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New Releases

808 State
Quadrastate
PS, US Reissue of this 1989 release incl. bonus tracks! Their rare debut single from '88, "Let Yourself Go/Deepville" is incl. here together w/ the inclusion of some other previously-unreleased alternate versions & outtakes. It's the first time ever that these tracks have been released on CD & the entire project has been lovingly remastered, to the customary Rephlex high standards. This still has a fresh sound; incredibly bouncy bass lines, pioneering use of breakbeats & all the energy &
inspiration of analog-digital-hybrid jams. RECOMMENDED!!
Rephlex
CD
$18.00

Aethenor
Betimes Black Cloudmasses
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
VHF
LP
$16.00

Akiyama, Tetuzi
The Ancient Battle to Control Death
PS, US TETUZI AKIYAMA'S contribution to the WESTERN VINYL portrait series is a departure in a career of departures. In addition to Akiyama's trademark improvised, blues-infused, guitar work, The Ancient Balance to Control Death also features intense multi-layered vocals. Much like his guitar work, the vocals flow with a sharp primal urgency. The end result is a collection of unique and tense Japanese blues that could only have come from one of Japan's most distinct and creative improvisers.
WesternVinyl-49
CD
$9.00

Armour, Douglas
The Light Of The Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night
PS, US And now for something different... Fulfilling the promise of his impeccable entry in our 7-inch series, "The Social Club", THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is proud to announce "The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night" -- the debut LP from Los Angeles located DOUGLAS ARMOUR. This album finds the artist expertly blending tons of our favorite poptones from days past to create a hyper-literate pastiche that's equal parts nostalgia and forward thinking. Echoing its title, the LP has a structure that plays off binary oppositions to create one of the most varied pop albums we've heard in a long time.
TheSocialRegistry-051
CD
$11.50

Ascend
Ample Fire Within
PS, US A new collaborative musical project between Gentry Densley (ICEBURN, EAGLE TWIN) & Greg Anderson (SUNN0))),GOATSNAKE, Engine Kid). Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 19 yrs. This re-visits some of the tones & moods of their past works as well as traveling into uncharted territory all done w/ the utmost focus on heaviness & power. Of particular note is the vocal performance by Gentry Densley
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Ateleia/Benjamin Curtis
Baghdad Batterie
PS, US On "Baghdad Batterie", ATELEIA and BENJAMIN CURTIS fuse splendidly, as perfectly synchronized audio alchemists, and when they dip their axes in a vat of liquid electronica, the transmutation is complete: thick, glistening beats throb and undulate, without a tell-tale twang in sight. "Baghdad Batterie" is a fabulous piece of laptop psychedelia, and certain to delight fans of Curtis and Elliott's previous collaboration, the exhilarating SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS EP, "Face to Face" on HIGH PLACES. The packaging of this vinyl-only release is similarly spectacular. It's a one-sided, 12-inch LP, PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL; the REVERSE IS LASER ETCHED with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. It's a LIMITED-EDITION PRESSING,, so get it while you can - disks from the label's original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorville's must coveted treasures.
TableoftheElements-093
LP
$14.25

Beatles 4pc Kubrick Box Set
Can't Buy Me Love (Action Figures)
PS, JAPAN Taken from the classic animated look of the Fab Four (as seen on the classic 1965 Saturday morning cartoon series on ABC), this four-piece Kubrick boxed set features Paul, George, Ringo, and John. Standing 3 inches tall, you can now hold The Beatles in the palm of your hand eight days a week!
Kubrick
TOY
$40.00

Believer
May 2008
PS, US Two interviews with David Cross, the 2007 Believer book awards, features on fear. Some new poems and lots of book reviews.
ZINE
$8.00

Bellrays
Hard, Sweet & Sticky
PS, US Combines the hard-driving raunch of their early garage-punk recordings w/ the emotive dynamism of their more recent forays into Curtis Mayfield meets-Gladys Knight style soul.
Anodyne
CD
$12.50

Big Takeover, The
#62 (R.E.M. Cover)
PS, US Interviews R.E.M. (cover) * Sex Pistols* Johnny Rotten * New Pornographers, Pt. 2 * Band of Horses/Grand Archives * Nada Surf * Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (Pavement) * Ray Davies (Kinks) * The Pointed Sticks, Pt. 2 * 1977 L.A. punks The Flyboys * Paul Haig of Josef K * Rock Writer V. Vale (Search & Destroy, RE/Search) * Top 50 Reggae LPs, Pt. 1! * British Sea Power * My Morning Jacket * Built to Spill * Radar Bros. * Kelley Stoltz * Nardwuar the Human Serviette/Evaporators * The Trolleyvox * Helvetia * The Carter Administration * Awesome Color

Editorials: Rabid: Hey, I*m a Dad!*Musings * Ackerman: More Changes For Record Labels * Sommer: On Hawkwind!

Live Reviews: Agent Orange * Avengers * Big Star * Cat Power * Editors * Stevie Jackson * Maximo Park * Mission of Burma * Naked Raygun * New Model Army * Emma Pollock & American Music Club * Rogue Wave * Sleepover Disaster * Spiritualized * T.S.O.L. * Mary Weiss * Astrid Williamson * X * Neil Young * Zombies (original lineup reunion) * Plugz/Eyes/Controllers/Skulls/Gears/Crowd/Deadbeats/Dogs etc.

Hundreds of CD Reviews: Antietam * Black Watch * British Sea Power * Dead Boys * Death Cab For Cutie * D.O.A.* Nick Drake * Echo & the Bunnymen * For Against * Flying Burrito Bros. * Robert Forster * Idaho * Julie Ocean * Kevin Kane * Nyles Lannon * Claudius Linton/Joe Higgs * Long Blondes * Eric Matthews * Colin Meloy * Bob Mould * Willie Nelson * New Model Army * New York Dolls * 999 * Pagans * Posies tribute * Ramones * Raspberries * Red Button * Jimmy Reed * Replacements * Edward Rogers * Ruts/Henry Rollins * Secret Shine * Shack * Simon & Garfunkel * Sloan * Smiths * Chris Walla * Wedding Present and more!
BigTakeover-62
ZINE
$4.25

Birushanah
Akai Yami
PS, US Summoning forth their mode of pounding tribal psychedelic hardcore, this mixes traditional Japanese music stylings w/ sludgy, deliberate riffage, grating & downright unruly vocals all pushed forth by heavy as hell drumming. Epic, irate, & refreshingly original. RIYL: Neurosis, Corrupted, Envy.
LevelPlane
CD
$13.25

Black Angels, The
Directions to See a Ghost
PS, US Vinyl version. Price to be confirmed.
LightInTheAttic
3LP
$27.25

Blackstrap
Steal My Horses and Run
PS, US Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Blackstrap play blissful rock & roll drenched in fuzzed out guitars. Steal My Horses and Run conjures up hazy atmospheres that are equal parts Spiritualized, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain.
TeePee
CD
$15.00

Blank Dogs
In A Web & They Said b/w Stuck
PS, US
Daggerman
45
$4.75

Bonnie Prince Billy
Lie Down in the Light
PS, US The light that shines from this revelation is one we'll gladly lie down in & serve evermore... Bright with guitars and harmonies, Lie Down in the Light is a fresh new album from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. His vocals are at their most expressive, a judiciously dynamic and tuneful performance. Behind and all around is a subtle backdrop of percussive slaps and shakes, touches of keys and steel, loving harmony-vocal arrangements and other sweet surprises that will send fans back to their auto-erotic dungeons, fresh toys in hand. Lie Down in the Light is the ever-searching soul of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
DragCity
CD
$12.50

Bonnie Prince Billy
Lie Down in the Light
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$12.50

Boy Omega
The Grey Rainbow
PS, UK 7-song 2006 mini-album released by Stereo Test Kit.
StereoTestKit
CD
$11.00

Bredsky, Stove
Black Ribbon Award
PS, US Stove Bredsky (a.k.a. STOVETOP BREDSKY, STEEV BRAWDSKI, STEVE BRODSKY) cranks out 18 tracks of melancholy melodiousness recorded at Club Awesome in Somerville, MA. The songs w/in were all originally written back in the '90s, when Brodsky was piloting the almighty, ever-morphing CAVE IN.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Bust
#51
PS, US Special 15th Anniversary Issue!! AMY SEDARIS takes the cake on the cover. Celebrate 15 years of Bust with Sedaris, Diablo Cody, a look back at 15 years of the good, the bad, and the girly. Features on needlework, lady magicians, fierce female MCs, and much more!
ZINE
$4.75

Castanets
Tendrils
PS, US This video document, created by MIA FERM, serves as a snapshot of a particular moment in time surrounding RAPOSA and CASTANETS. It is a meditative reflection on the mesmerizing motion of water, the beauty of natural light, and the spontaneity of friends. Responding to the thickness of the songs on "In The Vines", here the songs are stripped bare and presented by new voices that further reveal the lyrical beauty of Raposa's songwriting. It is equal parts home movie (ala Jonas Mekas), Downtown 81, Pull My Daisy, and audio-visual collage.
AsthmaticKitty-35
DVD
$12.25

Chenaux, Eric
Sloppy Ground
PS, US Second full length is Eric's strongest, most accessible and dynamic work in years. A collection of beautifully fried love songs, highly original in compositional approach and instrumental texture, utterly complelling in lyrical content and delivery.
Constellation
CD
$15.25

Chenaux, Eric
Sloppy Ground
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation
LP
$15.25

Christian Family Underground, The
For The Depth Of Your Union
PS, US Summer of '06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga 'rock,' and an odd, ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: 'I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like... humankind's natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents, no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest, bluest sea...' Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and screened inserts by Stellar, NL." Last copies.
Woodsist
LP
$13.00

Coalesce
012:2
PS, US COALESCE destroyed the mold of formulaic metallic-hardcore in the mid '90s. On their landmark record (& swan-song at the time), 1998's 0:12: Revolution in Just Listening, the band channeled the turbulence of their break-up into their most urgent, honest, & desperate songs to date. Fast-forward to 2008; on the eve of the second coming of COALESCE 0:12 has been repackaged & remastered for the next generation of heavy music connoisseurs. In the canon of heavy music, certainly in the world of modern hardcore, there are few records as crucial as 0:12
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
Six Guitars
PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES generated quite the (forgive us) buzz, following the January release of their CD "Birds", and deservedly so. Their sound is expansive, vast, and billowing; full of ringing guitars, soaring in the best traditions of the Chatham/Branca standoff; meanwhile, beneath the clouds sprawl dewy meadows of gently rolling electronica. "Six Guitars" is just what its title states, yet so much more. Wildly versatile drummer Jon Mueller follows the rules by hammering on an electric guitar with mallets, enhancing the Steve Reichian vibe (compare this with Mueller's face-melting solo onslaught Metals, also released in January). The band sparkles accordingly, lifting to a dazzling climax. It's epic minimalism in exquisite registration, and the perfect selection to introduce the TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS GUITAR SERIES (fans will be happy to hear that Mueller is on deck with a solo contribution to the series as well). Beyond the music, there's the similarly spectacular packaging. It's a one-sided, 12-inch LP, PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL; the REVERSE IS LASER ETCHED with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. It's a LIMITED-EDITION PRESSING, so get it while you can - disks from the label's original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorville's must coveted treasures.
TableoftheElements-092
LP
$14.25

Dear Euphoria
S-T
PS, UK Dear Euphoria is the musical alias of Elina Johansson. Born in Dalarna, Sweden, she wrote her first proper song on her father's piano at the age of eight. ions. Musical Comparisons to; Cat Power, Kate Bush and Regina Spektor are regularly and perhaps easily made. The music of Dear Euphoria is the dark and the light, deep depths and high heights. Sometimes raw, entirely honest, absolutely real. This is Dear Euphoria.

BBC: "Dear Euphoria's self-released debut album caused more shivers than winter in her native Stockholm when it was released last year ... showcasing the Swedish Kate Bush in all her quiet majesty."
StereoTestKit
CD
$12.25

Delay, Vladislav
Anima
PS, US Originally released in 2001, incl. a previously-unreleased alternate version. This is an opus of over 60 mins., a continuous mix that reveals itself beyond audio design. He succeeds in developing his new, atypical methods of production: rather than familiar electronic traits of looping sounds, this continually develops in an organic flow, thus giving the interpretation that perhaps the music is less a digital excursion & more an instrumental development
Huume
CD
$18.00

Demian
S-T
PS, UK This lost hard-psych classic is in fact the second album by Texan psych legends Bubble Puppy, who'd changed their name for legal reasons. Recorded late at night at the celebrated Record Plant in Los Angeles, it's a stupendous blend of tough rock riffs, pop hooks, glorious melodies and biting psychedelic guitar, but was sorely under-promoted on its original release in 1971, causing the band to splinter the following year.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Desolation Wilderness
Until Forever
PS, US DESOLATION WILDERNESS is the primary musical project of Nicolaas Zwart. "Until Forever" was written, played, and recorded by Nic in Summer of 2007, at DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO in Olympia, Washington; during the late night sessions for his self- released full-length album "Hey Someone". Nic played almost all the instruments including the vibraphone, clarinet, glockenspiel, guitar, computer, and synthesizer. On "4/4 Love Song" he enlisted his friends Andrew Dorsett and Adam Oelsner to play Hammond Organ and Accordion, respectively. "Goodbye Summer Girl" is the end of a story. Saying a sudden goodbye to someone new to you who you were in love with, and seeing her disappear out of the rear view mirror of your car as you drive away; getting lost in the shimmering heat of a California summer day. "Gloria" and "4/4 Love Song" have no words, but they capture a mood you can get when watching fireworks over a lake during twilight on the Fourth of July: everything you see and do is imbued with the magic of fate and destiny.
Krecords-119
45
$3.75

DJ Spooky
Sound Unbound: Excerpts & Allegories from the Sub Rosa Audio Archives (CD/DVD)
PS, US He once again remixes the complete Sub Rosa catalog. More groovy & DJ-oriented, incl. some unpublished audio, important artists & a big Wave Spectrum poster, this is the ultimate continuous mix-up. Links artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antonin Artaud & Allen Ginsberg w/ stellar music from John Cage, To Rococo Rot, Iannis Xenakis, Philip Glass, Carsten Nicolai & more.
SubRosa
CD
$16.25

Druids of Stonehenge, The
S-T
PS, US "The unearthly, savage, Rolling Stones/Pretty Things-inspired treatment of R&B classics as interpreted by The Druids of Stonehenge on Sundazed 10" vinyl is a phenomenon that quite simply has to be heard to be believed. When frontman David Budge cuts loose on such familiar '60s staples as 'Who Do You Love,' 'I Put A Spell On You,' 'Pretty Thing' and 'Bald Headed Woman,' it's almost as though he's being strangled by Bo Diddley's 'cobra snake necktie' with eyes popping, cartoon-like, out of his skull. The New York-based Druids cut one album after they'd moved to Los Angeles, but these six early sides, tracked at famed Nola's Penthouse studios in Manhattan, are truly the stuff of garage R&B legend!"
Sundazed
10
$11.25

El Madmo
S-T
PS, US Born of social ineptitude & an ageless belief in trick-or-treatery, they offer escape, justice, karmic postulation, & that feeling you get when you know something that no one else does. Starting out as a garage band trapped in the basements of various hockey arenas, theirs is a powerfully raw sound that could only be inspired by the smell of Zamboni fuel & sweaty skates. Feat. NORAH JONES as punk rock.
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Explorers Club, The
Freedom Wind
PS, US Great indie rock bands have long made a habit of recasting the music of our parents' youth. Turn on Dr. Dog, Olivia Tremor Control, or the Black Angels for just a few examples of bands who make glorious new music in classic molds. Now take the idea a step further. Take the homage just far enough that you can imagine yourself experiencing, say, THE BEACH BOYS in their prime, but with fresh songs not tempered by a generation of Sweatin' to the Oldies. This is elation without irony. This is THE EXPLORERS CLUB'S debut album, "Freedom Wind." The Beach Boys are the obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you'll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney, the Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, the Explorers Club has recorded the sweetest pop record you are likely to hear this year. The Explorers Club are doing for the summer beach song what Amy Winehouse has done for R&B or Sharon Jones for funk and soul, what Antibalas have done for Afro-beat. They're reclaiming the classics as their own, injecting them with life, and making music that that transcends any era. This is how pop music is supposed to sound. Prepare yourself. "Freedom Wind" is the soundtrack to the summer of 2008.
DeadOceans-007
CD
$11.50

Family Underground
Black Hole
PS, US 2007 release. "Family Underground drenched the East Coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didn't get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it, I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the band's communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah, was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B -- the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip!" Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets.
WeirdForest
LP
$20.50

Fisk, Steve & Ben Gibbard
Kurt Cobain About A Son
PS, US Hand numbered double-LP of the hauntingly beautiful score to the powerful motion picture "Kurt Cobain About A Son". This score follows Barsuk's 2007 release of the acclaimed film soundtrack. Packaged in an embossed jacket with full-color sleeves, with a code for a free MP3 download of the album. Composed by noted Northwest musician and producer Fisk (produced Nirvana's "Blew" EP) and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Gibbard, the score has been remixed for stand-alone listening by Fisk, digitally re-mastered by Steve Turnidge, and mastered for vinyl by Bob Weston. Note: neither the soundtrack CD nor the score LP contains the music of Cobain or Nirvana.
Barsuk
LP
$23.00

Four Tet
Ringer EP
PS, US
Domino
12
$13.00

Free Kitten
Inherit
PS, US This reacquaints us w/all caps worthy rockergirls KIM GORDON (SONIC YOUTH), JULIE CAFRITZ (PUSSY GALORE) & YOSHIMI (BOREDOMS). On the disc, they're collapsed into the present. And it is our present that is most effected by songs like "Erected Girl," which reminds one of bossa nova rhythms run through a Kosher meat grinder. And then there's "Free Kitten on the Mountain," which amounts to a travelogue of sorts--but through a Lord Buckley-like subconscious mind. IMPOSE MAGAZINE: "Holy sh!t, this is good. Are you surprised? Free Kitten is Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Julie Cafritz (Pussy Galore) on guitar/vocals and Yoshimi-P (Boredoms) on percussion... After eleven years since their last full-length release, Free Kitten is more of a project then a band, but their upcoming Inherit holds true to a dirty 90s indie angst that seem lost to the current cultivated landscape of indie artists making pop music. In that sense these tracks manage to be both familiar and refreshing: Free Kitten aren't reinventing what they already did 15 years ago, but they're adding beautiful music to the heap of what's good about indie rock."
EcstaticPeace
CD
$10.00

French Kicks
Swimming
PS, US Band-produced new album features some of the quartet's most melodic recordings to date. "An album that demands you attention by revealing new sounds, notes & harmonies with each listen. By capturing both the palpable and raw elements, the FKs have created a complex yet sophisticated pop album."
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Gil, Gilberto
The Sound Of Revolution 1968-69
PS, UK The Sound of Revolution combines Gilberto Gils brilliant 1968 and 69 Tropicalia albums, Frevo Rasgado and Cerebro Electronico; joyous, extraordinarily inventive pop music made against a background of terrible political unrest in Brazil and in the shadow of both imprisonment and eventually exile both for Gil and his friend Caetano Veloso. The 1968 album is electrified by the meteoric Os Mutantes and both sets arranged by Rogerio Duprat who contributes a range of totally original textures and orchestration much as George Martin did with Strawberry Fields and Sgt Pepper. Suffice to say, this combination of precocious talent achieves a magical and historically important result. Tropicalia-Os Mutantes-Rogerio Duprat-LSD-Revolution Gilberto Gil narrated recent BBC4 documentary about Tropicalia.
El-142
CD
$15.50

Good Shoes
Think Before You Speak
PS, US "South London's Good Shoes venture into this crowded market with a more streamlined pop take on new wave
herky-jerky-- an earnest young Buzzcocks to their rivals' the Clash, the Jam, or XTC. 7.2"-Pitchfork. 14 tracks of Britpop perfection from gang who've remixed Maximo Park and others.
Bril
CD
$12.25

Goto80
Made On Internet
PS, GERMANY Considering the global distribution of computer technology for already over 30 years, the Demoscene and the related Chiptunes music have never really had a high profile. Maybe that's because of their non-commercial background, or because making obsolete digital technology the center of cultural production is mostly an insider's passion. Call it 'Geek-Art for Geeks.' In today's electronic music, the sounds of Gameboy, C64, and other discarded game hardware have gained cult status, propelled by an enthusiastic community. A key character in this permanent dedication to chiptunes is Anders Carlsson from Sweden. He has been an active member of the demoscene for almost 15 years and known under the name of GOTO80 for almost a decade. Always driven by the everlasting challenge to compose music for the best C64 demo. His knowledge of the sonic core of the C64, the legendary SID-Chip, is awesome. Just as exceptional are his musical intuition and his stylistic variety, combined with his technical skills. Made On Internet brings together 11 of his recent works showing the full scope of his production work.
Pingipung
CD
$17.00

Greiner, Svarte
Til Seters
PS, US Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letter pressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, a room forever is inherently about the act of listening." This album by Svarte Greiner (previous releases on the Type label out of the UK, also as one-half of Deaf Center) features one side of "acoustic doom" music, the other of field recordings. This deluxe limited edition LP series will feature Machinefabriek/Matt Davies and Koen Holtkamp in the next upcoming volumes.
ARoomForever
LP
$25.00

Hair Police
Empty Quarter
PS, US LIMITED TO 1000. New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007
Troubleman
LP
$13.50

Half-Handed Cloud/Ariel Pink
Unusual Animals Vol. 3
PS, US This is the third in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled UNUSUAL ANIMALS, pairs ASTHMATIC KITTY roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks.
AsthmaticKitty-405
45
$3.75

Hevoset
S-T
PS, GERMANY Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LP's on Dekorder and a stream of releases on Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna, Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana and his own Ikuisuus label. While most one-off meetings between so-called experimental and improvising musicians often sound like bad excuses for a few beers and endless jams this is quite the opposite - a heavy weight championship finale of two likeminded whizkids cross-fertilizing each other with idea after idea, leading to some of the weirdest and quixotic recordings you will have heard of the two. Everything you loved about Kemialliset Ystävät, Uton and Tomutonttu is contained in Hevoset.....and more. Rural psychedelia, out-of-tune plucked and strummed strings, overloaded organs and effect pedals, Jani Hirvonen's sweet wordless vocals, ecstatic improvised drone collages, bells, backward loops, jungle percussion and tons of unidentifiable sounds and noises shaped into tight 4 - 6 minute tracks. Extracts from a Foxy Digitalis review by Brad Rose: "This is the music of people removed from civilization. It's like this is some kind of ancient artifact. It grinds on your skull, but feels so right. (Š) There are moments when the things that make Kemialliset Ystävät and Uton great on their own come together in forested harmony. In particular, on side A when Anderzén is droning away on a keyboard and Uton is massaging your spinal cord with masochistic feedback scrawl - it's hypnotic. These two artists are in a trance here, channeling the sounds in their head. It's so fucking good. (Š.)This is definitely a case where the sum is greater than the parts. Anderzén and Uton are in top form here and fans of either solo project will chew this up and consume it for months."
Dekorder-024
LP
$17.50

Hooker, D.R.
The Truth
PS, US One of the rarest U.S. psych albums, previously issued on CD by Subliminal Sounds, now in a beautiful and legit 180 gram vinyl LP reissue. The Truth, recorded in Connecticut in 1972, might very well be the ultimate North American acid rock album, ever. No hype here - just incredible music. Tempting as it is to exaggerate the worth of such obscurities, The Truth deserves every plaudit that comes its way, making it astonishing that there was no real band to speak of. Instead, ten musicians are credited alongside the mysterious Donald Hooker, who wrote, sang and played lead on the album. This is one of those albums that keeps revealing new depths even when you've played it a hundred times. Connecticut hippie-philosopher concocts homemade lounge-psych masterpiece. True psychedelia! Includes a poster in a limited edition of 500 copies.
SubliminalSounds
LP
$25.00

Indian Jewelry
Free Gold!
PS, US In 2006, several members of the INDIAN JEWELRY songwriting and performance team found the bitch of fame licking them on the hand. Blinded by vanity, easy fame, self love, and the internet, they went into an early retirement. "Free Gold!" is Indian Jewelry's first full-length in almost two years. It is also their most scathing with dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, and a lot of attitude. "Free Gold!" is what people will desire. Look for them on tour this spring and summer.
WeAreFree-004
CD
$11.50

Islands
Arm's Way
PS, US New album from former Unicorns folk. Montreal's Islands flower from the same scene that gave us Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. Their Anti debut finds them in full command of a palette of classic pop colorings, from the 70s rock heroics of "The Arm" to the slinky cinematic pop of "I Feel Evil Creeping In".
Anti
CD
$15.25

Jay Reatard
Painted Shut b/w Screaming Hand
PS, US The second 7" in Jay Reatard's singles series for Matador Records.
Matador
45
$3.75

Jay, Jeremy
A Place Where We Could Go
PS, US This is a debut album containing ten songs, but really it is a cinematic escapade into the mind of a singular individual, JEREMY JAY. "A Place Where We Could Go" is a statement of fiction and fact, exploring the shadowy depths of an attitude: the romance of life without the people and things that pull down the corners; create your own world. This universe may have a fairy tale look; it may be illuminated by streetlight. But it will definitely be a safe haven for the exploration of dreams. Think vast landscapes of reverberating storybook endings populated by the more charming characters from John Hughes' movies. Jeremy Jay: dancing, singing and playing guitar. "A Place Where We Could Go" is your hardcopy of the illusive, blonde, Jeremy Jay moon-roof vista. Buena.
Krecords-187
LP
$10.25

Jennings, Mason
In the Ever (ON SALE)
PS, US Sixth album for Minneapolis singer-songwriter & debut on Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records. Coming off his 2006 majorlabel bow, Boneclouds, for Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock's Epic-distributed Glacial Pace label, Jennings retreated to a studio in the woods, where he set himself up with a laptop and two microphones. The title comes from his son talking about where he came from before he was born, "Ya know dad, when I was in the Ever?' It continues his spiritual journey, informed by his love of influences like Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash's American recordings and Led Zeppelin, his favorite band of all time. "I just wanted to make sure it's not re-enacted music," he says. "I have no use for being a retro artist. I want to understand my past and come from something." "Every time I hear a Mason Jennings album it changes the way I see the world around me," says Jack.
Brushfire
CD
$13.75

Joan Of Arc
Boo Human
PS, US Done with the young and hungry rat-race of band-life, Joan of Arc now exists at the pace their real lives allow. By combining one week of studio time, a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet allowing participants to drop in whenever they could, each track on Boo Human is as wildly different and uniquely constructed as the groups who produced them. The combination of 14 musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that is as intense as it is intimate.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

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

Julie Ocean
Long Gone and Nearly There
PS, US Makes a case for fast over fatuous, poppy over prog, & concise over complicated. The record is underpinned by a taut, frenetic energy reminiscent of Dag Nasty & The Descendents, is infused with the casual chaos of primetime Guided By Voices & Pavement & contains undeniable elements of sweet 60s pop coupled with the searing melodicism of late 70s heroes The Jam & The Undertones. The band consists of several well-known D.C. indie veterans including guitarist/singer Jim Spellman (VELOCITY GIRL), ex-members of the SATURDAY PEOPLE, GLO-WORM & SEVERIN
TranistofVenus
CD
$10.25

July Skies
The Weather Clock
PS, UK July Skies is the musical project of Antony Harding from Birmingham UK, assisted by members of the band Epic45 (Antony worked on their 2006 album May Your Heart Be The Map) who have both previously received airplay from the late John Peel and Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1 and also by Verity Sharp of BBC Radio 3. Both bands are part of the truly independent UK label collective Make Mine Music, who are heading towards their 50th release in autumn 2008. The Weather Clock is July Skies 4th album and the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2004 album The English Cold. Musically, think The Durutti Column, the sensitivity of 80's indie bands like The House of Love, the guitar work of Maurice Deebank (Felt) or Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Harold Budd, or even a modern reference to British Sea Power if they 'didn't like rock music'. The Weather Clock is inspired by a lost post-war Mid-20th century Britain and a fixation with the design and architecture of the period. The beauty in the newly built regimented housing estates and clipped front gardens... It is the sound of the empty school hall once the summer holidays had commenced....faded branch line summers where steam met diesel.....the sound of the first swallows across the fields on fresh dew drenched mornings in May.....the nothingness of weekday afternoons with the lightness of a breeze through the window and billowing curtains....hearing the distant sound of children playing in fields far from the estate... the sound of BBC broadcasts closing down and displaying the TV test card for the afternoon whilst the country continued to work, play or learn....this is all the sound of The Weather Clock. The album is released in CD digipack with 1950's period artwork by Andersen M Studio. The first 350 copies ordered from the Make Mine Music on-line shop come with a limited 7 track ep of exclusive and alternative tracks.
MakeMineMusic-027
CD
$17.75

Justice Yeldham & The Dynamic Ribbon Device
Birthdays
PS, US Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham, recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy, you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something an Aussie could especially achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world.
Anarchymoon
LP
$14.25

King Darves
The Sum Splits For The Blind Swimmer
PS, US The bedrock of King Darves' New Brunswick based concoction is folk based, but he's not wearing a headband or singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This release will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of the headphones, and it'll make you tap your toes and nod your head like a little girl.
DeStijl
CD
$12.50

Kluster
Kluster: 1969-71
PS, US 3 CD set. During their brief lifespan they recorded 3 LPs, all of which are available here. "Klopfzeichen" & "Zwei-Osterei" recorded in 1969 & 1970 respectively. "Eruption" was a live recording of the band's last concert together in 1971. All are amazing examples of pioneering ambient music feat. guitar, percussion, keys, & cello heavily processed w/ echo, filters, & tape machines. Contains liner notes.
Water
CD-BOX
$26.00

Lee, Okkyung
I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul
PS, US Anyone who has seen and heard Korean improviser/composer Okkyung Lee blow collective minds with her supremely amazing cello noise, energy, vibration, friction and true sound feeling music knows that in a world of wild and mind-snapping improvisors, Okkyung is one of the most exciting players to arrive down the rocky road in some time. This LP contains some of her most deep and resonant, at once furious and hushed string, bow and wood music recorded to date. Beautiful and frightening, daring to be both." LP only.
EcstaticPeace
LP
$12.00

Left Banke, The
Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina
PS, SPAIN Labeled a 'Baroque rock' band, the Left Banke's output is recommended to all fans of '60s pop, garage or beat, and has created legions of fans since its release. Full of beautiful vocal harmonies, incredible songwriting and very, very catchy melodies, this first Left Banke album was, allegedly, the most expensive record produced at that time. Created in New York by Michael Brown, son of a respected musician, the Left Banke based their sound in their vocals and some cleverly used orchestration and studio techniques, resulting in their unique sound. Now reissued with remastered sound, respecting the original artwork, and limited to only 500 copies, here's your chance to get one of the key albums from the '60s!
Shasam
LP
$28.50

Leonhart, Michael
Hotel Music
PS, US "Hotel Music" is a pastiche of Serge Gainsbourg hooks, bedroom drone, California Pop (by way of Van Dyke Parks), and Downtown experiments. It is a musical portrait by MICHAEL LEONHART, session player to the stars. It was written and recorded over the course of a five-month stint (if a worldwide tour that long can be accurately labeled a stint) playing horns with Steely Dan (yes, Steely Dan). He passed his downtime on the road abusing various camera & cell phone cameras, his portable sampler, laptop and whatever instruments that happened to be within reach. The result is a more experimental trip than his sadly under-heard pop masterpiece "The Ballad of Minton Quigley" (2007, self-released). Leonhart has recorded four solo records in as many years between Steely Dan and Lenny Kravitz touring, as well as sessioning with such diverse artists as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Slash, Steven Tyler and Wynton Marsalis.
St.Ives-24
LP
$11.50

Leukers, Antonia
Hasenlove
PS, GERMANY Picture-Disc LP (limited 300). "Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. She's a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müller's (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his pseudo-scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artist's lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, game boys and minidisk recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edition of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus.
Dekorder-023
LP
$21.50

Licht, Alan & Aki Onda
Everydays
PS, US Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners ALAN LICHT & AKI ONDA, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work---Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern---has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects Text of Light (Licht) and Cinemage (Onda). "Everydays" is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht's guitar. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement.
FamilyVineyard58
CD
$11.50

Magic Bubble
S-T
PS, UK This lost pop-psych classic was made by Canadian brother and sister Frank and Rita Rondell in 1969, along with a taut backing band. Already staples of Toronto's underground, the siblings here showcase a cross-section of material ranging from hard blues to folk-rock, acid pop and an epic rendition of "Summertime." Boasting fine guitar and organ work throughout, it's presented here complete with both sides of their ultra-rare non-LP 45, making it an essential purchase for all fans of light psychedelia.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Man Man
Rabbit Habits
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$17.50

Mates Of State
Re-Arrange Us
PS, US On this release, the duo move beyond their trademark wall of sound with additional instrumentation, including lush strings, guitar, and horns to back up their already honed melodic songwriting.
Barsuk
CD
$12.50

Medium Medium
Hungry, So Angry
PS, UK Medium Medium were originally signed to Cherry Red in 1981 and were one of the first signings of then A&R man Mike Alway. The band's first single, Hungry, So Angry caused quite an immediate stir at club and alternative radio level, and created quite a buzz around the band. The single was picked up by alternative radio in the U.S. and featured for several weeks in the Billboard Alternative Top 50 chart. The band recorded one album for Cherry Red, The Glitterhouse which received consistently good reviews. However, the band broke up in 1983 but were not forgotten as 'Hungry, So Angry' has been used on many compilation CDs over the years, especially in the U.S. This overdue CD re-press consists of 15 tracks and also includes the very rare promo video of 'Hungry, So Angry; as an enhanced track.
CherryRed
CD
$17.00

Mudhoney
The Lucky Ones
PS, US Worldwide lovers of the finer things are rejoicing at the news that Mudhoney, yep Mudhoney, is back in action in 2008 with The Lucky Ones, the band's eighth full album in a mere 20 years of triumphant rocking. Deliberately and aggressively raw, The Lucky Ones sounds as lean and as full-on as any modern equivalent one cares to mention. Recorded in a scant 3.5 days (including overdubs), Mudhoney went in armed with a batch of new material expecting to spend a fair amount of time getting it right. Bang-and bang again after some mixing-and a new album was birthed in record time, faster than anything else the band's done to date. The grand majority of these numbers were intentionally written "from the rhythm up" instead of from the riff and the lyrics down. The effect is to thrust out the bottom-end rumble of drummer Dan Peters and bassist Guy Maddison, and to bring about a cohesive whole not entirely ruled by The All Mighty Riff-although you certainly don't have to look hard to find 'em. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "The eleven tracks here are tight, raw, and marked by insistent thumping rhythms and taught chunky riffs, laying the groundwork for one of the band's most straight-ahead rock albums in years."
SubPop
CD
$12.50

Mudhoney
The Lucky Ones
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Mudhoney
Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition
PS, US In 2008 both Sub Pop and Mudhoney are celebrating their 20th anniversary. This is the deluxe, re-mastered edition of "Superfuzz Bigmuff", containing the original EP in its correct running order, singles, demos, and two blistering live recordings from 1988, all re-mastered, or in some cases, mastered for the first time. From the liner notes: "For all the play and worldwide attention several Seattle-area bands got during the 1988-92 period, at the end of the day...there was Mudhoney - and then there was everybody else...These recordings were so life-affirming upon their release, connecting everything great about the sixties (biker movies, fuzz boxes, old guitars, three-minute songs) with the frothing, punk rock of the early 80s, that a whole new 'style' of music was born. They called it grunge, but to me it was amped-up, clear-the-room, ramalama rock...and it was about as joyous and as fun a noise as anyone'd heard in years" (Jay Hinman)
SubPop
DCD
$15.00

Music Go Music
Light Of Love
PS, US MUSIC GO MUSIC have the simple syrup of pop extravagance running through their veins. These arena-sized songs are composed with such savage efficiency that you find yourself humming along before two bars have gone by. They are as assured and crafted as ABBA and ELO's best songs of '76, yet Music Go Music sounds fresh. They've exploded the formulas from the inside out, sounding like a hundred others and no one else. "Light of Love" is a true celebration of pop music's potential - laying a thin sheen of magic over the world around it, and making the tedious bits of the human experience a little less so. "Light of Love" plays like the first three tracks of a future Greatest Hits album. "Speak to me, darling in hushed tones. Tell me your heart's true desire" sings Gala Bell on the title track, equal parts Debbie Harry, Karen Carpenter, and Kate Bush. Maybe it's the wonderfully layered vocals, maybe the rich synth textures, maybe their impossibly uplifting nature, but there is something immediately familiar about these songs. At first listen, we're inexorably drawn into their sphere. For at least a moment, we are surrounded by the halo of their refracted energy - we can bask in the light of love.
SecretlyCanadian-169
12
$9.00

Nana Grizol
Love It Love It
PS, US Main-songster THEO HILTON's book-open vocals & beautiful fingerpicking are augmented w/a suitably eclectic array of instrumentation from his crew, which includes a brass & winds section led by LAURA CARTER & ROBBIE CUCCHIARO (NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL)
OrangeTwin
CD
$12.50

National
A Skin, A Night + The Virginia
PS, US This is a documentary about The National by French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who followed the group during the creation of their acclaimed 2007 release, "Boxer" (scanned over 116K). It's an insightful and beautiful glimpse into the band's creative process. The DVD is packaged with a separate disc, "The Virginia EP", which contains twelve tracks of demos, a cover, live versions, a radio session, and b-sides. On tour with REM and Modest Mouse this month. Tracklist for "The Virginia EP": 1.You Done it Again, Virginia / 2.Santa Clara / 3.Blank Slate / 4.Tall Saint / 5.Without Permission / 6.Forever After Days /
7.Rest Of Years / 8.Slow Show / 9.Lucky You / 10.Mansion On The Hill / 11.Fake Empire / 12.About Today
BeggarsBanquet
DVD/CD
$17.00

New Age
All Around
PS, GERMANY One of the most eye-opening LP archival issues of 2007 is now also available on CD, with bonus tracks. Also including members Mark Levinson and Bruce Langhorne. "This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased. After the release of the Light of Day album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didn't come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost other leading music companies at the time. Incredible -- and I mean INCREDIBLE raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkin's disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book. This CD release contains six superb never before released bonus tracks recorded at Warner Brothers Studios and KPFA-FM radio station during 1967. Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind."
RedLounge
CD
$20.50

New Session People, The
Plays Famous Songs from Days Gone By
PS, US
Amarillo
CD
$12.50

Of Sinking Ships
S-T
PS, US NOW ON LP! LIMITED TO 500! Solo project of CHAD WALDRUP (HOPESFALL: THE SATELLITE YEARS). His desire to create thoughtful & diverse instrumental music, bred the thickly layered guitar work; filled w/invigorating rhythmic patterns & a captivating melodic texture. RIYL Tristeza, Tortoise, The Mercury Program.
GileadMedia
LP
$13.50

Old 97's
Blame It on Gravity [Deluxe] (With DVD, 2PC, Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
NewWest
DCD
$24.00

O'Rourke, Jim
Tamper
PS, US This reissue is a set of 3 acoustic instrumental compositions recorded on analogue tape during the final days of the first digital wave, when everyone but a certain young schoolboy in short pants were looking towards CDs & DATs as the things of the future. Fools! As sweet & virginal as all this sounds, we the listener find ourselves straining to hear unvarnished acoustical sound throughout the album- there's some of that here, but there's definitely some pixie dust
in Jim's methods.
DragCity
CD
$13.00

Osborne
S-T
PS, US This is a celebration of all that is good in American house & techno music: past, present & future. This Lego-sculpting, electron microscope-owning, Japanese speaking uber-producer puts the joy of life & the art of making into his music. Todd fixes & flies planes, has fabricated a video game kiosk out of hospital equipment, & is finishing his hovercraft as we write this. We could call him house music's MacGyver.
SpectralSound
CD
$16.25

Parachutes/Band In Box
Split
PS, UK Limited edition (500) vinyl-only release features three songs each from Icelandic dream-poppers Parachutes (mixed by a Sigur Ros guy and featuring strings by Amiina) and Swedish indie-poppers Band In Box (featuring members of Burén).

Band in Box
1. Icaria I
2. Lost And Foundland
3. Icaria II
10" vinyl
StereoTestKit
10"
$9.50

Parson Red Heads, The
Owl and Timber EP
PS, US
ParsonFarm
CD5
$7.00

Plastic Constellations
We Appreciate You
PS, US
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.25

Presets, The
Apocalypso
PS, US After two years studio silence, The Presets (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) return with their sophomore album, Apocalypso. Ranging from expansive, emotive techno, to future pagan house and choral space funk, Apocalypso demonstrates the band's undeniably canny knack for welding hook-laden pop to the most singular and exciting sounds today. Along the way The Presets have become one of Australia's most in-demand live acts, and after two non-stop years touring the major festivals of the world, they've managed to capture some of this energy in these new recordings. Welcome to the world of Apocalypso.
Modular/Interscope
CD
$11.00

Pump Kinn & Don/Brian Miller & Kevin Shields
Virgin Passwords
PS, US So Cal noise Nor Cal. Recorded at the end of nearly 9 months of touring, Virgin Passwords reflects a long evolution in sound and concept for Brian Miller & Kevin Shields. A combination of mechanical grindings and digital sweeps, mortal shovings and sudden transportations into secret chambers hold the secrets of the Virgins themselves. The Virgins that control the universe. The mafia of the cosmos. Beyond the cliched metaphor of purity and straight to literally not having sex at all. Because a Brian Miller & Kevin Shields performance proves that a noise show can be (hyper)active, crowd-engaging and knock everything to the floor without invoking angst and self-loathing. In other words, without hate-fucking everyone. Virgins. Pump Kinn & Don: 'Hijokaidan by DJ Screw.' One side apiece from each of these duos of destruction." Limited to 300 copies with beautiful DJ-style jackets designed by Aaron Winters at Abide Visuals.
WeirdForest
LP
$13.75

Rainman
S-T
PS, UK Originally released only in Holland, this is the first CD reissue of the superb 1970 solo LP from Frank Nuyens aka Rainman -- the lead guitarist of legendary Dutch blues/psych-rockers, Q65. A moody blend of folk, pop and psychedelia, with some blazing guitar leads, the album also features his Q65 bandmate Jay Baar, as well as Dick Beekman (Cuby & The Blizzards), Francois Content (Swinging Soul Machine) and other leading Dutch musicians on flute, vibes, congas and other instruments. It's presented here complete with an ultra-rare bonus track taken from his sole, non-LP 45, making it an essential purchase for all fans of acid-tinged singer-songwriting.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Raven
Back to Ohio Blues
PS, US Official master tapes, self-released reissue of this unknown hard rock/pre-punk Ohio LP from 1975 (previously reissued and long gone on the Rockadelic label). "The Back to Ohio Blues LP by Raven (that's one man's pseudonym, not a band name) might be the ultimate non-commercial '70s American rock record, unintentionally putting the most ardent anarchist punk bands to shame." -hit-fi.com
Owl
CD
$8.50

Regina, Elis
The Voice Of Brazil
PS, UK Graced by the exquisite arrangements of Roberto Menescal, The Voice of Brazil combines Elis Regina's masterful 1968 LP, Elis, Como e Porque (Elis, How and Why) with recordings made a year later in London where Menescal teamed with Peter Knight (of Moody Blues fame). Although the flawless album she made in 1974 with Tom Jobim is regarded internationally as one of the great treasures of Bossa Nova, almost three decades after her death Elis remains one of the music world's best-kept secrets, a truly great singer who deserves to be recognized beyond her beloved Brazil. Stylistically, Elis Regina is part Dusty Springfield, part Blossom Dearie, considered to be part of the Tropicalia family.
El-143
CD
$15.50

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 4 May-June 2008
PS, UK "The Dukes Of Stratosphear -- Join us on a bike ride to the moon with XTC's alter egos. The San Francisco Scene: 1966 Featuring: Syndicate Of Sound, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane. Freakrock -- Beards, boots and fuzz: the music that time forgot; Blue Ash -- US '70s power pop; The Story -- New father/son duo in acid folk tradition; Bay Area Garage; Patrick The Lama's Esoteric Trips: The 10 sacred monoliths of UK '70s folk-rock." 82 pages, full-color.
ZINE
$8.25

Skydog
Just Want To Make You Happy
PS, US 2001 re-issue. First re-release ever taken from the master tapes of this insanely rare LP from Georgia made in 1974 in an edition of 100. Wild & psychotic hippie progressive rock mixed with incredible heavy fuzz psychedelic jammers. Monstrous orgies between the guitar and Hammond organ and you can also find heavy eastern tunes woven in the long guitars jams.
RedLounge
CD
$23.00

Sound Of Arrows
Danger!
PS, SWEDEN 9 song CD. Labrador is proud to present The Sound of Arrows - the band that will lead Swedish pop into the next decade. With the deepest love possible they gather sounds and samples from all over and turn them into lush pop songs with exquisitely beautiful melodies. The Sound of Arrows started as an experiment. They wanted to try making a Christmas song by sampling a Children's choir from YouTube and build a song around that. This was in the end of 2006. Due to the lack of computer, and recording, knowledge it took several months to complete it. The final version missed it's deadline, Christmas, with half a year. But the song suggested what they wanted to do musically together and marked the start of The Sound of Arrows. The Sound of Arrows is a duo consisting of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand. Stefan Storm had earlier been making house music in Panache while the other half, Oskar Gullstrand, used to play in an orchestra but is now working as a graphic designer and an animator. The members have both just passed 20 years old and are originally from a place called Gävle which by many is considered one of Sweden most boring towns. They've now moved to Stockholm and only go back to Gävle to meet family or record their songs in abandoned discotheques. Their 9-track debut EP is an embrace of the timeless and the futuristic; a travel through a new world of sights and sounds in Technicolor. The title track, "Danger!" is an epic treat. It begins with a magical verse that seems to float in space - just to explode in this spring's most memorable chorus. The theme is a pleading warning to the naïve that ends in revolt and hope. Strings, trumpets, glockenspiel and synthesizers kills the cliché "less is more" once and for all. "Danger!" is lovely pointer of where The Sound of Arrows' special aesthetics will take them, and us, in the future.
Labrador-114
CD5
$11.00

Spirit
S-T
PS, US "The mega-rare mono version of the visionary debut album by pivotal Los Angeles combo Spirit was only available for a brief moment in early 1968. Featuring eye-opening mixes, our release is an exact repro of the LP that introduced the world to Spirit classics such as 'Fresh-Garbage' and 'Mechanical World.' This unique version zeroes in on Randy California's tastefully-thundering guitar and the jazz-infused drumming of Ed Cassidy -- and is sourced from the vintage analog mono masters, completely untouched for over 35 years."
Sundazed
LP
$19.00

Subtle
Exiting ARM
PS, US 3rd full-length release from Bay Area sextet. Drawing from a diverse palette of instruments: sampler, synth, guitar, cello, winds, electronic and acoustic drums, and the unmistakable voice and prose of doseone, the band fashions a self-sampled and live-mic'd honest to genreless music. The adventurous pop group has collaborated with the likes of Beck, Wolf Parade, Tunde Adepbumpe of TV on the Radio, and much more. PITCHFORK: "ExitingARM is Subtle's "pop" album. And by that they mean it's their most accessible album to date, and an answer to a problem that's plagued them since they started: How do you make something dense and personal, a body of work that demands time and dedication-- and then hook a wide new audience, hang onto their ears, and make them understand it? Their new album highlights what's always been catchiest about Subtle's music: it's full of short, fast bangers that you can enjoy out of the corner of your ear. But scratch the surface, and you find something far gnarlier-- the most intricate realization yet of the vision of frontman Doseone, a.k.a. rapper, poet and visual artist Adam Drucker."
Lex
CD
$13.75

Sun Ra
The Universe Sent Me: The Lost Reel Collection Vol. 5
PS, US Imagine the suspense and anticipation one would feel when loading a 1970s Sun Ra reel onto a deck for the first time in more that 30 years & not knowing what to expect. As the tape starts, familiar sounds of the Arkestra begin to be heard from that magical time period so long ago. There is a great sense of relief and accomplishment to know music that laid dormant for far too long, and was from one of the most original creators ever, would now be preserved for all to finally hear. Volume 5 of "The Lost Reel Collection" features music from two separate tapes. The first tape is from a 1972 short recording at the Seaport Museum in New York City. The acoustics sound like an outdoor concert. The featured track is Discipline 27-ll, which is purely instrumental and may be the earliest recording of this particular version. In 1973, Ra declamations like "Life is Splendid" and "What Planet Is This?" were added on top of the music theme. The second tape is from a 1973 recording in Paris, France . Although the acoustics are quite different, it's a natural segue from the Seaport Museum tape. Opening with the Discipline 27-ll theme and the by-now more familiar declamation there which we title as "The Universe Sent Me" with this release. The beauty of the "reed" section is clearly heard during this track due to the apparent close proximity of the tape machine and the microphone setup. Once again, as with the first 4 volumes of "The Lost Reel Collection", the listener is in for a real treat.
Transparency-305
CD
$14.00

Sun Ra All Stars
Zurich, West Berlin, Paris (5XCD)
PS, US 5 complete concerts from Milan, Zurich, West Berlin and Paris during the autumn of 1983. Featuring SUN RA, LESTER BOWIE (Art Ensemble of Chicago), DON CHERRY, MARSHALL ALLEN (Arkestra), JOHN GILMORE (Arkestra), ARCHIE SHEPP, PHILLY JOE JONES (Miles Davis Quintet), and more!
Transparency-311
CD-BOX
$40.50

Tamba Trio
The Miraculous Tamba Trio
PS, UK Propelled by the extraordinary piano playing and arranging skills of Luíz Eça, Tamba Trio are characterized by their very original and highly attractive blending of left field Bossa grooves and almost sacred vocal harmonies. Our program concentrates on the years between 1962-66 and finds the group at an eclectic axis of classical music, Bossa and Jazz and finding a brilliantly original vocabulary. An important landmark in the evolution of modern Brazilian music and far ahead of its time. Tamba Trio was the greatest Bossa Nova group: an institution in Brazil and now becoming better known internationally.
El-144
CD
$15.50

Thee Oh Sees
The Masters Bedroom Is Worth
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Tomlab
LP
$12.25

Unwed Sailor
Little Wars
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
BurntToast
DLP
$15.00

UTON
Straight Edge XXS
PS, GERMANY Limited 500. "Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Uton's last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely different affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CD's, CD-R's and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously.
Dekorder-025
CD
$17.50

Various
A Factory Night (Once Again) 15.12.2007
PS, UK 28 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is pleased to present a DVD souvenir of A Factory Night (Once Again), the memorable live event staged at Plan K in Brussels in 15 December 2007 featuring live performances by Section 25, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the live section of the DVD features 2 hours of in-concert highlights (28 tracks) from all four bands, as well as the encore of the New Order classic Temptation by Section 25 and Peter Hook. Bonus features on the NTSC format Region 0 DVD include poster and photo galleries, as well as a rare 1981 television interview with Annik Honore exploring the early history of Plan K, Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crepuscule. The 2007 event marked a return of these several original Factory Records artists to the legendary Plan K venue in Brussels after a gap of more than 25 years, during which the venue (a former sugar refinery) had ceased staging live gigs. The event was also a tribute to the late Anthony H. Wilson, the Factory founder who died a few months earlier.
LTM-2519
DVD
$21.75

Various
Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler
PS, US For fifteen years, TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS has been the preeminent source of avant audio, championing minimal, improvised, and outsider musics of various spots and stripes. Now, as its influence radiates outward, the label presents Radium, its "rock" imprint, showcased here with "Impala Eardrums, A Radium Sampler". While minimalist legend RHYS CHATHAM leads the way with a delightful unreleased piece from his mid-80s archives, most of the other contributors are younger folks, from a new generation of performers. It's a diverse bunch, ranging from the raw Americana of MEGAFAUN and JONATHAN KANE, to the humid, pulsating krautrock of ATELEIA and the spectral songcraft of PAUL DUNCAN. NEPTUNE serves up its version of home-forged proto-clangor, while COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS pour forth in glistening, shimmering waves. Together, these eight tracks - all previously unreleased on CD - have one thing in common: a resolute will to march headlong into the untamed brambles and briar patches of 21st-century sound.
TableOfTheElements-812
LP
$14.25

Various
Psychedelic Minds Vol. 1 (Heavy Underground 1967-71)
PS, GERMANY The international bands on this selection represent impressively the boiling point of the short living worldwide psychedelic rock movement between 1967-71 -- the years when garage punk evolved into heavy psychedelic rock with its wider soundscapes and complex improvisations. Volume 1 contains a dozen 45-rpm songs by lost psychedelic messengers (eight US bands and from Germany, Peru, France each one). The groups included are: Blackrock, Sound Machine, Yesterday's Obsession, Mastermind, Sangre Mexicana, Bhagavad Gita, Protein Bros, Purple Canteen, Los Nuevos Shains, Blow Mind and the A & B-side of legendary Dirty Filthy Mud. About half of the songs are previously unreissued and appear in stunning sound quality and 12p. poster-booklet. Certainly a piece of wax for Dr. Leary's students: 'Turn on, Tune in, Listen again!' To be continued...
WorldInSound
CD
$18.25

Vss
Nervous Circuits (CD/DVD)
PS, US mastered and the DVD is loaded with select footage from the band's history along with three additional full live sets. "While there's nothing all that unique anymore about an indie rock band mixing in a little electronics, there was something breathtakingly original about The VSS - essentially a hardcore punk band - incorporating these elements. The result was something organic and angry and intensely human, but it was laced with a sharp, robotic edge" - Epitonic.com.
HydraHead
CD
$13.25

Wedding Present, The
El Rey
PS, US El Rey - the first new album in over three years from The Wedding Present - was recorded in early 2008 in Chicago by Steve Albini. The band returned from an eight-year hiatus in early 2005 with the release of Take Fountain. This long-awaited album brought them back into the spotlight with all the style and sophistication associated with a legendary group, but fans were also pleased to see the band had lost none of the growling angst with which they had burst onto the scene with their 1985 debut, George Best. That intensity has been turned up even further for the new album, El Rey, The Wedding Present's first collaboration with the legendary Albini since the renowned Seamonsters in 1991. Written while David Gedge was living in Los Angeles, El Rey burns with West Coast sunlight; Hollywood seen through the eyes of a gritty Northerner. Speaking about El Rey in Mojo magazine recently, Gedge said: "I've been living in West Hollywood for the last year or so, and while I'm not going to claim that this is my 'L.A.' album, there are some references. I suppose the themes are lust, jealousy, betrayal, regret, and obsession, super-heros the usual. We chose to record with Steve this time because the new songs were sounding very guitary and quite dark. It's been good.
As you'd imagine, really; Albini knows his stuff". The Wedding Present will be touring North America in Fall 2008 with the line-up of: David Gedge (guitar & vocals), Terry de Castro (bass), Graeme Ramsay (drums), and Chris McConville (guitar).
Manifesto-43904
CD
$12.25

Windsor For The Derby
How We Lost
PS, US Despite the connotation of its title, "How We Lost" is a celebratory album. It's a reflective record and, in its own way, celebrates the WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY continuum that's been created from their first release ("Calm Hades Float", 1996) to their last ("Giving Up the Ghost", 2005). Each of these recordings is a sequel to the next both in narrative and musically and as the band's first two records ("Calm Hades Float" and "Minnie Greutzfeldt") were re-released last year they found themselves in constant dialogue about their body of work and the paths they'd chosen. Also a part of that ongoing dialogue were the records that the band finds itself consistently re-visiting (Swell Maps, Section 25, Psychic TV and much of the Factory Records catalog) and what makes those recordings timeless and resonate in a personal way with the band. The songs on "How We Lost" are reflections of those records and those conversations. It's about the band and the ways the band has changed over the years, the things they hold onto and what's been left behind.
SecretlyCanadian-141
CD
$11.50

Forthcoming Releases

1900s, The
Everybody's Got A Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2008)
NO PS, US New 7" vinyl phonograph single from Chicago psych-pop troupe, featuring two non-album tracks. White wax, black jacket, real posh.
Parasol-039
45
$3.50

Abe Vigoda
Skeleton (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US This is a twisted joy ride through the four boys' private party. Soothing parts that remind you of Captain Beefheart & My Bloody Valentine, or some punk w/ a haunting reggaeton pulse that makes you move. When the record is done after a little more than 30 mins., you are left feeling that there is something they are trying to tell you, on second listen it smacks you in the face.
PostPresentMedium
CD
$11.50

Action Biker
Hesperian Puisto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, SWEDEN It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet.
FriendlyNoise-69
CD
$13.50

Architecture In Helsinki
Like it or Not EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US The Australian sextet is back with their 3rd single from their critically lauded new album Places Like This. The band has been on a tear since the album's release in fall of 2007, selling over 25,000 copies in the US in under a year. On top of that, they made their debut on the Billboard charts in the first week of release, peaked at #3 on the CMJ Top 200, and sold out several clubs nationwide on their fall 2007 tour. With the Like It or Not EP, the band finally records "One Heavy February" and "Beef in Box," which are two long-time crowd favorites from their live shows, to accompany the single version of "Like It or Not". To top it off there is a "Like It or Not" remix by one of 2008 biggest buzz bands, El Guincho.
Polyvinyl-157
CD5
$7.25

ASS (Andreas Soderstrom Solo)
My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, UK Very limited! Peering out between the mass of strings, hanging like vines, there must have been a spark of childish curiosity. From the giddy playfulness of youth all the way to the folk hinterland, Andreas Soderstrom has been surrounded by instruments, exposed to the sounds of his father's bazouki factory - an extraordinary mélange of clattering noise and metallic melody. That natural inquisitiveness has obviously paid off, and it surely can't be a coincidence that a career in music beckoned. Trading under the pseudonym Ass - it stands for Andreas Soderstrom Solo - for more than a decade he has been the hitherto unknown man of Swedish pop, having played with the likes of electro-pop priestess Jenny Wilson, digital folk stalwarts Tape, offbeat folk-pop minstrel Blood Music, and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman. All that will change with the release of 'My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went', the second full-length album from Soderstrom under his Ass moniker. Soderstrom plays all of the instruments found on this quietly intoxicating 10-track record, the follow-up to his astonishingly assured, eponymous debut - both released on Headspin Recordings. It finds him hacking through the folk undergrowth, his fluid dynamic underpinning a stark melancholy that simmers throughout. It's a real treat, and a chance to hear the whispered charm of a subtly disarming performer. To paraphrase George Clinton - free your mind, and Ass will follow...Very Limited vinyl Edition of 500 copies in thick cardboard stock, lyric insert and on purple wax.
StaticCaravan-167
LP
$19.00

Band In Box
This Fiction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK Debut album from Swedish act featuring members of Buren.
StereoTestKit
CD
$12.25

Be Gulls
By the Beach (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Rad
LP
$14.25

Be Gulls
By the Beach (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US Sweeping and soaring music from the folks from LITTLE WINGS.
Rad
CD
$14.25

Black Sun Ensemble
Across the Sea of Id: The Way to Eden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US Quite possibly the final BSE release after an illustrious career of nearly 25 years. It marks a return to the beloved semi-acoustic style of their first few releases, and also - due to public demand! - contains no vocals. It is a mixture of new readings of past tracks & new compositions. The new material offers a singular, dreamy vision of BSE's potentially final works. The two title tracks, Across the Sea of Id and Eden Song, are reflective, yet hallucinatory explorations into Jesus Acedo's unique compositional & melodic sensibility. While Angel de la Guardia has a refined yet explosive rock swagger, it is balanced by the meditation Perelandra & La Paz. The CD also contains a video of the band performing the signature BSE piece "Dove of the Desert"
CameraObscura
CD
$14.00

Brother Kite, The/Plumerai
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Track Listing: Plumerai "Vacant Eyes". The Brother Kite "We Can Never Be Friends". LIMITED to 500 copies. Clear vinyl in see-thru package. An idea hatched during the recording of Plumerai's "Without Number" CD out on Silber Records. The thought was to strip away the pedals and even electricity and release a record that would simultaneously draw upon the band's ability to evoke emotions and utilize one of the band's noted strengths; the intimacy and power of Elizabeth Ezell's voice. After consideration they sought out The Brother Kite to record a track for the flipside. A Clairecords staple and another top-notch New England band known for their shoegaze influences, they seemed like a perfect match for the concept of stripping down their sound and writing an acoustic track.. Plumerai's "Vacant Eyes" relies more heavily on orchestration and layering of instruments such as acoustic guitar, reed organ, violin (arranged and performed by Clara Kebabian) and bells to accompany Ezell. While The Brother Kite's "We Can Never Be Friends" is a more basic track with acoustic guitars and a catchy vocal melody carrying the song. This stunning and beautiful record comes on coke bottle-clear vinyl and is limited to 500 copies.
Clairecords-077
45
$5.25

Camper Van Beethoven
Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US
CookingVinyl
CD
$14.25

Carr, Derek
The Digital Space Race (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record.
Psychonavigation-025
CD
$15.50

Chevelles, The
Barbarella Girl God (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Career retrospective plus new gear from this Aussie garage-pop combo. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "14 of their most contagious numbers along with a trio of new songs as proof positive that they've lost none of their magic over the years. What really impresses about this album, though, is how well the band's wide-ranging sound and style are showcased. Garage pop is an easy tag for their music, but doesn't really capture the diversity of influences and elements that infuse their songs... From old-school to new-school punk, the band dances back and forth in time, tripping into new wave, psychedelia, and power pop along the way. The sound may be clean, a reflection of the Chevelles' tightness, but even at their jangliest, the guitars are down and dirty, the harmonies soaring, the melodies irrepressible, and the choruses irresistible. All in all, the perfect introduction to this stellar band."
WickedCool
CD
$12.25

Clientele, The
That Night, A Forest Grew (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque.
Acuarela-067
CD5
$8.25

Cloudland Canyon/Lichens
Exterminating Angel (PRE-ORDER SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US This single 30-min. track (split into 2 parts on the LP version) uses voice, guitar, samplers, & ARP synthesizer. Here are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star & Taco Bell from the 70s filled w/ Mayan temples & pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed
reptilian beings.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Craig, Leighton
11 Easy Pieces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Since 1995, Brisbane resident Leighton Craig has etched out a varied musical existence, from solo keyboard studies to an extensive body of collaborative work. His solo works, which span delicate ambient keyboard excursions through to site-specific live documents and most recently song-based explorations, have mapped out a focus of tone, duration and 'situations' for sound. On 11 Easy Pieces, his first widely available solo LP, Craig offers an intimate yet robust collection of works recorded on an array of cheap analogue keyboards, including his instrument of choice the Casio MT40. Recorded to cassette at the kitchen table between 2003-04, these recordings have been lovingly toasted by valve tubes during mastering to reveal not only a true sense of analog adventurousness inherent to Craig's mode of operation, but also his ability to unveil a rare tonal richness from his instruments. Leighton Craig casts out an audio net and collects together an essential haul of tonal gradients, phased rhythm and collapsed chordal interplays. 11 Easy Pieces (and two somewhat less 'easy' works), is a warm collection of distorted hymnals and blurred geometry - all of them visionary in their purity and timbral sensibilities. "This is more than Australian Music - this is Australia the musician." Sean Rabin, The Australian "an organic exorcism of the trees...the music of the earth...." Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. On Organ Notes "hazy minimal organ tones ... feel good mind-body static. Turn up loud and let it float." Eddie Flowers, Slippytown.
Room40-424
CD
$15.00

DJ Scotch Egg
Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$14.00

DJ Scotch Egg
Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Powerful cosmic energy using the simplest tools available: 4 Nintendo Gameboys & mixer. Not a noisy release by any means, instead a fully activated set of lean muscular gabber pop music that stares boldly into the sun with the jihad of a suicide vest full of gummi bears. Drumized takes cues from older trad jazz, Earache era gabber & some of your better ringtones.
Load
CD
$12.50

Durutti Column
Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, UK "Sunlight to blue ... Blue to blackness" - This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective new album from The Durutti Column. Vini Reilly has recorded under the name The Durutti Column since 1978 and has a rich portfolio of work, releasing over 15 albums in this time, but Reilly has been through some dark times the past year. In a conscious response to his last two polished and studio based releases he has created some sparse, simply beautiful 'sketches' as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are simply instrumentals played on his Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to 'Without Mercy' for the last track 'Grief' and reinvents 'Never Known' from LC. This release also sees the debut of a talented young pianist and singer, Poppy Morgan, who co-wrote the melancholy Ananda as a duet with what Reilly dryly calls 'intrusive guitar'. For the uninitiated, Vini was the first artist signed to Manchester's influential Factory Records, co-wrote and played on Morrissey's first solo album 'Viva Hate', and was heavily featured in the film about Manchester music culture, '24 Hour Party People'. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this return of The Durutti Column. Track listing: 1. Glimpse 2. Contact 3. Messages 4. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys! 5. Ged 6. Never Known Version 7. Anada 8. Head Glue 9. Demo For Gathering Dust 10. Wordless 11. Grief.
Kooky-027
CD
$17.75

Eat Skull
Sick to Death (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Leave it to the English to embellish a term like "shit-gaze." No surprise that the greatest shit-gazer of all time was none other than Samuel Coleridge, an avowed Brit who, plied full of laudanum, would sit for hrs & stare at his bowel movements, writing copious notes on their color, texture, etc. They are a quartet hailing from Portland, Oregon, co-masterminded by Rob Enbom (Hospitals and Hole Class) & another original Hospital, Rod Meyer (the greatest living genius of punk)(--erm--uh--wha?!).
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Endless Boogie
Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
NoQuarter
DLP
$16.50

Endless Boogie
Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US This NYC four-piece started out as an "old man hobby" and turned into the best psychedelic rock 'n' roll band in the city (maybe country, possibly world). Endless Boogie jam, then jam some more. They lock in grooves so tight there's no escape - like entering a black hole, that last second stretches out forever. The only thing keeping them from living up to their name is the physics of the compact disc. The perfect soundtrack to hot summer nights. Hanging out in the basement. Smoking figs in the yard. The double LP is presented in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jacket and comes with a bonus track and digital download coupon.
NoQuarter
CD
$13.25

Fairline Parkway
Memory of Open Spaces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Limited Edition of 700 hand-numbered, die cut. Zachary Okun & Raj Gadhia met in a quiet summer of college unemployment. Raj recognized Zach as the guy in the back of the dusty university anthropology lab who diligently slept through monkey documentaries, waking from deep sleep only to angrily protest discernable differences in the skull specimens forced upon the class every week. In this manner things came to a head and they were graduated, just as they decided to have a good run at actually thinking. Reeling in denial, the two began recording together in 2002. They were promptly kidnapped by an enthusiastic fan & ushered into a studio.
Kora
CD
$11.25

Fantasy Bar
Friday Afternoon Car (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, SPAIN Kieran, Diego, Jordi and Rubén used to be part of Migala, probably one of the best Spanish bands ever. It's something they won't try to hide. Now they are Fantasy Bar, whose debut album, Friday Afternoon Car, takes their music -and influences ranging from American Music Club to Nick Drake, Arab Strap to Neil Young...- into enchanting new territories. Friday Afternoon Car is an album of nostalgia and yearning for a brighter dawn; of harshness and tender feeling; of hopes and of fears. Its 14 stately, slow-paced rock songs are suffused with the beauty that lies just beneath the surface of existence. The careworn yet compassionate vocals of Scottish songwriter Kieran Stephen (ex-bassist with Los Planetas and Migala, bass guitar on El Hijo's album "Las otras vidas", live musician with QZIOS) speak of the emotions these four friends know so well: the persistence of memories; friendship and wasted love; the knowledge, throughout it all, that the good times can prevail. It's there from the first moments of "Spiders", which opens Friday Afternoon Car: the story of a bad dream called solitude, wrapped in gentle guitars and upbeat but delicate drums. The album was recorded at Rock Soul Studios in Madrid with the assistance of Carlos Torero, and features keyboards and guitar by Abel Hernández (El Hijo, former singer and guitarist of Migala) and electric guitar by Chris Bathgate (Sans Trauma, ex-Ganger, who also used to play bass with Arab Strap). It takes its name from an old British phrase that alludes to the belief that car-factory workers lose interest toward the end of the week: as the brief liberation of the weekend looms, everyday cares cease to matter. Friday Afternoon Car invites the listener to enter the universe of these songs: to discover a place to reflect and, above all, to feel. Fantasy Bar are: Kieran Stephen (vocals, guitars, bass), Diego Yturriga (keyboards, accordion and melodica), Jordi Sancho (bass, fender rhodes) and Rubén Moreno (drums).
Acuarela-1085
CD
$13.50

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years.
Water
CD
$14.00

Fleet Foxes
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Fleet Foxes
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers. The subject matter ranges from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves. "Supremely crafted and confident" - 8.7 - Pitchfork.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Free Blood
Never Hear Surf Music Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US This two-piece Brooklyn band has more street cred than you can shake a stick at, & for good reason. Consisting of Madeline Davy (Octopi NYC) on the microphone & John Pugh (formally of !!!) also on microphone. An unpredictable druggy number, a mangled hybrid of Beatles-esque melodies fused angrily w/ a Butthole Surfers song. "Quick & Painful" is a raucous affair that delivers a swift kick to the jewels.
Rong/DFA
12
$8.00

Futureheads
This Is Not the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US New album.
Megaforce
CD
$13.75

Gable
Seven Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Containing 18 tracks clocking in at just under 40 min. The songs cover such diverse topics as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realization, cats, & drunk foxes, in the best tradition of DIY bands like The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, & Beat Happening.
Loaf
CD
$16.00

Giffoni, Carlos
Zamuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen-printed jacket. Numbered. A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. Side A on this LP is a live realization of this piece recorded at the Compound in San Francisco in 2006 (Mastered by Lasse Marhaug). Carlos composed and performed this piece live on several tours in the US/Europe/Japan all trough out 2006 and 2007, if you saw him live in those two years this is the piece he performed. This was the most complete version of it that made it to tape. Side B is a studio piece recorded live on a much larger modular synth, based around the same theme, but with structural and tonal variations not in the original composition. .This is pure psychedelic electronic music.
Important-201
LP
$19.50

Harcourt, Ed
Beautiful Lie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Beautiful Lie is easily one of his most accessible and listenable efforts. Yes, the hallmarks of his tortured singer/songwriter status are still in place, as flagrant strings, grandiose arrangements, and rampant-but-quality peer-mimicry rule these 14 tracks. But even though his lyrics are sometimes overbearingly dark and too many vampire metaphors abound, the music and songwriting compare favorably to contemporary indie-centric, raspy-voiced artists like Beck, the Eels, Sparklehorse, and Tom Waits. Harcourt dabbles in many genres here, from acoustic folk to '70s style pop ballads to rootsy psychedelia to experimental lounge, all the while rooting the music's emotion in melodic piano... Beautiful Lie is an invigorating and frequently gorgeous affair, essential for old fans and a good place to start for newcomers."
Dovecote
CD
$15.00

Hefner
The Fidelity Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, UK 1999 was a special year for Hefner. The original Fidelity Wars reached number one in the independent album charts, with its accompanying single, cult favourite Hymn for the Cigarettes securing them the number one place in the independent single charts. It was also the year that saw Hefner working hard for John Peel, recording three sessions for his show and having five entries in the Festive Fifty for '99. They reached numbers two and three in the chart, only beaten to the number one spot by the Cuban Boys! Fidelity Wars saw Hefner coming of age; the rawness of songwriter Darren Hayman's earlier music and lyrics developing into a more intelligent, observational style. Hymn for the Alcohol, tells the tale of two alcoholics falling out of love, accompanied by the sweet pedal steel of new member Jack Hayter. The Weight of the Stars has the narrator memorising the contents of a roll of camera film, which was lost on a one-night stand. Don't Flake Out On laments upon the lost friends of our early twenties, accompanied by the broken voice of ex-Raincoat Gina Birch and brass section. This re-release of Fidelity Wars contains the original album plus an extra 29 rare and unreleased tracks including deleted EPs, b-sides, and alternate versions.
Belka-05
DCD
$21.75

Helm, Levon
Dirt Farmer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US I'm so excited that this album will finally see the light of day on vinyl.
Vanguard
LP
$22.00

Hercules and Love Affair
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US
Mute
CD
$15.25

Holy Modal Rounders
Live in 1965 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US A rousing live album from the Rounders featuring songs spanning their careers on both the ESP and Prestige labels.
A must have for any Rounders fan! Digipak.
ESPDisk
CD
$12.75

Hosaka, Akane
Niko Niko Denki Muzic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, FRANCE With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys. Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation. References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop are deliberate: there for all to see. Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy: Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari. For her, these images evoke music that she then sets about transcribing. Naturally reserved, she's a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes. Her compositions are like pastel-colored soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8.
Sonore-27
CD
$17.50

Isol/Zypce
Sima (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Digipak with 16 page booklet featuring the artist's illustrations. Isol and Zypce present Sima, their latest collaboration. Isol: singer, composer, ex-vocalist of the electronic pop band Entre Ríos, singer with the baroque group The Excuse and member of the synthpop American band Alsace Lorraine. She's also an internationally renowned illustrator of books and printed media. For the first time, she composes the melodies in the songs and writes their lyrics on this new record. Zypce: musician, composer. In 1994 he released his CD Nuevo Muerto (New Dead) on which he and his ensemble play his own works of contemporary classical music tainted with industrial reminiscences, although these categories are in fact very dubious labels. He has also composed music for the film, dance and theatre in Argentina and abroad and has performed his experimental compositions with pianist Adriana de los Santos, among others in concert. He builds his own musical instruments and has an extremely elaborate approach to the stage factor. On this CD he composes and arranges the songs by being clearly faithful to his peculiar aesthetics though approaching a pop song format, always with very experimental results. Isol and Zypce are siblings, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. About Sima: 11 tracks / Voice: Isol / Instrumental arrangements: Zypce / Lyrics: Isol / Music: Isol - Zypce (except "La primera vez" and "Vos me llamás", by Dani Umpi - Adrián Soiza) / Artistic production: Zypce (in "Vos me llamás": Zypce-Cecinini) / Mastering: Nicolás Cecinini. Sima: f. abyss, precipice, crag, depth, chasm.
Darla-195
CD
$13.00

Jay Reatard
Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US This is a collection of all his out-of-print material, re-mastered by the Real Tard himself. It's finally possible to hear these gems in one straight shot, remasterd (hence sounding better than ever), without flipping over a pile of 7'' platters. Includes a DVD showcasing some choice live performances.
InTheRed-151
CD/DVD
$17.00

Jay Reatard
Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
US,PS VINYL VERSION. Double-LP housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve
InTheRed-151
DLP
$15.50

Jazkamer
Artbreaker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, NORWAY Jazkamer is always dealing with different kinds of noise & noise-music. This album has 58 tracks and is 17 minutes long! This time the Jazkamers has gone as far with rock & punk as humanly possible. We guess this is their homage to Japan's noisecore & their love for early Boredoms, Melt Banana, Hanatarash & Zeni Geva. But we don't know. Just listen for yourself.
SmalltownSuperjazz-135
CD
$15.25

Jennings, Mason
In the Ever (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Brushfire
LP
$13.75

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Ladytron
Velocifero (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US New album, their 4th full-length, fully transcends the boundaries of electro-pop w/a fresh wave of distorted soul.
Nettwerk
CD
$17.75

Leone, Dominique
s/t (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, NORWAY Dominique Leone wears many hats, only a few faces & has a hundred songs that you haven't heard. And yes, he's a him. He's a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter... scratch that, he's one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteur with more than a slight command of pop history & theory chops, and writing songs for joyous, infatuated people. Perhaps some of them are a bit over stimulated. Perhaps some of them just like good melodies & strange chord progressions that still seem vaguely familiar. The music is catchy but ambitious; crafted but not sterile; interesting but not pretentious. It's just a lot of fucking fun.
Stromland-002
CD
$15.25

Lexie Mountain Boys
Sacred Vacation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Everything that is good & bad about the things you think, about the sound of your own voice as imagined in the mind of another person, each sound you made alone & some made not for speaking but for blaming. This is a minor document of soul noise diva karaoke, collaborative cave-chanteuses rippling w/ roquefort vibes, & the slippery wet nightgown that is her songsmithy.
Carpark
CD
$15.00

Lodger, The
Life is Sweet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$14.25

Lodger, The
Life is Sweet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Still filled with gorgeous melodies & catchy tunes, but is also deeper & more thoughtful, full of emotional peaks & valleys. Rather than just chip in w/ an album of "more of the same," they've paid extra attention to the arrangements, w/ 12-string & acoustic guitars, lap steel, & violin adding crucial detail
& depth to the tunes
Slumberland
CD
$14.25

Love As Laughter
Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epic/RedInk
LP
$12.75

Love As Laughter
Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US The group's distinctive sound can only be described as a melting pot of flavors of artists such as the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, & Neil Diamond.
Epic/RedInk
CD
$13.25

Low
You May Need A Murderer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US On several occasions in 2007, Dutch documentary maker David Kleijwegt filmed the legendary chamber-rock trio. This is a portrait of a band set against the scenery of modern day America, a country that according to Low is rapidly becoming a third world country. This high-standard documentary is more than an on-the-road movie or behind-the-scenes video. It shows Sparhawk as the ambivalent main character in an intriguing movie about religion, violence, questions of conscience &-whether concealed or not-madness, that can also be seen as a touching love story.
Soulmining
DVD
$15.75

LSD & The Search For God
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US ON VINYL! This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on & tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars & playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks & fuzzed out drones. Limited to 1000
DeepSpace
12
$12.00

Made Out Of Babies
Ruiner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US While the album retains the group's trademark ferocious hybrid of PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard & Big Black, it also finds the band's musical exploration showcasing something unsettling & unique.
The End
CD
$15.50

Mae Shi
HLLLYH (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Really crazy prog rock from the LA band that doesn't stop touring.
Yosada
LP
$19.00

Mammatus
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Named for the ominous clouds that are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed, they are a lean sludge machine that shoots giant burritos (carne asada) from their instruments. They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, subgoths & dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any "terrestrial" engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven w/ spells of the nameless one that were spoken of before rock could speak.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Mann, Aimee
@#%&! Smilers(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US (Digipack Packaging) "I've always been drawn to dark, eccentric personalities," says Los Angeles singer songwriter Aimee Mann. On Smilers, her 7th solo CD, Mann presents thirteen exquisitely-crafted new songs about the inner life of people living far from the bright lights of success or fame.
SuperegoRecords
CD
$16.00

Melodyguild
Aitu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Vocalist Suzanne Perry (LOVE SPIRALS DOWNWARDS) returns w/her 1st new collection of work in almost a decade w/this driving shoegazer/dream-pop quartet. A must for lovers of Tearwave, Mira, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, & Autumn's Grey Solace.
Projekt
CD5
$7.25

Midnight Juggernauts
Dystopia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US This Melbourne based band was described by Rolling Stone US as "David Bowie if his Berlin Trilogy was a collaboration w/ Kraftwerk & Faust."
Astralwerks
CD
$15.00

Mogwai
Young Team [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, UK The original album remastered and repackaged with an additional CD of bonus tracks including phenomenal live performances from T In The Park and Chemikal Underground's 5th Birthday Party; a BBC session version of "R U Still In 2 It?" featuring Aidan Moffat; a rare Spaceman 3 cover; a radio session track from WNYC and some other stuff.
ChemikalUnderground
DCD
$15.75

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

My Brightest Diamond
A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US With this Brooklyn band's sophomore release, we're instantly reminded of Shara Worden's reputation as one of indie music's most vibrant, creative, and original voices. This record is charming, playful, daring, foreboding, graceful, eclectic, exciting, and visceral. The songs marry vast instrumentation - marimbas, harps, clarinets, French horns, rabid guitars, vibraphones, and more - to create an unequaled amalgamation of style and color. In a word, beautiful.

SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this CD from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake.
AsthmaticKitty
CD
$11.50

My Brightest Diamond
A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this LP from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake.
AsthmaticKitty
LP
$12.00

My Education
Bad Vibrations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Showcases My Education's sonic flights as sharply honed, highly melodic mini-epics. Layers of guitar swell & sway over propulsive rhythms while viola spins yearning melodies ever skyward, sprinkled with delicate color by vibraphone & keyboards. Book-ended by ambient passages pillowing heavy-lidded acoustic strumming languid strings & lap-steel, Bad Vibrations is certainly the finest summation of My Education's highly textured & emotive music yet.
StrangeAttractors
CD
$12.50

My Morning Jacket
At Dawn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, red and gold color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their beloved second record (2001). "At Dawn has an Ineffable magic to it from start to finish, one that leads me to scour my brain for words that could describe something that sounds so special. Anytime a pop or rock song can give you chills, that's something. When a whole album can do it that's something else entirely." -POPMATTERS. TRACK LISTING: 1. At Dawn 2. Lowdown 3. The Way That He Sings 4. Death Is My Sleazy Pay 5. Hopefully 6. Bermuda Highway 7. Honest Man 8. X-mas Curtain 9. Just Because I Do 10. If It Smashes Down 11. I Needed It Most
12. Phone Went West 13. Strangulation 14. Bonus track.
Darla-111-1
DLP
$19.00

My Morning Jacket
The Tennessee Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, green and blue color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their fabulous debut album (1999). "Released to worldwide critical acclaim, The Tennessee Fire provides proof (200 proof) that heartfelt American music is alive and well and living in Kentucky. A must for anyone who loves the sound of Alt-country mixed with wide open spaces." -ALL MUSIC GUIDE. TRACK LISTING: 1. Heartbreakin Man 2. They Ran 3. The Bear 4. Nashville To Kentucky 5. Old September Blues 6. If All Else Fails 7. It's About Twilight Now 8. Evelyn Is Not Real 9. War Begun 10. Picture Of You 11. I Will Be There When You Die 12. The Dark 13. By My Car 14. Butch Cassidy 15. I Think I'm Going To Hell 16. Bonus track
Darla-089-1
DLP
$19.00

My Morning Jacket
This Is Not the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US New album.
ATO/Red
CD
$13.75

N.E.R.D.
Seeing Sounds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US New album is a blistering mash-up of booming hip-hop beats & rollercoastering rock riffs, rumbling crunk rhythms & scintillating soul music.
StarTrak
CD
$15.00

Names, The
Nightshift/Live At Plan K 15/12/2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, UK 24 tracks live DVD by cult Factory Records band The Names, including their December 2007 homecoming concert at legendary Brussels (Belgium) venue Plan K. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the Plan K section of the DVD features 11 songs, including the classic singles Nightshift, Calcutta and The Astronaut, as well as new tracks including I Am the Rain and Zeroes (a tribute to their former producer Martin Hannett), and an encore cover of the Magazine song The Light Pours Out of Me. These tracks were taped at the memorable A Factory Night (Once Again) event at Plan K staged on 15 December 2007, which also featured performances by Section 25, Peter Hook, Crispy Ambulance and Kevin Hewick. The 120 minute DVD also features several vintage promo clips from 1980-82, including shorts for Nightshift, Light and The Astronaut. An intimate extra bonus feature is provided by Celebration, 9 songs recorded live at a 2005 birthday party for singer/writer Michel Sordinia, at which the band run through versions of a number of Names originals as well as songs by Joy Division and Neil Young. Also available: Swimming & Singles (LTMCD 2324), Spectators of Life (LTMCD 2320). Live Au Plan K (Brussels) 15 December 2007: 1. Light 2. I Am The Rain 3. Calcutta 4. Zeroes 5. The Astronaut 6. I Liked You Better When You Were Dead 7. Nightshift 8. I Wish I Could Speak Your Language 9. Discovery 10. Friendly Fire 11. The Light Pours Out Of Me When We Were Kids: 12. Nightshift #1 13. Light 14. The Astronaut 15. Nightshift #2 Celebration (2005): 16. My Funny Valentine 17. Nightshift 18. The Astronaut 19. Calcutta 20. The Call Of Trains 21. Swimming 22. New Dawn Fades 23. Luka 24. Cortez The Killer.
LTM-2522
DVD
$21.75

Nisennenmondai
Tori/Neji (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US Nisennenmondai means "Year 2000 Problem'' and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by
Lightning Bolt, Battles & No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as This Heat, Sonic Youth & Pop Group, one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you ad Black Flag, DNA, Neu! & Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondais sound. It's raw & repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as they are wild groovy with a no wave/disco vibe to it. This is the first release outside of
Japan & it contains the bands two EPs "Neji" and Tori" released as one album with new cover design by Kim Hiorthoy
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (Deluxe) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in. The deluxe limited edition is a hard-bound book with full color 24-page insert.
Domino
CD/BOOK
$15.50

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in.
Domino
CD
$11.50

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$17.50

Odd Nosdam
Pretty Swell Explode (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US This inimitable producer returns with an enhanced 2-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides, videos, & original songs, incl. 8 tracks entirely exclusive to this set. Here Nosdam compiles the odds & ends created mostly around his last two fulllengths (2005's Burner and last year's Level Live Wires), as well as a few choice gems from bygone days. Accompanying these blasted sounds are 3 videos, also incl. a hidden unreleased version of Nosdam's Lee Perry-inspired "Upsetter."
Anticon
DCD
$15.75

Osorezan
Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Osorezan
Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH)
PS, US "Do you like Derek Bailey?" This was the question posed to JIM O'ROURKE on his first meeting w/ bass-playing fury DARIN GRAY. This is Jim on electric guitar & Darin on contrabass bonded w/ CHRIS CORSANO, who's blown the free world on its tony ass w/ his unbridled power, intensely collaborative nature & smooth stickwork behind the kit. Recorded live at the Pit Inn in Tokyo during a 2005 residency.
DragCity
CD
$13.00

Paramount Styles
Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound.
Konkurrent
CD
$13.25

Pelt
Dauphin Elegies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US This first new studio recording in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off-delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action.
VHF
CD
$14.25

Pentemple
0))) Presents (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly limited to 3,000 machine numbered copies. It will NOT last long.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Pollard, Robert
Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US With ten songs in 35 min. it's an extraordinary rock tour-de-force. It sports Todd Tobias's cleanest & meanest production yet, giant songs & riffs that pack a wallop, & arguably Pollard's finest singing ever captured on record. Since freeing himself of a band in 2004, his albums have each had very distinct & varied flavors, & his creativity has flowered.
GBV
CD
$16.00

Pollard, Robert
Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
GBV
LP
$17.25

Ponies In The Surf
See You Happy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Ponies In The Surf is quietly one of a kind. Siblings and self proclaimed indie music nerds Alex & Camile live in Cambridge, MA though they're originally from Bogota, Columbia. The Ponies build perfect soft pop songs with elements Samba, Beatles, the more sophisticated folk set, the Pop Vocal traditionalists and they're very much akin to The Violent Femmes and Johnathan Richman in terms of song craft, a subtle humor and vulnerability. The Ponies' work is uniquely comforting and highly addictive. It is served with a rare passion and grace. It evokes nostalgia for the above mentioned while remaining firmly planted in its own special, almost timeless place. "After playing in rock bands for some time, Alexander McGregor decided at some point that he simply wanted to make some music that could even appeal to his grandmother. Joined by his sister Camille, the duo plays stripped-down folkish type music that sounds like it could have been created at any point in the past 40 years yet still feels fresh." --ALMOST COOL. "These powerfully quiet traditionalists perform folk songs with a pan-American touch. It's only a shame that music this delicate and warm doesn't garner more notice." -POPMATTERS
Darla-192
CD
$12.25

Pumice
Quo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy & distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk & noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting & tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of the Kilgours or Chris Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace.
SoftAbuse
CD
$11.50

Radiohead
Best Of [regular] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US 17 track retrospective, regular edition.
Capitol
CD
$18.75

Radiohead
Best Of [videos] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US All the band's critically acclaimed videos.
Capitol
DVD
$23.75

Radiohead
Best Of [expanded deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective, this 2 disc Limited Edition CD package includes 17 of the band's most popular tracks including "Creep," "Karma Police," "High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees," and "Optimistic," plus a bonus disc featuring 13 more standouts including tracks not featured on Radiohead's prior studio albums. The Limited Edition package also features an extended booklet and deluxe packaging.
Capitol
DCD
$25.00

Salas, Mikel
Bajo Las Estrellas (Beneath The Stars) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, SPAIN Acuarela releases the original soundtrack of "Bajo las estrellas" [Under the stars] Félix Viscarret's debut film (2008 Goya* for best Adapted Screenplay), starring Alberto San Juan (2008 Goya for best Actor) and nominated for best Soundtrack music by Mikel Salas with twilight western instrumentation. Surprising bonus track by Flamenco big star, Enrique Morente, who sings the standard classic "Stella by Starlight." *Goya is the equivalent of the Oscars for films in Spanish language. "Bajo las estrellas" starts, and we hear a ukulele, a xylophone; suddenly it bursts a fun rogue melody, with an ubiquitous banjo and a persistent rhythm, as if we were traveling in a ramshackle bus. We are entering the impossible city of Estella (in Navarra, Spain), more imaginary than real, a world fraught with losers who cling to any chance of leading a more 'normal' life. Mikel Salas' music is that of iron, scrap metal and abandoned caravans, rusting, with twilight western instrumentation and lo-fi sound, a succession of instrumental landscapes, almost borderline abstractions that travel along with Benito Lacunza (actor Alberto San Juan) in his journey towards happiness, to the possibility of a remote happiness. In previous conversations between the director and the musician, it was much-discussed Daniel Lanois, and, above all, his album "Shine". Félix Viscarret says that Mikel Salas likes to get into a project before even shooting. But the proper 'revelation' came when "Mikel faced the first editing of the film. That's when we started talking about road music for our peculiar road movie à la navarra, an industrial western, the redemption story of an embarrassment guy, Benito Lacunza, who's going to show us that behind his dirty appearance lies someone with a huge heart." This is Acuarela's first published soundtrack. But it's also almost like any other release this label has got us used to. Almost folk, dark but flooded by rare cracks of light, intimate, warm, sometimes funny and sometimes bleak. Mikel Salas has written and recorded (by himself) the sound of how is traveling on roads filled with dust, deep into the mists of the north, or bordering small towns. And to conclude the record, a surprise: the voice of Enrique Morente and his amazing, magical version of Victor Young's standard "Stella by Starlight, filling the sky with stars.
Acuarela-1080
CD
$13.50

Saturday Knights
Mingle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Three-piece hip-hop/trailer park pop-punk band debut their genre-busting full length. They present a dash os psych, Afro-funk, old school style & a seductive collaboration with the DAP-KINGS. Kim Thayil (SOUNDGARDEN) spazzes out on guitar on the mesmerizing rock anthem "I Go" while Nirvana producer JACK ENDINO plays drums on a pumped up new mix of underground radio hit "45."
LightInTheAttic
CD
$12.50

She & Him
Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Shit & Shine
Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibby's spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of England's Shit &
Shine. Combing a dense percussive chug & a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic headbang & the
distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers & 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality
Load
CD
$12.50

Shit & Shine
Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
DLP
$15.75

Sic Alps
United (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed.
Important-192
45
$5.50

Sirhan Sirhan
Blood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US West Coast (San Diego, hmm) heaviosity, think Melvins meets Black Flag.
Anodyne
CD
$13.00

Sleeping Years, The
We're Becoming Islands One by One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK The Sleeping Years is the new project from Dale Grundle, formerly of the Catchers. Now signed to innovative indie-label Rocket Girl, the debut album "We're becoming Islands One by One", is a gorgeous exploration of melody and melancholy. A gifted lyricist, Dale's exquisitely crafted songs tell of people trying to stay connected in a world seemingly designed to keep them apart. He is heavily influenced by the language and culture of his home in Ireland, providing a distinct character to this highly personal collection of songs. Born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland to an Irish father and a Scottish mother, Dale started his first band Catchers while at school. Their first single 'Cotton Dress' came out on Setanta Records and became single of the week in Melody Maker. Their debut album 'Mute' was recorded with Mike Hedges in France. Catchers went on to tour with Pulp, Edwyn Collins, The Divine Comedy, Dr. John and Oasis. Their second album 'Stooping to Fit' was recorded by Nick Drake's arranger Robert Kirby. Dale started his solo project The Sleeping Years with a trilogy of EPs in 2007, 'You and Me Against The World', 'Setting Fire to Sleepy Towns' and 'Clocks and Clones'. These were very well received and are very much living proof that independent singles do sell-out. They also garnered critical acclaim, featuring on BBC Radio 1's Introducing, the Guardian's writer's play list and on the cover mount of Rolling Stone Magazine. Songs have been heavily played on Gideon Coe's 6music show and on French radio, having been championed by France's answer to John Peel, Bernard Lenoir. 'We're becoming Islands One By One" is poised to become an instant, yet timeless classic with a refreshingly dynamic twist on acoustic song writing. Dale performs all vocals and guitars, not to mention bass, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano and e-bow parts and was joined by cellist Michelle So and Tom Page from Rothko on drums. The Guardian: 'his voice breaks exquisitely between hope and despair in songs that the acoustic guitar was invented for' Dazed and Confused: 'a one-man show that owes his lilting metaphysical lyricism to the likes of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and John Martyn. It's good to know that there are people like him out there.
RocketGirl-51
CD
$15.50

Small Cities
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Three friends from the Twin Cities playing well-crafted songs with nostalgic storylines & infectious refrains. The modest 3 piece outfit earned their wings in other Minneapolis bands like Wes Burdine & The Librarians & by swimming in at least three of Minnesota's ten thousand lakes.
CommonCloud
CD5
$6.00

Spiritualized
Songs in A&E [regular CD version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Sixth studio album is an 18 track opus partially inspired by Jason's hospitalization.
Spaceman/Universal
CD
$12.25

Steinski
What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Steinski has produced a variety of tracks & this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa's "Jazz" with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release will also includes the critically acclaimed "Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix," an hour-long mashup that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by Salon as, "the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced" and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with The Lessons) to Girl Talk's Night Ripper.
IllegalArt
DCD
$16.75

Storm of Light
And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Feat. Josh Graham, former member of RED SPAROWES & BATTLE OF MICE. The esteemed guitarist/vocalist is joined on this recording by bassist/vocalist Domenic Seita (ex-TOMBS, ex-Asea) & drummer Pete Angevine of Satanized. Since then, rhythmic pugilist extraordinaire Vinny Signorelli (UNSANE, ex-SWANS) signed on as 2nd drummer. This is brutally hard-hitting.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

Storm of Light
And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Neurot
DLP
$18.75

Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Recorded in Berlin's legendary Hansa studios over a 3 week period w/ producer Nick Launay. This captures the energy & enthusiasm of a band firing on all cylinders. To quote one review, "the beefy, stomporific riffs are back on board". Feat. a handful of rocking tracks debuted last summer when they were hand-picked as main support for the Arctic Monkeys at their Old Trafford shows.
Astralwerks
CD
$13.00

Sweet Cobra
Forever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US A gritty, disgruntled ball of stoner rock frustration from a group of hardcore guys w/ heavy hearts embracing their late 70's groove rock influences to the fullest. W/a truly unique approach to the genre, these tormented tracks are menacing, introspective & engagine simultaneously. The mix of crusty hardcore, d-beat & riff heavy rock draw comparisons to His Hero is Gone, Helmet, & Mastodon. RIYL: Sword, High on Fire, Crowbar.
MetalBlade/Blackmarket
CD
$13.00

Syclops
I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Little is known about the secretive trio. Despite the mystery, this is an engaging record that reveals the full shamanic magic of the trio; a mixture of dark intensity & subtle, crafted musicianship. Soaking in the band's brooding undercurrent, the listener will have to imagine where they find their inspiration; heavy metal riffs over acid house? Playing folkloric instruments w/ old school analog synthesizers in a Finnish laboratory?
DFA
CD
$16.00

Syclops
I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DFA
DLP
$17.25

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave {PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008)
PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

Tiersen, Yann
Tabarly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, FRANCE LP + FREE CD. For the 10th anniversary of Eric Tabarly's death, a famous skipper from Brittany (Northwest of France), the director Pierre Marcel and Galatée Film release a biography of this unsurpassed sailor on June, 11. Galatée Film did not hesitate at all to suggest another exceptional Breton (from Brittany), i.e. Yann Tiersen to compose the soundtrack of this outstanding film. As usual, Yann Tiersen did not just make a music that illustrates the film, but he made a full-fledged, independent, personal and powerful music. Yann made an instrumental music that gives pride of place to the piano and to the intimate melodies that will delight his biggest fans. This record is a kind of bridge in the artist's evolution, from his first loves to his new folk trend. Under this peaceful, mastered and warm movie soundtrack, lays actually a new album. After Eric Zonca's "la vie rêvée des anges", "Amélie from Montmartre" and "Goodbye Lenin", Yann Tiersen composed his fourth soundtrack and as the previous films, it is a safe bet that it will be a success! The record has been initially made for vinyl and the mastering has been made from this vinyl. The sound is therefore warm and powerful.
Lcid'Ailleurs-048
LP
$20.25

Torche
Meanderthal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Copious hooks abound & psychedelic swarms of drone weave throughout riff-wizardry on vinyl.
RoboticEmpire
LP
$18.75

Tractor Kings
Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2008)
PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders.
Spur-CD-006
CD
$9.00

U.S. Christmas
Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Neurot
LP
$14.25

U.S. Christmas
Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US The music cannot be ignored. It hurts people, physically & mentally. It stirs intense feelings of pain, frustration, loss, fear, & occasionally euphoria. Snare drums rattle, amps hum & pop, dogs bark in the background. But that's the way it always sounds, & the band doesn't see any point in changing a method that works. Many a drunken bystander has been drawn to the theremin's magic antennae.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

U2
War [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

U2
Boy [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

U2
October [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

Ueno
Sui-Gin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Ueno, along with his partner Saya, is one of the core members of Tenniscoats, who've released a number of fantastic discs of straight up melodic to the core sing-songing joy. 2007 saw the release of Tenniscoat's 'Totemo Aimasho' for ROOM40 and 'Tan Tan Therapy' for Häpna/Headz. In addition to his contributions to the Tenniscoats mothership, Ueno has released a string of solo releases, most of which explore his engaging approach to the guitar. 'Two Things Always Happen Simultaneously' released in 2003 on Majikick as a cdr and then re-issued two years later as a 'proper' Cd on Commune-Disc lays the foundations. Whilst it is more explicitly a guitar record than what goes down on Sui-Gin, the Fahey-esque finger-picking that would otherwise plant him firmly within the Takoma school (Ueno's cat is not called 'Fahey' without reason) is willfully offset by Ueno's technique of recording multiple overdubs without recourse to the original. There might be a little of that on 'Sui-Gin' (Japanese for mercury), too. Either way, there is an ongoing slippage between intention and accident in the complex mesh of notes, and Ueno sends himself further away from any superficial 12-string Tacoma purism by plugging his guitar into a moog ring-mod and completing erasing its original sound. What you hear on 'sui-gin' is 9 tracks of alien beauty that sit somewhere between Derek Bailey and Mouse on Mars' 'Instrumentals' lp. Takashi Ueno plays 12 string acoustic guitar & Moog ring modulator. "For an instrument that when presented solo often brings to mind a clutter of reference points, Ueno Takashi's playing is stubbornly his own and (((hasunosu))) suggests we are hearing but the first offerings of an increasingly vital proponent of contemporary Japanese guitar composition." Signal To Noise.
Room40-428
CD
$15.00

Various
Gigantic: A Tribute To Kim Deal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US A tribute to one of the most influential and certainly one of the coolest rock chicks of all time. This tribute is a pure labor of love for the label and features indie-rockers from all over the globe covering Kim's impressive body of work. Songs Kim's written for The Breeders and The Amps are covered with utter reverence here. Liner notes by Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders). Mastered by Sean Glonek (Frank Black, OK Go, Kristin Hersh, Dresden Dolls, Mogwai). Produced by Joseph Spadaro (Dig For Fire - a tribute to Pixies, Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity). Original album art by David Yurchuk. Limited edition pressing. Tracklist: 01. The She / WITCH HATS 02. Bragging Party / THE GERMAN ART STUDENTS 03. Cannonball / THE WHEELERS 04. Tipp City / TARA KING TH 05. Do You Love Me Now / MELISSA GIBBS 06. Fortunately Gone / JULIE PEEL 07. Off You / FRANCINE 08. Doe / RIZZO 09. I Just Want To Get Along / DESCARTES A KANT 10. Invisible Man / THE NUEVOS 11. Safari / THE DOUGLAS FIR 12. When I Was A Painter / LE TETSUO 13. Divine Hammer / THE MODIFIERS.
AmericanLaundromat-013
CD
$12.25

Various
Slendid Isolation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN A collection of exclusive tracks from the Radio Dept., Testbild!, Most Valuable Players, Differnet, Action Biker, Viktor Sjöberg, VED, Peter Jackson, Peter Nilsson, Redmalm, Enheten för musik och melodi, Malkovic, Erik de Vahl, Band in a Box, Flow Flux Clan, Robotboy, and Jian. Between January and December 2007 Friendly Noise released 18 mp3 singles offered as free downloads from www.friendlynoise.se. From the start it was intended to be a one-year-long project. The idea was simple: contributions chosen by us from our extended family of old friends and new discoveries, usually two songs, together with an introduction by the artists themselves and a picture to illustrate and enhance, once or twice a month. This was meant as a complement to our CD releases, and a chance to easily distribute great songs, in cases where the album context isn't necessary. These two ways of distribution aren't contradictory, they're related, as we stated on our website. Soon we realized the series had become a success, both when it came to the quality of the output and the amount of interest generated. So "Splendid Isolation" - our third compilation after "Friendly People Making Noise" (2003) and "Are You Scared To Get Happy?" (2006) - is our way of documenting the series through a selection of the songs and thus giving them a more official kind of release. The record is also a celebration of five years of Friendly Noise as a label. The order of the songs on the record isn't chronological, it's instead our attempt to make the record sound as good as possible as a whole. TRACKLIST: 1. Bognor Regis (Peter Jackson) 2. (Jack) Lullaby (Viktor Sjöberg) 3. Rondo (Most Valuable Players) 4. Stratoscope (VED) 5. Get Nowhere (Peter Nilsson) 6. Hultviksvägen 7 (Peter Jackson) 7. The Bravest Person I Know (Redmalm) 8. Shut Out (Flow Flux Clan) 9. September (Robotboy) 10. Hashish in Nizza (Peter Jackson) 11. Sol genom lövverket (Enheten för musik och melodi) 12. En gång i Stockholm (Testbild!) 13. Dedicated to Therese Holm (Testbild!) 14. 1959y (Malkovic) 15. Almost Close (Peter Jackson) 16. Open Night (Most Valuable Players) 17. Bachelor Kisses (The Radio Dept.) 18. Vinden susar i advent (Action Biker) 19. Postojna (Peter
Jackson) 20. Whatever We Want (Erik de Vahl) 21. Leaving Smears (Band in Box) 22. Just A Little Lovin' (Jian) 23. Curriculum Circular (Differnet)
FriendlyNoise-68
CD
$13.50

We Are Soldiers We Have Guns
Get Up, Get Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST)
PS, UK WASWHG is Gothenburg, Sweden resident Malin Dahlberg (also in Douglas Heart and Laurel Music), with help from an assortment of musical friends. Regarded as one of Sweden's finest indie-pop vocalists, this is a most potent display of Malin's vocal beauty and songwriting talents. More powerful, more melodic and more immediate than before - mix Cat Power with Jason Molina, Low with Architecture in Helsinki and add the dark pop integrity of fellow Swede Stina Nordenstam. Most surely; music to die for.
StereoTestKit
CD
$12.25

Weezer
S-T (The Red Album) [expanded deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS,US Limited Deluxe Edition of their 2008 album features four bonus tracks over the standard version and comes housed in a special digipak, with a deluxe booklet containing lyrics, photos, liner notes and band commentary on the songs. Weezer, one of the biggest and most influential bands of the last decade will, for the third time in its six-album history, release a self-titled album already being referred to by people as The Red Album. Comprised of sessions produced by Rick Rubin, Jacknife Lee and the band itself, the album is adventurous and undeniably Weezer. The first single, the quirky and catchy 'Pork and Beans', was recorded under the watch of the Irishman Lee and already a Modern Rock smash hit.
Geffen
CD
$20.00

Weezer
S-T (The Red Album) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD)
PS, US New album.
Geffen
CD
$16.75

Whisper in the Noise
Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music.
Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices.
ExileOnMainstream-030
CD
$13.50

Winning
Could We Believe In Magic? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, CANADA Vancouver trio, Winnings sophomore full length is as dour and uncomfortable as it is playful. Its a paradigm sprouted from the seed of improvisation, but nurtured from a dark and claustrophobic sentiment. Structurally, Could We Believe In Magic? has it's hands in a variety of extremes. It runs the gamut, from an apparent abandonment of traditional tempo and structure, to, at least comparatively, more conventional composition. Last year's, This Is An For Cigarettes, Winning's debut album, was a tangled and puzzling foray into rocks most experimental corners, abandoning rhythm, and structure almost completely; Only Magazine called it ...a clumsy acrobatic act beneath the Big Top of punk rock. And Magic is, no doubt, a logical continuation of such acrobatics; the most notable difference being much larger occurrences of coherency. Melody and structure are gestured at; sometimes completed, and sometimes spun quickly out of control. One may assume that these moments of melody (are we bold enough to call them 'choruses?'), would smooth out Winning's cumbersome disposition. But it is arguable that the exact opposite is true. Much like how one warm day will make the cold ones feel colder; these moments create a reference point for normalcy. The pop insinuations on Magic are equally as baffling as the free structured ones.
Ache-037
CD
$13.25

Wolf Parade
At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Their second album for Sub Pop might just be this generation's "Marquee Moon" or an indie rock "Chinese Democracy" released thirty years early. Better though, to think of it as the sound of a band edging forward into a wispy darkness, one hand reaching out, the other firmly clutching the past.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Wolf Parade
At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Wooden Shjips
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Wooden Shjips
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Their earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by & are now hopelessly out of print. Who are we to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10'', the Dance, California 7'', & the
SOL 7''
HolyMountain
CD
$16.00

WRNLRD
Oneiromantical War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH)
PS, US Working with guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, synths & samples; Wrnlrd throws metal, industrial, noise, dark ambient & folk musics into a blackened & bubbling cauldron. Wrnlrd records spontaneous, wordless vocalizations & details the lyrics later, improvises massed guitar tones, buries samples deep into the mix & brings the disruptive & unpredictable elements of improvisation & chance into recording. ONE TIME PRESSING OF 500 on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with metallic ink artwork. Comes with digital download code.
FlingcoSoundSystem-01
LP
$21.75

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

American Music Club “The Golden Age” CD $14.00

Baja “Wolfhour” CD $12.25

Beach House “Devotion” CD $14.25

Black Angels “Better Off Alone” CD5 $3.50

Black Angels “Better Off Alone” 45 $6.50

Black Mountain “In The Future” DLP $12.25

Blood Music “Sing A Song Fighter!” CD $17.00

Braid “The Age Of Octeen” CD $10.00

Butterfly Effect “IMAGO” CD $13.50

Carbonara, Eric “Exodus Bulldornadius” CD $13.75

Celletti, Alessandra “Way Out” CD $17.00

Club 8 “The Friend I Once Had + 6” CD $17.50

Club 8 “Club 8 + 2” CD $13.50

Club 8 “Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5” CD $17.50

Club 8 “Strangely Beautiful + 5” CD $17.50

Corndolly “S/T” CD $7.50

DeVotchKa “Supermelodrama” CD $15.00

Dick Justice “Lasso Your Heart EP” 45 $0.50

Dolly Rocker Movement, The “Purple Journey Into the Mod Machine” CD $12.25

Dolly Rocker Movement, The “Electric Sunshine” CD $12.25

Doubtful Guest “Acid Sauna” CD $16.00

Final Fantasy “He Poos Clouds” LP $12.25

Goldfrapp “Seventh Tree” CD $16.00

Guapo “Elixirs” CD $14.25

Harris, Noah “The Sea & Age EP” CD5 $7.00

Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” LP $13.00

Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” CD $12.00

Holland, Michael “Simple Truths and Pleasures” CD $15.00

Human Bell “S-T” CD $14.00

Isis “Holy Tears” CD5 $6.25

Japancakes “Down The Elements” CD $9.00

Japancakes “The Sleepy Strange” CD $12.25

Joy Unlimited “Overground [re-issue]” CD $15.75

Laakso “Västerbron & Vampires EP” CD5 $8.25

Laakso “Mother, Am I Good Looking?” CD $14.25

Lightspeed Champion “Falling Off The Lavender Bridge” CD $13.00

Lonely Trailer “S/T: The Best Of Lonely Trailer” DCD $10.00

Lovecup “Greefus Groinks and Sheet” CD $10.00

McCarthy, Dawn & Bonny Billy “Wai Notes” CD $13.25

McGill, Cameron & What Army “Hold On Beauty” CD $10.00

Mojack “Under the Willow Tree” CD $14.00

Monkeywrench “Gabriel's Horn” CD $16.00

Morricone, Ennio “L'Alibi OST” CD $16.25

Mother (aka Menthol) “Gold Record LP” CD $7.50

Mould, Bob “District Line” CD $15.50

Mould, Bob “District Line” LP $15.50

Mt. St. Helens “Of Others” CD $8.50

Murder In The Cathedral “Afraid Of...” CD $21.00

Nascimbene, Mario “L'Eneide OST” CD $16.25

New Colony Six, The “Sides” CD $15.50

Paint It Black “New Lexicon” CD $13.25

Psycho & the Birds “We've Moved” CD $14.25

Racer, Kris “Has A Banner Year” CD5 $5.00

Radiohead “In Rainbows” LP $17.50

Redwing “Self-Titled [re-issue]” CD $15.75

Saviours “Into Abaddon” CD $13.00

Sleep Out “I Was Your Shroud” CD $8.50

Spiritualized “Lazer Guided Melodies” CD $12.25

Spiritualized “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” CD $12.25

Spiritualized “Amazing Grace” CD $12.25

Stoltz, Kelly “Circular Sounds” CD $13.00

Suishou No Fune “Prayer for Chibi” DCD $17.25

Sunny Day Sets Fire “Strange: Remix” CD $5.00

Takeovers “Little Green Onion Man” CD5 $7.25

This Will Destroy You “S-T” CD $13.50

Tindersticks “Greatest Hits” CD $15.25

Various “Trey Told 'Em” CD5 $8.50

Various “Daisies OST” CD $20.50

Various “Plum [10 x 7" boxset]” 45-BOX $40.00

Various “Pillows & Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 [3CD/1DVD]” CD/DVD $38.00

Veloso, Caetano “Irene” LP $22.50

VVEREVVOLF GREHV “Zombie Aesthetics” CD $13.25

We're All Gonna Die “Kiss the Ground, Curse the Sky” CD $11.00

White, Jim “S-T” CD $11.75

Wolfgang Dauner Quintet “The Oimels” CD $21.00

Woods “How To Survive In The Woods” CD $13.25

Yellow Moon Band, The “Maybach EP” 45 $7.75

Parasol New Arrivals • May 20, 2008
Howdy all, First off, there seems to be a run on the now rare Nines 7” (Paul’s first band) as of late and I’m wondering, “what’s the dell?” Anyway, we’d love to know if there has been recent mention of this online somewhere. On an almost related note, I (Paul) just saw my old Velvet Crush pal, Jeffrey Underhill, yesterday as he passed through the Chicago area on his way back to Providence. A deep bond is formed when you spend thousands of hours in a van with someone. He’s a real diamond geezer. So, what about this weeks interesting new arrivals, you may be wondering. Hows about Mason Jennings, Mudhoney, Joan Of Arc, Mates Of States, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Jay Reatard to whet your appetite. Well, that’s all from us this week. Real quick (Roy here) we are, well, I’m ecstatic about being able to offer Levon’s “Dirt Farmer” album on the world’s favorite new format (vinyl). So keep your peepers peeled as you work your way down the list. All the birds are a-singin’ all around me, Paul & Roy ps, Yo Merritt! When’s the race happening, playboy?
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	Mark Kozelek "Nights of Passed Over" (Caldo Verde) BOOK+CD ON SALE THIS WEEK: $45.00 Originally released in Portugal (2002), now available for the first time in this comprehensive U.S. edition, this updated, hardback, 256-page, all-English edition includes Kozelek’s lyrics from the Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/solo albums and compilations, concert set lists and handwritten lyrics, plus a new preface by Mark. This new edition, released on Kozelek’s Caldo Verde imprint, is limited to 2500 copies and has proved difficult to obtain. Packaged with an exclusive 12-song bonus CD entitled the Nights LP with live and rare recordings from the last decade or so, nine songs exclusive and previously unreleased! [tracklist, more detail]
Thrillsville - Parasol staff's weekly picks
Angie picks: Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (PRE-ORDER) I love this band...a blend of all good things poetic and electric... Jim picks: Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones CD It's got hoodoo and voodoo, both. Their best album of this millennium. Roy picks: No Age - Nouns CD Frantic sonic exploration that throws an audio high-five towards Siltbreeze patrons.
New Releases 808 State Quadrastate PS, US Reissue of this 1989 release incl. bonus tracks! Their rare debut single from '88, "Let Yourself Go/Deepville" is incl. here together w/ the inclusion of some other previously-unreleased alternate versions & outtakes. It's the first time ever that these tracks have been released on CD & the entire project has been lovingly remastered, to the customary Rephlex high standards. This still has a fresh sound; incredibly bouncy bass lines, pioneering use of breakbeats & all the energy & inspiration of analog-digital-hybrid jams. RECOMMENDED!! Rephlex CD $18.00 Aethenor Betimes Black Cloudmasses PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! VHF LP $16.00 Akiyama, Tetuzi The Ancient Battle to Control Death PS, US TETUZI AKIYAMA'S contribution to the WESTERN VINYL portrait series is a departure in a career of departures. In addition to Akiyama's trademark improvised, blues-infused, guitar work, The Ancient Balance to Control Death also features intense multi-layered vocals. Much like his guitar work, the vocals flow with a sharp primal urgency. The end result is a collection of unique and tense Japanese blues that could only have come from one of Japan's most distinct and creative improvisers. WesternVinyl-49 CD $9.00 Armour, Douglas The Light Of The Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night PS, US And now for something different... Fulfilling the promise of his impeccable entry in our 7-inch series, "The Social Club", THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is proud to announce "The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night" -- the debut LP from Los Angeles located DOUGLAS ARMOUR. This album finds the artist expertly blending tons of our favorite poptones from days past to create a hyper-literate pastiche that's equal parts nostalgia and forward thinking. Echoing its title, the LP has a structure that plays off binary oppositions to create one of the most varied pop albums we've heard in a long time. TheSocialRegistry-051 CD $11.50 Ascend Ample Fire Within PS, US A new collaborative musical project between Gentry Densley (ICEBURN, EAGLE TWIN) & Greg Anderson (SUNN0))),GOATSNAKE, Engine Kid). Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 19 yrs. This re-visits some of the tones & moods of their past works as well as traveling into uncharted territory all done w/ the utmost focus on heaviness & power. Of particular note is the vocal performance by Gentry Densley SouthernLord CD $14.00 Ateleia/Benjamin Curtis Baghdad Batterie PS, US On "Baghdad Batterie", ATELEIA and BENJAMIN CURTIS fuse splendidly, as perfectly synchronized audio alchemists, and when they dip their axes in a vat of liquid electronica, the transmutation is complete: thick, glistening beats throb and undulate, without a tell-tale twang in sight. "Baghdad Batterie" is a fabulous piece of laptop psychedelia, and certain to delight fans of Curtis and Elliott's previous collaboration, the exhilarating SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS EP, "Face to Face" on HIGH PLACES. The packaging of this vinyl-only release is similarly spectacular. It's a one-sided, 12-inch LP, PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL; the REVERSE IS LASER ETCHED with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. It's a LIMITED-EDITION PRESSING,, so get it while you can - disks from the label's original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorville's must coveted treasures. TableoftheElements-093 LP $14.25 Beatles 4pc Kubrick Box Set Can't Buy Me Love (Action Figures) PS, JAPAN Taken from the classic animated look of the Fab Four (as seen on the classic 1965 Saturday morning cartoon series on ABC), this four-piece Kubrick boxed set features Paul, George, Ringo, and John. Standing 3 inches tall, you can now hold The Beatles in the palm of your hand eight days a week! Kubrick TOY $40.00 Believer May 2008 PS, US Two interviews with David Cross, the 2007 Believer book awards, features on fear. Some new poems and lots of book reviews. ZINE $8.00 Bellrays Hard, Sweet & Sticky PS, US Combines the hard-driving raunch of their early garage-punk recordings w/ the emotive dynamism of their more recent forays into Curtis Mayfield meets-Gladys Knight style soul. Anodyne CD $12.50 Big Takeover, The #62 (R.E.M. Cover) PS, US Interviews R.E.M. (cover) * Sex Pistols* Johnny Rotten * New Pornographers, Pt. 2 * Band of Horses/Grand Archives * Nada Surf * Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (Pavement) * Ray Davies (Kinks) * The Pointed Sticks, Pt. 2 * 1977 L.A. punks The Flyboys * Paul Haig of Josef K * Rock Writer V. Vale (Search & Destroy, RE/Search) * Top 50 Reggae LPs, Pt. 1! * British Sea Power * My Morning Jacket * Built to Spill * Radar Bros. * Kelley Stoltz * Nardwuar the Human Serviette/Evaporators * The Trolleyvox * Helvetia * The Carter Administration * Awesome Color Editorials: Rabid: Hey, Im a Dad!Musings * Ackerman: More Changes For Record Labels * Sommer: On Hawkwind! Live Reviews: Agent Orange * Avengers * Big Star * Cat Power * Editors * Stevie Jackson * Maximo Park * Mission of Burma * Naked Raygun * New Model Army * Emma Pollock & American Music Club * Rogue Wave * Sleepover Disaster * Spiritualized * T.S.O.L. * Mary Weiss * Astrid Williamson * X * Neil Young * Zombies (original lineup reunion) * Plugz/Eyes/Controllers/Skulls/Gears/Crowd/Deadbeats/Dogs etc. Hundreds of CD Reviews: Antietam * Black Watch * British Sea Power * Dead Boys * Death Cab For Cutie * D.O.A.* Nick Drake * Echo & the Bunnymen * For Against * Flying Burrito Bros. * Robert Forster * Idaho * Julie Ocean * Kevin Kane * Nyles Lannon * Claudius Linton/Joe Higgs * Long Blondes * Eric Matthews * Colin Meloy * Bob Mould * Willie Nelson * New Model Army * New York Dolls * 999 * Pagans * Posies tribute * Ramones * Raspberries * Red Button * Jimmy Reed * Replacements * Edward Rogers * Ruts/Henry Rollins * Secret Shine * Shack * Simon & Garfunkel * Sloan * Smiths * Chris Walla * Wedding Present and more! BigTakeover-62 ZINE $4.25 Birushanah Akai Yami PS, US Summoning forth their mode of pounding tribal psychedelic hardcore, this mixes traditional Japanese music stylings w/ sludgy, deliberate riffage, grating & downright unruly vocals all pushed forth by heavy as hell drumming. Epic, irate, & refreshingly original. RIYL: Neurosis, Corrupted, Envy. LevelPlane CD $13.25 Black Angels, The Directions to See a Ghost PS, US Vinyl version. Price to be confirmed. LightInTheAttic 3LP $27.25 Blackstrap Steal My Horses and Run PS, US Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Blackstrap play blissful rock & roll drenched in fuzzed out guitars. Steal My Horses and Run conjures up hazy atmospheres that are equal parts Spiritualized, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain. TeePee CD $15.00 Blank Dogs In A Web & They Said b/w Stuck PS, US Daggerman 45 $4.75 Bonnie Prince Billy Lie Down in the Light PS, US The light that shines from this revelation is one we'll gladly lie down in & serve evermore... Bright with guitars and harmonies, Lie Down in the Light is a fresh new album from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. His vocals are at their most expressive, a judiciously dynamic and tuneful performance. Behind and all around is a subtle backdrop of percussive slaps and shakes, touches of keys and steel, loving harmony-vocal arrangements and other sweet surprises that will send fans back to their auto-erotic dungeons, fresh toys in hand. Lie Down in the Light is the ever-searching soul of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. DragCity CD $12.50 Bonnie Prince Billy Lie Down in the Light PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $12.50 Boy Omega The Grey Rainbow PS, UK 7-song 2006 mini-album released by Stereo Test Kit. StereoTestKit CD $11.00 Bredsky, Stove Black Ribbon Award PS, US Stove Bredsky (a.k.a. STOVETOP BREDSKY, STEEV BRAWDSKI, STEVE BRODSKY) cranks out 18 tracks of melancholy melodiousness recorded at Club Awesome in Somerville, MA. The songs w/in were all originally written back in the '90s, when Brodsky was piloting the almighty, ever-morphing CAVE IN. HydraHead CD $12.50 Bust #51 PS, US Special 15th Anniversary Issue!! AMY SEDARIS takes the cake on the cover. Celebrate 15 years of Bust with Sedaris, Diablo Cody, a look back at 15 years of the good, the bad, and the girly. Features on needlework, lady magicians, fierce female MCs, and much more! ZINE $4.75 Castanets Tendrils PS, US This video document, created by MIA FERM, serves as a snapshot of a particular moment in time surrounding RAPOSA and CASTANETS. It is a meditative reflection on the mesmerizing motion of water, the beauty of natural light, and the spontaneity of friends. Responding to the thickness of the songs on "In The Vines", here the songs are stripped bare and presented by new voices that further reveal the lyrical beauty of Raposa's songwriting. It is equal parts home movie (ala Jonas Mekas), Downtown 81, Pull My Daisy, and audio-visual collage. AsthmaticKitty-35 DVD $12.25 Chenaux, Eric Sloppy Ground PS, US Second full length is Eric's strongest, most accessible and dynamic work in years. A collection of beautifully fried love songs, highly original in compositional approach and instrumental texture, utterly complelling in lyrical content and delivery. Constellation CD $15.25 Chenaux, Eric Sloppy Ground PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Constellation LP $15.25 Christian Family Underground, The For The Depth Of Your Union PS, US Summer of '06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga 'rock,' and an odd, ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: 'I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like... humankind's natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents, no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest, bluest sea...' Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and screened inserts by Stellar, NL." Last copies. Woodsist LP $13.00 Coalesce 012:2 PS, US COALESCE destroyed the mold of formulaic metallic-hardcore in the mid '90s. On their landmark record (& swan-song at the time), 1998's 0:12: Revolution in Just Listening, the band channeled the turbulence of their break-up into their most urgent, honest, & desperate songs to date. Fast-forward to 2008; on the eve of the second coming of COALESCE 0:12 has been repackaged & remastered for the next generation of heavy music connoisseurs. In the canon of heavy music, certainly in the world of modern hardcore, there are few records as crucial as 0:12 Relapse CD $13.25 Collections Of Colonies Of Bees Six Guitars PS, US COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES generated quite the (forgive us) buzz, following the January release of their CD "Birds", and deservedly so. Their sound is expansive, vast, and billowing; full of ringing guitars, soaring in the best traditions of the Chatham/Branca standoff; meanwhile, beneath the clouds sprawl dewy meadows of gently rolling electronica. "Six Guitars" is just what its title states, yet so much more. Wildly versatile drummer Jon Mueller follows the rules by hammering on an electric guitar with mallets, enhancing the Steve Reichian vibe (compare this with Mueller's face-melting solo onslaught Metals, also released in January). The band sparkles accordingly, lifting to a dazzling climax. It's epic minimalism in exquisite registration, and the perfect selection to introduce the TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS GUITAR SERIES (fans will be happy to hear that Mueller is on deck with a solo contribution to the series as well). Beyond the music, there's the similarly spectacular packaging. It's a one-sided, 12-inch LP, PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL; the REVERSE IS LASER ETCHED with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. It's a LIMITED-EDITION PRESSING, so get it while you can - disks from the label's original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorville's must coveted treasures. TableoftheElements-092 LP $14.25 Dear Euphoria S-T PS, UK Dear Euphoria is the musical alias of Elina Johansson. Born in Dalarna, Sweden, she wrote her first proper song on her father's piano at the age of eight. ions. Musical Comparisons to; Cat Power, Kate Bush and Regina Spektor are regularly and perhaps easily made. The music of Dear Euphoria is the dark and the light, deep depths and high heights. Sometimes raw, entirely honest, absolutely real. This is Dear Euphoria. BBC: "Dear Euphoria's self-released debut album caused more shivers than winter in her native Stockholm when it was released last year ... showcasing the Swedish Kate Bush in all her quiet majesty." StereoTestKit CD $12.25 Delay, Vladislav Anima PS, US Originally released in 2001, incl. a previously-unreleased alternate version. This is an opus of over 60 mins., a continuous mix that reveals itself beyond audio design. He succeeds in developing his new, atypical methods of production: rather than familiar electronic traits of looping sounds, this continually develops in an organic flow, thus giving the interpretation that perhaps the music is less a digital excursion & more an instrumental development Huume CD $18.00 Demian S-T PS, UK This lost hard-psych classic is in fact the second album by Texan psych legends Bubble Puppy, who'd changed their name for legal reasons. Recorded late at night at the celebrated Record Plant in Los Angeles, it's a stupendous blend of tough rock riffs, pop hooks, glorious melodies and biting psychedelic guitar, but was sorely under-promoted on its original release in 1971, causing the band to splinter the following year. Fallout CD $16.25 Desolation Wilderness Until Forever PS, US DESOLATION WILDERNESS is the primary musical project of Nicolaas Zwart. "Until Forever" was written, played, and recorded by Nic in Summer of 2007, at DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO in Olympia, Washington; during the late night sessions for his self- released full-length album "Hey Someone". Nic played almost all the instruments including the vibraphone, clarinet, glockenspiel, guitar, computer, and synthesizer. On "4/4 Love Song" he enlisted his friends Andrew Dorsett and Adam Oelsner to play Hammond Organ and Accordion, respectively. "Goodbye Summer Girl" is the end of a story. Saying a sudden goodbye to someone new to you who you were in love with, and seeing her disappear out of the rear view mirror of your car as you drive away; getting lost in the shimmering heat of a California summer day. "Gloria" and "4/4 Love Song" have no words, but they capture a mood you can get when watching fireworks over a lake during twilight on the Fourth of July: everything you see and do is imbued with the magic of fate and destiny. Krecords-119 45 $3.75 DJ Spooky Sound Unbound: Excerpts & Allegories from the Sub Rosa Audio Archives (CD/DVD) PS, US He once again remixes the complete Sub Rosa catalog. More groovy & DJ-oriented, incl. some unpublished audio, important artists & a big Wave Spectrum poster, this is the ultimate continuous mix-up. Links artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antonin Artaud & Allen Ginsberg w/ stellar music from John Cage, To Rococo Rot, Iannis Xenakis, Philip Glass, Carsten Nicolai & more. SubRosa CD $16.25 Druids of Stonehenge, The S-T PS, US "The unearthly, savage, Rolling Stones/Pretty Things-inspired treatment of R&B classics as interpreted by The Druids of Stonehenge on Sundazed 10" vinyl is a phenomenon that quite simply has to be heard to be believed. When frontman David Budge cuts loose on such familiar '60s staples as 'Who Do You Love,' 'I Put A Spell On You,' 'Pretty Thing' and 'Bald Headed Woman,' it's almost as though he's being strangled by Bo Diddley's 'cobra snake necktie' with eyes popping, cartoon-like, out of his skull. The New York-based Druids cut one album after they'd moved to Los Angeles, but these six early sides, tracked at famed Nola's Penthouse studios in Manhattan, are truly the stuff of garage R&B legend!" Sundazed 10 $11.25 El Madmo S-T PS, US Born of social ineptitude & an ageless belief in trick-or-treatery, they offer escape, justice, karmic postulation, & that feeling you get when you know something that no one else does. Starting out as a garage band trapped in the basements of various hockey arenas, theirs is a powerfully raw sound that could only be inspired by the smell of Zamboni fuel & sweaty skates. Feat. NORAH JONES as punk rock. TeamLove CD $12.50 Explorers Club, The Freedom Wind PS, US Great indie rock bands have long made a habit of recasting the music of our parents' youth. Turn on Dr. Dog, Olivia Tremor Control, or the Black Angels for just a few examples of bands who make glorious new music in classic molds. Now take the idea a step further. Take the homage just far enough that you can imagine yourself experiencing, say, THE BEACH BOYS in their prime, but with fresh songs not tempered by a generation of Sweatin' to the Oldies. This is elation without irony. This is THE EXPLORERS CLUB'S debut album, "Freedom Wind." The Beach Boys are the obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you'll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney, the Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, the Explorers Club has recorded the sweetest pop record you are likely to hear this year. The Explorers Club are doing for the summer beach song what Amy Winehouse has done for R&B or Sharon Jones for funk and soul, what Antibalas have done for Afro-beat. They're reclaiming the classics as their own, injecting them with life, and making music that that transcends any era. This is how pop music is supposed to sound. Prepare yourself. "Freedom Wind" is the soundtrack to the summer of 2008. DeadOceans-007 CD $11.50 Explorers Club, The Freedom Wind PS, US Great indie rock bands have long made a habit of recasting the music of our parents' youth. Turn on Dr. Dog, Olivia Tremor Control, or the Black Angels for just a few examples of bands who make glorious new music in classic molds. Now take the idea a step further. Take the homage just far enough that you can imagine yourself experiencing, say, THE BEACH BOYS in their prime, but with fresh songs not tempered by a generation of Sweatin' to the Oldies. This is elation without irony. This is THE EXPLORERS CLUB'S debut album, "Freedom Wind." The Beach Boys are the obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you'll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney, the Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, the Explorers Club has recorded the sweetest pop record you are likely to hear this year. The Explorers Club are doing for the summer beach song what Amy Winehouse has done for R&B or Sharon Jones for funk and soul, what Antibalas have done for Afro-beat. They're reclaiming the classics as their own, injecting them with life, and making music that that transcends any era. This is how pop music is supposed to sound. Prepare yourself. "Freedom Wind" is the soundtrack to the summer of 2008. DeadOceans-007 LP $11.50 Family Underground Black Hole PS, US 2007 release. "Family Underground drenched the East Coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didn't get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it, I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the band's communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah, was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B -- the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip!" Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets. WeirdForest LP $20.50 Fisk, Steve & Ben Gibbard Kurt Cobain About A Son PS, US Hand numbered double-LP of the hauntingly beautiful score to the powerful motion picture "Kurt Cobain About A Son". This score follows Barsuk's 2007 release of the acclaimed film soundtrack. Packaged in an embossed jacket with full-color sleeves, with a code for a free MP3 download of the album. Composed by noted Northwest musician and producer Fisk (produced Nirvana's "Blew" EP) and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Gibbard, the score has been remixed for stand-alone listening by Fisk, digitally re-mastered by Steve Turnidge, and mastered for vinyl by Bob Weston. Note: neither the soundtrack CD nor the score LP contains the music of Cobain or Nirvana. Barsuk LP $23.00 Four Tet Ringer EP PS, US Domino 12 $13.00 Free Kitten Inherit PS, US This reacquaints us w/all caps worthy rockergirls KIM GORDON (SONIC YOUTH), JULIE CAFRITZ (PUSSY GALORE) & YOSHIMI (BOREDOMS). On the disc, they're collapsed into the present. And it is our present that is most effected by songs like "Erected Girl," which reminds one of bossa nova rhythms run through a Kosher meat grinder. And then there's "Free Kitten on the Mountain," which amounts to a travelogue of sorts--but through a Lord Buckley-like subconscious mind. IMPOSE MAGAZINE: "Holy sh!t, this is good. Are you surprised? Free Kitten is Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Julie Cafritz (Pussy Galore) on guitar/vocals and Yoshimi-P (Boredoms) on percussion... After eleven years since their last full-length release, Free Kitten is more of a project then a band, but their upcoming Inherit holds true to a dirty 90s indie angst that seem lost to the current cultivated landscape of indie artists making pop music. In that sense these tracks manage to be both familiar and refreshing: Free Kitten aren't reinventing what they already did 15 years ago, but they're adding beautiful music to the heap of what's good about indie rock." EcstaticPeace CD $10.00 French Kicks Swimming PS, US Band-produced new album features some of the quartet's most melodic recordings to date. "An album that demands you attention by revealing new sounds, notes & harmonies with each listen. By capturing both the palpable and raw elements, the FKs have created a complex yet sophisticated pop album." Vagrant CD $13.75 Gil, Gilberto The Sound Of Revolution 1968-69 PS, UK The Sound of Revolution combines Gilberto Gils brilliant 1968 and 69 Tropicalia albums, Frevo Rasgado and Cerebro Electronico; joyous, extraordinarily inventive pop music made against a background of terrible political unrest in Brazil and in the shadow of both imprisonment and eventually exile both for Gil and his friend Caetano Veloso. The 1968 album is electrified by the meteoric Os Mutantes and both sets arranged by Rogerio Duprat who contributes a range of totally original textures and orchestration much as George Martin did with Strawberry Fields and Sgt Pepper. Suffice to say, this combination of precocious talent achieves a magical and historically important result. Tropicalia-Os Mutantes-Rogerio Duprat-LSD-Revolution Gilberto Gil narrated recent BBC4 documentary about Tropicalia. El-142 CD $15.50 Good Shoes Think Before You Speak PS, US "South London's Good Shoes venture into this crowded market with a more streamlined pop take on new wave herky-jerky-- an earnest young Buzzcocks to their rivals' the Clash, the Jam, or XTC. 7.2"-Pitchfork. 14 tracks of Britpop perfection from gang who've remixed Maximo Park and others. Bril CD $12.25 Goto80 Made On Internet PS, GERMANY Considering the global distribution of computer technology for already over 30 years, the Demoscene and the related Chiptunes music have never really had a high profile. Maybe that's because of their non-commercial background, or because making obsolete digital technology the center of cultural production is mostly an insider's passion. Call it 'Geek-Art for Geeks.' In today's electronic music, the sounds of Gameboy, C64, and other discarded game hardware have gained cult status, propelled by an enthusiastic community. A key character in this permanent dedication to chiptunes is Anders Carlsson from Sweden. He has been an active member of the demoscene for almost 15 years and known under the name of GOTO80 for almost a decade. Always driven by the everlasting challenge to compose music for the best C64 demo. His knowledge of the sonic core of the C64, the legendary SID-Chip, is awesome. Just as exceptional are his musical intuition and his stylistic variety, combined with his technical skills. Made On Internet brings together 11 of his recent works showing the full scope of his production work. Pingipung CD $17.00 Greiner, Svarte Til Seters PS, US Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letter pressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, a room forever is inherently about the act of listening." This album by Svarte Greiner (previous releases on the Type label out of the UK, also as one-half of Deaf Center) features one side of "acoustic doom" music, the other of field recordings. This deluxe limited edition LP series will feature Machinefabriek/Matt Davies and Koen Holtkamp in the next upcoming volumes. ARoomForever LP $25.00 Hair Police Empty Quarter PS, US LIMITED TO 1000. New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007 Troubleman LP $13.50 Half-Handed Cloud/Ariel Pink Unusual Animals Vol. 3 PS, US This is the third in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled UNUSUAL ANIMALS, pairs ASTHMATIC KITTY roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks. AsthmaticKitty-405 45 $3.75 Hevoset S-T PS, GERMANY Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LP's on Dekorder and a stream of releases on Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna, Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana and his own Ikuisuus label. While most one-off meetings between so-called experimental and improvising musicians often sound like bad excuses for a few beers and endless jams this is quite the opposite - a heavy weight championship finale of two likeminded whizkids cross-fertilizing each other with idea after idea, leading to some of the weirdest and quixotic recordings you will have heard of the two. Everything you loved about Kemialliset Ystävät, Uton and Tomutonttu is contained in Hevoset.....and more. Rural psychedelia, out-of-tune plucked and strummed strings, overloaded organs and effect pedals, Jani Hirvonen's sweet wordless vocals, ecstatic improvised drone collages, bells, backward loops, jungle percussion and tons of unidentifiable sounds and noises shaped into tight 4 - 6 minute tracks. Extracts from a Foxy Digitalis review by Brad Rose: "This is the music of people removed from civilization. It's like this is some kind of ancient artifact. It grinds on your skull, but feels so right. (Š) There are moments when the things that make Kemialliset Ystävät and Uton great on their own come together in forested harmony. In particular, on side A when Anderzén is droning away on a keyboard and Uton is massaging your spinal cord with masochistic feedback scrawl - it's hypnotic. These two artists are in a trance here, channeling the sounds in their head. It's so fucking good. (Š.)This is definitely a case where the sum is greater than the parts. Anderzén and Uton are in top form here and fans of either solo project will chew this up and consume it for months." Dekorder-024 LP $17.50 Hooker, D.R. The Truth PS, US One of the rarest U.S. psych albums, previously issued on CD by Subliminal Sounds, now in a beautiful and legit 180 gram vinyl LP reissue. The Truth, recorded in Connecticut in 1972, might very well be the ultimate North American acid rock album, ever. No hype here - just incredible music. Tempting as it is to exaggerate the worth of such obscurities, The Truth deserves every plaudit that comes its way, making it astonishing that there was no real band to speak of. Instead, ten musicians are credited alongside the mysterious Donald Hooker, who wrote, sang and played lead on the album. This is one of those albums that keeps revealing new depths even when you've played it a hundred times. Connecticut hippie-philosopher concocts homemade lounge-psych masterpiece. True psychedelia! Includes a poster in a limited edition of 500 copies. SubliminalSounds LP $25.00 Indian Jewelry Free Gold! PS, US In 2006, several members of the INDIAN JEWELRY songwriting and performance team found the bitch of fame licking them on the hand. Blinded by vanity, easy fame, self love, and the internet, they went into an early retirement. "Free Gold!" is Indian Jewelry's first full-length in almost two years. It is also their most scathing with dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, and a lot of attitude. "Free Gold!" is what people will desire. Look for them on tour this spring and summer. WeAreFree-004 CD $11.50 Islands Arm's Way PS, US New album from former Unicorns folk. Montreal's Islands flower from the same scene that gave us Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. Their Anti debut finds them in full command of a palette of classic pop colorings, from the 70s rock heroics of "The Arm" to the slinky cinematic pop of "I Feel Evil Creeping In". Anti CD $15.25 Jay Reatard Painted Shut b/w Screaming Hand PS, US The second 7" in Jay Reatard's singles series for Matador Records. Matador 45 $3.75 Jay, Jeremy A Place Where We Could Go PS, US This is a debut album containing ten songs, but really it is a cinematic escapade into the mind of a singular individual, JEREMY JAY. "A Place Where We Could Go" is a statement of fiction and fact, exploring the shadowy depths of an attitude: the romance of life without the people and things that pull down the corners; create your own world. This universe may have a fairy tale look; it may be illuminated by streetlight. But it will definitely be a safe haven for the exploration of dreams. Think vast landscapes of reverberating storybook endings populated by the more charming characters from John Hughes' movies. Jeremy Jay: dancing, singing and playing guitar. "A Place Where We Could Go" is your hardcopy of the illusive, blonde, Jeremy Jay moon-roof vista. Buena. Krecords-187 LP $10.25 Jay, Jeremy A Place Where We Could Go PS, US This is a debut album containing ten songs, but really it is a cinematic escapade into the mind of a singular individual, JEREMY JAY. "A Place Where We Could Go" is a statement of fiction and fact, exploring the shadowy depths of an attitude: the romance of life without the people and things that pull down the corners; create your own world. This universe may have a fairy tale look; it may be illuminated by streetlight. But it will definitely be a safe haven for the exploration of dreams. Think vast landscapes of reverberating storybook endings populated by the more charming characters from John Hughes' movies. Jeremy Jay: dancing, singing and playing guitar. "A Place Where We Could Go" is your hardcopy of the illusive, blonde, Jeremy Jay moon-roof vista. Buena. Krecords-187 CD $11.50 Jennings, Mason In the Ever (ON SALE) PS, US Sixth album for Minneapolis singer-songwriter & debut on Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records. Coming off his 2006 majorlabel bow, Boneclouds, for Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock's Epic-distributed Glacial Pace label, Jennings retreated to a studio in the woods, where he set himself up with a laptop and two microphones. The title comes from his son talking about where he came from before he was born, "Ya know dad, when I was in the Ever?' It continues his spiritual journey, informed by his love of influences like Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash's American recordings and Led Zeppelin, his favorite band of all time. "I just wanted to make sure it's not re-enacted music," he says. "I have no use for being a retro artist. I want to understand my past and come from something." "Every time I hear a Mason Jennings album it changes the way I see the world around me," says Jack. Brushfire CD $13.75 Joan Of Arc Boo Human PS, US Done with the young and hungry rat-race of band-life, Joan of Arc now exists at the pace their real lives allow. By combining one week of studio time, a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet allowing participants to drop in whenever they could, each track on Boo Human is as wildly different and uniquely constructed as the groups who produced them. The combination of 14 musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that is as intense as it is intimate. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Joan Of Arc Boo Human PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.50 Julie Ocean Long Gone and Nearly There PS, US Makes a case for fast over fatuous, poppy over prog, & concise over complicated. The record is underpinned by a taut, frenetic energy reminiscent of Dag Nasty & The Descendents, is infused with the casual chaos of primetime Guided By Voices & Pavement & contains undeniable elements of sweet 60s pop coupled with the searing melodicism of late 70s heroes The Jam & The Undertones. The band consists of several well-known D.C. indie veterans including guitarist/singer Jim Spellman (VELOCITY GIRL), ex-members of the SATURDAY PEOPLE, GLO-WORM & SEVERIN TranistofVenus CD $10.25 July Skies The Weather Clock PS, UK July Skies is the musical project of Antony Harding from Birmingham UK, assisted by members of the band Epic45 (Antony worked on their 2006 album May Your Heart Be The Map) who have both previously received airplay from the late John Peel and Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1 and also by Verity Sharp of BBC Radio 3. Both bands are part of the truly independent UK label collective Make Mine Music, who are heading towards their 50th release in autumn 2008. The Weather Clock is July Skies 4th album and the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2004 album The English Cold. Musically, think The Durutti Column, the sensitivity of 80's indie bands like The House of Love, the guitar work of Maurice Deebank (Felt) or Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Harold Budd, or even a modern reference to British Sea Power if they 'didn't like rock music'. The Weather Clock is inspired by a lost post-war Mid-20th century Britain and a fixation with the design and architecture of the period. The beauty in the newly built regimented housing estates and clipped front gardens... It is the sound of the empty school hall once the summer holidays had commenced....faded branch line summers where steam met diesel.....the sound of the first swallows across the fields on fresh dew drenched mornings in May.....the nothingness of weekday afternoons with the lightness of a breeze through the window and billowing curtains....hearing the distant sound of children playing in fields far from the estate... the sound of BBC broadcasts closing down and displaying the TV test card for the afternoon whilst the country continued to work, play or learn....this is all the sound of The Weather Clock. The album is released in CD digipack with 1950's period artwork by Andersen M Studio. The first 350 copies ordered from the Make Mine Music on-line shop come with a limited 7 track ep of exclusive and alternative tracks. MakeMineMusic-027 CD $17.75 Justice Yeldham & The Dynamic Ribbon Device Birthdays PS, US Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham, recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy, you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something an Aussie could especially achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world. Anarchymoon LP $14.25 King Darves The Sum Splits For The Blind Swimmer PS, US The bedrock of King Darves' New Brunswick based concoction is folk based, but he's not wearing a headband or singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This release will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of the headphones, and it'll make you tap your toes and nod your head like a little girl. DeStijl CD $12.50 Kluster Kluster: 1969-71 PS, US 3 CD set. During their brief lifespan they recorded 3 LPs, all of which are available here. "Klopfzeichen" & "Zwei-Osterei" recorded in 1969 & 1970 respectively. "Eruption" was a live recording of the band's last concert together in 1971. All are amazing examples of pioneering ambient music feat. guitar, percussion, keys, & cello heavily processed w/ echo, filters, & tape machines. Contains liner notes. Water CD-BOX $26.00 Lee, Okkyung I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul PS, US Anyone who has seen and heard Korean improviser/composer Okkyung Lee blow collective minds with her supremely amazing cello noise, energy, vibration, friction and true sound feeling music knows that in a world of wild and mind-snapping improvisors, Okkyung is one of the most exciting players to arrive down the rocky road in some time. This LP contains some of her most deep and resonant, at once furious and hushed string, bow and wood music recorded to date. Beautiful and frightening, daring to be both." LP only. EcstaticPeace LP $12.00 Left Banke, The Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina PS, SPAIN Labeled a 'Baroque rock' band, the Left Banke's output is recommended to all fans of '60s pop, garage or beat, and has created legions of fans since its release. Full of beautiful vocal harmonies, incredible songwriting and very, very catchy melodies, this first Left Banke album was, allegedly, the most expensive record produced at that time. Created in New York by Michael Brown, son of a respected musician, the Left Banke based their sound in their vocals and some cleverly used orchestration and studio techniques, resulting in their unique sound. Now reissued with remastered sound, respecting the original artwork, and limited to only 500 copies, here's your chance to get one of the key albums from the '60s! Shasam LP $28.50 Leonhart, Michael Hotel Music PS, US "Hotel Music" is a pastiche of Serge Gainsbourg hooks, bedroom drone, California Pop (by way of Van Dyke Parks), and Downtown experiments. It is a musical portrait by MICHAEL LEONHART, session player to the stars. It was written and recorded over the course of a five-month stint (if a worldwide tour that long can be accurately labeled a stint) playing horns with Steely Dan (yes, Steely Dan). He passed his downtime on the road abusing various camera & cell phone cameras, his portable sampler, laptop and whatever instruments that happened to be within reach. The result is a more experimental trip than his sadly under-heard pop masterpiece "The Ballad of Minton Quigley" (2007, self-released). Leonhart has recorded four solo records in as many years between Steely Dan and Lenny Kravitz touring, as well as sessioning with such diverse artists as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Slash, Steven Tyler and Wynton Marsalis. St.Ives-24 LP $11.50 Leukers, Antonia Hasenlove PS, GERMANY Picture-Disc LP (limited 300). "Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. She's a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müller's (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his pseudo-scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artist's lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, game boys and minidisk recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edition of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus. Dekorder-023 LP $21.50 Licht, Alan & Aki Onda Everydays PS, US Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners ALAN LICHT & AKI ONDA, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work---Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern---has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects Text of Light (Licht) and Cinemage (Onda). "Everydays" is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht's guitar. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement. FamilyVineyard58 CD $11.50 Magic Bubble S-T PS, UK This lost pop-psych classic was made by Canadian brother and sister Frank and Rita Rondell in 1969, along with a taut backing band. Already staples of Toronto's underground, the siblings here showcase a cross-section of material ranging from hard blues to folk-rock, acid pop and an epic rendition of "Summertime." Boasting fine guitar and organ work throughout, it's presented here complete with both sides of their ultra-rare non-LP 45, making it an essential purchase for all fans of light psychedelia. Fallout CD $16.25 Man Man Rabbit Habits PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anti LP $17.50 Mates Of State Re-Arrange Us PS, US On this release, the duo move beyond their trademark wall of sound with additional instrumentation, including lush strings, guitar, and horns to back up their already honed melodic songwriting. Barsuk CD $12.50 Medium Medium Hungry, So Angry PS, UK Medium Medium were originally signed to Cherry Red in 1981 and were one of the first signings of then A&R man Mike Alway. The band's first single, Hungry, So Angry caused quite an immediate stir at club and alternative radio level, and created quite a buzz around the band. The single was picked up by alternative radio in the U.S. and featured for several weeks in the Billboard Alternative Top 50 chart. The band recorded one album for Cherry Red, The Glitterhouse which received consistently good reviews. However, the band broke up in 1983 but were not forgotten as 'Hungry, So Angry' has been used on many compilation CDs over the years, especially in the U.S. This overdue CD re-press consists of 15 tracks and also includes the very rare promo video of 'Hungry, So Angry; as an enhanced track. CherryRed CD $17.00 Mudhoney The Lucky Ones PS, US Worldwide lovers of the finer things are rejoicing at the news that Mudhoney, yep Mudhoney, is back in action in 2008 with The Lucky Ones, the band's eighth full album in a mere 20 years of triumphant rocking. Deliberately and aggressively raw, The Lucky Ones sounds as lean and as full-on as any modern equivalent one cares to mention. Recorded in a scant 3.5 days (including overdubs), Mudhoney went in armed with a batch of new material expecting to spend a fair amount of time getting it right. Bang-and bang again after some mixing-and a new album was birthed in record time, faster than anything else the band's done to date. The grand majority of these numbers were intentionally written "from the rhythm up" instead of from the riff and the lyrics down. The effect is to thrust out the bottom-end rumble of drummer Dan Peters and bassist Guy Maddison, and to bring about a cohesive whole not entirely ruled by The All Mighty Riff-although you certainly don't have to look hard to find 'em. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "The eleven tracks here are tight, raw, and marked by insistent thumping rhythms and taught chunky riffs, laying the groundwork for one of the band's most straight-ahead rock albums in years." SubPop CD $12.50 Mudhoney The Lucky Ones PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition PS, US In 2008 both Sub Pop and Mudhoney are celebrating their 20th anniversary. This is the deluxe, re-mastered edition of "Superfuzz Bigmuff", containing the original EP in its correct running order, singles, demos, and two blistering live recordings from 1988, all re-mastered, or in some cases, mastered for the first time. From the liner notes: "For all the play and worldwide attention several Seattle-area bands got during the 1988-92 period, at the end of the day...there was Mudhoney - and then there was everybody else...These recordings were so life-affirming upon their release, connecting everything great about the sixties (biker movies, fuzz boxes, old guitars, three-minute songs) with the frothing, punk rock of the early 80s, that a whole new 'style' of music was born. They called it grunge, but to me it was amped-up, clear-the-room, ramalama rock...and it was about as joyous and as fun a noise as anyone'd heard in years" (Jay Hinman) SubPop DCD $15.00 Music Go Music Light Of Love PS, US MUSIC GO MUSIC have the simple syrup of pop extravagance running through their veins. These arena-sized songs are composed with such savage efficiency that you find yourself humming along before two bars have gone by. They are as assured and crafted as ABBA and ELO's best songs of '76, yet Music Go Music sounds fresh. They've exploded the formulas from the inside out, sounding like a hundred others and no one else. "Light of Love" is a true celebration of pop music's potential - laying a thin sheen of magic over the world around it, and making the tedious bits of the human experience a little less so. "Light of Love" plays like the first three tracks of a future Greatest Hits album. "Speak to me, darling in hushed tones. Tell me your heart's true desire" sings Gala Bell on the title track, equal parts Debbie Harry, Karen Carpenter, and Kate Bush. Maybe it's the wonderfully layered vocals, maybe the rich synth textures, maybe their impossibly uplifting nature, but there is something immediately familiar about these songs. At first listen, we're inexorably drawn into their sphere. For at least a moment, we are surrounded by the halo of their refracted energy - we can bask in the light of love. SecretlyCanadian-169 12 $9.00 Nana Grizol Love It Love It PS, US Main-songster THEO HILTON's book-open vocals & beautiful fingerpicking are augmented w/a suitably eclectic array of instrumentation from his crew, which includes a brass & winds section led by LAURA CARTER & ROBBIE CUCCHIARO (NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL) OrangeTwin CD $12.50 National A Skin, A Night + The Virginia PS, US This is a documentary about The National by French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who followed the group during the creation of their acclaimed 2007 release, "Boxer" (scanned over 116K). It's an insightful and beautiful glimpse into the band's creative process. The DVD is packaged with a separate disc, "The Virginia EP", which contains twelve tracks of demos, a cover, live versions, a radio session, and b-sides. On tour with REM and Modest Mouse this month. Tracklist for "The Virginia EP": 1.You Done it Again, Virginia / 2.Santa Clara / 3.Blank Slate / 4.Tall Saint / 5.Without Permission / 6.Forever After Days / 7.Rest Of Years / 8.Slow Show / 9.Lucky You / 10.Mansion On The Hill / 11.Fake Empire / 12.About Today BeggarsBanquet DVD/CD $17.00 New Age All Around PS, GERMANY One of the most eye-opening LP archival issues of 2007 is now also available on CD, with bonus tracks. Also including members Mark Levinson and Bruce Langhorne. "This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased. After the release of the Light of Day album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didn't come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost other leading music companies at the time. Incredible -- and I mean INCREDIBLE raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkin's disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book. This CD release contains six superb never before released bonus tracks recorded at Warner Brothers Studios and KPFA-FM radio station during 1967. Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind." RedLounge CD $20.50 New Session People, The Plays Famous Songs from Days Gone By PS, US Amarillo CD $12.50 Of Sinking Ships S-T PS, US NOW ON LP! LIMITED TO 500! Solo project of CHAD WALDRUP (HOPESFALL: THE SATELLITE YEARS). His desire to create thoughtful & diverse instrumental music, bred the thickly layered guitar work; filled w/invigorating rhythmic patterns & a captivating melodic texture. RIYL Tristeza, Tortoise, The Mercury Program. GileadMedia LP $13.50 Old 97's Blame It on Gravity [Deluxe] (With DVD, 2PC, Digipack Packaging) PS, US NewWest DCD $24.00 O'Rourke, Jim Tamper PS, US This reissue is a set of 3 acoustic instrumental compositions recorded on analogue tape during the final days of the first digital wave, when everyone but a certain young schoolboy in short pants were looking towards CDs & DATs as the things of the future. Fools! As sweet & virginal as all this sounds, we the listener find ourselves straining to hear unvarnished acoustical sound throughout the album- there's some of that here, but there's definitely some pixie dust in Jim's methods. DragCity CD $13.00 Osborne S-T PS, US This is a celebration of all that is good in American house & techno music: past, present & future. This Lego-sculpting, electron microscope-owning, Japanese speaking uber-producer puts the joy of life & the art of making into his music. Todd fixes & flies planes, has fabricated a video game kiosk out of hospital equipment, & is finishing his hovercraft as we write this. We could call him house music's MacGyver. SpectralSound CD $16.25 Parachutes/Band In Box Split PS, UK Limited edition (500) vinyl-only release features three songs each from Icelandic dream-poppers Parachutes (mixed by a Sigur Ros guy and featuring strings by Amiina) and Swedish indie-poppers Band In Box (featuring members of Burén). Band in Box 1. Icaria I 2. Lost And Foundland 3. Icaria II 10" vinyl StereoTestKit 10" $9.50 Parson Red Heads, The Owl and Timber EP PS, US ParsonFarm CD5 $7.00 Plastic Constellations We Appreciate You PS, US FrenchKiss CD $13.25 Presets, The Apocalypso PS, US After two years studio silence, The Presets (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) return with their sophomore album, Apocalypso. Ranging from expansive, emotive techno, to future pagan house and choral space funk, Apocalypso demonstrates the band's undeniably canny knack for welding hook-laden pop to the most singular and exciting sounds today. Along the way The Presets have become one of Australia's most in-demand live acts, and after two non-stop years touring the major festivals of the world, they've managed to capture some of this energy in these new recordings. Welcome to the world of Apocalypso. Modular/Interscope CD $11.00 Pump Kinn & Don/Brian Miller & Kevin Shields Virgin Passwords PS, US So Cal noise Nor Cal. Recorded at the end of nearly 9 months of touring, Virgin Passwords reflects a long evolution in sound and concept for Brian Miller & Kevin Shields. A combination of mechanical grindings and digital sweeps, mortal shovings and sudden transportations into secret chambers hold the secrets of the Virgins themselves. The Virgins that control the universe. The mafia of the cosmos. Beyond the cliched metaphor of purity and straight to literally not having sex at all. Because a Brian Miller & Kevin Shields performance proves that a noise show can be (hyper)active, crowd-engaging and knock everything to the floor without invoking angst and self-loathing. In other words, without hate-fucking everyone. Virgins. Pump Kinn & Don: 'Hijokaidan by DJ Screw.' One side apiece from each of these duos of destruction." Limited to 300 copies with beautiful DJ-style jackets designed by Aaron Winters at Abide Visuals. WeirdForest LP $13.75 Rainman S-T PS, UK Originally released only in Holland, this is the first CD reissue of the superb 1970 solo LP from Frank Nuyens aka Rainman -- the lead guitarist of legendary Dutch blues/psych-rockers, Q65. A moody blend of folk, pop and psychedelia, with some blazing guitar leads, the album also features his Q65 bandmate Jay Baar, as well as Dick Beekman (Cuby & The Blizzards), Francois Content (Swinging Soul Machine) and other leading Dutch musicians on flute, vibes, congas and other instruments. It's presented here complete with an ultra-rare bonus track taken from his sole, non-LP 45, making it an essential purchase for all fans of acid-tinged singer-songwriting. Fallout CD $16.25 Raven Back to Ohio Blues PS, US Official master tapes, self-released reissue of this unknown hard rock/pre-punk Ohio LP from 1975 (previously reissued and long gone on the Rockadelic label). "The Back to Ohio Blues LP by Raven (that's one man's pseudonym, not a band name) might be the ultimate non-commercial '70s American rock record, unintentionally putting the most ardent anarchist punk bands to shame." -hit-fi.com Owl CD $8.50 Regina, Elis The Voice Of Brazil PS, UK Graced by the exquisite arrangements of Roberto Menescal, The Voice of Brazil combines Elis Regina's masterful 1968 LP, Elis, Como e Porque (Elis, How and Why) with recordings made a year later in London where Menescal teamed with Peter Knight (of Moody Blues fame). Although the flawless album she made in 1974 with Tom Jobim is regarded internationally as one of the great treasures of Bossa Nova, almost three decades after her death Elis remains one of the music world's best-kept secrets, a truly great singer who deserves to be recognized beyond her beloved Brazil. Stylistically, Elis Regina is part Dusty Springfield, part Blossom Dearie, considered to be part of the Tropicalia family. El-143 CD $15.50 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 4 May-June 2008 PS, UK "The Dukes Of Stratosphear -- Join us on a bike ride to the moon with XTC's alter egos. The San Francisco Scene: 1966 Featuring: Syndicate Of Sound, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane. Freakrock -- Beards, boots and fuzz: the music that time forgot; Blue Ash -- US '70s power pop; The Story -- New father/son duo in acid folk tradition; Bay Area Garage; Patrick The Lama's Esoteric Trips: The 10 sacred monoliths of UK '70s folk-rock." 82 pages, full-color. ZINE $8.25 Skydog Just Want To Make You Happy PS, US 2001 re-issue. First re-release ever taken from the master tapes of this insanely rare LP from Georgia made in 1974 in an edition of 100. Wild & psychotic hippie progressive rock mixed with incredible heavy fuzz psychedelic jammers. Monstrous orgies between the guitar and Hammond organ and you can also find heavy eastern tunes woven in the long guitars jams. RedLounge CD $23.00 Sound Of Arrows Danger! PS, SWEDEN 9 song CD. Labrador is proud to present The Sound of Arrows - the band that will lead Swedish pop into the next decade. With the deepest love possible they gather sounds and samples from all over and turn them into lush pop songs with exquisitely beautiful melodies. The Sound of Arrows started as an experiment. They wanted to try making a Christmas song by sampling a Children's choir from YouTube and build a song around that. This was in the end of 2006. Due to the lack of computer, and recording, knowledge it took several months to complete it. The final version missed it's deadline, Christmas, with half a year. But the song suggested what they wanted to do musically together and marked the start of The Sound of Arrows. The Sound of Arrows is a duo consisting of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand. Stefan Storm had earlier been making house music in Panache while the other half, Oskar Gullstrand, used to play in an orchestra but is now working as a graphic designer and an animator. The members have both just passed 20 years old and are originally from a place called Gävle which by many is considered one of Sweden most boring towns. They've now moved to Stockholm and only go back to Gävle to meet family or record their songs in abandoned discotheques. Their 9-track debut EP is an embrace of the timeless and the futuristic; a travel through a new world of sights and sounds in Technicolor. The title track, "Danger!" is an epic treat. It begins with a magical verse that seems to float in space - just to explode in this spring's most memorable chorus. The theme is a pleading warning to the naïve that ends in revolt and hope. Strings, trumpets, glockenspiel and synthesizers kills the cliché "less is more" once and for all. "Danger!" is lovely pointer of where The Sound of Arrows' special aesthetics will take them, and us, in the future. Labrador-114 CD5 $11.00 Spirit S-T PS, US "The mega-rare mono version of the visionary debut album by pivotal Los Angeles combo Spirit was only available for a brief moment in early 1968. Featuring eye-opening mixes, our release is an exact repro of the LP that introduced the world to Spirit classics such as 'Fresh-Garbage' and 'Mechanical World.' This unique version zeroes in on Randy California's tastefully-thundering guitar and the jazz-infused drumming of Ed Cassidy -- and is sourced from the vintage analog mono masters, completely untouched for over 35 years." Sundazed LP $19.00 Subtle Exiting ARM PS, US 3rd full-length release from Bay Area sextet. Drawing from a diverse palette of instruments: sampler, synth, guitar, cello, winds, electronic and acoustic drums, and the unmistakable voice and prose of doseone, the band fashions a self-sampled and live-mic'd honest to genreless music. The adventurous pop group has collaborated with the likes of Beck, Wolf Parade, Tunde Adepbumpe of TV on the Radio, and much more. PITCHFORK: "ExitingARM is Subtle's "pop" album. And by that they mean it's their most accessible album to date, and an answer to a problem that's plagued them since they started: How do you make something dense and personal, a body of work that demands time and dedication-- and then hook a wide new audience, hang onto their ears, and make them understand it? Their new album highlights what's always been catchiest about Subtle's music: it's full of short, fast bangers that you can enjoy out of the corner of your ear. But scratch the surface, and you find something far gnarlier-- the most intricate realization yet of the vision of frontman Doseone, a.k.a. rapper, poet and visual artist Adam Drucker." Lex CD $13.75 Sun Ra The Universe Sent Me: The Lost Reel Collection Vol. 5 PS, US Imagine the suspense and anticipation one would feel when loading a 1970s Sun Ra reel onto a deck for the first time in more that 30 years & not knowing what to expect. As the tape starts, familiar sounds of the Arkestra begin to be heard from that magical time period so long ago. There is a great sense of relief and accomplishment to know music that laid dormant for far too long, and was from one of the most original creators ever, would now be preserved for all to finally hear. Volume 5 of "The Lost Reel Collection" features music from two separate tapes. The first tape is from a 1972 short recording at the Seaport Museum in New York City. The acoustics sound like an outdoor concert. The featured track is Discipline 27-ll, which is purely instrumental and may be the earliest recording of this particular version. In 1973, Ra declamations like "Life is Splendid" and "What Planet Is This?" were added on top of the music theme. The second tape is from a 1973 recording in Paris, France . Although the acoustics are quite different, it's a natural segue from the Seaport Museum tape. Opening with the Discipline 27-ll theme and the by-now more familiar declamation there which we title as "The Universe Sent Me" with this release. The beauty of the "reed" section is clearly heard during this track due to the apparent close proximity of the tape machine and the microphone setup. Once again, as with the first 4 volumes of "The Lost Reel Collection", the listener is in for a real treat. Transparency-305 CD $14.00 Sun Ra All Stars Zurich, West Berlin, Paris (5XCD) PS, US 5 complete concerts from Milan, Zurich, West Berlin and Paris during the autumn of 1983. Featuring SUN RA, LESTER BOWIE (Art Ensemble of Chicago), DON CHERRY, MARSHALL ALLEN (Arkestra), JOHN GILMORE (Arkestra), ARCHIE SHEPP, PHILLY JOE JONES (Miles Davis Quintet), and more! Transparency-311 CD-BOX $40.50 Tamba Trio The Miraculous Tamba Trio PS, UK Propelled by the extraordinary piano playing and arranging skills of Luíz Eça, Tamba Trio are characterized by their very original and highly attractive blending of left field Bossa grooves and almost sacred vocal harmonies. Our program concentrates on the years between 1962-66 and finds the group at an eclectic axis of classical music, Bossa and Jazz and finding a brilliantly original vocabulary. An important landmark in the evolution of modern Brazilian music and far ahead of its time. Tamba Trio was the greatest Bossa Nova group: an institution in Brazil and now becoming better known internationally. El-144 CD $15.50 Thee Oh Sees The Masters Bedroom Is Worth PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Tomlab LP $12.25 Unwed Sailor Little Wars PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! BurntToast DLP $15.00 UTON Straight Edge XXS PS, GERMANY Limited 500. "Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Uton's last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely different affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CD's, CD-R's and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously. Dekorder-025 CD $17.50 Various A Factory Night (Once Again) 15.12.2007 PS, UK 28 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is pleased to present a DVD souvenir of A Factory Night (Once Again), the memorable live event staged at Plan K in Brussels in 15 December 2007 featuring live performances by Section 25, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the live section of the DVD features 2 hours of in-concert highlights (28 tracks) from all four bands, as well as the encore of the New Order classic Temptation by Section 25 and Peter Hook. Bonus features on the NTSC format Region 0 DVD include poster and photo galleries, as well as a rare 1981 television interview with Annik Honore exploring the early history of Plan K, Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crepuscule. The 2007 event marked a return of these several original Factory Records artists to the legendary Plan K venue in Brussels after a gap of more than 25 years, during which the venue (a former sugar refinery) had ceased staging live gigs. The event was also a tribute to the late Anthony H. Wilson, the Factory founder who died a few months earlier. LTM-2519 DVD $21.75 Various Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler PS, US For fifteen years, TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS has been the preeminent source of avant audio, championing minimal, improvised, and outsider musics of various spots and stripes. Now, as its influence radiates outward, the label presents Radium, its "rock" imprint, showcased here with "Impala Eardrums, A Radium Sampler". While minimalist legend RHYS CHATHAM leads the way with a delightful unreleased piece from his mid-80s archives, most of the other contributors are younger folks, from a new generation of performers. It's a diverse bunch, ranging from the raw Americana of MEGAFAUN and JONATHAN KANE, to the humid, pulsating krautrock of ATELEIA and the spectral songcraft of PAUL DUNCAN. NEPTUNE serves up its version of home-forged proto-clangor, while COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS pour forth in glistening, shimmering waves. Together, these eight tracks - all previously unreleased on CD - have one thing in common: a resolute will to march headlong into the untamed brambles and briar patches of 21st-century sound. TableOfTheElements-812 LP $14.25 Various Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler PS, US For fifteen years, TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS has been the preeminent source of avant audio, championing minimal, improvised, and outsider musics of various spots and stripes. Now, as its influence radiates outward, the label presents Radium, its "rock" imprint, showcased here with "Impala Eardrums, A Radium Sampler". While minimalist legend RHYS CHATHAM leads the way with a delightful unreleased piece from his mid-80s archives, most of the other contributors are younger folks, from a new generation of performers. It's a diverse bunch, ranging from the raw Americana of MEGAFAUN and JONATHAN KANE, to the humid, pulsating krautrock of ATELEIA and the spectral songcraft of PAUL DUNCAN. NEPTUNE serves up its version of home-forged proto-clangor, while COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS pour forth in glistening, shimmering waves. Together, these eight tracks - all previously unreleased on CD - have one thing in common: a resolute will to march headlong into the untamed brambles and briar patches of 21st-century sound. TableOfTheElements-812 CD $13.00 Various Psychedelic Minds Vol. 1 (Heavy Underground 1967-71) PS, GERMANY The international bands on this selection represent impressively the boiling point of the short living worldwide psychedelic rock movement between 1967-71 -- the years when garage punk evolved into heavy psychedelic rock with its wider soundscapes and complex improvisations. Volume 1 contains a dozen 45-rpm songs by lost psychedelic messengers (eight US bands and from Germany, Peru, France each one). The groups included are: Blackrock, Sound Machine, Yesterday's Obsession, Mastermind, Sangre Mexicana, Bhagavad Gita, Protein Bros, Purple Canteen, Los Nuevos Shains, Blow Mind and the A & B-side of legendary Dirty Filthy Mud. About half of the songs are previously unreissued and appear in stunning sound quality and 12p. poster-booklet. Certainly a piece of wax for Dr. Leary's students: 'Turn on, Tune in, Listen again!' To be continued... WorldInSound CD $18.25 Vss Nervous Circuits (CD/DVD) PS, US mastered and the DVD is loaded with select footage from the band's history along with three additional full live sets. "While there's nothing all that unique anymore about an indie rock band mixing in a little electronics, there was something breathtakingly original about The VSS - essentially a hardcore punk band - incorporating these elements. The result was something organic and angry and intensely human, but it was laced with a sharp, robotic edge" - Epitonic.com. HydraHead CD $13.25 Wedding Present, The El Rey PS, US El Rey - the first new album in over three years from The Wedding Present - was recorded in early 2008 in Chicago by Steve Albini. The band returned from an eight-year hiatus in early 2005 with the release of Take Fountain. This long-awaited album brought them back into the spotlight with all the style and sophistication associated with a legendary group, but fans were also pleased to see the band had lost none of the growling angst with which they had burst onto the scene with their 1985 debut, George Best. That intensity has been turned up even further for the new album, El Rey, The Wedding Present's first collaboration with the legendary Albini since the renowned Seamonsters in 1991. Written while David Gedge was living in Los Angeles, El Rey burns with West Coast sunlight; Hollywood seen through the eyes of a gritty Northerner. Speaking about El Rey in Mojo magazine recently, Gedge said: "I've been living in West Hollywood for the last year or so, and while I'm not going to claim that this is my 'L.A.' album, there are some references. I suppose the themes are lust, jealousy, betrayal, regret, and obsession, super-heros the usual. We chose to record with Steve this time because the new songs were sounding very guitary and quite dark. It's been good. As you'd imagine, really; Albini knows his stuff". The Wedding Present will be touring North America in Fall 2008 with the line-up of: David Gedge (guitar & vocals), Terry de Castro (bass), Graeme Ramsay (drums), and Chris McConville (guitar). Manifesto-43904 CD $12.25 Windsor For The Derby How We Lost PS, US Despite the connotation of its title, "How We Lost" is a celebratory album. It's a reflective record and, in its own way, celebrates the WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY continuum that's been created from their first release ("Calm Hades Float", 1996) to their last ("Giving Up the Ghost", 2005). Each of these recordings is a sequel to the next both in narrative and musically and as the band's first two records ("Calm Hades Float" and "Minnie Greutzfeldt") were re-released last year they found themselves in constant dialogue about their body of work and the paths they'd chosen. Also a part of that ongoing dialogue were the records that the band finds itself consistently re-visiting (Swell Maps, Section 25, Psychic TV and much of the Factory Records catalog) and what makes those recordings timeless and resonate in a personal way with the band. The songs on "How We Lost" are reflections of those records and those conversations. It's about the band and the ways the band has changed over the years, the things they hold onto and what's been left behind. SecretlyCanadian-141 CD $11.50 Windsor For The Derby How We Lost PS, US Despite the connotation of its title, "How We Lost" is a celebratory album. It's a reflective record and, in its own way, celebrates the WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY continuum that's been created from their first release ("Calm Hades Float", 1996) to their last ("Giving Up the Ghost", 2005). Each of these recordings is a sequel to the next both in narrative and musically and as the band's first two records ("Calm Hades Float" and "Minnie Greutzfeldt") were re-released last year they found themselves in constant dialogue about their body of work and the paths they'd chosen. Also a part of that ongoing dialogue were the records that the band finds itself consistently re-visiting (Swell Maps, Section 25, Psychic TV and much of the Factory Records catalog) and what makes those recordings timeless and resonate in a personal way with the band. The songs on "How We Lost" are reflections of those records and those conversations. It's about the band and the ways the band has changed over the years, the things they hold onto and what's been left behind. SecretlyCanadian-141 LP $11.50 Forthcoming Releases 1900s, The Everybody's Got A Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2008) NO PS, US New 7" vinyl phonograph single from Chicago psych-pop troupe, featuring two non-album tracks. White wax, black jacket, real posh. Parasol-039 45 $3.50 Abe Vigoda Skeleton (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH) PS, US This is a twisted joy ride through the four boys' private party. Soothing parts that remind you of Captain Beefheart & My Bloody Valentine, or some punk w/ a haunting reggaeton pulse that makes you move. When the record is done after a little more than 30 mins., you are left feeling that there is something they are trying to tell you, on second listen it smacks you in the face. PostPresentMedium CD $11.50 Action Biker Hesperian Puisto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, SWEDEN It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet. FriendlyNoise-69 CD $13.50 Architecture In Helsinki Like it or Not EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH) PS, US The Australian sextet is back with their 3rd single from their critically lauded new album Places Like This. The band has been on a tear since the album's release in fall of 2007, selling over 25,000 copies in the US in under a year. On top of that, they made their debut on the Billboard charts in the first week of release, peaked at #3 on the CMJ Top 200, and sold out several clubs nationwide on their fall 2007 tour. With the Like It or Not EP, the band finally records "One Heavy February" and "Beef in Box," which are two long-time crowd favorites from their live shows, to accompany the single version of "Like It or Not". To top it off there is a "Like It or Not" remix by one of 2008 biggest buzz bands, El Guincho. Polyvinyl-157 CD5 $7.25 ASS (Andreas Soderstrom Solo) My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, UK Very limited! Peering out between the mass of strings, hanging like vines, there must have been a spark of childish curiosity. From the giddy playfulness of youth all the way to the folk hinterland, Andreas Soderstrom has been surrounded by instruments, exposed to the sounds of his father's bazouki factory - an extraordinary mélange of clattering noise and metallic melody. That natural inquisitiveness has obviously paid off, and it surely can't be a coincidence that a career in music beckoned. Trading under the pseudonym Ass - it stands for Andreas Soderstrom Solo - for more than a decade he has been the hitherto unknown man of Swedish pop, having played with the likes of electro-pop priestess Jenny Wilson, digital folk stalwarts Tape, offbeat folk-pop minstrel Blood Music, and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman. All that will change with the release of 'My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went', the second full-length album from Soderstrom under his Ass moniker. Soderstrom plays all of the instruments found on this quietly intoxicating 10-track record, the follow-up to his astonishingly assured, eponymous debut - both released on Headspin Recordings. It finds him hacking through the folk undergrowth, his fluid dynamic underpinning a stark melancholy that simmers throughout. It's a real treat, and a chance to hear the whispered charm of a subtly disarming performer. To paraphrase George Clinton - free your mind, and Ass will follow...Very Limited vinyl Edition of 500 copies in thick cardboard stock, lyric insert and on purple wax. StaticCaravan-167 LP $19.00 Band In Box This Fiction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, UK Debut album from Swedish act featuring members of Buren. StereoTestKit CD $12.25 Be Gulls By the Beach (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Rad LP $14.25 Be Gulls By the Beach (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US Sweeping and soaring music from the folks from LITTLE WINGS. Rad CD $14.25 Black Sun Ensemble Across the Sea of Id: The Way to Eden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH) PS, US Quite possibly the final BSE release after an illustrious career of nearly 25 years. It marks a return to the beloved semi-acoustic style of their first few releases, and also - due to public demand! - contains no vocals. It is a mixture of new readings of past tracks & new compositions. The new material offers a singular, dreamy vision of BSE's potentially final works. The two title tracks, Across the Sea of Id and Eden Song, are reflective, yet hallucinatory explorations into Jesus Acedo's unique compositional & melodic sensibility. While Angel de la Guardia has a refined yet explosive rock swagger, it is balanced by the meditation Perelandra & La Paz. The CD also contains a video of the band performing the signature BSE piece "Dove of the Desert" CameraObscura CD $14.00 Brother Kite, The/Plumerai Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Track Listing: Plumerai "Vacant Eyes". The Brother Kite "We Can Never Be Friends". LIMITED to 500 copies. Clear vinyl in see-thru package. An idea hatched during the recording of Plumerai's "Without Number" CD out on Silber Records. The thought was to strip away the pedals and even electricity and release a record that would simultaneously draw upon the band's ability to evoke emotions and utilize one of the band's noted strengths; the intimacy and power of Elizabeth Ezell's voice. After consideration they sought out The Brother Kite to record a track for the flipside. A Clairecords staple and another top-notch New England band known for their shoegaze influences, they seemed like a perfect match for the concept of stripping down their sound and writing an acoustic track.. Plumerai's "Vacant Eyes" relies more heavily on orchestration and layering of instruments such as acoustic guitar, reed organ, violin (arranged and performed by Clara Kebabian) and bells to accompany Ezell. While The Brother Kite's "We Can Never Be Friends" is a more basic track with acoustic guitars and a catchy vocal melody carrying the song. This stunning and beautiful record comes on coke bottle-clear vinyl and is limited to 500 copies. Clairecords-077 45 $5.25 Camper Van Beethoven Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US CookingVinyl CD $14.25 Carr, Derek The Digital Space Race (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record. Psychonavigation-025 CD $15.50 Chevelles, The Barbarella Girl God (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Career retrospective plus new gear from this Aussie garage-pop combo. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "14 of their most contagious numbers along with a trio of new songs as proof positive that they've lost none of their magic over the years. What really impresses about this album, though, is how well the band's wide-ranging sound and style are showcased. Garage pop is an easy tag for their music, but doesn't really capture the diversity of influences and elements that infuse their songs... From old-school to new-school punk, the band dances back and forth in time, tripping into new wave, psychedelia, and power pop along the way. The sound may be clean, a reflection of the Chevelles' tightness, but even at their jangliest, the guitars are down and dirty, the harmonies soaring, the melodies irrepressible, and the choruses irresistible. All in all, the perfect introduction to this stellar band." WickedCool CD $12.25 Clientele, The That Night, A Forest Grew (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque. Acuarela-067 CD5 $8.25 Cloudland Canyon/Lichens Exterminating Angel (PRE-ORDER SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US This single 30-min. track (split into 2 parts on the LP version) uses voice, guitar, samplers, & ARP synthesizer. Here are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star & Taco Bell from the 70s filled w/ Mayan temples & pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. HolyMountain LP $16.00 Craig, Leighton 11 Easy Pieces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Since 1995, Brisbane resident Leighton Craig has etched out a varied musical existence, from solo keyboard studies to an extensive body of collaborative work. His solo works, which span delicate ambient keyboard excursions through to site-specific live documents and most recently song-based explorations, have mapped out a focus of tone, duration and 'situations' for sound. On 11 Easy Pieces, his first widely available solo LP, Craig offers an intimate yet robust collection of works recorded on an array of cheap analogue keyboards, including his instrument of choice the Casio MT40. Recorded to cassette at the kitchen table between 2003-04, these recordings have been lovingly toasted by valve tubes during mastering to reveal not only a true sense of analog adventurousness inherent to Craig's mode of operation, but also his ability to unveil a rare tonal richness from his instruments. Leighton Craig casts out an audio net and collects together an essential haul of tonal gradients, phased rhythm and collapsed chordal interplays. 11 Easy Pieces (and two somewhat less 'easy' works), is a warm collection of distorted hymnals and blurred geometry - all of them visionary in their purity and timbral sensibilities. "This is more than Australian Music - this is Australia the musician." Sean Rabin, The Australian "an organic exorcism of the trees...the music of the earth...." Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. On Organ Notes "hazy minimal organ tones ... feel good mind-body static. Turn up loud and let it float." Eddie Flowers, Slippytown. Room40-424 CD $15.00 DJ Scotch Egg Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load LP $14.00 DJ Scotch Egg Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Powerful cosmic energy using the simplest tools available: 4 Nintendo Gameboys & mixer. Not a noisy release by any means, instead a fully activated set of lean muscular gabber pop music that stares boldly into the sun with the jihad of a suicide vest full of gummi bears. Drumized takes cues from older trad jazz, Earache era gabber & some of your better ringtones. Load CD $12.50 Durutti Column Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, UK "Sunlight to blue ... Blue to blackness" - This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective new album from The Durutti Column. Vini Reilly has recorded under the name The Durutti Column since 1978 and has a rich portfolio of work, releasing over 15 albums in this time, but Reilly has been through some dark times the past year. In a conscious response to his last two polished and studio based releases he has created some sparse, simply beautiful 'sketches' as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are simply instrumentals played on his Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to 'Without Mercy' for the last track 'Grief' and reinvents 'Never Known' from LC. This release also sees the debut of a talented young pianist and singer, Poppy Morgan, who co-wrote the melancholy Ananda as a duet with what Reilly dryly calls 'intrusive guitar'. For the uninitiated, Vini was the first artist signed to Manchester's influential Factory Records, co-wrote and played on Morrissey's first solo album 'Viva Hate', and was heavily featured in the film about Manchester music culture, '24 Hour Party People'. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this return of The Durutti Column. Track listing: 1. Glimpse 2. Contact 3. Messages 4. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys! 5. Ged 6. Never Known Version 7. Anada 8. Head Glue 9. Demo For Gathering Dust 10. Wordless 11. Grief. Kooky-027 CD $17.75 Eat Skull Sick to Death (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Leave it to the English to embellish a term like "shit-gaze." No surprise that the greatest shit-gazer of all time was none other than Samuel Coleridge, an avowed Brit who, plied full of laudanum, would sit for hrs & stare at his bowel movements, writing copious notes on their color, texture, etc. They are a quartet hailing from Portland, Oregon, co-masterminded by Rob Enbom (Hospitals and Hole Class) & another original Hospital, Rod Meyer (the greatest living genius of punk)(--erm--uh--wha?!). Siltbreeze LP $16.00 Endless Boogie Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! NoQuarter DLP $16.50 Endless Boogie Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US This NYC four-piece started out as an "old man hobby" and turned into the best psychedelic rock 'n' roll band in the city (maybe country, possibly world). Endless Boogie jam, then jam some more. They lock in grooves so tight there's no escape - like entering a black hole, that last second stretches out forever. The only thing keeping them from living up to their name is the physics of the compact disc. The perfect soundtrack to hot summer nights. Hanging out in the basement. Smoking figs in the yard. The double LP is presented in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jacket and comes with a bonus track and digital download coupon. NoQuarter CD $13.25 Fairline Parkway Memory of Open Spaces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Limited Edition of 700 hand-numbered, die cut. Zachary Okun & Raj Gadhia met in a quiet summer of college unemployment. Raj recognized Zach as the guy in the back of the dusty university anthropology lab who diligently slept through monkey documentaries, waking from deep sleep only to angrily protest discernable differences in the skull specimens forced upon the class every week. In this manner things came to a head and they were graduated, just as they decided to have a good run at actually thinking. Reeling in denial, the two began recording together in 2002. They were promptly kidnapped by an enthusiastic fan & ushered into a studio. Kora CD $11.25 Fantasy Bar Friday Afternoon Car (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, SPAIN Kieran, Diego, Jordi and Rubén used to be part of Migala, probably one of the best Spanish bands ever. It's something they won't try to hide. Now they are Fantasy Bar, whose debut album, Friday Afternoon Car, takes their music -and influences ranging from American Music Club to Nick Drake, Arab Strap to Neil Young...- into enchanting new territories. Friday Afternoon Car is an album of nostalgia and yearning for a brighter dawn; of harshness and tender feeling; of hopes and of fears. Its 14 stately, slow-paced rock songs are suffused with the beauty that lies just beneath the surface of existence. The careworn yet compassionate vocals of Scottish songwriter Kieran Stephen (ex-bassist with Los Planetas and Migala, bass guitar on El Hijo's album "Las otras vidas", live musician with QZIOS) speak of the emotions these four friends know so well: the persistence of memories; friendship and wasted love; the knowledge, throughout it all, that the good times can prevail. It's there from the first moments of "Spiders", which opens Friday Afternoon Car: the story of a bad dream called solitude, wrapped in gentle guitars and upbeat but delicate drums. The album was recorded at Rock Soul Studios in Madrid with the assistance of Carlos Torero, and features keyboards and guitar by Abel Hernández (El Hijo, former singer and guitarist of Migala) and electric guitar by Chris Bathgate (Sans Trauma, ex-Ganger, who also used to play bass with Arab Strap). It takes its name from an old British phrase that alludes to the belief that car-factory workers lose interest toward the end of the week: as the brief liberation of the weekend looms, everyday cares cease to matter. Friday Afternoon Car invites the listener to enter the universe of these songs: to discover a place to reflect and, above all, to feel. Fantasy Bar are: Kieran Stephen (vocals, guitars, bass), Diego Yturriga (keyboards, accordion and melodica), Jordi Sancho (bass, fender rhodes) and Rubén Moreno (drums). Acuarela-1085 CD $13.50 Feelies, The Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years. Water CD $14.00 Fleet Foxes S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Fleet Foxes S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers. The subject matter ranges from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves. "Supremely crafted and confident" - 8.7 - Pitchfork. Subpop CD $12.50 Free Blood Never Hear Surf Music Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US This two-piece Brooklyn band has more street cred than you can shake a stick at, & for good reason. Consisting of Madeline Davy (Octopi NYC) on the microphone & John Pugh (formally of !!!) also on microphone. An unpredictable druggy number, a mangled hybrid of Beatles-esque melodies fused angrily w/ a Butthole Surfers song. "Quick & Painful" is a raucous affair that delivers a swift kick to the jewels. Rong/DFA 12 $8.00 Futureheads This Is Not the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US New album. Megaforce CD $13.75 Gable Seven Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Containing 18 tracks clocking in at just under 40 min. The songs cover such diverse topics as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realization, cats, & drunk foxes, in the best tradition of DIY bands like The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, & Beat Happening. Loaf CD $16.00 Giffoni, Carlos Zamuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen-printed jacket. Numbered. A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. Side A on this LP is a live realization of this piece recorded at the Compound in San Francisco in 2006 (Mastered by Lasse Marhaug). Carlos composed and performed this piece live on several tours in the US/Europe/Japan all trough out 2006 and 2007, if you saw him live in those two years this is the piece he performed. This was the most complete version of it that made it to tape. Side B is a studio piece recorded live on a much larger modular synth, based around the same theme, but with structural and tonal variations not in the original composition. .This is pure psychedelic electronic music. Important-201 LP $19.50 Harcourt, Ed Beautiful Lie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Beautiful Lie is easily one of his most accessible and listenable efforts. Yes, the hallmarks of his tortured singer/songwriter status are still in place, as flagrant strings, grandiose arrangements, and rampant-but-quality peer-mimicry rule these 14 tracks. But even though his lyrics are sometimes overbearingly dark and too many vampire metaphors abound, the music and songwriting compare favorably to contemporary indie-centric, raspy-voiced artists like Beck, the Eels, Sparklehorse, and Tom Waits. Harcourt dabbles in many genres here, from acoustic folk to '70s style pop ballads to rootsy psychedelia to experimental lounge, all the while rooting the music's emotion in melodic piano... Beautiful Lie is an invigorating and frequently gorgeous affair, essential for old fans and a good place to start for newcomers." Dovecote CD $15.00 Hefner The Fidelity Wars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, UK 1999 was a special year for Hefner. The original Fidelity Wars reached number one in the independent album charts, with its accompanying single, cult favourite Hymn for the Cigarettes securing them the number one place in the independent single charts. It was also the year that saw Hefner working hard for John Peel, recording three sessions for his show and having five entries in the Festive Fifty for '99. They reached numbers two and three in the chart, only beaten to the number one spot by the Cuban Boys! Fidelity Wars saw Hefner coming of age; the rawness of songwriter Darren Hayman's earlier music and lyrics developing into a more intelligent, observational style. Hymn for the Alcohol, tells the tale of two alcoholics falling out of love, accompanied by the sweet pedal steel of new member Jack Hayter. The Weight of the Stars has the narrator memorising the contents of a roll of camera film, which was lost on a one-night stand. Don't Flake Out On laments upon the lost friends of our early twenties, accompanied by the broken voice of ex-Raincoat Gina Birch and brass section. This re-release of Fidelity Wars contains the original album plus an extra 29 rare and unreleased tracks including deleted EPs, b-sides, and alternate versions. Belka-05 DCD $21.75 Helm, Levon Dirt Farmer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US I'm so excited that this album will finally see the light of day on vinyl. Vanguard LP $22.00 Hercules and Love Affair S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US Mute CD $15.25 Holy Modal Rounders Live in 1965 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US A rousing live album from the Rounders featuring songs spanning their careers on both the ESP and Prestige labels. A must have for any Rounders fan! Digipak. ESPDisk CD $12.75 Hosaka, Akane Niko Niko Denki Muzic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, FRANCE With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys. Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation. References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop are deliberate: there for all to see. Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy: Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari. For her, these images evoke music that she then sets about transcribing. Naturally reserved, she's a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes. Her compositions are like pastel-colored soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8. Sonore-27 CD $17.50 Isol/Zypce Sima (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Digipak with 16 page booklet featuring the artist's illustrations. Isol and Zypce present Sima, their latest collaboration. Isol: singer, composer, ex-vocalist of the electronic pop band Entre Ríos, singer with the baroque group The Excuse and member of the synthpop American band Alsace Lorraine. She's also an internationally renowned illustrator of books and printed media. For the first time, she composes the melodies in the songs and writes their lyrics on this new record. Zypce: musician, composer. In 1994 he released his CD Nuevo Muerto (New Dead) on which he and his ensemble play his own works of contemporary classical music tainted with industrial reminiscences, although these categories are in fact very dubious labels. He has also composed music for the film, dance and theatre in Argentina and abroad and has performed his experimental compositions with pianist Adriana de los Santos, among others in concert. He builds his own musical instruments and has an extremely elaborate approach to the stage factor. On this CD he composes and arranges the songs by being clearly faithful to his peculiar aesthetics though approaching a pop song format, always with very experimental results. Isol and Zypce are siblings, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. About Sima: 11 tracks / Voice: Isol / Instrumental arrangements: Zypce / Lyrics: Isol / Music: Isol - Zypce (except "La primera vez" and "Vos me llamás", by Dani Umpi - Adrián Soiza) / Artistic production: Zypce (in "Vos me llamás": Zypce-Cecinini) / Mastering: Nicolás Cecinini. Sima: f. abyss, precipice, crag, depth, chasm. Darla-195 CD $13.00 Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US This is a collection of all his out-of-print material, re-mastered by the Real Tard himself. It's finally possible to hear these gems in one straight shot, remasterd (hence sounding better than ever), without flipping over a pile of 7'' platters. Includes a DVD showcasing some choice live performances. InTheRed-151 CD/DVD $17.00 Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) US,PS VINYL VERSION. Double-LP housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve InTheRed-151 DLP $15.50 Jazkamer Artbreaker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, NORWAY Jazkamer is always dealing with different kinds of noise & noise-music. This album has 58 tracks and is 17 minutes long! This time the Jazkamers has gone as far with rock & punk as humanly possible. We guess this is their homage to Japan's noisecore & their love for early Boredoms, Melt Banana, Hanatarash & Zeni Geva. But we don't know. Just listen for yourself. SmalltownSuperjazz-135 CD $15.25 Jennings, Mason In the Ever (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Brushfire LP $13.75 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Ladytron Velocifero (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US New album, their 4th full-length, fully transcends the boundaries of electro-pop w/a fresh wave of distorted soul. Nettwerk CD $17.75 Leone, Dominique s/t (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, NORWAY Dominique Leone wears many hats, only a few faces & has a hundred songs that you haven't heard. And yes, he's a him. He's a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter... scratch that, he's one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteur with more than a slight command of pop history & theory chops, and writing songs for joyous, infatuated people. Perhaps some of them are a bit over stimulated. Perhaps some of them just like good melodies & strange chord progressions that still seem vaguely familiar. The music is catchy but ambitious; crafted but not sterile; interesting but not pretentious. It's just a lot of fucking fun. Stromland-002 CD $15.25 Lexie Mountain Boys Sacred Vacation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Everything that is good & bad about the things you think, about the sound of your own voice as imagined in the mind of another person, each sound you made alone & some made not for speaking but for blaming. This is a minor document of soul noise diva karaoke, collaborative cave-chanteuses rippling w/ roquefort vibes, & the slippery wet nightgown that is her songsmithy. Carpark CD $15.00 Lodger, The Life is Sweet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Slumberland LP $14.25 Lodger, The Life is Sweet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Still filled with gorgeous melodies & catchy tunes, but is also deeper & more thoughtful, full of emotional peaks & valleys. Rather than just chip in w/ an album of "more of the same," they've paid extra attention to the arrangements, w/ 12-string & acoustic guitars, lap steel, & violin adding crucial detail & depth to the tunes Slumberland CD $14.25 Love As Laughter Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Epic/RedInk LP $12.75 Love As Laughter Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US The group's distinctive sound can only be described as a melting pot of flavors of artists such as the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, & Neil Diamond. Epic/RedInk CD $13.25 Low You May Need A Murderer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US On several occasions in 2007, Dutch documentary maker David Kleijwegt filmed the legendary chamber-rock trio. This is a portrait of a band set against the scenery of modern day America, a country that according to Low is rapidly becoming a third world country. This high-standard documentary is more than an on-the-road movie or behind-the-scenes video. It shows Sparhawk as the ambivalent main character in an intriguing movie about religion, violence, questions of conscience &-whether concealed or not-madness, that can also be seen as a touching love story. Soulmining DVD $15.75 LSD & The Search For God S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US ON VINYL! This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on & tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars & playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks & fuzzed out drones. Limited to 1000 DeepSpace 12 $12.00 Made Out Of Babies Ruiner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US While the album retains the group's trademark ferocious hybrid of PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard & Big Black, it also finds the band's musical exploration showcasing something unsettling & unique. The End CD $15.50 Mae Shi HLLLYH (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Really crazy prog rock from the LA band that doesn't stop touring. Yosada LP $19.00 Mammatus Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Named for the ominous clouds that are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed, they are a lean sludge machine that shoots giant burritos (carne asada) from their instruments. They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, subgoths & dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any "terrestrial" engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven w/ spells of the nameless one that were spoken of before rock could speak. HolyMountain LP $16.00 Mann, Aimee @#%&! Smilers(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US (Digipack Packaging) "I've always been drawn to dark, eccentric personalities," says Los Angeles singer songwriter Aimee Mann. On Smilers, her 7th solo CD, Mann presents thirteen exquisitely-crafted new songs about the inner life of people living far from the bright lights of success or fame. SuperegoRecords CD $16.00 Melodyguild Aitu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Vocalist Suzanne Perry (LOVE SPIRALS DOWNWARDS) returns w/her 1st new collection of work in almost a decade w/this driving shoegazer/dream-pop quartet. A must for lovers of Tearwave, Mira, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, & Autumn's Grey Solace. Projekt CD5 $7.25 Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US This Melbourne based band was described by Rolling Stone US as "David Bowie if his Berlin Trilogy was a collaboration w/ Kraftwerk & Faust." Astralwerks CD $15.00 Mogwai Young Team [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, UK The original album remastered and repackaged with an additional CD of bonus tracks including phenomenal live performances from T In The Park and Chemikal Underground's 5th Birthday Party; a BBC session version of "R U Still In 2 It?" featuring Aidan Moffat; a rare Spaceman 3 cover; a radio session track from WNYC and some other stuff. ChemikalUnderground DCD $15.75 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 My Brightest Diamond A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US With this Brooklyn band's sophomore release, we're instantly reminded of Shara Worden's reputation as one of indie music's most vibrant, creative, and original voices. This record is charming, playful, daring, foreboding, graceful, eclectic, exciting, and visceral. The songs marry vast instrumentation - marimbas, harps, clarinets, French horns, rabid guitars, vibraphones, and more - to create an unequaled amalgamation of style and color. In a word, beautiful. SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this CD from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake. AsthmaticKitty CD $11.50 My Brightest Diamond A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this LP from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake. AsthmaticKitty LP $12.00 My Education Bad Vibrations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Showcases My Education's sonic flights as sharply honed, highly melodic mini-epics. Layers of guitar swell & sway over propulsive rhythms while viola spins yearning melodies ever skyward, sprinkled with delicate color by vibraphone & keyboards. Book-ended by ambient passages pillowing heavy-lidded acoustic strumming languid strings & lap-steel, Bad Vibrations is certainly the finest summation of My Education's highly textured & emotive music yet. StrangeAttractors CD $12.50 My Morning Jacket At Dawn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, red and gold color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their beloved second record (2001). "At Dawn has an Ineffable magic to it from start to finish, one that leads me to scour my brain for words that could describe something that sounds so special. Anytime a pop or rock song can give you chills, that's something. When a whole album can do it that's something else entirely." -POPMATTERS. TRACK LISTING: 1. At Dawn 2. Lowdown 3. The Way That He Sings 4. Death Is My Sleazy Pay 5. Hopefully 6. Bermuda Highway 7. Honest Man 8. X-mas Curtain 9. Just Because I Do 10. If It Smashes Down 11. I Needed It Most 12. Phone Went West 13. Strangulation 14. Bonus track. Darla-111-1 DLP $19.00 My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, green and blue color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their fabulous debut album (1999). "Released to worldwide critical acclaim, The Tennessee Fire provides proof (200 proof) that heartfelt American music is alive and well and living in Kentucky. A must for anyone who loves the sound of Alt-country mixed with wide open spaces." -ALL MUSIC GUIDE. TRACK LISTING: 1. Heartbreakin Man 2. They Ran 3. The Bear 4. Nashville To Kentucky 5. Old September Blues 6. If All Else Fails 7. It's About Twilight Now 8. Evelyn Is Not Real 9. War Begun 10. Picture Of You 11. I Will Be There When You Die 12. The Dark 13. By My Car 14. Butch Cassidy 15. I Think I'm Going To Hell 16. Bonus track Darla-089-1 DLP $19.00 My Morning Jacket This Is Not the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US New album. ATO/Red CD $13.75 N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US New album is a blistering mash-up of booming hip-hop beats & rollercoastering rock riffs, rumbling crunk rhythms & scintillating soul music. StarTrak CD $15.00 Names, The Nightshift/Live At Plan K 15/12/2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, UK 24 tracks live DVD by cult Factory Records band The Names, including their December 2007 homecoming concert at legendary Brussels (Belgium) venue Plan K. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the Plan K section of the DVD features 11 songs, including the classic singles Nightshift, Calcutta and The Astronaut, as well as new tracks including I Am the Rain and Zeroes (a tribute to their former producer Martin Hannett), and an encore cover of the Magazine song The Light Pours Out of Me. These tracks were taped at the memorable A Factory Night (Once Again) event at Plan K staged on 15 December 2007, which also featured performances by Section 25, Peter Hook, Crispy Ambulance and Kevin Hewick. The 120 minute DVD also features several vintage promo clips from 1980-82, including shorts for Nightshift, Light and The Astronaut. An intimate extra bonus feature is provided by Celebration, 9 songs recorded live at a 2005 birthday party for singer/writer Michel Sordinia, at which the band run through versions of a number of Names originals as well as songs by Joy Division and Neil Young. Also available: Swimming & Singles (LTMCD 2324), Spectators of Life (LTMCD 2320). Live Au Plan K (Brussels) 15 December 2007: 1. Light 2. I Am The Rain 3. Calcutta 4. Zeroes 5. The Astronaut 6. I Liked You Better When You Were Dead 7. Nightshift 8. I Wish I Could Speak Your Language 9. Discovery 10. Friendly Fire 11. The Light Pours Out Of Me When We Were Kids: 12. Nightshift #1 13. Light 14. The Astronaut 15. Nightshift #2 Celebration (2005): 16. My Funny Valentine 17. Nightshift 18. The Astronaut 19. Calcutta 20. The Call Of Trains 21. Swimming 22. New Dawn Fades 23. Luka 24. Cortez The Killer. LTM-2522 DVD $21.75 Nisennenmondai Tori/Neji (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US Nisennenmondai means "Year 2000 Problem'' and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by Lightning Bolt, Battles & No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as This Heat, Sonic Youth & Pop Group, one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you ad Black Flag, DNA, Neu! & Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondais sound. It's raw & repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as they are wild groovy with a no wave/disco vibe to it. This is the first release outside of Japan & it contains the bands two EPs "Neji" and Tori" released as one album with new cover design by Kim Hiorthoy SmalltownSupersound CD $14.50 Notwist The Devil, You + Me (Deluxe) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in. The deluxe limited edition is a hard-bound book with full color 24-page insert. Domino CD/BOOK $15.50 Notwist The Devil, You + Me (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in. Domino CD $11.50 Notwist The Devil, You + Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $17.50 Odd Nosdam Pretty Swell Explode (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US This inimitable producer returns with an enhanced 2-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides, videos, & original songs, incl. 8 tracks entirely exclusive to this set. Here Nosdam compiles the odds & ends created mostly around his last two fulllengths (2005's Burner and last year's Level Live Wires), as well as a few choice gems from bygone days. Accompanying these blasted sounds are 3 videos, also incl. a hidden unreleased version of Nosdam's Lee Perry-inspired "Upsetter." Anticon DCD $15.75 Osorezan Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 Osorezan Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH) PS, US "Do you like Derek Bailey?" This was the question posed to JIM O'ROURKE on his first meeting w/ bass-playing fury DARIN GRAY. This is Jim on electric guitar & Darin on contrabass bonded w/ CHRIS CORSANO, who's blown the free world on its tony ass w/ his unbridled power, intensely collaborative nature & smooth stickwork behind the kit. Recorded live at the Pit Inn in Tokyo during a 2005 residency. DragCity CD $13.00 Paramount Styles Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound. Konkurrent CD $13.25 Pelt Dauphin Elegies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US This first new studio recording in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off-delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action. VHF CD $14.25 Pentemple 0))) Presents (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly limited to 3,000 machine numbered copies. It will NOT last long. SouthernLord CD $14.00 Pollard, Robert Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US With ten songs in 35 min. it's an extraordinary rock tour-de-force. It sports Todd Tobias's cleanest & meanest production yet, giant songs & riffs that pack a wallop, & arguably Pollard's finest singing ever captured on record. Since freeing himself of a band in 2004, his albums have each had very distinct & varied flavors, & his creativity has flowered. GBV CD $16.00 Pollard, Robert Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! GBV LP $17.25 Ponies In The Surf See You Happy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Ponies In The Surf is quietly one of a kind. Siblings and self proclaimed indie music nerds Alex & Camile live in Cambridge, MA though they're originally from Bogota, Columbia. The Ponies build perfect soft pop songs with elements Samba, Beatles, the more sophisticated folk set, the Pop Vocal traditionalists and they're very much akin to The Violent Femmes and Johnathan Richman in terms of song craft, a subtle humor and vulnerability. The Ponies' work is uniquely comforting and highly addictive. It is served with a rare passion and grace. It evokes nostalgia for the above mentioned while remaining firmly planted in its own special, almost timeless place. "After playing in rock bands for some time, Alexander McGregor decided at some point that he simply wanted to make some music that could even appeal to his grandmother. Joined by his sister Camille, the duo plays stripped-down folkish type music that sounds like it could have been created at any point in the past 40 years yet still feels fresh." --ALMOST COOL. "These powerfully quiet traditionalists perform folk songs with a pan-American touch. It's only a shame that music this delicate and warm doesn't garner more notice." -POPMATTERS Darla-192 CD $12.25 Pumice Quo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy & distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk & noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting & tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of the Kilgours or Chris Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace. SoftAbuse CD $11.50 Radiohead Best Of [regular] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US 17 track retrospective, regular edition. Capitol CD $18.75 Radiohead Best Of [videos] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US All the band's critically acclaimed videos. Capitol DVD $23.75 Radiohead Best Of [expanded deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective, this 2 disc Limited Edition CD package includes 17 of the band's most popular tracks including "Creep," "Karma Police," "High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees," and "Optimistic," plus a bonus disc featuring 13 more standouts including tracks not featured on Radiohead's prior studio albums. The Limited Edition package also features an extended booklet and deluxe packaging. Capitol DCD $25.00 Salas, Mikel Bajo Las Estrellas (Beneath The Stars) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, SPAIN Acuarela releases the original soundtrack of "Bajo las estrellas" [Under the stars] Félix Viscarret's debut film (2008 Goya* for best Adapted Screenplay), starring Alberto San Juan (2008 Goya for best Actor) and nominated for best Soundtrack music by Mikel Salas with twilight western instrumentation. Surprising bonus track by Flamenco big star, Enrique Morente, who sings the standard classic "Stella by Starlight." Goya is the equivalent of the Oscars for films in Spanish language. "Bajo las estrellas" starts, and we hear a ukulele, a xylophone; suddenly it bursts a fun rogue melody, with an ubiquitous banjo and a persistent rhythm, as if we were traveling in a ramshackle bus. We are entering the impossible city of Estella (in Navarra, Spain), more imaginary than real, a world fraught with losers who cling to any chance of leading a more 'normal' life. Mikel Salas' music is that of iron, scrap metal and abandoned caravans, rusting, with twilight western instrumentation and lo-fi sound, a succession of instrumental landscapes, almost borderline abstractions that travel along with Benito Lacunza (actor Alberto San Juan) in his journey towards happiness, to the possibility of a remote happiness. In previous conversations between the director and the musician, it was much-discussed Daniel Lanois, and, above all, his album "Shine". Félix Viscarret says that Mikel Salas likes to get into a project before even shooting. But the proper 'revelation' came when "Mikel faced the first editing of the film. That's when we started talking about road music for our peculiar road movie à la navarra, an industrial western, the redemption story of an embarrassment guy, Benito Lacunza, who's going to show us that behind his dirty appearance lies someone with a huge heart." This is Acuarela's first published soundtrack. But it's also almost like any other release this label has got us used to. Almost folk, dark but flooded by rare cracks of light, intimate, warm, sometimes funny and sometimes bleak. Mikel Salas has written and recorded (by himself) the sound of how is traveling on roads filled with dust, deep into the mists of the north, or bordering small towns. And to conclude the record, a surprise: the voice of Enrique Morente and his amazing, magical version of Victor Young's standard "Stella by Starlight, filling the sky with stars. Acuarela-1080 CD $13.50 Saturday Knights Mingle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US Three-piece hip-hop/trailer park pop-punk band debut their genre-busting full length. They present a dash os psych, Afro-funk, old school style & a seductive collaboration with the DAP-KINGS. Kim Thayil (SOUNDGARDEN) spazzes out on guitar on the mesmerizing rock anthem "I Go" while Nirvana producer JACK ENDINO plays drums on a pumped up new mix of underground radio hit "45." LightInTheAttic CD $12.50 She & Him Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge LP $15.50 Shit & Shine Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibby's spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of England's Shit & Shine. Combing a dense percussive chug & a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic headbang & the distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers & 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality Load CD $12.50 Shit & Shine Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load DLP $15.75 Sic Alps United (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed. Important-192 45 $5.50 Sirhan Sirhan Blood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US West Coast (San Diego, hmm) heaviosity, think Melvins meets Black Flag. Anodyne CD $13.00 Sleeping Years, The We're Becoming Islands One by One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, UK The Sleeping Years is the new project from Dale Grundle, formerly of the Catchers. Now signed to innovative indie-label Rocket Girl, the debut album "We're becoming Islands One by One", is a gorgeous exploration of melody and melancholy. A gifted lyricist, Dale's exquisitely crafted songs tell of people trying to stay connected in a world seemingly designed to keep them apart. He is heavily influenced by the language and culture of his home in Ireland, providing a distinct character to this highly personal collection of songs. Born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland to an Irish father and a Scottish mother, Dale started his first band Catchers while at school. Their first single 'Cotton Dress' came out on Setanta Records and became single of the week in Melody Maker. Their debut album 'Mute' was recorded with Mike Hedges in France. Catchers went on to tour with Pulp, Edwyn Collins, The Divine Comedy, Dr. John and Oasis. Their second album 'Stooping to Fit' was recorded by Nick Drake's arranger Robert Kirby. Dale started his solo project The Sleeping Years with a trilogy of EPs in 2007, 'You and Me Against The World', 'Setting Fire to Sleepy Towns' and 'Clocks and Clones'. These were very well received and are very much living proof that independent singles do sell-out. They also garnered critical acclaim, featuring on BBC Radio 1's Introducing, the Guardian's writer's play list and on the cover mount of Rolling Stone Magazine. Songs have been heavily played on Gideon Coe's 6music show and on French radio, having been championed by France's answer to John Peel, Bernard Lenoir. 'We're becoming Islands One By One" is poised to become an instant, yet timeless classic with a refreshingly dynamic twist on acoustic song writing. Dale performs all vocals and guitars, not to mention bass, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano and e-bow parts and was joined by cellist Michelle So and Tom Page from Rothko on drums. The Guardian: 'his voice breaks exquisitely between hope and despair in songs that the acoustic guitar was invented for' Dazed and Confused: 'a one-man show that owes his lilting metaphysical lyricism to the likes of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and John Martyn. It's good to know that there are people like him out there. RocketGirl-51 CD $15.50 Small Cities S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Three friends from the Twin Cities playing well-crafted songs with nostalgic storylines & infectious refrains. The modest 3 piece outfit earned their wings in other Minneapolis bands like Wes Burdine & The Librarians & by swimming in at least three of Minnesota's ten thousand lakes. CommonCloud CD5 $6.00 Spiritualized Songs in A&E [regular CD version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Sixth studio album is an 18 track opus partially inspired by Jason's hospitalization. Spaceman/Universal CD $12.25 Steinski What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Steinski has produced a variety of tracks & this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa's "Jazz" with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release will also includes the critically acclaimed "Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix," an hour-long mashup that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by Salon as, "the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced" and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with The Lessons) to Girl Talk's Night Ripper. IllegalArt DCD $16.75 Storm of Light And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Feat. Josh Graham, former member of RED SPAROWES & BATTLE OF MICE. The esteemed guitarist/vocalist is joined on this recording by bassist/vocalist Domenic Seita (ex-TOMBS, ex-Asea) & drummer Pete Angevine of Satanized. Since then, rhythmic pugilist extraordinaire Vinny Signorelli (UNSANE, ex-SWANS) signed on as 2nd drummer. This is brutally hard-hitting. Neurot CD $16.00 Storm of Light And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Neurot DLP $18.75 Supergrass Diamond Hoo Ha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Recorded in Berlin's legendary Hansa studios over a 3 week period w/ producer Nick Launay. This captures the energy & enthusiasm of a band firing on all cylinders. To quote one review, "the beefy, stomporific riffs are back on board". Feat. a handful of rocking tracks debuted last summer when they were hand-picked as main support for the Arctic Monkeys at their Old Trafford shows. Astralwerks CD $13.00 Sweet Cobra Forever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH) PS, US A gritty, disgruntled ball of stoner rock frustration from a group of hardcore guys w/ heavy hearts embracing their late 70's groove rock influences to the fullest. W/a truly unique approach to the genre, these tormented tracks are menacing, introspective & engagine simultaneously. The mix of crusty hardcore, d-beat & riff heavy rock draw comparisons to His Hero is Gone, Helmet, & Mastodon. RIYL: Sword, High on Fire, Crowbar. MetalBlade/Blackmarket CD $13.00 Syclops I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Little is known about the secretive trio. Despite the mystery, this is an engaging record that reveals the full shamanic magic of the trio; a mixture of dark intensity & subtle, crafted musicianship. Soaking in the band's brooding undercurrent, the listener will have to imagine where they find their inspiration; heavy metal riffs over acid house? Playing folkloric instruments w/ old school analog synthesizers in a Finnish laboratory? DFA CD $16.00 Syclops I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DFA DLP $17.25 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave {PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008) PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Gravitation CD $13.00 Tiersen, Yann Tabarly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, FRANCE LP + FREE CD. For the 10th anniversary of Eric Tabarly's death, a famous skipper from Brittany (Northwest of France), the director Pierre Marcel and Galatée Film release a biography of this unsurpassed sailor on June, 11. Galatée Film did not hesitate at all to suggest another exceptional Breton (from Brittany), i.e. Yann Tiersen to compose the soundtrack of this outstanding film. As usual, Yann Tiersen did not just make a music that illustrates the film, but he made a full-fledged, independent, personal and powerful music. Yann made an instrumental music that gives pride of place to the piano and to the intimate melodies that will delight his biggest fans. This record is a kind of bridge in the artist's evolution, from his first loves to his new folk trend. Under this peaceful, mastered and warm movie soundtrack, lays actually a new album. After Eric Zonca's "la vie rêvée des anges", "Amélie from Montmartre" and "Goodbye Lenin", Yann Tiersen composed his fourth soundtrack and as the previous films, it is a safe bet that it will be a success! The record has been initially made for vinyl and the mastering has been made from this vinyl. The sound is therefore warm and powerful. Lcid'Ailleurs-048 LP $20.25 Torche Meanderthal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Copious hooks abound & psychedelic swarms of drone weave throughout riff-wizardry on vinyl. RoboticEmpire LP $18.75 Tractor Kings Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2008) PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders. Spur-CD-006 CD $9.00 U.S. Christmas Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Neurot LP $14.25 U.S. Christmas Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US The music cannot be ignored. It hurts people, physically & mentally. It stirs intense feelings of pain, frustration, loss, fear, & occasionally euphoria. Snare drums rattle, amps hum & pop, dogs bark in the background. But that's the way it always sounds, & the band doesn't see any point in changing a method that works. Many a drunken bystander has been drawn to the theremin's magic antennae. Neurot CD $16.00 U2 War [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. Island DCD $29.75 U2 Boy [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. Island DCD $29.75 U2 October [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. Island DCD $29.75 Ueno Sui-Gin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Ueno, along with his partner Saya, is one of the core members of Tenniscoats, who've released a number of fantastic discs of straight up melodic to the core sing-songing joy. 2007 saw the release of Tenniscoat's 'Totemo Aimasho' for ROOM40 and 'Tan Tan Therapy' for Häpna/Headz. In addition to his contributions to the Tenniscoats mothership, Ueno has released a string of solo releases, most of which explore his engaging approach to the guitar. 'Two Things Always Happen Simultaneously' released in 2003 on Majikick as a cdr and then re-issued two years later as a 'proper' Cd on Commune-Disc lays the foundations. Whilst it is more explicitly a guitar record than what goes down on Sui-Gin, the Fahey-esque finger-picking that would otherwise plant him firmly within the Takoma school (Ueno's cat is not called 'Fahey' without reason) is willfully offset by Ueno's technique of recording multiple overdubs without recourse to the original. There might be a little of that on 'Sui-Gin' (Japanese for mercury), too. Either way, there is an ongoing slippage between intention and accident in the complex mesh of notes, and Ueno sends himself further away from any superficial 12-string Tacoma purism by plugging his guitar into a moog ring-mod and completing erasing its original sound. What you hear on 'sui-gin' is 9 tracks of alien beauty that sit somewhere between Derek Bailey and Mouse on Mars' 'Instrumentals' lp. Takashi Ueno plays 12 string acoustic guitar & Moog ring modulator. "For an instrument that when presented solo often brings to mind a clutter of reference points, Ueno Takashi's playing is stubbornly his own and (((hasunosu))) suggests we are hearing but the first offerings of an increasingly vital proponent of contemporary Japanese guitar composition." Signal To Noise. Room40-428 CD $15.00 Various Gigantic: A Tribute To Kim Deal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US A tribute to one of the most influential and certainly one of the coolest rock chicks of all time. This tribute is a pure labor of love for the label and features indie-rockers from all over the globe covering Kim's impressive body of work. Songs Kim's written for The Breeders and The Amps are covered with utter reverence here. Liner notes by Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders). Mastered by Sean Glonek (Frank Black, OK Go, Kristin Hersh, Dresden Dolls, Mogwai). Produced by Joseph Spadaro (Dig For Fire - a tribute to Pixies, Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity). Original album art by David Yurchuk. Limited edition pressing. Tracklist: 01. The She / WITCH HATS 02. Bragging Party / THE GERMAN ART STUDENTS 03. Cannonball / THE WHEELERS 04. Tipp City / TARA KING TH 05. Do You Love Me Now / MELISSA GIBBS 06. Fortunately Gone / JULIE PEEL 07. Off You / FRANCINE 08. Doe / RIZZO 09. I Just Want To Get Along / DESCARTES A KANT 10. Invisible Man / THE NUEVOS 11. Safari / THE DOUGLAS FIR 12. When I Was A Painter / LE TETSUO 13. Divine Hammer / THE MODIFIERS. AmericanLaundromat-013 CD $12.25 Various Slendid Isolation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, SWEDEN A collection of exclusive tracks from the Radio Dept., Testbild!, Most Valuable Players, Differnet, Action Biker, Viktor Sjöberg, VED, Peter Jackson, Peter Nilsson, Redmalm, Enheten för musik och melodi, Malkovic, Erik de Vahl, Band in a Box, Flow Flux Clan, Robotboy, and Jian. Between January and December 2007 Friendly Noise released 18 mp3 singles offered as free downloads from www.friendlynoise.se. From the start it was intended to be a one-year-long project. The idea was simple: contributions chosen by us from our extended family of old friends and new discoveries, usually two songs, together with an introduction by the artists themselves and a picture to illustrate and enhance, once or twice a month. This was meant as a complement to our CD releases, and a chance to easily distribute great songs, in cases where the album context isn't necessary. These two ways of distribution aren't contradictory, they're related, as we stated on our website. Soon we realized the series had become a success, both when it came to the quality of the output and the amount of interest generated. So "Splendid Isolation" - our third compilation after "Friendly People Making Noise" (2003) and "Are You Scared To Get Happy?" (2006) - is our way of documenting the series through a selection of the songs and thus giving them a more official kind of release. The record is also a celebration of five years of Friendly Noise as a label. The order of the songs on the record isn't chronological, it's instead our attempt to make the record sound as good as possible as a whole. TRACKLIST: 1. Bognor Regis (Peter Jackson) 2. (Jack) Lullaby (Viktor Sjöberg) 3. Rondo (Most Valuable Players) 4. Stratoscope (VED) 5. Get Nowhere (Peter Nilsson) 6. Hultviksvägen 7 (Peter Jackson) 7. The Bravest Person I Know (Redmalm) 8. Shut Out (Flow Flux Clan) 9. September (Robotboy) 10. Hashish in Nizza (Peter Jackson) 11. Sol genom lövverket (Enheten för musik och melodi) 12. En gång i Stockholm (Testbild!) 13. Dedicated to Therese Holm (Testbild!) 14. 1959y (Malkovic) 15. Almost Close (Peter Jackson) 16. Open Night (Most Valuable Players) 17. Bachelor Kisses (The Radio Dept.) 18. Vinden susar i advent (Action Biker) 19. Postojna (Peter Jackson) 20. Whatever We Want (Erik de Vahl) 21. Leaving Smears (Band in Box) 22. Just A Little Lovin' (Jian) 23. Curriculum Circular (Differnet) FriendlyNoise-68 CD $13.50 We Are Soldiers We Have Guns Get Up, Get Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST) PS, UK WASWHG is Gothenburg, Sweden resident Malin Dahlberg (also in Douglas Heart and Laurel Music), with help from an assortment of musical friends. Regarded as one of Sweden's finest indie-pop vocalists, this is a most potent display of Malin's vocal beauty and songwriting talents. More powerful, more melodic and more immediate than before - mix Cat Power with Jason Molina, Low with Architecture in Helsinki and add the dark pop integrity of fellow Swede Stina Nordenstam. Most surely; music to die for. StereoTestKit CD $12.25 Weezer S-T (The Red Album) [expanded deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS,US Limited Deluxe Edition of their 2008 album features four bonus tracks over the standard version and comes housed in a special digipak, with a deluxe booklet containing lyrics, photos, liner notes and band commentary on the songs. Weezer, one of the biggest and most influential bands of the last decade will, for the third time in its six-album history, release a self-titled album already being referred to by people as The Red Album. Comprised of sessions produced by Rick Rubin, Jacknife Lee and the band itself, the album is adventurous and undeniably Weezer. The first single, the quirky and catchy 'Pork and Beans', was recorded under the watch of the Irishman Lee and already a Modern Rock smash hit. Geffen CD $20.00 Weezer S-T (The Red Album) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 3RD) PS, US New album. Geffen CD $16.75 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 Winning Could We Believe In Magic? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, CANADA Vancouver trio, Winnings sophomore full length is as dour and uncomfortable as it is playful. Its a paradigm sprouted from the seed of improvisation, but nurtured from a dark and claustrophobic sentiment. Structurally, Could We Believe In Magic? has it's hands in a variety of extremes. It runs the gamut, from an apparent abandonment of traditional tempo and structure, to, at least comparatively, more conventional composition. Last year's, This Is An For Cigarettes, Winning's debut album, was a tangled and puzzling foray into rocks most experimental corners, abandoning rhythm, and structure almost completely; Only Magazine called it ...a clumsy acrobatic act beneath the Big Top of punk rock. And Magic is, no doubt, a logical continuation of such acrobatics; the most notable difference being much larger occurrences of coherency. Melody and structure are gestured at; sometimes completed, and sometimes spun quickly out of control. One may assume that these moments of melody (are we bold enough to call them 'choruses?'), would smooth out Winning's cumbersome disposition. But it is arguable that the exact opposite is true. Much like how one warm day will make the cold ones feel colder; these moments create a reference point for normalcy. The pop insinuations on Magic are equally as baffling as the free structured ones. Ache-037 CD $13.25 Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US Their second album for Sub Pop might just be this generation's "Marquee Moon" or an indie rock "Chinese Democracy" released thirty years early. Better though, to think of it as the sound of a band edging forward into a wispy darkness, one hand reaching out, the other firmly clutching the past. Subpop CD $12.50 Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Wooden Shjips Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HolyMountain LP $16.00 Wooden Shjips Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Their earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by & are now hopelessly out of print. Who are we to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10'', the Dance, California 7'', & the SOL 7'' HolyMountain CD $16.00 WRNLRD Oneiromantical War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 27TH) PS, US Working with guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, synths & samples; Wrnlrd throws metal, industrial, noise, dark ambient & folk musics into a blackened & bubbling cauldron. Wrnlrd records spontaneous, wordless vocalizations & details the lyrics later, improvises massed guitar tones, buries samples deep into the mix & brings the disruptive & unpredictable elements of improvisation & chance into recording. ONE TIME PRESSING OF 500 on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with metallic ink artwork. Comes with digital download code. FlingcoSoundSystem-01 LP $21.75 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders* American Music Club “The Golden Age” CD $14.00 Baja “Wolfhour” CD $12.25 Beach House “Devotion” CD $14.25 Black Angels “Better Off Alone” CD5 $3.50 Black Angels “Better Off Alone” 45 $6.50 Black Mountain “In The Future” DLP $12.25 Blood Music “Sing A Song Fighter!” CD $17.00 Braid “The Age Of Octeen” CD $10.00 Butterfly Effect “IMAGO” CD $13.50 Carbonara, Eric “Exodus Bulldornadius” CD $13.75 Celletti, Alessandra “Way Out” CD $17.00 Club 8 “The Friend I Once Had + 6” CD $17.50 Club 8 “Club 8 + 2” CD $13.50 Club 8 “Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5” CD $17.50 Club 8 “Strangely Beautiful + 5” CD $17.50 Corndolly “S/T” CD $7.50 DeVotchKa “Supermelodrama” CD $15.00 Dick Justice “Lasso Your Heart EP” 45 $0.50 Dolly Rocker Movement, The “Purple Journey Into the Mod Machine” CD $12.25 Dolly Rocker Movement, The “Electric Sunshine” CD $12.25 Doubtful Guest “Acid Sauna” CD $16.00 Final Fantasy “He Poos Clouds” LP $12.25 Goldfrapp “Seventh Tree” CD $16.00 Guapo “Elixirs” CD $14.25 Harris, Noah “The Sea & Age EP” CD5 $7.00 Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” LP $13.00 Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” CD $12.00 Holland, Michael “Simple Truths and Pleasures” CD $15.00 Human Bell “S-T” CD $14.00 Isis “Holy Tears” CD5 $6.25 Japancakes “Down The Elements” CD $9.00 Japancakes “The Sleepy Strange” CD $12.25 Joy Unlimited “Overground [re-issue]” CD $15.75 Laakso “Västerbron & Vampires EP” CD5 $8.25 Laakso “Mother, Am I Good Looking?” CD $14.25 Lightspeed Champion “Falling Off The Lavender Bridge” CD $13.00 Lonely Trailer “S/T: The Best Of Lonely Trailer” DCD $10.00 Lovecup “Greefus Groinks and Sheet” CD $10.00 McCarthy, Dawn & Bonny Billy “Wai Notes” CD $13.25 McGill, Cameron & What Army “Hold On Beauty” CD $10.00 Mojack “Under the Willow Tree” CD $14.00 Monkeywrench “Gabriel's Horn” CD $16.00 Morricone, Ennio “L'Alibi OST” CD $16.25 Mother (aka Menthol) “Gold Record LP” CD $7.50 Mould, Bob “District Line” CD $15.50 Mould, Bob “District Line” LP $15.50 Mt. St. Helens “Of Others” CD $8.50 Murder In The Cathedral “Afraid Of...” CD $21.00 Nascimbene, Mario “L'Eneide OST” CD $16.25 New Colony Six, The “Sides” CD $15.50 Paint It Black “New Lexicon” CD $13.25 Psycho & the Birds “We've Moved” CD $14.25 Racer, Kris “Has A Banner Year” CD5 $5.00 Radiohead “In Rainbows” LP $17.50 Redwing “Self-Titled [re-issue]” CD $15.75 Saviours “Into Abaddon” CD $13.00 Sleep Out “I Was Your Shroud” CD $8.50 Spiritualized “Lazer Guided Melodies” CD $12.25 Spiritualized “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” CD $12.25 Spiritualized “Amazing Grace” CD $12.25 Stoltz, Kelly “Circular Sounds” CD $13.00 Suishou No Fune “Prayer for Chibi” DCD $17.25 Sunny Day Sets Fire “Strange: Remix” CD $5.00 Takeovers “Little Green Onion Man” CD5 $7.25 This Will Destroy You “S-T” CD $13.50 Tindersticks “Greatest Hits” CD $15.25 Various “Trey Told 'Em” CD5 $8.50 Various “Daisies OST” CD $20.50 Various “Plum [10 x 7" boxset]” 45-BOX $40.00 Various “Pillows & Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 [3CD/1DVD]” CD/DVD $38.00 Veloso, Caetano “Irene” LP $22.50 VVEREVVOLF GREHV “Zombie Aesthetics” CD $13.25 We're All Gonna Die “Kiss the Ground, Curse the Sky” CD $11.00 White, Jim “S-T” CD $11.75 Wolfgang Dauner Quintet “The Oimels” CD $21.00 Woods “How To Survive In The Woods” CD $13.25 Yellow Moon Band, The “Maybach EP” 45 $7.75