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14th Of June 2013 Update

14th Of June 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records


LPs & 12″s
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AW \\ PB & AT \\ HF    “209 / Liars Go Astray”
Aardvarck    “1990”
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso    “In Search Of The Lost Divine Arc” (2LP Gatefold)
Acid Washed    “House Of Melancholy” (2LP Gatefold)
Agrimonia    “Rites Of Separation” (Gatefold)
Altar Of Plagues    “Teethed Glory & Injury” (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)
ASG    “Blood Drive” (2LP With Exclusive Bonus Tracks)
Black Sabbath    “13” (2LP Gatefold Ltd. Ed.  + D/L)
Blake, James    “Voyeur (Dub)” (White Vinyl 12″)
Bring Me The Horizon    “Sempiternal” (+ CD)
Brown Bird    “Fits Of Reason”
Camera Obscura    “Desire Lines” (+ D/L)
Caribou    “Up In Flames” (+ CD)
Caribou    “The Milk Of Human Kindness” (+ CD)
Chaos Destroy    “Lightning Strikes Twice”
Colm K    “The Love EP”
Copyrights, The    “Shit’s Fucked: Splits, Singles, Covers, Comps 2004-2010” (2LP)
Coyote Clean Up    “2 Hot 2 Wait”
Cronin, Mikal    “MCII” (+ D/L)
Crosss    “Obsidian Spectre”
Daft Punk    “Homework” (Gatefold)
Daft Punk    “Discovery” (Gatefold)
Damage, Benjamin    “Delirium Tremens Remixes”
Depeche Mode    “Soothe My Soul” (12″ Single)
Devil’s Blood, The    “The Devil’s Business III: Tabula Rasa Or Death And The Seven Pillars”  (Gatefold)
Diamond    “Don’t Lose Your Cool”
D’Marc Cantu    “Some Fantasies Are Good’
Dream 2 Science    “Dream 2 Science”
Drums, The    “Portamento” (+ D/L)
Efterklang    “The Piramida Concert” (With Copenhagen Phil, Conducted By Andre De Ridder) (2LP Gatefold + CD)
Enslaved    “Axioma Ethica Odini” (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl Gatefold)
Farr, Joe    “Clock”
Flako    “Mesektet Extnd” (2×12″ Reissue + Previously Unreleased Beats)
Fontaine, Brigitte / Areski    “L’Incendie” (180 Gram)
Full Of Hell    “Rudiments Of Mutilation” (White Vinyl)
Genius Of Time    “Drifting Back”
Gravelroad    “Psychedelta” (Ltd. Ed. Deluxe Gatefold On Yellow Vinyl)
Headman    “Noise” (Feat. Scott Fraser & Douglas McCarthy)
Hess, Luke    “Analog Passion”
Hessian / Manegarmr    “Hessian / Manegarmr”
Hood, Robert    “Black Technician”
Hunt, Gene    “May The Funk Be With You”
Hyetal    “Modern Worship” (2LP Gatefold)
I Signori Della Galassia    “Iceman” (180 Gram Silver Vinyl /650)
Iasos    “Celestial Soul Portrait” (NUMERO049)
Immolation    “Kingdom Of Conspiracy” (Ltd. Ed. Grey Vinyl)
Innode    “Gridshifter”
Jimmy Eat World    “Damage” (+ D/L)
Kennedy, Indigo    “Spectre / Wonderhouse”
Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo    “Street Stories: The Best Of G. Rap And Polo” (2LP)
Kvelertak    “Meir” (Gatefold 2LP)
Lace Curtain    “Falling/Running EP” (/1000 + D/L; Silkscreened Jacket)
LaFarge, Pokey    “Pokey LaFarge”
Locked Groove    “Keep Thorough”
Materia    “Atlas”
Mayer, Michael    “Mantasy Remixe 3”
Moodyman    “ABCD”
Moore, R. Stevie    “Delicate Tension” (+ D/L)
Moore, R. Stevie    “Glad Music” (+ D/L)
Moore, R. Stevie    “Clack!” (+ D/L)
Move D    “Wanna Do”
Mungo’s HiFi    “Brand New Bangarang” (Feat. Kenny Knots)
Mu-Ziq    “XTEP” (+ D/L)
Near Paris    “Near Paris” (180 Gram Oxblood Vinyl /650)
New Trust, The    “Keep Dreaming”
Noi!se    “Rising Tide” (+ D/L)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou    “The Skeletal Essences Of Afro Funk 1969-1980 Volume 3” (2LP Gatefold)
Orchid    “The Mouths Of Madness” (Orange Vinyl 2LP Gatefold)
Patton, Charley    “Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order June 14, 1929 To Late November / Early December 1929 Volume 1”
Protest The Hero    “Fortress”
Queens Of The Stone Age    “… Like Clockwork” (Regular Edition)
Reel Big Fish    “Candy Coated Fury”
Retox    “YPLL” (+ CD)
RP Boo    “Legacy” (2LP + D/L)
Schwellenbach, Gregor    “Spielt 20 Jahre Kompakt” (Book Bound 2LP + CD)
Scott, Patrice    “Far Away”
Scott, Patrice    “Excursions EP”
Scott, Patrice    “Distance Against Time”
Sepalcure    “Sepalcure” (2LP Gatefold)
Shampoo Boy    “Licht”
Sigur Ros    “Kveikur” (2LP + D/L) (Out For Sale On Tuesday June 18th)
Sigur Ros    “Kveikur” (Limited Deluxe 2LP + 10″ + D/L) (Out For Sale On Tuesday June 18th, First Four Copies Have A Poster Too!)
Simko, Kate    “Lost In London EP”
Sims, Ben    “Smoke & Mirrors Remixes 1”
Sims, Ben    “Smoke & Mirrors Remixes 2”
Sims, Ben    “Smoke & Mirrors Remixes 3”
Sodom    “Epitome Of Torture” (2LP Gatefold Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl 45RPM)
Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex    “In The Fishtank 9”
Sonny & The Sunsets    “Antenna To The Afterworld” (Clear Vinyl + D/L)
Surfer Blood    “Pythons” (+ CD)
Thursday    “Full Collapse” (+ D/L)
Tiga / Jori Hulkkonen    “Trust Your Body”
Tristesse Contemporaine    “Woodwork / Low Tide / Waiting / Vampires”
Umberto    “Prophecy Of The Black Widow”
Various    “Underground Anthems EP Vol. 1” (Sistrum Recordings)
Vincent, Levon    “Hilo Edition”
Vincent, Levon    “Man Or Mistress”
Visage    “Hearts And Knives”
Vynehall, Leon    “Brother/Sister EP”
Williams, Dez    “Angel Maker EP”
XDB    “Espac / F.E.B.”
Xerxes    “Our Home Is A Deathbed”
Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo    “Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo”
Youandewan    “What’s The Deal?”
Youandewan    “Times”

7″s
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Cold Hearted     “Lunacy”
Corrections House    “Corrections House” (/500)
Crusades    “Parables”
Gut Feeling    “Gut Feeling”
Integrity    “Black Hesen Rise”
Lemuria    “Brilliant Dancer” (/1000)
Maguma Taishi    “Maguma Taishi”
Old Firm Casuals, The    “Army Of One”
Rockfire Funk Express    “People Save The World”
Storm, The    “The Last Man On Earth”
Underground Railroad To Candyland, The / Mean Jeans    “The Underground Railroad To Candyland / Mean Jeans”
Underwear Heads, The    “Tangmania EP”
Up For Nothing    “In Trance”
War Cross    “War Cross”

CDs
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ASG    “Blood Drive”
Black Sabbath    “13”
Blood Ceremony    “The Eldritch Dark”
Bonecrusher    “Blvd. Of Broken Bones”
Charli XCX    “True Romance”
City And Colour    “The Hurry And The Harm”
Disclosure    “Settle”
Every Time I Die    “Ex Lives”
Eyehategod    “Confederacy Of Ruined Lives”
Eyeless In Gaza    “Orange Ice & Wax Crayons”
Gulaggh    “Vorkuta”
Hyetal    “Modern Worship”
Integrity    “Suicide Black Snake”
Megadeth    “Greatest Hits”
Night Birds    “Fresh Kills Vol. 1!”
Night Birds    “The Other Side Of Darkness”
Oh Sees, Thee    “Moon Sick EP”
Pilgrim    “Misery Wizard”
Rotorvator    “I Vivi E I Morti” (DVD Size Case)
RP Boo    “Legacy”
Shannon And The Clams    “Dreams In The Rat House”
Sigur Ros    “Kveikur” (Out For Sale On Tuesday June 18th)
Witchcraft    “The Alchemist”


Cassette Tapes
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Law Of The Rope / Crown Of Bone    “Law Of The Rope / Crown Of Bone” (/200)
King Woman    “Degrida / Sick Bed”

Reviews
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Boards of Canada Tomorrow’s Harvest CD/LP

(Warp)
As anyone who’s browsed any indie music-related news sites in the past couple months has heard at some point, this extremely acclaimed Scottish electronic duo has been building hype for this fourth publicly-released studio album using methods appropriate to their shrouded-in-mystery nature. When an unannounced, ultra-short 12” of theirs was discovered on Record Store Day, their fanbase went wild trying to figure out what any of its cryptic clues might mean, before Boards of Canada finally announced their new full-length. No one was quite sure to expect, considering that 2005’s The Campfire Headphase incorporated guitars in a move unusual (but still absolutely beautiful-sounding) for the group that relied on warm electronic sounds, beats and samples for past work, particularly their stunning and beloved 1998 full-length Music Has The Right to Children. Tomorrow’s Harvest turns out to be their most meditative album yet, flowing and building at a very easy-going pace. While the older BoC albums made me feeling like running through fuzzy childhood memories, this one feels more like gazing at and soaking in nature’s grandeur through the eyes of an adult. The lead single “Reach For The Dead,” for example, matches the desolate beauty of the desert and ghost town in its music video: the hazy ambient synth stretches across the scratchy beats and contemplative electronic melody. The surprisingly friendly-sounding “Cold Earth” takes a similar approach to a sunlit Arctic atmosphere, while the tougher-to-describe “New Seeds” uses a complex series of intricate layers to sound that reminds me of both a forest and post-apocalyptic technology rising. Other favorites include the warm, otherworldly “Nothing Is Real,” which sounds close to BoC’s traditionally analogue-sounding ambience, as well as “Palace Posy:” despite being an anagram for “apocalypse,” it has an appealingly ornate sound, concluding with a rich four-note synth flourish repeating over and over.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Corrections House Hoax The System 7″

(War Crime Recordings)
Here’s a bunch of names with band credentials: SCOTT KELLY (NEUROSIS), MIKE IX (EYEHATEGOD), SANFORD PARKER (NACHTMUSTIUM) and BRUCE LAMONT (BLOODIEST, YAKUZA, SWANS). Forget most of that when it comes to expectations. Also, if you saw them live, forget what you saw because the recording doesn’t come off as off-kilter and noisey as that. It’s definitely more of a metal record than it is a noise record (I wouldn’t have said that about the live show). The B-Side (I’m starting with the B-Side) features some prominent spoken word over a rhythmic drone with sparse percussion and some familiar sounding riffage. The words do start to push the song into a more energetic territory (Zach De La Rocha-esque even; don’t let that put you off). The B-Side is definitely not the stand out. The A-Side, “Hoax The System,” is the one that’ll hook you (if you are looking to be hooked). Militant drumming, repetitive militaristic guitar and general noises give that power electronics delivery with some yelling to drive it in. I would definitely like to hear a full length though it definitely doesn’t make me not want to hear continued Neurosis material and tours instead.
[Reviewer: Rick]

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7th Of June 2013 Update

7th Of June 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

We are still awaiting a restock of the Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” LPs. We’ll let you know when we have more. I know many stores still haven’t gotten their first batch yet so let’s cross our fingers for this coming week.

You might also notice that I’m continuing to slowly take inventory of our left over RSD13 items. And I’m so zany that I didn’t alphabetize the sections where we got a small amount of titles. Wacky.

LPs & 12″s
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Beacon    “The Ways We Separate”
Bell Witch    “Longing” (2LP Gatefold)
Big Eyes    “Almost Famous”
Bleeker, Alex And The Freaks    “How Far Away” (+ D/L)
Boards Of Canada    “Tomorrow’s Harvest” (2LP Gatefold)
Bonobo    “First Fires.”
Braids    “In Kind // Amends” (+ D/L)
Case Studies    “This Is Another Life” (+ D/L)
Cherry, Don    “‘Mu’ First Part” (180 Gram)
Classixx    “Hanging Gardens”
Cleaners From Venus    “In The Golden Autumn / Under Wartime Conditions / Songs For A Fallow Land / A Dawn Chorus” (4LP Box Set)
Close    “Getting Closer” (2LP + CD)
Cold World    “Dedicated To Babies Who Came Feet First”
Converge    “Caring & Killing: The Early Years 1991-1994” (2LP Gatefold)
Crowbar    “Obedience Thru Suffering”
Culo    “My Life Sucks And I Could Care Less”
D.I.S.    “Becoming Wrath”
Date Palms    “The Dusted Sessions”
Emika    “DVA” (2LP + D/L)
Free Time    “Free Time”
Friedberger, Eleanor    “Personal Record” (+ D/L)
Heavy, The    “The House That Dirt Built”
Hrdvsion    “I Like The Feeling You’re Giving Me”
Human Eye    “4: Into Unknown” (+ D/L)
Integrity    “Suicide Black Snake” (Ltd. Ed. Color)
Itinerant Dubs    “Magic”
Jeri-Jeri (Mark Ernestus Presents)    “800% Ndagga”
Jeri-Jeri (Mark Ernestus Presents)    “Ndagga Versions”
Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds    “Haunted Head” (+ D/L)
King Tubby    “King Tubby’s Hometown Hi-Fi Dubplate Specials 1975-1979”
Kode9    “Uh / Ok”
Lussuria    “American Babylon” (2LP Gatefold)
Lust For Youth    “Perfect View” (+ D/L)
Man Is The Bastard / Bleeding Rectun    “Charred Remains”
Man Overboard    “Heart Attack” (+ CD)
Manipulation    “Manipulation”
Matt-U    “Frequency EP” (2×12″)
Milk Music    “Beyond Living”
Misser    “Distancing” (+ CD)
Mongoloids, The    “Mongo Life”
Monitor    “Monitor” (1981 First Time On Vinyl + D/L)
Mordecai    “College Rock” (+ D/L)
MX-80 Sound    “Hard Attack” (1977 Debut Reissue + D/L)
Oblivians    “Desperation” (+ D/L)
Octo Octa    “Between Two Selves” (2LP)
Old Wounds    “From Where We Came Is Where We’ll Rest” (Pink Vinyl)
P Jam    “Transcend” (NSWL015)
People Of The North    “Sub Contra” (Kid Millions & Bobby Matador Of Oneida)
Plank, Conny    “Who’s That Man: A Tribute To Conny Plank” (2LP; Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Eurythmics, D.A.F., Neu!…)
Proxima    “Thermal Vision / Valve Wars”
Real Friends    “Everyone That Dragged You Here”
Rise Against    “RPM10 Revolutions Per Minute” (+ D/L; Color Vinyl)
Roedelius Schneider    “Tiden” (180 Gram LP+CD)
Rvivr    “The Beauty Between”
Schnitzler, Conrad    “Contempora” (180 Gram)
Schnitzler, Conrad / Gregor    “Conrad & Sohn” (180 Gram)
Sick/Tired    “King Of Dirt”
Sixth Station, The    “Deep Night”
Stellar Om Source    “Joy One Mile” (+ D/L)
Thompson, Linval    “Cool Down”
Toliver, Marques    “Land Of CanAan” (180 Gram + CD)
Trees    “Sickness In”
True Head    “True Head”
Uffe    “Times All”
Vanderslice, John    “Dagger Beach”
Various    “King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label”
Various    “Interpretations On F.C. Judd”
Various    “Destination: Boogie – Classic Eighties Boogie, Soul & Electro-Funk Nuggets Selected By Joey Negro & Sean P”
Various    “Under The Influence Volume Three – A Collection Of Rare Soul And Disco Compiled By James Glass”
Various    “Ninja Tune & If Music Present: If Music Is 10” (RSD13)
Various    “The Rough Guide To Cumbia” (180 Gram)
Veils, The    “Time Stays, We Go” (Ltd. Ed. Red Vinyl + CD)
Wake, The    “A Light Far Out”
Walk The Moon    “Tightrope EP”
Walker, Charles & The Dynamites    “Love Is Only Everything” (+ D/L)
Wild Nothing    “Empty Estate”
Wild, The    “Dreams Are Maps”
Xx, The    “Jamie XX Edits”

10″s
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Jaw & Kevork Keshishian    “Hazihi Laylaty”
Bombino    “Zamane Tiliade / Si Chilan”
Crenshaw, Marshall    “Stranger And Stranger” (+ D/L)
Dark Dark Dark    “What I Needed” (+ D/L)
Factory Floor    “A Wooden Box Solid Sound” (Green Vinyl + DVD)
3 Leafs    “3 Leafs”
Capacities    “There Is No Neutral”

7″s
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WarXGames    “9 Trax / No Nightmare”
Jud Jud    “X THE DEMOS X”
Raw Meat    “Raw Meat”
Turnstile    “Step 2 Rhythm”

CDs
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Black Host    “Life In The Sugar Cancle Mines”
Boards Of Canada    “Tomorrow’s Harvest” (Artcard Edition)
Gevurah    “Necheshirion”
Gold Panda    “Half Of Where You Live”
Iron Forest    “Body Horror” (DVD Size Case Numbered/400)
Iron Tongue    “The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown”
Liar In Wait    “Translations Of the Lost”
Merky Ace    “All Or Nothing” (Grime)
Mount Kimbie    “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth”
Pharmakon    “Abandon”

Cassette Tapes
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Five Times Of Dust    “The Dadacomputer”
No    “Can You Dig It?” (Connecticut Punk Rock And Roll)
Law Of The Rope / Crown Of Bone    “Law Of The Rope / Crown Of Bone” (/200)

Magazine
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Cometbus #55

Reviews
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Coliseum Sister Faith

(Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Since forming a decade ago and going through several lineup changes, this Louisville trio has progressed from blistering hardcore to a more melodic (but still heavily rocking) alt-rock sound. Coliseum also incorporate elements of sludge and stoner metal, complete with desert rock that makes me imagine Queens of the Stone Age if they utilized a driving energy and vocal style similar to that of The Bronx. They do a great job of exploring styles from traditionally chugging metal (“Under The Blood Of The Moon”) to the storming riff-based “Black Magic Punks” (complete with whispers from just one of the album’s guest musicians: Boris singer/guitarist Wata.) One of my favorites is “Fuzzbang,” closing the album with an unexpectedly fun and infectious stoner/sludge sound (comparable to that of Torche) that melts into an almost shoegaze-style blur toward the end. 
[Reviewer: Mark]
Where We Live 

In lieu of a review from me, Rick, today I’m going to direct you to the podcast of Where We Live (WNPR, Hartford) that I appeared on today with Anthony of The Needle Drop. Check it out. We talk about a lot of new music (though we had so much more in our back pockets – you can only fit so much into an hour).
LINK: http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/content/wnpr/what-music-are-you-listening

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31st Of May 2013 Update

31st Of May 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records



LPs & 12″s
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Allin, GG & The Murder Junkies    “Brutality & Bloodshed For All” (Red Vinyl)
Animal Collective    “Monkey Been To Burn Town” (+ D/L)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago    “Great Black Music A Jackson In Your House” (180 Gram)
Bad Doctors, The    “Distractions” (Philadelphia)
Band, The    “The Last Waltz” (3LP, 180 Gram)
Benga    “Chapter II” (2LP)
Brazos    “Saltwater” (+ D/L)
Cherry, Don    “Mu – Second Part”
Coupler    “Sunless” (+ D/L)
Del Tha Funky Homosapien    “No Need For Alarm” (2LP)
Digable Planets    “Blowout Comb” (Reissue First Press With Embossed Jacket + Poster)
Grateful Dead    “Dead Set” (2LP)
Have Mercy    “The Earth Pushed Back”
Jandek    “Ready For The House / Six And Six / Chair Beside A Window” (Box Set RSD13)
John, Matt    “The Keys” (2LP)
Jurado, Damien    “Where Shall You Take Me?” (10th Anniversary Edition 2LP Gatefold With Expanded Content)
Justice    “(Cross)”
Kadavar    “Abra Kadavar” (Purple)
King Tuff    “Was Dead”
Kink Gong    “Voices”
Koreless    “Yugen”
KVB, The    “Immaterial Visions Remixes”
Last Stand, The    “The Time Is Now” (Color Vinyl)
Lights    “Siberia Acoustic”
M83 / Anthony Gonzalez / Joseph Trapanese    “Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (180 Gram 2LP Gatefold)
Mad Season    “Above” (180 Gram)
Marling, Laura    “Once I Was An Eagle” (2LP 180 Gram + D/L)
Mutant Supremacy    “Infinite Suffering”
Patton, Mike    “Music From The Motion Picture ‘The Place Beyond The Pines'”
Portugal. The Man    “Evil Friends”
Queens Of The Stone Age    “… If Clockwork” (Deluxe Heavyweight Edition Pressed On 180 Gram + Exclusive 20 Page Book + D/L + Lottery Ticket; Out For Sale On Tuesday June 4, 2013)
Queens Of The Stone Age    “… If Clockwork” (Indie Exclusive With Blue Album Artwork + D/L + Lottery Ticket; Out For Sale On Tuesday June 4, 2013)
Rodion G.A.    “The Lost Tapes” (+CD)
Russell, Alice    “To Dust” (180 Gram Gatefold + D/L)
Sannhet    “Known Flood” (+ D/L)
Savage, Sean Nicholas    “Other Life” (+ D/L)
Shepp, Archie And The Full Moon Ensemble    “Live In Antibes (Vol. 2)” (180 Gram)
Sigur Ros    “Hvarf / Heim” (+ D/L) (Out for Sale on June 4, 2013 – Tuesday)
Snoop Lion    “Reincarnated”
Still Corners    “Strange Pleasures” (+ D/L)
Stip, Valentin    “Angst”
Talabot, John    “So Will Be Now”
Teeth Of The Sea    “Orphaned By The Ocean”
Terror    “Keepers Of The Faith”
Tesseract    “Altered State” (2LP Gatefold 180 Gram)
Tijuana Panthers    “Semi Sweet”
Total Life / Deceh    “Total Life / Deceh”
Umberto    “Night Has A Thousand Screams” (+ D/L)
Van Wissem, Josef    “Nihil Obstat”
Van Zandt, Townes    “Live At The Whole Coffeehouse, Minneappolis MN, November 1973” (Clear)
Voices From The Lake    “Voices From The Lake” (3LP)
When Saints Go Machine    “Infinity Pool” (+ CD)

10″s
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Airhead & James Blake    “Pembroke”
All Out War    “1992 Demo”
Growlers, The    “Gay Thoughts”
Insect Ark    “Long Arms”
Stranglehold    “Stranglehold”
Airhead & James Blake    “Pembroke”
All Out War    “1992 Demo”
Growlers, The    “Gay Thoughts”
Insect Ark    “Long Arms”
Stranglehold    “Stranglehold”

7″s (We just inventoried our left over RSD 7″s so those are included here as well.)
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?/? (Grateful Dead / Dr. John)    “(Mystery Side By Side Record Store Day Release)”
Actor, The    “Unreal Personality” (Flexi)
Alabama Shakes    “Be Mine” (Third Man Live)
Andriano, Dan    “Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room”
Bad Doctors, The    “Spit It Out / Twilight Of The Idols”
Blu    “Thelonius King” (RSD13)
Bragg, Billy    “No One Knows Nothing Anymore” (RSD13)
Brickwall Vultures    “Vultures Rule O.K.!” (Color Vinyl)
Bucket Flush    “Bucket Flush”
Cash, Johnny    “Get Rhythm / I Walk The Line”
Charles Bronson / Unanswered    “Charles Bronson / Unanswered” (Orange Clear)
Cooper    “Live At The Historic Star Theater” (RSD13)
Creative Adult    “Dead Air”
Dead Weather, The    “Treat Me Like Your Mother”
Deftones    “Rocket Skates”
Dopestroke    “Dopestroke”
Down To Nothing    “Greetings From Richmond, Virginia” (White)
Erickson, Roky And The Aliens    “Bloody Hammer” (RSD13)
Fake Problems / You Blew It!    “Fake Problems / You Blew It!”
Foxygen    “No Destruction / Where’s the Money?”
Globe Unity ’75    “Und Jetzt Die Sportschau” (RSD13)
Golden Void    “Golden Void” (RSD13)
Gonn    “Gonn” (Picture Disc RSD13)
Greene, Jackie    “Love Is A Shining Catastrophe” (RSD13)
Greiner, Svarte / Lakes Of Grass And Gold    “Landscape Of Open Eyes” (RSD13)
Handsome Neds, The    “In Spite Of The Danger” (RSD13)
Hell Beach    “Ocean Floor” (Third Man Live)
Holcomb, Drew And The Neighbors    “Live At Eddie’s Attic” (RSD13)
Ides Of Gemini    “Hexagram 45” (RSD13)
Infest    “Days Turn Black” (Single Sided White Label; Black Vinyl /1250)
Inside Out    “No Spiritual Surrender” (Color Vinyl)
Invisible Hands, The    “Insect Dilemma” (RSD13)
Keene, Tommy    “Back To Zero Now” (RSD13)
Lloyd, Adrian    “Lorna” (RSD13)
Lonely Island, The    “YOLO” (RSD13)
Most Precious Blood    “Demo”
Mudhoney / Gas Huffer    “You Stupid Asshole / Knife Manual”
Mum    “Toothwheel”
Mum    “Toothwheels”
Nelson, Willie    “Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die” (RSD13)
Night Marchers / Mrs. Magician    “Night Marchers / Mrs. Magician” (RSD13)
Novice, The    “What You Want / Your Crime”
O+S    “Flowers Turn To Fire” (RSD13)
Office Of Future Plans / Daria    “Office Of Future Plans / Daria” (RSD13″
People’s Temple, The    “Never More” (Third Man Live)
Poison Idea    “Filthkick E.P.” (RSD13)
Prisonaires    “Baby Please / Just Walkin’ In The Rain”
Promised Land    “Yes You Can” (Third Man Live)
Purity Control    “Adjusting”
Reed, Eli “Paperboy”    “WooHoo” (RSD13)
Repos, The    “Armed And Using / Hole In The Hill”
Ringworm    “Demo” (RSD13)
Rowe, Sean    “To Leave Something Behind” (RSD13)
Rule Of Thirds    “Rule Of Thirds”
Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Ilsa    “Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Ilsa” (RSD13)
Son Lux    “Black Waters” (Clear Flexi-Disc)
Star Trek / Lost In Space    “Star Trek / Lost In Space” (RSD13)
Stereo Total    “Heroes” (RSD13)
Street Dogs    “Street Dogs” (RSD13)
Thermals    “Desperate Ground Demos” (RSD13)
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”
Times Square / Sweet May    “Times Square / Sweet May” (RSD13)
Trashmen, The    “Mean Woman Blues / Big Boss Man” (RSD13)
Ttotals    “Spectrums Of Light” (Mastered At Sonic Boom)
Virgins, The    “Prima Materia”
Virgins, The    “Fmd.” (RSD13)
Warbrain / Minus    “Warbrain / Minus”
Watt, Mike & The Black Gang    “Rebel Girl” (RSD13)
Wedding Present, The    “2 Chansons” (RSD13)
Whirr    “Part Time Punks Session” (Blue RSD13)
Written Off    “Written Off”
Youthbitch    “I’m In Love With Girls” (+ D/L)

CDs (Many of the bigger name titles here we got at a great discount and most of those are about $6.)
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Alice In Chains    “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here” (Red Jewel Case)
Anamanaguchi    “Endless Fantasy”
Anthrax    “Among The Living”
Black Dog, The    “Tranklements”
Black Sabbath    “Vol. 4”
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band    “The Mirror Man Sessions” (Original Masters)
Cohen, Leonard    “Death Of A Ladies Man”
Come    “Eleven:Eleven” (The Deluxe Edition; 2xCD)
Cooper, Alice    “School’s Out”
Corrosion Of Conformity    “Wiseblood”
Crystal Fighters    “Cave Rave”
Daft Punk    “Random Access Memories”
Deafheaven    “Sunbather”
Dirty Beaches    “Drifters / Love Is The Devil”
Eluvium    “Nightmare Ending” (2CD)
Harkonen    “Charge”
Judas Priest    “Turbo”
Kitty Badass    “One Cell At A Time”
Kode 9    “Rinse 22: Mixed By Kode 9”
Melvins    “Everybody Loves Sausage” (Melvins Tribute To Venom, Queen, The Scientists…)
Morrissey    “Years Of Refusal”
Mors Sonat    “Comforts In Atrocity”
Mutant Supremacy    “Infinite Suffering”
National, The    “Trouble Will Find Me”
Periferia S.A.    “Periferia S.A.”
Queens Of The Stone Age    “… Like Clockwork” (Out For Sale On Tuesday June 4, 2013)
Rainbow    “Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow”
Rush    “2112”
Russell, Alice    “To Dust”
Scorpions    “Taken By Force”
Scorpions    “Animal Magnetism”
She & Him    “Volume 3”
Silversun Pickups    “Neck Of The Woods”
Spock’s Beard    “Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep”
Still Corners    “Strange Pleasures”
Tears For Fears    “The Best Of Tears For Fears: The Millenium Collection”
Tera Melos    “X’ed Out”
Umberto    “Night Has A Thousand Screams”
Various    “Studio One Sound”
Various Artists    “Psycho Civilized”
Velvet Underground    “White Light / White Heat” (Verve)
Velvet Underground & Nico    “The Velvet Underground & Nico” (Andy Warhol)

Reviews
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Prurient Through The Window

(Blackest Ever Black)
Currently residing in Los Angeles (formerly New York City,) Dominick Fernow has become one of the most prominent and prolific figures in noise music since first releasing material as Prurient 15 years ago. I’ve only heard several of the dozens and dozens of releases in his body of work, but much of what I found was multiple varieties of harsh noise, such as the 2002 album The History of Aids placing ultra-distorted, ancient romantic poetry atop bracing metallic shrieks. His material this decade is particularly noteworthy and surprising: this and 2011’s Bermuda Drain see Fernow experimenting with synthpop and techno. While it’s certainly a transition from speaker-destroying noise, it’s not “going soft:” it just sounds really good. Indeed, the opening 17-and-a-half title track is both danceable (to an extent) and brooding, with Fernow’s abstract poetry floating through jet-black clouds synth clouds slowly swarming over pulsating beats. On the second side, the sound transitions back to rumbling noise for a bit (“Terracotta Spine”) before closing with ten minutes of shadowy techno again (“You Show Great Spirit.”) It’s certainly an interesting new endeavor.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Mazes Ores & Minerals

(FatCat)
This lo-fi indie rock band may be from England, but their music sounds like it’d fit perfectly among 90s college rock such as Pavement. Mazes has been around since 2009, releasing several seven-inches and – two years ago – their debut full-length A Thousand Heys. On this follow-up, they once again sound jangly and catchy, as if they’re scoring a late-Summer park stroll.  Nearly-seven-minute opener “Bodies” uses a chiming, Krautrock-esque guitar repeating throughout even after the uneasily upbeat vocals cease. Similarly catchy, memorable melodies also permeate tracks such as the lightly guitar-burned “Dan Higgs Particle” and twinkling “Bite.” My favorite track is easily “Sucker Punched,” with emotional lyrics referring to emotions hitting “like a freight train” and a sound that’s like sunlight beaming through clouds at the end of the day.
[Reviewer: Mark]

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17th Of May 2013 Update

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