ost VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance Party 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS: West African Shock Waves - Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK
v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a FLIPPER PSYCH OUT 2xLP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
DENGUE FEVER Cannibal Courtship LP+MP3
*** Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group debut.
HAWKWIND Hawkwind LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ITAL Culture Clubs 12"
*** "Two elegiac cuts plus a remix by Chicago's f'ed-techno mastermind, HIEROGLYPHIC BEING. Deep opulent sway, submerged pitch bend and thousand yard stare ambiance. HB's "No Culture" mix freaks like none other." Ltd. to 500.
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon LP+STUFF
*** BACK IN STOCK!
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - My Morning Jacket, Madlib, Broken Bells & more
v/a BARRY 7's CONNECTORS Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED! Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.
BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Codes & Keys 2xLP / CD
*** 2011 album from the Alt-Rock heroes. The album breaks away, though not completely, from the guitar-driven style of the band known so well to fans, making use of piano and electronically centered songs that will undoubtedly meet their expectations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."
BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.
FLOGGING MOLLY Speed Of Darkness LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Arguably Flogging Molly's most important album. Speed Of Darkness was written in Detroit, MI and takes a hardnosed look at the economic collapse in the US: the causes and the direct effect it has had on everyday people."
MADLIB Medicine Show No.9: Nittyville CD
*** "Nittyville is pretty traditional for Madlib: one MC, one producer, and a rap record all about stunts, blunts & hip-hop feat. Frank of Detroit's Frank-n-Dank. Also feat. MED, Oh No, Madlib, and a supporting cast of extras."
MY MORNING JACKET Circuital 2xLP / CD
*** "The stunning Circuital is yet another reinvention of their sound that both forges new ground and maintains the distinct spirit of MMJ's previous work."
JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
*** RECOMMENDED! Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.
BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Codes & Keys 2xLP / CD
*** 2011 album from the Alt-Rock heroes. The album breaks away, though not completely, from the guitar-driven style of the band known so well to fans, making use of piano and electronically centered songs that will undoubtedly meet their expectations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."
BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.
FLOGGING MOLLY Speed Of Darkness LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Arguably Flogging Molly's most important album. Speed Of Darkness was written in Detroit, MI and takes a hardnosed look at the economic collapse in the US: the causes and the direct effect it has had on everyday people."
MADLIB Medicine Show No.9: Nittyville CD
*** "Nittyville is pretty traditional for Madlib: one MC, one producer, and a rap record all about stunts, blunts & hip-hop feat. Frank of Detroit's Frank-n-Dank. Also feat. MED, Oh No, Madlib, and a supporting cast of extras."
MY MORNING JACKET Circuital 2xLP / CD
*** "The stunning Circuital is yet another reinvention of their sound that both forges new ground and maintains the distinct spirit of MMJ's previous work."
JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Zombi, Ebo, Dengue Fever & Pink Floyd
DENGUE FEVER Cannibal Courtship LP+MP3
*** Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group debut. Includes MP3s + bonus track.
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon LP+STUFF
*** BACK IN STOCK! Killer reissue of the classic album including the original inserts, etc. This is the best version of this album, period.
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
*** Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group debut. Includes MP3s + bonus track.
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon LP+STUFF
*** BACK IN STOCK! Killer reissue of the classic album including the original inserts, etc. This is the best version of this album, period.
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Zombi, James Pants, Bo Diddley, Michael Chapman & mo'
v/a BARRY 7's CONNECTORS Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.
BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."
BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.
JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
*** RECOMMENDED Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.
BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."
BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.
JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?
EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."
ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Sail + Skate Laws!
SAIL Sail CS
*** "Beaches + psychedelia + sunsets + vague memories + jams + blown glass. This is beach music, desert songs, psychedelic space folk, primitive electronic music. This is Ypsilanti's fantastic Sail!"
SKATE LAWS U.S. Post-Disco CS
*** "The first released document of a dood's one-man skatecore assault feat. classix like “Asylumed By My Parents” and “Clawing At Spiders.” Obvious reference points include early Flag, VOID, and maybe Suicidal Tendencies. Each package comes with a piece of grip tape."
*** "Beaches + psychedelia + sunsets + vague memories + jams + blown glass. This is beach music, desert songs, psychedelic space folk, primitive electronic music. This is Ypsilanti's fantastic Sail!"
SKATE LAWS U.S. Post-Disco CS
*** "The first released document of a dood's one-man skatecore assault feat. classix like “Asylumed By My Parents” and “Clawing At Spiders.” Obvious reference points include early Flag, VOID, and maybe Suicidal Tendencies. Each package comes with a piece of grip tape."
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Not Not Fun & Sublime Frequencies, Nite Jewel, Todd Terje, Nite Jewel & more
v/a FOLK & POP SOUNDS OF SUMATRA LP
*** "Selections from Indonesia's largest island include droning beat pop, early Orkes Melayu songs, Batak Tapanuli, traditional Minang music & folk drama soundtracks taken from old cassette tapes. Eccentric artifacts!" On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
v/a PRINCESS NICOTINE: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma) LP
*** "Here are some of the greatest names from the past 50 years of Burmese musical history from the original recordings featuring Mar Mar Aye, Bo Sein, and the incomparable Tonte Theintan. Listen, and be amazed! Compiled by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
AMIINA Puzzle LP+MP3
*** "Sigur Rós' string section is now a sextet with a widened sonic palette, more rhythmically rugged than Amiina's previous work and heavier in their use of electronics. Amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues."
BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** New album! I think The Roots are on it. It's like a throwback, then an ultimate throwback, then like a new thing.
BURIAL Street Halo 12"
*** "This single is a surprise to all and is the first new official solo material from the mysterious dubstep magnate since 2007. Three all new tracks: 'Street Halo,' 'NYC' and 'Stolen Dog'. Their combined length is 20 minutes, 41 seconds."
DEERHUNTER Cryptograms/Fluorescent Grey 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
DISAPPEARS Guider LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
GILLETTE Gillette 12"
*** "Ladies and gentlemen, we're not floating through space, we're riding the Gillette monorail through a black-lit, airbrushed metropolis where 'cussive keys are cold currency. Melancholic yet uplifting, picturesque while bleak." On 100% Silk.
ITAL Culture Clubs 12"
*** "A new smooth, luxury club zone from Daniel Martin-Mccormick of MI AMI and SEX WORKER. Feat. a remix by HIEROGLYPHIC BEING. Check the original jame here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZZhXYmmdA
JON MUELLER Alphabet Of Movements LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A radical cloud of snare & gong -- thick, resonant, cavernous drones of buzzing rhythm & near-cacophony. It's hard to emerge with music that could honestly be described as original, but Alphabet Of Movements is a truly singular piece of work." Immense percussion record!
NITE JEWEL It Goes Through Your Head EP+MP3
*** "TEEN STEAM! A restless, infectious R&B beat, a voice you can sing along to, a positive outlook that sympathizes with your troubles and helps you to dance them away. Remixes by DAM-FUNK and THE SAMPS."
NOVELLER / UNFACT Bleached Valentine LP+MP3
*** "Split LP between the excellent Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard). Sound-sculptures, canvases of noise and melody & more. Limited to 500 LPs pressed on a gorgeous b&w marble." Includes MP3s.
PEAKING LIGHTS 936 LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops and sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" Check this groovy video: http://vimeo.com/20580559 On NOT NOT FUN.
POCAHAUNTED Make It Real LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Seven jams in 40 minutes: basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment." On NOT NOT FUN.
PSYCHIC REALITY Vibrant New Age LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Leyna Noel's New Age is not the '80s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, dolphin consciousness, etc, but a living, electrified awakening. High drama drum machinery; naked, airy avant-pop; stuttery, mechanized power ballad finales!" Ltd. to 600 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.
RADIO DEPT Passive 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
RADIOHEAD Ok Computer 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JONAS REINHARDT Tactile Dome LP
*** "Easily the most micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, Dome is nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kosmische kraut terrariums. Heavy headphone communion. Art by Sean Patrick." Ltd. to 650 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.
SALEM King Knight LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SEX WORKER / PSYCHIC REALITY Bored Fortress 7"
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Farmer’s market zen learner Leyna Noel channels the swaggering lust of Jimi via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau Sex Worker mines Debbie Harry’s telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets." Out of print!
SUPERSILENT 10 LP
*** "Supersilent moves slightly towards a more acoustic landscape, featuring some of the band's most beautiful and lyrical moments side-by-side with some of their most eerie soundscapes."
TODD TERJE Ragysh 12"
*** "You've been touched by the hand of Todd. Todd Terje, that is. Trans-dance from the Norwegian chief inspector with greatysh hypnotism, properysh beats and a lovelysh Terjerine dream to round it all off."
WET HAIR / PEAKING LIGHTS Bored Fortress 7"
*** "Iowa City silver apple-pickers Wet Hair pitter-patter into yet another picture-perfect futurist synth-pop raga. On the flip, midwestern matrimony team Peaking Lights hotbox a basement of black ark basslines & waterlogged reggae 45s."
*** "Selections from Indonesia's largest island include droning beat pop, early Orkes Melayu songs, Batak Tapanuli, traditional Minang music & folk drama soundtracks taken from old cassette tapes. Eccentric artifacts!" On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
v/a PRINCESS NICOTINE: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma) LP
*** "Here are some of the greatest names from the past 50 years of Burmese musical history from the original recordings featuring Mar Mar Aye, Bo Sein, and the incomparable Tonte Theintan. Listen, and be amazed! Compiled by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
AMIINA Puzzle LP+MP3
*** "Sigur Rós' string section is now a sextet with a widened sonic palette, more rhythmically rugged than Amiina's previous work and heavier in their use of electronics. Amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues."
BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** New album! I think The Roots are on it. It's like a throwback, then an ultimate throwback, then like a new thing.
BURIAL Street Halo 12"
*** "This single is a surprise to all and is the first new official solo material from the mysterious dubstep magnate since 2007. Three all new tracks: 'Street Halo,' 'NYC' and 'Stolen Dog'. Their combined length is 20 minutes, 41 seconds."
DEERHUNTER Cryptograms/Fluorescent Grey 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
DISAPPEARS Guider LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
GILLETTE Gillette 12"
*** "Ladies and gentlemen, we're not floating through space, we're riding the Gillette monorail through a black-lit, airbrushed metropolis where 'cussive keys are cold currency. Melancholic yet uplifting, picturesque while bleak." On 100% Silk.
ITAL Culture Clubs 12"
*** "A new smooth, luxury club zone from Daniel Martin-Mccormick of MI AMI and SEX WORKER. Feat. a remix by HIEROGLYPHIC BEING. Check the original jame here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZZhXYmmdA
JON MUELLER Alphabet Of Movements LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A radical cloud of snare & gong -- thick, resonant, cavernous drones of buzzing rhythm & near-cacophony. It's hard to emerge with music that could honestly be described as original, but Alphabet Of Movements is a truly singular piece of work." Immense percussion record!
NITE JEWEL It Goes Through Your Head EP+MP3
*** "TEEN STEAM! A restless, infectious R&B beat, a voice you can sing along to, a positive outlook that sympathizes with your troubles and helps you to dance them away. Remixes by DAM-FUNK and THE SAMPS."
NOVELLER / UNFACT Bleached Valentine LP+MP3
*** "Split LP between the excellent Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard). Sound-sculptures, canvases of noise and melody & more. Limited to 500 LPs pressed on a gorgeous b&w marble." Includes MP3s.
PEAKING LIGHTS 936 LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops and sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" Check this groovy video: http://vimeo.com/20580559 On NOT NOT FUN.
POCAHAUNTED Make It Real LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Seven jams in 40 minutes: basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment." On NOT NOT FUN.
PSYCHIC REALITY Vibrant New Age LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Leyna Noel's New Age is not the '80s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, dolphin consciousness, etc, but a living, electrified awakening. High drama drum machinery; naked, airy avant-pop; stuttery, mechanized power ballad finales!" Ltd. to 600 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.
RADIO DEPT Passive 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
RADIOHEAD Ok Computer 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JONAS REINHARDT Tactile Dome LP
*** "Easily the most micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, Dome is nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kosmische kraut terrariums. Heavy headphone communion. Art by Sean Patrick." Ltd. to 650 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.
SALEM King Knight LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SEX WORKER / PSYCHIC REALITY Bored Fortress 7"
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Farmer’s market zen learner Leyna Noel channels the swaggering lust of Jimi via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau Sex Worker mines Debbie Harry’s telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets." Out of print!
SUPERSILENT 10 LP
*** "Supersilent moves slightly towards a more acoustic landscape, featuring some of the band's most beautiful and lyrical moments side-by-side with some of their most eerie soundscapes."
TODD TERJE Ragysh 12"
*** "You've been touched by the hand of Todd. Todd Terje, that is. Trans-dance from the Norwegian chief inspector with greatysh hypnotism, properysh beats and a lovelysh Terjerine dream to round it all off."
WET HAIR / PEAKING LIGHTS Bored Fortress 7"
*** "Iowa City silver apple-pickers Wet Hair pitter-patter into yet another picture-perfect futurist synth-pop raga. On the flip, midwestern matrimony team Peaking Lights hotbox a basement of black ark basslines & waterlogged reggae 45s."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Iggy, Thurston, Liturgy, Coffey, Doueh, Cave, Boris & more
ost KES by John Cameron CD
*** "A sublime pastoral jazz soundtrack by one of the finest British jazz line-ups of the 1960s put together by the incredibly talented John Cameron (arranger for Donovan). Beauty, freedom, innocence and tragedy."
v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 2: Scratch That Itch CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The second volume of rockin' R&B and early soul from the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog ca. 1956-1967 -- 20 killer cuts selected by DJ Mr. Fine Wine of Downtown Soulville/WFMU. Virtuosic instrumentals, classy love songs, unholy dances & holy nonsense."
TONY ALLEN Afro Disco Beat 2xCD
*** "A complete '70s anthology of the drummer and music director of African superstar Fela Kuti's band. This monster pack includes Tony's first four solo albums, the first three produced by Fela Kuti himself and with Africa 70; the last one with Tony´s band The Afro Messengers."
ART BRUT Brilliant Tragic CD
*** "Tapping the genius of Frank Black to produce your record may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event for many bands, but the pop culture obsessive Art Brut have once again nabbed the Pixies frontman to man the boards for their fourth LP."
ALVARIUS B. Baroque Primitiva CD+BOOK
*** "The 6th album by Alvarius B. (aka Alan Bishop of SUN CITY GIRLS) is a deep dive through mysterious waters. The songs often have a trippy & meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass & keys. Feat. Eyvind Kang."
DAVID BAZAN Strange Negotiations CD
*** "Strange Negotiations focuses toward the external, centering on disappointment in the current state of accelerating American & global social fragmentation. But it also sounds like a great rock band playing songs they're beyond intimate with."
BORIS Heavy Rocks CD
*** "Heavy Rocks seeks to redefine 'heavy' music, expertly harnessing psychedelic metal, colossal drone, blistering punk and distortion-ravaged shoegaze. It is beyond heavy & firmly establishes Boris as a pillar of innovation and integrity in guitar based music."
BORIS Attention Please CD
*** "The first Boris album on which all vocals are sung by lead guitarist, Wata -- sultry, intoxicating catchiness, melodic without sounding pop, psychedelic without sounding dated. It's heavy without relying on barre chord riffs. It is this."
GREG BROWN Freak Flag CD
*** "A new set of songs recorded at Memphis, Tennessee's legendary Ardent Studios that are being called Greg's best work. Dood is former musical director for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.''
NICK CAVE Boatman's Call CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Let Love In CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Murder Ballads CD+DVD
NICK CAVE No More Shall We Part CD+DVD
*** Finally! The next batch of Nick Cave remastered albums is here. Each album comes with a DVD feat. videos, bonus tracks, and an exclusive short film.
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP. Coffey was a member of the Motown ’Funk Brothers’ backing band & key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late ’60s."
GROUP DOUEH Zayna Jumma CD
*** "On this album, Group Doueh's newest phase is that of a formidable ROCK unit speaking to the shared resonances between Western rock rhythms & the pulse of the Saharan trance tradition. Grooves balanced with searing modalities."
HOWLIN' WOLF The Howlin' Wolf Album CD
*** "The Howlin Wolf Album was a radical experiment attempting to integrate electric instruments & psychedelic arrangements into a revered signature blues sound. Wolf initially disregarded the album but it's gone on to near mythic status."
JESU Ascension CD
*** "Jesu is Justin Broadrick and he has been on this path for many years now. Ascension may be another way station on this journey or it may be a peak but it certainly is part of a body of work that is rising with much power and majesty."
BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** "The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of "Green Onions", but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive." Feat. THE ROOTS.
LA NUEVA BANDA Sabor a Fresa CD
*** "An exotic cocktail of jazz, Brazilian music, flamenco influences and spaghetti-western soundtracks originally released in 1971 -- the envy of Euro groove holy grails & epicenter of club culture in early '70s Madrid."
LADY GAGA Born This Way CD
*** Perhaps you've heard fo Lady Gaga! She's wacky, she's silly, and her new album cover is styled after the very creepy Wheelers from Return to Oz! Must see!
LITURGY Aesthethica CD
*** "Disregarding the genre boundaries of black metal, hardcore & experimental music, the music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed. Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction, then evolve into something dense & complex."
MAN MAN Life Fantastic CD
*** "Man Man have brought along the fierce energy of their live show while finding a new melodic voice. Expanding their palette while keeping the found instruments, Man Man continue to evolve into an entirely new form of propulsive pop music."
MOON WIRING CLUB A Spare Tabby At The Cat's Wedding CD
*** "Hauntological creeps take note! Voices tumble over voices, VHS-tainted synths bubble up beneath them. The fingerprints of the '70s and '80s are present!" RIYL: Ghost Box, Broadcast, Olde English Spelling Bee.
THURSTON MOORE Demolished Thoughts CD
*** "3rd solo album from SY's T. Moore, produced by Beck & feat. Mary Lattimore on harp, Samara Lubielski on violin, and Beck. An equally beautiful and brooding work, the execution is nothing short of staggering.
MOUNT KIMBIE Crooks & Lovers CD
*** "Mount Kimbie ties traces of Burial & The Bug, Xiu Xiu & Grouper, D'Angelo & the Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti & Madlib. Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep & hip-hop, jazz, techno & ambient, post-rock, UK garage & film scores to startling effect."
IGGY POP Roadkill Rising 4xCD
*** "A 4-CD set of newly remastered bootleg concert recordings by Iggy Pop feat. the best of concerts recorded over four decades. All his Stooges and solo classics are covered, as well as deep album tracks and offbeat covers."
ALLEN TOUSSAINT Everything I Dp Gonh Be Funky 2xCD
*** Subtitled: The Hit Songs & Productions 1957-1978.
WHITE DENIM D LP / CD
*** Out now on two formats!
*** "A sublime pastoral jazz soundtrack by one of the finest British jazz line-ups of the 1960s put together by the incredibly talented John Cameron (arranger for Donovan). Beauty, freedom, innocence and tragedy."
v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 2: Scratch That Itch CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The second volume of rockin' R&B and early soul from the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog ca. 1956-1967 -- 20 killer cuts selected by DJ Mr. Fine Wine of Downtown Soulville/WFMU. Virtuosic instrumentals, classy love songs, unholy dances & holy nonsense."
TONY ALLEN Afro Disco Beat 2xCD
*** "A complete '70s anthology of the drummer and music director of African superstar Fela Kuti's band. This monster pack includes Tony's first four solo albums, the first three produced by Fela Kuti himself and with Africa 70; the last one with Tony´s band The Afro Messengers."
ART BRUT Brilliant Tragic CD
*** "Tapping the genius of Frank Black to produce your record may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event for many bands, but the pop culture obsessive Art Brut have once again nabbed the Pixies frontman to man the boards for their fourth LP."
ALVARIUS B. Baroque Primitiva CD+BOOK
*** "The 6th album by Alvarius B. (aka Alan Bishop of SUN CITY GIRLS) is a deep dive through mysterious waters. The songs often have a trippy & meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass & keys. Feat. Eyvind Kang."
DAVID BAZAN Strange Negotiations CD
*** "Strange Negotiations focuses toward the external, centering on disappointment in the current state of accelerating American & global social fragmentation. But it also sounds like a great rock band playing songs they're beyond intimate with."
BORIS Heavy Rocks CD
*** "Heavy Rocks seeks to redefine 'heavy' music, expertly harnessing psychedelic metal, colossal drone, blistering punk and distortion-ravaged shoegaze. It is beyond heavy & firmly establishes Boris as a pillar of innovation and integrity in guitar based music."
BORIS Attention Please CD
*** "The first Boris album on which all vocals are sung by lead guitarist, Wata -- sultry, intoxicating catchiness, melodic without sounding pop, psychedelic without sounding dated. It's heavy without relying on barre chord riffs. It is this."
GREG BROWN Freak Flag CD
*** "A new set of songs recorded at Memphis, Tennessee's legendary Ardent Studios that are being called Greg's best work. Dood is former musical director for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.''
NICK CAVE Boatman's Call CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Let Love In CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Murder Ballads CD+DVD
NICK CAVE No More Shall We Part CD+DVD
*** Finally! The next batch of Nick Cave remastered albums is here. Each album comes with a DVD feat. videos, bonus tracks, and an exclusive short film.
DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP. Coffey was a member of the Motown ’Funk Brothers’ backing band & key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late ’60s."
GROUP DOUEH Zayna Jumma CD
*** "On this album, Group Doueh's newest phase is that of a formidable ROCK unit speaking to the shared resonances between Western rock rhythms & the pulse of the Saharan trance tradition. Grooves balanced with searing modalities."
HOWLIN' WOLF The Howlin' Wolf Album CD
*** "The Howlin Wolf Album was a radical experiment attempting to integrate electric instruments & psychedelic arrangements into a revered signature blues sound. Wolf initially disregarded the album but it's gone on to near mythic status."
JESU Ascension CD
*** "Jesu is Justin Broadrick and he has been on this path for many years now. Ascension may be another way station on this journey or it may be a peak but it certainly is part of a body of work that is rising with much power and majesty."
BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** "The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of "Green Onions", but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive." Feat. THE ROOTS.
LA NUEVA BANDA Sabor a Fresa CD
*** "An exotic cocktail of jazz, Brazilian music, flamenco influences and spaghetti-western soundtracks originally released in 1971 -- the envy of Euro groove holy grails & epicenter of club culture in early '70s Madrid."
LADY GAGA Born This Way CD
*** Perhaps you've heard fo Lady Gaga! She's wacky, she's silly, and her new album cover is styled after the very creepy Wheelers from Return to Oz! Must see!
LITURGY Aesthethica CD
*** "Disregarding the genre boundaries of black metal, hardcore & experimental music, the music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed. Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction, then evolve into something dense & complex."
MAN MAN Life Fantastic CD
*** "Man Man have brought along the fierce energy of their live show while finding a new melodic voice. Expanding their palette while keeping the found instruments, Man Man continue to evolve into an entirely new form of propulsive pop music."
MOON WIRING CLUB A Spare Tabby At The Cat's Wedding CD
*** "Hauntological creeps take note! Voices tumble over voices, VHS-tainted synths bubble up beneath them. The fingerprints of the '70s and '80s are present!" RIYL: Ghost Box, Broadcast, Olde English Spelling Bee.
THURSTON MOORE Demolished Thoughts CD
*** "3rd solo album from SY's T. Moore, produced by Beck & feat. Mary Lattimore on harp, Samara Lubielski on violin, and Beck. An equally beautiful and brooding work, the execution is nothing short of staggering.
MOUNT KIMBIE Crooks & Lovers CD
*** "Mount Kimbie ties traces of Burial & The Bug, Xiu Xiu & Grouper, D'Angelo & the Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti & Madlib. Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep & hip-hop, jazz, techno & ambient, post-rock, UK garage & film scores to startling effect."
IGGY POP Roadkill Rising 4xCD
*** "A 4-CD set of newly remastered bootleg concert recordings by Iggy Pop feat. the best of concerts recorded over four decades. All his Stooges and solo classics are covered, as well as deep album tracks and offbeat covers."
ALLEN TOUSSAINT Everything I Dp Gonh Be Funky 2xCD
*** Subtitled: The Hit Songs & Productions 1957-1978.
WHITE DENIM D LP / CD
*** Out now on two formats!
Monday, May 23, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Insane int'l comps, Hawkwind, Clube de Esquina, Italian library music...
ost VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance Party 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS: West African Shock Waves: Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK
v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a FLIPPER PSYCH OUT: Original Italian Library Music From The Vaults Of Flipper 2xLP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
NICHOLAS JAAR Space Is Only LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LO BORGES Lo Borges LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HAWKWIND Hawkwind LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
MILTON NASCIMENTO Clube Da Esquina 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS: West African Shock Waves: Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK
v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a FLIPPER PSYCH OUT: Original Italian Library Music From The Vaults Of Flipper 2xLP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
NICHOLAS JAAR Space Is Only LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LO BORGES Lo Borges LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HAWKWIND Hawkwind LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
MILTON NASCIMENTO Clube Da Esquina 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Sigur Ros tearjerker for real!
SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Chronicling a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006, the tour provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before.
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Chronicling a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006, the tour provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before.
NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Sail + Skate Laws!
SAIL Sail CS
*** "Beaches + psychedelia + sunsets + vague memories + jams + blown glass. This is beach music, desert songs, psychedelic space folk, primitive electronic music. This is Ypsilanti's fantastic Sail!"
SKATE LAWS U.S. Post-Disco CS
*** "The first released document of a dood's one-man skatecore assault feat. classix like “Asylumed By My Parents” and “Clawing At Spiders.” Obvious reference points include early Flag, VOID, and maybe Suicidal Tendencies. Each package comes with a piece of grip tape." Read the Skate Laws feature on Dusted.
*** "Beaches + psychedelia + sunsets + vague memories + jams + blown glass. This is beach music, desert songs, psychedelic space folk, primitive electronic music. This is Ypsilanti's fantastic Sail!"
SKATE LAWS U.S. Post-Disco CS
*** "The first released document of a dood's one-man skatecore assault feat. classix like “Asylumed By My Parents” and “Clawing At Spiders.” Obvious reference points include early Flag, VOID, and maybe Suicidal Tendencies. Each package comes with a piece of grip tape." Read the Skate Laws feature on Dusted.
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Tyler The Creator, Tribe Called Quest, The Fall, Gang Gang Dance & more
BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality LP
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE FALL The Wonderful & Frightening World... LP
THE FALL This Nation's Saving Grace LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
GANG GANG DANCE Glass Jar b/w Mindkilla 12"
*** "Double A-side 12" single serves to offer an insight into Gang Gang Dance's 2011 album, Eye Contact."
GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact 2xLP+MP3 CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PANTHA DU PRINCE V Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."
PAVEMENT Slanted & Enchanted LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too.
PIXIES Surfer Rosa LP
PIXIES Doolittle LP
PIXIES Trompe Le Monde LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ST. VINCENT Marry Me LP+MP3
ST. VINCENT Actor LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
THE XX Xx LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
YO LA TENGO I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too. Heavyweight vinyl.
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE FALL The Wonderful & Frightening World... LP
THE FALL This Nation's Saving Grace LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
GANG GANG DANCE Glass Jar b/w Mindkilla 12"
*** "Double A-side 12" single serves to offer an insight into Gang Gang Dance's 2011 album, Eye Contact."
GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact 2xLP+MP3 CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PANTHA DU PRINCE V Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."
PAVEMENT Slanted & Enchanted LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too.
PIXIES Surfer Rosa LP
PIXIES Doolittle LP
PIXIES Trompe Le Monde LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ST. VINCENT Marry Me LP+MP3
ST. VINCENT Actor LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
THE XX Xx LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
YO LA TENGO I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too. Heavyweight vinyl.
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Tyler The Creator, QOTSA, Pantha Du Prince, Jason Forrest & more
v/a MUSIC FOR JAPAN: A Collection Of Songs By Independent Artists For The Relief Efforts In Japan CD
*** "Independent Michigan musicians contributed songs for the ongoing relief & recovery efforts in Japan following the earthquake & tsunami of March 11, 2011." Includes Swimsuit, Skate Laws, Tree City, October Babies, Sir Lord Sean Ike & more.
DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome CD
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!
ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"
JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."
PANTHA DU PRINCE XI Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
*** "Independent Michigan musicians contributed songs for the ongoing relief & recovery efforts in Japan following the earthquake & tsunami of March 11, 2011." Includes Swimsuit, Skate Laws, Tree City, October Babies, Sir Lord Sean Ike & more.
DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome CD
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!
ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"
JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."
PANTHA DU PRINCE XI Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Panda Bear, White Stripes, Nirvana, New Order, Sabbath & more
BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality LP
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - ESG, Rome, QOTSA, Tyler The Creator. Also: Jason Forrest.
DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome CD
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!
ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"
JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** VINYL ON THE WAY! NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!
ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"
JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** VINYL ON THE WAY! NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
EVENTS - Arrington de Dionyso!!
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO wsg ESPECIALLY GOOD, DAYTIME TELEVISION AND DJ FOREST JUZIUK - Wednesday, May 11 @ Arbor Vitae
*** Throbbing, hallucinogenic, trance-inducing Indonesian-sung trans-utopian cosmic post-punk sounds from OLD TIME RELIJUN's Arrington de Dionyso. And you can dance to it. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!! It will be epic.
Arbor Vitae / 336 1/2 S. State (above Wazoo), A2 / $5 / http://on.fb.me/mbRjKF
*** Throbbing, hallucinogenic, trance-inducing Indonesian-sung trans-utopian cosmic post-punk sounds from OLD TIME RELIJUN's Arrington de Dionyso. And you can dance to it. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!! It will be epic.
Arbor Vitae / 336 1/2 S. State (above Wazoo), A2 / $5 / http://on.fb.me/mbRjKF
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Soul Jazz, Antlers, Washed Out, and reggae for days!
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 1 2XLP
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt after World War 2. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER & more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."
BOB DYLAN Live in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Drawn from two sets that spring night at the 1963 Brandeis Folk Festival. Previously limited edition."
LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.
PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.
REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."
RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."
TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."
WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt after World War 2. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER & more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."
BOB DYLAN Live in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Drawn from two sets that spring night at the 1963 Brandeis Folk Festival. Previously limited edition."
LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.
PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.
REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."
RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."
TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."
WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Okkervil River, Sea & Cake, Gang Gang Dance & more
v/a NIGERIA 70: Sweet Times (Afro Funk, Highlife and Juju from 1970s Lagos) CD
*** “Another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeria spotlighting traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves & heavy West African takes on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock.”
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BIG JEFF BESS Tennessee Home Brew CD
*** "Big Jeff Bess was a Nashville legend making some of the purest hillbilly, swingin'est honky tonk, & rockin'est country. This includes all 18 songs issued by Big Jeff between 1947 and 1952, eight songs from live WLAC radio broadcasts in the mid-1950s, three unissued demos, and more!" On BEAR FAMILY.
CHROMATICS In The City II CD
*** "A buffed up edition of Chromatics' breakthrough single 'In Shining Violence', retitled as 'In The City' plus five new tracks including 'Hands In The Dark' track from the 'After Dark' comp and a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire'."
GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Recorded in an old church converted to a recording studio with a myriad of chimes, drums and good vibrations. Impromptu jam sessions & structured songs combined make the cleanest, freshest and most focused Gang Gang Record to date."
OKKERVIL RIVER I Am Very Far CD
*** "A startling break from anything this band has done before! By turns terrifying and joyous, violent and serene, grotesque and romantic, it's a celebration of forces beyond our control."
THE SEA & CAKE The Moonlight Butterfly CD
*** "33 minute mini-album delivering long form, cinematic pieces, leaning upon the band's more experimental tendencies and shifting emphasis to a more instrumental approach."
*** “Another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeria spotlighting traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves & heavy West African takes on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock.”
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BIG JEFF BESS Tennessee Home Brew CD
*** "Big Jeff Bess was a Nashville legend making some of the purest hillbilly, swingin'est honky tonk, & rockin'est country. This includes all 18 songs issued by Big Jeff between 1947 and 1952, eight songs from live WLAC radio broadcasts in the mid-1950s, three unissued demos, and more!" On BEAR FAMILY.
CHROMATICS In The City II CD
*** "A buffed up edition of Chromatics' breakthrough single 'In Shining Violence', retitled as 'In The City' plus five new tracks including 'Hands In The Dark' track from the 'After Dark' comp and a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire'."
GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Recorded in an old church converted to a recording studio with a myriad of chimes, drums and good vibrations. Impromptu jam sessions & structured songs combined make the cleanest, freshest and most focused Gang Gang Record to date."
OKKERVIL RIVER I Am Very Far CD
*** "A startling break from anything this band has done before! By turns terrifying and joyous, violent and serene, grotesque and romantic, it's a celebration of forces beyond our control."
THE SEA & CAKE The Moonlight Butterfly CD
*** "33 minute mini-album delivering long form, cinematic pieces, leaning upon the band's more experimental tendencies and shifting emphasis to a more instrumental approach."
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Soul Jazz, Antlers, Washed Out, and reggae for days!
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 1 2XLP
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany's role in the Second World War. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER and more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more. This album features the best of the seminal music produced by this legendary Detroit collective." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! One of Wazoo's all-time best sellers!
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."
LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.
PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.
REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."
RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."
WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany's role in the Second World War. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER and more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more. This album features the best of the seminal music produced by this legendary Detroit collective." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! One of Wazoo's all-time best sellers!
THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."
BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."
LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.
PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.
REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."
RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."
WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Beach Fossils, Big Freedia, John Fahey, Record Store Day leftovers
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine LP / CD
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."
BABIES Babies LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."
JULIANNA BARWICK The Magic Place LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
BEACH FOSSILS What A Pleasure 12"
*** "A beautifully crafted EP with their most dynamic songs yet. Clean, simple guitar lines, melancholic endings, mature sounds & cleaner production values."
BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Import. Out of print (again).
BIG FREEDIA Azz Everywhere 12"
*** Whoa nelly! "The 'Queen Diva' of New Orleans bounce! There’s nothing like Freedia herself telling you to 'Bend ova/ like I told ya,' but if you can’t shake it to the real thing, this record is a living testament to our primal and spiritual need to toot it up."
BOXCUTTER Allele 12"
*** "Echoey drums, juke-influenced patterns, old-school hardcore-style vocal, wavering chords and drops, restrained but ravey breakbeats. Also: hazy two-step beats, bittersweet melodies, shimmering effects and delays."
BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor LP
*** "A peer of Roy Harper, John Marytn & Bert Jansch, Chapman’s music contains a slightly drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Featuring deranged vocals, floating conga drums, cello, and Mick Ronson.The perfect album for a blissful day and a joint."
CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion LP / CD
*** "Indulging their more strung-out sides, full of elliptical verses and perfectly chiming guitars, cranky pop organs and the punkest of rhythms, the new LP is a perfect blend of pop smarts and beguiling experiment. Spooked, psychedelic requiems!"
BETH DITTO Beth Ditto EP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
DUCKTAILS Ducktails III LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."
JOHN FAHEY Requia & Other Compositions For Guitar Solo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and 'Astral Weeks' in particular, Helplessness Blues sees Fleet Foxes adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies."
FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues / Grown Ocean 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."
GOLD PANDA Marriage 12"
*** Gold Panda’s “Marriage”—the third single from the UK producer’s watershed full-length Lucky Shiner—further explores the artist’s dancefloor inclinations, with a twist."
THE HEAD & THE HEART The Head & The Heart LP+MP3 / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LITURGY / OVAL Split 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
MARS CLASSROOM Theory Of Everything LP / CD
*** Robert Pollard + Gary Waleik (BIG DIPPER) have the formula for perfect song-craft. Irrepressibly hooky, guitar-driven, trippy moodiness, Brit-chime riffing and dirty-sweet harmonies."
THE MUMMIES Play Their Own Records LP
*** RECOMMENDED "After long years in remission, Play Their Own Records is back! Marvel at the spiritual bond you will share with The Mummies as you listen to the strains of their first four singles (including five tracks you won’t find on CD) together."
ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."
PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."
QUINTRON Sucre Du Sauvage LP / CD
*** "Quintron recorded a severely schizophrenic dual album of songs and field recordings in & on the grounds of New Orleans Museum Of Art (NOMA). Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness."
OTIS REDDING Otis Blue LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ARTHUR RUSSELL World Of Echo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
THE SONICS Introducing The Sonics LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ALEXANDER "SKIP" SPENCE Oar LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SUPERCHUNK Here's Where The Strings Come In LP / CD
*** BACK IN PRINT!
TEENGENERATE Smash Hits LP
*** "Fifteen doses of revved-up and raw punk fury culled from an unrelenting kamikaze barrage of 7-inch buzz bombs…only the best of the best from Japan’s undisputed garage/punk overlords, TEENGENERATE!"
THE TRASHMEN Surfin' Bird LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
WEEKEND Sports 2x12"
*** NOW ON VINYL! Hard to keep this one in stock.
WEEN God Ween Satan 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."
BABIES Babies LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."
JULIANNA BARWICK The Magic Place LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
BEACH FOSSILS What A Pleasure 12"
*** "A beautifully crafted EP with their most dynamic songs yet. Clean, simple guitar lines, melancholic endings, mature sounds & cleaner production values."
BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Import. Out of print (again).
BIG FREEDIA Azz Everywhere 12"
*** Whoa nelly! "The 'Queen Diva' of New Orleans bounce! There’s nothing like Freedia herself telling you to 'Bend ova/ like I told ya,' but if you can’t shake it to the real thing, this record is a living testament to our primal and spiritual need to toot it up."
BOXCUTTER Allele 12"
*** "Echoey drums, juke-influenced patterns, old-school hardcore-style vocal, wavering chords and drops, restrained but ravey breakbeats. Also: hazy two-step beats, bittersweet melodies, shimmering effects and delays."
BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor LP
*** "A peer of Roy Harper, John Marytn & Bert Jansch, Chapman’s music contains a slightly drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Featuring deranged vocals, floating conga drums, cello, and Mick Ronson.The perfect album for a blissful day and a joint."
CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion LP / CD
*** "Indulging their more strung-out sides, full of elliptical verses and perfectly chiming guitars, cranky pop organs and the punkest of rhythms, the new LP is a perfect blend of pop smarts and beguiling experiment. Spooked, psychedelic requiems!"
BETH DITTO Beth Ditto EP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
DUCKTAILS Ducktails III LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."
JOHN FAHEY Requia & Other Compositions For Guitar Solo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and 'Astral Weeks' in particular, Helplessness Blues sees Fleet Foxes adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies."
FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues / Grown Ocean 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."
GOLD PANDA Marriage 12"
*** Gold Panda’s “Marriage”—the third single from the UK producer’s watershed full-length Lucky Shiner—further explores the artist’s dancefloor inclinations, with a twist."
THE HEAD & THE HEART The Head & The Heart LP+MP3 / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LITURGY / OVAL Split 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
MARS CLASSROOM Theory Of Everything LP / CD
*** Robert Pollard + Gary Waleik (BIG DIPPER) have the formula for perfect song-craft. Irrepressibly hooky, guitar-driven, trippy moodiness, Brit-chime riffing and dirty-sweet harmonies."
THE MUMMIES Play Their Own Records LP
*** RECOMMENDED "After long years in remission, Play Their Own Records is back! Marvel at the spiritual bond you will share with The Mummies as you listen to the strains of their first four singles (including five tracks you won’t find on CD) together."
ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."
PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."
QUINTRON Sucre Du Sauvage LP / CD
*** "Quintron recorded a severely schizophrenic dual album of songs and field recordings in & on the grounds of New Orleans Museum Of Art (NOMA). Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness."
OTIS REDDING Otis Blue LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ARTHUR RUSSELL World Of Echo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.
THE SONICS Introducing The Sonics LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ALEXANDER "SKIP" SPENCE Oar LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SUPERCHUNK Here's Where The Strings Come In LP / CD
*** BACK IN PRINT!
TEENGENERATE Smash Hits LP
*** "Fifteen doses of revved-up and raw punk fury culled from an unrelenting kamikaze barrage of 7-inch buzz bombs…only the best of the best from Japan’s undisputed garage/punk overlords, TEENGENERATE!"
THE TRASHMEN Surfin' Bird LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
WEEKEND Sports 2x12"
*** NOW ON VINYL! Hard to keep this one in stock.
WEEN God Ween Satan 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Fleet Foxes, Bill Callahan, Soul Jazz, Tindersticks & more
v/a BRAZIL '70: AFTER TROPICALIA New Directions In Brazilian Music in the 1970s CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock And Eletronick Musik 1972-83 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A CERTAIN RATIO Early 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine LP / CD
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."
AETHENOR En Form For Bla CD
*** NOW ON CD!
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Moment Bends CD
*** Hear ye, hear ye! There's a new AIH rekkid afoot!
BABIES Babies LP / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."
BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"
BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two CD
*** "The long-awaited eighth album from the Hip Hop/Rock trio."
BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"
CURRENT 93 Honeysuckle Æons CD
*** Honeysuckle Æons is the new album by hallucinatory gnostic supergroup Current 93. Current 93, who were as cool as flies and as real as rainbows, are now as perfect as planets: Eliot Bates, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Lisa Pizzighella, Armen Ra and David Tibet."
MATTHEW ROBERT COOPER Some Days Are Better Than Others OST CD
*** Matthew Cooper's spellbinding soundtrack to Some Days Are Better Than Others since before his creative breakthrough album, Similes (released under his more widely known Eluvium moniker) was even made."
DEERHOOF Friend Opportunity LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."
FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."
HAUSCHKA Salon Des Amateurs CD
*** "Salon des Amateurs finds Hauschka focusing on rhythmic possibilities of his own prepared piano, as well as his first recorded collaborations with kit drummers: the album is a thrillingly unique sonic achievement."
HIGH LLAMAS Talahomi Way CD
*** "In the course of their post-millennial albums, The High Llamas sound has shifted subtly into a more organic setting—gone are the slick, electric-band settings of their great ‘90s albums, giving the music a more intimate, personal resonance."
ETTA JAMES Who's Blue: Rare Chess Recordings Of The 60s & 70s CD
*** "Over 70 minutes of soul, R&B, funk and jazz gems! For each of her LPs that exists on CD, there is an equally good album not available in its entirety."
LITTLE SCREAM The Golden Record CD
*** "Little Scream weaves multiple genres into a sparkly and Jovian landscape, conjuring visions of receiving signals and painting portals through space over celestial echoes and otherworldly buzzes."
ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."
PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."
ARTHUR RUSSELL The World Of Arthur Russell CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THOUSANDS The Sound Of Everything CD
*** "Born out of late-night graveyard experimentation, the duo's stark and original spin on modern folk music is one of the most gentle and serene recordings you're likely to ever hear: solely voices, guitars, and an array of environmental sounds."
THE TINDERSTICKS Claire Denis Film Scores 5xCD
*** RECOMMENDED 5xCD box set gathering all six of the Claire Denis soundtracks written and performed by Tindersticks or their members w/ four of the six soundtracks are previously unreleased. Comes in a slipcase box made from deluxe uncoated black paperboard with a custom die-cut window and metallic cover-print."
TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l CD
*** "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock And Eletronick Musik 1972-83 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A CERTAIN RATIO Early 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine LP / CD
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."
AETHENOR En Form For Bla CD
*** NOW ON CD!
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Moment Bends CD
*** Hear ye, hear ye! There's a new AIH rekkid afoot!
BABIES Babies LP / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."
BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"
BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two CD
*** "The long-awaited eighth album from the Hip Hop/Rock trio."
BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"
CURRENT 93 Honeysuckle Æons CD
*** Honeysuckle Æons is the new album by hallucinatory gnostic supergroup Current 93. Current 93, who were as cool as flies and as real as rainbows, are now as perfect as planets: Eliot Bates, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Lisa Pizzighella, Armen Ra and David Tibet."
MATTHEW ROBERT COOPER Some Days Are Better Than Others OST CD
*** Matthew Cooper's spellbinding soundtrack to Some Days Are Better Than Others since before his creative breakthrough album, Similes (released under his more widely known Eluvium moniker) was even made."
DEERHOOF Friend Opportunity LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."
FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."
HAUSCHKA Salon Des Amateurs CD
*** "Salon des Amateurs finds Hauschka focusing on rhythmic possibilities of his own prepared piano, as well as his first recorded collaborations with kit drummers: the album is a thrillingly unique sonic achievement."
HIGH LLAMAS Talahomi Way CD
*** "In the course of their post-millennial albums, The High Llamas sound has shifted subtly into a more organic setting—gone are the slick, electric-band settings of their great ‘90s albums, giving the music a more intimate, personal resonance."
ETTA JAMES Who's Blue: Rare Chess Recordings Of The 60s & 70s CD
*** "Over 70 minutes of soul, R&B, funk and jazz gems! For each of her LPs that exists on CD, there is an equally good album not available in its entirety."
LITTLE SCREAM The Golden Record CD
*** "Little Scream weaves multiple genres into a sparkly and Jovian landscape, conjuring visions of receiving signals and painting portals through space over celestial echoes and otherworldly buzzes."
ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."
PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."
ARTHUR RUSSELL The World Of Arthur Russell CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THOUSANDS The Sound Of Everything CD
*** "Born out of late-night graveyard experimentation, the duo's stark and original spin on modern folk music is one of the most gentle and serene recordings you're likely to ever hear: solely voices, guitars, and an array of environmental sounds."
THE TINDERSTICKS Claire Denis Film Scores 5xCD
*** RECOMMENDED 5xCD box set gathering all six of the Claire Denis soundtracks written and performed by Tindersticks or their members w/ four of the six soundtracks are previously unreleased. Comes in a slipcase box made from deluxe uncoated black paperboard with a custom die-cut window and metallic cover-print."
TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l CD
*** "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."
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