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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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12th Of April 2013 Update / We’re 6 Years Old Today!

12th Of April 2013 Update / We’re 6 Years Old Today!
at Redscroll Records
 


 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! We are 6 years old today. We opened our doors on April 12, 2007 and it has been pretty incredible to see what this store has become with all of your support. So, thank you and we’ll continue to keep pushing to be better each year than we were the year before (or today better than yesterday even).
Nate Even Made Us Some Birthday Cards!
[The party in question is the ongoing party that is our store! So, you know, not formal and only occasionally raucous.]

LPs & 12″s
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76% Uncertain    “Hunka Hunka Burnin Log” (1989 Still In Shrink Wrap)
Alt-J    “An Awesome Wave” (+ D/L)
Atheist    “Jupiter” (Picture Disc)
Black Flag    “The Process Of Weeding Out”
Blake, James    “Overgrown” (2LP 180 Gram Gatefold)
Bradley, Charles    “Victim Of Love” (+ D/L)
Brigman, George    “Jungle Rot” (Punk Blues Baltimore 1975)
C.I.A.    “God, Guts, Guns And More”
Can    “Horrortrip In The Paperhouse” (Unofficial)
Captain Beefheart    “Bat Chain Puller” (Unofficial)
Clash, The    “Ties On The Line” (Unofficial)
Colomach    “Colomach” (/500 + D/L)
Crass    “Stations Of The Crass” (2LP)
Damned, The    “… At The BBC” (Unofficial)
Dangerous Boys Club (DBC)    “Pris” (+ D/L)
Dawes    “Stories Don’t End” (+ D/L)
Disco Doubles    “Demons (Darshan Jesrani Mixes)”
Django Unchained    “Django Unchained Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Blood Splattered 180 Gram Vinyl 2LP Gatefold)
Dresden    “Too Many Skeletons” (1986 Still In Shrink Wrap)
Dutch Uncles    “Out Of Touch In The Wild” (+ D/L)
Early Graves    “Red Horse” (+ D/L)
Eno, Brian    “The BBC Sessions” (Unofficial)
Ensemble Skalectrik    “Trainwrekz”
Ethiopians, The    “Freedom Train”
Evol    “Proper Head”
Flaming Lips, The    “The Terror” (2LP Gatefold)
Gammelsaeter, Runhild    “Amplicon” (Singer Of Thorr’s Hammer; Clear Record With Perforated Center Hole You Must Punch With Your Turntable Spindle – Well That’s What The Release Suggests Anyhow)
Ghost B.C.    “Infestissumam” (Red Vinyl + D/L)
Ghostface Killah    “Adrian Younge Presents Twelve Reasons To Die”
Ghostface Killah    “Adrian Younge Presentano Dodici Ragioni Per Morire (Strumentale) ” (Instrumentals)
Havok    “Time Is Up” (Numbered/1000)
Hiss Golden Messenger    “Haw” (+ D/L)
Iron & Wine    “Ghost On Ghost” (+ CD)
J Dilla    “Anthem / Trucks” (Clear Vinyl)
King Of Dub     “King Of Dub”
Lansing-Dreiden    “The Dividing Island” (Numbered/500)
Latest, The    “The Latest” (Screened Fold Over Cover)
Masked Intruder    “Masked Intruder” (+ D/L)
Meek, Joe (Producing Various Artists)    “From Beyond The Grave” (Unofficial)
Milk Music    “Cruise Your Illusion”
Minutemen    “Project: Mersh”
Mmoss    “Only Children”
Mudhoney    “Vanishing Point” (+ D/L)
Os Mutantes    “The Sixth Finger: Singles, Rarities And Outakes 1965.1968”
Punch Brothers    “Ahoy!” (10″)
Replacements, The    “Songs For Slim”
Seizure    “Seriously Delirious” (1990 Still In Shrink Wrap)
Smaldone, Micah Blue    “The Ring Of The Rise”
Smiths, The    “Panic!” (Unofficial)
Spiegel, Laurie    “The Expanding Universe”
Tenacious D    “Tenacious D: 12th Anniversary Edition” (180 Gram 2LP Gatefold + D/L With Bonus Track)
Thrice    “Anthology” (Box Set 4LP)
U Roy    “Hold On Rasta”
Various    “Music For Dancefloors: The KPM Music Library” (2LP Gatefold + 2CD)
Various    “Gasatanka / Flipside Records Presents, Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Number 3” (Still In Shrink Wrap)
Velvet Underground, The    “Prominent Men” (Unofficial)
Viking Moses!    “The Parts That Showed”
Violent Femmes    “Good Ideas” (Unofficial)
Violet Vil    “Lapidas Y Cocoteros” (Pink/Black Vinyl + D/L)
Ware, Jessi    “Devotion”
White Fang    “High Expectations”
White Fence    “Cyclops Reap / Pink Gorilla”
Young Statues    “Age Isn’t Ours” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)

Electronic/Dance LPs & 12″s 
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Advent, The    “The Advent ‘D Sector’ EP”
Altarboy    “Anyone But You”
Analogue Cops, The    “Heavy Hands” (2LP)
Bonobo    “The North Borders.” (+ D/L)
Commanchee’s Revenge    “Tetrahedron”
Darondo Featuring Tall Black Guy & Dandy Teru    “I Don’t Want To Leave / Untrue”
Deadboy    “Blaquewerk”
DMX Krew    “Broken SD140 Part II”
Emptyset    “Material”
Graciela Maria    “Olvido”
Headless Ghost    “Frontend EP”
Kahn    “Kahn” (2×12″)
Kanji Kinetic & Company    “Assimilate”
Kolortown    “Sound Is Coming Part III”
Lapalux    “Nostalchic” (2LP 180 Gram + D/L)
Lewis, Alexander    “A Luminous Veil”
Lost Trax    “Hidden Agenda”
LX One & Youngsta    “Responsibility / No Cure”
Miles    “Faint Hearted”
OliverWho Factory, The    “You Just Don’t Know”
Omar S    “Triangulam Australe”
Pittsburgh Track Authority    “Pittsburgh Track Authority” (Rotating Souls)
Recondite    “EC10”
Romare    “Love Songs: Part One”
Sweatson Klank    “You, Me, Temporary”
Swindle    “Airmiles”
Various    “Reworks” (Redose-1; Morphine Records 2012)

7″s
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Cave, Nick And The Bad Seeds    “The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane” (/300)
Cold Cave    “Oceans With No End” (Couple Different Variations Of Blue Colors)
FilosofischeStilte    “Poly EP” (Numbered /200)
Grabbies    “Shut Up & Learn Live”
Jackson, Wanda    “Funnel Of Love / Whirlpool”
Nirvana    “… And The Rest-BBC Sessions”
Strokes, The    “All The Time”
Tall Black Guy    “Mini Therapy Chops”

CDs
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Baker, Aidan    “Already Drowning”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club    “Specter At The Feast”
Flaming Lips, The    “The Terror”
Ghost B.C.    “Infestissumam” (Deluxe Jewel Case Edition)
Ghost B.C.    “Infestissumam” (Regular Digipak Case Edition)
Merzbow    “Takahe Collage” (Long Case)
Seven Sisters Of Sleep    “Opium Morals”
Shadetek, Matt    “The Empire Never Ended”
Three Loco    “!Three Loco!”
Ultrademon    “Seapunk”
Wolf Eyes    “No Answer-Lower Floors”

Cassette Tapes
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Dattilo, Joe    “Silence… With Noise”
Shot In The Head    “Demo”
Terminator 2    “Terminator 2” (Band Is Named T2; This  Has No Affiliation With The Movie)

Reviews
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Ape School Junior Violence 
(Hometapes)
A well-known figure in Philadelphia’s music scene, Michael Johnson uses his second full-length to expand on the late-80s/early-90s neo-psychedelia sound, which included bands like Mercury Rev and The Boo Radleys. He uses a rotating lineup of musicians to build up a wall of melodic synth, with the resulting songs drawing elements from genres such as psychedelic rock, alt-rock and New Wave. In addition to sunny risers such as opener “A New Low! It Sucks Itself!” and “Cocaine & Guns ASAP,” the comfortably cool 80s-flashback songs are my personal favorites. The drifting ambient dream “Beneficiary (Don’t Blame Me)” and richly radiant memory “Weak in the Teeth” made me feel the most at home, almost like I was reliving an era I was too young to remember.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Efterklang Piramida

(4AD)
To get inspiration for their fourth album, this Danish indie-rock group spent nine days at an unexpected location: the former Russian coal mining community of Pyramiden, located on Norway’s northernmost archipelago and active for most of the 20th century. They captured over a thousand field recordings there, which they later expertly interspersed with instruments such as synth, piano and brass to create a subdued but very emotion-rich, moody sound. Right from the start of the haunting opener “Hollow Mountain” is an ancient-sounding melody created by lightly tapping a huge, hollow metal cylinder found on the settlement, soon joined by a mournfully angelic dirge, Casper Clausen’s far-reaching baritone, and synth and brass to complete the feeling. The lost-love lament “Apples” continues with a more dramatic, personal direction, telling someone to “run away” to be forgotten. One particular surprise is “Between The Walls,” starting out electronic as elegant-sounding glitch and swelling into a grand synth/brass ensemble.
[Reviewer: Mark]

The Story So Far What You Don’t See

(Pure Noise)
On their sophomore release, The Story So far have progressed their musical ability and sound as a band. What You Don’t See is a logical progression musically from their previous release, which is a breathe of fresh air for listeners who feel like bands change their sound too much between albums. This record is an honest confession by vocalist Parker Cannon and how he feels. Unlike many bands in the pop punk genre who sing about generic break-ups and skateboarding, The Story So Far provide a genuine and personal feel about how it feels to be in a band at their level of success, while also singing about love and loss that listeners can relate to. The Story So Far are swiftly rising in popularity in this new wave of pop punk bands including The Wonder Years and Man Overboard. After the release of their previous album, Under Soil & Dirt, this band has blown up in this scene and listening to their sophomore album it is easy to tell that this is not a fluke.
Suggested Tracks: Stiffled, Right Here, Empty Space, All Wrong
[Reviewer: Nate]

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5th of April 2013 Update

5th of April 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records
 


LPs & 12″s
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100 Flowers    “100 Flowers” (Debut LP By The Band AKA The Urinals + D/L)
Beatles, The    “The Decca Tapes” (LP + CD)
Bestial Mouths / Deathday    “Bestial Mouths / Deathday” (+ D/L)
Birkin, Jane & Serge Gainsbourg    “Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus” (Gatefold)
British Sea Power    “Machineries Of Joy”
Calder, Alex    “Time” (+ D/L)
Caravels    “Lacuna” (Gatefold)
Carpenter, John    “Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers” (Distributor’s Warehouse Find!)
Catholic Spray    “Earth Slime” (+ D/L)
Church Whip    “Psychedelic Nightmare”
Classixx    “Holding On”
Cold War Kids    “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts” (+ D/L)
Cough / Windhand    “Reflection Of The Negative”
Cyclist, The    “Bones In Motion” (2LP + D/L)
Daega Sound    “State”
Dehnert, Mike    “Roulement EP” (Purple)
Demonologists / Gnaw Their Tongues    “Demonologists / Gnaw Their Tongues”
Descendents    “Somery”
Dusky    “Henry 85 EP”
Ensemble Pearl    “(Ensemble Pearl)” (Stephen O’Malley, Atsuo, Michio Kurihara, William Herzog)
Feeling Of Love, The    “Reward Your Grace” (+ D/L)
Fidlar    “Fidlar” (+ D/L)
Fixmer, Terence    “Psychik EP”
Folkeiis    “Hate Rebel Blood Stain”
Ghxst    “EvilWickedDesire” (+ D/L)
Graf Orlock / Greyskull    “Graf Orlock / Greyskull”
Grave Babies    “Crusher” (+ D/L)
Great American Ghost    “Great American Ghost”
Greaves, Justin    “The Devil’s Business” (Soundtrack, Movie Directed By Sean Hogan)
Hard Skin    “On The Balls”
Hard Skin    “Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear”
Harvey, PJ    “Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea” (Fan Club Edition)
Heterotic    “Love & Devotion” (+ D/L)
Hierophant    “Great Mother: Holy Monster”
Howarth, Alan    “Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers” (Distributor’s Warehouse Find!)
Hundredth    “Revolt”
In Camera    “IV Songs + II”
Jewels Of The Nile    “Pleasure” (+ D/L)
Jonsi    “Go” (Jonsi Of Sigur Ros; + D/L)
Knife, The    “Shaking The Habitual” (3LP 180 Gram + 2 Artwork Posters + CD)
Lansing -Dreiden    “The Incomplete Triangle” (Ltd. Ed. Numbered /500 + D/L)
Lansing -Dreiden    “A Sectioned Beam” (Ltd. Ed. Numbered /500 + D/L)
Liminanas, The    “Crystal Anis”
Mann, Chico    “Same Old Clown (Ft. Kendra Morris)”
Mass    “Labour Of Love”
Merchandise    “Totale Nite”
Minerva, Maria    “Bless”
Modern Life Is War    “My Love. My Way.” (Clear Red)
Mohammad    “Som Sakrifis”
My Gold Mask    “Leave Me Midnight”
No Joy    “Wait To Pleasure” (Ltd. Ed. /2,000 + D/L)
O13    “Time Wave Zero” (+ D/L)
Phosphor    “Youth & Immortality” (+ D/L)
Postal Service, The    “Give Up” (3LP Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition Remastered + 15 Bonus Tracks, 2 Brand New Songs + D/L)
Powell    “Untitled” (Black Label; RAVE002)
Present Moment, The    “The High Road” (Picture Disc)
Present Moment, The    “Loyal To A Fault”
Schwarz, Henrik    “Take Words In Return (Remix)”
Seven Sisters Of Sleep    “Opium Morals” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)
Sharpe, Edward & The Magnetic Zeros    “Up From Below” (2LP Gatefold)
Shrine, The    “Primitive Blast” (+ D/L)
Silver Jews    “Starlite Walker”
Sleeparchive    “A Man Dies In The Street Pt. 1”
Solyst    “Lead” (LP + CD)
Swingin’ Utters    “Poorly Formed”
Sword, The    “Apocryphon” (/100 On Pink 2LP + CD)
Tense (//Tense//)    “Memory”
Treasure Fleet    “Future Ways”
Tresors    “Pleine Lune” (2LP + D/L)
Trinity    “20 In” (2LP Blue & Green Vinyl + D/L)
Tyler, The Creator    “Goblin” (2LP Gatefold)
U.S. Girls    “G.E.M.” (+ D/L)
Universe People    “Go To The Sun” (45 RPM; Jo Claxton, Kellie Payne, Dave Ramm)
Various    “Four Old Seven Inches On A Twelve Inch” (Teen Idles / State Of Alert / Government Issue / Youth Brigade)
Various    “London Is The Place For Me 5: Latin, Jazz, Calypso & High Life From Young Black London” (2LP Gatefold)
Various    “London Is The Place For Me 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz & High Life From Young Black London” (2LP Gatefold)
Velvet Elvis    “In Deep Time” (+ D/L)
Vile, Kurt    “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” (2LP Gatefold + D/L Regular Edition)
Vile, Kurt    “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” (2LP Gatefold + D/L Deluxe Edition Numbered, Blue Vinyl + Espo Stickers!)
Voivod    “Target Earth” (2LP 180 Gram Gatefold)
Von Oswald Trio, Moritz    “Fetch” (2LP Gatefold)
Xander Harris    “Snow Crash” (Purple Vinyl)
Yellow Swans    “At All Ends”

10″s
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DJ Format    “Spaceship Earth / Terror”
Mukunguni    “New Recordings From Coast Province, Kenya” (2×10″ + CD)
Oxygen    “Gone Diggin'”
Tense (//Tense//)    “Consume”

7″s
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Barren Girls    “Hell Hymns”
Cisneros, Al     “Teresa Of Avila / Levitation Dub” (OM)
Cohen, Leonard    “The Future / Suzanne”
Emperor Zero    “Mental Health Café / Hispaniola”
Guided By Voices    “Xeno Pariah” (Ltd. /1000 + D/L)
Livids    “(Some Of Us Have) Adrenalized Hearts”
Neon Piss    “Close The Door / Burn”
Nice, Paul / Masta Ace    “BK We Don’t Play”
Pleasure Leftists    “Pleasure Leftists”
Shrine, The    “Olympic Airstream / Mirror Fits Like A Glove”
Shrine, The    “Napalm + Hellride”
Time The Mute / Old Phoebe    “Kingfisher Bluez Christmas Single 2012” (/250)
Touche Amore / The Casket Lottery    “Touche Amore / The Casket Lottery ” (Color Vinyl; Crafty Packaging)
Vampire Weekend    “Diane Young / Step
Various    “Wake Up Dead Volume One” (Curmudgeon, Sex Prisoner, The Repos…)
Xiu Xiu    “Quagga / Thylacine” (/300)
Young Widows / Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy     “Young Widows Split Series 1 Of 4”
Young Widows / Melt-Banana    “Young Widows Split Series 2 Of 4”
Young Widows / My Disco    “Young Widows Split Series 4 Of 4”
Zen Mystery Fogg    “Raccoon / Detour” (/250)

CDs
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Bebey, Francis    “African Electronic Music 1975-1982”
Blake, James    “Overgrown”
Evil Conduct    “Working Class Anthems”
Heterotic    “Love & Devotion”
Knife, The    “Shaking The Habitual” (2CD Edition + Expanded Packaging + Additional Artwork On 2 Posters)
Milk Music    “Cruise Your Illusion”
Tense (//Tense//)    “Memory”
Vile, Kurt    “Wakin On A Pretty Daze”
Virgins, The    “The Virgins”
Xander Harris    “The New Dark Age Of Love”



Cassette Tapes
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April In The Orange    “In The Mirror Under The Moon” (/100; C-42)
Creation VI    “Pantheophania” (/100; C29)
Lefterna    “Not Here (if anywhere)/ Degredation-Obsession” (/100; C-40)
M. Geddes Gengras    “Re-Vision” (/100; C-35)
Rambutan    “Typhoon Shapes” (/100; C-37)

Reviews
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Nate Hall A Great River

(Neurot)
This solo debut serves as a bit of a departure from the psych rock/sludge metal hybrid that Hall sings and plays in the North Carolina-based band U.S. Christmas. It’s not a complete change, though, as he focuses on a stripped-down version the expansive folk-rock that he also showcases with the band. Both intimate acoustic and soaring electric guitars play roles in the grandeur of his rustic soundscapes, with opener “The Earth In One Cell” serving as a great example. His dark, introspective lyrics focus primarily on nature metaphor-fueled life observations, including the emotions experienced as a musician wandering the world (“Raw Chords”) Tracks 4 and 8 demonstrate the most dramatic comparison with two versions of an instrumental called “Night Theme;” a pensive, somber acoustic one and a druggy, dream-like electric one.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Peace The World Is Too Much With Us

(Suicide Squeeze)
On their sophomore record, this Vancouver post-punk band sounds focused and energetic amidst Dan Geddes’ yearning, spoke-sung vocals, similar to The Fall. It kicks off with the very sunny-sounding “Your Hand in Mine,” fueled by upbeat drumming and triumphant, satisfied delivery of the song’s title. The other songs share the same tireless, enthusiastic flow, such as “The Perp Walk,” sung in a cool-sounding, detached way (I’ve lived all my life / now it’s gone…”) The bass plays a noticeably heavy role toward the end, particularly when it sets the foundation for the noisily epic “Winterhouse” and very sinister, rising-like-smoke “Free Time.” Another standout – “Black Cocaine” – features vocals that sound particularly close to an old-school post-punk revival, even when they consist of little more than the title repeated.
[Reviewer: Mark]

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Contest, Music Review, Review, Reviews, Update

29th of March 2013 Update

29th of March 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

We will be closed for Easter Sunday – March 31st, 2013.  
Easter Sunday will also be the last day to enter our contest. We’re giving away four $50 Gift Certificates. Details here: 6th Anniversary And Record Store Day Sale Contest

LPs & 12″s
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Agnostic Front    “Victim In Pain” (Clear Vinyl)
Akitsa / Ash Pool    “Ripped From Death, Forced To Live, And Die Again”
Alkaline Trio    “My Shame Is True” (+ CD)
Ancestors    “III”
Beach House    “Beach House”
Besnard Lakes, The    “Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO” (+ D/L)
Big Star    “3rd” (180 Gram)
Birds In Row    “You, Me & The Violence” (+ D/L)
Black Angels, The    “Indigo Meadow” (180 Gram Gatefold + D/L + 20 Page Booklet)
Bleached    “Ride Your Heart” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)
BonaDish    “The Zaragoza Tapes: 1981-1982” (+ D/L)
Bowie, David    “The Next Day” (2LP Gatefold 180 Gram + CD)
Crimson Glory     “Strange And Beautiful” (Sealed Finds)
Dark Sky    “Confunktion / Double U”
Death Cab For Cutie    “Plans” (180 Gram 2LP)
Deceased    “Supernatural Addiction” (Gatefold)
Deltron 3030    “Deltron 3030” (2LP)
Denouncement Pyre    “Almighty Arcanum” (Gatefold)
DJ Koze    “Amygdala” (2LP Gatefold + 7″ + D/L)
DJ Koze    “La Duquesa / Burn With Me”
Dusky    “Nobody Else EP”
Earth (Pre-Black Sabbath) / Flying Hat Band    “Earth / Flying Hat Band – Coming Of The Heavy Lords”
Edwards, Winston & Blackbeard    “Dub Conference: Winston Edwards & Blackbeard At 10 Downing Street”
Eno, Brian    “Discreet Music” (Unofficial)
Factory Floor    “Remix Volume 1”
Fay, Bill    “Bill Fay” (180 Gram)
Fitzgerald, George    “Child Remixes EP”
Foster, Sylvi    “If Are You…”
Foundation    “Hang Your Head” (+ D/L)
Futurisk    “Lonely Streets”
Gun Outfit    “Hard Coming Down”
Hawkwind    “Leave No Star Unturned” (Live Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram 2LP Gatefold)
Heavy Breath    “The E.P.s” (Red/Clear)
Hendrix, Jimi    “People, Hell And Angels” (The Authorized Hendrix Family Edition)
Howlin’ Wolf    “Message To The Young”
Implodes    “Recurring Dream”
In Flagranti    “Best Of Dissimilated By-Products 2011-2012”
Integrity    “Thee Destroyer” (Pre-Order Version With Patch, Sticker And CD)
Integrity 2000    “Integrity 2000”
Iron Lung    “White Slave Test” (2LP Gatefold + D/L)
Iron Reagan    “Worse Than Dead” (Ltd. Ed. Color)
Kavinsky    “Teddy-Boy EP” (Includes Testarossa)
Kavinsky    “1986”
Kopp, Hermann    “Nekronology: Music From Jork Buttgereit’s Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2, And Der Todesking” (Soundtrack)
Krystal Klear    “Addiction Feat. Jenna G”
Living Eyes    “Who Will Remain?” (White Vinyl + D/L First Press)
Martin, Daphne Lee    “Moxie”
Master    “Master”
Moff, Jar    “Commercial Mouth”
Morrissey    “Live At Wolverhampton 1988” (First Solo Concert Recording; Unofficial)
My Bloody Valentine    “MBV” (Gatefold)
New Order    “Peel Sessions” (Unofficial)
NightBitch    “Chainmaker” (Numbered /250 Single Sided 12″ EP)
Orchid    “Chaos Is Me”
Pillowfight    “Pillowfight” (Dan The Automator And Emily Wells)
Pop Group, The    “Don’t Sell Your Dreams” (2LP Fan Club Edition)
Ringworm    “Justice Replaced By Revenge” (RSD 2012 Ltd. Ed. Color)
S.A.M.     “Nangijala / Nangilima”
Sightings    “Terribly Well” (+ D/L)
Smoking Popes    “Born To Quit” (+ D/L)
Suffocation    “Pinnacle Of Bedlam” (Ltd. Ed. Gatefold Orange/Black Splatter Vinyl)
Transit    “Young New England” (Ltd. Ed. First Pressing On Colored Vinyl + CD)
Various    “Psych Funk 101 World Psychedelic Funk Classics” (Gatefold 2LP)
Various    “Spiritual Jazz Volume 4: Americans In Europe” (3LP Gatefold + D/L)
Veruca Salt    “Resolver”
Walker, Scott    “2” (180 Gram)
Walker, Scott    “3” (180 Gram Gatefold)
Yelle    “L’Amour Parfait”

10″s
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ACxDC / Sex Prisoner / Magnum Force    “Antichrist Demoncore / Magnum Force / Sex Prisoner Split 10″”
Anselmo, Philip H. & The Illegals / Warbeast    “War Of The Gargantuas”
Covered In Sand    “Heaven’s Gate” (10″ + 7″)
Death In June    “Peaceful Snow” (2×10″ Picture Disc Vinyl)
Death In June    “The Snow Bunker Tapes” (2×10″ Picture Disc VinyL)
Death In June    “The Snow Bunker Tapes” (2×10″ Clear VinyL)
J Dilla    “The Lost Scrolls Vol. 1”
Lowtec    “Port Carbon” (2×10″)
Of The Wand And The Moon    “Live At The Lodge Of Imploded Love”
Oram, Daphne / Dissevelt, Tom    “Electronic Sound Patterns / Electronic Movements”
Pulse Code Modulation    “Hagakure”
Sovereign    “Rehersal 1995” (/500)
Various    “Drumbreaks: Original Break Beats”
Wareika Hill Sounds    “No More War EP”

7″s
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Audacity    “Finders Keepers” (+ D/L)
Death Camp    “Teenage Nightmare EP”
Hesitation Wounds    “Hesitation Wounds” (+ D/L Oxblood Vinyl First Press)
Hierophant    “Son Of The Carcinoma” (White Vinyl)
Notations, The    “That Girl / This Time I’m For Real”
Raw Nerve    “Every Problem Solved” (Big Hole 45, White Vinyl, Deluxe Booklet And Heavy Weight Jacket)
Signs Of The Time    “Hurts So Bad / I Think Of You”
Stereo Total    “We Don’t Wanna Dance / Pixelize Me”
Trauma    “10 Song EP”
White Woods    “Big Talking / Corner Town” (+ D/L Ltd. Ed. /500)
Wild Child    “WC – Wild Child”

CDs
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Black Angels, The    “Indigo Meadow” (+ 20 Page Booklet)
Clutch    “Earth Rocker”
Eyehategod    “In The Name Of Suffering”
Fake Babies    “Fake Babies”
Grimes    “Halfaxa” (Digipak)
Iron Lung    “White Slave Test” (2CD)
KEN Mode    “Entrench”
Martin, Daphne Lee    “Moxie”
Reign Supreme    “Sky Burial”

Reviews
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U.S. Girls GEM

(FatCat)
Despite this glitzy glam-pop project’s plural, American-sounding name, Toronto-born Meghan Remy is essentially the sole member, taking command with her striking, high-pitched singing voice. On her fourth album, she clearly demonstrates her interest in the music of both indie rock and girl groups, creating what sounds like a curious re-imagining of the emotions experienced while living the high life. The sound mostly has a somewhat dark aura throughout, kicking off with the cavernous, synth-driven “Another Color,” showcasing her loud, emotional and echoed voice. The driving, ever-bedazzled “Work From Home” is a unique standout in its memorable simplicity; after it ends, it jumps into a cover of Brock Robinson’s “Jack,” which is likely the most cool-flowing, head-bobbing song about Jack the Ripper to exist. Remy shows her versatility by tackling country-rock as well, successfully putting an interesting spin on Billy Joe Royal’s “Down In The Boondocks.”
[Reviewer: Mark]

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