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TRACK LISTING
1 Just My Imagination
2 Talk About My Baby
3 Soul And Inspiration
4 Young Love
5 Rope In
6 Mash You Down
7 Free Up The Sensimillia
8 Broken Hearted Girl
9 A Solid Foundation
10 Aware Of Love
11 Bandolo
'Amorino' is the third solo album from the former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell. Obsessed with French New Wave, chanson, vintage European cinema, the beat girls and boys of the 1960’s, White Horses by Jacky, Peter Sellers and the bossa nova of Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, Campbell, alongside fellow maverick composer and Scottish national treasure Bill Wells set about making their homage to such things.
TRACK LISTING
1. Amorino
2. The Breeze Whispered Your Name
3. Monologue For An Old True Love
4. October's Sky
5. The Cat's Pyjamas
6. Why Does My Head Hurt So?
7. Johnny Come Home
8. Poor Butterfly
9. Love For Tomorrow
10. There Is No Greater Gold
11. This Land Flows With Milk
12. Song For Baby
13. Time Is Just The Same
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- COOKLP909X
- Release date
- Expected 14 Jun '24
- Format Info
140 gram solid yellow vinyl
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- 2xCD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- COOKCD909
- Release date
- Expected 14 Jun '24
- Format Info
2 CD digisleeve.
2nd cd is a French version of the album.
2 CD digisleeve.
... [ + ]Release date: Expected 14 Jun '24
With all the dexterity the Glasgow-born singer-songwriter and cellist is known for, the result is an album of lambent surfaces and choppy riptides, a deeply personal record for today poised between hope and despair. “The album is about what we’re all in right now, and my response to that and my life as a microcosm within that,” says Campbell, before suggesting how exposing modern horrors might prove purgative. “I think there’s a quote from A Course In Miracles which says, ‘Love brings up everything unlike itself for the purpose of healing and release.’ Maybe these horrible things are coming up and out so we can get rid of them and things can be better.”
Her radar keenly attuned to inequities, Campbell spotlights toxic masculinity on the luminous ‘Everything Falls Apart,’ it’s circling lilt and warm, fretless bass framing a call to unmask patriarchal power in readiness for “a brand new start”. “My elegy to the patriarchy” is how Campbell pitches it, noting how “even the words we use to insult a substandard man will often blame the woman – ‘son of a bitch’, ‘bastard’.” The spellbinding psych-folk of ‘Spider to the Fly’ and ‘Second Guessing’ add themes of “narcissistic abuse” and “repetition compulsion”, lending bite to the album’s take on relationships.
Some songs were first conceptualised in 2016, when Brexit and Trump exacerbated what Campbell describes as “real tension” amongst people. Between its gently jazzy shuffle and cushioning arrangement, the Yoda-esque ‘Do Or Die’ foregrounds fortitude in the face of gnawing anxieties. The rainy-day soul-pop of ‘Keep Calm Carry On’ also started in 2016, when Campbell was staying at her aunt’s flat in Yoker and her then-husband and collaborator Chris Szczech texted her from New York about the Brexit vote. “Chris was saying, ‘It looks like it’s going to happen’ but I was like, ‘No way.’ And actually – ‘way’. It did happen.”
Technology is touched on with first single ‘4316’, an almost robo-folk-pop challenge to the idea of the “transhuman”: the idea that technology might sire a new stage in human evolution. Favouring “honest, decent communication” over AI, Campbell takes a dim view of our “friend, unfriend, block, unblock” culture. “I know what I love and it ain’t that,” she says. “I was talking to an Uber driver the other day and I said, ‘I don’t want to be living in a video game.’ And he said, ‘Well, we are.’ I feel like I’m offering a human element in these transhuman days of artificial intelligence.”
The looping sing-song swing of the title track applies that open, complex thinking to myths about love: “It’s not enough to bow to love” is the full lyric, offering a grown-up take on the matter. “I grew up loving The Beatles and ‘All You Need Is Love’,” Isobel says, “but sometimes love’s not enough. Sometimes love can get a bit wonky. Love brings up everything - good, bad, ugly - and it can push your buttons.”
To close the album, a warm cover of Dire Straits’s ‘Why Worry’ disregards any hipster disdain for Mark Knopfler’s band to find a core of consolation at the song’s heart. “I never really bought into all that hipster stuff,” says Campbell. “If something speaks to me, it speaks to me. My dad had all those records and I would always sing it to myself.”
In making the album, Campbell chose an environment that spoke to her. She recorded and co-produced the record with Szczech in his studio in Los Angeles, sticking with what works through the upheaval in their personal lives. “Chris Szczech and I made this record no longer as a couple. There’s been shit tons going on but then as I tell myself, things come up to be addressed and dealt with.”
The result is an inquisitive, complex and fully matured album from an artist who has travelled long and far. Campbell was first noticed as a teenage founder member of Belle & Sebastian, before she released two dream-folk solo albums under the name The Gentle Waves and left B&S in 2002. Two records under her own name followed, leading to a union with late rock-carved growler Mark Lanegan for three albums of gravel’n’honey Americana duets, where Lanegan would stand aside while Campbell called the creative shots.
A move to LA and a near-decade of label troubles followed; the latter ended with There Is No Other in 2020 before – as Campbell puts it – “the world went down the crapper” for the pandemic. And on Bow to Love, suggests Campbell, the world’s ongoing troubles are clear. “Anyone with two eyes, a brain and a heart can see that people are struggling, and I suppose I have a lot of thoughts about that. And it’s this album.”
An album that also, says Campbell, has thoughts about how the future remains unwritten. “I feel like we’re living in some kind of dystopia, but I think it’s up to us what we buy into and what we react to. We do have a choice, even if sometimes we think we don’t. You can still see acts of great kindness. In all the bleakness, that’s what I hang on to. We are co-creators. Where we go next is up to us.” Mounted with clear-sighted artistry and care, Bow to Love is a light in the dark of uncertain times.
TRACK LISTING
1. Everything Falls Apart
2. Do Or Die
3. Spider To The Fly
4. Second Guessing
5. Bow To Love
6. 4316
7. Dopamine
8. Keep Calm Carry On
9. Saturday’s Son
10. Take This Poison
11. Om Shanti Om
12. You
13. Why Worry
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- CD
- £10.99
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- COOKCD783
- Release date
- 20 Nov '20
TRACK LISTING
1. O Love Is Teasin'
2. Willow's Song
3. Yearning
4. James
5. Hori Horo
6. Reynardine
7. Milkwhite Sheets
8. Cachel Wood
9. Beggar, Wiseman Or Thief
10. Loving Hannah
11. Are You Going To Leave Me?
12. Over The Wheat & The Barley
13. Thursday's Child
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- COOKCD720
- Release date
- 7 Feb '20
It's been 10 years (yes really) since her last album, "Hawk", which was her third collaboration with Mark Lanegan and 14 since her last solo album, but it's been worth the wait.
Drawing on everything from the twee indie pop of Belle & Sebastian, 60s pop, and the dark Americana of her Lanegan collaborations, this is an absolute gem of a record.
TRACK LISTING
1. City Of Angels
2. Runnin’ Down A Dream
3. Vultures
4. Ant Life
5. Rainbow
6. The Heart Of It All
7. Hey World
8. The National Bird Of India
9. Just For Today
10. See Your Face Again
11. Boulevard
12. Counting Fireflies
13. Below Zero
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- LP
- £25.99
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- TPLP1767
- Release date
- 4 Nov '22
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- CD
- £10.99
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- TPLP1767CD
- Release date
- 4 Nov '22
The album ranges from soft, delicate atmospheric musings such as ‘Bastard Wing’ and ‘Leave Only Love Behind’ to the dark electronics of ‘And They Are Afraid Of Her’ and ‘Phonon For No One’, which Campbell describes as “akin to a massive machine starting up, like a huge sinister power mobilising”. During its gloomier moments, ‘Under This Hunger Moon We Fell’ buries tonally ambiguous ambience underneath hazy, distorted textures created via the gradual degradation of the tape. It creates a dream-like backdrop with a moody undertone created by deep basslines and hulking percussive elements, blended with orchestral sounds that add an air of humanity.
“Visual beauty, tactility and mesmeric kinetics are just as important to his creations as the sounds their movements facilitate” Electronic Sound
“He’s a bit of a genius I think. Based up in the highlands, maker of machines, music and art” Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6Music)
TRACK LISTING
Bastard Wing
Phonon For No One
Sister Rena
The Mountain And The Pendulum
Under This Hunger Moon We Fell
Leave Only Love Behind
And They Are Afraid Of Her
For The Uncarved
Even Songbirds Suffer
Alters
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- CD
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- VERTCD059
- Release date
- 24 Sep '01
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- GEL4044
- Release date
- 20 May '02
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- Ltd LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- GGLP 021
- Release date
- 3 Feb '23
The album turns ten years old in 2022 and exudes vitality. The soul reference takes on a different aroma when it passes through the filter of the composer and his band – formed by Kiko Dinucci on guitar, Marcelo Cabral on bass, Maurício Fleury on keyboards, Maurício Takara on drums and Thiago França on sax: it has Brazilian sauce, hints of afrobeat and a very particular seasoning. The lyrics bear the artist's mark: they project scenes in the listener's imagination and design the characters and environments with their own style of subjective chronicle. Bahia is both imaginary and intimate in Rodrigo Campos’s music.
TRACK LISTING
Cinco Doces
Princesa Do Mar
Ribeirao
Beco
Morte Na Bahia
Sete Vela
Aninha
Jardim Japao
General Geral
Elias
Capitao
Sou De Salvador
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- CD
- £9.99
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- CDSPOON4
- Release date
- 11 Oct '04
- Format Info
Remastered edition.
Remastered edition.
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A: “The Yellow Side”
1. Citrus
2. Red Hot Indians
SIDE B: “The Cyan Side”
1.Dizzy Dizzy
2. Chain Reaction
SIDE C: “The Red Side”
1. One More Night
2. Vernal Equinox
SIDE D: “The Black Side”
1. More Spree Vitamin C
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- CDSPOON12
- Release date
- 29 May '06
- Format Info
Remastered edition.
Remastered edition.
STAFF COMMENTS
Mine says: If you have always found Can a little too weird and don't know where to start, this one's for you. Delay 1968 is a brilliant but very approachable album by the German Krautrock pioneers. It is by far my favourite and I have yet to play it to someone who doesn't like it!-
- Ltd LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- SPOON8
- Release date
- 23 Oct '06
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- XLSPOON12
- Release date
- 30 Apr '21
- Format Info
Limited Edition Pink Coloured Vinyl.
Includes high definition download.
Limited Edition Pink... [ + ]
This classic album of tracks recorded at the beginning of Can’s life, and features original vocalist Malcolm Mooney.
Thief is now a rejuvenated Can classic having been covered by Radiohead and since then discovered by a new generation of fans.
Can’s powerful influence has never diminished, and their indelible mark is apparent in the bands who freely acknowledge their importance - from Portishead, James Murphy, New Order, Factory Floor, Public Image Ltd, Mogwai, Kanye West and Radiohead - as well as across other disciplines such as visual art and literature.
"Can are impossible to classify and its impossible to ignore their seismic influence on so many diverse musical paths" Richard Hawley
"Can are the most revolutionary band ever" Stephen Morris (New Order)
TRACK LISTING
A1 Butterfly
A2 Pnoom
A3 Nineteen Century Man
A4 Thief
B1 Man Named Joe
B2 Uphill
B3 Little Star Of Bethlehem
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- LP
- £22.99
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- CPR010LP
- Release date
- 20 Oct '23
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- CD
- £10.99
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- CPR010CD
- Release date
- 8 Dec '23
“Candidate are Britain’s most tasteful, witty and thoughtful band. Joyous... splices Nick Drake’s pastoral euphoria with West Coast hippie harmonies... thrums like early Fairport Convention.” - Stewart Lee, Sunday Times Album Of The Week
“Like Midlake’s ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’, the results blend ancient and modern sensibilities... A well-crafted, engrossing work of the imagination.” - The Independent
“With their beautifully spun vocal harmonies, thoughtful lyrics and alluring melodies, the band recall the likes of Crosby Stills & Nash... while always keeping one foot in the ancient roots of Brit-folk.” - Uncut Magazine
TRACK LISTING
1. Come On
2. Dolphin Racing
3. Saturation
4. Pepper's Ghost
5. Jonathan
6. Walk Aboard
7. Bigger Than Us
8. Widow's Penny
9. Tom And Tracy
10. Matsui Serenade
11. Newfoundland (album Version)
12. How To Never Die
13. Stop
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- 7"
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- OSV187
- Release date
- 26 Apr '19
TRACK LISTING
Side 1: Are You Trying To Get Rid Of Me Baby - Candy & The Kisses
Side 2: Mr. Creator - Val Simpson
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- Ltd 7"
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- JL-062
- Release date
- 16 Feb '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Icho Candy muses on the struggle for the freedom over King Kong's "Agony And Pain" riddim. Its another winner from the selection of Jah Life Time reissues we've been luckily blessed with this week.TRACK LISTING
A. Free Up
B. Free Up Dub
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- LP
- £22.99
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- XSPOON9
- Release date
- 21 Jul '14
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Future Days
2. Spray
3. Moonshake
SIDE B
1. Bel Air
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- LP
- £16.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- XSPOON25
- Release date
- 21 Jul '14
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.
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- LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- FDSPOON68
- Release date
- Expected 31 May '24
- Format Info
Vinyl includes 4 page booklet.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- CDFDSPOON68
- Release date
- Expected 31 May '24
- Format Info
Includes 8 page booklet
Packaged in 4 panel card sleeve
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The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series.
This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CAN's live show.
Live In Aston follows the release of Live In Paris 1973, the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki’s vocals [“…among the greatest documents of their untouchable alchemy…” – Record Collector 5*]; Live In Brighton 1975 [“Pure dynamite… keep them coming” – MOJO]; Live in Stuttgart 1975, [Uncut’s Reissue of the Year, #2 in MOJO’s Reissues of the Year, #7 in The Wire’s Archive Reissues of the Year plus more]; and Live In Cuxhaven 1976, which again featured heavily in the Reissues of the Year.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklist
A1 Aston 77 Eins
A2 Aston 77 Zwei
B1 Aston 77 Drei
B2 Aston 77 Vier
CD Tracklist
1 Aston 77 Eins
2 Aston 77 Zwei
3 Aston 77 Drei
4 Aston 77 Vier
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- 3xColoured LP
- £30.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- SPOON64
- Release date
- 3 Dec '21
- Format Info
Gold vinyl packaged in triple gatefold sleeve, with 12” 4 page booklet.
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- CD
- £10.99
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- CDSPOON64
- Release date
- 3 Dec '21
- Format Info
6 page gatefold card pack with 16 page booklet.
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STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: There's not much I can tell you here that you won't already know.. this is the second wonderfully pressed collection from Can of live performances following 'Live In Stuttgart' that was released in May. There are very few musicians that could pull off this level of out-there musicianship, and this is a wonderful and accurate document of their live legacy. Essential.TRACK LISTING
A1 Brighton 75 Eins
A2 Brighton 75 Zwei
A3 Brighton 75 Drei
B1 Brighton 75 Vier
B2 Brighton 75 Fünf
C1 Brighton 75 Sechs
C2 Brighton 75 Sieben
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- SPOON65
- Release date
- 14 Oct '22
- Format Info
Limited curacao blue vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- CDSPOON65
- Release date
- 14 Oct '22
Originally recorded on tape, this carefully restored live album comprises the 1976 show in the format of a story with a beginning, middle and end, bringing CAN’s performance to life. The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology.
These albums have been released alongside a succession of interviews discussing the band’s live shows. The YouTube series comprise interviews with journalist/author Pascal Bussy, Mute’s Daniel Miller, music critic Nick Kent, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, and Andy Hall and René Tinner who were both involved with recording Can’s live shows.
TRACK LISTING
1. Cuxhaven 76 Eins
2. Cuxhaven 76 Zwei
3. Cuxhaven 76 Drei
4. Cuxhaven 76 Vier
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- 2xLtd LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- FDSPOON66
- Release date
- 23 Feb '24
- Format Info
Double Vinyl.
Includes audio download code.
Large format 4 page booklet with exclusive sleeve notes by journalist Wyndham Wallace.
Double Vinyl.
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- 2xCD
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- CDFDSPOON66
- Release date
- 23 Feb '24
- Format Info
Includes 12 page booklet with exclusive sleeve notes by journalist Wyndham Wallace.
Includes 12 page booklet... [ + ]
The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1973 performance in Paris and features Irmin Schmidt on keyboard & synths, Jaki Liebezeit on drums, Michael Karoli on guitars, Holger Czukay on bass, and Damo Suzuki on vocals for one of his final shows with the band.
Available on double vinyl and 2-disc CD, with exclusive sleeve notes by journalist Wyndham Wallace.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Paris 1973 sees one of the last live shows that the great Damo Suzuki did with Can, and thus sees the band in one of it's most famous shows, in the most coveted lineup. It's perfectly recorded too, and captures the band at their incendiary best. The latest in a stunning series.TRACK LISTING
A1 Paris 73 Eins (Part 1)
B1 Paris 73 Eins (Part 2)
C1 Paris 73 Zwei
C2 Paris 73 Drei
D1 Paris 73 Vier
D2 Paris 73 Fünf
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- 3xColoured LP
- £30.99
- Cat Number
- SPOON63
- Release date
- 28 May '21
- Format Info
Limited edition first pressing on orange vinyl packaged in triple gatefold sleeve, with 12” 4 page booklet that includes new extensive sleeve notes by novelist Alan Warner, archivist Andy Hall and manager Sandra Podmore Schmidt.
Includes high definition audio code.
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- 2xCD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- CDSPOON63
- Release date
- 28 May '21
- Format Info
6 page gatefold card pack with 16 page booklet that includes new extensive sleeve notes by novelist Alan Warner, archivist Andy Hall and manager Sandra Podmore Schmidt.
6 page gatefold card pack... [ + ]
Available on triple vinyl and double CD.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: There's really not much that can be said about live Can material that you wouldn't already know, but it's safe to say that this sounds superb and is the perfect recreation of a perfectly sculpted live Can show from the comfort of your own home. An intoxicating and transportive collection, and an essential document of one of the greatest Krautrock pioneers in the biz.TRACK LISTING
A1 Stuttgart 75 Eins
A2 Stuttgart 75 Zwei
B1 Stuttgart 75 Drei (Part 1)
B2 Stuttgart 75 Drei (Part 2)
C1 Stuttgart 75 Drei (Part 3)
C2 Stuttgart 75 Vier
C3 Stuttgart 75 Fünf
CD TRACKLIST
1 Stuttgart 75 Eins
2 Stuttgart 75 Zwei
3 Stuttgart 75 Drei
4 Stuttgart 75 Vier
5 Stuttgart 75 Fünf
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- XLSPOON4
- Release date
- 1 Apr '22
- Format Info
Limited edition mother sky blue vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
Limited edition mother... [ + ]
With the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart and The Velvet Underground ringing in their ears, Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt left behind their careers in academia to form the influential group in the late 60s. Together with Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and American singer Malcolm Mooney, they recorded their debut album Monster Movie in a castle near Cologne in 1968. The record was then remastered in 2004 from the original master tape for a CD release. It was overseen by Holger, Irmin and Jono Podmore to refine it to how it was always intended to be heard.
“Monster Movie is an amazing debut” Pitchfork
“Monster Movie, sounds like nothing else released in 1969 - and still acts as a template for the future” Sound Affects
“Had Can’s debut album, Monster Movie, been their only one, it would have assured their place in the history of German music and of rock as a whole” Shindig Magazine
TRACK LISTING
A1 Father Cannot Yell
A2 Mary, Mary So Contrary
A3 Outside My Door
B1 You Doo Right
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- XSPOON4
- Release date
- 30 Jun '14
Released in batches, the first albums in the series to be released are Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi.
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.
Monster Movie is the debut album of Can, recorded and released in 1969. The use of improvisation, experimentation, editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Can's subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which were seminal to the freewheeling avant-garde style dubbed "krautrock" by the British music press.
The album is credited to "The Can", a name suggested by vocalist Malcolm Mooney and adopted by democratic vote. Previously the band had been known as "Inner Space", which later became the name of their purpose-built recording studio. Some copies of the LP bore the subtitle "Made in a castle with better equipment", referring to Schloss Nörvenich, the 14th-century castle in North Rhine-Westphalia where the band recorded from 1968-69.
The 20-minute jam "Yoo Doo Right" was pared down from 6 hours' taping, while the lyrics of "Mary, Mary So Contrary" riff off of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, a popular English nursery rhyme.
Monster Movie was the only Can album on which Malcolm Mooney performed all of the vocals until Rite Time, 20 years after.
TRACK LISTING
Father Connot Yell
Mary, Mary, So Contrary
Outside My Door
Yoo Doo Right
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- 10027-2
- Release date
- 17 Oct '05
TRACK LISTING
A1: Why Don't The Pretty Women Look At Me?
A2: Shubadooba
B1: She's Got A Car
B2: King Of The Monkeys
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- LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- AC121LP
- Release date
- 9 Sep '16
*** REDUCED ***
TRACK LISTING
Book It To Fresno
Vibration Walls
Keystone Dealers
Hey Marika, Get Born
Once I Was A Runner
Nashville Late Pass
Work Out In The Wash
Money Mark
Sleeping Birds Like
Lasers
Baby’s Going Her Own
Way
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- 12"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- N4020
- Release date
- 8 Mar '24
Pete Cannon deploys an array of gatt gun amens and growling Reeses. Patrice and Sumgii both add eski synths and a shoulder-dropped grime / garage hybrid beat while Traces plays with pitch and bit reduction on a twisted mutant dancehall tweak that sounds like a boiling hot pan about to spill over.
All excellent remixes that'll keep subwoofer-driven dancefloors trembling well into the night...
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: CrRrRazy jungle ruffage by the Amiga-wielding, bass bin rattling, modern maniac Pete Cannon; who's joined by a thriplet of other contemporary underground heroes for a seriously fresh soundsystem challenger. Big T I P on this one folks!TRACK LISTING
A1. Butterfly (Pete's Amiga Re-Work)
A2. Butterfly (Patrice's VIP)
AA1. Butterfly (Traces Remix)
AA2. Butterfly (Sumgii's Gutter Flip)
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- N4014
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
Music-wise expect heavily tiimmeessttrrretched and mangled breaks, growling subs and the odd smattering of hardcore vox twisted to oblivion through the Amiga's infamous sequencing program: Tracker. It's pretty mad to think that the development of jungle was heavily indebted to this piece of software - pretty much the equivalent of when loads of working class Chicago kids discovered the 303 ten years previous. Technology can often inspire and cause serious cultural shifts (just look at the Instagram-centric world we live in today!) but back then, it all seemed so much more creative and revolutionary!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Real retrotastic jungle business here by Pete Cannon who unashamedly boasts the virtues of the Amiga's Tracker program, pivotal in the development of the genre during its embryonic phase. It's quite astonishing when you consider how limited the system was in terms of processing power, memory etc. A proper blast of innovation that's left a permanent mark on underground dance culture.TRACK LISTING
A1. Booyaka
A2. Reaching Out
AA1. Come Rude Boy
AA2. Falling
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- LP
- £24.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 746555
- Release date
- 12 Feb '21
TRACK LISTING
A1. Autumn Leaves
A2. Love For Sale
B1. Somethin' Else
B2. One For Daddy-O
B3. Dancing In The Dark
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- LP
- £19.49
- Cat Number
- TRR292LP
- Release date
- 6 Oct '17
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- TRR292CD
- Release date
- 20 Oct '17
Lasso Yo weaves those difficult personal struggles into a lyrically earnest and musically rich collection of songs. Produced, performed, and recorded by James at Taylor York's (Paramore) house, and mixed by John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Yo La Tengo, The Sea and Cake), this is not only Canon Blue's most personal record, but also his most profound. For what was undoubtedly a challenging, cathartic record to make, Lasso Yo achieves a kind of weightlessness that betrays the heavy load it carries. It' s this dichotomy that gives the album a curious magic, an unlikely transcendence spawned by an uncomfortable confrontation between James' past and present, and the new shape it gives his future.
TRACK LISTING
1 Beholden (3:52)
2. Tame Birds (4:22)
3. Dedicate (3:32)
4. Take 6 (3:23)
5. Onyx (3:34)
6. Plea Rel (4:01)
7. Carry My Weight (3:44)
8. Back In Town (4:55)
9. Germanium (4:55)
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- CD
- £9.99
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- CDSPOON51
- Release date
- 18 Aug '14
‘Out Of Reach’, ‘Can’, ‘Rite Time’, ‘Delay’ and ‘Unlimited Edition’ are the third wave in the series, following ‘Monster Movie’, ‘Soundtracks’, ‘Tago Mago’, ‘Ege Bamyasi’, ‘Future Days’, ‘Soon Over Babaluma’, ‘Landed’, ‘Flow Motion’ and ‘Saw Delight’.
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. The remastering and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator Jono Podmore. Additional titles will be released over the coming months.
‘Out Of Reach’ has been unavailable in any official format since its original release in 1978.
‘Out Of Reach’ is one of Can’s rarest, less-known albums. This is due in a large part to the fact that bassist Holger Czukay left the band and drummer Jaki Liebezeit has a reduced role, leaving most of the rhythm duties to percussionist come-lately Reebop Kwaku Baah.
As on the group’s proper swansong, 1977’s ‘Saw Delight’, new bassist Rosko Gee largely leads the group, and his jazz-inflected playing is marvellous, especially on the centrepiece improvisations ‘November’ and ‘Serpentine’.
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- LP
- £16.99
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- XSPOON29
- Release date
- 18 Aug '14
‘Out Of Reach’, ‘Can’, ‘Rite Time’, ‘Delay’ and ‘Unlimited Edition’ are the third wave in the series, following ‘Monster Movie’, ‘Soundtracks’, ‘Tago Mago’, ‘Ege Bamyasi’, ‘Future Days’, ‘Soon Over Babaluma’, ‘Landed’, ‘Flow Motion’ and ‘Saw Delight’.
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. The remastering and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator Jono Podmore. Additional titles will be released over the coming months.
‘Rite Time’ was originally released in 1986. Can got back together with original vocalist Malcolm Mooney to record again.
Revaluated as one of the classic Can albums, they show again how everything changes yet remains unmistakably Can.
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- XLSPOON5
- Release date
- 1 Apr '22
- Format Info
Limited edition clear purple vinyl edition.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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Soundtracks, a compilation of songs Can had composed for different movies, was released in 1970 before the band started work on their second album. This record said goodbye to the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who features on ‘Soul Desert’ and ‘She Brings The Rain’, to be replaced by Japanese singer Damo Suzuki. Bridging the gap between the improvisatory rock jams of their earlier recordings, Monster Movie and Delay 1968, Soundtracks also laid the foundations for their more electronic and experimental sounding work, such as Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi.
“Intricate and subtle” All Music
“Often overlooked… A good sampling of their more straightforward experiments” Pitchfork
TRACK LISTING
A1 Deadlock
A2 Tango Whiskyman
A3 Deadlock
A4 Don't Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone
A5 Soul Desert
B1 Mother Sky
B2 She Brings The Rain
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- LP
- £22.99
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- XSPOON5
- Release date
- 16 Jun '14
Released in batches, the first albums in the series to be released are Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi.
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.
Soundtracks is a compilation album, first released in 1970, consisting of tracks written for film.
The album marks the departure of the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to be replaced by new member Damo Suzuki.
"She Brings the Rain", originally appearing in the 1969 film Bottom – Ein großer, graublauer Vogel by Thomas Schamoni, was later featured in Wim Wenders' 1994 film Lisbon Story, the 2000 Oskar Roehler film Die Unberührbare and Tran Anh Hung's film Norwegian Wood, released in 2010.
"Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" features Damo Suzuki's first recorded performance with Can.
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Mother Sky" at number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
TRACK LISTING
Deadlock
Tango Whiskyman
Deadlock (Instrumental)
Don't Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone
Soul Desert
Mother Sky
She Brings The Rain
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- 2xLP
- £25.99
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- XSPOON6_7
- Release date
- 23 Jun '14
Released in batches, the first albums in the series to be released are Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi.
The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.
A “landmark release in the history of rock ‘n’ roll” – MOJO Honours List winner of Classic Album Award
“stunning” – John Lydon “sounds only like itself, like no-one before or after” – Julian Cope
“mind expanding” – Q
“The music was like nothing I'd ever heard before, not American, not rock & roll but mysterious and European." – Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream
Of all the band’s oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon, Radiohead, The Fall, Ariel Pink, Fuck Buttons, Sonic Youth, Factory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age. Just last week Geoff Barrow (Portishead) mentioned Can as his favourite and most inspiring band ever (The Quietus).
Tago Mago the first album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, features the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and was recorded at Schloss Nörvenich in 1971.
TRACK LISTING
Paperhouse
Mushroom
Oh Yeah
Halleluwah
Aumgn
Peking O.
Bring Me Coffee Or Tea
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- CD
- £9.99
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- WARPCD219
- Release date
- 12 Sep '11
Soon after finishing work on 'Forget', Taylor and Lewis turned their attention to 'Dreams Come True'. The pair wrote and recorded most of the material in a week and a half in a bedroom connected to the former Allaire Studios, where Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest was recorded. Terrible Records was founded by Taylor in 2009 with Ethan Silverman to devote more time to working with emerging artists.
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- CD
- £9.99
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- MEX1982
- Release date
- 9 Feb '15
Using a friend's reel to reel tape player, Cantu employed electric guitar, modular synthesizer, drum machine and concrète sounds from his surroundings at the Headlands, recorded while walking to the studio, cooking in the kitchen, talking with friends, the ocean, films he was watching, driving in a car. Everything was record stereo to tape.
The result is gorgeous, haunting and sprawling. A companion to his last full length LP, Love is A Stream, (Type, 2010), 13 Moons, is a dense, swirling mass.
TRACK LISTING
1: The Last Time I Saw Your Face
2: Love After Love
3: Disappear
4: Mirror Of Past & Future
5: Interiors
6: Pale Flower
7: The Twins / Shadows
8: Agate Beach
9: The Spree
10: Early Autumn
11: A Portrait Of You At Nico's Grave, Grunewald, Berlin (For Bill K.)
12: Remembering
13: Görlitzer Park
14: Along The Isar
15: At The End Of Spring
16: Remains
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- Ltd LP
- £16.99
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- MEX2121
- Release date
- 16 Jun '17
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- MEX2122
- Release date
- 16 Jun '17
TRACK LISTING
1. In A Copse
2. A Song Of Summer
3. Echoing Green
4. The Faun
5. Tenderness
6. Vulgar Latin
7. Autumn
8. Dancers At The Spring
9. Door To Night
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- Ltd LP
- £16.99
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- MEX2121
- Release date
- 16 Jun '17
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- MEX2122
- Release date
- 16 Jun '17
TRACK LISTING
1. In A Copse
2. A Song Of Summer
3. Echoing Green
4. The Faun
5. Tenderness
6. Vulgar Latin
7. Autumn
8. Dancers At The Spring
9. Door To Night
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- LP
- £15.99
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- MEX2561
- Release date
- 26 Jul '19
- Includes MP3 Download Code.
TRACK LISTING
1. Palace Of Time
2. Joy
3. Tracing Back The Radiance
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- 12"
- £8.49
- Cat Number
- OBSC003
- Release date
- 8 Jun '15
EP title track 'Love' is packed with harpsichords, synthesisers and electronic flourishes, coming across like some amazing future-retro psych-folk experiment. The collection of tracks follows two years on the road across Europe for Canty, with the five songs written and recorded in the home studio of producer and Obscenic Records chief Joe Wills.
TRACK LISTING
Love
Deborah
Strangers
Putney Bridge
Burning Alive
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- Ltd 12"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- WOLF100
- Release date
- 26 Feb '07
- Format Info
Back in again!!!! Limited edition with a free copy of the EP on CD.
Back in again!!!! Limited... [ + ]
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- 2xLP
- £44.99
- Cat Number
- LMLP144
- Release date
- Expected 6 Sep '24
Release date: Expected 6 Sep '24
24 tracks have been specially mastered for vinyl and will be pressed onto traditional black heavyweight discs. These are housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, with sleeve artwork by Capcom.
The game’s composition team, led by long-time Resident Evil contributor Masami Ueda, also includes Kota Suzuki, Takayasu Sodeoka, Azusa Kato, Ryo Koike, Takumi Saito and Saori Maeda. The score revels in the anxious, atmospheric tension that only Resident Evil titles can generate. This is punctuated by pulsing action cues guaranteed to get the heart racing; and some nostalgic 1999 themes are revisited.
TRACK LISTING
1. A New Threat Is Born
2. Escape
3. The City Of Chaos
4. Coming To Kill You
5. The City Of Ruin
6. Nemesis' Theme
7. Desperate Ascent
8. Free From Fear
9. Fighting In The Flames
10. No Other Way
11. The City Without Hope
12. Invincible Nemesis
13. Battle Against The Beast
14. Save Room
15. Surrounded By Terror
16. Determined To Find Carlos
17. Laboratory
18. Chase
19. Metamorphosis
20. Take Back The Vaccine
21. Every Mistake Has A Cost
22. The End Of Raccoon City
23. Sadness And Regret
24. Staff & Credits
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- CD
- £5.99
- Cat Number
- HAUS039CD
- Release date
- 9 Apr '01
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- HAUS043
- Release date
- 10 Sep '01
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- 12"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- RSWING013
- Release date
- 26 Jul '19
The two tracker opens with the frankly sublime "Black Flower", a fireside concoction of Methany-style acoustic guitars, detailed percussion and a stoned groove perfect for summer evenings and simple times...and if that didn't sound good enough, the dreamy vocal puts the cherry in your lambic. On B-side beauty "Into The Woods" we move even further into Methany territory with delicate guitars enjoying a snake hipped 5/4 while the gentle bossa rhythm dances into the sunset.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Black Flower
B1. Into The Woods
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- CT277CD
- Release date
- 14 Sep '18
Captured Tracks is thrilled to announce the reissue of Capital Punishment’s 1982 sole LP Roadkill. For a band of high school weirdos who actually got their shit together enough to make a completely uncommercial album with no means to sell it shows a lot of determination, persistence and perhaps insanity. But it’s always those kinds of weirdos who go on to do great things – just ask Judge Peter Swann, Professor Peter Zusi, Kriss Roebling and Ben Stiller
TRACK LISTING
01. Necronomicon
02. Roadkill
03. Confusion
04. Muzak Anonymous
05. All Just In Passing
06. Delta Time
07. Creatures Of The Dark (Night)
08. Cosmos
09. John’s Forgotten Land (Parts 1, 2, & 3)
10. Necronomicon (Reprise)
11. Waiting To See You
12. Helen
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- LP
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- DIS127V
- Release date
- 25 Mar '02
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- CD
- £7.99
- Cat Number
- DIS127CD
- Release date
- 25 Mar '02
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- Ltd LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- FAI014
- Release date
- 10 Aug '18
- Format Info
Ltd laquer cut, screen print sleeve. Artwork by Chris Bianchi, printed at Heretic.
Ltd laquer cut, screen... [ + ]
This latest work was developed and recorded in his native Malta, where he built a studio in a cave (a former goat stable). K gathered bamboo instruments collected around the world, including an ancient Quecha reeded pipe (his new-found lead instrument), and various resonating vessels and percussive objects including dry fennel storks collected from Punic troglodyte sites, and atonal flutes built from fresh cut farmland reed. Ritualistic improvisations took place over a series of seasonal visits, awakening genetic memory and plant communication. Back in London the tracks were interfaced and expanded with post-industrial machine beat and bass guitar lock down. Homage is paid to New Age synthscapes, while a spirit jazz overtone arrives from K's recent years as the sonic muscle behind a plethora of luminous albums born in his Total Refreshment Studio. Goatherder follows on from the 2016 collaborative incarnation "Loose Meat" and sonically abridges 2012's Capitol K album "Andean Dub".
TRACK LISTING
1. Goatherder 3:34
2. Landlocked 4:00
3. Building Fire 4:27
4. Swirling Torrents 3:15
5. Fennel Dance 2:45
6. Field Walk 3:04
7. Island Is Ransacked 2:16
8. Sunset 2:29
9. Plant Communication 3:51
10. Collective Farming 4:09
11. Lament 2:09
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- CD
- £10.99
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- FAI007CD
- Release date
- 8 Sep '08
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- Ltd CDS
- £1.99
- Cat Number
- SOE1
- Release date
- 12 Jan '09
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- CDS
- £1.99
- Cat Number
- SOE002
- Release date
- 13 Jul '09
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- COWEIGHTLPX
- Release date
- 5 Apr '24
- Format Info
Limited marble vinyl.
Includes a full size poster.
Limited marble vinyl.[ + ]
“It’s good to change up the diet here and there, but I felt strongly that sticking to menudo in the studio would help us achieve the acoustic terroir we were after,” said Capps. “The Only Hipsters and I are all San Antonio guys, and I wanted the music to reflect that. Tex-Mex in the left ear and T-bone steaks in the right ear.” With Songs like “Born in San Antone,” Capps and The Only Hipsters hope to serve up a solid portion of South Texas timbre, complete with heavy steel guitar, accordion, violin, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, bass and drums in various arrangements. This record holds an esteemed spot in Texas cosmic-country releases.
TRACK LISTING
Bitchin
She Likes Doom Metal
No Reason
Road For Days
Some Times
Don’t Come Around Here
Runnin’ Back
Born In San Antone
Mr. Pike
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands
Magneticism II - The Very Best Of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands
Viper
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- CD
- £9.99
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- VIPERCD135
- Release date
- 27 Sep '19
Led by California's enigmatic singer/songwriter: Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), his various Magic Bands were faithful in their pursuit to realise his musical visions. ‘live’ they always shone and these joyously, unforgettable performances make this a truly important collection of work, showing a unique and innovative ring master directing his collaborators in staggering form to ecstatic crowds.
These recordings also give a broad scope of the Captain’s catalogue of work with material from the beginning of his career right up to his final compositions - reminding us today why he is still regarded as one of the most important and influential musician/artists of the Twentieth Century. To quote the Captain: 'If you got ears- you gotta listen'..........
TRACK LISTING
CD VERSION
1 Old Folks Boogie 1966
2 St James Infirmary1966
3 Evil ( Is Going On ) 1966
4 Carson City Poem 1977
5 Dali’s Car 1977
6 Abba Zaba 1977
7 Electricity 1977
8 China Pig 1977
9 Click Clack 1977
10 Harry Irene 1978
11 Well 1978
12 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 1978
13 The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back. 1980
14 Nowaday’s A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man 1981
15 Hot Head 1981
16 Ashtray Heart 1981
VINYL VERSION
SIDE 1
Old Folks Boogie 1966
St James Infirmary 1966
Evil ( Is Going On ) 1966
Carson City Poem 1977
Dali’s Car 1977
China Pig 1977
SIDE 2
Click Clack 1977
Harry Irene 1978
Her Eyes Are Blue A Million Miles 1978
Nowaday’s A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man 1981
Hot Head 1981
Ashtray Heart 1981
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- 2xColoured LP
- £22.99
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- OZITDANLP8026
- Release date
- 29 Apr '16
- Format Info
180 gram orange vinyl.
180 gram orange vinyl.
The players : Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)- Vocals, Mouth Harp / Winged Eel Fingerling- guitar / Ella Guru Davidson -guitars / Drumbo- guitar / drums / Jimmy Carl Black (introduced as Indian Ink) -drums / Bruce 'fossil' Fowler - trombone.
TRACK LISTING
1. Moonlight On Vermont
2. Abba Zabba
3. Band Introduction
4. Orange Claw Hammer
5. Dali's Car
6. When It Blows It Stacks
7. My Human Gets Me Blues
8. Alice In Blunderland
9. Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones
10. Gimme Dat Harp Boy
11. Electricity
12. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
13. Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (CD Only)
14. Improvisation (CD Only)
15. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (CD Only)
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- 2xLP
- £32.99
- Cat Number
- MOVLP343
- Release date
- 22 Jun '15
- Format Info
180g vinyl.
180g vinyl.
With backup from the first, and perhaps finest, incarnation of Beefheart's legendary Magic Band (including future solo star Ry Cooder on guitar and teenage drum prodigy John "Drumbo" French), and production from future studio superstar Richard Perry, Beefheart unveils his fully-formed sound and vision on such landmark tracks as "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Abba Zaba," "Dropout Boogie," "I'm Glad" and "Electricity".
This Music On Vinyl edition includes a whole extra album featuring 7 bonus tracks.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do
2. Zig Zag Wanderer
3. Call On Me
4. Dropout Boogie
5. I'm Glad
6. Electricity
Side B
1. Yellow Brick Road
2. Abba Zaba
3. Plastic Factory
4. Where There's Woman
5. Grown So Ugly
6. Autumn's Child
Side C
1. Safe As Milk (Take 5)
2. On Tomorrow
3. Big Black Baby Shoes
4. Flower Pot
Side D
1. Dirty Blue Gene
2. Trust Us (Take 9)
3. Korn Ring Finger
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- HAUS059
- Release date
- 23 Jun '03
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- 12"
- £18.99
- Cat Number
- 3219845
- Release date
- 26 Aug '22
The EP features vocal contributions from the band, Dolly Mixture and engineer John Loder’s young daughter Tash. Penny Rimbaud, who wrote the lyrics for the first track, ‘What D'Ya Give’, features on drums throughout.
Tongue-in-cheek and also raw, the EP represents a pivotal moment when two of punk’s original trailblazers joined forces. First released on 7” vinyl, limiting the sound, the new repressing has been remastered for 12” at Abbey Road Studios, allowing this release to be heard as never before.
This, plus enlarged replicas of the original covers, brings new gusto to the already radical sound.
TRACK LISTING
(What D'Ya Give) The Man Who's Gotten Everything?
Oursouls To You
The Russians Are Coming
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- Cassette
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- NUNSC001
- Release date
- 6 Jul '15
The digital download that accompanies the cassette also includes some exclusive tracks and bonus content plus all the individual tracks.
TRACK LISTING
A1. The Ocean Inside
A2. The Ocean Inside Pt 2
A3. Celestial Dubs
B1. Silver Scene
B2. Moon Mist
B3. Ice Fur Ice
B4. Sunset Shadows
B5. Wind Blows
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- 2xLP
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- OLE2028LP
- Release date
- 8 Dec '23
The three night residency is captured on Faces From The Masquerade - a double album’s worth of live performances that finds Car Seat Headrest at their most playful, exuberant and precision honed. The title alludes to the by now familiar, custom-made gas mask worn by frontman Will Toledo at shows, complete with an expressive LED display for eyes. In addition to the group’s four core members - Toledo, guitarist/backing vocalist Ethan Ives, bassist Seth Dalby and drummer Andrew Katz - they were joined on the tour by keyboard player Ben Roth.
TRACK LISTING
1. Crows
2. Weightlifters
3. Fill In The Blank
4. Hymn
5. Hollywood
6. Bodys
7. Something Soon
8. 1937 State Park
9. Sober To Death
10. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
11. It’s My Child (I’ll Do What I Like)
12. Can’t Cool Me Down
13. Beach Life-In-Death
14. Deadlines
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- LP
- £19.99
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- OLE10881
- Release date
- 30 Oct '15
This prolific artist (also known as Will Toledo) comes to Matador having already crafted an 11-album catalogue of staggering depth, all self-released digitally, gaining him an obsessive following and over 25,000 downloads - all without the muscle of a manager, label, agent, or publicist - until now.
Car Seat Headrest began in 2010 in Will Toledo’s hometown of Leesburg, Virginia. Needing a place of solitude (and soundproofing) where he could record vocals undisturbed, a 17-year-old Toledo set up shop in the family car. Toledo’s catalogue is sharp, literary and culturally omnivorous as it touches upon youth and death, love and depression, drunken parties and 2nd Century theologian. Ever surprising, his lyrical imagery ranges from playful to sexually frank to sorrowful, often within the same song.
After relocating to the Seattle suburbs in 2014, Toledo assembled a line up with bassist Ethan Ives and drummer Andrew Katz. ‘Teens Of Style’ is the first Car Seat Headrest album recorded with a full band and the sound is vibrant and powerful with a wide stylistic range.
On ‘Teens Of Style’ Toledo has taken material from the first three years of the band’s existence and reworked it to generate some of the most realized arrangements to date. Drawing material from ‘3’ (2010), ‘My Back Is Killing Me Baby’ (2011) and ‘Monomania’ (2012), ‘Teens Of Style’ provides a concise overview of the band’s many sonic and emotional facets, with the songs ranging from electronic psychedelia to punky anthems to melancholic acoustic numbers.
The longest track on ‘Teens Of Style’, ‘Times To Die’ is just under seven minutes, applying breakbeat cut-ups and ‘Low Rider’ horns to a groove-driven neo-psych jam with lyrics about Judaism, Hinduism and the record business. Similarly, ‘Maud Gone’ is a wistful 60s-inspired pop number paying homage to Yeats’ unrequited love, while the intricate party track ‘Los Borrachos’ borrows its title from the Diego Velasquez painting.
Car Seat Headrest’s conceptual ambition and stunning songwriting has been apparent since its early days of laptop recording, the scale of Toledo’s vision going far beyond the constricting ‘lo-fi’ term. Now on his Matador Records debut we witness Toledo presenting his intricate ideas with more clarity and refinement than ever, delivering an enthralling collection of songs destined for wide acclaim.
“Toledo’s commitment to giving listeners a direct line to his inner monologue is the kind of thing that inspires hardcore fanhood - the ability to get lost in Toledo’s work is the entire point.” - Pitchfork
“Crazy impressive - catchy, thoughtful, and inventive” - Brooklyn Vegan
“A major new talent… his music is beguiling and easy to get lost in” - NME
TRACK LISTING
Sunburned Shirts
The Drum
Something Soon
No Passion
Times To Die
Psst, Teenagers, Take Off your Clo
Strangers
Maud Gone
Los Borrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left, But the Weather Is Nice)
Bad Role Models, Old Idols Exhumed (psst, teenagers, Put Your clothes Back O)
Oh! Starving
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- CD
- £9.99
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- OLE1571CD
- Release date
- 1 May '20
In this way, Making A Door Less Open sees Toledo embarking on new and imaginative roads to songwriting and recording, placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own “special energy,” rather than attempting to draw a coherent storyteller narrative through the album as he has in the past , resulting in his most dynamic and open-ended work to date.
Comprised of Will Toledo, Andrew Katz (drums), Ethan Ives (guitar) and Seth Dalby (bass), Car Seat Headrest has either released 11 or three albums to date, depending on the way you look at it. A prolific songwriter, Toledo took his moniker from making early recordings in the private environment of his family’s car, releasing a dozen self-recorded and produced albums on Bandcamp and building a tight-knit following. Toledo has since gone from an empty five-seater to selling out tours and filling festival main stages. 2015’s Teens of Style was a collection of songs from his early years. The band’s proper Matador debut, Teens of Denial, followed in 2016 and catapulted them to overnight commercial success and widespread critical acclaim, as well as highlighting Toledo as a prodigious lyricist. 2018’s Twin Fantasy, an epic re-imagination of an album originally released in 2011, demonstrated newfound scale, depth and ambition.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl
Weightlifters
Can’t Cool Me Down
Hollywood
There Must Be More Than Blood
Hymn
Deadlines
Martin
What’s With You Lately
Life Worth Missing
Famous
CD
Weightlifters
Can’t Cool Me Down
Hollywood
Martin
Hymn (Remix)
There Must Be More Than Blood
Deadlines
What’s With You Lately
Life Worth Missing
Famous
Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic)
Hollywood (Acoustic)
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- LP
- £23.99
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- OLE10910
- Release date
- 15 Jul '16
On Denial, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor. By turns tender and caustic, empathetic and solipsistic, literary and vernacular, profound and profane, self-loathing and self-aggrandizing, he conjures a specifically 21st century mindset, a product of information overload, the loneliness it can foster, and the escape music can provide.
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Barry says: Boisterous and catchy college-rock anthems with a nod to melancholic folk, skate-punk and everything in between. Teens of Denial is a further expansion of singer-songwriter Will Toledo's already extensive back catalogue. Exciting and heartfelt, and another fantastic outing for Car Seat Headrest.TRACK LISTING
1. Fill In The Blank
2. Vincent
3. Destroyed By Hippie Powers
4. (Joe Gets Kicked Out Of School For Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't A Problem)
5. Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed
6. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
7. 1937 State Park
8. Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An)
9. Cosmic Hero
10. The Ballad Of The Costa Concordia
11. Connect The Dots (The Saga Of Frank Sinatra)
12. Joe Goes To School
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- 16 Feb '18
On the heels of the smashing success of Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest will release a new version of Twin Fantasy. “It was never a finished work,” Will says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound.
It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Will, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those apologies to future me’s and you’s, there is more forgiveness than fury.
This, Will says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.
TRACK LISTING
2CD TRACKLISTING
CD1 (TWIN FANTASY)
My Boy (Twin Fantasy)
Beach Life-In-Death
Stop Smoking (We Love You)
Sober To Death
Nervous Young Inhumans
Bodys
Cute Thing
High To Death
Famous Prophets (Stars)
Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)
CD2 (TWIN FANTASY - MIRROR TO MIRROR)
My Boy (Twin Fantasy)
Beach Life-In-Death
Stop Smoking
Sober To Death
Nervous Young Inhumans
Bodys
Cute Thing
High To Death
Famous Prophets (Minds)
Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)
2LP TRACKLISTING
My Boy (Twin Fantasy)
Beach Life-In-Death
Stop Smoking (We Love You)
Sober To Death
Nervous Young Inhumans
Bodys
Cute Thing
High To Death
Famous Prophets (Stars)
Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)
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- £24.99
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- TR501LP
- Release date
- 21 Jan '22
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- £12.99
- Cat Number
- TR501
- Release date
- 21 Jan '22
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- TR498
- Release date
- 21 Jan '22
The eponymous debut album Carambolage, produced by Rio Reiser and R.P.S. Lanrue in the summer of 1980 and released on the Scherben label David Volksmund Produktion, could not be constrained by NDW marketing concepts. Instead, the disc was defined by its "colossal, inventive sound" which fed on Elfie's curiously autodidactic "Fantasiegriffen" guitar style and her "Fresenhagen sparrow" voice, counter-balanced by Angie's organ and inimitable basslines and energized by Britta's relentless drumming. Backed by quirky organ and ragged drums, Elfie spits her lyrics with emphatic simplicity. Once her words are in your head, they stay there.
Tracks like "Die Farbe war Mord" hint at a sense of feminist awareness. Carambolage may not have coined the phrase, but "lipstick feminism" became a thing, consciously playing with feminine clichés and hammering them home in performative fashion, rather than boxing them off. Towards the end of the record, vocals and sound are transcended in the monotone shimmer of "22 rue Chenoise". In the words of Carambolage's "City-Großmarkt" song: "So, ladies and semen, are you ready? Time to go shopping." Their sound was not the only aspect of the group which resulted from experimental tinkering. Keen to have their own space, away from a male-dominated environment, they used cardboard and carpets to build their own practice room inside an old grain silo. Strictly out of reach of the Scherben.
It's fair to say that Carambolage helped to shape the DIY approach which the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s would emulate. Forty years later, it's still mostly men standing on festival stages, but the Carambolage story ought not be consigned to the shelves marked nostalgia. On the contrary, it is a thread which most definitely needs to be picked up. As Julie Miess, who later joined Christiane Rösinger and Britta in the Lassie Singers offshoot Britta (the band) noted so succinctly in her Carambolage text (›Damaged Goods‹, Ventil Verlag): "Role models every seven-year-old girl should have!"
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- 21 Jan '22
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- TR499
- Release date
- 21 Jan '22
The baby was always on board when Carambolage went on tour. The idea of her father Kai Sichtermann (Scherben bass player) taking her on tour would have been too much even for the left-leaning alternative Ton Steine Scherben. Making a mockery of male privilege, Carambolage delivered an album orbiting punk and pop in a classic line-up: Britta on drums, Elfie's snotty vocals and effects-drenched guitar and keyboards, Angie on bass. The trio is augmented by Janett's screeching saxophone on the instrumental track "Maschine" and a squeaky baby sample (Lisa?). "I Remember You" brings proceedings to a close in something approaching Schlager*
Caramel 3000 / Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties / Pedro Bertho / My Friend Dario
File Under Balearic Gabba
Hell Yeah Recordings
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- HYR7275
- Release date
- 3 Nov '23
First up is Daniel Klein better known as SIRS, a Berlin-based mainstay with releases on the likes of Live At Robert Johnson. His cut of 'Super Rapido' is a dubbed-out blend of kosmiche chug and tropical percussion. Tumbling synth sequences bring extra colour as the groove builds over nine irresistible minutes.
Then comes Japanese downtempo master Calm with his Mellow Mellow Acid Dub of Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties's 'Sometimes' which is a nostalgic acid daydream and the perfect sunset soundtrack. Melancholic moods and lazy drums sink you in deep as the gentle acoustic guitars keep you afloat.
Label regular and Internasjonal and International Feel associate Fee Fly then comes through with an Estatico Danzante Remix of Pedro Bertho's 'Tornei' feat Mariana Gehring and takes us to the stars on twinkling keys, dusty breakbeats and steamy, worldly vocals that glow as warm as a setting sun.
Last of all is New York maestro and Loose Control Band member DJ Spun with his It's Rong Remix of My Friend Dario's 'Acid Mosquito in a Summer Night'. It finds him serving up a nine-minute excursion into jungle humidity with tribal percussion and jumbled bongos all run through with a spooky and primeval lead synth over lurching drum breaks.
The File Under Balearic Gabba EP brings a whole new dimension to wonky dance floor workouts.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Caramel 3000 - Super Rapido (SIRS Cut)
A2. Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties - Sometimes Remember (Calm's Mellow Mellow Acid Dub)
B1. Pedro Bertho - Tornei (feat Mariana Gehring - Feel Fly Estatico Danzante Remix)
B2. My Friend Dario - Acid Mosquito In A Summer Night (DJ Spun It's Rong Remix)
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- £8.99
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- 882 980 2
- Release date
- 5 Mar '01
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- CD
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- 882 968 2
- Release date
- 5 Mar '01
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- LP
- £27.99
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- 0801680
- Release date
- 1 Nov '19
In The Land Of Grey And Pink - 1LP vinyl repress of this progressive rock classic from Caravan described by Mojo magazine as “the quintessential Canterbury album”.Caravan are one of the UK’s most acclaimed UK progressive rock bands, active since the late 1960s. This is their third studio album released in 1971 when they were signed to the Decca/Deram label and is considered a high-point of the band’s career. Rolling Stone listed the album as No. 34 on their list of “50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time” saying it evoked “a Middle Earth sunset, with the music wavering between medieval folk melodies and jazz-savvy musos”. According to AllMusic, the album is “one of the most beloved, and eccentric prog albums of them all” and “probably Caravan’s finest hour”.
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- Ltd 7"
- £13.99
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- SJR304-7
- Release date
- 26 Nov '21
Chuck Carbo’s ‘Can I Be Your Squeeze’, backed with ‘Take Care Your Homework Friend’, are two of the most infectious break-heavy funk party tunes you will ever hear, written and produced by the legendary Eddie Bo and featuring the awesome syncopated drums of the phenomenal New Orleans drummer James Black.
TRACK LISTING
Can I Be Your Squeeze
Take Care Your Homework Friend
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- Ltd LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- HEG-002
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
Coming out 14 years after their self-titled debut, highly recommended for fans of Robbie Basho, Steve Reich or John Fahey.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Makila Da Eroa
A2. Apakipo
A3. Laboa Grúas Y Andamiaje
B1. Aries Resurrection
B2. Sano Bueltatu Maitia
B3. Ciervo, Burro, Txitxarro
B4. Fiona
B5. En Ese Muro De Piedra
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- LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- MOSH018FDR
- Release date
- 8 Jan '21
TRACK LISTING
Reek Of Putrefaction
Exhume To Consume
Excoriating Abdominal Emanation
Ruptured In Purulence
Empathological Necroticism
Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment
Swarming Vulgar Mass Of Infected Virulency
Cadaveric Incubator Of Endo Parasites
Slash Dementia
Crepitating Bowel Erosion
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- CD
- £8.49
- Cat Number
- KONG003CD
- Release date
- 12 Mar '12
Boasting a heavier, more progressive sound than on previous excursions, ‘Providence’ captures the intensity of the band’s visceral live performances whilst also offering brooding, fragile guitar pieces which provide brief respite amongst the chaos. Drawing on the raw aggression of acts such as Converge and Neurosis, whilst still accommodating the slow-burning intent of previous post-rock influences like Slint and Mogwai, Caretaker have produced a record that truly represents the full scope of their sound
TRACK LISTING
1. Thousand Yard Stare
2. Martinet
3. Hellion
4. Impasse
5. Providence
6. Rook
7. What We Have We Hold
8. The Outpost
9. Pariah
10. The Upper Air
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- LP
- £5.99
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- JAG191LP
- Release date
- 14 May '12
You will find the familiar S. Carey modern classical repetition pushed into the vernacular of electronic music and beat making. This is the warmest electronic music you'll ever know. The beats swing, stutter and pulse while each instrument retains a heightened awareness of its form and function within the larger family of voices.
Each of Hoyas’ songs has its own personality, each part inseparable from the body, and while the results might be surprising to some, they shouldn't be.
S. Carey has historically illustrated a very rare breadth as an artist, not only as a member of Bon Iver, but on recordings of his own, whether from his debut full-length, ‘All We Grow’, performing cover songs, or in remix work.
With Hoyas, Carey's uncontainable talent is hard at work exhibiting some of the deeper colour palettes that music can offer. But most impressively, Carey's talent can now be seen to be growing by leaps and bounds. His range as a singer is progressing into much bolder territories, as evidenced not only on Hoyas’ albums but on the Bon Iver at AIR Studios recordings, where just his voice, Justin Vernon's voice and two pianos mesh perfectly to create an unforgettable performance for the ages.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- JAG311CD
- Release date
- 23 Feb '18
Trained in jazz, Carey’s astute musicianship has never been in question nor taken for granted, and the execution of Hundred Acres’ new ideas is seamless. He intentionally unburdened himself from a more complicated instrumentation palate for these ten songs, and, in effect, this modification to his approach brings the content of the work much closer to a living reality. By giving equal status to the indifference of nature and the concerns of a material world -- while employing more pop-oriented structures instead of the Steve Reich- or Talk Talk-ian repetitions of his past work -- a new balance is struck that creates something unique. This in turn provides equal status for the feeling that created each song, and the feeling each song creates. Almost impossibly, there is more air between the bars; Carey and his contributors sway like treetops in the wind, remaining flexible enough that they never threaten to break.
TRACK LISTING
1. Rose Petals
2. Hideout
3. Yellowstone
4. True North
5. Emery
6. Hundred Acres
7. More I See
8. Fool’s Gold
9. Have You Stopped To Notice
10. Meadow Song
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- LP
- £13.99
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- JAG264LP
- Release date
- 16 Feb '15
With ‘Supermoon’, Carey has broken these songs down to their essential, acoustic parts with his forever humming vocals laid over top, lilting yet percussive piano and a subtle swath of harmonic strings. You can hear Carey's breath between words and the pat of his fingers on the keys; you can hear the living room in which his family’s baby grand piano sits. These songs are beautiful, intimate and so potently personal. This collection is a stark presentation of S. Carey laid bare, an open invitation for the listener to climb into his world.
One particularly poignant piece is the re-imagined ‘Range Of Light’ closer, ‘Neverending Fountain’, perhaps an apt metaphor for the life of the songs themselves. Says Carey, “The longer you spend with a song, the more you can see it in its pure form.”
‘Supermoon’ also features a heartrending cover of ‘Bullet Proof.. I Wish I Was’ from Radiohead’s classic album ‘The Bends’ and a new song, the EP’s namesake, ‘Supermoon’, which takes its inspiration, like much of Carey’s work, from the natural world around him.
Another source of inspiration quoted by Carey is the excitement of working out arrangements for pre-existing songs on the spot, for various sessions on tour. He brought that spirit to the recording of ‘Supermoon’, which took place over the course of a single weekend.
Already known as an artist of impeccable craft, S. Carey worked with longtime friends and collaborators (Mike Noyce played viola, Zach Hanson engineered, mixed and mastered) to add a chapter to the still unfolding story of Sean Carey as an artist. We can hear the songwriting, singing and performance for what it truly is; understated, true and pure beauty.
S. Carey is the project of Sean Carey of Bon Iver.
‘Supermoon’ is available exclusively to independent retailers and is limited to 200 copies for the UK and Eire.
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- JAG423LP-C1
- Release date
- 22 Apr '22
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- 22 Apr '22
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- £10.99
- Cat Number
- JAG423CD
- Release date
- 22 Apr '22
In Break Me Open, I confronted darkness, I wrote about fear, I looked at love from different angles, I left it all out on the field. These past couple years have been the hardest of my life: full of grief, loss, and change. I feel like I had two choices. I could run from life, turn away, grow cold, resort to drugs, run and keep running. Or, I could give myself a deep look within. I could dig deep where the pain lives, where fear is festering, to try shed a new skin and come back a better person.Everyone is so far from perfect.This is not a “divorce” album. And while going through that has shook me to my core, leaving me at times, wondering who I am, and where to go, this record is bigger. It’s about love - past, present, and future. It’s about fatherhood - the overwhelming feeling of deep love for my kids and the melancholy of watching them grow up right before my eyes. It’s about accepting my faults and wrongdoings, exposing myself, and trying to know myself better than I did the day before. But above the darkness, it’s a message of hope, honesty, and growth. It’s a call to be vulnerable: Break Me Open.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: 'Break Me Open' is rich with Carey's faultless mastery of melody and tender instrumentation, it is both melancholic and hopeful in equal measure. With perfectly pitched vocals reminiscent of Bon Iver and grand instrumentation that wouldn't sound out of place on Sigur Ros' Takk, What's not to love?TRACK LISTING
SIDE A:
1. Dark
2. Starless
3. Sunshower
4. Island
5. Waking Up
SIDE B:
6. Desolate
7. Paralyzed
8. Where I Was
9. Break Me Open
10. Crestfallen
[3:30] as a full body of work is not just a digitally distorted camero with the gas pedal to the floor going through a time warp. It is dynamic and almost peaceful at times. With tracks like “Phosphor” and “Node” where you find yourself lost in an ambient sound scape of breathed gesters and things off in the distance. I admire Jeff’s way of knowing when to hold back or be minimal in his approach while yet still having some sort of rage you can’t quite pinpoint but you know it’s there and you can feel it and it’s about to burst and you like it.
I have seen Jeff live countless times. I got a chance to see him at one of his most recent performances at Club K where he performed a few of these new tracks live. Being a drummer for over 15 years I tend to latch onto the rhythm of any song I hear. Even in noise I somehow subconsciously makeup a beat I bop my head up and down to. I noticed that I didn’t have to magically make an esoteric drum section for Jeff’s performance. It was already there. Tracks like “1001″ make you feel as a drummer or drum machine is being forced through a grinder with a distortion pedal in the chain.
It’s a very purifying experience listening to Jeff Carey‘s works on [3:30]. It’s not for everyone.. But, it sure is hell for noise enthusiasts like me. But, hey.. If you’ve never listened to a “noise” artist before or haven’t gotten down with that scene. Try it out. You might just like this one." - Gutter Magazine.
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- JAG181CD
- Release date
- 30 Aug '10
"All We Grow" is a convergence of Carey's Waltz For Debby-era Bill Evans inflected jazz tendencies, and traditional rock band experience, taking leads from Mark Hollis' Talk Talk. It also retests the waters of modern classical composition, investigating the moodiness generated by percussive repetition in a manner familiar to fans of Steve Reich. In his downtime on tour with Bon Iver, Sean would spend time pining for his soul-mate's arms, and in that context, dreaming and composing. During infrequent tour breaks at home he would patiently record these pieces, adding layers each time. Two years later, the parts converged to make an album.
For as much room to breathe as Carey allows his compositions, there are incredibly dynamic moments of bombast held right next to moments of subtle depth and texture. Engineered by Jaime Hansen and Brian Joseph, intermittently at home and at April Base (Justin Vernon's studio outside Eau Claire), "All We Grow" is an all-encompassing headphone experience as intimate as chamber music and as ambitious as a symphony. A classic album born without expectation and met with adoration - a cathartic result of Carey's extraordinary and vibrant life experiences that resonates loss, dreams and heart in a manner so instantly relatable, you feel as though you can touch it.
STAFF COMMENTS
Darryl says: Being a band member of Bon Iver has clearly rubbed off on S. Carey. A subtly stunning and beautifully lush debut album, total ear candy for the headphone listener.-
- LP
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- JAG240LP
- Release date
- 31 Mar '14
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- CD
- £10.49
- Cat Number
- JAG240CD
- Release date
- 31 Mar '14
TRACK LISTING
Glass/Film
Creaking
Crown The Pines
Fire-Scene
Radiant
Alpenglow
Fleeting Light
The Dome
Neverending Fountain
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- £15.49
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- JAG240LP
- Release date
- 31 Mar '14
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- JAG240CD
- Release date
- 31 Mar '14
TRACK LISTING
Glass/Film
Creaking
Crown The Pines
Fire-Scene
Radiant
Alpenglow
Fleeting Light
The Dome
Neverending Fountain
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- Ltd CD
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- ONOCARGO / WBD001
- Release date
- 11 May '15
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Holy shit this is one of my favourite Ono releases yet! And a totally different direction for the label. This shit bites harder than an Alsatian on crack rocks! Uncompromising punk-sludge from Rossendale's finest!TRACK LISTING
1 Yu
2 Poison
3 Night Time Is A Frightful Time
4 Comic Profanity
5 Turbo Hippies
6 Subhuman Sustenance
7 The News Is The Noose
8 Whispers & Echoes
9 Starry-Eyed & Sleepless
10 A Happy Dose Of Homoterrestrial Spirit
11 Circles, Circles & Bigger Fucking Circles
12 My Heaven
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
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- SLANG50467X
- Release date
- 9 Sep '22
Review from 2007:
Caribou, otherwise known as the composer of euphoric, dazzlingly beautiful electronic psychedelia, Dan Snaith, returns with a rousing album, "Andorra". Since releasing the "The Milk Of Human Kindness", The acclaimed album was an affirmation, after the blow delivered by rock relic Handsome 'Dick' Manitoba (who for reasons best known to himself, sued Snaith in 2003 over the use of his previous musical moniker Manitoba, effecting the name change to Caribou), that Snaith's fanbase had remained loyal and what's more, continued to grow.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Melody Day
2. Sandy
3. After Hours
4. She's The One
5. Desiree
Side B
6. Eli
7. Sundialing 8. Irene
9. Niobe
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
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- SLANG50070X
- Release date
- 24 Mar '23
- Format Info
Half speed master edition on pink vinyl.
Half speed master edition... [ + ]
Snaith makes his intentions clear from the off, with album opener "Can't Do Without You" picking up right where "Sun" left off, but with the euphoria turned all the way up to 11 thanks to crescendant synths and heartfelt vocals. Recent single "Our Love" falls into the same camp, pairing emotional vocals and melodies with a skipping garage beat, while organic synths and Owen Pallett's darting strings provide a richly textured backing. The warm analogue sounds of futuristic soul weave themselves deep into the record’s DNA, particularly on "Silver", "Second Chance" (featuring Jesse Lanza's seductive vocals) and "Back Home". These immersive synth ballads form intimate moments of calm between the driving house and garage of "Can't Do Without You" and "Our Love", the Daphni-styled dancefloor diaspora of "Mars" and the raving interludes "Dive" and "Julia Brightly". Snaith's mastery of these diverse styles, and the ease with which he moulds them into his artistic vision is a testament to his mature and accomplished songwriting. Nowehere is this so clear as on the LP finale and crowning moment "Your Love Will Set You Free", which combines the soulful with the driving, the melancholic with the euphoric, bringing the album to a gorgeous bitter sweet conclusion. Ultimately, Snaith has delivered a worthy follow up to "Swim", which is high praise indeed.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Can't Do Without You
A2. Silver
A3. All I Ever Need
A4. Our Love
A5. Dive
B1. Second Chance
B2. Julia Brightly
B3. Mars
B4. Back Home
B5. Your Love Will Set You Free
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- 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- JIAOLONG013
- Release date
- 29 Sep '14
Second limited 12" from Caribou. Title track from album plus Daphni Mix.
TRACK LISTING
A. Our Love
B. Our Love (Daphni Rework)
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- LP
- £16.99
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- SLANG50247LP
- Release date
- 28 Feb '20
STAFF COMMENTS
Patrick says: Exciting times! Dan Snaith is back in the Piccadilly house with a brand new Caribou LP, infusing hook-heavy house jams, hip hop curveballs and sweet synthpoppers with the signature warmth and space of his previous work. I would imagine festival goers of all ages will enjoy losing their proverbials to this in the coming months.TRACK LISTING
1 Sister
2 You And I
3 Sunny's Time
4 New Jade
5 Home
6 Lime
7 Never Come Back
8 Filtered Grand Piano
9 Like I Loved You
10 Magpie
11 Ravi
12 Cloud Song
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- 2xLP
- £20.99
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- SLANG9550055
- Release date
- 19 Apr '10
- Format Info
Double 180 gram vinyl including free album download and booklet.
Double 180 gram vinyl... [ + ]
"Swim" is full of brightly textured, rapturous gems that gleam with astonishing production – and then wrenches at your heart with soulful, thoughtful reveries on the passing of time, family history and the breakdown of relationships. 'There are songs about growing old in a relationship, about divorce and loneliness in old age but the lyrics are generally pretty abstract sketches of what’s going on in the situation in my head', says Snaith. If there is a link to previous album "Andorra", it would be in the ravishing explosions of sound pulsing through album closer "Niobe". A continuum of sorts leads us to 2010, but that finale gives mere hints as to the future Caribou. From the opening effervescent gambol of "Odessa" to the glorious odyssey of "Jamelia", it’s crystal clear that Caribou has made a massive leap forwards, upwards and sideways.
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- Ltd 12"
- £10.99
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- CC001
- Release date
- 23 Feb '15
Kandodo 3 is the new "nom de plume" for Simon Price's (The Heads) Kandodo project, having roped in fellow Heads' Wayne Maskell (drum patterns and rhythm driving) and Hugo Morgan (bass throb and guidance) to record under the name Kandodo 3. They take up their whole side with one looping soundscape that jitters and skitters into and around patterns of dub and space, this exhilaratating take on an already pre-determined trajectory is as awesome in its scope as it is in its journey, catch a ride! Mastered by Shawn Joseph (Optimum)
Simon Kandodo Price artwork..... 500 copies only on blue coloured vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
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- AGIT006CD
- Release date
- 25 Apr '11
- Format Info
Includes 2 bonus tracks.
Includes 2 bonus tracks.
Unlike many of their contemporaries, White Hills, Wooden Ships, Cave, Steve Hillage, Bardo Pond, White Noise Sound etc. Carlton Melton are less concerned with the pulse, rhythm, and the groove, as they are with the SOUND, and the VIBE, weaving lush, expansive sprawls of FX drenched psychedelic ambience; drifting more often than driving, huge clouds of swirling wah guitars, and minimal spare drumming, existing more as a pulse, than a beat - the band drift weightless though swirling starlit sonic skies before the descent into trance inducing drones burrowing deep into the earth. Their sound - loose, free, abstract and ephemeral.
Carlton Melton have made two albums since they formed in 2008, and for several reasons these recordings are unique. For one, they were recorded in what is known as a geodesic dome in rural Mendocino County, north of San Francisco. These domes are typically large spherical buildings shaped like golf balls used as homes for the green-minded, greenhouses, theatres or whatever. Carlton Melton's dome is miles away from anywhere and is hollow. The place makes Bron Yr Aur look state-of-the-art, so unequipped to record music is it. Yet the band love it, and its ruggedness is there in the music. Their first album "Pass It On" released on vinyl in 2009 by Mid To late (the band's own label) was proclaimed by J Mascis as his favourite of the year.
STAFF COMMENTS
Darryl says: Carlton Melton are the new avant-psyche gods!! Loose free-psyche vibes that float in cosmic abandonment, more abstract than the Shjips et all, but definitely drinking from the same acid drenched soup.-
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- AGIT047CD
- Release date
- 2 Feb '18
Mind Minerals finds Carlton Melton in fine fettle, all the songs were recorded and engineered at El Studio in San Francisco by Phil Manley on September 3rd and 4th 2016 (except 'untimely' - recorded at the Dome by Brian McDougall), the studio setting suits them -- a logical progression from a weekend’s recording out at the Dome.
Under Manly’s watchful ear/eye, Carlton Melton have created a futurescape soundtrack..,a “3001 Space Oddyssey”. The drums are more pounding and direct than before, the constantly re-assuring bass creates a helping hand to propel you through the clouds of static and shards of electrifying guitar dazzling your horizon. Synths help soothe the sharp edges and lull you into some out of body experience whilst and orchestrated calamitous scree pulls you back…. This is a breathless, yet deep breathing album. It demands full immersion...
Searing guitar piercing the drone with relentless power, the core trio of Carlton Melton; Andy Duvall (drums/guitar), Clint Golden (bass guitar), and Rich Millman ( guitar/synth), have some alchemical bond that’s helped them create a post-rock / psychedelic / freeform organic slab of American Primitivism / space drift , this is unashamed head-music from the melting pot of Northern California.. 5 decades ago this album would have been released on the ESP Disk Label or even Apple…there would have been no helter skelter if the desert Hippies had locked onto these vibes, plug in, turn on, tune out..float free.. Carlton Melton can provide your own aural microdose to reset your Mind / Psyche!!
Andy Duvall plays juno synth on 'the lighthouse'
Special guests:
Phil Manley - juno synth on 'snow moon' and 'sea legs' / Guitar on 'eternal returns' and 'psychoticedelicosis'.
John McBain - guitar on 'electrified sky' and 'way back when' / synth/mellotron/guitar on 'atmospheric river'.
All songs mastered by John Mcbain at JPM mastering.
Cover artwork is “Walls” (2013) by Andy Vogt.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Hypnotic swells of strummed guitars, camouflaged with the scream of a thousand delays fighting a thousand reverbs in space, breaking out into beautifully languid streaks of light in an otherwise foreboding musical landscape. Beautiful, ambient bliss.TRACK LISTING
01. Untimely
02. Electrified Sky
03. The Lighthouse
04. Eternal Returns
05. Snow Moon
06. A Basketful Of Trumpets
07. Sea Legs
08. Way Back When
09. Climbing The Ladder
10. Atmospheric River
11. Psychoticedelicosis
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- 6 Jul '15
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Leaving their geodesic dome behind, they hitched their magick karpet to San Francisco’s El Studio for a fried weekend in July 2014 with The Fucking Champs / Trans Am’s Phil Manley at the production helm and occasionally contributing to the furore. Phil Manley plays guitar on “Similarities” and synth on “Peaking Duck”
Out To Sea sees Carlton Melton expanding their vision of the psychedelia and free outrock sound of their previous output and push to their furthest horizons using waves of sound - from huge pounding rhythms, outta space riffage, gentle synth wave-riding, pastoral passages, searing shards of molten guitar, smothered ambience and gentle flowing guitar picking – to lap at the shores of your senses.
For fans of: Space travel, the Heads / Kandodo, Faust / Funkadelic, the Kon Tiki Expedition, Parson Sound, Flotation tanks, Bong, Bardo Pond, float on, float on.......
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
TRACK LISTING
1. Peaking Duck
2. Wheel And Deal
3. Diamond In The Rough
4. Out To Sea
5. Amfmpm
6. Too Close To Home
7. Similarities
8. It?s Been Summer All Winter
9. The Barrier
10. Perdiddle
11. Realms
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- AGIT018CD
- Release date
- 24 Sep '12
Mastered and featuring John McBain (Monster Magnet, Well Water Conspiricy) Photos of Photos sees Carlton Melton take their organic improvised psych-jam to the highest sonic plane befitting the geodesic dome in which it was recorded and pulverizing the psychedelic hypno-drone that has come before. Photos of Photos is a testament of Carlton Melton’s ability to bottle and hone their craft with sincerity – from the lush pastoral sonics of ‘Nor’ Easter’ and title track, ‘Photos of Photos’ the smoldering gargantuan riffs of ‘Space Treader’ and the synth drones and spare rhythms of LP closer ‘Wingspan’. Carlton Melton meld -what could be a heavy indecipherable psychedelic mess - into something louder, more uncompromising and more coherent: 'Melton’s Magick Karpet ride’.
Bonus tracks (available on CD and download) - featuring McBain on guitar/synth/ echoplex - include the full 23 minute psychedelically enhanced drone ‘Adrift’ that peaks and dips as the title suggests and ‘Smoke Drip’ sounds exactly how you imagine a song called ‘Smoke Drip’ to sound. And that is exactly what Photos of Photos is about: the SOUND, the VIBE, a new age drifting, unchartered, across a sonic expanse.
For Fans of: Bardo Pond, Monster Magnet- Tab, Hawkwind - Warrior At The Edge of Time, Parson Sound, The Heads, Clark:Hutchinson - A=MH2.
STAFF COMMENTS
Darryl says: Superb molten drone-psyche that smoulders along in an improv psyche jam style whilst synthy interludes sneak in and out, and humongous riffs slay all before them. Immense!!-
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- 27 Jan '23
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- 27 Jan '23
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- 3 Feb '23
STAFF COMMENTS
Martin says: San Franciscan trio Carlton Melton have always, and will always be mind melters. Their unique brand of floating psychedelia has both moments of tension and grit as well as soaring, lysergic looseness. Soaring, beautifully rendered and perfectly measured as ever. Classic CM.TRACK LISTING
1. Prescribed Skies
2. Elsewhere (Need To Be)
3. So The Story Grows
4. High Alert
5. Route Thirteen
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- AGIT068
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- 6 Oct '23
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For a decade and a half, the band has yo-yo’ed, almost schizophrenically, between these two modes: walloping space jams with furious guitar solos in one hemisphere of the brain and ethereal, feather-light splashdowns in the other. Not to mention a track here and there that builds from the latter into the former.
But with two new releases in 2023, the band has evolved. Whether psych rock or ambient trance, their sound remains driving, organic, and flowing. With the addition of Anthony Taibi (White Manna, DDT), however, the group’s metal freak-outs are Hawkwindier and their droning kraut trances are Spacemen 3-er. In January, the quartet released the playfully spacey Resemble Ensemble, recorded in Taibi’s home studio 3D Light. October now sees the band Turn To Earth, a work with scents of Autumn, a season of death and transition. The cover art evokes a vine-covered, electric crucifix. The sound is, well, earthy but also gritty and striving towards change. The album was recorded in Fall 2022 and now harvested in Fall 2023.
Phil Becker (Terry Gross, Pins Of Light) contributed drums and percussion to a few tracks on Turn To Earth, recording the album at El Studio in San Francisco. With Becker at the helm, the synths have become more prominent (“Cosmicity,” “Roboflow,” “Migration”) and the tone heavier on the doom (“Cloudstorming,” “Unlock The Land,” title track): several moments could even serve as background music for epic dark fantasy films like Conan the Barbarian, Fire and Ice, or Heavy Metal.
As exquisite as Turn To Earth is, Melton are best appreciated as a live act: their recordings as well as their gigs are largely improvised – not so much composed as birthed. And yet their most recent tour ended abruptly and perilously. The group had to cancel its final three shows once members were admitted to Arnhem hospital in the Netherlands. Five years later, reinforcements have strengthened the band and restocked its arsenal of great tracks.
After the rockus interruptus of that 2018 tour and the tantric tease of the intervening Covid lockdown, Melton have some unfinished business. An October 2023 tour is poised to set the freshly minted quartet back onto the stages of Europe and within the cerebral folds of its fans.
Turn To Earth, sure … but keep your head in outer space.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: You know where you are with a blast of Carlton Melton. It's slowly growing psych, with sounds twisting and turning and weaving into a psychedelic monolith. 'Turn To Earth' does not disappoint, it too grows into a soaring grooving behemoth, with the help of White Manna's Anthony Taibi, bringing his airy lysergic groove to the mix of standout musicians.TRACK LISTING
01. Turn To Earth
02. Cloudstorming
03. Vanquished
04. Cosmicity
05. Canned Head
06. Sundering
07. Unlock The Land
08. Roboflow
09. Last Times
10. Migration
11. Mutiny
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