New & Upcoming Releases 8/31/10

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New & Upcoming Release list 8/31/10

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Brand New Exclusives - Street Date 8/31/2010...
 
VENETIAN SNARES "My So-Called Life" (Timesig - TIMESIG 001) CD   (UPC: 600116800121 - CDVENETMy S)
VENETIAN SNARES "My So-Called Life" (Timesig - TIMESIG 001) DBL.LP   (UPC: 600116800114 - LPVENETMy S)
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! A lesson in mutant jungle, My So-Called Life rips up the taste and decency rulebook and mashes up ten songs in the characteristic style of breakcore king VENETIAN SNARES (aka AARON FUNK). "Posers with Camera Phones" sets the standard: Melody? Check. Jungle breaks? Check. Tongue-in-cheek offensive sample? Check. "Aaron2" shows Funk's love of the old school with crazy hoovers. Other tracks like "Welfare Wednesday" are straight-up fun with lyrics that make one laugh or cry. "Hajnal2" works one of Funk's best-known tracks from one of his bestselling albums, Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett. The title track closes My So-Called Life with melancholy strings that leave the listener craving more. For fans of drum 'n' bass, breakcore, jungle, old school, rave or good music in general-this one's for you. No exports outside North America or Japan.
 
 
NEUROSIS "Live at Roadburn 2007" (Neurot Recordings - NR 073) CD   (UPC: 658457107324 - CDNEUROroad)
***Neurot Recordings proudly unveils a brand new live album from one of the most influential bands of metal's experimental underworld: NEUROSIS! Their first release since 2007's Given to the Rising, Live at Roadburn was recorded that same year in Tilburg, Holland, at the annual Roadburn Festival, where the band headlined to a diehard audience. The monstrous 78-minute album captures the monolithic flow and gut-level strength of Neurosis's renowned and sonically devastating live performances. This iconic band surges through hymns from their last few albums, including Given to the Rising, The Eye of Every Storm, A Sun That Never Sets and Through Silver in Blood. The Live at Roadburn 2007 release accompanies the reissue of Neurosis's classic Enemy of the Sun album, both part of this year's ongoing celebration of the legendary band's 25th anniversary. No export to the UK/Europe.
 
 
NEUROSIS "Enemy of the Sun" (Neurot Recordings - NR 004) CD   (UPC: 658457100424 - cdNEUROEnem)
***Originally released in 1993, NEUROSIS' crushing Enemy of the Sun LP takes their pulsing, hypnotic monoliths down to darker and much, much heavier territory. A mesmerizing, pressurizing, dirge-driven display of brutal riffing, thick with haunting samples, layered vocal tracks, raging multiple-member percussion contributions and some of the most mammoth build-ups ever, the album leaves a sense of anguish in one's soul long after its final notes ring out. To this day, critics and fans of heavy and experimental metal consider this spine-chilling release one of the harshest and most mind-warping of all time, and countless acts cite it as "the one that changed everything." Neurot Recordings is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Neurosis by making this classic album available once again. 2010's Enemy of the Sun reissue includes two tracks not on the original release and bears a fully redesigned package by visionary artist and Neurosis live visual master JOSH GRAHAM. No exports to the UK/Europe.
 
 
 
BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Our Cubehouse Still Rocks" (GBV Inc - GBVI 12) CD   (UPC: 655035081229 -CDBOSTOOur)
BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Our Cubehouse Still Rocks" (GBV Inc - GBVI 12) LP   (UPC: 655035081212 - LPBOSTOOur)
***Following three full-length BOSTON SPACESHIPS records in only two years, Our Cubehouse Still Rocks is a breakthrough fourth album from the band featuring ROBERT POLLARD (GUIDED BY VOICES), CHRIS SLUSARENKO (GUIDED BY VOICES) and JOHN MOEN (DECEMBERISTS). The collaboration began as a long-distance recording project, but brilliantly hits its stride on this album as an unshakable, actualized band. For a group that took their name from the over-the-top UFO illustrations on record covers from '70s arena rockers Boston, there's no denying a classic-rock flag flying high overhead. Just below, however, is the bustling churn of art-damaged new wave, echoes of Devo, mid-period Wire and the sour songcraft of the Rough Trade stable. From the near-prog sunshine psych of "Track Star" to the barn-burning album closer "In the Bathroom," the sixteen songs fly by in a gust of demented, high-energy pop. Pollard's visual arts talents, especially his fascination with collage, have integrated themselves into the sonic realm with Boston Spaceships. While early GBV had the occasional tape cut-up, on this album compositional collage runs through the songwriting, be it schizophrenic structure or a completely random burst of overdubbed drum solos. Easily the best collection of songs from the Spaceships, the record is brimming with hooks and Pollard's incredible gift for melodies so catchy they shine through even the weirdest musical surroundings. Guided By Voice Classic Lineup Tour runs September 29 through November 7, 2010.
 
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Brown Submarine" (GBV Inc - GBVI 03) CD   (UPC: 879198002109)
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Brown Submarine" (GBV Inc - GBVI 03) LP   (UPC: 879198002093)
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Planets Are Blasted" (GBV Inc - GBVI 05) CD   (UPC: 655035080529)
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Planets Are Blasted" (GBV Inc - GBVI 05) LP   (UPC: 655035080512)
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Zero to 99" (GBV Inc - GBVI 07) CD   (UPC: 655035080727)
*BOSTON SPACESHIPS "Zero to 99" (GBV Inc - GBVI 07) LP   (UPC: 655035080710)
 
 
CLOUDLAND CANYON "Fin Eaves" (Holy Mountain - HOLY072811) CD   (UPC: 655035682228 - CDCLOUDFin)
***Originally an all-things-not-PANTHERS outlet for guitarist KIP ULHORN swapping musical ideas with SIMON WOJAN (now in KING KHAN AND HIS SHRINES), CLOUDLAND CANYON spent several years interpreting the more structurally-challenged examples of Krautrock, '70s psych of the drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improv here and there, and the wonderful '90s bands that started out as head-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze and Kranky highlights). Fin Eaves, the band's third full-length overall, is the inaugural album from Cloudland Canyon Phase II. Joined once again by significant-other KELLY ULHORN and a rotating cast of contributors, Kip has crafted a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy. Most important are big, unavoidable pop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thickness of guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects and understated but omnipresent drumming. Imagine a Flying Saucer Attack foundation supporting noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu, with flowing vocals providing the major pop-hook components. LP to be releases 9/21/2010.
 
*CLOUDLAND CANYON "Silver Tongue" (Sisyphus - Holy Mountain - HOLY111) LP
*CLOUDLAND CANYON/LICHENS "Exterminating" (Holy Mountain - HOLY051962) CD  (655035696225)
*CLOUDLAND CANYON/LICHENS "Exterminating" (Holy Mountain - HOLY051962) LP
 
 
NURSE WITH WOUND "Second Pirate Session" (United Jnana - UJ 2000) CD   (UPC: 061297197415 - CDNURSESeco)
***"Second Pirate Session is a collection of outtakes from Rock 'n' Roll Station, which was originally planned as a double album, but for some reason never happened. These tracks were never fully completed and in hindsight benefit from their stripped down atmosphere. Second Pirate Session contains some of my favorite NURSE WITH WOUND songs."-Steven Stapleton. No exports to the UK/Europe.

GAROTAS SUECAS "Escaldante Banda" (American Dust - DAD 114) CD   (UPC: 646315921427 - CDGAROTEsca)
GAROTAS SUECAS "Escaldante Banda" (American Dust - DAD 114) LP   (UPC: 646315921410 - LPGAROTEsca)
***Sweaty, funky, exotic, committed. GAROTAS SUECAS ("Swedish Girls," in Portuguese) hail from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their hearty, full-throated stew combines the best elements of their country's homegrown Tropicalia with Anglo-American soul and freakbeat. The band self-financed three EPs, toured Brazil, and outlandishly landed an MTV video music award. In the wake of their second smash appearance at SXSW in Austin and subsequent two-week US tour, Garotas Suecas' debut full-length, Escaldante Banda, arrives just in time for a month-long encore tour in September. The band looks forward to blazing a smoldering trail across the country. Escaldante Banda offers a brew of Otis Redding soul grooves and Os Mutantes craziness. The Garotas' most accomplished recording to date and the ideal Stateside introduction to Brazil's best-kept secret, the record bursts with fuzz guitars, polyrhythms, scorching female backing vocals, big horn sections, and heavy psychedelia. Its grooves are thick, and it comes to make America shake. The perfect late-summer dance record. Month-long US tour to support the album in September. No exports outside North America.