Date: July 2nd 2010

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Hi All,

Big update this time around. First of all, thank you so much to those of you who completed our survey. Your feedback is really invaluable, and honestly I'm shocked at the quantity and quality of the responses. Thank you all so much.

Secondly, we are extremely chuffed to announce the "return", so to speak, of Clairecords. We have not one, not two, but THREE new releases forthcoming this fall. We are taking preorders for the first two now (TEARS RUN RINGS and THE BROTHER KITE). We will be taking preorders for the "new" GUITAR album shortly as well. Details below.

Besides those gubbins, we have lots of great new vinyl and restocked titles in stock too.

Lastly, we do have an official new address as of 2 days ago - please update your databases, memory banks, rolodexes, and whatnots.

Chiggity-check yoself, before you wreck yoself,
Dan / Tonevendor
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THE BROTHER KITE-Isolation PREORDER CD (Clairecords-$12.00)
NOTE!: This CD is a PREORDER and will ship to arrive to you on or near the release date of September 28, 2010.
Preorders will be granted access to two EXCLUSIVE free mp3s immediately, to help tide you over until the release of the album. The mp3s have not been released anywhere before, and they will not be on this album. You will be among the first to ever hear them!!
Providence, Rhode Island's The Brother Kite began crafting their shoegaze-inflected rock sound in 2001, when founding members Patrick Boutwell and Jon Downs began writing and recording original material as a duo. Bassist Andrea Mason and guitarist Mark Howard joined them in 2002, and the band released a split 7" record with friends Vaguely Starshaped on Boston's Losing Blueprint Records in 2003. The Brother Kite then released their first full length album on Clairecords, thebrotherkite (2004), a self-titled and self-recorded serving of layered guitars and buoyant melodies. Their ambitious debut earned them nationwide attention from critics and music fans alike. They soon enlisted Matt Rozzero as full-time drummer, and relentlessly toured the east coast, gaining new fans at every show and further refining their unique sound. The band then constructed their Beaten Path studio in Mason, New Hampshire and recorded their second LP for Clairecords, Waiting For The Time To Be Right
(2006). With Waiting..., the band dialed back the "shoegaze" element of their first album, and explored Brian Wilson-esque harmonies and refined classic pop structures. The album greatly widened their fan base, garnered a bevy of critical acclaim, and was considered by many to be one of the finest records that year. This was followed by two more releases for Clairecords, 2007's Moonlit Race EP and 2008's spit 7" with Boston band Plumerai.
With several jaunts around the East Coast, Midwest and Canada, and multiple appearances at South By Southwest and CMJ, the band decided it was time to return to the studio. Having two sonically distinct full-length records under their belt, they were determined to create something as ambitious as their previous efforts, yet completely unique from them. Knowing that the comfort and familiarity of their home-grown studio would likely inspire the best in them, they returned in the spring of 2008 to Beaten Path in Mason and set to work on what would ultimately become their third full-length record, Isolation. Initially challenged with finding material that was suitably different in scope than Waiting... yet familiar enough to please their fans, they began deconstructing their signature dense wall-of-sound into contrasting textures, while adding new instrumentation in the form of synthesizers and sparse drum machine tracks. After a year of recording, they enlisted engineer/produ
cer (and self-professed huge TBK fan) Thom Monahan (Pernice Bros, The Broken West, Matt Pond PA, J. Mascis and The Fog) to mix the album at The Hangar in Sacramento, CA.
What results is an album that, while recorded in a similar fashion to its predecessor, could not be more different. Where Waiting For The Time To Be Right was built on thick layers of Wurlitzer organ and droning guitars, warmly undercut by silky vocal harmonies sometimes heard, other times only hinted at, Isolation strips The Brother Kite's sound down into individual elements, allowing each reverberated guitar pluck, tambourine clash and warbling synth line to stand on its own. This carefully constructed dichotomy of sound and space allows ample breathing room for singer Patrick Boutwell's lyrics of hope and disenchantment to ring clear, each syllable carrying a weight that is finally felt after the echoes have decayed. Throughout Isolation, TBK blends various elements ranging from atmospheric power-pop, to experimental synth rock, extending well beyond the band's earlier Beach Boys meets My Bloody Valentine leanings. The opening track "Martyr For The Cause" for example, a s
ynth-heavy 7-minute epic borrows more from 70's progressive rock than 60's pop, while the album's somber closing track "The Pasture" paints a pastoral landscape of alt-country strums and delicate piano, all built around Boutwell's longing voice and soaring lead guitar. Each successive track overflows with brilliantly crafted melodies standing on a foundation of perfectly placed drums, bass, guitar and keyboard, each composition transitioning seamlessly into the next, creating the sensation of one continuous symphony. Isolation is surely one of the year's most ambitious rock records, and one that deserves all the attention that The Brother Kite has so lovingly put into creating it.

MONSTER MOVIE-Everyone Is A Ghost CD/LP (Graveface-$13.99/$16.99)
Latest downer-pop showcase from London-based duo of CHRISTIAN SAVILL (SLOWDIVE) & SEAN HEWSON. 2010 marks the pair's 20th anniversary of working together & 10th anniversary of recording & performing as MONSTER MOVIE. This release distils the expansive shoegazing bliss-wall of SLOWDIVE into intensely catchy pop songs played out on guitar, bass, piano, ukelele, percussion, & a range of synthesizers. LP LIMITED TO 500, CD LIMITED TO 2000.

TEARS RUN RINGS-Distance PREORDER CD (Clairecords-$12.00)
NOTE!: This CD is a PREORDER and will ship to arrive to you on or near the release date of August 24, 2010.
Tears Run Rings has a talent for marrying hauntingly beautiful textures and pop melodies. In Distance, their second album on Clairecords, they have refined their lush, melencholy sound and set it to a beat informed by Factory Records.
Tears Run Rings' track "Mind the Wires" from their previous album 'Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never' is featured in the Gregg Araki's (The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin) film KABOOM. Ed and Laura live in Portland, Matthew lives in San Francisco, and Dwayne lives in LA. The band writes their songs mainly by sharing tracks over the internet. They record in 3 separate studios. Dwayne, Laura, and Ed began working together in the 1990s in the twee-pop outfit The Autocollants. Tears Run Rings was born out of an Autocollants reunion show in 2005. Matthew joined on vocals & guitar one year later. Matthew & Ed also run Shelflife Records (Thieves Like Us, The Radio Dept.). Ed and Laura are married. We have more to tell you, but in due time, my friend....


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OLAFUR ARNALDS-And They Escaped The Weight of Darkness CD (Erased Tapes-$15.99)
Ólafur Arnalds' highly-anticipated second full-length album ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate, classical arrangements. The sense of an organic crossover recording is reinforced by the involvement of co-producer Barði Jóhannsson of eccentric pop/rock/electronica-formation Bang Gang. Barði has successfully colored the brittle minimalism of previous releases through the addition of an array of new instruments. Those expecting a mere continuation of the minimal melancholia of his previous albums are therefore in for a surprise, as the record may be the most uplifting and richly-orchestrated work of his career. When Ólafur saw how the opening scene of a Hungarian indie film metaphorically described a solar eclipse, he instantly connected it to the concept, naming the album after a key line of the film's introductory monologue
. Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, the composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. His new opus is set to again challenge his fan base, which is still growing rapidly. Several of these pieces were written on and off throughout his tour and benefit directly from the intensity of the live situation and the emotional roller-coaster-ride of life on the road. On the other hand, it is the result of meticulous studio work, of refining compositions in close co-operation with compatriot Barði Johannsson, known for his eccentric personality and unique electro-acoustic sound. The enthusiasm translates to arrangements displaying a new sense of sonic diversity. Ólafur Arnalds has created an even more open and spacious sound and taken his distinct style to a new level. Compared to his previous works, ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness makes use of diverse instrumentation -- drums, guitars, voice, Rhodes, a selection of subtle synthesizers, alongside Arnalds' trademark piano as well as Tony Levin on bass. Traditional terminologies become void on his latest offering, which blends contrasting elements into an original, entirely organic new language and a sensitive ballet of the mind. Arnalds' fusion of 21st-century electronics and classical vocabulary thereby continues to decisively unwrap the sealed-off world of classical music.

HELIOS-Unleft CD (Unseen-$15.99)
Since 2003, multi-instrumentalist and composer Keith Kenniff (aka Helios) has been a mainstay in the electronic music/IDM community with releases on influential labels such as Merck Records and Type Records as well as countless remixes and compilation appearances. His signature blending of electronics, ambience and found-sounds have garnered attention from some of the top music critics in the industry. Kenniff's cinematic soundscapes have also caught the ear of the film world both under Helios and his piano-based alter-ego Goldmund, with music appearing in feature films such as Mister Lonely by acclaimed director Harmony Korine, documentaries for the BBC and a trailer for the film Revolutionary Road. Following the release of the 2008 album, Caesura (TYPE 042CD/LP), on Type Records, Helios returns with Unleft, a collection of previously-unreleased material from his past four releases spanning almost a decade. Songs range in style from the Boards of Canada-influenced "Bounce Di
ve" to the slow-moving ambient drone of "The Jaguar Sun" to the earthy beats and quietly enveloping melodies of songs like "Carry With Us" that have become part of Helios' signature sound. As with his previous albums, Helios' music evokes a certain lost nostalgia from the listener; melancholic and contemplative yet hopeful as the sun's rays shine in through the clouds. Those already familiar with Keith's music will find familiar threads leading back to the previous four albums, while giving newcomers a good introduction to his prolific body of work.

LINDA PERHACS-Parallelograms MASTERS EDITION CD (Sunbeam-$18.99)
Deluxe Sunbeam Masters edition, presented in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve, limited to 1,000 individually-numbered copies. Combining fragile and beautifully melodic acid folk with perfectly-rendered electronic effects, this remarkable album consists of what its creator describes as "visual music." First released in 1970, Parallelograms by California's Linda Perhacs has gone on to become one of the most legendary and well-loved recordings of its time, assuredly sitting alongside Vashti Bunyan's Just Another Diamond Day as a lost folk gem that should never have been cast aside. Summoning the shimmering sunlight of Topanga Canyon, and resonating with the same strength-in-fragility as Joni Mitchell, it's presented here with the full collaboration of its enigmatic creator, and features her own detailed liner notes, as well as rare illustrations and eight bonus tracks (including one previously-unheard out-take), making it the most definitive edition of this timeless classic ever releas
ed. Supersedes the now-deleted version on the Wild Places label.


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OLAFUR ARNALDS-And They Escaped The Weight of Darkness LP (Erased Tapes-$24.99)



ELLEN ALLIEN-Dust 2xLP (Bpitch Control-$22.99)
Ellen Allien, owner of the BPitch Control label and Fairy Queen of Berlin's more delicately-woven rave music, has been tinkering with the sound of the city for over a decade now. What has remained from all these years -- packed with great releases, highly original remixes and exploratory mix CDs -- are her monolithic albums, each the condensed result of a completely different creative phase. It already seems an eternity since Ellen Allien last remodelled her own sound with the sharp-edged diamond Sool in 2008 -- a release which opened the gates to a far-off parallel world where minimalist artifacts float through the room with a cool elegance and distanced allure. With Dust, Ellen removes the sense of remoteness entirely, and a warm immediacy takes center. On "My Tree" your eyes will be dazzled by the light shining through a canopy of leaves. And while the bleeps prance on by, the introduction of the clarinet, as a classical element, ensures that some order presides over all t
he endlessness behind the clouds. "Huibuh" feeds off a similar feeling, a perfectly tranquil synth-pop song which pays tribute to the most chilled of all Sunday afternoons. Melodic, sexy and self-content. On "Ever" the plucked synths and glockenspiels float over an unobtrusive beat framework. And despite their rich variety, these sounds are blended into a funky groove of life-affirming bliss. "Dream" makes a more twisted entrance where synths scale the walls while the trailing female vocals float through unconscious depths. Ellen prefers to sing a duet with her pitched-down alter ego under the pleasant glare of the "Flashy Flashy" disco lights -- a house track that trots along with a light and breezy gait. "Our Utopie" is the soundtrack to a sunrise with sounds that ring and reverberate through the air. Beneath the old school analog synth of "Schlumi" is a kick drum and a rave siren that winds its way up to the surface until the walls start to ripple and there are no more right angles in sight. Then there's "You," a completely unexpected indie-pop track with a beguiling guitar loop like something halfway between Zoot Woman and Phoenix, with a Joy Division bass line, and then Ellen's bright voice, singing with a cool fragility. "Sun The Rain" is the second synth-pop song on Dust, and "Should We Go Home" thrills with hushed voices, involuntary rushes of goosebumps and a few melodic fragments, arranged here as ambient phase shifts pile on top of one another. What now? You'd better dust yourself off. It's time to start all over again.

BEST COAST-Sun Was High 7" (Art Fag-$7.99)
"Solid orange vinyl edition. Best Coast has been featured in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times in addition to numerous print publications." "From Best Coast to Dum Dum Girls to the Pains of Being Pure at Heart to Vivian Girls to Strange Boys and beyond, pop is ascendant once again, especially the sort with debts to clean-cut '50s rock and girl-group pop and soul." -- New York Times.

CLAIR-Quincy 10" (Intercontinental-$4.99)
Title track, plus four remixes. It's on the radio ? (by Mr Quark) / Mother of pearl (by Supermalprodelica) / Cycle (by Extra Lucid) // Quincy (by Clair) / Subterranean (mix by Leverkusen).

COCTEAU TWINS-Box Set No. 1 180g 4xLP BOX SET (Vinyl 180-$76.99)
Limited Edition Boxed Set newly designed by 4AD's Vaughan Oliver. Includes remastered 180g pressings of Head Over Heels, Head Over Heels / Sunburst & Snowblind 2LP, Garlands and Treasure. The Cocteau's were founded in 1981 by Robin Guthrie, Will Heggie and Elizabeth Fraser. In 1984, Simon Raymonde replaced Heggie and this lineup would be the de-facto Cocteau Twins until their breakup in 1998. They were a phenomenon, the kind that quietly causes a fundamental shift in perception, exerting a seminal influence that is universally felt if not always seen.

COCTEAU TWINS-Treasure 180g LP (Vinyl 180-$22.99)
Treasure proved to be the recording highlight of the Cocteau Twins. Upon release it was met with unprecedented accolades from fans and the press. Topping the UK Independent Charts in 1984, the album was in-true Cocteau fashion-unlike anything else anyone had yet heard. Remastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180g VINYL, with jackets printed on heavyweight board and newly designed inner bag by 4AD maestro Vaughan Oliver.

DARKER MY LOVE / MOCCASIN - Split 12" (I Hate Rock & Roll-$6.99)
3 tracks. A. Darker My Love – "Hair Decisions" B1. Moccasin – "Secret Mountain" B2. Moccasin – "The Rule of Queen Tsago"

DEAD MACHINES-Futures 10" (Troubleman-$9.99)
DEAD MACHINES is the duo of JOHN OLSEN (WOLF EYES, American Tapes, a million other bands) and TOVA OLSEN (ex WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE, also a million other bands). Together--with the use of handmade instruments and electronics, tape manipulation, sax, gong, and loud volume--deliver music by insaniacs for insaniacs.Vinyl limited to 500 copies. One - time pressing.

SVARTE GREINER-Penpals LP (Digitalis-$18.99)
The first side (first two tracks) were originally issued on the Penpals Forever cassette on Digitalis in 2008, limited to 180 copies. Both tracks have been completely remastered. The remaining pieces are all new and exclusive to this release. Svarte Greiner is the nom de plume of Deaf Center's Erik K. Skodvin. Hailing from Norway, his solo efforts are always stripped bare, white-knuckle sojourns through dark, haunted ambient sonic corridors. Penpals Forever (And Ever) is the imaginary tale of a long dead Baroque painter and his telekinetic correspondence with a flightless bird. It feels archaic; experimental death marches circa 1622. Like Guercino's Et in Arcadia ego, once the end is realized, there's nowhere left to go. It's beyond our experience and sometimes you never recover from the shock. Despite its rather cheery title, Penpals Forever (And Ever) is another step toward the abyss. Musically sparse, Svarte Greiner finds new channels connecting desolate landscapes through
ethereal nightmares. It is music best served cold. Chattering, looping guitar lines that feel like muscle being separated from bone slowly build into aching piles of aural dissonance. It's painful to a point. Recorded voices speak a language you can't understand underneath ominous, echoing single notes. Distant metal fragments scrape the dirt from detuned strings while a nefarious feathered minstrel bows dying instruments in the background. No hope left, death is just around the corner. As it ever was, Svarte Greiner is again weaving something deliciously sinister. This is music that is uncomfortably bare. Within its blood-stained confines, there is nowhere to hide. Skodvin's tangled, gnarled tale goes back and forth into infinity until it becomes clear that the flightless bird in question lives inside your skull. Drowning slowly into one's own twisted mind, Penpals is the soundtrack of loss; the procession of fears gradually becoming so overbearing that you can't escape your own demons.

HEAVY WINGED-Fields Within Fields LP+CD (Three Lobed-$20.99)
The band was determined to make "Fields Within Fields" into a significant part of their discography from the very outset, entering Brooklyn's 5D Studios for a first-time experiment with multitracking & overdubs. The record opens with a slow, deliberate fade into JED BINDEMAN'S (ETERNAL TAPESTRY, JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER) tribal drumbeat. Brutal & hard, "Among The Maori" encompasses the entire first side of vinyl, & stands out among the band's entire catalog as perhaps their truest moment. LIMITED TO 1000, INCL. DOWNLOAD COUPON & BONUS CD "INFINITE IN EVERY DIRECTION"

INTERNET FOREVER-Break Bones 7" (Art Fag-$7.99)
"Internet Forever is a band from the UK. Edition of 500. Two songs, 'Break Bones' and '3D' on 500 black records with a download card. The artwork was designed by Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls." "The cute, late-'80s precursor to indie rock, twee was precious and raucous, poor fidelity and rich in whimsy. Now bands like Internet Forever are channeling its precocious spirit into songs that are as sweet and fuzzy as peaches bathing in a sea of kittens on a planet made of marshmallow." -- The Fader

ISAN-Glow In the Dark Safari Set LP+7" (Morr Music-$19.99)
LP version with bonus 7" and download coupon. Robin Saville and Antony Ryan, two English gentlemen who create music together under the nom de plume Isan, return with their sixth full-length album for their spiritual home of Morr Music. It's been a few years since Isan's previous outing, the delectable electronic esoterica of Plans Drawn In Pencil (MORR 068CD/LP), but the results, in time-honored Isan tradition, are certainly worth the wait. Opener, "Channel Ten," with its Autobahn-assured poise, appropriately prefigures a body of work that is Isan's finest to-date. Inspiration for this came from "emancipation" as Robin elaborates: "It was an attempt to jettison the weight of our back catalog and get back to the fun of making music. This entailed playing with ancient Casios, mangled tape loops and squidgy noises. Very hands-on. Most of the tracks on the album started life away from the laptop." This giddy sense of enjoyment suffuses the album -- from the glistening rush of "Me
rman Sound" which segues into the soft-focus sound-world of its own coda seamlessly to the cinematic, tech-y strut of "Grissette" or the calmly oscillating and cascading melodies of "Greencracked," which evoke images of a retro-futurist utopia. Isan have always excelled at fashioning a quietly awe-inspiring music and Glow... is no exception. Even the title suggests a sense of wide-eyed-wonder "We were playing with lots of ideas around fire, embers, bioluminescence and the title popped into my head one day. It seemed to sum up a lot of the things we like -- I like to imagine sitting in a darkened room looking at the gentle green glow of 1970s VU meters, then they all come to life and start crawling up the wall." says Antony. Such is the album's celestial, hot-wired circuit-board wizardry; Glow In The Dark Safari Set positively throbs, ebbs and flows with electronically refracted ideas and melodies -- a digital tone poem sitting somewhere betwixt the cozy experimentation of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the exotic sonic emissions of a top-secret Düsseldorf studio circa 1975.

THOMAS KONER-Nunatak LP (Type-$18.99)
The Type label reissues German music producer Thomas Köner's debut album, the first in a set of three, on vinyl for the very first time. Originally introduced to the world in 1990, Nunatak (then named Nunatak Gongamur) was shockingly ahead of its time, and it is hard to believe that it has been out of print and difficult to obtain for so long. Köner created the album with mood in mind; he has since been described as a "media" artist, and it's easy to see why. While the music can be described as "dark ambient," these soundscapes elicit a widescreen collection of images. Through careful and measured use of gongs (recorded in different rooms and underwater) as well as homemade wind instruments, Köner created an album that would become a cornerstone of the genre and part of a triptych of records which have seldom been bettered. While the album is 20 years old at this point, it still sounds totally alien and totally unique. In these 11 brief, unnamed tracks, Köner guides us among
battered lands, barren ice plains and damaged caves. Through the low-end resonance of his percussion, we are dragged into a hallowed chasm of doom-laden drone. There have been many tries at this style since Nunatak was first birthed, and many attempts to draw the genre into fresh and re-imagined territory, but few have come even close to the shadowy exclusion of Thomas Köner. Cut at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering.

THOMAS KONER-Teimo LP (Type-$18.99)
The Type label releases a very special 2010 issue of this seminal album, the second in a series of three from Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1992 and never previously available on vinyl, Teimo is probably the most "tuneful" of Köner's legendary triptych (Nunatak, Teimo and Permafrost). The submerged drones that became his signature are tempered slightly on this album, to give a hallowed, mournful edge which has been echoed on so much of today's darker ambient music. Indeed, at times throughout this cavernous album, there are hints at something orchestral in the layers of reverb and dense clouds of harrowing sound. It is hard to believe that Köner pieced this record together using recordings of gongs -- close mic'ed to reveal their subtle overtones and resonance. At times, the resulting sound is so gloriously alien and so synthetic, that you would be forgiven for thinking it is a trick of synthesis, but the textures are always organic. Teimo is music which, like its comp
anion pieces, inspires a rich, visual world; and if Nunatak suggested human ice exploration, then this record is set somewhere deep, deep underwater. The low-end resonance, which was later co-opted by so many drone and dark ambient practitioners, places us on the sea bed, muffled and disoriented, as sounds bubble and wash overhead. The distant sounds are almost dream-like, yet through the water, cracks of light and solace appear in the powerful harmonic elements.

MONO-Hymn to the Immortal Wind 2xLP (Temporary Residence-$13.99)
Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO's trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up. While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue.

NIRVANA-Unpluigged in New York 180g LP (Simply Vinyl-$19.99)
The classic performance, available on vinyl again.

NORTH SEA-Bloodlines LP (Type-$18.99)
Brad Rose is an artist who is notoriously hard to pigeonhole. He might spend his days running the esteemed Digitalis imprint (sidelining the wonderful Foxy Digitalis webzine) but his nights are wiled away chiseling at the petrified corpse of experimental music. Donating sounds to Ajilvsga, Altar Eagle, Sea Zombies and Ossining (among many, many others), he has somehow found time to fashion a new solo work for Type, and it could hardly be further removed from his last outing. Bloodlines is an album rooted in synthesis -- the kind of busted power electronics that emerged in the early 80s with Ramleh, Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse. This is not, however, simply a noise album -- Brad has anchored his sound in this explorative mode, but uses his expertise to take it far beyond murk, grit and fractured teeth. With the help of Zelienople drummer Mike Weis (who accompanies the entire record on percussion) the record is a gloriously spacious excursion, with the fizzing Radiophonic b
lips, drones and tones set against gongs, scrapes and clanks. The sounds are dark and often punishing -- torturous and occasionally frightening, but Brad somehow manages to offset it with an occasional flourish of beauty or calm. The record is cut into two distinct acts (split lovingly for vinyl listening) and each "song" blends into the next, giving a true album experience. Bloodlines is not a simple collection of pieces, but a distinct narrative from beginning to end. As it tumbles from '50s sci-fi synth tones into haunting off-world terror, there is a sense of purpose and most of all, place. Brad has created a record that might not be an easy listening experience, but is one which grows on every successive play. It is truly deep and intensely troubling music.

OSOREZAN-Mimidokodesuka LP (Drag City-$13.99)
The first thing you need to know about this apparently mysterious new Drag City release is the identity of the personnel behind it: Jim O'Rourke, Chris Corsano and Family Vineyard artist Darin Grey have teamed up for an album of brain shaking improvisation in a similar mode to the none-more-skronked jazz/noise recordings of Original Silence, O'Rourke's project with Thurston Moore, Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-love (among others). The first piece, 'Form Of The Collapse If A Collapse Should Occur' begins in a comparatively sedate mode, with Corsano jangling bells while some sort of metalwork drone (some dsort of cymbal manipulation perhaps?) swells up in the background. Tentative guitar doodles start to catch your ear by the midway point, only for something approaching freeform, fuzzy chaos to break out towards then end, preparing you for the swingtime noise blitzkrieg that's to come. At times it all sounds a bit like Rune Grammofon's Scorch Trio, but O'Rourke's guitar is l
ess shred-centric than Raoul Bjorkenheim, often resembling the discordant invention you'd associate with Derek Bailey. Further to this, the less widely known Gray holds up his end brilliantly, laying down rapidfire upright bass when needed and of course, Corsano once again confounds the ear with his bizarre percussive dexterity. Great improvisation from three wonderful musicians. Very highly recommended indeed.

OVAL-Oh 12" (Thrill Jockey-$11.99)
MARKUS POPP'S first OVAL release after almost a decade of silence is a spectacular departure from the deconstructivist electronica that made him a laptop legend (Guitars? Are those actual drums?!?). Yet they still have this almost unsettling, organic, soothing atmosphere that has made OVAL tracks & remixes such timeless classics. 150gm white vinyl, hand-glued photo on jacket. LIMITED TO 1000, INCL. DOWNLOAD COUPON

OWEN PALLETT-Lewis Takes Off His Shirt 12" (Domino-$9.99)
'Lewis Takes Off His Shirt' is the 2nd single from Owen Pallett's critically acclaimed new album 'Heartland'. The 12" features stellar remixes of the single by Baltimore's energetic electronic producer Dan Deacon, Kranky records Benoît Pioulard and Montreal producer CFCF. The release also features a remix of 'Midnight Directives' by Max Tundra and a remix of 'Keep The Dog Quiet' by Simon Bookish.

JACK ROSE WITH D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX-Ragged & Right LP (Thrill Jockey-$13.99)
Link Wray became the thematic soundtrack for a 2008 JACK ROSE tour with D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX. Jack got so excited by the vibes emanating from these songs that he thought to break with his usual acoustic approach & enlist the Speer band to join in some unhinged & unrepentant fun in the studio. Recorded using an all live, no overdub approach, a gleaming bottle of Buffalo Trace helped shepherd them through the night. Feat. the original Helix lineup in peak form & lap steel & Rose' Telecaster stylings, "Ragged & Right" displays a vibrancy & depth of feeling that is striking & unforgettable. LIMITED TO 1000, INCL. DOWNLOAD COUPON

COLLIE RYAN-The Hour is Now LP (Sebastian Speaks-$15.99)
Sebastian Speaks, in association with Douglas McGowan of Yoga Records, is proud to present this compilation of tracks from obscure Texas folkstress Collie Ryan. The Hour Is Now culls tracks from all three of her privately-pressed 1973 albums The Giving Tree, Indian Harvest, and Takin' Your Turn 'Round The Corner Of Day, presented on vinyl in a sleeve featuring new front and back paintings by Collie herself. The tracks have been completely re-mastered from the original source tapes by J.D. Emmanuel of Wizards fame. The original records were funded in part by Collie's friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest, surfaced on Numero Group's stellar 2006 compilation Ladies From the Canyon. Collie's music is almost solely based around her cosmic, crystalline, bird-like voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong stu
dy of theosophy and naturalist living. Even today, Collie lives largely outside of what would be considered "regular" society, residing in a converted 1930's school bus in the middle of a Texas desert and painting mandalas on hub cabs, while continuing to produce her very special and personal music. Absolutely spellbinding, metaphysical, holistic song-cycles that embrace both the darkness and the light. Includes ledger-sized lyrics page insert.

SIMON SCOTT-Traba LP (Immune-$16.99)
"Traba is a brand new mini-LP from the UK's Simon Scott. 2009 saw the release of Scott's debut solo album Navigare released on Miasmah Recordings (run by Erik Skodvin of Svarte Greiner/Deaf Center). Traba contains four tracks that were written at the end of the sessions for Navigare. When the deadline for completion of the album came and went these compositions were unfinished, but over the course of the summer and autumn of 2009 they were completed in Scott's o3o3o Studio in Cambridge. Traba continues and expands on the themes of submergence, being lost at sea, and intoxication. Opening track 'She Came From The Sea', with its distant swirling brush stroke drumming, haunting vocals and deep processed textures, captures the almost overwhelming physicality of being at sea, miles from home, yearning for loved ones and a physical embrace. Though this is the first track on the record it was the last one to be written and completed after the Navigare sessions. 'The Water Loop' tac
kles themes of addiction, obsession and urban decay via a Max/MSP manipulated loop that initially feels warmly narcoleptic but grows into something anxious and intimidating. The music evokes warmth and adventure but slowly unfolds into a dark tone of emotional weakness and paranoia. An influence of Stanley Kubrick shines out here as this is a musical landscape occupied by Droogs on Molotov cocktails threatening to impose themselves on you."

TO ROCOCO ROT-Speculation LP (Domino-$18.99)
"Speculation" is the new, perfectly titled, To Rococo Rot album, recorded in part at Faust's studio. To Rococo Rot, the trio of Stefan Schneider and brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok, debuted just over a decade ago at the point where digital precision and instrumental abstraction were harnessed into new directions. Their sound is seemingly contradictory: instruments and technology, analog and digital, contemporary and primitive, detached and accessible.

VARIOUS ARTISTS-Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 3 LP (Subliminal Sounds-$25.99)
Finally on vinyl, volume three of the legendary Thai Beat compilation including 5 (!) awesome extra tracks that were not previously available on the CD! Incredible and ultra-rare recordings from Thailand in the 1960s. The amazing Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol 3 concentrates on Shadow music string bands, cosmic surf instros, mad garage/beat, mystic go-go organs, wild guitar rave-ups and psychedelic mind-benders, exotic female singers, wild Moog funk, disco madness, funky and soulful with extreme sensuality and emotions, surreal and groovy, all with a totally otherworldly Thai flavor. Experience the blossoming Bangkok night club scene with the exotic bar and lounge go-go bands! These recordings have a sound that's completely inexplicable, despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures combining a fascinating and primal version of rock n roll, surf, r 'n' b -- sometimes all in one song. Don't miss this ultimate Thai '60s compilation. Limited edition of 1,000 copies
worldwide. Housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold sleeve.


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NADJA-Truth Becomes Death 2xLP (Conspiracy-$19.99)
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