CD CD/2CD CD - Tuba Records

NYHETER UKE 34 - 2010
EELS (CD/2CD)
TOMORROW MORNING
Eworks/Cooperative
VVR 744349 / VVR 744352
http://www.myspace.com/eels
CD/2CD
0602527443492 / 0602527443522
Siste utgivelse i EELS-trilogien som startet med Hombre Lobo
(VR 537COOP) og fortsatte med End Times (VVR 728642), og dermed
det tredje albumet på 18 måneder fra MARK OLIVER EVERETT.
Denne gangen er soundet noe annerledes enn vi er vant til fra denne
mannen, som nå har beveget seg over i et mer elektronisk lydlandskap
med mye bruk av keyboards, tape loops, trommemaskiner og samples.
Uten at det på noe vis har gått ut over de nydelige låtene vi er vant til å
få fra EELS. Der End Times var noe av det sarteste og tristeste fra E og
co, er dette kanskje det varmete og mest oppløftende albumet gjennom
en 14 år lang karriere. Albumet kommer også i en begrenset versjon som
dobbel cd med 5 eksklusive spor!
4/5 MOJO
ZOLA JESUS
STRIDULUM II
Souterrain
SOU 016
http://zolajesus.com/
CD
0673790026361
Strålende utgivelse i et FEVER RAY-landskap fra NIKA ROSA DANILOVA
aka ZOLA JESUS. I 2009 var hun en av de mest omtalte og ombloggede
undergrunnsartistene i USA, og nå ser det ut til at en god gammeldags
hype er på trappene.
“Nika creates the most gut-stirringly devastating murder ballads
you’ll hear all year” 9/10 CLASH
“If there was ever a doubt Zola Jesus had talent under all the noise
and electronics, then here is the raw proof, howling at you from the stereo.
For such a young and prolific artist she is certainly maturing quickly”
8/10 DROWNED IN SOUND
http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-new-bands-of-2010/183459/page/4
S. CAREY
ALL WE GROW
Jagjaguwar
JAG 181
0656605218120
S. Carey, eller Sean Carey om du vil, er trommisen til BON IVER,
her med sin solodebut på Jagjaguwar. Musikalsk holder Carey seg
noenlunde i samme leie som moderskipets hyttefolk, men også folk
som BILL EVANS ca. Waltz For Debby, TALK TALK/MARK HOLLIS
og STEVE REICH har alle influert kammerindiefolken på All We Grow.
CD
http://www.myspace.com/scareymusic
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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY
ADDENDA EP
AFM
AFMSG 212-4
0884860020824
CDEP
Farvel-utgivelse fra selveste THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, som tar kvelden
straks deres Forever Is The World-turne er ferdig.
Denne utgivelsen inneholder 10 sjeldne og uutgitte spor fra et av de mest
suksessfulle og innflytelsesrike bandene innen gotisk metal.
Denne EP’en var tilgjengelig som bonus på den limiterte turné-utgaven
av bandets siste album, men kan endelig kjøpes separat.
ION DISSONANCE
CURSED
Basick
BSK 026CD
http://www.myspace.com/iondissonance
5060244150003
Kanadisk grind/deathcore-helter signet til giganten Century Media i USA
og Basick i Europa. Europeisk metalpresse er på og bandet får bred dekning.
CD
“Heavier Than A Really Heavy Thing... Crikey. Even if you reckon that
Whitechapel are for pussies, Devin Townsend has gone pop, and everything
featured in Metal Hammer is in fact wimpy emo, we’d love to see you try
to dismiss Ion Dissonance as ‘not metulz’. It is not pretty, oh no.
But wow, is it good”. 9/10 SUBBA-CULTCHA
“Easy listening, this ain’t. What it is, on the other hand, is an album of
almost comical heaviness, delivered by frighteningly proficient musicians
with lethal intent, wrapped in an appropriately hefty production.”
4/5 ONEMETAL.COM
COTTON JONES
TALL HOURS IN THE GLOWSTREAM
Suicide Squeeze
SSQ 086 / SSQ 086LP
0803238008622 / 0803238008615
CD/LP
Etter at de populære indierockerne i PAGE FRANCE bestemte seg for
å ta en pause i 2007, startet frontmann MICHAEL NAU og WHITNEY
McGRAW COTTON JONES. Etter en rekke EP-utgivelser, albumdebuterte
de med Paranoid Cocoon til flotte anmeldelser. Tall Hours in the Glowstream følger fint opp med mer halvpsykedelisk indiepop perfekt for fans
av f.eks. BRIGHT EYES eller NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL. Også på LP.
“By mixing a rich, lo-fi coziness with soothing harmonies, Cotton Jones
shows that the success of Paranoid Cocoon was no fluke.” FILTER
http://www.myspace.com/thecottonjonesbasketride
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CD
MAJOR LAZER
GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE…LAZERS DO - New Edition
Downtown/Cooperative
http://www.myspace.com/majorlazer
VVR 746948
0602527469485
MAJOR LAZER leveret nylig en strålende konsert på Øyafestivalen, og nå kommer
en utvidet versjon av deres killer-album Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do! Plata
er nå utøket med 5 spor, og her gjestes de av bl.a. M.I.A., BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
og THOM YORKE, i tillegg til SANTIGOLD, AMANDA BLANK, NINA SKY, MAPEI og
T.O.K., som allerede er med på den ekstensive gjestelista til DIPLO og SWITCH, som
utgjør dette massive partymonsteret! Dersom du ikke allerede har sjekket ut dette
albumet, er tiden inne nå! Et lite utdrag av anmeldelsene albumet opprinnelig fikk:
9.3/10 PASTE MAGAZINE 8.1 PITCHFORK 4/5 ALLMUSIC 4/5 THE GUARDIAN
4/5 THE TELEGRAPH 7/10 NME 7/10 DROWNED IN SOUND
BRAD LANER
NATURAL SELECTIONS
Hometapes
HT 031CD / HT 031LP
CD/LP
0656605796826 / 0656605796819
MEDICINE (USAs MY BLOODY VALENTINE), SAVAGE REPUBLIC og ELECTRIC
COMPANY-grunnlegger BRAD LANER har siden 80-tallet vært en av LAs mest
produktive musikere med deltagelse på mer eller mindre hundrevis av utgivelser
med bl.a. BRIAN ENO, VETIVER, THE FAINT og CARIBOU. Som soloartist derimot
har det gått noe saktere i svingene, og Natural Selections er kun hans andre album
under eget navn. Til tider komplekst og utfordrende, men alltid med spor av storheter
som THE BEATLES, BRIAN WILSON og XTC tett opptil overflaten. Også på LP.
http://www.home-tapes.com/Hometapes/Brad_Laner.html
THE ACACIA STRAIN
WORMWOOD
Prosthetic
10088CD
http://www.myspace.com/theacaciastrain
CD
0656191008822
Femte album fra Massachusetts-mammutene THE ACACIA STRAIN (og deres fjerde
på Prosthetic) er lett bandets mest dynamiske, fokuserte og knusende til dags dato.
Bandet har i senere tid turnert med bl.a. GALLOWS (som co-headliner), TERROR og
EVERY TIME I DIE, og de har hevdet seg bra blant disse. Dette albumet er produsert av
CHRIS ”ZEUSS” HARRIS, som tidligere har jobbet med bl.a. HATEBREED, CHIMAIRA,
SHADOWS FALL og ALL THAT REMAINS. Bandet gjestes til overmål av vokalistene
JAMEY JASTA (HATEBREED), BRUCE LEPAGE (100 DEMONS) og KYLE CHARD
(BORN LOW). Kall det deathcore, eller bare kall det total utblåsning. Dersom du liker
metallen din tung, rå, sinna og rifftung, er Wormwood albumet for deg!
8.5/10 TERRORIZER 8/10 METAL ASSAULT 8/10 ROCK SOUND
JAMAICA
JAMAICA NO PROBLEM
V2/Cooperative
VVR 741160
0602527411606
CD
Den franske duoen JAMAICA spilte inn debutalbumet Jamaica No Problem med hjelp
fra kompisene XAVIER DE ROSNAY (JUSTICE) og DAFT PUNK-samarbeidspartner
PETER FRANCO. Resultatet er et album med 11 flotte dansbare poplåter som glir
rett inn i samlingen mellom PHOENIX og anerikansk klassisk pop som THE KNACK
og STEVE MILLER.
4/5 MOJO
Sjekk en av årets mest sjarmerende musikkvideoer her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMA7pGM4PQ
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GOLDMUND
FAMOUS PLACES
Western Vinyl
WV 77
0656605461120
CD
Cinematisk pianobasert album fra Bostons KEITH KENNIFF aka GOLDMUND
(også kjent som HELIOS). Goldmunds musikk henter elementer fra klassisk
amerikansk folk, såvel som ERIC SATIE og folk som PHILIP GLASS og MAX
RICHTER. Kenniffs musikk er veldig mye brukt i filmer og dokumentarer f.eks.
av BBC, og Famous Places er rent ut sagt et fantastisk album i sin sjanger.
http://www.myspace.com/goldmundmusic
MINUS THE BEAR
OMNI
V2/Cooperative
VVR 745965
0602527459653
CD
Fjerde album fra Seattle-bandet MINUS THE BEAR, produsert av Grammy-vinner
JOE CHICCARELLI (MY MORNING JACKET, THE RACONTEURS, THE SHINS).
Laidback og lekker småeksperimentell indiepoprock som fans av SPOON,
PETER GABRIEL og 70-talls yachtrock fort kan finne på å like svært så godt.
8.5/10 EVERYVIEW 7.9/10 PASTE MAGAZINE 7/10 POPMATTERS
http://www.myspace.com/minusthebear
DAVID DONDERO
# ZERO WITH A BULLET
Affairs of the Heart
951552
4047179515528
CD
Kult-folkeren DAVID DONDERO nevner TOWNES VAN ZANDT som sin største
influens, mens CONOR OBERST lister DONDERO som en av sine, og hva er da
mer naturlig enn at Donderos musikk befinner seg et sted midt i mellom der. # Zero
With a Bullet er hans syvende album, og det plasserer seg fjellstøtt i mannens
sterke diskografi.
“…there are moments of great wit and wildness on #Zero with a Bullet that
suggest a newfound comfort with his cult status.” 4/5 ALLMUSIC
http://www.myspace.com/davedondero
MINISTRY
MIXXXES OF THE MOLÉ
13th Planet
THP 017
0884860028820
CD
Mixxxes Of The Molé er et album med remixer av MINISTRYs 2004-album Houses
of the Molé, som var det første i AL JOURGENSENs Trilogy of Terror, med tekster
som leverte spydige spydkast mot Bush-administrasjonen og Gulfkrigen.
Samtlige spor er re-innspilt, remixxxet og remastret, og serveres i en spicy digipack.
www.ministrymusic.org
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BIGELF
CLOSER TO DOOM
Powerage
PAGE 010CD
CD
0803341325128
Nyutgivelse av BIGELFs debut-EP, nå utøket med 8 (!) bonusspor. I tillegg til den
originale utgivelsen fra 1998, får vi her både demo-snadder, en liveinnspilling
+ studiolåta Theme One. Snadder for alle fans av deilig prog, fra bandet som nylig
opptrådte sammen med OPETH og DREAM THEATER på Progressive Nationturnéen, og som nylig ble nominert av Classic Rock Magazine til ”årets album”
for deres nyeste album, Cheat The Gallows (PAGE 008CD).
TERRY BROCK
DIAMOND BLUE
Frontiers
FRCD 475
CD
8024391047521
Andre soloalbum fra TERRY BROCK, som på kort tid har seilt opp som en favoritt innen
melodisk rock. Han gjorde nettopp sin debut som GIANT-vokalist, på deres seneste album,
Promise Land, til stor suksess hos presse og fans, og han har nettopp gått tilbake til sitt
gamle band, AOR-legendene STRANGEWAYS, der han i sin tid først skapte seg et navn.
Og, bare for å virkelig bevise at han ikke er i stand til å sitte stille lenge av gangen, mellom
innspillingene av albumene med disse to bandene har han også levert et bunnsolid album i
eget navn, i samarbeid med MIKE SLAMER. De to har allerede samarbeidet på hyllede album
med SEVENTH KEY samt SLAMER-albumet Nowhere Land, og på Diamond Blue overgår de
seg selv på alle vis. Strålende låtskriving, gnistrende gitarspill, og en av de beste stemmene
innen genren pr dags dato. 89/100 POWER OF METAL 88/100 LORDS OF METAL 4.5/5 ROCK EYEZ
THREE MINUTE MADNESS
DISGRACEFUL
Supernova
SUPERCD 006
7330612060066
CD
THREE MINUTE MADNESS leverer musikk som føles både i magen og i hjertet,
Met ett bein i 90-tallets Seattle og det andre i kalde Umeå har 3MM meislet fram et
sound som funker hvor som helst, når som helst. Det hele toppes med en vokalist
i verdensklasse. Tenk en krysning mellom GUNS N’ROSES, SOUNDGARDEN
og FOO FIGHTERS, og du er ikke langt unna!
http://www.myspace.com/threeminutemadness
TRUMANS WATER
O ZETA ZUNIS
Asthmatic Kitty
AKR 073LP
0656605607313
LP
TRUMANS WATER har holdt det gående siden 1992 med sin CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART-take av klassisk indierock. Her med nytt album på Asthmatic Kitty.
Limitert til 1000 ex.
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NO AGE
GLITTER
Sub Pop
SP 904
12”
0098787090413
Som oppvarming til det kommende NO AGE-albumet, Everything in Between, som slippes
27. september, slipper Sub Pop singlen Glitter i to versjoner.
Tolvtommerversjonen har de eksklusive B-sidene In Rebound og Vision II.
NO AGE
GLITTER
Sub Pop
SP 899
7”
0098787089974
Som oppvarming til det kommende NO AGE-albumet, Everything in Between, som slippes
27. september, slipper Sub Pop singlen Glitter i to versjoner.
Syvtommerversjonen har den eksklusive B-siden Inflorescence.
THE VASELINES
SEX WITH AN X
Sub Pop
SP 901
7”
0098787090178
Halvlegendariske THE VASELINES kommer med nytt album, Sex With an X, 13. september,
det første siden 1989s Dum Dum, og faktisk kun deres andre studioalbum.
Før den tid er det tid for å kose seg med singlen med samme navn som det kommende albumet,
samt B-siden Roaster, en låt som selvsagt er eksklusiv for denne syvtommeren.
MIRAH
GONE ARE ALL THE DAYS
K Records
KLP 222LP
12”
0789856122219
12-tommer fra vår venninne MIRAH med låta Gone Are all the Days fra fjorårets (a)spera i discomix,
intrumentalversjon, Hooliganship Mix, og a capella-versjon.
ZOLA JESUS
STRIDULUM II
Souterrain
SOU 016LP
0673790026378
LP
Den strålende ZOLA JESUS også på LP.
S. CAREY
ALL WE GROW
Jagjaguwar
JAG 181LP
0656605218113
LP
BON IVER-trommis også på LP.
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FORHÅND 30. AUGUST
NYHETER UKE 34 - 2010
PHILIP SELWAY
FAMILIAL
Bella Union
BELLADIG 250
CD
0602527492971
Tracklist: In Gratitude For This Magnificent Day
I’m A Hummingbird
The Morning
Baby Loves Me
Spectacular Girl
What I Have To Offer
This Is Where It Gets Good
After The Earthquake
Oh So Lovely
The Man
Looking Up
That’s Not Her Way
I Like The Way This Is Going
Mystery Of Life
PHILIP SELWAY of Radiohead releases his debut solo album – FAMILIAL on BELLA UNION
“Familial” is a collection of sublimely fragile, haunting and heartfelt songs that will surprise
many, and not only because drummers traditionally don’t do this kind of thing. “Familial” is so
persuasively good, it sounds like Selway has always been a singer-songwriter. The seeds
of Selway’s solo album were to a degree planted back in 2001 when Neil Finn (of Crowded
House and solo fame) organised an impromptu gathering of talent, including Johnny Marr,
Eddie Vedder, Lisa Germano, former Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Selway, in aid of charity. The resulting album - “7 Worlds Collide”
- was credited to Neil Finn and Friends, but when he revived the project in 2008 the singing/
songwriting was divided among the ranks, which also now included members of Wilco. As the
ensemble beavered away on three floors of Finn’s Auckland studio, Philip came up with “The
Ties That Bind Us”, with which he made his singing debut (as a lead vocalist), in Auckland
in January, 2009. That song, and an earlier number, “The Witching Hour”, were recorded
for 7WC’s “The Sun Came Out” album, released in August of that year. Back home, Selway
asked Courtyard Studios’ resident engineer and producer Ian Davenport to help produce
the forthcoming sessions. Then Selway invited Germano, Steinberg, Wilco drummer Glenn
Kotche and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Sansone to come and make the record with him.
Yet despite the rock pedigree on show, Familial is as far from a rock record as you’ll get. But
neither are its ballads defined by folk, but something much wider and more contemporary.
Curiously, there’s very little defined drums on the record, with more percussive loops/textures.
Sometimes the beats and instrumental colours are so subtle, it sounds like the acoustic air
in the room is setting the mood. It leaves space for the lyrics, which clearly come from the
most intimate of places…4/5 MOJO
FORHÅND 6. SEPTEMBER
INTERPOL
INTERPOL
Soft Limit/Cooperative
VVR 747029
CD
0602527470290
Tracklist: INTERPOL RELEASE NEW STUDIO ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 13TH THROUGH THEIR
NEWLY FORMED LABEL, SOFT LIMIT
Interpol will release their fourth, self-titled, studio record on September 13th through their own
newly formed label, Soft Limit. The New York-based band announced the news of the album
to fans on their website last week.
The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, produced by Interpol, and mixed
with Alan Moulder at Assault and Battery, London. The band will be touring in North America
this summer and in the UK and Europe later in the year.
For the release of this record, the band are going back to their independent roots by releasing the album on their own, newly formed label, Soft Limit, licensed to Cooperative Music
throughout the world - excluding North and South America.
The following was posted on their website recently:
“The month of September; summer ends, classes begin. The coming of a new season is in
the air as autumn approaches. A time of year when the natural world slips into a slumber, and
Interpol releases it’s fourth studio recording. The self titled, self produced, long-player will be
available world wide in mid September. We can’t wait to share our new effort with all of you
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FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
BLACK MOUNTAIN
WILDERNESS HEART
Jagjauwar
JAG 175 / JAG 175LP
0656605217529 / 0656605217512
CD/LP
Wilderness Heart, the new album by Black Mountain, is packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound
with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more. This is arguably the band’s tightest, most concentrated venture, but there’s still plenty of raw rock energy at work. “It’s our most metal and most folk oriented record
so far,”McBean says. “I’m not gonna say it’s our best record or the album that we always dreamt of making ‘cause
that’s what everyone says. It’s all about where we were at the time the machines were rolling. You can’t control the
electricity or how your limbs were moving that day. You have to erase the visions and just go along for the ride.”
A little over a year after releasing In The Future, their critically and commercially celebrated sophomore effort, Black
Mountain started building Wilderness Heart on the west coast of America.With Randall Dunn at the helm (Sunn
O))), Boris), London Bridge Studios in Seattle saw a portion of the construction with songs “Old Fangs,” “Let Spirits
Ride,” and title track “Wilderness Heart” among others. The preponderance of recording was held with D. Sardy in
Los Angeles at Sunset Sound, which has captured tracks from The Doors, Ringo Starr, the Rolling Stones, and
more. L.A. – with its tacos and sunsets, starlets and hills and post-Deco kitsch – was a considerable inspiration.
“Just being under the influence of one’s surroundings, as we were while recording in L.A., had a tremendous impact
on the process and the way we play. Consequently, the LA sessions have a free and summery vibe.
The Seattle sessions, made in the grey, rainy environs that we’re used to up there, have a chillier,
more claustrophobic feeling,”Wells explains.
Tracklist: The Hair Song
Old Fangs
Radiant Hearts
Rollercoaster
Let Spirits Ride
Buried By The Blues
The Way To Gone
Wilderness Heart
The Space of Your Mind
Sadie
“It’s a Black Mountain pop record, which is to say it’s nothing like pop at all,”Wells says. “This was the fastest record
we’ve ever made.We’re used to spending a lot of time deliberating over the songs and spacing out recording sessions over years. Start to finish, this album was made in four months, which is something like a miracle for us.We’ve
never worked with producers before and that was a challenge; for us to let go and let two outsiders into the process,
D. Sardy and Randall Dunn – it took some growing for us to be truly open, but this album is all the better for it.”
The band cites a slew of disparate influences – New Order, King Crimson, Studio 54, Alex Chilton, sunshine,
Janis Joplin, Please Kill Me, Shirley Collins, Mickey Newbury, jalapeño salsa, Night of The Hunter, Cactus Taqueria, Funky16 Corners podcasts, DennisWilson, the house blowing up in the desert at the end of Zabriskie Point –
but, as Schmidt points out, “Who knows how these things connect with the holistic mix of often dissonant forces
that become Black Mountain?”
Indeed: Listen and find out.
FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
WEEZER
HURLEY
Epitaph
EPIT 72312
8714092713121
CD
Weezer return to their indie rock roots on Hurley, their first release on Epitaph and the start
of a new chapter in the band’s storied career. In many ways, Weezer have always been the
unlikeliest of pop-rock bands, earning major radio and video play for leftfield singles like
“Undone – The Sweater Song” and “Buddy Holly,” songs that hardly seem calculated to
become radio hits.
Tracklist: 1. Memories - 3:16
2. Ruling Me - 3:30
3. Trainwrecks - 3:21
4. Unspoken - 3:01
5. Where’s My Sex? - 3:28
6. Run Away - 2:55
7. Hang On - 3:33
8. Smart Girls - 3:11
9. Brave New World - 3:57
10. Time Flies - 4:04
11. All My Friends Are Insects - 1:53
(Deluxe CD)
12. Viva La Vida - 4:06 (Deluxe CD)
13. I Want To Be Something - 2:56
(Deluxe CD)
14. Represent - 4:13 (Deluxe CD)
It is exactly this “uncalculated” quality that the band returns to on their eighth album. Hurley is as warm and embracing as the glowing smile on (“Lost”) actor Jorge Garcia’s face
that graces the cover, as ragged and endearing as fan favorite Pinkerton, as bold and
hooky and open as “Pork and Beans.” In other words, Hurley is in the classic tradition
of the best Weezer albums, clever and confessional and quirky and hugely sing-along.
“Hurley” will be first available as a Limited Deluxe Edition CD including 4 exclusive tracks.
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FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
MAVIS STAPLES
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Anti
EPIT 70762
CD
8714092707625
Tracklist: 1. You Don’t Knock
2. You Are Not Alone
3. Downward Road
4. In Christ There is No East and West
5. Creep Along, Moses
6. Losing You
7. I Belong to the Band
8. Last Train
9. Only the Lord Knows
10. Wrote A Song for Everyone
11. We’re Gonna Make It
12. Wonderful Savior
13. Too Close To Heaven / I’m On My
Way to Heaven Anyhow
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and soul/gospel legend Mavis Staples delivers more wall-to-wall
joy on her triumphant new Anti- album, You Are Not Alone (September 14), than any other
release you’re likely to hear this year.
Produced by fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s studio The Loft, the intimate and textured production showcases the iconic singer at her most powerful and fervent. You Are Not
Alone mixes traditional gospel numbers with two new songs written for Mavis by Tweedy,
plus her unique interpretations of songs by Pops Staples, Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint,
John Fogerty, Rev. Gary Davis and Little Milton.
The album features Mavis’s touring band of the last three years: Rick Holmstrom, guitar,
vocals; Jeff Turmes, bass, vocals; Stephen Hodges, drums; Donny Gerrard, background
vocals; plus special guests Jeff Tweedy on guitars, bass, and vocals; Wilco’s Patrick Sansone, keys, vibes; Mark Greenberg, vibes, keys; with additional background vocals by
frequent Neko Case collaborators Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor, and Richard Parenti.
You Are Not Alone is Mavis’s second studio release for Anti. It follows her 2007 critical
triumph, We’ll Never Turn Back, produced by Ry Cooder, which revisited the great songs of
the civil rights era and prompted her hometown paper The Chicago Sun-Times to hail her as
“an American treasure.” In 2008, Anti- issued a rapturously received live album, Live: Hope
at the Hideout, which was named one of the Best Live CDs of All Time by Amazon.com’s
editors and earned Mavis her first Grammy-nomination as a solo artist.
Mavis Staples is enjoying a major career resurgence, having become a festival favorite in
recent years. This summer she will play Lollapalooza on August 6, and the Wilco-curated
Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCa on August 14 with additional US and European tour
dates to be announced soon.
FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
UNDERWORLD
BARKING
Cooking Vinyl
UWR 0003-2 / UWR 0003-5 / UWR 0003-1
CD/CD+DVD/2LP
0711297983227 / 0711297983258 / 0711297983210
Tracklist: Bird 1
Always Loved A Film
Scribble
Hamburg Hotel
Grace
Between Stars
Diamond Jigsaw
Moon In Water
Louisiana Barking is the title of Underworld’s first album in three years, and their first to be constructed
with a brilliant cast of co-conspirators. All the tracks were written by the band in their Essex
studio before being given to handpicked studio heads from across the whole spectrum of
dance music to add some of their style and creativity to the band’s raw material. The result
is a pimped-up Underworld record and their finest collection of songs in over a decade.
From the first undulating pulses of submariner bass, the first vocals soft like a whisper in the
ear - and the first fizz of hi-hats that force along the pace, the sound is unmistakably Underworld. Electronics wrapped effortlessly around songs; streams of consciousness lyrics that
form indelible images; a perfectly balanced mix of melody and rhythm. Underworld’s sixth
studio album is a thundering return to form, although it’s fair to say that the band responsible
have never really been below par.
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FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
JUNIP (CD/2LP)
FIELDS
City Slang
SLANG 747888 / SLANG 0680007
0602527478883 / 4250506800079
CD/LP
Perhaps it’s like taking a hammer to a pin, but let’s get this out of the way right now: Junip is a
band, a three piece from Gothenburg whose cosmopolitan line-up features Tobias Winterkorn
(keyboards), Elias Araya (drums) and Jose Gonzales (vocals & guitar). You’ll be familiar with
the latter from his solo work, but Junip have existed since 1999, maybe even 1998. It’s so long,
frankly, that none of them are quite sure. “FIELDS”, however, is the album that they’ve been
itching to make ever since. The story that leads to its 2010 release is one of patience and perfectionism, frustration and persistence, sheer bloody-mindedness, inspiration and success.
Gonzales and Araya have been playing together since they were 14. Their love of hardcore led
them to form Renascence, (later called Sweet Little Sinister), and they first encountered Winterkorn at shows in Gothenburg in the mid ‘90s. “We talked about music that wasn’t hardcore
music,” Winterkorn recalls. “I think we were all fed up and talked about doing something new.”
“Our feeling was that we could do something more interesting with a setting that was more typical of the ‘60s and 70s’,” “By then in Sweden,” Gonzalez relates, “it felt like everyone else was
into Americana and country with steel stringed guitars,” he continues. “We had nylon strings and
a Moog.” Gonzales elaborates, listing the likes of Caetano Veloso’s “Irene”, Curtis Mayfield’s
“Move On Up”, Nico’s “The Fairest Of The Seasons” or Milton Nascimento’s “Travessia” as current inspirations.
Finally, when duties for Gonzales’ 2007 ‘In Our Nature’ album were complete, Junip was at
last able to become the priority that they had always meant it to be. Produced by the band and
mixed by Don Alsterberg, who also helped with recording – “we know what we like, but we’re
neither the best recording engineers nor the best musicians,” Gonzales confesses – “FIELDS”
proves that every second of its protracted gestation has been worth the wait. Ten years in the
making, “FIELDS” is an almost impossibly perfect debut album that proves good things always
come to those who wait…
Tracklist: FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
THE VASELINES
SEX WITH AN X
Sub Pop
SPCD 889 / SP 809
CD/LP
0098787088922 / 0098787088915
Tracklist: Ruined
Sex with an X
The Devil’s Inside Me
Such a Fool
Turning It On
Overweight But Over You
Poison Pen
I Hate the ‘80s
Mouth to Mouth
Whitechapel
My God’s Bigger than Your God
Exit The Vaselines
Formed in Glasgow in 1987, The Vaselines released two singles and one album (Dum Dum on
the 53rd and 3rd label) and then split up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released).
They might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle.
Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation
of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto. Founding members Eugene
Kelly and Frances McKee remained musically active between then and now: the former with
Captain America aka Eugenius and finally as a solo artist; McKee with Painkillers and Suckle.
Eugene and Frances also collaborated intermittently in the intervening years and, in 2008,
toured America (including a stand-out appearance at Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary festival,
SP20), Brazil and Japan and played some UK festivals. The Vaselines “re-connected” with
wildly appreciative audiences who had blinked and missed them the first time round. Buoyed
by the success of their live return, the two punk rock chums decided to go back into the studio.
The new Vaselines album, Sex with an X, was recorded outside Manchester at the Analogue Catalogue studio in Mossley with Julie McLarnon engineering and produced by Jamie
Watson (who also produced that first album Dum Dum). The Vaselines ca. 2010 is Eugene
and Frances with guest musicians Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea from Belle & Sebastian on
guitar and bass, and Michael McGaughrin from the 1990s on drums. It may have taken The
Vaselines 20 years to get round to making this baby, but it was worth the wait—bringing their
solo careers to a climax. The irony has not been lost. Who says indie music can’t be fun? No
hand-wringing on these tracks—just good clean smut with a twist of bitter. The Vaselines will
tour the US in October, 2010.
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FORHÅND 13. SEPTEMBER
OF MONTREAL
FALSE PRIEST
Polyvinyl
PRC 200-2 / PRC 200-1
CD/LP
0644110020024 / 0644110020017
Tracklist: 1. I Feel Ya’ Strutter
2. Our Riotous Defects
3. Coquet Coquette
4. Godly Intersex
5. Enemy Gene
6. Hydra Fancies
7. Like a Tourist
8. Sex Karma
9. Girl Named Hello
10. Famine Affair
11. Casualty of You
12. Around the Way
13. You Do Mutilate?
of Montreal’s critical breakthrough Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? catapulted the
band to the upper echelon of indie stardom. The album landed on over 30 major year-end lists
including Paste, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Associated Press, and sold over 100,000 copies.
False Priest, of Montreal’s newest full-length, promises to surpass such lofty benchmarks.
Teaming up with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Brion (Kanye West, Fiona Apple),
of Montreal’s mastermind Kevin Barnes traveled to famed Ocean Way Recording (Michael
Jackson, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra) to record False Priest, his self-professed masterpiece.
As discussed in features in Rolling Stone, SPIN, Under the Radar and Pitchfork, False Priest
is speakerrattling heavy on the low end and features appearances by Janelle Monáe and
Solange Knowles (Beyoncé’s sister). The album also marks the return of organic instruments
as live drums, strings and pianos eschew the midi sounds and sequencers of previous albums.
The album features intricate packaging – a 20-page booklet of new paintings from David
Barnes and Gemini. Tactics. of Montreal’s False Priest is one of fall’s most anticipated albums.
• CD digipak includes 20-page booklet and rarity tracks.
• 2xLP deluxe edition is on 180-gram vinyl and includes large format 20-page book
FORHÅND 27. SEPTEMBER
NO AGE
EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
Sub Pop
SPCD 892 / SP 892
CD/LP
0098787089226 / 0098787089219
Tracklist: 1. Life Prowler
2. Glitter
3. Fever Dreaming
4. Depletion
5. Common Heat
6. Skinned
7. Katerpillar
8. Valley Hump Crash
9. Sorts
10. Dusted
11. Positive Amputation
12. Shed and Transcend
13. Chem Trails
Recorded in Los Angeles from the end of 2009 and into 2010, Everything in Between is the
new album from No Age, the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall.
They emerged from former band Wives in 2005, to become No Age, worldwide glowing
talismans for the DIY art-punk scene in LA, now famously known as having its epicenter
at The Smell, a clubhouse where art-life/music-life welded and inspired a creative movement
and attitude which has fertilized a purple patch of likeminded punkers and artists around the
globe. Since the release of Weirdo Rippers, their 2007 debut album (on FatCat Records),
through Nouns, the band’s 2008 follow-up on Sub Pop, and beyond, No Age has earned
enthusiastic notice from an incredibly wide array of sources; from Pitchfork to The New
Yorker (“Let It Rip,” Nov. 19, 2007), and found themselves unlikely Grammy nominees (for
“Best Recording Packaging” in 2008). No Age have risen from sweaty basement shows and
art galleries to having their songs blast off the walls of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
to performing at unconventional spaces both close to home and abroad.
And Everything in Between is a bold step in their creative evolution. It is a culmination of
reflecting upon life’s ruptures and triumphs; the process of moving through these moments
banged and bruised, yet better off for the wear and tear. They’ve pushed themselves in
challenging and different directions, deconstructing their weird-out pop songs while still
maintaining their original aesthetic and intent. Everything in Between sees No Age expand
on the emotional force at the core of their catchy song-writing through tone, structure, noise,
and samples. And, it’s their best record yet.
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