CARLTON MELTON - 'PASS IT ON'

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• MTL001 - LP

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• AGIT002CD - CD

  823566504320

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**CD only** Another slice of supreme San Franciscan psyche-melto to be filed alongside Wooden Shjips et al, and UK's own Heads, maybe Earthless or White Hills, but this stands real tall indeed. Taking the cues of Hawkwind and Pink Floyd (theres a heavy hitting cover of "When you're in") to create some great heavy droning fogged up glass onion sike?know what we're saying? Recorded in a genuine geodesic dome by Feats ex-members of Zen Guerilla, and nothing short of highly recommended. CD comes with a whole slew of bonus tracks, including the quite sublime 15 minute plus "Star Of Hazel".

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CHICKENS - 'CHICKEN SHIT'

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• SB133 - 7"

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Debut vinyl outing from Kyle & Mike (2/3rds FNU Ronnies + drum machine) following a cassette on Fan Death as well as a track contrib on last year's 'Skulls Without Borders' 10" comp. Can't say for certain where Chickens mine the toxic ore to forge their urk, but they uncannily tap into similar staub once snuffed by prime Euro movers such as early Dieter Meier & Geisterfahrer not to mention channeling the nascent vibe of Amphetamine Reptile (think Halo of Flies 'Insecticide Stomp' in particular). 4 tracks, 1 time edition of 400, no repress. We got very few, don't be silly.

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ALASTAIR GALBRAITH - 'MASS'

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• SB136 - LP

  655030113611

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That Alastair Galbraith should return to the Siltbreeze fold (responsible for his debut LP, Morse, in 1993) for his latest release seems practically tailor-made. But while Morse followed traditional avenues of rugged folk narrative tinged with psychedelic foxing, Mass is an unchartered, one-way trip through a world of ritual. Consisting of 22 tracks, this new album runs the gamut from mysterious beauty to just plain mysterious. Broken guitars, percussive loops, backwards tracking, a (homemade) glass harmonium, lullabies, bagpipe thievery and the odd bit of fighting talk are just some of the many bricks laid here, with Galbraith himself as the mortar and Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and David Kilgour providing assistance here and there. Mass is an expansive whopper prepared to go anywhere and do anything to get there. Latest album from New Zealand musician with past releases on Flying Nun, Xpressway, Emperor Jones Includes free digital download coupon

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1. Concentrate (w/ Amiel Balester)
2. Mongolian Rhapsody
3. Trees
4. Richard Pearse Flying Down
the Opihi River in 1903
5. Poem for Moondog
6. Trees of Albert Park
7. Prime Numbers
8. Bridge of Burning Bubblegum
9. Tin Town
10. Kyrie Eleison
11. Stolen and Broken
12. Money Is So Sad
13. Like the Bitter Rind of a Cucumber
14. Bird in a Glass Forest
15. Kakistocracy
16. Ship?s Bells Otago Museum
17. Ford K (w/ David Kilgour)
18. Happy Summer
19. Newborn
20. Drawing Space Underwater
(w/ Michael Kohler)
21. Mansfield Story 22. Local Sleep Temple

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WOOM - 'MUU'S WAY'

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• BING069 - LP

  600197006917

• BING069CD - CD

  600197006924

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The summer of 2008 began a whirlwind year for Sara Magenheimer, Eben Portnoy and their band Fertile Crescent. In July they moved out of Brooklyn, self-released a 7-inch and embarked on a three-month tour of the USA. After opening for Deerhoof and garnering fans across the continent, the two retreated to a cold barn in Eastern Massachusetts. Alone in the woods, they cannibalized their sound, dramatically reconstructing their entire process. What emerged the next spring was a new beast entirely. WOOM's music is a wholly unique reinvention of pop likened to the quiet radicalism of Young Marble Giants, the devastating simplicity of early Velvet Underground, and the turbulent joy of contemporaries like Animal Collective, Tune-Yards and Micachu and the Shapes. Untethered to a traditional genre, WOOM generates music as irresistibly engaging and timeless as it is strange and new. The intensely honest Muu's Way reveals the intuitiveness of Portnoy and Magenheimer's six-year collaboration. Beneath its incredibly detailed DIY production brims a wild, uncontainable energy. Skittering beats, deep-diving bass, chorusing frogs, crumbling guitars and crackling voices swarm around songs that are at once heart-felt and emotionally enigmatic. It is an album of elemental affection and confident provocation. ? Debut album from new band featuring former members of Flying and Fertile Crescent (Menlo Park) Have toured with Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu LP is limited to 500 numbered, handscreened copies

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1. Backwards Beach
2. The Hunt
3. Back In
4. OK
5. Sister
6. Quetzalcoatl?s Ship
7. Foggy Dew
8. Under Muu
9. Salt
10. Judith

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INTERNATIONAL HELLO - 'S/T'

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• HOLY1980 - LP

  655035698014

• HOLY1980CD - CD

  655035698021

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International Hello is the perfection of California psychedelic rock in all its ecstatic glory. Grady Runyan's guitar playing is as fantastic, spacey and heavy as ever, as is Scott Derr's always-pertinent bass throb. Drummer and singer Rubin Fiberglass is just perfect as a screaming maniac who can actually keep time while Doug Pearson's electronics consistently enhance the dominant power-trio rock that swirls in the sky like some kind of creation myth. In case you don't recognize the names, these guys were the prime movers and shakers behind the band Monoshock. Does it sound like them? Yeah but it's way back there, and this is about a new place they're going. And it's good. You'll see. Debut recording from former members of Monoshock The perfection of California psychedelic rock in all its ecstatic glory ? LP includes free digital download coupon "[Monoshock were] three of the most clued-in musical minds I've ever met or observed, and they breathed in and coughed out a whole host of killer influences. Starting with the most obvious: Hawkwind, The Stooges, Can, Black Flag, Pere Ubu, Pink Fairies, Von Lmo, the MC5 and Chrome. Later in their flickeringly brief career they trended more toward heavy Japanese-style PSF psychedelia and outr? space rock experimentation a la F/i, Vertical Slit and any number of barefoot Germans from the 1970s. I'm not sure where they'd have ended up had the band not petered out in 1995-it appears from the direction they were trending on... that it was into a heads-down, dark and deep spastic noise murk rather than back to the bull-rushing primitive fuzz-punk squeal of these earlier recordings." -Jan Hinman, Agony Shorthand

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1. Arise Superslide
2. Who Will Stand Alone
3. Someone?s Coming
4. 8 Seconds

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THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER - 'JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG / COMIC STRIP'

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• CHIM03 - 7"

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After a handful of acoustic gigs in New York, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger has undergone a metamorphosis in the studio, emerging as an electric band on their first single, "Jardin du Luxembourg", recorded with bassist/producer Mark Ronson. Full of whimsical wordplay and eclectic instrumentation, this pop gem could almost pass for a mid-1960s relic. The b-side goes modern, re-imagining Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's 1967 recording "Comic Strip" with the help of French star Matthieu Chedid (aka M) as a tongue-in-cheek hip-hop romp. TGOASTT is Charlotte Kemp Muhl: vocals, keyboards Sean Lennon: vocals, instruments Mark Ronson: bass, producer Matthieu Chedid, guest vocals & lead guitar on "Comic Strip": 1000 copies only, we have 200 for UK.

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THE STEALS - 'STATIC KINGDOM'

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• FAUN101 - CD

  5 065001 617003

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With powerful song-writing, big guitars, achingly detailed production and hauntingly melodic vocals, THE STEALS are passionately driven to create mysterious, soul-cleansing, heart-breaking, life-affirming music. Following their 2006 critically acclaimed EP 'Floodlights' and an intense creative sabbatical, 'THE STEALS' latest Album 'Static Kingdom' on Faun Records, sees Singer and long- standing member Jayn Hanna return with a new line up, rekindling a musical union with Guitarist and co-producer Mark Peters of 'Engineers' notoriety ( Echo/ K Scope Label), Drummer Chris Smith and Guitarist Daniel Land from Manchester Shoegazer's Daniel Land and The Modern Painters. The Album was largely completed between the Landscapes of Hebden Bridge near the Moors of West Yorkshire and a San Francisco Beach side Studio.

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1. Hope
2. Shelter
3. The Weight
4. Dead Flame Rising
5. Stay in Silence
6. Golden
7. Borderlines
8. All Coming Back

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?mesmerising ambient psych-folk and fire-haired front woman, Jayn Hanna's simmering space-blues voice? ?[TIME OUT- LONDON] "THE STEALS are the very epitomy of 21st Century folk gone electric - exceptional stuff indeed"?.. MANCHESTER MUSIC. ?absolutely mesmerising and fantastic." MUSIC OHM

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