Weve never had such a mammoth or exciting new release day as tomorrow. Thats 95 new titles! 95!!! Record Of The Week Various – Punk 45:Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! – Soul Jazz (Another essential compilation from Soul Jazz, Punk 45 charts the underground US punk movement between 73-80 and is a special super loud and super heavy pressing. This is meant as a companion piece to Jon Savage’s great sleeve art book (still in stock) and features tracks from The Urinals, Electric Eels, Pere Ubu, Theoretical Girls, The Zeros and many more. Volume 2 is due out next year, can’t wait) Gary War / Purple Pilgrims – Split LP – Upset The Rhythm (Limited 180gram Silver & Black vinyl) Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide – Gizeh Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett – Monster Mash – Rock Melon (Limited to 300 on splatter vinyl) Young Galaxy – Privileged Poor – 586 (Includes Factory Floor & Toy remixes) Ron Morelli – Spit – Hospital Productions (Superb LP from L.I.E.S boss Ron Morelli. Dark monotonous techno and industrial decay) The Stranger – Watching Dead Empires In Decay – Modern Love (Yet more dark urban noise, this time from James Kirby aka The Caretaker) Goblin – Roller – AMS (Goblins only studio album from 1976 on a great picture disc) Don Cavalli – Temperamental – Because Abstraxion – Moon – Hakt Records (Another Factory Floor remix) Johnny Coles – Little Johnny C – Blue Note Cybotron – Sunday Night At The Total Theatre – Dual Planet (Yes! Yes! Yes! The cover feature a bearded electronic wizard in a cape but the other reason to buy this record is the amazing Australian Kosmische which is within the grooves of this wonderful record. Cosmic) Johnny Griffin – Introducing – Blue Note Johnny Griffin – Congregation – Blue Note Jackie McLean – Swing, Swang, Swingin’ – Blue Note Ella Fitzgerald – Best Of The BBC Archives – BBC Ennio Morricone – 4 Mousche Di Velluto Grigio – AMS (Not seen Morricone’s score for Dario Argento’s Four Flies In Grey Velvet for ages) Piero Umiliani – 5 Bambole Per La Luna D’Agosto – AMS (Umiliani’s score for Mario Bava’s 5 Dolls For The August Moon) Cherry Five – S/T – AMS (Before Goblin there was Cherry Five, a prog classic from ’74) Muddy Waters – Electric Mud – Chess (Muddy Waters goes psych!) Akarma –Loads of great 180gram beauties from Akarma. May Blitz – S/T May Blitz – The Second Of May Ground Hogs – Thank Christ For The Bomb (One of our fave albums of all time!) Ground Hogs – Split Catapilla – S/T Catapilla – Changes Steamhammer – Reflection Coven – Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls Fuzzy Duck – S/T Dust – S/T Dust – Hard Attack Buffalo – Only Want Your For Your Body Tripsichord – S/T Gentle Giant – S/T Gentle Giant – Three Friends Cressida –S/T Ultimate Spinach – S/T Atomic Rooster – In Hearing Of Ben – S/T Various – Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batman – 1966 (16 different versions of the Batman theme recorded in 1966 and featuring bands from around the world. Very odd indeed. Limited to 300 copies) Soft Machine – S/T – Sundazed (Fantastic) Star Spangled Banana – Pebbles 2000 – Agitated (Bubblegrunge! Great mixture of 60s garage and overblown heavy guitars. Limited to 500 on Banana yellow vinyl with CD) Pampers – S/T – In The Red (SUPERB! Brooklyn 4 piece make ‘thug pop’ which sounds like echoey art punk psych. Produced by Ben from The Men) Circus Devils – My Mind Has Seen The White Trick - When Machines Attack – Happy Jack Records (Not 1 but 2 Robert Pollard records this week) Various – Mountain Of Tongues – Musical Dialects From The Caucasus – LM Duplication Peter Broderick – Addendum (Float) – Erased Tapes (Limited 7”) Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist – New State Sigur Ros – Me Su I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust – EMI (Very limited re-press on 180gram double vinyl) Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip – Repent Replenish Repeat – Sunday Best (With MP3) Cut Hands - Damballah 58 - 12 – Blackest Ever Black (Every Cut Hands release is eagerly awaited in the MX towers and this new 12” does not disappoint. Oppressive voodoo rhythms battle jittering electronic noise) Skullflower/Mastery – Split – Cold Spring (Crushing noise on lovely purple vinyl, limited to 400 copies) The Stepkids - Troubadour – Stones Throw Myron & E - Broadway – Stones Throw Various Hassaniya - Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania – Sublime Frequencies (Another deluxe vinyl treasure from SF) Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush 7 – Fortuna Pop! (Cream vinyl limited to 300) Dead Meadow - Warble Womb – Xemu Records (Double LP) The Lovely Eggs – Wildlife – Egg Records (Limited re-press) Penny Penny - Shaka Bundu – Awesome Tapes From Africa (Superb South African 90s house, Never heard anything like this before) Okkervil River - Silver Gymnasium – ATO (Double LP with CD) Ducktails - Wish Hotel – Domino (Limited mini LP) Jackson and his Computer band - G.I. Jane (Fill Me Up) 12 – Warp (What a sleeve! Great X-rated music video too) Mariam the believer - Blood Donation – Moshi Moshi (With CD) Al Green - Greatest Hits – Fat Possum (Indie exclusive limited to 500 copies on Bronze vinyl) Cabaret Voltaire - The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord – The Crackdown - Micro-phonies – Mute (Fantastic set of reissues from Sheffield’s finest) Slayer - South of Heaven - Seasons in the Abyss - Reign In Blood – Back To Black (Seriously Reign In Blood on vinyl! I have tried for years to find a copy of this and now it’s in my hands in full 180gram glory. Its probably the best record we will ever stock) Various – In The Dark; Detroit is Back - Still Music (Triple vinyl, includes Terrence Dixon, Marcellus Pittman, Alex Israel and Mike Agent X Clark) Sebastien Tellier – Confection – Record Makers (The Man crush continues, more lush and less pervy than his last too records. Features Tony Allen (Fela Kuti) on drums and Rob from Phoenix on synths. Ideal for a glass of red and a romantic Micro meal for one) Various - Americana Rock Your Soul 2 – BBE (Double LP with CD) Telegram - Follow – Gram Gram (Very Limited 7”) Andy C - Nightlife 6, Parts 1 & 2 – Ram Records (Spread over 4 records) CFCF - Continent – Paper Bag (Limited double vinyl, 1 clear and 1 opaque) The Chemical Brothers – Surrender – Virgin Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap – Virgin (LOVE Magazine) The Who - Tommy – UMC (Lavish deluxe re-press, hoping Santa will put me one aside) Gong - Angels Egg - Virgin The Beatles - On Air – Live at the BBC (Vol 2) – UMC (A companion piece to the first Beatles BBC archive record this is a mammoth 63 tracks spread over triple 180gram vinyl with a 48 page book) Ennio Morricone - The Mission OST - Virgin Blessa - Between Times 7 – No Self (Hotly tipped shoegaze from Sheffield) X Ray Pop – Ding Dong – Disques / Dub – Finders Keepers (Every Finders Keepers release arrives with a smile. Great 80s DIY pop from France. Odd and and catchy, great sleeve too) Grizzly Bear - Shields (Bsides) - Warp Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum – Turnstile (Great off kilter dream pop) Wooden Shjips - Back to Land – Thrill Jockey (The Indie exclusive edition was so limited that we only managed to get 2 copies in, 1 has gone already so if you want it I’d get to the shop first thing on Tuesday. But fear not the non-limited edition looks incredible, it comes in a great psychedelic cut out sleeve which is one of the best sleeves we’ve seen this year) Mark Pritchard - Make A Livin 12 – Warp (Limited to 250 copies, features a great sample of Heaven & Hell Is On Earth by the 20th Century Steel Band) Holden - Circle Of Fifths – 42BC (A fantastic distorted, messy rework of album highlight Circle Of Fifths. Without letting the cat out of the bag expect to see Holden near the top of our end of year list) The Rolling Stones - Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live 2013 – Eagle Rock (Deluxe triple vinyl set with DVD) Various - Inside Llewyn Davis – OST – Nonesuch (New Cohen Brothers film about the New York Folk scene in the 60s. Looks great from the trailer and this soundtrack is set to be another classic) Massive Attack – Mezzanine – Virgin (Limited double) Sigur Ros – Valtari – Parlophone (Very limited heavy weight double re-press)
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:40:06 +0000
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