I hope everyone had as much fun on Record Store Day as I did. And if you’re like me, it’s only stoked the fire of your vinyl-buying addiction. Here’s what’s new at End of an Ear this week. Get out there and support your favorite local indie record store, or maybe check out one you’ve never been to. There are plenty right here in the ATX.
Pop / Rock
Attic Ted “Patty Cake” 7″ New 7″ now in stock.
Blouse “Into Black” 7″ (Captured Tracks) Debut single. Hazy dream pop.
Catwalk “One By Worlds” 7″ (Captured Tracks)
Craft Spells “After The Moment” 7″ (Captured Tracks) 2nd single.
Craft Spells “Idle Labor” LP (Captured Tracks) Debut album of summery bedroom pop.
Craft Spells “Party Talk/Ramona” 7″ (Captured Tracks)
Dennen, Brett “Loverboy” CD (Dualtone)
Dickins “S/T” CD
Dirty Beaches “Badlands” LP (Zoo Music)
Dorsie “s/t” 7″ (Indiana)
Dungen “Oga Nasa Mum” 7″ (Third Man Records)
First Aid Kit “Universal Soldier” 7″ (Third Man Records)
Foo Fighters “Wasting Light” CD (RMG/RCA) Newest album, recorded entirely on analog tape.
Generationals “Actor-Caster” CD (Park The Van)
Ha Ha Tonka “Death of Decade” CD (Bloodshot)
Hauschka “Salon Des Amateurs” LP (Fat Cat)
Joan as Police Woman “The Deep End” CD (PIAS America)
Jonny “Jonny” CD (Merge)
Krauss, Alison and Union Station “Paper Airplane” CD (Rounder)
Lake “Giving & Receiving” LP (K Records)
Led Er Est “Dust on Common” CD (Wierd)
Little Scream “The Golden Record” CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
Low “C’mon” CD/LP (Sub Pop) New studio album. One of its most accessible, affecting albums to date.
Low Red Center / Lead Pipe Cassette
Mazes “A Thousand Heys” CD (Fatcat)
Meat Puppets “Lollipop” CD (Megaforce) New album, recorded right here in Austin.
Minutemen / Saccharine Trust “Split” 7″ Water Under the Bridge
Mirror Mirror “FRKWYS Vol. 5″ 12” (RVNG International)
Old Calf “Borrow a Horse” CD/LP (No Quarter)
One AM Radio “Heaven is Attached by a Slender Thread” CD Dangerbird
Panda Bear “Tomboy” CD/LP (Paw Tracks) Tomboy sees Panda Bear stepping away from the sample-based parameters of the previous record, and incorporating more guitar and synthesizer.
Ponytail “Do Whatever You Want All the Time!” CD/LP (We are Free)
Rebirth Brass Band “Rebirth” CD (Basin Street)
Ruins “Art Dance” LP (Minimal Wave)
Simon, Paul “So Beautiful Or So What” CD (Concord)
Spectre Folk “The Blackest Medicine Vol. 2″ 12” (Woodsist) Newest EP from Magik Markers’ Pete Nolan.
TV on the Radio “Nine Types of Light” CD/Deluxe CD (Interscope) Fourth full length. Limited edition package version has 3 bonus tracks.
Tyvek “Third Man Live 09-27-2010” LP (Third Man Records)
V/A “Tron Legacy Reconfigured” CD (Walt Disney)
v/a “Welcome Home” LP/Cassette (Woodsist) With tracks from Fresh and Onlys, Woods, White Fence, Moon Duo, Nodzz and more.
Vivian Girls “Share The Joy” CD/LP (Polyvinyl) On their third album, Vivian Girls continue to sharpen and refine their transcendent mix of garage thrash, girl-group warmth and infectious pop hooksmanship.
Experimental / Composers
Bee Mask “Hyperborean Trenchtown” LP (Weird Forest) The album’s two side-long cuts are varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography and more.
Bloom, Kath and Loren Connors “Sing The Children Over / Sand In My Shoe” 2CD CD Chapter Music (Australia)
Chartier, Richard “Transparency (Performance)” CD (Line)
Schnitzler, Conrad “Ballet Statique” LP
Tape “Revelationes” LP (Immune)
Yoshizawa, Motoharu “From The Faraway Nearby” CD (PSF Japan)
Hip-Hop
Antonionian “s/t” LP Anticon
Atmosphere “Family Man” CD/LP Rhymesayers First new album in three years.
Jazz
Butcher, John / Eddie Prevost “Interworks” CD (Matchless Recordings UK)
Butcher, John / Phil Durrant / John Russell “The Scenic Route” CD (Emanem UK)
Cohran, Phil “The Zulu 45s Collection” 7″ (Jazzman)
Sharrock, Sonny “Monkey-Pockie-Boo” LP (BYG Actuel)
Shepp, Archie “Yasmina, A Black Woman” (180 Gram Vinyl) LP (BYG Actuel)
Metal
Christian Mistress “Demo” LP (Unseen Forces) Vinyl release of Olympia heavy metal bands debut demo. 4 songs (3 of which are exclusive to this release) for fans of Znowhite, Detente and the classic NWOBHM sounds. Strictly limited to 350 copies in silkscreened sleeve.
Techno / Electronic
Jaar, Nicolas “A Time For Us/Mi Mujer” 12″ (Wolf and Lamb)
Jaar, Nicolas “Marks And Angles” 12″ (Circus Company France)
Magnetic Man “Getting Nowhere” 12″ (Magnet UK)
Magnetic Man “The Cyberman” 12″ (Magnet UK)
v/a “MCDE 1206/07” 2×12″ (Motor City Drum Ensemble) 12″
Misc / World
Negro, Joey “The Soul Of Disco Volume 3” 2CD CD Z Records UK
Cameron, John “Kes OST” CD Trunk UK
v/a “Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua De Chicago” CD/LP (Numero) Fifteen tracks culled from the original master tapes of the Chicago-based Ebirac label.
v/a “Princess Nicotine: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma)” LP Sublime Frequencies
