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PALMS
PALMS
Ipecac
IPC139 / IPC139LP
http://www.facebook.com/palmsband
0888002012043 / 0689230013914
CD/2LP
Da post-metal-innovatørene Isis ble oppløst i 2010 valgte bandets medlemmer å fortsette å spille sammen uten vokalist Aaron Turner. De var
dog klare på at de ville ha med en vokalist og øverst på listen sto ett navn:
Deftones’ Chino Moreno. Isis-fan som Moreno er var det ikke nei i hans
munn da han ble spurt, og Palms var født. Sammen har de kreert
atmosfærisk alt-metal som selvsagt anbefales.
http://www.spin.com/articles/palms-patagonia-deftones-isis-chino-moreno/
“Palms are perfect, just perfect.” 5/5 TERRORIZER “Obviously with a voice so
instantly recognisable those ‘Tones comparisons are hard to shake. This, though,
is a different beast, albeit one that shares their penchant for the exploration or musical dynamism and the knack of sneaking its way into the listener’s head slowly but
surely. Different, but predictably excellent.” 8/10 METAL HAMMER
LIGHTNING DUST
http://www.facebook.com/lightningdustofficial
FANTASY
Jagjaguwar
JAG239 / JAG239LP
CD/LP
0656605223926 / 0656605223919
Lightning Dust er at av flere sideprosjekter som har oppstått via
psykedeliafavorittene i Black Mountain, og duoen Amber Webber og
Josh Wells er nå klare med sitt tredje album, Fantasy. Der debuten var
en strippet folkaffære, andrealbumet en symbiose av Suicide og Fleetwood Mac, er Fantasy inspirert av minimalistisk synth-pop, moderne
R&B-beats, og John Carpenters filmmusikk. Duoens eneste regel,
absolutt minimalisme, er også i bruk, men det hele låter selvsagt
umiskjennelig Lightning Dust med Webbers fantastiske stemme i front.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15279-diamond/
http://www.spin.com/articles/lightning-dust-loaded-gun-track-premiere/
ROSE WINDOWS
THE SUN DOGS
Sub Pop
SPCD1053 / SP1053
0098787105322 / 0098787105315
CD/2LP
Rose Windows er en Seattle-septett som har skapt bølger på den
nordvestlige musikkscenen med sin messende, riffrike stonerpsykedelia.
Et perfekt lydspor til sløye sommernetter.
“They’ve cleared the path to their original folk sources, the added
pedal-steel and Eastern strings to their template of Sabbath-styled
heaviosity, spooky flute and swirling keys” 8/10 UNCUT
“Rose Windows demonstrate that, in the right hands, it’s still possible
to conjure new life with the tools of classic rock.“ 4/5 THE SKINNY
http://www.facebook.com/rosewindows
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SOLAR YEAR
WAVERLY
Splendour
SPL022CD / SPL022LP
http://www.facebook.com/SolarYear
7090001013898 / 7090001013904
CD/LP
Leftfield-elektronika fra det samme fellesskapet som brakte oss Grimes, Blue
Hawaii, og Majical Cloudz fra Solar Year, en Montréal-basert duo som har fått
stor oppmerksomhet fra blekker som Pitchfork, Fader, the Guardian med flere.
Deres debut, Waverly (med gjestevokal av nevnte Grimes), samler deres idéer om
pop og downtempo-elektronika sammen til en virkelig slående samling av låter.
“A new age-y ‘Silent Shout’ floating up from the ocean” GORILLAVSBEAR
“I felt like I was watching the future…Festivals aren’t supposed to be contests
but FUCK IT, Solar Year won POP Montreal.” NOISEY (VICE)
FUCK BUTTONS
THE RED WING / THE WHIP
ATP
ATPRSP20
0666017128566
12”
Fuck Buttons er snart aktuelle med nytt album og her er første smakebit, Best
New Track-sporet The Red Wing på tolvtommer med The Whip på B-siden.
Gullfarget vinyl begrenset til 1000 eksemplarer.
“On a Fuck Buttons track, even a rudimentary breakbeat can create an overwhelming, gravitational effect that aligns all of these disparate and playful ideas into a
singular, driven juggernaut, as the duo mark “The Red Wing” with reverbed samples,
untraceable arcade sound effects, and joyful, buzzsaw synth lines.” PITCHFORK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fuck-Buttons/328461343853034
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
HIGH, LOW AND IN BETWEEN
Omnivore
OVCD21 / OVLP21
0816651011087 / 0816651011070
CD/LP
Reutgivelse av det første av de to albumene Townes Van Zandt ga ut i 1972, High,
Low and in Between. Digipack CD og 180g LP med liner notes av Colin Escott.
“Musically low key, but emotionally potent, High, Low and in Between shows Van Zandt digging deep into his troubled psyche and turning his heartache
into soul-stirring art.” 4/5 ALLMUSIC
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/townes-van-zandt-mn0000744796
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
THE LATE GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Omnivore
OVCD22 / OVLP22
0816651011094 / 0816651011100
CD/LP
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt var Townes andre 1972-album og det markerte
også slutten på hans store periode som låtskriver selv om også 1978s Flyin’ Shoes
er verdt å få med seg. Digipack CD og 180g LP med liner notes av Colin Escott.
“This is the second perfect album Van Zandt cut in 1972, a complement to High,
Low and in Between. Together they contain the highest points of his brilliant
but erratic career.” 4/5 ALLMUSIC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt
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HAVOK
UNNATURAL SELECTION
Candlelight
CANDLE411CD
0803341385726
CD
Mer drivende trash fra Havok som på sitt nye album, Unnatural Selection,
har rekruttert ringreven Terry Date (Pantera, Deftones etc.) som produsent.
Dette, samt at bandet har pådratt seg betydelig rutine de siste årene, har ført
til bandets mest dynamiske album til nå.
For fans av Evile, Toxic Holocaust, Warbringer og lignende.
http://www.youtube.com/user/HAVOKthrash
http://www.facebook.com/HavokOfficial
LOCRIAN
RETURN TO ANNIHILATION
Relapse
RR7204-2 / RR7204-1
0781676720422 / 0781676720415
CD/LP
Locrian har brukt nær et tiår på å finslipe sin egen blanding av noise, black
metal og droning, og på Return to Annihilation får vi nyte fruktene av nettopp
dette arbeidet, mørkt og drøyt som det er.
Anbefales til fans av ting som Horseback, Sunn O))), Swans og slikt.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15423-eternal-return/
http://www.facebook.com/LocrianOfficial
MUMAKIL
FLIES WILL STARVE
Relapse
RR7207-2 / RR7207-1
0781676720729 / 0781676720712
CD/LP
Flies Will Starve er andre album ut fra det sveitsiske grind-monsteret Mumakil.
24 spor har de presset inn på albumet som vi kan få et lite innblikk i her:
http://youtu.be/U1G9DEZwiEA
For fans av Brutal Truth, Napalm Death og andre lignende sjarmører.
http://americanaftermath.net/2013/05/31/exclusive-interview-mumakils-benjamin-droz-song-premiere/
https://www.facebook.com/Mumakil
RAMESSES
MISANTHROPIC ALCHEMY
Ritual Productions
RITE015CD
5060195514985
2CD
Ramesses massive debutalbum, Billy Anderson-produserte Misanthropic
Alchemy i utvidet versjon hvor bandets tre første EP-er og diverse livespor
er lagt til. Total spilletid er på nær to og en halv time så her finnes alle
muligheter for å få renset ørene skikkelig. Dobbel LP-utgave ventes snart.
http://www.facebook.com/ramessess666
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THE MUSIC TAPES
MARY’S VOICE
Merge
MRG368 / MRG368LP
CD/LP
0673855036823 / 0673855036816
The Music Tapes ble startet på slutten av 90-tallet og opererte i utkanten av
Elephant 6-miljøet via sin frontmann, Neutral Milk Hotel- og The Olivia
Tremor Control-medlemmet Julian Koster. Mary’s Voice er deres tredje album
og det første siden 2008s kritikerroste Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes.
Koster er en del av Neutral Milks mye omtalte reunionturné.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14109-playing-evening/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Music-Tapes/58196667913
ALL TINY CREATURES
DARK CLOUD
Hometapes
HT059CD / HT059LP
CD/LP
0656605715926 / 0656605715919
Psykedelisk elektro-pop ikke veldig fjernt fra Animal Collective fra All Tiny
Creatures. Bandets medlemmer er sterke bidragsytere til den vitale musikkscenen i Wisconsin og brorparten av medlemmene er også med i Justin
Vernons (snart albumaktuelle) Volcano Choir, mens frontmann Thomas
Wincek også er å finne i Collections of Colonies of Bees.
http://www.spin.com/articles/all-tiny-creatures-the-book-stream-dark-clock/
https://www.facebook.com/alltinycreatures
DAVID YOW
TONIGHT YOU LOOK LIKE A SPIDER
Joyful Noise
JNR116LP
0656605482811
The Jesus Lizard var et av de mest innflytelsesrike bandene i USA på 90-tallet
og spesielt bandets tre første album satte spor etter seg i musikklandskapet.
Her er vokalist David Yow ute med LP under eget navn.
LP
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-jesus-lizard-mn0000089305
HAUSU
TOTAL
Hardly Art
HAR070CD / HAR070LP
0098787307023 / 0098787307016
Hausu er en post-hardcore-kvartett fra Portland som inspirert av Sebadoh
og gamle Dischord-kassetter her gir oss sitt debutalbum, Total.
CD/LP
http://www.spin.com/articles/hausu-chrysanthemum-stream-total-album/
http://www.stereogum.com/1300622/hausu-leaning-mess-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
http://www.facebook.com/hausuboys
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HAILU MERGIA
HAILU MERGIA & HIS CLASSICAL INSTRUMENT: SHEMONMUANAYE
Awesome Tapes From Africa
ATFA006CD / ATFA006LP
CD/LP
0656605560427 / 0656605560410
Ethio-jazz/funk fra Hailu Mergia som nøt en suksessfull musikerkarriere i Addis Abeba på
70-tallet før han etablerte seg i USA på begynnelsen av 80-tallet. Remastret CD og LP.
https://soundcloud.com/awesometapesfromafrica/shilela
THE RELATIVES
BAD TRIP
Yep Roc
YEP2310
12”
0634457231016
Tolvtommer fra den psykedeliske gospel-gruppa The Relatives som imponerte
mange under årets SXSW. http://youtu.be/SOKgrnrZjmE
GILBERTO GIL
LOUVAÇAO
Universal Sound
USLP52
LP
5026328205212
Debutalbumet til Gilberto Gil, originalt fra 1967, på 180g LP i et begrenset
opplag på 1000 eksemplarer.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gilberto-gil-mn0000652255
THE DETROIT JAZZ COMPOSERS LTD.
HASTINGS ST. JAZZ EXPERIENCE
Universal Sound
USLP54
2LP
5026328205410
The Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd. var et stort kollektiv av musikere som i 1976
ga ut dette albumet hvor bl.a. Motown-stjernen Kim Weston bidro med vokal.
Dobbel 180g 45rpm LP i et begrenset opplag på 1000 eksemplarer. 4.5/5 ALLMUSIC
TOY LOVE
TOY LOVE
Flying Nun / Captured Tracks
FNCT001LP
2LP
0817949017330
Komplett Toy Love på dobbel LP levert i et gatefoldcover med booklet, 28 spor i alt. Bandet var
et av New Zealands første new wave-band og ble tross sin korte eksistens en viktig inspirasjon
for 80- og 90-tallets musikkscene der nede. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/toy-love-mn0000744990
SUFFOCATION
HUMAN WASTE
Relapse
RR6686-1
0781676668618
LP
Reutgivelse av Suffocations Human Waste på LP. To bonusspor er lagt til.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffocation_(band)
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FORHÅND 5. JULI
DAUGHN GIBSON
ME MOAN
Sub Pop
SPCD1010 / SP1010
CD/LP
0098787101027 / 0098787101010
Tracklist:
The Sound of Law
Phantom Rider
Mad Ocean
The Pisgee Nest
You Don’t Fade
Franco
Won’t You Climb
The Right Signs
Kissin on the Blacktop
All My Days Off
Into the Sea
Let’s get a few facts straight right off the bat. The name is Daughn Gibson - rhymes with
Jaughn, or Raughn. He was born in Nazareth, PA, and currently resides in the sleepy college town of
Carlisle, PA, where he frequents local watering holes like The Cave and Alibis. He’s 6’5”, 200 pounds,
and has a head of thick, jet-black hair thicker. He played drums in Pearls & Brass. Daughn was a
trucker, sure, but he’s also packed boxes in an un-air conditioned warehouse, climbed up commercial
broadcast towers with untested levels of radiation, worked at an adult bookstore, done sound at dive
bars and collected unemployment checks. Daughn’s been around.
Daughn Gibson first entered the daydreams of the general public in 2012 with his acclaimed
debut, All Hell. Armed with modern technology and a pile of thrift-store records, Daughn shook the
ghosts out of scratchy Christian folk records and baptized them as fierce Americana with his booming baritone voice. His songs are as frequently tender as they are prurient, as hopeful as they are
brimming with despair. He treats the past with respectful reverence while still being able to appreciate
esoteric modern-day electronic music from across the pond. The only real starting point for the music
of Daughn Gibson is Daughn Gibson.
It’s on Daughn’s second album and Sub Pop debut, Me Moan, that he truly reveals himself
to the world. If All Hell was a gritty black-and-white movie, Me Moan is a widescreen IMAX 3D extravaganza. While the roots of All Hell’s sample-based music remain, these songs are performed live,
lushly detailed and richly orchestrated. Live drums, guitars (by John Baizley of Baroness and Jim
Elkington of Brokeback), pedal steel, horns, house strings, bagpipes and organs appear on this
record, but never does it feel over-stuffed - every instrument or melody is perfectly in place.
Me Moan isn’t just Daughn Gibson’s primal scream, it’s a skirmish through the full spectrum of
emotion, unfiltered and impassioned.
Like Cormac McCarthy or Robert Altman, Daughn Gibson is a uniquely American artist
who throws his soul into his work, free of compromise, possessed by unique vision and so damn intense that he constantly teeters on spontaneous combustion. It’s not out of line to consider Me Moan
as his Blood Meridian; his Nashville. All that’s left is for you to let Daughn in.
FORHÅND 12. JULI
GAUNTLET HAIR
STILLS
Dead Oceans
DOC079 / DOC079LP
CD/LP
0656605137926 / 0656605137919
Tracklist:
Human Nature
Spew
Simple
Bad Apple
New To It
Obey Me
Heave
G.I.D.
Falling Out
Waste Your Art
Gauntlet Hair has announced their new album, Stills, to be released July 12 on Dead
Oceans. Recorded during Portland, Oregon’s grey winter days in producer Jacob
Portrait’s (Unknown Mortal Orchestra) appropriately named studio “The Cave,” the
album reveals Gauntlet Hair’s guileless affection for the goth industrialists and post-punks
who blazed a shadowy path through the 80s and 90s. Lead track, “Human Nature,” starts
with vaguely menacing whispers and a cicada-winged heartbeat that flowers into a grand,
gorgeous squall.
The album follows the once-Denver-based band’s 2011self-titled debut for Dead Oceans
and singles spread across labels like Forest Family and Mexican Summer. After moving
back to their hometown of Chicago last year, drummer Craig Nice and singer/guitarist
Andy R. looked to their teenaged selves for inspiration. “I started listening again to the
stuff I would have in my discman in the back of my mom’s car,” says Nice. “White Zombie,
Marilyn Manson — the production on those records is so amazing. Nothing sounds like
that anymore.”
Mining that childhood nostalgia for inspiration has proved effective. The tracks
on Stills have the signifiers of industrial and minimal-wave a la The Durutti Column or
Joy Division, but all the fluidity and momentum of INXS or Depeche Mode’s 80s synthpop. “New To It” reimagines the opening snare from “I Wanna Dance Wtih Somebody” at
a goth dance party. Andy R. lurches into an unearthly guttural groan halfway through “Bad
Apple.” “Spew” is a distorted wash of junky-punk. A Cobain-like sneer worms its way out of
“Heave.” The horror and joy combine to make Stills a garden of dark delights.
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FORHÅND 19. JULI
FUCK BUTTONS
SLOW FOCUS
ATP
ATPRCD49 / ATPRLP49
0666017262222 / 0666017262215
CD/2LP
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15550-fuck-buttons-the-red-wing-edit/
*Four years after Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung dropped the second
of two of the most unparalleled electronic-driven albums in recent memory, with the hyper-acceleration of 2009’s blistering Tarot Sport, the duo return with a new album Slow Focus, their first selfproduced record, and one that looks set to re-shape the landscape of the leftfield all over again.
*Once again abiding by their fundamental rule that “we must always be in the same room when
writing,” what Fuck Buttons have created on Slow Focus is something that feels more close-up
than ever before, a first-person view through winding pathways set against a frequently aggressive and constantly evolving terrain. It’s an ominously shimmering mirage that could only have
come from their own volition. “Slow Focus seemed like a very apt title when considering the
sentiment of the music,” comments Benjamin John Power, “It almost feels like the moment your
eyes take to readjust when waking, and realising you’re in a very unusual and not a particularly
welcoming place. We like to think that we create our own new landscapes, and with this it’s a very
alien one.”
*You could argue this is the first album where the pair have really gone all in, taking control right
down to producing it at their own Space Mountain studio. “We’ve used producers as safety nets in
the past,” says Andrew Hung, “but we’ve always had a very specific idea of what our music should
sound like and so it became about following the logical path.”
*Between them, Fuck Buttons have been busy behind the scenes in the intermediate four years
since Tarot Sport, but they were flung out into the perception of the global public last year when
Danny Boyle opted to use their music in his breathtaking Olympics opening ceremony in London,
after recommendations from techno veterans Underworld. Now they’re ready to face the limelight
again in full, with a string of European festival dates coming up, including Primavera, Glastonbury
and Green Man. It’s been a while since we heard from them, but Slow Focus looks set to further
establish Fuck Buttons reputation as one of the most arresting electronic acts in the world today.
Tracklist:
1 Brainfreeze
2 Year Of The Dog
3 The Red Wing
4 Sentients
5 Princes’s Prize
6 Stalker
7 Hidden Xs
FORHÅND 16. AUGUST
SUPERCHUNK
I HATE MUSIC
Merge
MRG480 / MRG480LP / MRG480DLX
0673855048024 / 0673855048017 / 0673855048000
CD/LP
Superchunk will release I Hate Music, their tenth studio album, on August 16.
The band has also announced tour dates throughout the late summer and fall.
Tracklist:
1 . Overflows
2 . Me & You & Jackie Mittoo
3 . Void
4 . Staying Home
5 . Low F
6 . Trees of Barcelona
7 . Breaking Down
8 . Out of the Sun
9 . Your Theme
10 . FOH
11 . What Can We Do
After taking nearly a decade off following the release of Here’s to Shutting Up, Mac, Laura,
Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with Majesty Shredding, an album
perfectly described by its own title. It’s a celebratory set of whoa-whoa-whoas from a
group so thrilled by making music together again that they can’t contain themselves.
The band’s forthcoming release, I Hate Music, is Majesty’s dark twin. It’s similarly aggressive—often moreso (see “Staying Home”)—and every bit as energetic. It reflects the joys
of a life spent immersed in music (“Me & You & Jackie Mittoo,” “Trees of Barcelona”), but
there’s a dark undercurrent as well. That title isn’t tongue-in-cheek, but it’s really more a
question than a statement: When you’re 20, lazy co-workers and romantic missteps
number among your biggest worries; two decades later, life’s bigger questions knock
louder and louder, demanding answers.
I Hate Music is an album about love more than anything else: love of life, love of living, love
of people, and yeah, love of music. It defies its own title so completely and diligently that it
never even seems like a fair fight: There’s no pain this deep or yearning this severe without
the type of love earned over a lifetime. “I hate music – what is it worth? / Can’t bring anyone back to this earth” goes the first line in “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo.” That song and its
ten companions can’t relive the past or resurrect those lost, but they can keep them close
enough to see and hear and celebrate. It’s dark in here, but if we conjure the right words
and sounds, maybe we’ll find our way out.
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