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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

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