TEMPLETON TWINS, THE WITH TEDDY TURNER'S BUNSEN BURNERS Trill It Like It Was (EM Records) cd 23.00
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Kinda like a Mr. Show sketch! This cd reissue of an LP from the sixties features then-contemporary pop hits (like the Beatles) done in the old fashioned style of the 1920s. Fun. Another weird one from Japan's always-odd EM Records.

TEMPLETON, MARK Standing On A Hummingbird (Anticipate) cd 15.98
Nice title! And, oooh. It's a very nice recording too. This debut album by electro-acoustic glitchtronica artist Mark Templeton should appeal to fans of Paul Wirkus, Mitchell Akiyama, Guiseppi Ielasi and others working in the experimental-but-beautiful, lowercase field of painterly abstraction, processed instruments, delicate drone, and (last but not least) ambient melodies. Mark Templeton's use of guitar, accordion, vibraphone, cymbals and especially banjo have us most closely comparing this to Geoff Mullen's wonderful thrtysxtrllnmnfstns, as Templeton is similarly submersing the notes played acoustically into a warm, electric bath of creaking staticky stuff, accompanied by murmuring field recordings and chirping digital glitch, like the pleasant but disintegrated soundtrack to some grainy super 8 footage, barely heard beneath the whirr of the film projector itself. Sweet swells of sound throb and drift, fracture and coalesce. It's all very lovely and mysterious, gentle caresses for curious ears.
MPEG Stream: "Pigeons Hurt"
MPEG Stream: "Standing On A Hummingbird"
MPEG Stream: "Pattern For A Pillow"

TEMPO NO TEMPO Waking Heat (self-released) lp 9.98
We'd been hearing lots about this energetic San Francisco band but our ears had yet to grace them until now, and we like what we hear! Angular and melodic post-punk that's reminding us a lot of the crisp energy of the 90's D.C./Dischord scene (Jawbox, Q & Not U, Faraquet) as well as having some of the spunk and relentless uptempo demeanor as folks like Les Savy Fav, Black Eyes, or a less spazzy Mae Shi. We bet these guys are super fun to see live. The LP comes on clear vinyl with a coupon for a free digital download.

TEMPORAL MARAUDER Makes You Feel (Spectrum Spools / Editions Mego) lp 21.00
BACK IN STOCK!!
Another amazing release from Spectrum Spools, the Editions Mego sublabel, who over the last few months has given us records from Mist, Bee Mask, Fabric and Forma, all of them fantastic, and this one is no different. A killer collection of hypnokraut synth psych, that purports to be vintage recordings from back in the day, but we're guessing is more likely the work of a modern music maker raised on a steady diet of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze.
The record slips back and forth between propulsive almost chaotic krautrock grooves, and more blissed out percolating kosmische synthscapes. Warped loops and swirling effects wrap around a motorik pulse, glistening electro grooves throb hypnotically amidst swirling streaks of blooping and bleeping effects, soft billowing swirls of arpeggiated synths blur into gauzy soundtacky stretches, sometimes splintering into dirgey IDM skitter, or still more noisy electronic pulses. Much of this actually sounds like Astral Social Club at their most electronic.
Every song here is a warm glowing chunk of kosmische bliss out, whether it be a murky sprawl of synth burble and skeletal skitter wreathed in squiggles and chirps, or percolating melodies doused in bleary eared shimmer, all like the work of some sonic mad scientist, whose cauldron is a burbling concoction of classic krautrock, abstract electronica, and dreamy ambient minimalism. So good!

TEN KENS s/t (Fat Cat) cd 14.98

TENACIOUS D s/t (Epic) cd 17.98
For those you who have somehow managed to not become completely obsessed with the 'D', let us bring you up to speed. A few years back there was an amazing sketch comedy show on HBO called Mr. Show. Completely hilarious and more importantly, unfettered by the rules of television (i.e. there was lots of nudity, foul language, etc) seeing as it was cable. The show ran for a few seasons and then Bob and David, the show's masterminds, were screwed out of their show by HBO so the only way to see it was to buy it on EBAY, which we all of course did. Mr. Show occasionally featured a then-unknown Jack Black, who would later go on to steal the spotlight in High Fidelity and become a big star. But after Mr. Show and before stardom, came a short lived HBO series called Tenacious D, revolving around the adventures of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, otherwise known as Tenacious D, the world's greatest, but pathetically underappreciated open mike night duo. The D spent 6 episodes rocking with Sasquatch, stalking their biggest fan Lee, battling the devil, and infiltrating a christian commune that worships gourds, and of course playing impossibly catchy songs on two acoustic guitars with ridiculous lyrics, super complicated parts and perfect harmonies. Combining cheesy seventies riff rock, heavy metal, folk and a peurile obsession with pussy and weed, the D became cult heroes, with copies of the series and bootlegged live shows selling for big bucks on the internet. But with the world clamoring for an official release and fans like Dave Grohl (of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters) we knew that day would come, and it finally has!
So a few things have changed. Most noticeably, the D are no longer an acoustic duo. They are a full on rock band, with drums (courtesy of Dave Grohl of course) electric guitars and even strings! On first listen, it was kind of a bummer, since part of what made it so funny was that these two dorky fat guys were playing classic rock/metal on two acoustic guitars. But the flipside is that the D's unabashed love of seventies cheese metal and FM rock can be fully realised and becomes even more of a brilliant parody. Allan keeps telling us that if we lived in the dorms, we would hate this record. Probably true. It's stupid and silly and the songs are all about fucking and smoking and swearing. But we don't live in the dorms and hopefully we can appreciate this on a different level. Lots of the songs from the series are redone and revamped, and there's a handful of new songs as well as a lot of arguing and discussions about stuff like cock pushups. And the songs sound great. Super rocking, big riffs, stupidly catchy hooks, really heavy, great production, and the vocal harmonies are still intact and still perfect.
So of course you should buy the record, but if you get hooked, you can find the tapes of the HBO series on EBAY and definitely go check out their video for 'Fuck Her Gently'. It's offensive enough to guarantee you won't be seeing it on MTV anytime soon. It's by John K. (of Ren and Stimpy infamy) and it's pretty amazing. You can watch it at http://www.spumco.com.
RealAudio clip: "Tribute"
RealAudio clip: "Explosivo"
RealAudio clip: "Kyle Quit The Band"
RealAudio clip: "Karate"
RealAudio clip: "Double Team"

TENACIOUS D The Complete Master Works (Epic) dvd 19.98
Here's what you gotta do. You have to ignore the legion of frat boys that bang their heads wildly to Tenacious D songs, and try to forget the overproduced debut album, and just clear your mind and succumb to the D. This shit is GODLIKE. Originally a sort of spinoff from the equally godlike Mr. Show, Tenacious D concerned the exploits of the greatest band in the world, and their continuing struggles at various open mic nights. As well as the occasional run ins with Sasquatch, Satan, cults, and crazed fans. All of you who only discovered Jack Black from his recent School Of Rock or hosting Saturday Night Live, NEED to see this, and understand why people knew he was destined to rock our fucking socks off. Disc one is titles 'For Fans' and features an entire live performance in London and is amazing, complete with JB battling a giant inflatable dragon with his mighty sword a la Dio, and plenty of onstage tantrums and bickering. Disc one also contains all 6 episodes which until now had been only available as nth generation dubs, and are so good, they'd be worth $20 all on their own. The episodes are a brilliant and hilarious mix of sketch comedy a la Mr. Show and live acoustic performances, and that's how these songs sound best, just two acoustic guitars, two amazing voices, and some of the best songs ever! If you haven't seen these you are in for a treat. Disc two is titled 'For Psycho Fans' and is pretty much just that. Features three very peurile and disgusting short films like Butt Baby and JB's BJ. You just have to see them. There's also some behind the scens in the studio footage and television appearances on MadTV, Crank Yankers and Late Night. But disc two also has their videos which are amazing. The Spike Jonez directed "Wonderboy", a Lord of the Rings style epic (as well as the making of), "Tribute" (as well as the making of) and the totally amazing "FHG (Fuck Her Gently)" animated video directed by the same guy who did Ren And Stimpy! Finally there's a documentary about life on the road with the D. Worth it for the episodes alone, but even more worth it with all that extra crap!!

TENACIOUS D The Pick Of Destiny (Epic) cd 16.98

MPEG Stream: "Kickapoo"
MPEG Stream: "Classico"
MPEG Stream: "Dude (I Totally Miss You)"

TENACIOUS D The Pick Of Destiny - Deluxe Edition (Epic) cd 27.00

MPEG Stream: "Kickapoo"
MPEG Stream: "Classico"
MPEG Stream: "Dude (I Totally Miss You)"

TENDER FOREVER Wider (K) cd 14.98
So very "K Records"! One gal band Tender Forever is such a perfect fit on this Olympia, WA indie pop label. Melanie Valera makes her low-key sweet Casio-festooned pop on an assortment of keyboards, drum machines, a tattered acoustic guitar and drumkit and a bunch of other noisemakers from the kitchen cupboard (chopsticks, wooden spoon, rice, saucepan). Her softly emotive multilayered vocals meet at the crossroads of Sinead O'Connor, Mirah and Tegan & Sara. Folks around hear were reminded of The Blow and Mates Of State too!!
MPEG Stream: "Tiny Heart And Clever Hand"
MPEG Stream: "Nice If They Tried"

TENDER TRAP Film Molecules (K) cd 14.98
Another honey pie melodious incarnation from Amelia Fletcher and crew. She's already strewn a bountiful sugar coated pop blossoms for many years in Marine Research, Heavenly and Talulah Gosh, but now along with her fellow MR bandmates John Stanley and Rob Pursey, she's veering away from the twee pop path that has been her trademark. They started this group last year with some self-imposed rules: 2-minute songs only, no touring. These rules were soon tossed in the trash. The first rule was broken when they were asked to play with Magnetic Fields in Dublin. Plus, they've got some songs that *gasp* are longer than 120 seconds. Nonetheless, things do sound a bit different this time around. For instance, they've added some electronics into the usual jangly guitar mix and recorded it all digitally. From one song to the next, the trio dons different musical jackets. Stylistically this is all over the damn place. There's a traditional Fletcher perky pop song ("Oh Katrina"), a thumpin' dance track that's right at home next to Stephin Merritt's Future Bible Heroes ("Face Of 73" - complete with Duran Duran "Girls On Film" camera shutter intro!), a raucous, crunchy guitar number ("Dyspraxic"), a slow romantic lovely ("Brown Eyes") and nine more. Nevertheless, at the heart of all of this is really delightful pop, and did we really expect anything less from Ms Amelia? I think not!
RealAudio clip: "Face of 73"
RealAudio clip: "Oh Katrina"
RealAudio clip: "That Girl"
RealAudio clip: "Brown Eyes"

TENECKE Block Terrain (k2o) cd 16.98
Wayne Magruder's avant-rock resume includes current membership in Calla and previous work with Main as the touring drummer in 1996 and as the drummer for Bowery Electric's exceptional "Beat" album. His Tenecke solo project is considerably more angular than any of those aforementioned projects, but does share the over-arching methods of bridging midi-synchronized electronics to rock structures. With a swaggering drum machine crunch guiding the way for swampy guitar stabs and oblong basslines, Magruder crafts a stiff electro-funk somewhere in between '80s Tackhead and the beloved recombination found on Milk Cult's "Project M-13."
RealAudio clip: "The Living Ice Age"
RealAudio clip: "Adi-Pre Puddled"

TENEMENT HALLS Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells (Merge) cd 14.98
Just a few bars into the first song of Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells, we were struck with one of those "this sounds exactly like a band I remember from the '80s" feelings. But unlike most of the recent times we've felt that same decade's tingle in the back of our neck, Tenement Halls don't recall new wave synthesizers, arpeggiated basslines and moussed-up hairdo's. No, with their robust saloon-style piano playin' and mainman Chris Lopez's withery vocals, they're coming from an altogether different musical zone seemingly channelling the weather-beaten ghosts of The Waterboys. You almost expect them to break into "Whole Of The Moon". Quite a change of sound and direction for Lopez whom you might recognize from his days in the awesome Rock*A*Teens. Of course this earthy style of music can be tracked further back than the '80s, but The Waterboys just happen to be the most clear-cut point of reference. That said, we'd also guess that they might include XTC and David Bowie in their list o' influences.
MPEG Stream: "Silver From The Silt"
MPEG Stream: "My Wicked Wicked Ways"

TENGIR-TOO Music Of Central Asia Vol. 1: Mountain Music Of Kyrgyzstan (Smithsonian Folkways) cd+dvd 21.00
The always in depth, well researched and executed Smithsonian Folkways brings us the first in what will be a series of releases focusing on the music of Central Asia. Tengr-Too is a new ensemble that plays traditional music with remarkable skill and versatility. In fact, one might think this is a compilation of different artists with the extraordinary range Tengir-Too exhibit. From jew's harp jams to vocal fronted folk songs and beyond using unique instruments intregal to Central Asia (Chopo Choor, Komuz, Sybygz, Kyl Kiyak). Don't worry if you don't know what those are, as always Smithsonian Folkways goes the extra mile with extensive liner notes and even an instrument glossary with pictures so you can actually see what some of those amazing instruments look like.
MPEG Stream: "Jangylyk "
MPEG Stream: "Kambarkan"

TENHI Maaaet (Prophecy) cd 16.98

TENHORNEDBEAST Hunts & Wars (Cold Spring) cd 14.98
The return of UK based one man ritualistic doomdrone shamen Tenhornedbeast, and another collection of abject darkness, grim sonic mystery, folk flecked dronemusic and epic black ambience, and as in the past, things have definitely shifted during the extended period of silence between this new record and the last. The very first 10HB record we had heard, was recommended to us as "epic, sprawling primitive doom/drone" which at the time was all we needed to hear, and indeed, that's precisely what it was, but with each record, 10HB's sound mutated and morphed, into something new, not always super dramatic, more an ever evolving sonic darkness, definitely dronemusic, but not so much primitive, a more composed sort of doomy black ambience, a post industrial drift that definitely leaned more toward drone than doom, but also more toward industrial then metal, which makes sense that he's found a home on Cold Spring alongside Toroidh, Laibach, Nordvargr, Prurient, Von Thronstahl, Wicked King Wicker and the like.
And in fact, the first track here, the evocatively titled "Reaching For The Stars We Blind The Sky", finds the sound of Tenhornedbeast definitely moving even further in a sort of industrial direction. It begins like we would have expected, dark and mysterious, spaced out and shimmery, with keening high end drifts, underpinned by deep rumbles, muted downtuned guitar buzz, feedback, all the sounds gauzy and grey, until about halfway through the guitars begin to grind the riffs crumbling and distorted and the drums kick in, not a straight rhythm, and not really free either, a bit martial here and there, but they seem to wander and drift, stumbling through a bleak field of stretched out tones and layered streaks of howling feedback, slipping from minimal and spare to chaotic and aggressive and back again, a little bit doomy, but more like some blackened neo-folk. A 12 minute jam that really could have stretched out to fill up the whole record. But instead, the rest of the disc drifts into deep, tranquil dronemusic, laced with birdsong and melancholic melodies drenched in reverb, downtuned bass thrum driven creeps, held aloft by skeletal percussion, and again swathed in blurred effects and layered drones, heavy sure, but more mesmerizing and trancelike, string laden neo-folk, with haunting slowed down samples and disembodied voices, clouds of cymbal shimmer, and grinding mechanical guitarscapes, with hypnotic machinelike rhythms, swirling minimal lullaby like interludes, and finally the 20 minute title track, slow glacial riffage pulled and stretched until the riffs becomes long layers of undulating low end, billowing distorted bass like some sort of sonic avalanche, everything washed out and almost shoegazey, instead of getting heavier and heavier, it gets more and more shimmery and fuzzy, booming gongs, swirling effects, all wound around a simple, downtuned bassline, a slowed down doomic anti-groove, that creeps and crawls and finally drifts into the ether.
Gorgeous packaging, an exquisitely designed 6 panel digipack, all browns and golds and greys and metallic inks...
MPEG Stream: "Reaching For The Stars We Blind The Sky"
MPEG Stream: "Hilnaric"
MPEG Stream: "Father Of The Frosts"

TENHORNEDBEAST My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth (Cold Spring) cd 9.00
**SALE **SALE* *SALE**
It's been quite a while since we've heard from Tenhornedbeast, one of our favorite purveyors of deep blackened ritualistic dronemusic, but as always, it was well worth the wait.
Like past releases My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth is grand is scope, unlike much of the ambient music and dronemusic we hear, the sounds here sound deliberate, the songs composed. We can only assume that the years between releases are due to a certain meticulousness, one can almost imagine Mr. THB as a mysterious cloaked figure, in his subterranean lair, hunched over a workbench of strange assemblage of electronics and burbling cauldrons, a lone alchemist working by torchlight, crafting these elegant dronescapes, equal part dark shimmer and caustic buzz, cinematic creep and smoldering sinister doom-ed minimalism.
The opener is a softly cacophonous slow build of cavernous tones and groaning low end rumbles, but these sounds are not smooth at all but raw and rough around the edges, an organic thing, something musical, but removed from 'music' as we know it, a sort of synesthesia, like shadows flickering in firelight, THB deftly assembles layers of drone, and weaves together barely there melodies, into massive dreamy drifts of delicate ambience, that slowly shifts from grim shimmer to ethereal hush.
The appropriately titled "My Horns..." takes what does indeed sound like a horn, and slows it way down, and loops it into a gorgeously textured hypnotic low end mantra, playing on and on and on, while all around, various other sonic shadings surface, and lilting melodies seem to peek from behind the heavy black shades of sound.
The final track begins with distorted guitar, a riff slowed down to near stasis, a plodding doom rendered in a washed out muted blur, a doomdronedirge that builds to a soft roar, the whole time gradually letting the light swallow the dark, the heaviness and riffiness gradually receding, while the song begins to glimmer and shimmer and glow with an otherworldly warmth, as if emerging from some blackened captivity, but all of that is cut short, as the moaning groaning minor key melodies that opened the track return, swaddling the fading shimmer in their ominous embrace.
MPEG Stream: "Ruins Son"
MPEG Stream: "Black Walls Rising/Black Stars Falling"

TENHORNEDBEAST Ten Horned Moses Descended The Mountain (Handmade Birds) 3cd-r 16.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.

TENHORNEDBEAST The Sacred Truth (Cold Spring) cd 15.98
It's been two long years we've been waiting to hear more from mysterious UK outfit Tenhornedbeast, after a mindblowing cd-r ofÊ"epic sprawling primitive doom/drone" that was so limited it was gone in a flash.Ê
This is THB's first proper full length, and just as we'd hoped and expected, it's epic and intense. Massive and cavernous, abject and utterly terrifying. Dark ambient, but so much heavier than that would lead one to believe.Ê
From the very first track, the listener is sucked into some dark otherworld, a long sprawl of oozing black slither, chanted monk like vocals, crashing distant percussion, and crushing swells of deep rumbling blackness. It's a slow trawl through the bleakest pits of the underworld, filled with groaning melodies, creaking and threatening to crash to the ground like rotten timbers. The first of three ultra long tracks is "Our Lady Of The Lightning Bolt", a nearly twenty minute threnody of mournful strings draped over glacial slabs of slow shifting blacks and greys, streaks of feedback and shards of high end skree spread out over the top, the sound becoming more and more intense and distorted, like a rising tide of amp buzz and guitar rumble, peppered with haunting dynamics and strangely orchestral arrangements. "Strength Through Fear" is a brief respite from the black hole crush, a menacing melancholy string section, being performed in some underground cavern, the notes ringing out against the dripping black walls, eventually being smeared into an intense fuzzed out chordal wash that gradually swallows everything else whole.Ê
The record's centerpiece seems to be the 22 minute "In The Teeth Of The Wolf", a terrifying guitarscape, that plays out like a harrowing journey through some bombed out razed landscape, nothing but smoldering blackness, distant thunder, ruins and chaos, a thick patina of corrosive guitar drone laid over everything like some warm wet blanket, a metal riff deconstructed and pulled apart, smeared and blurred, until it all coalesces into a slow motion pummel, an industrial plod beneath a monstrous guitar part, doom metal, abstracted and mechanized, stretched out over an army of hissing steam engines, of pounding martial drums, soaring triumphant melodies, nearly obscured by skies full of flame and black smoke, definitely one of the most intense pieces of music we've heard in ages.Ê
The record unwinds with a gorgeous drawn out black veil of sound, a rib cage rattling thrum, densely layered swells of distorted low end throb, woven into a subtly melodic, almost static dirge, that churns relentlessly like an orchestra of fog horns, before drifting off in a fuzzy cloud of hissy shimmer.Ê
Gorgeously packaged in a matte brown digipak, adorned with a haunting image of a shadowy figure holding an antlered skull aloft, beneath a strange symbol, printed in glossy reflective ink.
MPEG Stream: "Oppression"
MPEG Stream: "Our Lady Of The Lightning Bolt"
MPEG Stream: "Strength Through Fear"

TENHORNEDBEAST Woe To You, O Earth And Sea (NOTHingness REcords) cd-r 11.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
WE MANAGED TO GET ABOUT 1O MORE COPIES OF THIS, AND THOSE SEEM LIKELY TO BE THE LAST ONES EVER!
One day we got an email from one of our mailorder customers who mentioned he was currently listening to a band called Tenhornedbeast. Just the name had us frothing at the mouth. Then when we asked him what it sounded like, his response "epic sprawling primitive doom/drone" had us on the internet in seconds flat trying to track down copies for the store. Well, the good news is that we did manage to get some for the store. The bad news, as is often the case, is that it was incredibly limited, is already out of print, and we got the very last 20. So be prepared to be disappointed if you're not super quick on the buy button trigger.
Okay, now that we got that out of the way, let's get to the heart of this beast. Tenhornedbeast, a band that does indeed traffic in an epic sprawling primitive doom / drone. They do have a drummer too, but he mostly offers up little cymbal flourishes here and there, a big snare splat every long once in a while, the meat of the beast though is obviously the churning squirm of downtuned guitars, riff upon riff, all dirty and scuzzy and lo-fi and gorgeously doomy and drone-y and dirge-y. That sound we can't seem to get enough of. And again, VERY LIMITED. WE HAVE THE LAST 10 COPIES...
MPEG Stream: "Silver Horses Brought Us Here"
MPEG Stream: "Come And Make Me Holy Again"

TENHORNEDBEAST / MARZURAAN split (Aurora Borealis) cd 8.00
**SALE **SALE* *SALE**
Every once in a while, someone will release a record, and we can't help but feel like it was made specifically for us. And for you. Some records just perfectly speak to the aQ aesthetic, as undefinable as that seems to be. This is another one of those cases. Someone thought it would be a perfect combination to match up UK one man ambient drone outfit Tenhornedbeast, with UK slow motion doomlords Marzuraan. And it is perfect. And a fantastic idea, but just because something is a great idea, doesn't always mean someone thinks of it. And we're not saying we had been thinking someone should get these two bands together specifically, we're just glad they did, and we sort of wish we HAD thought of it. But that's neither here nor there. The important thing is that it happened, and now we can all luxuriate in the deep dark heaviness both of these bands explore. And while the bands are indeed different, their aesthetics are not all that far removed. The both exist in some blackened nether region, haunting sonic realms, where heaviness can be expressed in both utter darkness and extreme force, sometimes both, and once in awhile neither.
Tenhornedbeast offer up a nearly 30 minute long sonic ritual, beginning as a bit of swirling black minimalism, but slowly building to a truly intense wall of doomdrone, the sound thick and textured, a churning cauldron of low end buzz and downtuned disembodied riffs, all brought to a boil and poured out in a viscous black torrent, left to flow like some subterranean river. But these deep drones are laced with melodies, and keening high end shards, allowed to shine forth occasionally, but often swallowed up before they can fill those caves with their unnatural light. The track continually changes shape, sound and timbre, various shades of grey and black, lightening and darkening as the landscape changes, a haunting journey through some lost world, where sound replaces sight, allowing us to navigate ever deeper.
Marzuraan counter with what must be one of their prettiest tracks ever. It's still sludgey and doomy, but the notes ring out, the melodies almost soar, the sound fuzzy and glimmering, almost like these guys have caught the shoegaze bug as well. Washed out and blissy, super melodic and melancholy, but the coolest part is that the track seems to warble and waver, almost like someone is manually adjusting the tape speed, so the notes sound drunken and drugged, the track lurches and weaves drunkenly, only adding to the haunting and off kilter beauty. Part way through, the riffs get a little more riffy, and then the vocals come in, a moaning distant croon, and we're most definitely in serious Jesu territory, but that weird speed shifting hitch, keeps it from sounding too pretty, or two blissy. But if these guys keep heading in this direction, they could definitely give Jesu, and Nadja and other metallic shoegazers a run for their money.
The packaging is super swank, a three panel gatefold, each of the front panels diecut with each band's symbol, printed inside and out, housed in a thick plastic sleeve with a sticker affixed to the front.
MPEG Stream: TENHORNEDBEAST "Law Of The Needle"
MPEG Stream: MARZURAAN "Into Countless Battles"

TENNESSEE TWIN Free To Do What (Mint) cd 14.98
If there's one thing you can count on with those Wolfe identical twins (Alison from those grrrrrls Bratmobile and Cindy from this much more southern twangy band you're reading about right this very moment), it's that if they've got something on their minds they're gonna tell you so. There's no beating around the bush, but they'll always do it in plucky, peppery tunefulness. If you were paying close attention about a dozen AQ Lists ago, you might have caught a glimpse of the introductory Tennessee Twin 7" (check on our site if you missed it), but now's the time for the full-on, porchswing, Grand Ol' Opry gathering. Ms Wolfe's blue gingham country-style quilts together some fiddle, mandolin, accordion and pedal steel with lilting vocal harmonies fresh and fair and sweet as pie, but her words are the element which brings a bit of weight to the proceedings. She's backed by her pals Kurt Dahle, John Collins and Todd Fancey of the New Pornographers. Includes a loving cover of Dolly Parton's "Wildflowers".
RealAudio clip: "The Apple Of Your Black Eye"
RealAudio clip: "Wildflowers"

TENNESSEE TWIN These Thoughts Are Occupied (Mint) 7" 3.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
From the label that brought us Neko Case, the Corn Sisters, and the New Pornographers, it's time for a little Tennessee Twin! Legend has it that following the break-up of Allison Wolfe's band Bratmobile, Allison and her twin sister (and puppeteer extraordinaire) Cindy Wolfe had planned on collaborating forces on an old-country outfit in Olympia, WA. Well, as you may know Bratmobile recently reformed and scooped Allison away back onto the open road of girl punk action, so Cindy decided to go it alone. Still keeping the Tennessee Twin name (perhaps to keep the door open to Allison), Cindy - now based in Vancouver, BC (after getting hitched to New Pornographer Carl Newman) - corralled a bunch of her pals (including the NPs' drummer Kurt Dahle on bass and backing vocals) for a frolicking jamboree. Cindy with her sweet-honeyed drawl and flirty mandolin takes the lead and is backed by some rough'n'tumble accordion, fiddle, pedal steel, and a chorus of backing vocals. A barrel of fun packed into two songs, the Grand Ol' Opry-ready "These Thoughts Are Occupied" and inquisitive "Oh Darkness". Sleeve features photos by Corn Sister Carolyn Mark.

TENNIS Cape Dory (Fat Possum) cd 14.98
Hot damn! The amazing girl group inspired sounds just keep on coming, and Tennis are serving them up in such an irresistible fashion. We knew very little about this Colorado husband/wife outfit before Cape Dory came our way, but once it hit our ears we jumped aboard their timeless yet fresh approach to bringing rich harmony and hooks into driving, melodic songs that are so so catchy. Alaina Moore's vocals are truly the driving force that makes Tennis rise to the top of the recent wave of like-minded bands, her voice is beyond warm, seductive and engaging. If you've been swept up by groups like Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Aias, and Girls At Dawn, we promise you'll find Tennis to be your next fix. We are so addicted, and have a feeling we are going to be playing Tennis all year long!
PS. we were tempted to go even more overboard with the tennis cliches, but we still say this is one ace of a record!
MPEG Stream: "Take Me Somewhere"
MPEG Stream: "Marathon"
MPEG Stream: "Pigeon"

TENNIS Cape Dory (Fat Possum) lp 14.98
Hot damn! The amazing girl group inspired sounds just keep on coming, and Tennis are serving them up in such an irresistible fashion. We knew very little about this Colorado husband/wife outfit before Cape Dory came our way, but once it hit our ears we jumped aboard their timeless yet fresh approach to bringing rich harmony and hooks into driving, melodic songs that are so so catchy. Alaina Moore's vocals are truly the driving force that makes Tennis rise to the top of the recent wave of like-minded bands, her voice is beyond warm, seductive and engaging. If you've been swept up by groups like Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Aias, and Girls At Dawn, we promise you'll find Tennis to be your next fix. We are so addicted, and have a feeling we are going to be playing Tennis all year long!
PS. we were tempted to go even more overboard with the tennis cliches, but we still say this is one ace of a record!
MPEG Stream: "Take Me Somewhere"
MPEG Stream: "Marathon"
MPEG Stream: "Pigeon"

TENNIS Europe On Horseback (Bip-Hop) cd 15.98
Tennis is the collective nom de plume for British electronica artists Ben Edwards and Douglas Benford, who are respectively known better as Benge and Si-Cut.Db. At first, their collaboration sounds like a mutation of the utopian neo-dub of Pole and Kit Clayton, in which all of the grooves have been shredded into jagged patterns, and reassemled into disjointed filter techno rhythms. However with a outfit name like Tennis, the inevitable Ping Pong 8-bit rhythmic bleeps had to get going, with some bleepy dub elements relating it to the Pole / Clayton continuum. Just imagine two Kraftwerk dummies swivelling at the waist and smacking a tiny ball back and forth. Unlike the majority of the Force Inc / Mille Plateaux, Tennis retains a welcome sense of humor while rivalling their German counterparts in post techno innovation.

TENNISCOATS Live Wanderus (Chapter Music) cd 17.98
We remember first getting a glimpse of the sweet charm of Japan's Tenniscoats a year or so ago when we heard their track on the children's comp Songs For Nao. We had only been able to get a copy or two of Live Wanderus, never enough to list until now. Before we had even heard the record, the dreamy cover art had us super curious as to what we might find inside.
We ended up loving Tenniscoats' take on naive pop. A LOT. A little more dreamy and meandering than some of their sonic brethren like Maher Shal Hash Baz and Nagisa Ni Ti, Saya's sweet hushed vocals and tasteful trumpets and sax, guitar, drums and piano help to create a nice dreamlike atmosphere, a perfect serving of daydream twee. These are live recordings from shows throughout Japan over the last few years, and the recordings sound great, nice and warm, like you were right there in the room while they were playing, sitting on a blanket in the dark with your head on the shoulder of a good friend. So nice!
MPEG Stream: "Red Haired Eric"
MPEG Stream: "Everyone"

TENNISCOATS Tan-Tan Therapy (Hapna) cd 16.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
We loooooooooove the spare and wistful dream pop of Tenniscoats (See, we can put as just as many "o's" in "love" as we do in 'doom'.). Although we must admit, it took us awhile to really get into Tan-Tan Therapy as this time around they collaborated with Swedish band Tape along with other Swedish musicians, resulting in a much broader and much more lush production but also with an even more somber and melancholy feel. The chamber pop instrumentation of horns, woodwinds, organ, cello, zither and glockenspiels along with some subtle electronic flourishes definitely provides richer textures, but we were kind of missing at first Saya and Takashi Ueno's more spare and naive side that comes closer to their Maher Shalal Hash Baz roots. But this release is definitely a grower, and one with each new listen we are loving it more and more.
MPEG Stream: "Baibaba Bimba"
MPEG Stream: "One Swam Swim"

TENOR, JIMI Cosmic Relief (Sahko) cd ep 8.98
This bespectacled Finnish eccentric continues his journey into the darker corners of exotica lounge-land... often coming across as an accomplished, cocktail hour Joy Division. Sort of like a soundtrack to the dark'n'swirlies you get after one too many flaming fruity hi-balls. A great wind-down album after you've boogied the night away to the strains of the Moroder cd we've also listed this week.
RealAudio clip: "Natural Cosmic Relief"
RealAudio clip: "Paradise Can Wait"

TENOR, JIMI Cosmic Relief (Sahko) 12" 9.98
This bespectacled Finnish eccentric continues his journey into the darker corners of exotica lounge-land... often coming across as an accomplished, cocktail hour Joy Division. Sort of like a soundtrack to the dark'n'swirlies you get after one too many flaming fruity hi-balls. A great wind-down album after you've boogied the night away to the strains of the Moroder cd we've also listed this week.
RealAudio clip: "Natural Cosmic Relief"
RealAudio clip: "Paradise Can Wait"

TENOR, JIMI Out Of Nowhere (Matador) cd 13.98
This record was quite a surprise. None of us had any really strong feelings about Jimi Tenor, other than knowing we really didn't care for his weird brand of loungey exotic electronica. And while that sound is still evident, it is balanced by some amazing pieces written for and performed with a 60 piece Polish orchestra. Dark and brooding and surprisingly original, sort of like an extra dark Hitchcock soundtrack; makes the loungey stuff make more sense in the context of the record, as a sort of foil, light balancing the dark. Really great.

TENOR, JIMI Out Of Nowhere (Matador) lp 11.98
This record was quite a surprise. None of us had any really strong feelings about Jimi Tenor, other than knowing we really didn't care for his weird brand of loungey exotic electronica. And while that sound is still evident, it is tempered by some amazing pieces written for and performed with a 60 piece Polish orchestra. Dark and brooding and surprisingly original, sort of like an extra dark Hitchcock soundtrack laced with loungey jazzy exotica. Really great.
Also, the sticker on the front points out that the players on this record got their inspiration from eating the same cabbage and sausage meal every day!

TENOR, JIMI Utopian Dream (Puu / Sahko) cd 16.98
More trippy dippy lounge-a-tronic from Finland. Yes, Mr. Oddball Jimi Tenor is back as we knew he'd be. In his "Utopian Dream" he draws from the past... his own. He borrows bits from both of his earlier albums "Intervision" (1997) and "Out Of Nowhere" (2000). Some tracks made me think "intriguing, moody electronic soundtrack" or "sleek'n'icy chill room", while others made me think "easy listenin' muzak" and still others brought to mind "doofy scat-singin' flute-tootin' jazz bub". Weigh it all out and you've definitely got some impressive hits here, but also a handful of misses (some of which are cringeable), but that's usually the case and the charm with Mr. Tenor. He's a dabbler in many styles and he does so without hesitation and usually very well. Please note: included on this album are all four songs from his "Cosmic Relief" EP released earlier this year.
RealAudio clip: "Natural Cosmic Relief"
RealAudio clip: "Grilli-Ilda (Barbeque Pleasure)"
RealAudio clip: "Bacon Alive"

TENOR, JIMI Utopian Dream (Puu / Sahko) lp 16.98
More trippy dippy lounge-a-tronic from Finland. Yes, Mr. Oddball Jimi Tenor is back as we knew he'd be. In his "Utopian Dream" he draws from the past... his own. He borrows bits from both of his earlier albums "Intervision" (1997) and "Out Of Nowhere" (2000). Some tracks made me think "intriguing, moody electronic soundtrack" or "sleek'n'icy chill room", while others made me think "easy listenin' muzak" and still others brought to mind "doofy scat-singin' flute-tootin' jazz bub". Weigh it all out and you've definitely got some impressive hits here, but also a handful of misses (some of which are cringeable), but that's usually the case and the charm with Mr. Tenor. He's a dabbler in many styles and he does so without hesitation and usually very well. Please note: included on this album are all four songs from his "Cosmic Relief" EP released earlier this year.

TENOR, JIMI AND KABU KABU Joystone (Ubiquity) cd 16.98
Is this a soundtrack for a porno film? Jimi Tenor and his funk lounge rhythm section Kabu Kabu are certainly laying it on hot and heavy on this new outing on nu-soul label Ubiquity. We've been entertained in the past by Tenor's eccentricies whether they be working with a drunk Polish orchestra or channeling Prince via his own Finnish techno-cabaret style musings. Not sure what people will think with this one. While the rhythm section is tight, with some full on seventies blaxsploitation "schwing", Tenor's creepy lothario persona can either make folks swoon or cringe. You decide.
MPEG Stream: "Hot Baby"
MPEG Stream: "Smoking"
MPEG Stream: "Horror Water"

TENORES DI BITTI Caminos de Pache (Felmay) cd 25.00
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Polyphonic vocal blasts in the long-standing tradition of Central Sardinia. The four singers in the Italian quartet Tenores Di Bitti take you away with their dead on acapella, singing in one of the oldest musical traditions from the Mediterranean. Much like recent AQ faves Konono No.1, this is an ensemble that has been making totally unique and striking sounds for the last three decades but it hasn't been until recently that they've been getting more notice here in the states. Collaborations with Ornette Coleman and Lester Bowie (Art Ensemble of Chicago) have helped gain them attention in this part of the globe. Each song finds one of the vocalists on lead while the other three back him up with rhythmic pronunciation of syllables. Guttural and primitive in its history and delivery, these are songs that tell the story of the solitude of shepherds and their tie to nature. This new release was recently in rotation at KUSF where the phone lines would ring almost every time it was played. The kind of record that could bridge the gab between opera fans and experimental music zealots, that sounds like nothing you have heard before, cantorial vocal delivery that will puzzle and please you at the same time.
MPEG Stream: "Battos Turritas E Unu Caddone"
MPEG Stream: "Satiras De Remunni"

TEOTIHUCAN (SKATERS) Music For The Desert Temples Of Extraterrestrial Light (self-released) cassette 9.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
We might as well mention right up front, we only got 19 copies of this, so be prepared to leave empty handed. But if you are one of the lucky 19, you'll get the chance to fill your ears with that sweetly shimmery Skatery mumbled murky sonic gurgle. Which of course makes perfect sense since Teotihucan is the work of one half of Bay Area noisemakers the Skaters. This super limited tape, recorded "In Tijuana mexico and the desert outskirts of El Cajon California October-December 2004", is an expansive world of lo fi drones blurred into fuzzy slabs of indistinct melody, peppered with twinkling sonic sparkles and squeaking creaking feedback, buried loops of hypnotic disembodied vocals and strange instrumental smudges, all under layer after layer of buzz and rumble and hiss, then all washed out, like a chalk painting on the sidewalk after a rainstorm, a barely there swirl of soft focus color and blurry whirls of faint melody, a big beautiful colorful smear of sound.
Packaged in super janky, beat up, dirty and old-price-tagged thrift store answering machine style cassettes, which leads us to a brief aside: While we totally support and celebrate DIY artists -- as seen/heard on the plethora of homespun cassettes and cd-rs we have in stock and that we seek out from all over the world -- we also heartily encourage said artists putting the same effort they put into music making into the presentation, the art and the packaging. Sure photocopied covers, recycled vintage record sleeves, handwritten liner notes are all parts of the aesthetic, but could you at least clean the old price tags and label adhesive off of your taped-over thrift store tapes and their cases before releasing them to your audience? C'mon, a little lighter fluid goes a long way towards makin' something look like it wasn't just dredged up from the bottom of a dumpster. Your art and your audience deserve it.

TERAKAFT Akh Issudar (World Village) cd 21.00

MPEG Stream: "Akh Issudar"
MPEG Stream: "Soubhanallah"

TERJE, JESPER & JOACHIM s/t (Shadoks Music) cd 15.98
Got some "early heavy" freakdom for here for ya, Shadoks digging up and reissuing this 1970 album by a bluesy acid rock power trio from Denmark. If you're familiar with some other Danish heavy psych bands like Moses and Blues Addicts, these guys are in that grungy ballpark, all appearing on the same label originally. There's some stormin' tracks here all right, with plenty of Iommi-ish guitar moments, topped by some quite unhinged, strangled-sounding vocals in English. Not sure if we'd call this proto-metal or not, the fuzzy guitars are loud and wild enough, with some urgent riffing, but really it's more like a mix of raw garage punk with some more mellowed out hippie stuff too, definitely very much of its time and ultimately quite charming in a ramshackle way.
This reissue's cd booklet includes cool old photos and show fliers, plus new liner notes by bassist/vocalist Joachim Ussing wherein he recalls the three days of extremely stoned recording sessions that produced this album, as well as the story of how in 1968 the band made it to the finals of a national pop group contest, in which in response to the "nice pop covers" played by their competitors, they instead unleashed a 15 minute psychedelic improv freakout on live radio. No, they didn't win...
MPEG Stream: "Between The Shields"
MPEG Stream: "Ricochet"

TERJE, TODD Remaster of The Universe (Permanent Vacation) 2cd 22.00
Hands down the best mix collection we've heard in ages. Something about those Norwegians, damn do they know their way around space disco. We've already loved what we've heard by folks like Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, but Todd Terje's ability to create seamless mixes and imaginative edits and remixes has made him one of our favorites from that fertile scene. Remaster Of The Universe finally gives a nice big document to the amazing work Terje has been doing over the last few years. The first disc is his continuous mix of tracks by folks like Chaz Jankel, Gichy Dan, M, Jose Gonzales, etc. while the second disc is a collection of individual remixes and versions he's created for some of the same folks on the first disc as well as Antena, Lindstrom, Studio, Shit Robot, and more.
Terje really is a master at creating mixes that roll with such a shimmering vibration. He's able to respect the original tracks he uses yet totally infuse them with a new energy and a signature sound that is unmistakably his own. We like how that as seamless and smooth as he can be he's also not afraid to get really weird and left-of-center in his approach and song selection. Crossing eras and genres like the best kind of DJ's can, Terje has got us all moving and gliding to these dancefloor gems.
MPEG Stream: GITCHY DAN "On A Day Like This (Terje edit)"
MPEG Stream: ANTENA "Camino Del Sol (Todd Terje Remix)"
MPEG Stream: CHAZ JANKEL "Glad To Know You (Todd Terje edit)"
MPEG Stream: JOSŽ GONZ‡LEZ "Killing For Love (Todd Terje Brokeback Mix)"

TERMINAL SOUND SYSTEM Compressor (Extreme) cd 14.98

TERMINAL SOUND SYSTEM Constructing Towers (Extreme) cd 14.98
When we reviewed Halo's seminal Guattari (From the West Flows Grey Ash and Pestilence) album, we described them as "one of the heaviest, creepiest, most intense bands we have heard", we went on to compare them to Godflesh and Neurosis and Earth and Whitehouse and Cop Shoot Cop and Gore and Noisegate, holy shit, just writing that has us wanting to hear Halo again...
Anyway, it's been at least 5 years since we've heard a peep out of Halo, but even back in the day, one of the Halo guys had a side project called Terminal Sound System, which at the time ditched the crushing industrial metallic pummel of Halo in favor of creepy dark ambience and skittery electronica. Well since then, it seems that Terminal Sound System has developed into a full time concern, and in the process TSS's sound has soaked up all kinds of electronic music along the way, from jungle to dubstep, while remaining creepy and heavy and super intense, and we are digging it big time.
The record begins with some creepy pulsing ambience, the drums an almost jazzy skitter, until 'the drop', where the background sounds grow jagged and harsh, the drums exploding in a squall of rhythmic freakout, before it immediately simmers right back down. It almost sounds like a junglized Necks, long stretches of smokey dark shimmer, peppered with blown out blasts of grinding metallic dubstep rhythms and thick buzzing drones. But then the song shifts gears, and the drums pull way back, returning to their muted skitter, while over the top, Young Gods like guitar loops add a sort of carnivalesque prog element to the proceedings, growing ever more dramatic and tense, exploding in an incredible climax of massive rumbling bass, like some sort of doom dubstep. Fuck, I know we say this all the time, but that track alone is worth the price of admission.
But moving forward, the title track, is a brooding chunk of old school tech-step jungle, with plenty of blackened droney ambience hovering beneath the still sort of jazzy programmed drum and bass stutter. "Year Of The Pig" is another fractured take on dubstep, the drums, chopped and hiccuppy, heavy with FX, careening from space-y shuffle to dense staccato pound, while all around the beat swirls minor key piano stabs, swooshing spaced out effects, shards of metallic buzz, the whole track freezing occasionally and locking into a super jagged stop start stutter. Again, somehow the sound is a bit jazzy, but so heavy and dark and aggressive...
The rest of the record is all over the place, from subtly industrial post rock, complete with chiming guitars hook filled melodies, and strange effected vocals, sounding almost like a Jesu / Nadja sort of thing, to dark shimmery black ambience laced with super low bass buzz, and haunting minor key swells, to Eastern Muslimgauze style electronic drifts, to what can only be described as a sort of fractured dubstepped cabaret jazz, to fuzzy gauzy, reverb drenched Portishead-ish downtempo shimmer, to epic, ethereal blissed out post rock electronic drone, like Jesu meets Godspeed meets Asbestoscape, which is how the record finishes up.
Seriously fucking awesome. Has us wanting to hear more Terminal Sound System, and has us hankering to go back and revisit Halo as well...
MPEG Stream: "In Your Planet"
MPEG Stream: "Constructing Towers"
MPEG Stream: "Year Of The Pig"

TERMINAL USA A Film by Jon Moritsugu (At An Angle) dvd 19.98
Indie cult flick fans, here's something to celebrate! It's the dvd release of Jon Moritsugu's wild'n'weird underground classic Terminal USA! Yep, his 1993 twisted, gritty ode to a most unconventional Asian American family has finally followed the slow but steady dvd birthings of his more recent films Scum Rock, Fame Whore, and Mod Fuck Explosion. What's possibly most bizarre about the film itself is that its creation was actually commissioned by PBS (yes, that meant a serious production budget for the usually shoestring Moritsugu!), was broadcast across the land in 1994-1995, and was screened at film fests around the globe. That and the film itself might not seem all that strange by today's standards, but need we say, it was a whole different world in the early '90s. This probably caused convulsions and conniptions in many unexpecting viewers. Totally raw, gnarly, and punk-as-fuck on PBS! Yow, keep your eyes peeled for appearances by Neil Hamburger and a bleach blonde haired Moritsugu! This dvd features the original cut as well as Moritsugu's director's cut which includes 14 additional minutes.

TERMINALS, THE Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog) cd 13.98

TERMINALS, THE Little Things (Last Visible Dog) cd 11.98
We've always loved the Terminals, one of the originators of the NZ sound that once was the specialty around aQuarius. Their early nineties albums were so fantastic, moody and dramatic, epic and dark, lo-fi, but sprawling and expansive. It's been a while since we revisited these guys, and this, their 3rd album, from 1995 just got reissued so we've been immersing ourselves once again, and holy shit does this stuff still sound fantastic. Wild buzzing distorted guitars, thick synths, dense driving drumming, but it's the vocals that seal the deal. We had sort of forgotten how over the top and dramatic they were. Like a punk rock, lo fi, rougher rawer Antony maybe? It's a wonder, without it, the music is swirling and chaotic, a sort of dark gothic pop, intense and emotional, slipping from woozy laid back drift to frenetic almost psychedelic freakout, but then mix in those vocals, and we're talking some nineties noise rock cabaret, some Antony, a little Michael Gira, a bit of Nick Cave, some hints of Paul Banks from Interpol, heck, listening to this again, we realize a whole bunch of new bands who have been mining the goth pop and new wave past owe a LOT to these guys, even if they don't realize it. Driving, moody, intense, infusing their more straightforward dour pop with the noise rock of their NZ brethren, creating a charged hybrid that smolders intensely, even at it's most minimal and mysterious, but which becomes evident when the band lets loose and explodes into freaked out blasts of grinding guitar and splattery drum chaos, only to reel it right back in and slip back into some brooding jangle or lurching clanging doom pop dirge.
Includes two bonus tracks and liner notes from aQ customer and pal Jon Dale!
MPEG Stream: "Coasts Of The Shrunken"
MPEG Stream: "Mekong Delta Blues"
MPEG Stream: "Medication"

TERMINALS, THE Touch (Last Visible Dog) cd 13.98

TERRA FIRMA Harms Way (Steamhammer) cd 16.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Sophomore album from these Swedish stoner rock/doom metal practicioners. As with their debut, this is heavy, groovy, psychedelic stuff that owes the usual big debt to the Masters Black Sabbath. Vocalist Lord Christus (ex-Count Raven and St. Vitus!) has the Ozzy-vox down cold, and his band sweats out a suitable bottom-heavy riff-oriented accompaniment to his wailings. Good stuff! For fans of the stoner/doom genre (and what they used to call grunge)!

TERRA FIRMA s/t (The Music Cartel) cd 14.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
As the vocalist says like two seconds into the first song, in his best Ozzy-ish drawl, and amid a swirl of distorted guitar, "Whooaaa! Let's go!" What you get here is some quality stoner metal from Sweden, featuring some guitarist guy from death metallers Unleashed (whatever) and vocalist Lord Chritus (formerly of both Count Raven and Saint Vitus)...Fans of the similarly Sabbath-y band sHeavy and other bands on the groovier side of the stoner rock spectrum (Kyuss, Orange Goblin, Roachpowder, Monster Magnet), grab this.

TERRACOTTA TROUPE INTERGROUND Homo Caeruleus Cerinus Instrumentals (Practice) 2lp 14.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
DJs! Here's an instrumental version on wax of the fab Shing02 album! 13 tracks of Japanese/American hiphop musick to cut up.

TERRANOVA Close The Door (Copasetik) cd 17.98
Terranova's trip-hop grooviness (with guest appearances from Tricky and Rasco) is definitely for fans of Kruder & Dorfmeister.