TITMACHINE - 'WE BUILD A NEW CITY / 1989'

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• SB107 - 7"

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will be in stock this or next week...For the lucky few who were floored by TITMACHINE's debut 7-inch (released earlier this year by Meeuw Muzak) comes this sophomore effort, loaded for bear and continuing their penchant for A-side covers. This time the ladies tackle Palais Schaumburg's "Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt" (or "We Build A New City" for those who don't speak in God's preferred tongue). The results are as devastatingly great as could be imagined. Stripped of its NDW gloss, Titmachine's reworking is more doused in raw Gueuze than refined Pilsner. In other words, them yeasts be wild, y'all! The flip is an awesome (and original) little jawdropper, remarkably akin to what The Shaggs might sound like tackling the Urinals' "Ack Ack Ack." Pressed on heliocentric black vinyl in a human(e) edition of less than one million copies, how chuffed can your summer be if you miss this chance to woggle in Titmachine's primitive, urpy grock? Don't tempt fate, buy now!.

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THE DEAD C - 'SECRET EARTH'

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• BING059 - 2xLPs

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• BING059CD - CD

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The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when The Dead C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting force-a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world-nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. In its career, The Dead C has oscillated between two poles. Recent albums explore drones, electronic loops, and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh '70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places they've never been (cheers, Seattle). In addition, Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eighties-DR503 and Eusa Kills. If there was ever a time to explore the earthen extremes this magnificent band surveys, it is now.

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1. Mansions
2. Stations
3. Plains
4. Waves

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Reviews in the WIRE, MOJO and Uncut. more tbc

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QUINN, DONOVAN & THE 13TH MONTH - 'S/T'

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• SAB28CD - CD

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Donovan's steadily growing reputation as a first rate darkly romantic penman (thanks to contributions to The Skygreen Leopards & solo as Verdure) has culminated with his latest endeavor. Rather than aping or ducking genres, Quinn has crafted a bright spectrum of songs best described as 'American.' Xian folk, languid indie pop, VU cool, loner country & west coast psych are touchstones, with Quinn's singular lyrical abilities & taste for sun-baked song steadily at the fore. Ever the flower bed romantic, Quinn has ? at the risk of over-simplification - written a classic "break-up record;" albeit filtered through surrealistic tenderness & riddled with red herrings & feelings of betrothal. Though not exactly lost in a sea of scarves, Quinn is indebted to the vulnerability, humor & bitterness present in the works of Ronnie Lane, Skip Spence, Nikki Sudden & Basement Tapes-era Dylan.

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LILI Z - 'THE TWO OF US'

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• ITR156 - LP

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Actually in stock this week...onesheet was late...apologies garageheads...After previous achievements with VOLT, THE SPLASH FOUR, THE NO-TALENTS, and her past collection of home tapes, LILI Z. comes back with fifteen new 8-track cassette living room recordings. Twisted into shapes that vaguely resemble seam-bursting garage punk, the songs' (thirteen originals and reworkings with Lili Z. lyrics of a Bela Bartok piece and an old Rondos chestnut) charm lies in their unpredictability. Sometimes it's a little late-'70s punk rock, sometimes it's catchy, metronome-like electropunk, sometimes it's pure guitar noise freakouts, and sometimes it's experimental tooling around. But most of all, it's pure Lili Z., recorded at home at her most intimate. A sort of musical diary, The Two of Us comes with a stunning, full-color gatefold sleeve of Lili's collages and meticulous illustrations for each song. This vinyl edition is limited to 1,000 and includes a bonus track not on the CD version.

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