Date: August 1st 2008

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A FAULTY CHROMOSOME-As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit CD (Self-Released-$6.99)
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The debut album from this Los Angeles turned Texan trio will take some getting used to before the continuous drone of what sounds like one long song mumble-singing into its shoes gives way to the music's truly rhythmic lo-fi quality. Hazy, driving monotony is not necessarily a bad thing when what starts off as repetitive strangeness one minute has you bobbing your head the next. The cadence and hand clapping of "A Frozen Lake" is a perfect example. The vocals are unintelligible yet oddly endearing and when the lyrics are understood they're oftentimes sweet and heartfelt. The confessional "Them Pleasures of the Flesh" is uncomfortable in its honesty, admitting how "Irreverent quips are a jaunty façade to show I'm ill-equipped, I'd just love to believe in love." This is a dense album of many layers that might require several listens before the variety of atmospheric soundscapes and depth of spirit located beneath are revealed; however it deserves a chance and is worth your time
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BELONG-Same Places (Slow Version) LP (Table of Elements-$14.99)
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Wafting, vaporously, from the suffocating heat of New Orleans, Belong shimmers like a mirage: vaguely discernable, yet always at the edge of an unobtainable horizon. Collaborators Mike Jones and Turk Dietrich employ a singular and remarkably inscrutable studio technique (Dietrich's remix skills extend to Nine Inch Nails' "The Frail") to wholly liquefy source material - here electric guitars - into wave upon breaking wave of sound. Comparisons are frequently made to William Basinski's notorious "Disintegration Loops," and both efforts speak to intimate loss experienced on an epic, collective, and horrific scale: 9/11 and Katrina, respectively. But while Basinski's self-destructing loops articulate a one-way road to oblivion, Belong's music is not only degenerative, it's regenerative. With "Same Places (Slow Version)," Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation - plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of det
ail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined.

THE DECLINING WINTER-Goodbye Minnesota REPRESS CD (Rusted Rail-$15.99)
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The Declining Winter is the solo musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds, England, a co-founder of Hood. "Goodbye Minnesota" is his debut album under this guise, following an acclaimed 7" on Misplaced Music and a sold out remix cd on Moteer. Ranging from epic claustrophobia to rustic folk-dub explorations, with spectral atmospheres anchored to pastoral roots, "Goodbye Minnesota" delivers hypnotic melancholia via abstract hiphop, shoegaze, dub and post rock explorations. Along the way there's also rain-drenched pop and globally warmed electronic folk. This record features contributions from Chris Adams (Hood, Bracken) and Chris Cole (Many Fingers, Matt Elliott) and is housed in a recycled card sleeve in keeping with the environmentally-concerned nature of the project. This is a limited edition second pressing of the original sold out album.

HELICONIA-Glad You Were Born CD (Isolation-$8.99)
ON SALE!!! Heliconia, whose guitar-driven sound has been described as neo-shoegazer, have gigged extensively with German electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss and previously recorded for Isolation and Club AC30. Glad You Were Born, which includes work done with producer Pat Collier (Primal Scream, House of Love), captures the band's distinctive combination of laidback stoner grooves alternating with sheets of guitar and distortion. Whether it's the plaintive but powerful Bliss – a wall of noise rising from stuttering drums and resigned vocals; the delicately haunting Girl I Need You – music for walking along rainy 4am streets; the bass-sculpted Loose Ends – all jittery guitars, angst and adrenalin; or Deep In Winter – hushed boy/girl vocals reciting some private mantra over flowing guitar lines. The three-piece have gigged extensively in London and Brighton over the past couple of years, honing their powerful live sound.
A review of a pre-release copy of Glad You Were Born on webzine shotgunreviews.com commented on Heliconia's "dynamic mix of neo and classic shoegaze", concluding that the album "should bring the band some of the attention and respect they so richly deserve". The band's corrosive take on Ride classic Drive Blind for the AC30 compilation Never Lose That Feeling was described by starvox.net as "adding a dreamier/druggier edge to the original". Heliconia's debut EP on Isolation was described by Organart as "beautiful, stunning, the kind of musical treat that just stops you in your tracks and takes your breath away; a classic in the Chapterhouse/Slowdive mould".

I AM DAVID SPARKLE-This Is The New CD (KittyWu-$13.99)
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The tracks were written as musical vignettes inspired by the musings over love, life and beauty: where thematic elements of true love, desire, the power of and sensitivity to disorder, absence and solitude and finality were explored as sonic canvases. As a collection of songs however, This Is The New represents the coming of a new age - one of rebirth and renewal felt - which is exactly what I Am David Sparkle experienced throughout the writing and recording of this album. Coupled with a gorgeous and detailed packaing concept with messages hidden in between folds and an intimate personal experience to get to the music inside, This Is The New is a labor of love for both the band and the listener it engages. This I am David Sparke's first release with KittyWu Records.

PIA FRAUS/ULRICH SCHNAUSS-Split 7" (Seksound-$9.99)
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After a longtime friendship and several tours together, these artists have come together to release an exclusive split single from Seksound. Side A features the critically acclaimed track, "Mute The Birds," from Pia Fraus' latest release and produced by Ulrich Schnauss. The flip-side features a new track by Ulrich Schnauss produced by Rein Fuks of Pia Fraus, and mastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studio in London by Steve Rook.

PIA FRAUS-Ten Remixes of Yenissey CD (Seksound-$12.99)
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After many months of working on international projects and the release of 'After Summer' earlier this year, Pia Fraus are back with a remix compilation of the first piece created between Pia Fraus and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), 'Yenissey.' Contributing artists include Bill Wells, International Airport, Future Pilot AKA, Teenage Fanclub, Seeland, His Name Is Alive, and local Estonian bands, Galaktlan and Mirabilia.

ROMAKID-Romakid CDr (Distant Noise-$14.99)
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Romakid take crunchy, scratched up programmed beats, chipped and looped guitars and layer it with soft, ambient drones and crafted vocals. Their self entitled debut album follows their debut EP 'Centre and Periphery,' released on Isolation Recordings in 2004. Romakid try to maintain a loose and textured feel to their sound, avoiding pristine production to articulate their hopes and experience. The album features collaborations with different artists to add a collective edge. Limited to 100 copies and presented in card wallets with a colour sticker on the front, giving all the information. The artwork is created by Ben Curzon (Planets Mu, Make Mine Music, etc.).

SLOW DANCING SOCIETY-The Slow and Stead Winter CD (Hidden Shoal-$9.99)
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From the outset The Slow and Steady Winter sets itself up to be an epic. Clocking in at over an hour long and comprising of only eight tracks the album paints its majestic landscapes with both measure and purpose, unfolding a sound that moves from immersive ambient evocations to beatific bliss rock. The Slow and Steady Winter is not concerned with singularity but rather the totality of experience. The album is a gorgeously choreographed chronicle of a Spokane winter from the ice covered fields of 'The Early Stages of Decline' to the thawed warm edges of spring in 'February Sun'. The album serves as a wonderful progression from Slow Dancing Society's previous work both in sound and mood. In part it presents a much darker vision while still radiating an ineffable sense of humanity and heart. The Slow and Steady Winter is the eagerly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed debut album The Sound of Lights When Dim also available through Hidden Shoal Recordings.

SLOW DANCING SOCIETY-The Sound of Lights When Dim CD (Hidden Shoal-$9.99)
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'The Sound of Lights When Dim' is a sumptuous unfolding ride towards a fading horizon. As with Eno's finest moments and Sylvian's ambient explorations, this work manages to dissolve its temporal markers and speak about moments removed from time. It talks to the delicious flaws of memory and feeling whilst never sullying itself with literality or simple documentation.


COMPACT DISCS

AU REVOIR SIMONE-Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation CD (Self-Released-$7.99)
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"Reason to love NYC #842 - ladies and gentleman, Au Revoir Simone?They're like a hipster all-girl Traveling Willburys - obviously a helluva lot easier on the eye - but more importantly have created a breezy sunny lofinewwaveelectropop sound that I haven't heard done as well and with as much aplomb since The Postal Service." - jenyk.com

BECK-Modern Guilt CD (Interscope-$16.99)
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Genre hopping wunderkind, Beck is back with a new album,Modern Guilt, produced by Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton. The new album contains 10 new songs. Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor. Musically, the album's ten tracks vacillate between economy and experimentation, hybrid and pop classicism, while consistently manifesting Beck and Danger Mouse's shared interest in psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and orchestration.

CRYSTAL ANTLERS-EP CD (Self Released-$6.99)
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"Besides existing at the cross-section of so many styles, the disc finds the band at a more important nexus of potential and realization. In person, Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too: Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, the group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend (so long as you're not counting the increasingly frustrating trend of unimaginative bandnames). You might come across comparisons to Les Savy Fav, an appropriate call if you consider it shorthand for "relentlessly energetic band with crowd-pleasing stage antics." EP's opener "A Thousand Eyes" is evidence enough of that: Beginning with doomy, lo-fi minor arpeggios, it soon explodes into a Latin-influenced rumble before the band piledrives into a swaggering psych hook, the track sounds something like if Comets on Fire inverted the
ir ratio of chaos-to-craft. Beneath the squall, "Vexation"'s headsnapping pace and flesh-searing bass riff could be a Stooges-style punk shoutalong. The organ riff that "Owl" pogos on is a found relic from late-1960s Venice Beach with a monolithic vocal melody. And like any long-haired throwback worth its bongos, EP ends with the loosest and longest number, the seven-minute swamp lurch of "Parting Song for the Torn Sky". As much as it diverges from the brain-frying aim of typical psych-rock outings, EP is an unorthodox summer record-- not so much for driving to the beach as actually being in its sweltering grasp, equal parts scorched earth and wide open spaces. Credit to producer Ikey Owens (aka Mars Volta's keyboardist-- there's hope!) for finding enough room for every instrument, few of which act in their traditional scope. If you find yourself humming any of the riffs, odds are they'll come from singer Jonny Bell, who treats his bass like a six-string while guitar (check the appropriate titanic "Arcturus") and organ provide shading under an ozone of reverb that, like early My Morning Jacket, gives an impression of an expansive soundworld the band can grow into."-Ian Cohen [Pitchfork]

THE FAINT-Fasciinatiion CD (blank.wav-$10.99)
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The Faint's fifth album, is the first in the band's ten-year history to be written, recorded, produced, art directed and released entirely on their own. Fasciinatiion is an album that draws on many defining facets of The Faint's sound, while remaining completely different from anything else they've put out. A record whose themes include predictions and the future, tabloid culture, the allure of what may never be, childhood lost and more, Fasciinatiion sounds as if it's been beamed in from a satellite whose sole purpose is observing, and making sense of, the details of every day existence. In certain ways, the album is the most mechanical and precise of the band's work: The vocals sound less human than ever before; the bass lines are more mangled, keyboards spiral and squeal out of control; electronic pings and stabs invade the melodies; the lyrical anxiety and disdain of previous albums pervades almost every song on Fasciinatiion.

JOSEPHINE FOSTER-This Coming Gladness CD (Bo Weavil-$16.99)
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This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her song craft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.

HEY PAULETTE!-Long Ball Into Nowhere CD (Firestation-$17.99)
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Long awaited compilation-album from the legendary popstars Hey Paulette. "Long Ball Into Nowhere" featuring 17 tracks including all songs from their John Peel session plus lot's of unreleased material. As a special bonus the album contains a video of their classic "I Really Do Love Penelope."

THE HONEST JOHNS-Meteor CD (Firestation-$17.99)
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Meteor is another brilliant re-release from the glory days of UK indiepop. The Honest Johns were around first between 1986 – 1990. During that period the band recorded some of the finest indiepop tunes ever. Only one 12" was released before the band split up in the early 90s only to reform a couple of years ago. "Meteor" contains 12 wonderful recordings from their back catalogue. Most of them are unreleased until now. The band is well known for their amazing classic "Judas In Me Singing" which was first heard on The Sound Of Leamington Spa Vol. 2 compilation.

JORGE BEN-Jorge Ben 1969 CD (Dusty Groove-$13.99)
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A samba soul classic from Jorge Ben -- quite possibly his greatest album ever, and a true treasure through and through! The tunes explode with an amazing sense of energy -- driven by Jorge's great guitar and vocals, plus key percussive efforts from the Trio Mocoto -- whose sounds here are simply amazing, and create a unique undercurrent of funk. This is the album that set a whole generation on fire, and it's probably still one of the most-copied moments of Ben's long career. In contrast to the cerebral output of the Tropicalia camp in 1969, this album's much more visceral and personal -- yet no less revolutionary! First time on CD in the US -- and first time on CD in the world in over 15 years. Includes the classics 'Take It Easy My Brother Charles,' 'Pais Tropical,' and 'Que Pena.'

THE LORD DOG BIRD-S/T CD (Jagjaguwar$11.99)
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The Lord Dog Bird is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for Jagjaguwar artists, Wilderness. While the band was on extended hiatus, McCann kept at it, documenting his feelings about life and music at home on his four track. The result is a gritty, tactile document of a time spent in self-exploration and flux. Through droning repetition and the unmistakable hiss and clip of four track cassette, a warm and engrossing atmosphere develops. These songs are buoyed by melodies that are at once sad and hopeful. The listener is immediately drawn in by their intimacy and honesty, with vocals imparting a sincerity and intensity that often borders on vulnerability. While The Lord Dog Bird draws it's influences from a distinct set of predecessors, music itself seems to be it's main inspiration; a human attempt at honoring beauty; a music to help bring about healing and to celebrate change.

The Lord Dog Bird is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for Jagjaguwar artists, Wilderness. While the band was on extended hiatus, McCann kept at it, documenting his feelings about life and music at home on his four track. The result is a gritty, tactile document of a time spent in self-exploration and flux. Through droning repetition and the unmistakable hiss and clip of four track cassette, a warm and engrossing atmosphere develops. These songs are buoyed by melodies that are at once sad and hopeful. The listener is immediately drawn in by their intimacy and honesty, with vocals imparting a sincerity and intensity that often borders on vulnerability. While The Lord Dog Bird draws it's influences from a distinct set of predecessors, music itself seems to be it's main inspiration; a human attempt at honoring beauty; a music to help bring about healing and to celebrate change.

MARS-Complete NYC 1977-78 CD (No More-$14.99)
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[Note: Mars LP is the title, but this is a CD-only release]. The Mars LP is the definitive collection of the 32 minutes of studio recordings released on vinyl between 1977 and 1979 by the most influential no wave band from the era, Mars (Sumner Crane, China Burg, Mark Cunningham, Nancy Arlen). Supervised by the surviving members, remastered from original sources without any added effects, and packaged with detailed notes and lyrics, the Mars LP is an effort to showcase the group's legacy and make up for the unavailability of these tracks in their original sound. Described by Lydia Lunch as "Static transmissions from a distant dark star. Taking up and tripping out further than The Velvet Underground's 'Black Angel Death Song,' Mars punished not with blunt force, but with a propulsive agitation which signaled a neurological insanity. A crippled tension swathed in nervous friction. A cavernous musical universe riddled with eerie sound storms whose poisoned atmosphere seduced and
threatened. Obtuse and unforgiving. Sickly sexy. Red noise redefining bass urges, forcing the listener to question their own sanity by drilling into ear holes using electroshock guitars as saw blades trepanning into grey matter. Mars unleashed a choking cacophony illustrating the body as machine in disrepair fuelled by the impending repulsion and disintegration of a perverse romance with one's own demons. Demons who once wrenched free, made mimicry of the jangling nerve centers, and given voice as song, turned schizophrenic and howled these testimonials to the unbearable." Includes their first single on Rebel/Ze, the No New York tracks, and the Mars EP on Lust/Unlust Music -- the complete discography. This CD should be considered as an alternative to the still-valid 78+ CD on Atavistic -- this one features all the original recordings as intended, with all the Thirlwell sound reprocessing of the Atavistic CD eliminated.

ONEIDA-Preteen Weaponry CD (Jagjaguwar-$11.99)
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Preteen Weaponry has three parts and is meant to be listened to all at once, in order. It's almost entirely instrumental and contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. Consider Oneida the bastard child of a Can/Suicide marriage; a band unafraid to pluck, tap, bend, synth, or crash their way to the various extremes of rock, pop, folk, and the avant-garde.

OXFORD COLLAPSE-Bits CD (Sub Pop-$11.99)
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BITS is album number four for Brooklyn's Oxford Collapse, but it's a first for them in many ways. Some of those ways will be immediately apparent to those of you who've followed their raucous, boyish exploits since their 2006 Sub Pop debut Remember the Night Parties, or from their earlier efforts. Their charming lack of guile, combined with a capable and focused aim towards the better of the '80s college-rock cognoscenti and Trouser Press favorites, has made for music that has found its way into backyards and across rooftops all over the city. Recorded in chunks throughout 2007 with Eric Emm at the Brothers Studios, and Chad Matheny in spaces all over town, BITS corrects for time and experience, and shows a band artistically riding its own peaks. The tension is still present in their three-way interplay (listen to them firing off of each other, squealing out of control at the end of "Back of the Yards") but the direction and presence in this set is open, flowing against anyth
ing they've done before. It's the sound of fun turning into purpose, of a great band writing and playing their best songs, and knowing how great that feels. This is the new Oxford Collapse, as a band and as a record: straightforward; memorable; mature, but not necessarily grown-up; just better. It's all heart and ingenuity, the joyous racket that connects C86 pop to the present, made by three guys who are realizing that they can be mayors.

PAAVOHARJU-Laulu Laakson Kukista CD (Fonal-$16.99)
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Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests, this is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests, this is the hi
ghly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape.

PRINTS-Just Thoughts CD (Temporary Residence-$9.99)
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"The players: Zac Nelson, Kenseth Thibideau, Tim Goldsworthy. Quickly following their debut full-length, Prints return to stir the pot with a little more pop, their usual dose of psychedlia and an intoxicating amount of dance. It only takes about ten seconds to know how this 20-minute ride goes, but the charming anything-goes aesthetic that is quickly becoming a Prints trademark is firmly intact. Once again produced at home by multi-instrumentalists Zac Nelson and Kenseth Thibideau, the songs here were originally conceived as b-sides for a proposed single for "Too Much Water" from the group's eponymous debut. By the time three new songs were completed, they stood too strong on their own to be pushed out as b-sides, so the decision was made to forfeit the single and instead offer the songs as a stand-alone EP. Meanwhile, DFA cofounder and Hercules and Love Affair producer Tim Goldsworthy fired up his new alter-ego Thee Loving Hand for an epic super-funk remix of a pair of Prin
ts tracks, "Pretty Tick" and "Meditation" (featuring, among other things, the funk bass skills of !!!'s Tyler Pope). To top it off, acclaimed visual artist Toben Seymour directed an eye-popping video for "Too Much Water," which is included here on the Enhanced CD portion of the disc. Navigating the unsteady terrain between mainstream pop icons (Michael Jackson, Prince), classic studio obsessives (Brian Wilson, Ween), and their own experimental leanings (Sleeping People, Hexlove), Prints plays it fast and loose while paying close attention to the details, turning out heady dance-pop with a very high replay value and an unusually long shelf-life."

THE SEALEVEL-Beach From Last Summer CD (Firestation-$17.99)
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A wonderful new band from Berlin which includes members of the favoured Seaside Stars whose debut album "The Magic Of Stereo" was praised by the press all around the world and which was one of the best selling albums of Firestation Records ever. For fans of Teenage Fanclub, Beach Boys, Pearlfishers, East Village or The BMX Bandits.

STEINSKI-What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective 2xCD (Illegal Art-$17.99)
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Steinski (advertising writer, DJ, and record collector Steve Stein) produced his first record in 1983. In response to a nationwide remix contest by Tommy Boy Records, he and partner Double Dee (engineer and studio wizard Douglas DJ Franco) produced "The Payoff Mix." A panel of ten judges--including Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, Jellybean Benitez, and Arthur Baker--unanimously chose the mix as the winner. Within two weeks "The Payoff Mix" became a Top 10 request on urban radio nationwide, but the release never saw official status and was subsequently bootlegged countless times. The Payoff Mix became the first record in a series now known as The Lessons. Double Dee and Steinski followed up with cut-and-paste landmark Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix, which Fatboy Slim called "the record that always gets the crowd going." Then came Lesson 3: The History of Hip Hop. The series quickly became highly sought after collectibles and led to homage records by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist,
DJ Format, and , Steinski has produced a variety of tracks, and this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination (originally a white-label promo, also issued as a Flexi-disk for UK music magazine NME) to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa's "Jazz" with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release will also includes the critically acclaimed "Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix," an hour-long mashup that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by Salon as, "the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced" and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with The Lessons) to Girl Talk's Night Ripper.

THEE OH SEES-Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion CD+DVD (Secretly Canadian-$16.99
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"This was recorded a few years ago during the release of our Sucks Blood album . It features beautifully shot footage (from the genius mind of Brian Lee Hughes) of Thee Oh Sees playing Live without stages in different locations around San Francisco . If you've ever wanted to see your favorite songs such as "The Guilded Cunt" performed next to a highway with speeding cars driving past , here is your chance !!! There are also some good stories and jokes in between the songs to help keep you company on a lonely nights. What else could you ask for? Wait, you could ask for a CD also ? You Got It Dude !!! A Full CD of the tracks is included along with the DVD !!! So , even if you can't see , you can still enjoy this release with your ear holes in all of it's glory !! Unless you can't hear either , which in that case you can message petey dammit and he will glue macaroni onto a piece of paper representing each song for you to touch." - Thee Oh Sees

TORI | NEJI-Nisennenmondai CD (Smalltown Supersound-$13.99)
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Nisennenmondai means "Year 2000 Problem" and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by Lightning Bolt, Battles, No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as "This Heat," "Sonic Youth" and "Pop Group," one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you add Black Flag, DNA, Neu! and Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondai's sound. It's raw and repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as they are wild groovy with a no wave/disco vibe. This is the first release outside of Japan and it contains the bands two EPs Neji and Tori released as one album with new cover design by Kim Hiorthoy.

DAVID VANDERVELDE-Waiting For The Sunrise CD (Secretly Canadian-$11.99)
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David Vandervelde dropped out of the sky in early 2007 with the well-received indie classic The Moonstation House Band. That album more than lived up to its title's potential, providing a healthy slab of cosmic, primal rock boogie. While this debut was the product of Vandervelde being isolated in the studio, being allowed to follow his every musical whim, Waiting For The Sunrise is a product of a new sort of isolation. After relocating from Chicago to Brooklyn, Vandervelde struggled to find his place in the new musical community. This seclusion led to most of the album being composed in his apartment on an acoustic guitar. Although Waiting for the Sunrise is a decidedly more rootsy effort, Vandervelde has lost none of the exotic swagger that colored his debut. But this time around the savage is mixed with the sublime in a way that is reminiscent of the classic, sentimental pop of the 70's. The production emboldens the AM radio vibe that prevails throughout the album, sliding
effortlessly between hazy rock shuffles and ballads for wood paneled basements. On this sophomore effort Vandervelde has put his best foot forward with a focused set of songs that recall classic themes of journey and infinity. Rarely has a sun-drenched folk-rock album sounded this confident. For the first time, members of his band contributed to the recording sessions and the finished album features a song co-written by ex-Wilco member Jay Bennett. The finished product is the result of Vandervelde having extended himself both musically and emotionally, looking both deeply inward and outward for inspiration.

VARIOUS ARTISTS-British Invasion Vol. 2 (Firestation-$17.99)
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After the great success of Firestation's New British Invasion compilation, they have released a follow up. Once again you will find lots of fantastic new bands from Great Britain. Feature The WOMBATS - Lost In The Post The KBC – Pride Before The Fall Dirty Little Faces – Finding It Hard Horsebox – The Stupid Parts Of Town Eight Legs – Eight Legs Scanners – Lowlife WinterKids – I'm Not Used To You The Downbeats – Still Waiting Yellow Bentines - Down And Up The Orphans – Looks Like Trouble The Social – The Good Fight The Mardy Bums – Put Wood In Hole The Rubikons – Sunshine Lies Scottish Polis Inspectors – Gina McKee The Jakpot - Too Much Time The Chapman Family – She Didn't Know Enid Blitz – Day By Day The Home Wreckers Club – What Went Wrong Captain Dangerous – Boozehounds The Madeleines – Safety Net Monkey Swallows The Universe - Jimmy Down the Well

VARIOUS ARTISTS-Fieberkurve Compilation Vol. 4: What You Hear Today You'll Be Singing Tomorrow CD (Firestation-$17.99)
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The fourth compilation of the wonderful Fieberkurve fanzine. Very last copies! Feature Monostars - Keine Schoenheit - Brideshead - Shampoo Bubble - Luma - Ueber Solche Sachen - Soap - Swine - Intershop - My Plastic - Planet 9 - Speech - Lovit - Alright - Blochin 81 - Older & Wiser - Wow & Flatter - Easy Life - Mauerbluemchen Brie - Happyness Is Not For Me - Mrs. Wallace - Crack - Malory - Worry About Something - Phoenix Asteroiden - Sternenstaub - Pancake Day - Waterfalls - Damp 2000 - Drin - Elegant - Blindgaenger - Stutter - Keks - Der Heitere Himmel - Brodel - Lobsters Lost In Space - Hole In My Sky

KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT-Harmaa Laguuni CD (Secret Eye-$13.99)
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New KYY featuring performances from quite a few favorite Finnish noisemakers, including members of Avarus, Kiila and Es. Also - Tom + Christina of Charlambidies guest! All exclusive tracks, this was released for Kemialliset Ystävät's 2008 USA tour. LIMITED tour-only release...and NOT available in stores! Eat up. Fast.


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ALVA NOTO-Unitxt 2xLP (Raster-Noton-$20.99)
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LP version, deluxe gatefold package. Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) makes a move back to his more rhythmic approach with Unitxt. Unit -- the initial working title of the album -- is the name of Club Unit in Tokyo. The way of composing the tracks in the grid of 120 bpm and out of different rhythmic units or modules recombined, as well as the mode of expression used for the text component of the recordings (developed in collaboration with the French sound poet Anne-James Chaton), changed the original title to Unitxt. Anne-James Chaton delivers the text/voice for the tracks "U_07" and "U_08-1." Track "U_07" is based on a portrait of Carsten Nicolai, where the text was generated from a simple instruction: just to read all notes, credit cards, invoices, business cards, etc., out of Nicolai's wallet. For "U_8-1," Anne-James Chaton used numbers from the golden cut (or golden ratio), quoting a simple but endless row of numbers from the mathematical concept. After the first 10 tracks tha
t are the core recordings of Unitxt, there are 15 more tracks generated from converting pure data from programs, jpgs or other digital files into sound material. These tracks could be considered as source code "solos" to be played on top of the first 10 tracks or to be regarded as sonic concept recordings.

ATLAS SOUND-Atlas Shrugged 7" (K-$3.99)
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Chief Atlas provocateur Bradford Cox, stopped off in Olympia, WA to lay down these tracks at the Dub Narcotic studio. He made up the song on the spot, played all the instruments, and improvised vocals. Engineered by Calvin Johnson, who in his guise as Selector Dub Narcotic, added his own flourishes and mixed the arresting B-side, "Version". Another instant classic in the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series of 7-inches.

ATLAS SOUND-Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel 2xLP (Kranky-$14.99)
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This release combines the acclaimed 'Let The Blind...' LP with the new 'Another Bedroom' EP. One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. Here on his debut album, Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Cox / Sound moves out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxes at home in his Grant Park, Atlanta bedroom. And this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with Deerhunter in a new context, with newly aquired recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy and mania.

BAUHAUS-In Flatfield REISSUE LP (4AD-$22.99)
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Few debut albums have ever arrived so nearly perfectly formed. In 1980 with IN THE FLAT FIELD Bauhaus practically single handedly invented what remains for many as the stereotype of goth music. These vinyl re-issues are remastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl. In heavyweight 350g double white heavy board jackets.

BAUHAUS-In Flatfield REISSUE DELUXE EDITION 2xLP (4AD-$40.99)
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Few debut albums have ever arrived so nearly perfectly formed. In 1980 with IN THE FLAT FIELD Bauhaus practically single handedly invented what remains for many as the stereotype of goth music. This Deluxe Edition includes the original album on BLACK VINYL, the 2nd disc is the 4AD 12inch EP that collected the bands early 45's, pressed on WHITE VINYL. In heavy board gatefold sleeve, Ltd. numbered edition of 2000.

BORIS-Smile 2xLP (Southern Lord-$21.99)
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The mighty Boris release their official follow-up to the much lauded Pink, defying fan's expectations and expanding their musical palette further than ever before. Their first non-collaborative release in two years, Smile is a natural progression of the work the band has done in partnership with bands such as Sunn o))) and guitarist Michio Kurihara. That's not to say that just because the release doesn't share ownership with another artist that the band doesn't bring along some friends for the ride. Both Kurihara and Sunn o)))'s Stephen O'Mally turn in contributions to Smile, but in the end this is pure Boris. Are you ready to Smile?

CSS-Donkey LP (Sub Pop-$12.99)
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VINYL FORMAT - Formed in 2003 in São Paulo, Brazil by a group of art-damaged, pop culture omnivores with an abiding thirst for good times, CSS is, among a great many other things, the first South American band signed to the overrated Sub Pop label of Seattle, WA. CSS's debut full-length, Cansei de Ser Sexy ("I got tired of being sexy" in Brazilian Portuguese) was released in July of 2006, and the band was nearly immediately, and pretty fairly described by The Guardian (July 21, 2006) with, "...they sound like an unlikely, brilliantly wrong fusion of Tom Tom Club, dance culture and the Fall." Produced in Brazil by the band's own Adriano Cintra and mixed in Los Angeles by Mark "Spike" Stent (whose credits include Madonna, Bjork, Massive Attack, U2, M.I.A., and Arcade Fire), Donkey is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. And really, with CSS the live show is the thing. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos, the band's
unaffected, unbridled joy in performance is for real and for you.

FLYING LOTUS-LA EP 1 12" (Warp-$7.99)
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The first of three mad limited 12"s from the man like Flylo bumps off with some ultra fresh non-album cuts, turning on with the ace 'Sleepy Dinosaur' before bugging the rhythm for 'Rickshaw' with a wicked South East Asian string instrumentation providing a point of focus while the beat blurs in and out of view with a heavy lidded vibe hard to find anywhere else in hiphop. Dripping butter soul cut 'Roberta Flack' eases up the b-side with a fragrant vocal from Dolly over slapping boom bap percussion and a late afternoon pished vibe that demands to be sat on, while the rest of the EP reclines into psyched and stoned grooves that to be completely honest sound better than a lot of the tracks from the album proper. It's looking like this super limited series could well eclipse the quality of the album so you've been warned, get on these bad boys early or you really won't know what you've missed out on. If you loved the amazing 'Reset' EP - this will blow your mind.

SACHIKO KANENOBU-Misora LP (Guerrsen-$29.99)
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Misora (which can be roughly translated as Beautiful Sky), the 1972 debut album by Sachiko Kanenobu, a woman generally acknowledged as Japan's first female singer-songwriter. It's a near-perfect folk masterpiece, alternating full-bodied arrangements (produced by Harry Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End) with Sachiko's lonesome guitar and pure, soaring vocals. Discovered as a precocious 18 year-old in Osaka, Sachiko was signed in 1968 to Japan's first-ever independent record company, URC (Underground Record Club), who changed Japan's musical landscape irrevocably in the late '60s and early '70s with artists like Happy End, Folk Crusaders and Kenji Endo. Sachiko was the only female artist on this era-defining label and the very fact that she wrote and sang her own songs made her a rarity among Japanese women. Limited reissue of 500 copies, in gatefold cover and with a 4 page insert featuring extensive liner notes, lyrics translated into English by Sachiko herself, a
nd never before seen photos from the singer's own archives.

LEILA-Blood, Looms and Blooms LP (Warp-$17.99)
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Graduating from Aphex Twin's Rephlex label to Warp, UK producer/DJ Leila pulls out all the stops on Blood, Looms and Blooms. From collaborating with chanteuse (and muse to Tricky and Danger Mouse) Martina Topley Bird, to incorporating everything from deep techno to postmodern hip-hop and classic soundtrack styles, Blood, Looms and Blooms is the most original album you're likely to hear in 2008.

MUSIC GO MUSIC-Reach Out 12" (Secretly Canadian-$9.99)
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Like a bolt from Zeus, Music Go Music have struck again with their new 12" single, 'Reach Out.' This outing finds them exploring a darker side of pop music; the place where Deep Purple's brute force meets the Carpenter's tragic wistfulness, where Blondie's power-hooks cross melodic swords with Meat Loaf's drama-rock theatrics. They've expanded their palette considerably, yet the sound is unmistakably theirs, and the magic of it points the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. 'Reach Out' is the monologue of a would-be savior, offering to lift us from the pit of despair. It treks from Logan's Run ambience to proto-metal riffing to disco-gallop to TV detective funk and back again.

NORMANOAK-Estra LP (Secretly Canadian-$11.99)
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Normanoak has another piece of vinyl to share with the world, a true follow up to last year's A Double Gift of Tongues. This new album is called Estra, named after a powerful horned goddess whom Normanoak has been busy invoking recently in small performance spaces around the country. Everything was recorded in his bedroom in Bloomington, Indiana, on three different tape machines. The music on Estra shows more variety than any of his previous efforts. Chugging rock songs burn up into soft, dark dirges that feature a uniquely made-up language code. Screaming minute-long hardcore songs fade into freaky, fucked instrumentals. There is even a song which curses the current state government, and their excessive logging of Normanoak's home forests of Southern Indiana. Throughout these 14 pieces, Normanoak takes on many personalities, such as his alter-ego Poisonoak. Over time the listener can begin to notice the shifts in perspective that the singer makes. Normanoak is more than just
another musician. His work is pure sorcery at its most successful.

PORTISHEAD-The Rip 12" (Island-$5.99)
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LIMITED! One-sided 12" with etching on the b-side. The most eagerly awaited album of the year Third has certainly not disappointed. The album has been received to critical acclaim everywhere it's been reviewed, and will undoubtedly be one of the best albums of 2008. This new Portishead release "The Rip", is the second single from their new album.

MELVYN PRICE-Rhythm And Blues LP (Wax Poetics-$18.99)
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180 gram vinyl version. As an incentive to the record-buying public, every vinyl purchase will include a free download of Price's "The Subway" from his impressive 1971 release, Rytmer II.

SLOAN-Parallel Play LP (Yep Roc-$17.99)
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The boiled down brother to their 30 song magnum opus Never Hear the End of It, Parallel Play is the latest from power pop royalty Sloan. Less a conscious answer to NHTEOI's unabridged creative approach, Parallel Play is a continuation of the musical concepts put forth on their last album and a further exploration of the band's four-songwriter dynamic. A term taken from the science of developmental psychology, Parallel Play is a behavior seen in young children in which they enjoy independent activities in the company of other children, something the four boys in Sloan know a lot about. As per their unique musical modus operandi, the members of Sloan wrote songs independently and then joined forces in the studio to produce yet another album of timeless, guitar-driven pop. For Sloan, Parallel Play proves once again that four times the songwriters equals four times the rock.

THE TARTANS-My Baby Doesn't Care For You 7" (Cloudberry-$4.99)
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TILLY AND THE WALL-O LP (Team Love-$14.99)
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The band is known for their potent combination of sing-song boy-girl vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboard accents, and a tap dancer instead of a drummer, but this is their most sonically experimental album yet. They toyed with more instruments, voices, and bodily percussion than on previous efforts and have begun to forge a new musical path for themselves. The band invited everyone in their community to contribute to the cover art for this record, and every month it will have limited edition runs of handmade prints by different artists; or you could even create your own. This is a record into which you'll want to pour yourself.

THE TREE PEOPLE-The Tree People LP (Guerssen-$27.99)
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Self-titled album by Oregon group Tree People has finally reached its deserved status after the excellent CD reissue released by Japanese label Tiliqua a couple years ago. Tree People is no other than a fantastic piece of hippie acid folk that clearly anticipates today's freak folk movement. Very clean production, with an Eastern flavor noticeable in many passages and using acoustic guitars, varied percussions and flutes, while the strong vocals of Stephen Cohen finalize the picture. Remastered sound from masters, has insert with rare photos.


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BECK-Modern Guilt 180g LP (Interscope-$14.99)
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THE LORD DOG BIRD-S/T LP ($)
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ONEIDA-Preteen Weaponry 180g LP (Jagjaguwar-$14.99)
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DAVID VANDERVELDE-Waiting For The Sunrise LP (Secretly Canadian-$11.99)
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DAYSLEEPERS-The Soft Attack CDEP (Raindelay-$8.99)
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MALORY-Outerbeats CD (Supermodern-$15.00)
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MALORY-The Third Face CD (Supermodern-$18.99)
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MOSCOW OLYMPICS-Cut The World CD (Lavender-$9.99)
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PIA FRAUS-Nature Heart Software CD (Seksound-$13.99)
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VARIOUS ARTISTS-Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 1 CD (Firestation-$18.99)
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VARIOUS ARTISTS-Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 4 CD (Firestation-$18.99)
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