Second Chances

Twenty titles in our Used CD New Arrivals that should be in your collection (If they aren't already)

1.  Angels of Light - We Are Him
2. Animal Collective - Spirit They've Gone (2CD) 
3. Arcade Fire - Suburbs
4. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
5. Calexico - Carried to Dust
6. Caribou - Andorra 
7. Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
8. Eels - Beautiful Freak
9. Mercury Rev - Deserters Song
10. The National - Alligator
11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 
12. Ramones - Rocket to Russia
13. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
14. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
15. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
16. Turbonegro - Ass Cobra
17. Volcano Choir - Unmap 
18. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
19. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
20. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

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enjoy this 17 track mix of the picks:

Via Deezer

July Vinyl of the Month Peacers

This month we turn our attention to the Drag City label for a debut album from Mike Donovan whose previous band, Sic Alps, called it a day a couple of years ago. Like Sic Alps, Peacers tread the fuzzy areas, both literally and figurately, of psychedelic rock. Produced and featuring contributions from wunderkind Ty Segall... this is a great leaping on point to see if the new garage psych world is for you.

June Vinyl of the Month: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

The early discography of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has been seeing a gradual reissue since late last year. This month one of the crown jewels gets a new vinyl lease on life: The Boatman's Call, originally released in 1997, is perhaps a little more of simmer than the full boil of the previous year's Murder Ballads, but in its restraint it reveals a depth to Cave that was only hinted at earlier.

In a canon of songs that values manic storytelling and character studies, this quieter piano-driven affair may be the closest thing to a personal-slash-breakup album that Cave has recorded (with PJ Harvey being the purported muse for several of the songs). Atypical though it may be, it still serves a gentle entry point into the world of Bad Seeds and Birthday Parties and Grindermen that Cave has associated with for over 30 years now.