JACK WHITE - 'CONNECTED BY LOVE B/W RESPECT COMMANDER'

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• TMR541 - 7"

  813547025470

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The first single from the forthcoming Jack White 2018 full-length album on Columbia/XL. 

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1. Connected By Love
2. Respect Commander

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BRENDAN BENSON - 'HALF A BOY (AND HALF A MAN)'

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• TMR534 - 7"

  813547025609

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Described by Clash Music as “one of America’s best songwriters”, Brendan Benson has consistently unfurled unparalleled melodies and lyrics in his acclaimed career. Over twenty years in, he’s still wowing folks and “Half a Boy, Half a Man” is a powerful dollop of power chords wrapped into a tale of split personalities. Backed with an astute cover of Jules Shear’s “Big Kid Face” from his 1989 album “The Third Party” in which Benson helps shine a light on this oft-overlooked but seminal songwriter. Best known as half of the songwriting team at the heart of the Raconteurs (along with Jack White) Brendan Benson’s career has never slowed across six solo albums, two Raconteurs full-lengths, countless collaborations and placements and a seat as one of the most respected and reliable writer, performers, producer, engineer and musical jack-of-all-trades.

Tracks

A1. Half a Boy (And Half a Man)
B1. Big Kid Face

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TRES OUI - 'POISED TO FLOURISH'

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• SHR196 - LP

  759718119619

• SHR196CD - CD

  759718119626

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After the band Literature put out 2014’s Chorus on Slumberland Records, lead singer/guitarist Nate Cardaci began to write songs that had similar energy, but required a fresh approach. To complete the songs, he teamed up with long time friend and original Literature member, Steven Garcia. After taking time to focus on their respective projects for a while, the two recruited Literature bassist Seth Whaland, and synth player / Waterloo Records employee Ian Jensen to complete the lineup for Trés Oui, and began playing shows around Austin in early 2016. The addition of drummer Doran Rawlinson on a 12-inch released on Square Of Opposition and Austin Town Hall Records garnered rave reviews and saw the band touring all of the USA, including stops at SXSW and Athens Popfest. On their debut record, Poised To Flourish, the band further defines their brand of stately pop music that wouldn’t be out of place on Postcard or Factory Records—that doesn’t make them a backward-looking nostalgia act. Check out the envelopes of noise that peer out from the corners of “Song 4 U,” the King Tubby-dub underlining “Alex To The Right,” and the horns that accentuate the ennui of “One Track” to hear the band pushing the boundaries of dream pop. This is the rare debut record by a band fully in control of their faculties without losing any of the fire and passion of discovery of being in a new band.

Tracks

1. Looking For 2. Red Wine & Dry Ice 3. Off The Rails 4. One Track 5. Song 4 U 6. S?ance 7. Shy 8. Alex To The Right 9. Sunday?s Crowd 10. Wash Away

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THE OCTOPUS PROJECT - 'HELLO AVALANCHE, 11TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION'

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• BOO1223 - 2xLPs

  647603399614

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Welcome to 2018 everyone—the year that will finally bring flying cars, robot butlers and a telepathy-based internet. It’s been 11 years since the release of The Octopus Project’s third album and perennial fan-favorite Hello Avalanche. As such, it felt appropriate to re-release the record in a deluxe incarnation—newly remastered, visually redesigned, and pressed on two 180-gram LPs in a gatefold sleeve. That second LP contains 2009’s Golden Beds EP (9th anniversary alert!) and a full side of never-before-heard demos from that era, giving fans a look into an expanded Avalanche universe for the first time. This album represented a bold step forward musically and artistically for the band. With ragged, furious distorted guitars at one end of the spectrum and the pure, luminescent tones of the Theremin at the other, it mines a staggering variety of sound (via strings, synthesizers, drums, glockenspiel, trombones, etc.), filling the songs with brilliant contrasting colors and cascading waves of sonic bliss. While the band’s previous records were mainly self-produced, for this outing they wanted to achieve the perfect blend between highend studio trickery and lo-fi home experimentation. It was recorded and co-produced by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, The Gossip) at rural Bear Creek Studio outside Seattle in February, 2007, and mixed in various sessions by the band, Hadlock and Erik Wofford (Voxtrot, Explosions In The Sky). As the band continues to forge ahead into the telepathic-flyingrobot future, exploring new sound worlds with every album, take a look back to this major turning point in their ever-expanding body of work.

Tracks

1. Snow Tip Cap Mountain 2. Truck 3. Bees Bein? Strugglin? 4. An Evening with Rthrtha 5. Black Blizzard/Red Umbrella 6. Upmann 7. Mmaj 8. I Saw The Bright Shinies 9. Ghost Moves 10. Vanishing Lessons 11. Exploding Snowhorse 12. Loud Murmuring 13. Queen 14. Wet Gold 15. Moon Boil 16. Rorol 17. Wood Trumpet 18. Half A Nice Day 19. Liztape 20. Truck (Practice) 21. LEG 22. Beehive?s Dream 23. Wameu! 24. It?s Hard To Be Smart 25. Boo Best 26. Green House 27. That?s The Bird Mystery 28. Singles Chart 29. Sneak Out 30. The Future

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REFRIGERATOR - 'HIGH DESERT LOWS'

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• SHR194 - LP

  759718119411

• SHR194CD - CD

  759718119428

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Refrigerator’s eleventh full length record High Desert Lows was recorded over a week in Omaha, Nebraska. Produced by Simon Joyner (who plays and sings on a number of songs on the record, along with members of his Ghosts band), the new record calls out to the more pastoral sounds of their Comedy Minus One album, with viola, cello, vibes, slide guitar and wurlitzer dotting the edges of nearly every song, a stark contrast to the loud squall of preceding record Temple City. The album begins with a song penned by drummer Chris Jones, bending to Barstow, and then bleeds into songs that skirt a number of counties from Apple Valley to Victorville before closing with a minor chamber orchestra and a vocalist shutting down the town. Twenty-seven years on, with all the original members (plus Daniel Brodo who joined in 1995), the band is still improvising and communicating without bowing to commerce.

Tracks

1. High Desert Lows 2. Cardboard Death Elevator 3. Save For Baltimore 4. World Of Warcraft 5. Break Up The Band 6. Twice As Less 7. Mission & Garey 8. Only You Will Do 9. The Maid 10. Bonnie Pointer 11. The Shelter Of Your Arms

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MIND SPIDERS - 'FURIES'

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• ZZZ152 - LP

  881970015214

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“The ‘Furies ’ are the ancient Greek Gods of vengeance and violence,” says Mark Ryan of the title of his latest album. “The Furies were tamed,” he continues, “but in my story, they are waking up and the ancient chaotic ways are resurfacing.”Ryan (The Marked Men,High Tension Wires,Radioactivity ), alongside Peter Salisbury (Baptist Generals) on synth and Mike Throneberry (The Marked Men) on drums, lead this modernistic, machine-like and cinematic version of the story of the Furies and have churned out something furious in return; this is their most electronic album yet . Gone are any notions of Ryan’s former project the Marked Men and its style of winningly bombastic garage-pop. Since 2012’s Meltdown Mind Spiders have been perfecting an aggressive, relentless, frenetic and melodic style of punk that is a long, dark shadow of DEVO but carries something much more sinister in its jaws as it slinks its way through the ears, illustrated by their lone, intensified cover of Grauzone’s 1980 hit, “Eisbaer.” It’s a sound for the new dark ages , emboldened by urgency and sped along by some good old fashioned panic. 

Tracks

1 Outside
2. Never Like That
3.Ice Bear
4.Deserve
5.Shock And Repeat
6.Furies
7.No Ground
8.August

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LISTENER - 'BEING EMPTY: BEING FILLED'

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• SOS171 - CD

  4260016921713

• SOS170 - LP

  4260016921706

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If you want to make it easy, the basic theme of the new, fourth album "Being Empty: Being Filled" could be the reference to all the outstanding personalities being presented on it. But it's not that easy, of course. Listener have become louder, the guitars more rocking, sometimes more angry. Kris hits the drums as if there is no tomorrow. But this is just the musical side. The other is poetry and Dan sings, or should we say, talks, about life, with its edges, with the big moments, the many questions and the many failures, like no other singer in this world. No pathos, no false theatricality obscures the view of the content of the narrative. This way Dan recounts his stories, which may be our stories, makes Listener by a long way one of the most interesting bands of today. It is these analogies that best describe our time and let us understand them. This pointing out the contradictions without lifting your finger. This warmth, which in the end still gives hope, makes their music unique.

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UK TOUR: 05.03.2018 Brighton (UK) - The Prince Albert
06.03.2018 Leeds (UK) - Brudenell Social Club
07.03.2018 Belfast (UK) - Voodoo
08.03.2018 Dublin (IE) - Gypsy Rose
09.03.2018 Bristol (UK) - The Louisiana
10.03.2018 London (UK) - Oslo

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