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11th of January 2013 Update

11th of January 2013 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records



LPs & 12″s
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Adolescents    “Adolescents”
Afgrund    “The Age Of Dumb”
Algernon Cadwallader    “Parrot Flies”
Asta Kask    “Med Is I Magen”
Bebey, Francis    “African Electronic Music 1975-1982” (2LP)
Best Coast    “The Only Place” (+ D/L)
Black Sabbath    “Sabotage” (180 Gram)
Body/Head     “Body/Head”
Bong    “Mana – Yood – Sushai”
Catholic Discipline    “Underground Babylon”
Chariot, The    “One Wing”
Comadre    “Comadre”
Dad Punchers    “Dad Punchers” (+ D/L)
Dirty Projectors    “Rise Above” )+ D/L)
Eraas    “Eraas” (+ D/L)
Explosions In The Sky    “All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone” (2LP)
Extra Life    “Dream Seeds”
Eyehategod    “Take As Needed For Pain” (2LP)
Fast Asleep    “Fast Asleep”
Halo Benders, The    “God Don’t Make No Junk”
Holter, Julia    “Ekstasis” (2LP, + D/L)
J:Kenzo    “Ruffhouse (Feat. Rod Azlan) / Therapy”
Lopez, Martin Y Sus Estrellas    “Cocinando” (+ D/L)
LoveLiveLife + One (Love Live Life + One)    “Love Will Make A Better You” (180 Gram)
Manners    “Apparitions / Escapism”
Manpig    “The Grand Negative”
Math The Band    “Get Real”
Mindset    “Leave No Doubt
Moonface With Siinai    “Heartbreaking Bravery” (+ D/L)
Murder    “Fuckpunk” (Fuck Punk)
Neuroot    “Right Is Might”
Night Plane    “Heartbeat EP”
Off With Their Heads    “From The Bottom”
Passing Phases    “Endless Autumn” (+ D/L)
Saddest Landscape, The    “The Sound Of The Spectacle
Saddest Landscape, The    “Lift Your Burdens High For This Is Where We Cross”
Saul, Will & October    “Light Sleeper EP”
Spectre Folk    “The Ancient Storm”
Stars Of The Lid    “Ballasted Orchestra” (2LP, Gatefold)
This Will Destroy You    “Tunnel Blanket” (2LP + D/L)
Tiger & Woods    “Banana Balls EP”
Valle, Marcos    “Marcos Valle” (180 Gram)
Valle, Marcos    “Garra” (180 Gram)
Witch Cross    “Fit For Fight”

7″s
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5.6.7.8’s, The    “Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Racoon) / Charumera Sobaya (The Soba Song)”
ACxDC    “He Had It Coming”
Ancient Filth    “Ancient Filth”
Black Mask    “Black Mask”
East Beast    “East Beast”
Incendiary / Xibalba    “Incendiary / Xibalba”
Night Plane    “Heartbeat”
Red Hot Chili Peppers    “Pink As Floyd / Your Eyes Girl”
Ritter, Josh    “Joy To You Baby”
Rupture / Brutal Truth    “Rupture / Brutal Truth”
Saddest Landscape, The    “Redefining Loneliness”
Shook Ones    “Slaughter Of The Insole”
Sterling Sisters, The    “Shallow Blood”
Storm, Tempest    “The Intimate Interview (By Jack White) / Advice For Young Women” (Bolt-A-Trope Picture Disc)
Washerwoman    “Washerwoman”
Wreck    “Reap What You Sow”

CDs
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Belzebong    “Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves”
Broadcast    “Berberian Sound Studio”
Ethernet    “Opus 2”
How To Dress Well    “Total Loss”
Loma Prieta    “I.V.”
Motorhead    “Ace Of Spades” (3 Bonus Tracks)
Yellow Stitches    “Good Times Violent Crimes”

Reviews
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Moebius + Tietchens Moebius + Tietchens

(Bureau B)
This abstract record is a collaborative work from two veterans of the German avant-garde electronic scene: they began their careers in 1970 and 1979, respectively. Born in Switzerland in 1944, Dieter Moebius has had numerous collaborative projects, such as Kluster with Conrad Schnitzler (renamed Cluster after Schnitzler left) and Harmonia with Michael Rother (both projects also featured Hans-Joachim Roedelius.) Asmus Tietchens – born in Germany in 1947 – has mainly worked solo, starting with musique concrète and later specializing in abstract sound collages. This is the first collaboration between the two men in 32 years, and it’s clear that they haven’t lost their talent for creating obtuse mechanical worlds. One of the shortest tracks – the two-and-a-half minute “Cremon” – kicks the album off with an intimidating atmosphere, sounding like the score for a massive, sprawling, abandoned factory wasteland. It transitions into the nearly 10-minute “Kattrepel,” primarily composed of ever-chugging bass punctuated by an extremely high-frequency tone. Later in the album, ten-and-a-half-minute “Lange Reihe” sounds like a bicycle ride with several alien insects dropping by. “Grimm” is one of my favorites for its busy atmosphere of multi-colored darkness, with buzzes and a fractured melody built on the infectious beat.
[Reviewer: Mark]

OMBRE Believe You Me

(Asthmatic Kitty)
Already established for their solo work, duo Helado Negro and Julianna Barwick have only known each other since 2009, but they already know how to create a wide-open sound that, at the very least, combines elements of Latin music and dream pop. On their debut together, Barwick’s harmonious, multi-layered vocals create the perfect ethereal ambience alongside Negro’s psych-folk instrumentation. A great demonstration of this is the first single “Cara Falsa,” which uses a tribal-sounding drum pattern, vibrantly warm synth and angelic vocals to sound like an endless sky over a peaceful desert. The two-part “Noche Brilla” opens and closes the album, with the first part using a guitar and horn to underscore Barwick’s heavenly vocals, while the second part is a straightforward acoustic ballad with the same voice – still ethereal – singing poetically romantic lyrics. One unique track, “Weight Those Words” relies on a tight, cozy acoustic sound with vocals from both: Negro’s traditional, down-to-earth Latin singing with Barwick’s distant “ahhh” voice chiming from above. Her circling voice also helps the piano-loop-based “Sense” come into fruition as pure otherworldly beauty.
[Reviewer: Mark]

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28th of December 2012 Update

28th of December 2012 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records



LPs & 12″s
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Abductee S.D.    “Won’t Stand Down”
Acid Problem    “Acid Problem”
Altars    “Live On Pure Hate”
AnD    “Features / Vol 3”
Atkins, Juan    “Ohh La La / Electric Jungle / Impulse”
Aus-Rotten    “The Rotten Agenda”
Autarkeia    “Autarkeia”
Balance Of Terror    “A Better Tomorrow”
Band Name     “Breakfast”
Bestial Warlust    “Satan’s Fist: Demo ’96”
Bible Thumper    “Decimation”
Big Fiction    “Big Fiction”
Brain F=/= (Brain Flannel)    “Sleep Rough”
Brain Tumors    “Brain Tumors”
Burial    “Truant / Rough Sleeper”
Cloud Rat / The Oily Menace / Wolbachia    “Cloud Rat / The Oily Menace / Wolbachia”
Cloud Rat / Xtra Vomit    “Cloud Rat / Xtra Vomit”
Cocerell, Joe    “Commerce Above All Else / Foundation / Poptones”
Deep Sleep    “Turn Me Off”
Distal Ft. DJ Rashad    “Stuck Up Money”
Electric Funeral    “D-Beat Noise Attack / Make A Change”
Extinction Of Mankind    “Northern Scum”
Fishbone    “Crazy Glue” (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl)
Florence And Libby / We Were Skeletons / Kids / Paxton    “Florence And Libby / We Were Skeletons / Kids / Paxton”
Four Tet    “Jupiters (Happa Remix) / Lion (Jamie XX Remix)”
From Ashes Rise    “From Ashes Rise”
From Ashes Rise    “Silence”
Herbaliser, The    “There Were Seven” (2LP)
Hodge    “Dusted EP”
Hummingbird Of Death    “Skullvalanche”
Hummingbird Of Death / Titanarum    “Hummingbird Of Death Meets Titanarum”
In Aeternam Vale    “La Piscine”
Karenn    “(Untitled)” (Sheworks 004 2×12″)
Keys, Alicia    “Girl On Fire”
Kitty Little / Kiss Ups    “Kitty Little / Kiss Ups”
KRTS    “The Dread Of An Unknown Evil” (2LP)
Last Japan    “Ambush EP”
Legowelt    “The Paranormal Soul” (2LP + 10″)
Long Arm    “The Branches” (Deluxe Edition; 2LP)
Lower Dens    “Nootropics” (Gatefold 2LP + Poster + D/L)
MK Ultra / Seein’ Red    “MK Ultra / Seein’ Red”
Moodyman    “Tribute To The Soul…”
Moodyman    “Freaky Mother Remix”
Nasum    “Grind|Finale” (Colour Vinyl 4LP Set)
Oak & Bone    “Oak & Bone”
Old Apparatus    “Realise”
Old Apparatus    “Harem”
Palmer, Amanda & The Grand Theft Orchestra    “Theatre Is Evil”
Peace Or Annihilation    “Fear Control”
Raime    “Quarter Turns Over A Living Line”
Rational Animals    “Bock Rock Parade”
Rrose    “Wedge Of Chastity”
SHXCXCHCXSH    “RJRJRFFRJRJ” (Purple Vinyl)
Skirt    “Bitten By The Black Dog”
Skitsystem (Skit System)    “Gra Varld / Svarta Tankar”
Skitsystem (Skit System)    “Stigmata”
Songs For Moms    “I Used To Believe In The West”
State Poison    “State Poison”
Stripmines    “Crimes Of Dispassion”
These Needles    “These Needles”
TM404 + Morphosis    “The Morphosis Korg Response”
Vakula & Dusty Baron    “Autumn Leleka” (12″ + 7″)
Vatican Shadow    “It Stands To Conceal” (3LP)
ZZZZZ, The / Abdulla Rashim    “Radioactive Orchestra Remixed”

10″s
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Bleaching Agent    “Part Two”
Crow’s Foot    “Critical Condition”

7″s
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ACxDC    “The Second Coming” (White)
Big Eyes    “Back From The Moon”
Brain Tumors    “Brain Tumors”
Brown Sugar    “Luvly”
Canadian Rifle    “Facts.”
Cloud Rat / Autarkeia    “Cloud Rat / Autarkeia”
Figgs, The    “Casino Hayes”
Fucked Up    “Dance Of Death”
Fucked Up    “Police”
Globsters    “Rock + Roll Misery E.P.”
Grin And Bear It    “Grin And Bear It”
Herds    “Michigan”
Hip Cops    “In The Shadow Of A Grinding Death”
House Boat    “Processing Complaints”
Meat Mist / White Slaves    “Meat Mist / White Slaves”
Mellow Harsher    “Mellow Harsher”
Meth Mountain    “Monotony”
Nukkehammer    “Soviet Rust Belt E.P.”
Pig Heart Transplant / Endless Blockade    “Pig Heart Transplant / Endless Blockade”
Pukeoid    “Pukeoid” (Pink)
Rancid    “Ruby Soho”
Rat Storm    “Fractured”
Snowing    “Pump Fake / Scherbatsky”
Surrender    “There Is No War”
Tilly And The Wall    “Defenders / Defenders (Stag Hare Remix)”
Torche “Harmonslaught” (/1000)
Utah Jazz    “Utah Jazz”
Various    “Punx Don’t Drink”

Cassette
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Ensemble Economique    “Live In London”

CDs
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Cocteau Twins     “Victorialand”
White, Peter    “Perfect Moment”

Magazine
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ARTHUR! Newsprint Magazine #33

Reviews
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Black Moth Super Rainbow Cobra Juicy

(Rad Cult)
On their fifth full-length, this mysterious Pittsburgh-based experimental band further explores their well-established sound of sun-tinged, lo-fi neo-psychedelia. The most crucial elements of their wistful Candyland-on-acid atmosphere are the lush, colorful walls of synth paired with lead vocalist Tobacco’s lush, moody vocoder voice: both are omnipresent here yet again. Tracks such as opener “Windshield Smasher” and “Hairspray Heart” surprised me by setting a groovy rock-and-roll foundation, while “Psychic Love Damage” expresses light-headed romance with delicate strums gliding in a way that reminds me a bit of “Free Bird.” Sweetly textured songs such as “Like a Sundae” and “Dreamsicle Bomb” feel closer to the original, more synth-driven sound that feels like exploring lands made out of totally edible sweets. Closing track “Spraypaint” demonstrates the most resonant expression of love, emphasizing that “I can’t be without you” as the backing synth flourishes like sunlight filling a room.
[Reviewer: Mark]

PAWS Cokefloat!

(Fat Cat)
This Glasgow, Scotland-based trio’s debut full-length excellently captures their sunny, fittingly lo-fi garage rock. Right from the beginning, lead singer Phillip Taylor sings a catchy, reminiscent tribute to his mother whom he lost to cancer: though he’d “trade anything” to hear her voice again, he finds solace by repeating the sentiment that “life goes on.” The hard-rocking “Bloodline” explores the same theme by recalling that she stays alive because, along with advice, she gave him her nose and eyes. “Homecoming” uses cathartic sarcasm to thank someone ten years after high school, complete with revenge by means of a lead pipe to the teeth. These kinds of tracks let out sadness with youthful, fist-pumping energy; it’s much better than dwelling too much on trying to gain uncomfortable sympathy from others. Taylor, of course, is no stranger to realistic, relatable mood changes: for example, he ladles out slow-simmering angst on the acoustic ballad “Get Bent,” angrily directed toward a thoughtless, destructive father who just can’t seem to listen. He gets the most aggressive on the heavy, to-the-point “Winners Don’t Bleed,” primarily screaming to get someone to shut up.
[Reviewer: Mark]

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7th of December 2012 Update

7th of December 2012 Update of New and Key Restocked Items + Reviews
at Redscroll Records



LPs & 12″s

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Against Me!    “Reinventing Axl Rose”
Apollo Brown / Guilty Simpson    “Dice Game” (2LP)
Atoms For Peace    “Default”
Big Kitty    “Florence” (+ D/L)
Black Angels, The    “Directions To See A Ghost” (3LP)
Black Kites     “Songs Written While Things Were Changing”
Black Lips    “Live At Third Man Records 6-11-2012”
Blissed Out Fatalists    “Blissed Out Fatalists: Deranged, Forgotten, Mid-80s LA Pop-Noise Classic!” (Remastered)
Blitz The Ambassador    “Stereotype”
Branes    “Perfection Condition”
Cheap Girls    “Giant Orange” (+ D/L)
CTRLS    “Centrally Processed Unity E.P.”
D’Angelo    “Voodoo” (2LP 180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Gatefold + Print)
Darkstar    “TimeAway”
Deafheaven / Bosse-De-Nage    “Punk Rock / Cody / A Mimesis Of Purpose”
Dungeonesse    “Drive You Crazy / Private Party” (+ D/L)
El Perro Del Mar    “Pale Fire” (+ D/L)
El-P    “FanDamstrumentals (Featuring Complete Fantastic Damage Instrumentals)” (3LP)
EMMplekz    “IZOD Days”
Eno, Brian    “LUX” (2LP Gatefold)
Evens, The    “The Odds” (+ D/L)
Frimpong, K. & His Cubano Fiestas    “K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas (Ghana 1977)”
Gate    “Damned Revolutions”
Girls Names    “The New Life”
Gurdjieff    “Improvisations”
Gyan, Kiki    “24 Hours In A Disco 1978-82” (180 Gram + D/L)
Half Church    “1980-1986: Retrospective Of These Lost Post-Punk Bay Area Badboys!” (Remastered)
Harmonia    “Harmonia Live 1974”
Harmonia & Eno ’76    “Tracks And Traces Reissue”
His Hero Is Gone    “Monuments To Thieves”
Holcomb, Roscoe    “Close To Home”
How To Dress Well    “Total Loss” (+ D/L)
Husker Du    “Metal Circus”
Interpol    “Turn On The Bright Lights: The Tenth Anniversary Edition” (Ltd. Ed. Deluxe 2LP + DVD + D/L; Lots Of Bonus Material In A Book Fold Jacket)
Jack Dice    “Block Motel”
Jawbreaker    “Bivouac” (20th Anniversary Reissue Remastered + D/L)
Jawbreaker    “Chesterfield King”  (20th Anniversary Reissue Remastered + D/L)
Jesus And Mary Chain, The    “Walk And Crawl”
Joe / Randomer    “R.E.J. Bit / This Train”
Johnson, Fletcher C.    “Salutations”
Jon Wayne    “Texas Funeral”
LCD Soundsystem    “This Is Happening”
Love Cult    “Fingers Crossed”
Love Tan    “Miscellaneous Night Feelings”
Low    “Things We Lost In The Fire”
Magic Touch & Sapphire Slows    “Just Wanna Feel”
Marciano, Roc    “Reloaded” (2LP Gatefold)
Masta Ace    “MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne” (+ D/L; MF DOOM Beats)
Master    “On The Seventh Day God Created… Master” (LP+7″)
Merchandise    “Children Of Desire” (+ D/L)
Mount Kimbie    “Crooks & Lovers”
Natural Child    “Hard In Heaven”
Neu!    “Neu!” (White Cover Orange Lettering)
Neu!    “Neu! 2” (White Cover Grey Lettering Pink “2”)
No Class    “Keine Klasse  II”
Oh Sees, Thee    “Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP” (+ D/L)
Os Mutantes    “Everything Is Possible! The Best Of Os Mutantes – World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil”
Public Nuisance    “Gotta Survive”
Queers, The    “Don’t Back Down”
Rites Of Spring    “Six Song Demo 1984″ (+ D/L) 10”
Roll The Dice Meets Pole    “Roll The Dice Meets Pole In Dubs”
Sam Flax    “Age Waves”
Stevens, Sufjan    “Silver & Gold” (6LP Box Set)
Swift, Taylor    “Red”
T. Rex    “The Slider” (180 Gram Remastered + D/L)
Tallest Man On Earth, The    “(Debut Album) Shallow Grave” (+ D/L)
Trevino    “Tactical Manoeuvre EP”
Ultraista    “Smalltalk (Four Tet / Matthew Dear Remixes)”
Various    “Robot Elepant Vs. Tundra Dubs”
Various    “Volume Two, I Wish I Never Came – To What A Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1930”
Various    “Volume Three, Notes From Home – To What A Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1930”
Various    “Volume One, Naughty Girl – To What A Strange Place – The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1930”
Various    “Berghain 06” (Mark Broom, Birds Two Cage, Patrick Graser)
Vessel    “Order Of Noise” (2LP + D/L)
Walker, Scott    “Bish Bosch” (2LP 180 Gram + D/L)
Weakerthans, The    “Reunion Tour” (180 Gram + D/L)
Why?    “Eskimo Snow”
Woods    “Bend Beyond” (Deluxe Ltd. Ed. Gatefold + D/L)
Worm Ouroboros    “Come The Thaw” (2LP Gatefold)
X-TG (Peter Christopherson, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti; See: Throbbing Gristle)    “Desertshore / The Final Report” (180 Gram 2LP Gatefold)
Young, The    “Dub Egg” (+ D/L)
Zombie Nation    “RGB” (+ D/L)

7″s
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A Giant Dog    “Dammit Pomegranate / Can’t Complain”
Dungen    “Oga Nasa, Mun” (Blue Series)
Electric Wizard    “Legalise Drugs & Murder” (Green)
Elson, Karen    “Milk & Honey / Winter’s Going”
First Aid Kit    “Universal Soldier” (Blue Series)
Koudede    “Guitars From Agadez Vol. 6”
Moon, Willy    “Railroad Track / Bang Bang”
Pujol    “Black Rabbit / Too Safe” (Blue Series)
Sessions, Will    “Xmas Break / Have A Funky Holiday”
Various    “Super Soul Christmas: 5 Super Heavy Holiday Soul Songs” (Numbered /500)
White Stripes, The    “Hand Springs”

CDs
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Del Rey, Lana    “Born To Die”
Del Rey, Lana    “Paradise”
Eleh    “Retreat Return Repose” (3CD)
Herndon, Holly    “Movement”
Mugstar    “Axis”
Raime    “Quarter Turns Over A Living Line” (The LP is coming in soonish too – as soon as the pressing arrives to our distributor)
Various    “I’m Going Where The Water Drinks Like Wine: 18 Unsung Bluesmen Rarities 1923-1929”
Vladislav Delay    “Kuopio”

Reviews
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Azure Ray As Above So Below

[Buy Online from RSR]
(Saddle Creek)
This new album by the duo Azure Ray is a bit different from their previous.  Mostly known for their folksy/ indie vibe they have switched it up this time.  They are now expressing more of an electronic/pop sound that is even more dreamlike and haunting.  Their inspirations for this album can include James Blake, Nicolas Jaar, and Apparat.  While listening to the dreamlike album I felt myself swaying back and forth to their electronically calming beats.  Their beautiful vocals are quiet, yet captivating.  Their vocals are like whispers that can be heard in a dreamland.  Their lyrics are deep and melancholy.  They tell tales of lost love and despair.  The album seems to have its ups and downs of emotion throughout.  Their lyrics are contradicting; expressing moments of clarity and then moments of cloudiness and despair.  All in all, this new album is definitely a new step in a different direction for the duo.  Leaving their indie ways behind and starting a whole new feel to their music.  So far I can dig it, so let’s see what they come up with next.  
[Reviewer: Kacie]

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine Shock-U-Py! EP

[Buy Online From RSR]
(Alternative Tentacles)
Ever since the Dead Kennedys broke up in 1986 (later reforming in 2001 without him,) Biafra has continued to prove that his fiery, very cool-voiced political observations remain alive through both spoken-word and musical projects. This EP with his latest band is the latter, having released their debut album in 2009. Even though the mainstream media now considers Occupy Wall Street to be unprofitable “old news,” Biafra stands firmly by the still-ongoing movement, saying that it “won’t go away until the problems are fixed.” He, of course, expresses his support for the movement, kicking off with the uptempo 7-minute-and-a-half-minute title track comparing modern-day demands to those of Great Depression victims petitioning FDR. He’s not afraid of impending controversy for criticizing “Barackstar O’Bummer” either, by expressing angry disappointment that it’s “Bush-ness as usual again” with the current president receiving money from banks through “that coin slot on his head.” The record closes with a remix of Biafra’s D.O.A. collaboration “We Occupy,” using a surprisingly bouncy, ska-type sound to encourage the public to fight to “take what’s ours.”
[Reviewer: Mark]

Parallel ThoughtThe Art Of Sound

[Buy Online From RSR]
(Parallel Thought Ltd.)
Considering the new wave of instrumental hip-hop that has been catching on in the hip-hop scene this album is able to fit right in.  This album has an electric/ electric hip-hop fusion feel to it. Parallel thought is a very dynamic producer and uses many different genres in his music such as jazz, American Indian flutes, and of course hip-hop instrumentals.  This album is full of hip hop beats over funky sounding beats and static vinyl sounds that give it an old school vibe.  “Suspended Animation” is my favorite track on the album.  On this track Parallel uses flutes over a static hip-hop beat that give an enchanting feeling to the song.  This album is a nonstop head mover.  If you happen to be a fan of Flying Lotus then you would love Parallel Thought.  Along with Flying Lotus, Parallel thought is a beginning to instrumental and experimental hip-hop.  With the new technology we are receiving everyday this type of hip-hop is only going to get more explosive.  This new album is totally spacey and tropical at the same time.  Many of the songs make me feel like I’m floating in space as well as walking through a very trippy tropical forest in the dark of the night.  That description might be a little out there for some of you however, play this album and then tell me how you feel.   
[Reviewer: Kacie]

30th of November 2012 Update


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

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.]