12th Of August 2011 Update

12th Of August 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Agnostic Front    “Another Voice”
Amen Dunes    “Through Donkey Jaw (+ D/L)”
Ampere    “Like Shadows (+ D/L)”
Animal Collective    “Sung Tongs (+ D/L)”
Battles    “Mirrored”
Battles    “My Machines”
Belle And Sebastian    “Tigermilk (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”
Belle And Sebastian    “The Boy With The Arab Strap (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”
Belle And Sebastian    “If You’re Feeling Sinister (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”
Bestial Mouths    “Hissing Veil (/500)”
Bitches / Yuppies    “Bitches / Yuppies (/500 + D/L)”
Blues Control    “Puff”
Bomb The Music Industry!    “Vacation”
Botany    “Feeling Today EP (+ D/L)””
Braid    “Closer To Closed (180 Gram + D/L)”
Canon Blue    “Rumspringa”
Case Studies    “The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night (+ D/L)”
Cat Power    “The Covers Record (120 Gram Low Price)”
Cat Power    “What Would The Community Think (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”
Chariot, The    “Long Live (/2000)”
Davila 666    “Third Man Live 03-06-2011”
Defiance    “Out Of Order”
Descendents    “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”
Emuul    “The Drawing Of The Line”
Fruit Bats    “Tripper (+ D/L)”
Funerot    “And Then You Fucking Die, Man”
Generationals    “Actor-Caster”
Gravehill    “Practitioners Of Fell Sorcery”
Graves    “Summr Bummr”
Heartsounds    “Drifter”
Hello=Fire (Dean Fertita Of QOTSA & Dead Weather)    “Hello=Fire (DMM 180 Gram)”
Hold Tight!    “Can’t Take This Away”
Horrors, The    “Skying (+ D/L)”
Imaginary Softwoods    “The Path Of Spectrolite”
Inc.    “3”
IWrestledABearOnce    “Ruining It For Everybody (Swirled Vinyl /1000)”
Killing Joke    “Killing Joke (Reissue)”
Laurent, Philippe    “Hot Bip”
Lotus Plaza / Odonis Odonis    “Lotus Plaza / Odonis Odonis (/500; + D/L)”
Made Out Of Babies    “The Ruiner”
Made Out Of Babies    “Coward”
Oak & Bone    “Oak And Bone”
Poison Control Center, The    “Stranger Ballet”
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry    “Smashed Hits (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl)”
Ringworm    “Scars (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)”
Ringworm    “Birth Is Pain (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)”
Simonetti, Mike    “Capricorn Rising (+ D/L)”
Skin Like Iron    “Arrival”
Sloppy Seconds    “E.P. Garbage Days Regurgitated”
Tabou Combo    “Respect… (Haiti 1973)”
Various Artists    “Striving Higher: A Hardcore Compilation (Foundation, Rival Mob, Blacklisted, Nails, Bracewar, War Hungry…)”
War On Drugs, The    “Slave Ambient (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)”
Witch-Lord    “Atomized In The Black Solarian (+ D/L)”
Yo La Tengo    “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”
Yo La Tengo    “Painful! (120 Gram Low Price + D/L)”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Busy Signal    “Badman Place (Remixes)”
Cosmin TRG    “Skream! (3xLP)”
Cosmin TRG    “Simulat”
Creep    “Days Remixes”
Dubkasm    “RMX P4”
Fink    “Perfect Darkness”
Graff, Willie & Tuccillo    “Poseidonia”
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts    “Ubiquitous Gaze”
GusGus    “Over Remixe”
Hyetal    “Phoenix RMX (10″)”
Kryptic Minds    “Arcane”
Mungo’s Hi Fi    “Bogle / Gimme Gimme”
Photek    “Closer”
Saarid    “Fever Dream”
Squarepusher    “Squarepusher & EdRec Present Shobaleader One”
Trago, Tom    “Iris Album Sampler”
Untold    “Yukon RMX (10″)”
Various Artists    “Jubilee Comp. #050.3”
Yellowman    “Zungguzungguguzungguzeng (Remix)”

Hip-Hop 12″s & LPs
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Cypress Hill    “Cypress Hill (20th Anniversary Ed. Red Vinyl)”
London, Theodophilus    “Timez Are Weird These Days”
Serengeti    “Family & Friends (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Streets, The    “The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living “

10″s
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NOFX    “NOFX”
Scream    “Complete Control Recording Sessions (+ D/L)”

7″s
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Earth Crisis “Into A Sea…”
Gehenna “Land Of II/Grave…” 7″+CD
Imposters, The “Down By The…”
Midnight Souls “Colder”
No Omega
Parasite / Vermapyre
Penetration Panthers “Per…”
Title Fight “The Last…”

CDs
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Ancient VVisdom “A Godlike Inferno”
Hello=Fire “Hello=Fire”
Minerva, Maria “Cabaret”
Obsessed, The “Lunar Womb”
Today Is The Day “Pain Is…”
Unida / Dozer
Various Artists “50 Weapons 10-19”
War On Drugs, The “Slave Ambient (Deluxe)”

Book
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Cometbus: Add…
Sun Ra: This Planet Is…

Reviews
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Ampere Like Shadows LP/CD
(No Idea)

This week my friend Brian put together a blog to archive the fliers of the shows he had a hand in booking from 2001-2004. In that time, the clubs that had regularly hosted shows in CT had closed down or slowed down (or in the case of The Hanover House been knocked down!). Brian managed to regularly squeeze free-to-cheap rooms out of the University Of Connecticut that were sizable enough to hold shows for hundreds of kids. Mixed bills? no problem. Fights? almost never. There was always a place to crash and someone was always willing to scan you into the dining hall. Utopian times. (http://thesiningrey.tumblr.com/)

It seems fitting that this week’s review is of a new record by a band who played a bunch of those Uconn shows. Ampere has been a band for ten years and their formula hasn’t changed. They aim to put you on a fast-as-fuck screamo rollercoaster that they keep turning off and on (some songs are as short as 20 seconds). Don’t try to bang your head; your neck will break. The 15 song, “Like Shadows” has the best recording quality of any Ampere record, it’s bright without being entirely clean either, which helps to convey how intense & chaotic their live shows are.
[Reviewer: Josh]

Deskonocidos En La Oscuridad LP
(Todo Destruido / Trabuc Records)

Texican dark rock that could easily have been from two decades ago and remembered as some lost cult band loved by hundreds.  I would be among those mythological hundreds. Of course, that’s all moot because they existed up until just recently (unfortunately, I believe their last show was very recently in or close to their hometown in Texas – I’m writing this stream of conscious so don’t expect me to research things you lazy reader dewdz; Rufus!).  So, they sing in spanish and it’s great.  I have no idea what they’re talking about, but really I don’t often know what most bands are talking about so a language barrier is just one more hurdle I don’t have to worry about jumping. These guys could have played at London’s Batcave in the ’80s alongside Southern Death Cult or Sex Gang Children or Specimen or The Virgin Prunes or… you get it.  Jangly and moody, but also fist pumping and rocking and uhhh Texican(!).
[Reviewer: Rick]

Ringworm Scars LP/CD
(Victory Records)

“Scars” marks the fifth full length from Cleveland based metal/hardcore band Ringworm. This album is sure to add some fuel to the fire for the “Which Ringworm album is the best” debate that I often hear. There are few vocalists out there that come close to Human Furnace’s violent growls, and no pair of guitarists can shred as hard and precise as Matt Sorg and John Comprix. Put these two together, along with some really top notch artwork done by none other than J. Bannon, and you have yourself a completely solid release.

Ringworm is playing at the El N Gee in CT in November. I highly recommend checking it out. You will not be disappointed. Victory Records has also released Ringworm’s 2nd full length, “Birth is Pain,” and that’s in stock as well. Snag the pair. There is no God.
[Reviewer: Sean]

The UV Race Homo LP/CD
(In The Red Records)

Not many music teachers will endorse it, but sloppy production and instrumentation genuinely enhances this Australian six-piece’s garage rock. This band doesn’t like to play by the rules. With vocals easily comparable to The Velvet Underground, the music varies from straightforward lo-fi strumming to very discordant, highly experimental structures drawing from psychedelia, Krautrock, and the earliest noise rock (this is especially present in the outro of the closing title-track, which, to avoid any confusion, lyrically refers to the fact that we are all human.) An organ-sounding keyboard buzzes throughout much of the album, bringing the atmosphere of a sweaty, grimy bar to mind. The most unique track, “Burn That Cat,” is memorable for not only its quick moments of what sounds like truly avant-garde jazz, but also its bizarre lyrics inspired by a very disturbing dream. Still, it’s easy to feel right at home with down-to-earth, relatable themes such as shyness (Down Your Street) and friends who never show up on  time (Always Late.) 
[Reviewer: Mark]