2016 #5: April - Outside Music

2016 #5: April
Outside Music is happy to welcome back HAND DRAWN DRACULA!
James Brown And The
Fabulous Flames
Southern Routes
SOUTHERN
ROUTES
The Roots Of Revolution
Perhaps you have seen him depicted in the recent feature film, possibly watched the HBO documentary.
You might even have been amazed by accounts of legal shenanigans surrounding his estate. It’s like James
Brown never left, still stirring up controversy and whipping heads around in the twenty-first century. The Roots
of Revolution is your ticket to understanding how his story began. This all-new set from Southern Routes
presents a complete collection of the Godfather of Soul’s formative recording for Federal Records with The
Famous Flames in late 1950’s. This import 2LP or 2CD package features all of JB’s early, explosive hits including “Please, Please, Please”, “Try Me” and “Think”; thirty-six dynamic Rhythm and Blues gems. Essential!!
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 CDx2: 84721-3001-2
File Under: Soul/R&B/Funk
LPx2: SR3001
CDx2: $21.18
LPx2: $28.61
Louie Gonnie
CDx2 UPC: 084721300120
LPx2 UPC: 084721300113
Canyon
Songs From The Black Cedar Hills
For three generations, the Gonnie family have lived amongst the rising buttes and hills of an area of the
Navajo Nation called Black Cedar Hills. Named for those lands that have been the family stronghold for
decades, this recording brings together prolific Diné songmaker Louie Gonnie with brother Dewey Gonnie
and cousin Logan Yazzie to honor their family’s vibrant lineage of song and prayer. From the embers of the
fireplace of the Native American Church emerge these potent songs of inner healing and transformation.
The locales of White Cone and Black Cedar Hills are known for being home to respected elders, traditional
singers and visual artists. Likewise, the Gonnie family maintains a singing tradition with a sound all to its
own. The Gonnie family sound and the spirit of their ancestral lands are the centerpieces of this newest
recording by award-winning Native American singer Louie Gonnie. Gonnie is joined by relatives Dewey
Gonnie and Logan Yazzie, both noted singers and songmakers in their own right. Together their singing and
compositions touch the listener in the heart and provide spiritual nourishment for those on the Peyote Road.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 CD: 29337-6529-2
File Under: First Nations
CD: $12.90
CD UPC: 729337652927
Awalom Gerbremariam
Awesome Tapes
From Africa
Desdes
At the age of 28, Awalom Gebremariam arrived in the United States, following a years-long journey
from Eritrea. He’d made it to a refugee camp in Ethiopia several years ago and eventually attained
asylum status for passage to America. But before he left his hometown, Eritrea’s capital Asmara, he
made his first and only recording so far, Desdes. Awalom completed Desdes in 2007, not long before
he departed Eritrea. Because Awalom left after the recording he never received any money for cassette and CD sales. But he also didn’t get to find out how much of an impact the songs have had
locally. His songs appear to focus on love, but Awalom isn’t speaking about romantic love per se.
Much of the music Awalom heard growing up was intertwined with Eritrea’s difficult and contentious
split from Ethiopia. He spent years waiting for the chance to escape economic and political turmoil at
home. Now 29 and living in North Carolina, Awalom works in a restaurant and plans to bring his music
to Eritrean communities across North America as well as newer listeners with whom his powerful
sounds and remarkable journey will deeply resonate.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 CD: 51937-4361-2
File Under: World
LP: ATFA020
CS: ATFA020CS
CD: $10.00
LP: $13.13
CS: $6.00
Bobby “Blue” Bland
CD UPC: 751937436126
LP UPC: 751937436119
CS UPC: N/A
Southern Routes
Further On Up The Road
SOUTHERN
ROUTES
This all-new import compilation (available on 2CD or 2LPs) from Southern Routes presents a powerful set
of Bobby Blue Bland’s sublime recordings for Don Robey’s Houston TX-based Duke Records, originally
released from 1955 through the end of 1962. During this term his music was a Tour de Force, Bland’s powerhouse vocals backed by savage, slashing guitars. He delivered hit after hit and by 1961 with the release
of his legendary LP “Two Steps From The Blues” (included herein) Bobby Bland had rede­fined Texas Electric
Blues and Southern Soul simultaneously.
This is Excellent, Essential Music -- without a doubt, some of the greatest Blues and Soul material ever
recorded...
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 CDx2: 84721-3002-2
File Under: Soul/R&B/Funk
LPx2: SR3002
CDx2: $21.18
LPx2: $28.61
Peter Kater & Tina Guo
CDx2 UPC: 084721300229
LPx2 UPC: 084721300212
Hearts of Space
Inner Passion
Eleven time Grammy nominee/multi-platinum selling pianist/composer Peter Kater has been leading
innovator of contemporary instrumental music for over three decades. He has recorded over sixty
albums and had seven appear on the Top 20 Billboard New Age Albums chart. His recordings with
R. Carlos Nakai have each sold hundreds of thousands of albums. His music has been heard all over
the world from Healing Centers to the Olympics and Carnegie Hall. He’s performed for presidents and
dignitaries; scored the music for over 100 TV & Film productions including 11 On & Off-Broadway dramatic plays and is a proud recipient of the Environment Leadership Award from the United Nations. In
2015 he was awarded the ZoneMusicReporter Lifetime Achievement Award. Tina Guo has developed
an international multi-faceted performance and recording career as a cellist, electric cellist, erhuist,
and composer known for her distinctive sound, mastery in a wide range of genres, and improvisatory
style in major motion picture, television, and game scores. Release Date: Immediate
File Under: New Age
CD: 25041-1426-2
CD: $13.46
CD UPC: 025041142625
Lucy Dacus
EggHunt
No Burden
No Burden is the debut album from singer/songwriter LUCY DACUS. At the young age of just 20, she is
already a force to be reckoned with in her hometown of Richmond, VA and quickly gaining notoriety from
her amazing and unique singing voice. Leah Mandel, journalist @ THE FADER recently listed Lucy in the top
20 artists to watch out for in 2016 and stated “Her voice is beautiful, like none I’ve heard before. On her
dynamic debut album No Burden—out in February—she warbles her country-rock songs like a humble
new pal revealing old secrets about feeling lost and starting over.” With a full spring/summer 2016 tour and
trip to SXSW booked, Lucy Dacus will be shining her star across North America and beyond. Keep an eye
out for this amazing talent.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Rock-Pop
CD: 03610-8754-9
LP: EHR014
CD: $15.13
LP: $20.50
Frances England
CD UPC: 703610875494
LP UPC: 659696410817
Frances England
Explorer Of The World
FRANCES
ENGLAND
What if we became adventurers in our own backyard? That’s what award-winning children’s singer/songwriter Frances England started wondering not so long ago. In an era where so many of us float through the
world with our noses in our phones as the colors of our neighborhoods slide past in a blur, England imagined
a joyful antidote.
This is the curiosity that lights up Explorer of the World. For two years England took walks around San
Francisco and, with a handheld microphone, recorded an array of sounds: the bucket drum that kickstarts
“Street Life” was played by a street performer on Market Street, then looped throughout the track. The
ambient urban sounds of “City Don’t Sleep” were recorded on late night walks through North Beach. These
noises - along with the beats of a couple of salvaged drum machines - would form the vivacious foundations of the album.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Children’s
CD: 88295-3847-9
CD: $15.13
Trembling Bells
CD UPC: 888295384797
Tin Angel
Wide Majestic Aire
The Trembling Bells are back with Wide Majestic Aire; a seven-track mini-album which acts as a companion piece to Sovereign Self and cements their reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting and exploratory
groups.
“‘Wide Majestic Aire’ is among my favourite songs that I’ve written,” says the band’s founder and leader Alex
Neilson of the title track. This romantic ballad, sung by Lavinia Blackwall, sees the compass of the band’s
music swing back in the direction of folk after the prog and acid rock of Sovereign Self. It is in some ways
archetypally Trembling Bells in its evocation of the landscapes of Yorkshire and Oxford and its invocation of
great artists of the past - Larkin, Blake, Lorca and Turner. Such a sweet and melodic song could function
as a gateway drug to the rest of the band’s music, which is to be welcomed as there is much to explore in
their rich back catalogue.
Trembling Bells, in 2016, are carving their own path through contemporary culture. Their huge creative
ambition sees them forever pushing deeper and deeper into their art, and there is a compulsive quality to
Neilson’s songwriting that - like the Aire, wide and majestic - just keeps flowing. “We have,” he says, “a
frenzied, ferocious attitude towards life and work.”
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Rock-Pop
CD: 52442-0084-6
LP: TAR057
CD: $11.00
LP: $17.56
CD UPC: 5052442008460
LP UPC: 5052442008477
Lefty Frizzell
Southern Routes
Time Out For The Blues
SOUTHERN
ROUTES
With his warm, drawling vocals and downhome charm, Texas country music innovator Lefty Frizzell was
Hank Williams’ only serious rival in the early 1950s, when Lefty made history by dominating the Top Five
with 3 concurrent hits in the early 1950’s. He exerted a profound influence on every subsequent generation
of singers, from George Jones to Merle Haggard and George Strait. This newly-compiled import compilation
captures the singer at his early peak and into his sensational early 1960’s return to form, capturing Frizzell
at his irresistible best.
CD Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 CD: 84721-4002-2
LP Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 LP: SR4002
File Under: Country
CD: $15.13
LP: $20.50
Greyhounds
CD UPC: 084721400226
LP UPC: 084721400219
Ardent Music
Change Of Pace
A Change of Pace is Greyhounds’ second - and finest - collection of funky, blues-and-R&B-laced rock and
roll. Where their last album, 2014’s acclaimed Accumulator focused on internal emotional turmoil and personal relationships, A Change of Pace draws its inspiration from the outside world and the struggles the duo
sees every day in Texas and on the road.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 CD: 66887-8571-5
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: ARD8571
CD: $14.25
LP: $23.50
Factor Chandelier
CD UPC: 766887857150
LP UPC: 766887857112
Fake Four
Factoria
“The ruins of the failed city of Factoria lie under the residential subdivision of Silverwood Heights in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the hometown of producer extraordinaire Graham Murawsky (aka Factor Chandelier).
Just prior to World War I, Chicago entrepreneur Robert E. Glass ventured north with dreams of building an
elaborate industrial city in a formerly typhoid-riddled secure electrical power turned Factoria into a ghost
town. Inspired by the obscure story of the Magic City that never was, Murawsky has crafted a 13-track
album that pays homage to Factoria and wonders what could have been. On the Factoria LP, Murawsky’s
follow-up to the 2013 concept album Woke Up Alone, he builds a city of expansive, sample-free beats that
bang with punishing drums and industrial clatter at one moment and exude a melodic, pastoral calm the
next. The sounds shift on the album in accordance with the hope that the city began with and the wartime
entropy that engulfed it. Recorded and mixed by Factor at his Chandelier Studios in Saskatoon, the album
incorporates the bass of Enver Hampton, violin and guitar from The Pxrtals, and guest vocals from a host
of Fake Four family and friends. Factoria opens up with“The Magic City”, a glossy, post-apocalyptic instrumental reminiscent of Ratatat segueing into Kirby Dominant’s geographical cure pondering on the upbeat
title track. Open Mike Eagle brings his emotive, pensive musings to “Dozer II” while Awol One, Gregory
Pepper, and Ceschi reunite over the funky bass of“Noise Band”, a gloomy, self-deprecating sequel to their
2009 collaboration with Factor on“Back Then”. Myka 9 explores the concept of building through an abstract
historical context on“Shoulders of Giants” before “Old Organs” closes out the record with crashing drums,
eerie organs, and wraith-like wails. What may have drove Glass to Factoria, beyond monetary gain, is the
desire to create something in his vision, to build a city of hallowed ground, Factor has built a decade and a
half worth of beats for Canadian comrades, west coast underground legends, and indie rap cult heroes from
all over the map. Augmented by Murawsky’s chemistry with emcees he has worked with for years, Factoria
is a beacon illuminating the streets that paved over the ruins of the Magic City.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 CD: 34457-7169-2
File Under: Hip-Hop/Rap
LP: FFINC059
CD: $15.13
CD: $23.93
CD UPC: 634457716926
CD UPC: 634457716919
The Herms
Narnack
Welcome All Tourists
The Herms’ new album, Welcome All Tourists, begins with “Parades,” a surfy “House of The Rising
Sun” set in the blood-soaked sands of sunny Los Angeles. Thus the journey begins as The Herms
create a new world of weird scenes, characters & environmental altitudes/attitudes that dive into the
altered dimensions of Son of Sam’s master demon, General Jack of the Cosmos, with “General Jack.”
From the anthemic “Ready/Set 94,” to the bipolar quiet/loud monster breaths in “Bezlo,” the bossa
nova “Sounds Below” evoking The Kinks & Arctic Monkeys, to the western expansion of “Get On (part
II)” conjuring themes of Westworld if it were set on Hollywood Blvd. Finally, the modular comedown
of “Autopos” rounds things out just right as the sun sets. As John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees puts it: “No
one sounds like The Herms. No one sounds like Matt Lutz.”
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Electronic
CD: 25807-7066-2
CD: $15.13
Bootstraps
CD UPC: 825807706623
Atelier Recordings
Homage
ATELIER
RECORDINGS
Bootstraps is a testament to the idea that good songs always find their audience. The Los Angelesbased band, specializes in what Rolling Stone called “compelling, emotionally gripping material”
while naming them “a band worth watching closely.” Even before the release of the band’s 2014
self-titled debut, Bootstraps’ music had been featured prominently in TV and film as their breakout
record won over the industry’s most selective audience. Last year, after reimagining a cover of
Whitney Houston’s classic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” for Grey’s Anatomy, Bootstraps took
to the studio to explore an entire record in this vein. Their forthcoming record HOMAGE is about
deconstructing familiar tunes and re-framing them in what Liza Richardson (Award Winning Music
Supervisor and KCRW DJ) calls an “instantly likable, intelligent and signature” sound that is often
compared to Ray LaMontayne, with hints of Bon Iver and The National. “I hated the idea of doing a
‘covers’ record,” singer Jordan Beckett said, “if you’re talking about American Idol karaoke renditions… rather, we were inspired by the Emmylou Harris album Wrecking Ball that applied Daniel
Lanois’ ambient style of production to country, folk songs.” This inspiration is heard within HOMAGE
as he and bandmate David Quon (Mikky Ekko, Banks) seem to push against traditional production
with great success as they shed new musical and melodic light on these tracks. Using lush, atmospheric instrumentation, this is a record that seems perfectly suited for a long drive up the coast
at dusk; a place where Bootstraps’ music seems to testify the loudest. And it’s on these highways,
that HOMAGE is sure to find a wide and captive audience.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 CD: 34457-7249-2
File Under: Rock-Pop
CD: $14.25
Various Artists
CD UPC: 634457724921
RVNG Int’l
BIS001-BIS020
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 CDx2: 00064-9527-4
File Under: Electronic
CDx2: $11.88
CDx2 UPC: 700064952740
NEW ON VINYL & CASSETTE
Please note that vinyl & cassettes are non-returnable.
All releases are in stock now unless noted otherwise.
Various Artists
Tin Angel
Dear Janet
Janet Jackson covers album! Filled with loads of Tin Angel favourites and even a couple of our very own
artists. The project has been 7 years in the making and is the brainchild of our good friend Jan Lankisch.
After hearing Janet’s music for the first time in 1989 he instantly became a fan. ‘It blew my mind’ he says
‘you could call it a first-love experience.’ The idea came to realisation in 2008 after meeting the band Dirty
Projectors. They spoke about The Jacksons and Jan mentioned how he’d always preferred Janet’s records
to Michael’s, and that it would be fun to pay tribute to her. Here we have it, 17 tracks recorded over 7 years
- a love letter to Janet. Two 180g transparent 12” records contained in a beautiful gatefold sleeve. Limited
edition of 300, one press only. Features an exclusive bonus track from Scout Niblett!
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LPx2: TAR058LP
File Under: Rock-Pop
LPx2: $30.50
Soundtracks - OST
LPx2 UPC: 5052442007869
Silva Screen
Clint Mansell - High-Rise
Golden Globe and Grammy nominated composer Clint Mansell’s brooding, edgy and beautifully unsettled
orchestral score to Ben Wheatley’s acclaimed film adaptation of J.G Ballard’s High-Rise - Starring Tom
Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, High-Rise is a visionary tale of human
society slipping into extreme violence. The once-peaceful residents of a desirable apartment block quickly
spiral into a world ruled by primal urges in which elevators become vicious battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into brutal raids on “enemy” floors.
Described by Hollywood Reporter as “a lustrous retro-classical score bursting with ironic good cheer”, Clint
Mansell’s music has a meaty, steadfast presence throughout the visual spectacular of the savage societal
breakdown.
Former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman, Clint Mansell is best known for his work with long-time collaborator
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain, Noah). He also scored Duncan Jones’
Directorial debut Moon, and has lent his talent to films as diverse as Filth, Faster, and Last Night.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: SILLP1501
File Under: Score
LP: $38.00
Logan Takahashi
LP UPC: 738572150174
Ghostly Int’l
NoGeo
As half of Teengirl Fantasy, Logan Takahashi is best known for making glassy, expansive tracks. On his debut
solo album, NoGeo however, he creates an intimate world of fertile, furtive rhythms. Throughout the album,
techno-tinged patterns unfurl with zeal and digital melodies slowly rise and fall. If the music of Teengirl
evokes widescreen, technicolor club scenes, NoGeo is a zoomed-in study of timbre, rhythm, and melody.
Much of NoGeo was composed using Elekrton’s Monomachine, which contributes to its minimalist aesthetic. There’s a uniformity to the tracks on NoGeo; though each has its own distinct, vibrant shape, all of
them are cut from the same cloth - built on a sturdy rhythmic foundation that’s ornamented with buoyant
candescent, sounds. “People talk a lot about borderlessness in dance music, and indeed I’ve always been
most drawn to music that exists in or a works to create new grey areas,” Takahashi explains. “From the
late ‘80s Japanese Neo Geo genre to the early ‘00s Brooklyn tabletop electronics scene, I’ve always been
inspired by the notion of being able to create your own vocabulary.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: GI268
File Under: Electronic
LP: $12.00
LP UPC: 804297826813
Zen Mantra
Flying Nun
Zen Mantra
Dreamy, psychedelic pop songs seem to be the signature of New Zealand musician Zen Mantra (Sam
Perry). And this, his self-titled second album, is filled with shimmering psychedelic lo-fi rock, and reverb
drenched guitar melodies. Following on from his 2013 debut album ‘How Many Padmes Hum’ the 10-track
album sees the 21-year old bedroom producer joining the Flying Nun roster and expanding his focus to
incorporate all forms of pop music from ethereal shoegaze to walls of psychedelic distortion. Taking cues
from his fellow indie dreamers like DIIV and Wild Nothing, Zen Mantra has a pure pop energy, an expansive
sound and plenty of hooks. Simply put Zen Mantra will make you feel warm and fuzzy.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: FN560
File Under: Electronic
LP: $13.13
Peter Broderick
LP UPC: 942190363186
Erased Tapes
Music For Confluence
April 1st will see Peter Broderick’s classic score Music For Confluence reissued on vinyl for the first time.
Through relentless touring and multiple album recordings, Portland based Peter Broderick has established
himself as a contemporary composer, known for his innate gift as a musical medium to picking up any
instrument, turning his musings into poignant songs. The scope of Peter’s work is vast – his recordings and
original score work currently feature in dance arrangements, art installations, films and documentaries. He
collaborated with many like-minded contemporaries such as Nils Frahm and Greg Haines, and featured
on Clint Mansell’s Last Night soundtrack. Peter’s signature emotional depth cuts through any instrument to
create stirring, personal music that is full of artistic detail. Currently an artist in residence at Sirius Arts Centre
in Cobh, Ireland, 2016 has much in store for Peter. Created in 2011 for Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott’s
spell binding documentary film on five unsolved murders in Idaho, the soundtrack takes the listener through
waves of stark emotions.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: ERATP036
File Under: Electronic
LP: $23.93
Peter Broderick
LP UPC: 4050486111383
Hush Records
Docile
On the evening of May 6th, 2007 Peter Broderick sat down at a piano and performed a collection of 10 solo
piano compositions that would be released by a small Swedish label in 2008 as Docile. Since then, these
simple, luminous tracks have defied the gravity of his extensive repertoire and found their way into the
hearts of thousands. “Ceasefire” and “Begin” occupy two of the top 3 slots on Broderick’s Spotify page with
a collected 2.5 million listens. Docile is a distillation of Peter’s pure musicality. The compositions, recall the
poise of Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies, and the minimalism of Philip Glass.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Electronic
LP: HSH117
LP: $18.02
Makaya McCaven
LP UPC: 634457716018
International Anthem
Recordings
In The Moment E/F Sides
Nine new pieces of organic beat music recorded during the original In The Moment sessions but not completed until late 2015. Produced by Makaya McCraven and mastered by Daddy Kev (Low End Theory, Alpha
Pup).
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 LP: IARC03EF
File Under: Jazz
LP: $15.13
LP UPC: 664992991113
Wanda Group
Opal Tapes
Central Heating
The second Wanda Group LP on Opal Tapes sees camouflage alter from the greyscale negative sludge
of the earlier Piss Fell Out...tape drag combine with Wanda’s wit and reflectivity on the banal and the life
changing aspects of the everyday and the process of the body.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 LP: OPAL075
File Under: Electronic
LP: $20.50
Voice Coils
LP UPC: 634457715813
Shatter Your Leaves
Heaven’s Sense EP
Voice Coils is a Brooklyn, NY ensemble led by composer and guitarist Sam Garrett alongside guitarist/producer
Caley Monahon-Ward (Extra Life, Feast of the Epiphany, Snowblink, Skeletons), vocalist Mitski Miyawaki (Mitski), keyboardist Kelly Moran (Cellular Chaos), bassist Kevin Wunderlich (Epistasis, Couch Slut), and drummer
Cameron Wisch (Zona Mexicana, Porches, Cende). Voice Coils Heaven s Sense EP, out on 12 vinyl on Shatter
Your Leaves on April 1, 2016, is the result of a writing and recording process that spanned over three years. In
this time, Voice Coils forged a vivid and complex musical language founded in the traditions of contemporary
classical and experimental music, and idioms of folk, rock, and metal. As expressive melodic and harmonic
threads are seamlessly woven into an ornate rhythmic and structural patterning, Heaven s Sense inspires an
overwhelming sense of awe while affirming Voice Coils as a unique and visionary ensemble.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: SYLR018
File Under: Rock-Pop
CS: SYLR018CS
LP: $15.13
CS: $5.89
Sami Baha
LP UPC: 616892319344
CS UPC: 703610875500
Planet Mu
Mavericks
‘Mavericks’ EP is a deconstructed and beautifully crafted take on the trap sound, using a dramatic sense of
space and melody that gives the EP an epic feel plus an attention to sonic detail that makes tracks move
like they’re alive, avoiding all clichés. ‘Mavericks 1’ opens with a lush repetitive string melody, dropping into
tense atmosphere; ‘Still’ uses the space between notes, unusual configurations of tuning and tone draw the
track apart and let every note shimmer in dark space. The steel pan melody and spiralling snares of ‘Dough’,
manage to remind of vintage Black Dog, rolling out emotively over bass and drums. ‘Tozko Paran’ is trap reimagined as a delicate cyborg waltz and ‘Cataphract’ featuring Kuedo, runs a twisting, turning melody over
unsettling chords, dubby drums and a bumpy ride bass that pumps like a fearful heart. The EP finishes with
‘Chunk’, its glassy plodding melody rattling out over a desolate atmosphere and slowed down fight-game
phrases. An astonishing debut from a name you’ll hear much more of this year.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 12”: ZIQ373
File Under: Electronic
12”: $18.02
Patricia
12” UPC: 634457715813
Opal Tapes
Bem Inventory
Bem Inventory is not only well-produced, it’s surprisingly varied as well. Ravitz goes from pounding techno
to unusually smooth deep house. On first glance, Bem Inventory is another slice of proficient, raw dance
music from a scene that seems to spit out new records of its ilk every few minutes. It certainly works in that
context, but lift the lid and there’s a whole lot more going on underneath.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: OPAL066
LP: $23.93
LP UPC: 634457715912
Mungolian Jetset
Smalltown Supersound
A City So Convenient EP
Mungolian Jetset have been keeping a low profile since their last album Mungodelics (apart from their collaboration with Todd Terje on his Alfonso Muskedunder track). But now they’re back with a brand new EP,
conveniently titled ‘A City So Convenient’ . It’s an extended player in four acts featuring retro-futuristic spaceage music, specially designed for disco indulgence – a nearly 30 minute soundtrack, with the Mongolians
working up a head of steam to power up a series of imaginary urban flyovers.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Rock-Pop/Disco
LP: STS270
LP: $15.13
Metrist
LP UPC: 5053760018797
Black Opal
This Is For Sore Is Just There
BLACK
OPAL
Metrist AKA L. SAE AKA Joe Higgins brings the noise in this tech-punk sound-clash straight outta’ Hades.
His background in bass music of all moulds can be felt throughout but the round edges of dubstep have
been fragmented into harsh shards, prismatic in approach, each track swaggers and pumps under itâ s
own mad weight. Jabbering speak & spell voices lead into tape busted kicks and sinuoid crow calls. Seismic
filtered drums and a broken mirror landscape of screech synth and dull tonal slope. The record is a vivid
nightmare, absurd and chilling.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 LP: BOP005
File Under: Electronic
LP: $20.50
Ladada
LP UPC: 634457715714
Gold Robot
Hi Five
Past and present visions of Josiah Schlater are all competing for a lasting impression on his growth, not only
as a songwriter but a recording artist. Listening to Ladada’s Hi Five will make you feel like the future doesn’t
have to be dystopian. You can go anywhere, anything is possible, and we’ve all got the perfect tunes for the
journey.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 LP: GRR042
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: $21.18
Kyson
LP UPC: 634457716216
Friends Of Friends
A Book Of Flying
“A Book Of Flying” marks Kyson’s return to Friends of Friends and the follow-up to 2013’s “The Water’s
Way”. 11 roomy, beatific songs are rounded around Kyson’s delicate vocal work, updating classic folk tropes
with modern verve. Composed entirely by Kyson, the album is a sort of grown up bedroom album, full
of contemplative instrumentation and songwriting that tugs at intrinsically human heartstrings. Whereas
Kyson’s music has touched on the dancefloor in the past, A Book Of Flying gives in entirely to his inwardlooking proclivities and the result is his most complete work to date, a work of contemporary folk that paints
a fluid picture of Kyson the artist.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: FOF147
File Under: Electronic
LP: $21.18
LP UPC: 634457703315
Keeps
Old Flame
Brief Spirit
Keeps are a band from Nashville, TN, formed in the serendipitous meeting of Gusti Escalante and Robbie
Jackson on their first day of college. Writing a song the day they met in a dorm, it didn’t take long for the two
kindred spirits to find a wonderful balance of mutual influences. Melding the melody and charisma of artists
such as David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen and J.A.M.C. with the earnest nostalgia of classic Americana,
Keeps soon moved their kaleidoscopic dream pop to the stage. Their confident and emotive energy caught
on with locals, and Keeps’ were quickly tapped to open for trending artists such as Tennis, Alex Bleeker, Coin,
Craft Spells and more. Now, with college finished or put aside, Gusti and Robbie are prepared to release their
debut album ‘Brief Spirit’. The record, self-produced over a handful of long nights, is filled with the strong
melody, power, and atmospheric arrangements fans expect live. What listeners may not expect is a hint of
the magical kinship so wonderfully realized in their live performance that makes Keeps a truly special band.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: OFR086
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: $20.50
Fletcher C. Johnson
LP UPC: 634457707610
Burger
Lesson In Tenderness
FLETCHER C. JOHNSON’S INCREDIBLE SOPHOMORE RECORD “LESSON IN TENDERNESS” IS OUT ON
BURGER RECORDS, OF COURSE!!!
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: BRGR987
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: $23.50
Hex
LP UPC: 634457714311
Liberation Technologies
Hex
Liberation Technologies continue to work with innovative artists and encourage experimental and challenging perspectives in modern electronic music, welcoming newcomer HEX with their latest release. Hex
is comprised of London based artists Charlie Noon & Tom Field. Drawing influence from and exploring the
outer realms of techno, experimental, rave and grime they breathe new energy into the dance floor. Their
spacious sound design fuses unfamiliar sound elements and building waves of melody with blistering percussion and kinetic soundscape.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Electronic
LP: LTECH011
LP: $15.13
Inversions Featuring
Bob & Gene
LP UPC: 5060120878632
Daptone
I Can Be Cool b/w Version
Producer extraordinaire Victor “Ticklah” Axelrod is back in the saddle, serving up two sides of sublime Island
Soul - “I Can Be Cool” b/w “Version”. As with his last single for Daptone, Axelrod effortlessly blends the ethereal
vocals of our beloved boys from Buffalo, Bob & Gene, with the undeniable feel-good instrumentation of reggae
stalwarts, The Inversions. The original Bob & Gene version of “I Can Be Cool” is a bonafide classic on the West
Coast low-rider/sweet-soul scene and a staff favorite here at Daptone HQ. Its reggae-charged reboot that we
so humbly offer up is sure to take you and the one you love to dizzying, uncharted, slow-dancing heights!
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 7”: DAPT1097
File Under: Electronic
7”: $8.46
7” UPC: N/A
Gunn-Trucinski Trio
Three Lobed Recordings
Sand City/Ocean Parkway
Keeps are a band from Nashville, TN, formed in the serendipitous meeting of Gusti Escalante and Robbie
Jackson on their first day of college. Writing a song the day they met in a dorm, it didn’t take long for the two
kindred spirits to find a wonderful balance of mutual influences. Melding the melody and charisma of artists
such as David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen and J.A.M.C. with the earnest nostalgia of classic Americana,
Keeps soon moved their kaleidoscopic dream pop to the stage. Their confident and emotive energy caught
on with locals, and Keeps’ were quickly tapped to open for trending artists such as Tennis, Alex Bleeker, Coin,
Craft Spells and more. Now, with college finished or put aside, Gusti and Robbie are prepared to release their
debut album ‘Brief Spirit’. The record, self-produced over a handful of long nights, is filled with the strong
melody, power, and atmospheric arrangements fans expect live. What listeners may not expect is a hint of
the magical kinship so wonderfully realized in their live performance that makes Keeps a truly special band.
Release Date: Apr. 1, 2016
File Under: Rock-Pop
LPx2: TLR117
LPx2: $28.61
All India Radio
LPx2 UPC: 711574794218
Minty Fresh
The Slow Light
Four years in the making The Slow Light is All India Radio’s tenth studio album, and their return to the Minty
Fresh label.All India Radio’s Martin Kennedy infuses the album’s fuzzy dreamgaze and slow motion beats
with “distinctive shadings of Ennio Morricone and Brian Eno” (Magnet magazine) and “the ambient-hop
signatures of DJ Shadow, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation. The resulting narcotic musical textures are
capable of oating listeners to galaxies far, far away.” (Wired)The album features the return of Selena Cross
who sang the band’s fan favorite frack “Four Three” from the Minty Fresh album Echo Other. The album also
features the vocal debute of Martin Kennedy’s twelve year old daughter Hollie Houlihan-McKie on the track
“Galaxy of Light”All India Radio’s music has been featured in TV series CSI, One Tree Hill, The Lying Game,
Emmerdale, Bondi Rescue and many more. Frontman Martin Kennedy is also known for his collaborations
with Steve Kilbey of The Church.The Slow Light features artwork by 1960’s visionary artist Victor Atkins (who
won the 1969 Society of Illustrators Illustrator Award for his striking ‘Miles in The Sky’ Miles Davis LP cover).
This is the ­rst LP cover Atkins has produced since the 1970s.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: MF214
File Under: Rock-Pop
LP: $25.85
DJ Marfox
LP UPC: 796627021411
Principe Discos
Chapa Quente
Marfox and Príncipe have come a long and happy way since his (and ours) debut with the appropriately
titled EP “Eu Sei Quem Sou” in late 2011. The raw and more minimal sound of the producer’s formative
years has mutated into a complex web of influences and new sounds. His scope has enlarged and yet
Marfox retains the most crucial quality: he does not forget his roots. You will notice differences in such tracks
as “Unsound” (reflecting the festival in Poland where things really started to heat up), with its metallic harshness and even the bright, shiny, retro-futurist “Tarraxo Everyday”; also, “Kassumbula” and “Cobra Preta”
both display a similar kind of sci-fi dissonace we can’t quite place our finger on. Marfox’s musical evolution
has been a staggering and beautiful process to behold. More skills bring more thrills and the overall feel of
“Chapa Quente” is that of a perpetual chase scene on a New Lisbon constantly reorganized by the pull of
different cultures, something that resonates with Marfox’s upbringing in the now demolished shantytown
of Quinta da Vitória, where he came of age among neighbors who had emigrated from India, Pakistan, São
Tomé e Príncipe or Cabo Verde, admittedly having informed his sound aesthetics and practice. One stop only
to catch some Sun (“Tarraxo Everyday”) but all the rest runs faster than you and us. Godspeed.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: PR014
File Under: Electronic
LP: $14.58
LP UPC: 634457724716
Menomena
Barsuk
Friend Or Foe
Out of print since 2006 (with the exception of a limited Vinyl Me Please pressing in 2015) Barsuk is pleased
to reissue Menomena’s legendary Friend And Foe on vinyl. The Grammy-nominated album packagaing,
designed by famed graphic novelist Craig Thompson, is a six panel gatefold cover with a spinning wheel in
front that can be rotated to show different designs through the die-cut holes.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: BARK060
File Under: Electronic
LP: $25.85
Morley
LP UPC: 655173106013
Cascine
EP Collection
In Fall 2013, Katy Morley (former singer of Gayngs) stepped into a machine with a box of old instruments
and a pair of borrowed headphones. In Spring 2015, Morly came out. Subsisting mostly on native Minnesotan vegetation and a deep wintery sadness, she abandoned academia and a sensible career in neuroscience to follow an irrepressible drive to fuse emotion with sound. Morly’s EP Collection 12” combines her
first EP (released last August) with her upcoming EP (to be released April 8) to provide a rounded picture of
her powerful explorations into the transient space between joy and melancholy, major and minor, rhythm
and flow. Morly will be playing a host of SXSW shows this March before embarking on a series of solo dates.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: CSN074
File Under: Electronic
LP: $14.25
Roo Panes
LP UPC: 639667199064
CRC Music
Paperweights
Roo Panes is a young British songwriter with a guitar to his chest and a heart swelling with hopes and
dreams. A common on-paper pitch, perhaps, and one sold a thousand times before. But Dorset-born
Panes has something special to offer those willing to wait a while for their favourite songs to settle into
place.”Paperweights” is the follow up to Panes’ debut album “Little Giant.” It’s a sound matured but no
less honest - rich succinct songwriting that demands you stop and really listen.Panes isn’t operating at the
vanguard of a cutting-edge, ultimately transient scene worthy of clicks for the next few months. He doesn’t
set out to trick his audience in any way - what you hear is succinct honest songwriting, from a place of deep
personal expression, resonating with universal truths and values.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 LP: CRC021
File Under: Rock-Pop/Folk
LP: $23.50
Prins Thomas
LP UPC: 827565061150
Smalltown Supersound
Hieroglyphic Being Remixes - 12”
When writing my wishlist of possible remixers for the tracks off the “Principe del Norte” album, Jamal Moss
aka Hieroglyphic Being was one of the first names that popped up in my head. I’ve been following him as
a fanboy for years, buying everything I can lay my hands on blindly. With a unique sound and aesthetic that
can be described as both wild and beautiful I was beyond excited to see how he would interpret my music.
I’m over the moon with the 2 remixes he sent us and it’s with pride and joy I present these versions in full
on a total of 24 inches of wax.
Release Date: Apr. 15, 2016 12”: STS27412
File Under: Electronic
12”: $14.25
12” UPC: 5053760020592
Silk Road Assassins
Planet Mu
Reflection Spaces
Silk Road Assassins are Tom E. Vercetti, Lovedr0id and Chemist, who met while studying music technology
and composition and discovered they had similar tastes and ideals. The project was formed after they began
experimenting with combining the academic study of sound design with their personal musical interests.
The original aim of the project was to combine their shared interests in grime, drill and club music with film
and game soundtrack composition. The EP follows a loose narrative set in a retrofuturistic/dystopian city,
with development into game music in mind; it’s dance music that has been crafted with an ear for widescreen enveloping sonics. It opens with the scene setting ‘Citadel VI’ dropping into the atmospheric glide of
‘Shaded’ with its camera sounds and energetic bass, kicks and claps. The mood darkens with the punchy
‘Defect’ as the track uncurls through a vortex of gated chords. ‘Cryo Enemy’ returns to a mournful trap with
Gamelan and gongs splashing gently across rolling kicks and snares. ‘Vectors’ luxuriates in deep bass and
trap snares as clouds of chords and arpeggios rise and fall. ’Akwraith’ rolls out with a nervous mood followed by the ambience of ‘Hollow-Point’ which finishes the EP where it started, warm and glowing.
Release Date: Apr. 29, 2016 12”: ZIQ375
File Under: Electronic
12”: $18.02
12” UPC: 5055300385789