The Dead C - Patience PREORDER (BING 070)
This is a pre-order. Patience is both appropriate and inappropriate as a title for the latest release by The Dead C. Inappropriate because itÕs been only two years since the last album, which in Dead C Time is but the flicker of a candle; appropriate since the key to enjoying the Dead C is willingness to sit down, listen and let the music take over your mind. With an unforgiving and intense four tracks, Patience will not be confused with the work of any other band.

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Sharon Van Etten - Epic PREORDER (BING 072)
This is a pre-order. Epic, Van Etten's second album, lays a romantic melancholy lining over the gravel and dirt of heartbreak, without one honest thought or feeling spared. She sings of betrayal, obsession, egotism and all the other emotions we hate in others and recognize in ourselves. Yet, Van Etten's grounded and clenched vocals convey the sense of hope - the notion that beauty can come out of the worst of circumstances. Epic is indeed that beauty.

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Gate - A Republic of Sadness
The first new Gate record in over a decade, A Republic of Sadness is as much a reason for celebration as indoctrination into the creative genius of Michael Morley. Known primarily for his work in The Dead C, Morley simultaneously has been doing Gate since he's started playing. A Republic of Sadness comprises the apex of Morley's various interests in one collection. His guitar and vocal drones permeate through looped beats and sounds, arriving at a sound that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and never, ever ambient.

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WOOM - Muu's Way (BING 067)
Confident in its artful eclecticism, calmly subversive, and wholly unironic, WOOM's debut record Muu's Way compels listenersÕ attention to the Moment while swirling a deep current of contrasting styles. Combining the devastating emotional intensity of Panda Bear's Young Prayer and the sharply focused rhythmic instincts of ESG, WOOM eschews sentimentality in favor of visceral experience. Focus on a point in the mid-distance and allow it to fuzz and fade a moment before slapping it back into place with a blink; this equates roughly to WOOM's aural impact.

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The Dead C - Eusa Kills / Helen Said This
Eusa Kills is The Dead C's second album from 1989, released by Flying Nun, the arbiter of the time for all that mattered in New Zealand rock. Considered by many to be their "songs" record, Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds of their time--those being created by such luminaries as Dustdevils, This Kind of Punishment, and Dadamah. Sneering vocals drift over improvised melodies and unstructured rock songs. One can hear the direct influence The Dead C had on Sonic Youth at the time--mining deep into the underbelly of music to yield a truly intense and unparalleled sound. This reissue also contains as a bonus record the rare Helen Said This 12-inch from the same recording period. Originally released by Siltbreeze at 33 rpm, this is the first vinyl reprint, and will display improved sound quality at 45 rpm.

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The Dead C - DR502 / Sun Stabbed
Originally released in 1987 (and not to be confused with the releases DR503b or DR503c, which are completely different recordings), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before--a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace. It didn't fit in with the other bands New Zealand's venerable Flying Nun was releasing, and it immediately staked a fork in the road, dividing the "New Zealand Pop Sound" from its black sheep brother, "New Zealand Noise." Today, the record still sounds as vicious and vital as when it first went to vinyl, except now perhaps there will be more people ready to appreciate the innovative approach the band took some 21 years ago. This reissue also contains a bonus record of the rare Sun Stabbed EP from the same recording period. With bonus tracks not on the original 7-inch, the recordings from the Sun Stabbed sessions are being released for the first time in their entirety.

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The Dead C - Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power
Relegated to expensive fodder for eBay bidders until now, Clyma Est Mort can be considered The Dead C's "Ed Sullivan moment," except it wasn't performed live on network TV--it was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, NZ, in 1992 with the inestimable Tom Lax of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience. Since the goal was to make a "fake bootleg" album for release on the mythical Proletariat Idiots Productions label--and in honor of the 13th Floor Elevators (often overlooked as an influence)--the band dubbed in fake audience noise from a gig by the Renderers. Despite the deliberate incompetence with which this was accomplished, Clyma is often touted as a "live album." This is only true in the sense that the band members were alive when they made it. This double-LP reissue includes Tentative Power, a collection of non-album tracks many consider among the band's best moments.

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The Dead C - Max Harris
Max Harris captures the first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris"--reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Anyone who doesn't own one of the original 21 cassette tapes made of these recordings will be hearing them together for the first time. Yes, they've never been on vinyl before, so maybe one can even say this is the tracks' first "real" release. You will be able to feel the slicing tension and drive right through your bones.

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Colossal Yes - Charlemagne's Big Thaw (BING 064)
The end result is something unique yet familiar to the epic pop bands of the past. Charlemagne's Big Thaw focuses in on simple melodies and basic structures, but has complex lyrical themes concerning expired youth, grand betrayals, failed schemes and dissolving empires. In this regard, Kushner pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer and Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham Nash's Songs For Beginners and the romanticism of Nikki Sudden's Waiting On Egypt. Welcome to the new piano age.

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BEIRUT - March of the Zapotec / Holland (POMP 001)
Double EP collection March of the Zapotec/Holland is perhaps Beirut's most ambitious outing to date, culminating a year where the musical focus was split deftly and smoothly down the middle. MOTZ finds Zach and the boys in Oaxaca, Mexico. With the help of the 19 piece Band Jimenez, they craft their most beautifully melancholic songs to date, creating an astounding link between the oompa sounds of Eastern Europe and their Mexican counterparts. Holland is a return to Zach's pre-Beirut bedroom recordings moniker, Realpeople. An exploration into the shimmery waters of synth pop and 90's house, Holland proves that a musically restless soul doesn't quite travel from one country to the next, but instead follows the sounds that speak to it most truly.

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Damon & Naomi - Earth is Blue (20202001)
Their label, 20/20/20, is named after the seventies game Careers, where you are given sixty points to space out between three goals in life; Fame, Fortune and Happiness. Balancing yourself over a variety of interests provides the greatest opportunity for intellectual growth, doesn't it? Nothing proves that more than The Earth Is Blue, Damon & Naomi's first album of new material in five years. Informed by their various experiences, both traveling the world and listening to and reading the greatest of human achievements, Damon & Naomi have created an album of worldly beauty and individual intimacy. The songs are smart and perceptive without forgoing a wide-eyed wonder at the many things there are to experience and learn. In addition to the contributions of Kurihara, trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey of Boston's nmperign add some deli-cate brass.

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Damon & Naomi - More Sad Hits (20202006)
A year after Galaxie 500 dissolved, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang returned to producer Kramer's studio and recorded this album of psychedelic break-up songs.

"Like real water in a world of soda pop." Ñ Robert Wyatt

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Galaxie 500 - Today (20202007)
When Galaxie 500's record Today was first released in 1988, it set off a chain reaction of quiet explosions still being felt. Never before had a record so emphasized the calming elements of rock music, transforming what at first seems like a collection of bridges into fully realized songs. And one can draw a straight line from here to the many groups they influenced, like Low, Belle & Sebastian, and Bon Iver. The record itself is full of idiosyncrasies. Damon Krukowski, Dean Wareham and Naomi Yang were recent Harvard grads who intuitively eliminated any histrionic tradition to rock songs, leaving core emotion (not for nothing did they include a cover of "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste," by the kings of feeling, The Modern Lovers). It was produced by Kramer, who was best known for his work with cataclysmic slop rock pioneers such as Bongwater, Ween and King Missle. The band's hometown of Boston was just coming out of its love affair with Mission of Burma and pouncing upon the spasmodic electricity of the Pixies. Despite, or perhaps because of, all these elements, Today thrived.

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Galaxie 500 - On Fire (20202008)
For many, On Fire is considered the canonic pinnacle of Galaxie 500's career. The artwork conveys this, with a shot of the band taken from low near the ground, looking up towards an amber sky. This record marked the realization of their signature sound. Nowhere is that more clear than on the album opener, "Blue Thunder," which is the closest a song can come to waves crashing on a beach in song form. Lyrically inconsequential, with a chorus composed entirely of "la's," the power of "Blue Thunder" lies in a systematic build and break of intensity that reaches a Spector-like climax. It has become Galaxie 500's signature song, encapsulating all that was great about the band.

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Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (20202009)
After two albums celebrated by a thirsty underground network of fans, Galaxie 500 produced what turned out to be their unexpected swansong, This Is Our Music. The title is an intentionally declarative statement. After being labeled masters of the disengaged and forlorn, the band's third album offers Damon Krukowsi, Dean Wareham and Naomi Yang's most stately material. Here, one can hear potential realized, and changes afoot. "Fourth Of July" is a surprisingly up front song from the band, with rolling drums and a bass-heavy refrain, and it proved to be their most popular single. It sets the stage for the dynamism of This Is Our Music. When the band sounds wistful ("Summertime"), it sounds like years of yearning actualized; when the band sounds regretful ("Sorry"), it comes pleading on its knees. The band found a beautiful balance between increased production values and knob-twiddler Kramer's odd handed approach.

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THE DEAD C - Secret Earth (BING059)
The Dead C oscillates between two poles. Recent albums explored drones, electronic loops and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius.

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BENJAMIN WETHERILL - Laura (BING058)
Recorded in a castle in the outskirts of Budapest, Benjamin Wetherill's first album captures the intimacy of delicate folk playing along with the innovation of original technique and approach. Wetherill, a Leeds native who has been making his own music for over a decade now, plays intricate fingerpicked guitar passages, and sings with a lilting singing style unlike anybody recording today. The uniqueness of his style provides a startling listen for anyone looking for truly talented musicians wholly focused on their own vision. Produced by Jeremy Barnes (A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Neutral Milk Hotel).

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DEVON WILLIAMS - Carefree (BING057)
Devon Williams Schmillion's album recalls the heyday of submarine bells, liberty belles and Sebastian's belles. Recorded over a few years whenever his touring bands had time off, Williams put together a record of magnificent and intelligent pop music, beautifully arranged and expertly executed. (Fans of the groups referenced above, namely Harry Nilsson, The Church, The Chills, The Go-Betweens and Belle & Sebastian, will be most certainly edified).

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ESSIE JAIN - The Inbetween (BING056)
Essie Jain's stunning new album, The Inbetween, attains a new highpoint for the songwriter, exploring the nuances of intimacy like she hasn't before. The songs are direct and captivating in their honesty, and they serve to reflect the artful beauty that can result from periods of clarity.

"I was in this space where things weren't ready to take their next shape yet - in some ways it was a really beautiful experience, because you can't force things and it nails you down, and in another, you can see the opening into the next chapter and you can't reach it," she says. Music serves as a means towards making sense of a situation, and Jain chose to name her record The Inbetween in order to highlight the ephemeral nature of the issues she addresses. The new album features an array of instruments Ð French horn, clarinet, Rhodes, cello, trumpet - but none are more central to the songs than Jain's vocals, which remain the strident and captivating centerpiece of each composition.

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BEIRUT - The Flying Club Cup (BING055)
The highly anticipated follow up to Gulag Orkestar does not disappoint. Recorded by Zach Condon with a full band, guest stars like Final Fantasy's Owen Pallet (who added lush string arrangements), and at a variety of locations, The Flying Club Cup is an expanse, glorious and enrapturing album which takes a nod towards the finest of France's musical culture.

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PATRICK CLEANDENIM - Baby Comes Home (BING054)
It's unusual when a musician cites giants such as David Axelrod and Jean-Claude Vannier as main influences, and Patrick Cleandenim's first album Baby Comes Home is like nothing else being made right now, yet is informed by great music of the past. While prime time Scott Walker may be an initial point of comparison, Baby Comes Home displays a broad array of influences and styles. Patrick grew up obsessed with Elvis, and from there moved to the various genres of British and American pop music (doo-wop, surf, bubble-gum, Motown, girl groups). On the album, he's accompanied by a lush orchestra, which expands his upbeat piano playing and singing with a sea of strings, horns, backup singers and percussion.

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THE DEAD C - Future Artists (BING053)
In their first new album since 2003's The Damned and last year's two-cd greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite & Stupid, New Zealand's The Dead C return with another uncompromising realisation of the finest rock improvisation you'll ever hear.  It's been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the
surreal and undefined.  Long may they prosper.

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ESSIE JAIN - We Made This Ourselves (BING052)
This, the first album by British expat Essie Jain, is sparse, dark and moving. With a striking voice and beautifully minimal guitar and piano playing, Jain crafts songs that carry the emotional weight of our best songwriters. File next to Low, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.

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BEIRUT - Lon Gisland EP (BING051)
As a stopgap before his next record, Zach Condon brought his eight member orkestar into the studio and recorded these songs. If you've seen the band live, you've heard some of these songs, including "Elephant Gun" and "Carousels." Also included is a full band rendition of "Scenic World" and some other fine surprises.

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THE DEAD C - The Dead C Perform Vain, Erudite & Stupid (Selected Works: 1987-2005) (BING050)
A double CD compilation of the greatest noise rock band of all time. With 22 tracks chosen by the band members themselves, Vain collects the most intense moments of a band criminally underrated considering their influence on modern music. Sixteen pages of liner notes too, and all this at a price cheaper than most single CDs.

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THE DEAD C - Relax Fallujah - Hell Has Come (BING049)
A seven-inch featuring a never-before-released version of Power (the "Fallujah Version") and, for the first time, The Dead C's classic, Bad Politics, can be heard on vinyl. Limited to 1,000 copies.

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BEIRUT - Gulag Orkestar (BING048)
While it may sound like an entire Balkan gypsy orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut's first album, Gulag Orkestar, is largely the work of one 19-year-old Albuquerque native, Zach Condon, with assistance by Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw). Horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions (no guitars on this album!) all build and break the melodies under Condon's deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken 12-member ensemble that has fallen in love with The Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads and Neutral Milk Hotel. (Click here to purchase the LP from Midheaven)

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PARK ATTACK - Half-Past Human (BING047)
From the great city of Glasgow, Park Attack are an explosion of feedbacking power and wild-throated melody. Following their debut EP released by the Optimo DJ's on their O.S.C.A.R.R. label, Half-Past Human is a wild mix of stomp rock, slop punk and no wave intensity. The arrhythmic sounds of DNA, the blaring energy of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the noise-guitar hell of early Sonic Youth, combine into something relentless and exciting. Licensed from Textile Records in France.

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COLOSSAL YES - Acapulco Roughs (BING046)
Utrillo from Comets on Fire breaks out the piano for some amazing twinkling. With a full band backup, Acapulco Roughs is in the vein of John Cale and Bill Fay. Some of the most startlingly beautiful songs you're likely to hear.

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TH' FAITH HEALERS - Peel Sessions (BING045)
One of the greatest bands of the nineties, whose three albums on Too Pure are bona fide classics, releases their four never-available Peel Sessions. Including favorites, Peel Sessions also includes some songs set to be on their never-recorded fourth album and covers of ABBA and Badfinger.

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GREG WEEKS - Blood Is Trouble (BING044)
One of the originators of the current psychedelic folk scene, Weeks' latest record is a masterful accomplishment. Weeks begins with minor-keyed acoustic ballads and builds elaborately arranged songs, which incorporate multiple instruments with delicate subtlety. Blood Is Trouble revels in the beauty of melancholia.

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ADRIAN CROWLEY - A Northern Country (BING043)
His most accomplished record to date. Arranged with a string section, Adrian Crowley lets his songs breathe and expand, creating sparse and emotional songs that sound like Tim Buckley on dopamine.

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JAMES ORR COMPLEX - Chori's Bundle (BING042)
One of Scotland's greatest guitarists ever, Chris Mack's compositions are reminiscent of Bert Jansch in their stylistic brilliance and instrumental complexity. This record is licensed from Mogwai's label, Rock Action Records, out of Glasgow.

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SONS AND DAUGHTERS - Love the Cup (BING041)
Glasgow's latest sensations, Sons & Daughters, tour the vast terrain of raucous and sly classic country, mixing in traditional Scottish folk along the way. The result will please Lee Hazlewood / Nancy Sinatra fans as much as those who worship Johnny Cash.

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1 MILE NORTH - Minor Shadows (BING039)
The happy middle-ground 1 Mile North occupies combines the warmth and humanity of analog sounds (made by a variety of synthesizers and guitar) with the innovative subtleties of electronic composition. "Minor Shadows" - the group's second record - finds a new plateau for ambient music, never forgetting the need for melody amidst the experimentation.

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WORKMAN, HAWKSLEY - The Delicious Wolves (BING038)
Hawksley's second record and a total full-production stunner which had Esquire (that's right, Esquire! Well, the UK Esquire) calling it "extravagantly glamorous and epic, a dazzling collision of Bowie and Broadway where there's always real heart beneath the flash." This is the UK version of the album, which features two bonus tracks and three amazing videos which he made for the singles.

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DWINELL, MARK - Nonloc (BING037)
The debut album by Bright front man, Mark Dwinell. Borne from improvisation, and sounding like a minimal orchestra in the vein of Philip Glass or Steve Reich, Dwinell's compositions concentrate on the organic aspects of repetition, unfolding in revolving circles of mind expansion.

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MORPHEW, JASON - Duke Of Arkansas (BING036)
Joined by a full backing band, including the woman who sang The Jeffersons theme song, Jason Morphew's third record realized the full production potential of his songs. Tracks like "Lipstick Stains" and "Sex!" could even be called insta-classics, if such a classification did indeed exist.

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CROWLEY, ADRIAN - A Strange Kind (BING035)
A reissue of the small initial pressing from 1999, A Strange Kind has been remastered and now comes with a video for the track "Trilogy." Even though it was his first record, Adrian's talent was fully realized, with sparse, sad songs evoking colorful imagery thanks to his affecting lyrics.

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COMETS ON FIRE - Field Recordings From the Sun (BING034)
What West Coast Psychedelia has been and where it's headed. Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and Tim Green of The Fucking Champs play along to the melee.

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LANDING - Seasons (BING033)
The third album from Connecticut's prolific Landing, Seasons continues their glorious space rock explorations with an emphasis on melody and songs. Their shimmering beauty has never articulated itself so well.

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CROWLEY, ADRIAN - When You Are Here You Are Family (BING032)
Recorded by Steve Albini, When You Are Here You Are Family highlights Crowley's somber tone with lush cello accompaniment to his deep-voiced ballads.

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MIRZA - Last Clouds (BING031)
In addition to reprinting Mirza's first EP, Last Clouds collects some of what could be the wildest psych rock recordings the band ever made.

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SPINY ANTEATERS, THE - Well Laid Plans (BING030)
Four years in the making, Well Laid Plans is more tune-driven than Last Supper while still capturing the band's embrace of all that is off-kilter.

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WEEKS, GREG - Awake Like Asleep (BING028)
If a prog-folk album were playing in the woods, would fans of the genre still do all they can to search it out? Is anything more beautiful than uncommon orchestration - mellotron, Moog, XXX - played in minimal compositions? These questions, and other impoderables like them, run through my head as I listen to Greg's incredible record.

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MORPHEW, JASON - Not For the Faint Of Heart! (BING027)
Mostly acoustic songs, mostly on the downtempo side of the emotional spectrum, Morphew's lyrics nail every notion of love's follies with precision.

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WORKMAN, HAWKSLEY - For Him and the Girls (BING026)
Workman plays everything here, creating music which rivals a young David Bowie and Tim Buckley. He's been hailed by Mojo, GQ and The Globe and Mail for his great vocal talent and songwriting originality.

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SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - The Manifestation 12" (BING025)
Six Organs combines furious acoustic guitar playing with chiming sounds and hushed vocals to make this tribute to the sun. This is a beautifully constructed one-sided, clear vinyl LP, with a sun etching on the other side, so, of course, it was limited to 500 copies.
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BRIGHT - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BING024)
Their most cohesive, engaging and melodically inspired work - an eclectic mix of macho guitar-driven improvs, minimalist pop-vocal song structures, and spacious instrumental arrangements. Double LP comes with addition 35 minute CDEP, The Miller Fantasies. >

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BLEK INK - Blek Ink (BING022)
Pop songs by way of dissonance and abstraction. Icelander Paul Lydon's voice is a gentle presence amoungst clamourous guitars, chimes and keyboards. In the musical sphere of Tower Recordings and Alastair Galbraith, with incongruous musical passages coming together like they were always meant to collide.

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YOURS TRULY - Domesticated (BING021)
Linda Smith, known for releases on Harriet on Feel Good All Over, teams up with Paul Baroody to make modern new wave brilliance. It's like every great eighties song you never heard but knew was out there.

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YUME BITSU - Yume Bitsu (BING020)
K Records superstars present six long tracks of lulling guitar lines and sparse harmonized vocals. Epic, grandeur anthems of intensity.

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WEEKS, GREG - Fire In the Arms Of the Sun (BING018)
Hushed vocals over fingerpicked acoustic guitar, along with creepy keyboard touches. Not in any VW commercials.
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MONAURAL - Monitor Interference (BING016C)
Space rock and spacious electronics, with real insruments undercutting the usual studio artifice. One of the mainstays of the late nineties Detroit Space Rock scene.

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YUME BITSU - Giant Surface Music Falling To Earth Like Jewels From the Sky (BING016)
Reissue of Yume Bitsu's beautiful first album from 1998. The songs go longform in spaciousness and dreamliness, taking a step beyond dream pop simplicity and stomping in the psychedelic romper room of Tangerine Dreamís Zeit, Roy Montgomeryís most transcendent work, and My Bloody Valentine (when they knew how to use a guitar.)

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RECEPTIONISTS, THE - The Last Letter (BING015)
Ponderously clever folk pop simplicity, recalling The Raincoats and The Shaggs in its cleverness and charm. Three Vassar girls sing vocal harmonies in their dorm room with accordian, guitar, toy piano, piccolo and maracas.

CD $11.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

SPINY ANTEATERS, THE - The Last Supper (BING014)
Former Kranky artists present a concept album of feedback ballads, melodic noise, tape splices and pretty songs.

CD $11.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

LP $10.00ppd (U.S.)

LP $13.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

BRIGHT - PLYMOUTH ROCK b/w SUPERSTRINGS, NOVA 7" (BING012)
Some of the strongest examples from Bright's four-track recordings.
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JUNEAU - Juneau (BING011)
Two guitars and drums play something in the realm between Bardo Pond, Dead C and Ash Ra Temple. Includes members of Sunburned Hand of the Man.

CD $11.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

BRIGHT - Albatross Guest House (BING010)
A compilation of the band's four-track recordings through the years. Many songs capture at-the-moment intensity that will cause Krautrock fans to rejoice.

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WEAK MOMENTS, THE - The Weak Moments (BING009)
The only album The Weak Moments released, aiming towards pop songs forged out of noise.

CD $6.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $8.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

MORPHEW, JASON - Transparent (BING008)
Brooding country songs, combining tradition and innovation. Transparent covers an array of material, from solo guitar and piano numbers, to full-band accompaniment (provided by the band Holiday) to duets (with Claudia Gonson, of The Magnetic Fields).

CD $11.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

ULTRASOUND - Analogic DBL LP (BING007)
A massive record of minimal droning sounds, with each side meant to be played at a different part of the day.

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BRIGHT - Bright (BING006)
Amerikrautpop at its finest. Bright's debut record is a startling example of just what can be achieved when a rock band improvises in the studio towards the goal of creating melodic songs. "Mugged" was recorded just hours after one of them was robbed at gunpoint! So many stories...

CD $11.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

ALGER HISS - Settings For Nudes (BING005)
The first record by New York's stunning Alger Hiss, a band which combines the intensity of prime primal Swans with the precision of Big Black.

CD $4.00ppd (U.S.)

LP $4.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $6.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

LP $6.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

WINDY & CARL - Portal (BING004)
The duo's first album, a rerelease of the original cassette, with about a half hour of additional material on it. The stunning and influencial beginning of what became defined (at least in the press) as the Detroit Space Rock scene.

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Various Artists - Follow the Bouncing Ball (BING003)
Mostly downtempo compilation featuring Bardo Pond, Jessamine, Joel RL Phelps, Simon Joyner, Spent, Receptionists and more.

CD $6.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $8.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

RECEPTIONISTS, THE - The Memo EP (BING002)
The band's first release of six songs recorded in Jen and Larissa's dorm room. All but "Drinking Fountain" appear on The Last Letter.

7" $6.00ppd (U.S.)

7" $8.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

SALTEEN - Green Light/Roommates b/w Part 7" (BING001)
Not to be confused with the Canadian band, and, upon hearing it, not to be confused with Codeine or Galaxie 500.

7" $3.50ppd (U.S.)

7" $5.50ppd (Non-U.S.)

COMETS ON FIRE - Comets On Fire (V301)
The band's Alternative Tentacles CD rerelease of the out-of-print first LP, with some bonus tracks and more Echoplex than you can shake a trippin' hippie at.

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LANDING - Passages Through CD (KLP146)
The band's first K Record, and a beautiful marriage between their abstract improvisational stuff and their melody-based songs.

CD $12.00ppd (U.S.)

CD $14.00ppd (Non-U.S.)

YUME BITSU - Golden Vessyl of Sound CD (KLP137)
The band's most varied record, trying out electronic beats and sound effects with remarkable success. The future of psychedelia.

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YUME BITSU - Auspicious Winds CD (KLP121)
A swirling and majestic record. For me, the best song is "The Wedding Procession" - a slow-build composition that rides the intensity meter straight through.

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