KEVIN BARKER - 'YOU & ME'

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• GONG14CD - CD

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• GONG14 - LP

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**NEW RELEASE DATE: Due to a pressing fault, we are now releasing this album on 11th janury 2010. (preorders already taken will be kept) You & Me is Kevin Barker's debut album, released by Gnomonsong. Though it's his first solo release under his own name, Barker's no newcomer to the scene-he's spent the last few years recording, touring, and collaborating with Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Antony and the Johnsons, and Espers, to name just a few. Essentially acting as everyone's favorite sideman, Barker has influenced and helped create a sound with which this generation is happily familiar. During his college days, Barker became interested in the finger-style guitar playing of John Fahey and Bert Jansch and began to record under the name Currituck County. This solo project (sometime a duo with Vetiver / Espers drummer Otto Hauser) recorded albums for Teenbeat Records, Troubleman Unlimited, and the UK's Track and Field Organisation. Now Barker has assembled an unbelievable group of musicians for You & Me. Produced by Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Lilys, Gary Louris, Devendra Banhart), the album features Pat Sansone (Wilco), Joanna Newsom, Jonathan Wilson (Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis), Eric Johnson (Shins, Fruit Bats), and Otto Hauser (Vetiver, Espers). Full of sunny, rural country rock, You & Me recalls the rustic grooves of The Band and The Grateful Dead, the heady melancholy of Roy Harper, and the golden harmonies of CSNY.

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1. Little Picture of You
2. You & Me
3. Mountain & Bear
4. Amber
5. Walking Along
6. My Lady
7. I Will Fly
8. Bless You on Your Way

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SMOKE FAIRIES - 'GASTOWN b/w RIVER SONG'

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• TMR021 - 7"

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Playing and singing together since their school days in West Sussex, Smoke Fairies (Jessica Davies & Katherine Blamire) create ethereal, dark and haunting left-of - center folk and blues songs wrapped in beautiful harmonies with the occasional psychedelic flourish. Over the years they've played with Bryan Ferry, Richard Hawley and the Handsome Family. Following an EP and two singles, they now release their first for Jack White's Third Man Records. The songs "Gastown" and "The River Song" were produced by Jack White and will be available on 7" vinyl. Smoke Fairies: Katherine Blamire: Guitar and Vocals Jessica Davies: Guitar and Vocals Produced by Jack White III Additional accompaniment: Jack White: Drums (Gastown) Drums, Electric Guitar and Timpani (Finale Only on River Song) Jack Lawrence: Bass (Gastown) Corey Younts: Piano, Clavinet (River Song) Shelby O'Neal: Drums (River Song)

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BP FALLON - 'FAME #9'

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• TMR022 - 7"

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Observant Third Man fans may remember BP Fallon from his cameo in The Dead Weather's 'I Cut Like A Buffalo' video. BP has been a long been a legendary figure in rock and roll and has put his unique stamp on the history of popular music from his work as publicist and media guru to Led Zeppelin and T. Rex, working for the Beatles at Apple Records, managing Johnny Thunders as well as so much more. Third Man Records is proud to announce the first in our new Spoken Word - Instructional Record series featuring the one and only BP Fallon. This release is Third Man's first "three-sided" 45 record?presented in our patented and exclusive 'Single Signal" sound design.Produced by Jack White III Additional accompaniment on 'I Believe in Elvis Presley': Jack White: Guitars Patrick Keeler: Drums Society Red: Bass, Guitar

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THE MAYFAIR SET - 'YOUNG ONE'

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• WOODSIST033 - CD

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The Dum Dum Girls / Blank Dogs collaboration continues. Eight amazing songs - like the Cocteau Twins and Charles Manson getting in a bar fight and embracing afterwards. Beautiful, beautiful full-color art in a Digipak case. A co-release from Woodsist (CD) Captured Tracks (12" and 7"). Includes the tracks from their self-titled 7-inch as a bonus.

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FOREST FIRE - 'SURVIVAL'

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• BEST002 - LP

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Forest Fire's debut album Survival was recorded over an eight-month period in Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon. The tracks are littered with out-of-tune horns, vibrant bursts of guitar, and layers of screeching electronics. Nathan Delffs' frantic guitar work threads throughout dark and carefully executed harmonies by Sharon Van Etten, Myisha Battle, and Nick Delffs (Shaky Hands). Ghostly synthesizers, arresting vocals, and loose percussion are woven together under Adam Spittler's glimmering production. A runaway hit across the blogosphere upon its original release of only a few hundred copies on Catbird Records last year, Survival was named La Blogotheque's (of Take Away Shows fame) 2008 Album of the Year, beating out year-end-list heavyweights Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, and the like. "... an excellent album, and the one I listened to most this year. Raw, powerful songs, alternately nervous and hypnotic, like a drug-hazy stroll through the history of song." -La Blogotheque "It's inherently pop, only scrapped with closet distortion, slurred with lyrics like 'Why can't I kill someone I hate?' and musty with slacker vision.... You've got to believe [Delffs's] got one hell of an imagination, even when it's laid bare." -The Agit Reader "Are they folk? Well, no. Do they have slide guitars and a kind of city folk feel at times? Yes, they do, and that's welcomed with open arms, because these guys pull it off well ... they also can harness soundscapes of electro knob-turning fuzz, unusual percussion, acoustic guitars, slightly out of tune brass, screachable violins, and layers of electronics [to put] Forest Fire in a category unto themselves." -Artificial Amnesiac Blog "Survival is full of loose and ramshackle indie Americana that's intentionally noisy and bursts out in a full-fledged sentridoh most of the time." -Can You See the Sunset from the Southside Blog "The biggest highlight, and one of my soon-to-be-favorites of 2008, is the warped, fractured-folk buzz of 'Slow Motion.' ... Cut the Velvets' 'Heroin' in half and turn it into a campfire sing-along and you're getting close." -Pop Headwound Blog

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1. I Make Windows
2. Fortune Teller
3. Sunshine City
4. Thru My Gloves
5. Promise
6. Echoes Coming
7. Steer Me
8. Survival
9. Slow Motion

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