***Icelander Paul Lydon's pop songs by way of dissonance and abstraction. Reaches an epic sense of calm not unlike Alastair Galbraith's music, and The Wire describes it as an album that "whispers to be heard beneath the din."
CD $6.75
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
***First album from this Boston four-piece who mix a love of Krautrock with American rock and pop music - Amerikrautpop? Mighty rhythms and improvised pieces edited down in the studio to make crafty, fully-realized rock songs. A stone cold classic.
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
A primarily improvised series of musical events charted by two guitars and some drums that refreshingly doesn't suck for a change. Layers of droning noise and weaved interplay that drifts well between minimalist passages and soaring grand sound abstractions. A nice fill in the void between Dead C and the Ash Ra Tempel.
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
***First album from JASON MORPHEW, which combines an eye for innovative songwriting with a hat-tip to country music's history. Features members of THE MAGNETIC FIELDS and HOLIDAY as guests.
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
The fourth album from these Ottawan minimalist explorers takes music recorded at various radio sessions, concerts and other mysterious spots and assembles it in collage form with an emphasis on the sounds' texture, tone and flow. In the end we get discordant pop wanders, noise riffs, and some tasty spliced tape-soup.
LP $9.50
01/08/2001
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
***Combining an innate sense for melody with an appreciation for how feedback can be sculpted, The Weak Moments create spacious, engaging songs with an overriding sense of ominousness. "With their frayed acoustic guitar, soft female vocals and lo-fi aesthetic, The Weak Moments sound like a hybrid of Galaxie 500 and The Spinanes." - CMJ
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
***The fourth album, and first in two years, from pop-lovely duo BRIGHT. Laying a foundation of in-studio improvisations, the duo reshapes the music adding minimalist pop-vocal structures, hot-ass guitar licks, spacious instrumental arrangements, and free-jazz wig-out.
CD $9.50
10/10/2000
2XLP $9.50
10/10/2000
MP3 $8.91
10/10/2000
***LINDA SMITH is well known for her dark pop ballads released on the Slumberland, Harriet and Feels Good All Over record labels (really). However, as a part of YOURS TRULY she finds herself in a much brighter place, the same place where the Human League or Berlin once existed in a sort of synth-pop heaven. Eighties new wave now, what a time to be alive.
CD $9.50
06/27/2000
MP3 $9.90
06/27/2000
***The second album from Portland's YUME BITSU, who continue to seek blissful enlightenment via dreamy spacerock sounds. Five extended tracks filled with atmospheric guitars, harmonized vocals and spacious percussion. Sigh.
CD $9.50
11/23/1999
MP3 $5.94
11/23/1999
***A collection of most, but not all of the songs of this mid-'90s Vassar girl pop group. Some songs old, some new, some never released. Intelligent, visceral and above the ordinary twee.
CD $9.50
02/23/1999
MP3 $9.90
02/23/1999
***The long-anticipated fifth issue comes out cracking with a wide range of subjects, including Cognitive Abnormalites Relating to Music, RAYMOND SCOTT, the newly discovered "No Exit Act II" by JEAN PAUL SARTRE, Twisted Village Records, MATMOS & FRANKLIN BRUNO, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, a Consumer's Guide to ROBERT CHRISTGAU's Consumer Guide, and more. Includes a tribute to Raymond Scott CD with unreleased tracks from SOLEX, CEX, AROVANE, GEOMETRIC FARMS, ENSEMBLE, TELSTAR PONIES, BOGDAN RACZYNSKI, and more.
BK W/CD $6.75
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