NEW RELEASES WEEK #44 OCTOBER 29, 2013

OCTOBER 29, 2013 (WEEK #44)

1.    ARCADE FIRE-“REFLEKTOR” (2-CD) (10/29) 

2.    AUTECHRE-“L-EVENT” [EP] (10/28) 

3.    DANIEL AVERY-“DRONE LOGIC” (10/29) 

4.    BANABILA & MACHINEFABRIEK-“TRAVELOG” (10/29) (When Michel Banabila and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) finished their first collaborative album, it felt like they were just getting started. Surprised by how fluent and natural their collaboration went, it was obvious that this wasn't over yet. Banabila & Machinefabriek was quite an abstract affair. It's successor, Travelog, is lighter, more playful, and rhythmic. Some moments recall the mighty Tape, while others showcase motorik Krautrock influences and subtle hints of African rhythms. All in all, this album clearly radiates the joy of its creative process and sees Banabila and Machinefabriek on top of their game. I am a big Machinefabriek fan!)

5.    MACHINEFABRIEK & SANJA HARRIS-“MACHINE ROOMS” (10/29)

6.    MACHINEFABRIEK & MINUS PILOTS-“SIGNALS” (10/29) 

7.    BARDO POND-“PEACE ON VENUS” (10/29)

8.    BLUE RODEO-“IN OUR NATURE” (10/29) (IMPORT) 

9.    BOY & BEAR-“HARLEQUIN DREAM” (10/29) 

10. THE CHILLS-“SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL” (10/29)

11. CIRCUS DEVILS-“MY MIND HAS SEEN THE WHITE TRICK” (10/29) (2013 release, one of two albums released simultaneously by this band founded by Robert Pollard and completed by the Tobias brothers Todd and Tim. The trio continues to stretch their musical muscles on My Mind Has Seen the White Trick, a set of thematically unrelated pieces that at times ventures into jazzier territory. The terrain remains darkly mysterious, as always, with multiple layers to explore and reward the listener on repeated plays. Unlike the trio's albums of the past, the music was written to match the vocal melodies, instead of the other way around. It may be the birth of a new Circus Devils.)

12. CIRCUS DEVILS-“WHEN MACHINES ATTACK” (10/29) (2013 release, one of two albums released simultaneously by this band founded by Robert Pollard and completed by the Tobias brothers Todd and Tim. On When Machines Attack, the trio delivers a collection of eighteen sonic postcards from a probable future forecasting civilization's approaching doom and the opportunities to cash in. The cast of improbable characters on display includes the Controller who introduces the album, along with Johnny Dart, Bad Earthman, Doberman Wasp, The Brain of the Iron Fist, and more. A satisfyingly unsettling listen from top to bottom (or perhaps unsettlingly satisfying?), it's perfect for late-night car trips - driving alone, of course. Keep watching the skies!)

13. DEETRON-“MUSIC OVER MATTER” (10/29) 

14. THE DEVIL MAKES THREE-“I’M A STRANGER HERE” (10/29) 

15. KEVIN DEVINE-“BULLDOZER” (10/29) 

16. KEVIN DEVINE & THE GODDAMN BAND-“BUBBLEGUM” (10/15) 

17. DRIVIN’ ‘N’ CRYIN’-“SONGS FOR THE TURNTABLE” [EP #4] (10/29)

18. CHRIS FORSYTH-“SOLAR MOTEL” (10/29)

19. FUTURE OF THE LEFT-“HOW TO STOP YOUR BRAIN IN AN ACCIDENT” (10/20) 

20. THE GRAND OPENING-“DON’T LOOK BACK INTO THE DARKNESS” (10/29) (The one-man project The Grand Opening by the Stockholm multi-instrumentalist John Roger Olsson proves impressively on his fourth album that he is rightly counted among the finest representatives of beautiful and melancholy music. Being mentioned directly alongside American Music Club, Talk Talk, Red House Painters and The Blue Nile -- as happens in the British music press -- is certainly flattering. And these references are indeed helpful to give a rough impression. But their resemblance to The Grand Opening is mainly to do with the mood created by the music.)

21. LAUREL HALO-“CHANCE OF RAIN” (10/29) 

22. KAITO-“UNTIL THE END OF TIME” (10/29)

23. KID 606-“HAPPINESS” (10/29)

24. BRAD LANER-“NEAREST SUNS” (10/29)

25. LILY AND MADELEINE-“LILY AND MADELEINE” (10/29)

26. MINOR ALPS-“GET THERE” (10/29) (JULIANA HATFIELD & NADA SURF)

27. MOONFACE-“JULIA WITH BLUE JEANS ON” (10/29) 

28. THE NECKS-“OPEN” (10/29)

29. PHASE-“FRAMES OF REFERENCE” (10/29) (Frames of Reference is the some-12-years in the making debut album from UK-based techno producer Ø [Phase]. Best-known by his work on the Belgium-based Token Records, his style ranges from gritty minimal techno to Detroit-influenced material. His debut Module Overload was released on London's Lost/Cosmic records in 2000 and was followed by a string of productions for London's Surface/Inceptive Records and Ben Sims' Ingoma imprint. The move to Token came in 2007, and he shortly after began DJing professionally and has since performed at parties across the globe while becoming a regular guest at Berlin's techno Mecca, Berghain, performing alongside esteemed peers and supporters such as Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki, and Ben Klock. His continued works have seen constant support throughout the techno world and have featured in CD mixes by Dave Clarke, François Kevorkian, and Fumiya Tanaka, amongst others. Alongside his production work, Ø [Phase] is also a mastering engineer and on/off artwork designer. Starting out at London's prestigious Sony Music/Whitfield Street Studios, he has cut records for numerous underground dance acts as well as working on projects for mainstream artists. Now after a string of acclaimed releases on Token and a selection of remixes for the likes of Robert Hood, Mark Broom and Peter Van Hoesen comes Ø [Phase]'s debut album. Opening with the brooding and building swirl of "Binary Opposition (Process 3)," Ø [Phase] sets out his template of evolving, richly-textured atmospheres underpinned by shards of dark and light. "The Bwiti Initiate" revolves around a bouncing techno rhythm that could most certainly traverse the house/techno divide, while "Distracted" and "Misaligned" are the kind of unadulterated, pummeling, cavernous techno tracks that have made Lost such a party institution. Then we have tracks like the soft-beating "Just Another Dance," providing a lighter edge, embellished with warmth and strings and the thick, densely-woven tapestry of "Shadow Caster," which goes from experimental to dancefloor and back again with consummate ease. The off-kilter lilt of "Perplexed" drags us further into the dark before keys and a hint of a melody draw us back upwards for air while the fat, driving bass of "Dirtro II" and funkier-edged menace of "On the Edge" show a virtuoso producer at the top of his game. The closing introspection of "Self Deceit" wallows in subtle nuances before a mid-section synth and string intervention pulls us back from the brink before finally descending into the void.)

30. ROBINN-“MULTIPHONIA” (10/29) (Compost presents the exciting debut album from Robinn, a native Frenchmen now based in London. Multiphonia delivers a bass-heavy sound that sits somewhere between Four Tet, Bonobo, Mount Kimbie, post-dubstep, and electronic reggae. Featuring the vocals of Nathaniel Pearn aka Natural Self.)

31. RUSSIAN CIRCLES-“MEMORIAL” (10/29) 

32. ULRICH SCHNAUSS & MARK PETERS-“TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY” (10/29) (Electronic duo Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters (of the band Engineers) return with a second collaborative album titled Tomorrow Is Another Day, released by Bureau B. This second project offers a sublime exploration into their signature expressionistic landscapes while exploring the potential of a collaborative model in which Schnauss' keyboards and Peters' guitar work together in juxtaposition.)

33. SONGDOG-“LAST ORDERS AT HARRY’S BAR” (10/7) 

34. THE SOUNDS-“WEEKEND” (10/29)

35. JOEY SWEENEY-“LONG HAIR” (10/29) (FORMERLY OF THE TROUBLE WITH SWEENEY)

36. JOHN TALABOT-“DJ-KICKS” (10/29)

37. MARIA TAYLOR-“SOMETHING ABOUT KNOWING” (10/29)

38. TEETH OF THE SEA-“MASTER” (10/29) (Master, the long-awaited and devastating third album from TEETH OF THE SEA is an unprecedented junket into mind-melting abstraction and neon-drenched revelation. Nearly three years have passed since the band released Your Mercury, their transcendent second album, and the four-piece have kept very busy during this period--they've gigged constantly, sharing stages with the likes of Goat, Circle, British Sea Power, Trans Am, and Parts And Labor, collaborating live with Wire and Esben & The Witch, and taking their incendiary barrage to festivals like Roadburn, Green Man, Supersonic, Supernormal, and Standon Calling. Yet the evolution of their third album was most dramatically affected by two specially-commissioned soundtrack projects they embarked on--at Branchage Film Festival in Jersey, the band performed "Reaper," a new live score to a re-interpretation of Neil Marshall's film Doomsday, and a year later, at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight, they unveiled Beyond the Transfinite, a tribute to Kubrick's 2001. In this period, the band's experimental instincts have continued to extend in a myriad directions, and while Master nods to the established Teeth of the Sea touchstones of Throbbing Gristle, Goblin, Heldon, Angelo Badalamenti, and Slayer, recent work by the likes of Byetone, Pete Swanson, Raime, Powell and Prurient, alongside a long-standing fixation on the disco stylings of Patrick Cowley and Giorgio Moroder, have helped to mark out a gritty, confrontational path whereby abrasive and sparkling electronic textures do battle with waves of incandescent noise and a merciless beat-driven imperative to form a powerful alchemical charge.)

39. THIS WILL DESTROY YOU-“LIVE IN ICELAND” (10/29)

40. MIKA VAINIO & JOACHIM NORDWALL-“MONSTRANCE” (10/29) (Mika Vainio was a member of the legendary minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Emerging from the Finnish industrial and rave music scene in the early '90s, they became one of the most important electronic music acts. Vainio's solo work goes from abstract drone to minimal and experimental techno, under his own name or as Ø for labels like Touch, Raster Noton, Sähkö, and Editions Mego. He has worked with Alan Vega, Keiji Haino, and many others. His music is always extremely physical and present. Mika Vainio lives and works in Berlin. Joachim Nordwall has run the iDEAL Recordings label since 1998, releasing intense electronic music of various kinds and organizing club nights and festivals around the globe. He started making electronic music as a teenager in the late '80s in the psychedelic drone duo Alvars Orkester (Ash International), drifted off to sweaty avant garde punk rock with Kid Commando in the late '90s and formed the ritual rock and electronic drone group The Skull Defekts in 2005. He is also recording solo works under his own name and works with Mats Gustafsson, The Gagmen (with Aaron Dilloway and Nate Young), Mark Wastell, and The Sons Of God. Nordwall is based in Stockholm. Monstrance is their first album together and consists of drone works and pulsating electronic minimalism, but also guitar, acoustic elements, organs, and metal percussion. It was recorded in Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin studio during an intense session in early summer of 2010. Monstrance is a place where Vainio's and Nordwall's backgrounds as musicians and composers meet, and something new and extremely powerful is born. Something deep, raw, and direct. Mika Vainio (electric guitar, processing, metallic percussion) and Joachim Nordwall (electronics, electric bass guitar, metal objects, Hammond organ, vibraphone).

41. VATICAN SHADOW-“REMEMBER YOUR BLACK DAY” (10/29) (Remember Your Black Day is the debut album proper from VATICAN SHADOW, the first material conceived and produced as a full-length by DOMINICK FERNOW  (COLD CAVE) for the project following almost a dozen tapes (mostly released on Hospital Productions) and vinyl editions (released by the likes of Blackest Ever Black, Modern Love, and Type) over the last three years. None of the eight tracks included have been released before on any other format. At a time when the scene is saturated with "noise techno," the album is almost celebratory by contrast, balancing caustic licks of distortion and oppressive bass with cleanly mixed synth tones and ricocheting claps in a shell-shocked, surreal soundsphere. With production assistance from JUAN MENDEZ (SILENT SERVANT), the album includes the most direct and propulsive Vatican Shadow material yet, continuing an evolutionary shift away from the complex, collage-based narrative of those cassette releases into more visibly direct contact with the listener. There is a functional connection to dance music here, honing in on the human element embedded within a subject matter so fraught with inhumanity.)

42. WHITE DENIM-“CORSICANA LEMONADE” (10/29)

43. WIDOWSPEAK-“THE SWAMPS” (10/29)

44. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“LAURENT GARNIER: FRENCH DRESSING MIX” (10/29) 

45. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“LIVITY SOUND” (2-CD LABEL COMPILATION FEATURING PEVERELIST, KOWTON & ASUSU) (10/29) 

46. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“SMM: OPIATE” (FROM GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL RECORDS) (10/29)  SMM: Opiate is the second release in Ghostly's SMM series, which is an ongoing exploration of the evocative possibilities of sound, with a focus classical minimalism, electronic and drone composition, film soundtracks, and fragile imaginary landscapes. Opiate is the follow-up to 2011's SMM: Context, and as with that record, it's a carefully chosen selection of music, compiled over some two years from around the world.

NEW RELEASES WEEK #43 OCTOBER 22, 2013

OCTOBER 22, 2013 (WEEK #43)

1.    ACTIVE CHILD-“RAPOR” [EP] (10/22) 

2.    AFI-“BURIALS” (10/22) 

3.    COURTNEY BARNETT-“THE DOUBLE EP: A SEA OF SPLIT PEAS” (10/15) 

4.    BEST COAST-“FADE AWAY” [EP] (10/22) 

5.    THE BISHOPS-“ALL LOST TIME” (10/21) 

6.    BLACK HEARTED BROTHER (FEATURING NEAL HALSTEAD OF MOJAVE 3 & SLOWDIVE!)-“STARS ARE OUR HOME” (10/22) [Brilliant space-rock/shoegaze/post-everything album from this new group that features Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3), Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Seefeel) and Nick Holton (Holton's Opulent Oog). They've all worked together for years on various projects and now team up to give us wide-ranging double-LP that could only come from a band with this much talent and experience. A gorgeously-textured yet experimental album, it’s rich tapestry of sound creates an almost synaesthesic experience, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia. On Slumberland Records]

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7.    THE BLACK HOLLIES-“SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE AND NOWHERE” (10/22)

8.    THE CAN’T TELLS-“NO TELEVISION” (10/22) 

9.    LAURA CANTRELL-“NO WAY THERE FROM HERE” (10/22) (IMPORT) 

10. CFCF-“OUTSIDE” (10/22) 

11. CROOKS ON TAPE-“FINGERPRINT” (10/22) (2013 debut album from the Indie trio. Crooks on Tape is John Schmersal (Enon, Brainiac), Rick Lee (Enon, Skeleton Key, Butter 08), and Joey Galvan. The unscripted band was born out of a simple notion: convene, improvise, and record every moment.)

12. BRETT DENNEN-“SMOKE AND MIRRORS” (10/22)

13. DOSH-“MILK MONEY” (10/22)

14. DRESSES-“SUN SHY” (10/22)

15. DUBCON-“U.F.O. PON DI GULLYSIDE” (FEATURING CEVIN KEY OF SKINNY PUPPY & RYAN MOORE OF LEGENDARY PINK DOTS!) (10/22)

16. THE FEELING-“BOY CRIED WOLF” (10/22) 

17. RYAN HEMSWORTH-“GULT TRIPS” (10/22) 

18. THE MISSION UK-“SILVER” (25^TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION COLLECTION) (2-CD / 1-LIVE DVD) (10/22) 

19. MORRISSEY-“LIVE 25” (DVD FROM HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT) (10/22) 

20. VAN MORRISSON-“MOONDANCE” (DELUXE EDITION 4-CD/1-SURROUND SOUND AUDIO DISC) (10/22)

21. NOVELLER-“NO DREAMS” (10/22)

22. POLICA-“SHULAMITH” (10/22) 

23. SPINDRIFT-“GHOST OF THE WEST” (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) (10/22)

24. STARGAZER LILLIES-“WE ARE THE DREAMERS” (10/22)

25. DONNA SUMMER-“LOVE TO LOVE YOU DONNA” (REMIX ALBUM) (10/22)

26. TEARS FOR FEARS-“THE HURTING” (30^TH ANNIVERSARY 2-CD DELUXE EDITION) (10/22)

27. LINDA THOMPSON-“WON’T BE LONG NOW” (10/22)

28. THE WATERBOYS-“FISHERMAN’S BOX” (7-CD BOX SET) (10/22)

NEW RELEASES WEEK #42 OCTOBER 15, 2013

OCTOBER 15, 2013 (WEEK #42)

1.    THE AVETT BROTHERS-“MAGPIE AND THE DANDELION” (DELUXE EDITION) (10/15) 

2.    BAILTER SPACE-“TRININE” (10/15) 

3.    BLOC PARTY-“TAPES” (MIXED BY KELE) (10/15)

4.    BOARDWALK-“BOARDWALK” (10/15)

5.    CAVE-“THREACE” (10/15)

6.    COLD CAVE-“NAUSEA, THE EARTH AND ME B/W DON’T BLOW UP THE MOON & BEATEN 1979” (SINGLE) (10/15) 

7.    CONNECTIONS-“BODY LANGUAGE” (10/15) 

8.    CRYSTAL ANTLERS-“NOTHING IS REAL” (10/15)

9.    CULTS-“STATIC” (10/15)

10. DEEPCHORD-“20 ELECTROSTATIC SOUNDFIELDS” (10/15) 

11. KEVIN DEVINE-“BULLDOZER” (10/15) 

12. THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN-“UNCANNEY VALLEY” (10/15) 

13. FOUR TET-“BEAUTIFUL REWIND” (10/15)

14. JOHN FOXX & THE MATHS-“RHAPSODY” (10/15)

15. GROUP RHODA-“12^TH HOUSE” (10/15)

16. THE HARMED BROTHERS-“BETTER DAYS” (10/15)

17. DAVE HAUSE-“DEVOUR” (10/15) 

18. THE HEAD AND THE HEART-“LET’S BE STILL” (10/15) 

19. HEAVENLY BEAT-“PROMINENCE” (10/15) (BEACH FOSSILS BASSIST) 

20. TIM HECKER-“VIRGINS” (10/15)

21. MATT KIVEL-“DOUBLE EXPOSURE” (10/15)

22. KWES-“ILP” (10/15)

23. LA LUZ-“IT’S ALIVE” (10/15)

24. LUCIUS-“WILDEWOMAN” (10/15)

25. LUCRECIA DALT-“SYZYGY” (10/15)

26. CASS MCCOMBS-“BIG WHEEL AND OTHERS” (2-CD) (10/15) 

27. THE MEN-“CAMPFIRE SONGS” [EP] (10/15) 

28. WYMOND MILES-“CUT YOURSELF FREE” (10/15)

29. MORCHEEBA-“HEAD UP HIGH” (10/15) 

30. MY CAT IS AN ALIEN WITH NELS CLINE-“OCEAN ABOVE YOUR HEADS” (10/15)

31. THE NATIONAL RIFLE-“ALMOST ENDLESS” (10/15) 

32. NOBUNNY-“SECRET SONGS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE EAR MIRROR” (10/15) 

33. GARY NUMAN-“SPLINTER (SONGS FROM A BROKEN MIND)” (10/15)

34. THE ORB-“HISTORY OF THE FUTURE” (10/15)

35. OVAL-“VOA” (10/15) 

36. PATRICK PARK-“WE FALL OUT OF TOUCH” [EP] (10/15)

37. PEARL JAM-“LIGHTNING BOLT” (10/15) 

38. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF-“BUILD A WORLD” [EP] (10/15) 

39. PREFAB SPROUT-“CRIMSON / RED” (10/15) 

40. DARREN SYLVESTER-“OFF BY HEART” (10/15) 

41. LUKE TEMPLE-“GOOD MOOD FOOL” (10/15) 

42. LINDA THOMPSON-“WON’T BE LONG NOW” (10/15)

43. TINDERSTICKS-“ACROSS SIX LEAP YEARS” (10/11) (REMAKES OF 10 OF THEIR OWN SONGS)

44. TOAD THE WET SPROCKET-“NEW CONSTELLATION” (DELUXE EDITION) (7/2) 

45. ULTRAMARINE-“THIS TIME LAST YEAR” (10/15)

46. DEAN WAREHAM-“EMANCIPATED HEARTS WITH AN APPENDIX OF SONGS” (10/15) (2013 solo release from the former leader of Galaxie 500 and Luna as well as half of Indie duo Dean & Britta. Emancipated Hearts was recorded with Jason Quever of Papercuts at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco and as well as Britta, features Anthony LaMarca and Gillian Rivers.)

47. THE WATERBOYS-“FISHERMAN’S BOX” (7-CD BOX SET) (10/22)

48. JONATHAN WILSON-“FANFARE” (10/15) 

NEW RELEASES WEEK #41 OCTOBER 8, 2013

OCTOBER 8, 2013 (WEEK #41)

1.    ALEX BARCK-“REUNION” (10/8) 

2.    BVDUB & LOSCIL-“EREBUS” (10/8)

3.    CAGE THE ELEPHANT-“MELOPHOBIA” (10/8)

4.    ANNA CALVI-“ONE BREATH” (10/8)

5.    FELIX CARTAL-“PAST PRESENT FELIX” [EP] (10/8) 

6.    DARKSIDE-“PSYCHIC” (10/8) (THIS IS A NICOLAS JAAR PROJECT) 

7.    DALE EARNHARDT JR JR-“THE SPEED OF THINGS” (10/8) 

8.    TONY DEKKER (FROM GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS)-“PRAYER OF THE WOODS” (10/8) (As frontman for Canadian indie favorites Great Lake Swimmers, Tony Dekker has spent the last decade entrancing listeners with his unforgettable voice and compelling songwriting. Prior to the sixth studio album from the band, Dekker completed this special solo acoustic album called Prayer Of The Woods.)

9.    DUSKY-“NOBODY ELSE” [EP] (10/8) 

10. ECHOSMITH-“TALKING DREAMS” (DELUXE EDITION) (10/8) 

11. THE FRATELLIS-“WE NEED MEDICINE” (10/8)

12. FROG EYES-“CAREY’S COLD SPRING” (10/8) 

13. PETER GABRIEL-“AND I’LL SCRATCH YOURS” (10/8) 

14. GLASSER-“INTERIORS” (10/8)

15. THE GRAND OPENING-“DON’T LOOK BACK INTO THE DARKNESS” (10/8)

16. PATTY GRIFFIN-“SILVER BELL” (10/8)

17. HIS CLANCYNESS-“VICIOUS” (10/8)

18. HUERCO S-“COLONIAL PATTERNS” (10/8)

19. IN THE COUNTRY-“SUNSET SUNRISE” (10/8) 

20. TIM KASHER-“ADULT FILM” (10/8) 

21. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION-“FOLLY” (10/8) (IMPORT) (2013 release from the British Alt-Rock trio, their first studio album since Cowboys And Aliens (1994). In Summer 2011 Patrick Fitzgerald asked Julian Swales whether he would like to work on some new songs together. Dan Goodwin was invited to join in the fun and eventually 10 songs loomed out of the mist. 10 new songs that sound not as a pastiche of a band 20 years on but, as Julian puts it, are "like a new version sucked through time and space.")

22. MARK LANEGAN / MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD / WARPAINT-“CRYSTALISED” (COVER OF THE XX) (MAXI SINGLE W/ 6 TRACKS) (10/8)

23. AMOS LEE-“MOUNTAINS OF SORROW, RIVERS OF SONG” (DELUXE EDITION) (10/8) 

24. LISSIE-“BACK TO FOREVER” (10/8) 

25. MANIC STREET PREACHERS-“SHOW ME THE WONDER” [EP] (10/8) 

26. MARCONI UNION-“ANOMIC” W/ JAH WOBBLE (10/8) 

27. SCOTT MILLER-“BIG BIG WORLD” (10/8) (BIG BIG WORLD was recorded, mixed and produced by Doug Lancio, with Lancio and Miller playing the parts of what would normally have been Miller's backing band, The Commonwealth. Miller and Lancio met back in 2007 when Scott opened for Patty Griffin's CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH tour while Doug was bandleader and playing guitar for Griffin. The two struck up a friendship and started working on Miller's 2009 release FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, but when Lancio took the gig playing guitar for John Hiatt, the record was finished with producer Michael Webb. Ever since Steve Earle declared Miller a ''world class'' songwriter - signing him and his former band The V-Roys to his record label E-Squared, Miller has been known as a writer's writer. Lancio's trademark guitar style has enhanced recent recordings by Holly Williams, Patty Griffin and Matraca Berg and along with his full time gig with Hiatt, has earned him a nomination as The Americana Music Association's ''Instrumentalist of the Year.'' Working and co-writing with Doug Lancio might prove to be one of Miller's smartest moves yet. The two have made a big, big record--a collaboration that proves Scott Miller hasn't stopped growing in this BIG BIG WORLD.)

28. MOMUS-“BAMBI” (10/8) 

29. NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB-“NYPC” (10/8) 

30. OF MONTREAL-“LOUSY WITH SYLVIANBRIAR” (10/8) 

31. LINDI ORTEGA-“TIN STAR” (10/8) 

32. PAPA-“TENDER MADNESS” (10/8)

33. PARQUET COURTS-“TALLY ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU BROKE” [EP] (10/8) 

34. PELICAN-“FOREVER BECOMING” (10/8) 

35. PHANTOGRAM-“PHANTOGRAM” [EP] (10/8) 

36. PINS-“GIRLS LIKE US” (10/8) 

37. PROPAGANDA-“BEST OF” (IMPORT) (10/8)

38. LEE RANALDO AND THE DUST-“LAST NIGHT ON EARTH” (10/8) 

39. ST. LUCIA-“WHEN THE NIGHT” (10/8) 

40. THE SHAKING SENSATIONS-“START STOP WORRYING” (10/8) 

41. SLUT-“ALIENATION” (10/8) 

42. THE STRYPES-“SNAPSHOT” (10/8) 

43. TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN-“SWAY” (10/8) 

44. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB-“CHANGING OF THE SEASONS” [EP] (10/8)

45. WE ARE WOLVES-“LA MORT POP CLUB” (10/8) 

46. WILD CHILD-“THE RUNAROUND” (10/6)

47. WOLF ALICE-“FLUFFY” (SINGLE) (10/6) + “BROS” (SINGLE) (10/6) 

NEW RELEASES WEEK #40 OCTOBER 1, 2013

OCTOBER 1, 2013 (WEEK #40)

1.    BAILTER SPACE-“TRININE” (10/1)

2.    BLITZEN TRAPPER-“VII” (10/1)

3.    THE BLOW-“THE BLOW” (10/1)

4.    BASIA BULAT-“TALL TALL SHADOW” (10/1) 

5.    CAMERA-“SYSTEM SOLAIRE” [EP] (10/1) 

6.    DANNY AND THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD-“STAY TRUE” (10/1) 

7.    DEEP DARK WOODS-“JUBILEE” (10/1)

8.    THE FIELD-“CUPID’S HEAD” (10/1) 

9.    JOHNNY FLYNN-“COUNTRY MILE” (10/1) 

10. THE FUZZ-“FUZZ” (10/1) (2013 from this Alt-Rock trio featuring Ty Segall (drums/vocals), Charlie Moothart (guitar/vocals) and Roland Cosio (bass). They're heavy rock lifers - three California-bred dudes who have been refining their riffs and getting weird together since high school (which wasn't that long ago, actually). Fuzz was formed a couple years ago as a collaboration between Segall and Moothart, but only recently did the pair have sufficient time to guide the band out of side-project limbo and into a recording studio. The mood is not light. The songs project a state of perpetual paranoia and eroding mental health. And as it should be, you know? It's a record for the burners.

11. HAIM-“DAYS ARE GONE” (10/1) 

12. JOAN JETT & THE BLACKEARTS-“UNVARNISHED” (DELUXE EDITION) (10/1) 

13. LORDE-“PURE HEROINE” (10/1) 

14. MACHINEDRUM-“VAPOR CITY” (10/1)

15. MELT BANANA-“FETCH” (10/1) 

16. MOBY-“INNOCENTS” (10/1)

17. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE-“RECONCILIATION” (10/1) 

18. NO CEREMONY-“NO CEREMONY” (10/1)

19. ONEOHTRIX POIONT NEVER-“R PLUS SEVEN” (10/1) 

20. YOKO ONO & PLASTIC ONO BAND-“TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL” (10/1) 

21. THE PARSON RED HEADS-“ORB WEAVER” (10/1)

22. POLVO-“SIBERIA” (10/1)

23. QUASI-“MOLE CITY” (10/1)

24. THE SADIES-“INTERNAL SOUNDS” (10/1) 

25. SOFT LIGHTING-“PORTRAITS” (10/1) 

26. SUSANNA AND ENSEMBLE NEON-“THE FORESTER” (10/1) (Barely one year after the Rune Grammofon-release of critically-acclaimed Wild Dog (SONATA 004LP), Susanna returns with a new album, released on her own label SusannaSonata. Susanna is known for both her own songwriting, with songs such as "Believer" and her huge range of highly personal interpretations of other people's songs. She is an intensely arresting performer; holding audiences captive with her hypnotizing vocal timbre and the powerful, all-consuming sound of her band, her concerts are truly magical. Active for more than a decade, through eight albums so far as Susanna And The Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna Wallumrød, the Oslo-based artist has recently been taking great steps towards greater independence and autonomy, while increasing the range of her considerable talents as a songwriter, vocal interpreter and producer. Combining the antique notes of the Baroque theorbo, woodwinds and strings, and Susanna's sparse piano, The Forester -- a co-production with the Norwegian Ensemble neoN -- features Susanna's strongest songwriting to date. The Forester began to take shape when composers Julian Skar and Jan Martin Smørdal requested some material from her to arrange for the Norwegian contemporary music group Ensemble neoN. Picking from new tracks and several already released songs, the composers made new arrangements suited to the eight-piece group, and extended the title-track into a 15-minute, three-part suite in which dark woods shroud a wanderer in a symbolic landscape of searching and loss. Being lost, or deliberately straying from the chosen path, are recurring themes on The Forester, whose subject matter ranges from disturbing natural environments to alien visitors, painted on an eerily exquisite canvas that recalls Mark Hollis, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush and Claude Debussy, while remaining uniquely Susanna's soundworld. Recorded entirely live in one single, emotionally-intense day at Oslo's legendary Rainbow Studio, produced by Deathprod and Susanna and engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug.)

27. THOSE DARLINS-“BLUR THE LINE” (10/1)

28. TURIN BRAKES-“WE WERE HERE” (10/1)

29. CLAUDE VONSTROKE-“URBAN ANIMAL” (10/1)

30. YUCK-“GLOW & BEHOLD” (10/1) 

31. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“CRUCIBLE: THE SONGS OF HUNTERS & COLLECTORS” (A TRIBUTE) (10/1) LIMITED EDITION DIGIPAK : New 2013 tribute featuring 15 tunes reworked by Eddie Vedder, Neil Finn, Paul Kelly, Matt Corby, Living End , Abbe May & others + a 'greatest hits' disc of 14 original Hunters & Collectors classics + a remix by The Avalanches.