Well, if you haven’t already got the dads in your world a stack of records, what are you waiting for? You’ve got a few days left and we’ve got loads of killer wax to make that special dad’s day. If you aren’t sure what to get him, we have gift certificates.. give him some Listen money and an hour or two to come down and browse for somethings for himself.
…..pick of the week…..
Loren Connors: Evangeline (Recital) LP
Recital present the first-time vinyl issue of Loren Connors’s Evangeline, originally released as a limited CD in 1998. Evangeline finds Connors working in a narrative structure. This album trails the story of Evangeline, the heroine of an epic-poem written in 1847. Loren’s guitar tone follows the weary landscapes and mournful souls of the characters. Thematically, Evangeline falls in line with the other romantic Connors LPs Recital has published, Airs (2015) and Lullaby (2016), though with a defining arc in direction. Parallel guitar preludes begin this collection, leading to distant ballads in spheres of reverb. Suzanne Langille softly singing on the first track sets this album as a child’s fable. As longing, clouded in dreams of loss and devotion. Includes an 8.5″x11″ insert: a story written by Suzanne Langille based on the epic poem, Evangeline; Includes restored audio and new artwork by Loren Connors; Remastered for vinyl by Sean McCann; Edition of 500.
File Under: Guitar, Ambient, Blues
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Cathrine Ribeiro + Alpes: Paix (Philips) LP
First-time legit vinyl reissue! Born from the tumult of the ’68 riots in France, Ribeiro + Alpes defined a uniquely Gallic take on the progressive psychedelia of the time. This is ecstatic music fusing European medieval traditions with the contemporary free jazz of the era. Ribeiro, with her confrontational and surrealistic poetry, along with Patrice Moullet’s invented instruments, defined a genre unto themselves and created some of the most original music of the early ’70s with these two masterpieces. Paix, released in 1972, is considered Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes’s masterpiece and rightfully so! The album marked a change in the musical direction of the band, evolving into a more cosmic sound achieved by way of much improvised propulsive energy. Paix floats, shrouded by a strong, uniquely medieval, Gallic folk influence. Composed mainly of two expansive suits, Paix delivers a unique amalgam of progressive, spacey instrumentals (due largely to Moullet’s homemade instruments: percuphone, cosmophone, and orgolia) standing in sharp contrast to Ribeiro’s severe yet hypnotic vocals, both seemingly informed by the same shadowy depths of feeling. It is on Paix that this collaboration reached its summit, producing some of Ribeiro and Moullet’s most haunting and passionate work. A landmark album FINALLY reissued on its original format. Included on the legendary NWW list. Remastered sound.
File Under: French, Prog, Psych
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…..new arrivals…..
Arcadea: s/t (Relapse) LP
Five billion years after the last great extinction, the galaxy Andromeda spins headlong into the Milky Way with three intergalactic travelers in tow. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor (Mastodon), guitarist/keyboardist Core Atoms (Zruda, Gaylord) and keyboardist/guitarist Raheem Amlani (Withered, Scarab) are said pioneers, the space wizards of psychedelic soundscapes where organic drums collide with synthetic keys to create an infinite transmission from an event horizon. They go by Arcadea and their otherworldly brand of psyche-electric, synth-driven, metallic madness sounds alien yet somehow familiar. Arcadea’s visionary, self-produced, self-titled debut was mastered by Colin Leonard (Mastodon) and features stunning cover art from renowned sci-fi fantasy artist Essy May.
File Under: Electronic, Mastodon
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Big Star: The Best of Big Star (Fantasy) LP
If the short-lived but fondly remembered Big Star could have experienced popular success in direct proportion to its posthumous influence, the rangy Memphis rock quartet would have lived up to its ambitious name, and then some. With the possible exception of the Velvet Underground, no other underground pop band has left such a lasting and indelible legacy. Taking the gritty soul of Memphis rhythm and blues and fusing it with the artful melodies and vocal harmonies of British power pop, and injecting it all with a flailing, pre-punk, garage-band energy, Big Star created a unique sound with a potentially universal appeal. This new ‘Best Of’ compilation celebrates the founding fathers of power pop with 16 tracks spanning all three of their LPs (1972’s #1 Record, 1974’s Radio City and Third, released after the group disbanded). Includes rare single versions of some of their most popular songs, plus new liner notes.
File Under: Rock, Power Pop
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David Bowie: Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars/Hunky Dory (Parlophone) LP
Two very strictly limited edition gold vinyl retail exclusive albums, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Hunky Dory. The albums are being released via Parlophone on 16th June 2017, the 45th anniversary of the original release of Bowie’s classic 1972 Ziggy Stardust album. They will only be available as a strictly limited edition one-off run in ‘bricks and mortar’ stores and their online storefronts, but will not be available from online only retailers.
File Under: Rock
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Com Truise: Iteration (Ghostly) LP
Six years after Galactic Melt introduced the cosmic story of Com Truise, Iteration now concludes his sprawling saga. True to its name, the album is built on Com Truise hallmarks: neon-streaked melodies, big drums, robotic grooves, bleary nostalgia. But Iteration is also the most elegant and streamlined that Haley’s singular music has ever sounded. At the album’s heart is an elaborate narrative, one full of longing, hope, anxiety, and triumph. Iteration illustrates the last moments Com Truise spends on the perilous planet Wave 1, before he and his alien love escape its clutches to live in peace. “…Of Your Fake Dimension” launches the interstellar drama with its anthemic swells and widescreen sound design, before lovesick songs like “Dryswch” and “Propagation” outline scenes wrought with cybernetic pathos. Later, the frantic rhythms of “Syrthio” conjure images of panicked flight as Haley’s gorgeous synth melodies gild the action in quiet heartbreak. Then comes the resounding “When Will You Find The Limit…,” when Iteration’s pain and sadness finds liberation in the vast unknown. The closing title track ends it all in a gush of majestic revelry. Some of Seth Haley’s smartest, catchiest work is here, from the weightless pop of “Isostasy” to “Ternary’s” lush synth-funk. A song like “Vacuume” somehow balances massive bass drops and smashing drums with angelic gasps, and “Usurper” gracefully pairs subtle poignancy and uplifting dance beats.
File Under: Electronic, Down Tempo
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Cowboy Junkies: The Trinity Sessions (Sony) LP
Cowboy Junkies recorded this spectacular LP as a “live” event on November 27, 1987 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto, Canada. It was recorded with a digital R-Dat and using only a Calrec Ambisonic Microphone. What this means is the record sounds like the band was playing right in front of you with the perfect ambiance. Yes, this is a digital recording, yet a recording this outstanding is more than worthy of the highest quality vinyl reissue. Featuring the sublime vocals of Margo Timmins and the meticulous backing of her brothers Peter (drums) and Michael (guitar) plus Alan Anton (bass), The Trinity Session is an unequivocal, economic country-rock classic. First released in late 1988, The Trinity Session was named “Album of the Year” by The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times described it as “a quiet, special record that challenges traditional music.” Rolling Stone declared the album to be “as important as it its inspiring.” Today, it remains much more than a snapshot of a single day’s work captured on tape. The church where the album was recorded was selected on the basis of work recording engineer Peter Moore had done there with other jazz and classical artists. Using a single Calrec Ambisonic microphone, the results are stunning.
File Under: Rock
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Danzig: Black Laden Crown (Nuclear Blast) LP
Following up his historic reunion with the classic Misfits lineup, Glenn Danzig and Co. return with the well crafted Black Laden Crown, the first Danzig album of all new material since 2010’s widely acclaimed Deth Red Sabaoth. Produced by Glenn Danzig, the dark and muscular 50-minute-long slab will be issued on Evilive Records/Nuclear Blast Entertainment and finds Danzig joined by guitarist Tommy Victor (Prong) and drummer John Kelly (Type O Negative). Danzig on how he channeled gloominess into Black Laden Crown: “It’s the times. You’re sitting back and watching people get their heads cut off, and you’re hearing stupid people say, ‘Oh, we’ll never see World War II again. We’ll never see this kind of persecution again.’ Then you hear about it in the Middle East, and no one’s doing anything about it. It’s so stupid and so hypocritical. I just want to say, ‘Shut the fuck up, you lying-ass motherfucker.'” Consequence of Sound notes that, “The vibe of Black Laden Crown can be gleaned by its song titles: “The Witching Hour”, “But a Nightmare”, “Blackness Falls”. The signature Danzig sound is omnipresent and consistent…his strength is his nuanced voice, his baritone and tenor as sultry as Jim Morrison’s and his charisma informed by Johnny Cash and Elvis.”
File Under: Metal
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Justin Townes Earle: Kids in the Street (New West) LP
Justin Townes Earle has signed to New West Records for the release of his new record Kids In The Street. The 12-song set was produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, First Aid Kit) at his ARC Studios, and is the first time in his career that Earle has worked with an outside producer. Kids In The Street marks a decade into Earle’s recording career and follows his acclaimed companion albums Single Mothers (2014) and Absent Fathers (2015). The deeply soulful set is both emotionally riveting and effortlessly uplifting. Now embracing sobriety, marriage, and impending fatherhood, Earle is enthusiastically looking to the future. “Life has changed a lot for me in the last few years,” Earle reflects. “I got married and am getting ready to become a father, and this is the first record that I’ve written since I’ve been married. There’s definitely an uplifting aspect to this record in a lot of ways, because I’m feeling pretty positive. When I wrote songs in the past, I was looking in on what I was feeling, but this record’s more about looking outward on what’s happening, and writing about subjects like gentrification and inner city strife. This record also has more of a soul influence to it, and it’s got a deeper connection to the blues than anything I’ve done before.” Several of the songs on Kids On The Street reference the lower-middle-class Nashville neighborhoods of Earle’s youth, which in recent years some say have lost their character to the creeping scourge of gentrification. Significantly, the album is the first of Earle’s not recorded in Nashville. “It’s the first time that I’ve worked outside of my usual umbrella of people to make a record,” Earle explains, adding “In Nashville, if you have the right connections, it’ll spoil the shit out of you, because you’ve got access to the best musicians in the world and the best studios in the world. If you had told me when I started making records, that I wasn’t gonna make every record in Nashville, I would have told you you were crazy. And if you’d told me that I’d end up making a record in Omaha, I’d tell you you were out of your freaking mind.”
File Under: Folk, Country
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Ennanga Vision: s/t (Soundway) LP
Deconstructed royal-court music from the forgotten kingdoms of the Buganda, reconstructed electronic wedding music, fluorescent pink African pop, crunched 8-bit drum machines and a 10-foot long monster xylophone are just a few of the many sounds of Ennanga Vision. This post-modern African soundtrack follows London producer Jesse Hackett’s heady musical journey into the heart of Uganda – recording with chief collaborator, multi instrumentalist and singer Albert Ssempeke and featuring assorted vocal legends from the north of the country. The music blends a fully electronic sensibility with unusual, hand-crafted, African one-string fiddles, a 200-year-old harp and an enormous, group-played xylophone. It mixes traditional Ugandan folk songs and modern pop forms into a new PLASTIC ORGANIC VISION. Hackett is influenced as much by the music of the African continent as he is by European electronic compositions and soundtrack scores. The sounds of hauntingly-dark vocoded vocals, crushed electronics, and poly-rhythmic drum machines sit alongside chiming African fiddles, rippling harps and children’s laughter. He is a member of Owiny Sigoma band having sung on and co-written a lot of their work spanning three albums. He is also touring keyboard player for the Gorillaz and has released records on Stones Throw, Honest Jon’s and DEEK Recordings, to name a few. Albert Ssempeke is the son of a prestigious royal court musician who played in the days of the old Buganda kingdom – one of more than twenty five musical siblings, Albert is simultaneously an educator, performer and preservationist of this intricate and complex traditional form of music. Here he plays over ten traditional Ugandan instruments including Amadinada (xylophone), Ngindidi (fiddle), Endongo (harp), Ennanga (flute) and many more.
File Under: African, Hip Hop
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Nashville Sound (Southeastern) LP
The Nashville Sound is the first official Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit album since 2011’s Here We Rest. The 400 Unit features Derry Deborja (keyboards), Chad Gamble (drums), Jimbo Hart (bass), Amanda Shires (fiddle) and Sadler Vaden (guitar). The Nashville Sound was recorded at Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio A and produced by Grammy Award-winner Dave Cobb, who also helmed Isbell’s Grammy-winning 2015 album Something More Than Free and his 2013 breakthrough Southeastern. “Lyrics and melody are still the driving force behind what we’re doing, but this time around, there’s more of a rock ‘n’ roll influence,” Isbell says. “You might shed some tears, but for once, there’s a chance you might also dance a little.”
File Under: Folk, Country
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Nicolas Jaar: Love You Gotta Lose Again (Double Standard) 10″
2017 repress, originally released in 2010. This is a special edition all-white 10″ by Nicolas Jaar. It all kicks off with “WOUH,” a time-stopping piece with sparse arrangements, quirky gulps of sound and electric ambiance in a complex tapestry of harmony. The anthemic “Love You Gotta Lose Again” moves into contrasting boundless activity with broken beats, triumphant singing and pleasant guitar licks. “Don’t Believe The Hype” retreats into mystique again — a cascading mass of body-moving sound, simmering with secrecy.
File Under: Electronic
Kevin Morby: City Music (Dead Oceans) LP
City Music is an airplane descending over frozen lakes into Chicago. City Music is riding the Q Train out to Coney Island to smell the ocean and a morning in Philadelphia where great cranes reconfigure the buildings like an endless puzzle. City Music is also the new album by Kevin Morby. Full of listless wanderlust, it’s a collection inspired by and devoted to the metropolitan experience across America and beyond by a songwriter cast from his own mold. It is a collection crafted using the other side of its creator’s brain, the jumping off point perhaps best once again encapsulated by an image. “Here, Lou Reed and Patti Smith stare out at the listener,” explains Morby. City Music sees Morby joined once again by cohorts Megan Duffy (guitar) and Justin Sullivan (drums). Here the vocals were recorded at night, in darkness, overlooking a Pacific Ocean illuminated only by the stars, the wash and whisper of the ebbing tidal a distant soundtrack. The record was completed with Richard Swift in Oregon (producer of Foxygen, sometime member of The Black Keys). Here the album gives voice to all those cities speaking the same universal language of chaos and commerce and culture. City Music is an airplane descending over frozen lakes into Chicago. City Music is riding the Q Train out to Coney Island to smell the ocean and a morning in Philadelphia where great cranes reconfigure the buildings like an endless puzzle. City Music is also the new album by Kevin Morby. Full of listless wanderlust, it’s a collection inspired by and devoted to the metropolitan experience across America and beyond by a songwriter cast from his own mold. It is a collection crafted using the other side of its creator’s brain, the jumping off point perhaps best once again encapsulated by an image. “Here, Lou Reed and Patti Smith stare out at the listener,” explains Morby. City Music sees Morby joined once again by cohorts Megan Duffy (guitar) and Justin Sullivan (drums). Here the vocals were recorded at night, in darkness, overlooking a Pacific Ocean illuminated only by the stars, the wash and whisper of the ebbing tidal a distant soundtrack. The record was completed with Richard Swift in Oregon (producer of Foxygen, sometime member of The Black Keys). Here the album gives voice to all those cities speaking the same universal language of chaos and commerce and culture.
File Under: Indie Rock
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Mutoid Man: War Moans (Sargent House) LP
Mutoid Man – the brainchild of Steve Brodsky (guitar, Cave In), Ben Koller (drums, Converge, All Pigs Must Die), and Nick Cageao (bass) – pushes metal’s villainous pageantry to vaudevillian levels. Initially meant to be an exercise in flexing the creative chops outside of the members’ other projects, debut EP Helium Head (2013) and critically-acclaimed debut album Bleeder (2015) confirmed that Mutoid Man is an imposing force regardless of their pedigree. On the band’s sophomore LP War Moans, Mutoid Man bask in their love of frantic, ferocious, no-frills metal; no riff deemed too extreme, no drum pattern considered too absurd. From the chugging bass line and guitar trills that kick off album opener “Melt Your Mind,” Mutoid Man sets a precedent of divine instrumentation and unholy riffs on War Moans. Mutoid Man have also recruited friends from all over the musical spectrum to join them here; “Irons in the Fire” finds Cave In compatriot Adam McGrath lending guitar heft to a megalith anthem, “Melt Your Mind” instantly recalls The Big Four, with thrash icon Marty Friedman further cementing the vibe by lending a blazing guitar solo, and grim folk luminary Chelsea Wolfe and her longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm lend vocals and auxiliary instrumentation to the goth-inflected “Wreck and Survive,” as well as the album’s harrowing closing track, “Bandages.”
File Under: Metal, Cave In, Converge
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OST: Trainspotting 2 (Polydor) LP
In tomorrow… Import LP pressing. Original soundtrack to the 2017 motion picture, the long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting. Includes a newly commissioned remix of Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’ (Prodigy Remix) along with two new cuts from Underworld – ‘Slow Slippy’ (a new take on the classic ‘Born Slippy’) and ‘Eventually But (Spud’s letter to Gail)’ that features Ewen Bremner. Other highlights include; Wolf Alice, Young Fathers and more.
File Under: OST
OST: Zombi 3 (Classic Version) (WRWTFWW) LP
We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records unleash the complete uncut soundtrack for Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei’s 1988 cult zombie-ploitation gem Zombi 3 (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, aka Sanguelia 2) for the first time ever on vinyl, available on two different collector’s edition vinyl, the “Classic Version” and the “Special Version”. This future deluxe edition OOP classic is packed with menacing synths, ghoulish melodies, and contaminated anthems, remastered directly from the rare original reels of maestro Stefano Mainetti. Zombi 3 is the (unrelated) sequel to Zombi 2 (1979), itself an unofficial sequel to George Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead (1978). This marvel of the VHS-era finds a group of super scientists working on a very secret biological weapon called Death One which mutates and kills living humans… and re-animates the dead. Feared by critics and beloved by vintage exploitation fanatics, Zombi 3 has all the charms of the glory days of Italian B-horror, including a fantastic soundtrack. Underrated composer and conductor Stefano Mainetti has done soundtracks for Italian sleaze masters Joe D’Amato and Bruno Mattei, but also for Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) and First Blood (1982) director Ted Kotcheff, and Russell Mulcahy of Razorback (1984) and Highlander (1986) fame. His resume includes 1988’s badass actioner Strike Commando 2 (aka Trappola Diabolica), exploitation horror flick from 1988 Ratman (aka Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco), and 1995’s The Shooter (aka Hidden Assassin) with the manly superstar Dolph Lundgren. Much like his Italian peers Fabio Frizzi, Claudio Simonetti, or Stelvio Cipriani, Stefano Mainetti can do it all: haunting synths à la John Carpenter, jazzy atmospheres, classical orchestrations, erotic funk, decadent FM rock, and the list goes on. His eclectic abilities and flair for ’80s cinematic moods are well represented in Zombi 3: The Soundtrack. The “Classic Version” comes on red-is-dead colored vinyl with a red Japanese Sanguelia 2 VHS obi; a helicopter is pictured on the back cover. Housed in a Stoughton Tip-On jacket; 180 gram vinyl; Edition of 400.
File Under: OST, Horror
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OST: Zombi 3 (WRWTFWW) LP
Green-inferno vinyl version. Special DJ Blue Heart version, with included skits/interludes from the movie. Heavy cardboard Stoughton Tip-On jacket; Green Japanese Sanguelia 2 VHS obi; 180 gram vinyl; Edition of 400. We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records unleash the complete uncut soundtrack for Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei’s 1988 cult zombie-ploitation gem Zombi 3 (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, aka Sanguelia 2) for the first time ever on vinyl, available on two different collector’s edition vinyl, the “Classic Version” and the “Special Version”. This future deluxe edition OOP classic is packed with menacing synths, ghoulish melodies, and contaminated anthems, remastered directly from the rare original reels of maestro Stefano Mainetti. Zombi 3 is the (unrelated) sequel to Zombi 2 (1979), itself an unofficial sequel to George Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead (1978). This marvel of the VHS-era finds a group of super scientists working on a very secret biological weapon called Death One which mutates and kills living humans… and re-animates the dead. Feared by critics and beloved by vintage exploitation fanatics, Zombi 3 has all the charms of the glory days of Italian B-horror, including a fantastic soundtrack. Underrated composer and conductor Stefano Mainetti has done soundtracks for Italian sleaze masters Joe D’Amato and Bruno Mattei, but also for Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) and First Blood (1982) director Ted Kotcheff, and Russell Mulcahy of Razorback (1984) and Highlander (1986) fame. His resume includes 1988’s badass actioner Strike Commando 2 (aka Trappola Diabolica), exploitation horror flick from 1988 Ratman (aka Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco), and 1995’s The Shooter (aka Hidden Assassin) with the manly superstar Dolph Lundgren. Much like his Italian peers Fabio Frizzi, Claudio Simonetti, or Stelvio Cipriani, Stefano Mainetti can do it all: haunting synths à la John Carpenter, jazzy atmospheres, classical orchestrations, erotic funk, decadent FM rock, and the list goes on. His eclectic abilities and flair for ’80s cinematic moods are well represented in Zombi 3: The Soundtrack.
File Under: OST, Horror
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Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark? (Warner) LP
After becoming the biggest breaking British rock band with their self-titled 2014 debut album, Royal Blood returns on Warner Bros. with their eagerly anticipated second album How Did We Get So Dark? In November 2016, vocalist/basist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher, along with producer Jolyon Thomas, spent six weeks in a studio in Brussels which featured a warehouse of antique gear. How Did We Get So Dark? was subsequently completed after a final session in London with their debut album’s co-producer Tom Dalgety. The album’s first single “Lights Out” ups the ante on their first outing with a wrecking ball of a groove cemented by Thatcher’s thunderous rhythms, while Kerr wrangles the twisted invention of his bass riffs to a whole new level. Their patented two-man artillery of carefully constructed melodic aggression is prevalent throughout, especially in “I Only Lie When I Love You,” which is a compelling cowbell-assisted reminder of the power of a stop-start riff and a strident chorus. There are times when Royal Blood are more visceral than ever – notably the gargantuan introduction to “Hook, Line and Sinker” and also the intense denouement that brings “Look Like You Know” to a close. While the album finds Royal Blood refining their melodic might, there are other moments that fulfill their aim to create songs that will add new dimensions to their live sets. Adorned with Kerr’s falsetto, “Don’t Tell” drops the intensity to mesmerizing effect, while “Where Are You Now?” pulsates with a bounding energy that’s quite a step apart from anything else in their catalogue. The Royal Blood palette is also expanded with the inclusion of harmony vocals – something that they didn’t use on their debut.
File Under: Rock
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Vanishing Twin: Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway) LP
Formed in 2015, Vanishing Twin came together to make an exploratory record that marries oblique English pop with a palette of arkestral sounds. Having previously released a string of conceptual cassettes under the name Orlando, founder Cathy Lucas named the group after her vanishing twin, an identical sister absorbed in utero, when they were both still a cluster of cells. Enlisting the help of producer Malcolm Catto (Heliocentrics, DJ Shadow, The Gaslamp Killer) the band began work at his London studio, Quatermass Sound Lab, last spring. Recording the basis for eight tracks, they blended structure and improvisation in pop songs that describe a personal mythology through the adventures of Lucas’ vanished twin. Drawing on sounds outside of the usual pop vocabulary, the group used forgotten drum machines, home-made electronics, vibraphones, tablas, and harp to invoke the esoteric psychedelia of lost soundtracks, radiophonic experiments and minimal music orchestras. In a studio that Catto built for maximum atmosphere and minimum interfere, and crammed with obscure vintage equipment, he brought his own distinctive sonics to the table, informed by outsider jazz, Italian library music and ethnographic field recordings. The band has previously been championed by the likes of Gilles Peterson and the Quietus. They played widely in 2015 presenting an immersive show that is equal parts crafted sound and improvised delirium. Vanishing Twin is made up of singer Cathy Lucas (Innerspace Orchestra), drummer Valentina Magaletti (Raime, Tomaga, Uuuu, Neon Neon), bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin, Floating Points), library music head Phil M.F.U. (Man From Uranus) on strange sounds, and film maker and visual artist Elliott Arndt on flute and percussion.
File Under: Psych, Indie Rock
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…..Restocks…..
Ryan Adams: Prisoner (Universal) LP
Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls (ATO) LP
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color (ATO) LP
Buena Vista Social Club: Lost & Found (World Circuit) LP
Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) LP
Chemical Brothers: Push the Button (Astralwerks) LP
Alice Coltrane: Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane (Luaka Bop) LP
Brian Eno: The Drop (All Saints) LP
Bill Evans: Waltz for Debbie (Jazz Images) LP
Ibrahim Ferrer: Buena Vista Social Club Presents…. (World Circuit) LP
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (Constellation) LP
Grateful Dead: Cornell 77 (Rhino) Box
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple) LP
Sharon Jones: Naturally (Daptone) LP
Sharon Jones: Soul Time (Daptone) LP
Sharon Jones: Give the People What They Want (Daptone) LP
July Talk: Touch (Sleepless) LP
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO) LP
Tim Maia: Nobody Can Live Forever (Luaka Bop) LP
OST: Bob’s Burgers (Sub Pop) LP
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) LP
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Pink Floyd) LP
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (Nonesuch) LP
Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to the Earth (Atlantic) LP
Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (Thirty Tigers) LP
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty) LP
Esperanza Spalding: Junjo (Ayva) LP
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In The Heart of the Moon (World Circuit) LP
Vanishing Twin: Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway) LP
Jack White: Lazaretto (Third Man) LP
Witch: Lazy Bones (Now Again) LP