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WAVVES
King of the Beach

Most everyone by now knows the story of Wavves, the one-man garage surf band composed of San Diego’s Nathan Williams. Hyped by music blogs, Williams became the Great White Hope of 2009. Then he played live and when he didn’t live up to expectations, his star came crashing down as quickly as it rose. It looks like Williams’ fortunes are on the rise again. For his second album, King of the Beach, he hooked up with Dennis Herring, the producer of the last two Modest Mouse albums, so that it sounds pretty indie.

ARTIST: Wavves
TITLE: King of the Beach
LABEL: Fat Possum
RELEASE DATE: August 03, 2010
TIME: 37:00 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/wavves

01. King of the Beach [02:38]
02. Super Soaker [02:29]
03. Idiot [02:52]
04. When Will You Come [02:35]
05. Post Acid [02:11]
06. Take On the World [02:41]
07. Baseball Cards [03:05]
08. Convertible Balloon [02:24]
09. Green Eyes [03:50]
10. Mickey Mouse [03:52]
11. Linus Spacehead [03:12]
12. Baby Say Goodbye [05:11]

Wavves – Idiot

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MOGWAISpecial Moves

Burning is the first concert film from Glasgow, Scotland’s post-rock stalwarts Mogwai. Culled from footage shot during their April 2009 3-night stint at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Burning was directed by Vincent Moon and Nataniel La Souanec and captures the Mogwai‘s visceral live show in high-contrast black and white. Companion live record Special Moves adds extra songs that were not included in the film.

ARTIST: Mogwai
TITLE: Special Moves
LABEL: Rock Action
RELEASE DATE: August 23, 2010
TIME: 74:41 min.
WEB: http://www.mogwai.co.uk/

01. I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead [06:02]
02. Friend of the Night [05:30]
03. Hunted By A Freak [04:07]
04. Mogwai Fear Satan [11:43]
05. C.O.D.Y. [06:11]
06. You Don’t Know Jesus [05:31]
07. I Know You Are But What Am I? [04:05]
08. I Love You, I’m Going to Blow Up Your School [07:57]
09. 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong [09:06]
10. Like Herod [10:38]
11. Glasgow Mega-Snake [03:51]

Mogwai – New Paths to Helicoin (pt.1)

KULA SHAKERPilgrim’s Progress

2010 release from the British band led by Crispin Mills.
Kula Shaker burst onto the music scene in 1996 with the release of K, one of the fastest selling debut albums ever. Imploding after the follow up, they disappeared for nearly 10 years until a very low key album in 2007 signaled their semi-return. Pilgrim’s Progress showcases a more mature sound, drawing on folk, ’60s R&B and traditional influences as well as their signature psychedelia. Kula Shaker have retained a very loyal and dedicated fanbase who have stayed with the band since the ’90s and have been waiting for this new album for a very long time.
Strange folk, that’s it.

ARTIST: Kula Shaker
TITLE: Pilgrim’s Progress
LABEL: Zoom
RELEASE DATE: July 13, 2010
TIME: 41:20 min.
WEB: http://www.kulashaker.co.uk/

01. Peter Pan R.I.P. [03:31]
02. Ophelia [03:08]
03. Modern Blues [03:49]
04. Only Love [03:13]
05. All Dressed Up (and ready to fall in love) [03:31]
06. Calvary [02:03]
07. Ruby [03:07]
08. Figure It Out [03:33]
09. Barbara Ella [03:45]
10. When a Brave Needs a Maid [02:44]
11. To Wait Till I Come [02:58]
12. Winter’s Call [06:29]

Kula Shaker – Modern Blues

H.E.A.L.T.H.Disco2

Disco2 is the new project for US act H.E.A.L.T.H. and sees all tracks from Get Color entirely remixed by the likes of Crystal Castles, Tobacco, Salem, Javelin, Gold Panda, Small Black, Little Loud and many others. The brand new single for the album is USA Boys which is mixed by studio legend Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode).

ARTIST: H.E.A.L.T.H.
TITLE: Disco2
LABEL: Lovepump United
RELEASE DATE: July 06, 2010
TIME: 52:57 min.
WEB: http://www.healthnoise.com/

01. USA Boys [04:05]
02. Before Tigers (CFCF remix) [04:39]
03. In Heat (javelin remix) [03:13]
04. Die Slow (tobacco remix) [04:06]
05. Severin (small black remix) [03:55]
06. Before Tigers (gold panda remix) [05:23]
07. Eat Flesh (crystal castles remix) [03:58]
08. In Violet (salem remix) [03:00]
09. Nice Girls (blondes remix) [08:08]
10. Die Slow (pictureplan remix) [03:15]
11. Nice Girls (little loud remix) [04:24]
12. Before Tigers (blindfoldfreak remix) [04:24]

H.E.A.L.T.H. – USA Boys

MIKE PATTONMondo Cane

Another astonishing release from the former Faith No More vocalist, an Italian language rock-meets orchestra hybrid. Recorded at a series of European performances including an outdoor concert in a Northern Italian piazza, this album features traditional Italian Pop songs as well as a rendition of Ennio Morricone’s Deep Down. Mike Patton worked with a 30-piece orchestra and choir to create the uniquely new Mondo Cane sound. Patton’s body of work continues to evolve and grow with a wide range of bands and solo projects including Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom and most recently as a film composer and voice actor.

ARTIST: Mike Patton
TITLE: Mondo Cane
LABEL: Ipecac
RELEASE DATE: May 04, 2010
TIME: 36:57 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/mikepattonofficial

01. Il Cielo in una Stanza [03:56]
02. Che Notte! [03:19]
03. Ore d’Amore [02:53]
04. Deep Down [03:22]
05. Quello che Conta [04:04]
06. Urlo Negro [02:49]
07. Scalinatella [03:15]
08. L’Uomo che non Sapeva Amare [03:17]
09. 20km al Giorno [02:56]
10. Ti Offro da Bere [02:28]
11. Senza Fine [04:38]

Mike Patton – Urlo Negro

TEENAGE FANCLUBShadows

Shadows is the ninth studio album from the Scottish power-pop band Teenage Fanclub. Five years since their 2005 release Man-Made, the Glaswegians wind down the jangly-pop of previous albums here, maturing towards dulcet harmonised rocksongs. However the alternating songwriters of Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley and Gerard Love provide the band’s trademark melodic, hook-filledsound on single Baby Lee.

ARTIST: Teenage Fanclub
TITLE: Shadows
LABEL: PeMa
RELEASE DATE: May 31, 2010
TIME: 48:03 min.
WEB: http://www.teenagefanclub.com/

01. Sometimes i Don’t Need to Believe in Anything [04:34]
02. Baby Lee [04:26]
03. The Fall [05:27]
04. Into the City [04:29]
05. Dark Clouds [02:43]
06. The Past [03:33]
07. Shock and Awe [03:43]
08. When I Still Have Thee [03:31]
09. Live with the Seasons [03:26]
10. Sweet Days Waiting [03:38]
11. The Back of My Mind [04:02]
12. Today Never Ends [04:31]

Teenage Fanclub – Baby Lee

TOKYO POLICE CLUBChamp

In internet years, Tokyo Police Club are just about ready for retirement. As a group of underage buddies from the Toronto suburbs, their antsy take on post-Strokes rock was an easy upload for music blogs upon the 2006 release of their snappy A Lesson in Crime EP. Back then, their chances of living beyond the next Hype Machine cycle was anyone’s guess, and any notions of longevity seemed moot for a band that preferred to wrap things up around the two-minute mark. But as other 2006 indie upstarts like Annuals, Be Your Own Pet, and Voxtrot have blown up or faded away, Tokyo Police Club endure.
And this is not a coincidence.
Champ is their brand new album.

ARTIST: Tokyo Police Club
TITLE: Champ
LABEL: Mom & Pop
RELEASE DATE: June 08, 2010
TIME: 40:25 min.
WEB: http://tokyopoliceclub.com/

01. Favourite Food [03:56]
02. Favourite Color [02:38]
03. Breakneck Speed [03:44]
04. Wait Up (boots of danger) [03:09]
05. Bambi [02:46]
06. End of a Spark [03:37]
07. Hands Reversed [03:20]
08. Gone [03:04]
09. Big Difference [02:58]
10. Not Sick [02:58]
11. Frankenstein [03:31]

Tokyo Police Club – Wait Up (boots of danger) (passion pit remix)

SCISSOR SISTERS
Night Work

Night Work is the third album from US group Scissor Sisters. Returning to their NYC cabaret and club roots for inspiration, this effort sees the Jake Shears-fronted troupe collaborate with super producer Stuart Price (Madonna, Seal) and create a sleazy and sexy electronic disco record. Includes the single Fire With Fire.

ARTIST: Scissor Sisters
TITLE: Night Work
LABEL: Downtown
RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2010
TIME: 44:21 min.
WEB: http://www.scissorsisters.com/

01. Night Work [03:08]
02. Whole New Way [02:53]
03. Fire with Fire [04:13]
04. Any Which Way [04:41]
05. Harder You Get [03:06]
06. Runnning Out [03:09]
07. Something Like This [03:02]
08. Skin This Cat [02:41]
09. Skin Tight [03:26]
10. Sex and Violence [04:11]
11. Night Life [03:37]
12. Invisible Light [06:14]

Scissor Sisters – Any Which Way

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DEVOSomething for Everybody

More than three decades after the release of its visionary debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo, and a full 20 years since its last studio album, Devo is back with the aptly titled Something for Everybody. The long rumored, wildly anticipated album (which was launched with a memorable performance in Vancouver at the Winter Olympics) features the band’s classic line-up (Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casale) joined by drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Guns n’ Roses). Though the songs recorded for Something for Everybody are built on Devo‘s signature mechanized swing, the recording and presentation of the album saw the band experimenting with an entirely new approach. A series of studies were conducted through the clubdevo.com site to help the band with its creative decisions, from color selection to song mixes.

ARTIST: Devo
TITLE: Something for Everybody
LABEL: Warner Bros.
RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2010
TIME: 37:50 min.
WEB: http://www.clubdevo.com/

01. Fresh [03:00]
02. What We Do [03:17]
03. Please Baby Please [02:41]
04. Don’t Shoot (i’m a man) [03:26]
05. Mind Games [02:30]
06. Human Rocket [03:23]
07. Sumthin’ [02:46]
08. Step Up [03:01]
09. Cameo [02:50]
10. Later Is Now [03:53]
11. No Place Like Home [03:19]
12. March On [03:51]

Devo – Please Baby Please

LOST PROPHETSThe Betrayed

Darker in tone than previous efforts, Lostprophets‘ fourth album is possibly their least pop-focused release to date. Taking inspiration from band’s such as Faith No More, although The Betrayed may not be as immediately accessible as more recent efforts, it has much more depth. Some of the material here recalls the band’s earliest days as a hardcore punk act, shedding the emo/pop-punk style for which they are widely known.

ARTIST: Lost Prophets
TITLE: The Betrayed
LABEL: Visible Noise
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2010
TIME: 63:08 min.
WEB: http://www.lostprophets.com/

01. If It Wasn’t For Hate We’d Be Dead by Now [02:21]
02. Dstryr and Dstryr [04:31]
03. It’s Not the End of the World But I Can See It from Here [04:22]
04. Where We Belong [04:39]
05. Next Stop: Atro City [03:04]
06. For He’s A Jolly Good Felon [04:45]
07. AC Ricochet [03:57]
08. A Better Nothing [04:50]
09. Streets of Nowhere [03:28]
10. Dirty Little Heart [05:46]
11. Sunshine [04:36]
12. Darkest Blue [03:53]
13. The Light That Burns Twice As Bright [05:59]
14. (hidden track) [08:56]

Lost Prophets – AC Ricochet

STARSThe Five Ghosts

Music is all about how it makes you feel. The Five Ghosts it’s elegant, passionate, sexy, emotional, upbeat, and something that we’ve been missing in music lately, and that’s pure and simple happiness. Stars seem must never have head the term filler, the much dreaded word that defines careers of most bands. The album is brilliant the whole way through and the recording is impeccable.

ARTIST: Stars
TITLE: The Five Ghosts
LABEL: Vagrant
RELEASE DATE: June 22, 2010
TIME: 38:54 min.
WEB: http://www.youarestars.com/

01. Dead Hearts [03:29]
02. Wasted Daylight [03:43]
03. I Died So I Could Haunt You [03:04]
04. Fixed [03:26]
05. We Don’t Want Your Body [03:25]
06. He Dreams He’s Awake [04:04]
07. Changes [04:13]
08. The Passenger [04:17]
09. The Last Song Ever Written [03:17]
10. How Much More [02:56]
11. Winter Bones [03:00]

Stars – Wasted Daylight

RECOILSelected

Unexpected Recoil‘s release entitled Selected. This release features a selection of classic Recoil tracks chosen by Alan Wilder who says: “the collection is made up of my personal favourites, remastered and edited together into what I consider a cohesive and total listening experience”. The Recoil project was born in 1986 as a two-track experimental EP. The most significant work has evolved since 1996 with the releases of the Unsound Methods, Liquid and subHuman albums. Over the course of the last 10 years Alan has been ably accompanied by Paul Kendall who brings his idiosyncratic view to the whole procedure. He has also been fortunate enough to cement working relationships with many writers, vocalists and musicians, most of whom appear on this new release.

ARTIST: Recoil
TITLE: Selected
LABEL: Mute
RELEASE DATE: June 08, 2010
TIME: 152:03 min.
WEB: http://www.recoil.co.uk/

01. Strange Hours [05:13]
02. Faith Healer [05:09]
03. Jezebel [04:29]
04. Allelujah [05:57]
05. Want [05:51]
06. Red River Cargo [06:05]
07. Supreme [06:19]
08. Prey [04:52]
09. Drifting [05:17]
10. Luscious Apparatus [05:40]
11. The Killing Ground (excerpt) [05:42]
12. Shunt [05:48]
13. Edge to Life [05:12]
14. Last Breath [05:24]

01. Supreme (true romance remix) [06:07]
02. Prey (shotgun mix) [05:10]
03. Drifting (poison dub remix) [07:13]
04. Jezebel (filthy dog mix) [05:41]
05. Allelujah (noisy church mix) [05:33]
06. Stalker (punished mix) [07:01]
07. The Killing Ground (solid state mix) [05:45]
08. Black Box (excerpt) [07:17]
09. 5000 Years (a romanian elegy for string) [05:45]
10. Strange Hours ’10 (feat. the black ships) [05:49]
11. Missing Piece (night dissolves remix) [07:23]
12. Shunt (pan sonic mix) [05:48]

Recoil – Edge to Life

GLITTERBUGPrivilege

Cologne techno producer Glitterbug is back with his second full LP arriving swiftly after 08′s Supershelter. Privilege finds the bug in fine form layering up all manner of snaking 4/4 growers packed with elegance and warmth, strobing along with the glacial style of contemporary euro-IDM.

ARTIST: Glitterbug
TITLE: Privilege
LABEL: C.Sides
RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2010
TIME: 140:58 min.
WEB: http://www.glitterbug.de/

01. Lionheart [05:38]
02. Swirl [08:51]
03. Blue Rifts [06:28]
04. Wide & Near [06:12]
05. Calcutta [06:53]
06. After All [08:28]
07. Blast [08:37]
08. Confront [06:58]
09. Pink Sparks [08:27]
10. Vertical Extent [04:25]
11. Waves [06:45]
12. Float [07:37]
13. Cornered [08:33]
14. Slurred Thinking [08:33]
15. Shake and Tumble [08:46]
16. Parted [07:07]
17. So Could We [04:12]
18. Transition [05:43]
19. Over Water (dub edit) [08:14]
20. Walk Me [05:59]

Glitterbug – Blast

THE DIVINE COMEDYBang Goes the Knighthood

Bang Goes The Knighthood is the tenth studio album from Northern Irish chamber-pop group The Divine Comedy. Led by frontman Neil Hannon, the only constant member of the band throughout their 21 year career, The Divine Comedy draw equal inspiration from literature as well as music. This record is the band’s first in four years, and their first since Hannon released The Duckworth Lewis Method with Thomas Walsh from Pugwash.

ARTIST: The Divine Comedy
TITLE: Bang Goes the Knighthood
LABEL: The Divine Comedy Records
RELEASE DATE: May 31, 2010
TIME: 57:10 min.
WEB: http://www.thedivinecomedy.com/

01. Down in the Street Below [05:09]
02. The Complete Banker [03:44]
03. Neapolitan Girl [02:49]
04. Bang Goes the Knighthood [02:48]
05. At the Indie Disco [03:18]
06. Have You Ever Been in Love? [03:10]
07. Assume the Perpendicular [04:07]
08. The Lost Art of Conversation [04:01]
09. Island Life [04:39]
10. When A Man Cries [03:55]
11. Can You Stand Upon One Leg? [03:32]
12. I Like [03:48]

The Divine Comedy – At the Indie Disco

TRENTEMØLLER
Into the Great Wide Yonder

Anders Trentemøller‘s first album, The Last Resort, emerging back in 2006, was a wonderful introduction to his dark, electronics-driven world. Since then, a lot has happened at the musical front that he has so steadfastly adhered to and helped to prosper. It was a glowing reference point in ambient yet dramatic music. But Into The Great Wide Yonder seems to beckon a new tack, an embrace of the estranged analogue tangents that were so deliberately ignored on his previous outings.

ARTIST: Trentemøller
TITLE: Into the Great Wide Yonder
LABEL: In My Room
RELEASE DATE: June 01, 2010
TIME: 56:07 min.
WEB: http://www.anderstrentemoller.com/

01. The Mash and the Fury [07:00]
02. Sycamore Feeling [06:06]
03. Past the Beginning of the End [06:19]
04. Shades of Marble [05:53]
05. … Even Though You’re with Another Girl [04:52]
06. Haexan [05:11]
07. Metamorphosis [02:05]
08. Silver Surver Ghost Rider Go [04:23]
09. Neverglade [04:33]
10. Tide [07:45]

Trentemøller – Haexan

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FOALSTotal Life Forever

The second album of Oxford five-piece Foals plays like a Best Of sampler of the past twenty years of British alt-rock, one of those candy boxes with only the good flavors, none of that weird pistachio-black licorice shit. It’s got the silvery guitar shimmer of early U2, the airy and charmingly slurred vocals of The Cure, the electric dub and drive of Massive Attack (in short, it’s a fitting dedication to Foals’s musical heritage, and a bold statement by a band poised to join the very canon they channel with Total Life Forever). Wrapped in a pineapple glaze of tropical production, courtesy of ex-Clor guitarist and vocalist Luke Smith, the album drips with atmosphere. Down-tempo tracks grow and curl with layering synthesizers and icy drums that conjure images of the arctic ocean warmed by the setting sun before they explode into fireballs of funk; other times the rays of light are more immediate, as in the flowing.
Either way, Foals know how to hit their harmonies, not one forced, each adding to the sway and beauty found within this oceanic collection of songs.

ARTIST: Foals
TITLE: Total Life Forever
LABEL: Warner Bros.
RELEASE DATE: May 25, 2010
TIME: 50:24 min.
WEB: http://www.foals.co.uk/

01. Blue Blood [05:17]
02. Miami [03:42]
03. Total Life Forever [03:18]
04. Black Gold [06:26]
05. Spanish Sahara [06:50]
06. This Orient [04:05]
07. Fugue [00:49]
08. After Glow [06:09]
09. Alabaster [04:00]
10. 2 Trees [05:11]
11. What Remains [04:37]

Foals – Spanish Sahara