Glenn Jones – Across the Tappan Zee (w/ Laura Baird)
My Garden State
[Thrill Jockey Records]
Out now
My Garden State was written in the New Jersey home where Glenn’s family moved in 1966, while he was caring for his mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s. The songs and sounds on the album are reflective, but never dour or sad. The songs are evocative and redolent, and serve as a testament to Glenn’s talent for conveying a wide array of emotions, many times in one song, without saying a word.
Brother JT – Sweatpants
The Sveltness of Boogietude
[Thrill Jockey Records]
Out now.
The Svelteness of Boogietude is his debut on Thrill Jockey and Bryon Coley (from whom he aquired the Brother JT moniker) called it his “most oustanding effort yet”. The album is a typical of JT’s output in certain ways — rockers mixed with ballads, all of them crafted with casual elegance — but there are new elements here as well. In particular, there’s an attention to the legacy of later-period T. Rex, which results in tunes that kick total ass. Brother JT is a moniker that finds Terlesky’s songwriting and ample guitar skills taking a decidedly psychedelic form but never deviating too far from the classic song structure.
Alessi’s Ark – Tin Smithing
The Still Life
[Bella Union]
Out now.
To record The Still Life, Alessi returned again to America, to the small town of Athens, Georgia and the studio of producer Andy LeMaster, who has worked with everyone from Bright Eyes to The Drive-By Truckers. First Aid Kit publicist Amanda Pitts will helm album and tour press, bringing Alessi over for a February press junket of southeastern major markets. Mike Leahy of Concerted Efforts is booking agent, working on a spring/summer supporting slot and festival dates.
Prolyphic & Buddy Peace – GO GREEN
Working Man
[Strange Famous Records]
Out now.
Prolyphic teaming up with DJ/Producer extraordinaire, Buddy Peace, Working Man is a collection of blue collar anthems that eclucidate the trials and tribulations of working class people.
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Exclusive First Look
You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me
[Thrill Jockey Records]
Street date 6.11
J.R. Robinson has been writing and recording music as Wrekmeister Harmonies in various incarnations since 2006. In 2012 he brought together some of the most revered musicians in the black metal and experimental music worlds (Jef Whitehead of Leviathan, Sanford Parker and Andrew Markuszewski of Nachmystium, Jamie Fennelly aka Mind Over Mirrors, Mark Solotroff of Anatomy of Habit, Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, and more) to perform You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to much acclaim and a sold out theater. The collaborators for the live performance joined Robinson at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio later that year to record the composition in full. The 38 minute composition was written to accompany a film Robinson shot in decimated Detroit locations, the desert of Joshua Tree and decaying forests of Tasmania.
Life Coach is a collaboration. Following Phil Manley’s 2011 solo debut Life Coach, which Aquarius Records called, “a serious, and seriously kick ass slab of modern minimal krautrock,” Manley set about writing a set of songs that he could perform live. After writing and tracking guitar, bass, synth, and vocals on his own, he recruited his friend and former Golden band mate Jon Theodore (The Mars Volta, One Day As A Lion), with whom Manley has been playing music for two decades, as the drummer and second official member of Life Coach. The complimentary kinship between Manley’s tightly constructed songs and Theodore’s unrestrained playing was instant. Rounded out by the addition of Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless, Golden Void), who contributes lead guitar on several songs, Life Coach was born as an entity unto itself.
Frankie & The Heartstrings – Nothing Our Way
The Days Run Away
[Wichita Recordings]
Street date 6.3
The eleven-track album continues the pursuit of guitar perfection they began with their debut ‘Hunger’ released in February 2011. ‘The Days Run Away’ maintains the F&THs tradition of songs that refuse to outstay their welcome – a precise blend of passion and guitars, with enough new tricks to show that they’ve spent the last six months updating their book of indie nous.
The idolized and enigmatic duo are back. After considerable speculation by their rabid fan base (not to mention the media following every step of the way), Boards of Canada have revealed that their new album Tomorrow’s Harvest will be released on June 11 via their long time home, Warp Records. Musically, the album is somehow dark yet positive, with atmospheric dissonance and mind-bending melodic creations.
- Huge Anticipation
- View the details of the brilliant marketing announcement HERE
CSS
Planta
SQE Records
STREET DATE 6.11
This is the 4th album by CSS and the first made with an outside producer. With Dave Sitek at the helm, the band has recorded their most mature album to date. The first single is ‘Hangover’ which was co-written by Tim Armstrong.
Now back on vinyl for the first time since 2006! Newly remixed and remastered with bonus materials including a hidden track and “Sleepy Silver Door” the most popular song from the back catalog. CD is also now back in print.
Wrekmeister Harmonies
You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me
Thrill Jockey
STREET DATE 6.11
J.R. Robinson has been writing and recording music as Wrekmeister Harmonies in various incarnations since 2006. In 2012 he brought together some of the most revered musicians in the black metal and experimental music worlds (Jef Whitehead of Leviathan, Sanford Parker and Andrew Markuszewski of Nachmystium, Jamie Fennelly aka Mind Over Mirrors, Mark Solotroff of Anatomy of Habit, Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, and more) to perform You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to much acclaim and a sold out theater. The collaborators for the live performance joined Robinson at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio later that year to record the composition in full. The 38 minute composition was written to accompany a film Robinson shot in decimated Detroit locations, the desert of Joshua Tree and decaying forests of Tasmania.
Johnny Cash
Rockabilly Blues Yep Roc
STREET DATE 6.11
Pulling together an all star cast of musicians and songwriters alike, in 1980 Johnny Cash assembled his 64th album titled Rockabilly Blues. Led by Johnny Cash’s amazing vocal performance, many of the songs on this album showcase the writers themselves playing alongside the man in black. And now at long last this classic album has been made available to the world on this vinyl reissue.
Jan St. Werner
Blaze Colour Burn (Fiepblatter Catalogue #1)
Thrill Jockey
STREET DATE 6.11
Blaze Colour Burn is a new work from electronic music pioneer and innovator Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Microstoria) inaugurating Fiepblatter, a series of genre-dismantling releases on Thrill Jockey that will encompass electro-acoustic experimentation, algorithmic elements, scored music, digital signal processing, field recordings, improvisation, public performance and graphic works. These pieces aren’t just about sound; they’re about location, structure, time, aesthetics. Stories that overlap and interact with each other.
Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less YouthWarp Records
STREET DATE: 5.28
ince 2009, Dominic Maker and his partner in Mount Kimbie, Kai Campos, have played a central role in forging a new form for electronic music. Their influence stretches far beyond the corner of the dance music underground that birthed them. They have repeatedly confounded expectations, transforming themselves from bedroom-studio producers to creators of one of the most fully realised electronic album-length statements of recent years and refining their live show to incorporate live drums, bass, guitar and vocals. With their second album, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, finally completed, the perception of Mount Kimbie looks set to expand again.
M83 / Anthony Gonzalez / Joseph Trapanese Oblivion – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mondo
STREET DATE 5.28
The Oblivion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Anthony Gonzalez of M83 and Joseph Trapanese (TRON: Uprising, The Raid: Redemption). The score features a hybrid of the traditional M83 electronic sound combined with sweeping orchestral elements. It has 16 score cues, along with a brand new song by M83 featuring Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfor used as the end title for the film.
King Tuff Was Dead
Burger Records
STREET DATE 5.28
From the desk of King Tuff: This album changed my life in so many ways, as it slowly trickled out into the world. I never expected anyone to hear it, let alone connect with it. I never would have left Vermont, never met the boys at Burger Records or any of the other insane, beautiful, cartoonish characters that now populate my life in the best way. It’s an expression of my infinitely teenage heart and soul, and I’m really proud of it. So here it is again, thanks to Burger Records. These songs belong to the Strutters and the Stutterers, the Headbangers and the Stoop Hangers, the Ruthies and the Gold Toothies, and of course, the A-N-I-M-A-L-S..
Rodion G.A. The Lost Tapes
STRUT Records
STREET DATE 5.28
STRUT in conjunction with Abassador’s Reception and Future Nuggets, presents the first ever retrospective of fabled band Rodion GA, one of Romania’s best kept musical secrets of the last 30 years
Black Host Life In The Sugar Candle Mines
Northern Spy
STREET DATE 5.28
Black Host is a fluid reality for the five members of the band, Cooper-Moore, Darius Jones, Pascal Niggenkemper, Brandon Seabrook & Gerald Cleaver. The band deals in volume (mass and sound), sort-of nation-building…improvisation being their phenomenal connector to their songs and to each other. The band is equal parts atmosphere, distance & reflection as much as a volcanic, act-now overflow. Gerald Cleaver, a deeply responsive avant-jazz drummer who doubles as a handsomely evocative composer, marshals a crew of master improvisers–saxist Darius Jones, guitarist Brandon Seabrook, multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and bassist Pascal Niggenkemper–in his latest bandleading venture.
