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PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: VPRL 4237LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2024 repress. "Now freshly remastered and restored with original press artwork complete with inner disco sleeve. Heart of the Congos is a roots reggae album by The Congos, produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry at his Black Ark studio with a studio band including Boris Gardiner on bass and Ernest Ranglin on guitar. The album was released in 1977. It is noted as being one of Perry's masterpiece productions of the Black Ark era."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: WHYT 039LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Moin is a three-piece group consisting of Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead of Raime alongside longtime collaborator Valentina Magaletti of Tomaga, Shit & Shine & CZN. Released on AD93, Moot marks a creative left turn for the label and a pared-down studio approach for the artists involved. According to Moin, "the record was made as an experiment really, it felt like the right time to play on the fringes of this kind of music. The priority was to be direct at first and then change the edges perhaps. Make something to experience rather than something as a spectacle." Made using traditional live recording techniques with some sparingly applied sampling and postprocessing in the studio afterwards, it's a heady interpretation of the mist between post-punk, hardcore and down-tuned US stoner rock. There's flashes of Slint in the hollow locked in percussion and ominous bass interludes, there's elements of the various influential projects of Justin Broadrick, Steve Albini, or even Kevin Shields with the warm distortion across tracks like "It's Never Goodbye" and the rhythmic complexity in the tightly wound, menacing time signatures. A no-frills rediscovery of the music which informed their youth, Moot! is the culmination of three visionaries stripping things back to the essential elements. A visceral and timeless experience that's highly recommended.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: WHYT 052LP

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Paste is the second album by Moin, released on the October 2022 via AD 93. The follow up to their well-received debut album Moot!, the record draws influences from alternative guitar music in its many forms, using electronic manipulations and sampling techniques to redefine it's context, not settling on any one style but moving through them in search of new connections. By exploring these relationships, Moin delivers another collage of the known and unknown, punctuated by words that are just out of reach.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: AKENAT 002LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Limited 2024 repress. Before the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, unleashing a horrifying genocide, Cambodia had one of the most vibrant and exciting music scenes in Asia. With a mixture of traditional Khmer music and a myriad of western genres (from French and Latin music, to rock-and-roll, rhythm-and-blues, surf, psychedelia, soul, and many more) the few pre 75 Cambodian recordings that survived -- most of them were destroyed -- are enough to make anyone with a taste for good music shocked by the amazing quality of the sounds created during those golden years. Gathered on Cambodian Nuggets are some of the most talented and unique musicians from that amazing era with an explosive collection of tracks sure to blow the mind of the listener. A celebration of some of the best music ever made. Features Ros Serey Sothea, Yol Aularong, Pan Ron, Tet Somnang & Meas Samon, Houy Meas & Dara Chom Chan, Choun Malai, Sinn Sisamouth, Liev Tuk, Thra Kha Band, Yol Aularong & Liev Tuk, Eng Nary, and Baksey Cham Krong + Mol Kamach. Edition of 500.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: AMT 042EP

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Straight off the back of his first live headline tour, 1-800 GIRLS continues his journey of binding genres through emotion with his debut EP That's Just How I Feel on Seb Wildblood's label all my thoughts. Mirroring his previous works, this four-track collection is a tapestry woven around themes of transformation and progression. Evolving with each production, this release is a strong statement of intent for how he means to go on. The EP itself is made up of four scantily clad, lovestruck dance tracks that feel purpose built for the summer festival run. Proudly bearing all the hallmarks of a UK production, pitch vocals are inked onto the body of each track with detail and care. He demonstrates his ability to stir emotion with simplicity, and seasons each production with tastefully chosen found sound recordings.

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: AMT 044LP

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Prolific visionary Yetsuby makes her debut on all my thoughts with a celestial concept LP that chimes into the deeper, inner emotions. Yetsuby is the solo project of South Koren artist Yejin Jang. Since 2019 she has carved out a reputation as something of a prolific visionary, with six albums, seven EPs and a flurry of singles between her two projects to date. Her recent album My Star, My Planet Earth received the "best electronic album of 2023" award at the Korean Music Awards. Beyond her solo work Jang is also one half of the critically acclaimed electronic duo Salamanda, which has been featured in Pitchfork, Crack Magazine, and DJ Mag. The duo also host a residency called "shadow dance" on NTS radio. Yetsuby's debut release on Seb Wilblood's all my thoughts label is a heartfelt and forward-thinking mini LP. The six-track release effortlessly chimes into the deeper, inner emotions whilst providing a window into her abundant breadth of skills through tantalizing themes of sonic alchemy. "I want to put comfort into the music and give some message to people who blame themselves," says Yetsuby. The resulting effect is a release that feels sincere and deeply personal but has a celestial magic about it that feels both kaleidoscopic and transcendent. It effectively creates a world for the listener to inhabit, whilst inviting them to connect with the album's themes on a personal level.

 

PRICE: $31.00

CAT #: AMI 054LP

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"Primitive Art Group 1981-1986 is presented on gatefold 2LP, and is a combination of the group's only two albums, consisting of one LP of Five Tread cuts plus 'Cecil Likes to Dance' a never-before-released live recording from Thistle Hall (1984) and the full 1985 LP Future Jaw-Clap. This material that has been unavailable since mid-1980s. It is well documented that in the early '80s, New Zealand was awash with adventurous new music. Though sharing the kind of happy isolation and the DIY ethic with contemporaneous outfits like Flying Nun, South Indies, and Xpressway, one band cut a decidedly different path. The Primitive Art Group, formed in Wellington, devoted itself to collective improvisation coming out of a jazz tradition. With the line-up of Anthony Donaldson (drums), David Donaldson (bass), Neil Duncan (saxes), Stuart Porter (saxes), David Watson (guitar), and originally with Pam Grey (on cello), the group's relatively brief existence left a lasting impression on the New Zealand's free music scene. Musically, there was no precedent in New Zealand for their combination of noise, collective playing and compositional freedom. The band's five-year lifespan was non-stop activity: rehearsing, touring, the creation of Braille Records (their own record label which released ten LPs), dance and theater work, appearances at music festivals, and hosting two hugely influential national festivals of improvisation at Thistle Hall, Wellington. In 1984, Primitive Art Group spent a week making their first recording, an ambitious double LP, Five Tread, which had only a single pressing and sold-out locally. One year later they were back in the studio making their second album, Future Jaw-Clap. This outing contained tighter pieces, as the band widened its repertoire with nods to broader influences and antecedents. In 1986, The Primitive Art Group gave their last concert at the Wellington Town Hall, just a half mile from Rawa House and the legendary Thistle Hall where their first shows had taken place. The band's Braille Records' recordings have never been released outside of New Zealand, nor have ever been available digitally. The group's brief tenure has continued to inspire new generations of improvisers, but nothing has ever quite matched the visceral blast of the Primitive Art Group's arrival on the scene. Every member of the group has carried on doing creative work at the highest levels: scoring films, making art, mentoring, organizing, touring and always playing."

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: APRON 049LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Los Angeles' Jarren returns to Apron Records with a six-track offering of fresh selections. Following his Apron debut LP, Jarren returns with a new release titled Fresco that continues to explore his love for analog synths and squelching bass lines. The release builds on his signature style with fresh ideas, offering listeners another unique experience reflecting his West Coast origins. Jarren, an LA-based producer and DJ with Panamanian heritage, draws deeply from his rich musical roots. Growing up with a father who played saxophone, his early exposure to gospel and jazz has shaped his sound. Always in the studio, Jarren's music reflects this blend of influences. He's played at some of LA's coolest spots for the last ten years and toured overseas, sharing his laid-back dynamic energy with audiences everywhere.

 

PRICE: $85.50

CAT #: ATMV 123LP

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To mark the 10th anniversary of Gidge's landmark album Autumn Bells on Atomnation, the label has assembled a brand-new box-set reissue. This deluxe and expanded edition features a 60-page photo book, poster, the original double album plus a nine-track bonus vinyl with alternative edits and demo tracks from the time, all on transparent wax. The exclusive, limited-edition boxset comes with a private digital download link. Gidge is the Swedish duo of Jonatan Nilsson and Ludvig Stolterman, who has also taken all of the photos in the booklet. As friends since high school, they have a deep connection, a great understanding of one another and a shared love of Nordic woodlands. The spirit of the northeastern forests they grew up around has always colored their music and lent it an organic, ethereally, otherworldly edge that conveys feelings of inner peace. Their brilliant debut album Autumn Bells captured all that in nine accomplished tracks that picked up critical praise from the music media and millions of online streams. More importantly, it also won them a dedicated fan base who appreciate the art of Gidge's craft and the sensitivity of their sound. Autumn Bells is ambient electronic music that makes the heart and soul dance. It's a profound emotional journey of delicate sound design but impactful feelings. Mysterious soundscapes are infused with shimmering tones, indecipherable vocal spirits, gorgeous synth drones, shakers, wood blocks and neo-classical ideas that are deeply immersive and always beautiful whether beatless or woven into supple rhythms. Many tracks were made during the recording process but not all made the final album. Some can now be heard on the bonus disc including the beautifully lonely "Untitled Piano," or the found sounds of "MONO-000" which capture a wander through a wood before turning into a heartfelt neo-classical piano piece. There are demo versions of the mystic broken rhythm "Opal" and lo-fi lullaby "Once" plus the distant acoustic charms found throughout the album. On top of that, a 2024 version of "Dusk" has a darker mood and "Rest" (Other Version) has a more percussive and prominent rhythm while "You," "Growth" and "I Fell In Love" also get reworked with more defined drums but retain their ghostly allure.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: BING 209LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Fables of the future fuel the present. Lisel (Eliza Bagg) draws from this tradition on The Vanishing Point, a daring musical odyssey of altered singing, experimental pop, broken melodies, and striking electronics. A culmination of her continual dissemblance of genre, Lisel's new album is an epic composed of allegorical tales, forming a dystopian storybook of life in the shadow of impending catastrophe. It's a high-concept work of contemporary pop sounds, hyperpop motifs and tropes. Every song reflects the shared psycho-emotional experience of moving towards unsettling futures and looking beyond these outcomes, to the point where the horizons vanish. Evolving the sonic toolkit she employed on Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay (2023), Lisel transforms pop into a canvas for operatic storytelling. Along with making her own work, Bagg is a classical singer working in baroque and contemporary experimental opera, and with her project Lisel, she seeks to develop new, expressive qualities out of ancient vocal techniques from the Baroque and Renaissance periods. Her opera experience has infused her with a desire for a big, cinematic sound and holistic world-building, creating a 'total artwork,' and she fits that medium into the form of a solo project. From haunting whispers to soaring melodies, she reaches back towards ancient musical traditions while incorporating futuristic sounds in order to imagine how a possible future might look back at contemporary existence. Dystopic stories melt into pop songs, hammered to ruin. Both through sonics and lyrics, the album recounts urgent narratives as ancient mythological fables, chronicling in operatic density the deepening awareness of the world's looming, inevitable vanishing point. Photographer Carla Rossi further builds Lisel's world through a series of photographs that similarly draw on Renaissance and Medieval painting, while placing them aesthetically in a digital realm. In these dramatic, hyper-stylized photos, Lisel takes up classical poses and yields iconographic symbols, further exploring the dissonance in her work as these manufactured 'paintings' recall storytelling of the past while depicting images from an imagined future."

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BTR 102LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

London has a bright new Brazilian talent in town, who goes by the name of MOMO. One of the recent generation of artists influenced by the Brazilian classics, from 1970s tropic?lia, Os Mutantes, and Milton Nascimento. MOMO. releases his seventh album Gira, on Batov Records bringing together some very special musicians and guests from London's bustling and hustling jazz community, with fellow Brazilian artists, recorded and cut to tape at East London's Total Refreshment Center. A journeying collaboration which effortlessly swings, guided by Marcelo Frota's soft yet reassuringly familiar vocal, with ruminative and explorative brass twists, Gira was recorded with friends and guests including Alabaster DePlume on tenor sax (in whose band Marcelo toured), Jessica Lauren on keys, Tamar Osborn on baritone sax, Nick 'Emanative' Woodmansey on drums, Carwyn Ellis of Rio 18 fame on piano, Magnus Mehta from Penya on percussion and Caetano Malta on bass. Gira is MOMO.'s first album recorded in London. His debut from 2006, A Est?tica do Rabisco, was named one of the best albums of the year by the Chicago Reader and set Marcelo's musical path in motion. His singer-songwriting talents have already earned him plaudits from royalty like Patti Smith and David Byrne and he was invited to participate in A Tribute to Caetano to mark the 70th birthday of Brazilian musical legend, Caetano Veloso. Gira is a new departure for MOMO. While previous albums have always started with guitar and voice, Gira begins with the groove -- yet succeeds sublimely in balancing this new emphasis on spontaneous improvisation and songwriting. "Life brought me to London and I think I've made my lightest album; it could only have been created here," he says. When Brazil meets London, you can't help but move to the groove. For fans of: Sessa, Caetano, Veloso, Alabaster DePlume, Bala Desejo.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BEWITH 169LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Steve Leach's Balearic beach-funk beast Ocean Potion, recorded with the Crystal Grass Orchestra is an absolutely ace, Ned Doheny-adjacent funky AOR/blue-eyed soul BBQ classic from 1976. A French-only release on Philips, it's a hugely immediate, pop-funk firecracker. It features a wonderfully lush, full orchestral sound throughout, underpinning Steve's gorgeous voice and an army of brilliant backing vocalists. The supporting cast is phenomenal and is arguably the salient reason this is such a fantastic record. Featuring legendary players from the French scene (think Arpadys, Voyage, Kongas, CCPP, Giant, Swing Family) such as Don Ray with his arranger-conductor hat on as well as synths, Marc Chantereau on percussion, Slim Pezin on guitar, Andr? Ceccarelli on drums, Christian Padovan on bass, and Pierre Halation on flute. With these snakes behind the scenes, it remains a mystery how Ocean Potion is so relatively unknown. Hopefully, this long overdue reissue rectifies this and puts a stop to people dropping $200 on it. Triumphant, horn-forward opener "The Light Of The Mind" has that uniquely Ned Doheny fidgety funk feel with a fantastically irresistible chorus and great harmonies. Just magic. Coming off like something off The Beach Boy's Surf's Up or Holland is the brilliantly ominous, driving wall of sound of "Take Strength". Cavernous drums, urgent strings and a staggeringly good vocal performance make this a real highlight amongst an album of highlights. Glacial ballad "All Love's Children" has a deep New Orleans soul feel that truly soars whilst the breezy "Get Out In The Sun" owes a debt to "Crocodile Rock". It's pure pop for now people and wouldn't have been out of place on a late '70s Nick Lowe effort. Pastoral closer "I Meditate Each Day" is just beautiful, and likely the reason this reissue is giving you that special feeling. As ever, the audio for Ocean Potion has been carefully remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring it sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve featuring a topless Steve reclining next to his piano on a flatbed truck on the beach has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.

 

PRICE: $25.50

CAT #: BEC 5161908

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 restock. Because Music reissues on LP (with bonus CD format added) the 1977 album Supernature by French disco legend Marc Cerrone. Big hits can be the result of a combination of circumstances. Massively popular at the time, crowned with the success of Love in C Minor and Cerrone's Paradise that made him a disco hero of the '70s, the musician started working on his new album differently. This time, the inspiration came from a synthesizer, an instrument he never used before. ARP, an American manufacturer, provided him with it. "I was given this machine and didn't know how to use it," he remembers. "I twiddled a few knobs, trying to get some sounds out of it. Then, as I was playing on the keyboard, a bass line came to me that I immediately recorded on my Revox. It was 'Supernature!'" Lene Lovich, future queen of the punk and new wave English scene, wrote the lyrics. It was a science fiction story, similar in spirit to The Planet of the Apes. Once the track and album were finished, Cerrone asked the record company to focus on "Supernature," rather than the rest of the record, in the vein of his previous work. History would prove him right. This track, the more iconic of his catalog, would turn out to be his biggest hit. This third album (also called Supernature) would also sell eight million copies. Always a funny guy, Cerrone can be seen on the cover of the record, but without naked women. Creatures with animal-heads in a surgery room replaced them. It meant a mutant and more synthetic kind of disco was born. Pressed on pale green vinyl + CD. Includes a 4-page booklet with a 30cm x 30cm poster-booklet with photos and biographic notes.

 

PRICE: $21.50

CAT #: BORNBAD 162LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The French psycho-indie-rock band La Femme presents Teatro Lucido, their 2022 studio album sung entirely in Spanish. During their time touring in Latin America and Spain, La Femme wrote a Spanish song called 'Le Jardin' for their previous album Paradigmes. This track led them down the path toward creating Teatro Lucido, their first full album sung entirely in Spanish. Similar to their previous albums, La Femme wrote, composed, and produced Teatro Lucido themselves, inviting numerous female singers to participate in the process. The album found birth through their adventures in Seville, Grenade, Madrid, Mexico City, Cuautepec, Padul., where they had so many moments of laughs and joys, tears and disappointment. Teatro Lucido draws from many of La Femme's inspirations including the famous Semana Santa in Spain; pasodoble, reggaeton, Brasilian, and Andalusian rhythm's; classical guitars, and Movida of the '80s. Teatro Lucido is the name of a mythic theatre where La Femme has played many times in Mexico. It is the first album from a thematic series they have planned called Collection Odyss?e."

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: CSR 313CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

The fifth album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics. Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us. Collaborators include Axebreaker (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist Jo Quail, and Berlin-based sound designer Manuel Liebeskind. CD version is reinforced with seven extra tracks including Adrian Stainburner's incredible remix of "Yellow Light" featuring Stephen Mallinderon vocals, and Bereneces adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track "Death Threat." The LP editions (CSR 313LP and CSR 313X-LP) feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: CSR 313LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. The fifth album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics. Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us. Collaborators include Axebreaker (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist Jo Quail, and Berlin-based sound designer Manuel Liebeskind. CD version is reinforced with seven extra tracks including Adrian Stainburner's incredible remix of "Yellow Light" featuring Stephen Mallinderon vocals, and Bereneces adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track "Death Threat." The LP editions (CSR 313LP and CSR 313X-LP) feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

 

PRICE: $35.00

CAT #: CSR 313X-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Red color vinyl. The fifth album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics. Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us. Collaborators include Axebreaker (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist Jo Quail, and Berlin-based sound designer Manuel Liebeskind. CD version is reinforced with seven extra tracks including Adrian Stainburner's incredible remix of "Yellow Light" featuring Stephen Mallinderon vocals, and Bereneces adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track "Death Threat." The LP editions (CSR 313LP and CSR 313X-LP) feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: CSR 339CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Broken Allures, the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal (Nurse With Wound collaborator), David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concr?te approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray, and more. Broken Allures is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date. For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble. Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track "Viva la Hacienda," which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle. Jah Wobble (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Bj?rk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sin?ad O'Connor, and more) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: CSR 339LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Broken Allures, the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal (Nurse With Wound collaborator), David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concr?te approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray, and more. Broken Allures is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date. For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble. Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track "Viva la Hacienda," which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle. Jah Wobble (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Bj?rk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sin?ad O'Connor, and more) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

 

PRICE: $35.00

CAT #: CSR 339X-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Yellow color vinyl. Broken Allures, the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal (Nurse With Wound collaborator), David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concr?te approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray, and more. Broken Allures is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date. For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble. Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track "Viva la Hacienda," which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle. Jah Wobble (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Bj?rk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sin?ad O'Connor, and more) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: CSR 341CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The brand-new album from 400 Lonely Things. Tumble back into the nebulous and murky psychedelic haze of '70s-'80s VHS horror! Explore grimy palimpsests from the film studio to the grindhouse with 400 Lonely Things in The New Twilight: eleven creepy yet sublime analogue microdoses of vintage genre and exploitation audio sampled and filtered through the darkly ambient, melodically droning, melancholic nerd soul. CD pack includes a fascinating booklet of tantalizing visual clues! It's been said by many over the years that horror is the most flexible genre. So many ideas, themes, and styles flow through it. Craig Varian of 400 Lonely Things has spent a half-century on earth exploring almost all of it, and finds a particular sweet spot in the glut of films released in the VHS boom of the '80s. Varian developed a fascination for the worlds of sound revealed by audio sampling after first encountering an Ensoniq Mirage in the 1980s. While he found sampling music interesting and often surprising, it was the overlooked moments in the audio environments of horror films in particular that seemed to provide the most fertile wealth of inexplicably sublime material. More often than not, samples from these sources seemed eager to twist themselves into moments of smeary, effusive beauty and when looped and treated, often veered directly into mysterious assemblies of warm melancholia -- meditative poetics that were never implied in their lurid lo-fi grindhouse presentations. And, of course, sometimes they were just creepy. While a couple previous releases by 400 Lonely Things in this realm have focused on specific film-titles with similar results, their 17th album The New Twilight is the first 400 Lonely Things release to take a slight step back to widen that perspective a bit, to focus on the overall genre itself. With the exception of one single track, each song (and song title) is sourced from a single film. To further this theme, the chronologically ordered booklet included in the physical packaging uses the same techniques to extract a hazy and dreamlike visual reference from the murky celluloid sources.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: EDDA 071LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. Hologram Teen's exuberance is brightly reflected in the mirror ball synthpop of her third album. It is her second long player to appear on vinyl after the release of Between The Funk And The Fear debut on the Polytechnic Youth label. Morgane was the keyboard player in Stereolab between 1995 and 2001 during which time they released Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Dots And Loops. As a teenager though she first played the drums, then guitar and bass. She only learnt the keyboards one month before joining the group. After leaving Stereolab, Morgane first moved to New York for nine years; she'd always planned to move to America having spent a lot of time there with her parents and of course those space-pop pioneers. The warmer weather of LA enticed her though and you can hear its pulse in Day-Glo Chaos. The album's thumping heart is pumped by the city's night sky and when asked she cites three particular albums as her favorites: the oddball analogue electro of Jacno's 1979 debut; John Carpenter's Escape From New York and The B-52's Cosmic Thing. There's also a strong nod to the playful computerized harmonies of Yellow Magic Orchestra whilst she's somewhat partial to the synth prog of Yes and Soft Machine. Throughout her work (but especially on this record) you can hear the influence of computer games. Though not a fan of Hotline Miami or the GTA series she liked Hang On and loved Outrun which she used to play a lot on her Sega Master System. You'll see and hear such influences on the lead single from the album "Midnite Rogue" the video to which pays (im)perfect juddering homage to such arcade culture. The title was inspired by a Fighting Fantasy book which she adored as a kid.

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: CREP 106LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

After their Discrepant debut -- OOOO (CREP 060LP, 2018) -- Lisbon-based travelers Jib?ia return to the fold with another offering of globetrotting psychedelia with Salar. With the core trio of ?scar Silva, Ricardo Martins, and Mestre Andr? augmented by a stellar parade of collaborators on various roles, Salar further expands on the transglobal visions by now pretty trademarked by the band. Interspersed among shorter vignettes for drums, saxophone and bass, each of the more fully fleshed tracks casts a guest to elevate Jib?ia's music to uncharted realms -- both in a mystical and geographical sense. Opener "Selar" summons the cello of songstress Joana Guerra for a skewed dialogue with Silva's guitar, propelled by Martins' drums and percussion and Andr?'s electronic textures into 4 minutes and 20 seconds that feel epic -- if there was any psychedelic numerological symbolism needed. On "Solar," Silva's non-western plucking rides on for Yaw Tembe's trumpet to veer in a multitude in directions, while the mysterious "Sitar" conjures the voice of Moroccan musician Ayoub El Ayadi for a contemplative nighttime prayer. Elsewhere, guitarist Rui Carvalho aka Filho da M?e injects dissonant guitar lines unto "Sarar"'s pummeling dance and Pedro Augusto's electronics hover below the shapeshifting dynamics of "Sonar," among mesmerizing keyboard lines. "Salir," featuring Daiyen Jone's enchanted flute, brings the album to a close at its most reflective, all crepuscular synth lines and reverbed handclaps.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: CREP 108LP

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant after the third volume of his ongoing Organic Music Tape Series on Sucata Tapes, Tiago Sousa returns with two long-form pieces for organ with A Thousand Strings. A self-explanatory title in itself, A Thousand Strings drifts fluidly into a celestial realm of cascading melodies and cycling patterns that never feel forced or strict throughout its two hypnotic tracks. Pulsating with life and ecstatic abandon. Taking cues from the tradition of American minimalists like Steve Reich and, particularly, Terry Riley, the Portuguese composer's work flows with a life of his own, that, while acknowledging those influences, transcends them into his own signature. On the A side, "A Thousand Strings" goes seamlessly from intertwining crepuscular harmonies to ascending keyboard runs in the manner of "Persian Surgery Dervishes" finishing with a coda of rhythmic marimba-like pulses. On the flipside, "The Things Passed" creates this maze-like tapestry of melodies that seem to drift apart only to converge back again into its internal process before setting on sustained tones infused with a sense of longing. For all things passed. For what is yet to come. Recorded by Tiago Sousa and mastered by Rashad Becker.

 

PRICE: $31.00

CAT #: DC 252LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 repress. "Hold your breath -- now let it go. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Greatest Palace Music is back on vinyl for the first time in a generation. In 2005, it followed the release of Bonny's Master and Everyone. It may have seemed a novel idea at the time, but the 'Prince' was simply taking a page from the old masters of country and western music, addressing a swath of old favorite numbers with new performances. He's done something similar several times since, with Now Here's My Plan, Singer's Grave a Sea of Tongues, and (under the nom-de-vie, Will Oldham), Songs of Love and Horror. The Greatest Palace Music recordings were done in Nashville with a studio full of session cats old and new, addressing only the pre-Bonny material released as Palace Brothers/Songs/or Music, the originals of which can be found on the albums There Is No One What Would Take Care of You, Days In the Wake, and Lost Blues and Other Songs. As befits an album of 'Greatest' whatever, the tunes were given plush, enormous, near glacial treatments as they were played and sung again, and sound, even at a distance of nigh-twenty years, to be bigger than ever."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: DC 916LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Anthony Moore's post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright unknown quantity, achieves another dimensional plane with this third archival release from his personal tape library. Home of the Demo triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously unreleased OUT (1976, officially issued 2020) and the new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn't Help (1979, reissued 2022), finding Anthony's early/mid-'80s compositions drifting into the actual mainstream, just moments before it began giving way to the inevitable Next Waves. Home of the Demo unpacks ten tracks from what might otherwise be called a lost era. Subtitled 'from the dawn of bedsit recording,' this collection largely represents something nearer to DIY than any of your fancy modern kit! As Anthony remarks in his liner notes, 'We are talking about a few hundred quid's worth of gear balanced precariously on bookshelves and table tops in bedrooms and basements.' And yet, the tracks sound right dreamy. Anthony was a songwriter and musician whose first decade-plus in the music 'business' had brought him outside-in, through experimental/avant projects into the pop music world he'd loved as a youngster. He was an old hand at getting sounds as well; distinctly '80s elements that might abrade the ear instead benefit from his tactile deployment of that gear stacked up on tables and bookshelves in the basement. In this manner, he produced well-appointed, ambitiously clever songs for himself and others, such as his friend David Gilmour's band, who used a couple pieces on Home of the Demo for their 1987 comeback album. Amidst the assiduous work of writing the Next Big One, a relaxed, almost playful mood prevails throughout the pieces assembled here -- as one might imagine at home demo sessions where one man plays all the parts. It's also true for the numbers that feature special guests, such as the ominously monikered 'Page The Oracle' on lead guitar -- or the singer simply dubbed, 'Guest' -- no doubt a safe alias for a hot young Bunnyman rising to his commercial peak in those halcyon days."

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: DC 922LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Wand, having shifted smoothly into phase IV of their star-flung efforts on the wings of the latest, Vertigo, follow upon it with an LP release of the archival In a Capsule Underground. These demos and unreleased songs from Ganglion Reef, as they're so helpfully dubbed on the front facing of the jacket, are the earliest Wand recordings that Drag City knows of, preceding everything that's come so far. It's not simply a function of time and nostalgia at this late moment that they sound invariably like magical recordings by, and for, children, is it? From the reverse end of the telescope, it's not so easy to tell. Just because someone's young doesn't mean that they are absolutely gonna sound like a souped-up baby Moody Blues crossed with a young-wave Status Quo, Barrettian Pink Floyd, Genesis-era Genesis, and transitioning Barclay James Harvest, all letting loose in the post-punk garage, does it? Yes, it happens more than sometimes in rock and roll life. But with Wand, what if their desire to sound pixieish and ethereal while mowing down with buzzing guitars and bass set to stun was simply a tactile approach to the conceptualization of phase I? Whatever the case, it can be generally agreed that in 2014-2015, they managed to pump out three distinct progressions on this theme -- Ganglion Reef, Golem, and 1000 Days -- at a trot. And now that In a Capsule Underground's spinning on a turntable eternal, come to find out, they actually did it twice with Ganglion Reef. The light, fizzy versions here have distinctive, gleaming magic energies all their own and will provide quite the breathtaking thrill ride when endeavored upon by all who haven't yet heard them."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: DC 925EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Picking up the pieces of the picked-up pieces, Wand ride on, baby. Three months since they dropped the incredible mass of Vertigo upon the world, here is more, plating the pre-release single 'Help Desk' alongside 'Goldfish,' an additional cog from Vertigo's assembly, and then, in the name of the ever-expanding viewpoint (and the much-required dream-extension app), adding three remixes for good measure. 'Help Desk' and 'Goldfish' are brethren of the eight epochal vibrations that make up Vertigo -- boiled down from a tremendous volume of jams, then squeezed through the pinprick called automatic writing. Or 'riding,' as in, the groove/as far as they can see/past the horizon line/Jupiter space/the infinity room/whatever you choose to call it. The remixes delve back into the material, integrating another set of concentric thought-spirals into the radiant action. The unique perspectives of Beat Detectives, Dead Rider, and Dean Spunt become one with the Wand material, igniting inevitable further expansions. This EP's like a handshake promise that's fulfilled after the action has gone down -- the thanks you get for staying open and hanging in there. The present you get for being present! But everything has a price in time."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: DC 937LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"Dean Spunt's all-new Basic Editions is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language?--?in this case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive, Basic Editions distills a 64-voice module through a headful of ideas?--?somewhat like pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the other end. With this new release, Dean IDs his process as 'using sounds, rather than making sounds.' This approach to music-making is a train of thought that's been rolling out from the far horizon of the past for ages now?--?but for Dean, whose previous works within and without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it's a fresh work stance. Basic Editions delivers further unexpected hard-rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic that has defined Dean's path over the past two decades. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colorfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic. This 'urban dance synth' was made great use of in hip-hop productions around the turn of the millennium. There's lots more to know about the machines of that time?--?choose your own rabbit hole?--?but the takeaway here is that it generates a finite amount of very circa-2000 sounds and he got it for fifty bucks. Inspired, Dean spent a minute getting its basic capacities in hand, while acquiring a few other boxes with compatible cards (more sounds!). In one way of thinking, Basic Editions is the sound of Dean not being influenced by anything?--?how could he be? The sounds were all preset! There is, however, an instinctiveness to pushing a closed system in a curatorial manner, and it's here that Dean's inclinations took the wheel of the proceedings, bending the farmed sounds in and out of color and shape, creating improbable constructions whose gears clash together and revolve with an odd combination of nerviness and chill. Further refinements are provided with the artwork, which reprocesses generic graphic information sourced from various modules, while the album title tips its cap to a fine rank-and-file clothing line offered at K-Mart. RIYL: Moebius, Nuno Canavarro, General Magic, Pita, Carl Stone, Jon Hassell."

 

PRICE: $27.50

CAT #: FTR 772LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records have the pleasure of unleashing the sizzling contact high sounds of Yerba Mansa's new LP release -- Gravity's Joke. As the heppest of you undoubtedly know, Yerba Mansa are Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Klaus Kinski, The Web of Lies) and Andrew Cheetham (Richard Dawson, Jane Weaver, Waterless Hilss). Both have been members of Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura, and are purveyors of raging, mind-bending primitive garage infused Middle-Eastern free-rock psychedelia. Showcased here is Edwin's mesmerizing guitar playing, capable of conjuring sonic specters from thin air and Andrew's limitless drumming, rooted in jazz and totally mesmerizing in fluidity and movement. Within Gravity's Joke, the grooves are some of the fiercest apocalyptic and heady jams you will hear this year. Yerba Mansa whirl up demonic raga meltdowns which showcase their individual chops and duo telepathy; the guitar vernacular is pure Sharrock/Flower/Quine -- indeed the tuning sounds like it could be ostrich, and the drumming is more octopus. Side two is a near 20-minute mystical freak out. The whole shebang could and should implode at any time, but doesn't. It hangs together somehow as melodies appear out of the chaos, and the title track relentlessly builds up to a shamonic climax, akin to stumbling across a Voodoun ritual in the American Plains. Sizzling, stifling and ever so slightly ear-scraping -- this is a must for any lover of untamed music.

 

PRICE: $27.50

CAT #: FTR 778LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

To Celebrate its 25th anniversary, Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records present the lost classic that is Outrageous Cherry's Out There In The Dark, presented for the very first time on vinyl. Originally released via the DF2K (the contemporary sister label of Del-Fi), one of the classic labels of the '50s and '60s (Richie Valens/Bobby Fuller) and in Europe via Poptones. While earlier records shared a love of The Turtles, The Troggs, and Television Personalities (among a host of other stuff), Out There In The Dark feels like Eno and Hawkwind filtered through Petula Clark's hit singles and Spectorized via Matthew Smiths' wonderful analog production. Recorded at Jim Diamond's Ghetto Recorders Studio, this release makes use of a huge ancient reel to reel machine that provides that superb tape echo effect employed across this LP. Like Guided By Voices, Outrageous Cherry's affection for this kind of music never sounds retro, and their experimental touches make Out There In The Dark plays like a jukebox full of forgotten hits, a time machine with its controls set for the past and the future. Across 13 tracks, sweet melodies and harmonies soar over vicious urban Motor City guitar workouts. Motown-fueled bass and drums throb hypnotically as Matthew Smith sings as though Brian Wilson had been an honorary Ramone. Beatle-esque pop numbers like "Tracy", "Corruptable," and the made-for-AM radio "Where Do I Go When You Dream?" balance moodier songs like the album's narcotic centerpiece, "Easy Come, Uneasy Glow." Their trippy side comes to the forefront on the excellent, backwards guitar-driven "Only the Easy Way Down," as Larry Rays solos cut like a jagged knife, and in the title track's drifting guitars and shifting tempos. Smith's ultra-faithful, vintage production style sparkles on "A Bad Movie." The album closer "There's No Escape From the Infinite" ends in a trance-inducing guitar apocalypse that would make Spacemen 3 and The Jesus And Mary Chain proud. Presented in a gloss laminated outer sleeve and with a four-page folded A4 insert and download code.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: FEELIT 130LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. "Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar -- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk hits. Louse have been crafting hypnotic, dense gothy anthems since forming in 2021, and continue to do so with Passions like Tar. Since their conception, the group consistently deliver '80s era-correct, modulated, guitar-driven punk that is informed by bands like Killing Joke, Bauhaus, and Christian Death, but delivered with their uniquely colored angular riffs and fevered, anguished vocals. Fret not, because you can expect more of their beautifully warped vision executed on Passions Like Tar. Passions Like Tar is a collection of intense, evocative songs that traverse a sunless landscape roving between dancy hits like 'Thieves' to more spatial, gloomy tracks like 'A Potter's Field.' The songs are stylistically linked by the band's lush guitar and synth arrangements, epically crooned dismal lyrics, and tightly wound primitive drum parts that pulse and prod like amphetamine fueled detonations. The song-structures skew from linear and driving to thoughtfully plotted ballads with an intentionally executed scope. Despite the record's diverse palate, these songs collectively create a cohesive, original, and warped vision of a cryptic yet accessible post-punk dystopia. The band has clearly rallied to create a visceral yet thoughtful record that will gel with seasoned goths and new punks in exploration alike. Louse's Passions like Tar is another glorious reason to shuffle this wild and beautiful mortal coil, dancing into oblivion." --Sims Hardin

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: FEELIT 131LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"Freak Genes have recorded a new album. It is called Delirk. That word is derived from delirium. It is a warped kind of industrial music. It is for fans of this kind of music, and it was made by Charlie Murphy and Andrew Anderson, with mixing and mastering from Mikey Young. It is their sixth album. Previous Freak Genes albums include Hologram, Power Station, III, Qwak Qwak, and Playtime. The album will comes in both grooved vinyl and audio bitstream formats."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: FEELIT 138LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their 2023 debut -- the Cincinnati group have not only tightened the screws on their repertoire, they've upped the ante significantly. Decamping from drab studio confines to the expanses of an Indiana farm, Hallways of Grey finds the collective style and creativity of Corker flourishing. While the delivery and dark-to-light balance might echo shades of what Adrian Borland patented decades ago, Corker add their own color (more than just grey, mind you) in a convincing manner across the album. Lead cuts, 'Distant Dawn' and 'Vital Fall' showcase the range and dexterity that Ohio seems to inherently cultivate, but tracks like 'Forever Silent' (featuring Angie Willcutt from Artificial Go and ROD) and the finale, 'No Necessities,' are like a death trip from the cosmos down to the factory floor. It's a focused frenzy towards the finish line, a rush of calculated execution, a mad dash run with style."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: GONE 196LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"It's been nearly a decade since Montreal's PYPY landed with their debut Pagan Day (Slovenly), but the same lunatics behind CPC Gangbangs, Red Mass, and Duchess Says are back with Sacred Times on Goner Records. One might recall the thunderous pop of their banger 'She's Gone' carving out a place for itself in the high-end fashion world, becoming the soundtrack to Yves Saint Laurent's 2016 show. If that album bounced, punched and clawed like Delta 5 covered in dirt and trying to get somewhere in a booted vehicle while dodging lightning rod guitar licks the whole way, Sacred Times takes things to somewhere far beyond the proverbial 'next level.' Co-vocalist/founder/multi-instrumentalist Annie-Claude Desch?nes' (Duchess Says) signature howl and vocal acrobatics are present, but so is a tendency towards beautiful melodies. Bassist Philippe Clement's (Duchess Says) brings a nastier bottom end that locks onto Simon Besr?'s drumming with a death grip for the entire affair. And guitarist/co-vocalist Roy Vucino (Red Mass, CPC Gangbangs, Black Leather Rose, Les Sexareenos, a gazillion others) goes bonkers with wildass blown-out guitar that's like hornets caught in one's hair."

 

PRICE: $12.00

CAT #: IMPREC 183CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 restock. "The Mill Pond was originally released in 1997 as a double 7" that went immediately out of print. For its 10th anniversary, we're issuing it on compact disc housed in a deluxe letterpressed jacket and including an extensive booklet collecting John Fahey's paintings for the very first time. Limited edition. On this release, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric slide and feedback to create an eerie mood. He gets a bit of help from Jeff Allman, who recorded the songs and adds some electronic noise in spots, and from Scott Colburn, who mixed the tracks, but this record is all Fahey. The Mill Pond is all over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. The Mill Pond further proves that there is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius." "Four ecstatic, lo-fi grabs for the ring of eternity, recorded in Fahey's Oregon hotel room. Containing the first graspable evidence of John's throat-singing abilities, this represents the merging of the bull and the china shop. The crudity of the electronics and the delicacy of the stringwork makes for a wonderful match." --Byron Coley.

 

PRICE: $14.00

CAT #: IMPREC 337CD

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

2024 restock. "Transamorem - Transmortem was premiered on March 9, 1974 at The Kitchen in NYC, where the music programmer at the time was Rhys Chatham - this was right before his guitar phase. During this period, Transamorem - Transmortem was presented along with other compositions by Eliane Radigue in a linear mode of listening, although the piece had originally been conceived, during its composition, as a sound installation. Of course, both modes of listening are possible, and each works marvelously in its own way."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: ITR 394LP

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

"The Lost Record is the underground rock and roll exploitation sci-fi film of this time. Starring Pauline Jorry and featuring appearances and contributions from Henry Rollins, Emmett Kelly, Michelle Mae, Paul Zone, Howie Pyro, Kid Congo, Crush, Automatic Band, and scores of other underground notables, The Lost Record -- directed and produced by Ian F. Svenonius and Alexandra Cabral -- is a film set in a murky indeterminate future/past world where one record, The #1 Record, holds sway over society. In this world The #1 Record is unavoidable and ubiquitous; pumped out nonstop on the airwaves, intercom, and television with its irresistible and infectious message of totalitarian consumer control. The status quo is challenged when a protagonist -- played by Pauline Jorry -- a worker on an art assembly line, stumbles on another record at a junk-shop which is neglected, lost, and unplayed. Called The Lost Record, it suggests another way to live; another set of values. Enchanted, she begins to play it for others, much to the consternation of the authorities. Can/will it challenge the #1 Record? And what will happen if it succeeds? Based conceptually on the Escape-ism song of the same name, the soundtrack features a beautiful original score by Alex Minoff (of Golden, Extra Golden and Weird War fame) plus music by Emmett Kelly, Escape-ism, The Make Up, plus sound blurbs from this singularly poignant, funny, and affecting film which has won citations and notices at Belgrade's Kinoskop festival, Indie Lisboa, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival among others."

 

PRICE: $13.50

CAT #: IRON 040CD

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Amanda Christos was born and raised in London and has played in a number of bands on rhythm guitar, including her own group, Ancestral Home. In 1989, after travelling to Jamaica, Amanda wrote her first reggae track called "A Song of Freedom." In 1994 her first single "Love" was released under her name Amanda Judah (Eurete Christos), followed by "The Gift of Life" in 2004. Amanda toured in the Caribbean and Africa with Emashi, a singing and dance group, and went on to perform vocal harmonies with a Bob Marley tribute band. In 2013 her first full album Roots of Rectitude was released, followed by an EP The Food of Life. In 2019 "Wild World (Stevie P remix)" claimed the number one spot in the Stevie J Stingdem Radio Chart Show. Amanda's musical adventures continued during the Pandemic and lockdown of 2020 where she continued to write, compose and perform. In 2022 Amanda linked with Leon Leiffer (The Blackstones) who formed a bridge to Alien Dread and Iron Sound Records, working in unison to produce this new album, Together We Are Beautiful. CD in standard clear jewel case format, cello-wrapped. All rhythms by: Alien Dread. Featuring Alvin Davis, Asha B, Steven 'Marley' Wright. Recorded at AD Studio and at Lindel Lewis's PPD Studio. Produced by Alien Dread & The Blackstones. All tracks by Amanda J. Christos & the Sounds of Melodies.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: 9780956999115

FILE UNDER: Misc

The birth and growth of the Jamaican recording industry. Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first-hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women -- manufacturers, musicians, arrangers and record producers -- who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide. 188-page hardback book. Illustrated throughout with period photos, artifacts and record labels."An absolutely crucial survey of the origins of the Jamaican music industry replete with chapter and verse quotes from many of the pivotal movers and shakers. A wealth of new information, expertly marshalled: this is a book whose time has come." --Steve Barrow, Co-author of Reggae The Rough Guide"Jamaican Recordings is a fine read and a book that anybody with more than a passing interest in Jamaican recordings will need to add to their library right away." --Tony Rounce, Author and Music Historian

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: 9780956999122

FILE UNDER: Misc

The growth of the Jamaican recording industry. Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first-hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women -- manufacturers, musicians, singers, deejays, arrangers and record producers -- who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide. 350-page hardback book. Illustrated throughout with period photos, artifacts and record labels."This volume of what promises to become a crucial series covers in comprehensive fashion Jamaican music's pivotal phase, when the music absorbed its US influences from soul and moved on from rock steady and progressed to the uniquely Jamaican sound of reggae and rockers. It was a period in which old and new rhythms became the cornerstone of the music and thus the true foundation of reggae. This second volume in the trilogy, amply illustrated, contains a wealth of interview testimony from the creators of the music and is both utterly authentic and essential reading." --Steve Barrow, Co-author of Reggae The Rough Guide"If you couldn't be there, or even thereabouts, at the time, consider this book your very own literary TARDIS to help you to relive the evolution of Jamaican music at (almost) first hand. I'm very proud to have had even the smallest involvement with this essential read." --Tony Rounce, Author and Music Historian

 

PRICE: $14.50

CAT #: MUS 305EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

RIXE is back with a four track EP, their most French material to date. Directly influenced by the drum machine punk which has been a standard of French punk since its first inception. RIXE trademark sound is still there but this unlike twist has expanded the band's sound beyond what any Herbert would expect. Keeping one boot firmly in the Camera Silens/Warrior Kids camp while the other one dances around Metal Urbain, Karnage, Butcher or even D-Stop and Mopo Mogo, creating an unlike threesome of fuckwave, OI! And pop music as infectious as their previous four EPs.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: LIB 5120LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Mejor De Los Nuggetz is a collection of 1960s hyper kinetic garage, punk, pop and psychedelic music from Mexico and other Latin American countries. While the inspiration for this collection has been the enduring influence of American garage and psych bands from the '60s, it is an introduction to the amazing variety of Mexican and Latin American rock from that era. Magenta red vinyl. Featuring Los Apson, Los Mustang, Los Shain's, Estacion ID, Gloria Benevides, Los Polares, Los Salvajes, Volkswagen, Lone Star, Los Yaki, Los Belmonts, Los Matematicos, Los Locos Del Ritmo, and Coca Cola."

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: LION 120LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 restock. "Search Party was the brainchild of (then Reverend) Nicholas Freund. Having left Wisconsin to join a burgeoning West Coast religious scene, Freund made his way to San Francisco in 1968 to lay down this sole effort with some of his students. The result is a spooky trip that's equal parts acid-soaked mind expansion and God. Laced with haunting vocals and dreamlike passages, sinister farfisa, blasts of fuzz guitar, and downer lyrics, Montgomery Chapel is psychedelic music at its most evocative and thanks to its depth and sense of anxiety, most truly spiritual. The ominous nine-minute drifter 'So Many Things Have Got Me Down,' for example, tackles the difficulties of an unfulfilled married life, depression and spiritual apathy, all while riding a stripped down, grooving beat. If you can imagine a lo-fi United States of America/Jefferson Airplane hybrid, you have an idea of how cool this band sounds. Only 600 copies were pressed and issued on the custom Century label; they've become holy grails of collectors. Artists as disparate as Current 93's David Tibet and Sonic Boom have heaped praise on it. We're thrilled to give this lost classic its only authorized reissue. Audio restoration by Anders Peterson. 180-gram LP in old-style tip-on jacket. Insert is packed with info thanks to Nick Freund, who was gracious enough to delve into his memory, scrapbook, and photo albums to help us flesh out the portrait of one of the most potent -- and perhaps most unlikely -- psychedelic groups to ever record an album." 180 gram vinyl.

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: NR 132CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Drawn to the megaliths, ruins and ancient sites mapped out along the British and European mainland's geographical and psychic landscapes, the folklore and apocrypha forever resurfacing as portals from a rational world, Triptych is a meditation forged from traces and residues, and a hallucinatory recollection of artists who have tapped into that enduring otherworldliness embedded within us all. It's a dream diary narrating a passage through Summer Isle where Flying Saucer Attack are wafting out of a window, a distant Fairport Convention are being remixed by dub master Adrian Sherwood, celestial scanners Tangerine Dream are trying to drown out Bert Jansch and Hawkwind are playing Steeleye Span covers, all prised out of time yet bound to its singularity. Woven together from home studio recordings that span two decades, and with some notable guest appearances including; The Bug, Douglas Leal of Deafkids, Wayne Adams of Petbrick, Dave French of Yob and Sanford Parker, this final part of the Harvestman Triptych seeks once again for a lost world, with the voice of poet Ezra Pound extolling the virtues of 'gather[ing] from the air a live tradition.' Elsewhere, 'Herne's Oak' provides seismic bass waves that physically halt the track in its steps -- giant footfalls as Herne's antlers themselves are dragged along a corridor. Another curious and mysterious piece of British folklore brought to life by Harvestman. If Triptych is a multi- and extra-sensory experience, it extends to the remarkable glyph-style artwork of Henry Hablak, a map of correspondences from a long-forgotten ancient and advanced civilization. As with Triptych itself, it's an echo from another time, an act of binding, a guide to be endlessly reinterpreted, and a signpost to the sacred that might not indicate where to look, but how. Cover art is by Henry Hablak, who also designed the art for Part One and Part Two."

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: R 136CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Her tracks have been played and recommended by Iggy Pop, Mary Anne Hobbs, and Nine Inch Nails. Zamilska, one of the most original artists on the European electronic scene, presents a new album, United Kingdom Of Anxiety. Combining the rawness of techno and the trance-like nature of world music, industrial sound and a fine blend of trip-hop, the Polish producer created a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, fascinating vision of a collapsing world. United Kingdom Of Anxiety begins with a sonic assault. The breaks and powerful bass in "Phantom" awaken from hypnotic slumber, numbness caused by the daily hustle, serve as a reminder that to survive in an unfriendly world, concentration, willpower and perseverance are essential. The much-needed balance and coolness are brought by huskie vocals -- that is Ola Myszor -- an incredibly talented young artist who appears in several tracks on the album. Besides huskie, there are other guests on "UKOA": Natalia Przybysz, who, with a robotic voice, delivers a manifesto of indomitable, proud solitude in "Persist" and Lukasz Pach, the charismatic frontman of the grindcore band Hostia. His growling is heard in the intense, uncompromising "No Gods," which was presented by Iggy Pop on his BBC6 Music radio show. All the tracks on the album were mixed by Haldor Grunberg from Satanic Audio, known, among other things, for his collaboration with the band Behemoth. The sonic spectrum is also filled with anonymous voices: echoes of quarrels, media messages, sounds of war clamor, monologues -- looped, accelerated, manic, psychotic, but also a wistful singing coming from the depths, from afar. The metaphysical horror of Lovecraft on one hand, and the sober, no less gloomy diagnosis of George Orwell on the other, constantly correspond here. This entire album is a story about society as a whole and the contemporary, dystopian world, which is inevitably heading towards war. The track "1984" clearly defines the inspiration for the artist's post-apocalyptic vision. A distorted radio signal, alarm siren and gabba/techno beats driving into the head like nails serve as an expression of the fear and anger born in a world of impending totalitarianism. Zamilska's original vision captivates with its scope and aura of strangeness and creates a refreshing tension. It also inspires admiration for the producer's craftsmanship -- Zamilska controls every detail of this symphony of horror and, like a true artist, transforms violent emotions into a work of art.

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: WMQ 009CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet returns with a new, refreshed lineup with a new full-length album, Beautiful People. The album was recorded in December '23 at Polish Radio's S4 studio after a series of a dozen WMQ concerts in 2023. Buoyed by the wonderful reception in many cities and hungry for new sensations and sounds, the Quintet recorded this album while absolutely in full throttle. Beautiful People is a soulful album heading into the realm of contemporary spiritual jazz while maintaining WMQ's identity and Slavic tradition. The fresh material presents quality new energy, sound and composition of the band. Wojtek Mazolewski is a prominent Polish jazz artist known for his pioneering work in contemporary jazz. A virtuoso bassist and composer, Mazolewski blends traditional jazz with contemporary elements, delivering a mesmerizing and emotionally charged musical experience that has earned him enthusiastic reviews from All About Jazz, DownBeat Magazine, Kind of Jazz, and other publications. With a career spanning decades, he has become an icon in the Polish jazz scene, enchanting audiences worldwide with his fusion of classic and modern jazz styles. His live performances are renowned for their energy and captivating stage presence, providing a memorable and genre-defying jazz experience that has made him a celebrated figure in the global jazz community.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: NNF 400LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Although many a vibe has shifted since the days of dubbing NNF001 one at a time on the floor of a Koreatown bachelor apartment in February of 2004, using stolen photocopies and tie-dyeing J-cards with wine, the label's essential premise has not. Then, as now, the vision was to elevate and enshrine outsiders, foragers, hidden gems, and hybrid sounds on cheap tapes or affordable records, to be savored and shared in the here and now. 399 catalog titles later, the center still holds. To toast the label's 20th anniversary and 400th release, Not Not Fun commissioned a gold roll call of alumni and affiliates: Alley Of The Sun. Named in homage to the Malibu mystic music fountainhead, skewed through a smoggy sideways lens, the 16-song, 90-minute, double LP suite spans every shade of NNF's Pacific palette: rainforest ceremony, skyway motorik, Tascam rapture, silhouette shoegaze, basement vapor, astral ascension, jazz shadows, fifth world tropics, lucid dream drone, desert quests, prophecy electronics, ritual wreckage. Equal parts snapshot, tapestry, and time capsule, the compilation reflects the breadth of NNF's two-decade exploration and evolution, from simple soil to a sea of dunes. True undergrounds have no set sound or fixed polarity, only flashes of transient magic and forking paths, to be cherished and championed for as long as the candle lasts."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: NNF 425LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy's Paradise Gardens trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of 'paradise music' combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and bossa nova into 'transcendental Tropicalia.' As she filled tapes of recordings exploring the idea, many of the songs gradually gravitated towards the hermetic dream pop her project is best known for, becoming the albums Paradise Gardens (2020) and Sound Of Blue (2023). Dorval describes these collections as a sort of 'emotional purging or shadow work,' before arriving at 'the state of inner paradise:' Ataraxia. As the third, final, and most purist realization of the original Paradise Gardens vision, Ataraxia delivers. Nine instrumentals of nimble guitar, elevated bass, clean rhythm, and clear light, gliding like swans on a shimmering pond. There's a sense throughout of playful tranquility, of serenades at sunset, of kisses of blissful Muzak wafting along a boardwalk. But behind the music is a patience, grace, and levity born of Dorval's personal journey with spiritual healing that paralleled the trilogy. A process of transmuting pain into beauty, day by day, melody by melody, cleaving the darkness from the soul and re-entering one's rightful home in the Garden."

 

PRICE: $13.50

CAT #: JANUS 7E7081CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Death and the Maiden's Uneven Ground draws back the velvet curtain on the trio's crepuscular dreamworld with nine songs of their distinctive shadowy slow-motion fusion of underground electronic dance music and post-punk guitars washed through with psychic unease. The trio's name is taken from that of a nineteenth century engraving by Edvard Munch: an artwork steeped in mythology, exploring the dark boundaries between love and death, strength and frailty, beauty and decay. Their three albums to date each reinforce the symbolism of the name, and Uneven Ground's title could apply as much to their own journey in the years since Wisteria, their previous album, as to the times in which listeners currently live. Bassist and vocalist Lucinda King is the bedrock, guide and storyteller. Guitarist Hope Robertson weaves swooping, soaring motifs and sometimes deconstructed layers of noise to build analogue atmosphere for these alternate worlds. Danny Brady's beats mix old-school drum machines with electronic tones and distortion, while his synth arrangements blend elements of psy-trance and acid house with more amniotic ambient and industrial textures. While Uneven Ground may be the most overtly pop-sounding album in their catalogue, it also ratchets up the ominous atmosphere, noise and experimentation. Once again King's evocative lyrics appear as cryptic stories, built from events, memories, dreams, moments, warnings, regrets; where questions raised are left unanswered, and possibilities remain open.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: JANUS 7E7081LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Death and the Maiden's Uneven Ground draws back the velvet curtain on the trio's crepuscular dreamworld with nine songs of their distinctive shadowy slow-motion fusion of underground electronic dance music and post-punk guitars washed through with psychic unease. The trio's name is taken from that of a nineteenth century engraving by Edvard Munch: an artwork steeped in mythology, exploring the dark boundaries between love and death, strength and frailty, beauty and decay. Their three albums to date each reinforce the symbolism of the name, and Uneven Ground's title could apply as much to their own journey in the years since Wisteria, their previous album, as to the times in which listeners currently live. Bassist and vocalist Lucinda King is the bedrock, guide and storyteller. Guitarist Hope Robertson weaves swooping, soaring motifs and sometimes deconstructed layers of noise to build analogue atmosphere for these alternate worlds. Danny Brady's beats mix old-school drum machines with electronic tones and distortion, while his synth arrangements blend elements of psy-trance and acid house with more amniotic ambient and industrial textures. While Uneven Ground may be the most overtly pop-sounding album in their catalogue, it also ratchets up the ominous atmosphere, noise and experimentation. Once again King's evocative lyrics appear as cryptic stories, built from events, memories, dreams, moments, warnings, regrets; where questions raised are left unanswered, and possibilities remain open.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: PENN 45004EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 repress. An authentic '70s USA proto-punk gem by Nervous Eaters, one of the key groups of the rich late-'70s Boston rock scene along with The Real Kids, DMZ, etc. A long-awaited reissue of their second single, originally released on Rat Records in 1979. Recorded in 1975 during the same sessions as their debut, Loretta (PENN 45005EP), this 45 was their last release for an independent label; the following year they signed with Warner. Both songs display the class and bad attitude that saw them included in the best punk compilations and incited many covers of their material in the years since.

 

PRICE: $17.00

CAT #: RT 002

FILE UNDER: Misc

"Record Time No 2 hits the bargain bins and neglected corners of the local record store to find great records that are still affordable to average folks. And, as with the first issue, we dig into the back stories of these records and artists, with a focus on good writing. This time around we do a deep dive into the life and career of Ray (Rae) Bourbon, a pre-Stonewall drag artist and comedian; jazzman Charles Lloyd's 'wilderness' albums; Catalan folk legend and politico Lluis Llach; oddball rockers the Hampton Grease Band; finding the South African country music holy grail; Canadian cabaret rocker Louis Furey; the weird world of Polka; hard rocking should-have-been-huge Birtha; actor and music pusher Jack Webb; Sex Pistols and Pistols-inspired novelty records; patron saint of smart asses Rick Johnson; and more! Contributors this time are Tom Hyland, Owen Maercks, Stella Beratlis, Steve Silverstein, Nathanel Amar, Adam Taub, Nate Knaebel, Laurent Bigot, Mike Trouchon, Greg Pshaw, Johnny Sunshine, Dennis Worden, Fred De Vries, Stan Appleton, Billups Allen, and Todd Trick Knee, with guest appearances by Lali Donovan, Larry Hardy, Tony Coulter, and Dana Katharine. Edited by S Soriano."

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: REPOSE 136LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Limited 300 only transparent red vinyl LP housed in a reverse board printed color sleeve. Includes double-sided card insert, polylined inner bag, hype sticker, and download code. More brutal sounds from the thriving UK scum/noise rock underground. Louse: purveyors of the finest cellar-dweller scum rock since 2020; a disgusting cocktail comprised of four parts Foot Hair (Box Records) and two parts The Shits (Rocket Recordings), served over a capsized cruise-liner. Described as wielding "damp and sticky instruments," being "rotten from the inside" and sonically "stinking drunk, shirtless with no shoes, crawling around in your head," Louse gleefully pummel one riff into oblivion, deranged howls and punishing buzzsaw guitars growl over driving disco beats and slide bass. A carnival in an open sewer. Creep Call -- Louse's debut LP, after various tapes, live recordings and a split 10" lathe cut with The Shits -- is a true statement of intent. Presented by the magnificent Riot Season, the record is the result of a (wasted) life's work honing and toning the platonic ideal of single-riff noise rock, all wrapped up in a grindhouse, Giallo-flick package. Briefly elevated from the basement, Creep Call was recorded with James Atkinson at The Station House Studio in 2023 and mastered by S. Bishop, so the carnage has never sounded better. Perfectly balanced ugliness drenched in feedback, pumped up with Stooges keys and sax (honk honk) -- the closest thing to experiencing the deafening, goofy, beer-soaked-undergarment chaos of a Louse show first hand. Creep Call features wholesome ruminations on perpetual home invasion, road-side pornography addiction, perfecting a cannibalistic diet, and an unmistakable cowboy/line-dancing anthem. Do the wrong thing, and answer the call.

 

PRICE: $35.50

CAT #: RLP 3236LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. In 2019, Elephant9 released two double live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, the latter with guest guitarist Reine Fiske, whose favorite guitarist happened to be Terje Rypdal. With both albums out of print, Catching Fire is a most welcome addition to their discography. Recorded at a remarkable concert from 2017 in Oslo, Rypdal would turn 70 later in the year. David Fricke makes some interesting references to classic live albums in his liner notes, and Rune Grammofon would like to add King Crimson?s underrated USA and numerous Pink Floyd 1970 live bootlegs into the equation, sharing the common energy level and sense of untamed intensity. That said, there are also stretches of calm at play here, especially in the 22-minute opener where Rypdal introduces himself with some trademark, glacier melodic lines. Rypdal is on fire throughout, adding some fierce rhythm work and abstract acrobatics from his toolbox. St?le and Terje are sometimes so interlocked that it?s difficult to tell them apart. This is partly because the album is mixed to get a sense of being at the concert, by not overly trying to separate them, but primarily due to a common understanding stemming from St?le being the guitarist?s "right hand" both in the studio and on stage for close to 30 years. Torstein and Nikolai is the most solid of rhythm sections, a well-oiled engine, finesse and power combined. Elephant9 established their reputation as a live powerhouse well before their album debut in 2008 and have since released six more studio albums as well as the live albums from 2019. Terje Rypdal?s musical history dates back to the early sixties as a teenage member of The Vanguards, and The Dream a few years later.

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: RBL 090CD

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

"Finaly on CD! Stage Fright (Italian: Deliria) is a cult 1987 Italian slasher film directed by Michael Soavi (Cemetary Man, The Church). The soundtrack is composed by Simon Boswell (Santa Sangre/Hardware/Demons 2). The soundtrack is a classical roots rub shoulders with the distinctive 'thrashy' sound of '70s English punk music, dreamy synth landscapes and the programmed rhythms of the indie dance music that he produced so much of in the '80s. Altogether, this enabled him to compose a score that was very contemporary, hypnotic, scary and, when needed, both beautiful and aggressive. Limited deluxe digipack CD."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: RBL 094CD

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

"The ultimate and definitive anthology of Goblin and Claudio Simonetti covers 45 years of this talented musician's work. Contains the iconic Soundtracks of Horror Films by Dario Argento, George Romero, Lamberto Bava, as well as some rare and unreleased songs. Double CD in a special deluxe digipack."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: SCTR 067LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"For the first time this century, two missed masterpieces are coming available on vinyl. The band Souled American formed in Chicago in 1986 and recorded a total of sixty-six songs between 1988 and 1996. Though not ever popular themselves, their evolving hybrid of roots/rock music heavily influenced many more popular bands to come, among them Wilco, The Jayhawks, The Feelies, Califone, Counting Crows, The Mountain Goats, and Cracker. Their records became legendary, unavailable for decades. Some got to the Internet in 2023. Their last two albums Frozen and Notes Campfire are now re-issued in limited, hand-crafted, 30th Anniversary Editions with a fresh abundance of stories, technical information, musician credits, and cartoons that detail the unexpected origins surrounding these two early classics of 'ambient Americana.' These records sound at once both old and new with brilliant melodies and profound performances stacked in unusual patterns like soft-hued bricks."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: SB 197LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"To say that the vinyl release of Ostraaly's Misery Guests has overcome monumental challenges isn't hyperbole, but fact. The label had been in cahoots with principal band members Katharine Daly and Leonie Brialey as far back as the Luggs CD-R in 2016. Initially this release was to see vinyl action, but a series of setbacks prevented that from happening and when we next caught up w/each other it was 2019. Ostraaly was now a full-on unit and a new set of tracks entitled Misery Guests was slated for a cassette issue by the estimable Tenth Court label. Katharine was quite keen for Siltbreeze to release it on vinyl and both sides set about to make it happen. Tenth Court released the cassette in Jan of 2020, vinyl to follow. However, a series of mechanical issues-a new track was added, artwork needed to be revamped-reared up and by the time it was off to press, Covid slammed shut the world. Diligence was the key here, as was hope. And as the world began to come out of its pandemic cocoon sometime in 2021, the project was on once more. But in the midst of retrieving new masters and artwork, Katharine Daly passed away unexpectedly, and that shock naturally put everything into what seemed to be a perpetual limbo. The years passed, but never the desire to see this album fulfilled. It was through the tenacity of the surviving band members, relocating and getting Siltbreeze the new masters and jacket art, that this LP finally sees the light of day as it was meant to some five years prior. What you'll find within the grooves of Misery Guests is a band assuredly zoned into what they're laying down. It woozily rollicks in a way that's fetchingly out of step and swings in a rural-like, rough-hewn manner that's unimpeachable. To say nothing of the out-of-time folk ruggedness stitched in, which makes these tracks seem almost plucked out of some mid-'70s time warp that contemporary alt/retro bands could only dream of conceiving. And while its existence will forever remain bittersweet that Daly isn't here to embrace its ultimate fruition, her spirit is forever locked into every nuance of this stone-cold masterpiece. Dedicated to the memory of Katharine Daly and all who sailed w/her. FFO: Fairport Convention, Etchingham Steam Band, Patti Smith Group, The Garbage & The Flowers. Edition of 400."

 

PRICE: $53.50

CAT #: SCC 006BK

FILE UNDER: Misc

"Perhaps you first encountered Lesley Arfin in the pages of Vice -- where her 'Dear Diary' column ran for six years in the aughts, rampaging you the reader through the flaming youth of a Long Island misfit girl and all the shit she tried. Or maybe it was the book collection -- all those searing 'Diary' entries coupled with latter-day Lesley's acerbic responses. Or perhaps, like your present writer, you sat up late, until late became early, falling in with the poor fucked-up creatures of Love (Netflix, 2016?2019), your heart breaking for the familiarity of their simple desires and the mayhem that followed. Plus, there's Girls, Awkward, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Betty; there's any number of ways you might have happened upon Lesley Arfin over the past twenty-plus years. As a comedian and a writer and a producer, her signature ability is to channel the heaviest of feels from the excruciating kind of real-life trouble that people put themselves through just trying to live every day. A gut-punch punctuated with a belly-laugh. Now, reflect on Tickle Me, and Lesley's path not traveled (until now): visual artist! As a kid, she wanted to write comic books. But she wasn't a happy artist in her youth, or a good one (so she thought), so she stuck to writing, up until her acumen'd brought her to the apex of the craft: the grind of network television. By then, doing a little painting seemed downright relaxing! Plus, it was therapeutic -- until it got to be so compelling it was like OCD. The busier she was -- with work, marriage, having a baby -- the more images came, the more paintings piled up. As you move through the images that make up Tickle Me, you see Lesley tapping her familiar depths and the creepy humor that she finds down there -- but through an outrageous riot of flowers and colors and '70s Sears Catalog imagery! If this is a safe space, then is there actually NO safe space? Fuhgettaboutit -- it's all just life space. Tickle Me features Lesley's early expressions of her truth in graphic art. Glittery reflections on gender, weather, mistakes, feminism, fantasy, failure, nostalgia; her own personal language rendered in watercolor, gauche, acrylic, fiber, stickers and collage. Like life, no guarantees, other than from that from any beginning, it can only keep growing. And it has, and it will."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: SCR 269EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Mexican duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete are putting out a limited-edition vinyl version of their Remezcla EP, expanded with two extra tracks. Pressed on neon green vinyl and limited to 250 copies, the EP features reworkings of six tracks from 2023's hugely acclaimed album Datura by SUUNS, D?lek, MEMORIALS, Invisible Dog (aka LA-based musician Adam Payne), and Immersion (aka Colin Newman of Wire and Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact). Ranging from indie-dance and avant-garde hip-hop to drone and celestial indie-pop, it's the perfect companion piece to the album. "The whole EP is kind of a 'pinch me' moment," says LMTO guitarist Alberto Gonz?lez. "The fascinating thing with remixes is that you never really know what to expect when you invite someone to collaborate. You sign up for the unknown. We are truly grateful for how everyone shapeshifted these songs. Now it's coming out on vinyl, it's like the EP is finally getting justice in every sense. I guess there's something about physical media that you can't beat. Daniel Castrejon's artwork is much more powerful once printed. All this work is all meant to be released physically. It's truly special and it also feels like a nice transition to what's coming next. All the period around Datura has been highly educational and transformative for us, so this is a nice way to wrap it up and embrace the next phase."

 

PRICE: $23.50

CAT #: SOW 026LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2024 repress; reissue. First released in 1963 on Phillips Records, this was Jorge Ben's debut album. Samba Esquema Novo ("New Style Samba") deliberately sets a new standard in Brazilian music. A beautiful, fresh and vital combination of Ben's percussive guitar and smooth/rough voice backed by big band style horns, percussion (the great Dom Um Romao), and strings. In 2007, it was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history. But it's important to remind you that this is the album that contains the first original version of "Mas Que Nada", one of the most popular songs in the world. Clear vinyl.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: SSR 117LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Victoria's White Collar, pulses with as much articulation as venom. This first 12" invokes the glory years of American hardcore. That razor-slash ferocity, ya'll love. The riffs are simple and effective, opting for power over speed and giving new-comer vocalist Loosey C. the chance to showcase what makes her inclusion vital in a group made up of Headcheese, Crosshairs, and Bootlicker alumni. In fact, what sets this four-piece apart is the focused potency of her vocal aggression and scathing lyrics. If you're taking notes to make sure the right boxes are checked, imagine your master prosciutto-shaving the best bits from "No Thanks" and "Evil I" and feeding them to your grateful, blushing little face. If you're looking for what makes this record as ferocious as it is, clock the poisoned lyrics calling out all the parts of identity politics, sexism, and embarrassing punk posturing that are overdue for a reckoning. White Collar won't be trained, and this bitch ain't just mouthy; she bites.

 

PRICE: $20.50

CAT #: SVVRCH 009CV-LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2024 restock. A reissue of Jorge Ben's Solta o Pavao, originally released in 1975. Jorge Ben is one of Brazilian music's iconic and best-loved figures. Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes in Rio in 1942, he took the stage name, Jorge Ben, in deference to his mother's Ethiopian roots, and later used Jorge Ben Jorge for further distinction. Playing tambourine and singing in a church choir from an early age, Ben began playing in Carnival blocos and was performing in nightclubs as a teen. Signed to Philips in 1963, his "Mas Que Nada" became an instant international sensation that has never waned, despite being sung entirely in Portuguese. Beginning in samba, Ben's openminded approach saw him embrace aspects of bossa nova, the "Jovem Guarda" rock movement of the mid-1960s and the experimental Tropicalia form, the broad palette and diverse influences yielding a number of adventurous and abstruse albums during the 1970s, of which Solta o Pavao is one of the most rated by connoisseurs, though somewhat overlooked in general; its title translates roughly to "Unleash the Peacock" and apparently concerns the outward expression of inner beauty. Against a backdrop of lushly produced samba rock with shades of MPB, highlights include opener "Zagueiro", in which Ben salutes football center-backs in typically playful and poetic language; closing number "Jesualda" is a heady ballad of a chance encounter leading to a girl's social climbing and "Para Ouvir No Radio (Luciana)" a love song with striking flute and string arrangements; Dadi Flavi's bubbling bass and occasional string synths help keep the sound non-standard.

 

PRICE: $11.00

CAT #: WIRE 489

FILE UNDER: Misc

"Every copy of the November issue will come with a free CD of The Wire Tapper 66 attached to the cover. This latest edition of The Wire Tapper features a cover designed by Firpal and contains 16 new tracks by Boris Hauf, Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Niton. Featuring John Butcher, Masayoshi Fujita, Moor Mother, Schande, and more. On the cover: Marshall Allen. Inside the issue: Once Upon A Time In Lithuania, Frank Chickens, Water Damage. Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon. Global Ear: Latvia. Unlimited Editions: Reading Group. Inner Sleeve: Eleni Poulou. Plus one page profiles of Kamilya Jubran, Flickers From The Fen, SEO, and Callahan & Witscher."

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: TB 012EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Introducing a new addition to Touching Bass' 12" dancefloor series. The series highlights mostly new artists who showcase the sounds of the Touching Bass dancefloor; packaged in their house sleeve. Shine is an innovative case-in-point of machine funk turned soulful. Across six tracks, D'Monk (pronounced 'duhmunk') -- the London-based multi-instrumentalist, producer and selector -- makes a strong claim for debut EP of the year, falling somewhere between warm-fuzzy electro, LDN broken beat, beatdown and the drunken, undefinable soul-dance of Detroit. Featuring Yoofee.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: UIHR 025LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Presented on limited-edition black and clear vinyl. Includes download code. Up In Her Room present the latest offering from Uruguay's Las Cobras! Emerging from the Uruguayan city of Canelones in 2017, Las Cobras introduced themselves with their debut album, Temporal, a nine-track release that quickly became a reference point in global psychedelia after signing with London's Fuzz Club Records. A couple of years later, the duo -- Leandro Rebellato and Sofia Aguerre -- expanded to include Dario Macar?n and Diego Mercadal, releasing their second album, Selva. In their debut, Las Cobras blended proto-punk and shoegaze with hints of afrobeat and Tropicalia. With Selva, the band amplified these elements, showcasing their evolving sound. Notably, their track "Al m?s All?" is featured in the Amazon Prime series La Cabeza de Joaqu?n Murrieta. For their third album, C?rcavas, the band explores the concept of the c?rcava -- a scar on the earth symbolizing a period of desolation. Teaming up with London label Up in her Room, they present a darker, more chaotic record that reflects the tumultuous years they've endured. Most tracks were mixed by James Aparicio (Depeche Mode, Spiritualized, Throw Down Bones Grinderman), lending the album a sharper, more defined sound. Las Cobras continue to delve into their sonic palette, incorporating electronic drums, Latin percussion, penetrating synthesizers, and fuzzed-out guitars, all from a more stripped-down perspective. "Black Butterfly," for example, is an espectrum of a lost friend. Like a ghost, always in orbit.

 

PRICE: $13.50

CAT #: UTR 165CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Aesthetically, Ed Schrader's Music Beat hates to tread water. At the same time, the Baltimore-based two-piece of vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice won't force their songs to fit a preconceived style. For Orchestra Hits, the band's latest, that alteration was welcoming longtime musical comrade Dylan Going into the fold as a co-writer and co-producer. A songwriter in his own right, a guitar sideman for ESMB on their last two tours, and a collaborator with Rice in the noise riffage band Mandate, Going had both a unique vision and an intimate familiarity with the ESMB vibe. The lack of external pressure in the process gives Orchestra Hits an almost paradoxical vibe. For all of the album's layers, that mix live and sequenced instruments, it never loses the raw energy of a small handful of friends in the same room plugging in, cranking up, and playing until they pass out. Lyrically, the album finds Schrader, now 45, meditating on experiences in their youth to make sense of the present moment. With percolating synthesizer arpeggios, and climbing bass grooves, "IDKS" is the album's dance-floor slapper. Lyrically, "IDKS" is a letter from the true self to public-facing self. "It's an angry song," Schrader said. "Because the public-facing self is always looking for an easy escape, but it forces the true self into a cage. I honestly thought my lyrics were corny and was about to change them, but Dylan was digging it just the way it was. So that's what you hear." With the soaring "Daylight Commander," the band went against all of their musty-basement-bred instincts. "I went full High School Musical with the vocals," Schrader said. "At first it felt almost embarrassing, but I remember reading somewhere that Bowie recommended always floating a little bit above your comfort zone, and that's what we did here." The song is part exercise in absurdity and part pop Trojan horse. "If ever we had a 'Shiny Happy People' moment, I guess this is it," Schrader said.

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: UTR 165LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Aesthetically, Ed Schrader's Music Beat hates to tread water. At the same time, the Baltimore-based two-piece of vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice won't force their songs to fit a preconceived style. For Orchestra Hits, the band's latest, that alteration was welcoming longtime musical comrade Dylan Going into the fold as a co-writer and co-producer. A songwriter in his own right, a guitar sideman for ESMB on their last two tours, and a collaborator with Rice in the noise riffage band Mandate, Going had both a unique vision and an intimate familiarity with the ESMB vibe. The lack of external pressure in the process gives Orchestra Hits an almost paradoxical vibe. For all of the album's layers, that mix live and sequenced instruments, it never loses the raw energy of a small handful of friends in the same room plugging in, cranking up, and playing until they pass out. Lyrically, the album finds Schrader, now 45, meditating on experiences in their youth to make sense of the present moment. With percolating synthesizer arpeggios, and climbing bass grooves, "IDKS" is the album's dance-floor slapper. Lyrically, "IDKS" is a letter from the true self to public-facing self. "It's an angry song," Schrader said. "Because the public-facing self is always looking for an easy escape, but it forces the true self into a cage. I honestly thought my lyrics were corny and was about to change them, but Dylan was digging it just the way it was. So that's what you hear." With the soaring "Daylight Commander," the band went against all of their musty-basement-bred instincts. "I went full High School Musical with the vocals," Schrader said. "At first it felt almost embarrassing, but I remember reading somewhere that Bowie recommended always floating a little bit above your comfort zone, and that's what we did here." The song is part exercise in absurdity and part pop Trojan horse. "If ever we had a 'Shiny Happy People' moment, I guess this is it," Schrader said.

 

PRICE: $12.00

CAT #: UTR 166EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Collaboration between DIY-pop grafter Robert Sotelo and Mary Currie (half of Flaming Tunes with Gareth Williams. Robert Sotelo is a bedroom pop songsmith who lives in Glasgow. Sotelo has released six albums since 2017, three of which came out on Upset The Rhythm. He also performs in Order of the Toad, Dancer, and Nightshift. Mary Currie is best known as half of touchstone DIY experimentalists Flaming Tunes, alongside Gareth Williams. Currie also performed in Officer! with Mick Hobbs amongst others. The Dream Songs 7" EP title captures the hazy, reflective nature of the music it also expounds on the origin of tracks. These four tracks flutter with a minimalist bass, drum machine and keys dynamic, allowing Sotelo and Currie's vocals to speak deeply into the back of your mind. "Expectations" is a pensive triumph of whirled moments and momentum with Currie's final words lending much gravity "the outcome of my days is always the same, a void that must be filled, a battle against time that drags us along; mutating, spinning, ebbing, flowing. Begin again, we work to give value to time." "Telegraph Hill" boasts a glossy fluidity, as it plays with images of motorways, ancient citadels, crows, paralysis and emanations. "Lady Fortune" meanwhile is a tranquil treatise on fate, imbued with finessed electronic embellishments and clarinet flourishes. You can't quite trust where these songs will take you, they feel particularly mercurial. Dreams indeed.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: VAMPI 168LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 repress. "This whole project grew out of a song called 'Cycles Of You', which I had written around 2000-2001 with the guitarist and bassist of my band at the time, Easy. The chord progression and vocal melody really reminded me of Joe Bataan, and it occurred to me that it wouldn't be impossible to get him into the studio to do a guest vocal if we ever recorded it. I had met Bataan a few years before at Nuyorican Poets Cafe in my neighborhood. Around this time Bataan was playing out again, so I went to the show to see him and find out if he'd be interested in doing some vocals with us. He was agreeable, so we decided to turn it into a Joe Bataan session and do 'Cycles Of You'. When I got the opportunity from Vampisoul to do a full album, I was hoping Bataan and I could write some songs together, but our schedules proved tough to coordinate. I figured the best way to go about it was to do most of the work and just have him come sing on it. The rhythm section was a band called TransLove Airways that I formed in 2002. To this core group I added pieces from a few other local bands: The Middle Initials, who are a great Temptations/Main Ingredient-style vocal group, and members of an incredible Latin band called Grupo Latin Vibe, who were responsible for almost all the percussion and the vibraphone solo on 'I'm The Fool Pt. 2'. There was also some fine trombone playing by Aaron Johnson of Antibalas and great flute work by Neal Sugarman and my cousin Sonny. Preparing for Call My Name, I listened to a lot of different records from the mid to late '70s. It has now been over ten years since the completion of this record, and so much has changed. The Call My Name sessions took place when Daptone had just moved to Bushwick, its now-famous current location. Gabe Roth was my first call whenever I had any recording to do. He was yet to become the legendary figure at the center of the Daptone/Truth & Soul universe. He was just a humble guy with an incredible talent and an impeccable ear who made authentic sounding records with inexpensive analog gear." -- Daniel Coll?s, producer of Call My Name

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: VAMPI 287LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2024 restock. The 1973 album El Violento was the fifth full-length salsa LP led by Julio Ernesto Estrada Rinc?n, aka Fruko, and the second credited to Fruko Y Sus Tesos. It features Fruko's two main vocalists that took over from the first pair of Humberto "Huango" Muriel and "P?per Pimienta" D?az, namely the beloved duo of ?lvaro "Joe" Arroyo and Wilson "Saoko" Manyoma. Los Tesos were a talented "wild bunch," with Fruko holding down the bottom end on electric bass, Hern?n Guti?rrez in the piano chair, the Villegas brothers on hand percussion (Jes?s tickling the bongos and Fernando slapping the congas), augmented by Rafael Ben?tez on timbales and an ace horn section of Freddy Ferrer and Gonz?lo G?mez (trombones) and Jorge Gaviria and Salvador Pasos (trumpets). The super aggressive sound comes directly from the South Bronx playbook of Willie Col?n. Sonically lightening the mood somewhat, "Nadando" ("Swimming") is a bouncy tune in the "Mercy" genre (basically a hybrid of pop, funky soul, cumbia and salsa, in the style of Nelson y Sus Estrellas), gleefully sung by Joe Arroyo. The beats are complex and ever changing, with a little bit of mozambique, conga, bomba, jala jala and of course salsa thrown in for good measure. The side closes out with a brilliant, up-tempo salsa reworking of the venerable ranchera chestnut, "T?, s?lo t?." Side two explodes with the frenetic descarga jam session "Salsa na' ma," which is exactly that: nothing more than the hottest "sauce" to make the dancers go crazy. Fruko's tune is dedicated to the Latin community in New York that listens to salsa from everywhere and dances to it so fervently on the weekend. The relentless percussion propels the listener along at breakneck speed as if hurtling down the Bronx Expressway, demonstrating that Fruko y Sus Tesos have mastered the "violent" form of urban salsa that was having its transnational moment in the early 1970s. While El Violento may not be as well-known as some Fruko records, it certainly deserves a new look and should be assessed on its own merits as a very powerful, confident entry in the historical evolution of Colombian salsa dura.

 

PRICE: $22.00

CAT #: VHF 146LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Limited 2024 restock. "Debut album by the New Zealand duo of Bruce Russell (Dead C, Handful Of Dust, etc) and Luke Wood. Visceral Realists is a high-concept commentary on the state of vinyl, analog recording, music culture, art, etc. A 45-rpm bullet of short bursts of free electric sound, the music here is tactile and rough but not 'noise music.' Russell and Wood play over loops of scratchy records, with their guitars and electronics surging to get over the wall. Russell's guitar sound from his vintage transistor amp and anti-style is instantly recognizable from countless classic Dead C sides, but the tracks are more painterly than recent DC epics -- these are celebratory vignettes of thoughts -- singles, if you will. Originally made as an unfindable edition of twenty by Wood's Ilam Press label to accompany an exhibit of NZ lathe-cut records, this new edition is beautifully packaged in a debossed and letterpress printed sleeve designed by Wood and printed by Stumptown in Portland. Two color risographs printed by Wood in NZ are tipped onto the jacket, and an additional two inserts provide revelatory notes by Russell and glam shots of the instruments that made the sounds. Also includes download slip."

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: VL 900044LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2024 restock; 2008 release. While 1967's Velvet Underground & Nico was a part of Andy Warhol's global artistic vision, 1968's White Light/White Heat was free of all Warholian influence, so in a way it could be thought of as another debut album. Here the music was left to fester on its own, with no artistic visionary interfering or trying to create a soundtrack for his pop art, and the Velvets filled that void with an album that is an aural subway car full of drunkards, junkies and whores rumbling through the bowels of NYC with a one way ticket to oblivion. Includes 3 bonus tracks.

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: VP 2782LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2024 repress. "Keith Hudson's Pick A Dub is a classic album by many standards; released in1974, the session features performances from reggae legends Augustus Pablo, Big Youth, and Carlton and Aston Barrett. The 1994 re-issue on the Blood & Fire label introduced a new generation to its 'austere sonic qualities' and genre defining techniques. Pick A Dub showcases the enduring strength and pivotal importance of the rhythm to the development of reggae and dub music. Keith Hudson's complete mastery of the genre and the unqualified praise that followed its release was fully justified."

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: WJCD 073CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Peter Evans makes his We Jazz Records debut with Extra. The band formation includes Evans on trumpet, Petter Eldh (Koma Saxo/Post Koma) on bass and Jim Black on drums. Peter Evans, an acclaimed trumpet player, improvisor, and composer based in New York City presents a gutsy new band that gets right to work with his eight new compositions. Extra was recorded at the iconic Namouche Studio in Lisbon and it has a feeling of a session where all musicians are pushing for the new together with great excitement. Both Eldh and Black are long-time collaborators of Evans, and every ounce of Extra brims with musical joy of togetherness and new discovery. Comprised of eight Evans originals, the album is a firecracker set off from the first beats of album opener "Freaks". While Peter Evans is often lauded for his remarkable technical prowess, he is first and foremost serving his broader musical vision at all times. That is, the remarkable musical ability of the trio doesn't outshine how together the unit is in realizing the music at hand. The strong rhythmic base of Eldh and Black allows for Evans to push his compositions to their limits and for the band to find new avenues of expression together while doing so. Tracks like "Freaks", "In See" and "Boom" are full on forward-looking fire music with more heat than a sunny day in Lisbon, while "Movement 56" and "The Lighthouse" flip the script in ways that stun and surprise like an alleyway you only discovered after taking a couple of left turns far away from the high street. This is effortless creative music by a band that's comfortable together while pushing each other forward at all times.

 

PRICE: $30.50

CAT #: WS 019LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Dirt Bike Vacation -- for Worried Songs Records -- explores the sonic world of the late amateur guitar player, Charles 'Poppy Bob' Walker, through a captivating set of instrumental songs made in the mid-1980s. Recorded on a single-track, Marantz field recorder, the project is a transportive document of Walker's days spent as a meatpacking employee in Yuma, Arizona and the dailiness of that existence: driving to work, sitting in his backyard, walking around drunkenly, unwinding on the couch with a friend. These sketches, showing an experimental tendency, are surprisingly ahead of their time; some exhibit ad hoc tape delay, while others make use of primitive overdubbing. Not dissimilar to works such as Bruce Langhorne's The Hired Hand soundtrack, Walker's guitar playing is melodic, texturally rich and beautifully sober. On a musical tour from Nashville to Los Angeles, musician-archivist, Cameron Knowler, uncovered these songs from a series of dusty cassette tapes housed at a branch of the Yuma County Library. Originally tipped off by cryptic metadata entries found through an online finding aid, Knowler requested a sound sample and was immediately drawn in by their eerie, yet hopeful nature. Sorting through the index cards associated with these tapes, Knowler was able to gain a detailed sense of most recording's provenance, whereabouts and time: Walker's Datsun pickup truck chugging along boiling hot Interstate 80, the Marine Corps Air Station parking lot, the Eastern Wetlands on the banks of the Colorado River, a fishing trip to Martinez Lake. Trying to reduce the amount of his own subjectivities coloring the work, Cameron constructed titles and track sequences by borrowing information gleaned from Charles' handwritten notes. This proved no small task, as many notecards had to be deciphered and then coupled with their native tapes which needed extensive restoration treatments. The result is a project very much out of the blue, and one that is intensely personal to Knowler, having grown up in the same town under similar circumstances. In their current form, the tracks combine to create a sonic journey that boldly contributes to the traditions of acoustic guitar soli, archival digs and field recordings all the same; most importantly, it is a creative document which shows a day-in-the-life of a man grappling with the human experience under a ubiquitous Yuma sun.

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: WSR 046B-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Limited repress of much anticipated debut album from this Leeds-based electronic duo, following high-profile UK festival slots, and shows alongside luminaries Sleaford Mods, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Warmduscher, Sea Power, Moonlandingz, The KVB, jellyskin are finally ready to unleash In Brine, their first full length release. The result of four years spent writing, recording, and refining the album between Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, Palamos, and Berlin, In Brine showcases the many talents of Will Ainsley and Zia Larty-Healy in a work straddling iridescent electronica, tungsten-tipped techno, art pop, and queasy, brown acid folk. The songs are pieced together with themes of longing, misadventure by the sea, desire and aquatic apparitions that showcase Larty-Healy's warm but urgent vocal range, as at home around the campfire as it is in the club. The pair's meticulous arrangement and rearrangement, sculpting, recording, and mixing was a glacially slow process of adaptation, mutation, cooperation, growth, and, yes, natural selection. The pair brought in Berlin based co-producer, mixer and masterer Lewis D-t to help finesse the tracks into fat-free hunks of ecstasy and sonic exploration, their rich depths marking In Brine as an album everyone should be talking about this summer and beyond-all nine tracks will have feet moving and hearts swelling in equal measure. RIYL: Jockstrap, Working Men's Club, Stealing Sheep, Broadcast.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: XRP 2412LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. Legendary UK band Asian Dub Foundation is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2024! Asian Dub Foundation are a genre unto themselves. Their unique combination of jungliest rhythms, dub bass lines and wild guitar overlaid by references to their South Asian roots via militant high-speed rap has established them as one of the best live bands in the world. The story began in the early '90s when ADF formed from a music workshop in East London at the institution which is their spiritual home, Community Music. Their unique beginnings in a music workshop in east London shaped both their sound and their educational aspirations, setting up their own organization ADF Education (ADFED), plus instigating campaigns on behalf of those suffering miscarriages of justice. Building a solid live reputation in the mid-'90s, they gained worldwide recognition sharing the stage with Rage Against The Machine, the Beastie Boys, Radiohead, and Primal Scream. In 30 years, Asian Dub Foundation have racked up 1000's of unforgettable shows, nine studio albums alongside a social and educational activism that both created the group and sustains them today. In celebration of the longevity of this unique project they present a special album showcasing their many iconic collaborations: 94-Now: Collaborations. Featuring Iggy Pop, Stewart Lee, Chowerman, Sine?ad O'Connor, Ed O'Brien, Likkle Mai, Dry and Heavy, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, MC Navigator, Primal Scream, Zebda, Chandrasonic, Chuck D, and Audio Active.

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: ZEL 011EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Zel Zele presents the first-ever reissue of a cult classic from 1974, written, produced, and arranged by Anatolian rock pioneer Bar?? Man?o, backed by his legendary Kurtalan Ekspres band. Sevil & Ayla's Bebek/Irgat is a highly sought-after Turkish folk and psychedelic single, sung by Ye?il?am stars Sevil & Ayla during the golden era of Anatolian rock music. A-side "Bebek" hardly needs an introduction, being a rare gem among crate diggers and beat enthusiasts. The track's strings and bass are a nod to the iconic groove of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," creating instant recognition. Sevil and Ayla's haunting vocals add a moody twist, narrating the tragic tale of a crazed mother over losing her baby to an eagle. On the B-side, "Irgat" is an underrated rider's groove with an incredible break and keyboard solo, perfect for keeping the dance floor swinging.