Head on down to End of an Ear for their latest new arrivals listed below. You can also pick up tickets for Chaos and Tejas there. I was pretty excited to see that Iraqi metal band, Acrassicauda will be doing a Q&A at the ‘Ear on Tuesday, May 24th at 6pm. If you’ve ever seen the documentary, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, this one is not to be missed!
Pop / Rock / Punk
Alps “Easy Action” LP (Mexican Summer) With a beautiful foldout pop-up sleeve. SFgroup blending folk music with electronics.
Ashley, Greg “One Thin Heroine” b/w “Misery Again” 7″ (Mexican Summer) Two new countrified crooners.
Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part II” CD (Capitol) Marks Mike “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz and Adam “MCA” Yauch’s first full length effort since 2007.
Black Devil Disco Club “Circus” LP (Lo Recordings) Now in stock on vinyl.
Crystal Stilts / Comet Gain “split” 7″ (Slumberland)
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi “Rome” CD (Capitol) Meeting of Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse and Italian composer/arranger Daniele Luppi. With vocal contributions from Jack White and Norah Jones.
Elephant “Ants” 7″ (Memphis Industries) Well-tipped London synthpop duo hitting a mark somewhere between Au Revoir Simone and Beach House.
Ford & Lopatin “Emergency Room” 12″ (Mexican Summer) This pair (comprised of Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin and Tiger City’s Joel Ford) are no longer calling themselves Games. Instead, they now go by the very Italo disco-sounding moniker Ford & Lopatin.
Jesus And Mary Chain “Send Me Away: The Early Demos” LP Pre-‘Psychocandy’ demos from 1983.
Manikin “Minority Rules” 7″ (Super) Brand new single.
My Bloody Valentine “Lost Songs and Rare Cuts” LP Includes tracks from very limited fanclub 7″s, but is mostly completely unreleased studio outtakes and alternate versions.
Poly Styrene “Generation Indigo” CD (Future Noise Music UK) At the end of 2010, Poly Styrene, the unforgettable front woman and iconic face of the seminal UK punk band X-ray Spex announced her return to the music scene with this album produced by Youth. R.I.P.
Reverse X Rays “s/t” LP
Shapes Have Fangs “Dinner in the Dark” LP
Thee Oh Sees “Castlemania” CD/2LP (In The Red) New full-length album of original tracks plus a smattering of covers of songs by The Creation and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Vinyl is a three-sided double LP.
Xander Duell “Experimental Tape No 2, Vol. 1″ 12” (Mexican Summer) New album by NYC’s Xander Duell, who has fused decades’ worth of nuance into thirteen songs in the spirit of Scott Walker’s numbered albums and the prime cut of ’70s soft rock.
Xeno & Oaklander “Sentinelle” LP (Wierd) First time in stock on vinyl.
Punk
PRE-ORDER Fucked Up “David Comes To Life” (Matador) CD/LP When you preorder you will get:
– 4 Bonus 7″s of 8 extra non-album songs
– Instant download of 5 non-album songs
– A full 192k album stream and hi-quality album download in 4 parts over 4 days from May 10-13
– Download of Record Store Day Exclusive “David’s Town” comp on June 7
– An exclusive poster
High Tension Wires “Welcome New Machine” LP (Dirtnap) Vinyl now back in stock.
Messis, Paul “The Problem With Me” LP (13 O’Clock)
NoMeansNo “Wrong” LP Reissued.
Secta Suicida Siglo 20 “s/t” LP (Bam Bam) Rare Mexican hardcore/punk 12″, originally released in 1989. Includes a killer version of Stooges ‘I wanna be your dog’ en Espanol. Licensed import reissue, only 300 copies made.
Composers / Experimental
English, Lawrence “Kiri No Oto” LP (Digitalis) Originally released as a CD on the Touch label. Towering drones get weighted down with fuzz, overpowering the fog that’s present throughout the record. Limited to 500 copies
Ettinger, Dylan & The Heat “Smokin'” 7″ (Not Not Fun)
Habeeb “Corpsegrinder” Cassette (Dead Medium Tapes) New from North Texas noise label Dead Medium Tapes.
Magruder, Wayne “Highway Robbery” CD and cassette CD 2 cassettes and 1 CD of very beautiful ambient sounds created using only found sources.
McGuire, Mark “A Young Person’s Guide To Mark McGuire” 2CD (Editions Mego Austria) Collects together some of this Emeralds member’s best works, previously-released on a number of limited edition CD-Rs and tape releases over the last 4 years.
Kubisch, Christina “Magnetic Flights” CD (Important) Recordings made from the humming of electro-magnets on airplanes, unprocessed and amazing.
Kubisch, Christina “Mondo Fluido” CD (Important) Two previously unreleased compositions based around flute and electronics. She is one of the most important of what’s considered the 1st generation sound artists, very beautiful and timeless.
Landry, Dickie “Fifteen Saxophones” LP (Unseen Worlds) Reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard ‘Dickie’ Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974 recordings done with engineer Kurt Munkacsi, on the Northern Lights and Wergo labels in 1978.
Depths “s/t” Cassette (Dead Medium Tapes) New from North Texas noise label Dead Medium Tapes.
Mindhunter “The Kindness Of Strangers” Cassette (Dead Medium Tapes) New from North Texas noise label Dead Medium Tapes.
Owlscry “Le Demon Est Venu Du Nord” Cassette (Dead Medium Tapes) New from North Texas noise label Dead Medium Tapes.
Sex Bruises “Black Eye” CD (Instincto Records) Debut CDr from Austin harsh noise duo. Matt LaComette (Aunt’s Analog/Pataphysics/Low Red Center) and Ali Pharmakidis (Power Monster) team up for brutal relationship therapy.
Metal
Krallice “Diolima” CD (Profound Lore)
Saint Vitus “S/T” LP (SST) Sealed warehouse find with the embossed foil cover.
Prog / Psych
Alvarius B “Baroque Primitiva” + book CD (Abduction) Alan Bishop’s latest now in on cd, mostly solo with a few guests including the amazing Eyvind Kang. Also features a deluxe book which is an eye-swim through various forms of feminine beauty
Chapman, Michael “The Resurrection And Revenge Of The Clayton Peacock” LP (Ecstatic Peace) Two sides of unbroken, idiosyncratic guitar improvisation that moves from neck-tapping harmonics into effects pedal kosmische into distinctly strange tone huzz.
v/a “It’s A Happening!: Texas Girls Of The 60’s” CD (Cicadelic Records) Undiscovered gems by various Girl groups of Texas such as The WordD from Dallas and The Bombshells of Houston.
Soundtracks
v/a “Mala Morska Vila” The Little Mermaid CD (B-Music) The original orchestral/electronic score from Karel Kachyna’s 1976 Czech film adaptation of Hans C. Anderson’s `The Little Mermaid’, composed by Zdenek Liska (The Cremator / Fruits of Paradise) featuring Lenka Korinkova.
Techno / Electronic
Blake, James “s/t” LP (Universal Republic) Vinyl now back in stock.
Burial / Four Tet / Thom Yorke “Ego / Mirror” 12″ (Text UK) White label, looks scarce. Get it while you can.
Hell, Rene “The Terminal Symphony” CD (Type UK) Looking to his love of classical minimalism, Jeff Witscher aka Rene Hell ook it as the starting point for this new record. The result is a deeply electronic rendition of a classical electronic formula
v/a “Echocord Jubilee Comp.” CD Echocord (Germany) Ten exclusive tracks by 10 of their finest artists over the last nine years. Exclusive tracks by Fluxion, Quantec, Deadbeat, Onmutu Mechanicks, Brendon Moeller, Luke Hess, Resoe, Stephen Hitchell, Fenin and Mikkel Metal.
World
Ethiopiques 27 – Azmari Tessema Eshete 2CD (Buda Records) Subtitled “Centennial of the First Ethiopian”
