BLACK LIPS - 'LOS VALIENTES DEL MUNDO NUEVO'

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• ITR211 - LP

  759718521115

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The band's live album recorded in Tijuana, Mexico, and their debut release for Vice Records, Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo finds Black Lips running through shambolic, high-energy versions of their back catalog to a room full of noisy, inebriated fans. Twelve powerhouse tracks of blues-infused garage rock action!

Tracks

1. M.I.A.
2. Boomerang
3. Sea of Blasphemy
4. Stranger
5. Not a Problem
6. Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
7. Boone
8. Everybody?s Doing It
9. Fairy Stories
10. Dirty Hands
11. Buried Alive
12. Juvenile

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KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) - 'S/T'

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• AGIT005 - LP W/ CD

  N/A

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So, we get a tape of this in the post, yes, a tape, and thought it was pretty wild, then heard nothing?then we get a CDR, well two of them, some mix cassette, and a CD containing some OTT modern day Pop Art sleeve design that is retina rubbling!?.with a scrawled note claiming, "when you put the record out, you have to limit it to 500 LPs with a bonus free CD version that has a different mix of the music on it, NO Downloads whatsoever, and while your are at it, make some giveaway cassettes up of the mixtape we sent to go with it, and the sleeve has to be wrap-around, like it could be a poster, on thicker card too, full colour mind!?we are Koolaid (Global Tyranny) on this record?send us some copies when its done"?.well that was telling us, so we had to put the record out. We listened to the CD again; it was bonkers, some wild psychedelic noise stomping round the room, meshed with some dark samples, really heavy and LIVE drums, almost a non stop mix of edge-of-the-seat paranoiac scuzz, with loops that pulse through the entire record. Like a modern day mix of the avant pop samplings and cut-up wizardry of Negativland, the obscure fractal pop psychedelic rock of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, some of the white hot guitar of the Stooges / Loop variety, and a primal beat /rhythm that could have been lifted from Cro-Magnon.. We started putting the RSD 2011 12" together, when another missive arrived, this time the message was simpler?"when's our LP coming out? And can you put this out too, we are Koolaid (Alien Ballroom) on this track?", that was a crunchy, noisy version of Daft Punk's "Da Funk", and nothing like this album..we put it on the RSD Agitated 12" release.. they fitted in well.. And no, we have no idea who is in the collective, band, or whatever they are or might be..in a way, that makes this even greater?. For fans of? Ask for a CDr, don't be scared? and ask for a CDr copy of the mixtape, it's a great slice of what might make these guys tick? 500 copies only on vinyl, in deluxe wraparound colour sleeve, with CD version (of diff mixes of the four tracks) and a mixtape.

Tracks

1. 18/11
2. Inter-City Firm
3. Ritual #3
4. The Process

Press

One would hope so, this is a great record....and kind of blows our wig off every time we crank it,,,
Negativland meets West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band....

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BEIRUT - 'THE RIP TIDE'

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• POMP03CD - CD

  5060174952364

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Released in 2011. Brand new studio album from Beirut: on his own label / imprint POMPEII Records. Beirut leader Zach Condon's music is often synonymous with the exotic mysteries of world travel. Since Beirut's last album, 2007's The Flying Club Cup, sang a love letter to France (with a 2009 stop-off in Mexico for the March of the Zapotec EP) many have asked where his songs would voyage next. Lots of guesses, but few predicted the inward journey Condon has achieved on The Rip Tide, an album with the most introspective and memorable songs of his young career. Recorded in Upstate New York, Brooklyn and, of course, Condon's hometowns of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, The Rip Tide marks a distinct leaping off point for Beirut. Musically, songs have a harmonic immediacy that contrasts the complexities of Zapotec's Mexican full orchestra compositions. These songs started as small melodies, conceived on piano or ukulele, then built upon by the entire band's contributions in the studio, before undergoing a paring down and retrofitting by Condon. What results is a record that sounds like it could have been recorded in one session, with exciting rhythms matching the upbeat horns and contrasting the mournful strings. But what style is it an appreciation of? There's no direct geographical affiliation to be exhumed, for what emerges is a style that belongs uniquely and distinctly to Beirut, one that has actually been there all along. Lyrically, Condon exposes a depth of honesty that outstrips the simplified nomadic troubadour image of his past. The songs speak of love, friendship, isolation and community, touching on universal human themes that are less fabricated stories than impressions of life at a quarter century of age. Songs are no longer about imagining places you haven't been; they're about places of which we are all extremely familiar, some of them too familiar. This dramatic shift expands Beirut's palate without weighing the music down. Condon has coated serious lyrics with his greatest tunes ever. The second track, "Santa Fe," is the best pop song he has yet written, a jumpy ode to the town of his youth, and an early sign that The Rip Tide is all about the staycation. Particular of note is "Goshen," a torch song that wraps itself in Condon'sdelicate piano phrases at a level of intimacy never heard before on a Beirut song. The album is on Pompeii Records, a label started and wholly owned by Condon. Pompeii has no large label affiliation whatsoever, and the Rip Tide is being released internationally. This extreme level of creative control is what the band has always preferred. Shows often sell-out because they choose to play smaller, more intimate venues. This connection directly to fans extends to The Rip Tide release itself, the desire to be able to 100% decide what their music will sound, look, and feel like, not to mention how it can be obtained. Griffin Rodriguez's production is, once again, immaculate. The performances of the band ? Perrin Cloutier on accordion, Paul Collins on bass, Ben Lanz on trombone, Nick Petree on drums, and Kelly Pratt on horns ? are spot-on. With contributions by such esteemed colleagues as violinist Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Sharon Van Etten, The Rip Tide reveals greater levels the more you explore. And you don't even have to travel very far.

Tracks

1.A Candle's Fire
2.Santa Fe
3.East Harlem
4.Goshen
5.Payne's Bay
6.The Rip Tide
7.Vagabond
8.The Peacock
9.Port Of Call

Press

"casually allowing his 'exotic' influences to tumble out of an artfully battered satchel?" **** Mojo

"welcome evolution of Beirut from bedroom fantasy to real world concern... their most accessible record yet." **** Uncut

"Triumphant... a singular musical vision." **** Q

"Best New Music" - Pitchfork. Lead single "East Harlem" has received 300k streams on Soundcloud.

Too Much press to list here, this past week alone: Observer feature,a Four page Mojo Feature, 5/5 Live review in the Independent, Santa Fe gets a B-list at 6Music, the list of glowing accolades increases daily..

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BLACK LIPS - 'GOOD BAD NOT EVIL'

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• ITR209 - LP

  759718520910

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Black Lips' 2007 breakout hit record! Good Bad Not Evil epitomizes all that's special about Atlanta's favorite flower-punk sons-their unconfined energy, undeniable songcraft and unrivaled showmanship are all on full display. Some of their strongest songs of their career are on this platter!

Tracks

1. I Saw a Ghost (Lean)
2. O Katrina!
3. Veni Vidi Vici
4. It Feels Alright
5. Navajo
6. Lock and Key
7. How Do You Tell a Child That Someone Has Died
8. Bad Kids
9. Step Right Up
10. Cold Hands
11. Off the Block
12. Slime and Oxygen
13. Transcendental Light

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BLACK LIPS - '200 MILLION THOUSAND'

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• ITR210 - LP

  759718521016

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Originally released in 2009 and now unavailable on vinyl via VICE, 200 Million Thousand is Black Lips' most sonically dense and psychedelic album. Or, in the words of the Washington Post, it's the "sound of a seemingly buzzed band creating some seriously intoxicating music." In Th Red bringing back the HITS!!! on vinyl natch....

Tracks

1. Take My Heart
2. Drugs
3. Starting Over
4. Let It Grow
5. Trapped in a Basement
6. Short Fuse
7. I?ll Be With You
8. Big Black Baby Jesus of Today
9. Again & Again
10. Old Man
11. The Drop I Hold
12. Body Combat
13. Elijah
14. I Saw God
15. Meltdown

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SWIFTUMZ - 'DON'T TRIP'

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• HOLY1985 - LP

  655035698519

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The problem with imaginary combinations is that many of them actually already exist. Don't Trip sounds like a collaboration between Nick Nicely and Eric Hysteric, over which Tony Wilson and Alan McGee would get into a bidding war. Chris McVicker-a.k.a. Swiftumz, famous for penning the fastest selling Hunx & His Punx single-sambas through '80s Factory singles, afternoon hits of MDMA on the beach, Ibizia before techno, Glaswegian nonchalance, Stolen Kisses and tripping at the Ha?ienda (the San Francisco one; Manchester's closed down years ago). Seriously, it's all present-but like any other great interpreter of Britain's finest musical traditions, McVicker is just a guy from near Mac Dre's hometown in Northern California who might laugh if one told him that "More Than Sleep" should be in a Sofia Coppola movie, because he was probably aiming higher than that. Like the best Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk commercial ever, Don't Trip is your summer jam.

Tracks

1. Don?t Cha Want Me Back?
2. Day We Met
3. 4Eva
4. Angelita
5. It?s Beautiful
6. Tuff Guy
7. Too Many Friends
8. More Than Sleep
9. If Your Were Mine

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FUTURE SHUTTLE - 'WATER'S EDGE'

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• HOLY1984 - 12"

  655035698410

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Future Shuttle is a Greenpoint, NYC-based duo (sometimes trio) comprised of Jessa Farkas and Camilla Padgitt- Coles. Prior to the group's early 2009 conception, the pair studied electronic music at Oberlin College alongside their friends in Blondes and Teengirl Fantasy. Blondes member Sam Haar also produced the Water's Edge EP, the group's first officially released recording. In Future Shuttle's beautifully dense brew of psychedelic reprogramming, Tangerine Dream meets the KLF at the UFO Club, and their three-track debut layers distant chants, drones and throbbing, time-frozen strings on top of each other, swelling gradually to a pining, beautifully textured crescendo. As Visitation Rites put it recently: "Discover their mile-long pillow-scapes in higher resolution, revealing an attention to texture and dynamic variation that can only come from losing track of time inside the studio, trapped inside your own spell."

Tracks

1. Birth of Europa
2. Fields of Dreams
3. Fog Spelunk

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DIRTY BEACHES - 'BADLANDS'

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• ZM010 - LP

  655035007014

• ZM010CD - CD

  655035007021

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Badlands is the debut vinyl album from Dirty Beaches, a one-man project out of Montreal via Hawaii, China, Taiwan and a bunch of other disparate locales. Part cassette culture Elvis, part Alan Vega alienator, this guy's doing for rockabilly what Ariel Pink did for funk-pop nostalgia. "Badlands is about a man who is possessed by the road. My mother used to say to me, 'You walk at night often enough, sooner or later you'll run into a ghost.' I think it's very true, as the devil comes in all forms. Just here to fuck your shit up. Side A is all bangers, with songs about leaving, being chased on the road and driving a burning car into oblivion. Side B is ballads and dirges laced with murder and lament." -Alex Zhang Hungtai

Tracks

1. Speedway King
2. Horses
3. Sweet 17
4. A Hundred Highways
5. True Blue
6. Lord Knows Best
7. Black Nylon
8. Hotel

Press

?[A] sense of displacement, combined with an ear for cinematic
sounds?particularly the eerie, stylized noir of David
Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wong Kar
Wai?fuels his work, which squeezes the sounds of early
rock?n?roll and 1950s music through a lo-fi, distortiondrenched
filter. This set of influences, which extends to the
minimal thrust of Suicide and the Cramps? manic rockabilly,
feels unique, simply because it?s been largely untouched
by indie music during the past decade or so.... Of course,
mining a cool set of inspirations doesn?t itself make for a
good record. What Hungtai excels at, in addition to building
evocative mood and atmosphere, is a sort of conceptual,
film-like storytelling shot through the lens of these bygone
eras of music.? ?Pitchfork

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