EX-CULT - 'CIGARETTE MACHINE'

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• CF046 - LP

  819162017500

• CF046CD - CD

  819162017517

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On the tail of their breakout second LP Midnight Passenger, Memphis-based punk cyclone Ex-Cult delivers a brand new batch of bruisers. Chris Shaw lends a sneering, spitting toughness to the proceedings while the band flays riffs in loose, hairy, mosh-inducing menace behind him, touching on post-punk, psych sprawl and early-’80s hardcore while remaining beholden to none. They have the power to convert even the most jaded and bored concertgoer into a sweaty mess in the pit. Punks, skate rats, scenesters, skinheads, hardcore kids, druggies—so many disparate groups dig this band it’s like an MRR cartoon waiting to happen. The adrenal-enhancers on Cigarette Machine are road warriors already, having been honed on the band’s recent tour that no doubt laid waste to a town nearby. The only problem with this sterling batch of sluggers is that it’s over too quick.

Tracks

#1 Clinical Study
#2 Cigarette Machine
#3 Rats In The Gas Tank
#4 Meda House Company
#5 Dripping Mouth
#6 Your Mask

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DAMON & NAOMI - 'FORTUNE'

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• 20202015 - LP

  600197101612

• 20202015CD - CD

  600197101629

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“Grey day celebration music for meshed afternoons; eleven strums and songs to savor as you wander till spring. Did Damon & Naomi dream them? Did I? Will you?” —Andy Zax People talk about Damon & Naomi as if they’re the raw infrastructure that remained after Galaxie 500 fell apart, a steel skeleton stubbornly standing after an earthquake. But when the pair began a new project, they weren’t adjusting so much as starting from scratch. By the time they released More Sad Hits, they had grown enough as musicians and songwriters that they didn’t need to lean on stark sincerity and reverb-drenched emoting. Instead, they reigned in their sound, favoring acoustic over electric, building more complex and specific textures, and exploring smaller sonic spaces. If Galaxie 500 was ahead of its time, Damon & Naomi are prescient in their own way, firmly rooted in the early ’90s but hinting at things to come. The project provided a necessary platform for the pair to focus, hone and build on the groundwork that they laid for themselves, peeling away layers to reveal a shy closeness that Galaxie 500 never could. The pair’s latest project, Fortune, is an LP released in tandem with Naomi Yang’s video piece of the same name. She refers to the work as “a silent movie,” though the visuals are so bound up in the music (and vice versa) that it’s more of a long-form music video, a visual poem set to the metronome of a textural score. She conceived of the piece to explore conflicting feelings surrounding her father’s recent passing; Yang was suddenly burdened with a massive archive of his artistic work (her father was a photographer), as well as the ongoing aftermath of flawed parenting. Her use of the term “fortune,” then, is tinged with sardonicism but also with nostalgia—portraits from the 1940s and ’50s painted by protagonist Norman von Holtzendorff’s father (also recently deceased, and who also left his archive in Norman’s hands) feature prominently. An ongoing tarot card motif ties in another facet of the suddenly slippery term “fortune,” using Damon & Naomi’s now familiar brand of close, acoustic warmth to explore the past’s bearing on the future: “I want to be over / To touch and be gone / Forget this amnesia.” Fortune—as a film or an album—is itself an expressive portrait, but doesn’t adhere to any obvious narrative; rather, it’s a comfortable space that the viewer can move in and out of, dreamlike and immersive. The eleven new songs don’t require visual accompaniment—Damon & Naomi have constructed the sequence to communicate through sound alone—but at upcoming performances the duo will be presenting them live as a soundtrack to Yang’s “silent” film.

Tracks

1. The Seeker
2. Amnesia
3. It?s Over
4. Reflections
5. A Shining Dream
6. Shadows
7. Towards Tomorrow
8. Sky Memories
9. Hurt House
10. The North Light
11. Time Won?t Own Me

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REFRIGERATOR - 'TEMPLE CITY'

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• SHR176 - LP

  759718117615

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Refrigerator and Shrimper celebrate 25 years together with the band’s first album in four years. Temple City is also the first record of theirs to feature electric guitar, feedback squalls and electric bass in over a decade, after the all-acoustic Bottles of Make Up and their last album, Dangerous, a stillborn recording of demos. More recently, vocalist Allen Callaci recorded with Adam Lipman (2013’s Glacial), Dennis Callaci with Simon Joyner (2013’s New Secrets, helmed by Jarvis Taveniere of Woods) and the band released a couple extremely limited and now out-of-print cassette-only releases. Temple City was recorded in full just prior to harrowing health issues for Allen that ultimately led to a heart transplant. The band went back into the studio with longtime engineer Steve Folta after Callaci’s full recovery and rerecorded a number of songs as well as a few new ones to complete the 17 tracks which comprise Temple City. The band will play select shows around the country to coincide with the album’s release, and Allen will embark on a tour to promote his book Heart Like a Starfish, due out in February on the Pelekinesis imprint.

Tracks

1. Your Hometown
2. As Advertised Please Don?t Touch
3. The Real Thing
4. This Woman Here
5. Pocket Thousandaire
6. Cul De Sac
7. Friendloverwhatever
8. Secret Knock
9. Ozu
10. Thinking Man?s Fool
11. Rest of the Lonesome
12. Run Down Rings
13. Percy Sledge
14. As I Was Before
15. No Fun
16. Sophia Loren
17. Smile Kid

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SARAH DAVACHI - 'BARONS COURT'

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• SOD111 - LP

  600197511114

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Barons Court is the debut full-length album by Canadian electroacoustic composer Sarah Davachi, following short run releases on Important Records’ Cassauna imprint and Full Spectrum. Trained at Mills College, Davachi’s academic approach to synthesis and live instrumentation unites with a preternatural attunement to timbre, pacing and atmosphere. While the record employs a number of vintage and legendary synthesizers, including Buchla’s 200 and Music Easel, an EMS Synthi, and Sequential Circuit’s Prophet 5, Davachi’s approach to her craft here is much more in line with the longform textural minimalism of Éliane Radigue than it is with the hyper-dense modular pyrotechnics of the majority of her synthesist contemporaries. Three of the album’s five compositions feature acoustic instrumentation (cello, flue, harmonium, oboe and viola, played by Davachi and others) which is situated alongside a battery of keyboards and synths, and emphasizes the composerly aspect of her work. “heliotrope” slowly billows into being with a low, keeling drone that is gradually married to an assortment of sympathetic, aurally complex sounds to yield a rich fantasia of beat frequencies and overtones. Later, “wood green” opens almost inaudibly, with lovely eddies of subtly modulating synth clouds evolving effortlessly into something much larger, as comforting and familiar as it is expansive. In an era in which the synthesizer inarguably dominates the topography of experimental music, Davachi’s work stands alone—distinctive, patient and beautiful.

Tracks

1. heliotrope
2. guildford
3. tiergarten
4. wood green
5. ruislip

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KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW - 'BAD NEWS BOYS'

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• ITR274 - LP

  759718527414

• ITR274CD - CD

  759718527421

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After a five-year hiatus, rock ’n’ roll’s renegade-angel savior The King Khan & BBQ Show returns with a brand new album of high-energy, low-brow rockers! Known as the hottest duo from Montreal to come out of Berlin, the King Khan & BBQ Show is dirty, funny, irreverent and always a good time. Their raw, stripped-down mix of doo-wop, early rock ’n’ roll, soul and punk is drenched in pure energy. Known to their mothers as King Khan and Mark Sultan, these guys make this stuff sound simple, but make no mistake—it takes serious talent as well as balls to pull this off. Bad News Boys takes its title from the original moniker the duo gave themselves when they first started over ten years ago. They recently threatened to revert to this name before deciding that it might make things too confusing. Bad News Boys serves twelve sizzling slabs—from the beautifully soulful “Buy Bye Bhai” to the juvenile and obnoxious “D.F.O.” (which stands for “Diarrhea Fuck Off”)—with all the rocking lunacy that their legion of fans has come to expect. In their storied, sordid career, these guys have endured a roller-coaster of successes, trials and tribulations that would’ve buried lesser men: They’ve played with some of the coolest names in rock. Their relentless touring schedule has included countries where few bands venture. They’ve been kicked off tours. They’ve headlined and sold out some of the most prestigious venues in the world. They’ve played some of the worst dumps imaginable. They’ve been busted and jailed for shrooms mid-tour. They were handpicked by Lou Reed to play the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. They were ejected from the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. They’ve suffered mental and physical exhaustion. They’ve enjoyed dizzying highs and suffered crushing lows. They’ve broken up. They’ve gotten back together. Through it all, they continually make incredible and real rock ’n’ roll music like no one else, always with smiles on their faces, always with middle fingers held high. A number of related back catalog releases are available exclusively from Revolver—contact your salesperson for a complete list

Tracks

1. Alone Again
2. Illuminations
3. Kiss My Sister First
4. Buy Bye Bhai
5. D.F.O.
6. We Are the Champion
7. When Will I Be Tamed
8. Ocean of Love
9. Snackin? After Midnight
10. Killing the Wolfman
11. Never Felt Like This
12. Zen Machines

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AKATOMBO - 'SOMETIME, NEVER'

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• HHR05 - CD

  655035900520

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Following on from his critically acclaimed False Positives and Editions Mego collaborations with E.G. Lewis of Wire / Dome, ex-pat Scotsman and long-time resident of Hiroshima Paul Thomsen Kirk delivers his fourth album—ten tracks full of atmospheric, powerful, beat-driven, electronic-based compositions. From the persuasively percussive-led to dark ambient soundscapes to sleazy, wide-screen, full-on, bass-bin rumblings, Sometime, Never has it all… just because. “[A] meld of post-punk toxic ambient angst (à la Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire) with contemporary rhythmic models…. Akatombo is big on alienation and … generally conveys a feeling of being close-up to events and places while at the same time feeling disconnected and uncomprehending of them…. [A] brilliantly compelling, adrenalinsoaked antidote to the tranquil hedonism into which electronica has been too apt to lapse in recent years.” —David Stubbs, Resident Advisor “[Paul Kirk’s] beatscapes hearken back to the industrial pioneers of the mid-’80s, but his sound is decidedly contemporary, a mix of drums, bass, bleached tones and samples that veer from dub to club…. The best tracks display more than mood; they reverberate with sass.” —Richard Allen, A Closer Listen “A killer collection of programmed beats, layered samples, dark atmospheres, thick guitars, and droney-ambience, sounding at times like Muslimgauze, or like a more chill Necro Deathmort, or one of those bands who might have shared a compilation with Techno Animal or Sidewinder back in the day. The vibe is definitely on the isolationist tip, murky and claustrophobic, the beats are crunchy and caustic, more often lurching and lumbering than skittering or shuffling, and those beats are set amidst thick swells of grim sinister ambience, and blackened late-night atmospheres….. A sort of dubbed out downtempo dance music that’s not so much for dancing, but lurking, hanging out in the shadows, in empty clubs in empty cities, everything crumbling and decayed, a seriously dystopic soundtrack for some wasted scorched earth future.” —Aquarius

Tracks

1. Snark und Troll
2. Mission Creep
3. Click/bate
4. Matching Muzzles
5. Stasiland
6. Scans & Needles
7. Convict A45522
8. Cold Call
9. Stepford Lives
10. Vincere vel Mori

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ANTONY & YOKO - 'I LOVE YOU ON EARTH / I'M GOING AWAY SMILING'

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• CHIM16 - 10"

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Antony (of Antony & The Johnsons) interprets two beautiful Yoko Ono covers in the studio, joined by Yoko on a vocal duet on "I Love You Earth", and Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) on piano. "I'm Going Away Smiling" is stark and haunting. • Limited edition of 1,000. No barcode - intended As Indie store only release W/W. • Beautifully pressed one-sided 10" vinyl with a Yoko etching on the flip side.

Tracks

1: I LOVE YOU ON EARTH
2: I'M GOING AWAY SMILING

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YOKO ONO & JOHN ZORN - 'BLINK'

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• CHIM26 - 10"

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1 Song / length (3:20) A wild improvisation by two masters, released on a beautiful etched 10" vinyl record. Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of David Garland's Spinning On Air radio program, Yoko performed "Blink", an improvisation with saxophonist John Zorn, live on WNYC at the station's Greene Space on November 14, 2012. The duo have performed together on just a couple special occasions, and this is the only one to be recorded and released. • Limited edition of 1,000. • Beautifully pressed one-sided 10" vinyl with a Yoko etching on the flip side. • Packaged in a clear plastic sleeve. • Proceeds to benefit The Stone, John Zorn's non-profit New York performance space.

Tracks

1: BLINK

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THE GOASTT - 'LONG GONE EP'

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• CHIM025-10 - 10"

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Brand new 5 track EP from the duo of Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp-Muhl. Includes a cover of 'Long Gone' by Syd Barrett. 

Tracks

A1 Long Gone

Written-By ? Syd Barrett


A2 Dark Matter

Written-By ? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean Lennon


B1 Early Worm

Written-By ? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean Lennon


B2 Delilah

Written-By ? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean Lennon


B3 Brand New World Order

Written-By ? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean Lennon

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'Midnight Sun' inc. MOJO's Top 50 albums of 2014

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