issue of 500 copies, available to a lucky few at the Nevers Festival in France. The CD version features 2 songs from the original release plus an additional, untitled piece.
UnitedJnana
CD
$16.00

Nurse With Wound
Spiral Insana
PS, US More ambient & user-friendly than other NWW outings, but still surreal & avant-garde. Here, Stapleton & guests mix bowed piano, percussion, a radio, & loops together into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sounds, jarring juxtapositions, buzzsaw distorion, & even a pipe organ. If that sounds
disorienting, that's because it is, both in description & execution.
UnitedJnana
CD
$16.00

Of Montreal
For Our Elegant Caste
PS,US 3rd single from "Skeletal Lamping." Side B is a remix by Depressed Buttons (Todd & Jacob of THE FAINT). Limited to 2,000 on colored vinyl. Includes digital download code w/ songs & bonus video
Polyvinyl
45
$4.25

Ofarim, Esther
In London
PS,US Vinyl version
BureauB
LP
$18.00

Ofarim, Esther
In London
PS,US Solo album from legendary Israeli folk/pop chanteuse, on CD for the 1st time. A gently shimmering necklace of poetic pearls, sung by one of the most sweeping, heart-rendingly beautiful voices in folk/pop history. Contains 3 bonus tracks
BureauB
CD
$18.00

OffonOff
Slap & Tickle
PS,US Massimo Pupillo, Terrie Ex & Paal Nilssen-Love recorded this gem live in concert at Kongsberg International Jazzfestival in July 2007. With the two tracks, Slap & Tickle on 32 & 16 minutes, they attack all senses with an exploding riot of free rock. If possible to describe, the music is in the midst of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth & of course Terrie's very own legendary band The Ex. All free improvised. Total freedom, total rock!
SmalltownSuperjazz
CD
$14.50

Ohbijou
Beacons
PS, US Born in the bedrooms of their family home in Ontario, bound with youthful frailty and unnerving beauty. Furnished
with mandolin, violine, piano, banjo, cello and an impressive array of other instruments, surely a 7 piece of orchestral pop force.
LastGang
CD
$14.25

Olive, Brian
S/T
PS, US A breakout multicolored affair that takes musical & lyrical cues from the British psychedelic '60s, as well as the soul-pop hit factories of Memphis & wanders through the erstwhile streets of the Ninth Ward
Alive-095
CD
$13.00

Olive, Brian
S/T
PS, US Limited to 800 on GREEN VINYL
Alive-095
LP
$13.00

Onna
S-T
PS, US Reissue of 1983 Japanese psychedelic masterpiece. Includes 2 outtakes from "Katawa," a solo piece from an obscure cassette release, & 4 live tracks from 1983 featuring a young Michio Kurihara (WHITE HEAVEN, GHOST, BORIS)
HolyMountain
CD
$13.50

Oophoi
Wurm Series 1
PS, ITALY Wurm is the name of the world's most recent glaciation that ended around 10,000 years ago. The term WÃœrm comes from a river in the Alps where the glaciation was first identified. During the height of glaciation most of Europe and Eurasia was open steppe-tundra, while the Alps presented solid ice fields and glaciers. Scandinavia and much of Britain were under ice. Immense white expanses...infinite silences...sunrays reflected by eternal ice fields...every release of this new series will be a circular, slowly-unfolding and ethereal long-form musical piece in which the artist will describe this endless Ice Age, it's eternal ice, the blinding white light, the abyssal silence. Music will transport the listener to peaceful and unexplored lands.
Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oophoi started his music experiment in 1995 to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His live album The spirals of time, released in 1997 by Amplexus, was voted as one of the best ambient albums of all time. Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva. He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, PrikosnovÃ(c)nie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol, Alio die, Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese.
Tracks: 1. An Aerieal View (65:09)
GlacialMovements-100
CD
$16.25

Other Girls
Perfect Cities
PS, US Perfect Cities is the first album by Cleveland, Ohio's Other Girls on Audio Eagle Records. Recommended for fans of Band of Horses, the Walkmen, the National, and Sound Team On songs like "Sleep A Year" and "The Facility," The Other Girls have managed to fuse the real life practicality and bottled romanticism of all
great pop rock bands, from The Replacements to The Smiths - bands from cold, matter of fact places where romanticism is a valuable commodity, that when accessed, is more beautiful, poignant, and rarified than any other. It's on songs like "Hey Fella, You Fell" the drifter, couch surfing nostalgia of young fathers
who both accept and resist the everydayness of their lives translates into a danceable pop song that makes you want to scream at your fate and embrace your ugly world all at the same time.
AudioEagleRecords-007
CD
$10.75

Owen/Rutabega
Split
PS,US Mike Kinsella (AMERICAN FOOTBALL, CAP'N JAZZ, JOAN OF ARC) & his nom de guerre is joined by the RUTABEGA (aka Josh Hensley). OWEN side features an alternate version of "Poor Souls" which appears on "No Good for No One Now" & also includes a solo version of American Football's "Never Meant." 3 songs from each, now available on vinyl for the 1st time
Polyvinyl
12
$10.00

Pandoras, The
It's About Time
PS, US Avoiding the sputter of careerist garage rock for a spectacularly bleary haunted house feel, It's About Time was a welcome alternative to art-punk, synth pop, and the power hunger of bands like X and the Cramps. That's not to say that the Pandoras didn't owe themselves to an extinct musical movement, but thanks mostly due to Paula Pierce, who fronted and wrote virtually everything here, rough charms like "Cry on My Own," "I Live My Life," and "Hot Generation," had a musicality to them that allowed the Easybeats-like throb to bob and sway instead of simply blaring out into a din. Years later, much of It's About Time still shines in its muddily produced, tonally confident swagger, remaining one of 1984's best garage-punk releases.
Voxx-021
LP
$11.25

Parasites
Solitary
PS, US It's simple - Parasites are one of the longest running and most influential pop punk bands ever. They helped define the genre, and never changed their sound to fit the latest trend. They've released eight albums, 20 singles, and have songs on more compilations than you can count. They've done 16 tours, and played nearly 1000 shows all over the US, Europe and Japan. Pop punk bands from all over the US, Europe, and Japan have recorded covers of Parasites' songs.
Parasites have done a lot, however, here are two things Parasites haven't done: sell out or give up. Solitary is their catchiest, rawest record yet and a perfect addition to Parasites amazing catalog.
KidTested-007
CD
$12.00

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: The Nicean Creedence Edition
PS, US Vinyl edition of one of the Pavement deluxe re-issues, "Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed." from 2008. A rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee", "BTC" received both critical acclaim and commercial success. This four-LP vinyl box set includes eight extra tracks not on the CD, several of which are previously unreleased. Also includes material from the CD version: the re-mastered original twelve song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session tracks. Super deluxe M-Pak accordion style box set, 16-page, 12" x 12" full color booklet, MP3 coupon, and huge essay by New Yorker critic Alex Ross. The wealth of extra material testifies to the extraordinary creativity of the band in this period.
Matador
4XLP
$75.00

Peaking Lights
Imaginary Falcons
PS, US BACK IN PRINT! Members Indra Dunis (NUMBERS/RAH DUNES) & Aaron Coyes (RAH DUNES) created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics,
pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, & Indra's warm drifting vocals. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age.
NightPeople
LP
$13.50

Pelican
Ephemeral
PS, US Vinyl only release from Chicago heavy-rock instrumental icons. This new material is much heavier, darker & very riff-oriented. Joining Pelican on the Earth cover "The Geometry of Murder" is none other than Dylan Carlson himself!
SouthernLord
LP
$13.50

Pentagram
Day of Reckoning
PS, UK
PeacevilleUk
CD
$13.00

Pharcyde
Soul Flower
PS,US This haute cut is taken from last year's frankly impressive Delicious Vinyl "RMXXOLOGY" album
DeliciousGutter
12
$6.75

Phenomenal Handclap Band
S/T
PS, US Equal parts anthemic, dancefloor-oriented & orchestral, borrowing elements from progressive rock, disco, electro, & psychedelia
FriendlyFire-013
CD
$12.00

Pink Noise, The
Dream Code
PS, US The first full-length release from this French Canadian guitar & electronics duo. Those who caught their track on Almost Ready's "World's Lousy With Ideas
Volume 2" comp have been craving another fix. Drum machines, pop-hooks, processed guitars, distorted vocals, boombox recording aesthetic.
SacredBones
LP
$15.50

Pink Noise, The
Gold Light
PS, US Canadian 2-piece return for their second release on Sacred Bones. Last year's Dream Code LP ended up topping most people's best of 2008 lists. Electronic &
organic drumming with staccato punk guitar blasts--think the Residents played through a Big Muff. A double sider of deranged bedroom punk that shames the dozens of one-man-bands hunched over a Tascam trying to make a cheap knockoff of the original. The record sounds like it was mastered through a boombox onto a thriftstore cassette.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Pink Skull
Drugs WIll Keep Us Together
PS, US EXCLUSIVE! Debut release from this new UK imprint, with this floor-working cut given great reworks by 33Hz and TREVOR LOVEYS (Freerange, etc).
SavantGuard
12
$8.25

Pioulard, Benoit
Flocks
PS, US TOUR-ONLY SINGLE! Two new long tracks on a 33rpm 7". Maginot features gorgeous vocals & acoustic guitar. Alaskan Lashes is a smear of found sounds & ambient tones. Housed in a heavy card sleeve, a mini lp style sleeve, complete with title on the spine. Pressed on very pretty, pale YELLOW vinyl. Limited to 500 copies!
BlueFlea-016
45
$8.00

Placebo
Battle For The Sun
PS,US Their first studio abum in over three years.
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Plankton Wat
Dawn of the Golden
PS, US Debut solo LP by Dewey Mahood of Portland psych-jammers ETERNAL TAPESTRY. Blissed-out drone punk rippers & super chill deep space folk. Total late night stoney textures, & radiant sun anthems. Acoustic & electric guitar, drums, banjo & some singing, all mega tripped w/ syrupy analog delay. Really beautiful heavy zoners. Edition of 500 on marbled red vinyl.
DNT
LP
$13.50

Plastic Ono Band
Live Peace In Toronto
PS,US ORDER MUST BE PLACED BY 3/27. SPECIAL ORDER! LTD ED 180gm LP vinyl audiophile pressing. Original spiral bound 1970 calendar w/ photos. NO RETURNS!
Capitol
DLP
$27.50

Plastique De Reve
Lost In The City: Remix
PS,US 2 remixes of "Lost In The City." 40 THIEVES take it into another dimension by dropping the vocal, slowing the track down a notch, & adding a mesmerizing soundscape to the acidic elements of the original. JUAN MACLEAN present an energized, tough cut. Rife w/ stabby synthesizers & clean drum sequences, the intensity erupts into a psychedelic trip backed by a jacking groove
SupersoulRecordings
12
$12.75

Pop, Iggy & James Williamson
Kill City
PS, US Released on Bomp in 1977, Kill Ciy captures Iggy Pop in a rare moment of vulnerability and few can argue that in terms of the quality of material and the strength of Iggy's voice, this is an overlooked achievement.
Bomp!-4042
CD
$13.00

Pop, Iggy & James Williamson
Kill City (PINK VINYL reissue)
PS, US Released on Bomp in 1977, Kill Ciy captures Iggy Pop in a rare moment of vulnerability and few can argue that in terms of the quality of material and the strength of Iggy's voice, this is an overlooked achievement. The vinyl has been out of print for a couple of years and this new pressing is on pink vinyl, limited to 800 copies.
Bomp!-4041
LP
$13.00

Portland Cello Project
The Thao & Justin Power Sessions
PS, US Portland Cello Project is a group of cellists from Portland, OR. This album, their first on Kill Rock Star, includes collaboration with Thao Nguyen of Thao With The Get Down Stay Down as well as local musician Justin Power. As would be expected of PCP, the remainder of the album showcases cello sublimity and madness: from a Pantera cover, to a solemn religious piece by John Tavener.
KillRockStars-508
CD
$13.00

Post Honeymoon
S-T
PS, US Newlywed band of vocalist/keyboardist Rachel Shindelman & drummer/bassist/vocalist Nick Kraska played together in popular synth-punk outfits
BANG! BANG! & NEW BLACK. Following the demise of those bands & their ensuing marriage, Nick & Rachel began winning over Windy City audiences with their stripped-down & dark, churning rock. Echos the sultry & urgent sounds of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Motels, Suicide, & Love & Rockets
TwoThumbsDown
CD
$10.25

Powerhouse
S-T
PS, UK "Perhaps the most legendary of all Japanese rock musicians, Shinki Chen is Japan's most celebrated guitarist. Before going on to form Food Brain, Speed, Glue & Shinki et al, Shinki worked with vocalist Eiji Takamura, who took the stage name 'Chibo' under several different band names (Midnight Express Blues Band, Bebes). As the Bebes, they recorded their own version of The Beatles' 'Back in the USSR' for Toshiba Records, slowing it down to a crawl resulting in the longest song ever to make it on to 7" single. And in the process, Shinki's friend George Yanagi (Strawberry Path, Flied Egg) joined as bass player as the band changed its name yet again, this time to Powerhouse. Shinki and Chibo prided themselves on having hair as long as that of their English heroes, and refused to sing in Japanese or wear the de rigueur Beatles-inspired Group Sounds uniforms of the day. Powerhouse played no original songs, but their cover versions were enormously long and unfolding things, their version of The Yardbirds' 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' and the inevitable 'Spoonful' both clocking in at over a quarter of an hour each. Presented here is their sole LP, which was originally released in April 1969."
Erebus
CD
$16.25

Present
Way We Are
PS, US 2LP version.
Loaf
DLP
$21.50

Present
Way We Are
PS, US Touchstones include the music of La Monte Young, Dmitri Shostakovich, Wolfgang Voigt, Cluster, Black Dice, Aphex Twin, Can, Arthur Russell, Boredoms, & Brian Eno.
Loaf
CD
$16.00

Pretty Things, The
Phillippe Debarge
PS, US Repressed. "1969: S.F. Sorrow is done and dusted. Parachute is yet to come. The Pretty Things are at their creative peak... with no outlet in sight. Enter Philippe Debarge: Frenchman, playboy, and Pretty Things superfan. He commissions the band to write and produce an album for him. Debarge and the five Pretty Things duly enter Nova Studios, one of London's first eight-track facilities. With access to this new technology they experiment with multi-tracking and an array of psychedelic effects. Debarge sings lead, and the Pretty Things play and sing everything else on a stunning set of 12 May/Waller originals in the classic late '60s Pretty Things style, many of them never recorded by the band before or since. Acoustic, fuzz and backwards guitars abound, along with Mellotron, harpsichord and the unmistakable heavenly three-part harmonies of Phil May, Wally Waller and Jon Povey. The album is completed, but never released. Until now. Limited edition deluxe vinyl edition. Just 1,000 pressed. Heavy duty glossy color LP jacket with insert and full liner notes by Mike Stax."
UglyThings
LP
$30.00

Push-Pull
Between Noise And The Indians
PS, US This Bloomington, Indiana band's sound lies somewhere in between high-brow prog and low-brow, PBR-soaked basement punk. With Between Noise and the Indians, it seems the trio have sharpened their wit and crafted their musical skills into something unique and undeniably important.
Their triumphant sound is challenging by nature, but never succumbs to prog's esoteric tendencies or masturbatory "time signature stuffing". Using their brains and their balls, Push-Pull manage to effortlessly shuffle time-signatures while displaying an endless supply of hooks behind the walls of aggressive noise and pummeling beats.
JoyfulNoise-033
CD
$11.25

Quest For Fire
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
TeePee
LP
$14.75

Quest For Fire
S-T
PS, US "Toronto's Quest For Fire conjure up the original root of psychedelia with the raunch, muscle, and oscillations of Hawkwind and Comets On Fire, and Pink Floyd's sensory panorama, all resting on a simplistic, plodding Spacemen 3 thump...The band's sound comes across fully realized, they possess a signature sound, something a band usually gets to once they're already a couple of records deep" - Montreal Mirror. "Quest For Fire's debut could be the rallying point to unite aged Hendrix hippies and new-school Dead Meadow bong-loaders alike...proof that whatever fire these dudes are searching for has most definitely been found" - Eye Weekly.
TeePee
CD
$13.00

Quiet Ones, The
Better Walk Than Ride Like That
PS, US BWTRLT, the third album by Seattle band the Quiet Ones has been described as krautrock, Americana, pop and everthing in between. Recorded in homes and basements while a nomadic John Totten, along with siblings David and Chris, transitioned from the Southeast to the Northwest, BWTRLT stands as a lo-fi yet epic story of love and geography. From the R.E.M. influenced instant classis "Girls & Uniforms" to the Neu! homage "The Summer of Down and Out" to the Beatlesesque "Meet Me In Chicago", BWTRLT never ceases to satiate any rock nerd's thirst for genre bending. BWTRLT has received early praise from KEXP and The Stranger.
InAdvance-05
CD
$12.25

R.E.M.
Murmur [remaster, re-issue]
PS, US 2009 remaster.
A&M
LP
$24.50

R.E.M.
Reckoning: 25th Anniversary Edition [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Includes a remastered version of the original album, as well as a bonus disc of a previously unreleased Chicago concert from the group's 1984 "Little America" tour. That performance features eight of the 10 tracks from "Reckoning," along with "Gardening at Night" from 1982's "Chronic Town" EP and "Radio Free Europe," "9-9" and "Sitting Still" from 1983's "Murmur." Two songs from later albums--"Driver 8" from 1985's "Fables of the Reconstruction" and "Hyena" from 1986's "Life's Rich Pageant"--also made the concert and subsequent bonus disc.
IRS/Universal
DCD
$28.50

R.E.M.
Reckoning [remaster, re-issue]
PS, US 2009 remaster.
A&M
LP
$24.50

Red House Painters
Songs For A Blue Guitar [Delayed]
PS, US Recorded w/ a new backing band this is the 1st RHP record on which Mark Kozelek really lets his rock chops loose, a forerunner to his more recent, critically acclaimed, work w/ SUN KIL MOON. Alongside brilliant originals are 3 covers, highlighting his interpretive skills, of Yes ("Long Distance Runaround"), the Cars ("All Mixed Up"), & Wings ("Silly Love Songs"). On vinyl for the very 1st time anywhere, 180 gram 2LP. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Plain
DLP
$22.50

Rio en Medio
Frontier
PS, US Written in the snow solitude of the woods - its subject imagines an awakening & an evolution through human spiritedness, the raw choosing of life in the face of wonders, terrible & sublime, dreamed & actual. Traversing wildernesses, imaginary & tactile, mystical & cinematic, a transformation occurs from star matter to actual human heart. Prior releases were issued by Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong label (2008).
ManimalVinyl-012
LP
$15.75

Rio en Medio
Frontier: Deluxe Edition
PS,US This deluxe edition CD includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks & a video for the track "The Umbrella"
ManimalVinyl-012
CD
$10.75

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

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

Ritual
Beneath Aging Flesh And Bone
PS, US To put it simply, Ritual is a hardcore punk band: a group of four young passionate musicians who combine their individuality to form a statement against the mental and emotional downfalls of society and the hardcore punk scene. In these times where life is defined by numbers and not by values, Ritual is set to be an inspiration for a new state of mind and heart. Their strong roots in '90s edge cannot be denied musically, politically or emotionally.
In the five years of their existence, the band has released two demos. Two years after the release of Wolves, Ritual has matured and teenage angst turns to adult despair and frustration. Beneath Aging Flesh And Bone is their most reflective and darkest material to date.
Watch out for this band in 2009, as they will unleash a rage on stage and in your heart.
ReflectionsWords-104
CD
$12.00

Roxy Music
Stranded
PS,US LTD ED 180gm audiophile pressing, comes w/ gatefold jacket & poster of the cover.
Capitol
LP
$20.25

Roxy Music
Country Life
PS,US 180gm audiophile pressing, comes w/ printed sleeve w/ lyrics & poster of the cover.
Capitol
LP
$20.25

Royal City
S-T
PS, US This previously unreleased collection of songs tells the story of the group. Tracing punk's spiritual heritage back to Woody Guthrie & Bob Dylan, AARON RICHES found himself drawn to the acoustic guitar & began writing softly strummed songs about streetlights & Shakespeare & dogs & broken hearts, all sung in his creaky, distinctive voice. NO EXPORT
AsthmaticKitty-047
CD
$11.50

Royal City
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
AsthmaticKitty-047
LP
$12.25

Rusted Shut
Dead
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$12.50

Rusted Shut
Dead
PS,US Houston's Rusted Shut has been at it in one form or another since 1986 at least. This record is the work of a band determined to work out some difficult shit, so bear witness. Dead is not for the faint of heart or those with weak kidneys. Don Walsh spins a negative vortex of such power that clothing, food wrappers & other loose items are easily sucked into its encompassing downer orbit. The music backing this maelstrom references hard rock superheroes with no sense of fidelity: The tinittus of Lemmy Kilmeister & the cochlea pain of GG Allin
Load
CD
$12.50

Sabertooth Zombie
Do You Think That Your Fathers Are Watching? That They Weigh.
PS, US This is Sabertooth Zombie's newest release featuring 18 brand new tracks. The is the band's best material to date.
TwelveGauge-020
CD
$10.50

San Francisco Express
Getting It Together
PS,US Jazz/funk intergalactic space odyssey recorded in 1975. The group is led by Moog/Synthesizer virtuoso Dr. Patrick Gleeson, who is the mastermind behind the 1970's landmark albums by Herbie Hancock & Charles Earland. Woody Shaw is featured on the album blasting out Miles Davis inspired trumpet solos over spaced-out synthesizers infused w/ heavy drum breaks & a psychedelic horn section. The album masterfully blends Street-Corner Funk w/ Cosmic Soul Jazz
FamilyGroove
LP
$21.00

Sauvage, Tomoko
Ombrophilia
PS, US "Sauvage, a Paris-based Japanese musician, uses water-filled porcelain bowls for her electro-acoustic performances and compositions. The use of hydrophones (underwater microphones) allows her to capture the subtle sound of water waves and drops resonating in porcelain bowls. The serene, contemplative aquatic soundscape is woven from these fragile materials." -- Wire magazine
"The music I love most right now is a preview of Ombrophilia, the debut album by my friend Tomoko Sauvage, due from Seattle label and/OAR later this year. Ombrophilia means 'an abnormal love of rain'. Tomoko uses wooden cooking spoons to strike and stir Chinese rice bowls filled with water. The wobbly, chiming vessels turn tuned water into a sort of natural synthesizer, complete with organic forms of envelope, modulation, pitchbend and decay. Track titles like 'Amniotic Life' reveal that she's drawn inspiration from the fluid sounds of her recent pregnancy - her own internal 'waters' and the new life moving within them. This is super-quiet music, filled with something sweeter and sexier than rock's morbid, normative love of pain. When Tomoko plays it live, water dripping from a pierced polythene bag hung from the ceiling not only adds a kind of random percussion, but scatters reflections off the lit water surface across the walls and ceiling. The result is soothing, seductive and sensual, like a long hot bath. I could soak in it forever." -- Momus, Wire magazine
Either/Oar-3
CD
$11.50

Scene Is Now
Total Jive
PS, US With a sound which was distinctly New York - equal parts Velvets/Feelies strum, angular geekoid rock a la Television/Talking Heads & choppy avant rhythms straight from the no wave - the band also melded influences from such disparate sources (The Fall, Minutemen, Bob Wills) that they remain a tough band to musically pin down
LexiconDevil
CD
$16.25

Scott, Gloria
What Am I Gonna Do
PS, US Originally released on the Casablanca label in 1974. Produced by Barry White, this album has achieved almost cult-like status & has been out of print on CD for several years. This new edition includes a bonus track in the instrumental "What Shall I Do" as well as the title track & the northern soul classic "(A Case Of) Too Much Love Makin'"
ReelMusic
CD
$16.00

Screamfeeder
Kitten Licks (Deluxe reissue)
PS, AUSTRALIA In 1996 Brisbane's Screamfeeder released what was to become their breakthrough album, the hit-fuelled KITEN LICKS. The band had parted with original drummer Tony Blades the previous year, and the drum stool was filled by a newcomer on the scene Dean Shwereb. Still cited to this day as one of Australia's top drummers, Dean's arrival sparked a whirlwind of inspiration for the songwriting team of Tim Steward and Kellie Lloyd. The new songs came in a rush and were fresh, fast and melodic as the band stepped up from their grunge and low fi indie rock roots to a new plateau of punk pop perfection.
The album was recorded by Paul McKercher over a rainy fortnight in the Northern NSW hinterland and released shortly afterwards. The first single was Dart, a song the band had been showcasing live to rapturous response, and with its off kilter beat and playground chant chorus it was an instant classic. The song flooded the airwaves, shortly followed by subsequent singles Static and Gravity.
Screamfeeder toured for almost 2 years solidly on the back of Kitten Licks and became media darlings and festival favourites in the process. Kitten Licks secured the band an international record contract, with Time Bomb records in California, and the album was released worldwide in 1998. Kitten Licks still tops many peoplesâ€(tm) Top Australian albums of all times lists, and the band still holds a special place in the hearts of Australian music fans who came of age during the frantic and exciting days of the mid 90s.
Screamfeeder will play the entire Kitten Licks album, as well as selected b-sides. Along for the ride will be 90s heavyweight indie gods MIDGET. Both bands were part of the explosion of Brisbane noisemakers that dominated the touring and live scene back when indie rock was king.
Screamfeeder went on to release two more critically acclaimed albums, Rocks On The Soul (2000) and Take You Apart (2003), and have subsequently released a singles album and an EP of new material, in 2005. The members are involved with a host of other musical activities, but the band haven't split up, and are considering writing a new album this year.
*Brisbane's best loved and longest running indie rock band has played in 10 countries & produced 8 albums, countless singles and EPS.
*Screamfeeder are a 3 piece noisy pop / indie rock band from Brisbane Australia. Lovers of loud and beautiful music since the day they were each conceived, they have been compared to all the greats; Husker Du, The Jam, GBV and The Who. Comparisons aside they rock in their own unique / sublime / chaotic way. Contradictions and dualities abound within Screamfeeder, and therein lies their beauty.
*Their 6th studio album, 2003's "take you apart" prompted a whirlwind of activity for the band; dates in the UK and US, an appearance at SXSW in Texas, and a US release for the album [through In Music We Trust in Portland Oregon], and they undertook their first tour to Japan in September 2005.
Screamfeeder may be old dogs on the Australian music scene but their pedigree remains impeccable - 2004 saw the release of their 21 track "singles and more" album, demonstrating their furious work ethic and consistent stream of great output from over a decade and a half.

Tracks:
01 Static
02 Bridge Over Nothing
03 Dart
04 Bruises
05 Explode Your Friends
06 Down The Drinker
07 Dead To The World
08 Gravity
09 Ant
10 End Of The Wire
11 Broken Ladder
12 Pigtails On A Rock
13 Harlan
14 Summertime
15 All You Can Know
16 Fooferon
17 Oh Tom
18 Early Talker
19 Dart (demo version)
LowTransitIndustries-097
CD
$13.50

Seasons
Undone
PS,US Collaboration project by an international assemblage of accomplished musicians in the realm of jazz, electronic, & indie-rock. This merges beautiful acoustic instruments w/ high-tech electronics, allowing the individual talents of the musicians to shimmer - the chords vibrating, the beats earth-shaking
CityCentreOffices
CD
$16.25

Section 25
Nature + Degree
PS, UK LTM are pleased to present the sixth studio album from cult Factory Records group Section 25, titled Nature + Degree.
Formed in Blackpool (UK) by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, the band were initially mentored by Joy Division, and went on to record four albums with Factory Records between 1980 and 1986. The first of these, Always Now, combined harsh post-punk with spacey psychedelia, and was produced by Martin 'Zero' Hannett. Their third, From The Hip, produced in 1984 by Bernard Sumner of New Order, explored techno and electronica, and spawned the oft-sampled club hit Looking From A Hilltop.
After a decade apart Section 25 decided to regroup, releasing acclaimed album Part-Primitiv in 2007, and playing a string of powerful live shows across Europe , several with guest Peter Hook. A best-of album Dirty Disco was issued in 2008. Now recognized as a leading genre band, three Section 25 tracks were included in the recent Warners box set Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992, and From The Hip was lauded as one of '1000 albums to hear before you die' by The Guardian newspaper.
Nature + Degree is their sixth studio album, self-produced in April 2009 and featuring new members Stuart Hill and Steve Stringer. Larry and Vin are also joined by Beth Cassidy, whose vocal style recalls that of her late mother Jenny on From the Hip and Love & Hate. Stand-out tracks include Singularity, Remembrance, Garageland and Saddled With Something.
LTM-2536
CD
$15.00

Silver Apples
Contact
PS, US 180 gram vinyl reissue, originally released in 1969. Hints at the shock mentality of Suicide, the drone of Spacemen 3, & the electronic dalliance of Stereolab decades later
Kapp
LP
$19.50

Sister Suvi
Now I Am Champion
PS, US Full length debut from members of ISLANDS and TUNE-YARDS. The progressive 3 piece uses folk finger-picking, dancehall rhythems and art-rock ideals in a format that usually includes guitar, ukulele, drums and baroque pop vocals, provided by all band members.
CommonCloud
LP
$13.25

Six Finger Satellite
Half Control
PS, US Archival 2001 recordings from Providence's finest square peg. Half Control veers sharply away from the krautrock stylings
of 1998's Law Of Ruins with a lineup that is hotwired. The band is now a bastardly other brother, including LANDED's most regular rhythm section grafted onto SFS's singer Jay Ryan and drummer Rick Pelletier.
Load-125
CD
$12.50

Six Finger Satellite
Half Control
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load-125
LP
$12.50

Sleep
Holy Mountain [expanded 2009 re-issue]
PS, US Rereleased with bonus and video.
Earache
CD
$15.25

Sleepy Sun
Embrace
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
ATP-033
LP
$14.75

Sleepy Sun
Embrace
PS, UK Formed in Santa Cruz and now based in San Francisco, the intense sextet of Sleepy Sun release their breathtaking debut album, Embrace. Whether droning madly, spiraling into cascades of infinitely-echoing vocals or kicking back with their blissed-out take on classic Americana rock, Sleepy Sun are a band that has made many sit up and take immediate notice. Recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia, in January 2008, the album embodies the quintessential sound of West Coast psychedelia updated for the late noughties. "Golden Artifact" was conceived in the band's Santa Cruz living room, nicknamed The Dungeon for its low ceilings, low lighting, and various smells, and sounds like a dark incantation, "Lord" is a beautiful, melancholy, shuffling piano-tinged ballad, warmed by the light of the sun, and "New Age" harkens Brightblack Morning Light's hazy harmonies, ending with a thunderous freakout, written after watching every Hellraiser and Jim Henson film in succession. Comprised of Brian Tice (drums), Jack Allen (bass), Rachael Williams (vocals, haberdashery & interpretive dancing) Bret Constantino (vocals & harmonica), Evan Reiss (guitars) and Matt Holliman (guitars), the band met in the counter-cultural hub city of Santa Cruz, California, citing pizza, horticulture, and Neil Percival Young as common interests. Drawing musical inspiration from Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Can and Creation Records, they forged their sound in intense jam-sessions, as heavy and as beautiful as redwoods meeting the ocean.
ATP-033
CD
$12.75

Smith, Gizelle & The Mighty Mocambos
Working Woman
PS, US The raw old school funk sound of Mocambo has caught the attention of many DJs & funk enthusiasts worldwide
KayDee
45
$6.75

Snider, Todd
The Excitement Plan
PS, US
YepRoc-2202
CD
$14.75

Snider, Todd
The Excitement Plan (DELUXE)
PS, US Street corner prophet and good time buddy, Todd Snider, has been championing the overlooked and underappreciated for over fifteen years. This year he's back with The Excitement Plan, an album the combines social commentary, gypsy recession recovery plan and soul-folk in to one unified masterpiece. Self-awareness never sounded so good as Todd and crack sidemen Jim Keltner and Greg Liesz team up with Grammy-winning producer Don Was (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones) for an album that exemplifies Snider's by-your-wits lifestyle and once-an-age lyricism.
The Excitement Plan ranges from the boozy tonk of Loretta Lynn duet Don't Tempt Me to the earnest soul searching of Greencastle Blues. The brilliant Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number Ten) seems to sum up Snider in a song - gracious and grounded, yet longing to write a song or two that would warrant getting too big for his britches. With The Excitement Plan, Snider may have done just that.
YepRoc-2208
CD
$34.25

So Many Dynamos
Loud Wards
PS,US For the past 6 years this Illinois group have been developing their own highly evolved brand of indie rock that touches on math rock, dance punk and indie pop. The band have already built up a loyal fanbase by touring w/ the likes of Death Cab For Cutie and Cursive.
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek
Redrawn
PS, NL Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek's 'Drawn' album remixed and covered.
Machinefabriek-01
CD
$16.75

Social Junk
Born Into It
PS, US Following their serious slice of deliciousness on Not Not Fun last year, this stretches across the lands w/ thudding percussion & hypno synth excursions. Waves of swirling vocals from both Heather Young & Noah Anthony. This is music for the next wave; music to find your way back to the sun.
Digitalis
CD
$11.00

Sonic Youth
The Eternal
PS, US VINYL VERSION! Double LP hyper-deluxe HQ 180 RTI vinyl analog in heavy duty Stoughton gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves, and MP3 coupon.
Matador
DLP
$28.25

Sonic Youth
The Eternal
PS, US After years on Geffen Records, Sonic Youth return to an indie label with their sixteenth studio album. "The Eternal" is a supercharged rocker, recalling aspects of the Evol-Sister-Daydream Nation holy trinity, but with cleaner, louder production and more straightforward momentum. With Pavement's Mark Ibold joining on bass, and producer John Agnello back at the controls, "The Eternal" takes the melodic songwriting of 2006's "Rather Ripped" and slams down the accelerator pedal. Initial pressing in a 4-panel wallet with two printed inner sleeves; one containing disc, the other a sticker and card with credits. Subsequent pressings are jewel case.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Sparks, Tim
Little Princess: Tim Sparks Plays Naftule Brandwein
PS,US Another fabulous CD of traditional Jewish music arranged for fingerstyle guitar & performed by the wonderul trio of TIM SPARKS, GREG COHEN & CYRO BAPTISTA
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

Specials
S-T
PS, US LTD ED 180gm audiophile pressing of the original US version.
Capitol
LP
$20.25

Spectrum
War Sucks
PS, US The EP features two covers: a re-worked version of the Red Crayola classic "War Sucks" & Laurie Anderson's overlooked
gem "Walking & Falling", plus two originals Over & Over and Razzle Dazzle Mind. The four tracks cover the whole gamut of Spectrum's take on pop, psychedelia, rock & experimental sounds.
MindExpansion
CD5
$9.00

Spoon
Got Nuffin
PS, US Surprise 3-song single, in stock now! Tracks: "Got Nuffin", "Tweakers" and "Stroke Their Brains".
Merge
CD5
$4.00

Stardeath & White Dwarfs
The Birth
PS, US
WarnerBros
CD
$14.00

Starflyer 59
S-T (Silver)
PS, US 15 years after its initial release, Starflyer 59's seminal debut full lenth is being reissued on vinyl for the very first time. LIMITED to 500 copies on 180gram, cut from the original master recordings.
CrossroadsOfAmerica
LP
$15.00

Stone Breath
Silver Skein Unwound Expanded
PS,US Rural acid folk, informed by the furrowed fields & green forests, shaded by falling leaves & falling dreams; time-worn, weird, blood-red, rattled & ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in mouldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. Here expanded with a previously unreleased song from the same sessions Ð includes the original illuminated color lyric booklet housed in special packaging
Hand/Eye
CD
$12.50

Subhumans
World's Apart
PS,US Reissue, remastered, restored artwork
Bluurg
CD
$15.00

Subhumans
Time Flies / Rats
PS,US Reissue, remastered with restored artwork
Bluurg
LP
$17.00

Subhumans
World's Apart
PS,US Reissue, remastered, restored artwork
Bluurg
LP
$17.00

Subhumans
Time Flies / Rats
PS,US Reissue, remastered with restored artwork
Bluurg
CD
$15.00

Subway
Subway II
PS, US Despite the title, this is the debut album from the UK duo, with influences of Krautrock, 80's Detroit techno, and Giorgio Moroder all on show.
SoulJazz
CD
$16.25

Suetta
Olympic Stain
PS, US Lost noisy indie rock chestnuts that recall the sound of their era's peers & influences while forging a shaky, endearing & unique sound of their own. Very limited
handnumbered edition.
Summersteps
LP
$13.50

Sun Araw
Heavy Deeds
PS, US Long Beach psych-journeyman Cameron Stallones follows up last year's Beach Head LP with a whole new universe of Sun Araw action. Heavy Deeds finds him ditching the coast and roaming inland. The grooves are hairier, heatstroked, howling. Still soaked in wah and farfisa mirage but closer in spirit to some of the wild electricity stomps of The Phynx. 5 tracks, all hits. Mastered by James Plotkin." Includes bonus track not on vinyl version.
NNF-169
CD
$13.75

Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Jagjaguwar-140
DLP
$12.25

Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer
PS, US SUNSET RUBDOWN was once the moniker under which Spencer Krug released low fidelity solo recordings. The project has long since evolved into a full band, and "Dragonslayer" is the third full-length recorded by the whole group. Besides Krug, it features the three musicians who originally signed on: Jordan Robson-Cramer on drums, guitar and keys, Michael Doerksen on guitar and bass, and Camilla Wynne Ingr on keys, percussion and vocals. And now, for the first time, newest member Mark Nicol can be heard on bass, drums, and percussion. With the new album, the band wanted to try something completely different. It was a very conscious decision, and not a "natural progression." The result is an album that feels honest, natural, and straightforward. The musicianship is left in the open, unassisted by studio magic, and the songs are left to justify for themselves their own screwy pop-rock existence. "Dragonslayer" was recorded in the fall of 2008. Sunset Rubdown hope that the true strength of this new album is a hidden complexity that emerges slowly from within the straight production and raw musicianship, and from what sounds at first to be an only slightly skewed approach to pop. They hope it's like that one friend of yours who looks unassuming and normal, but once you get to know him it's obvious he's basically crazy.
Jagjaguwar-140
CD
$11.50

Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Jagjaguwar-140
DLP
$12.25

Sweptaways, The
The Sweptaways Show
PS, US The Sweptaways have put on their cocktail dresses and are standing in the bar, batting their fake eyelashes. Glasses are glistening and the ice is tinkling. One after another the guests drop in: Robyn, Howlin-Pelle, Asha Ali, Moneybrother, Nina Ramsby, Jens Lekman, Bjorn Olsson, Simone Rubi, Uje Brandelius and Sir Eric Beyond. Welcome to The Sweptaways Show! The Sweptaways are thirty women in coordinated costumes who sing choir-arranged versions of pop tunes, and who always long for the stage and their extravagant live performances. Their debut album Ooh Aah and the EP Cry Cry Christmas were released in 2006, followed by the EP A Christmas Party with The Sweptaways & Friends 2007. In 2009 their second album is released, The Sweptaways Show, where the choir ladies have been honored by visits from celebrity guests. We are a crazy lady in bikepants and plume swaying safely on high heels. We are a distinguished gentleman tipsy on port wine. We are women without borders. We like wearing things on our heads. Parrots, foilage, owls, high hats, turbans. We like pineapple, spandex, feathers, gold, pumps, green forests, love and respect. Our wardrobes are as big as our ambitions. We are one body with a gigantic heart and thirty brains. We never cease to amaze ourselves. We are a happening. A festival. A package deal. We are many surprises all in one. We are a cover band, a band of pirates, a band of pearls.
Hybris-073
CD
$16.00

Sworn Liars
Vile Device
PS, US Members of the MOORAT FINGERS and SHAKIN' NASTIES. Back are the gravely vocals, creepy lyrics, scary guitar licks, and deep thunder of drums. It's all back 12 tracks of punk mayhem that will have you backed up agains the wall in fear.
BigNeck
CD
$10.00

T.I.T.S.
Second Base
PS, US Four ladies from San Francisco play witchy/experimental/spaced out/doom-laden pop whic could easily evoke reminiscences as diverse as Sabbath or Vivian Girls or the Troggs or Boris maybe? Colored vinyl, stunning artwork. LIMITED to 500 copies on blue vinyl
UpsettheRhythm
LP
$17.00

Talibam!
Boogie in the Breeze Blocks
PS, US Ensemble playing that goes beyond personal choice to capture a mood & the deep anthropology of the strange beauty of contemporary opposing & debt-maxed-out stimuli
ESP-Disk'
CD
$12.75

Tape
Luminarium
PS,US Taking cues from pop, experimentalism, & minimalism TAPE has become recognized internationally for it's "luminarium of sound where past & present merge at the speed of light." Released on CD by Hapna in 2008, Immune is proud to release "Luminarium" on vinyl for the first time. NO RETURNS, LIMITED TO 500, INCL. FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD COUPON
Immune
LP
$13.00

Terlazzo, John
Honor Among Thieves
PS, SPAIN Released on Turtle Beach in 1983. "We've unearthed sealed, mint archive copies of the original album (never been reissued in any format). We have around 300 of them so we put them in wholesale distribution. These have been auctioned from time to time in the internet and going for around $70. All come with the original insert of course. Loner psych-folk from York, PA, private pressing from 1983, certainly having a relatively modern sound, which along with the style on some of the tracks brings quickly to mind the mighty Bob Theil in his So far... album, and that's quite a thing!! Here's what Acid Archives has to say about it: 'Incredibly dark loner poet folk/rock. Very heavy Leonard Cohen influence, but makes LC seem cheerful by comparison. Even the one song that is upbeat, almost good-timey, has a dark undertone. Terlazzo is accompanied on many tracks by a beautiful haunting female backing vocal which is often wordless. Several tracks have fine electric guitar leads and solos. The poetic nature of his writing rather stark and often 'esoteric' lyric images, brought out well by his rather limited baritone voice. I rate this at the top of the loner folkie heap... Enjoyable modern-sounding dark folk and singer/songwriter with a vibe similar to Bruce Janaway or Bob Theil. There is indeed a notable Leonard Cohen influence but Terlazzo needn't be embarrassed, as this is simply the genre he belongs too, and he does it well, with a personal voice and inventive arrangements including spooky female harmonies and sparse folkrock arrangements. I counted three excellent tracks with 'Seven stars over Sicily' a favorite, several more good ones, and only one dud.'"
BeggarRecordings
LP
$31.50

Test Patterns
Blackout
PS, US Rapid-fire power-pop-punk from Pittsburgh fusing Rip-Off-era sounds, late 70's punk and hardcore with some bubblegum goop to stick it on your brain.
Think early Registrators, Teengenerate, Raspberries, Nerves, Big Star, Teenage Head, Nikki and the Corvettes etc. Dan (RADIOBEATS, ROT SHIT) and
Yago (GITO GITO HUSTLER) split male/female vocals while servin up dual guitar layers adding up to more sharp little candy fragments than this lollipop
I busted on your head. Solid bass & drums tie it all up in a focused, aggressive sound under the pop coat.
TicTacTotally
12
$11.00

Thieves Like Us
Really Like To See You Again
PS, US Think 1982 with more low end & less tape hiss. The four songs on this
12" include a ballad written about that non-existant other half - this is how it would feel to rendezvous for a romantic trip to Coney Island, a politico-socio commentary about the current economic slump. Phillip K. Dick was correct. Soon the government will have us hooked up to machines, where we will be playing SECOND LIFE non-stop. Social message aside, "American Skies" sounds like a night drive out in Miami, a rerecorded version of "Desire" with guitars
overdubbed in a more Creation style, & lastly old four track demo called "To Joy." This one was recorded in Berlin a long time ago. It is an early version of "Really Like To See You Again."
Shelflife-061
12
$9.50

Thing, The
Bag It
PS,US After 4 intensive days of recording with Steve Albini (WTF!?! Thought he didn't like jazz) The Thing created Bag It!, a new mastodon of ecstasy music. The Thing is well known for their free jazz versions of rock classics from artists such as PJ Harvey, White Stripes, The Sonics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Lightning Bolt. This time the band is only doing two rock interpretations, one by Japan's 54 Nude Honeys & one by the The Ex/ Muzsikás. The rest of the tracks on the album are written by Mats Gustafsson, Åke Hodell, The Thing, Duke Ellington & Albert Ayler. The CD version also contains an extra bonus CD with a 30 minutes long impro suite (also recorded by Albini) titled "Beef Brisket - for Ruby's".
SmalltownSuperjazz
CD
$14.50

Thing, The
Bag It
PS,US Sweet double analog vinyl. Includes 2 exclusive bonus tracks, one by Steve Lacy & one original by The Thing.
SmalltownSuperjazz-155
DLP
$20.25

Thou
Tyrant
PS,US Deluxe 180 gram vinyl! Thou emulate lava crawling down the mountainside; the impending weight of a crushingly distorted musical extremity.
SouthernLord
12
$13.50

Timmy's Organism
Squeeze The Giant (2X7")
PS, US 5-song EP spread across two 7-inches from the solo alter-ego of Human Eye frontman & Clone Defects mastermind Timmy Vulgar, along with members of
Hamtramck's Terrible Twos. Traversing the gap between the disjointed Helios Creed-inspired work of Human Eye's skronky punk & more spacey, out there explorations, TO is the next logical step in a family of Michigan noise that includes the now defunct Pirhanas as well as Tentacle Lizardo, The Frustrations, Reptile forcefield and even Tyvek. More stripped down & raw than anything Human Eye has done to date but no less intense.
SacredBones
45
$10.25

Tongues of Mount Meru
Ocean of Milk
PS, US Limited to 400 copies. New project of Lasse Marhaug & Jon Wesseltoft; Marhaug is known from the noise scene, Wesseltoft for his work w/ black metal legends THORNS. 2 side-long tracks of pure elevated long-form bliss.
Important-239
LP
$20.00

Tongues of Mt. Meru
The Ocean Of Milk
PS, US Limited edition of 400 copies. Deluxe heavy duty screen printed jackets. New project of Lasse Marhaug and Jon Wesseltoft; Marhaug is known from the noise scene, Wesseltoft for his work with black metal legends Thorns. As Tongues Of Mount Meru they join forces to pursue a mutal passion for drone music. Their debut album "Sea Of Milk" is two side-long tracks of pure elevated long-form bliss. On vinyl only.
Important-239
LP
$20.00

Tornavalanche
Get Rich Or Cry Trying
PS, US Tornavalanche's stripped-down raw power approach to rock n' roll has been tearing shit up across the Midwest since 2006. If Iggy Pop had a yearly backyard
BBQ, this is the band he would want playing it. Limited pressing of 300 on white vinyl with hand screen printed covers. Includes digital download
ModernRadio
12
$15.25

Toro Y Moi
Left Alone At Night
PS, US More hot floor-friendly geat from Savant Guard, more on the electro tip this time, with 3 remixes from DAVE ALLISON, DROP THE LIME, and labelmates PINK SKULL joining the original version.
SavantGuard
12
$8.25

Tortoise
Beacons of Ancestorship
PS, US TORTOISE'S 6th full-length, & first since 2004, with nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, & mournful elegiac dirges. Consistent throughout, however, is what might be called a pervasive element of group play or "ensemble-mindedness" where sound is worked out as a conversation among the individual & interrelated parts. CD version is presented in a 4 panel mini-LP style jacket.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Tortoise
Beacons of Ancestorship
PS, US 180 gram LP in old-style tip-on gatefold jacket. FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD COUPON.
ThrillJockey
LP
$16.25

Tree People
Human Voices
PS, SPAIN This is the second album from Oregon's The Tree People, the late '70s predecessors to the ongoing new folk movement in the USA. You already know about their 1979 debut album and you know it's a masterpiece, but did you know about their second album recorded in 1984? Surely not, especially because it was a cassette-only release with a very short print-run. Luckily enough, The Tree People guys kept the mastertapes of these recordings and Guerssen Records is proud to be making this wonderful music available again. Reissued on CD with a vinyl version to come later, the sound quality is splendid, and the music itself is equally as good, if not better than, their self-titled debut and is a real must for any folk and psych-folk lover. Acoustic guitars, subtle percussion, wonderful flute work and some warm vocals -- overall, this is a real big dose of quality and originality that makes The Tree People's music absolutely ahead of its time and therefore so much admired today. A real beauty! This CD includes a booklet with liner notes by the band's leader Stephen Cohen, as well as some nice pictures.
Guerssen-027
CD
$16.25

Tu M'
Monochromes Vol. 1
PS, US Monochromes Vol.1 is the new sound work by Italian multimedia duo TU M'. The Monochromes series is a collection of modular audio and video compositions for chamber ensemble. Fragile atmospheric colors made of sound, light, space. For more information on these works along with the accompanying video TU M' - Italian multimedia duo formed by Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli in 1998. Their works include music, video and photography. They live and work in Pescara, Italy. Through a personal use of digital and analog instruments, the TU M' reveal a complex universe made up of present and past, closeness and distance, where seeing and listening become a meditative contemplation. During the years, their compositions, well received by the critics and the public, have been released for
Line-040
CD
$12.25

Tucker B's
Nightmares In The Key Of (((((WOW)))))
PS, US The world's best Fantasy/Bi-sexual Hipster Rock Band return with their new record "Nightmares in the key of (((((WOW)))))". The album is the band's fifth long player and was recorded with Burke Reid (The Drones, Jack Ladder, Mess Hall, Gerling) at Big Jesus Burger Studios in Sydney.
Commencing with a caterwauling cacophony of doom, the album delves deep into the band's wide-eyed wonder of relationships. Candid and disturbing revelations set against a diverse backdrop, "Nightmares... at times re-visits the guitar thuggery of previous albums "Chubby" and "Bish Bosh II: The Bosh Bosh". At other times the band strips away just a little of the sludge to reveal beautiful yet strange pop melodies, and weird, unsettling lyrical observations. For this is an album made by MEN.
Introducing to the world the band's newest member (and 27th drummer), Matthew Blackman (Charge Group, Purplene, Palace of Fire), "Nightmares in the Key of (((((WOW)))))" also features synthesizer and jazz-saxophone performances by Chris Ross (Palace of Fire, ex-Wolfmother), and the vocal work of the limited yet talented Jack the Cockatiel (Satom - the little bugger has been trying to work his way onto a Tucker B's album since 2002. You'd better comment favorably on his efforts or he will come to your house and peel your f'n paint).
Tucker B's are celebrating their fifteenth year together (sheesh!), and now find themselves at the peak of their fantasy rock powers. Nightmares in the key of (((((WOW)))) wraps the band's warped vision in pristine production and allows the strangeness to shine.

Tracks:
01 First Born Son
02 Bear
03 WOW
04 Jungle [lead track]
05 Cop
06 No Lazy Death
07 Mothers
08 Pompous
09 Burd Surgeon
10 Heatty
LowTransitIndustries-092
CD
$13.50

U.K. Subs
Greatest Hits
PS, US As part of the original punk rock movement in England during the mid-'70s, the U.K. Subs scored several hit singles in their homeland, switching between politically charged material and party-hearty rockers. Led by singer Charlie Harper, the U.K. Subs formed in November of 1976, after Harper discovered the Damned. The group enjoyed success back home straight off the bat, as they had several hit singles (Stranglehold, Tomorrow's Girls).
Greatest Hits, is not only a worthy anthology for fans, who will be pleased that many difficult-to-find tracks are compiled in one place, but will also be the perfect intro to newcomers to one of the best, most underrated bands in punk history.
GAMC-052
CD
$8.75

Under the Radar
#27
PS, US Jarvis Cocker on cover, Florence and the Machine, Deat Weather, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, Fiery Furnaces, Patrick Wolf, Horrors, Alan Moore, Iggy Pop, Mew & much more.
ZINE
$3.75

Units, The
History of The Units: The Early Years 1997-1983
Ps, US ComLib presents the first ever legit reissue of the Units. This genre-defying band, from San Francisco's barely-documented synth/punk/art underground of the late 70s/early 80s, combined sarcastic humor with deadly serious cultural critique, and synthetic experimentation with the bombast of punk. A definitive document of an essential band from the punk/new wave era.
CommunityLibrary-016
CD
$13.00

Various
Azure
PS, US Azure brings together many of the various concepts of dubstep from 4 very different artists; Komonazmuk, Cardopusher, Lich and Mathhead whose sounds we believe will be rattlin' in clubs around the Globe. You will find aspects of dub, heavy bass, ragga, breaks and riddims, which represent many different styles on Azure.
Komonazmuk kicks off the 12" with a remix of his blazing dubstep anthem "Love" which was released in 2007 on Terminal Dusk. The "Love" remix is a bit darker and heavier than the original with ghostly atmospheres and edgier bass and hammering drums. Cardopusher drops the next track "Melody Moon Dub" with some ragga vibes and wobbly basses. The infectious synth hook is sure to make those dub heads rock.
Lich delivers atmospheric acid and thick, squelchy bass with "The Bahamut". This track also features female vocals and orchestral strings which give the track an eerie mystic feel. For the final track we give you Mathhead's "Jambox"; a big track with aggressive bass, deep grooves and heavy rhythms. This is definitely the roughest track on the vinyl and finishes off this diverse 12" with a bang.
TerminalDusk-010
12
$11.25

Various
Zaum Vol. 1
PS, IRELAND A selection of Italian ambient works, specifically composed for this release. Compiled by Enrico Coniglio & Emanuele Errante, this is a stunning mix of beat & non-beat pure ambient tunes that shift between isolationist & glacial atmospheres. The album features music from internationally much-admired artists such as Netherworld (Glacial Movements label owner), Oophoi, Arlo Bigazzi (Materiali Sonori label), Alturo Stalteri, Luca Formentini, IllÃ chime quartet, Con_cetta, as well as other brilliant unreleased artists.For fans of Pole, Biosphere, Fennesz...

Tracks:
1. NETHERWORLD Jostedaal
2. AQUADORSA [E. Coniglio&Oophoi] Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence
3. DARIO ANTONELLI ZX-21 part I
4. con_cetta Vs Antartica Thank You
5. ARLO BIGAZZI & ARTURO STALTERI Stregatto
6. -ON- Last Love Inside Love
7. MASSIMO LIVERANI Primavera
8. EMANUELE ERRANTE Egostasy
9. ILLACHIME QUARTET Terminali (source 1.0)
10. LUCA FORMENTINI Avaaz
11. ZOO DI VETRO Amaliadiesis
Psychonavigation-029
CD
$13.50

Various
The Appalachian Tradition: Ori ginal Bluegrass Classics
PS, US The Appalachian Tradition is an ideal starter disc for those just beginning to explore bluegrass. Mostly this is because its 18 selections are so immediately accessible. The "classics" here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience. Bluegrass music has seen an upsurge in popularity in recent years. Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Steve Earle, the O brother soundtrack and the various O sister compilations have all contributed. However, while some of that music is traditional, much of it is a modernized form of the music. Nothing wrong with that, of course - bluegrass, like every other form of music, must modernize or die, and some of it is pure magic - but this compilation draws on the roots of bluegrass, containing many old classics from the thirties through the fifties.
GreatAmerican-062
CD
$8.75

Various
Through the Wilderness: Tribute to Madonna
PS, US Fifteen artists contribute to this charity record to Madonna's own Raising Malawi. Featuring: ARIEL PINK, LAVENDER DIAMON, GIANT DRAG, THE TYDE, JONATHAN WILSON, JEREMY JAY, THE CHAPIN SISTERS, WINTER FLOWERS, THE PRAYERS & more!
ManimalVinyl-003
CD
$8.50

Various
Miwak Twelve
PS, GERMANY Tracklisting: the_empath (at the heart of it all), slam52 (frosd), somatic responses (takayama-another rainy day), millipede (concevoir-gaztheque remix by aphorism), defrag (the old growth), tonikom (the source), nebulo (sunurb), deru (between you and me), black lung (the hostmen of tyne), lowfish (wreckage), hpc (phoenix), access to arasaka (xt10.20zp9), architect (awake), dryft (vector step-elimination), hecq (sleep through the day) combustion (building the house of vanity-feat. caro roth), ginormous (arrive with eyes ablaze), snog (the end of the world-intimate mix), crunch (karot-vent remix), mad ep vs. bryce beverlin II (breakstuff), keef baker (sacrifice), blackfilm (se5), karsten pflum (capstone switch), abs6 (premiers traitements), wisp (the bard-postlude), jÃ(c)rÃ´me chassagnard (timeless travelers), mika goedrijk (sore eyes), marching dynamics (almighty bomb), orphx (intercession-edit), bit shifter (easy prey), dead hollywood stars (back in town), end (jailbait rock), twenty knives (royal vomitorium). info: hymen records celebrates its 12th year of existence with this fine double cd set which includes 33 tracks by 33 projects. artists who (both well known and new to our followers) spotlight hymen records as things are now. a blend of electronica, breakbeats, dubstep, electro, ambient and much more featuring the_empath, slam52, somatic responses, millipede, defrag, tonikom, nebulo, deru, black lung, lowfish, hpc, access to arasaka, architect, dryft, hecq, combustion, ginormous, snog, crunch, mad ep vs. bryce beverlin II, keef baker, blackfilm, karsten pflum, abs6, wisp, jerome chassagnard, mika goedrijk, marching dynamics, orphx, bit shifter, dead hollywood stars, end, twenty knives... packaging: deluxe 6panel gatefold-sleeve. enjoy the gush!
Hymen-777
DCD
$18.25

Various
Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music V.1
PS, US A whole buncha noise-makers & electronic weirdo "visionaries" compiled together on 3LPs. "Superstars" such as SONIC YOUTH, JOHN CAGE, EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, DJ SPOOKY, MaCLISE/CONRAD/CALE, Walter Ruttman, Luigi & Antonio Russolo & some other
crack-pots that I'm sure will be famous one day for something
SubRosa
3XLP
$38.00

Various
Leaves of Life
PS, US Curated & produced by Buck Curran (ARBOREA) this features 19 exclusive songs by ALELA DIANE, DEVENDRA BANHART, MARISSA NADLER, FERN KNIGHT, RIO EN MEDIO, LARKIN GRIMM, MICAH BLUE SMALDONE, CITAY, ERIC CARBONARA, & ORA COGAN. All proceeds from the sales of this record go to benefit important relief programs in Africa, & other communities in great need around the world
Borne-004
CD
$12.25

Various
On Fire: Smalltown Supersound Compilation
PS,US Limited edition vinyl! All new stuff taken from the forthcoming STS releases. As well as some exclusive goodies such as Bjorn Torske's great Sunburned Hand Of The Man remix (a Moondog meets Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari style remix) as well as Prins Thomas' remix of Tussle. The album also introduces the new sinings; K-X-P from Helsinki, Finland, Mungolian Jet Set from Oslo, Norway, Meanderthals from London/Oslo, and, Drivan, which is Kim Hiorthøy with 3 Swedish girls on vocals. "Everything here is brilliant & itÕs possibly the best compilation IÕve heard this year" -Fact Magazine. NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT
SmalltownSupersound
DLP
$21.00

Various
Legends of Benin
PS, US 2LP version
AnalogAfrica
DLP
$27.00

Various
The Art of Touring
PS,US A book of art, photographs & writing reflecting life on the road. Over 50 contributors, including DEVENDRA BANHART, CARLA BOZULICH, JEM COHEN, ELECTRELANE, ERASE ERRATA, the EX, EXPOLSIONS IN THE SKY, LE TIGRE, MATMOS, TARA JANE O'NEIL, SONIC YOUTH, YEAH YEAH YEAHS. Edited by SARA JAFFE & MIA CLARKE. 144 pages, 7 inch square book. Includes a dvd of live footage.
Yeti
BOOK/CD
$17.75

Various
Legends of Benin
PS, US Collection of super-rare & highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969-1981 by 4 legendary composers from Benin. A thick brew of agbadja, soul, cavacha, funk, Afrobeat, & Afro-Latin sounds all mixed w/ heavy traditional rhythms
AnalogAfrica
CD
$23.50

Various
Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music
PS,US NOW ON VINYL! A whole buncha noise-makers & electronic weirdo "visionaries" compiled together on 3LPs. "Superstars" such as SONIC YOUTH, JOHN CAGE, EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, DJ SPOOKY, MaCLISE/CONRAD/CALE, Walter Ruttman, Luigi & Antonio Russolo & some other crack-pots that I'm sure will be famous one day for something
SubRosa
3XLP
$40.25

Various
Open Strings: 1920s Middle Eastern Recordings- New Responses
PS, UK This is the fourth release in Honest Jon's series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Open Strings is a dazzling selection of virtuoso string-playing from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, all recorded in the 1920s, and pretty much unheard ever since. In addition, Open Strings includes a disc of newly-commissioned responses to the themes in this music by underground luminaries committed to the drone such as Sir Richard Bishop of legendary Sun City Girls renown, West Coast psych-guitarist Ben Chasny aka Six Organs Of Admittance, UK folk-guitarist Rick Tomlinson aka Voice Of The Seven Woods, and Western Massachusetts' raga-inspired duo, MV And EE. From resonant bow-drone, to frenetic fret-runs to delicate, circular acoustic musings to sitar fever-dreams, no matter the nationality, there is a resonance and truth in this music that is ancient, timeless and transcendent. Scorchers past and present, every one. Other artists include: Micah Blue Smaldone, Michael Flower, Charlie Parr, Bruce Licher, Paul Metzger, and Steffen Basho-Junghans.
HonestJon's
DCD
$19.50

Various
Milky Disco 2: Let's Go Freak Out
PS, US Another collection that mixes Detroit techno, German experimentalism, '80s West Coast vibes, Italo disco, soul, industrial, ambient, & avant garde - what could loosely be called exploratory space dance music. 2CD set includes tracks from HATCHBACK, POLLYESTER, GHOST NOTE, SOFT CIRCLE, BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB, GLASS CANDY & NITE JEWEL
LoRecordings
DCD
$16.00

Various
Blasting Concept
PS,US Features Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Ken Vandermark, Lasse Marhaug, Thurston Moore, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Joe McPhee, John Hegre, Håvard Wiik, Jim O`Rourke, Peter Brötzmann, Massimo Pupillo, Cato Salsa Experience, Terrie Ex & Yoshimi. The album title is borrowed from SSTs groundbreaking compilation with the same name. We wanted to have a label with its roots in the 60's free jazz but with the DIY attitude of the 80s punk/hardcore label. Like a meeting between Black Flag & Albert Ayler. Maybe. Anyway. Decide for yourself, here is our blasting concept. Hope you like it.
SmalltownSuperjazz-100
CD
$14.50

Venetian Snares
Horsey Noises
PS,US 4-track EP. Title track includes a vocal, & the B-side includes a remix of the song.
PlanetMu
12
$7.25

Vibes
Psychic
PS, US Raw outsider garage stuff, with Manda from Pocahaunted, Cameron from Sun Araw/Magic Lantern, Ged from Pocahaunted, etc. Full color fold-over covers, black vinyl, about 400 made.
NotNotFun
45
$7.00

Walker, Scott
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
PS, US Explore the life and career of a musical artist who penned some of the biggest hits of the 1960s before turning his back on fame and completely reinventing himself as a reclusive outsider artist. In the mid-'60s, few bands rose higher up the British pop charts than the Walker Brothers, and as the front man of the group, Scott Walker was constantly in the spotlight. In the years that followed, the American-born Walker would split from the group to establish himself as a successful solo artist while inspiring such popular musicians as David Bowie and Bono. Now, as the release of Walker's 2006 solo album, The Drift, draws near, the existential crooner notorious for not granting interviews allows filmmaker Stephen Kijak to follow along for tantalizing glimpse at one of the world's most enigmatic musicians. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
OscillOscope
DVD
$21.50

Wave Pictures, The
Watching Charlie's Agents
PS, SPAIN Limited to 1000. Acuarela singles club series release. David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki Jonnie Helm know what it is like to spend a Friday night at the pub of any London suburb. It is something they love to talk about in their songs as The Wave Pictures. Songs that portray the awkwardness of love, expressed in the confessional tone with which Tattersall approaches each of his lyrics. This young English band's 7" displays their more incisively pop side (not far from the classics featured in "Instant Coffee Baby") in two irresistible and previously unreleased tracks. Forthcoming releases in the series include Darren Hayman, Spain, Chris Brokaw, Tara Jane O'Neil, El Hijo (ex Migala), Nick Castro, Inca Ore, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), The Drift, Bracken, Mount Eerie, Windsor for the Derby, Ben Wetherill, Barzin, The Wowz.
Acuarela-001
45
$9.25

We All Want To
Back To The Car
PS, US In 2007 Tim Steward from Brisbane's Screamfeeder released a solo album and put a band together to play the songs live. 2 years later the band had written a whole set of new material and needed a new name. WE ALL WANT TO was born.
The band consists of Skye Staniford, Dan McNaulty, Paul Daly, Todd Hutchinson and Tim Steward. All members swap instruments frequently which makes for a chaotic - but fun - live show.
WE ALL WANT TO spent 2008 touring and recording, getting ready for a big year in 2009. The band will release their debut EP Back To The Car in May, and their first full length album later in the year on Melbourne's boutique indie rock label Low Transit Industries.
WE ALL WANT TO is an Australian supergroup put together by Tim Steward (Screamfeeder) after one of the songs from his solo album won song of the year AND best indie song of the year at the 2007 Q Song awards. Two members are teachers, one is a computer game designer, one is a landscaper, and one does a bit of this and a bit of that. The band runs on heavy fuel only. Almost all members play almost all instruments. Recording of their debut pop masterpiece has commenced & is set for release later in 2009.

Tracks:
1. Back To The Car [lead track]
2. I've Been Listening To You For Too Long
3. Two Way
4. This Ship Has Sailed
LowTransitIndustries-095
CD5
$8.25

Weeks, Caroline
Songs For Edna
PS, US Member of BAT FOR LASHES. The tracks on "Songs for Edna" are actual poems by the late American poet, Edna St. Vincent-Millay. This is majestic & minimal folk in the tradition of Fairport Convention, Karen Dalton & Vashti Bunyan
ManimalVinyl-004
LP
$9.50

Weinland
Breaks In the Sun
PS, US Limited to 500. The characters in Adam Shearer's lush songs are often tense, morose, & struggling, but they're informed by a wry, celebratory hope. Their calm sense of knowing foils the emotional complexity in his lyrics - that, & the gorgeously subdued vocal harmonies, atmospheric finger picking, strings, brushed drums, melodica, & subtle percussive minutiae.
JealousButcher
LP
$15.00

Weinland
Breaks In the Sun
PS, US The follow up to 2008's critically acclaimed La Lamentor, Breaks In The Sun is an intimate collection of songs highlighted by gorgeous vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro, cellos, violins, brushed drums, melodica, mandolin, and honeyed pedal steel. USA TODAY: "Not all evokers of Neil Young are worth spending time with, but this act is."
Badman
CD
$13.75

White Hills
Little Bliss Forever
PS, US Two side-long tracks are acid drenched spaced out jams that are brooding & moody. Imagine PiL meets Can on a fist full of downers: guitars are suspended in mid-air, drums tumble over themselves, while oozing bass lines sew it all together. VERY LIMITED, 2ND PRESSING OF 600 W/ NEW COVER ART, A POSTER, & INSERT
DrugSpaceRecords
LP
$15.75

White Hills
Heads On Fire
PS, US
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00

White Swan Black Swan
S-T [double-EP]
PS, NEW ZEALAND Together, White Swan Black Swan are Sonya Waters and Ben Howe formerly of Fang , Ricky McShane from The Chainsaw Masocist and Ben Furniss from Surrealistic. White Swan is the songs of Sonya Waters and Black Swan are the songs of Ben Howe; different songs and a different sound - but the people making them are the same. Combined, White Swan Black Swan have veered left of their indie- rock roots to explore different territories. The music is littered with acoustic pianos, cool Fender Rhodes tones, outmoded synthesizers drones , chiming hollow body guitars and spaced out old sound effects. McShane's drums give the music a swing into 60's cool jazz or a lurch into a European funereal march. Imagine these songs in a Lynch or Fellini soundtrack, a mix of south-of-the--border (and the equator) country combined with psychedelic folk.
ArchHill-034
DCD
$12.25

White Swan Black Swan
Castle Of Useless Junk
PS, NEW ZEALAND In 2007 White Swan Black Swan released two EPs, the first sold out and the second called "Castle of Useless Junk". Nick Bollinger in the NZ LISTENER described it as a "spacious, reverberant treatment of twangy guitars, sparse piano and an occasional violin, evoking wide desert landscapes...this debut EP whet[s] the appetite for a full album", while Graham Reid in ELSEWHERE wrote "A little bit alt.country, a little bit alt.pop. Considered and quiet - and needlessly modest."
ArchHill-032
CD5
$8.25

Wilco
You Never Know b/w Unlikely Japan
PS, US Teaser for thier new full-length.
Nonsuch
45
$6.25

Wilco
Wilco (The Album)
PS, US
Nonesuch
CD
$17.50

Wilco
Wilco (The Album) (LP/CD)
PS, US
Nonesuch
LP
$21.00

Wilson, Larry Jon
S/T
PS, US His first album since 1980. An intense masterpiece of his casual performing style. Known for his deep country soul style, this album is the closest to the bone. This album stands apart from his 70s recordings as Wilson stands mostly alone, occasionally accompanied by a single fiddle.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Wilson, Larry Jon
S/T
PS, US
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Windy & Carl
Instrumentals for the Broken Hearted
PS, US As sold on recent tour - Limited to 500 copies on clear green vinyl with all handpainted covers. This record features 5 instrumental mixes of songs from the latest kranky lp (songs for the broken hearted). These mixes are completely different & in some cases hardly sound like the kranky version. There is also a sixth song which is unreleased. The covers were made using recycled lp jackets, all white washed & then painted on. Some have concrete designs & some are very free form. Photocopied tour poster with extra info included in each copy.
BlueFlea
LP
$17.00

Wino
Punctuated
PS,US Deluxe 180 gram vinyl. Plus bonus 10" with four brand new tracks.
SouthernLord
LP+10
$23.75

Wolves in the ThroneRoom
Black Casade
PS,US Double LP gatefold on 180 gram vinyl.
SouthernLord
DLP
$23.75

Woolfson, Eric
Woolfson Sings The Alan Parson s Project That Never Was
PS, US As a creator and writer for The Alan Parsons Project, Eric Woolfson enjoyed the success of APP in the shadows. Woolfson wrote songs and lyrics for the Project, managing the band while Parsons took on the roll of Engineer and Producer.
Alan and Eric didn't always agree on what would make a good APP record, and some of Eric's tracks got left behind and unfinished.
All of the songs on That Never Was use Eric Woolfson's vocals. The album, revisiting and completing songs from many eras of Woolfson's life, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with engineers Haydn Bendall and Austin Ince.
LimeLight-0590
CD
$13.00

Woolfy
If Ya Know What's Good for Ya!
PS, US Seamless blend of funk, pop music, dirty disco, rare grooves, & new wave full of epic guitar lines & infectious lyrics. As an added bonus, the CD includes classic nu-disco remixes by Carlos Hernandez & Lee Douglas, perfect for beach parties & late night sessions
Rong/DFA
CD
$16.00

Ya Ho Wha 13
Magnificence in the Memory
PS, US Vinyl.
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Ya Ho Wha 13
Magnificence in the Memory
PS,US Compiled from over 10 hours of circa-'72 unreleased tapes & sequenced by NNCK's Dave Nuss. These nine tracks run the gamut of YaHoWha 13's rainbow of styles, from the whispered funk of "Camp of Gypsies" to the screaming & stomping of, well, "Camp of Gypsies." Storming through moments with abandon, Father & his Sons never repeated themselves, committing everything they did to tape in a single take. The capacity of their riffs & grooves sound like German prog bands of the same era, psychedelic rock bands of several years previous or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement a decade away is testament to their ability to tap the source of human inspiration.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Yawning Sons
Ceremony To The Sunset
PS, US Will appeal greatly to lovers of Kraut/psych/post-rock as well as those in love w/ the arid, heat-shimmering, soaring, high-lonesome sound of desert-rock
LexiconDevil
CD
$16.25

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zero (Remixes)
PS,US Featuring original track plus remixes by NASA BLOODY LOBO, MSTRKRFT, EROL ALKAN and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.
Interscope
12
$10.00

Yeti
Issue #7 BOOK+CD
PS,US 200 page perfect-bound book: Interviews with artist JIM WOODRING, author LYNNE TILLMAND, SF based band NODZZZ, author and screenwriter RUDY WURLITZER & band WOODEN SHIPS. The lovely cover is a detail from a new painting by MINGERING MIKE. The 80 minute cd includes rare and previously unreleased music from: GROUPER, ABNER JAY, WOODEN SHIPS, CRYSTAL STILTS & so much more!!
Yeti
BK+CD
$10.75

Young Widows/Pelican
Split
PS, US Third of four in a split single series, featuring new unreleased jams from Young Widows, accompanied by a handful of their favorite friends & artists - this edition featuring PELICAN.
TemporaryResidence-153
45
$4.75

Yuan, Jienan
We Saw Everything
PS, US A concise introduction of Yuan's unique musical vision. Reflective & bittersweet, his music glimmers with the fragments of unrequited love & faded memories; an electro-acoustic current of sound over which Yuans delicate melodies float & tremble. From the graceful "Because SK", the plaintive "No Land's Man", to the
atmospheric & melancholic "Magdalena Avenue", Yuan's music inhabits the emotionally fragile & ephemeral space between lifelong regret & uncertain acceptance - a searching affection that resonates throughout the quietly devastating songs on We Saw Everything
Actually,Records
CD5
$5.75

Zeros
Don't Push Me Around
PS, US Formed in 1976, the Zeros (aka The Mexican Ramones), were one of the pioneers of the L.A. punk explosion in the late '70s. This is the repressing of their 1980 album which includes their studio recordings and demos.
Bomp!-4035
CD
$13.00

Zeros
Don't Push Me Around (PINK VINYL reissue)
PS, US Formed in 1976, the Zeros (aka The Mexican Ramones), were one of the pioneers of the L.A. punk explosion in the late '70s. This is the repressing of their 1980 album which includes their studio recordings and demos. A classic punk release limited to 500 copies on pink vinyl.
Bomp!-4035
LP
$13.00

Zola Jesus
Soeur Sewer
PS, US From classically trained piano virtuoso to lo-fi bedroom psych wave heroine, Madison, WI's ZOLA JESUS already has a prolific output to her name. "Souer
Sewer" taps into a tortured cabaret vibe while "Odessa" sounds like something that would have been banned by the party from the airwaves in its namesake Soviet homeland.
SacredBones
45
$6.25

Forthcoming Releases

13th Floor Elevators
Psychedelic Circus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Formed in Texas in the mid-'60s, the 13th Floor Elevators started as a garage rock outfit, scoring their one and only modest national hit with You're Gonna Miss Me. While Roky Erickson's loopy persona and Tommy Hall's odd "jug" percussion were the band's most distinguishing features, several members of the group's original lineup contributed strong material to their albums. Trips to San Francisco established the group as an up-and-coming underground favorite and one of the original acid rock bands.
TheGreatAmericanMusicCo.-102
CD
$9.50

24-Carat Black
Gone: The Promises of Yesterday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS,US "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is seen as 24-Carat Black's first & final chapter, barely a footnote in the well-documented history of Stax. "Gone" is by no means a sequel. Missing are the poignant & bleak sermons, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of love songs DALE WARREN had written as far back as 1965. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, & mission yet tethered by it's singular creator. DELUXE CD INCL. EMBOSSED COVER & 20 PAGE BOOKLET
Numero
CD
$13.25

24-Carat Black
Gone: The Promises of Yesterday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS,US "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is seen as 24-Carat Black's first & final chapter, barely a footnote in the well-documented history of Stax. "Gone" is by no means a sequel. Missing are the poignant & bleak sermons, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of love songs DALE WARREN had written as far back as 1965. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, & mission yet tethered by it's singular creator. 150 GRAM LP IN EMBOSSED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
Numero
LP
$17.50

39 Clocks
Pain It Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS,US Reissue of the 1981 debut. Their music can be seen as a futuristic, definitely urban, German form of U.S. '60s garage punk, w/ a referential nod to Suicide & Velvet Underground - sparse & gritty garage chord progressions, hypnotic rhythms & deadpan English lyrics delivered w/ the heaviest of German accents. Contains a previously-unreleased bonus track
BureauB
CD
$18.00

900X
Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Lubbock, 1980 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US The 1st release in an instrumental Music Library series for Asthmatic Kitty. James McAlister continues to do remix work & original film music under the 900X umbrella w/ such artists as My Brightest Diamond, Slavic Soul Party, & Sufjan Stevens.
AsthmaticKitty-201
LP
$11.50

Altair Nouveau
Space Fortress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US 3 tracks of larger-than-life spaced-out future disco
DFA-210
12
$8.00

Anals
Total Anal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Metz, France is teeming with great bands: Chevau, Feeling Of Love, Normals, & A.H. Kraken are just the tip of the iceberg. The ANALS sound is similar to the aforementioned bands in their abrasive, weird punk base, but this duo is more obliviously influenced by German industrial electropunk group D.A.F. (via Brainbombs) than their peers. Past singles have sold out immediately, and this is your first chance to hear this unique duo's entire recorded output. Incl. both songs from the Sweet Rot single plus 10 previously unreleased tracks.
PermanentRecords-006
LP
$15.50

Avett Brothers
I And Love And You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US
American-1
LP
$25.00

Axeman
Scary! Part III (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Limited edition vinyl reissue of 1989 cassette-only release. Novice ears that have made it through this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, & Ptose
Siltbreeze-119
DLP
$19.25

Azar, Steve
Slide On Over Here (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Steve Azar's seventh studio album's, Slide Over Here, "Moo La Moo", will ring true to fans of all ages, as his light take on being broke long before payday rolls around. With this latest collection of songs, Azar demonstrates continued growth and maturity as an artist, and presents his most solid work yet."
Ride-86328
CD
$12.00

Banquet of the Spirits
Infinito (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US CYRO BAPTISTA's newest band is augmented here by an array of his most distinguished musical associates in a delightful program of experimental Brazilian pop songs
Tzadik-630
CD
$15.25

Bats, The
Don't You Rise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2009)
PS, US The Bats are legends of New Zealand music, standing tall alongside contemporaries The Clean and The Chills as linchpins of the Flying Nun label and the Dunedin/Christchurch scene. Over the course of 25 years, 7 albums and 4 world tours, the original line-up of Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean and Kaye Woodward remains intact and still creating vital pastoral pop gems. Combining Robert's mantric-like guitar pick and strum, bouncing bass with a twist from Paul, melodic hooks from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm's snappy beats, the combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. The band's reputation is sterling; based on legendary albums like Daddy's Highway and Silverbeet and their energetic live shows, The Bats have an enthusiastic world-wide fanbase who treasure the band's continued excellence.
The Don't You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to the release of their next album, The Guilty Office, in early 2009. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats' Law of Things), "That's How You'll Find Me" would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album and mesmerized with it's folk-pop groove. "You Don't Belong" is a moody gem, while "Don't You Rise"'s country-inflected strum is a live favorite. "Face Inside The Sun" rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off of Daddy's Highway. A pretty special EP then, and ample evidence that 25 years after forming, The Bats still earn their legendary status.
The new and next Bats full-length album, The Guilty Office, will be released by Parasol's Hidden Agenda label in May 2009!
Slumberland
45
$3.75

Ben, Jorge
Tudo Ben (Jorge Ben Covers) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US The Brazilian guitarist and innovator of samba soul has been releasing idiosyncratic samba fusions since 1963. He has a seeming disregard for the currents of popular thought or musical fashion. In a country where factions have long dominated the music scene, Ben has remained a loner; his only allegiance has been to his own brilliant music. Paradoxically, refusing to join any one faction has led Ben to be covered by musicians from all of them. It's a phenomenon that's now well documented in Tudo Ben: Jorge Ben Covered. Often described as the James Brown of Brazilian music due to his prolific output, Jorge Ben is the most sampled Brazilian artist ever. This collection of tracks showcases some of Brazil's finest bands covering great rarities from the Jorge Ben, Jr catalog.
Mr.Bongo-063
CD
$16.50

Benni Hemm Hemm
Murta St. Calunga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US The soundtrack for sailing to distant shores, riding rolling wave upon rolling wave of rollicking, orchestral indie-pop. These songs are nicely wrapped up in giant string & brass arrangements, strummed guitar & gentle piano, all played w/ an unmatchable joy
Kimi-005
CD
$16.25

Benni Hemm Hemm
Murta St. Calunga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Vinyl version
Kimi
LP
$16.25

Bikini Kill
New Radio + 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Featuring Punk Feminist anthem "Rebel Girl" & produced by legendary Runaway's Joan Jett. Still relevant, still confrontational, this is one of the very best EPs of the 90s
KillRockStars-212
45
$5.25

Billy Boy On Poison
Drama Junkie Queen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US "..Pick up where The Vines left off, where Craig Nicholls have hung out with Black Lips.. fuelled by testosterone and the joy of beating the s**t ouf of the instruments. It's ballsy and aggressive with killer lyrics." - Artrocker (UK)
UniversalRepublic-02
CD
$10.75

Billy Boy On Poison
Drama Junkie Queen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US vinyl version.
UniversalRepublic-01
LP
$14.00

Bish
Surrounded By Mountains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Surrounded By Mountains is the second album from Pogues bass player Darryl Hunt under the monika Bish. Musically, Surrounded By Mountains is bittersweet, jangly pop sound is closer to literate indie outfits like The Go-Betweens and Spearmint than The Pogues.
LFTRecords-002
CD
$13.75

Bizzy B
Retrospective (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US A retrospective featuring 12 of his ultimate classic plates from back in the day ('92-'94) plus 2 unreleased tracks from the same period. This collection documents hardcore's transformation into jungle. Hip-house breaks speed up into hyperkinetic trills & mangled rave-hoovers perform demented riffs the likes of which have not been heard since
PlanetMu-145
CD
$16.00

Bizzy B
Retrospective (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 3LP version
PlanetMu-145
3XLP
$21.50

Black Keys, The
The Big Come Up (Colored Vinyl) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Vinyl Version!
Alive-044
LP
$13.00

Blank, Amanda
I Love You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US
Downtown-1
DLP
$17.00

Bleu
A Watched Pot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US 3rd studio album full of soaring melodies, meticulously crafted productions and sincere, yet inventive lyrics. Featuring members of ROONEY, JELLYFISH and BANG CAMARO
Artist'sGarage-29
CD
$12.25

Blk Jks
Mystery (Osborne Remix) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US For this 12 inch release, OSBORNE - the MacGyver of house music - chimes in for an extended club remix of "Mystery."
SecretlyCanadian-206
12
$6.25

Blues Control
Local Flavor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Blues Control
Local Flavor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Features guest musicians JESSE TRBOVICH & KURT VILE. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia & billowing fog of ambient space, this is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track is practically a sidways step into boogie rock. It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette.
Siltbreeze
CD
$14.25

Boduf Songs
Inviolate Projection Blood From Rome (Blankets) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 4th release in Blue Sanct's Art Vinyl series. 10 inch with an exclusive recording on one side, & a screenprinted image on the B side. Minstrels of misery from the UK, following 3 albums on Kranky, & a devastating EP on Southern. This 12 minute epic not only gives us the drones & hushed guitar they are known for, but also ventures into their (partially) suppressed doom underpinnings. The record is accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Norwegian artist Johannes Hoie, whose apocalyptic scenes perfectly embody the yearning for the black sun that is Boduf Songs. Limited to 300
BlueSanct-10
10
$15.25

Bombadil
Tarpits/Canyonlands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US New album! SAID THE GRAMOPHONE: "Bombadil's giddy new album, Tarpits and Canyonlands, is sunburst and lime-wedge, is summer folk and afternoon pop - but it's also utterly weird. There are songs in English, in Spanish; a happy song about a sad birthday (which is wonderful, and still up at Fluxblog); a song called "Koala Lumpur" - whose main lyrics are that same "Kuala Lumpur." The album's aesthetic is very pop (and in a small way it's They Might Be Giants - wait! wait! i mean that actually in a good way), but oddly the thing it most reminds me of is a defunct webcomic called When I Am King. Sentimental, sandy, absurd, vulgar, narrative, shot through with smiles. Tarpits and Canyonlands opens with a song called "I Am" (which might as well be called "I Am ... Building You A Pyramid"), offering chanted vocals, heave-hos, and a sort of glib piano-line. That song is later answered with another, "Pyramid" - a track with drumsnaps, pan-pipes, crash cymbals ... and those same heave-hos. They make a bizarre pair, twins whose talents are considerable but undeclared. You wonder what these songs are for, what caves this band can unlock."
Ramseur-002
CD
$13.75

Bondy, A.A.
American Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US On vinyl for the first time! "American Hearts is an unfolding tableau of hell on earth as seen by a weary set of eyes & described w/ a troubadour's guitar & an obsessive's mastery of form & musical history" - Pitchfork
FatPossum-112
LP
$17.50

Bones, Sean
Rings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US A song cycle that runs the roots gamut from the sturdy rocksteady groove & sly Phil Spector nods of "Cry Cry Cry" to the myriad twilight zone passages of "Smoke Rings," a song that isn't afraid to drop bits of Afrobeat, reggaeton & disco on its way to your summer-time-in-the-city playlist
FrenchKiss-039
CD
$13.25

Book of Love
Love Bubble [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 'Lovebubble' (1993) was Book of Love s last album for Sire (they disbanded shortly after its release), and it certainly does show the various band members moving in different directions, making it an interesting, eclectic listen. We ve added the 'Go Bottom Go Top' and 'Swinging Boy Pop' mixes of 'Boy Pop'; the 'Sweet and Sticky Mix' of 'Hunny Hunny' (the band s ABBA tribute), and the 'Late Nite Chat Mix' of 'Chatterbox' as bonus tracks!
NobleRot-027
CD
$15.25

Book of Love
S-T [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Though their 1986 debut album still remains in print in its original form, even fans of the band who own that CD will have to pick up this set, as the band has contributed an entire extra disc s worth of bonus material! And it s good bonus material, too, like the very demo ('Boy') that got them signed to Sire Records by Seymour Stein. Other bonus cuts include demos of 'I Touch Roses'; 'Lost Souls'; 'You Make Me Feel So Good'; 'White Lies'; 'Book of Love', and 'Still Angry'; live performances of 'Boy' and 'Happy Day', and rare versions of 'I Touch Roses' (Daniel Miller mix); 'Lost Souls' (original 12' version), and 'We Three Kings'. 12 bonus tracks in all like a whole additional album!
NobleRot-024
DCD
$20.50

Book of Love
Candy Carol [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Highlighted by the tracks 'Alice Everyday'; 'Counting the Rosaries', and 'Sunny Day' (which was featured in the film 'Silence of the Lambs'), this 1991 album shifted in a more psychedelic direction, and was rewarded with another chart entry. An 'Everyday Glo Mix' and 'Sam the Butcher Mix' of 'Alice Everyday' are among the bonus tracks, which also include the single remix of 'Sunny Day' and the 'Happiness and Love Mix' of 'Counting the Rosaries'.
NobleRot-026
CD
$15.25

Book of Love
Lullaby [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 1988 s 'Lullaby' was the band s highest-charting album, thanks in large part to the two killer cuts that led off the record: their remix of Mike Oldfield s 'Tubular Bells (Theme from the Exorcist)' and 'Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls', which was quite possibly the first song about AIDS ever to hit the charts. This deluxe reissue includes the bonus extended mix of 'Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls'; 'Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls' (Regan s House medley); 'Lullaby' (Pleasant Dream mix); 'Witchcraft' (extended mix), and 'Enchantra'.
NobleRot-025
CD
$15.25

Bowerbirds
Upper Air (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Moves away from the singular sound & sentiment; each & every song is a journal entry that stands on its own, each a unique, beautiful piece. The arrangements are subtle: acoustic guitars, organ, piano, autoharp, violin, percussion, upright bass. It has the spirit of Richard & Linda Thompson, the currency of Devendra Banhart, the addictively sweet melodicism of Iron & Wine, but it churns w/ an underlying energy closer to a Beirut or something farther out, more raw, more wild.
DeadOceans-18
CD
$11.50

Box Elders
Alice & Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US vinyl!
Goner-48
LP
$16.00

Box Elders
Alice & Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Full-length of fuzzy, off-kilter pop from Omaha trio that follows their single on Grotto Records
Goner-48
CD
$14.25

Boy In Static
Candy Cigarette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-007
CD
$10.50

Brackles
LHC (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US With a sound a million miles away from the current blokey, sludgy dubstep fare, this kid effortlessly incorporates funky, rolling grime, vintage two-step, & bassline into his energetic, elastic sets
PlanetMu-241
12
$7.25

Broderick, Peter
Falling From Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Score for Adrienne Hart's Falling From Trees, utilizing only piano & strings. Lovely!
WesternVinyl-062
CD
$9.00

Broken Records
Until The Earth Begins To Part (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$14.00

Broken Records
Until The Earth Begins To Part (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Scottish seven-piece releases their debut. They've already been tipped for greatness by publications as diverse as NME, Q, and The Word. A series of three singles released in 2008 led NME to call them "an incredible proposition - set to go stellar as soon as they decide on a lucky label to sign to." "They simply astound...epic, swirling, joyfully mysterious music...with a warmth and heart" - The Guardian.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Buckley, Tim
Live at the Folklore Center, NYC: March 6th, 1967 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US On August 25th, 2009, the Tompkins Square label will release 'Tim Buckley - Live at the Folklore Center, NYC - March 6th, 1967'.
The unreleased recording was captured by folk impresario Izzy Young at his famed Folklore Center located at 321 Sixth Avenue, which served as a nexus for up-and-coming singer-songwriters during the folk boom of the late '60s. The entire night's concert, performed in front of about 35 people, is presented in its original running order of 16 songs, six of which are Tim Buckley compositions that have never appeared on any studio or live album. The CD package includes an unpublished interview with Buckley conducted by Izzy Young on March 17th & 18th, 1967, along with new notes from Young. The album was produced for release by Tompkins Square label's Josh Rosenthal in cooperation with Buckley's Estate, and mastered from the original tapes by Grammy-winning engineers Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith and Jamie Howarth.
Tim Buckley (1947-1975) was among the most adventurous and influential singer-songwriters of the '60's and '70's, releasing nine studio albums in his career. Buckley's music continues to deeply inspire new fans and artists with each passing year. 'Live at the Folklore Center', the earliest live recording among seven others commercially available, showcases Buckley in an intimate, solo acoustic setting, highlighting his magical guitar playing and soaring vocal style.
Track listing (* indicates previously unreleased Tim Buckley composition, unavailable on any studio or live album): 1. SONG FOR JAINIE 2. I NEVER ASKED TO BE YOUR MOUNTAIN 3. WINGS 4. PHANTASMAGORIA IN TWO 5. JUST PLEASE LEAVE ME * 6. DOLPHINS 7. I CAN'T SEE YOU 8. TROUBADOUR 9. AREN'T YOU THE GIRL 10. WHAT DO YOU DO (HE NEVER SAW YOU) * 11. NO MAN CAN FIND THE WAR 12. CARNIVAL SONG 13. CRIPPLES CRY * 14. IF THE RAIN COMES * 15. COUNTRY BOY * 16. I CAN'T LEAVE YOU LOVING ME *
TompkinsSquare-2189.2
CD
$16.25

Cage
Depart From Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Latest full-length from underground/indie-rap legend. Production by El-P, F. Sean (Hatebreed) & Aesop Rock
DefinitiveJux-179
CD
$15.50

Cage
Depart From Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Also on 2xLP
DefinitiveJux-179
DLP
$19.00

Chain Of Strength
The One Thing That Still Holds True (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US We are proud to bring back the definitive release of this classic straight edge band from Southern California. During the hardcore years of the late eighties, Chain of Strength showcased its straight power with this album. This amazing release also includes the 7" release True Till Death from Revelation and the self released 7" What Holds Us Apart plus an unreleased track. Chain of Strength brings you hardcore straight edge in the purest form.
Most of you already know, others are still learning. No true fan of hardcore can call their collection complete without this essential album.
Revelation-010
LP
$11.25

Champagne Socialists
Blue Genes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Members of ROYAL WE & BRICOLAGE. Coming on like Sparks produced by Joe Meek & Phil Spector, the band has a flair for echoey 3-minute symphonies, marrying classic pop melodies w/ punk-informed crunch & glam-infused '70s stomp. In other words, classic pop for the '00s, w/ nods to Blondie & Shop Assistants along the way
Slumberland-98
45
$4.25

Chapman, Roger
One More Time For Peace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Roger Chapman is the singer best-known in Britain for his work with Family and the 70s r'n'b band Streetwalkers.
One More Time For Peace is the first Chapman release since 2001's live album Rollin' & Tumblin'.
MysticRecords-200
CD
$13.75

Cheap Trick
The Latest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US New album!
Megaforce
CD
$16.75

Chrome
3rd From The Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Special limited edition vinyl reissue of the 1982 album by the Bay Area masters of alternative industrial noise rock
Cleopatra-124
LP
$17.75

Chrome
Alien Soundtracks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Special limited edition vinyl reissue of the seminal 1978 album - the 1st to feature the aggro-guitar stylings of Helios Creed - includes the classic "Chromosome Damage" & "All Data Lost"
Cleopatra-075
LP
$17.75

Circle Jerks
Golden Shower of Hits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS,US Re-mastered 180 gram vinyl. The band's trademark sense of humor is still present, witnessed by numbers like "When the Shit Hits the Fan" & the hilarious medley "Golden Shower of Hits." However, the anger & frustration of tracks like "Coup D'etat" & "Rats of Reality" keep the hardcore edge that fans always expected & reveled in
Porterhouse
LP
$16.50

Clark
Totems Flare (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US
Warp-10185
CD
$13.00

Clark
Totems Flare (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US
Warp-10185
LP
$17.25

Cloaks
Versus Grain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS,US Housed within their structures is a destructive impulse that recalls the work of Einsturzende Neubauten as much as it does the dark hooks of Burial. 35 unrelenting minutes of battering beats; layer upon layer of sound, dense walls of screaming sonic dirge, decaying static & brutally metallic beats
3BY3
CD
$15.50

Cloud, Dave and The Gospel of Power
Fever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US For this album, Dave Cloud dragged the ever-changing Gospel Of Power band across the Atlantic to record at Fire Records' Stoke Newington studio. It was here that the ever amenable Cloud created another record of fractured garage and garrulous lo-fi, bizarre character studies and paeans to ladies and love. Fever once again roughs up the Nashville tradition. The title track takes the melody of the song that Peggy Lee made famous for a late night drink in a seedy bar where it never really wanted to go while The Citadel even out-swaggers'n'sleazes the Rolling Stones' original.
It's a surprising end to Cloud's peculiar journey, but you'd be a fool not to join him on it.
Fire-133
CD
$11.25

Cock Sparrer
Here We Stand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US There is no introduction needed for one of the most influential streetpunk/oi! bands of all time: Cock Sparrer. In 2007 Captain Oi! Records released Cock Sparrer's first album since 1997's Two Monkeys. Previously only available as an import title, Pirate's Press brings this sixth studio album to the US with a ton of bonus material with each format but at a domestic price!
PiratesPress
CD
$10.50

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Limited Japanese Tour Edition. This sweeps in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime & soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica.
TableOfTheElements-818
LP
$14.25

Collins, William Fowler
Perdition Hill Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US 2LP version
Type-046
DLP
$22.50

Collins, William Fowler
Perdition Hill Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US 2nd full-length from self-styled black ambient guitar overlord. Like Earth's seminal "Hex" before it, this invokes the ghosts of a lost America & drags the rotting carcass of country music through a swamp of noise & drone. The chugging, blown-out treble & isolated darkness of Xasthur is all present & correct, but there are also echoes of William Basinski & Deaf Center hidden amongst the clouds of radio static
Type-046
CD
$15.50

Crippled Black Phoenix
200 Tons Of Bad Luck (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US After releasing the underground classic -A Love if Shared Disasters- Crippled Black Phoenix have re-grouped and spent the best part of a year recording -200 tons of bad luck-.
Although not strictly a concept recording the thoughts and moods of founding member Justin Greaves re-occur throughout and link the songs in a film like way. Once again CBP have crafted the songs at Geoff Barrows Portishead state of the art studio.
The end result will no doubt have folk scrambling for descriptives and in the midst of the relative chaos Crippled Black Phoenix will be oblivious to it all again giving you 200 tons of music that if you let yourself have time to be immersed in you shall be rewarded. Think of these albums like the moment when your life flashes before your eyes just before the inevitable conclusion.
Invada-076
LP
$17.75

Crooked Fingers
Forfeit/Fortune Here We Stand(Deluxe CD+DVD ) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Crooked Fingers will release their fifth LP titled Forfeit/Fortune. Forfeit/Fortune features the fullest and most eclectic orchestration on a Crooked Fingers release to date, enlisting an all-star cast of players to perform. Brian Kotzer (Silver Jews) lent his talents to the project in Nashville, while Tom Hagerman (Devotchka) laid down string parts in Denver. Frequent Crooked Fingers touring mate Neko Case sang the brilliant album-closing duet "Your Control" with Bachmann in Tucson. Bachmann, a noted composer in his own right, wrote and arranged the string and horn parts on the record.
ConstantArtists-002
CD/DVD
$16.25

Crooked Fingers
Forfeit/Fortune Here We Stand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Crooked Fingers will release their fifth LP titled Forfeit/Fortune. Forfeit/Fortune features the fullest and most eclectic orchestration on a Crooked Fingers release to date, enlisting an all-star cast of players to perform. Brian Kotzer (Silver Jews) lent his talents to the project in Nashville, while Tom Hagerman (Devotchka) laid down string parts in Denver. Frequent Crooked Fingers touring mate Neko Case sang the brilliant album-closing duet "Your Control" with Bachmann in Tucson. Bachmann, a noted composer in his own right, wrote and arranged the string and horn parts on the record.
ConstantArtists-001
CD
$12.00

Curd, James
We Just Won't Stop (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US A timeless hip house disco dancefloor jam from the DFA! Curd recently remixed Juan Maclean's "One Day"
DFA-215
12
$8.00

Dandy Warhols
Dandy Warhols Are Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US The album equivalent of the "Director's Cut" of Welcome To The Monkey House
BeatTheWorld
CD
$15.25

Dandy Warhols
Dandy Warhols Are Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US
BeatTheWorld
LP
$16.25

Deceh
Deceh (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 400. Handmade letter pressed covers. Deceh is a fine drone quartet utilizing traditional ethnic drone instruments as well as vintage analog synthesizers. This record was recorded on a centered room microphone as the group sat in a perfect square around it. This method of recording perfectly captured the focused intimacy of the moment complete with the crackling bellows of an ancient harmonium.
Bringing strict discipline, control and patience they're able to achieve densely transcendental focus in their work. Imagine taking three notes from Terry Riley and stretching them out into pulsating 20 minute sublime pieces. An obvious reference point might be the recent Yoshi Wada Earth Drones reissues but somehow even more transcendent. Fine drone. Acoustic & analogue. Deceh.
Important-258
LP
$20.00

Delby L
Nine Skies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
Ps, US Recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago @ Electrical Audio.
FakeFourInc.-008
CD
$9.50

Discovery
LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Discovery is the recording project of Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot). Guest vocals from Ezra Koening (Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors). Elements of European electronic dance music skittering in double time over steady R&B. "Cascades of synths that belong on a My Bloody Valentine record and electronic flurries that sound like a flock of robins chirping incessantly on a spring morning" - Pitchfork. "...some scorching lo-fi beats and lyrics" - Paste Magazine.
XL
CD
$13.25

Diskjokke
Discolated (Remixes 2007-2008) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US In-between travelling to support the successful "Staying In" album & making new music Diskjokke also made himself a name as a great remixer. On this album you'll find a compilation of remixes from 2007& 2008 of well knows artists such as Bloc Party, Foals, Lykke Li & Metronomy, dance/electronic acts such as his friend Lindstrom, Ost & Kjeks & Spektrum, as well as the lesser known Norwegian acts Harrys Gym & National Bank.
SmalltownSupersound-168
CD
$14.50

DJ Spooky & Matthew Shipp Trio
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US A sophisticated, untamed blend of free jazz & hip hop
LaHuit-16
DVD
$20.25

Donnas, The
Greatest Hits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US
PurpleFeather-1002
CD
$12.00

Donnas, The
Greatest Hits, Vol. 16 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US No one parties like The Donnas and they throw a Sweet Sixteen like no other. Their new album The Donnas Greatest Hits, Vol. 16 (the band's 8th release) is sixteen tracks of rock bliss, a collection of the classic Donnas songs you love and the new ones you'll die for, all written or co-written by The Donnas. The Donnas Greatest Hits, Vol. 16, is a comprehensive album featuring a mix of new songs, never-before-heard b-sides, live recordings as well as re-recorded classics, and previously unreleased tracks. After sixteen years together, and over 1,000,000 records sold, The Donnas have never sounded sweeter.
PurpleFeather-1002
LP
$13.75

Dr. Israel feat. Killah Priest
Gangsta N' Police (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Red vinyl. Limited to 1000. "Gangsta n Police" is a vivid depiction of urban life; a painting illustrated with the brush stroke of reality...Gangstas with knowledge run the streets. Questionable actions and intentions are sometimes a requirement for urban survival, and urban warfare against the corrupt police forces is often times un-avoidable. One does what one must in order to survive...As corporate imperialism manifests itself in a rapidly expanding prison industrial complex, crime is encouraged, security disbanded, and overt police corruption and greed is rewarded every bit as much as it is ignored." - Dr. Israel Dubstep bounces to life in the hands of Dr. Israel and Wu-Tang Clan alumnus Killah Priest, as a gritty street tale unfolds over stomping beats and singularly destructive bass. The single is sure to spring to life on both urban radio and in the modern dubstep craze, with Killah Priest dropping science with a memorable verse. The version utilizes the spacey, classic 70s method of dub technique, and the Submerged remix powers the club floor tailoring in the finer threads of dubstep mastercraft.Tracks:A1) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N PoliceA2) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N Police [Version] dubbed out byDr. Israel and Bill LaswellB1) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N Police [Submerged Remix]B2) Accapella [unlisted]
OhmResistance-01
12
$8.25

Dysrythmia
Psychic Maps (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS,US The band continues to push themselves to new levels of technicality while also adding a healthy dose of melodic songcraft. RIYL: Voivod, Sonic Youth, Hella, Pelican
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Electric Frankenstein
Sick Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US New album.
EF
CD
$13.75

Eleh
Homage To The Sine Wave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 2nd release in their sound waves-based Homage To... series, following 2008's sold-out LP, Homage To The Square Wave. 200 gram virgin vinyl in a hand-numbered edition of 500. This is two-tone drone targeted towards absolute, meditative bliss
Taiga-7
LP
$23.50

Farmer Dave Scher
Bab'lone Nights b/w You Pick Me Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Smooth as a can of Frankies 457, we are proud to salute and present the first solo album from Farmer Dave Scher of Beachwoods Sparks and All Night Radio fame. In addition to his previously starry bands, pedal steel master Scher is known for his strong appearances, production, and performances that include the likes of Jenny Lewis, Interpol, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Rice, and Vetiver. The pedigree of Dave's projects comes close in hand with this golden debut, filled with gorgeous lush arrangements and jams that reflect sunny JJ Cale meets Motown lovin. A sweet West Coast journey and good times from start to finish. There's something so quality about Dave's honest marriage of nostalgia and now, with gems like "Bab'lone Nights". Scher keeps country minded and blends it properly with psych, soul, surf, and tinge of B. Bacharach. Special guests on the trip include members of Entrance, VietNam, Jonathan Wilson, and Devendra Banhart producer Thom Monahan.
MexicanSummer
45
$4.25

Few Nolder
New Folder (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Experimenting w/ off-kilter micro-house & druggy wonk, Linas Strockis drops a barebones beat around which he flips deceptively simple synthline progressions the grow into monolithic riffs. At the crux of nu-disco, dubstep, & techno
PlanetMu-238
DLP
$19.25

Fiery Furnaces
I'm Going Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US Eighth FRIEDBERGER album recorded & mixed by JASON LOEWENSTEIN (bass, SEBADOH) in NYC. ELEANOR wrote most of the lyrics; MATT wrote most of the music & also produced. All rock music is a sort of dramatic music. Since the times are tough, it makes sense to have that "drama" be something more like "Taxi" & less like "Titanic." Hopefully this record can be used as theme songs to folks' own personal visions of drama. CD presented in 4 panel mini-LP style jacket
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Fiery Furnaces
I'm Going Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US Eighth FRIEDBERGER album recorded & mixed by JASON LOEWENSTEIN (bass, SEBADOH) in NYC. ELEANOR wrote most of the lyrics; MATT wrote most of the music & also produced. All rock music is a sort of dramatic music. Since the times are tough, it makes sense to have that "drama" be something more like "Taxi" & less like "Titanic." Hopefully this record can be used as theme songs to folks' own personal visions of drama. LP on 180g & limited to 1500, old-style tip-on gatefold jacket, incl. MP3 download coupon
ThrillJockey
LP
$16.25

Floating Points
J&W Beat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 2 slices of psychedelic soul & synth-funk squiggles. Underpinned by squashed up 2-step rhythms & compressed hip hop drums, this is on par w/ anything by Hud Mo or Mike Slott
PlanetMu-242
12
$7.25

Foreign Press
The Whole Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, UK The Whole Story is the first CD release by cult Manchester post-punk band Foreign Press. Manchester group Foreign Press were active between 1979 and 1988. After early gigs at legendary clubs including Rafters, Devilles and the Factory/Russell, the group recruited Joy Division manager Rob Gretton to produce their first single, Downpour, in 1979. After a second single, Climbing, in 1981, Foreign Press elected to pursue a more overtly commercial direction. The result was anthemic electro single The Great Divide, produced by Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Donald Johnson (A Certain Ratio), and released through a major label in 1983. Despite management from the team behind Wham! and a second pop single, the group failed to crack the charts, and after later demos for an album (again produced by Donald Johnson) finally split in 1988. However during their decade together Foreign Press recorded a wealth of material, much of it released here for the first time. Digitally remastered, 32 track 150 minute double disc set The Whole Story features all tracks from all four singles, as well as previously unreleased demo and session tracks. The booklet includes archive images and liner notes by singer Ralph Bowe.
LTM-2529
DCD
$15.25

Foubert, Casey/James McAlister
Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Drums (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US FOUBERT & MCALISTER drew from both improvised drumming & pattern-based sequencing w/ samplers to create themes molded into songs. While the concept excludes harmonic & melodic conventions, atonal "melodies" present themselves alongside the groove centered songs.
AsthmaticKitty-203
LP
$11.50

Franklin
Every Now And Then (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US New side project by Franck Rabbeyrolles (of the French minimal/pop electronic project DOUBLE U). A type of mutant pop, a very special combination of vintage future analog synths & drum machines, some echo guitars w/o treacle-y nostalgia, toy pianos, dub effects & sweet vocals mixed w/ a modern & surreal hybrid pop - a project not so far from artists like Broadcast, Beach Hous, or the Notwist. '90s indie-rock influences crossing bleeps against mellow West Coast '60s vibes
Wool-008
CD
$18.00

Galactic Zoo Dossier
#8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US "The world's greatest psychedelic underground hand drawn pro-zine" Interviews with Vashti Bunyan, Djin Aquarian (YaHoWha13), Peter Walker, Mani Neumeier & more. Features on Del Shannon, Eddie Hazel, George-Edwards Group, Kim Fowley & more. Plus a CD compilation of totally unreleased magical sounds by YaHoWha13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, Monster Magnet, Christina Carter & way more!
DragCity-402
ZINE
$14.75

Garneau, Chris
El Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US There is still a poignant melancholy and bold sincerity that permeates all of Garneau's music, but those qualities are augmented by a playfulness in his melodies and arrangements. Garneau's extensive cast of characters unavoidably comment on the social and political forces that pull us unpredictably through time while rollicking to the rhythms of an organ grinder. Two previous tracks licensed to "Grey's Anatomy"; one licensed track to "The Practice" and "So You Think You Can Dance". RIYL: Thao Nguyen, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Xiu Xiu.
AbsolutelyKosher
CD
$13.25

Garwood, Duke
He Was A Warlock EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US After Duke's sublime dirge on the Keep Mother Series (10"), it was inevitable that Fire Records were going to sign such a maverick warped bluesman from South London. This first EP release He Was A Warlock captures Duke Garwood in his free blues form. The release serves as a great precursor to his debut album release for Fire Records, The Sand That Falls, due for release in late June.
Fire-173
CD5
$9.50

Garwood, Duke
The Sand That Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Recorded in a vast, deserted house that was as much a building site as abode, it's soon apparent that The Sand That Falls is aptly named. For as Garwood picks his blues and murmurs his songs, time vanishes as he transports you to a world soundtracked by sparse plucking, gentle percussion and his deep, thoughtful vocal. Though steeped in the blues and deeply influenced by his hero Thelonious Monk, Garwood never becomes distracted into reverential homage. There's a fractured, lo-fi feel to what he does; an unconcern with rigid adherence to tradition. In the scattered sounds and meditative feel, the space in which The Sand That Falls was recorded almost becomes audible in the music.
Fire-132
CD
$13.75

Garwood, Duke
The Sand That Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US
Fire-132
LP
$15.50

Gentleman Losers
Dustland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS,US A sound that evokes tarnished grandeur - where decay & starry-eyed innocence rub shoulders w/ dusty strings & syrup-drenched instrumentation. Sounds like a ballroom orchestra recorded inside a snow globe. Big songs compressed through a bottleneck of lo-fi genius
CityCentreOffices
CD
$16.25

Gentleman Losers
Dustland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS,US Vinyl version. A sound that evokes tarnished grandeur - where decay & starry-eyed innocence rub shoulders w/ dusty strings & syrup-drenched instrumentation. Sounds like a ballroom orchestra recorded inside a snow globe. Big songs compressed through a bottleneck of lo-fi genius
CityCentreOffices
LP
$16.25

Giuliani, Trevor
Subcontrario (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US After moving from New York's Lower East side to the more environmentally-focused Portland, OR - Trevor Guiliani is finally set to release his debut album. Featuring vocal sfrom Katrina Kerns of SUFJAN STEVENS and the ILLANOISEMAKERS. RIYL: Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Cass McCombs. In eco-friendly digipack.
HighWire-023
CD
$12.25

Greymachine
Disconnected (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US GREYMACHINE is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most realized collaborative effort between Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, Napalm Death etc..), Dave Cochrane (Head Of David, God, Ice), Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner (ISIS, House of Low Culture, etc..) ever! If you're a fan of Godflesh, or have even a fleeting interest in the band, this bud's for you; if you subscribe to The Aural & Visual Art of Aaron Turner this shits a pool party. Disconnected, the album in question, is at once jarring and ethereal.... which is, as you may already know, the kind of combination that results in entire city blocks bobbin' their heads to This...
In summation, GREYMACHINE sounds like a serious case of cyberbullying through the mind of an extremely autistic child living in an ever-shifting hadean landscape thronged with mindless militants, dilapidated cityscapes and ephemeral phantoms... so to summarize the summation, Disconnected is haunting and modern sounding... In a good way.
HydraHead-188
CD
$13.75

Grief No Absolution
Eurostopodus Argus/Crypsis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Short sharp hateful stabs of sound versus the withered dry bones of aridÊfurnace-like slabs. Grief No Absolution is a crushing abandonment of frilly technique that has seeped into the darkest edges of metal, a reversion to a harrowing, bleak sound - decayed, scorched - and utterly unredeemed. Includes download code, yay!
FlingcoSoundSystem-006
10/45
$23.00

Grizzly Bear
Hornof Plenty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 15TH)
PS, US For the first time, the full Horn of Plenty album is available on 180gm black vinyl w/printed inner sleeve. Limited to 1000.
Kanine
LP
$13.75

Gus Gus
Add This Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US With their highly-infectious, metrosexual, multimedia pop, they secured themselves a deal with the prestigious 4AD label, & are set to release their 7th studio album on Kompakt, who are honored to present the catchy harmonies of "Add This Song," with remixes by Lopazz & Zarook, Gluteus Maximus, & Patrick Chardronnet
Kompakt-196
12
$12.50

Guthrie, Robin
Carousel (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Carousel is the follow up to the critically acclaimed instrumental albums Continental and Imperial. We have a few words to describe Carousel - uplifting, summery, opulent, dreamlike, exquisite, moving - with Guthrie quietly coaxing beauty out of layers of echoes and always-inventive soundscaping. Guthrie has been a massive influence on everyone from My Bloody Valentine through to Antony and the Johnsons, new 4AD Act The Big Pink and M83. In recent years he's worked with School Of Seven Bells, John Foxx (on this year's Mirrorball album, described by Q Magazine as 'full of myriad charms . . . encompassing the best of both artists'), Ulrich Schnauss, Harold Budd (with whom he made two albums in 2007, Before The Day Breaks and After The Night Falls) and Brooklyn's Mahogany and Apollo Heights. Given the quality of Carousel, it's not surprising that as a guitarist and producer, though most people know about his work as the Cocteau Twins principal sound designer, his defining role in the now vogue-ishly fashionable early '90s shoegazing scene with his productions for the likes of Lush and Chapterhouse shouldn't go un-noticed. Guthrie is also developing an impressive reputation as a composer of film soundtracks and in the visual arts. He's scored two movies - Greg Araki's Mysterious Skin and the Dany Saadia directed 3:19 - for both of which he released a soundtrack album, and has performed extensively with Lumire, and its recently premiered successor Galerie, both films that he has created as backdrops for his atmospheric, hypnotic guitar-based instrumental concerts.
Darla-226
CD
$12.25

Guthrie, Robin
Songs to Help My Children Sleep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US New four song EP by former Cocteau Twins guitarist. Limited to 1000. Digipak. Tracks: 1. Laughter in the Dark 2. Fireflies 3. White Bear in Honolulu 4. Misty
Darla-228
CD5
$7.00

Hamburger, Neil
Western Music & Variety (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Filmed at the famed Radio Recorders studio, this DVD features a one hour variety event with Neil & his band, plus two music videos, TV appearance, short film, slide show & a special appearance by Dr. Demento! In addition to the sets of jokes, the film features the "live & dirty" versions of many of the songs heard on his "Sings Country Winners" album, as well as a dramatic reading of The Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke." All Region - 87 minutes.
DragCity-382
DVD
$14.75

Hardkiss, Scott
Technicolor Dreamer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Technicolor Dreamer, is Scott Hardkiss' highly anticipated first first full-length album. A perfect summer album with booty-shakin' dance grooves which take his signature psychedelic fusion sound to the next level. Technicolor Dreamer, brings together a kaleidoscopic spectrum of musicians, artists and genres to create an album that can be perfectly summed up as a celebratory dance pop funk-fest."
GodWithinRecordings-001
CD
$14.75

Harvey, PJ
To Bring You My Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US 180gm vinyl LP! PJs 3rd proper album (not incl. the '4 Track Demos' released after 'Rid Of Me') is her most accomplished & mature album to date. Following the harsh sound & brutal honesty of 'Rid Of Me', this album feels like a step outside of herself, a reflection rather than an outpouring of emotion. Relying heavily on religious imagery & presenting a twisted blues reminiscent of future-beau Nick Cave or Tom Waits, this is quite a departure from the sparseness of Steve Albini's production on 'Rid Of Me.' Another classic PJ HARVEY album back in print finally!
Plain
LP
$16.75

Hendrix, Jimi Experience
Live At Woodstock (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US 3LP to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his performace at Woodstock.
Geffen-987
3XLP
$33.25

Her Space Holiday
Sleepy Tigers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Lead off single from "XOXO, Panda & The New Kid Revival." In addition to the title track, 3 new compositions are included. Sugarcoated dreamscapes floating alongside bitter-sweet narratives of life.
Mush-041
CD5
$7.00

High Places/Soft Circle
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US HP's track on the split "Late Bloomer" is very mysterious, crashing & rhythmic collisions; whispers, bangs, clangs, seashores & melody seep into your body. Definitely rides the line of club banger or bedroom jammer, it works perfect either way. SC's (formerly of BLACK DICE, PIXELTAN, LIGHTNING BOLT) 2 tracks on the split "Don't Just Stand There" & "Light Bright" are way more geared to a dance floor inspired mass, underground disco, NY wave.
PostPresentMedium-025
LP
$9.00

Holy Modal Rounders
Good Taste Is Timeless (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US The seminal Greenwich Village acid-folkies' twisted Americana collided w/ mainstream Nashville to produce this 1971 cult classic
Sundazed-253
DLP
$16.50

Iggy & the Stooges
Cock In My Pocket (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Collectible 7 inch vinyl single
Cleopatra-675
45
$7.25

Iggy & the Stooges
More Power (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Digitally remastered collection of rare studio recordings from the punk icons recorded in the same year the band released their seminal album "Raw Power"
Cleopatra-687
LP
$19.75

Israelite, Koby
Is He Listening (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US A student of jazz, classical, punk, heavy metal, gypsy, Balkan & reggae, Koby effortlessly blends it all into a unique & vibrant new music. Filled w/ wit, passion & a surreal sense of humor, this is his sly take on easy listening
Tzadik-145
CD
$15.25

Jack Rose & The Black Twigs
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US This raw & rocking collaboration features some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose's solo playing has always had a rough edge, w/ his prodigious technique often employed to drop right-hand bombs. The front line of Rose & Gangloff's strings are joined by Howell's no-nonsense guitar & harmonica & Bowles' variety of expert percussion
VHF-116
CD
$14.25

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Ballads Of The Revolution (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Vinyl Version!
Fire-131
LP
$15.50

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Ballads Of The Revolution (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Beginning in Portland, Oregon in 1994 as a duo, Tom Greenwood and Nester Bucket began JOMF as a conceptual/musical project exploring the possibilities of combining tape collage, free improvisation, and folk song structures. True to their early imaginings, JOMF became the mutable feast of psychedelic art, far exceeding the visions of either of them. Nester departed from the band and Greenwood carried on with JOMF, now functioning as a collective.
Ballads Of The Revolution is the band's 10th studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on American music.
Fire-131
CD
$13.75

Jandek
Six & Six (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH
PS, US Originally released in 1981, JANDEK'S second album stands as an incredible document of the formative stages of his cracked genius. The musical elements are almost catatonic: 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. First time on vinyl in over 25 years. Old-style tip on jacket. LIMITED!
JackpotRecords740
LP
$20.75

Japanroids
Post-Nothing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US One guitar, one set of drums & two vocalizers. They call it garage rock. They don't care what you call it, as long as it's not minimal. They are maximal - a two piece band trying to sound like a five piece band. RECOMMENDED
Polyvinyl-184
CD
$10.50

Jeremih
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US
DefJam-01
DLP
$14.00

Jim Jones Revue, The
The Jim Jones Revue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US The Jim Jones Revue eponymous debut album is described as sounding like a car crash between Little Richard and The MC5. The "Revue play super charged rock n roll inspired by The Killer, The Georgia Peach, and of course The Memphis Flash and the deranged sons of Detroit. The Jim Jones Revue strips rock n roll back to its essential elements and this album is a document of their base alchemy. Recorded live, no overdubs, on four track in one straight 48 hours session, the record is a celebration of no holds barred full on rocking. Former lead singer of Sub Pop garge legends Thee Hypnotics, Jim Jones looks aftter vocals and guitar, Rupert orton plays lead guitar, Elliot Mortimer plays keys, Gavin Jay Plays bass and Nick Jones plays drums. Among an album of hard rocking delights, key tracks to dip into are "Rock n Roll Psychosis" whichsounds like a unholy jam between Jerry Lee Lewis and The Birthday Party. The Revue play homnage to The Killer on another Key track "Meat Man".
PunkRockBlues-002
CD
$13.75

Johannsson, Johann
Englaborn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Highly-acclaimed 1st solo album from consummate Icelandic musician, composer & producter, originally released on CD by Touch in 2002, now issued in a gatefold vinyl edition. Written for string quartet, piano, organ, glockenspiel & percussion, these organic elements were processed & manipulated, adding delicate electronic backgrounds to the otherwise entirely acoustic recordings
Touch-052
LP
$16.25

Johnston, James & Philippe Petit
Fiends With A Face (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Members of STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, GALLON DRUNK. A homage to the golden era of horror movies - these two fiends wanted to conjure up blood-curdling & haunting soundscapes, playing w/ an unsettling ambiance of strings, piano, organ, electronics, guitar drone & feedback screech
DirterProductions-065
CD
$18.00

Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Companion piece to the 7 inch vinyl featuring recordings from the Martin Hannett tapes, newly remastered, plus a 12 inch bonus remix
Cleopatra-828
12
$12.50

Judge
What It Meant: The Complete Di scography (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US To most fans of hardcore, Judge is a band that needs no introduction. The band who took the ideals and positive goals of Youth of Today and infused them with beefy guitar licks, introspective lyrics and a hefty influx of New York style. Their debut EP was released with much fanfare, selling faster than it could be kept in press.Their live shows were infectious, and soon the entire Northeast, not to mention the world, had their eyes on Judge. It was official - Judge was a full-fledged outbreak.And almost as suddenly as it had started, it was over. A final show in Florida unceremoniously stands as their farewell - no reunions, no grandstanding, and no apologies. The face of the band and singer Mike Judge parted ways with the hardcore scene, but his legacy remains in his words... "Can you hear me, hear when I scream - you hear my words, but do you know what I mean?"The Complete Discography compiles the entire recorded output of Judge, the first time available on one format. The lasting memory of Judge and impact it has had on hardcore can be seen all around, and this discovery will truly lead you to what it meant.
Revelation-122
LP
$16.50

Keane
Live [blue ray] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Blue Ray version.
Interscope
DVD/BR
$24.50

Keane
Live (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US
Interscope
DVD
$17.75

Kershaw, Doug
The Very Best Of Doug Kershaw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US 18 songs from the Ragin' Cajun - the #1 purveyor of Louisiana music!
TheGreatAmericanMusicCo.-082
CD
$10.50

Kooper, Al & Mike Bloomfield
Live Adventures Of (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Blues-steeped guitar hero Mike Bloomfield (BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND, ELECTRIC FLAG) & keyboardist/singer Al Kooper (BLUES PROJECT, BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS). 2LP
Sundazed-276
DLP
$16.50

Kooper, Al & Mike Bloomfield
Super Session (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Historic 1968 summit meeting features blues guitar hero extraordinaire Mike Bloomfield, multi-talented keyboard visionary Al Kooper & Buffalo Springfield/CSNY founder & ace axeman Stephen Stills
Sundazed-275
LP
$16.50

Krazy Baldhead
B-Suite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US His influences range from the Chemical Brothers to Bill Evans, from A Tribe Called Quest to Joy Division, from Gong to Miles Davis, & even Prefuse 73. There is some blues in his music, but above all, there is that liberty that could only come from a 10-year background in jazz. Um?
EdBanger-476
CD
$16.25

Kreng
L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US These sample-based constructions incorporated sounds from free-jazz, new electronic-generated sounds, classical modernism & vintage geographical recordings. Discordant segments of wailing, top-end violins give way to clunking rhythmic passages of metal marimbas & tuned percussion; free-roaming passages of rasping, low-end bass & the shuffle of free-jazz recall the work of Prestige-era Moondog, as well as aspects of Harry Partch's instrumentation via mid- to latter-day period Tom Waits. Atonal ambiance & slow builds, eerie segues into low murk, & a haunting solo soprano voice are all pulled together to make perfect sense, often in terrifying ways
Miasmah-010
CD
$15.50

Law Of The Least Effort
Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Measurements (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US An homage to 60's & 70's session bands like The Meters, Booker T & The MG's, The Funk Brothers, the JB's, & guitar players like Clarence White, Link Wray, JJ Cale & John McLaughlin.
AsthmaticKitty-202
LP
$11.50

Left Alone
Left Alone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US It's Punk Rock folks! Left Alone is a punk rock band from Wilmington, California. They were formed in May 1996 by lead vocalist and guitarist Elvis Cortez. Cortez formed his own label, Smelvis Records, to release Left Alone's records, and has since expanded the label to include numerous other underground bands. Cortez was also the owner of the PCH Club in Wilmington, which is now defunct. Left Alone's music has ska influences, and the band is notable for adhering to a do it yourself ethic by avoiding major labels, booking their own tours, and making their own merchandise.
After releasing numerous demos, splits, and EPs, Left Alone released their first full-length, Streets of Wilmington, in 2002. A year later, the band compiled their earlier, out-of-print recordings on the anthology Left Alone: 1996-2000. In 2003, Cortez went on the Warped Tour as a roadie. After Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman heard Left Alone's music, he chose the band to be the Warped Tour BBQ band for the 2004 tour. The band were invited back to be the BBQ band for the 2005 tour. While on the Warped Tour, Tim Armstrong of Rancid heard Left Alone's 2004 album, Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. Armstrong signed the band to his label, Hellcat Records, and re-released Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. The band released their third full-length album, Dead American Radio, on August 8, 2006, which features guest appearances from Tim Armstrong and Patricia Day of the Horrorpops.
BlackbirdMusic-1202
CD
$12.00

Legion of Two
Riffs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US New project from Alan O'Boyle & David Lacey. It pits electronics against live drums & percussion for a dark, dense, & noise dirge. Huge basslines, slow, pounding rhythms, & feedback dominate. Industrial, dub, & metal influences are shredded through old guitar pedals & cheap reverbs & reassembled into a driving & melodic force
PlanetMu-234
DLP
$19.25

Levin, Elliot Meets The Seesaw Ensemble
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Tenor sax jazz musician teams up w/ free jazz group to create a sound & feeling that incorporates the best characteristics of the late 60's jazz movement. Sudden bursts of energy, playful interplay, experimental sounds, sullen grooves, psychedelic & spiritual sounds that ebb & flow together. A recording tha will surely appeal to fans of John & Alice Coltrane & Sun Ra
Porter-1001
CD
$14.75

Lights
Rites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Any band that mutates the powers of Jimi Hendrix, unicorns, Stevie Nicks, glowsticks, Prince, Indians & cowboys, Yoko Ono, red wine, Jem & Beyonce into their own smoothly flowing sound, they're acting from the heart -or the dark side of their Id. Their songs are the lovechild of American soul music, country, metal, psychedelic rock, disco & new age.
DragCity-408
CD
$13.25

Lights
Rites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Vinyl.
DragCity-408
LP
$14.75

Lisa o Piu
When This Was The Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Vinyl version
Subliminal-033
LP
$27.50

Lisa o Piu
When This Was The Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US The album is filled w/ delicious & bewitching woodland folk hymnals, eloguent yet eerie, & led by Lisa's gossamer vocals, as delicate as a wavering candle flame. It somehow divinely conjures the essence of Linda Perhacs, Bridget St. John, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Vashti Bunyan & Joanna Newsom into one singular siren, but w/ a thoroughly unique, haunting delivery
Subliminal-029
CD
$18.00

Lloyd, Richard
The Jamie Neverts Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Ex-Television and Rocket from the Tombs guitarist (and frequent Matthew Sweet collaborator) RICHARD LLOYD will have his new album, The Jaime Neverts Story, released this Summer by Parasol Records. The Jamie Neverts Story is Richard's long-awaited collection of Jimi Hendrix covers recorded in early 2008. As much a homage to Jimi as it is to Lloyd's and Hendrix's mutual friend Velvert Turner (R.I.P.), the story behind this release touches on punches thrown, tears shed and three men whose legendary guitar alchemy has shaped and continues to shape rock music ever since. For recording Richard was joined by bassist Keith Hartel and longtime Lloyd session drummer Chris Purdy, with a special guest appearance by Television drummer Billy Ficca. This is Lloyd's third release for us and we're proud to be working with one of Punk's true godfathers.
Parasol-CD-113
CD
$10.00

Lord Fowl
Endless Dynamite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-004
CD
$9.50

Lowe, Nick
Brentford Trilogy BOX SET (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically acclaimed The Impossible Bird by Upstart Records. With the overall excitement that followed the release, it was evident that Nick's music had taken a slightly different twist on the road to a more mature tone and stripped down musical arrangement.And although it was unknown at the time, Nick's next two records Dig My Mood and The Convincer would travel the same road, achieving greater result and success with each effort. These three records always represented a kind of trilogy to Nick and now for the first time, all three are being packed together in a very limited edition Brentford Trilogy boxed set for hardcore fans and new believers alike. In this package is a new book with extra photos and a new interview with Nick by Paul Gorman. The three CDs and booklet are encased within a handsome box which is open on one end to reveal the individual spines of each record. On the cover, there's a great photo of Nick from the period and on the back is an essay by Nick himself talking about why he considers these three records to be a "trilogy." Many fans consider Nick's later period of work to be his very best and of course we agree. Nick Lowe is the man. Follow him and discover his subtle greatness.
YepRoc-2633
CD-BOX
$21.50

Lowlights
Further/Free (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US This time the group is more The Band than The Church & more Gram Parsons than Spiritualized. Still melancholy, rock solid, earthy country-rock
Darla-229
CD
$12.25

Lunch, Lydia
Big Sexy Noise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21st)
PS, US Lydia Lunch has collaborated with Terry Edwards, James Johnston and Ian White in a variety of musical guises for the last ten years. From Hangover Hotel and Smoke in the Shadows to the most recent multimedia performances of Real Pornography and The Ghosts of Spain, the three rabble rousers from Gallon Drunk have, in a series of ever
morphing configurations, collaborated with Lydia in creating psycho-ambient soundscapes in the service of propelling forth spoken word exorcisms in her decades -long prophecies of societal collapse, moral bankruptcy, and global corruption.
Sartorial-039
LP
$17.25

Lynott, Phil
Live In Sweden 1983 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Excellent picture disc featuring the great man himself. Strictly limited to 500 copies.
Mischief-
CD
$19.00

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

Mad Gregs
Big Nun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-003
CD
$9.50

Magnolia Electric Co.
Josephine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US The band is back on its heels, yes, but they are going to fight back in the only way they know how. This is a tribute to the life & spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. There are cues taken from great songwriters like WIllie Nelson & Warren Zevon. This is heartbreak at ten paces, to be sure.
SecretlyCanadian-185
CD
$11.50

Maher Shalal Hash Baz
C'est La Dernière Chanson (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz & experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. This is compact & richly melodic; forgotten melodies played w/ a fragile trust.
Krecords-210
DCD
$12.50

Marley, Bob & Wailers
Exodus LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Reissue on 180 grm vinyl w/ all the orginal packaging. Featuring "Exodus," "Jamming," "Three Little Birds" and more!
Island-419
LP
$19.00

Marley, Bob & Wailers
Catch a Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Reissue on 180 grm vinyl w/ all the orginal packaging. The legend of The Harder The Come in the flesh and the blaze is set. "Stir It Up," "Concrete Jungle," "Stop That Train," and more!
Island-1
LP
$19.00

Marley, Bob & Wailers
Legend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Reissue on 180 grm vinyl w/ all the orginal packaging. The defining summation of Marley's epochal career. 14 touchstone recordings featuring "I Shot the Sheriff," "No Woman No Cry," "Buffalo Soldier," and "One Love/ People Get Ready. "
Island-052
LP
$19.00

Marmoset
Tea Tornado (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Throughout the last 14 years, the enigmatic trio known as Marmoset have fostered a near-mythical cult status with their claustrophobic, moody, and etherial blend of indie pop. The band's subtle take on primordial-post-punk spawns songs whose overly-simple structures seem to speak in tongues - channeling the spirit of Swell Maps and the Velvet Underground into something all together new.
JoyfulNoise-035
CD
$11.25

Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Won't You Let Me Be Black? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION of 500 on BLUE VINYL. Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008) was one of the all-time great soul singers. His 1962 record "Village of Love" made him a star, and he inspired several generations of musicians, especially in his hometown of Detroit. Nathaniel's last sessions took place during two long summer days and nights of intense jamming, writing, and recording. "Why Don't You Give It To Me?" was the first installment of these recordings to be unleashed. Now, here at last, is a second volume of Nathaniel Mayer having a blast with the assistance of members of the Black Keys, SSM, Outrageous Cherry, and the Dirtbombs. The two acoustic performances are from a 2007 radio interview, Nathaniel's only known "unplugged" performance. About the title: It has to do with the food he kept being served while on tour in Europe. When Nate finally became frustrated with the countless plates of cheese and French bread that awaited him backstage at every gig, he shouted "Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?". He agreed that it sounded like a good title for his next album.
Alive-096
LP
$13.00

Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Won't You Let Me Be Black? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008) was one of the all-time great soul singers. His 1962 record "Village of Love" made him a star, and he inspired several generations of musicians, especially in his hometown of Detroit. Nathaniel's last sessions took place during two long summer days and nights of intense jamming, writing, and recording. "Why Don't You Give It To Me?" was the first installment of these recordings to be unleashed. Now, here at last, is a second volume of Nathaniel Mayer having a blast with the assistance of members of the Black Keys, SSM, Outrageous Cherry, and the Dirtbombs. The two acoustic performances are from a 2007 radio interview, Nathaniel's only known "unplugged" performance. About the title: It has to do with the food he kept being served while on tour in Europe. When Nate finally became frustrated with the countless plates of cheese and French bread that awaited him backstage at every gig, he shouted "Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?". He agreed that it sounded like a good title for his next album.
Alive-096
CD
$13.00

Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Don't You Give It To Me (ORANGE VINYL) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION of 500 on ORANGE VINYL. Mayer is backed up by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and the Detroit contingent of Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry), Troy Gregory (the Dirtbombs) and Dave Shelter (SSM). These guys know their stuff and they provide the perfect mix of sympathy and raunch for Nathaniel to outline his plans, pleas and female troubles on top of. It's an excellent combo that let's Mayer do what he does best while still delivering the goods in the rock action department. An overwhelming success across the board. - Other Music
AliveRecords-00791
LP
$13.00

MC5
Kick Out The Jams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Gorgeously designed limited edition 7 inch vinyl of 2 masterpieces of garage rock
Cleopatra-887
45
$7.25

McCombs, Cass
Catacombs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Cass's fourth album and second for Domino evokes a return to his early, simpler sounding works, "A" and "PREfection". It's full of storied songs flush with emotional relevance and accessibility. Each track is cloaked in shiver inducing melodies that lay the perfect foundation for Cass' true source of transcendence - his vocals and lyrics. McCombs carries on transcending fad and fashion to ensure the art of songwriting lives on.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

McCombs, Cass
Catacombs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo.
DLP
$17.50

Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Their highly anticipated second album. All the hints they've given us from songs Stereogum described as "mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics" to tours with The Rosebuds, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Akron Family have culminated in a record that's an ode to death, love, musical history, community, tradition, and experimentation. In all, it's an ode to the listener.
Hometapes-029
CD
$13.75

Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Vinyl version includes album download and side-D etching.
Hometapes-029
DLP
$17.25

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol 7: Kujakubato (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Beginning in January 2009 one volume of 13 Japanese Birds will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released January 2010. Each volume will be a one time pressing of 1000 copies. Available from Important Records is a deluxe hand made numbered bamboo box to hold the 13 cd collection. Cover art by Jenny Akita.
Important-257
CD
$13.25

Metric
Fantasies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US 180 gram gatefold vinyl
Metric-019
LP
$22.00

MGMT
Time To Pretend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS,US Reissue of the electro psych group's debut EP, originally released in 2005. Composed of 6 songs, from the youthful exuberance of the title track to the four-on-the-floor dance anthem "Kids" (both later appeared on "Oracular Spectacular") & the space pop whimsy of "Love Always Remains"
Cantora
CD5
$7.25

Middleton, Malcolm
Waxing Gibbous (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 5th solo album from Scottish singer-songwriter, featuring backing vocals from King Creosote & The Pictish Trail, the piano skills of Barry Burns (MOGWAI), & the honeyed vocals of Jenny Reeve
FullTimeHobby-077
CD
$14.25

Minus 5
Killingsworth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US This is another Minus 5 album. Now the eighth LP from the loose creative collective/serious drinking association helmed by wayfarer and musical enabler Scott McCaughey. This one is called Killingsworth.
A recording worthy of the murders committed during its genesis? Perhaps. Incoherent yarns mostly told after midnight by highway hobos in and around Portland, Oregon? Surely.
Killingsworth features an incarnation of The Minus 5 including apparatus support poles "McOi," Peter Buck and John Moen (Decemberists). Other gypsies in the carnival include The She Bee Gees, further Decemberists Colin Meloy, Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, Nate Query and many more.
Pedal steel belted radials drive throughout the gravelly fern-lined byways of the neighborhood of Killingsworth. Either ride along with the show or get out of the way of its careening wheel man, drunk with liquor and blood. Up to you, friend.
YepRoc-2166
CD
$13.75

Modest Mouse
No One's First, And You're Next EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Includes digital code
Epic-1
LP
$19.00

Modest Mouse
No One's First, And You're Last EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 4TH)
PS, US Collection of b-sides from the "We Were Dead.." & "Good News.." sessions
Epic-2
CD
$9.50

Modest Mouse
Perpetual Motion Machine b/w History Sticks to Your Feet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US
Epic-7
45
$7.50

Monosov, DJ Ilya & The 20th Century Punks
New Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 28TH)
PS, US Too rhythmic to call noise, too chaotic to call music. This 4 track 12-inch is nothing like Nurse With Wound while sounding like an American counterpart
HolyMountain-56
12
$14.25

Moondog
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US Debut album, originally released in 1956. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal & avant-garde here, w/ compositions driven by percussion & Japanese-inspired melodies, complimented by street sounds, recitations, & animal noises. Bizarre even for today's standards, it's a wonder this was released over a half-century ago
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Moondog
Story of Moondog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US 3rd LP from NYC street performer & avant-garde/minimalist composer, originally released in 1957. Perhaps the least accessible of his early releases, this album is made up of percussive jams, usually on instruments of his own creation, street sounds, poetry, & Far East melodies, despite opening w/ a swinging number that is, oddly, the most bizarre thing on the album
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Moondog
More Moondog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS,US 2nd LP, originally released in 1956. Continues the NYC street performer's exploration of minimalist composition & field recording, mixing percussion & sparse melodies w/ piano solos, street sounds, & monologues. Surprisingly accessible despite it's avant-garde nature, bridging the gap between the familiar & the bizarre. Another all out masterwork from one of 20th century America's most unique minds
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Morris, Joe
Wildlife (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US A gorgeous modern jazz album with vintage microphone glow; four fully inviting long-form collective improvisations. New group concept feat. MORRIS on bass, PETR CANCURA on tenor & alto sax, & LUTHER GRAY on drums. This warm first group recording emphasizes a very modern swing with each player drawn toward melodic elucidation via joy of creation.
AUMFidelity-056
CD
$12.75

Most Serene Republic
And The Ever Expanding Universe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US The band's repertoire runs the gamut from prog-rock to densely layered, indie-pop. They harmoniously combine traditional instrumentation w/ strings, banjos, & digital programming
Arts&Crafts-044
CD
$15.25

Most Serene Republic
And The Ever Expanding Universe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Vinyl version
Arts&Crafts-044
LP
$15.25

Motel Motel
New Denver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US From their home bases of Colorado and Brooklyn, Motel Motel has forged a sound uniquely their own while still paying homage to the honky tonkers of the past, culminating in this, their debut full-length. Drawing comparison to Cold War Kids and Wilco, the music is canonical, yet indefinable, a memory of a truck stop jukebox, but one blaring from the bodegas of Spanish Harlem. "'Coffee' is the best Ryan Adams or Cold War Kids song of 2008, complete with raspy Americana mise-en-scene and piano-tinkling cocaine reference" - Spin.
RebelGroup
CD
$12.50

My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anthing [2009 remaster] (DELAYED. PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT 2009)
PS, UK New, 2009 re-issue in a digipak, digitally remastered by Kevn Shields.
SonyBMG
CD
$21.75

My Bloody Valentine
Loveless [2009 expanded remaster] (DELAYED. PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT 2009)
PS, UK New, expanded, digipak version of MBV's otherworldly 1991 shoegaze classic, digitally remastered by MBV honcho Kevin Shields. Second disc is reported to be a alternate and previously unreleased version of Loveless remastered from original analog tapes.
Sony
DCD
$23.00

Nadja & Black Boned Angel
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Collaboration between Canada's prolific neo-doom duo (NADJA) & New Zealand's pitch black droners (BLACK BONED ANGEL - featuring Campbell Kneale of BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL). These two 20-plus-minute instrumental tracks have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year's Christ Send Light EP. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja's fuzzed-out, lurching, hazy dream-doom, & Black Boned Angel's razor-sharp, metallic riff-shards. Eventually, the whole thing collapses under the weight of its self-created black hole - the death throes of the whole damn genre. This is the end
20BuckSpin-028
CD
$10.00

Nerves
One Way Ticket (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Repress on PURPLE vinyl, limited to 500
Alive-901
LP
$19.00

Nisennenmondai
Destination Tokyo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US First full-length album was recorded in one take at Peace Music in Japan in the fall 2007. Compared to "Neji/Tori", Destination Tokyo sounds more clean, and more minimal & repetitive than the EP collection, leading to a truly intense, brain-melting, hi-fi experience. The repetitive nature of the album will make people dance! A mix of the groovy krautrock of Neu! and New York 1980's no wave/disco created by bands such as Sonic Youth, DNA, and ESG, infused with elements of the instrumental Black Flag of The Process Of Weeding Out & the avant/post-punk of This Heat.
SmalltownSupersound-157
CD
$14.50

Nurse With Wound
Surveillance Lounge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US In contrast to 2008's "Huffin' Rag Blues," this release focuses on the darker side of NWW. While keeping a fresh, contemporary feel, it nods towards some of the older, more sinister material
DirterProductions-072
CD
$18.00

O'Death
Underwater Nightmare EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US Featuring four new songs: "Underwater Nightmare", "Prince Of Beast", "Mongoloid" (Devo cover), and "Brothers" (Murder By Death cover). Taking their cues from old time folk and gypsy music, and giving it an original contemporary punk flavor that leaves audiences blown away and mesmerized. O'Death live is a rollercoaster and that vibe is captured on within these recordings. You can hear and feel the energy growing within each song. Limited to 500.
Kemado
45
$3.75

Ocean
Pantheon Of The Lesser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US 2xLP to follow in about one month. Following their acclaimed breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Pantheon Of The Lesser was composed over a period of two years in Ocean's home studio in Portland, Maine. As the seasons passed each track was written, re-written, played and then re-played as layers were slowly stripped away until the true essence of the song was revealed. Once Ocean entered the studio it took another two years to deconstruct Pantheon Of The Lesser until they had found the essence of their writing. This disciplined deconstructionist approach to songwriting is how Pantheon Of The Lesser is how Ocean takes it to the next level of the abyss. The result of this compositional technique is over an hour of strictly bare instrumentation and a kind of natural heaviness that slowly rises and falls in a pure organic fashion. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like Schoenberg. While Ocean continues to explore and expand upon their "less is more" approach of profound musical minimalism and sheer heaviness, Pantheon Of The Lesser is a bit more musical than its predecessor. The Beacon, the opening track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, was played as Ocean's complete set on a recent US tour and on dates with Mono and Boris. Clocking in at
41 minutes on record and over an hour live; The Beacon evolves in 3 distinct movements with fleeting moments of hypnotic melody and earth shaking heavy dirges creating an all-encompassing tone of pure misanthropy. The second and final track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, titled Of The Lesser, carries a similar theme of misery. Written as an ode to distraction, chemical and otherwise, it is Ocean at their most personal: a pure sonic stream of consciousness in slow motion. Packaged in a deluxe foil printed heavy-duty cardboard jacket with art by renowned Maine illustrator Bruce Hutchison. The vinyl version is packaged in double 200 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe letter pressed covers and limted to 500 copies.
Important-219
CD
$13.00

Octopus Project
Golden Beds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 14TH)
PS, US Some of these 5 tracks are brand new, some represent fresh take on ideas from the past, but each explores a different facet of their omnivorous sonic creations - from big-riff rock to tiny electronics to blissful sing-alongs. Enhanced CD includes videos & live footage from the 2008 Austin City Lights festival
Peek-a-Boo-005
CD
$10.00

On
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US 2LP version
Type-050
DLP
$22.50

On
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Reissue of debut release by the collaborative duo of Chicago-based percussionist STEVEN HESS (HAPTIC, PAN AMERICAN) & French composer/producer SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU. Produced by Helge Sten (Deathprod), whose characteristic smudged ambience is evident as he submerges Chauveau & Hess' compositions beneath a swamp of cavernous reverb & synthesized smoke
Type-050
CD
$15.50

Oneida
Rated O (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US For the reductive in you, consider the group the bastard offspring of a Can/Suicide marriage, a band who is not afraid to pluck, tap, bend, synth or crash their way to the various extremes of rock, pop, folk & the avant-garde.
Jagjaguwar-145
3XLP
$21.00

Orso, Fabio/Gianluca Becuzzi/(ETRE)
So Far (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 21ST)
PS, US Three young Italian musicians w/ similar backgrounds in the field of experimental electronics. They blend electronics, field recordings, & acoustic instruments into a fracture tapestry of drones, folk music & sound collages
Porter-031
CD
$14.75

Owen
The Seaside EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US The Seaside EP is a collection of six Owen (aka Mike Kinsella of American Football, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz) songs previously only available as bonus tracks on Japanese
album releases, plus one song previously only available on a 7". The Seaside EP was originally conceived as a digital-only release, but as interest grew, the decision was made to release a CD version