MAY 20, 2014 (WEEK
# 21)
1.
ABLEBODY-“AFTER
HOURS B/W LOSE YOUR HEAD” (SINGLE) (5/20)
2.
BISHOPS GREEN-“PRESSURE” (5/20)
3.
BLONDIE-“4(0) EVER: GREATEST HITS DELUXE
REDUX / GHOSTS OF DOWNLOAD” (2-CD) (5/20)
4.
BO NINGEN-“III” (5/20)
5.
HALEY BONAR-“LAST WAR” (5/20)
6.
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE-“REVELATION”
(5/20)
7.
ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT-“WILD OUTFIT”
(5/20)
8.
CFCF-“OUTSIDERS”
[EP] (5/20)
9.
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE-“TIGHTROPE” (5/20)
10. CHERRY
GHOST-“HERD RUNNERS” (5/19)
11. TANYA DONELLY-“SWAN SONG
SERIES VOL. 5” (5/20)
12. DRAGGING
AN OX THROUGH WATER-“PANIC SENTRY” (5/20) (Songwriter, artist, radical thinker and noisemaker Brian Mumford has
been recording as Dragging an Ox Through Water for almost 10 years. His
recordings and performances have always been alternatingly heart-wrenchingly
beautiful and mind-bendingly challenging - his gentle voice and soft,
finger-style guitar locked in dialogue with squeals of noise and distortion
from an impressive army of hand-built electronics. Panic Sentry is simultaneously his most stripped down and most
ambitious record to date, peeling away many of his trademark layers of white
noise, analog distortion, and chaos. What emerges are nine fragile and
masterfully crafted songs - each one a ship-in-a-bottle, perpetually in danger,
but never foundering in an ocean of noise. Mumford is joined on this album by
long-time collaborators Tara Jane O'Neil and Mary Sutton.)
13. THE
DUHKS-“BEYOND THE BLUE” (5/20)
14. DZ
DEATHRAYS-“BLACK RAT” (5/20)
15. EMBRACE-“EMBRACE
5” (5/13)
16. FKA
TWIGS-“EP2” (5/20)
17. MICAH
P HINSON-“MICAH P. HINSON AND THE NOTHING” (5/13)
18. JOLIE
HOLLAND-“WINE DARK SEA” (5/20)
19. CARL
HULTRGREN-“TOMORROW” (5/20) (It finally happened! In year 21 of
the two of us making and releasing music, the year our own record label becasme
old enough to drink, CARL (WINDY & CARL) is releasing his first ever solo
album. Tomorrow is a culmination of songs he recorded after moving into a new
home in early 2011. The change in atmosphere brought about a relaxed and
playful side to Carl's compositions and cued an even more relaxed side of him.
The music on Tomorrow is a showcase of Carl's ability to capture both the
dawning of the morning sun and a beautiful ride on country roads. Uplifting and
full of hope, this record is full of a new found confidence. Have no fear--his
gorgeous and immediately recognizable tone is still present and on full
display! But he adds some new dimensions to recording in pieces like
"Hidden" which are looping electronics and quasi industrial
percussion. This release, Blue Flea 21, is available on limited CD--housed in a
lovely hand letter press sleeve by Interrobang Press--or on double LP--with one
record being orange and one being black. Two thick slabs of vinyl in a heavy
gatefold sleeve! Either format comes with a download for an additional 45
minutes of music, so all together you get 2 hours of Carl's new recordings! CD
edition of 350, LP edition of 500. ("A change
of scenery can change a person. It reshapes their mind, shifts emotions, and
brings forth new modes of creation. A new house did just that for Carl
Hultgren. Tomorrow was started in 2011, shortly after moving to a new
neighborhood and into an enchanting 1930s Art Deco inspired Tudor. Originally
known as The Elmdale, its casement windows and recessed plaster cove ceilings
combined to reshape Carl's thoughts and views. Surrounded by beautiful old
trees and shimmering sunlight, Carl started working. Tomorrow's tracks are a
manifestations of tranquility and joy, of an assuredness in forward motion. It
is instantly apparent to any long time listener of Windy and Carl that these
new tracks show a marked change from the 20 years of dense guitar drones and
walls of sound the duo have released. Carl's first solo album is instead a
lighter, more stripped down affair -- the tracks showcasing his new found
humility and confidence. There are touchstones - in tracks like 'No Other' and
'As Sure As' the cascading guitars hint at LC era Durutti Column, in 'Spirits'
you can hear a nod to early 4AD Dif Juz in all its reverb and atmosphere, while
'In This Land' has a Gene Clark psychedelic country twang. Tomorrow is not all
about a love for guitars - 'Hidden' brings together glimpses of Wolfgang
Voigt's Gas project with the industrial percussion of Einsturzende Neubauten's
Perpetuum Mobile. A change of scenery has meant the freedom to explore new
lands and be completely comfortable in them. Keyboards and found sounds sit
very contentedly next to airy guitar compositions." Comes in a hand
letterpressed sleeve. Includes a download code for six bonus tracks.)
20. DAVID
K-“OUT OF RANGE” (5/13)
21. TYSON MEADE-“TOMORROW IN
PROGRESS” (5/20) (Oklahoma native Tyson Meade led alternative groups Defenestration and
Chainsaw Kittens during the 80s and 90s, leaving a musical legacy and personal
mayhem in his wake until ''Iggy told me to be good. To clean up, I moved to
China and ran a boarding school and told myself I was done with music. During
my long sabbatical, I was christened the Godfather of Alternative Rock by
Converse (I had been wondering what I would put on my tombstone). But then, I
met a student violinist, with an engulfing passion for music and pureness of
spirit. He brought a new perspective to me. This is when I started writing with
him, him filling in the gaps and making my songs pocket symphonies. I then
enlisted more students from middle schools and high schools in China and the
USA. I called my friends - like Jimmy Chamberlin (ex- Smashing Pumpkins), Jesse
Tabish (Other Lives) and Derek Brown (Flaming Lips). They jumped at the chance
to play. Kerry Brown brought his award winning wizardry mixing talents on
board, as did Grammy winner Trent Bell. And thus we have, Tomorrow in Progress.'' - Tyson Meade. Also available on 180 gram
colored vinyl with download card.
22. MORRISSEY-“ISTANBUL”
(SINGLE) (5/21)
23. OASIS-“DEFINITELY
MAYBE” (DELUXE EDITION 3-CD REISSUE) (5/20)
24. CONOR OBERST-“UPSIDE DOWN
MOUNTAIN” (5/20)
25. PLAID-“REACHY PRINTS” (5/20)
26. PLANNING
FOR BURIAL-“DESIDERATUM” (5/20)
27. PUJOL-“KLUDGE”
(5/20)
28. THE RAILS-“FAIR WARNING”
(5/20)
29. GRUFF
RHYS-“AMERICAN INTERIOR” (5/20)
30. SHAMPOO
BOY-“LICHT” (5/20)
31. SIMIAN
GHOST-“THE VEIL” (5/20)
32. SMOKE FAIRIES-“SMOKE FAIRIES”
(5/20)
33. YANN
TIERSEN-“INFINITY” (5/20)
34. TRANS AM-“VOLUME X” (5/20)
35. WHITE SEA-“IN COLD BLOOD”
(5/19) (M83’S MORGAN KIBBY’S NEW SOLO PROJECT)
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