Another modest list this week, but I have it on good authority that next week is going to be a whopper. Also, our used bins are stuff with killer slabs these days, so get on down for a dig while the weather is warm.
…..pick of the week…..
Lt. Frank Dickens: Sunburned (Jaz) LP
Lt. Frank Dickens is the nom-de-musique of the former singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Vancouver’s shadowy pop band Peace, formerly signed to Suicide Squeeze records. Recorded in pieces over a number of years, his debut album Sunburned was originally released as a limited run cassette in the autumn of 2015. Now the album is being made available with a new cover and two extra songs through JAZ Records in a run of 300 copies. Sunburned is made up of songs that Dickens had been working on for as much as ten years’ time. It is a collection of haunted lullabies informed by the mysterious underbelly of life on the West Coast as much as musical touchstones such as Scott Walker, Syd Barrett and the Television Personalities. The instrumentation differs significantly between songs, but there is unity in the albums wistful tone and Dickens’ baritone sing-speak. Sunburned is a darkly lyrical and hermetic fairy-tale of a record that hints at the deeply personal while maintaining a veil of mystery.
File Under: Indie Rock
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…..new arrivals…..
American Football: s/t (Polyvinyl) LP
Not long after Polyvinyl Records released American Football’s self-titled debut album in 1999, the band called it quits, having only played a smattering of Champaign-Urbana college house parties and sets at small clubs like Chicago’s legendary Fireside Bowl. Such an inauspicious turn of events made what followed all the more incredible. Over time, the record went on to become one of Polyvinyl’s best selling releases to date, and ended up serving as “one of the single most influential rock records of its time” according to Noisey and many others. To most everyone that found them after the fact, the band was no more than an apparition. The record the only artifact left behind as a timeless snapshot of a group of individuals in transition, newly discovered each year by a fresh crop of music fans reaching a similar inflection point in their own lives. When American Football announced in 2014 that they would play live for the first time in 15 years, the built up appreciation for that eponymous LP physically manifested itself as they sold out three nights at Webster Hall in New York City in a matter of hours, and then went on to do the same at venues around the world. A quarter of a lifetime removed, and at times thousands of miles away from the house on the sleepy street in the middle of Illinois depicted on their debut album’s iconic cover, they found themselves playing to sold out crowds that numbered in the thousands in London, Tokyo, Barcelona and beyond. The again self-titled American Football finds the band with new material that takes them on a serendipitous detour down a familiar road. It is replete with the swelling emotions that might be spurred on by locked away memories unearthed by a familiar scent or crack in the concrete, or the rush of warm apprehension when coming face to face with a lover left before the fire was close to going out. “The past still present tense” sings Mike Kinsella on “Home Is Where The Haunt Is,” but while the house on the cover and the title of the album are the same, they are made strange by time and new found perspective. “We’ve been here before,” he declares on album opener “Where Are We Now?”, “but I don’t remember a lock on the door.” At a time when reunions have become rote, American Football is decidedly an anomaly. There is no past glory to relive or reignite, nor the burden to branch out and break from a well worn formula. Seventeen years later everything still feels brand new, because for them it is. They are a band that for one reason or another closed the lid on their creative output just as they were beginning an unforeseeable upswing, and are just now after a stasis returning to uncork it with the benefit of greater maturity and better musicianship. The sound is even more expansive, the lyrics less naive and more world weary, the songs have greater depths to explore and layers to peel back throughout. “You can’t just forget all the other lives you’ve lived,” Kinsella sings, and every single one of the nearly two decades worth of experiences since they last put pen to paper as American Football seem to bleed through on this record.
File Under: Indie Rock
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Angel Witch: s/t (Real Gone) LP
One of the first and greatest “black metal” albums, and one of the records that helped launch the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, the 1980 self-titled debut from Angel Witch still packs a wallop some 36 years later. Unlike, say, Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, songwriter Kevin Heybourne’s lyrical imagery just doesn’t dabble in the occult, it lives (dies?) there, with abundant sword and sorcery themes and tales (e.g. “Angel of Death”) of damnation. Yet, as on the title track, the band is not above crafting some catchy hooks, though the raw production ensures that those hooks have barbs. Real Gone Music is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of this classic metal album, in limited edition (of 600 copies) colored vinyl. Buy or be eternally condemned!
File Under: Metal
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Loren Connors: The Departing of a Dream Vol VI (Family Vineyard) 10″
Just months after reviving The Departing of a Dream series from a ten-year hiatus with the release of Volume V — Loren Connors issues another movement of saturated guitar tones, dissonance and impermanence. Volume Six begins with the percussive sound of struck, muted strings, it’s an unusually rhythmic effect for one of Connors solo recordings, writes Kurt Gottschalk in The Wire. But from there, Connors’ guitar notes morph into gentle wisps of guitar sounds — or as Connors himself describes: “just like the wind scattering the notes around.” The mini-album is presented as a 10-inch with artwork by Connors — a faint, nearly transparent drawing of a woman’s face. Audio mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k and vinyl mastering by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering. One-time edition of 550 copies, includes download coupon.
File Under: Ambient, Guitar
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Cyrillic Typewriter: Your True Emblem (Jaz) LP
Your True Emblem is the latest offering from Vancouver’s Cyrillic Typewriter, the enigmatic mantle of Jason Zumpano, joined here with fellow Destroyer alumna Scott Morgan (Loscil) and Nic Bragg, and recent recruit Terri Upton of Frog Eyes. Maintaining the suite-like format of 2015’s Best Suit, it assumes a sci-fi cinema stance: delicate, capsule-like intervals of mellow post-rock spaciousness – a sonic depth of field that gives a vibey sense of flotation – which are then interrupted by abrasive and agitated interludes of redirection that signal a narrative of tense anticipation: we are waiting for a message from outer space, and this is either the soundtrack to the waiting, or the message itself. LPs with art from frequent Cyrillic Typewriter collaborator Jason McLean; each comes with one of three 5×5 matte cardstock photo inserts.
File Under: Ambient, CanCon
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Duchess Says: Sciences Nouvelle (Bonsound) LP
Slovenly Recordings, in conjunction with Bonsound (CA), is proud to present the latest orb from Duchess Says, re-entering the Earthen atmosphere to soil your sweet dreams with their third astral opus Sciences Nouvelles. Faithfully endorsed by the Church of Budgerigars, this antagonistic workout features chanteuse maniaque Annie-Claude Deschenes and her band of desensitized robot cronies clawing their way through ten tracks of Moog saturated cold / new / dark wave blasters, besmirching your cherished optimism and grinding it into dust. Duchess Says drops science in a heady amalgam of tracks in English, French and also of the wordless persuasion, with fudgy bass and fuzz propelled by slinky punk beats and fat synth bleeps delaying for eons, projecting a Giorgio Moroder vs. Devo dance-off on space station Italo-Q: A:.
File Under: Electro Punk
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D.D Dumbo: Utopia Defeated (4AD) LP
D.D Dumbo’s long-awaited debut LP Utopia Defeated is set for worldwide release via 4AD. The album is a collision of blues licks, echoes of world music, strident ‘80’s pop, the kinetic energy of dance music, and splashes of outsider art akin to Captain Beefheart, one of D.D Dumbo’s touchstones. D.D Dumbo’s fantastical debut album conjures a vivid, wide-eyed musical landscape teeming with nervous energy and exotic evocations of the world at large. Backed by skittering sounds, Utopia Defeated hinges on Oliver Hugh Perry expressive voice, and the dissonance of an artist compelled to question his position in the natural world. Written and performed almost entirely by Perry, the album was recorded at 4AD’s London Studios, with recording, engineering and production by Perry and 4AD’s resident.engineer Fabian Prynn. The 10 track album hurdles effortlessly over the expectations set by his intriguing debut EP, Tropical Oceans.
File Under: Pop
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Hieroglyphic Being: The Disco’s of Imhotep (Technicolour) LP
Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being issues his definitive solo album, The Disco’s Of Imhotep, via Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint. He has built a sterling reputation both as a producer and live performer of deep, mesmeric experimental electronics and free jazz rooted in his native Chicago and his relationship with the city’s fertile underground club scene. Inspired by the likes of Ron Trent, DJ Rush (residents at The Reactor where he danced week in week out) and Ron Hardy, Moss was mentored by visionary producers Steve Pointdexter and Adonis, who showed him the drum machines that were the backbone of the Movement and whom encouraged his early forays into music production. Releasing prolifically on his own Mathematics Recordings imprint and a clutch of other imprints including RVNG Intl. and Soul Jazz / SOTU; collaborating with Marshall Allen of Sun Ra’s Arkestra and Noleian Reusse (as Africans With Mainframes) – Moss has cemented his stature as a unique creative force. He balances his ancient heritage and musical DNA with a passion to experiment, create and channel music as a healing force, which has resulted in his art being tagged “Afrofuturist”. Moss, however, prefers to describe his output as Synth Expressionism / Rhythmic Cubism and would rather be viewed simply as a promoter of Nubian Rights.
File Under: Techno, Acid
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NxWorries (Anderson.Paak & Knxwledge): Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw) LP
Yes Lawd! As temping as it may be to just let that exclamation suffice as your sole introduction to NxWorries, we should go a little deeper. The men at the heart of this LP – soul styler Anderson .Paak and loop beast Knxwledge – make an exceedingly clean pair, even as they deal almost entirely in the gritty: vocals that sound lived in for a couple of lifetimes; beats that kick up dust as they bump; and an 19-track set that plays like a mixtape merging skits, songs, and snippets into a package of fluid groove and rough-cut rap ‘n’ soul gems. You may have heard these two out in the world, on their own or sprinkling some of their musical gold dust on someone else’s songs, but this is what happens when .Paak and Knx get home, lay back, light up, and let it go. If there’s a Blaxploitation vibe to Yes Lawd!, that’s just the depth of NxWorries’ funk and strut showing. If there’s gospel in the grits, that’s the history of the cooks. Each grew up with religion. It was Knxwledge’s job to tidy up the family church in Jersey as a kid, and when he was done, he got to play on the instruments. Better still, when those instruments went bad, he kept them. Similarly, he’d soon find sounds in his growing vinyl cache, and when he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 as a beat maker, his compositions ensured he’d be home at Stones Throw. His hypnotically dank 2015 LP Hud Dreems was the tip of an iceberg – 75 Bandcamp collections, and counting. Paak was neck deep in those songs when Knxwledge reached out. The singer grew up in Oxnard drumming in his own family’s church. His folks got locked up when he was a teen, and while he’d eke by on odd jobs (grocer, trimmer, personal assistant), he was homeless for a spell with a newborn son. But .Paak pushed forward, building a career via imaginative albums (2016’s Malibu), and collaborations that always seem to make him the star, even when he’s just there to sing the hook. On Yes Lawd!, .Paak – who calls the album “my best work” – plays theatrically brash version of himself who sings like a ‘70s superstar and talks shit like a stone cold player. But the performance is seeded with details from his life, which has seen a fair share of struggle and hardwon triumph. Meanwhile, Knx weaves a tapestry of sampled bits and live fragments – bass, brass and violin – that smooths everything over, reminding us that despite whatever struggle it took to get here… well, you already know the name: NxWorries.
File Under: Hip Hop
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Powell: Sport (XL) LP
Powell announces his debut full length album Sport on XL Recordings. Touring to commence late summer / early fall and continue into the exciting and unforeseeable future. Sport is music for both the mind and the body. Sure, it’s physical and you can dance to it, but Powell wants to drag people’s brains along for the ride too. “Standing apart from many less singular producers is Powell, whose music has become clearly distinct and attributable only to him.” – Ad Hoc. “Oscar Powell belongs to a very small pool of dance artists whose music is a style in itself… His tracks combine the attitude of post-punk with the physicality of techno and the adventurous spirit of experimental music.” – Resident Advisor. “Powell…traverses the same spectrum from brilliant to dumb, from super to stoopid as The Beastie Boys circa Intergalactic, and proposes the same kind of grand unifying theory of funk as Basement Jaxx circa Red Alert.” – The Wire.
File Under: Electronic, Techno
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Prince: Sign ‘O’ The Times (Warner) LP
Prince’s Grammy Nominated 1987 Album Following the Dissolution of The Revolution Back in Print! Prince arrived on the scene in the late-70s, and it didn’t take long for him to upend the music world with his startling music and arresting demeanor. He rewrote the rulebook, forging a synthesis of black funk and white rock that served as a blueprint for cutting-edge music in the ’80s. He made dance music that rocked and rock music that had a bristling, funky backbone. From the beginning, Prince and his music were androgynous, sly, sexy and provocative. His colorful image and revolutionary music made him a figure comparable in paradigm-shifting impact to Little Richard, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and George Clinton. Prince hit an artistic peak with Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987), his first album since 1999 not to be co-credited to the Revolution. A double album that was trimmed down from an intended triple, Sign ‘O’ the Times was Prince’s most musically expansive and lyrically incisive album. On the sobering “Sign ‘O’ the Times” (No. 6), Prince enumerated a catalog of social ills (AIDS, crack, gang violence) over a skeletal funk track. Other hits from the album included “U Got the Look” (No. 2), a duet with Sheena Easton, and “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” (No. 10).
File Under: Pop, Funk, Electronic
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John K. Samson: Winter Wheat (Anti) LP
Singer/songwriter John K. Samson enlists the rhythm section from his renowned band The Weakerthans for much of his second solo album, Winter Wheat. Inspired by the search for connection and community, his hometown of Winnipeg, and our individual and collective struggles with addictions to drugs, screens, and fossil fuels – Winter Wheat is a sprawling, masterful and timely work by a writer at the peak of his powers. Winter Wheat was produced in garages and homes through a Winnipeg winter by Samson’s partner and collaborator, Christine Fellows, and his Weakerthans co-founder and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jason Tait, and mixed in the spring in Toronto by Robbie Lackritz (Bahamas, Feist). The spare and thoughtful arrangements also feature Greg Smith of The Weakerthans on electric bass, Ashley Au on double and electric bass, Leanne Zacharias on cello, and Shotgun Jimmie on electric guitar. Like the crop itself, which is planted in the fall, sprouts, goes dormant through months of snow and rises in the spring, Winter Wheat is a determined, beautiful, resilient response to difficult and extraordinary times. Double Vinyl includes three sides of music and an etching on Side D. For fans of the Weakerthans, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, and Built to Spill.
File Under: Indie Rock
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Sleaford Mods: T.C.R. (Rough Trade) LP
Equal parts classic-era punk, casio minimalism, slam poetry, growling protest chant, and poison ivy rash, Sleaford Mods are singular, and always powerful. And with their TCR 12″, particularly its title track, named for the 1970s auto toy “Total Control Racing,” the Mods are surprisingly…tuneful? The 12″ leads into the duo’s Rough Trade debut, planned for 2017, and don’t worry they still manage to raise as much hell and throw as many punches as ever here!
File Under: Hip Hop
Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen) LP
For more than a quarter century, Sonic Youth – featuring Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley – ruled the New York underground as the reigning post-punk experimental noise band of its era, releasing 15 full-length albums, from 1983’s Confusion Is Sex to 2009’s The Eternal. Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is re-releasing the entire nine-album DGC/Geffen catalog – which ranges from 1990’s Goo to 2006’s Rather Ripped – remastered from the original stereo analog master tapes on high-grade vinyl. All vinyl album releases will also include an accompanying digital download card. 2000’s NYC Ghosts & Flowers is Sonic Youth’s thirteenth album, and yet manages to sound fresh and familiar at the same time – probably largely due to the theft of an extensive amount of their gear directly prior to the album’s composition. It was also their shortest record in years, a fact that shouldn’t be interpreted as lack of new ideas – instead, Sonic Youth offer a fury of chaotic, melodic, and psychotic soundwaves that leave you wanting more. Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune exclaimed: “Though Sonic Youth flirted with alternative-rock songcraft in the early ’90s, these noise-rock renegades are once again happily viewing their guitars as hunks of wood, wire and infinite possibility…No rock band makes the avant-garde sound quite this tactile and sensual.”
File Under: Indie Rock
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Yann Tiersen: Eusa (Mute) LP
To North Americans who know him only as the mastermind behind the Amélie score, it might come as a surprise that French songwriter Yann Tiersen’s new album, EUSA, is the first minimal piano album of his storied career. That’s right: the man behind “Comptine d’un autre été : L’après-midi” — maybe the prettiest piano composition of all-time — has never made a piano album. That’s a shame, because EUSA is a consistently gorgeous work that extrapolates nicely on his past handful of piano-based compositions. It almost didn’t exist. EUSA, named after Tiersen’s Breton island homeland (Ushant in English), was originally conceived as ten pieces inspired by and named after places on the island, to be released only as sheet music. It was only after Tiersen played the work live at a series of French shows, augmenting it with improvised musical “pathways” between songs, that he realized he wanted to release it as an album. EUSA begins with the first of that series of loose piano interludes, “Hent I,” which builds tension perfectly around just two chords before resolving with “Pern.” The early highlight rises and falls beautifully, feeling somehow sprightly and melancholy at the same time, while “Porz Goret,” a more straightforward ballad, evokes “Comptine” in its sweet, sad elegance. Elsewhere, songs like “Penn ar Roc’h,” “Yuzin” and “Roc’h ar Vugale” provide a perfect soundtrack for bright mornings or rainy afternoons.
File Under: Classical
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Tragically Hip: s/t (Caroline) LP
Critically acclaimed for over two decades, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian musical zeitgeist for evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivaled. A five-piece group of friends including Robby Baker (guitar), Gord Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass), who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with over 8 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition with 14 Juno Awards via a dozen recordings. Originally issued in 1987, the band’s auspicious 8-track debut self-titled EP was produced by Ken Greer of Red Rider and includes the raw and impassioned early offerings “Small Town Bringdown” and “Last American Exit.”
File Under: Classic CanCon
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Tragically Hip: Up to Here (Caroline) LP
Critically acclaimed for over two decades, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian musical zeitgeist for evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivaled. A five-piece group of friends including Robby Baker (guitar), Gord Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass), who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with over 8 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition with 14 Juno Awards via a dozen recordings. 1989’s Up To Here is the debut full-length recording from the Tragically Hip following the release of their 1987 self-titled EP. Recorded with Don Smith and Bruce Barris at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee the promising 11-song set is awash in driving rhythms, effective riffs, subtle soloing and the heartfelt vocals and poetics of singer Gordon Downie. Standout tracks on Up In Here include “Boots Or Hearts,” “38 Years Old” and “Blow At High Dough” which became the theme song to the CBC comedy-drama Made in Canada.
File Under: Classic CanCon
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Tragically Hip: Road Apples (Caroline) LP
Critically acclaimed for over two decades, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian musical zeitgeist for evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivaled. A five-piece group of friends including Robby Baker (guitar), Gord Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass), who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with over 8 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition with 14 Juno Awards via a dozen recordings. Originally issued in 1991, Road Apples is the second full-length effort from the Tragically Hip and the band’s first Number One album in their home country. Recorded in New Orleans, LA with Bruce Barris and Don Smith, the energetic, emotional and poetic 12-song journey stands as one of the group’s best and is highlighted by such fully realized catalog gems as “Little Bones,” “Twist My Arm” and “Long Time Running.”
File Under: Classic CanCon
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Videodrones: Mondo Ferox (El Paraiso) LP
Danish synth duo Videdrones are all about simultaneously channeling of the vibes of maestros, ranging from the epic choirs of Popol Vuh or Fabio Frizzi through the smooth gliding arpeggios of Tangerine Dream or Giorgio Moroder, even into Goblin or Morricone at their most abstract. But there’s more to it than mere tribute. Mondo Ferox is the kind of album where electronic instruments take on a life of their own – Constantly in flux, changing direction and pace like that of the lives at the bottom of the sea. It’s like a constant overture. These are sounds that the listener knows, but they’re turning themselves inside out, bleeding into each other and losing themselves in the flow – Favoring emotion and impulse over logic and structure. Rather than repeating what’s already been seen and heard, Videodrones re-melts the voices of cinema into something yet to be imagined.
File Under: Electronic, OST
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Various: Kenya Special Vol. 2 (Soundways) LP
To many outside of East Africa, the Kenya Special Soundway compilation released in 2013 was their introduction to the full spectrum of the musical landscape of 1970s and ‘80s Kenya. The promotion of Kenyan music on an international level from the mid-eighties onwards had often been within a narrative of ‘otherness’, where releases were marketed as world music, focusing on a few genres with clearly defined sounds, such as benga and Swahili rumba. Kenya Special did more or less the opposite by highlighting songs and bands that couldn’t easily be categorized. Many of the featured songs seemed to bend the rules, break away from existing genres and sometimes borrow from foreign music trends. Whereas the world music campaigns of the 1980s were moderately successful in drawing in young audiences, the more recent wave of reissues has caught on with a demographic that’s one or two generations younger than those listeners that were originally interested in the music that was recorded in Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s. The approach to musical rediscovery that is behind Kenya Special has its origins in a youthful movement of vinyl collecting (and to some extent club culture), which has, in the past decade and a half, carved out its own niche alongside the established music industry. Despite the renewed interest in music from Kenya’s past, finding these tracks and their rights holders hasn’t become any easier. Only a handful of music archives around the world harbour collections of Kenyan music, and just a few private collectors in Kenya and abroad have been sharing catalogue info online or privately. One of the problems with East African music of this era is that much of it was originally released only on 45 rpm, seven-inch vinyl singles, many of which were only ever produced in tiny runs of a few hundred. 45s with their thin, paper sleeves do not age as well as LPs and are often far more susceptible to the elements. The compilers of Kenya Special 2 have gone to great lengths to disclose a small part of what is slowly being accepted as an essential element of East Africa’s cultural heritage: the history of recorded popular music. We hope you enjoy it. As always with Soundway releases Kenya 2 comes with extensive liner notes, photo’s and artwork from each 45. Vinyl is housed in a gatefold sleeve.
File Under: Africa, Afrobeat, Funk
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Various: Studio One Radio Show (Studio One) LP
Studio One Radio Show presents two rare performances recorded for Studio One by the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Up until the 1970’s there were heated discussions about the amount of U.S. soul hits being played on the radio. It was in this climate that Studio One’s Clement Dodd as well as Duke Reid and Lee Perry, started purchasing time from the radio stations to play their material uninterrupted. The favored radio jock for Studio One was Wintston Williams nicknamed “The Whip With The Solid Kick.” Winston “The Whip” Williams first entered radio in the 1970’s at the now defunct Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation as a newscaster and disc jockey for the afternoon show ‘Whip with the Solid Kick’. He also helmed the Studio One radio show that was broadcast on JBC on Saturday Mornings. Williams specialty was his rapid-fire jive rhyming delivery alongside his alter-ego Marcus who “ate chicken on Sundays.” To date his career in radio spans four decades as newscaster and radio personality, ‘Winston in Kingston’ continues to excite listeners as the ‘radio rhyme king’ on Power 106FM. Broadcasted on Saturday these shows were intended to showcase recent releases and to advertise the various Studio One locations and their products. The first of the two Studio One Radio Shows was known as the Sound of Young Jamaica and featured Winston Francis, The Boss, Jerry Jones, The Heptones, Ernest Ranglin, Horace Andy and Burning Spear. The second show, known as Soul Power and Sound, features Sugar Minott, Ken Boothe, Alton Ellis, The Heptones and Carletone & The Shoes.
File Under: Reggae
…..Restocks…..
Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls (ATO) LP
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color (ATO) LP
Aphex Twin: Cheetah (Warp) LP
Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp) LP
William Basinski: 92982 (Temporary Residence) LP
William Basinski: The Deluge (Temporary Residence) LP
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty (EMI) LP
Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Rhino) LP
Broadcast: Haha Sound (Warp) LP
Broadcast: Tender Buttons (Warp) LP
Broadcast: Work & Nonwork (Warp) LP
Nick Cave: Abattoir Blues (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Boatman’s Call (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Firstborn is Dead (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Henry’s Dream (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Kicking Against the Pricks (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Let Love In (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part (Mute) LP
Nick Cave: Your Funeral… My Trial (Mute) LP
City & Colour: If I Should Go Before You Do (Dine Alone) LP
Cure: Pornography (Rhino) LP
J Dilla: Donuts (Stones Throw) LP
Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity(Relapse) LP
Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound (Original Jazz Classics) LP
Earthless: Sonic Prayer (Gravity) LP
Earthless: Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky (Tee Pee) LP
Fleetwood Mac: Rumors (Rhino) LP
Flying Lotus: You’re Dead! (Warp) LP
Grizzly Bear: Shields (Warp) LP
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp) LP
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Paper Mache Dream ballon (ATO) LP
Fela Kuti: Beasts of No Nation (Knitting Factory) LP
Fela Kuti: Confusion (Knitting Factory) LP
Fela Kuti: He Miss Road (Knitting Factory) LP
Fela Kuti: Sorrow, Tears & Blood (Knitting Factory) LP
Daniel Lanois: Goodbye to Language (Anti) LP
Led Zeppelin: III (Warner) LP
Metallica: Master of Puppets (Blackened) LP
Metallica: Ride the Lightning (Blackened) LP
Metallica: Kill Em All (Blackened) LP
Mumford & Sons: Babel (Glassnote) LP
Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More (Glassnote) LP
Parliament: Mothership Connection (Universal) LP
Joel Plaskett: La De Da (Maplemusic) LP
Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression (Loma Vista) LP
Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R (Interscope) LP
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (Universal) LP
Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Abkco) LP
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Universal) LP
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Savvy Show Stoppers (Yep Rock) LP
Swans: The Seer (Young God) LP
Talking Heads: 77 (Rhino) LP
Talking Heads: Fear of Music (Rhino) LP
Thor & Friends: s/t (L.M. Duplication) LP
Velvet Underground: s/t (Verve) LP
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (Tamala) LP
Stevie Wonder: Music of my Mind (Tamala) LP
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book (Motown) LP
Various: Don’t Stop Recording Tap (Numero) LP