6th Of January 2012 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

Happy new year, all! 1st update of the new year; a new year that will hold many more along with some other exciting news down the line.  We made the same promise last year and think we held up our end. Let’s do it again.

LPs & 12″s
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Apparat    “The Devil’s Walk”
Bird, Andrew    “Norman (O.S.T.)”
Blind Lemon Jefferson    “How Long, How Long Lasting Love”
Deathcharge    “Love Was Born To An Early Death”
Drastus    “Serpent’s Chalice-Materia Prima”
Elliott    “US Songs “
Great Big Pile Of Leaves    “Boom!”
Guided By Voices    “Let’s Go Eat The Factory (+D/L)”
K-Def    “Night Shift”
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas    “Rare Afro-Funk & Highlife: Ghana 1976”
Law, The    “None Escape”
Madvillain    “Madvilliany Instrumentals”
Morphine    “Cure For Pain”
Phantogram    “Nightlife”
Reuerorum Ib Malacht + Dodfodd    “URKAOS (2LP Gatefold + CD)”
Sleeping Bag    “Sleeping Bag”
Superlife    “Go Bananas (2×12″)”
Sureshot Symphony Solution, The & Friends    “A Good Look EP / Vocal”
Various Artists    “La Onda Vampi”
Various Artists    “Psych-Out Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”
Weapon    “From The Devil’s Tomb (2LP Gatefold)”
Winderen, Jana    “Debris”
Winged Victory For The Sullen, A    “A Winged Victory For The Sullen”

10″s
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Funereal Presence (Negative Plane Side Project)    “Funereal Presence”
Robinson, Chris (The Chris Robinson Brotherhood; Re: Black Crowes)    “The Chris Robinson Brotherhood”
TEETH    “Swarm Part Two”

CDs
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Blut Aus Nord “777 – Desancti…”
Cramps “Sacred Music”
House Of Low Culture “Soil”
Insomnium “One For Sorrow”
Midnight “Satanic Royalty”
Moss “Tombs Of The Blind”
Perry, Lee “Nu Sound”
Sloth “A Whole Other World Of…”
Stott, Andy “Unknown Exception”
Winehouse, Amy “Back to Black”

Cassettes
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59 Times The Pain
Bodyjar
Engine Kid “Angel Wings”
Engine Kid / Iceburn
Farside “Rigged”
Farside
No Fun At All
Sensefield “Building”
Sensefield “Killed For Less”
Sensefield
Shades Apart “Save It”
Shades Apart “Seeing Things”
Smile
Texas Is The Reason “Do You Know Who You Are?”
Texas Is The Reason
Iceburn “Heph…”
Whirpool “Liquid”
Whirpool

Reviews
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Crisis Hymns Of Faith LP (Reissue)

(La Vida Es Un Mus)
This is a reissued LP by a well enough known band that includes Douglas P. (Pre-Death In June). Post punk a la Joy Division or Wire or Television (which is a fun coincidence because the first song on here is “On T.V.”) or a bunch of other bands you can lump into this huge category of snotty brit-rock from the 70s and 80s. This is a repress that stays true to the original with the identical sleeve (with a different record label imprint being the notable difference) and with a black and white glossy insert with band pic on one side and a collage of pictures, written words and newspaper clippings on the other. I really feel like that’s all I need to write about this so yea, good record that I’m glad we now carry.
[Reviewer: Rick]

Spectrals Bad Penny CD/LP

(Slumberland Records)
Though it may sound like the work of a full band, Spectrals is a project from 21-year-old Louis Jones of Yorkshire, England – he wrote and provided vocals for all of the songs, and also played 9 of the 12 instruments featured. “Nostalgic” is a fitting descriptor for his brand of indie-pop-rock – he settles on a blend influenced by the 50s and 60s, with structures reminiscent of early rock ‘n’ roll and doo-wop, as well as guitars and synth creating a surf rock-vibe. Though the record does have a pretty comfortable “pop” element throughout, he isn’t afraid to be somber; his love life is a recurring theme, with topics such as the fear of settling down and “missing the chase” (Doing Time.) He also reflects by saying “love isn’t love until it hurts” (If I Think About The Magic Will It Go Away?) His vocal delivery is mellow throughout, making him sound quite content and experienced when it comes to dealing with romantic problems that could be gut-wrenching to others. On this record, he reaches a good balance between sounding true to the era he represents and being well-produced enough to be accessible to a wide audience.
[Reviewer: Mark]

30th Of December 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

Have a safe and happy new year!

We are closing early tomorrow/Saturday (12-31-11) at 6PM.

LPs & 12″s
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Burial Hex    “In Psychic Defense (Single Sided 12″)”
Burzum    “From The Depths Of Darkness (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)”
Dashboard Confessional    “The Shade Of Poison Trees (Ltd. Ed. Color Vinyl)”
Death    “Leprosy (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)”
DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn / RP Boo    “DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn Meet Tsetsha Boys / RP Boo Meets Shangaan Electro”
Farflung    “A Wound In Eternity (Gatefold)”
Fruit Bats    “Echolocation (+ D/L)”
Give Up The Ghost    “Background Music (+ D/L 2011 Reissue)”
Give Up The Ghost    “We’re Down Til We’re Underground (+ D/L 2011 Reissue)”
Guilty Pleasures    “Summer Strange (Legendary “Lost” Album Recorded In 2000)”
Hammering The Cramps    “Hammering The Cramps”
Head on Electric    “Sleep Slaughter Sheep”
Headphones    “Headphones (Red Vinyl /1000 + D/L)”
High Dive     “High Dive”
London Diehards    “There’s Lies, Damn Lies And There’s…”
Lykke Li    “Youth Novels (2LP)”
OCS (Thee Oh Sees)    “Songs About Death & Dying Vol. 3 (Screen Printed Sleeves /700)”
Prince    Dance 4 Me (12″ Single With Remixes)”
Rise And Fall    “Hellmouth”
Samb, Herve & Daniel Moreno    “Kharit (2LP)”
Six Organs Of Admittance    “The Sun Awakens”
Stoned Ambassadors, The    “Bring You Down”
Teenage Moods    “Mood Ring (/300)”
Various Artists    “Thai Funk Volume One (2LP 70s Thai Funk + D/L With Bonus Material)”
Various Artists    “Thai Funk Volume Two (2LP Thai Funk + D/L With Bonus Material)”
Various Artists    “Lost Highway Tenth Anniversary (10 Standout Tracks From Ryan Adams, Lucinda \Williams, Hank Williams, …)”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Ateq    “Res”
Blawan    “Fram / Iddy”
Bok Bok & Tom Trago    “Night Voyage Tool Kit”
Byetone    “Symeta”
CV313    “Standingstill”
Deadmau5    “2012 Re-Edits (Green Vinyl)”
Demdike Stare    “Elemental 1 & 2 (4×12″)”
Digid    “Submerged EP”
DJ Duke    “Blow Your Whistle”
D’Marc Cantu    “Fallen  (2LP)”
Function    “Ember”
Green, Camilla    “Out Of Business”
Joker    “The Vision Instrumentals”
Kaspar    “Ode To The Ancients EP”
Linkwood    “Secret Value”
Locussolus (Harvey Pres)    “Tan Sedan (With Com Truise Remix)”
Milano    “The Fall (With Untold Remix)”
Mind Fair    “Kerry’s Scene (With Legowelt Remix)”
Monitors, The    “Control / Protection”
Nilsen, BJ    “Vinyl”
OVR    “Live In London”
Pacific Blue    “PCB 01 Remixes (Silent Servant, Rrose)”
Pillowtalk    “Far From Heaven”
Raiders Of The Lost ARP    “On And On”
Recondite    “Plangent #003”
Redhinho – Sibian & Faun    “Stay Together / I’m Sorry”
Redshape    “On Da Floor EP”
Ripperton    “City Lights (Featuring Van Hai)”
Rozzo    “Meta Tracks Vol. Three”
Shifted    “Telic / Solus / Image/Channel”
Tyson    “After You’re Gone (Remixes)”
VVV    “Across The Sea (2LP)”
Young Hunting    “The Night Of The Burning”

7″s
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Mugwumps “Down”
Ssssnakes / Slow Death
Riptides / Queers
Riptides / Dwarves

CDs
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Atlas Moth “An Ache…” (Back in stock!)
Black Keys “El Camino”
Forest Swords “Dagger Paths”

Book
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Murder In The Front Row

Reviews
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Crone Endless Midnight CD

(Translation Loss/Waylon Recordings)
This project is from former Isis bassist Jeff Caxide, along with several other band members helping with everything from the instrumentation to the artwork and layout. The result is a radical departure from a “metal” sound, instead focusing on rich, darkly beautiful electronic/drone soundscapes. Opener “What You Dream Of” is built around a sensual synth endless melting over a galaxy speckled with stars burning brightly. “Ghost City” is a bit more chilling, with a looping, mechanical-sounding sample simulating a barren atmosphere; however, it eventually returns to the soothing, strangely uplifting nebula essence of the previous track. “The Silver Hammer” sounds like a full-day trip through the vast, dark wilderness, and “Cellar Holes From A Lifetime Ago” feels like a morose, introspective late-night walk through a deserted city of the future. The title track closes the album with more celestial ambience, sweeping electronics, and thick, resonant guitar plucking. As distressing as an “endless midnight” concept may sound, this album doesn’t aim to make listeners feel downtrodden. Rather, it’s a step forward in songwriting maturity – an unexpectedly mellow journey through the darkest caverns of the mind.
[Reviewer: Mark]

Spazz La Revancha [Reissue] LP

(625 Thrash)
Here’s the second LP in a series of long out-of-print Spazz reissues; Crush Kill Destroy was re-released last December and Dwarf Jester Rising is coming back in the future, though when exactly is unknown. Originally released on the now-defunct Sound Pollution label in 1997, this record is another great example of how Spazz made the powerviolence genre fun. The endlessly buzzing guitar, rapid-fire drumming, and distinct floor-shakingly low-tuned bass was mixed with all three members’ shared vocal shouting – the result was a refreshingly intense-yet-tight sound. They strike the perfect balance between the unique fury of both hardcore punk and grindcore. Their razor-sharp wit remains strong, with poseur bashing, kung fu referencing, and Satan worshiping. There isn’t much more that needs to be said – these guys were smart enough to make something truly unique-sounding in a sea of similar-sounding bands.
[Reviewer: Mark]

21st Of December 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

This week’s update comes a couple days early (Joy to the World). We might post some reviews up on Friday (might). We are expecting more orders in this week as well, but those will appear on the update next week.
 

We also have some early closings and one day of being closed in the next week and half:
Saturday, Christmas Eve: 12-5:30PM
Sunday, Christmas Day: CLOSED
Saturday, New Year’s Eve: 12-6PM
All other day’s are the regular scheduled hours of operation and whatnot (lots of whatnot).

LPs & 12″s
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Amen Ra    “Mass III (Gatefold 2LP)”
American Revolution, Thee    “Buddha Electrostorm”
Amoumine, Ali Ag    “Takamba (LP+7″)”
Anne    “Dream Punx “
Bastard Noise    “Skulldozer (Gatefold)”
Big Kids    “Phone Home”
Black Freighter    “Graves And Monuments (Gatefold)”
Black Witchery    “Inferno Of Sacred Destruction (Gatefold)”
Blake, James    “Enough Thunder”
Blasphemophager    “Return To Nuclear Hell “
Boris    “New Album (2LP Gatefold)”
Capsule    “No Ghost (+ CD)”
Crisis (Pre-Death In June Band)    “Hymns Of Faith (Reissue)”
Davis, Miles    “Dark Magus (180 Gram)”
Doom    “Doomed From The Start: The Demos’ Album”
Enforcers    “End Of Time”
Eno, Brian    “Small Craft On A Milk Sea (+ D/L)”
Goat Horn    “Storming The Gates”
Grup Estel    “Nadal (/500 180 Gram)”
H2O    “H2O”
Head Cat, The (Lemmy’s Rockabilly Band)    “Fool’s Paradise”
Indecision    “Unorthodox”
Jones, Eddie Lee And Family    “Yonder Go That Old Black Dog: Blues, Spirituals And Folksongs From Rural Georgia”
Krallice    “Diotima (180 Gram Gatefold 2LP)”
Last Match    “1997-1999”
Limp Wrist    “1st LP (Import Version)”
Low    “I Could Live In Hope (180 Gram)”
Madlib & Freddie Gibbs    “Thuggin'”
Manson, Charles    “Air (8 Previously-Unheard And Exclusive Songs)”
Morbosidad    “Profana La Cruz Del Nazareno (Gatefold)”
Pale Creation    “Twilight Haunt”
Parr, Charlie & The Black Twigg Pickers    “Glory In The Meeting House “
Phobia    “Loud Proud And Grind As Fuck”
Police & Thieves    “Fracturing”
Spazz    “La Revancha”
Spivs, Thee    “Black And White Memories”
Thou / Cower    “War Is The Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part Analysis Of Personal And Inter-Personal Conflict.”
Van Hoen, Mark    “The Revenant Diary (Gatefold 2LP)”
Various Artists    “The Original Sound Of Cumbia: The History Of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 (Part 1 – Original Colobian 78s) (+D/L 180 Gram 3LP Ltd. Ed.)”
Various Artists    “The Original Sound Of Cumbia: The History Of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 (Part 2 – Original 45s And LP Cuts) (+D/L 180 Gram 3LP Ltd. Ed.)”
Wiccans    “Skullduggery”
Yelawolf    “Radioactive: Amazing And Mystifying Chemical Tricks”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Conforce    “Escapism (2LP)”
Daft Punk    “Homework (Gatefold; Import)”
Headhunter    “Clone / Projector”
J:Kenzo    “Ruffhouse (Feat. Rod Azlan) / Therapy”
Sharps Industry / Disheveled    “Crucify, Loop Brace / The Mask Is Slipping, I Live In This Hole”
Skream    “Skreamizm Vol. 6”
Stojan, N!co    “Callejera”
Various Artists    “Desolat X-Sampler (Hector & Alexkid, Danny Ocean, Funk E, Filsonik, Reboot…)”

7″s
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1.6 Band “The Checkered Past…”
End of a Year / Kids Explode
Face Reality
Hounds Of Hate “No Redemption”
Joy Division “An Ideal For Living (Unofficial)”
Mindless “Human Conditioning”
No Tolerance “No Remorse”
No Sir “Holy Land”
White Stripes (a whole bunch of ’em including the Xmas one)

CDs
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Bastard Noise “Our Earth’s Blood (5xCD)”

Book
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Voguing And The House Ballroom Scene Of New York City 1989-92 (Photos: Chantal Regnault; Introduction: Tim Lawrence; Soul Jazz Books)

9th of December 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

Another busy week here at the shop. I think I’ve inadvertently left the new electronic stuff from last week in the mix with this update, but I think you can read some repeats with little injury. Just as a reminder, we do do Gift Certificates in case your family/friends are asking you what you want.  In fact, we just had a nice new design done for the Gift Certificates by Todd Rogers (Teaessare Design; same guy who’s done much work for us in the past including our stickers, sign and a few shirts).  I’ll probably do a tease of those once I have some printed on nice stock tomorrow.  Once again, our friend Mark has come through with a review which is nice because when we’re busy like this we tend to not get to even thinking about doing a review (thanks again, Mark). So, yea, onto the business of updating.

LPs & 12″s
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Alkaline Trio    “From Here To Infirmary (2011 Reissue)”
Bitch Magnet    “Bitch Magnet (3XLP)”
Childish Gambino    “Camp (Debut Album 180 Gram + Bonus Tracks + D/L)”
Cripple Bastards    “Frammenti Di Vita”
Dead Reptile Shrine    “The Sun Of Circles And Wood (Gatefold)”
Deardarkhead     “Oceanside 1991-1993”
Drake   “Take Care”
ELF    “ELF (PIC LP /2500)”
For Today    “Breaker”
Front Bottoms, The    “Slow Dance To Soft Rock / Grip N Tie (Gatefold 2×10″)”
Grateful Dead    “Built To Last (Gatefold 180 Gram)”
H20    “Don’t Forget Your Roots”
Junius / Rosetta    “Rosetta / Junius”
King Dude    “Love “
Kyuss    “… And The Circus Leaves Town (180 Gram Repress)”
Manson, Charles    “Trees (Installment #2 In The ATWA Series. All Songs Previously Unheard And Unreleased)”
Master Musicians Of Bukkake    “Twilight Of The Kali Yuga Tours: Live Totems U.S/U.K./Europe 2009-2011”
Minerva, Maria    “Sacred & Profane Love”
Nicely, Nick    “Elegant Daze: 1979-1986”
Parks, Van Dyke    “Arrangements Volume I (180 Gram)”
Pink Floyd    “The Dark Side Of The Moon (180 Gram + Stickers + Posters + D/L)”
Pop Group, The    “Y (Import Reissue; No Insert Poster)”
Pyramids / Horseback    “A Throne Without A King (LP+7″)”
Q And Not U     “No Kill No Beep Beep”
Reproach    “The Bitter End”
Servants, The    “Youth Club Disco”
Should    “A Folding Sieve”
Smashing Pumpkins    “Gish (180 Gram Metallic Cover Reissue)”
Souleyman, Omar    “Leh Jani (2LP)”
Stepehen Stephen / The Urxed    “Stephen Stephen / The Urxed”
Tallest Man On Earth    “Shallow Grave”
Various Artists    “World’s Funkiest Covers”
Various Artists    “Mungo’s HiFi: Sound System Champions (Top Cat, Ranking Joe, Tippa Irie, Soom T,…)”
Verbal Abuse    “Rocks Your Liver”
Winehouse, Amy    “Lioness: Hidden Treasures (180 Gram)”
Wives    “Roy Tapes”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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A Made Up Sound    “Take The Plunge”
Al Tourettes    “Swan Sketch EP”
Andrews, Guy    “Shades / Textures”
Author    “Author (2LP)”
B.D.I.    “Decoded Messages Of Life & Love / New Robotics #17”
Ben Sun    “Path Of Non-Attachment”
Burial / Four Tet      “Moth”
Chloe    “Watch Out”
Cooly G    “Landscapes (Feat. Simbad) / It’s Serious (Feat. Karizma)”
Cowley, Abraham    “A Step Goodbye”
DMX Krew    “Cosmic Awakening EP”
Doubleheart    “Salsa Apocalypso”
DSCRD    “Discordance EP”
DVA    “Polyphonic Dreams”
Echelon Plan, The    “Black Dots In An Ocean Of White.”
Elliott, Ryan    “Kicking Up”
Flug 8    “Liebeslied”
Garcia, Simon    “Tears In Vain”
Gold Panda    “An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds”
Gold Panda    “DJ-Kicks”
GoldFFinch    “Red Mask”
Joash    “Mission RMX”
Karenn    “Sheworks001”
Kingdom    “Dreama”
KPLR    “KPLR”
Latecomer    “A Cosmic Cart”
Lazer Sword    “Sounds Sane / Klock (10″)”
Lenz, Adrian / Sandman    “Cover Me (Ol Oil’ Riddim) / No Prisoners”
LFO    “Frequencies (Reissue 2LP + D/L + 2 Bonus Tracks)”
Mangeblanc    “Tom-Tit Edits: On Our Way To?/Vishnu (10″)”
Mr Oizo    “Stade 2”
Ohara, Raz    “See It Coming”
Persian    “Existence Is Resistance (Ltd. Ed.)”
Raiders Of The Lost ARP    “Battlestar EP”
Raime    “Hennail”
Rrose    “Merchant Of Salt”
Rush, Dasha    “Relativismi”
Scuba    “DJ-Kicks”
Sepalcure    “Sepalcure”
Smallpeople    “Black Ice / Stellar / Little River”
Splits & Slits    “Hammering EP”
Stagga    “Wild For The Night”
Teebs    “Collections”
Terranova    “So Strong”
Tofu Productions    “Trabalhador / E Quake / Amega Furu / The Scream”
Tycho    “Dive (2LP)”
Various Artists    “KANN RSD: Record Store Day 05/11/2011 (Sun Glitters, Bender & Sevensol)”
Various Artists (Versalife / Matti Turunen)    “Abstract Forms: Combined EP V2.0 (/250)”
Wareika    “Floors”
Zomby    “Nothing (+ D/L)”

7″s
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Evens, The “Warble Factor”
Inside “Tokyo Straight Edge”
Manson, Charles “Inner Sanctum”
Mum “Gleoileg Jol”
This Will Destroy You “Black Dunes”
Tremors “Island Songs”
Twilight Sad, The “Sick”

CDs
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Delay, Vladislav “Vantaa”
FM3: HeXieFu (Buddha Box Related Project In Super Deluxe Packaging)
Monolith, Dave “Welcome”
Seahaven “Winter Forever”
Stott, Andy “Passed Me By / We Stay Together” (2CD)
Sweet Exorcist “RetroActivity”
Various “Original Cumbia” (2CD)
Various “Tresor 20th Anniversary (Mixed By Mike Huckaby)”

Magazine
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Maximum Rock N Roll #343

Review
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(Jagjaguwar)
Moonface is a project from Canadian indie musician Spencer Krug, whose credits include Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown and Frog Eyes. Just as the title suggests, Krug’s organ takes center stage, creating a nostalgic 80s-electronic sound backed up by a looping drum machine and his emotional, resonant vocals. On this record, he crafts hypnotic atmospheres that sound suited for underwater levels in 8-bit video games, particularly in the jovial/droll-sounding opener “Return to the Violence of the Ocean Floor,” where the organ seems to complement an elegant coral reef formation. The big standout track is “Fast Peter,” which utilizes a very simple yet energetic and quick-paced hook that really creates a feeling of movement. Each of these five tracks is relatively lengthy (ranging six-and-a-half to eight minutes,) making it easier to focus on and absorb each landscape.
[Reviewer: Mark]