Dead Man’s Bones by Dead Man’s Bones
Dead Man’s Bones began recording, and quickly decided that the songs needed the special creepiness and longing of massed children s voices to complete the sound L.A. s Silverlake Conservatory Childrens Choir was brought in to the studio, and Dead Man s Bones, the album, was born. Some of their songs reflect the music they listened to a little bit of doo-wop, and artists such as the Shangri-Las, The Shags, Company Flow, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Bobby Vinton, Joy Division, The Andrew Sisters and Daniel Johnston, to name a few. In addition, the artistic aesthetic of old Universal horror films, vaudeville music-hall numbers, and silent-screen melodramas infest the music.
In & Out of Control by Raveonettes
According to the Raveonettes Sune Rose Wagner, it is incredibly hard being in a Danish rock n roll band cause of this damn thing we have called Jante Loven (Jante Law), which basically tells Danes not to feel superior to any other man, woman, child or beast. This translates into everyone being very scared of thinking highly of themselves and in the music world means that you’re no better than this band or that band.
The Raveonettes have always hated repeating themselves, and so they set the bar really high for In And Out Of Control. It’s a strange mixture of modern and old, dark and happy. It’s about rape, violence, lost love, suicide, not caring about what other people think of you and most importantly being mad and angelic! Jante Loven doesn’t mean anything to the Raveonettes cause they know they made a better album than anybody else out there!
Goat (Deluxe Remastered Reissue) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] by Jesus Lizard
Re-mastered in 2009 by Steve Albini and Bob Weston. Vinyl packaged in deluxe gatefold album jacket with 12" x 24" double sided color insert including never before seen photos & extensive liner notes by the band & by journalists who were there. Vinyl also includes a digital download coupon for the LP, plus 5 bonus tracks not included on the LP itself. HQ-120 virgin vinyl pressing made at RTI. CD in deluxe Digipak with 14" x 20" double sided color folder including never before seen photos & extensive liner notes by the band & by journalists who were there. CD also includes 4 bonus tracks.
Liar (Deluxe Remastered Reissue) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] by Jesus Lizard
Arguably the greatest underground live band of the 1990s, the Jesus Lizard displayed all their virtues in perfect form on LIAR. The album blisters with a musical exactitude that can only come from within in a studio, but the lurching, slightly … Full Descriptionbluesy underpinnings of the tone make one feel as if they are present for the chaos. The Jesus Lizard had almost no chance of achieving stardom, but the laundry list of soon-to-be stars that borrowed wholesale from their sound (Kurt Cobain unabashedly among them) makes clear the sheer impact that LIAR,specifically, and the Jesus Lizard, in general, had on rock music in the 1990s.
Head (Deluxe Remastered Reissue) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] by Jesus Lizard
Remastered in 2009 by Steve Albini and Bob Weston. CD is packaged in a deluxe Digipak with 14"x20" double sided color folder with never before seen photos and extensive liner notes by the band and journalists who were there. CD also includes Pure EP plus 3 bonus tracks.
Love and Terror by The Cinematics
When their debut Lp, A Strange Education hit stores in 2007 via TVT records, Glasgow’s The Cinematics were poised for superstardom. Having already received accolades from everyone from Spin to Teen Vogue to The New York Times and toured with the likes of interpol, The Bravery and We Are Scientists, it seemed that the new wave inspired foursome’s next big break was just around the corner. Until the unthinkable happened in early 2008 — powerhouse independent label TVT records filed for bankruptcy.
A lot has happened since then and that first single. Original guitarist Ramsay Miller was replaced by Larry Reid, The Cinematics recorded a new album on their own and The Orchard purchased TVT, making it possible for the band’s sophomore masterpiece, Love And Terror, to finally see the light of day. The album, dark and brooding, yet full of sharp hooks and vocal melodies that would make Ian McCulloch proud, is about young lovers struggling to make their way in a world in meltdown. Singer Scott Rinning describes Love and Terror as a truly honest record of our times.
Sunset/Sunrise by The Dutchess & the Duke
Sunset/Sunrise, the second full length from Seattle duo the Dutchess & the Duke, is a slump-dodging opus that takes the dark, raw beauty of the band’s debut and scales it up to distinctly luminescent heights, thanks to a graceful synthesis of painfully earned creative maturity and thoughtful production under producer Greg Ashley’s adroitly tuned ears.Though minor chords and romantically morose lyrical yarns about misplaced affections and spiritual inertia remain touchstones, there is a freshing undercurrent of optimism throughout.
Childish Prodigy by Kurt Vile
Philadelphia singer-songwriter KURT VILE (yes, that is his real name) makes his Matador debut with "Childish Prodigy." His second album (the first came out on the tiny Gulcher label, vinyl on Woodsist), it is a rich tapestry of rock and folk sounds, occasionally lo-fi, occasionally lustrous, hitting touchstones from Tom Petty to Street Legal-era Dylan to Spacemen 3 to Skip Spence. "Childish Prodigy" is more diverse than its predecessor, and ranges from pounding rockers like "Hunchabck" and "Freak Train" to gorgeous folky numbers like "Overnight Religion" and the soaring trumpet in "Amplifier." This is an absorbing and addictive record with layers and layers of discovery.
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