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Did you know that miracles happen every day? We don’t always see it that way. We look at the state of the world and think, “It’ll be a miracle if we make it out alive.” But miracles are what humans do. We’re Earth’s most inventive and unpredictable species, when we’re allowed to be.
Also the most destructive. Miracle-Level is Deerhoof’s mystical manifesto on creativity and trust. It celebrates the infinite small wonders of existence that spontaneously present themselves, when not obstructed by our death-driven masters.
Musically, Miracle-Level is vulnerable, brave, and brimming with spicy surprises. Deerhoof’s 19th album is also their their first to be recorded and mixed in a recording studio. Production was entrusted to Mike Bridavsky, at No Fun Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
This is also their first album written entirely in Satomi’s native language. Deerhoof once again speak in a secret code that only their fans understand, in which hooks abound, and genre is nonexistent.Tracklisting:
1. Sit Down, Let Me Tell You a Story
2. My Lovely Cat!
3. The Poignant Melody
4. Everybody, Marvel
5. Jet-Black Double-Shield
6. Miracle-Level
7. And the Moon Laughs
8. The Little Maker
9. Phase-Out All Remaining
10. Non-Miracles by 2028
11. Momentary Art of Soul!
12. Wedding, March, Flower -
Joyful Noise Recordings
Deerhoof 'The Runners Four' Vinyl 2xLP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
35.99 £20.99
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Deerhoof 'The Runners Four' Vinyl 2xLP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
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One of Deerhoof’s most celebrated albums available on vinyl for the first time in 18 years. The Runner’s Four received rave reviews from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, The New York Times, Time, e New Yorker, MOJO, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Tiny Mix Tapes and more.
Deerhoof’s last album with guitarist and songwriter Chris Cohen. The Runners Four is Deerhoof’s double-LP concept album about friends banding together as honorable outlaws in a corrupt world, deciding what to save in an apocalypse, passing secret messages of warning and hope from a remade future back to a soon-to-be-destroyed present.
Abundant with lyrical allusions to the flood, where cargo hold claustrophobia inside meets a watery chaos outside, it was written and self-produced by Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Chris Cohen and Greg Saunier while they holed up in a rented Oakland rehearsal room for the winter months 2004-5. On pink and blue vinyl.“A heavy football, a no-half-stepping opus, a defining statement...The Runners Four should occasion a moment to notice how a little band has gotten its scale and balance right: producing strong and inexpensive-sounding records in its own studio, making coverts through frequent touring, changing its sound every six months or so. It’s not easy, especially without becoming part of any movement...” - The New York Times
“Deerhoof...has succeeded at something that’s very hard to do: It has made records and built a devoted international following on the sheer power of its imagination. And it’s a mad, wild imagination...” - The Boston Globe
“Deerhoof has forged yet another delightfully odd pop gem, multifaceted and sparkling with creativity.” - Rolling Stone
Tracklisting:
LP 1:
Side A
1. Chatterboxes
2. Twin Killers
3. Running Thoughts
4. Vivid Cheek Love Song
5. O'Malley, Former Underdog
6. OdysseySide B
1. Wrong Time Capsule
2. Spirit Ditties of No Tone
3. Scream Team
4. You Can SeeLP 2:
Side A
1. Midnight Bicycle Mystery
2. After Me the Deluge
3. Siriustar
4. Lemon & Little Lemon
5. Lightning Rod, Run.Side B
1. Bone-Dry
2. News From a Bird
3. Spy on You
4. You're Our Two
5. RRRRRRRight -
Space Age
Experimental Audio Research 'The Köner Experiments' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
25.49 £14.99
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Experimental Audio Research 'The Köner Experiments' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
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Prepare to delve into the transcendental realm of experimental soundscapes with the re-release of Experimental Audio Research’s “The Köner Experiment”. Featuring Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), Thomas Köner, Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and others.
Space Age Recordings are proud to present this iconic album pressed on 180g Heavyweight white vinyl. The artwork stays true to the original. Thomas Köner's visionary work invites you to embark on an introspective journey where boundaries dissolve, and music becomes a profound experience.
Each track is a portal to a world where sound is sculpted into something ethereal and thought-provoking. The echoes and glacial reveries of “The Koner Experiment” have been meticulously revitalized, with each track remastered for vinyl by the legendary John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studios.
This release stands the test of time within the world of experimental music. Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or a curious newcomer, this release is a captivating entry point into a universe of sound that defies convention. A testament to the enduring legacy of experimental music.Tracklisting:
Side A
1. One - 03:56
2. Two - 04:08
3. Three - 04:20
4. Four - 05:07
5. Five - 06:38Side B
6. Six
7. Seven
8. Eight
9. Nine
10. Ten -
Fire Records
Immaterial Possession 'Mercy of the Crane Folk' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
23.99 £13.99
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Immaterial Possession 'Mercy of the Crane Folk' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
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‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ is the beautifully accomplished second album from Athens GA’s Immaterial Possession. A theatrical soundscape littered with subconscious flashbacks, retro keyboard flurries, wandering Morricone-esque guitar and dreamy Sumac-like harmonies.
Featuring the ethereal eerie dream pop of former artist commune residents Cooper Holmes and Madeline Polites, with drummer John Spiegel and Elephant 6 descendant Kiran Fernandes (keyboards, clarinets, flutes). Additional contributions come from drummer Jon Vogt who can be heard on ‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ and ‘Birth Of Queen Croaker’.
It’s a haunting and immersive trip into the inner psyche of these nomadic soothsayers; a psychedelic dance party from a half-lit underground world; breathlessly eerie and all consuming; a salubrious sojourn that sounds like nothing else.
Filled with a kind of peculiar optimistic uncertainty that any quest to make sense of a drowsy recollection of simpler and far better times would have; ‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ is soft and serene summoning up a fanciful folkloric place where, undoubtedly, the mysterious crane flock prosper.Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Chain Breaker
2. Mercy of the Crane Folk
3. To The Fête
4. Medieval Jig
5. Siren's TunnelSide B
6. Current In The Room
7. Ancient Mouth
8. Cypress Receiver
9. Birth of Queen Croaker
10. Red Curtain -
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Jlin’s detailed and meticulous exploration of rhythm’s inner and outer reaches has made her one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices within both the electronic and classical music worlds. Her compositions are consistently appealing and have an accessibility to them, yet often defy expectations. She exists within her own locus solus - no matter the collaborator, no matter where sounds ultimately lead her.
Whatever the situation – from composing the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted ‘Perspective’ for Third Coast Percussion, to ‘Godmother’ her AI-powered collaboration with Holly Herndon, Jlin always expresses her outlook to the fullest.
Her new album ‘Akoma’ sets a new benchmark in her personal road map, not only since the album features guest appearances from Björk, Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet but for her continued sonic persistence and resistance.
Jlin does what Jlin does and it’s beloved across genres, across scenes and across generations. ‘Akoma’ is a new entry point into her sound and a new approach for both those who have been following diligently and those who are just now entering her world.
So how did she get here? Here’s a rundown for those looking for the facts.
She was both a math nerd and a steel factory worker. She got inspired by Footwork and started making tracks with mentorship assistance from RP Boo and DJ Rashad, but her music was far from typical for footwork from the get-go. In 2011, she released her first track ‘Erotic Heat’ on the Planet Mu anthology ‘Bangs & Works Vol.2.’
Fashion designer Rick Owens heard it and invited her to soundtrack his Paris Fashion Week show. Already before an EP or an album Jlin was in new cutting-edge territory. And it hasn’t stopped since. Everyday Jlin wakes up early and clocks into her home studio working hard on new music. Her discipline and craft-like approach means that those who would try to copy her sound simply can’t get to the level she is at.
Since ‘Erotic Heat’ she has released two bold albums, 2015’s ‘Dark Energy’ and 2017’s ‘Black Origami.’ She has also released her soundtrack to Company Wayne McGregor’s dance piece ‘Autobiography’ (2018) and most recently (2023) the mini-album ‘Perspective.’
She’s remixed µ-Ziq, Factory Floor, Ben Frost, Max Richter, Björk, Martin Gore and others. She’s collaborated with Holly Herndon and the late SOPHIE. She’s worked with visual artists Kevin Beasley and Nick Cave. She composed a string quartet for Kronos Quartet and performed with them live in a tribute to Philip Glass. She also recently completed a tribute to Sun Ra with Kronos. ‘Perspective’, her very well received percussion work for Third Coast Percussion has further opened doors for her in classical music. She’s even thinking of one day writing an opera. She had a residency at MassMoca Museum earlier this year (2023).
She’s performed live at Pitchfork Festival, Unsound Festival and too many others to mention.
She’s also worked with Indian dancers, Company Wayne McGregor and renowned choreographer/MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham.
There’s more but you get the picture - she’s working in contexts and in ways that few of her peers are able to. ‘Akoma’ is the next step - all these paths have led to this.
We encourage you to tune in.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Borealis (ft. Björk)
2. Speed Of Darkness
Side B
4. Summon
5. Iris
6. Open Canvas
Side C
7. Challenge (To Be Continued II)
8. Eye Am
9. Auset
Side D
10. Sodalite (ft. Kronos Quartet)
11. Grannie's Cherry Pie
12. The Precision Of Infinity (ft. Philip Glass) -
Venice Music
KAYTRAMINÉ (Aminé and KAYTRANADA) 'KAYTRAMINÉ' Vinyl LP - Blue (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
26.99 £15.99
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KAYTRAMINÉ (Aminé and KAYTRANADA) 'KAYTRAMINÉ' Vinyl LP - Blue (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
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The album has been a labour of love spanning nearly a decade with the origins of KAYTRAMINÉ trace back to 2014, when Aminé unveiled "Not At All," an unofficial remix of KAYTRANADA's 2013 track "At All."
Impressed by Aminé's rendition, KAYTRANADA extended a hand to collaborate officially, leading to his production contributions on three songs from Aminé's 2015 mixtape, Calling Brio.
The upcoming album showcases the pair reigniting their innate chemistry, further solidifying their musical bond.Tracklisting:
1. Who He Iz
2. letstalkaboutit (feat. Freddie Gibbs)
3. 4EVA (feat. Pharrell Williams)
4. Westside
5. Master P (feat. Big Sean)
6. Rebuke
7. Sossaup (feat. Amaarae)
8. STFU3
9. Ugh Ugh
10. Eye (feat. Snoop Dogg)
11. K&A -
"Low Tide Digitals II" is the sequel to this duo's acclaimed 2001 debut album of the same name (RCD 2019).Visit product page →
The Wire called it sensual, thrilling and mysteriously moving while Muzik said a beautiful and strange combination of elegantly understated guitar, cello and drifting electronics.
As with the debut, this is an extremely fine-tuned mix of acoustic instruments and electronic elements.
An album of sensitive, electronically-tinged free improvising, it's the work of Italian guitarist Luigi Archetti and Swiss cellist Bo Wiget.
Tracklisting:
1. Stück 12
2. Stück 13
3. Stück 14
4. Stück 15
5. Stück 16
6. Stück 17
7. Stück 18
8. Stück 19
9. Stück 20
10. Stück 21
11. Stück 22
12. Stück 23 -
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Italian singer songwriter Marta Del Grandi returns with ‘Selva’, her most intricate and shimmering effort yet, a refined devotional suite of astute pop that flows effortlessly, uniting emotional complexity, divine organic arrangements with a sci-fi finish.
If her debut ‘Until We Fossilize’ showed all the qualities of Marta’s unique approach, tip-toeing between Laurel Canyon dust, Lynchian etherealism and dramatic Morricone scores, ‘Selva’ delves deeper into the undergrowth, showcasing an ambition to deliver a whole new universe, her own ecosystem, where the strength of her voice alone is the pillar to build on.
Beams of choral light radiate and permeate each track, with layered vocal drones creating a cathartic collision of sharp and soft textures, as almost to guide us hand in hand across Marta Del Grandi’s enchanted universe.
The ambition is blinding and the outcome is here to prove it: 12 songs of sprawling ethereal pop that is vivid, immense and fully illuminated.
“Ultimately compels with its detached, lynchian ambience.” ALLMUSIC
“Bucolic yet often emotionally complex, her songwriting – patching electronic synths against ambient elements, with a touch of modern classical – taps into areas that go beyond words.” CLASHTracklisting:
Side A
1. Mata Hari
2. Eye of the Day
3. Chameleon Eyes
4. Snapdragon
5. Marble Season
6. End of the World Pt.1Side B
7. Two Halves
8. Polar Bear Village
9. Good Story
10. Selva
11. Stay
12. End of the World Pt.2 -
Tompkins Square
Muireann Bradley 'I Kept These Old Blues' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
21.99 £13.99
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Muireann Bradley 'I Kept These Old Blues' Vinyl LP (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
£21.99 £13.99
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Muireann Bradley is a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. “This is my first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. I have also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats.
Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent “rediscovery” of many of the greats of country blues. I grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. My father would play this music constantly at home and wherever we went in the car and talk about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news.
My father could of course play all this stuff on guitar, I remember watching him when I was very young and thinking “I want to be able to do that”. When I was nine he agreed to teach me and bought me my first little travel guitar. I worked hard to learn how to play but as time wore on I seemed to have less and less time to practice as I became more and more invested in the combat sports I was regularly training and competing in.
Then in March 2020 the first Covid lockdowns happened and all contact sports were shut down. I was lost for a while but soon found my way back to the guitar. I was now listening, playing and practicing with a new intensity and focus. In a very serious moment, I wrote out a list of tunes I was going to learn. The first tune on that list was Blind Blake’s “Police Dog Blues”. I’m not sure now how long it took to get that arrangement together but when it was ready we videoed me performing it and posted it on YouTube. It ended up getting a lot of attention, I remember my parents being quite shocked and soon after that Josh Rosenthal got in touch… and here we are!
Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with me singing and backing myself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s.I hope you enjoy the record.” Muireann Bradley May 2023Tracklisting:
1. Candyman
2. Richland Woman Blues
3. Police Dog Blues
4. Shake Sugaree
5. Vestapol
6. Stagolee
7. Green Green Rocky Road
8. Frankie
9. Police Sergeant Blues
10. Buck Dancers Choice
11. Delia
12. Freight Train -
Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres release their eponymously titled debut album on Friday 26th April though Strap Originals/Cargo Records. A single, mixed by Cenzo Townshend, Who's Been Having You Over,' is available now.Visit product page →
Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres'was recorded live to beautifully capture the essence and spirit of the Puta Madres at a family home overlooking a fishing village in ðtretat Normandy, over 4 days last summer and mixed at Urchin Studios (East London). The album is engineered by Dan Cox (Laura Marling, Thurston Moore, Florence & The Machine) and produced by Jai Stanley (long time friend and manager).
Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres'is a devastatingly intimate portrait of love, loss, being lost, happiness, tragedy, addiction and the power of the human soul to transcend its darker levels. All the songs from the album were road tested over the last 18 months across Europe at Festivals and headline shows.
Songs include the reflective All At Sea,' the raw Punk Buck Bonafide,' the upbeat and playful Shoreleave,' the joyous hymn of liberation Paradise Is Under Your Nose,'Someone Else To Be' Peter's re-imagining of the Velvet Underground's Ride Into The Sun'and Oasis'Don't Look Back In Anger and Who's Been Having You Over' with dialogue from the 1948 film adaption of Graham Greene Brighton Rock'and the cheeky poke at his own notoriety, 'You're so rock'n'roll.'
Tracklisting:
1. Who's Been Having You Over
2. Paradise Is Under Your Nose
3. Narcissistic Teen Makes First XI
4. Someone Else To Be
5. The Steam
6. Travelling Tinker
7. Lamentable Ballad of Gascony Avenue
8. A Fool There Was
9. Shoreleave
10. Punk Buck Bonafide
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Recorded Live at the 2008 Meltdown Festival at the Royal Albert hall, London.
Never before had the Meltdown banner seemed more suitable than on the night of June 24, 2008, when Primal Scream shared a bill with the MC5 at the much-revered event held annually at the Royal Festival Hall. The festival has seen many strange, unique and wonderful events, but few as incendiary, or even historic, as the fusion of Primal Scream & the MC5.
Maybe surprisingly, this was at the behest of Massive Attack, Bristol's uncompromising slow-mo dub-charged colossus who curated this event. Michael admits to being bowled over to discover the Primal Scream's support for his old band, but was shocked when Massive Attack requested their appearance in their Meltdown line-up. 'It is so cool that the Massive Attack guys even know who we are. I'm a fan of theirs too, so I guess that for me it makes perfect sense. They are true originals, and really creative. I am honoured that they would have us!'
For many, it was a dream match, not least for Primal Scream, who have made no secret of their devotion to the Detroit demons since day one. 'I never thought I'd even see them play live,' reflects Bobby. 'I used to take magic mushrooms or acid and listen to the MC5, imagining that I was in the Grande Ballroom. Then, here we are [40 years later] up on a stage playing with them. I found a ticket from that gig the other day while I was clearing out some cupboards, and started thinking about it. It was amazing...' To the Scream's delight, the feeling turned out to be mutual, bassist Michael Davis stating, 'The Primals tear it up. I was really proud that they wanted us.'
Primal Scream pile into the likes of 'Accelerator' & 'Miss Lucifer', before a stretch of new songs including bell-strewn title track, 'Suicide Bomb, mesmerizingly atmospheric 'Uptown' and gorgeously melancholic 'Beautiful Summer', augmented by Melanie Draisey's poignant violin. A pummelling 'Kowalski' gets the crown on their feet, before the cathartic motoric of 'Shoot Speed Kill Light' & surging sirens of 'Swastika Eyes'. Davis, Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson were joined by second guitarist Adam Pearson and singer William DuVall from Alice In Chains. Cutting a dapper figure with his stars 'n' stripes guitar, Kramer's first opening salvo kicks off 'Ramblin' Rose'.
He is the consummate showman, strutting and interacting with the front rows. Thompson looks like he's about to pulp his kit, but exhibits that effortless fingertip-powerhouse style. These songs sound tracked America's punk-predating political counter culture: 'Kick Out The Jams', 'Come Together', 'Motor City Is Burning' plus Back In The USA highlights including 'Call Me Animal' and 'American Ruse'. Scream fave 'Sister Anne', from third album High Time, follows next, Kramer's harmonica replacing the original's brass. Duvall makes a charismatic natural to front them. Like the Scream, the Five have got to the point where their spirit lives larger than the human beings who still carry it.
Then a collective shudder of delight ripples through the crowd as two singers, four guitarists, two bassists, two drummers and a piano-player look at each other and, after Bobby has referenced Jim Morrison's 'Is everybody in?' The ceremony is about to begin', kick into the blazing garage crank of early Five song 'I Can Only Give You Everything'.
Primal Scream's locomotive 'Skull X' and a 'Movin' On Up' swell into one glorious, spine-tingling testimonial, with the whole hall singing and going crazy. 'I've been waiting 25 years for this,' declares Andrew Innes. This was more than just token encore jamming, when like minds clamber up and plug in, the connection is made! -Kris Needs.
Tracklisting:
CD1:
Primal Scream1. Accelerator 3:29
2. Miss Lucifer 2:48
3. Beautiful future 5:13
4. Suicide Bomb 7:01
5. Kowalski 5:28
6. Uptown 5:14
7. Beautiful Summer (with Melanie Draisey) 5:12
8. Shoot speed kill light 4:51
9. Swastika Eyes 6:08
10. Rocks 3:48
11. Cant go back 4:42MC5
12. Ramblin Rose 3:34
13. Kick out the Jams 4:07
14. Come Together 5:02
15. Motor City is Burning 4:26
CD2:
1. Call me Animal 3:03
2. Sister Anne 6:43
3. I want you right now 4:26
4. Over & Over 5:37
5. Looking at you 5:48
6. I believe to my soul 6:02
7. Human Being Lawnmower 5:00
8. The American Ruse 5:24Primal Scream & MC5
9. I can only give you everything 3:38
10. Movin on up 5:15
11. Skull X 3:43
12. Rama Lama Fa fa fa (Rocket Reducer No.62) 3:19
13. Black to Comm (feat. John Sinclair) 14:07
DVD:Primal Scream (53:24)
1. Accelerator 3:29
2. Miss Lucifer 2:48
3. Beautiful future 5:13
4. Suicide Bomb 7:01
5. Kowalski 5:28
6. Uptown 5:14
7. Beautiful Summer (with Melanie Draisey) 5:12
8. Shoot speed kill light 4:51
9. Swastika Eyes 6:08
10. Rocks 3:48
11. Cant go back 4:42MC5 (59:38)
12. Ramblin Rose 3:34
13. Kick out the Jams 4:07
14. Come Together 5:02
15. Motor City is Burning 4:26
16. Call me Animal 3:03
17. Sister Anne 6:43
18. I want you right now 4:26
19. Over & Over 5:37
20. Looking at you 5:48
21. I believe to my soul 6:02
22. Human Being Lawnmower 5:00
23. The American Ruse 5:24Primal Scream & MC5 (30.02)
24. I can only give you everything 3:38
25. Movin on up 5:15
26. Skull X 3:43
27. Rama Lama Fa fa fa (Rocket Reducer No.62) 3:19
28. Black to Comm (feat. John Sinclair) 14:07 -
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The debut album from the seminal pop group, finally the original recordings are back on CD and LP.
Featuring the hit singles ‘Deeply Dippy’, ‘Don’t Talk Just Kiss’ and the worldwide smash ‘I’m Too Sexy’ (recently reprised and reinterpreted by Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Drake).
“A cultural touchstone” Rolling Stone.Tracklistimg:
Side A
1. A Love For All Seasons
2. No One on Earth
3. I'm Too Sexy
4. Do Ya Feel
5. Is It True.Side B
1. Deeply Dippy
2. Swan
3. Don't Talk Just Kiss
4. Upon My Heart
5. Those Simple Things -
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Limited Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl.
Six years since his last album, Love If Possible, Shintaro Sakamoto has completed his fourth solo album, Like A Fable. The album's ten songs describe everyday life in a world undergoing dramatic changes in the midst of a pandemic.
Sakamoto continually updates his sound, and with Like A Fable, he has made his best pop album yet.
Like his previous albums, Like A Fable was recorded with the longtime members of the Shintaro Sakamoto Band: Yuta Suganuma on drums, AYA (OOIOO) on bass and backing vocals, and Toru Nishiuchi on saxophone and flute.
KEN KEN (Ken2d Special, Urban Volcano Sounds) guested on trombone on two tracks.Tracklisting:
Side A
1. That Was Illegal
2. You Still OK?
3. Like A Fable
4. You Have Time But I Don't
5. Sad ErrandSide B
6. Star
7. Floating Weeds
8. Thickness Of Love
9. One Day
10. The Whereabouts Of Romance -
Free collective improvising is one of the most demanding ways of making music: the pitfalls are many ' self-absorption, incoherence, certain standardized gestures of free jazz, lack of dynamics, humourlessness ' but Spunk are alert to the dangers.Visit product page →
Bold, sometimes witty, always alert, they make engaging music, and keep the sound of surprise alive.
They have no fear of bringing the music to the brink of anarchy - they are interested in extremes as well as subtleties - but their instincts as composers-in-action also serve them well. Most of all, perhaps, Spunk convince by the force of their own convictions.
As Maja Ratkje says:
Music has to be strong. It deals with communication in an extremely direct fashion, within its own language. This is something that makes it vulnerable, but also, potentially, a bearer of great poetic power.
Tracklisting:
1. Tremble
2. The Lake
3. Bipolarity
4. Quadralogue
5. Antisolar Point
6. Mosegrodd
7. Ankomst
8. Ute
9. Eaten -
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For her solo debut Susanna Wallumrød has written the 12 highly personal songs that make up this beautiful and quite extraordinary album.
In these fast and restless times of instant entertainment and shortways to possible success, it's a rare treat to witness a young and genuinely talented singer and writer that operates to such a degree outside trends and fashions. We are delighted with this lovely addition to the catalogue, a work of uncompromising dedication inviting us to reflect and to listen.
Susanna plays piano and guitar, guests include her brother Christian Wallumrød (piano), Magical Orchestra partner Morten Qvenild (piano, synth), Big Bang leader Øystein Greni (guitar), Ola Fløttum (guitar) from The White Birch, Pål Hausken (drums) from In The Country, Helge Sten (guitar, mellotron), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Barbara Buchholz (theremin) and Giovanna Pessi (harp).
The album is produced by Deathprod.
Tracklisting:
1. Intruder
2. Born In The Desert
3. Hangout
4. People Living
5. Stay
6. For You
7. Better Days
8. Traveling
9. Demon Dance
10. Home Recordings
11. We Offer
12. Lily -
Merge Records
The Clientele 'I Am Not There Anymore' Vinyl LP - Red (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
37.49 £21.99
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The Clientele 'I Am Not There Anymore' Vinyl LP - Red (Slightly Damaged Sleeve)
£37.49 £21.99
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The Clientele’s first new record in six years. Over The Clientele’s 32-year career, critics and fans have described their songs with words like “ethereal,” “shimmering,” “hazy,” “pretty,” and “fragile.”
Their singer, guitarist, and lyricist, Alasdair MacLean, has his own interpretation of the effect his music creates. “It’s that feeling of not being there,” he says. “What’s really been in all the Clientele records is a sense of not actually inhabiting the moment your body is in.” I Am Not There Anymore, regularly evokes what MacLean calls “the feeling of not being real.” Many of the songs were inspired by MacLean’s memories of the early summer in 1997, when his mother died, but also represent The Clientele pushing towards a new sonic frontier as a band, experimenting over the course of a three-year recording period.
Of this stretching out, MacLean says, “We’d always been interested in music other than guitar music, like for donkey’s years.” This time out, he and bassist James Hornsey and drummer Mark Keen incorporated elements of post-bop jazz, contemporary classical, and electronic music.
According to MacLean, “None of those things had found their way into our sound other than in the most passing way, in the faintest imprint.” With those elements in the foreground, I Am Not There Anymore reasserts The Clientele’s standing among the great stylists of pop music, deftly shifting from image to image, mood to mood, in a way that feels both new and classically them.Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Fables of the Silverlink
2. Radial B
3. Garden Eye Mantra
4. Segue 4 (iv)
5. Lady GreySide B
6. Dying in May
7. Conjuring Summer In
8. Radial C (Nocturne for Three Trees)
9. Blue Over Blue
10. Radial ESide C
11. Claire's Not Real
12. My Childhood
13. Chalk Flowers
14. Radial H
15. Hey SiobhanSide D
16. Stems of Anise
17. Through the Roses
18. I Dreamed of You, Maria
19. The Village Is Always on Fire -
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The Lemonheads 'Come on Feel' - 30th Anniversary Edition 2CD Bookback (Slightly Damaged)
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The Lemonheads 'Come on Feel' - 30th Anniversary Edition 2CD Bookback (Slightly Damaged)
£22.99 £13.99
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Expanded 30th anniversary re-issue of The Lemonheads’ classic 1993 album. The breakthrough record that took American alt rock global and catapulted Evan Dando into the hearts of a generation. With a wealth of unreleased demos, alternative versions and rarities - including covers of Victoria Williams, Buddy Holly and The Flying Burrito Brothers plus The Lemonhead’s take on the Cole Porter standard ‘Miss Otis Regrets’.
In the 90’s Evan’s Lemonheads produced hit after a hit, a string of super cool singles: ‘Big Gay Heart’, ‘Into Your Arms’, ‘It’s About Time’, and ‘The Great Big NO’. Pure genius filling the radio waves and taking the stage... Some 30 years on; Evan is still knocking that song writing thing out of the park and ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ sounds as fresh and perky as it ever did. Amid the hits on the original record are stencils and outlines for yet more magical music and now this deluxe edition adds a second disc of demos and acoustic versions, plus a host of one-offs from sessions and compilations that add further colour to the myth and how it was created.
There’s the in-demand combo lovingly covering Victoria Williams’ ‘Frying Pan’ from her ‘Sweet Relief’ album, which is joined by an eclectic set of flipsides and out-takes, like their version of original garage punk nugget ‘Little Black Egg’ by The Nightcrawlers, Evan’s homage to Gram Parsons on the winsome ‘Streets Of Baltimore’ and Buddy Holly’s melancholy ‘Learning The Game’. Evan knows a good song when he hears it, as ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ certainly proved.
"Come On Feel was home to some of his best, sharpest writing – fabulous sunny powerpop and beautiful ballads" The Guardian
"'Come On Feel The Lemonheads' is all it purports to be: a chance to dip into Evan's jumbled-up, dope-smoking love-buggy of a life and celebrate it” NMETracklisting:
Disc One.
Side A:
A1. The Great Big No
A2. Into Your Arms
A3. It's About Time
A4. Down About it
A5. Paid to Smile
A6. Big Gay Heart
A7. Style
A8. Rest AssuredSide B:
B1. Dawn Can't Decide
B2. I'll do it Anyway
B3. Rick James Style
B4. Being Around
B5. Favorite T
B6. You Can Take it With You
B7. The Jello Fund ( + Lenny - hidden track)Disc Two.
Side C – Alternative & Acoustic:
C1. Big Gay Heart (Demo)
C2. Being Around (Alternative)
C3. Into Your Arms (Acoustic)
C4. Down About It (Acoustic)
C5. Deep Bottom Cove
C6. Acoustic Rick James Style
C7. It's About Time (Acoustic)Side D – Covers & Curiosities:
D1. Miss Otis regrets
D2. Learning the Game
D3. Little Black Egg
D4. Streets of Baltimore (Acoustic)
D5. Frying Pan
D6. He's on the Beach
D7. Favorite T (Live in Session)