London based trio Teeth of the Sea return with their sixth release for Rocket Recordings. Their sound continues to evolve into new zones of psychedelic metal with atypical instrumentation that pleases with its challenges.
WRAITH is due out on February 22nd on both vinyl and CD. Pre-order with us now!
For your consideration... 50 favourite albums in alphabetical order. How many did you hear? Just asking.
01 Aaron Martin - Touch Dissolves
02 Alexander Tucker - Don't Look Away
03 Alva Noto - Unieqav
04 Amen Dunes - Freedom
05 Beak - >>>
06 Ben LaMar Gay – Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun
07 Big Red Machine: Big Red Machine
08 Bonny Doon - Longwave
09 Caroline Rose - Loner
10 Daniel Bachman - The Morning Star
11 Demdike Stare - Passion
12 Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
13 Ekin Fil - Maps
14 Ensemble 0 - ensemble 0 plays eight compositions and it lasts 38:36
15 Forth Wanderers - S/T
16 Gas- Rausch
17 Goldmund - Occasus
18 Haley Heynderickx: I Need to Start a Garden
19 Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
20 How to Dress Well - The Anteroom
21 IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
22 Jetstream Pony - Self-Destruct Reality
23 Joan of Arc - 1984
24 Low - Double Negative
25 Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
26 Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
27 M Geddes Gengras - Light Pipe
28 Necks - Body
29 Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
30 Nils Frahm - All Melody
31 Oneohtrix Point Never - Age of
32 Peel Dream Magazine - Modern Meta Physic
33 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - King Of Cowards
34 Preoccupations: New Material
35 Rival Consoles - Persona
36 Rosali - Trouble Anyway
37 Saintseneca - Pillar of Na
38 Serpentwithfeet - Soil
39 Shame - Songs of Praise
40 Snail Mail - Lush
41 Soccer Mommy - Clean
42 Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
43 Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
44 Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive
45 Suuns - Felt
46 Swearin' - Fall into the Sun
47 Tim Hecker - Konoyo
48 Tim Rutili & Craig Ross - 10 Seconds to Collapse
49 Uniform - The Long Walk
50 Yo La Tengo: There's A Riot Going On
After more than a decade, The Good, The Bad, and The Queen (Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong, and Tony Allen) return with a new album, Merrie Land, available November 16th!!
Just as there are certain records that continually sell year after year,
there are some titles that are continually either just under the radar
of popularity, or maybe just need a bit of a highlight to remind you
they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
going to build a list of one hundred titles, all currently in stock,
that we think you should lend an ear to.
Jeremy Jay - Dream Diary (K Records, 2011) // Used Vinyl
A West Coast American transplanted to the UK, Jeremy Jay makes music that lives in the zone that also features the likes of Mac DeMarco, Jonathan Richman, and bedroom recorded versions of The Smiths or The Cure. If you like a bit of foppishness in your dreamy pop... and in this case you really should... then this is the record for you!
Just as there are certain records that continually sell year after year,
there are some titles that are continually either just under the radar
of popularity, or maybe just need a bit of a highlight to remind you
they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
going to build a list of one hundred titles, all currently in stock,
that we think you should lend an ear to.
Zak Riles - S/T (Important, 2008) // Used CD
Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Zak Riles spends the bulk of his time in post-rock / post- world group Grails. For this first and only solo disc he focuses on the acoustic guitar, backed at turns by a full band, playing a kind of modal, Middle Eastern inflected folk that crosses the territory between everything from OM to John Fahey to Sandy Bull to Popul Vuh, and more. With it moods from jubilation to paranoia to melancholy peek though, sometime from bar to bar.
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they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
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Tape - Milieu Plus (Hapna, 2008 /// Used CD
Swedish trio, brothers Andreas and Johan Berthling plus Tomas Hallonsten create a music that is as difficult to categorize as it is easy to enjoy. Taking acoustic folk instrumentation and applying a gentle free form jazz approach along with some electronic connective tissue, the results are a pastoral and multiply detailed music that sound superficially easy and familiar but hides volumes of information beneath.
Just as there are certain records that continually sell year after year,
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they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
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Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night of Your Ascension (Thrill Jockey, 2015)// New Vinyl
If you like your metal a little more expansive then J.R. Robinson's collaborative project is the perfect place to put your listening. Occupying similar territory to groups like Sunn O))), for Night of Your Ascension Robinson welcomed help from The Body, Mary Lattimore, members of Einsturzende Neubaten, Corrections House, Cave, Indian and many more. The album features two extended tracks that are equal part beautiful and terrifying and definitely epic.
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they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
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that we think you should lend an ear to.
Gold Sparkle Band - Fugues & Flowers (Squealer, 2002) // Used CD
Brooklyn, NYC based quartet/quintet that had a decade long run from
early 90s to early 00s. They play a heady mix of free and post-bop jazz
that combines firey horn interplay and a propulsive rhythm section that
draws upon 70s Miles Davis minimalist beats. It's great driving jazz.
Couldn't
find a clip online from this album, but the one below is a fine
representation of the band and what you can expect here.
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Victor Herrero - Astrolabio (Feeding Tube, 2017) // New Vinyl
Known for his work with Josephine Foster, also his wife, Herrero presents a lovely work on Portuguese guitar... a resonant 12 string instrument that has the folk appeal of John Fahey or Robbie Basho, but with a tinge of Mediterranean flavour. Very summery, sprightly, fun.
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Helado Negro - Awe Owe (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) // Used CD
Debut album by Roberto Carlos Lange, formerly known for his contributions to Guillermo Scott Herren's (Prefuse 73) Savath & Savalas side project. Helado Negro (or "Black Ice Cream") blends bedroom electronics with a cool Spanish vibe that's great for easy listens or mellow party situations. There's quite a lengthy discography, but this is the first and one of the best.
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Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife (Drag City, 1996) // Used CD
Third of four albums from the Chicago group helmed by David Grubbs and
Jim O'Rourke. Gastr Del Sol produced music that had tendrils in
progressive minimalism, American folk, musique concrete, and a variety
of other genres, some of them more or less concocted by the band itself.
Upgrade is the most finely balanced of their works, swinging widely
into all sectors yet creating a compelling whole.
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This is a band that happens when a couple of Dutch dudes, Brendon Anderegg, Koen Holtkamp, meet up in Brooklyn and decide to get all glowy with it, form a label (Apestaartje Records... apestaartje being the Dutch word for "at" or "@") and move to Chicago, eventually signing with Thrill Jockey. Over the course of seven records they've create a body of beautiful work that is meditative and pastoral and sometimes stands as tall as their name implies.
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Mountain Movers - S/T (Trouble in Mind, 2017) // New Vinyl
Straight outta Connecticut, Mountain Movers has spend a little more than a decade honing their spacey magic around the songs of Dan Greene. This self-titled sixth album answers the question, what if War on Drugs had veered into the lane plowed by a speculatively prog rock inspired Black Sabbath than the actual Dire Straits one. Hypnotic and muscular, but with a little folk twang lurking just under the surface. Stoner rock for the lower grade users.
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RickWhiteAlbum - Memoreaper (Blue Fog, 2007) // New CD
After the dissolution of Eric's Trip, Rick White formed Elevator aka Elevator to Hell aka Elevator Through for a string of releases that combined DIY indie rock with a leaning towards psychedelic and new wave. Eventually recording under this own name (kinda) White put out two solo albums, the second (and last output for over 10 years now) is Memoreaper. A fourteen song cycle that feels a bit like a summation of his many moods and means over the years. Currently out of print, as is most Eric's Trip / Elevator / etc. stuff, we have a sealed CD copy still lingering on the shelf for some reason. Come take it away.
On Rock Island, their second LP, Palm produces evidence of a distinct
musical language, developed over time, in isolation, and out of
necessity. On the island, melodies are struck on what might be shells or
spines. Rhythms are scratched out, swept over, scratched again.
Individual instruments, and sometimes entire sections, skip and stutter.
There is the sense of a music box with wonky tension or a warped
transmission in which all the noise is taken for signal.
Out February 9 on Carpark // Recommended if you need an Animal Collective fix.
Like his breakthrough 2015 solo album We Cool? and its 2016 follow-up, WORRY., POST-
is packed with hooky pop-punk jams that beg for singalongs and fray at
the edges. According to Rosenstock, it was recorded with friends in
secret, and finished just before it was released. You can hear all of
that in these songs, which crackle with urgency and fun. POST-
feels less like an album and more like a document of tightly knit people
working hard to make something that feels cathartic and good. —Ben Salmon // PASTE
Though the deceptively complex pop of Quit the Curse marks the debut of Anna Burch,
it’s anything but the green first steps of a fledgling new artist. The
Detroit singer/songwriter has been visible for the better part of her
years-long career singing in Frontier Ruckus, or more recently co-fronting Failed Flowers, but somewhere along the way a vibrant collection of solo material slowly began taking form.
[Backstreet nerd note: the little bit of Liz Phair we hear in Burch's delivery makes us smile]
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there are some titles that are continually either just under the radar
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they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are
going to build a list of one hundred titles, all currently in stock,
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Eleanor Friedberger - New View (French Kiss, 2016) // New Vinyl
Eleanor Friedberger was half of the brother / sister (with occasional appearances by grandmother) group Fiery Furnaces. That band's outfit was prone to, shall we say, fits of fancy? At the very least they were an acquired taste with a few albums that really merit your time and energy. As a solo artist Friedberger still has some idiosyncracies, but her focus is tighter and her way around a song that seems to have fingerprints from every decade and genre from 60s pop to current experimental rock is indisputable. This third solo effort proves her staying power.
Following a few Bandcamp releases, Soccer Mommy, aka 20 year old Nashville musician Sophie Allison and her band, are releasing their debut album, Clean, out March 2 via Fat Possum.
Ireland's Brigid Mae Power returns with a new album, 'The Two Worlds'. The album will be released worldwide in all formats February 9th, 2018 on San Francisco's Tompkins Square label.
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