December 6th Newsletter

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  • Smog – Rain On Lens
    Smog – Rain On Lens
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    “The uninitiated listeners will hear this LP as a greatest hits package, sending one scurrying to find the record each song is from. NOTE: They’re all from Rain on Lens […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Rain On Lens
    Smog – Rain On Lens
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    “The uninitiated listeners will hear this LP as a greatest hits package, sending one scurrying to find the record each song is from. NOTE: They’re all from Rain on Lens […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Strayed
    Smog – Strayed
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    “The hit just keeps on coming. The shameless repackage CDEP includes one smash from Dongs of Sevotion with a closet classic from the earliest days of the teenaged Smog – […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – ‘Neath The Puke Tree
    Smog – ‘Neath The Puke Tree
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    “‘Neath the tree this year — a lonely, beautiful EP.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Dongs Of Sevotion
    Smog – Dongs Of Sevotion
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    “Smog checks back in. Easy money never seemed so hard! Buy for the songs – stay for the Dongs.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Knock Knock
    Smog – Knock Knock
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    “Featuring string quartet and children’s choir, just like The Wall. We don’t need no stinkin’ education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back).”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Knock Knock
    Smog – Knock Knock
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    “Featuring string quartet and children’s choir, just like The Wall. We don’t need no stinkin’ education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back).”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog – Red Apple Falls
    Smog – Red Apple Falls
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    “We all want life to be beautiful. And it usually is, whatever direction we choose to look. But never before has there been a Smog LP quite this beautiful. Lush […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas
    Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas
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    “Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Silver Jews – Bright Flight
    Silver Jews – Bright Flight
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    “The first thing I remember about the recording of Bright Flight is that when we opened the door to Hum Depot’s roller rink of a basement studio, the console was […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
    Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
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    “The valleys and lakes had better watch out, too. The Joos have returned with an unmistakable force that will shake the very foundations we all hold dear. David Berman’s wit […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
    Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
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    “The valleys and lakes had better watch out, too. The Joos have returned with an unmistakable force that will shake the very foundations we all hold dear. David Berman’s wit […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
    Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
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    “David Berman and Co. tear through 10 more numbers, loving you to the max the whole time. Jews fans rejoice, your master is back.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Early Times
    Silver Jews – Early Times
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    “Well, “Salad Days” was taken and “Wild Turkey” sounds like an insult. These field recordings capture the birth of the Jews, from way back in the days of the Silver [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – American Water
    Silver Jews – American Water
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    “The other night a snow storm left some suburban friends stranded at our place. With bourbons and beers in hand, we caught up and listened to records. It had probably […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Starlite Walker
    Silver Jews – Starlite Walker
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    “Starlite Walker was an Oxford, Mississippi record. David resided on the outskirts of town at the time. He was renting a tiny building that was part of a professor’s chemistry […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rafael Toral – Traveling Light
    Rafael Toral – Traveling Light
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    “From out of the dark, the crackle of feed back birdsong signals a return to the land of sound environments exclusive to the music of Rafael Toral. A year and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Rafael Toral – Wave Field
    Rafael Toral – Wave Field
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    “Wave Field, released in 1995, was a departure from the first album into new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, sounding in the open ears of many […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Rafael Toral – Wave Field
    Rafael Toral – Wave Field
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    “Wave Field, released in 1995, was a departure from the first album into new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, sounding in the open ears of many […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Rafael Toral – Sound Mind Sound Body
    Rafael Toral – Sound Mind Sound Body
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    “Sound Mind Sound Body was inspired in part by the working principles of Fripp & Eno, extrapolated by Rafael via a unique signal path leading out of his guitar. He […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Major Stars – More Colors Of Sound
    Major Stars – More Colors Of Sound
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    “Out of the roiling miasma of timeless time comes a long-promised delivery from one of the constants of our era: Major Stars, and their new LP, More Colors of Sound. […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Return To Form
    Major Stars – Return To Form
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    “On their seventh album, Return to Form, acid rockers Major Stars make a journey back to their fuzzier, more psychedelic roots. Sandra Barrett is still holding down the vocal duties, but [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
    Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
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    “New school psych freak-outs from the Northeast. Three guitars slice at your ears with knives of all sizes while Sandra Barrett belts out her vocals, drawing the songs tight before […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Divers
    Joanna Newsom – Divers
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    “…further along and down the road apiece from where she took her leave of us, Joanna Newsom plays on. Breathe deep and equalize your today-ears to the new world of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
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    “2010 three CD release from the acclaimed singer/songwriter, the long-awaited follow-up to her album the Y’s. Featuring Ryan Francesconi and Neal Morgan from Joanna’s Ys Street [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band E.P.
    Joanna Newsom – Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band E.P.
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    “It took 3 years, but Joanna’s finally made her mark on DC pun-dom. To sweeten the deal, she’s included some music with this already valuable pun. 3 tracks: one new, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Ys
    Joanna Newsom – Ys
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    “A once-a-life moment, forged into the shape of an album. These five songs are worth a thousand pictures, and that adds up to a million words – and that’s almost […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
    Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
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    “Soul-enhancing dynamic range, the voice of a old one in a young one’s body with a harp of gold. J-New’s hulloa to the world at large.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim White – Inner Day
    Jim White – Inner Day
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    “For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim White – Inner Day
    Jim White – Inner Day
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    “For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Glyders – Forever
    Glyders – Forever
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    “Look what glyded in, y’all – drop Forever on the platter and get the house party started! Glyders been dreaming up this sound for ages – over years, with different […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gastr Del Sol – We Have Dozens Of Titles
    Gastr Del Sol – We Have Dozens Of Titles
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eiko Ishibashi – The Dream My Bones Dream
    Eiko Ishibashi – The Dream My Bones Dream
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    “Riding the rails down to the past and back to the future, Eiko considers the unknown lives that her own family has lived, set to expansive pop travelogues evoking the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist
    Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist
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    “Following their collaboration on 2021’s Oscar winning Drive My Car, Eiko Ishibashi & filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi up the ante with a deeply inspired synergistic exchange: music for [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
    Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
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    “Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola/violin/piano/synthesizer/loops/percussion for their [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
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    “Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Death – III
    Death – III
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    “Death comes a-knockin’ again! Two later phases set the stage for a third rip through the archives: 1980’s “North St.” finds the band still uncoiling dense knots of [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Death – III
    Death – III
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    “Death comes a-knockin’ again! Two later phases set the stage for a third rip through the archives: 1980’s “North St.” finds the band still uncoiling dense knots of [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Death – Spiritual | Mental | Physical
    Death – Spiritual | Mental | Physical
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “Original “reel-to-reel” demo recordings 1974-1976. The wild early sound of Death, raw and tinny, yet ferocious! Life before/after Death. Death in the practice space. Death [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Death – …For The Whole World To See
    Death – …For The Whole World To See
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    “Death is the three Hackney brothers, fueled by the raucous sounds of Iggy & Co., creating their own take on the emerging sounds of punk. Socially conscious lyrics mixed with […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Death – …For The Whole World To See
    Death – …For The Whole World To See
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    “Death is the three Hackney brothers, fueled by the raucous sounds of Iggy & Co., creating their own take on the emerging sounds of punk. Socially conscious lyrics mixed with […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Chris Corsano – The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away])
    Chris Corsano – The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away])
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    “A feverish essay of transcendent drumming: Chris’ solo approach, rooted in the exploration of elements of extended technique, sought another level, via possibilities facilitated by a [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
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    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
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    “The palace halls are rocking with new music! Take heart- our Bonnie “Prince” has lived to sing another day.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
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    “Hark, the Prince returns! Dark and mysterious, yet occasionally jovial – that’s the man you remember. Here he brings some of the classic country sound mixed with his own honest [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    “Hark, the Prince returns! Dark and mysterious, yet occasionally jovial – that’s the man you remember. Here he brings some of the classic country sound mixed with his own honest [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues
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    “At the locus of five corners, mythos is in the wind; a sea of tongues boils forth, mountains spurting forth from the magma. Bonny sings for who he was and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues / Barely Regal
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues / Barely Regal
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “At the locus of five corners, mythos is in the wind; a sea of tongues boils forth, mountains spurting forth from the magma. Bonny sings for who he was and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – The B-Sides For Time To Be Clear
    Bonnie Prince Billy – The B-Sides For Time To Be Clear
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    “Wanna get whipped-out-of-mind? Here’s your one stop an’ shop for both sides of that pervy-yet-exquisite suggestion. Purchasers of the digital single get, hm, a bonus? In that [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative