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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY AND DAVID WINGO
PRINCE AVALANCHE
Temporary Residence
TRR222 / TRR222LP
0656605322223 / 0656605322216
CD/LP
Explosions in the Sky og Ola Podridas David Wingo har gått sammen og
laget soundtracket til David Gordon Greens siste film, Prince Avalanche.
Filmens handling er satt til det øde landskapet i Texas’ Bastrop State
Park, og EITS og Wingos neddempede musikk kler dette perfekt.
Platen spiller også som et album og ikke som et tilfeldig samlet
knippe lydsnutter, og anbefales på det varmeste.
http://pitchfork.com/news/50823-explosions-in-the-skys-prince-avalanche-film-score-to-be-released-through-temporary-residence/
https://www.facebook.com/ExplosionsInTheSkyMusic
REVOCATION
REVOCATION
Relapse
RR7216-2 / RR7216-1
0781676721627 / 0781676721610
CD/LP
Revocations forrige album, Chaos of Forms, plasserte seg på NRK Pyros
liste over topp ti-metalalbum i 2011 og nå er den selvtitulerte oppfølgeren
klar. Teknisk trash/death metal drevet av den strålende gitaristen Dave
Davidsons kompromissløse riffbriljanse.
“Some of the out-and-out technicality that Revocation are known for has
fallen away a little in pursuit of a more holistic, song-driven approach. It’s a
great move, making the high points feel even higher and allowing Davidson
the space to really stretch out in the solos.” 5/6 TRASH HITS
https://www.facebook.com/Revocation
THE LOVE LANGUAGE
RUBY RED
Merge
MRG436 / MRG436LP
0673855043623 / 0673855043616
CD/LP
Spector-orkestrering, Bacharach-pop, garasjerock og alt.country finner
sammen når The Love Language nå gir oss sitt tredje album, Ruby Red.
Primus motor Stuart McLamb har benyttet seg av et tyvetalls musikere
og med hjelp fra dem har han skapt sitt hittil beste album.
“This is the album that should have followed McLamb’s quaintly lo-fi
debut and ensuing tours, as the small army of collaborators brings his
pop music vision to life.” 7.5 PITCHFORK 7/10 UNCUT
https://www.facebook.com/thelovelanguage
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MEDICINE
TO THE HAPPY FEW
Captured Tracks
CT183CD / CT183LP
0817949018412 / 0817949018405
CD/LP
18 år etter oppløsningen er Medicine tilbake med et splitter nytt studioalbum.
Kjernetrioen i bandet, Beth Thompson, Brad Laner og Jim Goodall, er på plass,
og det er svært lite som tyder på at såpass mange år har gått.
”…shoegaze-indebted noise-pop that makes Medicine as welcome now
as they were in 1995” PITCHFORK
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/medicine-mn0000406589
CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS
ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE
Side One Dummy
SD1528 / SD1528-1
0603967152821 / 0603967152814
CD/LP
Foo Fighters-gitarist Chris Shiflett har samlet noen venner under navnet
The Dead Peasants, og sammen gir de oss deres coverversjoner av en
rekke honky tonk-klassikere originalt utført av folk som Waylon Jennings,
Buck Owens, Chet Atkins osv.
http://chrisshiflettmusic.com/
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS
Merge
MRG481 / MRG481LP
0673855048123 / 0673855048116
CD/LP
Reutgivelse av The Mountain Goats’ briljante 2002-utgivelse All Hail West Texas
som har vært utgått i en årrekke. Syv bonusspor er lagt til og det følger også med
et 1.800 ord langt essay hvor John Darnielle forteller detaljert om albumet og
prosessen med å spille det inn.
9.0 – Best New Reissue – PITCHFORK
https://www.facebook.com/pages/the-Mountain-Goats/17314008126
JERRY LEE LEWIS
SOUTHERN ROOTS – THE ORIGINAL SESSIONS
Bear Family
BCD17312 / BAF218011
5397102173127 / 5397102180118
2CD/2LP
Southern Roots var Jerry Lee Lewis siste store utgivelse (før han igjen gjorde et
brukbart comeback i 2006) og over dobbel CD og dobbel LP (begge av deluxe-typen
selvsagt) får vi her albumet samt en rekke outtakes hvor Jerry og den
notoriske produsenten Huey Meaux utfolder seg.
“I knew Jerry and I would fight, but in the end we’d come out with the record.
We fought, but we delivered.” HUEY MEAUX
http://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-roots-mw0000838506
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DUMB NUMBERS
DUMB NUMBERS
Joyful Noise
JNR115CD / JNR115LP
0656605482729 / 0656605482712
CD/LP
Australske Adam Harding har alliert seg med et stjernelag av folk på debuten sin,
Lou Barlow, Dale Crover, Murph, Bobb Bruno fra Best Coast m.fl., og tatt navnet
Dumb Numbers. Sammen gir de oss feedback-dynket pop av beste sort.
David Lynch står for coverdesignet.
https://www.facebook.com/DumbNumbers
HUNX AND HIS PUNX
STREET PUNK
Hardly Art
HAR073CD / HAR073LP
0098787307320 / 0098787307313
CD/LP
Tidligere har det vært lyden av 60-tallet og girl groups som har preget Hunx og
hans Punx, men nå er fokuset flyttet over til punken, 80-talls hardcore, og
nordvestkystens riot grrrls.
https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/01-bad-skin/s-j8vuY
https://www.facebook.com/hunxandhispunx
MINKS
TIDES END
Captured Tracks
CT184CD / CT184LP
0817949018429 / 0817949018535
MINKS gir oss 80s-inspirert pop og er på mange måter sammenlignbare
med fantastiske Destroyer.
CD/LP
Sjekk ut albumet her: http://hypem.com/premiere/minks
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Minks/259918010706050
KENDL WINTER AND THE SUMMER GOLD
IT CAN BE DONE!
K Records
K248 / KLP248LP
0789856124824 / 0789856124817
Old-time americana/bluegrass drevet av banjo og Kendl Winters
hjemsøkende vokal på Calvin Johnson-produserte It Can Be Done!.
CD/LP
https://www.facebook.com/KendlWinter
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KEN CAMDEN
SPACE MIRROR
Kranky
KRANK180 / KRANK180LP
0796441818020 / 0796441818013
Ken Camden, kjent fra Implodes, med soloalbum nummer to for Kranky.
Eterisk space-kraut inspirert av romferder og Karlheinz Stockhausen.
CD/LP
http://vimeo.com/69926044
ALL PIGS MUST DIE
NOTHING VIOLATES THIS NATURE
Southern Lord
LORD177
0808720017724
All Pigs Must Die består av medlemmer av Converge, The Hope Conspiracy
og Bloodhorse, og gir oss her sitt andre album, Nothing Violates This Nature.
Lytt til platen her:
CD
http://www.terrorizer.com/news/streams/all-pigs-must-die-stream-nothing-violates-this-nature-with-terrorizer/
https://www.facebook.com/apmdband
CENTURIES
TAEDIUM VITAE
Southern Lord
LORD178
0808720017823
Mørk, eksplosiv hardcore sammenlignbar med band som Baptists og Nails
fra Centuries på Taedium Vitae.
CD
8/10 METAL HAMMER
http://centuriessl.bandcamp.com/releases
DEAD IN THE DIRT
THE BLIND HOLE
Southern Lord
LORD176 / LORD176LP
0808720017625 / 0808720017618
Politisk ladet grindcore på CD og LP fra Atlanta-trioen Dead in the Dirt
på The Blind Hole.
CD/LP
https://www.facebook.com/deadinthedirt
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POP 1280
IMPS OF PERVERSION
Sacred Bones
SBR104CD / SBR104LP
0616892138044 / 0616892138143
Industriell synth-punk på album to for Sacred Bones fra NYC-kvartetten Pop 1280.
Albumet er produsert av Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Bill Laswell).
CD/LP
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pop-1280/128064077225181
BLONDES
SWISHER
RVNG Intl
RVNG021CD / RVNG021LP
0610079237131 / 0610079231245
CD og dobbel LP som gir oss Blondes nye album, Swisher.
Minimalistisk, men melodisk techno.
CD/2LP
http://youtu.be/1IK61nxWWBY
https://www.facebook.com/blondesblondes
MONTAG
PHASES
Carpark
CAK85LP
0677517008517
LP som samler Montags tolv singler fra 2012. Krautrock/synth med
gjesteopptreden fra Au Revoir Simones Erika Spring.
LP
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/montag-mn0000662329
WYMOND MILES
PASSION PLAYS
Sacred Bones
SBR108LP
0616892139249
Ny sjuer fra The Fresh & Onlys-sjef Wymond Miles med den nye låta
Passion Plays på A-siden og en cover av The Terminals’ Batwing på B-siden.
7”
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wymond-miles-mn0001919770/biography
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THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT
LIVE AT THE FILLMORE
Yep Roc
YEP2264
0634457226425
The Reverend Horton Heat live fra legendariske Fillmore Theater
i San Francisco i 2010.
CD
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-reverend-horton-heat-mn0000462110
ISIS
CELESTIAL
Ipecac
IPC145
0689230014522
Remastret utgave av Isis-debuten Celestial fra 2001.
CD
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/isis-mn0000108468
BIRD NEST ROYS
COMPILATION
Flying Nun / Captured Tracks
FNCT005LP
0817949018351
Komplett Bird Nest Roys på dobbel LP pakket i et flott gatefold-cover.
2LP
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bird-nest-roys-mn0001283469
THE CLEAN
VEHICLE
Flying Nun / Captured Tracks
FNCT004LP
0817949018252
2LP
Dobbel LP som gir oss The Cleans debutalbum, Vehicle, på disk 1 og bandet live
fra Fulham i 1988 på disk 2. Omfattende hefte med dyptpløyende liner notes,
sjeldne bilder osv.
8/10 UNCUT
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-clean-mn0000073421
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THE INNOCENTS
CLASSIC – THE REPRISE, DECCA WARNER AND A&M RECORDINGS
Ace
CDLUX011
CD
0029667055826
CD i begrenset opplag på 1.500 eksemplarer som gir oss The Innocents komplette
innspillinger for Reprise, Decca Warner og A&M, 28 spor i alt.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-innocents-mn0000072721
DIVERSE ARTISTER
FOXY R&B – RICHARD STAMZ CHICAGO BLUES
Ace
CDCHD1375
CD
0029667055222
Richard Stamz var en fargerik soul- og R&B-DJ i Chicago på 50- og 60-tallet og han drev også
egen etikett, Paso Records. Her en samling med utvalgte Stamz-anbefalte bluesperler.
DIVERSE ARTISTER
BEATING THE PETRILLO BAN – THE LATE DECEMBER 1947 MODERN SESSIONS
Ace
CDTOP21373
2CD
0029667055420
Dobbel CD med spor som ble spilt inn for Modern-etiketten sent i desember 1947, rett før den såkalte
Petrillo ban-en slo inn 1. januar 1948. 49 spor i alt med alt av Moderns største navn på den tiden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Records
DAVID PORTER
GRITTY, GROOVY & GETTIN’ IT
Stax
CDSXD142
CD
0029667055628
David Porter var en halvdel av det legendariske låtskriverteamet Porter/Hayes (Soul Man,
Hold On, I’m Coming osv), og i likhet med Isaac Hayes fikk Porter sine soloalbum gitt ut av Stax.
Her hans første, Gritty, Groovy & Gettin’ It i utvidet utgave med bonusspor.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-porter-mn0000812144
THE STAPLE SINGERS
THIS TIME AROUND
Stax
CDSXE139
CD
0029667055321
Mid-price-reutgivelse av The Staple Singers 1981-album This Time Around.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-staple-singers-mn0000577235
BETTYE CRUTCHER
LONG AS YOU LOVE ME
Stax
CDSXD141
CD
0029667050920
Bettye Crutcher var en av de mest suksessrike låtskriverne tilknyttet Stax, men fikk også sitt
eget album i 1974, rett før Stax la ned driften. Her i utvidet utgave med seks bonusspor.
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DARRELL BANKS
THE COMPLETE VOLT RECORDINGS
Kent Soul
CDKEND402
CD
0029667240222
Darrell Banks karriere endte brått da han ble skutt og døde i 1970. Han rakk dog å spille inn et album
og demoer til et annet for Stax/Volt før han døde. Her er hans komplette innspillinger for etiketten.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/darrell-banks-mn0000565727/biography
THE RIOT SQUAD
THE TOY SOLDIER EP
Acid Jazz
AJX329S
7”
0676499032978
David Bowie var i en kort periode i 1967 med i The Riot Squad og på denne sjutommeren
får vi fire spor hvor den senere superstjernen bidrar med sin lett gjenkjennelige vokal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riot_Squad
THE JAMES HUNTER SIX
MINUTE BY MINUTE
Daptone
DAP303
LP
0823134030312
Soul/RnB på LP fra britiske James Hunter som på Minute by Minute har alliert seg med Daptones
Gabriel Roth. Bandet spiller på Notodden bluesfestival 2. august som support for Van Morrison.
“This is inarguably his finest album.” 4.5/5 ALLMUSIC
http://www.jameshuntermusic.com/
JOHN DOE
A YEAR IN THE WILDERNESS
Yep Roc
YEP2141LP
LP
0634457214118
LP-utgave av John Does A Year in the Wilderness fra 2007.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-doe-mn0000183430
PLEASURE
FUTURE NOW
Beat Goes Public
CDBGPM256
CD
0029667525626
Pleasures 1979-album Future Now i ny utgave. Disco/quiet storm.
“Without question, Future Now is among Pleasure’s most essential albums.” 4/5 ALLMUSIC
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pleasure-mn0000346873
ULTRAISTA
REMIXES
Temporary Residence
TRR228LP
2LP
0656605322810
Dobbel LP hvor Ultraista (Nigel Godrich og Joey Waronker) er remikset av bl.a. Four Tet,
David Lynch, Prefuse 73, Zero 7 med flere. Begrenset opplag på 2.000 eksemplarer.
http://www.ultraista.co.uk
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FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
barbarossa
bloodlines
Memphis Industries
MI0272CD / MI0272LP
5060146094092 / 5060146094115
CD/LP
There were plenty of reasons for Londoner James Mathé to simply keep course after the release
of his well received debut album, Chemical Campfires in 2008 on Fence Records: a flourishing reputation as
one of Britain’s most exciting acoustic troubadours, a prominent spot in Johnny Flynn and Jose Gonzales’
backing bands, the roar of applause from the audience at a sold-out show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom
still ringing in his ears. But Mathé had other ideas. “I loved the acoustic scene, but knew it was not all I was
about,” he remembers. “So I dug out all my old Casiotone keyboards, drum machines and analogue synths
and just started writing.”
Bloodlines, then, is a compelling reinvention and sees Mathé’s emotive missives from young adulthood rewired into elegiac electronic anthems, dusted with huge spectral gasps of reverb and soul-wrenching
organ melodies. Unusually for such an electronic album, it was recorded on vintage analogue gear and
straight to tape. “I really fancied getting back to basics,” says Mathé “I was tired of trying to iron out all the
mistakes in modern production. I wanted to record live to tape, keeping all the mistakes in, warts and all.”
From the sultry ache of opener Bloodline – a nod to Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy
“about not picking up the bad habits of the generation before you”, says Mathé – to the Pharrell Williamsinspired urban crunch of ‘Turbine’, all the way to ‘The Load’, written when Mathé was indulging in his love of
Jurassic 5 era 90s hip hop, Bloodlines is a brilliantly varied listen that pulls and paws at your heartstrings.
If there’s a gloriously loose, tenebrous feel to songs like the blue-eyed electro-soul ‘Pagliacco’, it might have
something to do with the Londoner’s organic approach to song writing. “I just sit down with my dictaphone
and make sense of what comes out afterwards. The best stuff usually comes when I’m hungover or not really thinking. The minute I try to be clever with words, it just sounds shit,” Mathé laughs. Instead, the album’s
lyrics burn with a simple, poignant immediacy and Mathé sings them with touching, soulful grace.
Recently signed to iconic London label Memphis Industries (Field Music, POLIÇA, The Go!
Team, Dutch Uncles), Mathé is influenced by everything from soul men Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo and
Levon Helm to Dirty Projectors and Sufjan Stevens. Tender yet triumphant, Bloodlines marks Mathé as
one of Britain’s most versatile and adventurous artists. Following support slots with Junip and label mates
POLIÇA, Barbarossa will be performing live across the summer including festival slots at Glastonbury and
Bestival.
Tracklist:
1. Bloodline
2. Turbine
3. Butterfly Plague
4. Pagliaccio
5. S.I.H.F.F.Y.
6. Battles
7. The Load
8. Saviour Self
9. The Endgame
10. Seeds
FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
SUPERCHUNK
I HATE MUSIC
Merge
MRG480 / MRG480LP / MRG480DLX
0673855048024 / 0673855048017 / 0673855048000
CD/LP
Superchunk will release I Hate Music, their tenth studio album, on August 16.
The band has also announced tour dates throughout the late summer and fall.
Tracklist:
1. Overflows
2. Me & You & Jackie Mittoo
3. Void
4. Staying Home
5. Low F
6. Trees of Barcelona
7. Breaking Down
8. Out of the Sun
9. Your Theme
10. FOH
11. What Can We Do
After taking nearly a decade off following the release of Here’s to Shutting Up, Mac, Laura,
Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with Majesty Shredding, an album
perfectly described by its own title. It’s a celebratory set of whoa-whoa-whoas from a
group so thrilled by making music together again that they can’t contain themselves.
The band’s forthcoming release, I Hate Music, is Majesty’s dark twin. It’s similarly aggressive—often moreso (see “Staying Home”)—and every bit as energetic. It reflects the joys
of a life spent immersed in music (“Me & You & Jackie Mittoo,” “Trees of Barcelona”), but
there’s a dark undercurrent as well. That title isn’t tongue-in-cheek, but it’s really more a
question than a statement: When you’re 20, lazy co-workers and romantic missteps
number among your biggest worries; two decades later, life’s bigger questions knock
louder and louder, demanding answers.
I Hate Music is an album about love more than anything else: love of life, love of living, love
of people, and yeah, love of music. It defies its own title so completely and diligently that it
never even seems like a fair fight: There’s no pain this deep or yearning this severe without
the type of love earned over a lifetime. “I hate music – what is it worth? / Can’t bring anyone back to this earth” goes the first line in “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo.” That song and its
ten companions can’t relive the past or resurrect those lost, but they can keep them close
enough to see and hear and celebrate. It’s dark in here, but if we conjure the right words
and sounds, maybe we’ll find our way out.
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FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
NO AGE
AN OBJECT
Sub Pop
SPCD1041 / SP1041
CD/LP
0098787104127 / 0098787104110
Tracklist:
No Ground
I Won’t Be Your Generator
C’mon, Stimmung
Defected
An Impression
Lock Box
Running From A-Go-Go
My Hands, Birch and Steel
Circling With Dizzy
A Ceiling Dreams of A Floor
Commerce, Comment, Commence
With An Object, their fourth full-length album, No Age has forgone the straight and narrow route, landing
in a strange and unexpected place, feet planted in fresh, fertile soil. This new LP finds drummer/vocalist
Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string
bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, guitarist Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined,
rats’ nests. Lyrically Spunt challenges space, fracturing ideological forms and complacency, creating
a striking new perspective that reveals thematic preoccupations with structural ruptures and temporal
limits. As the title An Object suggests, these eleven tracks are meant to be grasped, not simply heard.
Whether in the fine grit of Randall’s sandpaper guitar scrapes on “Defector/ed,” or Spunt’s percussive
stomp and crack on “Circling with Dizzy” and “An Impression,” these are songs that pivot on the sheer
materiality of music-making, incorporating the process every step of the way. Still, this is hardly a work
of avant garde noise music. These songs are hummable, political, recognizably rooted in underground
rock, and informed by an understanding of sound as a material to be shaped, handled, and worked over.
It is an aesthetic in which the relationships between guitar, percussion, and vocals—as well
as those between rhythm and melody—become relationships between things.
These relationships are built into An Object at every level. In collaboration with friend and
Grammy-nominated designer Brian Roettinger (5 E.P.‘s, Nouns, Losing Feeling, Everything In
Between), the band prepared and assembled the physical packaging of An Object, including jackets, inserts, and labels, fusing the roles of manufacturer, artist, and musician into one. It is this
sense of the total work of art that underlines An Object as the culmination of two years of touring, writing, and performing, finding No Age moving into new terrain at the height of their powers.
An Object was recorded by longtime No Age collaborator Facundo Bermudez and No Age at
Gaucho’s Electronics in Los Angeles.
FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
ZOLA JESUS
VERSIONS
Sacred Bones
SBR102CD / SBR102LP
CD/LP
0616892138846 / 0616892138945
Tracklist:
Avalanche (Slow) Fall Back Hikikomori Run Me Out Seekir Sea Talk Night In Your Nature Collapse
CD Bonus Track- Avalanche**
On the heels of her Conatus world tour, Nika Roza Danilova was offered an opportunity
to perform at one of the most prestigious modern art museums in the world, NY’s Guggenheim. Rather than doing her standard electronic set she decided she wanted to work with
a classical composer who could arrange her songs for a quartet. She recruited legendary
industrial pioneer JG Thirlwell (Foetus) to do the arrangements who since his work as
Foetus, has been scoring and composing symphonic arrangements for a variety of projects
including currently scoring aDUlt swim’s Venture Brothers series. Thirlwell’s oeuvre runs
the gamut from orchestrations, big band, and cathartic noise-rock to abstract electronics,
sound sculpture, and chamber music, thus making him the perfect collaborator to help
realize Danilova’s vision. Danilova explains her intentions with this album, “Versions is
about the bone of the music; taking approximations from past records and turning them
inside out. With all framework exposed, the songs are given a new medium in which to
evolve and bloom into their own tiny worlds.” Removing the bulk of electronics from these
songs gives them the space to breath, thusly opening them up to be received by a much
wider audience who perhaps don’t haven’t previously ventured into the techno-pop/
industrial arena.
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FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
JULIANNA BARWICK
NEPENTHE
Dead Oceans
DOC069 / DOC069LP
0656605136929 / 0656605136912
CD/LP
Julianna Barwick’s art is equal parts force and beauty. Her music finds its motor in
significant events in her own life, but they are abstracted into a sense of sonic wonderment,
a radiance that you could say is her signature sound. That radiance has been taken to new
zeniths with Nepenthe, her third full-length album, which was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland,
in the dark cold days of February.
“Everything I was making was visceral – the record represents some serious emotional stuff,” she confirms, while at the same time she raves with enormous positivity about
the unique recording environment. Alex Somers (musician/producer of Sigur Rós, Jónsi,
Jónsi & Alex) invited her to Iceland in the first place. For Julianna, who was blown away at a
Sigur Rós show in 2002, it was a dream come true. “That was the fastest email I ever wrote:
“Yes!” Who would say no to that?” Somers produced and engineered the record and brought
in local Icelandic musicians who turned out to make crucial contributions: string ensemble
Amiina, guitarist Róbert Sturla Reynisson from Múm, and a choir of teenage girls.
Tracklist:
Offing
The Harbinger
One Half
Look Into Your Own Mind
Pyrrhic
Labyrinthine
Forever
Adventurer Of The Family
Crystal Lake
Waving To You
“[The Magic Place] has the feel of a modest classic of post-millennial ambient music, the kind of
record that sounds gorgeous and immersive on first listen and never loses its sparkle, whether
playing in the background or filling a room with its swells.” PITCHFORK, BEST NEW MUSIC
“[Barwick’s] ethereal multi-tracked harmonies have the devotional quality of gospel choirs, and
the oddball allure of Bjork or Yoko Ono. At times, watching Ms. Barwick’s set was like watching
someone give birth, in the magic-of-life sense…The music was dense and asphyxiating. The
end of each number came as a relief – the small pleasure of a chance to breathe between
the greater pleasures of not wanting to have to.” NEW YORK TIMES
FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
GOLDEN SUITS
GOLDEN SUITS
Yep Roc
YEP2340 / YEP2340LP
0634457234024 / 0634457234017
CD/LP
Golden Suits is the first solo project of Fred Nicolaus from the band Department of
Eagles (Fred Nicolaus and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear).
Tracklist:
1. Swimming in ‘99
2. Under Your Wing
3. I think You Would Have Been Mine
4. You Can’t Make Your Mind Up
5. Restaurant Song
6. Didn’t I Warn You
7. Wash It Away
8. Find A Way
9. Little One
10. Dearly Beloved
After co-writing many of the group’s best known songs, Nicolaus was inspired to write a solo
album after a strange year that saw him get chased out of an apartment by a rat infestation,
go through a painful breakup, travel to Germany to learn about his grandfather’s death
in WWII, go broke, and lose forty pounds. The result is a collection of ten songs that combine
nostalgia, sentimentality, skewed references to a book about suburban marriage in the 1950s,
personal confessions and abstract non-sequitors that take a shot at the sublime.
Musically, the songs follow the thread of Department of Eagles’ swervy take on classic
pop in the vein of Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Paul Simon, and Lennon and
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NYHETER 32 - 2013
FORHÅND 23. AUGUST
PURE BATHING CULTURE
MOON TIDES
Memphis Industries
MI0273CD / MI0273LP
5060146094122 / 5060146094139
CD/LP
It’s a rare and beautiful thing when a band emerges fully formed, but it makes perfect sense
in the case of guitarist Daniel Hindman and keyboardist Sarah Versprille’s Pure Bathing Culture.
Having backed folk rock revisionist Andy Cabic in Vetiver, the New Yorkers partnered up and moved
West in 2011, settling in Portland, Oregon. Building off their past experiences as musical collaborators, in a short time the duo have created a sound that is undeniably their own: soaring synths, chiming
keyboards, and shimmering electric guitars move in lockstep with bouncing drum machines. Sarah’s
crystalline voice floats on top of it all with divine purpose. It’s a sound that looks back momentarily for
inspiration -- Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, Cocteau Twins -- but then fixes its gaze firmly on the present.
Further developing the sound of their acclaimed four song, self-titled 2012 EP, at the start of
2013 they set out to record Moon Tides, their first full length album. Again, they chose to work with producer Richard Swift at his National Freedom studio in rural Cottage Grove, Oregon. Throughout 2012
Swift had called on the duo to help him with other studio projects (Versprille sings on Foxygen’s latest
LP and Hindman adds his sprawling guitar work to Damien Jurado’s excellent Marqopa) which only
helped to cement the threesome’s musical partnership.
Like the earlier sessions for the EP, they worked quickly in the studio and improvised parts
around the basic song structures that they’d carefully composed up in Portland. Dan explains, “Pretty
much all tracks (vocals and instruments) are all first or very early takes. Richard is kind of a stickler
about this and I actually don’t go in with a clean, pristine idea of what I’m going to play on guitar or any
other instrument for that matter, so there’s actually a lot of improvisation as far as performances in the
studio go.
”It’s this compassion and warmth in Pure Bathing Culture that set them apart. The music is
uplifting. It invites self-reflection. It never feels alienating. “Pendulum” is a perfect mid-tempo album opener that pulses and shines. Other standout tracks from the album -- “Dream The Dare”, “Twins”, “Scotty”
and “Golden Girl” -- are slices of reverb-drenched, soulful, danceable electropop, that musically and lyrically tap into an introspective worship of the natural and psychic mysteries that surround us. Pure Bathing
Culture’s debut album Moon Tides is optimistic modern music for souls who seek to explore the infinite.
Tracklist:
1. Pendulum
2. Dream The Dare
3. Evergreener
4. Twins
5. Only Lonely
6. Lovers
7. Scotty
8. Seven 2 One
9. Golden Girl
10. Temples of the Moon
FORHÅND 23. AUGUST
MANDOLIN ORANGE
THIS SIDE OF JORDAN
Yep Roc
YEP2338 / YEP2338LP
CD/LP
0634457233829 / 0634457233812
Tracklist:
1. House of Stone
2. Turtle Dove and the Crow
3. There Was a Time
4. The Runaround
5. Cavalry
6. Black Widow
7. The Doorman
8. Morphine Girl
9. Hey Adam
10. Waltz About Whiskey
11. Until the Last Light Fades
On Mandolin Orange’s third release, This Side Of Jordan, there’s a Lightnin’
Hopkins lyric, “If fate’s an old woodpecker then I’m an old chunk of wood.”
“I love the imagery that creates,” Andrew Marlin, the duo’s lyricist says, “You just picture
death as this woodpecker that just lands on your shoulder and starts chipping away at
you until there’s finally nothing left.” In 2011 around the release of Mandolin Orange’s
acclaimed Haste Make/ Hard Hearted Stranger, Marlin had a near fatal accident.
“It was scary,” Emily Frantz, the other half of the North Carolinian duo says, “But ultimately
it brought us together during a time when we needed a nudge in that direction.”
This Side Of Jordan is the story of that healing process, with tales of love and
loss, told honest and bare. The opener, ‘House of Stone,’ quietly fades in with the hush of
Frantz’s fiddle then Marlin’s guitar joins her, blooming. It’s a moment of beauty and a gentle
easing into the record that’s drenched deep in the old time music of Southern Appalachia.
Frantz explains of old time, “They’re simple songs that just anyone can play with anyone
they don’t know, but music is what they have in common. And I think that’s so much of
what we value in that kind of music.” That old time tradition brought Marlin and Frantz
together at a local jam in Chapel Hill in 2009.
Recorded at the Fideltorium in Kernersville, North Carolina with bassist Jeff
Crawford and a backing band, This Side Of Jordan still maintains Mandolin Orange’s
modest aesthetic. Marlin and Frantz have rambled through the dark and came out
together on This Side Of Jordan holding onto some promise, more confident than ever.
They’ve made simply structured songs with easy chords and humble harmonies.
These are the hymns that Mandolin Orange was meant to offer.
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NYHETER 32 - 2013
FORHÅND 30. AUGUST
volcano choir
repave
Jagjaguwar
JAG238 / JAG238LP
0656605223827 / 0656605223810
CD/2LP
http://youtu.be/dp127U0EJoI
Jagjaguwar is pleased to announce the second long-player from Wisconsin six-piece
ensemble Volcano Choir. Repave builds exponentially from the musical relationship
built on their 2009 debut,Unmap, and finds the band operating as a fully-realized unit,
crafting their new album together over the past three years at the Fall Creek, Wisconsin
studio, April Base. Tracklist:
1. Tiderays
2. Acetate
3. Comrade
4. Byegone
5. Alaskans
6. Dancepack
7. Keel
8. Almanac
Repave, out August 30th, was created by band members Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau,
Matthew Skemp, Daniel Spack, Justin Vernon, and Thomas Wincek.
https://www.facebook.com/volcanochoir
http://volcanochoir.com/
FORHÅND 30. AUGUST
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES
IDLE NO MORE
Merge
MRG486 / MRG486LP
0673855048628 / 0673855048611
CD/LP
It has been a lengthy hiatus, but we have finally finished our latest “masterpiece” and
named it after an incredible indigenous-rights movement that is happening right now called
Idle No More. I was born and raised in Montreal and spent a lot of time on the Kahnawake
Mohawk Indian reservation.
Tracklist:
1. Born to Die
2. Bite My Tongue
3. Thorn in Her Pride
4. Luckiest Man
5. Better Luck Next Time
6. Darkness
7. Pray for Lil
8. Bad Boy
9. So Wild
10. Yes I Can’t
11. I Got Made
12. Of Madness I Dream
Idle No More is probably the most refined piece of music we have made to date.
The songs are about the state of the world we live in today.
Originally, I was going to call the album Of Madness I Dream, but then I became very
enthused about the amazing work of the Idle No More movement. Everyone I asked had
never heard of it, so I contacted the leaders of the movement and, with their permission,
decided to rename the album Idle No More in hopes that it would increase the world’s
awareness of this miracle that is taking place for the indigenous peoples of the world.
If you are not familiar with Idle No More, look it up and GET INVOLVED!
It took a long time to make, but we are very proud and pleased to bring you this album.
I hope that the future will brighten up every time it is played. Ultimately, John and Yoko
were absolutely right: LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED!
Peace and Love,
King Bama Lama Khan
Emperor of RnB
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NYHETER 32 - 2013
FORHÅND 30. AUGUST
RICHARD BUCKNER
SURROUNDED
Merge
MRG499 / MRG499LP
0673855049922 / 0673855049915
CD/LP
Incident:
I packed up most of the familiar and brought in a few new sound dispensers and bearding effects
with certain re-enactors in mind. Restraints suggested surrender, though, so I sent the scraps
to a magician for repurposing.
Tracklist:
1. Surrounded
2. When You Tell Me How It Is
3. Beautiful Question
4. Foundation
5. Portrait
6. Mood
7. Go
8. Cut
9. Lean-To
Synopsis:
Part I. An insomniac waits, armed with redactions as
Part II. Morning arrives in a prosecuting funk with a pack of frequently-lost answers.
Part III. Silhouettes are staged in the recesses while the interrogator bears down.
Part IV. The subject is declared evanescent
Part V. and the sentence is reduced to a simmering loop.
Resume:
1964-1985:
Born to transients and miseducated in 30 locations.
1986-1993:
Exhaled on both coasts while failing to write.
1994:
Traipsed into the hamster wheel with a first release.
1995-2006:
Spun out, locked horns, drove around and remembered none of it.
2007-2010:
Tooled in indoor erosion and root rot for a silenced score.
2011-2012:
Took up avalanche-embracing.
2013:
Surrounded.
FORHÅND 30. AUGUST
THE DODOS
CARRIER
Polyvinyl
PRC265CD / PRC265LP
CD/LP
0644110026521 / 0644110026514
Tracklist:
1. Transformer
2. Substance
3. Confidence
4. Stranger
5. Relief
6. Holidays
7. Family
8. The Current
9. Destroyer
10. Death
11. The Ocean
Meric Long and Logan Kroeber recorded The Dodos new album, Carrier, in their
hometown of San Francisco. After guitarist Chris Reimer passed away in early 2012,
The Dodos reassessed everything about the band - in particular Long’s songwriting.
“Chris was a huge influence on the way I think about guitar, songwriting, and music in
general,” reveals Long. “Seeing how he could transform and shape sound with an electric
guitar inspired me to explore more tones and use those tones to begin writing a song.”
And so, when he began to formulate the tracks that would ultimately comprise Carrier,
Long employed two principles he inherited from Reimer: patience to let a song develop
and a judgment-free enthusiasm for sound.
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FORHÅND 20. SEPTEMBER
tony joe white
hoodoo
Yep Roc
YEP2348 / YEP2348LP
0634457234826 / 0634457234819
CD/LP
In just a few weeks, the heralded hit-maker and swamp-rocker Tony Joe White will enter
his seventh decade. After more than fifty years of playing music, handfuls of chart topping
singles, and collaborations with some of the most revered musicians of the century, White
is set to release a brand new album, Hoodoo, via Yep Roc.
Tracklist:
1) The Gift
2) Holed Up
3) Who You Gonna Hoodoo Now?
4) 9 Foot Sack
5) Alligator, Mississippi
6) The Flood
7) Storm Comin’
8) Gypsy Epilogue
9) Sweet Tooth
Hoodoo features autobiographical songs about his life growing up on farm and learning
the blues (“9 Foot Sack”), cautionary tales of rural Mississippi (“Alligator, Mississippi”), and
a tale of his trek homeward after the Nashville flood of 2010 (“The Flood”). Despite his
illustrious past, White feels no pressure to top himself. “There’s not a push nowhere,” he
concludes. “Maybe I’ll stop playing shows and making records when the songs quit coming
to me. But they still come to me. You see, I don’t work for a song-but once I get a hold of it
I don’t let go. I just keep writing, and when I do, I want to go out and play it for somebody.
It’s the songwriting that keeps me going.”
FORHÅND 20. SEPTEMBER
THE SADIES
INTERNAL SOUNDS
Yep Roc
YEP2353 / YEP2353LP
CD/LP
0634457235328 / 0634457235311
Tracklist:
1. Tiderays
2. Acetate
3. Comrade
4. Byegone
5. Alaskans
6. Dancepack
7. Keel
8. Almanac
Consisting of brothers Dallas and Travis Good, drummer Mike Belitsky and upright
bassist Sean Dean, The Sadies’ inspired culmination of psychedelia, country and western
and instrumental rock has made them the preeminent torchbearers of cosmic Canadiana
music. Internal Sounds was recorded in Toronto. Though Gary Louris was an integral
part in making the album, it was produced by Dallas Good. “There was a conscious effort
to deliver a finished product that wouldn’t suffer from a deadline or budget. We recorded
this record over a span of a year, in session for twenty plus days. By the end, we’d spent
every dime we had and used up every favour. There is usually a sense of immediacy to our
records, maybe because we make a lot of them. I didn’t want that this time” says Good.
This time, Peter J. Moore was enlisted to mix with The Sadies, a first for them. Internal
Sounds also welcomes Canadian legend Buffy Sainte-Marie who contributes her
haunting voice to the closing track “We Are Circling”.
The Sadies continue working to make a greater live show and better albums, integrity
intact. Internal Sounds is The Sadies continuing to grow, and getting better with each step
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