CD CD CD/LP - Tuba Records

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burzum
umskiptar
Byelobog
BYE 010CDS / BYE 010DBK
http://www.burzum.org/
0803341362314 / 0803341362352
CD
Umskiptar er VARG VIKERNES tiende album som BURZUM og er i følge
mannen selv en retur til røttene. Med utgangspunkt i diktet Völuspá maler
Burzum monotone og maleriske stemninger over primitive, seige og nær
sagt sørgende riff. Lik det eller ikke, men Vikernes er i høyeste grad en
relevant musiker, og musikalsk viser han med Umskiptar at han er i stand
til å lage black metal vel så interessant som sine kontemporære.
Slippes på vanlig CD og i en forseggjort digibook.
”Vår riks-skald er tilbake med dunkle stemninger og det er fortsatt hold
i ordtaket «de gamle er mest nekrotiske».” 5/6 GAFFA
”Forces one to forget everything else and indulge in increasing awe”
4/5 TERRORIZER 9/10 METAL REVIEW
husky
forever so
Sub Pop
SPCD 999
0098787099928
CD
Fabelaktig folkpop fra australske HUSKY som har blitt plukket opp av Sub
Pop, etiketten som på mange måter har ansvaret for at sjangeren har vært
blant de mest populære de siste årene med band som FLEET FOXES og
BAND OF HORSES i spissen. Husky har opplevd stor suksess og gode
listeplasseringer i hjemlandet, og er nå klare til å ta verden med storm.
Bandet turnerte nylig i Europa med GOTYE og finnes det rettferdighet vil de
snart oppnå tilsvarende popularitet som dem. Anbefales på det varmeste!
LP-utgave ventes i løpet av sommeren.
”Antipodean folkies eye the big time, Fleet Foxes-style” 8/10 UNCUT
http://www.huskysongs.com/
exitmusic
http://www.facebook.com/weareEXITMUSIC
passage
Secretly Canadian
SC 254 / SC 254LP
0656605025421 / 0656605025414
CD/LP
Anført av ALEKSA PALLADINOs (hun som spiller ANGELA DARMODY
i BOARDWALK EMPIRE) slørete vokal leverer EXITMUSIC episke,
cinematiske og dvelende øyeblikk på Passage, deres debutalbum.
Anbefales til fans av for eksempel MAZZY STAR eller RADIOHEAD.
“I can’t state strongly enough the destructive beauty of what might be the
most affecting debut of the year – and then some” 8.5/10 BOWLEGS
MUSIC ”Brooklynites majestic gothic second strike” 4/5 MOJO “Passage is
endearing, with unforgettable peaks; it looks beautiful at first glance, and
has no shortage of beautiful moments” 7/10 DROWNED IN SOUND “Their
debut album proper quivers and quakes with the cinematic electronics
and emotional abandonment of a soundtrack to Armageddon.” 7/10 NME
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
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shannON STEPHENS
PULL IT TOGETHER
Asthmatic Kitty
AKR 089 / AKR 089LP
http://www.facebook.com/thebreadwinner
CD/LP
0656605608921 / 0656605608914
SHANNON STEPHENS var i sin tid vokalist i SUFJAN STEVENS første band,
Marzuki, men har holdt en lav profil siden det før hun for et par år siden gjorde
musikalsk comeback. Nå er Pull it Together her, et henførende og tidløst album
mer eller mindre plassert innen americana-sjangeren. Folk som BONNIE PRINCE
BILLY, DM STITH, og Sufjan-musikerne JEFF FIELDER og JAMES McALLISTER
bidrar, og spesielt duetten med OLDHAM, Faces Like Ours, er av klassikertypen.
Fans av for eksempel GIANT SAND og DAMIEN JURADO vil helt klart glede
seg stort over Pull it Together.
king tuff
king tuff
Sub Pop
SPCD 976 / SP 976
0098787097627 / 0098787097610
CD/LP
Lekne garasjerock-toner fra KING TUFF aka KYLE THOMAS, mannen som også
er vokalist i J. MASCIS-prosjektet WITCH, i HAPPY BIRTHDAY, samt i freak folkgruppa FEATHERS. Anført av den særdeles spretne singlen Bad Thing gir King
Tuff oss stor tro på rocken og dens evige bidrag til en perfekt sommertid.
““Anthem” and “Stranger” are head-boppin’ boogies, full of rollicking guitar and Beatles-y
melodies. The chooglin’ “Keep on Movin’” summarizes Thomas’s laissez-faire worldview,
and the wistful “Swamp of Love” is a grand ballad brushed with glam glitter.“ SPIN
http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-king-tuffs-irresistible-keep-movin
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13275-bad-things/
millencolin
the melancholy connection
Epitaph
EPIT 72002
8714092720020
CD+DVD
The Melancholy Connection er en 14-spors B-sidesamler fra de populære svenske
punkerne i MILLENCOLIN. CD-en inneholder også to splitter nye låter.
I tillegg følger det med en halvannen times DVD som tar for seg innspillingen av
bandets klassiske album Pennybridge Pioneers, samt videoer, liveklipp osv.
http://www.millencolin.com/
horseback
half blood
Relapse
RR 7178-2 / RR 7178-1
http://www.facebook.com/Horseback
0781676717828 / 0781676325016 / 0781676717811
CD/LP
Psykedelisk (stoner-)rock fra HORSEBACK. Bandets unike sound er en sømløs miks
av såpass ulike ting som EARTH, MONSTER MAGNET og KYUSS, avantgarde
som RHYS CHATHAM, americana som WOVEN HAND og CALEXICO, og til og
med tidlig PINK FLOYD. Et svært spennende album med andre ord.
”Half Blood er det beste som har kommet så langt i år” 5/6 SCREAM
“A Rhys Chatham guitar army eaten by black metal wolves; victorious Fuck Button
drones burned at the stake.” 8/10 SPIN 4.5/5 ABOUT.COM HEAVY METAL
8.7/10 METAL STORM 7.6 PITCHFORK
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diverse artister
no room for rockstars
Side One Dummy
SD 1489
DVD
0603967148923
Dokumentar om et av USAs største rockesirkus, The Vans Warped Tour.
Filmen er laget av STACY PERALTA og AGI ORSI, folkene bak den fantastiske
skatefilmen Dogtown & Z-Boys, og gir oss over tre timer med klipp fra livet rundt
2010-utgaven av den årlige turnéen.
Som bonus følger det med en 10-spors best of-CD med artister som
DESCENDENTS, THE SPECIALS, BUZZCOCKS, NO DOUBT og SUBLIME.
http://noroomforrockstars.com/
diverse artister
studio one sound
Soul Jazz
SJRCD 256 / SJRLP 256
CD/2LP
5026328002569 / 5026328102566
Samling som gir oss 18 av de mest populære artistene fra CLEMENT ”SIR
COXSONE” DODDs legendariske Studio One-etikett, også kjent som
Jamaicas Motown.
Representert her er artister som THE HEPTONES, KEN BOOTHE, JACKIE OPEL,
WAILING SOULS, JOHNNY OSBOURNE, FREDDIE McGREGOR m.fl..
Slippes på CD og dobbel LP.
smith & mighty
the three stripe collection 1985-1990
Bristol Archives
ARC 247CD / ARC 247V
CD/2LP
5052571023921 / 5052571023914
Samleplate som gir oss et meget godt innblikk i den enormt innflytelsesrike duoen
SMITH & MIGHTYs arbeider. På 90-tallet ble den såkalte Bristol Sounden et globalt
fenomen med artister som MASSIVE ATTACK, PORTISHEAD og TRICKY som de
store stjernene, men det var Smith & Mighty som startet det hele. CD og dobbel
LP. “Long before Massive Attack or Portishead, Smith & Mighty invented the Bristol
sound, merging dub reggae, hip-hop, a punk attitude and Bacharach with house and
hardcore. Criminally underrated, a new compilation of their greatest works proves
they were more influential than we could have guessed…” DJ Magazine
http://bristolarchiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-stripe-collection-1985-1990
amateur love
it’s all aquatic
Chigliak
CHIG 001
http://chigliak.com/
LP
0656605423111
Chigliak er en ny etikett fra Jagjaguwar-folket hvor etikettens store stjerne, BON IVER/
JUSTIN VERNON, presenterer oversette album fra musikkhistorien. AMATEUR LOVEs
It’s All Aquatic er selve grunnen til at Chigliak ble startet og Vernon har følgende å fortelle:
”Josh Scott was the ambassador of my heart for many years. While both songwriters in Eau Claire,
we were close friends and admired each other’s music. It was obvious to both of us, however, who the
better writer was. Josh was writing songs that were both more mature and masterful than mine.
His songs came from a perspective as snarly as Paul Westerberg, as enchanting as Neil Young, yet
he wielded power as beguiling and unique as any songwriter I’ve ever heard. Nestling himself around
Brad and Phil Cook (Megafaun) and Brian Moen, who stretched themselves outside their own comfort
zones into those of un-tapped electronic pop, Amateur Love became one of the most enigmatic
and electrifying bands I have ever known.”
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martyrdöd
paranoia
Southern Lord
LORD 160
0808720016024
CD
Crustpunk fra svenske MARTYRDÖD som opererer med herlige låttitler som
Köttberg og Klassfienden. Bandet består av folk fra AT THE GATES, SKITSYSTEM
og MIASMAL, og Paranoia er produsert av FREDRIK NORDSTRÖM (OPETH,
IN FLAMES, DIMMU BORGIR osv).
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13519-kottberg/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Martyrdöd/175670445796819
ides of gemini
constantinople
Neurot
NR 081
http://idesofgemini.bandcamp.com/
0658457108123
CD
IDES OF GEMINIs musikk har blitt kalt dream doom og det er en passende beskrivelse
på bandets lydbilde der seige gitarer ledes av SERA TIMMS lyse, drømmende vokal.
“Guitarist J. Bennett lays down imperial metal riffs swathed in so much reverb that they seem
isolated from the rest of the world. Bassist/vocalist Sera Timms layers her affectless voice in
ghostly counterpoint, turning tales of spiritual discord into disturbing lullabies…If something
seems missing from Ides Of Gemini’s sound, that’s exactly the point.” METAL SUCKS
“Sera Timms’ voice is a national treasure. It’s a reverb-soaked choir of 4AD ghosts floating
over scratchy guitars. Burzum scoring a spaghetti western. This stuff gives me chills.”
DECIBEL MAGAZINE 8/10 METAL REVIEW 4/5 SEA OF TRANQUILITY
lungfish
a.c.r. 1999
Dischord
DIS 174 / DIS 174V
0643859174029 / 0643859174012
CD/LP
LUNGFISH ble startet i 1988 i Baltimore og var et av de tidligste emo-bandene.
I løpet av sin karriere ga de ut 11 album, samtlige på Dischord. Denne strengt
limiterte utgivelsen inneholder ti tidligere uutgitte spor spilt inn i 1999.
http://allmusic.com/artist/lungfish-p26678
aldebaran
embracing the lightless depths
Profound Lore
PFL 096
0616892042648
Okkult begravelsesdoom fra Oregons ALDEBARAN på deres andre album,
Embracing the Lightless Depths.
For fans of Asunder, Thergothon, Skepticism, og Autopsy.
CD
http://aldebarandoom.blogspot.com/
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
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diverse artister
saint etienne presents songs for the lyons cornerhouse
Cherry Red
CDMRED 529
CD
5013929152939
SAINT ETIENNEs BOB STANLEY presenterer nye favoritter fra sin utsøkte platesamling.
Fokuset er på 50-tallets easy listening, og vi får låter med folk som FRANKIE LAINE,
AL MARTINO og PEGGY LEE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Stanley_(Saint_Etienne)
france gall
made in france: france gall’s baby pop
RPM / Cherry Red
RETRO 909
CD
5013929599093
22 spor som samler FRANCE GALLs singler for Phillips fra perioden 1963 til 1968.
Inkludert er samtlige spor SERGE GAINSBOURG skrev for henne, deriblant Eurovisionvinneren Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Gall
ramesses
possessed by the rise of magik
Ritual Productions
RITE 012LP
2LP
5060195513445
Meget eksklusiv dobbel LP-utgave av RAMESSES’ Possessed by the Rise of Magik.
2x180g, i et særdeles lekkert gatefold-cover.
http://www.ramss.info/
here we go magic
how do i know
Secretly Canadian
SC 269
0656605026978
7”
Syvtommer fra HERE WE GO MAGIC med How Do I Know, hentet fra A Different Ship (5/6 VG),
pluss den eksklusive B-siden My Plate’s On Fire.
http://herewegomagicband.tumblr.com/
tara jane o’neil
rainbow connection
K Records
IPU 136
0789856213610
7”
Indiefolk-syver fra TARA JANE O’NEIL i International Pop Underground-serien.
http://www.tarajaneoneil.com/
sissy spacek
contretemps
Post Present Medium
PPM 057LP
0724101963377
7”
10-spors syvtommer fra grindcore-kvartetten SISSY SPACEK. Limitert til 500 eksemplarer.
http://www.facebook.com/ssississpssk
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FORHÅND 1. JUNI
KELLY HOGAN
I LIKE TO KEEP MYSELF IN PAIN
AntiEPIT 71642 / EPIT 71641
0045778716425 / 0045778716418
CD/LP
8/10 UNCUT
Tracklist CD:
Dusty Groove (Catherine Irwin of Freakwater)
We Can’t Have Nice Things (Jack Pendarvis/Andrew Bird)
I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Robyn Hitchcock)
Haunted (Jon Langford of the Mekons)
Daddy’s Little Girl (M. Ward)
Golden (Hogan)
Ways Of This World (Vic Chesnutt)
Slumber’s Sympathy (Gabriel Roth)
Plant White Roses (Magnetic Fields)
Sleeper Awake (John Wesley Harding)
The Green Willow Valley (Handsome Family)
Whenever You’re Out Of My Sight (Robbie Fulks)
Pass On By (Margaret Ann Rich)
On her debut album for ANTI-, “singer’s singer” Kelly Hogan takes her vast experience
working with Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Drive-By Truckers, The Mekons,
and so many others, and molds that into something both new and instantly classic.
I Like to Keep Myself In Pain finds Hogan curating an ambitious collection of songs, many
written specifically for her, from a who’s who of indie songwriters, including M. Ward,
Vic Chesnutt, The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt, The Mekons’ Jon Langford, The
Handsome Family, Freakwater’s Catherine Irwin, John Wesley Harding, Robbie Fulks,
Gabriel Roth, Robyn Hitchcock, and the aforementioned Andrew Bird.
She is backed on the album by an all-star group of musicians: R&B legends Booker T
Jones and James Gadson (Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Beck), as well as talented young
lions Gabriel Roth (of Daptone Records, The Dap-Kings) and Hogan’s long-time collaborator Scott Ligon (of the newly resurrected NRBQ).
The result is an album that captures the country-soul elegance of albums like
Dusty In Memphis while updating the sound with a modern literary sensibility.
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
One Of My Kind
Team Love
TL 50 / TL 50LP
CD+DVD/LP+DVD
0810430015020 / 0810430015013
Tracklist:
One Of My Kind 3:43
Gentleman’s Pact 3:07
Corina, Corina 3:46
Synesthete Song 4:38
Breezy 5:16
Central City 2:15
I Got The Reason #1 5:15
Phil’s Song 3:18
(Learn To Stop Time) Normal 4:16
Kodachrome 4:09
White Shoes (Reprise)
11 new songs from Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band, plus a documentary
DVD (runtime 60 minutes) subtitled “The Story of the Mystic Valley Band”
Phil Schaffart was not hired by Conor Oberst to make the film “One of My Kind.” He was hired
to make sure the guitars stayed in tune. But Phil had a video camera with him as the Mystic
Valley Band came together for the first time at Valle Místico in Tepoztlán, Mexico in January
of 2008 and so he started filming what he sensed was something special. “When I started
filming, none of us had the intentions of turning what was being shot into a film,” says Phil,
“but the things we were seeing, feeling and capturing with the music proved to be inspiring
in ways we were not prepared for.”
Later that year after touring for Conor’s self-titled Merge release the Mystic Valley Band
went back into the studio, this time at the Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, Texas where they
recorded their follow-up release, “Outer South.” All the while, Phil continued to film what was
going on with the band, capturing the year of touring, the almond orchards in Texas, the
temples and steep cliffs of Mexico and the evolution of a group of musicians that started as
not much more than an idea for a different way to make a record, and ended up being a fully
realized rock band.
Team Love is proud to release the final version of the film, “One of My Kind.” To accompany this
is an album of eleven songs compiled from the outtakes of both Mystic Valley Band sessions.
http://vimeo.com/27161271
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CROCODILES
ENDLESS FLOWERS
Souterrain Transmissions
SOU 031 / SOU 031LP
4250506803902 / 4250506803919
CD/LP
Crocodiles have existed in various incarnations since 2008, evolving from the original core
of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell into the five-piece we see today. With two previous
albums, 2009ʼs Summer Of Hate and 2010ʼs Sleep Forever, the band garnered righteous
praise for their intoxicating blend of scuzzy, surfy, lo-fi noise pop and their thrilling live shows.
Tracklist CD:
1. Endless Flowers
2. Sunday (Psychic
Conversation #9)
3. No Black Clouds for
Dee Dee
4. Electric Death Song
5. Hung Up On A Flower
6. My Surfing Lucifer
7. Dark Alleys
8. Bubblegum Trash
9. Welcome Trouble
10. You Are Forgiven
Settling into an apartment on Berlinʼs Gaudystraße last summer, the band thought theyʼd
landed on their feet with free rehearsal space and unlimited refreshments when their neighbour, Helmut Katzenflugen, the manager of a local club, Ficken 2000, offered them a monthʼs
residency at the club. Alas, the clubʼs proprietor had fired them before they finished their first
set, so incensed was he by their “goddam racket” distracting the clubʼs naked dancers from
flirting with the clientele and parting them from their cash. But the club remained a favourite
hangout for the band during their months in Berlin it was where they befriended the local
rough boys (handy when looking for “chemical aids” to the recording process) and provided
a nocturnal incubator for an album of glorious pop nuggets that arrive cloaked in a heavy
disguise of noise and echoing weirdness.
http://soundcloud.com/souterraintransmissions/sets/crocodiles-endless-flowers-2/s-n21v6
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
SUN KIL MOON
AMONG THE LEAVES
Caldo Verde
CV 018
2CD
0634457563322
Among The Leaves is the 5th full length album by Mark Kozelek under the Sun Kil Moon
moniker. Played almost entirely on nylon string guitar, this 17-song all original album was
recorded between October 2011 and January 2012 in San Francisco. Among The Leaves
- words which caught Mark’s attention from a John Connolly novel - finds Mark relaxed,
singing playfully about his life as a musician while retaining the melancholic spirit of his 20
year catalog. Mark’s love for San Francisco and Northern California are at the heart of this
new album. “My first album (Down Colorful Hill) was released in 1992” says Kozelek, “but
creatively, I feel like I’m just beginning. The new album was written and recorded impulsively,
without second guessing.I didn’t have that kind of confidence in the past.”
Unlike Red House Painters’ epic Rollercoaster,described by Rolling Stone as “the slowest
and mopiest self revelations ever put to tape” or Sun Kil Moon’s Ghosts of the Great Highway, which Billboard Magazine called “heartbreaking,” Among The Leaves displays a more
raw and humorous side of Mark’s songwriting. Aaron Prellwitz, recording engineer of Red
House Painters and all 5 Sun Kil Moon albums describes the latest effort as “wonderfully
direct.” Kozelek curiously ties together legends Joe Frazier, Bobby Fischer and Ed Gein in
‘The Winery,’ ‘Song for Richard Collopy’ is a touching tribute to the late San Francisco guitar
repairman, and “Sunshine In Chicago” - written just before taking the
stage at a Chicago venue last year – is a funny, self deprecating poke at life on the road.
Though Among The Leaves is mostly in the solo, nylon string style of Admiral Fell Promises,
a new ensemble of players joined Mark for a portion of the record, recalling the same spirit
as April and Tiny Cities, but with a fresh, new sound
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FORHÅND 1. JUNI
THE melvins
freak puke
Ipecac
IPC 136
CD
0689230013624
Tracklist:
1. Mr Rip Off
2. Inner Ear Rupture
3. Baby, You Won’t Weird Me Out
4. Worm Farm Waltz
5. A Growing Disgust
6. Leon vs. The Revolution
7. Holy Barbarian
8. Freak Puke
9. Let Me Roll It
10. Tommy Goes Beserk
*The Melvins will release a brand new studio album with the delightful title ‘Freak Puke’
on June 5 via Ipecac Recordings.
*Nothing ever stays entirely in one place very long around the Melvins, and the constantly
evolving underground hard rock geniuses have undergone a temporary lineup and name
change for the recording of ‘Freak Puke.’
While their last three albums featured a two-drummer, four-piece roster augmented by
Big Business members Jared Warren and Coady Willis, the new record finds the group
in a more familiar three-piece setting.
Founding guitarist / singer Buzz Osbourne and his longtime drumming partner Dale Crover
will be joined by bassist Trevor Dunn for this record, and the trio will operate under the name
Melvins Lite.
It will be the four-piece version of the Melvins that embarks on their upcoming spring
co-headlining tour with Unsane.
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
japandroids
celebration rock
Polyvinyl
PRC 238-2 / PRC 238-1
0644110023827 / 0644110023810
CD/LP
Celebration Rock, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Post-Nothing, was recorded at
The Hive, the same Vancouver studio as Post-Nothing, with engineer Jesse Gander.
Tracklist:
1. The Nights of Wine and Roses
2. Fire’s Highway
3. Evil’s Sway
4. For the Love of Ivy
5. Adrenaline Nightshift
6. Younger Us
7. The House That Heaven Built
8. Continuous Thunder
Japandroids kept the ground rules they’ve always had for recording: no double-tracking
guitars and no overdubs unless they’re absolutely necessary. The raw energy captured on
Celebration Rock is well-balanced with a much bigger sound and showcases the band’s
growth as songwriters. Songs like “Evil’s Sway” and “The House That Heaven Built” prove
the Vancouver duo has more than staying power with this sophomore release.
The long-awaited, highly anticipated Celebration Rock will be available on June 1st.
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FORHÅND 1. JUNI
DIVERSE ARTISTER
make it your sound, make it your scene
vanguard records & the 1960s musical revolution
Vanguard
VANBOX 14
0029667000925
4CD
Vanguard was one of the most influential record labels of the 1960s and early 70s, founded in 1950
by Seymour and Maynard Solomon. It established itself releasing some of the very best recordings in
the jazz, classical and folk fields. It captured the fledgling folk revival scene as it emerged in the late
1950s, releasing albums by such leading folk figures as Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richard &
Mimi Fariña, Ian & Sylvia, the Weavers, the Rooftop Singers, John Fahey, Odetta, Jerry Jeff Walker,
Doc Watson, Hedy West, Patrick Sky and Eric Andersen. It also issued LPs by blues artists Big
Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy, Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt and Junior Wells among others.
As the hippie era and progressive trends developed Country Joe & The Fish, Circus Maximus,
Sandy Bull, the Serpent Power and the Frost were signed.
“Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene” examines how Vanguard mirrored all of these musical
styles and social changes during the 1960s musical revolution. It also relates how it felt to be a British
fan of the label: the initially hard-to-find imports, the later licensing deals with Top Rank and Fontana,
and, finally, domestic releases on a proper Vanguard Records UK imprint.
The box comprises 4 CDs with 83 tracks. There is an introduction by acclaimed writer Sam Charters
(The Country Blues) and record producer (of Country Joe & The Fish, the Frost, Lightnin’ Hopkins
and the Chicago/The Blues Today! series).
The booklet accompanying the boxset contains many outstanding images including not only album
artwork but numerous 60s ads, magazines covers, sales flyers and band photos, many previously
unseen or not seen for 40+ years. There is a previously unreleased-on-CD Bob Dylan Newport
performance of ‘North Country Blues’ and also a rare instrumental, orchestral version of ‘Janis’
(Country Joe’s song for Janis Joplin), only available previously as the B-side of a very hard-to-find
45rpm Vanguard single.
FORHÅND 8. JUNI
welcome wagon
precious remedies against satan’s devices
Asthmatic Kitty
AKR 092 / AKR 092LP
0656605609225 / 0656605609218
CD/2LP
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, The Welcome Wagon’s second fulllength,
is an apt sequel to their critically acclaimed 2008 debut, Welcome to the Welcome Wagon.
Here, Vito and Monique Auito simply throw those welcoming arms open wider, inviting
the listener to join them for 51 minutes of church.
Tracklist:
1. I’m Not Fine
2. My God, My God, Parts 1 & 2
3. I Know That My Redeemer Lives
4. Rice and Beans (But No Beans)
5. High
6. Remedy
7. Would You Come And See Me In New York
8. My Best Days, Parts 1 & 2
9. Lo He Comes With Clouds Descending 10. Draw Nigh
11. The Strife Is O’er
12. God Be With You Til We Meet Again
13. Nature’s Goodnight
Side 4, LP only:
14. Oh Christ, Our Hope
15. Up On a Mountain (Demo)
16. I Am Not Skilled To Understand
17. There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood
Those who enjoyed the Welcome Wagon’s debut album will notice their distinct sound again
here – loose, jangly, comfortable, a gathering of friends making music together. It’s at times
jaunty and toe-tapping, at others quietly contemplative, an alt-folk gem that sounds very much
like it comes out of the Asthmatic Kitty camp. But while the first album was recorded over the
course of eight years in various venues, this one was done in five days at the library of an
old rectory in Brooklyn. And while recording artist and AK co-owner Sufjan Stevens produced
WW’s first album, he’s less noticeable on this collection, sticking to some banjo, piano, and
choir singing. Alexander Foote, who also plays guitars, organ, autoharp, percussion, and some
piano, produced the record. And Welcome Wagon friends and internet sensations
The Gregory Brothers fill in the choir.
Vito says his songwriting is informed by his work as senior pastor at Resurrection Presbyterian
Church in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. “A pastor is supposed to care for people, to
help them to love God, to engage with their lives and their joys and their sorrows,” he says.
“I’m only interested in writing music that will speak to that. I’m writing as a pastor, wanting
these songs to speak God’s truth into those situations.”
Precious Remedies for everyone
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NYHETER UKE 22 - 2012
FORHÅND 8. JUNI
jaill
traps
Sub Pop
SPCD 994 / SP 994
CD/LP
0098787099423 / 0098787099416
Tracklist:
Waste A Lot Of Things
Everyone’s A Bitch
Perfect Ten
Horrible Things (Make Pretty Songs)
I’m Home
House With Haunting
Madness
Million Times
Ten Teardrops
While You Reload
Stone Froze Mascot
When Jaill nonchalantly stepped into the room with 2010’s That’s How We Burn, the group
had already turned out a small catalog of self-recorded and self-released albums and EPs.
Sub Pop first heard the band on an LP bought through the mail, the cover still hot from
the Kinko’s copier. And as that record (2009’s There’s No Sky (Oh My My)) demonstrated,
Jaill’s Vinnie Kircher is equally comfortable crafting songs that either amble up slyly, or
tumble out pell mell, with lyrics that betray his English major background. SPIN said of
That’s How We Burn, “What elevates their [Sub Pop] debut beyond your average tweepunk rager is the gentle psych dabblings: extra delay on a guitar solo, an errant ‘ooh-ahhooh,’ a dubby Panda Bear flourish, and the swirling noise that murmurs through the background of the cheerful ‘Snake Shakes.’”
Recorded throughout 2011 in Kircher’s crummy, poorly lit basement, with minimal gear
and a control room of thrift store afghans, and mixed at NY’s Rare Book Room by Nicolas
Vernhes, Jaill’s latest mangled masterpiece is entitled Traps. An acerbic exercise in both
humility and aggression that transcends the humble environment of its creation, Traps finds
the Milwaukee-based psych-pop three-piece confronting a malfunctioning universe with an
inventive, lean and, dare we say, excellent 11-song album.
FORHÅND 15. JUNI
ihsahn
eremita
Candlelight
CANDLE 332CD / CANDLE 361SE
0803341336551 / 0803341362772
CD
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Tracklist:
Arrival
The Paranoid
Introspection
The Eagle And The Snake
Catharsis
Something Out There
Grief
The Grave
Departure
Recollection (deluxe edition only)
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FOURTH ALBUM FROM ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ARCHITECTS OF BLACK METAL WHO IS CURRENTLY REDEFINING PROG AND RETURNS WITH HIS HIGHLY
ANTICIPATED SOLO ALBUM
Recorded and produced at Telemarks Ivory Shoulder Studios, with additional tracking
completed at Notoddens Juke Joint Studio and Seattles Envisage Audio, Eremita was mixed
by Jens Bogren (Opeth) at Fascination Street Studios in Orebo, Sweden.
Alongside Ihsahn, the album features performances from drummer Tobias Ornes Andersen
(Leprous), saxophonist Jorgen Munkeby (Shining-Norway), guitarist Jeff Loomis (ex-Nevermore), and vocalists Devin Townsend, Einar Solberg (Leprous), and Heidi S. Tveitan
(StarofAsh).
The albums packaging has been created by award-winning Spanish designer Ritxi Ostariz.
Eremita begins a new musical chapter for the highly regarded musician; his previous album,
Norwegian Grammy Award Nominated After, forming the final part of a planned trilogy on its
release in early 2010.
Offering nine new songs to his growing worldwide audience, Eremita is the longest and most
spirited of Ihsahns solo recordings.
Guitar World senior editor Brad Angle says, with Eremita Ihsahn proves yet again that he is
one of the most influential, progressive and enduring musicians to emerge out of the classic
Norwegian black metal scene.”
He began his career at age thirteen as a member of what would become fledgling black
metal crew Emperor.
As a band, Emperor would both define and refine metal, pushing the boundaries of what was
considered possible within the most arcane of art forms and taking some of the most
adventurous and extreme music of all time to a huge global audience.
With albums like seminal In The Nightside Eclipse (recorded when Ihsahn was only seventeen),
and Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk, Emperor obliterated all-comers and became one of the
most revered metal bands in history.
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NYHETER UKE 22 - 2012
FORHÅND 15. JUNI
glen hansard
rhythm and repose
AntiEPIT 72032 / EPIT 72031
CD/LP
8714092720327 / 8714092720310
Tracklist TBC:
You Will Become - 3:48
Maybe Not Tonight - 5:30
Talking With the Wolves - 4:43
High Hope - 3:55
Bird of Sorrow - 5:50
The Storm, It’s Coming - 3:28
Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting - 4:17
What Are We Gonna Do - 3:00
Races - 4:33
Philander - 3:51
The Song of Good Hope - 3:48
Glen Hansard’s journeyman career has so many fantastic stories, from his shy film debut
in The Commitments to the surprise success of his indie hit film Once. In between he has
lifted audiences around the world with his spiritual, driven performances, as the leader of
lauded Irish heroes The Frames, and half of the duo The Swell Season.
Now Glen Hansard is finally where he wants to be, with no intervening structure between
him and his audience. For Rhythm and Repose, Hansard has stripped away the emotional layers to reach a core, a core that shines through in songs like “Love Don’t Leave Me
Waiting” with its easy, Muscle Shoals vibe. There is also a new power of feeling on songs
like “Philander,” with Hansard capturing a vocal intensity live in the studio we have not
heard from him before. And this is Glen Hansard’s time. Building on the success of Once,
now a Broadway musical receiving rave reviews and talk of Tony awards, Glen is part of
this season’s hottest soundtrack, The Hunger Games, which features Glen performing
under his own name, and as a writer for Maroon Five’s track “Come Away From the Water.”
Hansard is poised to join his heroes Van Morrison and Bob Dylan as a musical icon, and
this is the album on which he finally puts his name.
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
a place to bury strangers
worship
Dead Oceans
DOC 066 / DOC 066LP
CD/LP
0656605136622 / 0656605136615
Tracklist:
Alone
You Are The One
Mind Control
Worship
Fear
Dissolved
Why I Can’t Cry Anymore
Revenge
And I’m Up
Slide
Leaving Tomorrow
Guitars as jet engines; guitars as haunted electronics; guitars as filling-melting white heat:
A Place To Bury Strangers’ new album Worship is explosive, visceral, and dark.
APTBS’ DIY-braintrust of Death By Audio wizard Oliver Ackermann and bassist Dion Lunadon
continue the evolution of songwriting that began with Onwards to the Wall, the band’s 2011
EP. Now on Worship, they interweave threads of krautrock, dream-pop, and 80s goth without
ever losing the edge that is quintessentially Strangers. Unhinged dissonance is artfully framed
within a fiercely dynamic and assured melodic sensibility. Standout “You Are The One” is a
coldwave white squall, with Ackerman coming through like an austere and menacing Damo
Suzuki. Later on “Dissolved,” the band methodically builds an atmospheric battle charge only
to take a hard left mid-song into pure, shimmering Cure territory.
There are ambitious, trend-bucking choices at every turn.
“This album was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by A Place To Bury Strangers. It is our
vision of what our music should sound like in 2012, not someone else’s interpretation,” says
Lunadon. “Every sound on the album is made by us and our tools; tools created by us, used
on no other recordings, and purposefully built for this project. This is real. Some of it is the
band being in complete control — bending, shaping and building the songs and the sounds.
Other parts are the band relinquishing control and letting the songs and sounds take over
and produce themselves. We are not trying to reinvent ourselves, but simply push ourselves
further in all aspects of our music.” “We made this, we recorded this, we did everything,”
adds Ackerman. “Yes, we chose to do this and no, we didn’t have to but we think it is pretty
cool. No producer made us. We didn’t go to school for any of this and we don’t have time for
tutorials. We invented this and now we are sharing it with you.”
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NYHETER UKE 22 - 2012
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
scott kelly / steve von till / wino
songs of townes van zandt
My Proud Mountain
MPM 002 / MPM 002LP
4024572537562 / 4024572537555
CD/LP
Townes Van Zandt never reached significant fame during his lifetime. Although highly respected
by his peers and other songwriters, the mood and atmosphere of his music, coupled with his
sometimes dark and sarcastic nature, was not suitable for the commercial country-industry of
Nashville. Van Zandt’s songs did, however, reach popularity in his day, through artists such
as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Emmylou Harris. Within his circle of outsider singersongwriters, he was adored, though ultimately it would be depression and alcoholism that
would overshadow his life. Townes’ friend, singer Steve Earle, has been quoted as saying,
“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s
coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”
After Townes’ death in 1997, the fact that artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Mudhoney, Norah
Jones, Lyle Lovett, and Bob Dylan himself have kept his songs alive and vital, is a testament
to the influence and impact of his music. Tracklist TBC:
If I Needed You
St. John the Gambler
Black Crow Blues
Lungs
Rake
Snake Song
Nothin’
Tecumseh Valley
A Song For
So now do Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, and Wino stand and sing his tribute, each focusing
on the essence of Van Zandt’s music and lyrics in his own personal way. The result is a great homage, whose intensity lies in fragility and elementary human truths. Townes Van Zandt’s broken-hearted love songs and gloom-ridden tales are most deserving
of this tribute and praise.
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
dying fetus
reign supreme
Relapse
RR 7176-2 / RR 7176-1
0781676717620 / 0781676717613
CD/LP
5/6 SCREAM MAGAZINE
Tracklist:
1. Invert the Idols
2. Subjected to a Beating
3. Second Skin
4. From Womb to Waste
5. Dissidence
6. In the Trenches
7. Devout Atrocity
8. Revisionist Past
9. The Blood of Power
Legendary kings of death metal DYING FETUS have reemerged after a nearly three year
wait to deliver Reign Supreme, their most crushing and focused album to date. Simultaneously pushing the boundaries of brutality and technicality while returning to their
uncompromising roots, Reign Supreme offers nine tracks of face pummeling insanity. Mind bending musicianship coalesces with earth shattering breakdowns, their infamous
dual vocal attack and relentless sociopolitical commentary. Reign Supreme accomplishes
exactly what the title implies, mounting DYING FETUS atop the death metal throne! Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 tuba@tubarec.com www.tubarec.com
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