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Vinyl LP pressing. 2011 release from the Albuquerque-based Indie outfit. Cervantine is a record that gloriously connects their deep fascination with the Folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece and Romania with their actual home in the desert plains of the American Southwest. The group's natural blend of diverse global musical styles with their Indie Rock background lends them the kind of cross-audience appeal enjoyed by bands including Fools Gold, Beirut and Calexico, while their strong sense of musicality and cultural context draws more left-field listeners to them as well. Recorded live at their studio in Albuquerque between two US tours, Cervantine is the vibrant sound of an American band whose geographical and cultural travels bear on their already distinctive music.
![Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales [With CD] [With Book] [With Poster] [Deluxe Edition]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/3/5/2/9/1799253.jpg "Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales [With CD] [With Book] [With Poster] [Deluxe Edition]")
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Finally, after over a month of unanswered emails and text messages, blown deadlines, and pleas to finish and turn in their new album, last week, a large brown cardboard box showed up at the Dead Oceans doorstep. Upon miraculous resuscitation of the original AKAK hard drive, the album layers thousands of minute imperceptible samples of their first recordings with fuzzed-out representations of their present beings to induce pleasant emotional feeling states and many momentary transcendent inspirations. This album is titled S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT.
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![Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/200/8/0/3/2/2102308.jpg "Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare [Vinyl]")
The Arctic Monkeys surely showed potential on their debut Whatever People Say I Am, but their youthful vigor often camouflaged their debt to other bands. Here on their sophomore album Favourite Worst Nightmare, they're absorbing their influences, turning their liberal borrowings from the Libertines, the Strokes, and the Jam into something that's their own distinct identity. Unlike any of those three bands, however, the Arctic Monkeys haven't stumbled on their second album; they haven't choked on hubris, they haven't overthought their sophomore salvo, nor have they cranked it out too quickly. That constant year of work resulted in startling growth as the band is testing the limits of what they can do and where they can go. The remarkable thing about the Arctic Monkeys -- which Favourite Worst Nightmare brings into sharp relief -- is their genuine guilelessness, how they restructure classic rock clichés in a way that pays little mind to how things were done in the past, and that all goes back to their youth.
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2 LP set. "Guerolito" takes Beck's hit 2005 album "Guero" and turns it on its ear by allowing other artists remix the entire thing! Adrock, Mario C, 8Bit, Air, Corngangg, Octet and others take over the controls at the studio to craft "Guero" into their own vision. The song "E-Pro" gets renamed "Ghost Range" but the rest of the song titles remain the same. Those titles include "Qué Onda," "Girl," "Heaven Hammer," "Scarecrow," "Farewell Ride," "Rental Car," "Shake, Shake Tambourine," "Terremoto Tempo," "Ghettochip Malfunction" and more. Interscope. 2005.
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![Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/200/4/1/0/2/2032014.jpg "Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind [Vinyl]")
In 2011, the original three members of Ben Folds Five came together to record three new studio tracks for The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective, a career-spanning Ben Folds anthology. With the band's magic rekindled while making the new tracks, Ben Folds Five gave its first concert in more than a decade to a spellbound audience at New York s Mountain Jam Festival on June 2, 2012. Now, Ben Folds Five return with The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, the group's first album of new music in 13 years.
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Wilderness Heart, the new album by Black Mountain, is packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more. This is arguably the band's tightest, most concentrated venture, but there's still plenty of raw rock energy at work. "It's our most metal and most folk oriented record so far," songwriter Stephen McBean says. "I'm not gonna say it's our best record or the album that we always dreamt of making 'cause that's what everyone says. It's all about where we were at the time the machines were rolling.
![Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams (Bonus Tracks) [Remastered]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/0/1/6/7/1207610.jpg "Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams (Bonus Tracks) [Remastered]")
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Bodies of Water is a band from the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, signed to independent record label Secretly Canadian. The core group consists of married couple David and Meredith Metcalf (playing guitar and keyboards, respectively), drummer Jessie Conklin, and bass guitarist Kyle Gladden. However, the band often plays LA shows with five or more additional musicians, including producer Adam Siegel on guitar, as well as horn players, an additional drummer, and strings. All members of the band sing, including players added for local shows.
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UK vinyl LP pressing. 2010 release, a stunningly beautiful acoustic album by Bombay Bicycle Club. Having finished recording their debut LP I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose in February 2009, the band went straight back into the studio days after they submitted the master for I Had the Blues, and started the initial recordings for this album. Recorded in between touring over the past year and a half, a few early tracks were laid down at the Church and produced by Neill MacColl (guitarist Jamie's dad), but the rest was recorded in singer, Jack Steadman's bedroom and produced by Jack himself. Flaws is characterized by a delicate, heart-swelling beauty and lightness of touch throughout. This more stripped down, acoustic sound - though markedly different from the majority of their debut - isn't new for the band, as almost every single they've released since their earliest days has been accompanied by an acoustic b-side.
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The third album from the British Alt-Roc/Pop band. Recorded in Hamburg, London and Atlanta, a Different Kind of Fix sees the guitars firmly plugged back in for album number three, but added to the mix are synths, sampled loops, layered vocals from all four band members and washes of reverb throughout. Production-wise, the album reunites BBC with Jim Abbiss-who produced their debut-and also introduces them to Ben Allen (noted for his work with Animal Collective) whilst lead singer, Jack Steadman co-produces throughout. Includes first single, "Shuffle", "How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep" and "Take the Right One". Island. NO Autograph
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![Bon Iver - Bon Iver [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/200/6/7/0/6/1846076.jpg "Bon Iver - Bon Iver [Vinyl]")
Bon Iver's Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there – solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed – but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present. The icicles have dropped, rising up again as grass.
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![Breton - War Room Stories [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/200/4/0/3/0/2490304.jpg "Breton - War Room Stories [Vinyl]")
2014 release, the much anticipated second album from the British Indie band. War Room Stories was written during a year spent touring incessantly and playing festivals across the world. It was recorded this summer at the Funkhaus in Berlin - a building with the same otherworldly weirdness as Breton's beloved creative HQ, The Lab in south London, which was demolished last summer to make way for luxury flats. Breton also employed the services of the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra who appear on five tracks throughout the album. The band recorded the tracks earmarked for orchestration on a laptop, translated them into sheet music and flew to Macedonia where the 44 piece orchestra then played them live in the studio. The stunning results can be heard on 'Envy', 'Closed Category', 'Legs and Arms', 'S Four' and 'War Room Stories'.
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"Dennen's soulful album is a folk rock revelation... if you're one of those Paul Simon fans who wish he'd return to 'Graceland' already, we've found just the tune for you. But it isn't exactly a 'Graceland' tribute; there are also shades of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. And the meditative 'I Asked When' is a positively Dylan-esque protest song" - Washington Post. "The dude has a gift for hooks. But unlike Gavin DeGraw or Jason Mraz, Dennen has something to say, putting him closer to skilled songsmiths like Jeff Tweedy and Ray LaMontagne, who also combine seductive voices with relatable premises. Dennen's finely nuanced record gets more captivating with each listen" - Paste.
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The first of what promises to be many posthumous solo albums from Calvin Johnson, culled from the extensive archive of tapes left behind by the prolific songmaker and performer. Calvin Johnson made up songs about the feeling inside for over twenty years. What Was Me collects ten bits of lifeness and spreads them thickly with voice and acoustic guitar; a capella 40% of the time. There are patches that are worn and threadbare but the overall effect is gutty and moist. The affect is also noteworthy. Calvin is joined by the K divas Mirah on "Ode to St. Valentine" and Beth Ditto (the Gossip) on "Lightnin' Rod for Jesus".
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Casiokids have found a new maturity in their compositional abilities with their new album, Aabenbaringen over aaskammen. The album sees the band experimenting with different recording techniques including live string arrangements and a collaboration with of Montreal's Kevin Barnes.
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Their Secretly Canadian debut is one hell of a break-up record. Love is a confusing thing and it always leaves the mind with more questions than answers. "Tell Me" captures the confusion, denial, sleepless nights, and the desperate pleas for love that can only be felt when the mind gives up control to the heart. Catfish Haven are amongst the few bands that can command a stage; keep a crowd up with a high energy live performance and still deliver such heartache.
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The Cave Singers spend a good deal of time beyond the darkened edges of Seattle, in the mist and mystic, among the wolves and redwoods. And their songs, at least on record, have always been like beautiful, faded grayscale photos of this hinterland. Now, these photos are injected with hot blood and Technicolor, a ferocity and bite we've yet to see from the band. No Witch is a new found sheen to the aura that made the Cave Singers' music so special to begin with.
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Vinyl LP pressing. On Naomi, The Cave Singers have charted new territory for the band, both musically and spiritually, while remaining true to their distinctive brand of brushfired folk. After some time in the dark wealth of the unknown, they have returned to the light with a revitalized purpose.
![Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings [Download Included]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/2/3/0/6/1776032.jpg "Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings [Download Included]")
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A vinyl version of the CD that was released in March 2004. The record has been gathering avid fans across the country and Europe has been working hard to make them superstars. These two sisters make an original style of music with delicate vocals and intricate instrumentation that stands beside the most modern and innovative artists today including Devandra Bernhart, Joanna Newsome an many more.
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Their third release represents another stride onward from previous works, where the girls continue to experiment with their disparate voices and clashing personalities, juxtaposing devastating ballads like "Werewolf" with exhilarating tracks like "Japan" and the jaunty single "Rainbowarriors". It's a lush, orchestral array of sounds and beauty; a vaudevillian opera, if you will.
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![Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/200/6/8/8/0/970886.jpg "Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards [Vinyl]")
Robbers & Cowards is the debut studio album by the American indie rock band Cold War Kids. It was released in 2006 on Downtown Records, and contains the single "Hang Me Up to Dry" which received airplay on both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio in the USA.
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Sacred Bones is elated to present a new EP from a NY band that has been very near and dear to our hearts for many years now, the Crystal Stilts. Recorded in early 2011 by Gary Olson, with the band's guitarist JB Townsend producing, Radiant Door unveils some of the Stilts' most dynamic recordings to date. The Album features the beguiling blend of romanticism and mystery that one expects from singer and lyricist Brad Hargett.
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Saint Bartlett opens up with a grandiosity yet unheard on a Damien Jurado album. It strips away the many layers of paint from the house down the street, the one Jurado has occupied for the last decade, and goes to work liberally applying an exhilarating new coat, making the whole neighborhood shine in the process! Mellotrons swell, heavenly handclaps ring in stereo and big drums create a sky for the songs to fly in. Produced by fellow Secretly Canadian artist Richard Swift, his 'Spector-esque' production is spot-on, a production that positions Damien Jurado not as a folk singer but as a mystic - somewhere between Van Morrison, Scott Walker and Wayne Coyne. Saint Bartlett was made entirely at Swift's National Freedom studio in Oregon, in just under a week with only Jurado and Swift as the performers.
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 album from the Seattle-based singer/songwriter. At Richard Swift's National Freedom studios, the live-to-tape ethos allowed the songs on Maraqopa to expand and retract like a great beast's breath. Every in-the-moment bell and whistle here is hung with a natural, casual care. And from this, each song offers up it's own unique gift.
![Danielson Famile - Tri-Danielson [Alpha/Omega][Remastered][Dexluxe Gatefold][Reissued]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/200/9/2/0/9/1399029.jpg "Danielson Famile - Tri-Danielson [Alpha/Omega][Remastered][Dexluxe Gatefold][Reissued]")
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![Daughter - His Young Heart EP [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/1/9/7/1/2001791.jpg "Daughter - His Young Heart EP [Vinyl]")
Daughter is vocalist/guitarist Elena Tonra, electric guitarist Igor Haefeli and drummer Remi Aguilella. Together, the trio write dark, ethereal and hauntingly beautiful songs that showcase a group of young musicians experimenting delicately with a rich array of songwriting ideas and yet remain intent on pouring out their soul pure and unadulterated. Described by Mojo Magazine as, "unflinchingly honest & hugely captivating," Daughter came together in 2010, and have watched their star gently rise, collecting fans one-by-one as their demo tracks started to spread amongst enthusiastic friends and bloggers.
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![Daughter - The Wild Youth EP [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/2/9/7/1/2001792.jpg "Daughter - The Wild Youth EP [Vinyl]")
The Wild Youth is the second EP by Daughter. The song "Medicine" was used on an episode of the American dance competition television show, "So You Think You Can Dance?", on August 13, 2013 and in the ending of episode twenty of the third season of CBS television show "Person of Interest". The song "Home" was used in the 2013 movie "How I Live Now"
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![Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs Evil [Limited Edition] [180 Gram]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/2/1/1/8/1788112.jpg "Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs Evil [Limited Edition] [180 Gram]")
Self-recorded, mixed, and mastered in rehearsal spaces and band members' basements with no engineers or outside input, Deerhoof vs. Evil dresses up Deerhoof's wellknown recklessness in a newfound elastic groove -- one filled with big-hit choruses and exuberantly unfamiliar colors.
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![Deerhoof - Breakup Song (Mpdl) [Colored Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/200/8/6/7/5/2025768.jpg "Deerhoof - Breakup Song (Mpdl) [Colored Vinyl]")
Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 album from the Alt-Rock outfit. Deerhoof love music, so it comes as no surprise that they'd follow up their polygenre Polyvinyl debut Deerhoof vs. Evil with another album of distinct songs containing music. Other bands in their cultural position have found alternate methods of keeping the public's interest - visually stunning Tumblr accounts, promotional fonts, salvia grinders, skulls containing snuff films - but Deerhoof are still having too many melodic dreams to ride the storm. Instead, Ms. Matsuzaki, Mr. Saunier, Mr. Dietrich, and Professor Rodriguez are promoting their new batch of 11 song so that one might consider the worth of a melody and perhaps even smile.
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![Devendra Banhart - Mala [Bonus CD and 7"]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/0/4/4/2/2142440.jpg "Devendra Banhart - Mala [Bonus CD and 7\"]")
Limited vinyl LP pressing includes bonus 7' single and CD edition. 2013 release, the eighth album from the eccentric singer/songwriter. Banhart co-produced the record with his longtime bandmate, guitarist Noah Georgeson. Mala was recorded in his then-home in Los Angeles. He and Georgeson played most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a vintage Tascam recorder they d found in a pawn shop. "A lot of early Hip Hop had been made on [the Tascam], " says Banhart. "And knowing my songs are not Hip Hop whatsoever, we thought it would be interesting to see how these kinds of songs would sound on equipment that was used to record our favorite Rap. Let's see how this technology would work for us. " It was a new approach for the pair. "In the past we were more like, let's use the oldest equipment we could find. " Banhart's previous release, 2009's What Will We Be, received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone calling it "the best he's ever made. "
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The follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed and Domino debut "Rise Above". Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. It's idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation "Dark Was the Night". in many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.
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Limited vinyl LP pressing housed in a gold foil stamped jacket including digital download. 2014 solo release from the former guitarist for New Hampshire Psych outfit MMOSS. As one of the principal songwriters in MMOSS, Tuttle was integral in honing that band's signature sound of West Coast bummer harmonies wrapped taut around a sinewy and dreamy collision of hazy Psychedelia and motorik Krautrock. As the band dissolved, Tuttle began writing his way through the haze. There is definitely a bittersweet narrative going on throughout the record but with the strength of every single track the listener becomes the willing accomplice. Tuttle deftly forges a sound that all his, weaving nebulous jams into masterfully crafted pop gems. There is also heavy introspection here leading one to consider other artists who were terrific as the member of a band but that really excelled when they began releasing material under their own name.
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Beloved Philadelphia band Dr. Dog release a staggering burst of vital rock n roll with their new record BE THE VOID. From the rollicking re-imagined blues of the discs title track to the searing guitars of "Vampire," the frenetic urgency of "Over Here Over There" and the beautifully fuzzed out rock of "Warrior Man," Dr. Dog's BE THE VOID is a truly great rock n roll record and the unmistakable sound of a band whose moment has arrived.
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![Dr. Dog - B-Room [Vinyl]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/200/1/2/7/9/2299721.jpg "Dr. Dog - B-Room [Vinyl]")
Dr. Dog s Third studio album on Anti, B Room, marks the band s greatest point of clarity in more than a decade of performing and recording. Their arrangements, while still ambitious, are much simpler, moving past the multi tracked pastiche of earlier efforts into a unique and vibrant band voice. Indeed, It is this discovery of the band collective as a compositional tool that makes B Room the most cohesive, soulful, loose, and plain fun record of their career.
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Fate sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into it's own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity - all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook. Dr. Dog have toured with Wilco, Strokes, Raconteurs, Black Keys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Magic Numbers, Cold War Kids, and more.