JUNE 3, 2014 (WEEK
# 23)
1.
BIS-“DATA PANIK ETCETERA” (COLLECTION)
(6/3)
2.
ALICE BOMAN-“EP II” (6/3)
3.
BRITISH SEA POWER-“FROM THE SEA TO THE
LAND BEYOND” (6/3)
4.
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN-“EL CAMINO REAL”
(6/3)
5.
CENTRO-MATIC-“TAKE PRICE IN YOUR LONG
ODDS” (6/3) (Based in
Denton, Texas, Centro-matic began in 1995 as a home recording project for
singer/songwriter and guitarist Will Johnson. Seventeen years and 10 albums
later the band is getting ready to release their 11th studio album.. Johnson
and his compatriots Scott Danbom (keyboards, violin, harmonies) Matt Pence
(drummer, producer), Mark Hedman (bass, guitar) have made yet another
incredible album. Always approaching recording with new ideas the band has done
it again with Take Pride In Your Long Odds. Two years since their last album
Candidate Waltz, Take Pride In Your Long Odds finds the band refreshed and
excited to play again with their infectious exuberance and vigor.)
6.
CLAP
YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH-“ONLY RUN” (6/3)
7.
COIL-“PORTO” (6/3) (AN
AUTHORISED BOOTLEG RECORDING OF COIL’S LIVE PERFOMANCE ON JUNE 21ST
2003 IN PORTO, PORTUGAL)
8.
ALICE COOPER-“SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER” (DVD DOCUMENTARY)
(6/3)
9.
DIAMOND VERSION-“CI” (6/3) (CI is the first full length album from Diamond Version, a duo made
up of Olaf Bender and Carsten Nicolai, the founders of the German electronic
label, Raster-Noton. With CI, which
stands for Corporate Identity, Diamond Version are fighting back against consumerist
culture latent with brand slogans and insidious advertising. The band's debut
album pairs blistering electronic rhythms, deconstructed techno and dread
static with clipped slogans borrowed from advertising and marketing, in both
lyrics and track titles such as "Science For A Better Life" and
"Access To Excellence." Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys guests on “Were
You There”)
10. JOHN
DOE-“THE BEST OF JOHN DOE: THIS FAR” (6/3)
11. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN-“METEORITES”
(6/3)
12. FU MANCHU-“GIGANTOID” (6/3)
13. FUCKED
UP-“GLASS BOYS” (6/3)
14. GOLD-BEARS-“DALLIANCE” (6/3) (Gold-Bears'
second full-length, ''Dalliance'' is a record about regret. It reminds you of
that time you lied to your friend when you said you were too busy to hang out,
but instead went to the bar alone. Or when you sent that really sh***y email to
your brother about something that really has no bearing anymore, because you
were too caught up in the moment to think clearly. It also reminds you of the
time you got divorced....from whatever or whomever. In the past two years since
Gold-Bears released their debut album, ''Are You Falling In Love?'', main Bear
Jeremy Underwood gathered a new crop of friends to carry out his fuzz-filled
visions. ''Dalliance'' is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut,
combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The
Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore, emo and post-punk on which
the band all cut their musical teeth. This not to say the Gold-Bears gave up
impossibly catchy song-writing, just that their signature indie punk anthems
are now even sharper, the guitars even more slashing, and the songs even more
harrowing and heartfelt than ever. ''Dalliance'' opens with the anthemic
''Yeah, Tonight,'' a proper pop song featuring a duet between Underwood and
Emma Cooper (of the defunct London indiepop band Standard Fare) that sets the
agenda right away--sharp melodies and even sharper guitars, all whizzing by in
less than three minutes. ''Chest'' rushes in almost immediately after, barely
two and a half minutes of punk energy and fizzing feedback. ''Punk Song No.
15'' is as described, a blazing flash that condenses the history of UK noisy
pop into just over one minute. ''I Hope They're Right'' and the lovely,
jangling ''Hey Sophie'' show how much the band have expanded their range,
slowing the pace, turning up the jangle and taking on the big subjects.
Gold-Bears cover a lot of territory, musical and lyrical, in ''Dalliance'''s 32
minutes and by the time that we reach the miniature epic of closer ''Fathers
And Daughters'' we realize that we're watching a band and a songwriter hit
their stride, turning in an album that's exciting, thoughtful and infectious.)
15. LUKE
HAINES-“NEW YORK IN THE ‘70S” (6/3)
16. JOE
HENRY-“INVISIBLE HOUR” (6/3)
17. JOYWAVE-“HOW
DO YOU FEEL?” [EP] (6/3)
18. KING
BUZZO-“THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS” (6/3) (Buzz Osborne, the legendary grunge progenitor who
has helmed the Melvins for thirty plus years, releases his debut solo
full-length album, This Machine Kills Artists. This Machine Kills Artists is a
different kind of animal. Rolling Stone gave listeners early access to music
from Osborne's acoustic release, premiering the song Dark Brown Teeth . The
magazine described the song as doomy, ill-angled and with the Beefheartian edge
his band is renown for.)
19. LED ZEPPELIN-“1”, “2”,
“3” (DELUXE 2-CD EDITIONS) (6/3)
20. HAMILTON
LEITHAUS-“BLACK HOURS” (6/3) (LEADER OF THE WALKMEN)
21. LP-“FOREVER
FOR NOW” (6/3)
22. LYDIA
LUNCH / CYPRESS GROVE-“A FISTFUL OF DESERT BLUES” (6/3) (AUDIO LTD EDITION
DELUXE BAG LIMITED TO 99 COPIES)
23. MORRISSEY-“EARTH
IS THE LONELIEST PLANET” (SINGLE) (6/4)
24. MORRISSEY-“VAUXHALL
& I” (20TH ANNIVERSARY DEFINITIVE MASTER) (2-CD WITH LIVE AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE) (6/3)
25. BOB MOULD-“BEAUTY & RUIN”
(6/3) (**BOB MOULD's new album Beauty & Ruin is a twelve-track journey
of loss, reflection, conciliation, and coming through the other side. It may
very well be the most epic emotional roller coaster ever pressed into 36
minutes. Well into his fourth decade as a singer-songwriter, Mould is as
relevant, ferocious, and poignant as he has ever been. Much of Beauty &
Ruin deals with the passing of Mould's father in October 2012, Bob's struggle
to come to terms with it, himself, and his own identity and legacy, and
repercussions of all of the above on his ongoing relationships in the land of
the living. Beauty & Ruin is a challenging work of raw beauty--and may well
be Bob Mould's finest work since his 1989 solo debut, Workbook.In fall 2012,
Bob gave the world Silver Age, his debut album for Merge Records and the first
to feature current bandmates JASON NARDUCY and JON WURSTER. The subsequent
touring covered four continents, ending in October 2013 in South America.
Beauty & Ruin is in large part the sound of this band, on the road
relentlessly, congealing into the tightest unit to surround Bob in his storied
career. Two days after returning from South America, the trio reconvened in
Chicago to begin the recording of Beauty & Ruin. The October 2013 session
at Steve Albini's famed studio complex Electrical Audio consisted of nine days
of band tracking and five days of layering guitars. The following month, Bob
returned to Different Fur Studios in his hometown of San Francisco to finish
lyrics for six songs, add vocals, and mix the album. Beauty & Ruin is a
product of a survivor who refuses to give up, thrives through his work, and
subsequently embraces the many changes around and within himself. Bob smartly
declares the album as "yet another bonus round, and I am very
grateful.")
26. PETER MURPHY-“LION” (LIMITED
EDITION 2-CD) (6/3) (Iconic
front man Peter Murphy spent most of 2013 celebrating 35 Years of Bauhaus on
his Mr. Moonlight Tour, which saw him playing to sold-out shows around the
world. In the midst of touring, Murphy also spent time recording the follow-up
to 2011's solo album Nineth. The 2014
record, called Lion, was produced by
Killing Joke bassist Youth.Murphy describes the Lion material as "a mixture of stuff, almost like operas for
the dispossessed. It's very romantic and very deep and emotional, quite
symphonic in places, but then becomes, like, a rabble-rousing pirate sea
shanty.")
27. THE
ORWELLS-“DISGRACELAND” (6/3)
28. PARQUET COURTS-“SUNBATHING
ANIMAL” (DELUXE EDITION) (6/3)
29. RICH
ROBINSON-“THE CEASELESS SIGHT” (6/3) (On the eve of the release of
his third solo album, Rich Robinson, best known as the guitarist, songwriter,
and founder of The Black Crowes, stands ready to complete the solo artist
evolution that he began ten years earlier. The
Ceaseless Sight is an album that represents the full maturation of Rich as
a songwriter, vocalist, and solo artist. The album finds Robinson stepping
solidly into his own as a solo artist as he adds confident vocalist and
lyricist to his accomplished musical resume.)
30. SOUNDGARDEN-“SUPERUNKNOWN”
(20TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION 4-CD) (6/3)
31. TELEMAN-“BREAKFAST”
(DELUXE EDITION) (6/3) (EX-PETE & THE PIRATES)
32. THROWING
SNOW-“MOSAIC” (6/3)
33. PAUL WELLER-“MORE MODERN
CLASSICS” (ANTHOLOGY 1999-2014 W/ 2 NEW TRACKS ‘BRAND NEW TOY’ & ‘FLAME-OUT!’.
(6/3)
34. DEVON
WILLIAMS-“GILDING THE LILY” (6/3)
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