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!