NEW RELEASES WEEK #7 FEBRUARY 17, 2015
1.
THE
AMAZING-“PICTURE YOU” (2/17) (The
Amazing inhabits an aural landscape that’s all its own: a panoramic, constantly
evolving spectacle marked by layers of intertwining guitars, richly textured
keyboards and a rhythm section adept at skewed tempos and a tendency to veer
off in unexpected directions. The band’s free flowing, cinematic sound balances
focused song structures with unbridled improvisation to create a heady genre
smashing exercise in sonic exploration. The Amazing lives up to its name on
Picture You.)
2.
CARL
BARAT AND THE JACKALS-“LET IT REIGN” (2/17)
3.
S. CAREY-“SUPERMOON” (2/17)
4.
BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH-“BROTHERS OF
THE SONIC CLOTH” (2/17) (***With a
long-held reputation for some of the heaviest music from the the Pacific
Northwest, Seattle's legendary Tad Doyle (formerly of Tad, Hog Molly) delivers
his strongest songwriting and playing to date with his newest band Brothers of
the Sonic Cloth. This powerful trio of musicians--Tad on guitar / vocals,
veteran bass player Peggy Doyle and drummer Dave French (the Annunaki)--present
their long-awaited debut album on Neurosis's own Neurot Recordings. Brothers of
the Sonic Cloth bring together the collective and extensive musical histories
and experience of the three members in the worlds of punk, hard rock and
metal.Recorded at Robert Lang Studios and Doyle's own Witch Ape Studios in
Seattle and mixed by Billy Anderson, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth's self-titled
full-length consists of five immense songs, with two bonus tracks on the CD.
The record opens with "Lava," an ominous eruption of riffs forged
from deep within the Earth, and continues on this path throughout; a mammoth,
relentless spirit on a timeless journey. This album is as much a persistent,
thudding body-punch of sonic destructive force as it is a thoughtful statement
of awareness of the inescapable raw condition of life.)
5.
ERIC CHENAUX-“SKULLSPLITTER” (2/17)
6.
CRUSHED BEAKS-“SCATTER” (2/17)
7.
DARK DARK DARK-“FLOOD TIDE” (2/17)
8.
THE DELTA ROUTINE-“YOU AND YOUR LION” (2/17)
9.
DEVO-“MIRACLE WITNESS” (2/17)
10. DIVERS-“HELLO
HELLO” (2/17) (Divers is a band from Portland,
Oregon. We are Harrison Rapp (guitar and vocals), Seth Rapp (guitar), James
Deegan (bass), and Colby Hulsey (drums). We play dynamic, sweaty music. The
indie rockers say we are a punk band. The punk rockers are suspicious that we
might be an indie band. The bands that have inspired us fall on both sides of
the fence, but they all share the same kind of energy. If we have any clear
idea about what we are doing, it has something to do with that energy. Our
forthcoming album is about a couple of bank robbers driving across North
America, doing what they do. We will be driving across North America doing what
we do in March and April. We are probably coming to your town. Come say hello.
We don't bite, but we'll try and shake you up the best we can. Divers)
11. STEVE EARLE-“TERRAPLANE” (2/17)
12. ELEPHANT
MICAH-“WHERE IN OUR WOODS” (2/17)
13. EX
CULT-“CIGARETTE MACHINE” (2/17)
14. BEN
FROST-“VARIANT” (2/17) (Ben
Frost's remix EP V A R I A N T features remixes from Frost's most recent album,
A U R O R A, which has been named 'Album of the Year' by Rolling Stone, The New
Yorker, Stereogum, and Drowned in Sound. Remixes include British producer,
Evian Christ, Downward label boss and techno producer, Regis, and HTRK to name
a few.)
15. JOSE GONZALEZ-“VESTIGES &
CLAWS” (2/17) (Brand new, long
awaited album from José González, Vestiges & Claws. This will be the first
album in 7 years for José González- his sophomore album, In Our Nature, which
was released in 2007 was met with much critical acclaim. Since then, José
González recorded and released albums with his other musical incarnation, Junip
a duo made up of González and Tobias Winterkorn. Most recently, González teamed
up with Ryan Adams to create a track for Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life Of
Walter Mitty" released last year.)
16. GROOMS-“COMB
THE FEELINGS THROUGH YOUR HAIR” (2/17)
17. THE
JULIANA HATFIELD THREE-“WHATEVER, MY LOVE” (2/17) (The
Juliana Hatfield Three has reformed with the original lineup of Todd Philips
(drums), Dean Fisher (bass), and Juliana Hatfield (guitar, vocals, keyboards,
percussion) to release their sophomore album Whatever, My Love. Recorded at Nuthouse Recording in Hoboken,
NJ and co-produced by Hatfield and Tom Beaujour (Nada Surf, Guided By Voices,
Minor Alps), the twelve songs on Whatever, My Love are gorgeous and punk,
sleazy and sweet, unsentimental and funny. Hatfield, humble as always,
acknowledges that, 'We haven't totally reinvented the wheel or anything' with
this new album and that the recordings exhibit 'stuff I am sort of known for, I
guess': a guitar-centric melodicism and lyrical examinations of emotional
confusion. 'But I am a lot more confident now than I was then with the first
album. And I had more fun recording this one.' Whatever, My Love comes 21 years
after the trio's Become What You Are debuted on Atlantic Records. The
1993 album was an influential force of uncompromising, original guitar pop/rock
and secured a permanent place in alternative rock history with the radio hits
'My Sister' and 'Spin The Bottle.' With their new album, The Juliana Hatfield
Three has in a sense responded to its former directive to 'become what you are'
by making an album that is exactly what it wants to be, identifiable in its
acceptance--and celebration--of the eternally unknowable and unsolvable.)
18. HEY
COLOSSUS-“IN BLACK & GOLD” (2/17)
19. IN
TALL BUILDINGS-“DRIVER” (2/17)
20. INFLATABLE
BOY CLAMS-“INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS” (2/17)
21. JASON
ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES-“SEA SONGS” (2-TRACK SINGLE) (2/10)
22. JAMESTOWN
REVIVAL-“UTAH” (2/17)
23. JARBOE
& HELEN MONEY-“JARBOE & HELEN MONEY” [EP] (2/16)
24. KING
WOMAN-“DOUBT” [EP] (2/17) ("King
Woman is fronted by former Whirr vocalist Kristina Esfandiari. The group’s
debut 12-inch Doubt unfurls lugubriously, blossoming into a haunting sprawl of
crushing, slo-mo miserablism. Churning washes of crumbling distortion and
tar-pit riffage drift grimly through billowing clouds of dense, layered thrum.
Imagine some twisted fusion of PJ Harvey, Sunn 0))) and Black Sabbath.)
25. KODALINE-“COMING
UP FOR AIR” (2/17)
26. LANTERNA-“BACKYARDS”
[A COLLECTION] (2/17) (This ten-song collection
completes multi-instrumentalist Henry Frayne s most compelling work to date
where he crafts musical landscapes interweaving layers of warm, instrumental
sonic tapestries. For Frayne, the inception of Backyards began nearly a decade
ago, and is a culmination of his career as a versatile musician best known for
blending genres and bending guitar styles to create layers of airy overtones. Most
of the songs for this album sprung from an orphaned blond Conrad hollow body
six-string along with a Gibson acoustic, purchased in 1983 for $5 after having
survived a fire. Frayne composed the underlying textures of the record with a
heavy influence from the Nashville tuning, the practice of utilizing very light
strings to produce an angelic sound. Backyards is the fifth Lanterna CD to be
released by Badman Recording Co.'s instrumental-only label, Jemez Mountain.)
27. LETTS-“HOLD
FAST” (2/17) (Christian Letts is more commonly
known as the guitarist from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Letts is
releasing his debut solo record, produced by Marcus Mumford. The track
'Matches' also features backing vocals from Mumford. Letts will be launching a
US tour this Spring.)
28. MOURN-“MOURN”
(2/17) (MOURN is a very young quartet formed from
the friendship of Jazz Rodríguez Bueno and Carla Pérez Vas - both born in 1996
in El Maresme, Catalonia, Spain. The duo armed themselves with inspiration from
PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Sebadoh and Sleater Kinney and began writing material,
which they quickly released, raw and acoustic, on their YouTube channel. These
recordings caught the attention of their homeland's Sones Records. Despite
being teenagers, earlier this year they came out of the studio (along with
drummer Antonio Postius and bassist Leia Rodríguez) with a brilliant treatise
of indie rock that has stunned those who have had the opportunity to listen to
it. Jazz (18), Carla (18), Leia (15) and Antonio (18) came together to present
these tracks with authenticity and self-awareness beyond their age. With the
confidence only residing in youth, the Mourn debut was recorded live in the
studio in two days, proof of which is in their live-in-the-studio videos for
singles "Otitis" and "Your Brain is Made of Candy." Both
tracks perfectly capture the bands' affinity for the brevity of The Ramones
with the lyrical and melodic sophistication of The Pixies.)
29. IKUE
MORI-“LIGHT IN THE SHADOW” (2/17)
30. NO
MAN-“SCHOOLYARD GHOSTS” (2/17)
31. OH
LAND-“EARTH SICK” (2/17)
32. THE
ORB-“HISTORY OF THE FUTURE PART 2” (2/17)
33. PEACE-“HAPPY PEOPLE” (DELUXE
EDITION) (2/17)
34. PHOSPHORESCENT-“LIVE AT THE
MUSIC HALL” [2-CD] (2/17)
35. KATE
PIERSON-“GUITAR & MICROPHONES” (2/17)
36.A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS-“TRANSFIXIATION”
(2/17)
37. QUARTERBACKS-“QUARTERBACKS”
(2/17)
38. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE-“HEXADIC”
(2/17) (Designed to free sound
and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy,
Ben Chasny's Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate
new means of chord progressions and choices. The album brews and boils with an
ominously dark tone in a desolate space, dense with energy, guitar overdriven
past the point of sanity, slamming drum accents, vocals cutting through in what
seems to be comprised of another, as yet unheard, language. This is the majestic
dialectic of Hexadic. Features members of Comets On Fire, Badgerlore, and SF
psych legend Charlie Saufley.)
39. SONNY
AND THE SUNSETS-“TALENT NIGHT AT THE ASHRAM” (2/17)
40. TEXAS-“TEXAS
25: THE TRUTH AND SOUL SESSIONS” (DELUXE EDITION) (2-CD) (2/17)
41. TROPICS-“RAPTURE”
(2/17)
42. WOLFGANG
VOIGT-“PROTEST-VERSAMMLUNG 1” (2/17)
43. WRINKLE
NECK MULES-“I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD GO THIS FAR” (2/17)
44. ZS-“XE”
(2/17)
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