CD CD/LP CD+DVD

NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
andre williams & the sadies
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/andre-williams-p5830
night & day
Yep Roc
YEP 2269 / YEP 2269LP
0634457226920 / 0634457226913
CD/LP
Foruten å ha skaffet seg verdens tøffeste backingband, THE SADIES,
har R&B-veteranen ANDRE WILLIAMS hanket inn folk som (produsent)
JON SPENCER og THE MEKONS’ JON LANGFORD på overskuddsprosjektet Night & Day. Et rått, umiddelbart og ærlig album i grenseland
mellom garasjerock, americana og klassisk R&B. Anbefales!
Andre Williams spiller for øvrig på The Crossroad Club i Oslo på
selveste 17. mai.
“The fact that Andre could overcome illness, addiction and legal problems to
make this new album with Canada’s country ambassadors The Sadies, a record
so raw, immediate, and powerful, speaks volumes to this great man’s talents.
It was an honor to once again work alongside Mr. Williams.” Jon Spencer
DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA
PANDORAS PINATA
Candlelight
CANDLE 362CD / CANDLE 363SE
0803341363229 / 0803341363236
CD
Tredje album ut fra de svenske jazz-/prog-metallerne i DIABLO SWING
ORCHESTRA. Pandoras Pinata slippes i vanlig jewelcase samt en limitert
digibook-utgave og inneholder 11 spor i god, hedensk ånd.
Bandnavnet sier også noe om orkesterets lydbilde hvor maricahi- og
spaghetti western-inspirasjonene er tydelige.
For fans av THERION, EPICA og lignende.
“Simply, Diablo Swing Orchestra and their Pandora’s Pinata is immensely creative
and devastatingly entertaining. Marvelous, a real joy to experience. Easily among
my top ten albums of this year. Strongly recommended.” 5/5 DANGERDOG.COM
http://www.thrashhits.com/2012/04/album-diablo-swing-orchestra-pandoras-pinata/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Diablo-Swing-Orchestra/61680950315
orange goblin
eulogy for the damned
Candlelight
CANDLE 360SE
0803341362765
CD+DVD
CD+DVD-utgave av ORANGE GOBLINs kritikerroste Eulogy For the
Damned. CD-en innholder BLACK SABBATH-coveren Symptom of the
Universe som bonusspor, mens DVD-en inneholder musikkvideo, intervju,
”behind the scenes” og liveopptak.
10/10 METAL ASSAULT 5/5 ONE METAL 9/10 METAL HAMMER
4/5 KERRANG 4/5 TERRORIZER 8/10 METAL REVIEW
4/5 SPUTNIK MUSIC 4/5 METAL UNDERGROUND
http://youtu.be/kHxiouKy8Ho
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
philm
harmonic
Ipecac
IPC 137
CD
0689230013723
PHILM ledes av DAVE LOMBARDO fra SLAYER som på Harmonic har fått med seg
WAR-bassisten PANCHO TOMASELLI og GARY NESTLER fra CIVIL DEFIANCE. Vi lar
Lombardo forklare: “When people hear about my involvement in Philm, they automatically
assume that it will compare to Slayer’s sound. They couldn’t be more different. Philm’s
sound is almost bi-polar - very unexpected of something that I would be so passionate
about, and be a part of. I have scaled down my drum set to a four-piece, reminiscent to
the drummers of the late 60’s that influenced me. Each song is unique in itself, I like to
refer to it as ‘rhythmic emotion.’ It’s almost like taking all the heavy songs of the 60’s and
bringing that era to a modern plateau, then blending them with the modern trance and
psychedelic sounds of today.” Mer info her: https://www.facebook.com/PHILMOfficial
havok
poiNt of no return ep
Candlelight
CANDLE 356CD
0803341361768
CD
EP fra det amerikanske trash metal-orkesteret HAVOK som slippes i forbindelse med
bandets Europa-turné som startet 5. mai. JAMES MURPHY fra DEATH har produsert
EP-en som inneholder to nye låter, SEPULTURA-coveren Arise, SLAYER-coveren
Post Mortem/Raining Blood, samt videoer til låtene Covering Fire og D.O.A..
D.O.A.-videoen: http://youtu.be/K4qLUOIHMH0
http://havokband.com/
birthmark
antibodies
Polyvinyl
PRC 234-2 / PRC 234-1
CD/LP
0644110023421 / 0644110023414
BIRTHMARK er NATE KINSELLA, kjent fra JOAN OF ARC og MAKE BELIEVE,
og fetter til TIM og MIKE KINSELLA. Til sammen må de være den mest aktive
musikkfamilien i Midtvesten med en rekke band (CAP’N JAZZ, AMERICAN
FOOTBALL, OWEN, OWLS etc.) og utgivelser på merittlisten.
Antibodies er dog Nates soloprosjekt og han spiller alle instrumenter selv - cello,
trommer, fiolin og klarinett inkludert. Avant-/postrock.
http://www.joanfrc.com/birthmark.html
boy android
walk / run / flee
Stickman
PSYCHO 75
4046661249521
CD
Storslagen indierock fra München-kvartetten BOY ANDROID på ”Motorpsycho”etiketten Stickman. Bandets sound slekter på 60-tallets Storbritannia, men innehar
også elementer fra post-punk, shoegaze og 90-tallets indiestorheter som BUILT TO
SPILL, SEBADOH og GUIDED BY VOICES, kanskje spesielt sistnevnte.
http://migratemusicnews.com/2011/07/21/listen-boy-android-run-walk-flee/
http://boyandroid.com/
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
the radiators from space
sound city beat
Chiswick
CWK 3022
0029667049023
CD
THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE regnes som Irlands første punkband og ble
dannet allerede i 1975. Bandet ga ut to album på Chiswick i 1979 før de ble
oppløst i 1981. Comebacket kom i 2006 da de ga ut album nummer tre og turnerte
med THE POGUES. Nå er Sound City Beat her, et irsk pubpunk-album som
har fått gode kritikker.
4/5 MOJO 8/10 CLASSIC ROCK 4/5 RECORD COLLECTOR 7/10 UNCUT
http://www.theradiators.tv/
bong
mana-yood-sushAi
Ritual Productions
RITE 016CD
http://bong.bandcamp.com/
5060195513292
CD
2-spors (46 minutter) doom-epos fra BONG, et band som slekter tungt på band
som SLEEP, SUNN O))) og ELECTRIC WIZARD.
“Composed of two lengthy, texturally linked pieces, BONG’s latest – the orientallyflavoured Mana-Yood-Sushai – is played out as an enchantingly spaced-out aural
pilgrimage. With strong focus on introspective atmosphere rather than outright heaviness, their hazy take on stoner doom might alienate those who prefer their Sabbath
worship a little meatier on the riff front, but it’s refreshing to see them continue
to put their own spin on the genre.” 4/5 THE SKINNY
japandroids
the house that heaven built
Polyvinyl
PRC 239-7
0644110023971
7”
Syvtommer som inneholder den fantastiske førstesinglen, The House That Heaven
Built, fra det kommende albumet Celebration Rock (PRC 238 / 1. juni).
B-siden er en cover av NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS-sporet Jack the Ripper.
Sjueren kommer på klar vinyl og er limitert til 2000 ex.
http://japandroids.com/
obits
let me dream if i want to
Sub Pop
SP 997
0098787099775
RICK FROBERGs OBITS med syvtommer hvor bandet gjør covere av MINK
DeVILLEs Let Me Dream If I Want To og THE KIDS’ The City Is Dead.
7”
http://www.obitsurl.com/
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 18. MAI
BURZUM
UMSKIPTAR
Byelobog
BYE 010CDS / BYE 010DBK
0803341362314 / 0803341362352
CD
BYE 010CDS = Jewelcase BYE 010DBK = limitert digibok
MARKETING & PROMOTION / SELLING POINTS
•
Tracklist:
1. Blodstokkinn
2. Joln
3. Alfadanz
4. Hit helga Tre
5. AEra
6. Heidr
7. Valgaldr
8. Galgvidr
9. Surtr Sunnan
10. Gullaldr
11. Nidhoggr
•
•
•
•
•
“Umskiptar” is the 10th studio album from Burzum, and follows the highly critically
acclaimed releases Belus (2010) and Fallen (2011) which put Burzum straight back
at the at the top of the chain as of one of the most innovative and creative metal
artists of our time.
“Umskiptar” is not like any of the older Burzum albums, and yet similar to all of them.
More than anything it has been inspired by scaldic poems and ancient folk music, and
yet it’s metal, but with Norse lyrics this time all taken from the famous Scandinavian
Voluspa poem.
Burzum says: “Hence I call the “Umskiptar” album scaldic metal, and also naively
hope with this to avoid having my music labelled ‘Black Metal’ anymore.”
“Umskiptar” contains both traditional metal music and more experimental metal music
as well as a traditional Burzum introduction and conclusion.
Undoubtedly will be one of the biggest black metal release of 2012
FORHÅND 18. MAI
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
One Of My Kind
Team Love
TL 50 / TL 50LP
0810430015020 / 0810430015013
CD+DVD/LP+DVD
11 new songs from Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band, plus a documentary
DVD (runtime 60 minutes) subtitled “The Story of the Mystic Valley Band”
Tracklist:
One Of My Kind 3:43
Gentleman’s Pact 3:07
Corina, Corina 3:46
Synesthete Song 4:38
Breezy 5:16
Central City 2:15
I Got The Reason #1 5:15
Phil’s Song 3:18
(Learn To Stop Time) Normal 4:16
Kodachrome 4:09
White Shoes (Reprise)
Phil Schaffart was not hired by Conor Oberst to make the film “One of My Kind.” He was hired
to make sure the guitars stayed in tune. But Phil had a video camera with him as the Mystic
Valley Band came together for the first time at Valle Místico in Tepoztlán, Mexico in January
of 2008 and so he started filming what he sensed was something special. “When I started
filming, none of us had the intentions of turning what was being shot into a film,” says Phil,
“but the things we were seeing, feeling and capturing with the music proved to be inspiring
in ways we were not prepared for.”
Later that year after touring for Conor’s self-titled Merge release the Mystic Valley Band
went back into the studio, this time at the Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, Texas where they
recorded their follow-up release, “Outer South.” All the while, Phil continued to film what was
going on with the band, capturing the year of touring, the almond orchards in Texas, the
temples and steep cliffs of Mexico and the evolution of a group of musicians that started as
not much more than an idea for a different way to make a record, and ended up being a fully
realized rock band.
Team Love is proud to release the final version of the film, “One of My Kind.” To accompany this
is an album of eleven songs compiled from the outtakes of both Mystic Valley Band sessions.
http://vimeo.com/27161271
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FORHÅND 25. MAI
millencolin
the melancholy connection
Epitaph
EPIT 72002
CD+DVD
8714092720020
Tracklist CD:
Carry You - 3:28
Out From Nowhere - 3:31
Absolute Zero - 2:44
Mind The Mice - 3:32
The Downhill Walk - 2:27
E20-Norr - 3:25
Bull By The Horns - 2:58
Junkie For Success - 3:07
Dinner Dog - 1:48
Ratboys Masterplan - 2:16
Phony Tony - 2:59
Queens Gambit - 2:41
Bowmore - 3:52
Into The Maze - 3:29
Renowned Swedish punk outfit, Millencolin, celebrate twenty years with the release of
The Melancholy Connection on May 25th. This assemblage of b-sides, a follow up to 1999’s
The Melancholy Collection, features two brand new songs and twelve rarities spanning from
their break-out album, Pennybridge Pioneers, through today. The CD is paired with a ninety
minute DVD that takes fans inside the making of Pennybridge Pioneers with never before
seen archival footage, interviews with the band and live performances.
The two new tracks hold up the classic Millencolin sound with energetic pop infused punk,
combined with driving beats, anthemic choruses and irresistible melodies that will please
diehard fans and new converts, alike.
Fans can preview a trailer for the CD/DVD bundle by going here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8o_3liGvM
Tracklist DVD:
Intro
Hollywood
Material Boy live
Duck Pond live
Recording
Hellman live
Drums
Highway Donkey live
Stop To Think live
Guitars
Right About Now live
Working Titles
A-Ten live
Vocals
Devil Me live
Penguins vocals
Penguins video shoot
Penguins And Polarbears
video
Backups
The Mayfly live
Checkmate
Pepper live
Fox video shoot
Fox video
One more
The Ballad live
Bonus
No Cigar live
Fox live
Penguins And Polarbears
live
FORHÅND 25. MAI
exitmusic
passage
Secretly Canadian
SC 254 / SC 254LP
CD/LP
0656605025421 / 0656605025414
Tracklist:
Passage
The Night
The City
White Noise
Storms
The Wanting
Stars
The Modern Age
The Cold
Sparks of Light
4/5 MOJO
Brooklyn, NY’s Exitmusic—comprised of Devon Church and Aleksa Palladino—will release
their debut album, Passage, on May 25th. Passage is a collection of newly-written songs
and some of their older tunes that received some new coats of paint. Here, the two tethers
that make up Exitmusic’s sound—one stirring atmospherics, one of grandioise and thoughtful pop—are let to bow further out than before. They are, however, also pulled into a tighter,
sharper knot at the center. There are big, emotional dynamic shifts, and a wave-crashing
momentum across the set without ever breaking a sustained feeling of tenderness.
It’s dream-pop for those of us whose dream lives are Lawrence of Arabia-epic in scope:
lulling, apocalyptic, celestial, triumphant.
Recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn with mixer Nicholas Vernhes (Dirty Projectors,
Deerhunter), Church and Palladino, along with the assistance of new bandmates drummer
Dru Prentiss and live electronics by Nicholas Shelestak, built on the chilling, beautiful aesthetic they had created as a duo when recording at home. The result is a sound that is more
powerful and more nuanced, covering broad oceans of emotional terrain. Opener and title
track “Passage” is like watching a great shifting of tides through rapid time-lapse photography, introducing new dynamics in one magnificent breath. It is a statement of intent that tears
down the Victorian boudoir gauze found on previous efforts. The ghosts are still piercing the
veil, but now they’re throwing chairs. The song begins gently, with candlelight piano plucks,
distant explosions on the horizon, aching breaths and moans. But in moments, the oceans
swell and lurch as it detonates into a shower of brilliant shrapnel.
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 25. MAI
husky
forever so
Sub Pop
SPCD 999
0098787099928
CD
8/10 UNCUT
Tracklist CD:
Tidal Wave
Fake Moustache
History’s Door
The Woods
Hunter
Dark Sea
Forever So
Animals & Freaks
Instrumental
Hundred Dollar Suit
How Do You Feel
Don’t Tell Your Mother
Farewell (in 3 Parts)
•
their debut full-length on Sub Pop Records
•
Four piece from Melbourne, Australia features front man Husky Gawenda and
keyboard player Gideon Preiss, bassist Evan Tweedie and drummer Luke Collins.
•
Recorded in a junk-filled bungalow behind Gawenda’s rented house, using borrowed
equipment.
•
Mixed by Noah Georgeson (Devandra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, The Strokes).
FORHÅND 25. MAI
king tuff
king tuff
Sub Pop
SPCD 976 / SP 976
CD/LP
0098787097627 / 0098787097610
Tracklist:
Anthem
Alone & Stoned
Keep On Movin’
Unusual World
Bad Thing
Loser’s Wall
Stranger
Baby Just Break
Stupid Superstar
Evergreen
Swamp Of Love
Hit & Run
King Tuff is the new record from King Tuff – his first for Sub Pop and his second album overall.
Was Dead, King Tuff’s 2008 debut, captured the attention of the rock underground and quickly
blew through its limited pressing (it now resides on ebay, being snatched up for hearty sums).
His gem of a new album was produced by Bobby Harlow, of The Go and Conspiracy of Owls,
and recorded during a furious two-week run in Detroit. And Bobby has the following, among
a great many other things, to say about it:
“After investigating Was Dead I realized that, with his latest offering, King Tuff’s songwriting
was stretching far beyond the thrill of the immediate dance-floor reflex and now revealed a
songwriter with a keen eye inside everyone. That was the stuff that I was interested in.
Embarrass me! I don’t give a fuck about your ex-girlfriend.
We’ve created something here. King Tuff should not be inspected or even listened to with
critical ears. Cut your ears off. Rock & Roll is meant to be blasted into your cells, penetrated,
and absorbed. It’s a visceral experience. Seek solace in solitude when you’re dead. If you
aren’t able to recognize the genius in this epic album, then you’re already dead. Kill yourself.
Or get a job. Your choice”’
Please do not really cut off your ears or kill yourself. These are rhetorical devices meant to
convey some variation on the following: King Tuff might just save your life AND your ears.
All hail the King.
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Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 [email protected] www.tubarec.com
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
CROCODILES
ENDLESS FLOWERS
Souterrain Transmissions
SOU 031 / SOU 031LP
4250506803902 / 4250506803919
CD/LP
Crocodiles have existed in various incarnations since 2008, evolving from the original core
of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell into the five-piece we see today. With two previous
albums, 2009ʼs Summer Of Hate and 2010ʼs Sleep Forever, the band garnered righteous
praise for their intoxicating blend of scuzzy, surfy, lo-fi noise pop and their thrilling live shows.
Tracklist CD:
1. Endless Flowers
2. Sunday (Psychic
Conversation #9)
3. No Black Clouds for
Dee Dee
4. Electric Death Song
5. Hung Up On A Flower
6. My Surfing Lucifer
7. Dark Alleys
8. Bubblegum Trash
9. Welcome Trouble
10. You Are Forgiven
Settling into an apartment on Berlinʼs Gaudystraße last summer, the band thought theyʼd
landed on their feet with free rehearsal space and unlimited refreshments when their neighbour, Helmut Katzenflugen, the manager of a local club, Ficken 2000, offered them a monthʼs
residency at the club. Alas, the clubʼs proprietor had fired them before they finished their first
set, so incensed was he by their “goddam racket” distracting the clubʼs naked dancers from
flirting with the clientele and parting them from their cash. But the club remained a favourite
hangout for the band during their months in Berlin it was where they befriended the local
rough boys (handy when looking for “chemical aids” to the recording process) and provided
a nocturnal incubator for an album of glorious pop nuggets that arrive cloaked in a heavy
disguise of noise and echoing weirdness.
http://soundcloud.com/souterraintransmissions/sets/crocodiles-endless-flowers-2/s-n21v6
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
SUN KIL MOON
AMONG THE LEAVES
Caldo Verde
CV 018
2CD
0634457563322
Among The Leaves is the 5th full length album by Mark Kozelek under the Sun Kil Moon
moniker. Played almost entirely on nylon string guitar, this 17-song all original album was
recorded between October 2011 and January 2012 in San Francisco. Among The Leaves
- words which caught Mark’s attention from a John Connolly novel - finds Mark relaxed,
singing playfully about his life as a musician while retaining the melancholic spirit of his 20
year catalog. Mark’s love for San Francisco and Northern California are at the heart of this
new album. “My first album (Down Colorful Hill) was released in 1992” says Kozelek, “but
creatively, I feel like I’m just beginning. The new album was written and recorded impulsively,
without second guessing.I didn’t have that kind of confidence in the past.”
Unlike Red House Painters’ epic Rollercoaster,described by Rolling Stone as “the slowest
and mopiest self revelations ever put to tape” or Sun Kil Moon’s Ghosts of the Great Highway, which Billboard Magazine called “heartbreaking,” Among The Leaves displays a more
raw and humorous side of Mark’s songwriting. Aaron Prellwitz, recording engineer of Red
House Painters and all 5 Sun Kil Moon albums describes the latest effort as “wonderfully
direct.” Kozelek curiously ties together legends Joe Frazier, Bobby Fischer and Ed Gein in
‘The Winery,’ ‘Song for Richard Collopy’ is a touching tribute to the late San Francisco guitar
repairman, and “Sunshine In Chicago” - written just before taking the
stage at a Chicago venue last year – is a funny, self deprecating poke at life on the road.
Though Among The Leaves is mostly in the solo, nylon string style of Admiral Fell Promises,
a new ensemble of players joined Mark for a portion of the record, recalling the same spirit
as April and Tiny Cities, but with a fresh, new sound
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
melvins
freak puke
Ipecac
IPC 136
CD
0689230013624
Tracklist:
1. Mr Rip Off
2. Inner Ear Rupture
3. Baby, You Won’t Weird Me Out
4. Worm Farm Waltz
5. A Growing Disgust
6. Leon vs. The Revolution
7. Holy Barbarian
8. Freak Puke
9. Let Me Roll It
10. Tommy Goes Beserk
*The Melvins will release a brand new studio album with the delightful title ‘Freak Puke’
on June 5 via Ipecac Recordings.
*Nothing ever stays entirely in one place very long around the Melvins, and the constantly
evolving underground hard rock geniuses have undergone a temporary lineup and name
change for the recording of ‘Freak Puke.’
While their last three albums featured a two-drummer, four-piece roster augmented by
Big Business members Jared Warren and Coady Willis, the new record finds the group
in a more familiar three-piece setting.
Founding guitarist / singer Buzz Osbourne and his longtime drumming partner Dale Crover
will be joined by bassist Trevor Dunn for this record, and the trio will operate under the name
Melvins Lite.
It will be the four-piece version of the Melvins that embarks on their upcoming spring
co-headlining tour with Unsane.
FORHÅND 1. JUNI
japandroids
celebration rock
Polyvinyl
PRC 238-2 / PRC 238-1
0644110023827 / 0644110023810
CD/LP
Celebration Rock, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Post-Nothing, was recorded at
The Hive, the same Vancouver studio as Post-Nothing, with engineer Jesse Gander.
Tracklist:
1. The Nights of Wine and Roses
2. Fire’s Highway
3. Evil’s Sway
4. For the Love of Ivy
5. Adrenaline Nightshift
6. Younger Us
7. The House That Heaven Built
8. Continuous Thunder
Japandroids kept the ground rules they’ve always had for recording: no double-tracking
guitars and no overdubs unless they’re absolutely necessary. The raw energy captured on
Celebration Rock is well-balanced with a much bigger sound and showcases the band’s
growth as songwriters. Songs like “Evil’s Sway” and “The House That Heaven Built” prove
the Vancouver duo has more than staying power with this sophomore release.
The long-awaited, highly anticipated Celebration Rock will be available on June 1st.
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FORHÅND 1. JUNI
DIVERSE ARTISTER
make it your sound, make it your scene
vanguard records & the 1960s musical revolution
Vanguard
VANBOX 14
0029667000925
4CD
Vanguard was one of the most influential record labels of the 1960s and early 70s, founded in 1950
by Seymour and Maynard Solomon. It established itself releasing some of the very best recordings in
the jazz, classical and folk fields. It captured the fledgling folk revival scene as it emerged in the late
1950s, releasing albums by such leading folk figures as Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richard &
Mimi Fariña, Ian & Sylvia, the Weavers, the Rooftop Singers, John Fahey, Odetta, Jerry Jeff Walker,
Doc Watson, Hedy West, Patrick Sky and Eric Andersen. It also issued LPs by blues artists Big
Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy, Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt and Junior Wells among others.
As the hippie era and progressive trends developed Country Joe & The Fish, Circus Maximus,
Sandy Bull, the Serpent Power and the Frost were signed.
“Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene” examines how Vanguard mirrored all of these musical
styles and social changes during the 1960s musical revolution. It also relates how it felt to be a British
fan of the label: the initially hard-to-find imports, the later licensing deals with Top Rank and Fontana,
and, finally, domestic releases on a proper Vanguard Records UK imprint.
The box comprises 4 CDs with 83 tracks. There is an introduction by acclaimed writer Sam Charters
(The Country Blues) and record producer (of Country Joe & The Fish, the Frost, Lightnin’ Hopkins
and the Chicago/The Blues Today! series).
The booklet accompanying the boxset contains many outstanding images including not only album
artwork but numerous 60s ads, magazines covers, sales flyers and band photos, many previously
unseen or not seen for 40+ years. There is a previously unreleased-on-CD Bob Dylan Newport
performance of ‘North Country Blues’ and also a rare instrumental, orchestral version of ‘Janis’
(Country Joe’s song for Janis Joplin), only available previously as the B-side of a very hard-to-find
45rpm Vanguard single.
FORHÅND 8. JUNI
welcome wagon
precious remedies against satan’s devices
Asthmatic Kitty
AKR 092 / AKR 092LP
0656605609225 / 0656605609218
CD/LP
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, The Welcome Wagon’s second fulllength,
is an apt sequel to their critically acclaimed 2008 debut, Welcome to the Welcome Wagon.
Here, Vito and Monique Auito simply throw those welcoming arms open wider, inviting
the listener to join them for 51 minutes of church.
Tracklist:
1. I’m Not Fine
2. My God, My God, Parts 1 & 2
3. I Know That My Redeemer Lives
4. Rice and Beans (But No Beans)
5. High
6. Remedy
7. Would You Come And See Me In New York
8. My Best Days, Parts 1 & 2
9. Lo He Comes With Clouds Descending 10. Draw Nigh
11. The Strife Is O’er
12. God Be With You Til We Meet Again
13. Nature’s Goodnight
Side 4, LP only:
14. Oh Christ, Our Hope
15. Up On a Mountain (Demo)
16. I Am Not Skilled To Understand
17. There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood
Those who enjoyed the Welcome Wagon’s debut album will notice their distinct sound again
here – loose, jangly, comfortable, a gathering of friends making music together. It’s at times
jaunty and toe-tapping, at others quietly contemplative, an alt-folk gem that sounds very much
like it comes out of the Asthmatic Kitty camp. But while the first album was recorded over the
course of eight years in various venues, this one was done in five days at the library of an
old rectory in Brooklyn. And while recording artist and AK co-owner Sufjan Stevens produced
WW’s first album, he’s less noticeable on this collection, sticking to some banjo, piano, and
choir singing. Alexander Foote, who also plays guitars, organ, autoharp, percussion, and some
piano, produced the record. And Welcome Wagon friends and internet sensations
The Gregory Brothers fill in the choir.
Vito says his songwriting is informed by his work as senior pastor at Resurrection Presbyterian
Church in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. “A pastor is supposed to care for people, to
help them to love God, to engage with their lives and their joys and their sorrows,” he says.
“I’m only interested in writing music that will speak to that. I’m writing as a pastor, wanting
these songs to speak God’s truth into those situations.”
Precious Remedies for everyone
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FORHÅND 8. JUNI
jaill
traps
Sub Pop
SPCD 994 / SP 994
CD/LP
0098787099423 / 0098787099416
Tracklist:
Waste A Lot Of Things
Everyone’s A Bitch
Perfect Ten
Horrible Things (Make Pretty Songs)
I’m Home
House With Haunting
Madness
Million Times
Ten Teardrops
While You Reload
Stone Froze Mascot
When Jaill nonchalantly stepped into the room with 2010’s That’s How We Burn, the group
had already turned out a small catalog of self-recorded and self-released albums and EPs.
Sub Pop first heard the band on an LP bought through the mail, the cover still hot from
the Kinko’s copier. And as that record (2009’s There’s No Sky (Oh My My)) demonstrated,
Jaill’s Vinnie Kircher is equally comfortable crafting songs that either amble up slyly, or
tumble out pell mell, with lyrics that betray his English major background. SPIN said of
That’s How We Burn, “What elevates their [Sub Pop] debut beyond your average tweepunk rager is the gentle psych dabblings: extra delay on a guitar solo, an errant ‘ooh-ahhooh,’ a dubby Panda Bear flourish, and the swirling noise that murmurs through the background of the cheerful ‘Snake Shakes.’”
Recorded throughout 2011 in Kircher’s crummy, poorly lit basement, with minimal gear
and a control room of thrift store afghans, and mixed at NY’s Rare Book Room by Nicolas
Vernhes, Jaill’s latest mangled masterpiece is entitled Traps. An acerbic exercise in both
humility and aggression that transcends the humble environment of its creation, Traps finds
the Milwaukee-based psych-pop three-piece confronting a malfunctioning universe with an
inventive, lean and, dare we say, excellent 11-song album.
FORHÅND 15. JUNI
ihsahn
eremita
Candlelight
CANDLE 332CD / CANDLE 361SE
0803341336551 / 0803341362772
CD
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Tracklist:
Arrival
The Paranoid
Introspection
The Eagle And The Snake
Catharsis
Something Out There
Grief
The Grave
Departure
Recollection (deluxe edition only)
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FOURTH ALBUM FROM ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ARCHITECTS OF BLACK METAL WHO IS CURRENTLY REDEFINING PROG AND RETURNS WITH HIS HIGHLY
ANTICIPATED SOLO ALBUM
Recorded and produced at Telemarks Ivory Shoulder Studios, with additional tracking
completed at Notoddens Juke Joint Studio and Seattles Envisage Audio, Eremita was mixed
by Jens Bogren (Opeth) at Fascination Street Studios in Orebo, Sweden.
Alongside Ihsahn, the album features performances from drummer Tobias Ornes Andersen
(Leprous), saxophonist Jorgen Munkeby (Shining-Norway), guitarist Jeff Loomis (ex-Nevermore), and vocalists Devin Townsend, Einar Solberg (Leprous), and Heidi S. Tveitan
(StarofAsh).
The albums packaging has been created by award-winning Spanish designer Ritxi Ostariz.
Eremita begins a new musical chapter for the highly regarded musician; his previous album,
Norwegian Grammy Award Nominated After, forming the final part of a planned trilogy on its
release in early 2010.
Offering nine new songs to his growing worldwide audience, Eremita is the longest and most
spirited of Ihsahns solo recordings.
Guitar World senior editor Brad Angle says, with Eremita Ihsahn proves yet again that he is
one of the most influential, progressive and enduring musicians to emerge out of the classic
Norwegian black metal scene.”
He began his career at age thirteen as a member of what would become fledgling black
metal crew Emperor.
As a band, Emperor would both define and refine metal, pushing the boundaries of what was
considered possible within the most arcane of art forms and taking some of the most
adventurous and extreme music of all time to a huge global audience.
With albums like seminal In The Nightside Eclipse (recorded when Ihsahn was only seventeen),
and Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk, Emperor obliterated all-comers and became one of the
most revered metal bands in history.
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 15. JUNI
glen hansard
rhythm and repose
AntiEPIT 72032 / EPIT 72031
CD/LP
8714092720327 / 8714092720310
Tracklist TBC:
You Will Become - 3:48
Maybe Not Tonight - 5:30
Talking With the Wolves - 4:43
High Hope - 3:55
Bird of Sorrow - 5:50
The Storm, It’s Coming - 3:28
Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting - 4:17
What Are We Gonna Do - 3:00
Races - 4:33
Philander - 3:51
The Song of Good Hope - 3:48
Glen Hansard’s journeyman career has so many fantastic stories, from his shy film debut
in The Commitments to the surprise success of his indie hit film Once. In between he has
lifted audiences around the world with his spiritual, driven performances, as the leader of
lauded Irish heroes The Frames, and half of the duo The Swell Season.
Now Glen Hansard is finally where he wants to be, with no intervening structure between
him and his audience. For Rhythm and Repose, Hansard has stripped away the emotional layers to reach a core, a core that shines through in songs like “Love Don’t Leave Me
Waiting” with its easy, Muscle Shoals vibe. There is also a new power of feeling on songs
like “Philander,” with Hansard capturing a vocal intensity live in the studio we have not
heard from him before. And this is Glen Hansard’s time. Building on the success of Once,
now a Broadway musical receiving rave reviews and talk of Tony awards, Glen is part of
this season’s hottest soundtrack, The Hunger Games, which features Glen performing
under his own name, and as a writer for Maroon Five’s track “Come Away From the Water.”
Hansard is poised to join his heroes Van Morrison and Bob Dylan as a musical icon, and
this is the album on which he finally puts his name.
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
a place to bury strangers
worship
Dead Oceans
DOC 066 / DOC 066LP
CD/LP
0656605136622 / 0656605136615
Tracklist:
Alone
You Are The One
Mind Control
Worship
Fear
Dissolved
Why I Can’t Cry Anymore
Revenge
And I’m Up
Slide
Leaving Tomorrow
Guitars as jet engines; guitars as haunted electronics; guitars as filling-melting white heat:
A Place To Bury Strangers’ new album Worship is explosive, visceral, and dark.
APTBS’ DIY-braintrust of Death By Audio wizard Oliver Ackermann and bassist Dion Lunadon
continue the evolution of songwriting that began with Onwards to the Wall, the band’s 2011
EP. Now on Worship, they interweave threads of krautrock, dream-pop, and 80s goth without
ever losing the edge that is quintessentially Strangers. Unhinged dissonance is artfully framed
within a fiercely dynamic and assured melodic sensibility. Standout “You Are The One” is a
coldwave white squall, with Ackerman coming through like an austere and menacing Damo
Suzuki. Later on “Dissolved,” the band methodically builds an atmospheric battle charge only
to take a hard left mid-song into pure, shimmering Cure territory.
There are ambitious, trend-bucking choices at every turn.
“This album was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by A Place To Bury Strangers. It is our
vision of what our music should sound like in 2012, not someone else’s interpretation,” says
Lunadon. “Every sound on the album is made by us and our tools; tools created by us, used
on no other recordings, and purposefully built for this project. This is real. Some of it is the
band being in complete control — bending, shaping and building the songs and the sounds.
Other parts are the band relinquishing control and letting the songs and sounds take over
and produce themselves. We are not trying to reinvent ourselves, but simply push ourselves
further in all aspects of our music.” “We made this, we recorded this, we did everything,”
adds Ackerman. “Yes, we chose to do this and no, we didn’t have to but we think it is pretty
cool. No producer made us. We didn’t go to school for any of this and we don’t have time for
tutorials. We invented this and now we are sharing it with you.”
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NYHETER UKE 20 - 2012
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
scott kelly / steve von till / wino
songs of townes van zandt
My Proud Mountain
MPM 002 / MPM 002LP
4024572537562 / 4024572537555
CD/LP
Townes Van Zandt never reached significant fame during his lifetime. Although highly respected
by his peers and other songwriters, the mood and atmosphere of his music, coupled with his
sometimes dark and sarcastic nature, was not suitable for the commercial country-industry of
Nashville. Van Zandt’s songs did, however, reach popularity in his day, through artists such
as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Emmylou Harris. Within his circle of outsider singersongwriters, he was adored, though ultimately it would be depression and alcoholism that
would overshadow his life. Townes’ friend, singer Steve Earle, has been quoted as saying,
“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s
coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”
After Townes’ death in 1997, the fact that artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Mudhoney, Norah
Jones, Lyle Lovett, and Bob Dylan himself have kept his songs alive and vital, is a testament
to the influence and impact of his music. Tracklist TBC:
If I Needed You
St. John the Gambler
Black Crow Blues
Lungs
Rake
Snake Song
Nothin’
Tecumseh Valley
A Song For
So now do Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, and Wino stand and sing his tribute, each focusing
on the essence of Van Zandt’s music and lyrics in his own personal way. The result is a great homage, whose intensity lies in fragility and elementary human truths. Townes Van Zandt’s broken-hearted love songs and gloom-ridden tales are most deserving
of this tribute and praise.
FORHÅND 22. JUNI
dying fetus
reign supreme
Relapse
RR 7176-2 / RR 7176-1
CD/LP
0781676717620 / 0781676717613
Tracklist:
1. Invert the Idols
2. Subjected to a Beating
3. Second Skin
4. From Womb to Waste
5. Dissidence
6. In the Trenches
7. Devout Atrocity
8. Revisionist Past
9. The Blood of Power
Legendary kings of death metal DYING FETUS have reemerged after a nearly three year
wait to deliver Reign Supreme, their most crushing and focused album to date. Simultaneously pushing the boundaries of brutality and technicality while returning to their
uncompromising roots, Reign Supreme offers nine tracks of face pummeling insanity. Mind bending musicianship coalesces with earth shattering breakdowns, their infamous
dual vocal attack and relentless sociopolitical commentary. Reign Supreme accomplishes
exactly what the title implies, mounting DYING FETUS atop the death metal throne! Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 [email protected] www.tubarec.com
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