CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN Telephone Free Landslide Victory (Spin Art) cd 13.98
All the old favorites have been receiving their welcome, much-deserved reissues in the few years. Hurrah for Blue Oyster Cult, Venom, Fleetwood Mac, and Heldon among many others! And what d'ya know, Camper Van Beethoven are the next up to bat. Marking the 20th anniversary of Camper Van Beethoven's formation, the folks at SpinArt Records have kindly re-released (with bountiful bonus tracks) this, their debut Telephone Free Landslide Victory, as well as their collection of rarities and oddities called Camper Vantiquities, II & III, and their self-titled third album. Wow! These albums are true '80s college radio indie rock classics -- easygoing, familiar and slightly dishevelled. This band had a particular knack for writing infectious, endearingly off-kilter songs that fused tweaked bits'n'pieces from a grab bag of musical styles and whose lyrics were often stories based on seemingly random subject matter revolving around halfbaked musings.
The record that started it all. This sure does bring us back. 1985. We were in high school, maybe you were in college, or even junior high, but this record was IT. Everyone loved this record, and rightfully so, silly and sloppy, rocking and totally original. Features loads of songs you'll probably remember the second you hear them. "Take The Skinheads Bowling", "The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon", "Where The Hell Is Bill?", "Vladivostock" and loads more. Also includes songs from the long out of print "Take The Skinheads Bowling" EP!
MPEG Stream: "Take The Skinheads Bowling"
MPEG Stream: "Where The Hell Is Bill?"

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN Tusk (Pitch A Tent) 2cd 19.98
Yes, this is exactly what you think it is. That is, if you're thinking this is Camper Van Beethoven's complete song for song remake of Fleetwood Mac's classic album Tusk. And not surprisingly, it's already received extreme positive and negative response when played in the store, and some of the frowns did come from CVB fans. Sounded like some fond memories were sullied by this release. Doesn't it seem like a strange thing to do? But the outcome is actually pretty unremarkable... rather docile and ho-hum at times ("Save Me A Place"), and at others, it seems to be stuck in the trying-real-hard-to-be-different'n'weird trap (for example:"Sara", "Brown Eyes" and the title track). The initial recordings took place back in '87, but additional work was done in 2001 to bring it to its present state. After thirteen years, whose idea was it to dust off those old tapes anyways? Their versions of "That's Enough For Me" and "Think About Me" made me think about what it'd be like if Wilco took a turn at it instead. Now, that's a pretty neat thought! Perhaps highlighting their own influence on later bands, their take on "That's All For Everyone" would not be at all out of place on the recent Ugly Casanova record with its ramshackle percussion and hollered Isaac Brock-y vocals. After listening to it, all I'm left with is the thought that... gee, this must've been really fun to record. While it could be something truly inspired, it just sounds like a late '80s / early '90s college radio band doin' something wacky, and doesn't really do the original justice. Me, I found it to be somewhat annoying. Of course, you might feel altogether differently about this subject, so give 'er a listen.
RealAudio clip: "Think About Me"
RealAudio clip: "Sara"
RealAudio clip: "That's All For Everyone"
RealAudio clip: "I Know I'm Not Wrong"
RealAudio clip: "Tusk"

CAMPFIRE SONGS s/t (Catsup Plate) cd 13.98
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This came out originally back in 2003... apparently it went out of print, but now Catsup Plate has repressed 'em. A good thing too, since it's a pretty cool record. Also a smart thing, since the Animal Collective is soooooo popular these days, and Campfire Songs is just another incarnation of that group! In fact, one of our suppliers has taken to offering this cd as an Animal Collective album entitled "Campfire Songs". And it may as well be, even if that wasn't how it was billed when it first came out. Here's what we wrote about it way back on list #160:
A really nice surprise from the mysteriously monickered Campfire Songs. Featuring members of Avey Tare And Panda Bear and the Animal Collective to which they apparently belong. Unlike the fractured electronic glitchery and damaged pop of Avey Tare and the costume rock buffoonery of many of their contemporaries, Campfire Songs is more akin to the murky Fahey-on-qualudes of World (Of Dreams) reviewed way back on list #81, or the dreamy, strummy ambient blur of Scott Tuma, but with a way more washed out, late night free-folk feel. Which makes sense since this was recorded late at night, live to three minidiscs, on a screened in porch in rural Maryland. Very repetitive and hypnotic, with lots of Sunroof!-ish shimmer and plaintive vocals, rhythmic strumming, and field recordings of the surrounding forest. Equal parts sixties hippy folk, nineties ambient free noise and deconstructed indie rock twang. Good stuff.
MPEG Stream: "Doggy"

CAMPFIRES s/t (Mexican Summer) 7" 4.98
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You think folks would get tired of all the lo-fi trippy home-brewed psychedelic pop that seems to show no sign of letting up, but with bands like Campfires creating 7"s like this, can't see that happening anytime soon. This one man band from Chicago, takes the fuzzy Beach Boys psych bliss of the Elephant Six label and crams it through the cracked aesthetic of the current crop of lysergic pop deconstructionists, resulting in three short sharp jams that manage to be lush and ebullient, but also fuzzy and filthy and raw, rich with hooks and killer riffs, a sound warm and blown out, "She Was Down" could be the lo-fi pop jam of the year, with its ultra distorted drums, buried lilting vocals, crunchy main riff, and a hook that will stay lodged in your head for ages. "Stormy Late Fall" sounds like Big Star and Redd Kross recorded onto a Dictaphone, woozy, warped, and so catchy, with some seriously unforgettable melodies, and some bad ass guitar wrangling.
The closer is a little more stripped down, brittle and crunchy, but continues on in the same vein, with sweetly melancholic melodies wrapped around shambling drums and warbly guitar jangle.
Barely more than 5 minutes, but in this case it's definitely quality over quantity, can't wait for the 'full length', even if it ends up being less than 20 minutes long...
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CAMPILONGO, JIM & THE 10 GALLON CATS Heavy (Blue Hen) cd 15.98
More fab western swing sounds from local guitar hero Campilongo and his band, also starring Joe Goldmark on pedal steel. Together Jim & Joe conjure the spirits of Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West. Adventurous, snappily dressed, fun stuff. Includes a cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" (alongside originals like "Mozart Woulda Played A Tele").

CAMPILONGO, JIM, & THE TEN GALLON CATS Loose (Blue Hen) cd 14.98
Definitely one of San Francisco's musical treasures, here's the country/jazz guitar master and band, with instrumentals inspired by robots, Pee Wee Herman, and the alien autopsy, along with versions of "Harlem Nocturne" and "Mr. Sandman"...wonderful. Fans of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant will be happy (the pedal steel player is amazing!), and I could see folks into the likes of Man or Astroman? also digging this.

CAN Can Box (Mute) 2cd+video+book 59.00
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The Can box set actually managed to come out on its intended release date! 2 cds of live & unreleased performances from 1972 - 1977 (culled and remastered from audience tapes with recordings of "Dizzy Dizzy", "Vernal Equinox", "Yoo Doo Right", "Spoon", and "Cascade Waltz" as well as spontaneous improvisations given the titles "Jynx", "Fizz", "Colchester Finale", and "Kata Kong"), an opulent 500 page book of interviews, reviews, histories, and photos (with full text in English, German, and French!), and a two-hour video (including a rather artful documentary compiled by Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher and the concert footage of the Can-Free-Concert from 1972). Nits can be picked, but all in all this box is completely essential to any true Can fan(atic).

CAN CAN DVD (Spoon) 2dvd + 1cd 56.00
Fans of Krautrock listen up! The Can DVD is upon us. Now, if you already have the Can Box released a few years back, with the Can Video, you've got a portion of what's on here, but of course in a less high-tech, analog format. The Can DVD is actually two dvds, between them featuring the amazing 51 minute Can-Free-Concert film (circa Ege Bamyasi, 1972) and the 86 minute Can Documentary that were found on the Can Video. But it's also got a short Can tribute film (1 minute) by Brian Eno, biographies of Can members, a discography, and a brand new 81-minute Can documentary entitled Can Notes. There's also some stuff you can do with your PC which we haven't checked out, and MORE. A lot of it seems to focus on what the Can guys are up to these days, which is interesting but when you view the discography you'll be reminded that all their best albums were prior to 1974, so...
Plus, there's a third disc, a cd, compiling audio from Can solo projects: Michael Karoli & Sofortontakt!, Irmin Schmidt & Kumo, Jaki Liebezeit with Drums Off Chaos and Burnt Friedman, and Holger Czukay & U-She -- much of it live from a 1999 tour, with a few tracks taken from previously released albums. And there's more new music on dvd number 1, which includes five 5.1 surround sound remixes of old Can songs. You even get documentary footage about "The Making Of The 5.1 Remixes"! So, they certainly did stuff a lot into this package. Dedicated Can fans will eat it all up, casual Can fans might not care -- but either way, if you haven't seen the Can-Free-Concert, it's worth it for that alone! And not 'cause there's a juggler, but because of the freakin' music. Wow.

CAN Delay (Spoon / Mute) cd 16.98
By this point a history lesson on Can is probably not needed as their importance to the last 25 years of underground and not so underground music and their incredible musical legacy has been quite well documented. And we're pretty excited about the recent renewed interest in Can resulting in the remastering and re-releasing of much of their back catalog. The aptly titled Delay was recorded in the late '60s with Malcom Mooney on vocals. This is a way more stripped down, raw, proto-punk Can then maybe most folks are used to. Recorded around the same time as White Light/White Heat this shares the same blistering spirit that The Velvet Underground were exploring across the sea. We've no doubt mentioned Can as a huge influence on so many AQ favorites: Circle, No Neck Blues Band, Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Radiohead, Tortoise, on and on and on.... but listening to Delay you begin to think that Can may just out-rock them all. A year or so before The Stooges would hit the scene, Can were already displaying such raw emotion and all out rock exuberance, that the world couldn't help but be awed (if they'd heard it). Delay once again demonstrates that no matter what kind of sounds Can were working with they always managed to find the emotional core, and let it seep into every bit of music they made.
MPEG Stream: "Uphill"
MPEG Stream: "Butterfly"

CAN Ege Bamyasi (Spoon/Mute) cd 12.98
These two essential krautrock classics from Can (Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi) have been reissued yet again, nothin' different except they're a little cheaper, always a good thing. Though, whatever you'd pay for 'em (even if they were twice this price!) would be money well spent, these are so good.
Here's our review: Ege Bamyasi! Can's fourth album features their second and most fantastical vocalist, Damo Suzuki. Ege is one of our faves from Can, especially of Allan's, though we think he just envies Suzuki's amazing hair! Let us just say that if you don't own this already, what are you waiting for?? The reissues contain extra liner notes and candid photos that some earlier cd editions lacked. But unless you're totally obsessed with the band and are certain of your ability to appreciate the remastering note-for-note, there's not too much else about these reissues that would require buying 'em again. If you've happy with your older copies, you'd probably do well to just keep them and sleep soundly at night.
But if you don't have a copy of this record at all... well let's say once more, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? Can's Ege Bamyasi is absolutely brilliant. Can of course were one of the most important 'krautrock' bands, along with Amon Duul II, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Faust and a few others. With Japanese singer Damo Suzuki at the mic on this he sings some of their best songs, like "Sing Swan Song" and "Vitamin C" and "I'm So Green". Actually EVERY song on here is wonderful. Languid and laidback, yet rhythmically insistent. Mellow and gorgeous and deep. Right on. Fans already know how good this is, everybody else should trust us and pick up one of these, you won't be sorry!
MPEG Stream: "Sing Swan Song"
MPEG Stream: "Vitamin C"

CAN Ege Bamyasi (Spoon) lp 16.98
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Oooh. Nice new vinyl reissues of several classic Can albums have just been released. Their fourth LP "Ege Bamyasi" was originally released in 1972 and is Allan's favorite Can album ever (although, it IS hard to choose). Can of course were one of the most important 'krautrock' bands, along with Amon Duul II, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Faust and a few others. "Ege Bamyasi" has Japanese singer Damo Suzuki at the mic, and on this he sings some of their best songs, like "Sing Swan Song" and "Vitamin C" and "I'm So Green". Actually EVERY song on here is wonderful. Languid and laidback, yet rhythmically insistent. Mellow and gorgeous and deep. Right on.
Enough. You know the score. Fans already know how good this is, everybody else should trust us and pick up one of these reissued LPs or the cd versions that we also have in stock, you won't be sorry!

CAN Future Days (Remastered) (Spoon) cd 12.98
This is Krautrock at its absolute dreamiest. Next to Ege Bamyasi, this is one of our most favorite Can albums. A regulation-size track, "Moonshake" is surrounded by three long ones to create a lush, lifting journey. Suzuki's vocals just merely whisper in and out of the scene as the percussion and organ work itself into a transfixed polyrhythmic atmosphere and becomes balanced again through use of some contant and pulsating bass. "Moonshake" is a Can-brand pop track, barely truly "pop-ish" but as much in that vein as they ever reached. Then the album ends in pure elegance and glory. We're still hard pressed to see a huge difference in these remasterings vs. their cd predecessors, but happy they're here and sooooo available, the classic Krautrock albums that they are.
MPEG Stream: "Future Days"
MPEG Stream: "Moonshake"

CAN Landed (Remastered) (Spoon) cd 16.98

CAN Live (1971 - 1977) (Mute / Spoon) 2cd 17.98
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2 cds of live & unreleased performances from 1972 - 1977 (culled and remastered from audience tapes with recordings of "Dizzy Dizzy", "Vernal Equinox", "Yoo Doo Right", "Spoon", and "Cascade Waltz" as well as spontaneous improvisations given the titles "Jynx", "Fizz", "Colchester Finale", and "Kata Kong"). This double cd was the musical chapter of the Can Box (which also featured a video and book, currently out of print).

CAN Monster Movie (Spoon / Mute) cd 15.98
1969 debut from "The Can" (as it says on the cover) with Malcolm Mooney singing. Culminates in the 20 minute-plus "Yoo Doo Right".

CAN Monster Movie (Spoon) lp 16.98
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Oooh. Nice new vinyl reissues of several classic Can albums have just been released. "Monster Movie" was the 1969 debut LP from The Can, that band of kraut-rockin', Stockhausen-studyin', JB's-lovin, beat-poetry-recitin' hippy freaks. This album features the unique vocals of black American singer Malcolm Mooney, and establishes Can's signature style of relentless rhythmic psychedelia with songs such as the 20-minute"Yoo Doo Right". Along with the Velvets and the Stooges, Can were one of the most 'advanced' groups of the era, and certainly one of the best Krautrock bands. We needn't say more, 'cause most probably if you're at all interested in this new vinyl version, you already are familar with the album (which we also stock on cd, of course) anyway. But if you've yet to explore the world of Can, you could do a lot worse than starting here.

CAN Monster Movie (remastered) (Mute / Spoon) cd 16.98
Monster Movie! Can's first album and the first in a series of re-mastered re-issues features their original vocalist, Malcolm Mooney. Let us just say that if you don't own this already, here's a good chance to buy, not only this reissue, but a whole bunch of the best early Can on cd. The reissues contain extra liner notes and candid photos. But unless you're totally obsessed with the band and are certain of your ability to appreciate the remastering note-for-note, there's not too much else about these that's too terribly special. If you've happy with your older copies, you'd probably do well to just keep them and sleep soundly at night knowing that by not buying these reissues, you're not missing too much. If however, you'd like to spread some holiday cheer, here's what we said about this when the vinyl was reissued some time ago: Monster Movie was the 1969 debut LP from The Can, that band of kraut-rockin', Stockhausen-studyin', JB's-lovin, beat-poetry-recitin' hippy freaks. This album features the unique vocals of black American singer Malcolm Mooney, and establishes Can's signature style of relentless rhythmic psychedelia with songs such as the 20-minute"Yoo Doo Right". Along with the Velvets and the Stooges, Can were one of the most 'advanced' groups of the era, and certainly one of the best Krautrock bands. If you've yet to explore the world of Can, you could do a lot worse than starting here.
MPEG Stream: "Mary, Mary So Contrary"
MPEG Stream: "Outside My Door"

CAN Prehistoric Future (Tago Mago) lp 15.98
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Vinyl-only reissue of the "Prehistoric Future" cassette, documenting krautrock legends Can in their early days, June 1968 to be precise. Live ("spontaneously composed") stuff from their laboratory at Schloss Norvenich, taped edited and mastered by Holger Czukay. Mono. Sounds like a practice jam to us, very loose and stoned. But of course it's wonderful stuff for Can fans! It says something on the cover about it being "the very first session" but we don't know what that really means...

CAN Radio Waves (Sonic Platten) cd 17.98
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Not-to-be-missed rarities from these krautrock masters, beginning with 1972's 35-minute live jam "Up The Bakerloo" (Damo on vocals)--we once had a Can BBC Sessions cd that featured this (under the fuller title "Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne") but the rest of the disc consisted of later (circa '74) BBC recordings of lesser interest. Not so w/ this disc, which follows "Bakerloo" with a great version of "Paperhouse" from the 1971 German Beat Club TV broadcast, another live track from 1970, and an alternate version of "Little Star of Bethlehem" from the Delay 1968 album--PLUS the non-album B-sides of Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi-era singles ("Turtles Have Short Legs" and "Shikaku Maru Ten", both of course great).

CAN Sacrilege (Mute) 2cd 15.98
Why mess with a good thing? Seminal krautrockers Can are downright inspiring, apparently, and short of adding four-on-floor-beats to make an insta-dance track, you be hardpressed to ruin a Can song. 15 classic tracks are remixed by the likes of Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, The Orb, A Guy Called Gerald, Pete Shelley, U.N.K.L.E., Bruce Gilbert and others. Some drum'n'bass, some weirdo techno noodling, and more than a few quite interesting interpretations. Double cd for the price of one.

CAN Soon Over Babaluma (Spoon) cd 16.98

CAN Soundtracks (remastered) (Mute / Spoon) cd 13.98
Soundtracks! Can's first album to feature Damo Suzuki on vocals. These are tracks from various indie films scored by them in 1970. Features the 14 minute, psych guitar-heavy "Mother Sky" and the beautiful Malcolm Mooney-sung jazz-lounge piece "She Brings The Rain", both all-time favorites of most Can fans. Let us just say that if you don't own this already, here's a good chance to buy, not only this reissue, but a whole bunch of the best early Can on cd. The reissues contain extra liner notes and candid photos. But unless you're totally obsessed with the band and are certain of your ability to appreciate the remastering note-for-note, there's not too much else about these that's too terribly special. If you've happy with your older copies, you'd probably do well to just keep them and sleep soundly at night knowing that by not buying these reissues, you're not missing too much. If however, you'd like to spread some holiday cheer, here's your chance to sprinkle the Can collection amongst those you love.
MPEG Stream: "Don't Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone"
MPEG Stream: "Soul Desert"

CAN Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute) cd 12.98
These two essential krautrock classics from Can (Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi) have been reissued yet again, nothin' different except they're a little cheaper, always a good thing. Though, whatever you'd pay for 'em (even if they were twice this price!) would be money well spent, these are so good.
Tago Mago! Let us just say that if you don't own this already, what are you waiting for?? The reissues contain extra liner notes and candid photos that some earlier cd editions lacked. But unless you're totally obsessed with the band and are certain of your ability to appreciate the remastering note-for-note, there's not too much else about these reissues that would require buying 'em again. If you've happy with your older copies, you'd probably do well to just keep them and sleep soundly at night.
Furthermore, for those that don't have and haven't heard Tago Mago, here's what we said last time it was reissued:
1971's Tago Mago double album was Can's third full-length release, and their first with expatriate Japanese singer Damo Suzuki (whom they discovered busking on the street outside a club). It's truly a sprawling masterpiece of krautrock. Witness the weird noise/drone stuff on the 17 minute "Aumgn", or the totally hypnotic rhythmic psych groove of the equally side-long "Halleluwah". Again, we probably don't have to say much more, you already have this, right? But if Can's new to you, we'd recommend this (as well as Monster Movie and Ege Bamyasi and Soundtracks) as among their best efforts. PS: If you like Circle and you don't have this record, get it!!
MPEG Stream: "Mushroom"
MPEG Stream: "Oh Yeah"

CAN Tago Mago (Spoon) 2lp 19.98
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Oooh. Nice new vinyl reissues of several classic Can albums have just been released. 1971's "Tago Mago" double album was their third full-length release, and their first with expatriate Japanese singer Damo Suzuki (who they discovered busking on the street outside a club). It's truly a sprawling masterpiece of krautrock. Witness the weird noise/drone stuff on the 17 minute "Aumgn", or the totally hypnotic rhythmic psych groove of the equally side-long "Halleluwah". Again, we probably don't have to say much more, you already have this, right? But if Can's new to you, we'd recommend this (as well as "Monster Movie" and "Ege Bamyasi") as among their best efforts. And we have it on cd, too, of course.
PS If you like Circle and you don't have this record, get it!!

CAN Tago Mago (40th Anniversary Edition) (Spoon ) 2cd 19.98
Nice!! One of our favorite Can, nay krautrock, nay any-kind-of albums ever (that is if you don't ask Andee, who for some insane reason doesn't like Can at all), given a fancy 40th Anniversary reissue! What's so fancy about it you ask? Well, first the packaging, it's in a nice gatefold miniature lp style sleeve, with the original art of the German lp edition that came out back in 1971 (yay, 1971!). That's nestled inside a cardboard wallet-like folder which bears the cover from Tago Mago's UK release in 1972, a movie still of singer Damo and drummer Jaki on stage, in action, dramatically lit. For some reason they made big deal about this alternate cover being used on this reissue, it's cool to have it but we're happy the original art is also present and accounted for on that gatefold sleeve. Also inside the folder, a thick booklet with vintage photos and plenty o' detailed liner notes, including some by the guy from Primal Scream.
More importantly though, what makes this so special is that it includes a whole extra disc, a previously unreleased, 48 minute live performance from 1972! They do "Mushroom" and "Halleluwah" from Tago Mago, as well as "Spoon" from that year's equally amazing Ege Bamyasi, that song here stretched out to almost a half hour in length! Any true Can fan will want this just for the live disc, even though you probably already have one or more remastered versions of Tago Mago proper. But yeah, with the live set and the nice packaging, this is definitely worth getting, it's an upgrade all right.
For those of you who aren't big Can fans already, this would be a fine place to begin your love affair with this amazing band (c'mon, Andee!). Here's what we wrote about Tago Mago when it was last reissued:
1971's Tago Mago double album was Can's third full-length release, and their first with expatriate Japanese singer Damo Suzuki (whom they discovered busking on the street outside a club). It's truly a sprawling masterpiece of krautrock. Witness the weird noise/drone stuff on the 17 minute "Aumgn", or the totally hypnotic rhythmic psych groove of the equally side-long "Halleluwah". Again, we probably don't have to say much more, you already have this, right? But if Can's new to you, we'd recommend this (as well as Monster Movie and Ege Bamyasi and Soundtracks) as among their best efforts. PS: If you like Circle and you don't have this record, get it!!
MPEG Stream: "Mushroom"
MPEG Stream: "Oh Yeah"
MPEG Stream: "Spoon (Live 1972)"

CAN Unlimited Edition (Remastered) (Spoon) cd 16.98
Limited Edition (so-called 'cause originally they only made 15,000 of the LPs when it first came out in 1974) was an album of unreleased bits from Can's recording sessions up to just before Soon Over Babaluma. And now, these "sound polaroids" are remastered and rereleased for us to enjoy once again, in the expanded form of Unlimited Edition! Yay!
While other, maybe not-so-legit, Can out-take albums that have been released have sometimes bordered on the unlistenable in terms of recording/production quality, UE maintains the pristinely clear sound of their most notable releases like Ege Bamyasi and Future Days. We still don't know HOW engineers Holger Czukay (also Can's bassist) and Rene Tinner got their sound to be this good in the Can studio, but man, it is eternally impressive.
If you follow them as a band, UE seems much different than other albums. It does not lack direction in any way, though the songs seem to be an assemblage of either exercises in different styles of music making (i.e "Ethnic Forgery Series No. 36" -- a loose New Orleans-style jazz number, or "Cutaway" -- a tape-spliced collage piece) or intuitively crafted with more cerebral/artful emphasis in rhythm, synth layers, improv and space. There's much more of a stoney experimental intensity in many of these tracks, leaving those on our other favorite Can albums to sound like crazy catchy funk jams in comparison. The tracks compiled here are from '68 to '75.
We have to admit, that this album possibly above all others demonstrates their intuition and entropic ingenuity balanced by both an incredible sense of form in sound and impressive self-engineering.
Even Andee, who doesn't (gasp!) normally like Can, actually likes this one. But regardless, this is highly highly recommended.
MPEG Stream: "Doko E"
MPEG Stream: "Mother Upduff"

CAN'T s/t (Ultra Eczema) lp 25.00
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As always, these Ultra Eczema lps are amazingly packaged, in gorgeously designed sleeves, pressed on nice thick vinyl, and limited to 400 copies, most of which are sold before we even realize they're out. So we only got a tiny handful of these (5-10 copies) so don't get your hopes up.
Soundartist / performer / designer Jessica Rylan gives us a super intimate disc of her peculiar brand of balladry. From vocal / piano duets, with extremely strained vocals and soft, lilting piano, to super abstract, ultradistorted solo vocal explorations, with her voice buried in muffled muted murk and stuttering squeaking electronics, with random bits of drum kit tossed in, to what sounds like some dark fuzzed out electronic dronegrind, a pulsing thick electronic industrial soundscape, to solo vocals, unadorned, swathed in natural reverb. Pretty weird, and alternatingly harsh and lovely.
Liner notes by Thurston Moore.

CANAVARRO, NUNO Plux Quba (Moikai) cd 14.98
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Gentle, melodic, electronic minimalism from this obscure Portuguese composer who originally recorded this album in 1988. It sounds so much like Jim O'Rourke's electronic experiments that O'Rourke had to release it on his new label - Moikai.

CANAVARRO, NUNO Plux Quba (Moikai) lp 9.99
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Gentle, melodic, electronic minimalism from this obscure Portuguese composer who originally recorded this album in 1988. It sounds so much like Jim O'Rourke's electronic experiments that O'Rourke had to release it on his new label - Moikai.

CANCER CONSPIRACY s/t (SoGoodMusic) cd 9.98

CANCER CONSPIRACY, THE The Audio Medium (Big Wheel Recreation) cd 14.98
Didn't care too much for CC's first record. A little too much jazzy-instrumental-Tortoisey-post-rock-wankery. But this new record is something else entirely. Well, not entirely. There are still elements of jazz and post rock, and it -is- instrumental, but it gets way more metal and prog and space-y and experimental. And the songwriting is so much more focused. Intense and emotional. Even the playing seems better. Cancer Conspiracy fall somewhere between Don Caballero, recent Cave In and maybe Pink Floyd, but with moments of blissed out space rock, crushing metal, noodly meandering post rock, gorgeous piano driven melodies, and some complex Voi Vod-ish parts. Really intense and really great. It's always exciting when a band takes a lifeless genre and completely turns it inside out and makes it their own. Fans of AQ fave Feuhler, Don Cab, Cave In may have found themselves a new favorite band!
RealAudio clip: "...To Sleep"
RealAudio clip: "Broken Heartbeats Gathered And Rebroadcast"

CANDIRIA 300 Percent Density (Century Media) cd 16.98
Third album of crazed hardcore metal-meets-fusion from these Brooklynites. Their singer is at home with both brutal death metal grunting and Wu Tang-esque rapping but never at the same time. Don't worry, it's not nu-metal Limp Bizkit stuff, it's way more intense and bizarre and jazz-damaged.

CANDIRIA Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Too Damn Hype) cd 14.98
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OK, if you can imagine ultra-technical death metal with brutal but almost-rap vocals, bizarrely juxtaposed with sublimely cheesy 70's jazz-fusion explorations, then you've got an idea of what Candiria sound like. Absurd, yes, but actually quite amazing. It's a case of "hey, you got your Pantera in my Return To Forever"...you know the rest. They should get together with Tom Jenkinson, as some of this stuff does approach a Squarepusherish density.

CANDIRIA Process Of Self-Development (MIA) cd 15.98
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This Brooklyn band has been perplexing metal fans for years with their unlikely mix of brutal death metal, jazz fusion, and hip hop, and they keep getting better and better. The metal is stop and start, brutal and growling. The fusion is straight up Return to Forever (so good it even fooled jazz/fusion obsessive Josh from the Champs). The hip hop is dark and skewed, a kind of Kool Keith/Tribe Called Quest hybrid. They don't ever really mix genres (although some jazzy structures are evident in the metal), but the elements, no matter how disparate, really gel to make this a really weird and amazing record.

CANDIRIA The Coma Imprint (Lakeshore Records) 2cd 17.98
Candiria are extraordinary for so many differnt reasons. They play a mix of stop/start death metal, hardcore, hip hop, and jazz fusion which is weird enough. They do it well, which is even more weird. And strangest of all, they have managed to become fairly popular playing this obtuse hybrid. Especially since most metalheads don't like hip hop or jazz fusion. And vice versa. And Candiria don't play "hip hop metal", their hip hop shit is REAL, as is their jazz fusion. They are fronted by a vocalist as comfortable howling his guts out as he is flowing on the mic. And this band has some of the most serious chops EVER. Think Naked City stop-on-a dime, switch-genres-every-10-seconds kind of chops. The fusion shit they spit out is SO REAL, it's almost cheesy, like Mahavishnu Orchestra or Stanley Jordan. But at heart, they are a metal band. And a pretty unbelievable one. Fans of Meshuggah and other super technical death metal will have a field day with the ridiculous time signatures and insane song structures. But like I stated earlier, an open mind is a must 'cause you never know when the metal will drop out and a funky hip hop groove will take over, or a horn section and some skittery 7/8 jazz licks will take the spotlight. A few things have changed this time around. On earlier records, the hip hop tracks were completely separate from the metal tracks, but on a few tracks here, there is some rapping on the metal tracks which brings them dangerously close to 'nu metal' territory at times. And their jazz-fusion obsession is in full effect, with at least two thirds of the tracks sporting some crazy skittery fusiony breakdowns (as well as some full on metal-free fusion tracks). And in the process Candiria come up with some occasional totally wacked death-metal-vocals-over-fusion-rhythm-workouts. Crazy! Disc two is 6 tracks of hip hop/electronica, 2 straight up hip hop jams, with the other 4 running the gamut from jazzy drum and bass to trippy skittery noodly ambience. Weird but pretty cool. Definitely a difficult band, and certainly an aquired taste, but I think most Aquarius customers are up to the challenge.
RealAudio clip: "Year One"
RealAudio clip: "Bring The Pain/Multiple Incisions"
RealAudio clip: "Peel This Strip And Fold Here"
RealAudio clip: "Faction"
RealAudio clip: "Blue Suede Timbs"

CANDIRIA What Doesn't Kill You... (Type A) cd 14.98
Fifth album from our favorite hip hop meets death metal meets jazz fusion band!! Seriously. Read one of our other reviews of them if you're curious -- all their records are pretty darn good (if, like us, you like their weird blend of styles).
MPEG Stream: "The Nameless King"
MPEG Stream: "Blood"
MPEG Stream: "9mm Solution"

CANDLEMASS Death Magic Doom (Nuclear Blast) cd 15.98
They certainly aren't, y'know, lowering expectations with a title like that (unless you were looking for twee indie pop or something else non-metallic). And if anyone could call a record Death Magic Doom it's Candlemass bassist/mastermind Leif Edling and his not-so-merry band of spooky Swedes (and one Texan). Last list we highlighted The Devil You Know, the magnificent reunion album of Ronnie James Dio and Black Sabbath under the Heaven & Hell name, and mentioned in our review that we didn't think any other attempts at epic doom this year could compete. However, a decent runner up has to be this latest slab of heaviosity from Swedish doom veterans Candlemass! They offer up their tenth studio album, also their second full-length with vocalist Robert Lowe (of Texas doomsters Solitude Aeturnus), who has already proved himself to be the best (and maybe only) choice to replace Candlemass's iconic '80s singer Messiah Marcolin at the mic. If you liked Lowe's 2007 Candlemass debut King Of The Grey Islands, you'll like this one too!
More classic soaring vocals, chugging guitars, Sabbathy riffs, depressive atmosphere, frantic soloing... this is heavy, heavy (but melodic) metal! The album starts off fairly uptempo with the storming "If I Ever Die"... but if that's too fast for you, you'll be relieved to be crushed by the lumbering next track, "Hammer Of Doom" in all its bell-tolling glory. It's as if the first track saw the second one coming and just wanted to hurry up and get the heck out of the way. Other faves here include "The Bleeding Baroness" (with a catchy refrain that's a bit bizarre to have stuck in your head), and "House Of 1000 Voices" (the album's longest track at 7:50, and thus most epic epic). We should also mention "Demon Of The Deep" which is a song about a sea monster. Somehow Lowe's dramatic, fist-clenched vocals combine with the subject matter to transcend from the ridiculous to, if not the sublime, at least the quite doomfully entertaining!
In some ways, this review is superfluous. I mean, what doomfan isn't gonna want a record called Death Magic Doom by freakin' Candlemass in their collection??
NB. this version includes "Lucifer Rising" as a bonus track.
MPEG Stream: "Hammer Of Doom"
MPEG Stream: "The Bleeding Baroness"

CANDLEMASS Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (Candlelight) 2cd 14.98
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Essential debut from these classic epic '80s doomsters!! Includes bonus live disc.

CANDLEMASS Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (Powerline) 2cd 16.98

CANDLEMASS From The 13th Sun (Music For Nations) cd 15.98
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"This album is dedicated to the greatest band of all time -- Black Sabbath." So it says, quite rightly, in the liner notes of this release. This is the second effort by the reformed (not reunited) Candlemass, the Swedish metal legends who in the '80s almost single-handedly established the genre of "Epic Doom Metal."
The *new* Candlemass, tho, harkens back earlier in time, wallowing fully in the early '70s heaviness of the gods Sabbath. Gone are the high pitched operatic vocals of their old singer, gone are the shred guitar leads of their old axe-slinger (not that there was anything wrong with those things...) Instead, the band's massive riffs are supported by dirgy, Ozzy-like vox and spacy, psychedelic electronic effects. There's even sounds of rain and bells to complete the Sabbath homage. The abstract song titles ("Arx/Ng 891", "Cyclo-F") and sometimes mysterious atmospheres make this its own record though, kind of a timeless art-doom for the nineties.

CANDLEMASS King Of The Grey Islands (Nuclear Blast) cd 17.98
The black-as-sabbath, epic metal majesty of Sweden's doom veterans Candlemass returns, with the follow-up to their well-received self-titled reunion album from 2005. That reunion was short-lived, as their signature '80s vocalist Messiah Marcolin has (again) left the band. In his place, though, is perfectly acceptable, equally talented substitute, with impeccable doom credentials: Robert Lowe of cult Texan epic doomsters Solitude Aeturnus, a band that's essentially the US answer to Candlemass anyway. (Lowe still sings for SA, who also have a new album out this year, which we have in stock as well.) True, Lowe doesn't boast a hefty 'fro or wear monk's robes like Messiah, but his classy, regal pipes are perfect for soaring gloomily over the lead-weight riffage meted out in classic fashion by Candlemass' distorted 'n downtuned guitars. And speaking of guitars, the unfettered soloing on here is choice, reminding us that metal (with long hair, loud guitars, fantasy imagery) is, in some ways, essentially the extreme evolution of '60s psychedelia, in the case of doom bands like Candlemass, tending towards the bad trip side of things!
While they last, we've got the nice import digipack version with two bonus tracks, both of 'em redoings of Candlemass classics ("At The Gallows End" and "Solitude") with Robert Lowe at the mic, just to further prove he'd be worthy to wear those robes if he wished.
MPEG Stream: "Emperor Of The Void"
MPEG Stream: "Man Of Shadows"

CANDLEMASS Lucifer Rising (Nuclear Blast) cd ep 10.98
Of all the sub-genres of metal there are, one of our favorites, one of our specialties you might say, is doom metal. And even doom metal breaks down even further into many, many sub-sub-genres. While we sell a lot of the sludgier stuff, the more cleanly-sung, epic brand of doom is something we absolutely love as well. Bombastic, almost operatic, this variety is based in large part on the Dio-years Sabbath template, and was perfected in the late '80s/early '90s by the likes of Sweden's Candlemass and Texas's Solitude Aeturnus. So, who better than a rejuvenated Candlemass, with the vocalist from Solitude Aeturnus at the mic, to bring us exquisite new examples of this timeless style of doom metal today?
Following on from their excellent King Of The Grey Islands album last year, the current Robert Lowe-fronted version of Candlemass has released a full-length "ep" consisting of 2 new songs ("Lucifer Rising" and "White God"), one old Candlemass classic re-recorded ("Demon's Gate"), and a nine-song live recording from Athens, Greece in 2007, on which you'll quite often hear a horde of excited Greek doom freaks singing along.
So, fans get their money's worth here. Lowe is really one of the few people who could have taken over from iconic Candlemass vocalist Messiah Marcolin, and handles their old songs superbly. The new stuff is great too, fully in the glorious, gloomy Candlemass tradition of grandiose, depressive dirges and heavy metal headbanging. And like we said in our review of King Of The Grey Islands, there's definitely a dark, psychedelic aspect to the guitar soloing...
MPEG Stream: "Lucifer Rising"
MPEG Stream: "Mirror, Mirror (Live In Athens, 2007)"

CANDLEMASS Nightfall (Powerline) 2cd 16.98

CANDLEMASS s/t (Nuclear Blast) cd 14.98
It's nightfall again, time to dream ancient dreams of the epicus doomicus. Yes, it's a NEW album from '80s Swedish doom metal legends Candlemass. It's been a few years...
The classic line-up has re-united at last, so heavy metal monk Messiah Marcolin is back at the mic, and guitar solos flow again from the fingers n' fretboard of lead axe wielder Lasse Johansson. No true metaller can be unmoved. Though bassist/riffmaster Leif Edling kept busy in recent years with some other projects and even did a couple records with variant line-ups of Candlemass (1999's From The 13th Sun, the last album to bear the Candlemass name, is actually one of our favorites in their discography), fans have been wanting to hear more from the same band that gave 'em old faves like Nightfall and Ancient Dreams, back when they could claim to be "the heaviest band on the planet" (amazing but true). So they did it. And Messiah's powerful pipes are as good as ever, while Leif & Co. churn out the Sabbath-riffed epicks like it's 1987. I don't think too many old Candlemass fans will be disappointed. Not already a fan? Well, if you don't have any of their records, it might be strange to start with this one and not already have one of their '80s classics in your collection, but then again this sure will give you a fine idea of what their sound is all about. For the most part though, we imagine this release is meant for those whom the name "Candlemass" already means a lot. Indeed, that's probably why the cover of this simply self-titled return is blank white except for their gothic logo and a small cross! Worshippers note, this is the import digipack version with bonus track "Mars and Volcanos".
MPEG Stream: "Seven Silver Keys"
MPEG Stream: "Witches"

CANDLESNUFFER s/t (Dr. Jim's Records) cd 14.98
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"If you happen to live outside of the confines of the Australian experimental music scene, you'd be forgiven for uttering the word "Who?" when the name David Brown is mentioned. All others shall see me after class. Mr. Brown is one of the lynchpins in the Australian avant-garde, and has been for well over a decade.
Now in his mid '40s, his first big break, so to speak, was playing with AC/DC for roughly a month back in 1976; but, skip roughly ten years, in which he played around with various obscure jazz and experimental ensembles and concentrated heavily on his visual art (another story in itself), and land yourself in late '80s Melbourne. Definitely one of the most white-hot bands of their time, and one sadly obscured to just about everyone but to-the-letter obsessives like myself, were power-trio extraordinares, Dumb and the Ugly. With a wildly grimacing Brown on bass, six-string poser (and concurrent member in Ollie Olsen's No at the time) Michael Sheridan on guitar, and Man About Town (and elsewhere) John Murphy on drums (he being ex-News, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Nico and pretty much everyone else on earth), their mixture of Hendrix-style trio guitar psych and Swans-esque lard-arsed whump was an experience to witness and a pleasure to whack on one's turntable.
Cuurently, David Brown has recorded this solo CD under the name Candlesnuffer. Consisting mainly of heavily treated (and often unrecognisable) guitar spliced up occassionally with some percussion and other effects, the fourteen songs contained within run the gamut from A-Z: from Bailey/Chadbourne-esque guitar noodling to This Heat-meets-Touch/Mego electro experiments to NWW/Kraut-style drones to intense noise blasts and roughly all the points in between. I rarely ever listen to any "contemporary" experimental albums, much less purchase them. They simply don't hold my interest for usually more than a song or two. With painstaking attention to detail, the ability to really compose an otherwise seemingly disjointed piece of music, to pastiche all the different elements together to create a total album's worth of interesting material and make the songs move along, David Brown, AKA Candlesnuffer, has made a contemporary experimental album I've not only played many times, but one I'd be happy to purchase. I couldn't think of higher praise." - Dave Lang / Opprobrium

CANDY CLAWS Hidden Lands (Two Syllable) cd 12.98
We first discovered Colorado drone bliss pop-gaze duo Candy Claws via their last record, In The Dream Of Sea Life, a gorgeous collection of sounds and songs composed and recorded to sound as if they were in fact at the bottom of the ocean, warped and woozy, dark and aquatic, but for this new record, Hidden Lands brings the sounds of CC to the surface, lets them breathe, sprawl and blossom. Apparently based on a book called The Secret Life Of The Forest, these songs are meant to evoke all manner of 'secret lands', the worlds inside living creatures, the Earth millions of years before humans, all of the things that have gone on and still go on that we don't yet understand or can't yet observe. Pretty heavy, but fear not, the music is light in comparison, a washed out psychedelic dream pop, a little orchestral, a lot Elephant 6, chiming guitars, buried angelic voices, simple percussion, lush synths and singing strings, a sort of power pop blurred into something much more ambient and ethereal, there are hints of Neutral Milk Hotel, Beach Boys, Jellyfish, but in keeping with the science angle, it's like CC took scrapings from those bands and grew Hidden Lands in a petri dish, only to then plant the resulting lifeforms in the garden outside, in the shade of big oak trees, at the foot of some snow capped mountains, and then recorded the various growths, a hazy, slowly expanding sun dappled shimmer drenched fragmented pop. In some ways, the underwater element of the last record still feels present, it's like listening to jangly indie pop, broadcast through a hydrophone, the vibrations traveling through the water, and arriving at our ears, bent and twisted and beautifully warped. A little carnivalesque, a little psychedelic, a little shoegazey, this is some sort of otherworldly impressionistic pop, there may be hooks, and verses and choruses, but they're blurred and smeared and muted and mixed, the song structures seems to have come unglued at a fundamental level, allowing this dreampop to become even dreamier. So fantastic. And totally recommended for anyone into woozy, hazy, droney, dreamy blisspop.
MPEG Stream: "In The Deep Time"
MPEG Stream: "Warm Forest Floor"
MPEG Stream: "A Strange Land Discovered"

CANDY CLAWS Hidden Lands (Two Syllable) lp 17.98
NOW ON VINYL!!
We first discovered Colorado drone bliss pop-gaze duo Candy Claws via their last record, In The Dream Of Sea Life, a gorgeous collection of sounds and songs composed and recorded to sound as if they were in fact at the bottom of the ocean, warped and woozy, dark and aquatic, but for this new record, Hidden Lands brings the sounds of CC to the surface, lets them breathe, sprawl and blossom. Apparently based on a book called The Secret Life Of The Forest, these songs are meant to evoke all manner of 'secret lands', the worlds inside living creatures, the Earth millions of years before humans, all of the things that have gone on and still go on that we don't yet understand or can't yet observe. Pretty heavy, but fear not, the music is light in comparison, a washed out psychedelic dream pop, a little orchestral, a lot Elephant 6, chiming guitars, buried angelic voices, simple percussion, lush synths and singing strings, a sort of power pop blurred into something much more ambient and ethereal, there are hints of Neutral Milk Hotel, Beach Boys, Jellyfish, but in keeping with the science angle, it's like CC took scrapings from those bands and grew Hidden Lands in a petri dish, only to then plant the resulting lifeforms in the garden outside, in the shade of big oak trees, at the foot of some snow capped mountains, and then recorded the various growths, a hazy, slowly expanding sun dappled shimmer drenched fragmented pop. In some ways, the underwater element of the last record still feels present, it's like listening to jangly indie pop, broadcast through a hydrophone, the vibrations traveling through the water, and arriving at our ears, bent and twisted and beautifully warped. A little carnivalesque, a little psychedelic, a little shoegazey, this is some sort of otherworldly impressionistic pop, there may be hooks, and verses and choruses, but they're blurred and smeared and muted and mixed, the song structures seems to have come unglued at a fundamental level, allowing this dreampop to become even dreamier. So fantastic. And totally recommended for anyone into woozy, hazy, droney, dreamy blisspop.
MPEG Stream: "In The Deep Time"
MPEG Stream: "Warm Forest Floor"
MPEG Stream: "A Strange Land Discovered"

CANEY, MORGAN & KAMAL JOORY Magic Radios (City Centre Offices) cd 14.98
Magic Radios opens with a gathering of electronics that buzz and crackle over the ebb and flow of a ghostly drone, but swiftly moves into the realm of warm horns and shufflin' drums ("3000 Miles"), then continues to melt into a range of other sonic terrains -- some more successfully than others. There's the beautiful, serene, acoustic song "Take My Light" rich with strings and almost choral voices, followed by a soothing, swaying downtempo track, then an exotica-tinged spacy number "Flyaway" with murmured vocals that fans of Air might find rather fetching. Overall, a somber, glimmering journey. Quite nice.
RealAudio clip: "Take My Light"
RealAudio clip: "3000 Miles"

CANINUS Now The Animals Have A Voice (War Torn) cd ep 7.98
We know you've been waiting for this one. At least judging by the rabid (tee hee) reaction to the recent 7" by the band Hatebeak, a death metal outfit fronted by a parrot. Well now, along comes Caninus to up the stakes. Sure, the parrot in Hatebeak is able to squawk up a storm, and his maniacal screechings fit perfectly amidst the churning riffs but a parrot on its own is hardly a scary proposition. But with Caninus, you've got the same crushing, downtuned metal juggernaut, only this time the vocals come from the drooling fanged mouths of Budgie and Basil, two snarling pitbulls! That's right, pitbulls. Thankfully, barking is kept to a minimum, and instead Basil and Budgie spend most of the time growling furiously, their guttural grunts and grrr's WAY more evil than even the scariest of death metal vocals. Unlike some big fat long haired metal guy doing his best cookie monster grunt, who at the most could drink you under the table, these two canine vocalists could literally rip your guts out, and maybe even would given the chance. When Budgie and Basil, spittle flying, and teeth bared, growl ominously over huge downtuned riffs, it is genuinely pants-shittingly scary. The way metal should be. The booklet has the lyrics and liner notes on each track from the dogs themeselves! "Are we owned by you, or are YOU owned by us? Let's see, you pick up our shit, take us for walks, buy us food, feed us everyday, drive us around, wash us, take us on trips...looks like YOU are OUR SLAVES. Sleep tight tonight, maybe I'll wake you up if I smell smoke. maybe I won't. Remember WE own YOU!" Not all of the liner notes are so downright hostile. Some of them are pretty cute, as the dogs detail their rescue from the shelter, and discourage breeding and teaching dogs to be violent. Plus the slogan "Go Vegan" is displayed prominently on the sleeve as well. The cd has two tracks not on the 7" (both demos of songs NOT on the record) but 7" buyers get spiffy colored vinyl. Guess you gotta get both! PITBULL GRINDCORE!
MPEG Stream: "Bite The Hand That Breeds You"
MPEG Stream: "Fear Of Dog (Religious Myths)"

CANINUS Now The Animals Have A Voice (War Torn) 7" 4.50
We know you've been waiting for this one. At least judging by the rabid (tee hee) reaction to the recent 7" by the band Hatebeak, a death metal outfit fronted by a parrot. Well now, along comes Caninus to up the stakes. Sure, the parrot in Hatebeak is able to squawk up a storm, and his maniacal screechings fit perfectly amidst the churning riffs but a parrot on its own is hardly a scary proposition. But with Caninus, you've got the same crushing, downtuned metal juggernaut, only this time the vocals come from the drooling fanged mouths of Budgie and Basil, two snarling pitbulls! That's right, pitbulls. Thankfully, barking is kept to a minimum, and instead Basil and Budgie spend most of the time growling furiously, their guttural grunts and grrr's WAY more evil than even the scariest of death metal vocals. Unlike some big fat long haired metal guy doing his best cookie monster grunt, who at the most could drink you under the table, these two canine vocalists could literally rip your guts out, and maybe even would given the chance. When Budgie and Basil, spittle flying, and teeth bared, growl ominously over huge downtuned riffs, it is genuinely pants-shittingly scary. The way metal should be. The booklet has the lyrics and liner notes on each track from the dogs themeselves! "Are we owned by you, or are YOU owned by us? Let's see, you pick up our shit, take us for walks, buy us food, feed us everyday, drive us around, wash us, take us on trips...looks like YOU are OUR SLAVES. Sleep tight tonight, maybe I'll wake you up if I smell smoke. maybe I won't. Remember WE own YOU!" Not all of the liner notes are so downright hostile. Some of them are pretty cute, as the dogs detail their rescue from the shelter, and discourage breeding and teaching dogs to be violent. Plus the slogan "Go Vegan" is displayed prominently on the sleeve as well. The cd has two tracks not on the 7" (both demos of songs NOT on the record) but 7" buyers get spiffy colored vinyl. Guess you gotta get both! PITBULL GRINDCORE!
MPEG Stream: "Bite The Hand That Breeds You"
MPEG Stream: "Fear Of Dog (Religious Myths)"