30th of November 2012 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Addison Groove    “I Go Boom – DJ Rasad & Doc Daneeka Remixes”
Ben, Jorge    “Forca Bruta” (180 Gram)
Blakey, Art    “Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Moanin'”
Blkout    “Total Depravity”
Caspian    “You Are The Conductor”
Clouds    “Tannhauser Acid Works I”
Commodo    “Buckwild / Axis”
Container    “LP (2)”
Crushed Butler    “Uncrushed” (Fan Club)
Davis, Miles    “Live-Evil”
Deal With It    “Eyiafjallalokill”
Dirty Projectors    “About To Die”
Dixon, Jack    “E / Find Shelter”
Down    “Threefold Live: Diary Of A Mad Band” (Trifold Gatefold
Drake, Nick    “Demo Collection” Volume 2 (fan club)
Drake, Nick    “Demo Collection” Volume 1 (fan club)
Efterklang    “Magic Chairs” (+ D/L)
Factory Floor    “Remix Series 2”
Flaming Lips, The    “Oh My Gawd!!!…” (Clear Vinyl Ltd. Ed.)
Forma    “Off/On”
Gengras, M. Geddes    “Test Leads” (+ D/L)
Gibson, Daughn    “All Hell”
Graveyard    “LightsOut” (Ltd. Black Marble Vinyl)
Hecker, Tim / Daniel Lopatin    “Instrumental Tourist” (Ltd. Numbered /2,000 + D/L)
Hirsute Pursuit     “Boyd Keeps Swinging (Feat. Boyd Rice)”
Hubble Bubble    “Faking” (Fan Club)
Hubble Bubble    “Hubble Bubble” (Fan Club)
J.B.’s, The (The JB’s)    “Doing It To Death” (180 Gram German Press)
Jayson Brothers    “Monster Box / All My Life”
Joker    “Old Era”
Karthala 72    “Diable Du Feu”
Konkoma    “Remixed” (Ltd. Ed. Single Series + D/L)
Kumbia Queers    “Pecados Tropicales”
Kylesa    “From The Vaults Vol. 1” (Colored Vinyl Ltd. Ed. /250 + D/L)
Lady Gaga    “The Fame”
Lapalux    “When You’re Gone” (+ D/L)
Louvin Brothers, The    “Satan Is Real”
Mala    “Stand Against War / Maintain Thru Madness”
Mammifer / Pyramids    “Mammifer: Sophia, Tica Noc / Pyramids: This One Is For Everyone”
Milk ‘N’ Cookies    “Milk ‘N’ Cookies” (Fan Club 2LP)
Minaj, Nicki    “Pink Friday”
Moore, Steve    “Primitive Neural Pathways”
Morrissey    “Reader Meet Author” (Fan Club)
Mummies, The     “Tales From The Crypt” (fan club)
Necros    “Necros” (fan club)
Nurse With Wound    “Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains”
OBN IIIs    “OBN IIIs” (+ D/L)
Oneohtrix Point Never    “Returnal”
Pedro The Lion    “Achilles Heel” (+ D/L)
Prodigy    “The Fat Of The Land”
Prodigy    “The Added Fat EP” (Major Lazer, Noisia, Zeds Dead, Alvin Risk)
Radio City    “Radio City: Recorded 1977-1980 New York” (Class of ’77) (Fan Club)
Rage Against The Machine    “Rage Against The Machine: 20th Anniversary Edition Remastered Picture Disc”
Randomer    “We Laugh, We Scream / Nar / Freak Dub”
Raxola    “Raxola” (Fan Club)
Rites Wild    “Ways Of Being”
Roger, Franck    “Take You Up”
Sabbath Assembly    “Ye Are Gods” (Gatefold)
Scott, Simon    “Bunny” (+ D/L With Bonus Material)
Scuba    “A Mutual Antipathy” (2LP)
Scuba    “Triangulation” (3LP)
Sharrock, Sonny    “Black Woman” (180 Gram)
Sigha    “Living With Ghosts” (2LP)
Smashing Pumpkins    “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” (4LP 180 Gram + 2 Books)
Smiths, The    “Hatful Of Hollow”
Smiths, The    “Barbarism Begins At Home” (fan club)
Sonic Youth    “Rather Ripped”
Starkey    “Orbits” (2LP + D/L)
Stereolab    “Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2]”
Thelema    “Hearing The Light” (+ CD)
Times New Viking, The    “The New Times New Viking EP Over & Over” (+ D/L)
TMSV    “Stress / Lost” (10″)
Various    “Death Might Be Your Santa Claus: Sermons, Music, Blues, Jazz, Gospel And Devotionals” (RSD Black Friday Title)
Various    “Diablos Del Ritmo 1975-1985 Part 1: The Colombian Melting Pot (Afrobeat, Palenque Sounds, Terapia, Lumbalu, Caribbean Funk)” (2LP Gatefold)
Various    “Diablos Del Ritmo 1960-1983 Part 2: The Colombian Melting Pot (Puya, Porro, Gaita, Cumbiamba, Mapale, Chande, Descarga)”(2LP Gatefold)
Watain    “Sworn To The Dark” (+ D/L)
XX, The    “XX” (+ D/L)
Y0ga (Yoga)    “Skinwalker” (+ D/L)
Yva Las Vegass    “I Was Born In A Place Of Sunshine And The Smell Of Ripe Mangoes”
Zoltan    “First Stage Zoltan” (Ltd. Ed.)

7″s
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20/20    “Going”
Asobi Seksu / Boris    “Asobi Seksu X Boris Split EP” “Farewell X Neu Years” (+ D/L With Extras)
Authorities    “Soundtrack For Trouble”
Indians    “Cakelakers”
L.S.D.    “Destroy”
Lanegan, Mark Covers Karen Dalton    “Same Old Man”
Malefice    “Overboard”
Necros    “Sex Drive”
Sutekh Hexen    “Shadows” (+ Patch)
Victims    “I’m Flipped Out”

CDs
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Aluk Todolo    “Occult Rock”
Bell Witch    “Longing”
Black Keys, The    “El Camino”
Converge    “Jane Doe”
Forgetters    “Forgetters”
Gaslamp Killer, The    “Breakthrough”
Head Of The Demon    “Head Of The Demon”
Isis    “Temporal” (2xCD + DVD)
Sabbath Assembly    “Ye Are Gods” (Gnostic Hymns)
Squarepusher    “Ufabulum” (Digipack)
Talabot, John    “Fin (Special Edition)”
Theologian    “The Chasms Of My Heart” (DVD Size Case)
Twin Shadow    “Confess”
Valley Of Fear    “Valley Of Fear”
Various    “Death Might Be Your Santa Claus” (Blues, Gospel)
X-TG (Peter Christopherson, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti)    “Desertshore / The Final Report” (2CD Deluxe Digipack)

Book
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Patrick Lundbord “Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way Of Life”

Reviews
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Matt & Kim Lightning

(Fader Label)
I first learned of this jubilant indie-pop duo upon discovering their 2009 stripping-nude-in-Times-Square music video “Lessons Learned.” Since that proved their awesomeness, I checked out the rest of their music and was impressed. Their charismatic duality beams throughout their upbeat music, with Matt Johnson optimism-filled voice and keyboard backed by Kim Schifino’s energetic drumming. Their fourth album Lightning is another great addition to their catalogue, particularly for demonstrating their versatility with so few instruments. Johnson kicks it off by singing about feeling free to say whatever he wants on the starry-eyed opener “Let’s Go.” The high-speed chiptune-esque “Overexposed” is another excellent standout, with a reference to screaming and shouting, even if the world doesn’t listen. “Tonight” is another favorite as well, focusing on living for the moment without wasting time worrying about what tomorrow brings.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Evangelista In Animal Tongue

(Constellation)
Born in New York City and currently based in Los Angeles, vocalist-guitarist-composer Carla Bozulich has been recording music since 1982. On the latest album from her Evangelista project, she creates a particularly dark experiment of guitar strumming, uncompromising sampler sounds and, most memorably, her uniquely emphatic voice.
Her complex imagery sets the mood for opener “Artificial Lamb,” which is primarily backed by Sam Mickens’ spacey guitar strumming. The foreboding title track is certainly another standout, with a sound that rises like smoke amidst eerie references to feral life and religion. On “Die Alone” – the only track with every sound created by Bozulich – she creates a creepy, minimalist sound with her mournful voice backed by little more than shimmering, punctuated percussion and ghostly electronic sounds. It feels like being lost in some sort of surreal forest at night, particularly with “Tunnel To The Stars” using doubled-up vocals and a swirling, dissonant multi-string foundation, and the unpredictable “Hatching” going all out with a particularly frightening atmosphere comprised of many layers of very loosely-structured, varied instrument noises and tweaks.
[Reviewer: Mark]

16th Of November 2012 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Adult    “Resuscitation” (Classic 2001 Collection First Time On Vinyl + D/L With Bonus Tracks)
Alexander, Amir    “Gutter Flex EP”
American Steel    “Rogue’s March”
Andrew Jackson Jihad    “Candy Cigarettes Capguns Issue Problems And Such”
Andrew Jackson Jihad    “People Who Eat People Are the Luckiest People In The World”
Apollo Brown + OC    “Trophies” (2LP Gold Vinyl)
Avett Brothers, The    “Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions” (3LP 180 Gram + D/L)
Bad Brains    “Into The Future”
Basement    “Colourmeinkindness” (Ltd. Ed. Blue Vinyl)
Basinski, William    “The Disintegration Loops” (9LP + 5CD + DVD Box Set)
Beatles, The    “The Beatles Stereo Vinyl Box Set”
Beatles, The    “Help!” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Rubber Soul” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “A Hard Day’s Night” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Magical Mystery Tour” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “With The Beatles” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Beatles For Sale” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Revolver” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Please Please Me” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Past Masters” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “The Beatles (White Album)” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Yellow Submarine (Nothing Is Real)” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Beatles, The    “Let It Be” (180 Gram Stereo Remastered)
Bee Mask    “When Were Eating Unripe Pears”
Beirut    “The Flying Club Cup”
Birken, Paul And Freddy Fresh    “Midwest Whippersnappers EP”
Black Sheep    “A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing”
Boratto, Gui    “This Is Not the End (Remixes)”
Bottin    “Artifacts 5”
Brad    “Welcome To Discovery Park” (Ltd. Ed. 2LP + Bonus Tracks)
Catfish Haven    “Tell Me”
Claro Intelecto    “Second Blood EP”
Code Orange Kids    “Love Is Love / Return To Dust” Or “LOVEISLOVE//RETURNTODUST”
Danielson Famile    “Tri-Danielson (Alpha + Omega)” (2LP)
Das Ding    “H.S.T.A.”
Decemberists, The    “The King Is Dead”
Deux    “Golden Dreams” (EP)
Dinosaur Jr.     “Chocomel Daze: Live In The Netherlands, 1987” (+ D/L)
Doom    “Lost The Fight / Pro-Life Control Sessions”
Egyptian Hip Hop    “Good Don’t Sleep”
Elgato    “Tonight / Blue”
Emeralds    “Just To Feel Anything”
Estasy    “Wild Songs”
Featureless Ghost    “Personality Matrix”
Flaherty, Paul    “Aria Nativa” (+ D/L)
Four Tet    “Lion / Peace For Earth”
Frak    “Wobbler” (KNWL003)
Gamble, Lee    “Diversions 1994-1996” (White Vinyl)
Girl Talk    “Night Ripper” (180 Gram 2LP Gatefold)
Glass Ghost    “Idol Omen” (+ D/L)
Grabass Charlestons    “Dale & The Careeners”
Hawkwind    “Onward” (2LP Gatefold 180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)
Here We Go Magic    “Here We Go Magic”
Hessian / Pale Creation    “Hessian (Gen, Belgium) / Pale Creation (Clevo, Ohio)”
Holy Other    “Held” (+ D/L)
Hood Internet, The    “Feat” (There Are So Many Guests On This, Here’s One: Class Actress)
Huckaby, Mike    “The Versatility EP”
I Hate Myself / Twelve Hour Turn    “I Hate Myself / Twelve Hour Turn”
Ihsahn    “ER E MI T A” (2LP Gatefold 180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)
Ike Yard    “Ike Yard”
In Trance 95    “Cities Of Steel And Neon”
Innerspace Halflife    “Astrodynamics EP”
Isis    “Temporal” (3LP Tri-Fold + DVD + D/L)
Ital    “Dream On” (+ D/L)
J Dilla (Jay Dee)    “Donuts” (Donut Shop Cover)
Jay Dee (AKA J Dilla)    “Welcome 2 Detroit”
Kidkanevil & Daisuke Tanabe    “Kidsuke” (2LP)
LA Vampires With Maria Minerva    “The Integration LP”
Ladyhawk    “Shots” (+ D/L)
Ladyhawk    “Fight For Anarchy”
Langille, Suzanne / Neel Murgai    “Wild & Foolish Heart”
LB Lynam    “Get Things Straight”
Legowelt    “The Paranormal Soul Sampler”
Lekman, Jens    “Night Falls Over Kortedala” (+ D/L)
Lowe, Robert Aiki Aubrey    “Timon Irnok Manta”
Lust For Youth    “Growing Seeds” (+ D/L)
Majeure    “Solar Maximum” (+ D/L)
Major Lazer    “Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do” (+ D/L)
Marley, Bob    “African Herbsman”
Martinez, Cliff    “Music From The Motion Picture Arbitrage” (Original Score)
Maserati    “VII” (+ D/L)
Menzingers, The    “A Lesson In The Abuse Of Information Technology”
Metz    “Metz” (+ D/L)
MF Doom    “Hoe Cakes / Potholders” (Pink Vinyl)
MF Doom    “MM.. Food?”
Minaj, Nicki    “Pink Friday Roman Reloaded” (+ D/L)
Model 500    “OFI (Apollo Mixes)”
Moon Duo    “Circles” (+ D/L)
Moore, Steve    “Panther Moderns”
Motley Crue    “Girls Girls Girls”
NHK’Koyxen    “Dance Classics Vol. II”
Ninja High School    “Young Adults Against Suicide”
Nite Jewel    “Good Evening” (2012 Reissue Of 2008 Debut + D/L With Bonus Tracks)
Ohama    “The Potato Farm Tapes”
Okkervil River    “I Am Very Far” (+ D/L)
Old Man Gloom    “Christmas” (2LP)
Omar S    “-998”
Oneida    “A List Of The Burning Mountains” (+ D/L)
Parassela (Blawan Lucretio Marieu)    “Label Nightmares EP”
Pearson Sound    “Blanked / Blue Eyes”
Pentagram    “Last Rites” (Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram)
Pernice Brothers    “The World Won’t End” (+ D/L)
Phosphorescent    “To Willie” (+ D/L)
Pittsburgh Track Authority    “Giza”
Ponytail    “Ice Cream Spiritual” (+ D/L)
Professor Genius    “Hassan” (2LP)
Psychic Paramount    “II”
Racebannon    “Satan’s Kickin’ Yr Dick In”
Raglani    “Real Colors Of The Physical World”
Ramesses    “Take The Curse” (2LP)
Raneri, Anthony    “New Cathedrals”
Sass Dragons    “New Kids On The Bong”
Saves The Day    “Stay What You Are” (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)
Scanner    “Colofon & Compendium 1991-1994” (2LP Gatefold)
Schnitzler, Conrad    “Consequenz” (180 Gram)
Schnitzler, Conrad    “Con 3” (180 Gram)
Sex Church    “Somnambulist”
Skudge    “Haste / Wonder Stories”
Soundgarden    “King Animal” (2LP Gatefold 180 Gram)
St. Dad    “St. Dad”
Stepkids, The    “Sweet Salvation”
Stepkids, The    “The Stepkids” (+ D/L)
Stevens, Sufjan    “All Delighted People EP” (2LP)
Stevens, Sufjan    “Greetings From Michigan” (2LP)
Sun Araw    “The Inner Treaty”
Sutekh Hexen    “Behind The Throne” (Deep Red Marble Vinyl)
Sympathy Nervous    “Plastic Love”
Teebs    “Ardour” (+ D/L)
Thou / Salome    “Our Enemy Civilization”
Total Abuse    “Mutt” ( + D/L)
Trop Tard    “Photodrame” (+D/L)
Trop Tard    “Ils Etaient 9 Dans L’Oscurite”
Turunen, Matti    “Elokuu EP”
Two Dogs In A House    “Eliminator”
Tyvek    “On Triple Beams” (+ D/L)
Ultraista    “Ultraista” (Laura Bettinson, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker) (+ D/L)
Underground Railroad To Candyland, The    “Know Your Sins”
Van Wissem, Jozef & Jim Jarmusch    “The Mystery Of Heaven” (+ D/L)
Various    “The Comedy: A Film By Rick Alverson” (+ D/L)
Various    “The Funky 16 Corners” (2LP Gatefold)
Velvet Underground, The    “LA Cave 1968: Problems In Urban Living” (180 Gram)
Viktor Vaughn    “Vaudeville Villain” (2LP)
Voivod    “War And Pain”
West, Kanye    “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (3LP)
Wires Under Tension    “Replicant” (+ D/L)
Wollard, Chris & The Ship Thieves    “Canyons”
Wovenhand    “The Laughing Stalk (Deluxe Edition)” (LP + CD; Hand-Printed Letterpress Art)
Wovenhand    “Consider The Birds”
Wye Oak    “My Neighbor / My Creator” (45 RPM Ltd. Ed. + D/L)
Xosar    “Night People”
Young, Neil With Crazy Horse    “Psychedelic Pill” (180 Gram 3LP Gatefold Pressed At Pallas Mastered At Bernie Grundman Mastering; Side F Etched) *Note: This is a bit of a high ticket item at $78.99*
Zodiac    “Zodiac”

10″s
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Anberlin    “Vital” (2×10″ Gatefold + D/L)
Computer Jay    “Savage Planet Discotheque Vol. 1”
Dimlite    “My Human Wears Acedia Shreds”
Harmonic 313    “Lion Feat. Rikodan” (+ D/L)
Nosaj Thing    “Eclipse / Blue”
Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, The    “Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward”

7″s
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Big Troubles / Lilys    “Comb My Hair / Well Travelled Is Protest”
Coathangers, The / Heavy Cream    “Merry Go Round / Toasted” (+ D/L) (Ltd. Ed. /750)
Gap Dream    “Ali Baba” (+ D/L) (Ltd. Ed. /750)
Hause, Dave    “C’mon Kid” (+ D/L)
Hospitality    “The Drift / Monkey”
Joyce Manor / Big Kids    “JM/BK”
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz    “Moon Magic”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra    “Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) / Waves Of Confidence”
Walkmen, The    “Dance With Your Partner / Vermeer ’65”

CDs (Our biggest distributor had a sale so a lot of these CDs are $8 or less – many of the more major label titles listed here)
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Anthrax    “Madhouse: The Very Best Of Anthrax”
Apollo Brown / Guilty Simpson    “Dice Game”
Bad Brains    “Into The Future”
Beatles, The (Featuring Tony Sheridan)    “In The Beginning”
Black Sabbath    “Black Sabbath Vol. 4”
Black Sabbath    “Paranoid”
Black Sabbath    “Black Sabbath”
Code Orange Kids    ” Love Is Love / Return To Dust”
Cooper, Alice    “Welcome To My Nightmare”
Crystal Castles    “Crystal Castles (III)”
Dinosaur Jr.     “I Bet On Sky”
Dio    “Holy Diver”
Dio    “Lock Up The Wolves”
Elf    “Elf”
Eric B. & Rakim    “Paid In Full”
Eric B. & Rakim    “Follow The Leader”
Fleetwood Mac    “Rumours”
Forma    “Off/On”
Gaslight Anthem, The    “Handwritten”
Insane Clown Posse    “Bang Pow Boom”
Ital    “Dream On”
Judas Priest    “Ram It Down”
Judas Priest    “Stained Class”
KISS    “The Best Of Kiss: 20th Century Masters The Milennium Collection”
L.L. Cool J    “Radio”
Legowelt    “The Paranormal Soul”
Marciano, Roc    “Reloaded”
Modest Mouse    “Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks”
Morrissey    “Southpaw Grammar”
Motorhead    “1916”
Motorhead    “March Or Die”
Nas    “God’s Son (Nasir Jones)”
Nite Jewel    “Good Evening” (2008 Debut Reissue For 2012 + Bonus Tracks)
NON (Boyd Rice)    “Back To Mono”
Pantera    “The Best Of Pantera: Far Beyond The Great Southern Cowboys’ Vulgar Hits” (CD+DVD)
Public Enemy    “YO! Bum Rush The Show”
Sewer Goddess    “Disciples Of Shit – Live Waste”
Skrillex    “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”
Sonic Youth    “Goo”
Stepkids, The    “The Stepkids”
Stevens, Sufjan    “Silver & Gold (Gift Box)” (5CD + Stickers + Temp. Tattoos + Ornament + Poster + More)
Suicidal Tendencies    “The Art Of Rebellion”
Van Etten, Sharon    “Tramp (Deluxe Edition With Tramp Demos CD)”
Various    “Labyrinth (Original Soundtrack Featuring David Bowie)”
Vessel    “Order Of Noise”
White Stripes, The    “Elephant”
White Stripes, The    “Icky Thump”
White Stripes, The    “Under Great White Northern Lights”
Xiphoid Dementia    “Secular Hymns”

OTHER!
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[DVD] The Point: Definitive Collector’s Edition (Harry Nilsson, Fred Wolf, Ringo Starr)
[BOOK] Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History Of Hellhammer And Early Celtic Frost 1981-1985
[MAGAZINE] Maximum RockNRoll #355 December 2012

Reviews
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Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It

[Buy Online From RSR]
(Matador)
On his second album, Seattle-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas addresses serious issues such as violence, drug addiction, depression, and, most prominently concerning his sexual orientation, homophobia. He expresses those melancholy themes in a soft-spoken way by primarily using a delicate piano, acoustic guitar and synth to paint his emotions. For example, the beautiful-sounding piano-and-synth opener “AWOL Marine” was inspired by a homemade adult film featuring a man who admitted he was just doing it to pay for his wife’s medication. Hadreas also sings about how he’s grown weary from loneliness on “Take Me Home” and, judging by his desire for “love with no hiding” on the title track, he takes the nature of his romance very seriously. Other tracks poetically touch on similarly personal subject matter, such as a gay teen using a suicide letter to ask for everything to be taken away (“17.”) Also, in a moving, deeply-layered synth lament, Hadreas contemplates the reality that he and his boyfriend will only be able to embrace in public hesitation-free when “All Waters” are still (he’s still dealing with the issue, as Youtube didn’t allow the “Hood” music video to be used for a 16-second preview ad because of the non-“family safe” seconds-long image him and another man embracing in just underwear.) Overall, he uses this record to clearly demonstrate emotions straight from the heart, and even if people disagree, he just wants them to listen.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Yva Las Vegass I Was Born In A Place of Sunshine and The Smell of Ripe Mangoes

(Moniker)
“Passionate” is the key word here: unapologetically referring to herself as a “motherfucker,” Vegass uses just her voice (which she uses to sing, yell and rant) and energetic cuatro-strumming techniques to express her powerful opinions. Born in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela in 1963, her teenage rebelliousness eventually led her to Seattle, where she and a friend became street performers. Eventually, she got a gig singing at Krist Novoselic’s birthday party, and after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, the two formed the indie/alt-rock band Sweet 75. Despite opening for acts such as Dinosaur Jr. and L7, they didn’t find much success and officially disbanded in 2000 due to “creative differences.” Currently Brooklyn-based, Vegass is back to playing a purely acoustic Latin style, strongly weighing artistic expression over commercialism. Almost the entire record, unsurprisingly, is in Spanish: the exceptions being her questioning why buying crack for white friends earns her the label of a “Crack Whore,” and, on “Pussy In Your Eye,” admitting that she still feels like a loner, just like in fourth grade. She retains a raw, outspoken and genuine sound throughout, especially after years of rough experiences (homelessness, drug addiction, brawling, etc.)
[Reviewer: Mark] [This one should be in within a week.]