MUGSTAR Lime (Important) cd 14.98
We said it before, and we might as well say it again, these guys should really be WAY more popular than they are, everything we've heard from them has totally ruled, a few singles, two full lengths, one of which we made our Record Of The Week, and let's not forget their bad ass Hawkwind cover in the Sonic Attack 7" series (reissued on cd, one of THIS week's Records Of The Week!), so it should come as no surprise that full length number three is just as good, if not better than all the stuff that came before. Not as blown out and super rocking as Sun Broken, Lime is 4 tracks clocking in at 40 minutes, and is a bit more subdued than past efforts. That's not to say there isn't some seriously psychedelic ferocity on display here, it's just judiciously doled out, and set amidst some more minimal psychedelia. Although opener "Sunburnt Impedance Machine" might have you convinced otherwise, exploding right out of the gate with a killer fuzzed out Hawkwindy riff, chanted vocals, some soaring spidery leads, some killer staccato mathy breakdowns, huge squalls of spacepsych freakout, until finally at about the halfway mark, the track shifts gears and locks into a churning chugging krautrock groove, the instruments locked in tight, only the organ let loose, to whir and warble and buzz, laying thick undulating swaths of chordal buzz over everything, intense and hypnotic, and definitely the sort of thing that should appeal to Circle obsessives.
Which becomes even more obvious on the second track, the 13 minute "Serra", which is a dead ringer for our Finnish hypnorock pals, a sprawling motorik groove, you sort of almost keep expecting Mika Ratto to start singing over the top, but instead, synths swirl and shimmer, horns bleat and skronk, effects swoop and sway, organs get all proggy adding melodic counterpoint, but the main groove never wavers, mesmerizingly epic and relentless, 13 minutes is not nearly enough, could/should go on for hours...
"Radar King" returns Mugstar to the realm of the rocking, locked into another hypnokraut groove, this one minor key and mathy, before breaking down into some spaced out psychdrone drift, all clouds of cymbal shimmer, little melodic squiggles, swirling effects and hushed synths, barely there guitar jangle, eventually the build begins, pulsing, throbbing, growing louder, and more intense, the effects more frantic, the drums heavier, finally exploding in a climax of tangled guitar freakout, and splattery drum pound, all wreathed in dense spaced out FX.
Finally, the band finish off with a gorgeously hazy psychedelic dronedrift, that lays a woozy bassline, under a thick droning organ, the drums minimal, skeletal, like the tracks before, the organ takes control, adding all sorts of rhythmic texture to the proceedings, a total drugpsych tripout, all anchored to the seriously solid groove at its core.
Some seriously epic and proggy psychedelic spacekraut to the max, fans of Circle especially should dig these guys if they don't already, and like the last record, absolutely recommended for anyone even remotely into Salvatore, Magyar Posse, White Hills, The Heads, Burnt Hills, Gnod, 3 Leafs, Bardo Pond, Gunslingers, Eternal Tapestry, Heavy Winged, Sleepy Sun, Plastic Crimewave, Titan and the rest of the current crop of modern psych rockers...
MPEG Stream: "Sunburnt Impedance Machine"
MPEG Stream: "Serra"

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AIAS A La Piscina (Captured Tracks) lp 16.98
Now here on vinyl as well!!
While there is no shortage of rad girl group inspired garage pop coming out right now, Aias add some totally unique and spirited energy to the mix, definitely helping them stand out from the garage girl crowd: Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Slumber Party, etc. Singing in their native Catalan, these three women from Spain show that it's still possible to breathe fresh life into a sound that's been around the block, a sound that can always sound so damn good when done so totally right. And Aias do it so right. With a naive charming quality that sounds a little like Shonen Knife covering the Ramones and The Ronettes, with every single song perfectly hitting the spot. The recording is so warm and minimal in the best way, like our favorite early recordings that came out on K, this is such a smart pop record that understands that stripping away the fat leaves you with just the good stuff. A new favorite pop record for sure!
MPEG Stream: "Tu Manes"
MPEG Stream: "Una Setmana Sencera"
MPEG Stream: "Moto"

BRILLIANT SWORDS Loves Lessons Learnt (Don't Fuck With Magic) cd-r 14.98
We reviewed this on the last New Arrivals list, but figured we oughta list it again, in order to let folks know, that in fact, this 'mystery group', whose cd came in the most recent batch of Our Love Will Destroy The World cd-r's (now ALL out of print sorry to say) was less of a mystery than we thought, as it is in fact Campbell Kneale, aka Birchville Cat Motel, aka Our Love Will Destroy The World. The fuzzy poppiness might have thrown us, but really, when you think about what just might make Kneale's music so catchy, considering that for the most part it's abstract and free form and noisy, is that, maybe, just maybe, those extended free form droned out psychnoise blissouts, are actually essentially just pop songs like these, slooooowed waaaaaaay doooooown.
So yeah, Brilliant Swords, seven songs in thirteen minutes, and not at all what you might expect from Campbell Kneale or his Don't Fuck With Magic Label. Instead of thick clouds of abstract free noise, or twisted dronescapes of blown out loops and buried rhythms, Brilliant Swords are a pop band. Yep, a pop band. Fuzzy and noisy for sure, but this is totally buzz drenched noise pop, and it's pretty goddamn great. A little bit Husker Du, a little bit nineties indie rock, the guitars are super distorted, the vocals super melodic, the songs are short sharp and hooky as hell, the longest clocking in at 2:53, the shortest at :58, but pop music like this doesn't need any more than that.
The liner notes simply state that each song was written, recorded and mixed in less than two hours, and heck it sounds like it, which is not a bad thing, the songs are super intense, passionate, catchy bursts of fuzzy lo-fi power pop, we hear some My Dad Is Dead, Hard Ons, Buffalo Tom, a little Nova Scotia jangle (Eric's Trip et al), all wound into some seriously kick ass pop. The sort of pop that if it found its way from a super limited release on an obscure micro cd-r label to the right ears, this stuff could definitely be huge, or could have been 15 years ago. Either way, we're loving this a LOT. It's short, but that just means we've been listening to it over and over.
LIMITED TO 50 COPIES! We're the only source for these in the US and we only have about 10 copies left, so once those are gone, that's it.
MPEG Stream: "Don't Believe Anymore"
MPEG Stream: "We Can Be Friends"
MPEG Stream: "Turning Blue"

CHROME Alien Soundtracks (Lilith) lp + cd 28.00
NOW, A VINYL REISSUE COMPLETE WITH A CD VERSION INCLUDED!
Get out the tinfoil, draw the blinds, turn the television to static and brace yourself for the amphetamine-fueled paranoid mind-fuck of San Francisco's industrial wasteoids, Chrome!
Led by Damon Edge and Helios Creed, Chrome channeled The Stooges raw garage energy with Hawkwind's mindmelting space rock acid-psych and the electronic proto-art-punk of bands like Debris' and The Styrenes into a spazzy amalgam of sci-fi distortion, glam-punk chaos, and all manner of machine fuckery including television samples, bizarre tape manipulations and random fuzz-filled noise. Inspired by the future-shock visionary writings of J.G Ballard and Philip K. Dick, Chrome were cyber-punk before the term had even been popularized! In fact, they were one of those bands who became much more popular after their demise, when bands like The Butthole Surfers, Big Black and other Touch and Go bands started gaining notoriety in the mid-eighties college rock scene.
Alien Soundtracks from 1978 was Chrome's second album after the relatively straight forward rock of their debut The Visitation. But by then Helios Creed joined the band and Chrome's signature sound, centering on Creed's grinding pitch-shifting guitar attack and Edge's aggro drumming and damaged tape manipulations, were firmly in place. Supposedly recorded as a soundtrack for a live sex show, songs like, "Magnetic Dwarf Reptile" and "Slip It To The Android", display a sleazy suggestiveness with scuzzy rhythms and odd wailed crooning. While their fascination with science fiction's darker side (especially involving man-machine biologies and mind-controlling robots in a techno-industrial wasteland) manifested itself in vicious electronics and disturbing drones over the layers of buried vocals and speed-driven guitar riffage.
MPEG Stream: "Chromosome Damge"
MPEG Stream: "Pygmies In Zee Dark"
MPEG Stream: "Slip It To The Android"

CHROME Half Machine Lip Moves (Lilith) lp + cd 26.00
NOW, A VINYL REISSUE COMPLETE WITH A CD VERSION INCLUDED!
Get out the tinfoil, draw the blinds, turn the television to static and brace yourself for the amphetamine-fueled paranoid mind-fuck of San Francisco's industrial wasteoids, Chrome! Led by Damon Edge and Helios Creed, Chrome channeled The Stooges raw garage energy with Hawkwind's mindmelting space rock acid-psych and the electronic proto-art-punk of bands like Debris' and The Styrenes into a spazzy amalgam of sci-fi distortion, glam-punk chaos, and all manner of machine fuckery including television samples, bizarre tape manipulations and random fuzz-filled noise. Inspired by the future-shock visionary writings of J.G Ballard and Philip K. Dick, Chrome were cyber-punk before the term had even been popularized! In fact, they were one of those bands who became much more popular after their demise, when bands like The Butthole Surfers, Big Black and other Touch and Go bands started gaining notoriety in the mid-eighties college rock scene.
Half Machine Lip Moves was the 1979 follow-up to Alien Soundtracks and it's definitely our favorite! The songwriting is completely fucked, with aggressively manic jump-cuts in and between songs. Sounding like the music analog machines would make if they just became sentient drug-taking monsters, the paranoid mind-control trip is full throttle, with nightmarish conspiratorial songs about the government and the media in cahoots with aliens to enslave the public ("TV As Eyes" "Zombie Warfare" and "You've Been Duplicated"). Rife with layers of sinister lo-fi electronic noises and television samples, over fast riff-heavy rhythm hooks and lysergic face-eating vocal effects. So awesomely damaged!! If you were to get only one Chrome album, this would be the one!
MPEG Stream: "TV As Eyes"
MPEG Stream: "You've Been Duplicated"
MPEG Stream: "Turned Around"

DARA PUSPITA The Garage Years (Groovie) lp 32.00
After a couple fantastic cd reissues on Sublime Frequencies, of this incredible Indonesian sixties all girl garage rock group, a handful of those tracks have been gathered up and released on vinyl! Pricey import, but still quite cool...
We first heard about these Indonesian girl group garage rockers when three of their records were reissued on Chicago label PlusTapes, we all went nuts for them, as did the aQ legions, we couldn't keep them in stock, but sadly they were crazy limited. Even at the time, and even on tape, we wanted to make one or all of them Records Of The Week, but they disappeared before we had a chance. So when Sublime Frequencies swooped in and reissued on a compact disc all three of Dara Puspita's records proper (all the stuff on the cassettes, and then some!), we got to gush like crazy and indeed bestow Record Of The Week honors on these amazing ladies and their incredible music. And now, for those of you who were holding out for something on vinyl...
Dara Puspita (Flower Girls in English) were Indonesia's most successful girl group in the sixties, and one of the few -actual- bands, who played their own instruments as opposed to just singing with all male backing bands. Even though rock and roll was banned at the time, with some bands being jailed for performing rock music live (Koes Bersaudara in particular, whose Sublime Frequencies discs we reviewed a while back - Dara Puspita and Koes Bersaudara had very similar histories, their careers often directly influenced by each other). Dara Puspita took their influence from that banned rock music, borrowing liberally from the Rolling Stones, The Beatles (whose songs they were warned by the authority to not perform, the very songs that got Koes Bersaudara jailed!) and the like, but giving it their own twist.
Performing a mix of covers and originals, these ladies were legendary for their wild live shows, but they really shine on record, with a totally distinctive and keen pop sensibility, gorgeous lilting vocals, an awesome rhythm section and some really excellent guitar playing. Dara Puspita weren't avant garde or super far out, not really heavy or psychedelic, instead they were just a kick ass pop group, an awesome garagey rock and roll band, catchy and fun, super energetic and with a distinctly unique vibe that makes this sound so special. Just listen to the sound samples. You'll be hooked in no time. So great!!
MPEG Stream: "Bertamasja"
MPEG Stream: "A Go-Go"

DUM DUM GIRLS Bhang Bhang, I'm A Burnout (Slumberland / Sub Pop) 7" 5.50
The Dum Dum Girls' amazing debut, I Will Be, is still getting lots of play around here and is certainly one of this year's favorites for sure. Now we have the second single to come from the record, the smokin' second track, "Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout", a Ramones-meets-The Ronettes feast of garage-y girl group energy. But folks might more be into the B-side, the oft-covered Misfits song, "Last Caress", a perfect sixties sounding pop song with some seriously fucked up lyrics: "I got something to say/ I killed your baby today/ And it doesn't matter much to me/ As long as it's dead", which seem totally at odds with the lilting fuzz drenched melodic garage pop they're buried in, but that's precisely why it works. Yeah!

EARTH A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction (Southern Lord) 2lp 23.00
Now it's here on vinyl, sweet!!
We made the cd version of this a Record Of The Week on our special Halloween in-between list a couple weeks ago, here's the review again in case you were out trick-or-treating and missed it:
Man, were we ever bummed when Sub Pop told us that Earth's first album (or ep?), their seminal doom-drone debut Extra-Capsular Extraction, had gone out of print (again). WTF? How could that be? That's so wrong. Well, thankfully, it hasn't stayed OOP for long. Southern Lord has just repackaged, remastered, and reissued it, incorporating a whole bunch MORE music recorded at the original Extra-Capsular sessions back in 1990, material that previously appeared only on bootleg 7"s long ago (and/or showed up as bonus tracks on the also-quite-out-of-print Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars Live disc). So what you get here is the COMPLETE Extra-Capsular album as Earth mainman Dylan Carlson originally intended it. So if you don't have the Sunn Amps disc, this is totally worth getting again even if you already have the Sub Pop version! Plus, the packaging is aces, with gorgeous new art by Simon Fowler, designed by Stephen O'Malley, and there's new 2010 liner notes from Carlson. He talks about how they got signed by Sub Pop after opening for L7 at a show in Seattle, fortuitously 'cause they had been having no luck up 'til then finding a label interested in putting out the record they'd recorded, this one. Apparently it cost just $300 to make at Smegma studios, and the "guest musicians worked for Pabst and Percodan"... Earth back then consisted of Dylan Carlson (guitar/vocals), plus Dave Harwell (bass) and Joe Preston (bass/percussion). Joe of course later went on to fame and fortune in the Melvins, and later, his one man band Thrones (and High On Fire, and Harvey Milk, etc.). Oh, and this is the Earth record that one Kurt Cobain (spelt "Kobain" here), sings on as well, which we know confused and dismayed a lot of frat/jock guys back in the day, who bought this hoping for something that smelled like teen spirit and instead got what turned out to be the inspiration for SUNNO)))!
So, here's what we said about this when we reviewed the prior version, back on list #135 in 2002, when Sub Pop repressed it (at our urging, we like to think):
Kind of a holy grail for those who didn't pick up the long-out-of-print original version of this when it was first released, the 1991 debut cd by the Pacific Northwest's late great drone/doom masters Earth. Originals sell for big $$$ on eBay. And those who DO have one consider it an old friend. Now Sub Pop has finally got their act together (prodded by the pleas of many an Earth fan, including Allan here at AQ, who takes full credit, so you can thank him) and have reissued it at last - this time in a jewel case instead of the mere cardboard sleeve of the original version (another triumph for Allan). The artwork is the same, though: the medical-text inspired 'Postgraduate Seminars: Eye Surgery - Concepts and Problems' graphics. There's no extra tracks or anything, but the original three tracks ("A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Parts 1 & 2", "Ouroboros Is Broken") are more than enough: 32 minutes of downtuned dirge, metallic slow-motion sludge riffery that goes to extremes of low, slow heaviness that even the mighty Melvins never achieved. The lengthier, airier follow-up "Earth 2" might be Earth's masterpiece, but "Extra-Capsular" was their devastating opening act, sounding like the grand, ominous martial music meant to accompany an invasion by malevolent Underearth Dwellers. We remember when I first got this, most of our friends thought it was the most retarded record ever. Now they know better. Well, actually, they probably don't, but WE know. So recommended.
So NOW thanks to Southern Lord, this album by the still great (and no longer late!) Earth is back in print, as God and/or Satan intended, in its complete version for the first time, extended to seven tracks over 55 minutes. The extra stuff fits right in, more-Melvinsy-than-thou slow-mo sludge riffery that outshines almost anything that came after. Also "Geometry Of Murder" seems to sneak in a Saint Vitus riff!
An obvious Record Of The Week, and perfect for our special Halloween list, as it's super heavy and menacing, as well as such a long-time fave - and also the eye-surgery theme of the cover art always gave us the chills.
MPEG Stream: "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge, Part 1"
MPEG Stream: "Ouroboros Is Broken"
MPEG Stream: "German Dental Work"

EMERALDS What Happened (Editions Mego) lp 27.00
Finally available on vinyl!! (Especially good news since the cd version has gone out of print.)
In their brief career beginning in 2006, the Ohio based trio Emeralds has associated themselves with the grit and rust-stained noise that has erupted in the Midwestern underground, often sharing the stage with Aaron Dilloway, C Spencer Yeh, and Hive Mind. Their two major releases have come by way of Dilloway's Hanson Records and No Fun Productions, which typically rank as releasing some of the most aggressive and brutal pieces of noise of the contemporary era. While live performances have reportedly embraced the noise community's full-force fury of maximum volume, Emeralds instead favors a sound that harkens back to the era of Cluster, Manuel Gottsching, Fripp & Eno, and Klaus Schulze.
Emeralds' Solar Bridge record was a spectacular lazer blast of cosmic droning and inner-space meditation; but with that album clocking in less than 30 minutes, we were left wanting more. Fortunately, more is what Emeralds give us with What Happened. Collected from their seemingly non-stop sessions of improvisations for guitar, Moog, and Korg plus ample effects boxes, these 5 tracks spiral and snake around the same deep-space psychedelia found on Solar Bridge, pushing their sound beyond the two extended crescendos which populated that album. Monochord guitars pulse hypnotically against the overlapping tapestries of the sawtooth hum and modulating tones from the analogue synths. Throughout What Happened, Emeralds shift in mood from alien percolations of '60s sci-fi sound design to graceful swells of tonefloat majesty to purely physical vibrations which rip through the nervous system and strike numbly at the bone. There is beauty to be found here, but also a sublime unease that haunts these recordings. Yup, this one comes highly recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Up In The Air"
MPEG Stream: "Living Room"
MPEG Stream: "Disappearing Ink"

FAT WORM OF ERROR Ambivalence and The Beaker (Resipiscent) cd 14.98
Supposedly, past members of long time aQ faves Deerhoof call Fat Worm Of Error home these days, and while you'll be hard pressed to hear any of the sweet poppiness or twisted hookiness that makes Deerhoof so near and dear, you will find magnified and even more twisted versions of everything else, the most damaged and demented parts of the noisier more abstract Deerhoof, here writ large, in huge swaths of confusional whatthefuck lurch and stumble, looped stutter and glitched out ambience, deconstructed antipop and damaged avant noiserock, with most of the rock removed. Each track is a slow building, sprawling sonic ooze, of gnarled strangled atonal guitars, bizarre vocals that swing wildly from murky mumbles to frenzied yelps, stumbling chaotic percussion, squiggly electronics, and clouds of malfunctioning electronics, streaks of skittery drum machine bleep and bloop, buried samples, loads of hiss and hum and whir and rumble and skree, held together by long stretches of mysterious ambience, flecked with chimes and bells, little rhythmic clicks, truncated barely there melodies, warm whirling layered textures, the tracks do occasionally coalesce into almost songs, and when they do, it sort of sounds like a field recording of OOIOO, OvO and Rubber O Cement engaged in some serious sonic warfare, but more often, the record just sort of swirls and drifts and lumbers, occasionally jaggedly, but just as often weirdly soothingly, sounding like Avarus or No Neck Blues Band bad-tripping though some Sid And Marty Kroft style psychedelic noise forest. Weird!
MPEG Stream: "Wipeless Two"
MPEG Stream: "Golden Nozzle"
MPEG Stream: "Broods"

FENNESZ Endless Summer (Editions Mego) lp 27.00
This all time AQ favorite is finally available on vinyl again!
Way back in the summer of 2001, we made Fennesz' Endless Summer a Record of the Week. Little did we know how influential the album would become, and how much of an impact it would have on the realms of the avant-garde and electronic music at large. Here's what we said with the linguistic aplomb of an era now past:
While the label that Fennesz calls home is certainly guilty of propagating a specific aesthetic (harsh digital soundscapes based upon the flotsam of cybernetic errata), Fennesz has always produced what we had imagined should be the salvation for experimental electronica -- an ever vigilant, but necessarily shifting search for balance. As Fennesz does incorporate the guitar quite a bit into his creative process, there is a finely tuned balance between rock and electronica archetypes. However, his egalitarian views of intention and execution, dissonance and melody, metaphor and metonym, structure and arrhythmia, analog and digital, warm and cool, etc. are exactly what electronica needs.
Fennesz' third album - the aptly titled Endless Summer - picks up where his ep of Rolling Stones / Beach Boys covers left off with a digital dispersion of "fun in the sun" rock mythologies. While there are no obviously discernible pop culture references, Fennesz builds a sound that really is quite summery from odd duets between disintegrating acoustic guitar strums and the coalescence of digital errata. Thus, this album has the feeling of the classic Beach Boys sound, but very little of that structure. These are NOT Beach Boys covers, but if he said they were, we'd have no basis to call him a liar. Regardless, Fennesz's Endless Summer is a stunning record.
MPEG Stream: "Endless Summer"
MPEG Stream: "Happy Audio"

GIBSON, RANDY Analog Apparitions (The Tapeworm) cassette 7.98
One of three new releases on UK cassette label The Tapeworm, this one featuring two sprawling side long excursions into just intonation drone from Brooklyn composer Randy Gibson, a student of legendary minimalist composer La Monte Young. Gibson fuses the traditional concepts of prime harmonic just intonation with modern tape manipulation, the tones as important as the mechanisms producing them, the sounds lush and layered, heaving and undulating, overtones and subtle sonic colors, rife with subtle shifts, tape speed inconsistencies, peppered with bits of hum and hiss, crunch and creak, a sound more organic and human than clinical and composed, the sounds seeming to breathe and expand, some serious deep kosmische drift for sure.
The two sides here are created from 18 hours of recordings condensed into two half hour epic swaths of deeeeeep rage like dronemusic, the sound constantly evolving and mutating and subtly shifting, from ethereal hazy shimmer to thick reverberating metallic buzz, a gorgeously expansive dronescape created using just voice, cassette boomboxes and just intonation toy organs. Wow.
Total deep drone blissout for sure. Essential listening for the aQ dronemusic faithful...
LIMITED TO 250 COPIES!!

GOLDMANN VS FENNESZ Remiksz (The Tapeworm) cassette 7.98
Another weird and wonderful release from the mysterious Tapeworm label. "What's so weird and wonderful and mysterious about someone remixing Fennesz?" you might be wondering? Well on Remiksz, Stefan Goldmann makes use of Fennesz' previous Tapeworm release, the collection of samples appropriately titled Szampler, which gathered up various source material used to create some of our favorite Fennesz records and then wove those raw samples into a surprisingly cohesive whole. With Remiksz, things get pretty meta, with Goldmann removing Fennesz' original samples, one by one, replacing them with samples of his own, recorded and created over the last decade, in the same sequence, eventually resulting in this, Remiksz, a sort-of remix record, which contains absolutely NO music by Fennesz. Instead, Goldmann has composed a record using Fennesz' Szampler as a template, or a framework: the track durations are all the same, all the arrangements, it's just the sounds that are utterly and completely different. We guess one could argue that it therefore does incorporate MUSIC (in the sense of organization/structure) "written" by Fennesz, but just not his SOUNDS.
So Fennesz fans at first might be a bit puzzled, or disappointed, which definitely seems fair, but give it a chance, Goldmann has a fantastic arsenal of sounds and samples, many of them quite reminiscent of Fennesz himself, and like Szampler, Remiksz ends up being a deliriously varied barrage of tripped out psychedelic soundscapery, tendrils of buzzing guitar, dense staticky rumbles, orchestral bursts, little bits of melody, long shimmery drones, swirls of crackly haze, and blown out gauze, delicately drifting harmonics, dark ominous piano, cinematic strings, fields of celestial glitch and burnt black squelch, skittery fragmented rhythms, buried samples, cricket-like clicks, lots of reverb and washed out echo, warped and warbly tape experiments, primitive synths, a blurred and ever shifting short attention span sprawl of fractured lush loveliness and glitched out sampledelic sputter. Awesome.
LIMITED TO 250 COPIES!!

KLIPPERT, GARTH STEEL Music For Taxicabs (Field Hymns) cassette 7.98
From the same label that brought us the old school electro synth lo-fi party jams of the oddly monickered Oxykitten, comes this, the latest from PDX via SF audio alchemist Garth Klippert, who while living in SF and working as a cab driver, spent his free time creating dreamy abstract melodic soundscapes, cobbled together from field recordings, twangy guitars, electric pianos, assorted homemade instruments and toys, as well as all manner of junk (plastic guns, saw blades, pot lids, shoes, etc). These disparate elements are smeared and blurred into warm, fluid, layered sonic drifts, from woozy piano driven sunshiney kraut shimmer, to twang flecked Negativland-esque vocal collages, to slow burning skeletal blues wrapped around mysterious voices and fields of click and chitter, to windswept expanses of almost Eastern sounding sort-of-ragas, rife with sped up voices, croaking frogs, muted murky looped and lo-fi rhythms, everything very hazy, a little haunting, cinematic and subtly psychedelic. Cool stuff for sure.
Pressed on bright yellow tapes, housed in full color sleeves, LIMITED to 100 COPIES, each one hand numbered, and comes with a digital download.

KYLESA A Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist) cd 14.98
Kylesa are another one of those bands we've always dug, but for whatever reason, have never reviewed ANY of their records. So time to remedy that omission right now, with this, their 5th full length, since 2001, when the band was born out of the dissolution of Savannah sludge metal outfit Damad, and like Damad, Kylesa trafficked in a similarly sludgey Southern sound, epic crushing downtuned riffs, howled vox and dense tribal drumming. Heavily influenced by Neurosis, Kylesa kicked out jams that were doomy and low slung, swampy and thick, crushing riffage giving way to stretches of rhythmic mesmer, only to explode into another head caving burst of metallic crush.
Over the years though, Kylesa's sound has changed dramatically, like their Southern sonic compatriots Baroness, their music started out super heavy and sludgey, almost punk, feral and fierce and crusty and brutal, and gradually developed into something much more psychedelic, melodic, and at times downright poppy.
On A Spiral Shadow, the songs concern themselves with texture and arrangement as much as pummel, moreso in many cases, the dual drummers adding an awesome and densely rhythmic element, with the band sometimes breaking down into total Crash Worship drum jams (and live, the stage is littered with drums, so the guitarists can join in), the guitars too, for as much as they grind and churn and chug, they also soar and chime, melodies and harmonies woven into intricate psychscapes, the songs slipping easily from hooky metallic psych pop to fierce doomy plod and back again, howled male vocals switch off with more melodic female vox, it's easy to see why this seems to be Kylesa's 'breakout' record. It's still heavy, and complex, and metal, but also hooky and melodic and sort of tripped out and psychedelic. Makes sense that folks into Mastodon and newer Baroness are all over this stuff. And rightfully so.
If we had to pick a favorite track it would probably be "Don't Look Back" which is so dangerously poppy, it almost sounds out of place, like it might belong on a Torche record, or like it must be some nineties indie rock cover, but for all it's extreme hookiness, and incredibly catchy guitar harmonies, the sound is still thick and lush, with some seriously crunchy verses, and some pummeling drumming, holy shit, it's just so goddamn catchy, this song totally KILLS.
The thing is though, the more we listen to this record, the less this track really stands out, and the more the rest of the songs seem to start sounding nearly as catchy, even at it's heaviest, A spiral Shadow is infused with melody and texture, the arrangements hypnotic and trancelike, soaring epic crescendos and stretched out hypnodronerock all tangled up with gnarled downtuned pound and fierce churning pummel, and for every bit of metallic chug there's some mysterious melodic warmth or poppy psychedelic shimmer woven in. Awesome.
MPEG Stream: "Don't Look Back"
MPEG Stream: "Tired Climb"
MPEG Stream: "Drop Out"
MPEG Stream: "Distance Closing In"

MOTH 1997-2003 (Rhizome) cd-r 12.98
We've been digging around lately and discovering all kinds of cool things that somehow never made it onto the list or even the website, this one is yet another long out of print cd-r that slipped through the cracks, a compilation of sorts, gathering up early recordings from Moth, aka Jon Dale, Rhizome label head honcho, an incredible collection of deep, dark dronemusic, lush soundscapes of chiming heavily reverbed metals and warm whirling sonorous tones, this is actually breathtakingly beautiful, we're sort of kicking ourselves for not listing this when it first came out and making a big deal out of it, but since we only have maybe 8 copies, we'll just say, anyone into gorgeous minimal dreamlike dronemusic, grab one of these while you can, and if you dig any of these folks: Stars of The Lid, Peter Wright, Belong, Organum, Expo 70, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Grasslung, En, Jeck, Tunnels, BJ Nilsen, Jasper TX, Dialing In, Machinefabriek, Aidan Baker, you'll probably dig this too.
Long out of print, we have about 8 copies, then they're gone for good.
MPEG Stream: "Track 1"
MPEG Stream: "Track 2"

NAILS Unsilent Death (Southern Lord) lp 16.98
NOW ON VINYL TOO! And in a super heavy gatefold jacket to boot!
A record this short should probably get an equally short review, just don't want to sell Nails short, cuz for what their record lacks in length, it makes up for in sheer crushing ferocity. 10 tracks in 14 minutes, a relentless onslaught of classic Earache Records style grind from these SoCal crushers, downtuned guitars blasting beats, guttural vocals, screeching feedback, gnarled tangly leads, the occasional bit of lumbering doom, a frantic whirlwind of powerviolent brutality, a nearly non-stop blast of face melting Napalm Death style classic old school grind. Heavy as hell and definitely recommended for folks who like it fast and furious and filthy as fuck. (And it's even faster if you spin it at 45 instead of 33!)
MPEG Stream: "Conform"
MPEG Stream: "Scum Will Rise"
MPEG Stream: "Unsilent Death"

NERFBAU Error Swarms (Resipiscent) cd 14.98
Latest from these noisy Oakland oddballs, who at the outset, sound a bit like a way more fucked up, way more musical Negativland or Tape Beatles, at least over the first few songs (and the last few), the same sort of cut-up recontextualism, but way less linear, and way more warped, the samples less the focus, and more just another element, and while it is noisy, it's also lush and textural, glitched out and electronic, droney and industrial, the various voices and found sounds eventually disappearing almost entirely for the bulk of the record, beneath heaving swells of crumbling distortion and sheets of hissing shortwave interference, warm whirling melodies drifting over dense rumbling reverberations, occasionally things lock into subtle rhythms, throbbing like some buried subterranean pulse, other times the songs seem to expand, sprawling into blackened noisescapes, abstract and amorphous, each one a mysterious hazy stretch of garbled muted haze, an undulating surfacesound, barely obscuring all the action right underneath, chittering percussive skitter, roiling bass heavy thrum, squalls of blown out synth buzz, bursts of superdistorted in-the-red crunch, weird abstract drones wrapped around conflagrations of blurred bleary noise that begin to sound almost like beats, flecked with all manner of hum and whir, the whole thing growing gradually prettier and more melodic as it goes, the noise elements definitely restrained, more textural than caustic and the end result for the most part is less of a noise record, and more of a super varied, abstract avant drone record. That said, the band do occasionally fuck shit up, with super intense bursts of howled blacknoise, or shards of grinding metallic buzz, but for every one of those moments, there's another of dark brooding dronescapery, or haunting cinematic drift to balance it out. Cool stuff.
Packaged in an oversized full color sleeve, partially covered by a grey fabric hood, and wrapped up tight with copper wire.
MPEG Stream: "Cochlear Phantasmagoria"
MPEG Stream: "Mechanical Camel Toe (Smell It My DNA)"
MPEG Stream: "Error Swarms"
MPEG Stream: "Malleus Hybrid"

NOVA SCOTIA Rameses II (PseudoArcana) cd-r 12.98
Found a little stash of these, a 2005 release on New Zealand cd-r label Pseudo Arcana, long long long out of print, so odds are these are the last copies any one will see, but for a lucky few, you'll get to nab one of these to call your own.
A single sprawling track of avant free noise drift from this NZ improv drone trio, a super minimal, surprisingly lush expanse of tinkling chimes, spidery fragmented guitar melodies, singing wineglasses, random percussive skitter, deep metallic rumbles, distant feedback, ominous psychedelic whir, occasional horn bleat, deep low end thrum, even some turntables, playing an old scratchy record of train sounds, a murky muted symphony of sonic smears, and blurred drift that ends up sounding like Philip Jeck spinning records by No Neck Blues Band, Avarus, Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Shadow Wing, in the hold of a giant freighter. Creepy, and moody, and mysterious and pretty goddamn cool.
Long out of print, and so obviously crazy limited, we have 7 or 8 of these, and once they're gone, they're WAY gone... for good.
MPEG Stream: "Rameses II (excerpt 1)"
MPEG Stream: "Rameses II (excerpt 2)"

OPHIDIAN FOREST Plains (Favonian) cd 10.98
Record number two from this intercontinental pagan black metal horde, and like their first record a pretty impressive feat, considering the drums were recorded in California, the guitars and basses captured in Croatia, and the keyboards laid down in the Netherlands, but somehow, all of the elements came together to form this epic, sprawling, super complex, super frenzied collection of blackened grimnity, and indeed epic it is. As well as strangely melodic, the pagan element more pronounced this time around, and the keyboards higher in the mix, as well as some seemingly way more intricate, almost mathy arrangements, but other than that, the blown out heaviness and frosty blackness that defined the first record are in full effect. The first track makes that abundantly clear as it explodes with some Scandinavian style buzz, and a little pagan melody, a frantic soaring bit of black metal majesty, peppered with stuttery start stop breakdowns, but always slipping smoothly right back into more blasting insectoid buzz.
Throughout the record, the vocals are garbled and monstrous and harsh, the drums dense and pummeling, the keyboards ethereal and unobtrusive, but adding lots of atmosphere and subtle melody, the tracks are expansive and almost proggy, the riffing super tranced out and droney, in fact, lots of the parts seem to blur into a sort of droned out psychedelia, cyclical, repetitive and totally hypnotic. The vibe somehow manages to be raw and crusty as well, and a little punky, hooks and melodies woven deftly into parts that would otherwise be more like black blurs, the result is some surprising catchiness, alongside some super intense black brutality, and lots of unexpected and seriously -A- typical black metal elements: ultra twisted and convoluted drum parts, lush layered guitars, some gnarled off kilter riffage, warped keyboard melodies, all wound up with the more traditionally blackened elements into a constantly evolving, ever shifting, dizzying barrage of awesome twisted blackness.
LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Comes housed in a half sized dvd style clamshell case, with a metallic silver printed cover, and an insert with lyrics/liner notes.
[And don't miss the secret hidden track, a super cool, weridly poppy black metal jam that we were convinced had to be a cover...]
MPEG Stream: "Fenrir"
MPEG Stream: "The Eagle"
MPEG Stream: "The Frozen Plains"

PIGEONS Liasons (Soft Abuse) cd 14.98
After a couple of fantastic full lengths, and a handful of equally impressive singles, comes the latest long player of washed out psychfolk from this East Coast duo, whose sound, as on past records, continues to slip between moody broody Portisheady lope, and fuzz drenched hazy dreamfolk, often meshing the two, adding murky drum machine pulses to swirling ethereal steel string drift.
On Liasons, Pigeons sound even more deliriously druggy and dreamy, the downtempo trip-hop elements now relegated to the occasional electronic rhythm, instead their sound moves further into much murkier sonic waters, more soft focus and fuzzy, infusing their already gauzy sound with swaths of Galaxie 500 like slowcore shimmer and blurred Bongwater-esque Shimmy Disc fug. In fact, for those of you who remember Bongwater's gorgeous cover of Roky Erickson's "You Don't Love Me Yet", much of Pigeons' Liasons plays out like variations of that lilting lo-fi, drugfolk avant pop sound, spindly steel string guitars, whirring organs, occasional bits of programmed rhythm, loads of delay and reverb, and of course those angelic echo drenched vocals.
Liasons is definitely the group's slowest and prettiest and most introspective record yet, a dark languorous drift, almost all of the way through, although the band do throw in a Serge Gainsbourg cover, and finish off with a track that's way more abstract and druggy, psychedelic and OUT, with woozy billows of soft guitar, stretched across an expanse of hum and whir, while the vocals soar and trill and keen, evoking some dark surreal late night otherworld. So nice. Psych folk(s) will dig for sure, but anyone into that Best Coast / Dum Dum Girls sound, looking for something darker and dreamier and druggier, might get into this as well...
MPEG Stream: "Smoke"
MPEG Stream: "Race"
MPEG Stream: "Lil' Deb's Debris"

PURLING HISS s/t (Permanent Records) lp 16.98
List 357's Record Of The Week, Public Service Announcement, by Purling Hiss, was a huge hit around here, an awesomely hooky lo-fi collection of home recorded GBV style 4 track pop, mixed with slow, shimmery lysergic psychedelia, but apparently, that record was a bit of an anomaly, as all of PH's other recorded material seems to be super heavy and freaked out psych rock a la White Heaven or Burnt Hills or Acid Mothers Temple or Comets On Fire. Sure the pop element is still present, but it's buried under glorious squalls of psychguitar and pounding drum damage.
The tracks here are long too, so once the vocals fade and the song proper disappears, the songs keep on going, stretched out super extended heart of the sun psychedelic space rock excursionism, incendiary sprawls of white hot guitar freakout.
But, as mentioned above, the songs do still retain some of that poppiness, albeit in seriously small doses, but the presence however slight of that pop, manages to imbue the rest of each song with a subtle pop element, that keeps things from devolving into full on wankery. "Woo hoo" vocals abound, but they're wrapped in hazy streaks of buzz and howl, there are hooks too, they surface here and there, and occasionally, one of the shredding distorto guitars will start playing one of those perfect pop melodies, before letting it splinter and explode back into a psychedelic frenzy.
The B side is weirdly tracked, with several super short blasts of blown out psych heaviness, but right in the middle is an awesome, extended space-psych jam, the guitars explosive and white hot, but underpinned by super melodic looping, walking basslines, which sort of remind us of Redd Kross at their most psychedelic, but again, that little bit of melody, grounds the rest of the song, and transforms a sidelong blast of shreddery, into something weirdly poppy and melodic and listenable, and fucking AWESOME!
Maybe a bit too fierce and fiery for folks who were mainly into the pretty pop side of that first Purling Hiss record, but anyone into the above mentioned bands, or at all into freaked out psychedelia, then this is most definitely the shit.

QUEST FOR FIRE Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee) lp 16.98
Also now here on vinyl!! And comes with a digital download too!
Not sure why we never listed the first record from these guys, but we figured record number two was the perfect opportunity to right that wrong. Quest For Fire are a band of psychedelic space rockers from Canada, who craft gorgeously brooding and occasionally explosive psychrock epics, slow burning string laden drifts that gradually build into explosive psychedelic squalls, or swirling shoegazey folk pop blowouts, equal parts Godspeed You Black Emperor, Spacemen 3, and Kyuss, or maybe Queens Of The Stoneage, since there is definitely a distinct pop element here. Unlike some of our other favorite psychedelic jammers, Quest For Fire seem first and foremost concerned with songs, sure the songs do often unfurl into extended spaced out megajams, but most of the tracks here barely crack the 5 minute mark, and a few hover around the 3 minute pop song mark. Those are definitely the most succinct and hookiest. "Set Out Alone" is a fuzz drenched stomper, the vocals weary and laid back, but the guitars crunchy and crumbly, the drums wild and propulsive, the song peppered with killer psych leads. "Strange Vacation" is strummy washed out psychedelic pop drift, sounding very sixties, while "In The Place Of A Storm" sounds a bit like some Monster Magnet / Spacemen 3 hybrid. We also hear plenty of Wooden Shjips, Sleepy Sun and other modern psychedelic sonic explorers throughout.
Then there are the longer songs, that manage to be the perfect mix of QfF's folky psych pop, and seriously in-the-red space rock psychedelia, like on the 9+ minute close "Sessions Of Light", which spends most of its time brooding and drifting and smoldering, driven by a stripped down loping rhythm, and gorgeous world weary Pink Floyd-ish vocals, but when the band finally let loose, it's epic, and heavy and intense and explosive! Definitely one of those times you wish the song went on for another 10 minutes, just so you these guys could go wild, and we could luxuriate in the epic spaced out shredding.
Seriously great stuff. Definitely recommended for fans of Wooden Shjips, Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Comets On Fire and any of the current crop of like minded sonic explorers...
MPEG Stream: "The Greatest Hits By God"
MPEG Stream: "Set Out Alone"
MPEG Stream: "Strange Vacation"

SEAGAL / VAN DAMME s/t (Saxon Gregory Production) lp 7.98
Either you want this or you don't! Not much we're gonna be able to do to persuade you either way, once we explain the premise: yes, it's a Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme split! This record collects together the audio from a whole bunch of movie trailers by those two iconic '80s action stars. On the Seagal side, you get the exciting advertisements for Above The Law, Fire Down Below, Glimmer Man, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, On Deadly Ground, Out For Justice, Under Siege, and Under Siege 2. On Side Van Damme, enjoy the trailers for Bloodsport, Cyborg, Death Warrant, Double Impact, Double Team, Hard Target, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Nowhere To Run, The Quest, Sudden Death, and Universal Soldier. It's a limited edition of 150 copies, and we only were able to get, like, 4 of 'em, so act fast if you want one (why wouldn't you??). Great DJing fodder we're sure, or just to spin at home prior to a trip to the video rental store.

SERVILE SECT Realms (Ecstatic Peace!) cd 11.98
Finally, another dark missive from this 'alien black metal duo', long time aQ faves Servile Sect, whose ritualist spacepsych dronescapes crackle with black energy, occasionally erupting into full on metallic blackness, but just as often slowly drifting and expanding into sprawling stretches of blurred low end mesmer, laced with chant like vocals and buried bits of melody, mutant otherworldly landscapes of hushed ominous drift and muted psychedelic black ragas.
On past records, the black metal element seemed almost like an afterthought, the records way heavier on the drone and drift, but on Realms, right out of the gate, a blasting lo-fi drum machine rhythm sets the scene, while thick sheets of coruscating guitars and harsh shrieked vokills are laid over the top, but even then, the sound is not so much fierce and grim and sort of hazy and blackly psychedelic, like a black metal blurred into some sort of trancelike black raga, the guitars lush and layered, everything cloaked in a gauze of murky muted swirl.
But soon after, the band dial back the buzz, leaving just the black, a crunchy, distorted almost Wolf Eyesian industrial dirgescape, all mechanical creaks and staticky hiss, but underneath, a mournful piano picks out a barely there lament, a swell of black buzz rises up from the murk, sheets of hiss, like super distorted vocals drift in, the result a haunting funereal industrial doom, that again is not so much heavy and crushing, and moody and atmospheric.
The rest of the record follows a similar pattern, creating lush ritualistic landscapes of distant buzzing drones, SUNNO)))-like avalanches of crumbling distortion, hazy crystalline streaks of almost new age sounding drift, synthy soundtracky tranceouts that sound a little like Zombi or Majeure being played at 16rpm and being broadcast from speakers submerged in brackish water at the bottom of some giant cavern, there are even occasional vocals, deep dramatic croons, way down in the mix, adding a gorgeous dark pop element to certain tracks.
Thick corrosive dins collide with shoegaze-y fuzz, murky avant blackness drifts into hushed minimal shimmer, gnarled black riffage gets tangled up into epic swirling blacknoise squalls, Sunroof!-like ur-drones settle into droned out blackness, culminating in the epic closer, "Universe And Self, Sender And Receiver", which sounds like a prettier fuzzier Wold, noisy and dense and black as pitch, but shot through with subtle melody, with rich layered textures, shifting constantly, a blurred murk that finally explodes into a surprisingly lush and lustrous dreampsych shoegaze softblack blowout that sounds almost like some sort of black metal dreampop, fuzzy and washed out, but still frenetic and fierce. So fucking incredible.
MPEG Stream: "Only The Sky Is Gentle"
MPEG Stream: "Stabbing Through"
MPEG Stream: "Burning Season"
MPEG Stream: "Universe And Self, Sender And Receiver"

SOFT METALS The Cold World Melts (Captured Tracks) lp 13.98
Yet another hat thrown into the eighties retro futuristic sci-fi Carpenter / Goblin new/cold/synth wave faux soundtrack ring, this one comes from a duo called Soft Metals, who definitely draw from the same sonic well as many of their contemporaries, but have a sound that's varied (and catchy) enough, to make them pretty interesting.
For folks more into the dark cold wave buzzy synth side of this new wave sound, the opener might throw you for a loop, with it's synth disco vibe and way up in the mix soulful vocals, an overtly eighties montage soundtrack styled jam, but for folks into Italians Do It better and all that sort of Italo disco dancefloor stuff, it will definitely hit the spot. A little bit cheesy, but seemingly purposefully so, primitive drum machines, fuzzy synths, echo drenched female vox, it's total old school electro pop, which surprisingly leads into something much darker, a robotic Kraftwerk like groove, sinister and sci-fi, motorik and hypnotic, with moments that definitely remind us of Herbie Hancock's "Rockit". From there on out the record veers into some total old school electro pop cold wave, very Teutonic, with detached aloof almost spoken vocals, everything wrapped in swirled effects. The next track might be the biggest surprise, like Reich or Riley rendered in analog cold wave synth form, looped and cyclical, sounding a little like 8 bit video game music, mesmerizing and repetitive and so wonderfully hypnotic. Finally the record finishes off the way it started, with another blast of full on swoonsome and dramatic eighties electro pop...

WHITE CAR No Better (Hippos In Tanks) 12" 9.98
Twisted eighties style new wave electro industrial electronic pop from this duo, a dizzying mix of old school synth pop and industrial crunch, with a teeny bit of Chicago house swirled in. And some straight up eighties MTV style pop. But it's not the parts, it's what they do with them, and what these guys do is pretty bizarre and fantastic.
Imagine Oingo Boingo but way more minimal and druggy and psychedelic, or a way more industrial version of The Fixx, think old Ministry, Foetus, Coil, Severed Heads, even Portion Control, it's poppy, but dark, warped and electronic, new wavey but also a little witch housey here and there.
Woozy melodies are wrapped around stuttery beats, deep super dramatic vox drift over angular off kilter synths, strange sound effects swirl in the background, while the beats skitter and pound, keyboards buzz and pulse, all somehow molded into some retro dancefloor destroying electronic industrial pop weirdness, that manages to totally hit the spot, referencing all of those bands we grew up with, but also twisting that sounds into something fresh and new and gloriously tweaked and tripped out.
Pressed on super thick white vinyl, and probably pretty limited too...

WHITE NOISE SOUND s/t (Alive) lp 17.98
Now on (purple!) vinyl!!
Everyone into Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo, Spacemen 3, Loop, A Place To Bury Strangers, Swervedriver, Black Angels, The Heads, White Hills, Lumerians, Mugstar, Monster Magnet, Serena-Maneesh, Telescopes and similarly drugged out, psychedelic hypnorock, best make some space in your music collection for this, the latest addition to your blissed out space-psych drug rock section (what? doesn't everyone have one of those?), the debut from Welsh space rockers White Noise Sound, who pretty much sound exactly like a heavier, modernized Spacemen 3, all it'll take is a couple minutes of record opener "August", with its motorik drum machine, sung/spoken vox, looped psych guitar mesmer, and then when the band kicks in proper, heavy guitars and propulsive drumming, explosive and hypnotic and if you're anything like us, which we're guessing you probably are, you're done for, just let yourself be pulled under, and dragged along through thick billowing clouds of psychedelic effects, of gloriously bleary drugged out churn and chug, surprising female harmony vocals, wild squalls of psychedelic leads, buzzing sitars, whirring synths, heck there's even some glockenspiel! To be honest it took us a while to get further into the record, as we found ourselves playing that first jam over and over and over.
But it's worth the effort, the whole record is gorgeously lysergic, slipping from propulsive drone rockers like the opener, to tripped out blissy drifts like the follow up "It Is There For You", with its tinkling chimes, clouds of cymbal shimmer, skeletal guitar strum, and motorik pulse, spaced out and spacious. But even those mellow ones build to serious freak outs, the guitars exploding in shards of prismatic shimmer, coruscating sheets of feedback drenched melody, Hawkwinded heart of the sun jams that could (and should) go on forever and ever. In fact, the record for all its explosive moments, definitely spends more time in hazy, druggy, dreamy bliss out mode, letting the synths and sitars weave gloriously gauzy expanses of weightless sonic shimmer and softly pulsing kosmische drift, which only makes the heavier parts that much more dramatic and kick ass.
MPEG Stream: "Sunset"
MPEG Stream: "It Is There For You"
MPEG Stream: "Blood (Reprise)"

YE OLDE MAIDS God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us (Heartworm Press) cd 11.98
!!!!COLD CAVE ALERT!!!!
Originally released as a super limited lp, this pre Cold Cave artifact finally gets a compact disc release, and it's long overdue, as people continue to be totally batshit obsessive about minimalist synth poppers Cold Cave,
Ye Olde Maids is CC mastermind Wes Eisold's faux boy/girl duo, where he actually plays both parts, and follows a similar, yet slightly sweeter poppier path than Cold Cave, so much so that you might be hard pressed to tell the difference on a few tracks. But hey, we're not complaining, because like everyone else, we're too busy digging these propulsive, gloomy as hell lo-fi jams. Like Cold Cave, you might want to compare this to New Order or the Cure in terms of atmosphere and in their overall approach. It's easy to see that this is where Wes Eisold began to solidify all his new wavey inclinations after years of playing in hardcore bands, though the songs definitely stand strongly enough on their own. Things are probably a little more lo-fi and disjointed than what was finally perfected with Cold Cave, but for those who can't get enough CC, you will definitely want to grab this one fast. The cds limited too!!
MPEG Stream: "Cocoa Cherubs"
MPEG Stream: "Candy Cigarettes On Fire"
MPEG Stream: "Dreamscraper"
MPEG Stream: "Love Theme From A Car Commercial"

ZEROCROP "On Tape" (The Tapeworm) cassette 7.98
Three new releases on weirdo UK cassette label The Tapeworm, one a sort of anti-remix of the Fennesz Tapeworm cassette Szampler, one a gorgeous selection of deep kosmische dronemusic played on just intonation toy organs and boomboxes, and this, the latest from Zerocrop, the solo project of a UK musician called simply Parker, whose music is described by the label as "hypnotic mix of complex vocal melodies and spoken word sequences on unsettling themes, set against a rich backwash of pedal steel, guitars and electronics", but to us sounds more like some old school eighties cold/new wave, at least on the first of the four tracks here, old analog synths, primitive programmed beats, deep crooned vocals, propulsive rhythms. The second track begins to sound more like the label description, getting a lot trippier, deep dark synth swells, beneath echo drenched spoken word, super cinematic and haunting, creepy and otherworldly.
The sound then veers right back into something more new wavey, a sort of eighties electronic pop, that fits perfectly alongside the new wave of new wave revivalists.
But then things switch gears again on the side long single track B side, which is somehow a mix of the two, warm whirring new age, wrapped around swoonsome deserty lap steel, laced with samples, all laid atop softly pulsing synths, almost like some weird hybrid of Zombi and Scenic, a sort of Carpenter-y synthscape set amidst ghost towns and tumbleweed, the ranting female preacher religious sample just makes it sound even more cinematic and like some strange transmission you might stumble across on cable access at 4am in a motel room off the interstate somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
LIMITED TO 250 COPIES!!

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A BOLHA Un Passo A Frente (Groovie Records) lp 32.00
Now, reissued on vinyl too!
This Brazilian band flourished circa 1965-1978, starting off as a Beatlesy dance pop group called The Bubbles, before changing their name to its Portuguese equivalent A Bolha in 1970 and going for a harder, more progressive rock sound, inspired in part by the bands they'd seen on a trip to England, at the Isle of Wight festival. They also spent some time as the as backing band for Tropicalia star Gal Costa. But history aside, what matters is the music, and even today A Bolha's lively grooves are pretty great!
This album, Um Passo A Frente, was recorded and released originally in 1973, and is rightly considered a Brazilian rock classic of the era. These tracks (7 from the album proper, plus fantastic 2 bonus cuts, which also appeared on the compact disc reissue we previously listed) range wildly across the spectrum of pop psych / hard rock / Tropicalia, incorporating laidback vibes, vocal harmonies (all songs sung in Portuguese), sudden prog rock changes (and song lengths, a couple up to 9 and 10 minutes), swirling organ, acid rock guitar soloing, honkytonk piano plinkery, frenetic percussion, countryish blues moods, bubblegum boogiewoogie, and even some free jazz squealing sax (such as during side two's epic "A Espera", which also has some really great freak out moments for all of us flute fanciers!). If we had to pick, our favorite track might be "Tempos Constantes", mixing fuzzy guitar riffage n' rippery with out-and-out uptempo sunshiney pop, but it's a tough call. And then there's the bonus cuts. If anything, those two tracks from A Bolha's debut 1971 single are heavier / druggier / jammier than the preceding cuts on this disc, the band apparently lightening up a bit for the album two years later. Worth it for those two alone, almost!
Definitely one for fans of South American psych all told, if you like the likes of later Os Mutantes, Los Dug Dugs, Bango, Embrujo, Som Imaginario, Color Humano, Miguel Cantilo, et. al. And in some weird way, we're even reminded a bit of recent Comets On Fire output!
(Oh, and unlike the slightly mixed-up cd reissue on Lion, this time around, the tracklisting appears to be correct regarding order and times.)
MPEG Stream: "Tempos Constantes"
MPEG Stream: "A Espera"
MPEG Stream: "Sem Nada"

MASSEMORD Skogen Kaller (Cybertzara) cd 14.98
Another awesome warehouse find that definitely deserves to see the light of day. We've had Massemord's Skogen Kaller since 2003... but sometimes stuff gets lost in the shuffle. Anyway, we're glad we found these - all 4 of them, so act fast - because for those like ourselves who dig their metal black, Norwegian, and totally evil, this is sure to hit the spot. Nothing super "out there" or "fucked up" about this one, just grim, buzzing hate with some surprisingly majestic guitar leads thrown in every once in a while. The vokillz are classic black metal rasps delivered in both Norwegian and English (not that you could necessarily tell), and with song titles like "Eternal War", "I Have Sipped The Blood...", and "Flowers For Your Funeral", you should know whether or not this is your cup of freshly harvested human blood or not... Apparently after a name change, Massemord is back to their old moniker under the helm of mainman (and, it would seem, only man these days) Barren. We definitely look forward to checking that stuff out and hopefully won't wait another 7 years to review it...
MPEG Stream: "Solen Skinner Ikkje"
MPEG Stream: "Flowers For Your Funeral"
MPEG Stream: "My Last Breath"

TERRORISM Skyguide (Hospital Productions) cassette 8.98
A few weeks ago we got a killer batch of 'metal' tapes from Hospital Productions, two of which we reviewed, the 2nd album from Vegas Martyrs, and the debut from death-obsessed doom flecked black metal weirdos Curved Blade, both of which sold out and went out of print crazy quick.
In the same batch we also got two other releases, twisted lo-fi outsider sci-fi death metal weirdness from a band called Time Crypt, and super blown out noise metal damage from Terrorism. The bummer is that we intended to check these out, and then order more to review, but before we knew it, both of these were sold out and out of print as well. But we do still have THREE copies of each, they're both bizarre and baffling and perfect for folks into fucked up confusional metal, so at least a few folks will get to check them out...
Terrorism traffic in some seriously terrifying sounds, totally blasted out, in-the-red, screechy, caustic, harsh and hellish noise drenched black metal, think Bone Awl or Akitsa, Ancestors, Malveillance, that sort of raw primitive pound, but then bury it beneath squalls of harsh high end skree, wild chaotic drum splatter, malfunctioning electronics, moaning low end bellows, a crashing, careening, noise metal juggernaut, the sound slipping from total abstract free noise howl, to murky ploddy drift, to brittle blown out black metal blast, to industrial power electronics and back again. Seriously brutal, but pretty dang great. Too bad we only have 3 copies...
Twisted, shrill, harsh, hateful,

TIME CRYPT {Cruel Science} (Hospital Productions) cassette 8.98
A few weeks ago we got a killer batch of 'metal' tapes from Hospital Productions, two of which we reviewed, the 2nd album from Vegas Martyrs, and the debut from death-obsessed doom flecked black metal weirdos Curved Blade, both of which sold out and went out of print crazy quick.
In the same batch we also got two other releases, twisted lo-fi outsider sci-fi death metal weirdness from a band called Time Crypt, and super blown out noise metal damage from Terrorism. The bummer is that we intended to check these out, and then order more to review, but before we knew it, both of these were sold out and out of print as well. But we do still have THREE copies of each, they're both bizarre and baffling and perfect for folks into fucked up confusional metal, so at least a few folks will get to check them out...
Time Crypt unleash a stumbling blast of midtempo lo-fi blackened death metal, the guitars jagged and buzzy, the drums buried in the mix, the vocals a snarly grunt one minute, a reverbed bellow the next, there are occasional bursts of frenzied blast, but they quickly collapse into more lurching lumbering chug and churn, some weird little bits of keyboard surface here and there, the production is damaged and off kilter and perfectly fits the music, which is chaotic and trancey and buzzy and bizarre. We're digging this big time. Too bad we only have 3 copies...
Also features some killer dead astronaut artwork!

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A SUNNY DAY IN GLASSGOW "Autumn, Again" (self-released) lp 15.98
AGALLOCH "Marrow Of The Spirit" (Profound Lore) cd 11.98
ANBB (ALVA NOTO & BLIXA BARGELD) "Mimikry" (Raster-Noton) cd/2x12" 17.98/25.00
ANWORTH KIRK "s/t" (Pre-Cert) lp 19.98
ASSS "August 2010" (self-released) cassette 5.00
AVEY TARE "Down There" (Paw Tracks) cd/lp 14.98/17.98
BAD TRIPS "Open" (Rocketship) lp 15.98
BEACH FOSSILS "Face It / Distance" (Captured Tracks) 7" 6.98
BIRKIN, JANE "Di Doo Dah" (Light In The Attic) cd/2lp 16.98/22.00
BLACK HEART PROCESSION, THE "Blood Bunny / Black Rabbit" (Temporary Residence) cd/lp 12.98/14.98
BLACK MOUNTAIN "Wilderness Heart" (Jagjaguwar) cd 14.98
BLANK DOGS "Land And Fixed" (Captured Tracks) cd/lp 13.98/16.98
BLUE WATER WHITE DEATH "s/t" (Graveface) cd/lp 13.98
BROKENCYDE "Will Never Die" (Breaksilence Recordings) cd 14.98
CALL BACK THE GIANTS "s/t" (Kye) lp 16.98
CINDYTALK "The Poetry Of Decay" (Editions Mego) lp 32.00
CRAFT SPELLS "Party Talk / Ramona" (Captured Tracks) 7" 6.98
DOLPHY, ERIC "Out To Lunch" (Blue Note) lp 12.98
DRUIDS OF STONEHENGE "Creation" (Axis) cd 17.98
ENO, BRIAN WITH JON HOPKINS & LEO ABRAHAMS "Small Craft On A Milk Sea" (Warp) cd 14.98
EXCEPTER "Late" (Woodsist) 12" 14.98
FAUST "71 Minutes" (ReR) 2lp 38.00
FENN O'BERG "Live In Japan Part One" (Editions Mego) lp 21.00
FENN O'BERG "Live In Japan Part Two" (Editions Mego) lp 21.00
FJELLSTROM, MARCUS "Schattenspieler" (Miasmah) lp 19.98
GAUNTLET HAIR "Out...Don't" (Mexican Summer) 7" 5.98
GIRLS AT DAWN "Call The Doctor" (Norton) cd 14.98
GIRLS NAMES / BRILLIANT COLORS "I Lose / You Win" (Slumberland) 7" 4.98
GREEN, CEE-LO "Lady Killer" (Elektra) cd 16.98
HOLTKAMP, KOEN "Gravity/Bees" (Thrill Jockey) lp 14.98
HOWELL, PETER & JOHN FERDINANDO "Tomorrow Come Someday" (Acme) cd+dvd 17.98
IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS "s/t" (Digitalis) lp 33.00
INTERNATIONAL HELLO "s/t" (Holy Mountain) lp 14.98
INVADERS "There's A Light There's A Way" (Fresh) cd 17.98
IRON BUTTERFLY "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Atco) lp 12.98
JEFFERTITTI'S NILE "Hypnotic Rivers Of Sound" (Jnile) lp 9.98
KAREL, ERNST "Heard Laboratories" (And/Oar) cd 14.98
KRIEG "The Isolationist" (Candlelight) cd 14.98
LAZER SWORD "Batman" (Innovative Leisure) 12" 9.98
LAZER SWORD "s/t" (Innovative Leisure) cd 15.98
LEE, DAVID JR. "Evolution" (Universal Sound) cd/lp 19.98/24.00
LESSER / MATMOS / WOBBLY "Simultaneous Quodlibet" (Important Records) lp 17.98
LOWBROW READER OF BASEMENT BROW COMEDY "Issue #8" zine 3.00
MADLIB "Medicine Show No.10 - Black Soul" (Madlib) cd 17.98
MELECHESH "Epigenesis" (Nuclear Blast) cd 15.98
MONARCH "Sabbat Noir" (Heathen Skulls) cd 14.98
NADJA "White Nights / Drone Fields" (Beta-Lactam Ring) 2xdvd 22.00
NECROMANDUS "Orexis of Death & Live" (Rise Above Records) cd 24.00
OLYMPUS "Bob Mould" (Soft Abuse) lp 14.98
PHANTOM PAYN DAYS "s/t" (De Stiijl) lp 17.98
RUNNING "s/t" (Permanent) lp 16.98
SETI-X "Scrambles Of Earth" (Seeland) cd
SHINDIG! "#19" magazine 8.98
SISTOL (VLADISLAV DELAY) "Remasters & Remakes" (Phthalo / Halo Cyan) 2cd 14.98
STELLAR OM SOURCE "Trilogy Select" (Olde English Spelling Bee) lp 17.98
STEVENS, SUFJAN "The Age of Adz" (Asthmatic Kitty) cd/2lp 14.98/29.00
TOBACCO "La Uti" (Anticon) 12" picture disc 15.98
TORSKE, BJORN "Kokning" (Smalltown Supersound) cd 17.98
UNTOLD "Come Follow Me" (Soul Jazz) 12" 10.98
V/A "Great Googly Moo" (Ace) cd 16.98
V/A "I Love Techno 2010" (Lektro) cd 17.98
V/A "Peruvian Funk" (Secret Stash) lp 20.00
V/A "Riddim Box Vol.1" (Soul Jazz) 2lp 24.00
V/A "Riddim Box Vol.2" (Soul Jazz) 2lp 24.00
V/A "Riddim Box" (Soul Jazz) 2cd 21.00
WILD NOTHING "Golden Haze" (Captured Tracks) cd 10.98

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[2] If we are out of some of your items and we think we will get them within the same week, we can wait to ship. Or... If it's going to be more than a few days to complete your order, we will ship what we have and then will contact you as the remainders arrive.

[ note ] Due to the everchanging nature of the independent record business, we are not responsible for listed price changes (due to supplier price changes) and often cannot update our site fast enough to reflect these changes, but we will always try to let you know of any differences.


NEW DOMESTIC SHIPPING RATES :
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STANDARD (DEFAULT):

    1 CD (or cassette or DVD or 7") : $2.95 USPS First Class                                                                                               

    1-3 CD (or cassette or DVD, but not 7"s) : $4.95 USPS Priority Mail via flat rate box                                                          

    4+ CD, or any package with LPs in it (also books & box sets), any number of items: $9.95 UPS Ground    
     
Also, please note that UPS will not ship to PO Boxes, so those packages that would have gone UPS will be sent USPS Priority for $9.95,
or you may select  USPS Media Mail instead, see below.

UPS shipments are automatically trackable and include insurance up to $100.        
USPS shipments (First Class, Priority, and Media Mail) are all automatically trackable.

OR, you can choose instead to have your order shipped by MEDIA MAIL:

    1-3 items (i.e. w/ LPs) : $5.95 USPS Media Mail 

    4+ items : $7.95 USPS Media Mail


Special shipping needs (e.g. UPS Next Day) are also doable, just ask for a quote.
Also, if you are just getting 1 item that would therefore ship USPS First Class, and for some reason you would rather have it sent Priority, then you could say so in the comments field. (Note: however, 7"s are too big for the Priority flat rate boxes.)

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PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK SHIPPING ADDRESSES BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR ORDER. Aquarius is not responsible for orders delayed or returned due to incorrect or undeliverable addresses provided by the customer. Returned packages will be reshipped at the customer's expense.

Shipping rates are charged per shipment.


INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING :
-------------------------------- For foreign customers we ship via US AIRMAIL ("First Class International"). Your price is based on the actual cost of shipping plus $1. You can check the US Postal Service international rate calculator: http://ircalc.usps.gov/. (Use the "Package" category and see the price for "First Class International". 1-3 cds is usually 1 pound.)

We highly recommend insurance for your international package, but it is very expensive! You can check the US Postal Service international rate calculator: http://ircalc.usps.gov/. (Use the "Package" category and see the price for "Priority Mail International". 1-3 cds is usually 1 pound. 1 lp is usually a little over 1.5 pounds.)


INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE :
-------------------------------- You are hereby forewarned that Aquarius is not responsible if your international package gets lost in the mail. Insurance is your only recourse if your records never show up. Since the terrible events of 9/11, mail service has been slow and undependable... and while we haven't experienced any *confirmed* permanently lost mail, insurance might provide some additional piece of mind in this time of upheaval. We strongly recommend it. But yes, it is very expensive. It's your choice. Again: Aquarius is not responsible for lost mail, so if you aren't willing to take a (slight but real) risk, please buy the insurance.

International insurance is very expensive! In fact often the insurance costs more than the value of your package, in which case it obviously does not make sense to insure it. You can check the US Postal Service international rate calculator: http://ircalc.usps.gov/. (Use the "Package" category and see the price for "Priority Mail International", which is the way insured packages are sent. 1-3 cds is usually 1 pound. 1 lp is usually a little over 1.5 pounds.)

For example: for a one-pound package worth $18 going to England, shipping without insurance is about $11.00. But with insurance, the shipping / insurance total is over $26.00!

It is your reponsibility to check the international rate calculator in order to determine whether or not you want international insurance. If you tell us you want international insurance, we will add it to your order no matter how much it costs!


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SOME SELECTED UPCOMING RELEASES

----} November 16th or around then maybe Murmuure "s/t" cd version on Paradigms Deathspell Omega "Paracletus" cd on Season Of Mist Former Ghosts "New Love" cd on Upset the Rhythm Soft Circle "Shore Obsessed" cd/lp Hisato Higuchi "Henzai" lp on Family Vineyard Games (Daniel Lopatin) "That We Can Play" on Hippos in Tanks Diplo "Blow Your Head Volume 1: Diplo Presents Dubstep" cd on Mad Decent ----} November 16th Stereolab "Not Music" cd/2lp on Drag City Faun Fables "Light of a Vaster Dark" on Drag City The Bug "Infected EP" ep on Ninja Tune Nelly "5" cd Royksopp "Senior" cd Thin Lizzy reissues: "s/t", "Shades Of A Blue Orphanage", "Vagabonds Of The Western World" ----} November 22nd Kanye West "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" cd ----} November 27th Locrian "The Crystal World" 2cd on Utech Tetragrammaton "Point of Convergence" cd on Utech Gog "Heavy Fierce Brightness: Spells of the Sun" cd on Utech Daniel Menche "Terre Paroxysm" cd on Utech Mamiffer/House of Low Culture "split" cd on Utech ----} also upcoming sooner or later or sooner or later or whenever
v/a "The Rain Don't Fall On Me (Country Blues 1927-1952)" lp on Mississippi
v/a "In The Storm So Long" lp on Mississippi
FM3 "Buddha Machine III" soundbox device (4 new loops! clear boxes!)
Rene Hell / Three Legged Race "Violin Petal {Auden}/Whipped Secrets " lp on Arbor
Concern "Casarean" lp on Arbor
The Fun Years "God Was Like No" lp on Barge Recordings
Scientist "Scientists Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space" 2cd on Tectonic
Basil Kirchin "Primitive London" cd/lp on Trunk
Rob Jo Star Band "s/t" lp reissue on Pomme
Gnod / A Middle Sex lp on Blackest Rainbow
Celer "Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy" lp on Blackest Rainbow
Terror Danjah "Undeniable" cd on Hyperdub
Disappears "Guider" cd/lp on Kranky
The Psychedelic Aliens "Psycho African Beat" cd/lp/4x7"box reissue on Academy
Evolution Control Committee "All Rights Reserved" 2cd/lp on Seeland
Dam-Funk "Adolescent Funk" on Stones Throw
Bridget St. John "Ask Me No Questions" 180 gram lp reissue on 4 Men With Beards
Bridget St. John "Songs For The Gentle Man" 180 gram lp reissue on 4 Men With Beards
Bridget St. John "Thank You For..." 180 gram lp reissue on 4 Men With Beards
Console "Herself" cd/2lp on Disko B
Pastels "Up For A Bit With The Pastels" lp reissue on Fire
Mount Eerie "Song Islands Vol.2" on P.W. Everum & Sun, Ltd.
Liars "Proud Evolution" ep on Mute
Seijaku (Keiji Haino's new band!) "Mail From FUSHITSUSHA" cd on Doubtmusic
Seijaku (Keiji Haino's new band!) "You Should Prepare To Survive Through Even Anything Happens" cd on Doubtmusic
Hirose Junji "The elements, tenor saxophone solos" cd on Doubtmusic
Wildildlife "Give In To Live" limited edition lp on Volcom
Blizaro "Nightmare City" cd on Razorback
Bob Smith "The Visit" cd reissue on Relics
Xasthur "Portal" vinyl on Hydra Head
Expo 70 "Black Ohms" vinyl edition on Beta-lactam Ring
The Sticks "s/t" cd/2x7" on Upset The Rhythm
Harvey Milk "s/t" vinyl edition on Hydra Head
Pyramids w/ Nadja "Lustmord / Ulver Remix" 12" on Hydra Head
Jim Haynes "Rocks. Hills. Plains" on Root Strata
Nurse With Wound "Skrag" cd on United Dairies
Jonathan Coleclough "Flutter" 2cd-r on October
Johann Johannsson "And In The Endless Pause" lp on Type
Jay Reatard "Blood Visions" lp on Fat Possum
King Khan & BBQ Show "Invisible Girl" cd/lp on In The Red
Felix "You Are The One I Pick" cd on Kranky
Papercuts "Where Are The Waves" cd on Gnomonsong
Grumbling Fur (Guapo + Jussi from Circle) cd
Anton Batagov "Passionate Desire To Be An Angel" cd on Long Arms Records
Japancakes "If I Could See Dallas"
Jazzfinger "The Sun's Golden Blood" cd on Beta-Lactam Ring
v/a "Noise Room" cd on Soniq
Country Teasers / Ezee Tiger split lp on Holy Mountain
Erase Errata TBA cd on Kill Rock Stars
Rodan TBA cd/lp on Quarterstick
Swell Maps "International Rescue" clear vinyl LP reissue on Alive
Loss "Despond" cd on Profound Lore
Boduf Songs "Strait Gait" cd/lp on Latitudes
The Fall "Future Our Clutter"
Panda Bear "Tomboy"
Sloath s/t lp on Riot Season
Ken Camden "Lethargy & Repercussions" cd/lp on Kranky
LCD Sound System / Wooden Shjips "Drunk Girls" 7" on DFA
White Hills "tba" on Thrill Jockey
Phil Manley "Life Coach" on Thrill Jockey
Outsiders "CQ" vinyl reissue on Jackpot
Boston Spaceships "Our Cubehouse Still Rocks" cd/lp on Gbv Inc
Nurse With Wound "Second Pirate Session" cd on United Jnana
The Meads Of Asphodel "The Murder Of Jesus The Jew" cd
Aguaturbia "s/t" deluxe lp reissue on Lion/Record Runner
Aguaturbia "Volumen 2" deluxe lp reissue on Lion/Record Runner
Dug Dugs "s/t aka Lost in the World" mini-lp sleeve cd reissue on Lion/Get On Down
Dug Dugs "Smog" mini-lp sleeve cd reissue on Lion/Get On Down
Truth & Janey "No Rest for the Wicked" limited edition lp reissue on Lion/Rockadrome
v/a "Groove Club Vol. 2: Cambodia Rock Spectacular!" cd/2lp on Lion/Get On Down
v/a "Groove Club Vol. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified!" cd/2lp on Lion/Get On Down

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