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26th of May 2013 Update

26th of May 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

WE WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW/MONDAY FOR MEMORIAL DAY! ENJOY IT OUTDOORS!


LPs & 12″s
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A Tribe Called Quest    “Beats, Rhymes And Life”
Addison Groove / Die    “Keyhole”
Amao, Teo Laura    “El Sonido De La Carretera Central – Con El Rey De La Guitarra Teo Laura”
Art Ensemble Of Chicago    “A.A.C.M, Great Black Music Reese And The Smooth Ones” (180 Gram)
At The Drive-In    “Acrobatic Tenement”
A-Trak    “Tuna Melt EP”
Beirut    “Gular Orkestar”
Bibio    “Silver Wilkinson”
Boogie Down Productions     “Man & His Music”
Buck65    “Situation”
Burning Star Core    “Challenger”
Coasta    “Sunzal” (White Vinyl)
Come    “Eleven:Eleven” (The Deluxe Edition; 2LP + 7″)
Corsano, Chris / Bill Orcutt    “The Raw And The Cooked”
Coyote Clean Up    “2 Hot 2 Wait”
Crow44    “Crow44”
Deafheaven    “Sunbather”
Dirty Beaches    “Drifters / Love Is The Devil” (+ D/L)
Durag Dynasty    “360 Waves” (Planet Asia, Tristate, Killer Ben; + D/L With Instrumentals)
Earthling    “Dark Path”
Ernestus, Mark    “Bamba”
Ernestus, Mark    “Gawlo”
Ex, The & Brass Unbound    “Enormous Door”
Flynt, Henry    “Graduation”
Fresh & Onlys, The    “Play It Strange” (+ D/L)
Frightened Rabbit    “Sing The Greys” (+ D/L)
Futurebirds    “Baba Yaga” (2LP)
Glass Pyramid    “Glass Pyramid; Unreleased Demos”
Glimpse    “True South EP”
Gotye    “Like Drawing Blood” (+ D/L)
Hanni El Khatib    “Head In The Dirt”
Her Voice Over Boys (HVOB)    “Always Like This”
Highness    “Hold” (Orange 180 Gram)
Houle, Marc / Miss Kittin    “Where Is Kittin?”
Hounds Of Hate    “Hounds Of Hate”
Hyetal    “Northwest Passage”
Incendiary    “Cost Of Living”
Integrity    “Systems Overload” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl + Poster + D/L)
Itadi    “Itadi: Watch Your Life Ibakubuele Mam Dodzi…” (180 Gram Deluxe Ed. Ltd.)
Lanegan, Mark / Duke Garwood    “Black Pudding”
Loma Prieta    “I.V.”
Lynn, Loretta    “Van Lear Rose”
Machinedrum    “Sacred Frequency”
Majical Cloudz    “Impersonator” (+ D/L)
Marciano, Roc    “Marcberg Beats” (Just The Beats)
Marriage    “For Brotzmann” (+ D/L)
Martinez, Cliff    “Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (180 gram Mondo version)
Midnight Juggernauts    “Memorium”
Miles    “Unsecured”
Minor Threat    “Minor Threat” (Yellow Cover + D/L)
Mirror People    “Kaleidoscope” (Yellow)
Moire    “Never Sleep”
Mungo’s Hi Fi    “Dubplate Master”
National, The    “Trouble Will Find Me” (2LP + D/L)
Niblett, Scout    “It’s Up To Emma”
Nice, Paul    “Drum Library Vol. 4”
Nice, Paul    “Drum Library Vol. 1”
Om    “Gethsemane Dubplate By Alpha & Omega”
Pratt, Jessica    “Jessica Pratt”
Pye Corner Audio    “Superstitious Century” (Yellow Numbered)
Red Hare    “Nites Of Midnite” (Color Vinyl + D/L; Members Of Swiz, Fury, Dag Nasty, Bluetip)
Rilo Kiley    “Rkives” (Unreleased, B-Sides & Rarities + D/L)
Roberts, John    “Fences” (2LP)
Royal-T    “I Know You Want Me”
Rudimentary Peni    “Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric” (Remastered 180 Gram Gatefold 16 Page Booklet + Poster + D/L)
SBTRKT / Objekt    “SBJEKT#01”
Screature    “Screature”
She & Him    “Volume 3” (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Blue Vinyl + D/L)
Shepp, Archie    “Live At The Panafrican Festival”
Shock    “The Fucker / Dr. Smegmatic”
Sic Alps    “She’s On Top”
Some Stranger    “Some Stranger” (Debut EP /500 + D/L)
Source Family, The    “Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Source Family”
Standish / Carlyon    “Deleted Scenes” (+ D/L)
Stars Of The Lid    “Avec Laudenum”
Truth / Yayne    “Devil’s Hands / I Belong”
Tucker, Martine    “Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia”
Vangelis    “Blade Runner” (Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram Remastered 2013)
Various    “International Breaks 101: Rare Breaks From Around The Globe”
Various    “Yellow Machines: Mayan EP”
Various    “The Legendary Studio One Records Original Classic Recordings 1963-80”
Violent Reaction    “City Streets”
Vondelpark    “California Analog Dream: Robag Wruhme Remixes”
Whitman, Keith Fullerton    “Antithesis”
You.    “Brick”


7″s
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Alabama Shakes    “Be Mine” (Third Man Live)
Andriano, Dan    “Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room”
Cash, Johnny    “Get Rhythm / I Walk The Line”
Creative Adult    “Dead Air”
Dead Weather, The    “Treat Me Like Your Mother”
Down To Nothing    “Greetings From Richmond, Virginia” (White)
Fake Problems / You Blew It!    “Fake Problems / You Blew It!”
Hell Beach    “Ocean Floor” (Third Man Live)
Most Precious Blood    “Demo”
Mudhoney / Gas Huffer    “You Stupid Asshole / Knife Manual”
Mum    “Toothwheel”
Novice, The    “What You Want / Your Crime”
People’s Temple, The    “Never More” (Third Man Live)
Prisonaires    “Baby Please / Just Walkin’ In The Rain”
Promised Land    “Yes You Can” (Third Man Live)
Thomas Jr., Rufus “Hound Dog”    “Bear Cat / Walking In The Rain”
Tigers Jaw / The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die / Code Orange Kids / Self Defense Family    “Tigers Jaw / The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die / Code Orange Kids / Self Defense Family”
Ttotals    “Spectrums Of Light” (Mastered At Sonic Boom)
Virgins, The    “Prima Materia”
Warbrain / Minus    “Warbrain / Minus”
Written Off    “Written Off”


CDs
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Anamanaguchi    “Endless Fantasy”
Black Dog, The    “Tranklements”
Come    “Eleven:Eleven” (The Deluxe Edition; 2xCD)
Daft Punk    “Random Access Memories”
Deafheaven    “Sunbather”
Dirty Beaches    “Drifters / Love Is The Devil”
Kode 9    “Rinse 22: Mixed By Kode 9”
Mors Sonat    “Comforts In Atrocity”
National, The    “Trouble Will Find Me”
She & Him    “Volume 3”
Various    “Studio One Sound”


OTHER!
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Latest Maximum Rock N Roll Magazine


Reviews
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Code Orange Kids  Love Is Love // Return To Dust
(Deathwish)

Citing comparisons to Converge, Gallows and Ceremony (I’ll add American Nightmare, Weekend Nachos and Unsane as well,) this Pennsylvania band leans heavily toward the “hardcore” aspect of hardcore punk with sludge metal thrown in the mix too. Three of Code Orange Kids’ four members delivering most of the screamed vocals on these abruptly shifting songs, touching on themes of emptiness, drug abuse and death (from “Choices (Love Is Love)”: “there are no mistakes / only decisions.”) The shrieking and snarling guitars, concrete-thick bass and frantic drums make for some very un-relaxed listening, with speed ranging everywhere from blisteringly fast to crawlingly slow. Though the intensity often simulates that of a robotic beast charging and slamming you into grinding gears, there are a handful of beautiful moments: “Colors (Into Nothing)” and “Calm // Breathe” cool down the rage a bit with a contemplative sound reminiscent of post-rock and shoegaze, before shifting back into the extremity.
[Reviewer: Mark]



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17th Of May 2013 Update

17th Of May 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records



LPs & 12″s
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A Place At The Table    “A Place At The Table: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (The Civil Wars & T Bone Burnett)
A Vision Of Love    “Lessons In Hate (Part One)”
Art Ensemble Of Chicago    “A.A.C.M. Great Black Music – Message To Our Folks” (180 Gram)
Baptist Generals, The    “Jackleg Devotional To The Heart”
Blacknecks    “Blacknecks 000001”
Blawan    “His He She & She”
Brother JT    “The Svelteness Of Boogietude”
Bullen, Nicholas    “Component Fixations”
Burns, Willie    “Pong In A Tracksuit / No Answer / Run From The Sunset / Touch The Light”
Chocolate Watch Band    “No Way Out” (180 Gram)
Chocolate Watch Band    “The Inner Mystique” (180 Gram)
Co La    “Moody Coup” (/1,000 + D/L)
Coloured Balls    “Ball Power”
Cyanide Pills    “Still Bored”
Daft Punk    “Random Access Memories” (180 Gram + D/L)
Davis, Miles    “Live At The Plugged Nickel, December 22, 1965 Part Two” (Yellow Vinyl)
Dear Hunter, The    “Migrant”
Delfonics, The    “The Delfonics (Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time))”
Dieuf-Dieul De Thies    “Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1”
Dixon, Terrence    “Minimalism Remixes Part 2”
Dixon, Terrence    “Lost At Sea” (Red Vinyl)
Dr. John    “In The Right Place” (180 Gram)
Drowningman    “Busy Signal At The Suicide Hotline”
Dub Gabriel    “Raggabass Resistence” (/500)
Dust    “Hard Attack”
Eleventh Dream Day    “New Moodio” (+ D/L With 3 Bonus Tracks)
Emmanuel, JD    “Time Traveller”
Fire Death    “Fire Death”
Flugel, Roman    “Even More / More & More & More”
Four Tet    “Rounds”
Front Bottoms, The    “Talon Of The Hawk”
Giuda    “Racey Roller”
Goldenrod    “Goldenrod”
Grim Tower    “Anarchic Breezes”
Guetta, David    “Titanium / Without You / She Wolf / Every Chance We Get We Run” (Picture Disc RSD13)
Hopkins, Lightnin’     “Lightnin’ And The Blues”
Hval, Jenny    “Innocense Is Kinky” (/500 + CD)
Jefferies, Peter    “The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World”
Jenssen, Geir    “Stromboli”
Johnson, Chuck    “Crows In The Basilica”
Justice    “Access All Arenas: Live July 19th, 2012 Les Arenes De Nimes” (2LP + Poster + CD Ltd. Ed.)
Keffer, Leslie    “Luna Lobolly / Finally, Caves!”
Keffer, Leslie / Outmode    “Hold You To It / I”
Lainhart, Richard & Lucio Menegon    “An Abandoned Garden”
Led Zeppelin    “One More Night: Live At Southampton” (Fan Club Edition)
Lobo, Edu    “A Musica De Edu Lobo Por Edo Lobo”
Low + Dirty Three    “In The Fishtank 7”
Marquis De Tren And Bonny Billy, The    “Get On Jolly”
Martens, LRJ / Ada Van Hoorebeke    “Eternal Landscapes”
Menche, Daniel    “Vilke” (/500)
Messages    “Mirage”
Moore, Thurston & Loren Connors    “The Only Way To Go Is Straight Through” (RSD13 /3000)
Moth Cock    “Moth Cock”
Nautical Almanac    “Melding Linearality”
Nkengas    “Destruction” (+ D/L)
Not Waving    “Umwelt”
Parquet Courts    “Light Up Gold”
Parrish, Theo / Tony Allen    “Day Like This / Feel Loved”
Partch, Harry    “Delusion Of The Fury” (180 Gram)
Peals    “Walking Field”
Pink Floyd    “Complete BBC Sessions 1967-1968” (Fan Club Edition)
Portishead    “Dummy”
Prince Jazz Bo    “Get Tonight Brother”
Quiet Evenings    “Impressions”
Rage Against The Machine    “Rage Against The Machine” ( 180 Gram 20th Anniversary Edition Remastered)
Real Enemy    “Life With The Enemy “
Rhye    “Open” (Single RSD13)
Sande, Emili    “Our Version Of Events” (180 Gram 2LP)
Saturday Looks Good To Me    “One Kiss Ends It All” (White Vinyl + D/L)
Secret Colors     “Lunar”
Shepp, Archie    “The Magic Of Ju-Ju” (180 Gram)
Sir Vicious    “The Best Of Just-Ice”
Skin Graft    “Blackout”
Survival    “Survival” (Feat. Hunter Hunt-Hendrix Of Liturgy)
Tall Black Guy    “8 Miles To Moenart” (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)
Titles    “Modern Sounds In Science Fiction”
Transmuteo    “Transmuteo”
Various    “Le Suis Punk: The Very Best Of European Punksploitation”
Various    “Space Consortium Volume 1” (Green Vinyl)
Various    “Krake” (LP + CD, Gatefold; Thomas Koner, Cassegrain, Perc, Tim Exile…)
Versalife    “Vantage Point” (+ D/L; 2LP Gatefold)
Wardruna    “Runaljod-Yggdrash” (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl Triple Gatefold)
Whitehead, Matt    “A Is For Acid”
Wild Nothing    “Empty Estate” (Regular Edition)
Wild Nothing    “Empty Estate” (Special Numbered Color Vinyl Edition With Lots Of Extras Including Sticker Sheets, A Button, And… Get This… A Slap Bracelet!)
Wire    “Change Becomes Us” (Gatefold)
Wonder Years, The    “The Greatest Generation”
Xosar    “The Calling”

10″s
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Xamiga    “Oceania” (Legowelt + Xosar)
Tangorodrim / Salute    “Tangorodrim / Salute”

7″s
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Condominium    “Show Them”
Gowl    “Gowl”
Holter, Julia    “Maria / 2HB” (+ 24Bit Download Card With Full Live Set)
Man… Or Astro Man?    “Astro Analog Series 3”
Memotone    “Koma / Goldair”
Tall Black Guy    “Mon Amie De’troit” (Feat. Ozay Moore)
Unholy Grave / David Carradine    “Grindistortion” (6″)

CDs
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Call It Arson    “Between Two Cities”
Giuda    “Racey Roller”
Hval, Jenny    “Innocense Is Kinky”
Kankick    “Beautiful: Opus Of Love Deeper Than Flesh” (Japanese Import)
Kankick    “The Traditional Heritage” (Japanese Import)
Lau, Eric    “Makin’ Sound” (Japanese Import)
Muro    “King Of Diggin’ – Diggin’ OST” (Japanese Import)
Nails    “Abandon All Life”
Neighbourhood, The    “I Love You”
Tall Black Guy    “8 Miles To Moenart”
Uncle Acid    “Mind Control: Basic Concepts In Brainwashing”
Wild Nothing    “Empty Estate”
Wonder Years, The    “The Greatest Generation”

Reviews
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Spike Priggen There’s No Sound In Flutes

(Volare)
This upstate-New York-based singer-songwriter and recording artist plays lively, sunny and jangling pop rock. Priggen cites influences such as power pop, New Wave and 80s punk, with the resulting sound flowing as an easy-going mixture of those styles, plus more (including country rock) to sound more unique. His primary duties include – but aren’t limited to – vocals and guitars, and with the help of plenty of guest musicians handling strings, chimes, organs and tambourines (to name a few,) Priggen’s sound breathes like a summer day. For example, the subject of relationships takes an unexpected spin: beaming opener “I Know Everything” acknowledges that while he loves “everything” about someone, it may be “wrong to be right.” Also, songs with self-explanatory titles such as “Everyone Loves Me But You” and “I’m So Glad You Broke My Heart” sound like graceful emergences from bad experiences.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Vår (War) No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers

(Sacred Bones Records)
Elias Rønnenfelt of Iceage and Loke Rahbek of Sexdrome & Lust For Youth (among others for both mentioned) started this lo-fi pop project a couple years back and have since added a couple members and upped the pop a bit. This thing is infectious (thing = album). Cold infectious pop. That actually sums it up quite nicely, but I’ll use a few more descriptors here: moody, melancholic industrial dance fun.
[Reviewer: Rick]




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10th Of May 2013 Update

10th Of May 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records


LPs & 12″s
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Adult    “The Way Things Fall” (+ D/L)
Ancient Chinese Secret    “Caveat Emptor”
Anonymous    “Inside The Shadow” (Tip-On Jacket)
Batillus    “Concrete Sustain”
Beau Navire    “Lumens”
Black Dog, The    “Tranklements” (3LP)
Blitz    “Time Bomb: Early Singles And Demos Collection”
Blue Daisy / Unknown Shapes    “Used To Give A F*ck”
Blunt, Dean    “The Redeemer”
Bone Dance    “Bone Dance”
Bonobo    “Black Sands Remixed” (3LP + D/L)
Brian Jonestown Massacre    “… And This Is Our Music (Tomorrow’s Heroes Today)”
Cale, John & Friends    “Live At The Ocean Club In New York, July 21, 1976” (Yellow Vinyl)
Captain, We’re Sinking    “The Future Is Cancelled” (Ltd. Ed. Color)
Caretaker    “Persistent Repetition Of Phrases”
Caretaker    “An Empty Bliss Beyond This World”
Caretaker    “Patience (After Sebald)”
Charlatan    “Equinox”
Cindytalk    “A Life Is Everywhere”
Coh    “Retro 2038” (2LP Gatefold)
Cosmin TRG    “Gordian” (2LP Gatefold)
Dalhous    “An Ambassador For Laing”
Death Cab For Cutie    “Narrow Stairs”
Deviation Social    “Tempus / Deathwatch ‘From End To Beginning’ Vol. 2” (+ D/L)
Dungeonesse    “Dungeonesse” (+ D/L)
Ernestus, Mark / Ben Zabo    “Wari Vo Dubwise”
Fitz And The Tantrums    “More Than Just A Dream”
Gordon, Peter & Factory Floor    “Beachcombing Cside”
Greiner, Svarte    “Black Tie” (+ D/L + Poster)
Hooker, John Lee    “Burnin'”
Human Mess    “Follow You Home”
Hypnolove    “Ghost Carnival”
Innercity    “Terrestreality”
Invisible Hands    “Invisible Hands” (2LP; 1 Album 2 Languages/Slightly Different Mixes)
James, Skip    “The Complete 1931 Session” (180 Gram)
Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier    “L’Enfant Sauvage”
Johnson, Otis G.    “Everything: God Is Love ’78 (Holy Spirit)”
Jones, Glenn    “My Garden State”
Joy Division    “YMCA 2-8-79” (180 Gram + Poster Insert)
Kareem    “Porto Ronco”
Kavinsky    “Outrun” (Ltd. Ed. Book Sleeve Version With Exclusive Images)
Kid Cudi    “Indicud” (3LP Gatefold + D/L)
Klosowski, A.K. / Pyrolator    “Home Taping Is Killing Music” (180 Gram)
Knife, The    “Silent Shout” (2LP)
Letherette    “Letherette” (2LP)
Marcelus    “Emerald EP”
Mayer, Michael    “Mantasy Remixe 2”
Menomena    “Mines” (+ D/L)
Mind Over Mirrors    “High And Upon”
MM/KM    “MM/KM” (TRILOGY003EP)
Moore, Steve    “Horror Business” (RSDUK13 Red Vinyl)
Mpala Garoo    “Ou Du Monde”
Otis, Shuggie    “Freedom Flight” (180 Gram)
Parks, Van Dyke    “Super Chief” (RSD13 Delayed Title)
Pharmakon    “Abandon” (+ D/L)
Praxis    “Profanation: Preparation For A Coming Darkness” (+ D/L)
Pure X    “Crawling Up The Stairs”
Queens    “End Times”
Ricky Fitts    “Wizard Lisp”
Roach, Max / Clifford Brown    “Daahoud”
Roedelius    “Offene Turen” (180 Gram)
Sagor & Swing    “Botvid Grenlunds Park”
Saltland    “I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us” (180 Gram + Poster + D/L)
Satanic Threat    “In To Hell” (Color Vinyl)
Seasick    “Ouroboros”
Seaven Teares    “Power Ballads” (+ D/L)
Shitlickers, The    “1982”
Small Black    “Limits Of Desire” (Ltd. Ed. On White Vinyl + D/L)
Stellar Om Source    “Elite Excel”
Terranova    “Painkiller EP”
Tidal / Rambutan    “Tidal / Rambutan”
Time Is A Mountain    “Time Is A Mountain”
Vampire Weekend    “Modern Vampires Of The City” (Indie Exclusive Ltd. Ed. White Heavyweight Vinyl + D/L)(Out For Sale On Tues. 5-14-13)
Var (War)    “No One Dances Quite Like My Brother” (+ D/L)
Various    “Good God! Apocryphal Hymns” (2LP Gatefold)
Various    “Panorama Bar 05” (Fred P, Juju & Jordash, Big Strick)
Various    “Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From The 1970s & ’80s” (3LP + 7″ + D/L With 8  Extra Tracks)
Various    “Nigeria Special: Part 2 Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6” (2×180 Gram LP + D/L)
Vondelpark    “Seabed” (+ CD)
Walo Shatan Gwari    “African Music Village”
White Lung    “It’s The Evil”
White Stripes, The    “White Blood Cells”
White Stripes, The    “De Stijl”

7″s
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Aeges    “Roaches / Dirt” (Brown Vinyl)
Bibio    “A Tout A L’Heure”
Caged Animal    “Caged Animal”
Creative Adult    “Bulls In The Yard”
Daylight    “Run For Cover Acoustic Series #3”
Gaslight Anthem, The    “Forty-Five / You Got Lucky”

CDs
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Arial Pink    “Thrash And Burn” (Late-90’s Music Concrete Project; 2CD)
Ark Of The Covenant    “Self Harvest”
Iron And Wine    “Ghost On Ghost”
Iron Fist Of The Sun    “Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand”
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou*    “Volume 3 The Skeletal Essences Of Afro Funk 1969-1980”
Vampire Weekend    “Modern Vampires Of The City” (Out For Sale On Tues. 5-14-13)
Var (War)    “No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers”

Magazine
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Mass Appeal Issue 52 Magazine

Reviews
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Ex Cops True Hallucinations

(Other Music)
On their debut full-length, this Brooklyn quintet is all about feeling good with its half hour of mellow, dream pop-tinged indie rock.  Formed as a duo in 2011, vocalists Amalie Bruun (formerly of Minks) and Brian Harding (formerly of Hymns, and also a guitarist and keyboardist) first released a short-run CD-EP and later a seven-inch featuring two of its tracks, which also made it to this album. Both “You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb” and “The Millionaire” showcase a catchy summertime atmosphere, sounding like ethereal surf-pop that can be sunny and energetic or cool and subdued.  I personally have a strong liking for the Beach Boys-esque “Spring Break (Birthday Song;)” a driving mid-tempo acoustic number that’s about as easy-going as it gets.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Iron Reagan Worse Than Dead

(Magic Bullet/A389)
It’s no surprise that this Richmond, Virginia punk band is all about thrashing fury, as it features members from Darkest Hour and Municipal Waste (the latter of which is the most comparable to its sound.) They blaze through 19 under-two-minute songs with an intense, buzz-saw rush similar to that of crossover thrash forefathers Cro-Mags and D.R.I., incorporating elements of both punk and metal. Their targets include everyone from “religious” scammers (“I Predict the Death of Harold Camping,”) to “The Debt Collector” who leeches off people who need medical care, to lawmakers who make it too easy to maniacs to obtain weapons, with the “Two Examples” being the Virginia Tech and Aurora theater shootings. It’s fitting to have topical commentary for these uneasy times.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Pharmakon Abandon

(Sacred Bones)
Power electronics is male dominated. Pharmakon is a project of a female (Margaret Chardiet). There, that’s out of the way. I have some experience with p.e. and recordings of it. Much of the time the recordings are piss poor and that is a lot of the charm (“charm”) much of the time (much of the time [muchuchch ofofvvv thethethhhuhuhuu timeimeimemmmm]). Here’s where this recording is different and here is perhaps why this divergence is getting so much recognition (aside from that first thing I mentioned). This recording is meticulously well produced. It’s a noise record, let’s understand that. It’s not “Pet Sounds” or any such polished pop album. It is however not a Grey Wolves or Con-Dom or Deathpile or Anenzephalia (not even the newest one) or any number of artists’ album though it does owe a debt to all of them. It’s powerful and angry and noisy and honestly a bit all over the place from song to song; it’s all within the p.e. spectrum mind you. It’s never boring.
[Reviewer: Rick]

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3rd Of May 2013 Update

3rd Of May 2013 Update 
of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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!!! (Chk Chk Chk)    “Thr!!!er” (+ D/L)
Akron/Family    “Sub Verses” (Ltd. Ed. White Vinyl + D/L)
Andrew Jackson Jihad    “Knife Man”
Anno Stamm    “Fragments A” (+ D/L)
Appleseed Cast, The    “Illumination Ritual” (+ D/L)
Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa    “Open The Crown”
Aybee    “Worlds
Baker, Aidan With Plurals    “Glass Crocodile Medicine” (/500)
Barbarella    “The Hits Songs Of The Wild Movie Barbarella & Other Way Out Themes” (Soundtrack; The Young Lovers)
Beatles, The    “Anthology” (2LP Gatefold)
Bicep    “Stash” EP
Blaak Heat Shujaa    “The Edge Of An Era” (+ D/L)
Black Jazz Consortium    “New Horizon EP”
Bleak    “Origins Of Chaos”
Blood Of Heroes, The    “The Waking Nightmare” (Justin K. Broadrick, Submerged, Dr. Israel, Tony Maimone, Enduser, Balazs Pandi, M. Gregor Filip, Joel Hamilton, Tompa)
Body, The    “Master, We Perish”
Bone Sickness    “Alone In The Grave”
Brand Nubian    “One For All” (2LP Reissue)
Bright Eyes    “The People’s Key”
Capitalist Kids, The    “Lessons On Love, Sharing, And Hygiene”
Cayucas    “Bigfoot” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)
Cold World / Extortion    “Cold World / Extortion”
Coliseum    “Sister Faith” (+ D/L)
Connors, Loren    “The Departing Of A Dream” (180 Gram + D/L /700)
Counter Intuits    “Counter Intuits”
Cursed    “One” (Reissue; Gatefold)
Dead Can Dance    “In Concert” (3LP 180 gram Box + 3 Art Prints + D/L)
Deerhunter    “Monomania” (+ D/L)
Dirty Fences    “Too High To Kross”
DJ Overdose    “Bizarro World” (2LP)
Drive    “Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Cliff Martinez)” (Invada Import Picture Discs Version)
DRMCNT    “Jin & Tronix EP”
Ergs, The    “Hindsight Is 20/20, My Friend, Vol. 1”
Everyone    “No Time To Waste”
Evil Conduct    “Working Class Anthems”
Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza    “Musica Su Schemi” (1976 Italian Experimental Collective Feat. Ennio Morricone + D/L)
Guided By Voices    “English Little League” (+ D/L)
Haxan Cloak, The    “Excavation” (+ D/L)
Herva    “What I Feel EP”
Iron Maiden    “Best of The B-Sides 1980-1984” (Picture Disc; Unofficial)
J Dilla    “Lost Tapes, Reels + More – Just A Sample 4 All My Dusty Crate Diggahs”
Jebanasam, Paul    “Rites”
Jjuujjuu    “FRST” (+ D/L)
Joy Division    “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Alternate Versions Mastered From The Martin Hannett Tapes 1980)
K-Def    “The Exhibit” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl)
King Tubby / The Upsetter    “King Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub”
KMFH    “The Boat Party” (2LP, Kyle Hall)
Koji    “Crooked In My Mind” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)
Kowton    “TFB” (All Caps)
Legowelt    “Elementz Of Houz Music” (Actress Remixes)(+ D/L)
Liturgy    “Renihilation”
Major Lazer    “Free The Universe” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)
Master, The    “The Master: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Jonny Greenwood)(+CD)
Mean Jeans    “Are You Serious?” (+ D/L)
Moondog    “The Viking Of Sixth Avenue”
Motorhead    “Motorhead” (Numbered/500 180 Gram)
Mrs. Magician    “Strange Heaven” (+ D/L)
Murphy, Hakim    “Murph Tone Jack Session”
P.S. Eliot    “Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds”
Palma Violets    “180” (+ D/L)
Paramore    “Paramore”
Podrida, Ola    “Ghosts Go Blind” (+ D/L)
Portal    “Vexovoid”
Rocket From The Crypt    “Group Sounds” (Ltd. Ed. RSD13 Colored Splatter Vinyl)
Rustie    “Triadzz – Slasherr”
Samiam    “You Are Freaking Me Out”
Savages    “Silence Yourself” (Limited Clear Vinyl + D/L)
Secret Circuit    “Tactile Galactics” (+ D/L With Bonus Tracks)
Shivas, The    “Whiteout”
Sir Stephen    “PRSM.SPLNTR”
Slayer    “Live 83” (Fan Club Edition)
Solar Bears    “Supermigration”
Songs: Ohia    “Hecla & Griper” (First Time On Vinyl + D/L)
Spinal Tap    “Break Like The Wind” (Picture Disc)
Stetson, Colin    “New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light” (180 Gram + Art Print Poster + D/L)
Stevens, Sufjan    “The Age Of Adz” (+ D/L)
Stevenson, Laura    “Wheel”
Tera Melos    “X’ed Out”
They Live    “They Live: Original Motion Picture Sound Track” (Alan Howarth & John Carpenter)
Thievery Corporation    “El Pueblo Unido: Miguel Migs Remixes”
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb    “Three Way Tie For A Fifth”
Upsetters, The    “Scratch And Company Chapter 1 The Upsetters”
Various    “United We Stand: The Front Lines Of American Street Punk”
Various    “It’s House Not House EP” (Gray Vinyl)
Various    “Khat Thaleth: Third Line: Initiative For The Elevation Of Public Awareness” (Arab Rap In The Wake Of Revolutions)
Violetshaped    “Violetshaped Remixes Part 1”
Vitamin String Quartet    “Performs Sigur Ros” (+ D/L With 2 Bonus Tracks)
Wax Idols    “Discipline Desire” (+ D/L)
White Zombie    “La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1” (180 Gram Audiophile Pressing)
White, Paul    “Street Lights (Ft. Danny Brown)”
Wolf People    “Fain” (+ D/L)
Yellow Stitches    “Good Times Violent Crimes”
Yesterdays New Quintet    “Angles Without Edges”
Zadig    “Interview With A Mad Man”
Zombie, Rob    “Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor” (180 Gram Gatefold)

10″s
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Cluekid    “Spider Monkey / Rainy Street Light”
Mmoss / Quilt    “New Hampshire Freaks Mmoss & Quilt” (+ D/L)
Stetson, Colin    “Those Who Didn’t Run / The End Of Your Suffering”
TMSV    “Stress / Lost”
Upsetters, The    “Scratch And Company Chapter 1” (RSD13 Late Arrival; Box Set)

7″s
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Af The Naysayer    “Imagerial Denouement” (Ft. Myka Nine)
Barwick, Julianna    “Pacing Call”
Coke Bust / Vaccine    “Coke Bust / Vaccine”
Coliseum    “Sister Chance EP” (+ D/L)
Cruel Hand    “Vigilant Citizen”
Dead Ghosts    “I Sleep Alone / Spot A Trend”
Francis Harold & The Holograms    “Hang The Goat / Invisible Empire”
Highway Cross    “Run Dry”
Huge    “Huge” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)
Hunted Down    “Life’s Womb E.P.”
Joy Division    “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Alternate Versions Mastered From The Martin Hannett Tapes 1980)
Kids On A Crime Spree    “Creep The Creeps”
Loma Prieta / Raein    “Loma Prieta / Raein”
Melvins    “Tanx” (Fan Club Edition)
Misfits    “Halloween” (Fan Club Edition)
Misfits, The    “Cough/Cool / She” (Fan Club Edition)
Numerators    “Dead // Finally Sees”
Paint It Black    “Invisible” (+ D/L)
Palma Violets    “We Found Love”
Queers, The / Killtime    “Alive!”
Schuh~Pink~Cowboy (Shuh Pink Cowboy)    “Cloak & Dagger”
UH Bones    “Only You”

CDs
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Abyssal    “Novit Enim Dominus”
Altar Of Plagues    “Teethed Glory & Injury”
Black Jazz Consortium    “Codes And Mataphors”
Blunt, Dean    “The Redeemer”
Body, The    “Master, We Perish”
Deerhunter    “Monomania”
Haxan Cloak, The    “Excavation”
JK Flesh    “Posthuman”
Machinedrum    “Room(S) Extended” (2CD)
Public Enemy    “It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back”
Queens    “End Times”
Qwel & Maker    “Beautiful Raw”
Savages    “Silence Yourself”
Stooges, Iggy And The    “Ready To Die”
Versalife    “Vantage Point”

OTHER!
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Chris Colohan “No He Is Not Sleeping” Zine
Lewis Dimmick “This Music: Pieces On Heavy Metal, Punk Rock & Hardcore Punk” Book
Kevin Stewart-Panko & Justin Smith “Do You Have Anything To Declare?” Book

Reviews
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The Haxan Cloak Excavation
(Triangle)
In that space where dark ambient finds itself a bit of an optimist, this is where I find myself meeting the Haxan Cloak. Synths layer low with high stabs and high-to middling melodies above muted thuds and assorted generally slow and at times meandering percussion. There’s a Resident Advisor podcast (http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=359) wherein the first line reads, “Joy O meets Sun O))) in a thrilling collision of sounds,” so there you have it. That’s right in my wheelhouse, as they say.
[Reviewer: Rick]




Jerusalem In My Heart Mo7it Al-Mo7it
(Constellation)
Active in Montreal’s music scene since the 90s, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh has spent eight years leading this ever-changing project that combines traditional Arabic music with experimental electronica. Its visually striking performances happen only once or twice a year, with the number of members ranging between one and thirty-five – never sounding the same twice. On this album, titled to mean “Ocean of the Ocean,” the hypnotic, adventurous sounds come from a trio consisting of Moumneh, French producer and musician Jérémie Regnier and Chilean visual artist & filmmaker Malena Szlam Salazar. Despite not being particularly familiar with the music of Western Asia, this proved to be a very compelling journey into the unknown. From the very first second of the opening track, with a title that translates to mean “Speak of the Woman in the Black Robe,” Moumneh envelops the atmosphere by singing a song that truly sounds straight out of ancient Arabia, backed with a shadowy synth drone that evolves into an orchestra-like melody when his voice ceases toward the end. Later tracks such as “3andalib Al-Furat (Nightingale of the Euphrates)” and “Dam3et El-3ein 3 (Oh Tear of the Eye 3)” rely on very complex, free-sounding string arrangements – most on a harp and buzuk – to convey the feeling of flowing down a Fertile Crescent river in the morning, complete with birds singing. The third track – meaning “He Titillates the Shepherd, but not the Sheep…” – is a particularly interesting evolution of old and new, with Moumneh singing over fast-paced synth that sounds like a spaceship.
[Reviewer: Mark]

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27th Of April 2013 Update

27th Of April 2013 Update 
of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records
 

LPs & 12″s
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(Unknown Artist)    “GKNSTR AAB”
[Physics]    “Spectramorphic Iridescence”
Baker, Aidan    “Already Drowning” (+ D/L)
Beaches    “She Beats” (+ D/L)
Body/Gate/Head    “Glare Luring Yo”
Champion    “Prince Jammy”
Cramps, The    “Psychedelic Jungle” (180 Gram)
Daylight    “Jar” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)
Deadbeat    “Primordia”
Dilloway, Aaron    “Corpse On Horseback”
Drive    “Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Cliff Martinez)” (Invada Import Version On Pink Vinyl)
Fay, Bill    “Time Of The Last Persecution” (180 Gram)
Ferrari    “Programme Commun”
Flava D    “Hold On / Home”
Gerrard, Lisa    “The Silver Tree” (2LP Gatefold)
Hot Lunch    “Hot Lunch” (+ D/L With Bonus Track)
Howl    “Bloodlines”
Just Friends    “Avalanche” (RSD UK 2013 Arrival Featuring Nicolas Jaar & Sasha Spielberg + Remixes By Julia Holter & Shlohmo)
Marley, Bob    “The Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Masters” (+ CD)
Marley, Bob    “Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers”
Marley, Bob    “Kaya”
Megadeth    “United Abominations”
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master    “A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (Craig Safan)” (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Oneohtrix Point Never    “Russian Mind” (Third Album From 2009 Reissue + D/L)
Oram, Daphne    “Oramics” (4LP Gatefold)
Pan*American    “Cloud Room, Glass Room”
Pinch / Roska    “Shoulda Rolla / Asbestos”
Primus    “Pork Soda” (180 Gram)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement    “Black Magic Cannot Cross Water”
Recloose    “Electric Sunshine (Andres Remix) / Chamois / Magic (Oliverwho Factory Remix)”
Sharks    “Selfhood” (First Press Color + CD)
Skogen Brinner    “1st” (Gatefold)
Slava    “Raw Solutions” (Numbered/1000 + D/L)
SP:MC    “Declassified EP”
Turnover    “Magnolia” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)
Uncle Acid    “Mind Control” (2LP Gatefold)
Various    “50 Weapons Meets Monkeytown Records” (RSD UK 2013 Arrival)
Various    “Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6: Origins Of American Primitive Guitar”
Violetshaped    “Violetshaped” (2LP Gatefold)
Wanda Group    “Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs    “Mosquito” (+ D/L)
Zukie, Tapper (Tappa Zukie)    “M.P.L.A. Sessions” (Jamaican Recordings Specials Heavy Stereo Vocal Meets Version; RSD13 Late Arrival)

7″s
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Segall, Ty / Chad And The Meatbodies    “Music For A Film 1 / Mountain”

CDs
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Eyehategod    “Take As Needed For Pain”
Baker, Aidan With Plurals    “Glass Crocodile Medicine” (/500)

Books!
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Barred For Life (Book; Black Flag)
A Crack Up At The Race Riots (Harmony Korine Book)

Reviews
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Dan Melchior The Backward Path

(Northern Spy)
This English singer/songwriter/guitarist continues his tradition of difficult-to-categorize music fusing genres such as punk blues and indie rock. On this album, though, he alternates between two musical styles, both receiving an almost identical balance of time: instrumental electronic experimentation and heartfelt acoustic songs that showcase Melchior’s versatile guitar and vocal skills. His shift in emotions can be attributed to the experience of supporting his wife Letha, who is currently suffering from cancer and he dedicated this album to. The stripped-down, genuinely emotive ballads are where Melchior shines the most here: a good example is “All The Clocks,” taking the interesting perspective of thanking his wife for helping ease his time-blurring stress, not letting her illness weaken her hope as well. The ominous “Waves,” on the other hand, conveys the difficulty of coping with relentless unease that makes one’s entire world feel different. He also employs several experimental guest musicians to fill out his innovative sound, including Sam Hillmer (Zs, Diamond Terrifier,) Anthony Allman (El Jesus De Magico) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core.)
[Reviewer: Mark]

Fall Out Boy  Save Rock And Roll
(Island)
Fall Out Boy are back! The band recently announced their reunion and wasted
no time in releasing new material. Their fifth album, Save Rock And Roll, is a bold
new direction for the band and encompasses the new elements the band members
acquired while working on their individual projects. The album kicks off with the
strong and aggressive track “The Phoenix” and ends with the powerful and heartfelt
“Save Rock And Roll”. This album is also full of its share of guest artists across
multiple genres, including Foxes, Big Sean, Courtney Love, and Elton John. This
return album shows that Fall Out Boy are truly back, with a vengeance.
Suggested Tracks: My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark, Alone Together,
Young Volcanoes, Save Rock And Roll
[Reviewer: Nate]

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