 | AM Future Sons & Daughters With, arguably, some of the best bridges and choruses in the bizness, drawing from The Beatles and Badfinger or Curtis Mayfield and Jorge Ben, AM demonstrates over and again the simple fact of songwriting life: that imagination and taste is what it's all about. Future Sons and Daughters was produced by Charles Newman (Magnetic Fields).  CD $9.99 |  |  | Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here Much can be said about why this Gil's lyrics are so original and powerful, but it is important not to overlook his utterly singular voice which is so distinctive and rough and tender. It is a voice of experience. A new record from Gil Scott-Heron, forty years after his first solo album, is a cause for major celebration and something that the world needs now more than ever. CD $13.99LP $13.99 |
 | Hot Chip One Life Stand One of the most exuberantly inventive and acclaimed bands around today, Hot Chip have built a devoted fanbase with their soulfully eclectic records and incendiary live shows. Hotly-anticipated by fans and media alike, One Life Stand is the band's most boldly accomplished record yet, at once offbeat and anthemic, cerebral and danceable. CD $16.99CD+DVD $21.992xLP $20.99 |  | Massive Attack Heligoland With the release of Heligoland, the legendary electronic and trip-hop pioneers re-establish themselves with resounding fanfare, composing a dark, challenging work that sounds both diverse and focused. Most of the songs are brimming with well-known vocalists and musicians, including Tunde Adebimpe, Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey (Elbow) and Portishead's Adrian Utley on guitars. CD $17.99 | |
 | Pantha du Prince Black Noise On Black Noise, Pantha Du Prince fuses house, techno, shoegazy electronica and psychedelic electro-acoustic soundscapes into music that is at once both beautiful and bewitching. He has released several recordings to date through the respected German label Dial Records, which is run by and for its artists and now makes the jump to Rough Trade. CD $13.99LP $19.98 |  | Phantogram Eyelid Movies Using various samplers, tapes, records, synths, drums, and both percussive and stringed instruments, Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the duo that make up Phantogram, have allowed their natural surroundings and metropolitan influences to mix, resulting in brilliant, unusual recordings that are beautiful yet hard, dreamlike yet substantial, danceable yet smart. CD $10.99LP $18.99 | |
 | Screaming Females Singles A low-priced CDEP comprising all of their singles and split 7" tracks to date! "While there's only one screaming female in the group (the electrifying Marissa Paternoster, who just might be our generation's official guitar hero), the name hints at the power and fury that comes out when this band hits play. CDEP $9.99 |  | Smile Smile Truth on Tape Blend hauntingly beautiful vocal lines with a modern folk sound, add emotionally bare, intimate lyrics. . . and the result is Smile Smile. The songs on their sophomore album, Truth on Tape, detail the heartbreaking end of a union, emotions to which we all can relate. CD $12.99 | |
 | The Watson Twins Talking to You, Talking to me The Watson Twins present their sophomore release and most ambitious album to date, Talking To You, Talking To Me, on Vanguard Records. The new album finds the Watson Twins taking a soulful turn a la Carole King, but with a pop edge reminiscent of Feist. The result is a heartfelt nod to their roots, retaining the ethereal harmonies that have become their signature while incorporating a variety of influences and inspirations. CD $17.99LP $23.99 |  | Various Artists Preservation Subtitle: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program. Over the course of 2009, more than twenty of American music's most exciting artists traveled to Preservation Hall in New Orleans to collaborate with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on classic New Orleans repertoire. Guest musicians and artists include: Andrew Bird, Tom Waits, Yim Yames (aka Jim James), Ani DiFranco, Pete Seeger, Jason Isbell, Richie Havens, Merle Haggard, Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Steve Earle, and more! CD $13.99CD $18.99LP $26.99 | |
 | Yeasayer Odd Blood While their first record was conceived in total artistic isolation, constant touring forced Yeasayer to finally engage with their contemporaries. If All Hour Cymbals was Yeasayer's attempt at global and ambient cultural mash-up then their new album, Odd Blood, takes place in an off-world colony sometime after the Singularity. CD $12.99LP $13.99 |  | Zeus Say Us Zeus was born from the musical friendship of Mike O'Brien and Carlin Nicholson. The two Toronto-based musicians have been living on the road for the past few years as the backing band for singer/songwriter and Broken Social Scene member Jason Collett. Zeus draws upon classic influences to craft timeless songs, complete with fuzzed out guitars and shimmering harmonies. CD $14.99LP $15.99 | |
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Record Releases - February 9, 2010
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